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{"id":6818885206075,"title":"Augustino and the Choir of Destruction","handle":"augustino-and-the-choir-of-destruction","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eAugustino and the Choir of Destruction\u003c\/em\u003e literary legend and three-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award Marie-Claire Blais delivers the third volume in the prize-winning series (\u003cem\u003eThese Festive Nights\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThunder and Light\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAugustino and the Choir of Destruction\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eRebecca, Born in the Maelstrom\u003c\/em\u003e) acclaimed as one of the greatest undertakings in modern Quebec fiction. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAugustino and the Choir of Destruction\u003c\/em\u003e is set on an island in the Gulf of Mexico that is home to the full spectrum of humanity: the rich, the poor, the powerful, the humble, artists, criminals. With her unique, signature use of punctuation, Marie-Claire Blais manages to brilliantly show in one flashing stroke men and women; victims and tormentors; child kamikaze pilots and petty thieves from Bahama Street; Charles, a great poet cut down by AIDS; Cinderella, a transvestite prostituting himself to a customer at the Porte du Baiser saloon; Caroline, an artist and photographer who has seen all the hidden treasures of the world; and Augustino, a clairvoyant child-writer. 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With her unique, signature use of punctuation, Marie-Claire Blais manages to brilliantly show in one flashing stroke men and women; victims and tormentors; child kamikaze pilots and petty thieves from Bahama Street; Charles, a great poet cut down by AIDS; Cinderella, a transvestite prostituting himself to a customer at the Porte du Baiser saloon; Caroline, an artist and photographer who has seen all the hidden treasures of the world; and Augustino, a clairvoyant child-writer. These individual destinies combine in Blais' vision to form a single harmonic texture.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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On the page, however, they take on surreal dimensions, the fragments of their lives woven together through Blais' dark, magical prose.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Montreal Gazette","OtherText_Review_3":"Nigel Spencer has performed a tour de force in Augustino and the Choir of Destruction...Spencer has risen to the extraordinary challenge of rendering Blais' uninterrupted stream of hallucinatory prose into an accomplished and lyrical translation.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Governor-General's Jury Citation","OtherText_Review_4":"Spencer's translation is true to the original, with all the characters - all of humanity - as guests at the same party, united by thought, history, and art.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Montreal Review of Books","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The third in the ten-book \"Soifs\" novel cycle, this novel is set in a post-September 11 world on an island in the Gulf of Mexico.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeName_0":"Governor General's Award: Translation","PrizeYear_0":"2007","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2007-05-01","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"The third in the ten-book \"Soifs\" novel cycle, this novel is set in a post-September 11 world on an island in the Gulf of Mexico.","Width":"5.38","WidthCode":"in"}
Augustino and the Choir of Destruction
The third in the ten-book "Soifs" novel cycle, this novel is set in a post-September 11 world on an island in the Gulf of Mexico.
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{"id":6818884419643,"title":"The Immaculate Conception","handle":"the-immaculate-conception","description":"\u003cp\u003eEast-end Montreal in the mid-1920s. A popular restaurant is razed by an arsonist. Seventy-five people perish in the inferno. While strolling with his wheelchair-ridden father, a man furtively salvages a charred icon from the ruins. He is Remouald Tremblay, a self-effacing bank clerk whose pocket holds a treasured rabbit's foot and whose memory contains an unspeakable hell.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1994 as \u003cem\u003eL'Immaculee conception\u003c\/em\u003e, this is the novel that established Gaetan Soucy as a powerful new literary force in Quebec. In it, he echoes the writing of Edgar Allan Poe and Fyodor Dostoevsky. \u003cem\u003eImmaculate Conception\u003c\/em\u003e was shortlisted for the Giller Prize in 2006.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-30T11:55:57-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-30T10:45:19-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Award Winning","By (author) Soucy Gaetan","House of Anansi Press","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2005-01-01","Translated by Lederhendler Lazer"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1895,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40248556355643,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887847837","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Immaculate Conception - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":354,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887847837","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40248563564603,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770890664","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Immaculate Conception - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770890664","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40248564219963,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770896598","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Immaculate Conception - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770896598","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_8cd21c4f-2949-4871-bd33-637af418dad3.jpg?v=1678600218"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_8cd21c4f-2949-4871-bd33-637af418dad3.jpg?v=1678600218","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324551348283,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.625,"height":2403,"width":1501,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_8cd21c4f-2949-4871-bd33-637af418dad3.jpg?v=1678600218"},"aspect_ratio":0.625,"height":2403,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_8cd21c4f-2949-4871-bd33-637af418dad3.jpg?v=1678600218","width":1501}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eEast-end Montreal in the mid-1920s. A popular restaurant is razed by an arsonist. Seventy-five people perish in the inferno. While strolling with his wheelchair-ridden father, a man furtively salvages a charred icon from the ruins. He is Remouald Tremblay, a self-effacing bank clerk whose pocket holds a treasured rabbit's foot and whose memory contains an unspeakable hell.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1994 as \u003cem\u003eL'Immaculee conception\u003c\/em\u003e, this is the novel that established Gaetan Soucy as a powerful new literary force in Quebec. In it, he echoes the writing of Edgar Allan Poe and Fyodor Dostoevsky. \u003cem\u003eImmaculate Conception\u003c\/em\u003e was shortlisted for the Giller Prize in 2006.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The Immaculate Conception
Gaetan Soucy's Giller-shortlisted debut novel illuminates the sublime and horrific at the core of ordinary lives.
