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When Eliot ends up dead onstage on opening night, the curtain rises on the sleepy town’s secrets. The suspects include the actor whose career Eliot ruined, the ex-wife he betrayed, the women he abused, and even the baker he wronged. With the attention of the world on Port Ellis, this story could be Cat’s chance to restore her reputation. But the police think she’s a suspect, and the murderer wants to kill the story—and her too. Can Cat solve the mystery before she loses her job or becomes the next victim of a killer with a theatrical bent for vengeance?\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487012625","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487012625\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"7.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Spiderline","NumberOfPages":"352","OtherText_Accolades_0":"\u003cp\u003eA propulsive, juicy little ride—the perfect combination of Agatha Christie and Janet Evanovich—a gorgeously written, twisty, turny, small-town whodunnit, that also seamlessly weaves together themes of a dying era of journalism, the ruthless nature of ‘theatah,’ and the strength of a woman trying to reinvent herself, heal her heart, and hopefully catch a killer before it’s too late. Kate Hilton and Elizabeth Renzetti have created a vivid, warm, hilarious character in Cat Conway, whose story \u003cem \u003esurely\u003c\/em\u003e doesn't end here … I loved every page.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Lisa Gabriele, author of The Winters","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003eGiant egos, secret grievances, the locals vs. the artsy-farts: theatre towns were made for murder, and \u003cem \u003eBury the Lead\u003c\/em\u003e was made for mystery lovers. Kate Hilton and Elizabeth Renzetti had a lot of fun with this, and so will you.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Andrew Pyper, author of The Demonologist and Oracle","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003eA classic, but also topical, whodunnit staged with humour and wit.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Linwood Barclay, author of The Lie Maker","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003eA smart, devious whodunnit filled with theatrical shadows and veils, \u003cem \u003eBury the Lead\u003c\/em\u003e is both twisty and hilarious.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Robyn Harding, bestselling author of The Drowning Woman","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003eRight from the hilariously brilliant opening line, I was hooked, helpless to resist reading just one more chapter. This very witty, sharp, fun, and suspenseful cozy mystery is the best escape and also a thought-provoking novel. With pitch-perfect dialogue, beautiful flow, and the most relatable heroine, \u003cem\u003eBury the Lead\u003c\/em\u003e showcases the immense talents of Kate Hilton and Elizabeth Renzetti. As a team, they're unstoppable.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Samantha M. Bailey, USA Today and #1 national bestselling author of Woman on the Edge and Watch Out for Her","OtherText_Accolades_5":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBury the Lead\u003c\/em\u003e is a word-perfect romp through the world of small-town theatre, both hilarious and poignant, insightful and full of twists. I give it a standing ovation!\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_5_Auth":"Roz Nay, bestselling author of The Hunted","OtherText_Accolades_6":"\u003cp\u003eReading \u003cem\u003eBury the Lead\u003c\/em\u003e is like having cocktails with your most fabulous friends. Liz and Kate tell you fantastic stories, and you laugh, gasp, say ‘Wow!’ and ‘What?!’ a lot, and learn a few tricks you’re glad to know. They get the worlds of theatre and journalism exactly right, the stubborn talents and eggshell egos. The minute it’s over, you can’t wait to get together again.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_6_Auth":"Johanna Schneller, Bigger Picture columnist, Globe and Mail","OtherText_Accolades_7":"\u003cp\u003eTwo of my favourite authors have joined forces to create an engaging, sly mystery that is perfect for fans of Richard Osman and Louise Penny. With a heroine to root for, a quirky supporting cast, a charming but shadowy small-town setting, and a whodunit that had me turning pages as fast as I could, this novel is an absolute delight!\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_7_Auth":"Marissa Stapley, New York Times bestselling author of Lucky","OtherText_Accolades_8":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBury the Lead\u003c\/em\u003e is the perfect cozy mystery novel … fun, dark, and impossible to put down. 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Will appeal to female readers with life experience and feminist leanings.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAt the core of the story is a #METOO moment and the sexual misconduct of powerful men; also shown are issues affecting small towns, such as gentrification and overdevelopment.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis is the ideal holiday or weekend read, and particularly so when vacationing in cottage country. The setting taps into that rich vein of affection\/nostalgia for holiday towns: recognizable landscape, summer-stock theatre, the quirky locals, small-town papers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKate Hilton is the bestselling author of three comic novels; Elizabeth Renzetti is a bestselling Anansi author and award-winning journalist, formerly with the \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e. 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Bury the Lead
A big-city journalist joins the staff of a small-town paper in cottage country and finds a community full of secrets … and murder.
