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{"id":6899075121211,"title":"Celestial Bodies","handle":"celestial-bodies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first Arabic-language winner of the Man Booker International Prize, \u003ci\u003eCelestial Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e is a vivid and elegant tale of a family and a nation across decades. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the village of al-Awafi, in Oman, two families are joined by marriage: Mayya, the eldest of three sisters, marries Abdallah, son of a wealthy merchant, after suffering her first heartbreak. Abdallah’s passionate love for his wife goes unrequited; she regards him with a mixture of tolerance and mild amusement. Yet he cannot contend solely with the cares and concerns of a husband and father, haunted as he is by the mysterious death of his mother and vivid recollections of his megalomaniacal father.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe couple is orbited by an intricate constellation of individuals, connected by blood, by proximity, by deeply rooted social edifices. Those in their immediate families include Mayya’s sisters — Asma, who aspires to a different kind of life and marriage, and Khawla, who chooses to refuse all offers and await a reunion with the man she loves, who has emigrated to Canada. 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Abdallah’s passionate love for his wife goes unrequited; she regards him with a mixture of tolerance and mild amusement. Yet he cannot contend solely with the cares and concerns of a husband and father, haunted as he is by the mysterious death of his mother and vivid recollections of his megalomaniacal father.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe couple is orbited by an intricate constellation of individuals, connected by blood, by proximity, by deeply rooted social edifices. Those in their immediate families include Mayya’s sisters — Asma, who aspires to a different kind of life and marriage, and Khawla, who chooses to refuse all offers and await a reunion with the man she loves, who has emigrated to Canada. The three women, their families, their loves, and their losses unspool delicately against a backdrop of a rapidly changing Oman, a country evolving from a traditional, slave-owning society into its complex present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first ever novel originally written in Arabic to win the Man Booker International Prize, and the first book by a female Omani author to be translated into English, \u003ci\u003eCelestial Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e is an exquisite literary creation that marks the arrival of a major international talent.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781487001803","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781487006792","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487006990","BASICMainSubject":"FIC044000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"FICTION \/ Women","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJOKHA ALHARTHI\u003c\/strong\u003e is the first Omani woman to have a novel translated into English. Her previous novel, \u003cem\u003eCelestial Bodies\u003c\/em\u003e, was the first book translated from the Arabic to win the International Booker Prize (formerly known as the Man Booker International Prize). Alharthi is the author of three previous collections of short fiction, three children’s books, and three novels in Arabic. \u003cem\u003eNarinjah (The Bitter Orange Tree)\u003c\/em\u003e received the Sultan Qaboos Award for Culture, Art, and Literature. She completed a Ph.D. in Classical Arabic poetry in Edinburgh and teaches at Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"FICTION \/ Women","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"FICTION \/ Literary","BISACSubject_0":"FIC044000","BISACSubject_1":"FIC019000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJOKHA ALHARTHI\u003c\/strong\u003e is the first Omani woman to have a novel translated into English. Her previous novel, \u003cem\u003eCelestial Bodies\u003c\/em\u003e, was the first book translated from the Arabic to win the International Booker Prize (formerly known as the Man Booker International Prize). Alharthi is the author of three previous collections of short fiction, three children’s books, and three novels in Arabic. \u003cem\u003eNarinjah (The Bitter Orange Tree)\u003c\/em\u003e received the Sultan Qaboos Award for Culture, Art, and Literature. She completed a Ph.D. in Classical Arabic poetry in Edinburgh and teaches at Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorBio_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMARILYN BOOTH\u003c\/strong\u003e is Emerita Khalid bin Abdullah Al Saud Chair for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World at Oxford University. In addition to her academic publications, she has translated many works of fiction from the Arabic. Recent titles include \u003cem\u003eNo Road to Paradise\u003c\/em\u003e by Hassan Daoud, \u003cem\u003eBitter Orange Tree\u003c\/em\u003e by Jokha Alharthi, \u003cem\u003eVoices of the Lost\u003c\/em\u003e by Hoda Barakat, and one of the first Arabic novels to be penned by a female author, Alice Butrus al-Bustani’s \u003cem\u003eSa’iba\u003c\/em\u003e, forthcoming in Oxford World’s Classics. Her translation of Alharthi’s \u003cem\u003eCelestial Bodies\u003c\/em\u003e won the 2019 International Booker Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Translated by","Contributor_0":"Alharthi, Jokha","Contributor_1":"Booth, Marilyn","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first Arabic-language winner of the Man Booker International Prize, \u003ci\u003eCelestial Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e is a vivid and elegant tale of a family and a nation across decades. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the village of al-Awafi, in Oman, two families are joined by marriage: Mayya, the eldest of three sisters, marries Abdallah, son of a wealthy merchant, after suffering her first heartbreak. Abdallah’s passionate love for his wife goes unrequited; she regards him with a mixture of tolerance and mild amusement. Yet he cannot contend solely with the cares and concerns of a husband and father, haunted as he is by the mysterious death of his mother and vivid recollections of his megalomaniacal father.