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{"id":6812109275195,"title":"Benediction","handle":"benediction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBased on the true story of North America’s most unlikely cowboy, \u003ci\u003eBenediction \u003c\/i\u003eis a gritty, trenchantly observed tale of fraud and reinvention in the Old West.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1907, the fifteen-year-old French-Canadian Ernest Dufault left his home in Quebec for Montana, where he was promptly arrested as a cattle thief and, as a prisoner of the state of Nevada, passed himself off as an American cowboy named Will James. Over the next few decades, Dufault, a.k.a\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eJames, would flourish as a cowboy and horsebreaker and go on to become an artist, a soldier, a Hollywood stuntman, a bestselling author of award-winning westerns — and his own false memoir. 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Got a whole post office just for them, up in the district they call Shoshone.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“You know ’em?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“By reputation, mostly,” said Will. “Smug bastards. Don’t treat their men good. Horses neither.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWill and Lew stayed on their horses a minute, smoking in silence and circling the herd. The wheels in Hackberry’s head were turning, as if he were focusing every ounce of concentration on the task of sobering up so he could think clearly for a moment. He opened his mouth a few times but nothing came out. Will put him out of his misery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Something botherin’ you, Lew?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“You reckon they just wandered all the way out here?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Sure do look that way.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNowhere did they see the slightest trace of horse tracks, either fresh or old. No one knew that these cattle were out here with the two men, some twenty miles south of the Lazy GS Ranch and the county line.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Figger you could blot that brand?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I don’t have my gear on me,” answered Will. “Plus we’d have to wait for it to scar. Risky.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Well, we can’t just go and sell them in Ely. Word would get around too fast.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEly was the biggest livestock hub in this part of Nevada. Ranches from all over the eastern, central, and northern parts of the state sent their cattle through Ely on the way to Denver.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Not sure what to do. The Swallows may be bastards, but we could still bring them their cattle back. They’d pay us handsomely.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLew sat up tall on his horse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Really, Bill? Really?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“What?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Did they castrate you along with them steers over the summer?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWill thought for a moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I know a place not far from the Utah state line. Oasis. Kinda place where they don’t ask questions.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“You took the words right out of my mouth. Oasis! Now there’s the Will James I thought I knew.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow it was Hackberry’s turn to think a little. He was positively reinvigorated, and grinning like a kid.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“From Oasis, I’ll catch the train to Denver. I know people there. It’ll be easy and we’ll be rich. I’m sure we can get thirty-five a head, at least, maybe forty, who knows — maybe even fifty! Those sure are some nice fat cattle!”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFifty a head was over the top. Will wasn’t about to get carried away, but the prospect of making somewhere in the region of five hundred dollars for a bit more than a week’s work was nothing to sneeze at. It would be enough to set Will up for the winter, maybe even the entire next year, without having to worry too much about what to do next. He’d finally have time to draw, maybe even travel to the West Coast and study at art school. He could visit his idol, the great cowboy painter Charles Russell, in his studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Okay then,” said Will. “We should get there in ten days or so. But you’re gonna have to follow my lead. I know the area better than you, and you’re pretty damn drunk. You got many of those jugs left?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHackberry indicated that he did not, and adopted a malicious look that had been known to get him into trouble. Will steered them back to the matter at hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Once we get to Oasis, I know I can trust you. But, until then, it’s me who’s in charge. And for God’s sake, try to sober up a little.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLew bared his rickety yellow teeth in all their splendour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey decided to wait until sundown to make their move. That way, if other riders showed, they could always say they’d just arrived on the scene and were wondering what to do. Lew had no problem finishing his jug — he still had three left — as Will tried to convince him to get some rest. The next several days — or, rather, the next several nights — would be long.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Brilliant . . . A vivid imagining of a transitional stage in the life of a man who dedicated much of that life to covering his tracks.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Montreal Gazette","OtherText_Review_1":"A breathtaking novel evoking the great desert spaces of the American West.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Journal de Québec","OtherText_Review_2":"The majesty and the trials of the territory are magnified as much by the language and precision of its author as by the confinement of its hero.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Le Devoir","OtherText_Review_3":"Written with grace and intelligence . . . The work thorough; the details conscientious; the writing is patient, sculpted, and refined . . . 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Benediction
Based on a true story, Benediction is a gritty, trenchantly observed tale of fraud and reinvention in the old American West.