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Widows and Orphans
In Port Ellis, there's no off-season for murder! No. 2 in the bestselling Quill & Packet Mystery series.
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A Table Set for Sisterhood
A wholly original feminist cookbook featuring over thirty recipes, each linked to a significant woman throughout history and from across the globe.
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He shook Agnes, to no avail. It wasn’t until her daughter screamed that Agnes was jolted to consciousness. On either side of the laneway, rain-soaked bushes burst into a flurry of white flowers. Alice’s first breaths were filled with lightning and the scent of storm lilies in bloom.\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\n \u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eYou were the true love I needed to wake me from a curse, Bun,\u003c\\\/em\u003e her mother would say to finish the story. \u003cem\u003eYou’re my fairytale.\u003c\\\/em\u003e\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\n \u003cp\u003eWhen Alice was two years old, Agnes introduced her to books; as she read, she pointed to each word on the page. Down at the beach, she repeated: one cuttlefish, two feathers, three pieces of driftwood, four shells, and five shards of sea glass. Around their house, Agnes’s hand-lettered signs: BOOK. CHAIR. WINDOW. DOOR. TABLE. CUP. BATH. BED. By the time Alice started homeschooling when she was five, she was reading by herself. Though her love of books was swift and absolute, Alice always loved her mother’s storytelling more. When they were alone, Agnes spun stories around the two of them. But never in earshot of Alice’s father.\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\n \u003cp\u003eTheir ritual was to walk to the sea and lay on the sand staring up at the sky. With her mother’s gentle voice telling the way, they took winter train trips across Europe, through landscapes with mountains so tall you couldn’t see their tops, and ridges so smothered in snow you couldn’t see the line separating the white sky from white earth. They wore velvet coats in the cobblestoned city of a tattooed king, where the harbour buildings were as colourful as a box of paints, and a mermaid sat, cast in bronze, forever awaiting love. 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At last she saw the first thread of light in the sky and threw her sheets back.\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\n \u003cp\u003eAlice’s mother was in the kitchen making Vegemite and cottage cheese on toast and a pot of honeyed tea, which she carried on a tray outside to her garden alongside the house. The air was cool, the early sun was warm. Her mother rested the tray on a mossy tree stump and poured sweet tea into two teacups. They sat chewing and drinking in silence. Alice’s pulse beat loudly in her temples. After Agnes ate the last of her toast and finished her tea, she crouched between her ferns and flowers, murmuring as if she was rousing sleeping children. Alice wasn’t sure what to do. Was this gardening? She mimicked her mother and sat with the plants, watching.\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\n \u003cp\u003eSlowly, the lines of worry in her mother’s face vanished. Her furrowed brow relaxed. She didn’t wring her hands, or fidget. Her eyes were full and clear. She became someone Alice didn’t recognise. Her mother was peaceful. She was calm. The sight filled Alice with the kind of green hope she found at the bottom of rock pools at low tide but never managed to cup in her hands.\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\n \u003cp\u003eThe more time she spent with her mother in the garden, the more deeply Alice understood — from the tilt of Agnes’s wrist when she inspected a new bud, to the light that reached her eyes when she lifted her chin, and the thin rings of dirt that encircled her fingers as she coaxed new fern fronds from the soil — the truest parts of her mother bloomed among her plants. Especially when she talked to the flowers. Her eyes glazed over and she mumbled in a secret language, a word here, a phrase there as she snapped flowers off their stems and tucked them into her pockets.\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\n \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSorrowful remembrance,\u003c\\\/em\u003e she’d say as she plucked a bindweed flower from its vine. \u003cem\u003eLove, returned.\u003c\\\/em\u003e The citrusy scent of lemon myrtle would fill the air as she tore it from a branch. \u003cem\u003ePleasures of memory.\u003c\\\/em\u003e Her mother pocketed a scarlet palm of kangaroo paw.\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\n \u003cp\u003eQuestions scratched at the back of Alice’s throat. Why did her mother’s words only flow when she was telling stories about other places and other worlds? What about their world, right in front of them? Where did she go when her eyes were far away? Why couldn’t Alice go with her?