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe couple is orbited by an intricate constellation of individuals, connected by blood, by proximity, by deeply rooted social edifices. Those in their immediate families include Mayya’s sisters — Asma, who aspires to a different kind of life and marriage, and Khawla, who chooses to refuse all offers and await a reunion with the man she loves, who has emigrated to Canada. The three women, their families, their loves, and their losses unspool delicately against a backdrop of a rapidly changing Oman, a country evolving from a traditional, slave-owning society into its complex present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first ever novel originally written in Arabic to win the Man Booker International Prize, and the first book by a female Omani author to be translated into English, \u003ci\u003eCelestial Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e is an exquisite literary creation that marks the arrival of a major international talent.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487007904","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487007904\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Anansi International","MetaKeywords":"proverb; multi-generational; Oman; modernisation; slavery; female protagonist; immigration; belonging; identity; masculinity; twentieth century; 20th century; polyphonic narrative; adultery; women writers; women's literature; works in translation; International Man Booker Prize; award-winning author; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Djamila Ibrahim; Irina Kovalyova; Jhumpa Lahiri; Mohsin Hamid; Muriel Spark; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; saga","NumberOfPages":"256","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eMayya, forever immersed in her Singer sewing machine, seemed lost to the outside world. Then Mayya lost herself to love: a silent passion, but it sent tremors surging through her slight form, night after night, cresting in waves of tears and sighs. These were moments when she truly believed she would not survive the awful force of her longing to see him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer body prostrate, ready for the dawn prayers, she made a whispered oath. By the greatness of God — I want nothing, O Lord, just to see him. I solemnly promise you, Lord, I don’t even want him to look my way … I just want to see him. That’s all I want.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer mother hadn’t given the matter of love any particular thought, since it never would have occurred to her that pale Mayya, so silent and still, would think about anything in this mundane world beyond her threads and the selvages of her fabrics, or that she would hear anything other than the clatter of her sewing machine. Mayya seemed to hardly shift position throughout the day, or even halfway into the night, her form perched quietly on the narrow, straight-backed wood chair in front of the black sewing machine with the image of a butterfly on its side. She barely even lifted her head, unless she needed to look as she groped for her scissors or fished another spool of thread out of the plastic sewing basket which always sat in her small wood utility chest. But Mayya heard everything in the world there was to hear. She noticed the brilliant hues life could have, however motionless her body might be. Her mother was grateful that Mayya’s appetite was so meagre (even if, now and then, she felt vestiges of guilt). She hoped fervently, though she would never have put her hope into words, that one of these days someone would come along who respected Mayya’s talents as a seamstress as much as he might appreciate her abstemious ways. The someone she envisioned would give Mayya a fine wedding procession after which he would take her home with all due ceremony and regard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat someone arrived.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs usual Mayya was seated on that narrow chair, bent over the sewing machine at the far end of the long sitting room that opened onto the compound’s private courtyard. Her mother walked over to her, beaming. She pressed her hand gently into her daughter’s shoulder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMayya, my dear! The son of Merchant Sulayman has asked for your hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpasms shot through Mayya’s body. Her mother’s hand suddenly felt unbearably heavy on her shoulder and her throat went dry. She couldn’t stop imagining her sewing thread winding itself around her neck like a hangman’s noose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer mother smiled. I thought you were too old by now to put on such a girlish show! You needn’t act so bashful, Mayya.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd that was that. The subject was closed and no one raised it again. Mayya’s mother busied herself assembling the wedding clothes, concocting just the right blends of incense, having all the large seat-cushions reupholstered, and getting word out to the entire family. Mayya’s sisters kept their views to themselves and her father left the matter in her mother’s hands. After all, these were her girls and marriage was women’s business.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"An innovative reimagining of the family saga . . . Booth’s translation honours the elliptical rhythms of Arabic and the language’s rich literary heritage . . . Yet there is no doubt that this is a contemporary novel, insistent and alive . . . Celestial Bodies is itself a treasure house: an intricately calibrated chaos of familial orbits and conjunctions, of the gravitational pull of secrets.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_1":"The great pleasure of reading Celestial Bodies is witnessing a novel argue, through the achieved perfection of its form, for a kind of inquiry that only the novel can really conduct. The ability to move freely through time, the privileged access to the wounded privacies of many characters, the striking diversity of human beings across a relatively narrow canvas, the shock waves as one generation heaves, like tectonic plates, against another, the secrets and lapses and repressions, at once intimate and historical, the power, indeed, of an investigation that is always political and always intimate — here is the novel being supremely itself, proving itself up to the job by changing not its terms of employment but the shape of the task.