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Middlemen
When a killing spree threatens Dundurn, MacNeice risks everything to protect his team and put an end to it.
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{"id":6899075383355,"title":"Dual Citizens","handle":"dual-citizens","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Alix Ohlin comes an intimate and compelling novel of motherhood, love, a search for belonging, and what it means to be a sister.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll her life, Lark Brossard felt invisible, overshadowed by the people around her: first by her temperamental mother; then by her sister, Robin, a brilliant pianist as wild as the animals she loves; and finally by Lawrence Wheelock, a filmmaker who is both Lark’s employer and her occasional lover. When Wheelock denies her what she longs for most — a child — Lark is forced to re-examine a life marked by unrealized ambitions and thwarted desires. 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When Wheelock denies her what she longs for most — a child — Lark is forced to re-examine a life marked by unrealized ambitions and thwarted desires. As she takes charge of her destiny, Lark comes to rely on Robin in ways she never could have imagined. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this meditation on motherhood, sisterhood, desire, and self-knowledge, Alix Ohlin traces the rich and complex path towards fulfillment as an artist and as a human being.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Dual Citizens
An intimate and compelling novel about motherhood, love and the search for belonging, and what it means to be a sister.
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Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person
This ecstatic long poem of hope and creeks and cats and rain is a translation of Alberto Caeiro/Fernando Pessoa's classic long poem O Guardador de Rebanhos.
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The Deleted World
A brilliant selection of poems by Nobel prize winner Tomas Tranströmer, translated from the Swedish by renowned Scottish poet Robin Robertson.
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Life Is About Losing Everything
Lynn Crosbie gives us a fiery, honest, and heartbreaking blend of personal memoir and fiction that sketches seven tumultuous years in her life.
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Teva was Principal Illustrator for the National Film Board\/National Theatre production of playwright Jordan Tannahill’s \u003cem\u003eDraw Me Close: A Memoir\u003c\/em\u003e, a virtual reality theatrical experience blending live theatre and virtual reality technology.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eShe was a finalist for the Canadian Magazine Award and the National Magazine Award, and her writing appeared in the \u003cem\u003eWalrus\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGranta\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCarte Blanche\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eReader’s Digest\u003c\/em\u003e (Canada, U.S., and International editions), the \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e, and more. She was a regular commentator on CBC Radio, in the \u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e, and in the \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e, and she appeared on programs including \u003cem\u003eCanada AM\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Agenda with Steve Paikin\u003c\/em\u003e, Space TV’s \u003cem\u003eInnerSpace\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Morning Show\u003c\/em\u003e, and in \u003cem\u003eMaclean’s\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eChatelaine\u003c\/em\u003e, and Rabble.ca. She was also the illustrator of \u003cem\u003eThe Joyful Living Colouring Book\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Harrison, Teva","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2016 Governor General's Literary Award Finalist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2017 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Winner\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2017 Joe Shuster Award Nominee\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeva Harrison was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer at the age of 37. In this brilliant and inspiring graphic memoir, she documents through comic illustration and short personal essays what it means to live with the disease. She confronts with heartbreaking honesty the crises of identity that cancer brings: a lifelong vegetarian, Teva agrees to use experimental drugs that have been tested on animals. She struggles to reconcile her long-term goals with an uncertain future, balancing the innate sadness of cancer with everyday acts of hope and wonder. She also examines those quiet moments of helplessness and loving with her husband, her family, and her friends, while they all adjust to the new normal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUltimately, \u003cem\u003eIn-Between Days\u003c\/em\u003e is redemptive and uplifting, reminding each one of us of how beautiful life is, and what a gift.