\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\n \u003cp\u003eBy her seventh birthday, Alice’s body was heavy from the burden of unanswered questions. They filled her chest. Why did her mother talk to the native flowers in such cryptic ways? How could her father be two different people? What curse did Alice’s first tears save her mother from? Although they weighed on her mind, Alice’s questions remained stuck, lodged in her windpipe as painfully as if she’d swallowed a seedpod. Moments of opportunity came on good days in the garden, when the light fell just so, yet Alice said nothing. In silence, she followed her mother as her pockets filled with flowers.\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\n \u003cp\u003eIf Agnes ever noticed Alice’s silence, she never said anything to break it. It was understood time spent in the garden was quiet time. \u003cem\u003eLike a library,\u003c\\\/em\u003e her mother once mused as she glided through her maidenhair ferns. Though Alice hadn’t ever been to a library — to see more books in one place than she could imagine, or hear the whispers of collective pages turning — she felt she almost had, through her mother’s stories. From Agnes’s description, Alice imagined a library must be a quiet garden of books, where stories grew like flowers.\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\n \u003cp\u003eAlice hadn’t been anywhere else beyond their property either. Her life was confined to its boundaries: from her mother’s garden to the where the cane fields started, to the bay where the sea curled close by. She was forbidden to venture further than those lines, and especially the one that separated their driveway from the lane that led into town. \u003cem\u003eIt’s no place for a girl,\u003c\\\/em\u003e her father would say, slamming his fist on the dinner table, making the plates and cutlery jump, whenever Alice’s mother suggested sending her to school. \u003cem\u003eShe’s safer here,\u003c\\\/em\u003e he’d growl, putting an end to the conversation. That’s what her father was most able to do, put an end to everything.\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\n \u003cp\u003eWhether they spent their day in the garden or at the sea, the point always came when a storm bird would call, or a cloud would cross the sun, and Alice’s mother would shake herself awake, as if she’d been sleepwalking through a dream. She became animated, turning on her heel to sprint towards the house, calling over her shoulder at Alice, \u003cem\u003efirst one to the kitchen gets fresh cream on her scones.\u003c\\\/em\u003e Afternoon tea was a bittersweet time; her father would be home soon. Ten minutes before he was due, her mother would position herself by the front door, her face pulled too tight in a smile, her voice pitched too high, her fingers in knots.\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\n \u003cp\u003eSome days Alice’s mother disappeared from her body altogether. There were no stories or walks to the sea. There was no talking with flowers. 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It was only a matter of time before she learned she could disappear too.\u003c\\\/p\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":"This story about family, love, and reinvention is defiant in its sweetness and is stirring to its end.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Foreword Reviews","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003eWhat can I say about \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Flowers of Alice Hart\u003c\\\/em\u003e that would live up to the beauty of the words in this book? … A gorgeous book inside and out.\u003c\\\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"A Couple Reads","OtherText_Review_2":"An impressive coming-of-age debut.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Baking Bookworm","OtherText_Review_3":"An engrossing novel imbued with passion and reverence for the Australian natural world, with a cast of characters that inspire affection in the reader even as they make mistakes.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Books and Publishing","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003eA dark, floral fairytale ... 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A vivid and brave tale of love, loss, and inner power.\u003c\\\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Auth":"Australian Women’s Weekly","OtherText_Review_8":"\u003cp\u003eAt its heart, this book is about finding a way to care for yourself, in a world that sometimes likes to step on its flowers.\u003c\\\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_8_Auth":"Courier‑Mail","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"An enchanting and captivating novel about how our untold stories haunt us — and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.","ProductFormDescription":"Lossless Format Audio, WAV","PublicationDate":"2018-08-07","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"An enchanting and captivating novel about how our untold stories haunt us — and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
An enchanting and captivating novel about how our untold stories haunt us — and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.