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"New Yorker","OtherText_Review_2":"A rich, dense web of a novel . . . The chorus of voices that arises from these pages, at once harmonious and dissonant, constitutes nothing less than the assertion of the right to exist and to be recognized.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"New York Review of Books","OtherText_Review_3":"The glimpses into a culture relatively little known in the West are fascinating.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_4":"Ambitious, intense . . . With exhilarating results, Alharthi throws the reader into the midst of a tangled family drama in which unrequited love, murder, suicide, and adultery seem the rule rather than the exception . . . [Celestial Bodies] is all the more satisfying for the complexity of its tale.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Publisher's Weekly","OtherText_Review_5":"A richly layered, ambitious work that teems with human struggles and contradictions, providing fascinating insight into Omani history and society.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_6":"A book to win over the head and the heart in equal measure, worth lingering over. Interweaving voices and timelines are beautifully served by the pacing of the novel. Its delicate artistry draws us into a richly imagined community — opening out to tackle profound questions of time and mortality and disturbing aspects of our shared history. The style is a metaphor for the subject, subtly resisting clichés of race, slavery, and gender. The translation is precise and lyrical, weaving in the cadences of both poetry and everyday speech. Celestial Bodies evokes the forces that constrain us and those that set us free.","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Bettany Hughes","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Man Booker International Prize","OtherText_Review_7":"The novel is a beautifully achieved account of lives pulling at the edges of change. The writing is teasingly elliptical throughout and there is a kind of poetic understatement that draws the reader into the domestic settings and public tribulations of the three sisters . . . Celestial Bodies deftly undermines recurrent stereotypes about Arab language and cultures, but most importantly brings a distinctive and important new voice to world literature.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Irish Times","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The first Arabic-language winner of the Man Booker International Prize and a vivid and elegant tale of a family and a nation across decades.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"03","PrizeName_0":"Man Booker International Prize","PrizeName_1":"A Kirkus Reviews Best Book","PrizeYear_0":"2019","PrizeYear_1":"2019","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2019-10-15","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"The first Arabic-language winner of the Man Booker International Prize and a vivid and elegant tale of a family and a nation across decades.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Celestial Bodies
The first Arabic-language winner of the Man Booker International Prize and a vivid and elegant tale of a family and a nation across decades.
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{"id":6818430124091,"title":"The Wayfinders","handle":"the-wayfinders","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvery culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? In \u003cem\u003eThe Wayfinders\u003c\/em\u003e, renowned anthropologist, winner of the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize, and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn Polynesia we set sail with navigators whose ancestors settled the Pacific ten centuries before Christ. In the Amazon we meet the descendants of a true lost civilization, the Peoples of the Anaconda. In the Andes we discover that the earth really is alive, while in Australia we experience Dreamtime, the all-embracing philosophy of the first humans to walk out of Africa. 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{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781487006983","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487008512","AlsoRecommendedISBN_3":"9781770894860","BASICMainSubject":"SOC002010","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"SOCIAL SCIENCE \/ Anthropology \/ Cultural \u0026 Social","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWADE DAVIS\u003c\/strong\u003e is professor of anthropology and the B.C. Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. Between 1999 and 2013 he served as Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society and is currently a member of the NGS Explorers Council and Honorary Vice-President of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. Named by the NGS as one of the Explorers for the Millennium, he has been described as “a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all of life’s diversity.” In 2014, Switzerland’s leading think tank, the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute of Zurich, ranked him 16th in their annual survey of the top 100 most influential global Thought Leaders.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAn ethnographer, writer, photographer, and filmmaker, Davis holds degrees in anthropology and biology and received his PhD in ethnobotany, all from Harvard University. Mostly through the Harvard Botanical Museum, he spent over three years in the Amazon and Andes as a plant explorer, living among fifteen indigenous groups in eight Latin American nations while making some 6000 botanical collections. His work later took him to Haiti to investigate folk preparations implicated in the creation of zombies, an assignment that led to his writing \u003cem\u003eThe Serpent and the Rainbow\u003c\/em\u003e (1986), an international best seller later released by Universal as a motion picture. In recent years his work has taken him to East Africa, Borneo, Nepal, Peru, Polynesia, Tibet, Mali, Benin, Togo, New Guinea, Australia, Colombia, Vanuatu, Mongolia and the high Arctic of Nunavut and Greenland.