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McMafia
An international bestselling exposé on global organized crime, featuring a new chapter on the expansion of McMafia culture.
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In his 1997 CBC Massey Lectures Hugh Kenner examines Western culture's insatiable need for stimulation encountered elsewhere.
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Grammar to Go
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Pirate Queen
An inspiring story of Zheng Yi Sao, the real-life pirate queen who took control of her life — and the South China seas — in the early 19th century.
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The Real World of Democracy
In his 1964 CBC Massey Lectures C. B. MacPherson examines rival ideas of democracy and their impact on each other.
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Ship to Shore
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In the local village, he also encounters thieves, madmen, aristocrats, and Klara, a delicate beauty whose love he must compete for with the exceptionally handsome partisan soldier, Adolphus. Thus begins a tale of polite theft, bitter heartbreak, domestic mystery, and cold-blooded murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUndermajordomo Minor\u003c\/em\u003e is a triumphant ink-black comedy of manners by the Governor General’s Award–winning author of \u003cem\u003eThe Sisters Brothers\u003c\/em\u003e. It is an adventure, and a mystery, and a searing portrayal of rural Alpine bad behaviour, but above all it is a love story. 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I cannot think of anyone else who could pull off so beautifully this controlled explosion of drollery, mischief , sly fun, and tenderness.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNeel Mukherjee, author of The Lives of Others\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_20":"\u003cp\u003e“Page by page, the book is often a hoot, brimming with winningly quirky characters operating by their own twisted fairy-tale logic.” — \u003cstrong\u003eMichael Bourne, \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_20_Auth":"Michael Bourne","OtherText_Review_20_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_21":"\u003cp\u003e“By turns whimsical and macabre, fanciful and sinister…it is a journey of self-knowledge and self-realization, complete with sinister twists and menacing turns. It is a mythic journey from darkness to light, during which the hero accepts his fate and becomes the man he was destined to be. 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It’s a bold, genre-twisting narrative, worthy of a read.” — \u003cstrong\u003eThomas Trofimuk, \u003cem\u003eThe Winnipeg Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_22_Auth":"Thomas Trofimuk","OtherText_Review_22_Src":"The Winnipeg Review","OtherText_Review_23":"\u003cp\u003e“…a darkly funny fable.” — \u003cstrong\u003eBen MacPhee-Sigurdson, \u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_23_Auth":"Ben MacPhee-Sigurdson","OtherText_Review_23_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Neel Mukherjee, author of The Lives of Others","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“Undermajordomo Minor is a wonderfully wry and wise novel, and reading it is like coming across some twisted classic — Cervantes by way of Louis C.K. I marvel at all that Patrick deWitt is able to do on the page.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eJess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“Undermajordomo Minor is brutal, brilliant, sly, absurd, and poignant. It's both gripping tale and hilarious subversion. Once again Patrick deWitt proves his wild, original talent, generous wit, and exquisite control.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSam Lipsyte, author of The Ask\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“In his delightful and dark new novel, Booker nominee deWitt brings his amusingly off-kilter vision to a European folk tale . . . 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. From its pitch-perfect opening onwards, it's clear from the unusual atmosphere and droll narration that deWitt has created a unique fictional universe….The challenge for the reader is to resist the temptation to devour a novel which should be savoured.” — \u003cstrong\u003eMax Liu, \u003cem\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Auth":"Max Liu","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"The Independent","OtherText_Review_8":"\u003cp\u003e“Fans of The Sisters Brothers will rejoice at the return of deWitt’s wry, funny dialogue and over-the-top, almost slapstick violence.” — \u003cstrong\u003eSue Carter, \u003cem\u003eMetro\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_8_Auth":"Sue Carter","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Metro","OtherText_Review_9":"\u003cp\u003e“Undermajordomo Minor is a masterpiece of wit.” — \u003cstrong\u003eDanny Gorny, \u003cem\u003eToronto Is Awesome\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_9_Auth":"Danny Gorny","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Toronto Is Awesome","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"05","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeName_0":"Scotiabank Giller Prize","PrizeName_1":"Leacock Medal for Humour","PrizeYear_0":"2015","PrizeYear_1":"2016","ProductFormDescription":"epub","PublicationDate":"2015-09-05","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners.","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
Undermajordomo Minor
A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners.
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The Therapist
From the mind of a psychologist comes a chilling domestic thriller that gets under your skin.
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Every Space Between
Discover the hidden moments tucked between beginnings and endings, between actions and reactions, between you and me!
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Planting Sunshine
When does the war over there become the war over here? In this novel in verse, a boy named Theo can’t stop worrying about the war he sees on TV.
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My Subway Runs
For a young child, a subway journey is an eye-opening city-life experience. A story-poem from award-winning creators James Gladstone and Pierre Pratt.
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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.