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{"id":6818884485179,"title":"The Law of Dreams","handle":"the-law-of-dreams","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction. Peter Behrens's bestselling novel is gorgeously written, Homeric in scope, and haunting in its depiction of a young man's perilous journey from innocence to experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Law of Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e follows Fergus O'Brien from Ireland to Liverpool and Wales during the Great Potato Famine of 1847, and then beyond -- to a harrowing Atlantic crossing to Montreal. On the way, Fergus loses his family, discovers a teeming world beyond the hill farm where he was born, and experiences three great loves.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-30T11:55:57-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-30T10:45:27-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Award Winning","Adult Bestseller","By (author) Behrens Peter","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2006-09-01"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1895,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40248558878779,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887847745","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Law of Dreams - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":472,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887847745","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40248563990587,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887848858","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Law of Dreams - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9780887848858","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40248564711483,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770896796","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Law of Dreams - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770896796","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6bc4cb31-8d96-43fa-8830-9f4e01d66497.jpg?v=1655628645"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6bc4cb31-8d96-43fa-8830-9f4e01d66497.jpg?v=1655628645","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22243516678203,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.666,"height":2476,"width":1649,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6bc4cb31-8d96-43fa-8830-9f4e01d66497.jpg?v=1655628645"},"aspect_ratio":0.666,"height":2476,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6bc4cb31-8d96-43fa-8830-9f4e01d66497.jpg?v=1655628645","width":1649}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction. Peter Behrens's bestselling novel is gorgeously written, Homeric in scope, and haunting in its depiction of a young man's perilous journey from innocence to experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Law of Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e follows Fergus O'Brien from Ireland to Liverpool and Wales during the Great Potato Famine of 1847, and then beyond -- to a harrowing Atlantic crossing to Montreal. On the way, Fergus loses his family, discovers a teeming world beyond the hill farm where he was born, and experiences three great loves.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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And we move through it as willingly, or compulsively, as the protagonist, the wind of love and hate at our backs.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Newsday","OtherText_Review_1":"...The Law of Dreams rings with a strange, hard poetry, a mingling of Behrens's rich narrative voice and scraps of startling wisdom that seem to emanate directly from Fergus's mind...In the life of this determined young man, Behrens illuminates one of the 19th century's greatest tragedies and the massive migration it launched. A novel that animates the past this vibrantly should make volumes of mere history blush. 'Life burns hot,' Fergus thinks, and so do these pages.","OtherText_Review_10":"Inspired by his own family history, Behrens has fashioned a paean to the strength of the human spirit that illuminates a piece of history. The law of dreams is to keep moving, and that's what Fergus does, taking advantage of opportunities even as he is haunted by dreams and hurt by betrayal. Behrens tells this story in spare prose that distills ideas to their essence, making this absorbing historical fiction.","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_11":"One of the many fine things about Peter Behrens' stunningly lyric first novel, The Law of Dreams, is that it is emphatically a story of that great hunger, a work of richly empathetic imagination that reminds us once again of how powerful historical fiction can be in skilled hands. In fact, the story has a factual and emotional authenticity that calls to mind the similarly masterful debut Thomas Flanagan made with his now classic novel of Irish history, The Year of the French.","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"LA Times","OtherText_Review_12":"The Law of Dreams is the best literary adventure novel I've read since Lonesome Dove, a brilliant heart-felt celebration of the capacity of the human spirit.","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Howard Mosher","OtherText_Review_13":"The Law of Dreams lowers a tape recorder into the pit of history. All that was lost, everything we've forgotten, is suddenly restored. The research is prodigious, the story is epic, the structure is bold, and the ancient language is something new and wondrous to our ears.","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"Clark Blaise","OtherText_Review_14":"This book is a beautifully written, poetically inspired tale of heroism, love, yes and sex, and the triumph of the human spirit over murderous greed. It's a long road that Behrens makes shorter with many a surprising turn. The Law of Dreams is one great book. I stayed up into the wee hours to finish it. I envy you this journey.","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"Malachy McCourt","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Washington Post","OtherText_Review_2":"...a compelling read, notable for its spare, lyrical use of language.