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eDavis is the author of 275 scientific and popular articles and 20 books including \u003cem\u003eOne River\u003c\/em\u003e (1996), \u003cem\u003eThe Wayfinders\u003c\/em\u003e (2009), \u003cem\u003eThe Sacred Headwaters\u003c\/em\u003e (2011), \u003cem\u003eInto the Silence\u003c\/em\u003e (2011) and \u003cem\u003eRiver Notes\u003c\/em\u003e (2012). 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Named by the NGS as one of the Explorers for the Millennium, he has been described as “a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all of life’s diversity.” In 2014, Switzerland’s leading think tank, the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute of Zurich, ranked him 16th in their annual survey of the top 100 most influential global Thought Leaders.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAn ethnographer, writer, photographer, and filmmaker, Davis holds degrees in anthropology and biology and received his PhD in ethnobotany, all from Harvard University. Mostly through the Harvard Botanical Museum, he spent over three years in the Amazon and Andes as a plant explorer, living among fifteen indigenous groups in eight Latin American nations while making some 6000 botanical collections. 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A professional speaker for 30 years, Davis has lectured at over 200 universities and 250 corporations and professional associations. In 2009 he delivered the CBC Massey Lectures. He has spoken from the main stage at TED five times, and his three posted talks have been viewed by 3 million. His books have appeared in 20 languages and sold approximately one million copies.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eDavis is the recipient of 11 honorary degrees, as well as the 2009 Gold Medal from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society for his contributions to anthropology and conservation, the 2011 Explorers Medal, the highest award of the Explorers Club, the 2012 David Fairchild Medal for botanical exploration, the 2013 Ness Medal for geography education from the Royal Geographical Society, and the 2015 Centennial Medal of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University. His recent book, \u003cem\u003eInto the Silence\u003c\/em\u003e, received the 2012 Samuel Johnson prize, the top award for literary nonfiction in the English language. In 2016 he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Davis, Wade (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003eEvery culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? In \u003cem\u003eThe Wayfinders\u003c\/em\u003e, renowned anthropologist, winner of the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize, and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn Polynesia we set sail with navigators whose ancestors settled the Pacific ten centuries before Christ. In the Amazon we meet the descendants of a true lost civilization, the Peoples of the Anaconda. 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The Wayfinders
Distinguished anthropologist Wade Davis leads us on a fascinating tour through a handful of indigenous cultures.
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In Exile
Award-winning journalist Sadiya Ansari’s deeply personal investigation of a family secret with lingering consequences.
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Midway
Honest, elegiac, characteristically strange, and frequently funny, Midway is an exploration of grief in all its manifestations.
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It is easy to see why a book on the anxiety of celebrity has turned the author into one herself.","OtherText_Review_26_Src":"Economist","OtherText_Review_27":"[Heti's] lack of self-censorship [gives] the prose an irrefutable force.","OtherText_Review_27_Auth":"Holly Williams","OtherText_Review_27_Src":"The Independent","OtherText_Review_28":"... sharp, witty ...","OtherText_Review_28_Auth":"Natasha Lehrer","OtherText_Review_28_Src":"Jewish Chronicle Online","OtherText_Review_29":"…there is something in her story that will resonate with every reader, as Heti's honest rendition of some of life's most humbling truths challenges the novel as we know it.","OtherText_Review_29_Auth":"Hannah Sayle","OtherText_Review_29_Src":"Memphis Flyer","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Jackie Wong","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"The Georgia Straight","OtherText_Review_3":"...a portrait of the artist as a young woman, a postmodern self-help book and an autobiography of the mind.","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Rebecca Wigod","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_4":"...an unforgettable book: intellectually exacting, unsettling in its fragility, bodily as anything painted by Freud, experimental yet crafted as hell, and yes, very funny.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Claudia Dey","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_5":"...the good kind of genre muddle...How Should a Person Be? emerges as part of an entirely different genre: the realistic self-help book. 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The exuberance of youth is shot through with magic threads of wisdom.","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Candace Fertile","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Edmonton Journal","OtherText_Review_7":"From pithy quotables ('Night fell, but then, there are always holes to fall into,') to the oddly profound ('If now in some ways I drink too much, it's not that I lack a reverence for the world'), this is a novel that rewards reading, sitting with, and rereading.","OtherText_Review_7_Auth":"Lauren Elkin","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Quarterly Conversation","OtherText_Review_8":"This is a novel that abounds with [...] wisdom, arrived at in fresh and new ways. For all its inventiveness, there is an old-fashioned integrity, an attention to thought in the prose, resulting in unusual and sharp-eyed observations . . . we are treated to some truly profound ruminations on what it means to be an artist in our indifferent era.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_Review_9":"... what Heti’s brain and fingertips offer are expanded possibilities for what the novel can be and can become ... 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A brilliant portrayal of finding a beautiful life by one of Canada's most exciting literary talents.