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487001087","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487001087\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"10.07","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"128","OtherText_Review_0":"Beautiful, heartbreaking, honest, and true, In-Between Days explores not just what it means to live with terminal cancer, but what it means to live with integrity in the face of our mortality. I couldn’t put it down.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Alison Pick, author of Between Gods and Far to Go","OtherText_Review_1":"As someone recovering from a serious illness, I related so deeply to Teva’s work. No one writes about illness like this, it was hard to stop crying (in a happy way) because I felt so understood.","OtherText_Review_10":"“Teva Harrison’s diagnosis with incurable cancer removes the expectation of an abundance of more — more dreams fulfilled, more time — but focuses her attention on the near and immediate. In this honest and raw memoir, Harrison examines and discovers, grieves, and celebrates, and takes us with her as she crafts a ragged and resonant beauty from her experience in these In-Between Days.”","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Miranda Hill, author of Sleeping Funny","OtherText_Review_11":"In her heartbreakingly honest exploration of these spaces in-between, Harrison provides a useful guide for those who cannot know the thoughts and fears of someone living with chronic illness; and for those experiencing a similar situation, the book shows that even in the most personal of journeys, you are not alone. At its heart, In-Between Days is a firm statement that joy and hope can exist in the same space as anxiety and fear; that each day we are given should be lived, as Harrison says, “With a sense of wonder and delight.”","OtherText_Review_11_Auth":"Michael Melgaard","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_12":"Harrison’s drawing style is more freeform than finicky, and her linework has an appealing vulnerability. But even beyond that aesthetic quality, there’s a remarkable directness to seeing vignettes from a life coloured by cancer that cuts to the quick…The results are profoundly, achingly affecting…What’s striking is, as Sontag might say, her resistance to metaphoric thinking. There’s whimsy, to be sure: the author and a friend don tails and sequins and march in a mermaid parade, and Harrison conjures childhood summers spent stargazing and having flower-petal snowball fights. But when it comes to the day-to-day details of cancer, Harrison is unflinching in her efforts to tell—and show—the straight story.","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Maclean’s Magazine","OtherText_Review_13":"…an unflinchingly honest and occasionally joyful account of Harrison’s day-to-day life","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"Metro News","OtherText_Review_14":"In-Between Days, a graphic novel that combines comics and short essays that explore what it is like to live with incurable cancer, is, all at once, heartbreaking and heartwarming, revealing and honest, all the while showcasing how beautiful and unfair life can be","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"Canadian Jewish News","OtherText_Review_15":"There are many books about living with cancer, and then there is Teva Harrison's, \"In-Between Days\"","OtherText_Review_15_Src":"CBC Metro Morning","OtherText_Review_16":"Inspiring, eye-opening and darkly funny, In-Between Days runs the emotional gamut, with comic strips so sharp they feel like a punch to the heart.","OtherText_Review_16_Src":"CBC Books “How I Wrote It\"","OtherText_Review_17":"In-Between Days offers a fresh perspective, approaching a topic that has inspired so many sad stories with an unexpected vibrancy.","OtherText_Review_17_Auth":"Lauren Scott","OtherText_Review_17_Src":"Rabble","OtherText_Review_18":"Every tale of illness… has the potential to transform a personal story into a universal lesson. Teva Harrison’s In-Between Days lives up to that potential, and then some…beautiful and often arresting…","OtherText_Review_18_Auth":"Peter Kavanagh","OtherText_Review_18_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_19":"raw, brilliant, thought-provoking, and very disquieting","OtherText_Review_19_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Kathleen Hanna, artist, musician (Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, The Julie Ruin), and feminist activist","OtherText_Review_2":"There’s no real preparation for how hard Teva Harrison’s stunning graphic novel will hit you. It doesn’t humanize the disease — that would be banal — and it doesn’t aggrandize the journey — that would be self-help bunk. Rather, it portrays the process as something achingly human, a daily tumult of stuff that roughly amounts to survival. Teva Harrison has stared into the abyss. And what has stared back but love?","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Richard Poplak, author of Ja No Man","OtherText_Review_3":"Teva’s art and reflections powerfully capture the struggles of being young and facing the certain, yet uncertain end of your life. May we all be this honest with ourselves as we deal with life’s challenges. Inspiring, insightful, contemplative, thank you Teva.