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Montreal Gazette","OtherText_Review_3":"...an absorbing, unsparing and beautifully written account of one man's escape from the charnel house that Ireland became.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_4":"...enjoy the sprawling, cinematically rendered immigrant story.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_5":"...there is much in The Law of Dreams...to excite admiration.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_Review_6":"A lengthy yet surprisingly fast-moving story, The Law of Dreams is sure to establish this Canadian writer as a serious literary talent...Behrens' use of crisp dialogue clearly conveys the fear, the longing and the unbridled hope of a young man teetering on the brink between starvation and salvation. But it is in his economical narrative that Behrens truly shines. 'Life honed to the very edge. Sharpened on a whetstone. Chopping through the days. Working time like it was a sweep of hay.'","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_7":"An action-driven tale stuffed with fascinating historical research.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_8":"An emotional epic bearing echoes of Melville and Ondaatje, conveying scents and shimmers of a vanished world under the skin of our own.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Jonathan Lethem","OtherText_Review_9":"From a mountaintop in Ireland to the beckoning promise of America, there are scenes that will remain imprinted upon the reader's mind. Peter Behrens is a tremendously talented writer.","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Alistair MacLeod","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The Law of Dreams follows Fergus O'Brien from Ireland to Liverpool and Wales during the Great Potato Famine of 1847, and then beyond.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_2":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_3":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_4":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeCode_2":"04","PrizeCode_3":"04","PrizeCode_4":"04","PrizeName_0":"Governor General's Literary Awards: Fiction","PrizeName_1":"Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize","PrizeName_2":"Commonwealth Writers' Prize - Best Book","PrizeName_3":"CBA Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year","PrizeName_4":"Amazon.ca\/Books in Canada First Novel Award","PrizeYear_0":"2006","PrizeYear_1":"2007","PrizeYear_2":"2007","PrizeYear_3":"2007","PrizeYear_4":"2007","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2006-09-01","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"The Law of Dreams follows Fergus O'Brien from Ireland to Liverpool and Wales during the Great Potato Famine of 1847, and then beyond.","Width":"5.56","WidthCode":"in"}
The Law of Dreams
The Law of Dreams follows Fergus O'Brien from Ireland to Liverpool and Wales during the Great Potato Famine of 1847, and then beyond.
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He was named \"Canadian of the Year\" by \u003cem\u003eMaclean's\u003c\/em\u003e magazine in 2003 and one of the 100 most influential people in the world by \u003cem\u003eTIME\u003c\/em\u003e magazine in 2005.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Lewis, Stephen (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I have spent the last four years watching people die.\" With these wrenching words, diplomat and humanitarian Stephen Lewis opens his 2005 CBC Massey Lectures. Lewis's determination to bear witness to the desperate plight of so many in Africa and elsewhere is balanced by his unique, personal, and often searing insider's perspective on our ongoing failure to help.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eLewis recounts how, in 2000, the United Nations Millennium Summit in New York introduced eight Millennium Development Goals, which focused on fundamental issues such as education, health, and cutting poverty in half by 2015. In audacious prose, alive with anecdotes ranging from maddening to hilarious to heartbreaking, Lewis shows why and how the international community is falling desperately short of these goals.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition includes an afterword by Lewis, covering events after the lectures were delivered in fall 2005.