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Vermette’s poetics are sparse, haunting, and steeped in river story, and her poems come to me as river songs. There is a presencing rhythm to this work, revealing that which is and always has been, flowing right in front of us.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, author of This Accident of Being Lost","OtherText_Accolades_1":"In river woman, Katherena Vermette marshals the maternal energy of the river to spin the lyric poem into something that is awash with vitality. This ethic of care, which each section bears and ricochets about, has at its core a project of repair or nourishment, not just of the natural, but of those of us entangled with it. This us, Vermette deftly shows, is not an empty thing, but is instead teeming with Indigenous life — ‘we are the earth you are hurting.’ We are the river and, in this, we are without end, regardless of what history swells in us. Pick up this book and listen for the musicality of our beautiful rebellion!","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Billy-Ray Belcourt, author of This Wound is a World, winner of the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINTERNATIONALLY RESPECTED:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eKatherena’s work has appeared in literary magazines and anthologies across the globe, including in Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond (Rosarium Press, Baltimore), and Kwe: Standing with Our Sisters (edited by Joseph Boyden, Penguin Random House Canada).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRELEVANT AND TIMELY:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eMuch attention has been drawn this year and last to Indigenous issues in North America, and in the United States particularly surrounding the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. 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Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second collection, river woman, explores her relationship to nature.
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He has also written the highly acclaimed picture book \u003cem\u003eWhen Planet Earth Was New\u003c\/em\u003e, illustrated by Katherine Diemert, and, most recently, \u003cem\u003eTurtle Pond\u003c\/em\u003e, illustrated by Karen Reczuch. James lives in Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorBio_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGARY CLEMENT\u003c\/strong\u003e is an award-winning author and illustrator. He has won the Governor General’s Award (Illustration) for \u003cem\u003eThe Great Poochini\u003c\/em\u003e and was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award (Illustration) for \u003cem\u003eJust Stay Put\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eOy, Feh, So\u003c\/em\u003e by Cary Fagan. He has also illustrated \u003cem\u003eA Coyote Solstice Tale\u003c\/em\u003e by Thomas King and \u003cem\u003eStories from Adam and Eve to Ezekiel\u003c\/em\u003e by Celia Barker Lottridge. He is the editorial cartoonist for the \u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e, and his work has appeared in the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e. Gary lives in Toronto where he regularly exhibits his drawings and paintings.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Illustrated by","Contributor_0":"Gladstone, James (CA)","Contributor_1":"Clement, Gary (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA boy, his father and their dog have a perfect day in a snowy city, illustrated by Governor General’s Literary Award winner Gary Clement.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA young boy wakes up in the early light of a winter morning, pulls on his boots and mittens, and steps out into the snowy city with his dad. They trudge through the snow, their dog bounding along beside them, then a slushy, steamy bus ride takes them to the tobogganing hill for some winter fun. The boy describes all the sights and sounds of the day, from the frost in Dad’s beard and the snow “pillows” in the park, to the noisy clunking snow plows and the singing buskers they pass on their way home. That night, the boy lies awake under cozy covers, reflecting on the day, as snow blankets the world outside his window.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is winter in the city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCorrelates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.3\u003cbr\u003e\nDescribe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.7\u003cbr\u003e\nUse illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781773060101","Height":"12.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Groundwood Books","MetaKeywords":"snow; father and son; urban setting; tobogganing; first person narration; diversity; weather; seasons; community; respect for others; empathy; respect for community; respect for environment; figurative language; poetry; author studies; illustrator studies; rich illustrations; convey meaning through illustration; first person narration; visualizing; imagining; Common Core aligned; CC Literature Key Ideas and Details; CC Literature Craft and Structure","NumberOfPages":"32","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePERFECT INTRO TO POETRY:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eJames Gladstone’s poem describes a perfect winter day in the city through evocative, playful language. A delight to read aloud, educators can use the poem as an introduction to poetry for young children with its simple, effective use of metaphor, simile, imagery and alliteration.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ILLUSTRATOR:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eGary Clement won the Governor General’s Literary Award, Canada’s most prominent children’s book award, for his illustrations in The Great Poochini, and his work has been featured in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. In \u003cem\u003eMy Winter City\u003c\/em\u003e, Clement’s stunning full-spread illustrations give us the sweep of the city — each one is a masterpiece — and show the fun and companionship shared by a boy, his father and their dog.