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A moving portrait of a father and daughter relationship and a case for late-stage creativity from Emily Urquhart.
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Louis Undercover
Louis is a young boy with an alcoholic dad and a worried mom, but with the help of his best friend, summons up the courage to speak to his true love.
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The 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology
The prestigious and highly anticipated annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry from the shortlist of the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize.
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There is movement in the art throughout. All of that comes together to create a beautiful book.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"School Library Journal","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eMaggie’s Treasure \u003c\/em\u003eis equal parts whimsical and empowering, as the heroine learns to not only value her favourite finds but helps the entire neighbourhood see the sparkle in ordinary objects.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Quill \u0026 Quire","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“The vibrant illustrations with their angular, distorted shapes and matte planes of colour are brimming with details and quirky side stories. 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Maggie’s Treasure
When Maggie’s treasure collection grows too big to manage, she finds a creative solution.
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Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about seafood — from what to look for at the fish counter to what to do with it when you get it home.
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The Hunter and the Old Woman
The intertwined story of a cougar and a man that portrays the strength, vulnerability, and consciousness of two top predators. Not since Life of Pi have we encountered such transcendence or walked so fully in the footsteps of a big cat.
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DeWitt uses familiar tropes to lull the reader into a false sense of grounding, delivering with abundant good humor a fully realized, consistently surprising, and thoroughly amusing tale of longing, love, madness, and mirth.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“... eerily precise ... DeWitt is a true original, conjuring up dark and hilarious images. This is a bizarre, darkly funny, passionate ... book.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"The Times","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e“with its blend of fantasy and gothic romance, Undermajordomo Minor sounded unlikely to enchant a literalist like me. How wrong I was. 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Undermajordomo Minor
A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners.
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Fugue With Bedbug
The eagerly awaited second collection from acclaimed poet Anne-Marie Turza.
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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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The Longest Death
Two lovers plot a daring heist in this atmospheric noir about fate and fortune on the fringes of the American dream.
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{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781487005382","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781487007607","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487001896","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp style=\"box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:1rem;margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder;\"\u003eROBERT MACFARLANE\u003c\/strong\u003e's\u0026nbsp;\u003cem style=\"box-sizing:border-box;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e- and\u0026nbsp;\u003cem style=\"box-sizing:border-box;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e-bestselling books include\u0026nbsp;\u003cem style=\"box-sizing:border-box;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eIs a River Alive?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e,\u0026nbsp;\u003cem style=\"box-sizing:border-box;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnderland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e,\u0026nbsp;\u003cem style=\"box-sizing:border-box;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eLandmarks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e,\u0026nbsp;\u003cem style=\"box-sizing:border-box;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Old Ways\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e,\u0026nbsp;\u003cem style=\"box-sizing:border-box;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wild Places\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003cem style=\"box-sizing:border-box;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eMountains of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as a book-length prose-poem,\u0026nbsp;\u003cem style=\"box-sizing:border-box;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eNess\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, won prizes around the world, and been widely adapted for film, music, theatre, radio and dance. He has also written operas, plays, albums, choral works, and films including\u0026nbsp;\u003cem style=\"box-sizing:border-box;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eRiver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003cem style=\"box-sizing:border-box;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eMountain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, both narrated by Willem Dafoe. He has collaborated closely with artists including Olafur Eliasson, and with the artist Jackie Morris he co-created the internationally bestselling books of nature-poetry and art,\u0026nbsp;\u003cem style=\"box-sizing:border-box;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lost Words\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003cem style=\"box-sizing:border-box;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lost Spells\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e. In 2017, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the E.M. Forster Prize for Literature, and in 2023 in Toronto he was the inaugural winner of the Weston International Award for a body of work in the field of non-fiction. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and is presently working on a graphic-novel re-telling of the\u0026nbsp;\u003cem style=\"box-sizing:border-box;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eEpic of Gilgamesh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdl class=\"row\" style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(33, 37, 41);display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;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;margin:0px -15px 1rem;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;\u003c\/dl\u003e","ContributorBio_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong 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-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:bolder;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;\"\u003eJACKIE MORRIS\u003c\/strong\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 has written or illustrated over seventy books, including\u0026nbsp;the beloved children’s classics\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\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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Together by the Sea
In the tenth and final instalment of the legendary Soifs cycle, Marie-Claire Blais invites all the agonies and joys of humanity to a party by the sea.
