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The painterly prose reminded me of the best of Michael Ondaatje, and the book will earn a place in the pantheon of great Montreal novels.","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Steven W Beattie","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Marcello Di Cintio, author of Walls: Travels Along the Barricades","OtherText_Review_1":"Serafim and Claire, the protagonists of Mark Lavorato's new novel, take you on a fascinating tour of Montreal in the '20s and '30s, its vaudeville theatres, political rallies, and streets teeming with life. A compelling read!","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Steven W Beattie","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Eva Stachniak, author of The Winter Palace","OtherText_Review_2":"The thrilling balance between the story of two lovers, and the background of the Age and Depression in Montreal, gives Serafim and Claire a rare combination of depth and suspense. Lavorato depicts this rich era with as much energy as detail.","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Steven W Beattie","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"A. F. 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Swimming Lessons
A woman disappears without a trace. Twelve years later, her adult daughter starts finding answers hidden in the books that her mother left behind.
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The Ambitious City
In the second installment of the MacNeice Mysteries series, Det. MacNeice faces off against a gang of violent bikers and a bloodthirsty serial killer.
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Mandy-Suzanne Wong is a writer to watch.” — Amina Cain, author of \u003cem\u003eA Horse at Night\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eIndelicacy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003eDelivers something rare, evoking a creepy sort of glamour around books and stories, as if craving a good read is itself sometimes a form of dark desire.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Kirkus","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003eA feast of knotty sentences … Fans of experimental fiction ought to check this out.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003eWong displays formidable skill … drawing us into the highly wrought maze of her novel and making it fun.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003eEndlessly creative and inventive ... 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The Box
A stylistically dazzling dystopian novel about things, people, and the forces and seams between them.
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Reading The Break is like a revelation; stunning, heartbreaking and glorious. From her exquisitely rendered characters to her fully realized world and the ratcheting tension, I couldn’t put it down. Absolutely riveting.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Eden Robinson, author of Monkey Beach","OtherText_Review_1":"The narrator of this story is dead. He misses feeling the skin of others, but he likes being about memory. It’s who we are siem. Katherena Vermette rendered the women of the North End gorgeous in her poetry: North End Love Songs. In The Break, she renders them sweet, beautiful battlers who love under the most horrific of circumstances. She points no fingers, just plots the story, person by person, memory by memory, until it is clear that we must give up the feeling of hopelessness that haunts the lives of these women. The Break is itself a beautiful love song of desire to live a full and rich life as cherished women — even when we cannot have that. We can hope. Resilient as the star world from which they arise these women reconcile with their lives without giving in to the horrors they have faced. Vermette captures the reader from beginning to end. She creates unforgettable characters with honor, respect and a deft hand. In so doing she holds the reader’s tender love in her capable hands and weaves us right into the story. The Break is unforgettable.","OtherText_Review_10":"A visionary debut novel.","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"CBC Books","OtherText_Review_11":"Stunning . . . [Vermette] chooses her words with a poet’s precision.","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_Review_12":"One of the great Indigenous novels.","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"First Nations Voice","OtherText_Review_13":"Katherena Vermette’s debut novel, The Break, takes a tough, close-up look at an extended family in Winnipeg, tackling along the way a side of female life that’s often hard to acknowledge: the violence of girls and women sometimes display towards other girls and women, and the power struggles among them. In The Break, the characters may be Métis, but the motivations and emotions are surely universal. This is an accomplished writer who will go far.","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"Margaret Atwood","OtherText_Review_14":"A debut novel brimming with grace and wisdom, that puts the spotlight on the systemic violence being committed in our country, [The Break] is both a wake-up call and a call-to-arms. Vital.","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_15":"It’s a timely novel that will keep you turning the pages and make you think well after you’ve turned the final one.","OtherText_Review_15_Src":"Niagara This Week","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Lee Maracle, author of Celia’s Song","OtherText_Review_2":"The lives of the girls and women in The Break are not easy, but their voices — complex, urgent, and unsparing — lay bare what it means to survive, not only once, but multiple times, against the forces of private and national histories. Katherena Vermette is a tremendously gifted writer, a dazzling talent.