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9780887847530","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9780887847530\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.06","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","MetaKeywords":"Diseases; AIDS \u0026amp; HIV; Social Policy; Third World Development; AIDS; United Nations; Africa; award winner; Massey Lectures","NumberOfPages":"224","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"Race Against Time - Second Edition: excerpt\r\nFrom the Afterword: \r\n\r\nA UN meeting was planned for May 31 to June 2, 2006, to review the progress that had been made since a Declaration of Commitment on hiv\/aids had been endorsed by the international community some five years earlier. I had occasion to be speaking again with Mark in early February, when he suddenly said that he had a delicate\/awkward matter to raise with me. Apparently there was a possibility that President Bush would attend the UN meeting scheduled for the end of May, and the UN desperately wanted him to be there. \r\n\r\nI had been told (I can surmise by whom, but it was never revealed) that if I were to attack the United States before that date, the president probably wouldn't come. \r\n\r\nYou must understand that though I take myself overly seriously from time to time, it was a bit much to think that my words could deter the President of the UNited States. Nonetheless, Mark said to me (I think I'm capturing it with authentic accuracy), \"Stephen, I must ask you, no, I must plead with you, no, I must instruct you that you are not to attack U.S. policy before the meeting in May. I don't care what you do after that, but beforehand, you must refrain from criticism.\" \r\n\r\nI could scarce credit what I was hearing. I laughed again, and told Mark that it seemed to me that things were verging on the absurd. On the other hand, I also assured him that I had no immediate plans to go on the attack, and if I did, I'd let him know in advance and resign with appropriate dignity. \r\n\r\nI relate these surreal circumstances because they speak to an UNlovely pattern of Pavlovian obeisance to the UNited States. Apparently, criticism is permitted of the G8, Tony Blair's Commission on Africa, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, the Government of South Africa, the Government of Zimbabwe, the King of Swaziland, and the United Nations itself -- all of whom this book excoriates from time to time -- but almost never the sacrosanct \"integrity\" of the United States of America. \r\n\r\nBut that's only one small part of my postscript to these lectures. 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Race Against Time
Humanitarian Stephen Lewis describes how the world is falling desperately short of UN goals for reducing poverty, inequality, and mortality rates.
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Simply put, he makes the brain hurt, forcing us to exert that dusty 90 per cent we rarely use....a seductive, exquisitely crafted look at the overlay of the wordless visible world and the conscious act of mapping that world.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Edmonton Journal","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Ken Babstock's brilliant third collection of poetry testifies to the harrowing beauty of everyday experience.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_2":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_3":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_4":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_5":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"05","PrizeCode_2":"01","PrizeCode_3":"04","PrizeCode_4":"04","PrizeCode_5":"04","PrizeName_0":"Griffin Poetry Prize","PrizeName_1":"ReLit Awards - Poetry","PrizeName_2":"Trillium Book Award for Poetry","PrizeName_3":"Winterset Award for Excellence in Newfoundland Writing","PrizeName_4":"Governor General's Literary Awards: Poetry","PrizeName_5":"Winterset Award for Excellence in Newfoundland Writing","PrizeYear_0":"2007","PrizeYear_1":"2007","PrizeYear_2":"2007","PrizeYear_3":"2007","PrizeYear_4":"2006","PrizeYear_5":"2007","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2006-03-21","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Ken Babstock's brilliant third collection of poetry testifies to the harrowing beauty of everyday experience.","Width":"5.52","WidthCode":"in"}
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Ken Babstock's brilliant third collection of poetry testifies to the harrowing beauty of everyday experience.
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Odd Man Out
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Alligator moves with the swiftness of a gator in attack mode through the lives of a group of characters in contemporary St. John's, Newfoundland.
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The Crazy Man
Winner of the Governor General's Award, The Crazy Man is a moving and unforgettable story of a period of crisis in a young girl's life.
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The Unconscious Civilization
John Ralston Saul argues that our society is only superficially based on democracy, and that increasingly it is conformist and corporatist.
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Drift
A Trillium Book Award for Poetry winner, this collection reminds us that our solitude is painful, yet precious.
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Heather works between her studios in Pickering, Ontario, and Rainy Lake, Ontario. Her work is found in private and corporate collections, and is exhibited throughout Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"By (author)","ContributorRole_2":"Illustrated by","Contributor_0":"Loyie, Larry (CA)","Contributor_1":"Brissenden, Constance (CA)","Contributor_2":"Holmlund, Heather D. (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the mid-1800s to the late 1990s, the education of Indigenous children was taken on by various churches in government-sponsored residential schools. 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to 6
As Long as the Rivers Flow
The story of Larry Loyie's last summer before entering residential school.
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ages 12
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The Maestro
Young Burl Crow doesn't get many breaks but his meeting with Nathaniel Orlando Gow, the Maestro, changes Burl's life forever.