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSWEET FATHER-SON RELATIONSHIP:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe book features the strong relationship between a father and son.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCURRICULUM CONNECTIONS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eCurriculum connections include language arts \/ poetry, social studies \/ city life, and science \/ seasons.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"A delicious, snow-filled slice of life.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_1":"This lovely tribute to urban wintertime is oversize, and Clement’s cheerful watercolor art takes full advantage. … Observant little ones can pore over these pages for a long time, noticing each well-observed detail of wintertime city life.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003eGladstone … poetically speaks to the city’s snowy appearance … Clement’s illustrations are chockablock with urban details.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"CM: Canadian Review of Materials","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A boy, his father and their dog have a perfect day in a snowy city, illustrated by Governor General's Literary Award winner Gary Clement.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"03","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeName_0":"Globe 100 List","PrizeName_1":"Elizabeth-Mrazik Cleaver Award","PrizeYear_0":"2019","PrizeYear_1":"2019","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover jacket","PublicationDate":"2019-09-01","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd","ShortDescription":"A boy, his father and their dog have a perfect day in a snowy city, illustrated by Governor General's Literary Award winner Gary Clement.","Width":"9.375","WidthCode":"in"}
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My Winter City
A boy, his father and their dog have a perfect day in a snowy city, illustrated by Governor General's Literary Award winner Gary Clement.
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Taking its title from a beauty school in downtown Winnipeg that closed in 2017 after nearly 100 years of operation, \u003cem\u003eScientific Marvel\u003c\/em\u003e approaches the prairies from the point of view of a person who is often erased from the prairies’ idea of itself. “I mean my country the way \/ my country means my country \/ and what else is there to say? \/ I am bad and brown \/ and trying. Nothing here \/ belongs to me or could \/ or ever will.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is poetry that touches on challenging topics—from queerness and colonialism to racism, climate rage, and decolonization, while never straying far from specific lived experience, the so-called ‘smaller’ questions: about self, art, dance parties and pop culture, relationships and love.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-07-27T14:16:06-04:00","created_at":"2023-07-27T14:05:58-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult BIPOC Voices","Adult Poetry","By (author) Undi Chimwemwe","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2024-04-02"],"price":1699,"price_min":1699,"price_max":2199,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":41382944407611,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487012250","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Scientific Marvel - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2199,"weight":168,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487012250","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":41386271277115,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487012281","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Scientific Marvel - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1699,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487012281","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487012250.jpg?v=1709572884"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487012250.jpg?v=1709572884","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24263880835131,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":2400,"width":1800,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487012250.jpg?v=1709572884"},"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487012250.jpg?v=1709572884","width":1800}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarked by rhythmic drive, humour, and surprise, Undi’s poems consider what is left out from the history and ongoing realities of Winnipeg, Manitoba.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirmly grounded in the local, the arresting poems in Chimwemwe Undi’s debut collection, \u003cem\u003eScientific Marvel\u003c\/em\u003e, are preoccupied with Winnipeg in the way a Winnipegger is preoccupied with Winnipeg, the way a poet might be preoccupied with herself: through history and immigration; race and gender; anxieties and observation. Marked by rhythmic drive, humour and surprise, Undi’s poems consider what is left out from the history and ongoing realities of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and the west. Taking its title from a beauty school in downtown Winnipeg that closed in 2017 after nearly 100 years of operation, \u003cem\u003eScientific Marvel\u003c\/em\u003e approaches the prairies from the point of view of a person who is often erased from the prairies’ idea of itself. “I mean my country the way \/ my country means my country \/ and what else is there to say? \/ I am bad and brown \/ and trying. Nothing here \/ belongs to me or could \/ or ever will.