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing","OtherText_Review_3":"Fiction is capable of helping us to comprehend difference and otherness, and The Break offers clear insight ino people struggling to secure a place in the world.","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Candace Fertile","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_4":"Katherena Vermette’s poignant novel, set in Winnipeg’s North End, opens with a violent crime that becomes the backdrop for a story of great depth and compassion. This masterfully written narrative shifts among the intergenerational voices of the women of one extended Indigenous family. The Break is a powerful, persuasive novel about the strength and love that bind these women to each other and to the men in their lives. The traditions and wisdom of a community are honoured, as is the exquisite individual humanity of each character. Although this is a novel of social importance, it transcends politics, taking the reader on a journey to the heart of what it means for one person to care about another, survive trauma, and endure.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"2016 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Jury Lauren B. Davis, Trevor Ferguson, and Pasha Malla","OtherText_Review_5":"The Break manages to be political even when it isn’t. It’s a book that explores social issues without ever preaching, or even seeming to be about them at all. It examines the only element of those issues that matter: their human impact. It’s astonishing in its empathy... She doesn’t pull her punches or dress up her truths. The Break leaves it all bare, and it demands to be read.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"The Uniter","OtherText_Review_6":"Vermette is skilled at writing with a language that is conversational and comfortable and with a poetic ease that makes the hard things easier to swallow. The result is a book that is at times emotionally demanding, funny, suspenseful, and always engaging.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"The Winnipeg Review","OtherText_Review_7":"Vermette offers us a dazzling portrayal of the patchwork quilt of\npain and trauma that women inherit, of the \"big and small half-stories\nthat make up a life.\" These are the stories our mothers, sisters and\nfriends have told us - the stories we absorb into our bloodstream\nuntil they might as well be our own.\n\n..a stunning debut - a novel whose 10 voices, Greek chorus-like, span\nthe full range of human possibility, from its lowest depths to its\nmost brilliant triumphs, as they attempt to make sense of this tragic\ncrime and of their own lives. \"The Break\" is an astonishing act of\nempathy, and its conclusion is heartbreaking. A thriller gives us easy\nanswers - a victim and a perpetrator, good guys and bad guys. \"The\nBreak\" gives us the actual mess of life.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"The Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_8":"With adeptness and sensitivity, Vermette puts a human face to issues that are too-often misunderstood, and in so doing, she has written a book that is both one of the most important of the year and one of the best.\n \nThough Katherena Vermette is not an emerging writer – she has written seven children’s books and won a Governor General’s award for her poetry collection North End Love Songs – for many, this novel will be their first encounter. And it will be a revelation. Vermette is a fully matured literary talent confronting some of our society’s fundamental problems through understated prose that exudes wisdom and emotion. Every page hides beauty amid suffering; love winning out over violence and hate. Stella, at one point in the novel, thinks about “[a] story that didn’t happen to her but that she keeps and remembers.” The Break is like that; it is a story that will stick with you a long time.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"The National Post","OtherText_Review_9":"In Vermette’s poetic prose, The Break offers a stark portrayal of the adversity that plagues First Nations women in this country — and the strength that helps them survive.","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"The Toronto Star","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A stunning debut novel about a multigenerational Métis–Anishnaabe family dealing with the fallout of a shocking crime in Winnipeg’s North End.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_2":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_3":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_4":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_5":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_6":"Winner","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeCode_2":"01","PrizeCode_3":"04","PrizeCode_4":"01","PrizeCode_5":"01","PrizeCode_6":"01","PrizeName_0":"Governor General's Literary Award","PrizeName_1":"Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize","PrizeName_2":"Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award","PrizeName_3":"Burt Award for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Literature","PrizeName_4":"McNally Robinson Book of the Year","PrizeName_5":"Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction","PrizeName_6":"Amazon.ca First Novel Award","PrizeYear_0":"2016","PrizeYear_1":"2016","PrizeYear_2":"2017","PrizeYear_3":"2017","PrizeYear_4":"2017","PrizeYear_5":"2017","PrizeYear_6":"2017","ProductFormDescription":"Digital Audio, MP3","PublicationDate":"2016-09-17","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A stunning debut novel about a multigenerational Métis–Anishnaabe family dealing with the fallout of a shocking crime in Winnipeg’s North End.","teachersguide_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487004361\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=teachersguide\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
The Break
A stunning debut novel about a multigenerational Métis–Anishnaabe family dealing with the fallout of a shocking crime in Winnipeg’s North End.
