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A classic of Canadian literature by the great Québécoise writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Quebec.
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The Last Good Funeral of the Year
A pensive and poignant recollection of love, loss, marriage, mental health and the life events that have shaped the author's identity.
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As Long as the Rivers Flow
The story of Larry Loyie's last summer before entering residential school.
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She makes us feel what they feel, which is the point of literature and maybe even the point of being human.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_1":"...here is writing that examines the richness of the everyday with an incredibly keen eye and renders it without sentimentality but with profound empathy...Like standing in the February winter wind, reading this novel is harrowing, almost painful, but once you step out of it, you appreciate the warmth in your world that much more.","OtherText_Review_10":"It has been a joy indeed to discover Lisa Moore. Despite her great success with a previous novel and two collections of short fiction, February is the first book I have read by this talented Canadian writer. I shall soon be reading the rest.","OtherText_Review_10_Auth":"Gabriel Weston","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Daily Telegraph","OtherText_Review_11":"Lisa Moore is an astonishing writer. She brings to her pages what we are always seeking in fiction and only find the best of it: a magnetizing gift for revealing how the earth feels, looks, tastes, smells, and an unswerving instinct for what's important in life.","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Richard Ford","OtherText_Review_12":"Lisa Moore's work is passionate, gritty, lucid and, beautiful. She has a great gift.","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Anne Enright","OtherText_Review_13":"Loneliness is hard to write about without become maudlin or cliched. But Moore never errs on the side of sentimentality...There's an economy in Moore's style that shows us how a once vibrant life can be whittled down by pain and loneliness. But, by grounding her writing in the physical world, Moore shows how life's everyday tasks and encounters create a comforting continuity that allows forward movement.","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_14":"Luminous.","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"More","OtherText_Review_15":"Moore deftly weaves together the present...and the past, evoking memory and grief in pitch-perfect detail.","OtherText_Review_15_Src":"New Yorker","OtherText_Review_16":"Moore never errs on the side of sentimentality...Loneliness is hard to write about without becoming maudlin or cliched. But Moore seems to understand this very human facility, describing the unconscious ways we sometimes try to avoid feeling overwhelmed by it...Moore shows how life's everyday tasks and encounters create a comforting continuity that eventually wears down emotional pain to allow forward movement...You'll be surprised at this novel's ability to uplift.","OtherText_Review_16_Src":"Ottawa Citizen","OtherText_Review_17":"Moore pens another triumph...emotional tension, coupled with an acute eye for regional setting and dialect, has long been a hallmark of Moore's work...the hauntingly beautiful February, is likely to turn some heads and hearts as well.","OtherText_Review_17_Src":"Chronicle Herald","OtherText_Review_18":"Moore's writing resembles poetry...She expertly captures her characters' physical surroundings in sharp-edged fragments of colour and sensation...Helen comes across as a perfectly ordinary woman...But that's what [February] is about: a perfectly ordinary woman whose life is profoundly changed by an extraordinary event. This is a marvellous book.","OtherText_Review_18_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_19":"Soaring.","OtherText_Review_19_Src":"Chatelaine","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"matrix","OtherText_Review_2":"...here is writing that examines the richness of the everyday with an incredibly keen eye and renders it without sentimentality but with profound empathy.","OtherText_Review_20":"There is no one else in the country who can touch Lisa Moore's elegant rendering of language...She's distinctive, and what she does with language is nothing less than dazzling, and then there is her uncanny ability to inhabit every pore and sinew of her endearingly human characters...What she does with language is pure art.","OtherText_Review_20_Src":"Salty Ink","OtherText_Review_21":"This mesmerising book is full of tears, and is a graceful meditation on how to survive life's losses.","OtherText_Review_21_Src":"Marie Claire","OtherText_Review_22":"...a stark tale of cauterizing grief, one that left me spellbound in admiration...a well-conceived work of the imagination...","OtherText_Review_22_Src":"Sun Times (Owen Sound)","OtherText_Review_23":"[February] is what great prose should be...a work of art...a moving narrative of risk, love, loss, and surviving...","OtherText_Review_23_Src":"Newfoundland Quarterly","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"matrix","OtherText_Review_3":"...Moore has established with her second novel a distinctive voice in Canadian literature. Language in Moore's capable hands is often deceptively spare, revealing for the careful reader layers of acute insight. Her writing in February is characterized by a raw, stream-of-consciousness intensity...","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_Review_4":"...Moore, whose previous novel, Alligator (2006), won a Commonwealth Writers' Prize, renders sensations with the precision of a Vermeer.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_5":"A solid, unflinching, unsentimental study of grief...Moore's descriptive powers, her enviable ability to highlight defining elements of character (either individual or societal) by making perceptive observations, are, as always, in evidence.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Daily Telegram","OtherText_Review_6":"Although Moore does a good job of depicting remembered incidents the novel is best in its intimate rendering of thought and feeling.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Express","OtherText_Review_7":"An intense and absorbing read.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Coventry Telegraph","OtherText_Review_8":"Canadian writer Lisa Moore's second novel solidifies her reputation as a gifted writer whose prose exhibits an urgency, precision, and sensitivity worthy of the legacy of Virginia Woolf.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"The World","OtherText_Review_9":"Complex yet clear, compelling and profound, the style is a joy to read and Lisa Moore's story-spinning gift is great. 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Lisa Moore's unforgettable second novel examines the aftermath of 1982's Ocean Ranger disaster within the community of St. John's.
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Every Object Has a Story
Twenty-one Canadians share their personal connections with a unique object from the ROM’s collection in this extraordinary volume.
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We Are Underlings
A provocative dark workplace comedy of mystery, hijinks, and absurdist despair set at the only theme park devoted to death, dying, and the afterlife.
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Meditations on the beauty of an ordinary life
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Young Cat, Old Cat
Award-winning creator Jillian Tamaki lovingly explores the bond between a cat and its owner, illustrated in embroidery.
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The Burrowing Owls of the Prairie Grasslands
It’s spring in Grasslands National Park and burrowing owls are returning from a winter away to lay their eggs in this rare and protected habitat.
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sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eTell Me a Dragon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:lato, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(33, 37, 41);font-family:lato, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eEast of the Sun, West of the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:lato, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;and a volume of modern folklore for readers of all ages,\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(33, 37, 41);font-family:lato, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eWild Folk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:lato, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;\"\u003e,\u0026nbsp;co-created with\u0026nbsp;Tamsin Abbott, as well as introducing and illustrating Barbara Newhall Follett’s gem of wild literature,\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(33, 37, 41);font-family:lato, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe House Without Windows\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:lato, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;\"\u003e. She is the internationally bestselling and award-winning co-creator of\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(33, 37, 41);font-family:lato, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lost Words\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:lato, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(33, 37, 41);font-family:lato, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lost Spells\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:lato, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;\"\u003e, two books which have captured the hearts of hundreds of thousands of readers of all ages.\u0026nbsp;In 2018 she won the Kate Greenaway Medal and the British Book Awards Children’s Book of the Year for\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(33, 37, 41);font-family:lato, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lost Words\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:lato, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;\"\u003e. Her artwork is held by public art collections in the UK and USA and has been published in the\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(33, 37, 41);font-family:lato, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:lato, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(33, 37, 41);font-family:lato, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:lato, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(33, 37, 41);font-family:lato, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:lato, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;among other venues. 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ages 3
to 6
/ grades P
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Monster Mender
A monster mender works hard to heal all wounds, but struggles to help a sea serpent who just seems … sad.