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is poetry that touches on challenging topics—from queerness and colonialism to racism, climate rage, and decolonization, while never straying far from specific lived experience, the so-called ‘smaller’ questions: about self, art, dance parties and pop culture, relationships and love.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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She was the recipient of the 2022 John Hirsch Emerging Writer Award from the Manitoba Book Awards, and she is the Winnipeg Poet Laureate for 2023 and 2024.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"POETRY \/ Canadian","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"POETRY \/ LGBTQ+","BISACSubjectLiteral_2":"POETRY \/ Subjects \u0026amp; Themes \/ Places","BISACSubject_0":"POE011000","BISACSubject_1":"POE021000","BISACSubject_2":"POE023040","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCHIMWEMWE UNDI\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet, editor, and lawyer living and writing on Treaty 1 territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eBrick\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBorder Crossings\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCanadian Literature\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBBC World\u003c\/em\u003e, among others. She was the recipient of the 2022 John Hirsch Emerging Writer Award from the Manitoba Book Awards, and she is the Winnipeg Poet Laureate for 2023 and 2024.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Undi, Chimwemwe (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarked by rhythmic drive, humour, and surprise, Undi’s poems consider what is left out from the history and ongoing realities of Winnipeg, Manitoba.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirmly grounded in the local, the arresting poems in Chimwemwe Undi’s debut collection, \u003cem\u003eScientific Marvel\u003c\/em\u003e, are preoccupied with Winnipeg in the way a Winnipegger is preoccupied with Winnipeg, the way a poet might be preoccupied with herself: through history and immigration; race and gender; anxieties and observation. Marked by rhythmic drive, humour and surprise, Undi’s poems consider what is left out from the history and ongoing realities of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and the west. Taking its title from a beauty school in downtown Winnipeg that closed in 2017 after nearly 100 years of operation, \u003cem\u003eScientific Marvel\u003c\/em\u003e approaches the prairies from the point of view of a person who is often erased from the prairies’ idea of itself. “I mean my country the way \/ my country means my country \/ and what else is there to say? \/ I am bad and brown \/ and trying. Nothing here \/ belongs to me or could \/ or ever will.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is poetry that touches on challenging topics—from queerness and colonialism to racism, climate rage, and decolonization, while never straying far from specific lived experience, the so-called ‘smaller’ questions: about self, art, dance parties and pop culture, relationships and love.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487012250","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487012250\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"96","OtherText_Accolades_0":"\u003cp\u003eBound together and each piece so very much its own, this collection marvels from masterful found poems to sprinkles of pure love and humour. Undi electrifies, is at once vulnerable and completely indestructible. PS: That first Winnipeg poem has got to be our new hometown anthem.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Katherena Vermette, author of The Break","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem \u003eScientific Marvel\u003c\/em\u003e is poetic anti-gravity. Poetry of the lightest touch for the heftiest matters. And so lit by its poet’s willingness to tarry with the things only poetry can illuminate, its music blooms with defiant wit. Sharp, pointed, and sage about the world and its endangered moving parts, the great reward of Undi’s meticulous attention is ours to reap, whether it is trained close to home or beyond. But even more, Undi has proven herself an exquisite and needful diarist of the inextricability of Black being from love, from freedom, from the tangled, hurtful web of this modern life. At the core of this book is always the heart-stirring necessity of surprise. 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All of it, Undi demonstrates, worth noticing, worth cherishing, worth remembering.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Sanna Wani, author of My Grief, the Sun","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThis book marks the third consecutive season Anansi Poetry has featured a debut collection from a young Winnipeg poet (Brandi Bird, Hannah Green).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUndi was born and raised in Namibia, and did not arrive in Canada until the age of 13. As a result, her experiences of immigration, assimilation, discrimination, etc. in her new country are first hand, not inherited.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn terms of its touchstones the book is very local and regional. 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Scientific Marvel
