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Theophylline
Seeking poetry’s futurity in a queer and female heritage, Erín Moure's newest work investigates the qualities and conditions of language and breath.
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There Is No Map for This
Ren feels lucky to be living with his older brother, Levi, and Levi’s girlfriend, Ellie — until a tragic accident leaves Ren and Ellie on their own.
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Man has been engaged, ever since we have known him, in an unending struggle to know. I think that is epitomized in science — science is an attempt to understand all reality. Reality covers a very broad province — not only such relatively simple things as stones falling and the structures of atomic nuclei, but much more complicated things such as poets writing sonnets, people weeping, people praying. I think that some of those more complicated things science will never understand; but we’ll keep on trying.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe point of the whole enterprise is to achieve understanding. Facts are only the raw material of science. Some time ago I read for the first time (though not the last) Herman Hesse’s book Siddhartha, and I came out of that first reading with a wonderful sentence: “One can gain knowledge from words, but wisdom only from things.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI think that’s what science is about: it’s a deep-seated attempt to extract the wisdom from things. As such, as that deep and consistent attempt to understand reality, science is altogether good (as our culture interprets “the good”) — there can be no such thing as bad science. Any other view would be a plea for ignorance, and there can be no possible quarrel with science that ignorance can improve.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is another entirely different enterprise: the application of science to useful ends — technology. I have just finished saying that science is altogether good, but I would never dream of saying that about technology!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTechnology is for use, and in any properly conducted society, every enterprise in technology, new and old, should be under constant review and judgement in terms of the needs and goals and aspirations of that society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the troubles with our present society is that we tend to regard all technology, without question, as progress — sometimes the more unpleasant aspects of technology as aspects of fate. But that’s altogether wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e One needs to ask: Should one do everything one can? All too often the answer one is given is, Why, yes! Of course, one does everything one can — one travels as far and as rapidly, and makes as big a bomb as one can, and all those other things, as soon as one becomes able to. But the proper answer is: Of course not! 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Therefore Choose Life
The 1970 CBC Massey Lecture by Nobel Prize-winning scientist George Wald examines where we came from, who we are, and what is to become of us.
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A poignant, gritty story about a girl who sees her parents as flawed human beings for the first time, and finds the courage to make a fresh start.
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In this dazzling rendering, \u003ci\u003eThese Festive Nights\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ecelebrated translator Sheila Fischman brings Blais’ novel to life for English-speaking readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sun-drenched paradise in the Gulf of Mexico surrounded by the glimmering blue sea; Renata is convalescing on this island poised between two worlds: between great wealth and extreme poverty, between the past and an uncertain future, between the beauty of the world and the horrors of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring her time here, Renata becomes tormented by thirst — for justice, for pleasure, for intoxication — while all around her, festivities are going on in joint celebration of the birth of baby Vincent and the end of the twentieth century. Over the course of three days and three nights a flock of characters assembles — an entire spectrum of humanity is depicted in the grip of doubt and suffering. 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These Festive Nights
The first volume in Marie-Claire Blais’ ten-book "Soifs" novel cycle, acclaimed as one of the greatest undertakings in modern Quebec fiction.
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The highly anticipated children's book from award-winning cartoonist and illustrator Jillian Tamaki.
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Things Are Good Now
Things Are Good Now explores the scars of violence and the weight of love and guilt on the soul.
