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Birding with Yeats
A delicately rendered memoir on motherhood, family, and the beauty of the natural world.
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The City of Words
In his 2007 CBC Massey Lectures, renowned author Alberto Manguel takes a fresh look at the rise of violent intolerance in our societies.
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{"id":6814270619707,"title":"Minds of Winter","handle":"minds-of-winter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, \u003ci\u003eMinds of Winter\u003c\/i\u003e is a mesmerizing novel about the chance meeting of two present-day travellers who expose one of the most perplexing mysteries in the history of Arctic exploration.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFay Morgan and Nelson Nilsson have each arrived in Inuvik, Canada, about 120 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Both are in search of answers about a family member: Nelson for his estranged older brother, and Fay for her vanished grandfather. Driving Fay into town from the airport on a freezing January night, Nelson reveals a folder left behind by his brother. An image catches Fay’s eye: a clock she has seen before. 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In Minds of Winter, Ed O’Loughlin’s brilliant story of polar exploration, time itself is an Arctic: a mysterious dimension of sun craze and apparitions, chance encounters and destiny. The mechanism of this novel is fascinating to observe, its implications are deeply human. 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Minds of Winter
The unexpected meeting of two present-day travellers exposes one of the most perplexing mysteries in the history of Arctic exploration.
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Should the West Engage Putin’s Russia?
The fifteenth semi-annual Munk Debate considers whether the West should engage, not isolate, Putin’s Russia.
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The Elsewhere Community
In his 1997 CBC Massey Lectures Hugh Kenner examines Western culture's insatiable need for stimulation encountered elsewhere.
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The Way of the Screenwriter
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The Cello Suites
The #1 national bestselling work about the incredible story of one of the world's most beloved and haunting pieces of music.
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Provocative, entertaining and poignant, Life is About Losing Everything makes us sweat for the answers.” — \u003cstrong\u003eBrett Joseph Grubisic, \u003cem\u003eVancouver Sun\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Brett Joseph Grubisic","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e“... focused, lucid, and darkly comic ...” — \u003cstrong\u003eMichael Hingston, \u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Auth":"Michael Hingston","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Winnipeg Review","OtherText_Review_8":"\u003cp\u003e“... raw and honest ... although [Crosbie's] experiences are unique, the themes are universal.” — \u003cstrong\u003eMichelle Singerman, \u003cem\u003ePost City Magazines\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_8_Auth":"Michelle Singerman","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Post City Magazines","OtherText_Review_9":"\u003cp\u003e“Life is About Losing Everything courageously recounts an ugly side of life.” — \u003cstrong\u003eHeather Cromarty, \u003cem\u003eToronto Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_9_Auth":"Heather Cromarty","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Toronto Review of Books","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Lynn Crosbie gives us a fiery, honest, and heartbreaking blend of personal memoir and fiction that sketches seven tumultuous years in her life.","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2012-05-05","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Lynn Crosbie gives us a fiery, honest, and heartbreaking blend of personal memoir and fiction that sketches seven tumultuous years in her life.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Life Is About Losing Everything
Lynn Crosbie gives us a fiery, honest, and heartbreaking blend of personal memoir and fiction that sketches seven tumultuous years in her life.
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This Eden
An exhilarating technothriller and modern spy novel reminiscent of William Gibson and the golden age of panoramic international espionage fiction.
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The Outlander
Gil Adamson spins a gripping and memorably romantic tale of one grief-struck young woman's flight into the wild.
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Rajinderpal S. Pal expertly wields a fractured narrative of a looming wedding and its constellation of guests and participants to show how often love and duplicity intersect. What results is a beautiful debut novel about the calamitous aftereffects of decisions made and unmade, secrets kept and spilled.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eOmar El Akkad, Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning author of \u003cem\u003eWhat Strange Paradise\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePal’s debut collection of poetry, \u003cem\u003epappaji wrote in a language i cannot read\u003c\/em\u003e, was the winner of the Henry Kreisel Award for Best First Book. His second collection, \u003cem\u003epulse\u003c\/em\u003e, was shortlisted for the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize and the Stephan G. 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However Far Away
A sweeping family saga set against the backdrop of a traditional Sikh wedding.
