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The second collection from Canadian poet and filmmaker Shane Book.
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She urges us to learn and listen (but actually listen). She’s patient but forceful in offering her many (many) facts. I’ve never liked the word nice, and liked the idea of aspiring to be nice even less. Thankfully, McKeon makes nice a non-word — a notion or descriptor that means nothing and does nothing. She sets us free of the rhetoric associated with niceness and exchanges the burden of playing by the rules for the data, statistics, and emphasis on intersectionality that will help us, collectively, to obliterate them.” — \u003cstrong\u003eAnne\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Anne","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003e“Lauren McKeon is one of the most important journalists writing about feminist issues in this country today. This impeccably researched and reported book is a revelation, an inspiration, a punch in the gut, and a fierce rallying cry. It’s a definite must read for anyone who cares about women’s current reality, and women’s future in this country and beyond.” — \u003cstrong\u003eStacey May Fowles\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Stacey May Fowles","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTIMELY SUBJECT:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThere’s a huge market for books on feminist literature and ongoing attention to women’s issues in popular media. \u003cem\u003eNo More Nice Girls\u003c\/em\u003e picks up where her 2017 book,\u003cem\u003e F-Bomb\u003c\/em\u003e, left off.\u003cem\u003e F-Bomb\u003c\/em\u003e looked at the supposed demise of the feminist movement, while this book reimagines the very concept of power itself. Perfect for fans of feminist nonfiction by Gemma Hartley, Soraya Chemaly, Robyn Doolittle.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAUTHOR’S INTERSECTIONAL APPROACH AND STYLE:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eMcKeon’s intersectional approach led her to many interviews with people whose experiences with power is more layered than her own, including people of all genders, Native American women, women of colour, women with disabilities, and those who are LGBTQ+. She practices what she preaches: all interview subjects are referred to by their chosen pronouns and none are described by their physical appearances unless that is relevant to the discussion of power or a man would be physically described in the same situation. Her nuanced and intentional writing is also fun to read. Having developed her writing for online audiences as well as for readers of long-form print journalism, McKeon’s prose style — sharp, honest, and entertaining — is persuasive, and will appeal especially to readers in their twenties, thirties, and forties.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTIMED TO COINCIDE WITH TWO SIGNIFICANT DATES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eWe will publish the book on March 3, 2020, to coincide with International Women’s Day on March 8. Also worth noting is that in 2020, it will be twenty-five years since the Beijing Platform for Action, a visionary agenda for the empowerment of women and girls which came out of the UN’s Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995 in Beijing. The anniversary of the Beijing Platform, and how much progress has or has not been made over the last twenty-five years, will be much discussed in the media. McKeon is very well connected in the media, and we will work with her to effectively market and promote the book to women’s long-lead magazines and national literary media (magazines, newspapers, radio, TV, podcasts, blogs) in addition to her spotlight in \u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAWARD-WINNING AUTHOR:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eLauren McKeon’s long-form writing has won her several Canadian National Magazine Awards. Her first book, \u003cem\u003eF-Bomb: Dispatches from the War on Feminism\u003c\/em\u003e (Goose Lane, 2017), was nominated for Rakuten Kobo’s Emerging Writer Prize. She contributed a chapter to the book \u003cem\u003eWhatever Gets You Through: Twelve Survivors on Life after Sexual Assault\u003c\/em\u003e. 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At one point, our class melted away from our workout stations to pool, lost, around the TV. Women muttered shit, what, no, over and over again. That night, I couldn’t sleep. I stayed seated on my bed, cross-legged, stunned. It didn’t matter that I wasn’t American, or that one of the wokest men on Earth supposedly ran my own country. Electing a blatant misogynist to one of the world’s most powerful positions symbolized something: we were fucked.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eSince then, the question of women and power has undergone something of a renaissance — largely because we’ve been forced to confront, once again, how much of it women still don’t have. Quite literally overnight, many of us went from believing, with good reason, that we’d never been closer to equality — and power — to reckoning with just how far away from both women truly were. In response, women woke up, gathered, and demanded change. All around the world, they protested. The momentum from the Women’s March on Washington built into #MeToo and a very public reckoning with the everyday ways in which women’s power and autonomy are constantly undermined.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eWatching it all, I was galvanized. But I also felt as though I was stuck in a not-so-fun house of magic mirrors. Come one, come all! Watch as the road to equality shrinks, stretches, distorts! Sometimes it seemed as if our fury, powerful in its own right, could propel us anywhere we wanted to go: into public office, into the C-suite, into a world in which we had bodily autonomy. Other times, as the anti-feminist backlash grew louder, bolder, and more expansive, it seemed as though women were in our most precarious spot yet. I began to think of feminist power as a paradox: from some vantages, we seemed closer than ever to achieving it; from others, we’d never been farther away.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eI have spent the bulk of my journalism career investigating the ways in which women navigate, and in many cases push back against, the expectations of the world around them. In doing this, I now realize, what I’ve really been asking, consciously or not, is how women disrupt and reimagine power structures, how they gain power both in and over their lives. Many of the women I’ve interviewed are pioneers in their fields, often ones dominated by men, and you could say they are subverting from within. Others are pushing at established power structures from the outside, rallying from the grassroots. They are all inspiring and amazing. But is what they’re doing working? These past few years have illuminated some stark, and seemingly contradictory, truths. 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No More Nice Girls avoids despairing, instead positing a hopeful roadmap toward a future wherein women will not just attain power, but will topple and rebuild it in their own image.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Foreword Reviews","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“Through a wealth of examples of women and communities working to topple power structures in a variety of sectors, No More Nice Girls is a thoughtful, bold read that envisions a future in which women create new styles of leadership.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eRabble.ca\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Rabble.ca","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“Timely … [\u003cem\u003eNo More Nice Girls\u003c\/em\u003e] will open your eyes to a better way of doing things.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eI’ve Read This\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"I’ve Read This","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eNo More Nice Girls \u003c\/em\u003eprovides a rallying cry for feminists of any age to once again challenge the current paradigm and institutions that continue to disempower women. McKeon’s book contains a healthy amount of outrage and antidote that will leave the reader with tools to do more than just get angry — it will also create for themselves and for future generations recipes for working toward systemic change … \u003cem\u003eNo More Nice Girls\u003c\/em\u003e belongs on the bookshelf alongside Susan Faludi’s Backlash, Susan Douglas’s Enlightened Sexism, Sylvia Bashevkin’s Women, Power, Politics, and Linda Trimble’s Ms. Prime Minister — all important contemporary books that lay out feminist issues. 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No More Nice Girls
An insightful novel that shows how women are disrupting the standard (very male) vision of power and ditching convention.