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Between Sisters
A poignant and frank novel set in Ghana, told from the point of view of a disarmingly forthright teenaged girl.
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Beyond Fate
In her 2002 CBC Massey Lectures, Margaret Visser examines why, in spite of modern ideals and freedoms, people often feel fatalistic.
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{"id":6582721609787,"title":"Beyond Intelligence","handle":"beyond-intelligence","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom two internationally recognized experts in the field of gifted education comes this timely exploration of how best to nurture a child’s unique gifts, and set them on a path to a happily productive life — in school and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is intelligence? Is it really a have or have not proposition, as we’ve been led to believe? Are some children just destined to fall behind? Dona Matthews and Joanne Foster answer those questions with a resounding “No!” In \u003cem\u003eBeyond Intelligence\u003c\/em\u003e, they demonstrate that every child has the ability to succeed — with the right support and guidance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut how can parents provide that support? 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Is it really a have or have not proposition, as we’ve been led to believe? Are some children just destined to fall behind? Dona Matthews and Joanne Foster answer those questions with a resounding “No!” In \u003cem\u003eBeyond Intelligence\u003c\/em\u003e, they demonstrate that every child has the ability to succeed — with the right support and guidance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut how can parents provide that support? Matthews and Foster proceed from the assumption that knowledge is power, offering parents an information-packed guide to identifying a child’s ability, fostering creativity, and bolstering effort and persistence. Using case studies and anecdotes from their personal and professional experience, they explore different ways of learning; the links between creativity and intelligence; and how to best to provide emotional and social supports. They offer critical advice on how to work co-operatively with schools and educators, and address how to embrace failures as learning opportunities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the latest research in brain development and education theory, \u003cem\u003eBeyond Intelligence\u003c\/em\u003e is a must-read for today’s parents and educators.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Beyond Intelligence
An exploration of how best to nurture a child’s unique gifts, and set them on a path to a happily productive life — in school and beyond.
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{"id":6813789257787,"title":"Big Lonely Doug","handle":"big-lonely-doug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the tradition of John Vaillant’s modern classic \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Spruce \u003c\/i\u003ecomes a story of the unlikely survival of one of the largest and oldest trees in Canada.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn a cool morning in the winter of 2011, a logger named Dennis Cronin was walking through a stand of old-growth forest near Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island. He came across a massive Douglas fir the height of a twenty-storey building. Instead of allowing the tree to be felled, he tied a ribbon around the trunk, bearing the words “Leave Tree.” The forest was cut but the tree was saved. The solitary Douglas fir, soon known as Big Lonely Doug, controversially became the symbol of environmental activists and their fight to protect the region’s dwindling old-growth forests.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally featured as a long-form article in \u003ci\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/i\u003e that garnered a National Magazine Award (Silver), \u003ci\u003eBig Lonely Doug \u003c\/i\u003eweaves the ecology of old-growth forests, the legend of the West Coast’s big trees, the turbulence of the logging industry, the fight for preservation, the contention surrounding ecotourism, First Nations land and resource rights, and the fraught future of these ancient forests around the story of a logger who saved one of Canada's last great trees.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-23T13:10:51-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-23T09:18:20-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Course Adoption","Adult Environmentalism","Adult Nonfiction","By (author) Rustad Harley","pub date: 2018-09-04","The Walrus Books"],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":2299,"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":40205702529083,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487003111","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Big Lonely Doug - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2299,"weight":400,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487003111","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40205704265787,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487003128","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Big Lonely Doug - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487003128","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40205704659003,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487003135","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Big Lonely Doug - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487003135","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d75de532-0be6-42ed-88ec-69aa614c24bc.jpg?v=1676185356"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d75de532-0be6-42ed-88ec-69aa614c24bc.jpg?v=1676185356","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23246346551355,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2553,"width":1651,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d75de532-0be6-42ed-88ec-69aa614c24bc.jpg?v=1676185356"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2553,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d75de532-0be6-42ed-88ec-69aa614c24bc.jpg?v=1676185356","width":1651}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the tradition of John Vaillant’s modern classic \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Spruce \u003c\/i\u003ecomes a story of the unlikely survival of one of the largest and oldest trees in Canada.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn a cool morning in the winter of 2011, a logger named Dennis Cronin was walking through a stand of old-growth forest near Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island. He came across a massive Douglas fir the height of a twenty-storey building. Instead of allowing the tree to be felled, he tied a ribbon around the trunk, bearing the words “Leave Tree.” The forest was cut but the tree was saved. The solitary Douglas fir, soon known as Big Lonely Doug, controversially became the symbol of environmental activists and their fight to protect the region’s dwindling old-growth forests.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally featured as a long-form article in \u003ci\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/i\u003e that garnered a National Magazine Award (Silver), \u003ci\u003eBig Lonely Doug \u003c\/i\u003eweaves the ecology of old-growth forests, the legend of the West Coast’s big trees, the turbulence of the logging industry, the fight for preservation, the contention surrounding ecotourism, First Nations land and resource rights, and the fraught future of these ancient forests around the story of a logger who saved one of Canada's last great trees.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487007799","AlsoRecommendedISBN_3":"9781770893894","AlsoRecommendedISBN_4":"9781770899919","BASICMainSubject":"NAT034000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"NATURE \/ Plants \/ Trees","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHARLEY RUSTAD\u003c\/strong\u003e is an editor at \u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e magazine. His articles and photography have been published in magazines, newspapers, and online outlets including \u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOutside\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGeographical\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eReader's Digest\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e, and CNN. He has reported from India, Nepal, Cuba, and across Canada. 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Born on Salt Spring Island, BC, he now lives in Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Rustad, Harley","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the tradition of John Vaillant’s modern classic \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Spruce \u003c\/i\u003ecomes a story of the unlikely survival of one of the largest and oldest trees in Canada.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn a cool morning in the winter of 2011, a logger named Dennis Cronin was walking through a stand of old-growth forest near Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island. He came across a massive Douglas fir the height of a twenty-storey building. Instead of allowing the tree to be felled, he tied a ribbon around the trunk, bearing the words “Leave Tree.” The forest was cut but the tree was saved. 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This is just one of the gifts of Big Lonely Doug, an avatar of the west coast rainforest that, through Harley Rustad’s insightful and nuanced telling, embodies this vital ecosystem in all its beauty and complexity. Reading this book made me want to drop everything and meet Doug in person.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"John Vaillant, author of The Golden Spruce","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Blending thoughtful historical research with vivid reportage, Harley Rustad begins with the story of a single tree but masterfully widens his scope to encompass so much more: all the other grand old trees that have been felled on Vancouver Island, all those that have been saved, and most importantly, why it all matters. A complex and at times alarming tale, but also, in the end, a deeply hopeful one.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Robert Moor, author of On Trails","OtherText_Accolades_2":"Having spent time, personally, with Big Lonely Doug, and wandering through the last of our ancient forests in British Columbia, it's never been more clear to me how imperative it is for us as humans to recognize the magnificence of these ancient trees and forests and do everything that we can to preserve them. With less than 1 percent of the original old-growth Douglas-fir stands left on B.C.’s coast, it’s time for Canadians to embrace Big Lonely Doug and his fellow survivors, and keep them standing tall. Harley Rustad’s story brings both the majesty and adversity of Big Lonely Doug a little closer to home.