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She is the author of four bestselling books: \u003cem\u003eAscent of Women: A New Age Is Dawning for Every Mother’s Daughter\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eVeiled Threat: The Hidden Power of the Women of Afghanistan\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBitter Roots, Tender Shoots: The Uncertain Fate of Afghanistan’s Women\u003c\/em\u003e. Armstrong was the first journalist to bring the story of the women of Afghanistan to the world. She has also covered stories in conflict zones from Bosnia and Somalia to Rwanda, Afghanistan, Iraq, South Sudan, Jordan, and Israel. She is a four-time winner of the Amnesty International Canada media award, the recipient of ten honorary doctorate degrees, and an Officer of the Order of Canada. She was born and raised in Montreal, lives in Toronto, and spends the summer in New Brunswick.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Armstrong, Sally (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBestselling author, journalist, and human rights activist Sally Armstrong argues that humankind requires the equal status of women and girls.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe facts are indisputable. When women get even a bit of education, the whole of society improves. When they get a bit of healthcare, everyone lives longer. In many ways, it has never been a better time to be a woman: a fundamental shift has been occurring. Yet from Toronto to Timbuktu the promise of equality still eludes half the world’s population.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her 2019 CBC Massey Lectures, award-winning author, journalist, and human rights activist Sally Armstrong illustrates how the status of the female half of humanity is crucial to our collective surviving and thriving. Drawing on anthropology, social science, literature, politics, and economics, she examines the many beginnings of the role of women in society, and the evolutionary revisions over millennia in the realms of sex, religion, custom, culture, politics, and economics. What ultimately comes to light is that gender inequality comes at too high a cost to us all.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487006792","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487006792\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","MetaKeywords":"feminism; you fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye; women's movement; alice munro; sylvia plath; award winning author; feminist poetry; canlit; women writers; women's Literature; women's studies; alias grace; circle game; survival; short talks anne carson; mermaids and ikons gwendolyn macewen; collectors edition; poetry lovers","NumberOfPages":"304","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: In the Beginning(s) — the impact of agriculture, industrialization, and religion on the status of women\u003cbr\/\u003eChapter 2: Sex — from the pleasure principle to rape\u003cbr\/\u003eChapter 3: Religion, Culture, and Custom — the roles they’ve played over time\u003cbr\/\u003eChapter 4: Politics and Society — the power and the fury of changing world opinions \u003cbr\/\u003eChapter 5: The Economics and Energetics of Tomorrow — the future possibilities for girls and women\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Chapter 1: In the Beginning(s)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo many beginnings. From delicate handprints on a cave wall to goddesses in ancient Mesopotamia; from political tyranny that came in the guise of a message from God to the convoluted journey to emancipation — the story of women is the longest revolution in history. So many times change was in the wind. So many times the finish line blurred. And so many times hope soared. Still, from Toronto to Timbuktu, the promise of equality has eluded half the world’s population. Now there’s a power shift. There’s never been a better time in human history to be a woman. And despite the blowback from misguided politicians, leftover chauvinists, and hypermasculine misogynists, women are closer to gaining equality than ever before. The journey ahead is bound to be epic, and it will affect everything — our wallets, our jobs, our very future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy now? How come the power shift didn’t happen during the first wave of the women’s movement (1848–1920), when the suffragettes struggled to get the vote? Or the second wave (1963–80), when women “put all our faith in the pill” and attended consciousness-raising sessions that discussed the oppression of women and demanded change in the status of women? Or even the third wave (1992–2010), which began after the American lawyer and academic Anita Hill was called to testify at the televised confirmation hearing of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, whom she had accused of sexual harassment, thus challenging his fitness for the position? Hill was then excoriated by the all-male Judiciary Committee, who didn’t believe her, and Thomas was appointed to the Supreme Court. The fallout became a watershed moment in American politics and a turning point in raising awareness of sexual harassment. But still the long-term status of women was mostly unchanged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow with the fourth wave, a movement that began in 2012 when social media took off, there’s a focus on intersectionality, a push for greater empowerment of traditionally marginalized groups — Indigenous people, people of colour; LGBTQ; ethnic, religious, and cultural minorities; people with physical and developmental disabilities; people of differing social classes — and for greater representation in politics and business. Fourth-wave feminists argue that society will be more equitable if policies and practices incorporate the perspectives of all people. While earlier feminists fought to shake off the ties that bound them to subservience, this new wave calls for justice against discrimination, assault, harassment, and it calls for equal pay and individual choices over our own bodies. Words like “cisgender,” “non-binary,” and “polyamorous” reflect the new vocabulary of a changing, more diverse society, and the clarion call for inclusion is being heard around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis wave created hashtag feminism and put abusive powerful men on notice. And by all accounts, this one got liftoff. The symbiotic relationship between social media and individualism is likely driving the bus for change. The internet is all about “instant.” Twitter and Facebook can elevate people and create extreme celebrity and propel movements. Some of these, like #MeToo and #TimesUp, have been amplified by attention from influential entities such as the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e and the Hollywood film industry, but others have been simmering over the last decade. As a