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The New Measures
A bold collection from Griffin Poetry Prize and Governor General's Literary Award winner poet A.F. Moritz.
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Behrens deliver[s] beautifully ... thrilling and poignant.","OtherText_Review_10_Auth":"Marianne Ackerman","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Montreal Review of Books","OtherText_Review_11":"...unforgettable...","OtherText_Review_11_Auth":"Megan O'Grady","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Vogue","OtherText_Review_12":"Moments of grace and romance are rocked by cruel words and violence in this epic, a piece of rough beauty itself.","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_13":"Time and time again, Behrens proves himself a first-rate seanchaí, the Irish term for a storyteller, by bringing the O’Brien clan to life on the page.","OtherText_Review_13_Auth":"James McElroy","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"Washington Post","OtherText_Review_14":"The O'Briens is a major accomplishment.","OtherText_Review_14_Auth":"John Vernon","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_15":"... fine storytelling ...","OtherText_Review_15_Auth":"Ellen Emry Heltzel","OtherText_Review_15_Src":"Seattle Times","OtherText_Review_16":"[The O'Briens] immerses readers in a river of narrative that seems less like fiction than lived experience ... striking and heartfelt ...","OtherText_Review_16_Auth":"Wendy Smith","OtherText_Review_16_Src":"Daily Beast","OtherText_Review_17":"\"Behrens is a beautiful writer ... this is a novel whose vision affirms life in the very best ways.\"","OtherText_Review_17_Auth":"Roberta Silman","OtherText_Review_17_Src":"The Arts Fuse","OtherText_Review_18":"\"Peter Behrens is a master of the art of storytelling.\"","OtherText_Review_18_Auth":"Julie Christine","OtherText_Review_18_Src":"Chalk the Sun","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Mike Landry","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Telegraph-Journal","OtherText_Review_2":". . . a forward-looking novel . . . you want to turn the pages because the people become so real . . . but underlying the story is a nuance of tragedy and old sadness.","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Veronica Ross","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Kitchener-Waterloo Record","OtherText_Review_3":". . . a distinctly 20th-century -- and decidedly Canadian -- family epic . . . pitch-perfect.","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Charles Foran","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_4":". . . tragic and warm . . . lush with Canadian history . . .","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Lindsay Rainingbird","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"The Coast","OtherText_Review_5":"For sheer reading satisfaction, The O'Briens is a treat waiting for everyone who read and enjoyed The Law of Dreams.","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Andrew Armitage","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Owen Sound Sun Times","OtherText_Review_6":"A truly wonderful writer who will no doubt be dominating the literary award nomination lists this fall.","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Marianne Ackerman","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Montreal Gazette","OtherText_Review_7":"[The O'Briens] is impressive in its scope and ambitious in its goals. Behrens's writing is always tight, and some of his descriptions are flat-out jaw-dropping.","OtherText_Review_7_Auth":"William Kowalski","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_8":"Behrens' fine writing moves readers from one decade to the next, and we become more attached to each of the characters with each passing year . . . a sweeping Canadian saga that will carry readers along.","OtherText_Review_8_Auth":"Tracy Sherlock","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_9":". . . Behrens does an excellent job of exposing the particulars of life . . . extremely moving . . .","OtherText_Review_9_Auth":"Candace Fertile","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Edmonton Journal","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"In this novel full of tragedy, romance and ingenuity, the family from Behrens’ award winning The Law of Dreams comes of age in \"Canada’s Century.\"","PrizeCodeText_0":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"03","PrizeName_0":"New York Times Editors' Choice","PrizeYear_0":"2012","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2011-07-02","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"In this novel full of tragedy, romance and ingenuity, the family from Behrens’ award winning The Law of Dreams comes of age in \"Canada’s Century.\"","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
The O'Briens
In this novel full of tragedy, romance and ingenuity, the family from Behrens’ award winning The Law of Dreams comes of age in "Canada’s Century."
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{"id":6815264178235,"title":"The Return of History","handle":"the-return-of-history","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the 2016 CBC Massey Lectures, former Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General and international relations specialist Jennifer Welsh delivers a timely, intelligent, and fascinating analysis of twenty-first-century geopolitics.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1989, as the Berlin Wall crumbled and the Cold War dissipated, the American political commentator Francis Fukuyama wrote a famous essay, entitled “The End of History,” which argued that the demise of confrontation between Communism and capitalism, and the expansion of Western liberal democracy, signalled the endpoint of humanity’s sociocultural and political evolution, and the path toward a more peaceful world. 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But a quarter of a century after Fukuyama’s bold prediction, history has returned: arbitrary executions, attempts to annihilate ethnic and religious minorities, the starvation of besieged populations, invasion and annexation of territory, and the mass movement of refugees and displaced persons. 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[Welsh] skillfully answers realpolitik questions with a seamless, finely honed argument deserving of broad readership and study.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Publisher's Weekly","OtherText_Review_1":"Welsh’s unusual perspective serves her well and distinguishes this book from other return-of-history jeremiads. Not only is she exceptionally fluent in the debates and histories of political science, but she has a unique understanding of the actual workings and breaking points of the formal international order and its failings.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_2":"Welsh offers an engaging and thought-provoking argument.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_3":"Welsh mounts a forceful moral argument.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Maclean's","OtherText_Review_4":"Outright inspirational . . . Whether you are interested in history, political science, economics, or are simply concerned about the state of the world, this book will force you to think long and hard.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A timely and fascinating analysis of twenty-first-century geopolitics by Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General Jennifer Welsh.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"03","PrizeName_0":"National Bestseller","PrizeYear_0":"2017","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover jacket","PublicationDate":"2016-09-17","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"The CBC Massey Lectures","ShortDescription":"A timely and fascinating analysis of twenty-first-century geopolitics by Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General Jennifer Welsh.","Subtitle":"Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century","Width":"8","WidthCode":"in"}
The Return of History
A timely and fascinating analysis of twenty-first-century geopolitics by Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General Jennifer Welsh.
