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Passengers
The sixth and, on the surface, most peculiar poetry collection from Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Michael Crummey.
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A Place for Pauline
As the eldest child in a large family, Pauline struggles to find her niche, and longs for peace and quiet—a charming story in graphic-novel style.
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ages 3
to 7
/ grades P
to 2
Malaika’s Surprise
When Malaika finds out she is going to have a new baby brother or sister, she worries that her mother will forget about her. But a surprise arrives on Malaika’s birthday that gives her more reason to celebrate her family’s love.
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Our Corner Store
This delightful novel in verse follows the adventures of a brother and sister around the neighborhood, and especially at the corner grocery store!
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Eleven Canadian Novelists Interviewed by Graeme Gibson
A collection of candid and wide-ranging interviews with Canadian writers, including Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler, Margaret Laurence, and more.
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Roguelike
Mathew Henderson explores with remarkable insight the unique logics of video games and addiction in his much-anticipated sophomore poetry collection.
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The Hockey Sweater and Other Stories
The Hockey Sweater, the title story in this 20-story collection, has become an enduring Canadian classic.
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Satched
Named after a local word meaning “soaked through” or “weighed down,” Satched is Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Megan Gail Coles’s debut poetry collection.
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Read Me a Story, Stella
Stella introduces her little brother Sam to the pleasures of reading, sharing her new pastime with contagious enthusiasm.
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Samantha presently resides in Los Angeles, where she works in film and television.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Read by","Contributor_0":"Wang, Jack (CA)","Contributor_1":"Quan, Samantha (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner, 2020 Danuta Gleed Award \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong \u003eLonglisted for Canada Reads 2022\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA masterful collection of stories that dramatizes the Chinese diaspora across the globe over the past hundred years, \u003cem\u003eWe Two Alone \u003c\/em\u003eis Jack Wang’s astonishing debut work of fiction.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet on five continents and spanning nearly a century, \u003cem\u003eWe Two Alone \u003c\/em\u003etraces the long arc and evolution of the Chinese immigrant experience. A young laundry boy risks his life to play organized hockey in Canada in the 1920s. A Canadian couple gets caught in the outbreak of violence in Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The consul general of China attempts to save lives following Kristallnacht in Vienna. A family aspires to buy a home in South Africa, during the rise of apartheid. An actor in New York struggles to keep his career alive while yearning to reconcile with his estranged wife.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the vulnerable and disenfranchised to the educated and elite, the characters in this extraordinary collection embody the diversity of the diaspora at key moments in history and in contemporary times. Jack Wang has crafted deeply affecting stories that not only subvert expectations but contend with mortality and delicately draw out the intimacies and failings of love.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487008833","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487007461\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Anansi Audio","MetaKeywords":"canadian history; hockey; immigration; refugees; marriage; asia; Madeleine Thien; Pachinko; A Tale for the Time Being; David Chariandy; London; Lunar New Year; WWI; WWII; world war; holocaust; asian literature; post colonial; creative writing; canlit; Holman; Cozy Classics; Star Wars Epic Yarns; Great Job Dad; Frying Plantain; Kim's Convenience; Asian Americans PBS; book club","NumberOfPages":"296","OtherText_Accolades_0":"\u003cp\u003eThese moving stories are both global and intimate as they span the continents where the Chinese diaspora has settled. With ingenuity and impeccable craft, Jack Wang gives us an utterly remarkable collection that zeroes in on the emotional texture of utterly unique lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003eThis impressive and vibrant collection of stories takes the reader by the hand, leading us across the world and back in time. But they’re all unified by the gentle sensitivity of Jack Wang’s prose and his ability to inhabit characters who long for freedom, connection, and fulfillment. Deeply humane and beautifully wrought, these stories stay in the heart and the mind.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Alix Ohlin, author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize finalists Dual Citizens and Inside","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the best books I’ve read this year and one of my all-time favourite short-story collections.