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Sunny Days Inside
Linked short stories follow the interconnected lives of children living in one apartment building as they shelter in place during the pandemic.
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Like a shell necklace, beauty can be found in both the parts and the whole…Though Thirteen Shells departs from Bozak’s earlier fiction in terms of content, the quality of this new offering is consistent with the first two widely acclaimed novels. Bozak is a talented writer and brings insight and beauty to her account of a southwestern Ontario childhood.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_12":"\u003cp\u003e“Nadia Bozak gets to the heart - and the heartbreak - of girlhood with Thirteen Shells.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCBC Candy Palmater show\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"The London Yodeller","OtherText_Review_13":"\u003cp\u003e“A coming-of-age tale that resists the usual clichés to focus on the telling details that reveal the essence of a life. ” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_14":"\u003cp\u003e“Finally, there exists a penetrating, nuanced account of Canadian girlhood.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_15":"\u003cp\u003e“This wise, moving ode to an era turns the pain of growing up with divorce into a hopeful journey.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eForeword\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_15_Src":"Foreword","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Teva Harrison, author of In-Between Days","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“Thirteen Shells is a true-to-life account of a totally captivating character, another unforgettable work of fiction from [Nadia Bozak]” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOwen Sound Sun-Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“Bozak’s newest book, [is] all repressed heartbreak and wry humour…It is difficult not to be entranced by Shell” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOttawa Citizen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Ottawa Review of Books","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“There is a certain beauty in literature that only can be expressed through the naive, unsure nature of a child growing up amidst the razor edges of dysfunctionality. In Thirteen Shells, Ottawa author Nadia Bozak takes this to a new level by dulling these edges with the unassailable love of a girl for her parents…Shell is no angel. She lies and steals, at least a little. Experiments with drugs. And has her petty jealousies. But by the midpoint in the novel, the readers find themselves rooting for Shell, hoping that her dreams will come true. And that is the novel's brilliance.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOttawa Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Ottawa Citizen","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“Bozak’s interwoven stories most obviously parallel [Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women]. Both Shell and Munro’s women and girls come of age in extremely realistic fictional Ontario towns. Both can be broken down to stand alone as stories, or read through as a novel. Both focus less on a particular climax, and more on the ongoing understated crises of expectations: the ones we put on ourselves, and the ones other people have of us. Furthermore, both authors are masterful when it comes to language, churning out brilliant turns of phrase worth revisiting….Thirteen Shells quietly captures each painful gasp of growing up: the anxiety and shame, along with the treasures found along the way.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Owen Sound Sun-Times","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“...Thirteen Shells is enticing, reminding us of the difficulty and joy of simply growing up and getting on with it.” — \u003cstrong\u003eRory Runnells, \u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Rory Runnells","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e“richly detailed...There's a grittiness and emotional dynamism in these... tales” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Open Book","OtherText_Review_8":"\u003cp\u003e“Nadia Bozak's gorgeous collection of linked short stories, Thirteen Shells is drawing tons of praise, including comparisons to Alice Munro, for its deft rendering of a young girl coming of age...Bozak's funny and poignant prose connects us with Shell's deeply relatable longings.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOpen Book\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Quill \u0026 Quire","OtherText_Review_9":"\u003cp\u003e“As a vivid picture of growing up in the ‘80’s, Thirteen Shells is a landmark.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe London Yodeller\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"CBC Candy Palmater show","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Told in the tradition of Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women, Thirteen Shells is a novel-in-stories about a young girl coming of age in the 1980s.","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2016-05-07","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Told in the tradition of Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women, Thirteen Shells is a novel-in-stories about a young girl coming of age in the 1980s."}
Thirteen Shells
Told in the tradition of Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women, Thirteen Shells is a novel-in-stories about a young girl coming of age in the 1980s.
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City of Water
The second book in the ThinkCities series explores water as a precious, finite resource, tracing its journey from source, through the city, and back again.
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The first book in a gripping new Ava Lee spin-off series featuring Uncle Chow Tung and his ascendancy to the head of the Triad gang in Fanling.
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I Wish I Could Draw
A funny story about the wonderful things you can create if you refuse to limit (and label) yourself.
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Deep Underwater
What secrets will Sophia discover at the bottom of the ocean?
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The Ranger
In the sequel to The Outlaw, a ranger and a fox form a special and unexpected friendship while navigating an indifferent and dangerous wilderness.
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to 7
/ grades K
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Owen at the Park
Working with his dad in the park, Owen gets to do his favorite job. First, he clears the park of picnickers and geese, and then the magic happens …
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Bonnie Jack
From the acclaimed author of the internationally bestselling Ava Lee series, a bold and captivating new novel about a search for lost family and the cost of keeping secrets.