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Edward Burtynsky","OtherText_Accolades_3":"You can see the forest for the trees, at least when the trees in question are singular giants like Big Lonely Doug, and the writer deftly directing your gaze is Harley Rustad. This sweeping yet meticulous narrative reveals the complex human longings tangled up in B.C.’s vanishing old-growth forests — cathedrals or commodities, depending on who you ask, and the future hinges on our answer.","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Kate Harris, author of Lands of Lost Borders","OtherText_Accolades_4":"An affecting story of one magnificent survivor tree set against a much larger narrative — the old conflict between logging and the environmental movement, global economics, and the fight to preserve the planet’s most endangered ecosystems. If you love trees and forests, this book is for you.","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Charlotte Gill, author of Eating Dirt","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eHarley Rustad is an editor at \u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e, a major Canadian magazine, who has contributed to numerous long-form articles, including “Big Lonely Doug,” which won a National Magazine Award. He has also received an Honourable Mention from the National Magazine Awards for a feature on digital mapping in Belcher Islands, Nunavut, as well as a Collective Nomination for an investigation into a failed immigration program in Prince Edward County. He is poised to be a breakout debut author.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eThere is a perennial interest in books on the natural world and in particular on trees, such as the surprise international bestseller \u003cem\u003eThe Hidden Life of Trees\u003c\/em\u003e by Peter Wohleben and the award-winning, bestselling, \u003cem\u003eThe Golden Spruce\u003c\/em\u003e by John Vaillant.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eThe morning of that day in the winter of 2011 began like any other. Known as cutblock number 7190 by his employer, Teal Jones, the twelve hectares fringing the east bank of the Gordon River a half-hour’s drive north of Port Renfrew was a prime example of kind of old-growth forest that once spanned Vancouver Island from tip to tip and coast to coast. This small patch of trees held black bears and Roosevelt elk, with the possibility of wolves and cougars passing through. It held red-capped woodpeckers knocking on standing deadwood, squirrels and chipmunks nibbling on cones to extract the seeds, and fungi the size of a dinner plate protruding from the trunks of some of the largest trees in the world. New green seedlings sprouted from old fallen stumps. Cronin brushed through the undergrowth, his jeans damp with persistent dew. Mounds of lime-green moss covering a thick bed of decaying tree needles were moist and soft underfoot—absorbing sound like a sponge. For now, the forest was still.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCutblock 7190 also held great value for his timber company. At roughly twice the size of twelve soccer fields, the flat plateau near the base of Edinburg Mountain in the scope of the valley was a tiny sliver of forest. But it held some towering and valuable trees. The price of timber fluctuates every year, depending on species and market, but that year old growth was fetching between $80 and $100 per cubic metre of wood. (One cubic metre is roughly the size of a telephone pole.) West Coast old-growth forests produce between 800 to 1,200 cubic metres of wood per hectare, roughly twice as much timber as second growth. The gross value of the cut wood in this one cutblock in the Gordon River Valley could yield approximately a million dollars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorking in tandem with Walter Van Hell, Cronin began the survey at the low side of cutblock 7190, where he could hear the Gordon River thundering on the other side of a steep gorge. Come spring, salmon fry would be wriggling free of the pebbled river bottom and make their first swim downstream to open water; come fall, grown fish would hurl themselves upstream to spawn in the clear waters. He walked the contour of the cutblock. At regular intervals of a couple dozen metres or so, he reached into his vest pocket for a roll of neon-orange plastic ribbon and tore off a strip. The colour had to be bright to catch the eye of the fallers who would follow in the months to come. He tied the inch-wide sashes around small trees or low-hanging branches to mark the edges of the cutblock. “Falling Boundary” was repeated in block letters along each ribbon. The forest practice code stipulated that the company had to leave a buffer of intact forest 50 metres up from a river, especially one that was known to be a spawning ground for salmon. Some engineers keep tight to those regulations to try to extract as much timber as possible from a given area. They fall under the category of what’s known as a “timber pig,” someone who cuts and hauls trees by a singular mantra: log it, burn it, pave it. The sentiment is two-fold: ecology comes secondary to economics and these forests exist to be harvested. But Cronin was often generous with these buffer zones, leaving 60 or 75 metres up from a river—as much as he could without drawing the ire of coworkers or bosses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnce the twelve hectares was enclosed in orange ribbon, Cronin crisscrossed through the cutblock surveying the pitches and gradients of the land. It was a slow task, clambering over fallen nurse logs and through thickets of bush. His goal was to determine where a road could