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Sharon Bala, bestselling author of The Boat People","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003eJack Wang’s \u003cem\u003eWe Two Alone\u003c\/em\u003e is not only a penetrating examination of the Chinese diaspora, it also brilliantly renders its subject in the most deeply resonant universal way, as the yearning for personal identity that drives us all in our shared humanity. This is a remarkable collection of stories, a remarkable work of art.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003eJack Wang’s dazzling first collection of stories, \u003cem\u003eWe Two Alone\u003c\/em\u003e, moves through decades and across continents with rare ease, telling not \u003cem\u003ethe\u003c\/em\u003e story but some of the many stories of the Chinese diaspora in the last century. These stories are so elegantly shaped, so satisfying as individual stories, that their collective power sneaks up on you. There is a quiet and building intensity to the storytelling here, a commitment to chronicling — with deep compassion and a refusal of easy answers — the dignity of human experience against the broader indignities of history. I was moved, heartbroken, and thrilled.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Emily Fridlund, author of the Booker Prize finalist History of Wolves","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eFrom “The Night of Broken Glass”\u003cbr \/\u003e A finalist for the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, whose jury included Booker Prize winner Marlon James\u003cbr \/\u003ePublished in \u003cem\u003eLet’s Tell This Story Properly: An Anthology of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eNominated by the \u003cem\u003eNew Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e for a 2016 National Magazine Award \u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e I met my mother for the first time when I was six. I say “mother” because that was what I was expected to call her, and did, though in fact she was my stepmother. My real mother died of tuberculosis when I was five. A year later my father came home with a new wife. He had been studying international law in Chicago despite already having a Ph.D. in political economics from the University of Munich. While he was gone I received a series of brightly coloured linen postcards of the World’s Fair: the Hall of Science, the Avenue of Flags, the iron lattice towers of the Sky Ride. The theme of the fair was A Century of Progress. That’s where my father met Grace.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eIt was a windless, thick-aired summer day in Changsha when a motorcar saddled with steamer trucks pulled up in front of our house and a woman in a white blouse, wide-legged trousers, and large round sunglasses climbed out. She was beautiful, which made me sad for my mother and scornful of my father, and she looked too fair to be Chinese. As it turned out, she was half Chinese, born of a Chinese father and a German-American mother. That, along with her clothes and her beauty, made her unlike any woman I had ever seen. My father had secured a large two-storey house on the outskirts of town and staffed it with half a dozen servants, all in an effort to make his new wife comfortable, but as soon as they arrived he was stricken by all he had not foreseen. The house had no running water, and despite the need Grace refused to use the privy, which had no seat and emitted at that time of year an audible drone. After pleading with Grace in hushed tones, my father ordered Old Chao into town for a portable commode, a trip of at least three hours. For the rest of the afternoon my new mother paced the courtyard, smoking one Lucky after another, which made her seem feral and caged. \u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e[…] \u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eNeedless to say, Grace was unhappy in China. Though my father had no particular desire to leave, he began to eye the foreign service. When the Governor for whom he worked recommended the post of First Secretary in the Chinese legation in Austria, my father accepted for Grace’s sake. We arrived in Vienna in June of my tenth year, after a three-week voyage on the \u003cem\u003eConte Verde\u003c\/em\u003e through Saigon, Singapore, Madras, Bombay, Aden, and Port Said, and at first everything did seem better. The city was glorious with summer, and everywhere open air orchestras paid homage to the old masters, which made our lives seem set to music. Many nights my parents put on tails and gown and went to balls and receptions, living at last the life for which they were meant. \u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eBut it wasn’t long before Grace again felt stranded. She could no more distinguish der, die, and das than she could first and second tones. Then, in the spring, German troops goose-stepped through the Ringstrasse, just blocks away from our townhouse. The crowds that greeted them were lusty, adoring, as was I, my schoolboy fantasies of soldiers and guns come to life. My father did not raise his arm but he didn’t stop me from raising mine. That night, in a scene that would soon become commonplace, hoodlums took to