Marked by rhythmic drive, humour, and surprise, Undi’s poems consider what is left out from the history and ongoing realities of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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{"id":6982521782331,"title":"Strange Bewildering Time","handle":"strange-bewildering-time","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA poet and journalist looks back on a remarkable journey from Turkey to Nepal in 1978, when the region was on the brink of massive transformation.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nIn the spring of 1978, at age twenty-two, Mark Abley put aside his studies at Oxford and set off with a friend on a three-month trek across the celebrated Hippie Trail — a sprawling route between Europe and South Asia, peppered with Western bohemians and vagabonds. It was a time when the Shah of Iran still reigned supreme, Afghanistan lay at peace, and city streets from Turkey to India teemed with unrest. 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It was a time when the Shah of Iran still reigned supreme, Afghanistan lay at peace, and city streets from Turkey to India teemed with unrest. Within a year, many of the places he visited would become inaccessible to foreign travellers.\u003cbr\u003e\nDrawing from the tattered notebooks he filled as a youthful wanderer, Abley brings his kaleidoscope of experiences back to life with vivid detail: dancing in a Turkish disco, clambering across a glacier in Kashmir, travelling by train among Baluchi tribesmen who smuggled kitchen appliances over international borders. He also reflects on the impact of the Hippie Trail and the illusions of those who journeyed along it. The lively immediacy of Abley’s journals combined with the measured wisdom of his mature, contemporary voice provides rich insight, bringing vibrant witness and historical perspective to this beautifully written portrait of a region during a time of irrevocable change.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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And as much as it is a look at how a young man changed, how relationships and experience can sometimes make the past seem foreign, I felt the older man very much alive in this — not so much a tale of someone looking back at a former self but of someone eloquently showing that if we keep our desire to search and express, the best parts of youth don't die.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Colin McAdam, author of A Beautiful Truth and Black Dove","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the best kind of travel memoir — a rethinking and deepening of a journey made years ago. The older and wiser Mark Abley meets himself as a young man and the result is an account of the world, then and now, that is eloquent, rueful, and profound.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Elizabeth Hay, author of All Things Consoled: A Daughter’s Memoir","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003eA wonderful book about travel during a time on the threshold of change in the world. \u003cem\u003eStrange Bewildering Time\u003c\/em\u003e lives up to its name and Mark Abley writes of his travels from Istanbul to Kathmandu, and everywhere in between, with eloquent detail, wit, and wisdom.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"David Farley, author of An Irreverent Curiosity","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003eThis delightful blend of travelogue and memoir swept me away to a foreign land: the late seventies. Youthful and privileged, Abley and his travel companion understand little of the decolonizing world and people they meet. But with his signature wit, critical candour, and empathy, Abley’s older self offers context and the wisdom of hindsight. An absorbing portrait of regions in rapid transformation and a couple of young outsiders bemused by hospitality, sights and sounds they encounter on their trip of a lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Shauna Singh Baldwin, author of What the Body Remembers and The Tiger Claw","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eAppeals to an interest in the 1970s counterculture in South Asia, for example the Netflix drama series The Serpent, which is based on the true story of serial killer and fraudster Charles Sobhraj, who preyed on Western tourists travelling the hippie trail during the 1970s.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOffers a portrait of South Asian culture and society before the Iranian Revolution, before the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppeals to Boomer nostalgia for lost youth and simpler times.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCreates a vicarious travel experience for the reader in the time of COVID-19.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003eReaders will marvel at this nostalgic travelogue.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003eProviding an intimate glimpse of far-flung regions during times of change, just before some regions became inaccessible to Westerners … An engrossing travelogue with introductions to the Middle East and Central Asia, \u003cem \u003eStrange Bewildering Time\u003c\/em\u003e is nostalgic and thoughtful—a paean and a lament for a time long gone.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Foreword","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003eA book often worthy of comparison with such enduring classics of travel literature as Patrick Leigh Fermor’s \u003cem \u003eBetween The Woods And The Water \u003c\/em\u003eand Bruce Chatwin’s \u003cem \u003eIn Patagonia\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Montreal Gazette","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003eA riveting read … vivid and thoughtful.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003eAbley masterfully navigates his acknowledgement of his innocent self as a foundation for the book while introducing witty and philosophical remarks that allow the reader to reevaluate the authority of the narrative lens. 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A poet and journalist looks back on a remarkable journey from Turkey to Nepal in 1978, when the region was on the brink of massive transformation.
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In this expanded version of her 1989 CBC Massey Lectures, scientist and activist Ursula M. Franklin explores the impact of technology upon our lives.
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ages 1
to 4
/ grades P
and up
Out the Window
A perfect book for active, curious toddlers and preschoolers from the bestselling author/illustrator of A Few Blocks and A Few Bites.
