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A Sweet Meeting on Mimouna Night
A story about a young girl celebrating the Moroccan Jewish holiday of Mimouna with a new Muslim friend.
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ages 1
to 3
/ grades P
to 3
This New Baby
Teddy Jam’s poetic text paired with gorgeous illustrations by Virginia Johnson make this the perfect board book for babies and their parents.
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ages 4
to 2
/ grades P
to 7
Grandpa's Girls
There is a wonderful blend of fun and family history in this story of a young girl's visit to a much-loved grandparent.
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Her matter-of-fact descriptions of her time with the johns are searing, and the casual brutality of her life will haunt readers.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e, STARRED REVIEW\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“An astonishing, wrenching achievement.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e, STARRED REVIEW\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“In this novel in verse, Leavitt has created in Angel's voice a perfect mix of innocence and experience” — \u003cstrong\u003eMichael Cart, \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e, STARRED REVIEW\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Michael Cart","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Booklist, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“Leavitt deftly tackles a difficult subject without a hint of melodrama or voyeurism. Angel's story could belong to any teen on the streets, though her voice is wonderfully unique.” — \u003cstrong\u003eMiranda Doyle, \u003cem\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, STARRED REVIEW\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Miranda Doyle","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"School Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“Leavitt probes an exceptionally difficult, raw topic without resorting to cliché or melodrama. The nuance, economy, and delicacy with which she renders both the uniqueness and universality of Angel's story is such that it's easy not to notice that the novel contains no graphic sex or even swearing. In trying to illustrate how good this book is, it's tempting to simply quote every line. Best just to read it and experience for yourself Leavitt's remarkably powerful achievement.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e, STARRED REVIEW\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Emily Donaldson","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Quill \u0026 Quire, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“Mature, complex and relentlessly \"real\" in its subject matter, Leavitt's verse novel honours and quietly memorializes the women murdered by Robert Pickton.” — \u003cstrong\u003eDeirdre Baker, \u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Deirdre Baker","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“The novel reads in a lyrical, unstructured style, which adds to the powerful harshness of the story it tells.” — \u003cstrong\u003eEmily Abrahams, \u003cem\u003eShameless\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Emily Abrahams","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Shameless","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A stunning verse novel about a sixteen-year-old sex worker trying to survive in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside during the time of the Pickton murders.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_1":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_2":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_3":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_4":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"03","PrizeCode_1":"01","PrizeCode_2":"03","PrizeCode_3":"03","PrizeCode_4":"04","PrizeName_0":"Horn Book Fanfare","PrizeName_1":"CLA Young Adult Book Award","PrizeName_2":"Cooperative Children's Book Center, CCBC Choices","PrizeName_3":"The Bankstreet College of Education's Best Books of the Year 2013","PrizeName_4":"OLA White Pine Award","PrizeYear_0":"2012","PrizeYear_1":"2013","PrizeYear_2":"2013","PrizeYear_3":"2013","PrizeYear_4":"2014","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2012-08-22","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd","ShortDescription":"A stunning verse novel about a sixteen-year-old sex worker trying to survive in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside during the time of the Pickton murders.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
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My Book of Life By Angel
A stunning verse novel about a sixteen-year-old sex worker trying to survive in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside during the time of the Pickton murders.
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to 7
/ grades K
to 2
Greetings, Leroy
Roy is nervous about his first day at a new school in a new country, but soon realizes he may come to love Canada as much as he loved home in Jamaica.
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Is there someone out there for everyone? Two lonely souls find each other in this unusual tale of friendship and belonging from Cary Fagan.
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There must be some solace in thinking your house will go on living apart from you, like an extension, a promise renewed no matter the hardships or failures, bestowing sudden meaning on sorrow. Personally, it's all a mystery to me since I have no desire to see others blossom where I once withered away — but then I'm not a very nice person.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eÉvelyne shows me the rest of her house: two children's bedrooms. In the first room, a cream-coloured quilt in a delicate pattern of pink and pale-green buttercups and peonies. A number of lively drawings on the walls, all signed SOLENE. In the second bedroom, blue and green stripes, dinosaur figurines, wood letters painted red hanging on the door: MATTEO. Évelyne was astute enough to keep the walls white. 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Her coral lips give the faintest, saddest smile ever smiled and she murmurs: \u003cem\u003eThree boys. That's quite something, isn't it\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDEBUT NOVEL FROM AWARD-WINNING CHILDREN’S BOOK AUTHOR:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eFanny Britt is the author of the best-selling, critically acclaimed graphic novels \u003cem\u003eJane, the Fox and Me\u003c\/em\u003e (2013) and \u003cem\u003eLouis Undercover\u003c\/em\u003e (2017). \u003cem\u003eJane, the Fox and Me\u003c\/em\u003e received three starred reviews, was selected for the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Best Illustrated Books list, and won a Governor General’s Literary Award, among others. 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We will also be doing a targeted IndieNext campaign for \u003cem\u003eHunting Houses\u003c\/em\u003e.\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":"\u003cp\u003e“Britt’s novel is an unflinching reminder that heartbreak doesn’t discriminate… . Britt reveals, moment by moment, the lifetime of a woman caught between the expectations of motherhood and personal fulfillment.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMetro\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Metro","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Britt is especially strong at capturing the hyper-vulnerability a mother can feel on behalf of her children . . . In capturing and sustaining that intense emotional pitch, the novel is spiritual kin to Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Adult Onset and Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk About Kevin . . . Translators Susan Ouriou and Christelle Morelli do an exemplary job of rendering Britt’s prose crisply and idiomatically.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMontreal Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Montreal Gazette","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies meets Rachel Cusk’s The Lucky Ones in this astounding debut novel about a woman on the verge of infidelity.","ProductFormDescription":"Digital Audio, MP3","PublicationDate":"2017-07-01","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies meets Rachel Cusk’s The Lucky Ones in this astounding debut novel about a woman on the verge of infidelity.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Hunting Houses
Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies meets Rachel Cusk’s The Lucky Ones in this astounding debut novel about a woman on the verge of infidelity.
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Buffoon
Three-time Governor General’s Literary Award–shortlisted author and playwright Anosh Irani’s critically acclaimed one-man show Buffoon is a masterclass of tragicomic theatre.
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Dog Park
A ferociously plotted novel of intrigue, betrayal, and murder in the global fertility market.
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The Mummer's Song
In 1973, Bud Davidge wrote The Mummer's Song as a tribute to a centuries-old custom in danger of disappearing and fostered a revival of mummering.