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It’s all rendered irresistible by Eli Sisters, who narrates with a mixture of melancholy and thoughtfulness . . . After capturing the fireside camps and saloons in perfectly drawn vignettes, deWitt strips these two lethal brothers of more than they ever thought a man could lose. And then, damned if he doesn’t surprise us again with a twilight scene that’s just miraculously lovely.","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Ron Charles","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Washington Post","OtherText_Review_1":"A powerfully realized work of narrative fiction . . . the dialogue is sharp as a whip . . . the novel works artfully within its formal boundaries to explore the nature of brotherhood, work, love, greed, loneliness, and personal renewal.","OtherText_Review_10":". . . imaginative and ebullient . . . revels in the hilarious life and times of two gunslingers, Eli and Charlie Sisters.","OtherText_Review_10_Auth":"Caroline Leavitt","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Boston Globe","OtherText_Review_11":"The Sisters Brothers is a bloody, nightmarish frontier road trip that seems at times like something out of Cormac McCarthy, yet somehow merges laughter and hope with suffering, death and betrayal. 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So subtle is deWitt’s prose, so slyly note-perfect his rendition of Eli’s voice in all its earnestly charming nineteenth-century syntax, and so compulsively readable his bleakly funny Western noir story, that readers will stick by Eli even as he grinds his heel into the shattered skull of an already dead prospector.","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Brian Bethune","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Maclean's","OtherText_Review_4":"Fresh, hilariously anti-heroic, often genuinely chilling, and relentlessly compelling. 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The Sisters Brothers
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The Sparrow
The Sparrow is a career-spanning selection of A. F. Moritz's internationally acclaimed poetry.
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Lundrigan’s writing is both elegant and darkly humorous, delivering bare-knuckle social commentary that will appeal to fans of Gillian Flynn, Karin Fossum, and Laura Lippman.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_1":"[A] creepy thriller.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_2":"[A] chilling psychological thriller.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"CBC Books","OtherText_Review_3":"A feast for fans who miss Patricia Highsmith's and Margaret Millar's haunting anatomies of people as nice as pie except for their murders.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_4":"Sly and clever . . . this book will keep readers guessing and . . . they’ll be surprised by how it all plays out.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Publisher's Weekly","OtherText_Review_5":"Lundrigan’s novel is a spine-chiller for readers who appreciate language and refined, well-crafted plots — and who aren’t afraid to delve, for a time, into the mind of a psychopath.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"In the tradition of Gillian Flynn and Paula Hawkins, The Substitute is a deliciously creepy psychological thriller that will keep you guessing.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2017-06-24","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"In the tradition of Gillian Flynn and Paula Hawkins, The Substitute is a deliciously creepy psychological thriller that will keep you guessing.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
The Substitute
In the tradition of Gillian Flynn and Paula Hawkins, The Substitute is a deliciously creepy psychological thriller that will keep you guessing.
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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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The Wild Beasts of Wuhan
Ava Lee uncovers the secret world of art fraud in the third book in the wildly popular and bestselling Ava Lee series.
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This Accident of Being Lost
A knife-sharp collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.
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Thunder and Light
The second in the ten-book "Soifs" novel cycle. An intricate house of cards, delicately but expertly constructed, that shocks us in its perversity and familiarity.
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Under the Keel
A brilliant collection from Michael Crummey, bestselling author of Galore.
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{"id":6815467864123,"title":"Undermajordomo Minor","handle":"undermajordomo-minor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOn the The Scotiabank Giller Prize 2015 Longlist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, Lucy is a compulsive liar, a sickly weakling in a town famous for begetting brutish giants. Then Lucy accepts employment assisting the majordomo of the remote, foreboding Castle Von Aux. While tending to his new post as undermajordomo, he soon discovers the place harbours many dark secrets, not least of which is the whereabouts of the castle’s master, Baron Von Aux. In the local village, he also encounters thieves, madmen, aristocrats, and Klara, a delicate beauty whose love he must compete for with the exceptionally handsome partisan soldier, Adolphus. Thus begins a tale of polite theft, bitter heartbreak, domestic mystery, and cold-blooded murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUndermajordomo Minor\u003c\/em\u003e is a triumphant ink-black comedy of manners by the Governor General’s Award–winning author of \u003cem\u003eThe Sisters Brothers\u003c\/em\u003e. It is an adventure, and a mystery, and a searing portrayal of rural Alpine bad behaviour, but above all it is a love story. 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Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, Lucy is a compulsive liar, a sickly weakling in a town famous for begetting brutish giants. Then Lucy accepts employment assisting the majordomo of the remote, foreboding Castle Von Aux. While tending to his new post as undermajordomo, he soon discovers the place harbours many dark secrets, not least of which is the whereabouts of the castle’s master, Baron Von Aux. In the local village, he also encounters thieves, madmen, aristocrats, and Klara, a delicate beauty whose love he must compete for with the exceptionally handsome partisan soldier, Adolphus. Thus begins a tale of polite theft, bitter heartbreak, domestic mystery, and cold-blooded murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUndermajordomo Minor\u003c\/em\u003e is a triumphant ink-black comedy of manners by the Governor General’s Award–winning author of \u003cem\u003eThe Sisters Brothers\u003c\/em\u003e. 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Undermajordomo Minor
A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners.