be ploughed through the forest. It takes a specific skill to see through dense trees and haphazard undergrowth and plot a sure course that could allow for the safest and easiest extraction of logs. Maneuvering over undulating land layered with deadfall and vegetation, he marked a direct line through the forest with strips off another roll of ribbon, this one hot pink and marked with the words “Road Location.” He traversed any creek he came across and flagged it in red ribbon. When he was done, the green-and-brown grove was lit up with flashes of colour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile working, Cronin was followed by a Steller’s jay—the provincial bird of British Columbia—which took particular interest in his work. “He would follow me around like a dog,” Cronin said. “I would be traversing creeks, taking my measurements and bearings, and he’s hopping behind me picking up the bugs as I stirred them up.” But once Cronin traversed a creek that separated cutblock 7190 with another patch of old growth slated for clearcut to the southeast, the jay stopped. “He would never cross that creek. We would pick him up again when we crossed back,” he says.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sun broke through the canopy in long beams that spot-lit sword ferns and huckleberry bushes growing from the forest floor. But as Cronin waded through the thigh-high undergrowth, something caught his eye: a Douglas fir, larger than the rest, with a trunk so wide that it could have hidden his truck behind. He scrambled up the mound of sloughed bark and dead needles that had accumulated over centuries around the base of the giant tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDennis Cronin looked up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tree dominated the forest; a monarch of its species. A crown of dark-green, glossy needles flitted in the breeze well above the canopy of the rest of the forest, made up of a handful of exceptionally large cedars and firs but mostly younger and thinner hemlock. The tree’s trunk was limbless until a great height, like many of the oldest Douglas firs he had come across in his career. The species often loses its lower branches that grow in the shadow of the forest’s canopy, directing its attention to those that enjoy the maximum of the sun’s energy. Many of these large and old Douglas firs have trunks that grow twisted and gnarled, with clear marks of disease. This tree’s trunk sported few knots and a grain that appeared straight: it was a wonderful specimen of timber, Cronin thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e He had spent the majority of his life walking through old-growth forests, under the canopies of some of the largest trees in the country. He had seen hundreds of giants, but this one tree stood above the rest. Douglas firs and Western red cedar are the two species in this area that are the most wind resistant, so are often stable enough to outlast storms and continue to grow through several iterations of a forest over a millennium. Still, many of the larger, centuries-old examples of these two species break off at their more fragile tops and their centres, over time, fill with water and rot. They become unstable and prone to blowdown. The timber inside begins to lose its value. The majority of the trees Cronin had flagged over his career, marking them for protection, were ones that he considered to be non-merchantable wood: the trunks were too twisted or too flawed. He could tell by looking at knots along a trunk if there was rot inside. For these trees, Cronin thought, why cut them down? Instead of a timber company deriving little value from these diseased or hollow trees, they can be left standing to serve the remainder of their lives as wildlife habitats.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut when Dennis Cronin laid eyes on the large Douglas fir in cutblock 7190, he could see immense timber value. “I’m a logger and I’ve taken out millions of trees,” Cronin said. “But I was impressed.” The limbless trunk held only a minor twist, and the bark looked healthy. He couldn’t know with one hundred percent certainty, however. “You don’t know until you put a saw into it and by that point it’s too late,” Cronin said. But the tree exhibited few of the exterior telltale signs of rot or disease.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs well as an encyclopedic knowledge of these forests, Cronin could also see through the bark of a tree to its very core and see dollars. “I can look at a tree and tell if it’s got value or not. If it’s not twisted, if the bark is healthy, if the limbs are healthy,” Cronin said. “That one had value.” Encased within the deeply crevassed and corky bark of this single tree lay enough wood to fill four logging trucks to capacity with some to spare. If milled into dimensional lumber—two-by-fours, two-by-sixes, and the like—it could be used to frame five 2,000-square-foot houses. At first glance, he assessed the single tree in unprocessed log value as around twenty thousand dollars. But since it was a Douglas fir, with its coveted warm colour and pronounced grain, the tree could be turned into higher-priced beams and posts for houses in Victoria and Vancouver, or shipped across the Pacific Ocean to Japan. The single tree that the logger stood under could fetch more than fifty thousand dollars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing his hand-held hypsometre, a device to measure a standing tree’s height using triangulation of measurements, Cronin took readings from the base and the top of the tree and estimated its height at approximately seventy metres—one of the largest he had ever come across in his career—around the height of a twenty-story apartment building. Using a tape, he measured the tree’s breast height girth. It appeared just shy of the Red Creek Fir, the largest Douglas fir in the world, located a couple valleys away. Cronin didn’t know it then, but he had found one of the largest trees in the country. “When I walked up to it, I passed some big firs and some really big cedars—twelve footers, maybe,” Cronin said, referring to the diameter of the trees. But this one fir dominated the rest. “He towered above the forest. He stuck out like a sore thumb.”