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Geoff Eaton, Executive Director, Young Adult Cancer Canada","OtherText_Review_4":"How does a person live with meaning — and joy — in the face of a terminal cancer diagnosis? Teva Harrison answers this question with pitch-perfect honesty and clarity, even when delving into her own complex contradictions. From Harrison’s rigorous honesty comes wisdom. In-Between Days is a beautiful offering. This book fills my heart. The world is lucky to have Teva Harrison. She truly knows how to live, and to love.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Angie Abdou, author of Between","OtherText_Review_5":"With great wisdom, Teva Harrison understands that her cancer doesn’t make her special. But this book certainly does. Through her art and her words, we are reminded of the power of creativity, and that hope for the future is an essentially creative act.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Andrew Westoll, author of The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary","OtherText_Review_6":"Teva Harrison is a metastatic voice that I believe is breaking through. By using humour and creativity to draw people in to a challenging topic, Teva is expanding the breast cancer conversation and shedding light on the complexities and nuances of the disease. I believe In-Between Days will help improve public understanding as well as empower and support others dealing with metastatic breast cancer. Beautifully done.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"MJ DeCoteau, Founder and Executive Director of ReThink Breast Cancer","OtherText_Review_7":"Heartbreaking. Profound. Sly and brutal and funny and crushing. Teva Harrison’s In-Between Days is one of the most stunning memoirs I've ever read. Teva’s taught me it’s not about the number of days left to us. It’s about living them completely.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Joseph Boyden","OtherText_Review_8":"With insight and honesty, Teva Harrison invites us to join her on this deeply personal, beautifully expressed journey with cancer. Through this remarkable book, we encounter awkward ironies, the quietly harrowing reality of our mortal human condition, and moments of distilled life and beauty. Wryly unflinching in her examination of her condition, its treatment, and herself, Teva shares with us the gift that emerges from her in-between days.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Vincent Lam","OtherText_Review_9":"Teva Harrison’s memoir is a frank, moving, powerfully minimalist yet deceptively complex work of art. With seemingly simple, but ingeniously pared-down strokes, Harrison bestows upon her readers the gift of complete empathy. Without forcing a thing she makes her readers FEEL how she feels — it’s remarkable! — and by the end of this powerful shared experience, by allowing her readers into her heart and mind, she occupies with us both our present and future. We’re all in great shape, we realize thanks to Harrison, as living, feeling, loving human beings.","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Guy Maddin","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Teva Harrison’s In-Between Days is an inspiring graphic memoir about living with cancer.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_2":"Long-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"01","PrizeCode_2":"05","PrizeName_0":"Governor General's Literary Award","PrizeName_1":"Kobo Emerging Writers Prize for Nonfiction","PrizeName_2":"Joe Shuster Award","PrizeYear_0":"2016","PrizeYear_1":"2017","PrizeYear_2":"2017","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2016-04-23","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Teva Harrison’s In-Between Days is an inspiring graphic memoir about living with cancer.","Subtitle":"A Memoir About Living with Cancer","Width":"6.88","WidthCode":"in"}
In-Between Days
Teva Harrison’s In-Between Days is an inspiring graphic memoir about living with cancer.
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The Joyful Living Colouring Book
A splendid colouring book of original new illustrations with a few choice words of hope that will inspire and delight.