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The Disciple of Las Vegas
Ava Lee goes deep inside the shady world of online gambling in the second installment of the pulse-pounding series.
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The Fury of Beijing
AVA LEE IS OUT FOR REVENGE IN THE LATEST INSTALLMENT OF IAN HAMILTON’S BESTSELLING THRILLER SERIES
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The General of Tiananmen Square
Ava Lee squares off against the Chinese government over a controversial film in the latest thriller from bestselling author Ian Hamilton.
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The Heart of Hell
The third installment in Alen Mattich's highly addictive Marko della Torre series.
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The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches
In this international sensation, Gaetan Soucy weaves an unsettling tale of siblings who confront the real world after an upbringing on fairytales.
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The Ninth Grave
Fabian Risk is on the hunt for a serial killer in this spine-tingling thriller set six months before the events of Victim Without a Face.
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Her widow, Mary Boulton, and Bonny, her Reverend, are the ideal stuff and stuffings of legends.","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"January Magazine","OtherText_Review_11":"As novels go, The Outlander should qualify for Great Canadian status … Described by author Gil Adamson herself as ‘literary gothic western,’ The Outlander is perhaps the only book of this genre, but it seems at home among such Canadian classics as Susanna Moodie’s Roughing it in the Bush [and] Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace.","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Fast Forward Weekly","OtherText_Review_12":"Mary Boulton is one of the most memorable characters in Canadian literature in years.","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Nuvo Magazine","OtherText_Review_13":"Gil Adamson has chiselled her characters, polished every word, and turned The Outlander into something magical … Adamson’s characters are fully formed, described with nuances and details that make us feel that we really know them. And her writing is beautiful — poetic, descriptive, lyrical … This is a book that lingers in the mind long after the final page has been read.","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"Guelph Mercury","OtherText_Review_14":"In the tradition of Guy Vanderhaeghe, this is a dark novel with a long finish. It should age well.","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"Sun Times","OtherText_Review_15":"This uncommon first novel by Gil Adamson combines a thrilling adventure story with polished literary technique.","OtherText_Review_15_Src":"Canadian Literature","OtherText_Review_16":"This is an old-fashioned adventure story — with a dark fairy-tale element.","OtherText_Review_16_Src":"Financial Times","OtherText_Review_17":"Adamson is an impressive stylist.","OtherText_Review_17_Src":"Quill \u0026amp; Quire","OtherText_Review_18":"[A] compelling debut … Lean prose, full-bodied characterization, memorable settings and scenes of hardship all lift this book above the pack.","OtherText_Review_18_Src":"Publishers Weekly, starred review","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Spectator","OtherText_Review_2":"Striking, thoughtful, full of unexpected twists, The Outlander is that rare delight: a novel that is beautifully written yet as gripping as any airport page-turner … Adamson, a Toronto-based poet, must possess either an impressive collection of reference books or a powerful imagination — or both … This is a serious, literary book that moves far beyond genre or gender stereotypes.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_3":"A gorgeous surprise of a book … Stylish and compelling, this novel about a woman’s picaresque flight from and toward justice is both elegant in shape and exquisitely written. 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The Outlander
Gil Adamson spins a gripping and memorably romantic tale of one grief-struck young woman's flight into the wild.