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003eCronin could have moved on, continuing through the undergrowth to finish the job of mapping and flagging the cutblock for the fallers. The tree, with the rest of the forest around it, would have stood patiently awaiting its inevitable fate. The fallers would have arrived months later and the tree would have been brought down in a thunderclap heard kilometres away, hauled from the valley, loaded onto logging trucks, and taken to a mill to be broken into its most useful and most valuable parts.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003eBut Dennis Cronin lingered under the big tree. He walked around a circumference so great it would take more than six people holding hands in a circle to wrap around its base. Cronin had spent four decades working on logging crews and as a forest engineer, countless days working in the forests of Vancouver Island, and had encountered thousands of enormous trees over his career.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003eInstead of moving on, Cronin reached into his vest pocket for a ribbon he rarely used, tore off a strip, and wrapped it around the broad base of the great Douglas fir’s trunk. The tape wasn’t pink or orange or red but green, and along its length were the words “Leave Tree.”\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"[Rustad’s] microscale descriptions of the landscape and how commercial forestry has changed it bring you into the depths of Vancouver Island.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Outside Magazine","OtherText_Review_1":"Rustad, a Salt Spring Island native, digs into the B.C. psyche with his discussions of old growth forests, big trees, the logging industry, ecotourism, and First Nations rights and issues.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_2":"[Harley Rustad] is a gifted researcher and writer and a valuable enabler whose book is a must-read for anyone interested in ecology.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_3":"[A] very timely narrative.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003eThe story of \u003cem\u003eBig Lonely Doug\u003c\/em\u003e unfolds in marvellous detail, with liberal doses of humour, pathos, and conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Foreword Reviews","OtherText_Review_5":"[Harley Rustad] weaves the ecology of the rainforests of Vancouver Island, the legends around them, the business of logging pitted against the environmentalist movements, the contentious issue of ecotourism, and the rights of First Nations into a compelling, fascinating read.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Desi News","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The story one of the largest trees in Canada whose unlikely survival and discovery sheds light on environmentalism, climate change and ecotourism.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2018-09-04","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"The story one of the largest trees in Canada whose unlikely survival and discovery sheds light on environmentalism, climate change and ecotourism.","Subtitle":"The Story of One of Canada’s Last Great Trees","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Big Lonely Doug
The story one of the largest trees in Canada whose unlikely survival and discovery sheds light on environmentalism, climate change and ecotourism.
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Biology As Ideology
Renowned geneticist R. C. Lewontin argues that science is a social institution and only by admitting its limitations we can appreciate its real value.
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{"id":6816111034427,"title":"Birding with Yeats","handle":"birding-with-yeats","description":"\u003cp\u003eA delicately rendered memoir on motherhood, family, and the beauty of the natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn fall 2007, Lynn Thomson experiences a huge life shift. Her teenage son, Yeats, is just beginning high school. Yeats has always struggled against the system, against the pressure to conform. He is a poet at heart: acutely sensitive, highly intelligent, and solitary by nature. Lynn and Yeats have always been close, but after fourteen years as a stay-at-home mom Lynn is going back to work for her husband, Ben, who has just opened his own bookstore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Lynn and Yeats take a trip to Vancouver Island, they discover a mutual love of bird watching. Lynn is the only other person Yeats has found who loves nature and watching birds. Plus, she has a car. 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Birding with Yeats
A delicately rendered memoir on motherhood, family, and the beauty of the natural world.
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Birds on the Brain
This sequel to the award-winning Book Uncle and Me features bird lover Reeni and her quest to save her city’s bird count event.