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Invitations like this did not come around often and if I behaved myself the chance of a second invitation seemed good. Fishing held no interest to me, but the prospect of leaving the confines of our house, garden and road was thrilling. Such escapes were few and far between, even now, a year after the war had ended.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy father stood by the door with his fishing line and a metal lunchbox that I knew contained the hooks and worms he would need my help with. I presented myself to him: feet together, back straight, saluting. It was a habit I had developed when he had come back from the fighting and I had hoped it would convince him that I was respectful and knowledgeable enough to hear about his adventures in France, especially the story that would explain how he had lost his right arm. 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I was captivated by the sound of my feet on the wooden slats of the pier, mixed with the echo from the waves washing up on shore and that had been more than enough excitement to fill my mind to near bursting, leaving little room for his lecture on proper behaviour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Keep out of the way,” he said. “And be quiet.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis last instruction was the most important.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePERFECT BOOK CLUB PICK\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Last Wave\u003c\/em\u003e hits right on the commercial\/literary sweet spot; it is perfect for people who love books about women reaching beyond the limits of their time, similar to \u003cem\u003eSwimming Lessons\u003c\/em\u003e by Claire Fuller. 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The Last Wave
An intergenerational saga that follows the life of Martha, a woman who has swum the English Channel ten times, and her complex relationships.
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The Programme provides legal research and information to the other Canadian aid groups and is in contact with some 2,000 draft counsellors in the U.S., providing background information, reporting changes in immigration practice, and verifying or denying the ever-present rumours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull-time trained counsellors are available to advise people planning to immigrate; the Programme also helps immigrants once they arrive in Canada. Nearly 200 Torontonians have offered to house new arrivals temporarily. Its Employment Service has a full-time counsellor to help find job offers for applications and job leads for landed immigrants. Several Toronto lawyers advise immigrants who have special legal problems, and a number of physicians help with medical problems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Programme is assisted by dozens of volunteers, both new immigrants and Canadians. 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Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada
A handbook for Americans who refused to serve as draftees in the Vietnam War and were considering immigrating to Canada, with new modern relevance.
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Back Roads
A genre-defying ethereal mystery in which a writer encounters her double and must grapple with an undetermined crime — and her own identity.
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The Field
From Robert Seethaler comes a tale of life and death and human connection, told through the voices of those who have passed on.
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Not a word is wasted.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Quote_from_review_4":"Tender, quiet, gentle, poetic — a little treasure.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_5":"In the latest from Booker-nominated Robert Seethaler, three people collide in Nazi-occupied Vienna: a teenage villager named Franz; Anezka, the vaudeville dancer he’s fallen for; and Sigmund Freud, dispensing some questionable advice.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_6":"Robert Seethaler is a great storyteller who loves his characters, and he has a wonderful sense of the dramatic which never gets out of hand.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_7":"The Tobacconist is a stirring, affecting, extremely multi-faceted book. It’s a coming-of-age novel, a love story, a portrait of society, and although it’s a work of fiction it reads like an important contemporary document of the darkest period in Austria’s history. All this is conveyed by Robert Seethaler with such literary lightness, precision and vivid imagery that, like the protagonist himself, the reader is inevitably swept up in the maelstrom of events.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_8":"With this novel Robert Seethaler has created a wonderful tale of adolescence, told with great lightness and humour — but the dark rumblings of the hard times just starting in Vienna are always present in the background.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_9":"The Tobacconist is a poignant, tragic look at the creeping rise of fascism in Vienna before the outbreak of the Second World War. Told with humor and pity, the novel expertly depicts how easy it is to find, and lose, one's place in the world.","OtherText_Quot_10":"Robert Seethaler is a great storyteller who loves his characters, and he has a wonderful sense of the dramatic which never gets out of hand.","OtherText_Quot_11":"Robert Seethaler writes about all this in a way that is understated yet captivating and very poetically powerful, stylistically confident.","OtherText_Quot_12":"For me, Seethaler is a great storyteller in the tradition of Polgar and Joseph Roth.","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“Seethaler blends tragedy and whimsy to create a bittersweet picture of youthful ideals getting clobbered by external forces.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Set at a time of lengthening shadows, this is a novel about the sparks that illuminate the dark: of wisdom, compassion, defiance, and courage. 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The Tobacconist
Set in Austria in the 1930s, The Tobacconist tells the story of one young man and his friendship with Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna.