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In Thirteen Shells, Ottawa author Nadia Bozak takes this to a new level by dulling these edges with the unassailable love of a girl for her parents…Shell is no angel. She lies and steals, at least a little. Experiments with drugs. And has her petty jealousies. But by the midpoint in the novel, the readers find themselves rooting for Shell, hoping that her dreams will come true. And that is the novel's brilliance.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOttawa Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Ottawa Citizen","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“Bozak’s interwoven stories most obviously parallel [Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women]. Both Shell and Munro’s women and girls come of age in extremely realistic fictional Ontario towns. Both can be broken down to stand alone as stories, or read through as a novel. Both focus less on a particular climax, and more on the ongoing understated crises of expectations: the ones we put on ourselves, and the ones other people have of us. Furthermore, both authors are masterful when it comes to language, churning out brilliant turns of phrase worth revisiting….Thirteen Shells quietly captures each painful gasp of growing up: the anxiety and shame, along with the treasures found along the way.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Owen Sound Sun-Times","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“...Thirteen Shells is enticing, reminding us of the difficulty and joy of simply growing up and getting on with it.” — \u003cstrong\u003eRory Runnells, \u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Rory Runnells","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e“richly detailed...There's a grittiness and emotional dynamism in these... tales” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Open Book","OtherText_Review_8":"\u003cp\u003e“Nadia Bozak's gorgeous collection of linked short stories, Thirteen Shells is drawing tons of praise, including comparisons to Alice Munro, for its deft rendering of a young girl coming of age...Bozak's funny and poignant prose connects us with Shell's deeply relatable longings.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOpen Book\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Quill \u0026 Quire","OtherText_Review_9":"\u003cp\u003e“As a vivid picture of growing up in the ‘80’s, Thirteen Shells is a landmark.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe London Yodeller\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"CBC Candy Palmater show","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Told in the tradition of Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women, Thirteen Shells is a novel-in-stories about a young girl coming of age in the 1980s.","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2016-05-07","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Told in the tradition of Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women, Thirteen Shells is a novel-in-stories about a young girl coming of age in the 1980s."}
Thirteen Shells
Told in the tradition of Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women, Thirteen Shells is a novel-in-stories about a young girl coming of age in the 1980s.
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She is, in my opinion, one of the more articulate and engaged voices of her generation.” — \u003cstrong\u003eThomas King, author of Green Grass, Running Water and The Inconvenient Indian\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Thomas King, author of Green Grass, Running Water and The Inconvenient Indian","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Playful, pissed off, and ferociously funny, Leanne Simpson writes irresistible love stories in the jaws of genocide. A genius shape-shifter and defiant genre-detonator, there is quite simply no one like her.” — \u003cstrong\u003eNaomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003e“Blending song and story, humour and truth, This Accident of Being Lost feels so intimate and so familiar. It is the story of our sisters, cousins, and friends. I love this book. Simpson is a master lyricist, captivating storyteller, and a true gift to us all.” — \u003cstrong\u003eKatherena Vermette, author of The Break\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Katherena Vermette, author of The Break","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“A stunning collection of poetry, song, and short fiction. These short pieces are darkly humorous, elegantly constructed, and beautifully sorrowful . . . The stories are not bleak, and a wry sense of humor glimmers throughout, walking hand in hand with damaged humanity to create a gentleness that combats the sometimes grim subject matter . . . This is a truly creative and heartfelt work, thoroughly modern in tone and timbre.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublisher's Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Publisher's Weekly","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a poet who strides through multiple realms. In This Accident of Being Lost, she carries the reader along with her urgent, direct address . . . It is the uneasiness and emotional uncertainty of her characters that makes the book strangely addictive. I was stunned by Simpson’s generosity in sharing these experiences and inviting us to be challenged and to be lost. I welcomed having my assumptions about urban Indigenous people upended, and this is accomplished with the nourishing humour, wisdom, and poetic, loose-limbed lines that have been sewn through the stories.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“A testament to the power of connection, This Accident of Being Lost is by turns poignant, funny, fiercely angry and deeply sad . . . remarkable.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A knife-sharp collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Runner-up","PrizeCodeText_1":"Runner-up","PrizeCodeText_2":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_3":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"02","PrizeCode_1":"02","PrizeCode_2":"03","PrizeCode_3":"03","PrizeName_0":"Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize","PrizeName_1":"Trillium Book Award","PrizeName_2":"A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book","PrizeName_3":"National Post 99 Best Books of the Year","PrizeYear_0":"2017","PrizeYear_1":"2017","PrizeYear_2":"2017","PrizeYear_3":"2017","ProductFormDescription":"Lossless Format Audio, WAV","PublicationDate":"2017-04-08","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A knife-sharp collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.","Subtitle":"Songs and Stories","teachersguide_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487005092\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=teachersguide\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
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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This All Happened
The A List edition of Michael Winter’s brilliant fictional memoir, This All Happened depicts one man’s descent from love to fury over a calendar year.
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ages 3
to 6
/ grades P
to 1
This Is a Tiny Fragile Snake
Would you help a tiny fragile snake? This book of poems explores close encounters with animals … and choosing to respond tenderly.
