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ages 6
and up
/ grades 1
and up
Northwest Passage
A stunning pictorial representation of the search for the Northwest Passage as seen by painter Matt James, inspired by Stan Rogers’ iconic song.
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{"id":6816228671547,"title":"Hold Fast","handle":"hold-fast","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHold Fast\u003c\/em\u003e is the widely acclaimed story of a young boy's struggle to survive in a new environment and his fight against those who stand as threats to his pride in himself and his way of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMichael turned fourteen in May. By June, both his parents are dead, victims of a car crash. And for Michael, who has lived all his life in a small Newfoundland outport community, this means being suddenly uprooted and sent to live with relatives in St. Albert, a city hundreds of miles away.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHold Fast\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of Michael's struggle to survive in his new world. In vivid, honest prose, it depicts his fight against those who threaten him - the loud-mouthed Kentson who makes fun of the way he talks at school, and his uncle who tries to rule life at home with an iron hand. 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ages 12
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to 10
Hold Fast
The widely acclaimed story of a young boy's struggle to survive in a new environment and stand up for himself.
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Ideas about blood purity have spawned rules about who gets to belong to a family or cultural group, who enjoys the rights of citizenship and nationality, what privileges one can expect to be granted or denied, whether you inherit poverty or the right to rule over the masses, what constitutes fair play in sport, and what defines a person’s identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlood: The Stuff of Life\u003c\/em\u003e is a bold meditation on blood as an historical and contemporary marker of identity, belonging, gender, race, class, citizenship, athletic superiority, and nationhood.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781770893221","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781770893221\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","MetaKeywords":"Life Sciences; Human Anatomy \u0026amp; Physiology; Hematology; Massey Lectures","NumberOfPages":"384","OtherText_Review_0":"Where Blood shines (glistens?) is in the many places where Hill exposes and explores the contradictions and liminal spaces of a topic that — whether we like it or not — unites us all.","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Emily Donaldson","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_1":"The book is chock full of fascinating statistics, anecdotes and arguments about blood and ranges in topics...It's entertaining, shocking and informative; the lectures should be both challenging and engaging.","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Tracy Sherlock","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_2":"...elegantly argued lectures.","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Brian Bethune","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Maclean's","OtherText_Review_3":"...Hill is a wonderful storyteller, and it’s the stories – his own in particular – that absorb and resonate.","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Carolyn Abraham","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_4":"Transparent and compelling.\r\n\r\nThe book is as enthralling as it is informative.\r\n\r\nThe reasons for Hill's success as a writer are apparent throughout.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Publisher's Weekly","OtherText_Review_5":"A natural choice for Massey lecturer","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Ian McGillis","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"The Montreal Gazette","OtherText_Review_6":"...a comprehensive and powerful social history of blood and its myriad implications for the ways we view ourselves.","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Devyani Saltzman","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"The Province","OtherText_Review_7":"The book is enlivened by Hill's personal and familial experiences with blood... he affirms the humanist and scientifically accurate description that we are all part of the unfolding diversity of the human family. 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Blood
Bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers an examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and the way that it unites and divides us today.
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Jane, the Fox and Me
A graphic novel about bullying, body image and the transformative power of fiction.
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Hellgoing
Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Coady gives us nine new stories, each grabbing our attention from the first line and resonating long after the last.
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It’s a rapid ride, with a strong current of tension that never lets up.","OtherText_Review_16_Auth":"Jennifer Lori","OtherText_Review_16_Src":"PRISM international","OtherText_Review_17":"A superbly written novel that crosses literary boundaries, Caught will surely garner [Moore] even wider readership.","OtherText_Review_17_Auth":"Mike Heffernan","OtherText_Review_17_Src":"Atlantic Books Today","OtherText_Review_18":"Caught is a pleasure to read. The narrative is cohesive and propulsive, but it’s Moore’s mastery of language and image that sets her apart.","OtherText_Review_18_Auth":"Heather Cromarty","OtherText_Review_18_Src":"Quill \u0026amp; Quire","OtherText_Review_19":"Moore's ability to conceal a drum-tight plot line and an unflagging fidelity to the thematic pillars of Caught—mistakes and luck, trust and doubt, consequences and freedom—in the cloak of rough-and-tumble prose is something to behold.","OtherText_Review_19_Auth":"Laurie D Graham","OtherText_Review_19_Src":"The Malahat Review","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Leah Hager Cohen","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_2":"Caught is an outstanding novel, combining the complexity of the best literary fiction with the page-turning compulsive readability of a thriller.","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Jeet Heer","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_3":"Lisa Moore’s new book is a beautiful piece of writing…","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Duncan McMonagle","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_4":"[T]his novel that is rife with realness, and beauty, and tension; so much it hurts, in the best possible way.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Morgan Murray","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Newfoundland Quarterly","OtherText_Review_5":"Moore’s prose is as vivid as ever...","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Susan G. 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A remarkable novel about a man who escapes from prison to embark upon one of the most ambitious pot-smuggling adventures ever attempted.
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One Year in Coal Harbour
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Through an artful melding of science and personal narrative, Neil Turok -- one of the world's leading theoretical physicists -- conveys not only the excitement of forefront research, but the gripping human drama of exploring ourselves and the cosmos.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe","OtherText_Review_1":"Neil Turok’s The Universe Within provides an elegant, informative, and sometimes moving account, free of technicalities, of those powerful scientific, philosophical, and humanitarian influences underlying the personal drives of this highly distinguished mathematical physicist. I strongly recommend it.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Sir Roger Penrose, author of Cycles of Time","OtherText_Review_2":"The Universe Within is that rare thing, a genuinely exciting and exhilarating book. It is a mixture of polemic, celebrating science and reason with the eloquence and power of Sagan and Bronowski, and a beautifully written exploration of some of the great fundamental questions at the frontier of scientific knowledge. If you want to experience the excitement of modern science and understand why scientists devote their professional lives to the exploration of the unknown, then read this book.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Brian Cox, author of The Quantum Universe","OtherText_Review_3":"Turok does an excellent job making accessible some of the most difficult concepts in physics, writing about science with a clarity that rivals Brian Greene and James Gleick ... by turns entertaining and instructive, The Universe Within above all offers hope.","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"August C. 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The Universe Within
Neil Turok's 2012 CBC Massey Lectures is a visionary look at the way the human mind can shape the future.
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Mai at the Predators' Ball
The fifth in the ten-book "Soifs" novel cycle. In this vibrant novel, we enter the lives of unforgettable characters, some familiar from previous works and some new.
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Inside
A powerful drama about entwined lives and a woman with an unsettling ability to broach the innermost dynamics of the people around her.