the streets, smashing the windows of certain homes and shops. Thereafter, walking to and from school, I passed storefronts marked \u003cem\u003eJude\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNicht arisches Geschaeft\u003c\/em\u003e and blocked by baby-faced men in jackboots and flared helmets. As a visible foreigner and part of the diplomatic corps, my father felt undeterred and often went into these stores despite the piercing glares — and once, an arm held stiffly against his chest. For my mother, annexation was yet another rung of descent in a private tragedy. She chided my father for bringing her to a Nazi-occupied country. His answer: Better the Germans than the Japanese. \u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eAt the end of October, thousands of Polish-born Jews were rounded up and sent back to Poland. When a seventeen-year-old boy learned that his family was among those languishing at the border, unwanted by either side, he walked into the German Embassy in Paris and pumped five bullets into the viscera of a minor German diplomat. Two days later, Ernst vom Rath died of his wounds. The seething of the Germans, checked so long as their countryman clung to life, would now be unleashed. This was what my father knew when he came home that afternoon.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“A collection that announces an important new voice in contemporary fiction … Beyond Vancouver, Shanghai, Vienna, Port Elizabeth, and London, the stories in \u003cem\u003eWe Two Alone\u003c\/em\u003e encompass Tallahassee, Los Angeles, and Boston. Wang is committed to rendering his backdrops accurately; with perfectly presented details, he showcases the disharmony of the Chinese diaspora, as individuals endure salient moments in twentieth-century history and more recent times … \u003cem\u003eWe Two Alone\u003c\/em\u003e shows that Jack Wang is a master of the short story, a writer who has mapped his own space, neither Canadian nor American, nor anywhere else. Each episode in this collection is a moving tribute to its characters as well as an indictment of the ostracism that remains when racist taunts and human failures continue to bedevil the modern world.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Rich and poignant … History lovers and literary buffs will sink joyfully into his moving collection … Wang manages to underscore the importance of cultural heritage while stressing humanity’s common ties … His ability to create vivid and believable settings, in beautiful and readable prose, will deeply move readers.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“Jack Wang is a welcome new voice in Canadian letters … [\u003cem\u003eWe Two Alone\u003c\/em\u003e] is serious, engaging, well crafted, thought-provoking. Wang clearly has something to say, and this accomplished collection not only says it but also promises a great deal more to come.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOrmsby Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Ormsby Review","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“Jack Wang’s extraordinary debut book of stories, \u003cem\u003eWe Two Alone\u003c\/em\u003e, weaves a path across the world, following the Chinese diaspora over nearly a hundred years. It’s the kind of collection that comes along only once in a while, to be savoured by readers for its sharp, smart portraits of longing, connection, and identity.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOpen Book\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Open Book","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eWe Two Alone\u003c\/em\u003e, Jack Wang has written an instantly engaging and achingly poignant collection of stories about people struggling to preserve their way of life and seeking stability, connection, and meaning. Focusing on Chinese immigrant experiences, Wang’s stories range freely and easily across many decades and a dizzyingly assortment of geographies. All of Wang’s characters are vividly rendered, their struggles and agonies richly conceived and indelibly portrayed. The writing throughout is atmospheric, highly visual, and peppered with startling and persuasive detail. Long after finishing it, \u003cem\u003eWe Two Alone\u003c\/em\u003e lingers in the mind as a compassionate work by a profoundly talented writer who cares deeply about what it means to be human in turbulent times.” — \u003cstrong\u003eDanuta Gleed Literary Award Jury Citation, \u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Danuta Gleed Literary Award Jury Citation","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A masterful debut collection of stories that dramatizes the Chinese diaspora across the globe over the past hundred years.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Long-listed","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"05","PrizeName_0":"Danuta Gleed Literary Award","PrizeName_1":"CBC Canada Reads","ProductFormDescription":"Lossless Format Audio, WAV","PublicationDate":"2020-09-01","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A masterful debut collection of stories that dramatizes the Chinese diaspora across the globe over the past hundred years.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
We Two Alone
A masterful debut collection of stories that dramatizes the Chinese diaspora across the globe over the past hundred years.
