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In the Orchard, the Swallows
Named a Book of the Year by both the Guardian and Chapters/Indigo, In the Orchard, the Swallows is a moving story of lost love in war-torn Pakistan.
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Stella breezily banishes his fears, suggesting a picnic at Lily Pond. Stella cools her feet in the water, reading a story, while Sam tries to catch a frog. Are there frogs in Stella's book, he wonders. No, Stella tells him, but there is a toad wearing a velvet jacket…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith her characteristically light touch, Marie-Louise Gay imparts the pleasures and importance of reading to her young audience, whether it be humor, fiction, nonfiction or poetry. 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This is an excellent model both of positive sibling relations and of the way books and stories can naturally play into everyday life.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBulletin of the Center for Children's Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“This title is a great addition to Gay’s Stella and Sam series.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLibrary Media Connections\u003c\/em\u003e, STARRED REVIEW\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Stella introduces her little brother Sam to the pleasures of reading, sharing her new pastime with contagious enthusiasm.","ProductFormDescription":"Kindle, Fixed Layout","PublicationDate":"2013-08-01","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd","Series":"Stella and Sam","ShortDescription":"Stella introduces her little brother Sam to the pleasures of reading, sharing her new pastime with contagious enthusiasm.","teachersguide_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781773065380\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=teachersguide\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Width":"9","WidthCode":"in"}
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Read Me a Story, Stella
Stella introduces her little brother Sam to the pleasures of reading, sharing her new pastime with contagious enthusiasm.
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Monster Mender
A monster mender works hard to heal all wounds, but struggles to help a sea serpent who just seems … sad.
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The book’s three main sections make up a kind of fractured reader’s diary, broken up by two interludes of “divinations” – sparser erasure poems made using the changing positions of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites to pick words from the transcript of an interview between self-proclaimed proponents of toxic masculinity Tucker Carlson and Andrew Tate. 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This is work in dialogue with existing texts of boyhood and masculinity, in particular Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s \u003cem\u003eEmile\u003c\/em\u003e. The book’s three main sections make up a kind of fractured reader’s diary, broken up by two interludes of “divinations” – sparser erasure poems made using the changing positions of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites to pick words from the transcript of an interview between self-proclaimed proponents of toxic masculinity Tucker Carlson and Andrew Tate. By processing existing texts and recasting them into a present, personal moment, \u003cem\u003eUltra Blue\u003c\/em\u003e navigates the joy, despair, vivid arcana, and routine violence of boyhood under Western patriarchy.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Ultra Blue
Ultra Blue is a sequence of poems about the emotional lives of boys and the challenges of growing up within contemporary masculinity.
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Sparkling with recollection’s rich details, associative leaps, colloquial doses of energy and imaginative reach, Dunk Tank is exhilarating.","OtherText_Accolades_3":"What a profound, effortless spell Kayla Czaga conjures with this collection. In communion with an array of private and public selves, these poems convince me authentic connection is possible. Desirous and impulsive, problematic as any one of us, the speaker never exempts herself from the world she tallies in tacos, panties, inherited stress, taps on Instagram posts, seagulls heaped like Kleenex. When she confesses ‘it felt \/ like we could say and finally mean \/ something,’ I’m enlivened, senses heightened, as if my name is being called by someone who never calls me by my name.","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEXCITING EMERGING POET:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eKayla Czaga’s first collection, \u003cem\u003eFor Your Safety Please Hold On\u003c\/em\u003e, won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Her poems have since received major acclaim. At the release of only her second collection, Kayla Czaga is already an exciting rising star.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAWARDS BUZZ:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eSeveral poems from her debut collection have received awards attention, including: \u003cem\u003eFiddlehead\u003c\/em\u003e’s Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize; \u003cem\u003eMalahat Review\u003c\/em\u003e’s Far Horizons Award for Poetry; and an Editor’s Choice Award in \u003cem\u003eARC Poetry Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e’s Poem of the Year Contest. Poems from \u003cem\u003eFor Your Safety Please Hold On\u003c\/em\u003e have also been shortlisted for the New Quarterly’s Occasional Verse Contest; longlisted for CBC’s Canada Writes Poetry Contest; and appeared in literary publications across North America.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLGBTQ+ THEMES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eKayla’s poetry speaks to both LGBTQ+ and cis-hetero audiences through its themes of sexual coming of age.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“These poems of love, service-industry jobs, and small-town boredom . . . buzz with fierce restlessness and longing.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Dunk Tank trades in specificity, intimacy, weirdness, colloquialism, and dark humour.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“Czaga manages to capture moments of maturation with the wisdom of a backward glance . . . Approachable and skillful in its poetics and narrative detail.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuill and Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“The author is always inventive in her metaphors and images … All in all Dunk Tank is smart and heartfelt.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWalleye\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Walleye","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“Reading Kayla Czaga’s Dunk Tank is like taking a ride in a hot-wired car from Kitimat, seeing how far it will take you … Czaga creates order from disparate-seeming imagery with an intuitive knack for repetition … Good poetry resonates on different levels, leaves you thinking about your own life for some time beyond. And in this regard Czaga’s poems leave you laugh-crying and changed.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOrmsby Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Ormsby Review","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Dunk Tank is a rich, imaginative, and sometimes absurdist exploration of the landscape of the body and of adult life.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Runner-up","PrizeCodeText_1":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"02","PrizeCode_1":"03","PrizeName_0":"Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize","PrizeName_1":"A CBC Book of the Year","PrizeYear_0":"2019","PrizeYear_1":"2019","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2019-04-09","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Dunk Tank is a rich, imaginative, and sometimes absurdist exploration of the landscape of the body and of adult life.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
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Dunk Tank is a rich, imaginative, and sometimes absurdist exploration of the landscape of the body and of adult life.
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The follow-up book, nipêhon \/ \u003cem\u003eI Wait\u003c\/em\u003e, will be released in August 2017.\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 (indigenous languages \/ reading comprehension) and social studies (heritage \/ identity).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“Textured acrylic paintings, done in rich earth tones...portray the sanctity of the natural environment...a sensitive, respectful portrayal of contemporary Native Americans.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"School Library Journal","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“...acrylic-on-canvas paintings give a dream-like feel to the story, making it almost a nostalgic look at childhood...Recommended.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCM: Canadian Review of Materials\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"CM: Canadian Review of Materials","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“...a quiet narrative...broad brush strokes and blurred colours conveying light and atmosphere as much as personality...the simple verbs in present tense provide a wealth of clues about the workings of the Cree language.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A simple and beautifully illustrated story in Cree and English about a young child picking rosehips in the woods with his grandmother.","ProductFormDescription":"Kindle, Fixed Layout","PublicationDate":"2018-03-01","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd","Series":"Nohkom series","ShortDescription":"A simple and beautifully illustrated story in Cree and English about a young child picking rosehips in the woods with his grandmother.","teachersguide_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781773061979\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=teachersguide\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Width":"8.5","WidthCode":"in"}
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niwîcihâw / I Help
A simple and beautifully illustrated story in Cree and English about a young child picking rosehips in the woods with his grandmother.
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The Return of History
A timely and fascinating analysis of twenty-first-century geopolitics by Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General Jennifer Welsh.
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Sequence
A finely tuned collection from Griffin Poetry Prize-winning poet A. F. Moritz.