journalist, I have watched human rights and the rights of women and girls become the focus of conversation, whether in the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo or the savannah in Kenya, in the deserts of Afghanistan or the college campuses in North America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe have always depended on political will to change up the agenda — the stroke of the politician’s pen to install the stop sign or build the shelter or legislate a new law. It often took public will — marches and petitions — to push the politician to make change happen. But in the last few years, I’m seeing what I call personal will as the driving force behind both public and political will. Malala Yousafzai is a good example. She was fifteen years old, living in the Swat Valley in Pakistan; she wanted to go to school to learn to think for herself. But the Taliban, who claim they act in the name of God, forbade education for girls. She defied the cowardly thugs by speaking out publicly on girls’ rights to an education. On October 8, 2012, she climbed onto the school bus. The last words she heard were: “Which one is Malala?” The Taliban gunman shot that child in the head for going to school. But Malala recovered, and then she started a movement. Today everyone knows her. She’s become the world’s daughter, not because a politician in the Swat Valley insisted that the girls go to school; not because there were marches and petitions demanding education for girls. It was personal will that propelled Malala.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe other telling side to this episode is that atrocities like this happen every day. But this time the world grabbed on to the story and didn’t let it go. I believe it was more evidence of liftoff, of the changing status of women; proof that people realize that dismissing half the world’s population is dangerous and expensive and wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe holy grail for the social innovators of the twenty-first century is knowing how campaigns such as #MeToo and the rise in personal power can be sustained. Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms, authors of \u003cem\u003eNew Power\u003c\/em\u003e, think they know the formula. They call it the difference between old power and new power. “Old power works \u003cem\u003elike a currency\u003c\/em\u003e,” they say. “It is held by few. Once gained it is jealously guarded, and the powerful have a substantial store of it to spend. It is closed, inaccessible, and leader-driven. It downloads, and it captures.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs for new power, as exemplified by the #MeToo movement, it operates “\u003cem\u003elike a current\u003c\/em\u003e. It is made by many. It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. It uploads, and it distributes. Like water or electricity, it’s most forceful when it surges. The goal with new power is not to hoard it but to channel it.” Their conclusion is that #MeToo gave a sense of power to the participants, and that each individual story was strengthened by the surge of the much larger current.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday that empowerment is taking on everything from date rape to old lingering mores that cling to the lives of women the way barnacles attach to ships, slowing them down, denying their fair passage. It is also fuelling change — enormous, life-altering change.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"This is a far-reaching account of the plight of women and girls throughout history and across continents, often told via the moving personal stories of survivors who have endured sexism’s many atrocities . . . With her thorough research and undeniable gift for personal storytelling, Armstrong dispels faulty beliefs and damaging myths; lays bare horrific injustices; and illuminates a variety of economic, political, and cultural truths . . . An ambitious and thoroughly convincing undertaking.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Bestselling author, journalist, and human rights activist Sally Armstrong argues that humankind requires the equal status of women and girls.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2019-09-17","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"The CBC Massey Lectures","ShortDescription":"Bestselling author, journalist, and human rights activist Sally Armstrong argues that humankind requires the equal status of women and girls.","Subtitle":"The Longest Revolution","Width":"5","WidthCode":"in"}
Power Shift
Bestselling author, journalist, and human rights activist Sally Armstrong argues that humankind requires the equal status of women and girls.
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This is a book that will make you laugh, then move you to tears, and you're going to want to give a copy to every woman you know.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"49th Shelf","OtherText_Review_2":"Renzetti’s prose is clever, witty, and accessible, making the book fun for feminists and a good gift for anyone who questions why feminism is still necessary.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_3":"Renzetti moves effortlessly between serious systemic inequality and the equally enraging, if sometimes amusing, everyday absurdities women face, effectively capturing this cultural moment and offering a resounding call to recognize — and organize against — the pernicious sexism that still exists in the world.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_4":"Renzetti takes a pointed look at how far we’ve come — and how far we have left to go.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Bookseller","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"An intelligent and insightful collection of essays on women and feminism from bestselling author and Globe and Mail columnist Elizabeth Renzetti.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_1":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"03","PrizeCode_1":"03","PrizeName_0":"A Chatelaine Book of the Year","PrizeName_1":"A 49th Shelf Book of the Year","PrizeYear_0":"2018","PrizeYear_1":"2018","ProductFormDescription":"Lossless Format Audio, WAV","PublicationDate":"2018-03-03","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"An intelligent and insightful collection of essays on women and feminism from bestselling author and Globe and Mail columnist Elizabeth Renzetti.","Subtitle":"A Wry and Closely Observed Look at the Lives of Women and Girls","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Shrewed
An intelligent and insightful collection of essays on women and feminism from bestselling author and Globe and Mail columnist Elizabeth Renzetti.
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The Substitute
In the tradition of Gillian Flynn and Paula Hawkins, The Substitute is a deliciously creepy psychological thriller that will keep you guessing.