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Feder, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Moon Inside\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKyrsten Brooker’s sweet illustrations show the universal difficulties of moving to a new city and making new friends.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIncludes an author’s note on the concept of bitter and sweet in Jewish culture.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCurriculum connections: social studies \/ family traditions, friendship.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eA new picture book by Sandra V. Feder, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Moon Inside\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKyrsten Brooker’s sweet illustrations show the universal difficulties of moving to a new city and making new friends.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIncludes an author’s note on the concept of bitter and sweet in Jewish culture.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCurriculum connections: social studies \/ family traditions, friendship.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\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\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHorn Book\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Moving houses is often a challenge for young children; this sensitive story addresses their fears and suggests a positive method of dealing with change. Many references to Jewish customs . . . help flesh out the commingling of bitter and sweet.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Quill \u0026 Quire","OtherText_Review_1":"[Kyrsten] Brooker's illustrations are a marvel.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_2":"While telling a familiar story about the difficulties of moving, the quietly expressive text offers a clear view of Hannah’s emotions and a hopeful, yet practical perspective on making things better. . . . [I]nsightful.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"For Hannah, moving to a new city feels bitter, but can she find the sweetness, too?","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover jacket","PublicationDate":"2018-10-01","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd","ShortDescription":"For Hannah, moving to a new city feels bitter, but can she find the sweetness, too?","Width":"9.75","WidthCode":"in"}
ages 4
to 7
/ grades K
to 2
Bitter and Sweet
For Hannah, moving to a new city feels bitter, but can she find the sweetness, too?
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Below the attic windows, a lead-lined gutter edged by a stone parapet was packed with decaying leaves, and the sticks and feathers of ancient pigeon nests. Far below, Cara was standing on the fountain in front of the house. The mass of her hair was the first thing I noticed — almost solid with its dark, tight curls and centre parting, hiding all but a strip of her milk-white face. She was shouting in Italian. I didn’t know the words; the closest I have come to understanding Italian is the Latin names of plants, and even these have faded now. A test: Cedrus … Cedrus … Cedrus Libani, Cedar of Lebanon.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThree storeys below, Cara stood on the fountain, her bare feet balancing on the plump thighs of a putto. One hand gripped the robes of a stone woman as though she were trying to wrest them from her and the other held a pair of flat ballet pumps. I winced at the damage she might be doing to the already chipped and broken marble. I half-hoped that the fountain might be a Canova or one of his pupils. Cara was wearing a long crocheted dress, and I was certain even from my distance, no brassiere. The sun had nearly set on the other side of the house and her body was in shadow, but her head, where she tilted it back to look up, was vivid. I knew her already: hot-blooded and prickly, bewitching; a flowering cactus.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI thought she was shouting at me, up in my attic. I have never liked loud sounds, harsh words; I’ve always preferred the quiet of a library, and back then I couldn’t remember anyone raising their voice to me, not even my mother, although of course, things are different now. 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From my window I saw him burst out of the front door onto the carriage turn just as Cara was pushing a bicycle at a trot through what was left of the gravel and simultaneously putting on her shoes. When she reached the avenue, she pulled up her and jumped on the bicycle like a circus acrobat jumping onto a moving horse, something I could never have managed then and certainly not now.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Cara!” Peter called. “Please don’t go.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWe watched her, Peter and I, swerve around the potholes along the avenue of limes. Peddling away from us, she let go of the bicycle with one hand and stuck up two fingers in reply. 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Bitter Orange
A suspenseful novel set in 1969 England about one woman’s obsession with a glamorous, hedonistic couple living downstairs who aren’t what they seem.
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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"}
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He lives in Hamilton, Ontario.\r\n\r\nVisit Lawrence Hill's website:\r\nhttp:\/\/www.lawrencehill.com\/","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Hill, Lawrence (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSelected for The Globe 100 Books in 2013.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWith the 2013 CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eBlood runs red through every person’s arteries and fulfills the same functions in every human being. The study of blood has advanced our understanding of biology and improved medical treatments, but its cultural and social representations have divided us perennially. Blood pulses through religion, literature, and the visual arts. Every time it pools or spills, we learn a little more about what brings human beings together and what pulls us apart. For centuries, perceptions of difference in our blood have separated people on the basis of gender, race, class, and nation. 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. Amen!","OtherText_Review_7_Auth":"Brian Ostrow","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Blog for the Bookstore","OtherText_Review_8":"...Hill is a commanding storyteller...","OtherText_Review_8_Auth":"Kamal Al-Solaylee","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Quill \u0026amp; Quire","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"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.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"03","PrizeName_0":"Globe and Mail Top 100 Book","PrizeYear_0":"2013","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2013-09-28","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"The CBC Massey Lectures","ShortDescription":"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.","Subtitle":"The Stuff of Life","Width":"5","WidthCode":"in"}
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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.
