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She looks at the concept of leadership through Bismarck and the unification of Germany; William Lyon MacKenzie King and the preservation of the Canadian Federation; Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the bringing of a unified United States into the Second World War. She also notes how leaders can make huge and often destructive mistakes, as in the cases of Hitler, Stalin, and Thatcher. Richard Nixon and Samuel de Champlain are examples of daring risk-takers who stubbornly went their own ways, often in defiance of their own societies. Then there are the dreamers, explorers, and adventurers, individuals like Fanny Parkes and Elizabeth Simcoe who manage to defy or ignore the constraints of their own societies. 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Fans of the author are in for another treat.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Kirkus","OtherText_Review_1":"MacMillan deftly and engagingly shows that history is a process of capturing the minutiae of life as much as time’s epic strokes.","OtherText_Review_10":"History’s People is a refreshing perspective on history as a discipline and on people both well-known and obscure. This, coupled with MacMillan’s magnificent ability to take the most complex issue and render it clearly, is what makes the book such an engaging read. MacMillan has proven that her love of gossip only adds to her credentials as an historian, and one can only hope that she continues to find further subjects to write about for a long time to come.","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Qull and Quire, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_11":"[History’s People] very enjoyably explores how individuals not only make history, but also record it.","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_12":"MacMillan’s passion for the subject is clear and will certainly be passed on to anyone who reads this book.","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Parry Sound North Star","OtherText_Review_13":"History comes alive when Margaret MacMillan writes it, and here she gives readers her own selection of people of the past, ranging from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Samuel de Champlain.","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_14":"It’s a rare history book that makes it to the top of the charts, and this collection of profiles is definitely in its own class… MacMillan is a friendly but intelligent writer. Her profiles are interesting and they keep you reading, but they’re also chock full of details and historical information that place these personalities in history.","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_2":"She is one of those rare scholars who can write for a larger audience without becoming bogged down in academic jargon. In her latest book, MacMillan shows this talent again in five absorbing lectures about a wide range of historical actors—from Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin to Samuel Champlain and Elizabeth Simcoe—offering insight into their personal motivations and historical significance… With the federal election campaign underway, the party leaders could help themselves by heeding MacMillan’s words of wisdom.","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Allan Levine","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_3":"MacMillan draws on an astonishing well of scholarship…The house of history is vast, and as the Massey Lectures come to a close, two voices sound a very different, and more urgent, note: the observers Harry Kessler, born in 1868, the wealthy son of a German banker, and Viktor Klemperer, born in 1881, a German-Jewish professor in Dresden. Through their diaries, Kessler and Klemperer attempt to keep hold of their particular way of observing and thinking, which is to say, their souls. MacMillan powerfully recreates the era; she brings to life not simply their personalities, but their personhood.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_4":"Through this series of lectures, MacMillan demonstrates in rich and provocative detail, how history is an important tool for understanding our own world - as well as the world of others.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"The History Eduation Network","OtherText_Review_5":"this book is an inspiring one, and the lives of the people included have lessons for all of us.","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Dave Obee","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Victoria Times Colonist","OtherText_Review_6":"Margaret MacMillan rightly is a darling of Canadian letters, an acclaimed historian of international stature, a superb writer and author of several award-winning bestsellers. Her talents and intellect are so formidable she can do no professional wrong -- if she writes something it is worth reading, no question. This has been true of everything she has turned her mind to, and it is true of her latest work, History's People…the stories -- in the end is what is so richly rewarding about reading History's People. If the personal stories command MacMillan's interest, it goes without saying that they will command the attention of her readers, too.","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Gerald Flood","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_7":"wonderful… History’s People urges us to see the past in another way. MacMillan has provided us with a brilliantly guided tour through a dramatic and emotionally penetrating account of the human beings who by accident or design (and often through the luck of good timing) created the world we live in. She encourages us to see the human qualities, the frailties and passions of men and women who make history… Many readers of MacMillan’s book will want to give a copy to young people whose brains have been deadened by textbooks.","OtherText_Review_7_Auth":"Robert Fulford","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_8":"Margaret MacMillan doesn’t just document the past; she brings it to life","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Readers' Digest","OtherText_Review_9":"Avoiding arid timelines, MacMillan, an Oxford professor , instead provides intimate human encounters. She seems to love sifting through the revealing details. “I want to gossip,” she confesses — and so do we.","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"New York Times Book Review","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of the great figures of the past, who have changed the course of history.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2015-09-08","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"The CBC Massey Lectures","ShortDescription":"Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of the great figures of the past, who have changed the course of history.","Subtitle":"Personalities and the Past","Width":"5","WidthCode":"in"}
History’s People
Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of the great figures of the past, who have changed the course of history.
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Hitchens vs. Blair
Two formidable minds, one powerfully charged debate: is religion a force for good in this world?
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Holiday!
A funny, offbeat story about how disruptive change can be — even if it’s a holiday!
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to 6
/ grades P
to 1
Home for Margaret
When Emma and her mom meet a woman who lives in a tent in the woods, Emma wonders if there’s anything she can do to help.
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ages 9
to 7
/ grades 4
to 7
Home Is Beyond the Mountains
Samira is only nine years old when the Turkish army invades Persia in 1918, and her family must flee into the mountains. Will she ever see home again?
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While she’s there, she connects with Nadia’s childhood friends, Neila and Mounir. She uncovers agonizing truths about her mother’s life as a teenager and imagines what it might have been like to grow up in fear of political instability and social unrest. As she is making these discoveries, protests over poor economic conditions and lack of political freedom are increasing, and soon, Lila finds herself in the midst of another revolution — one that will inflame the country and change the Arab world, and her, forever.\u003c\\\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWeaving together the voices of two women at two pivotal moments in history, the Tunisian Bread Riots in 1984 and the Jasmine Revolution in 2010, \u003ci\u003eHope Has Two Daughters\u003c\\\/i\u003e is a vivid story that perfectly captures life inside revolution.\u003c\\\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487001827","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487001827\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Arachnide Editions","MetaKeywords":"historical fiction; book club; books for mom","NumberOfPages":"296","OtherText_Accolades_0":"\u003cp\u003e“Can literature bear witness? This is the literary quest undertaken by Monia Mazigh in her novel about revolutions and families, about the Bread Riots of Tunisia and the Arab Spring. How do women come of age as dissidents? The difficult secrets shared by mothers and daughters are universal in this thoroughly imagined narrative in which a Canadian story is, necessarily, a story of the world.” — \u003cstrong\u003eKim Echlin, author of Under the Visible Life\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Kim Echlin, author of Under the Visible Life","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThis is Monia Mazigh’s second work of fiction with Anansi. 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One had her hair done pageboy style, slicked down, and a button nose, light-coloured skin, and slightly slanted eyes that made her look like a cat about to pounce. The other was constantly adjusting her abundant chestnut hair with the back of her hand. Her black eyes accentuated the whiteness of her skin; a few reddish blotches marked her oval face. Reem and Farah looked me over carefully when they saw me come in with Donia. Even before we were introduced, I knew they wouldn’t like me. My ripped jeans, my multiple earrings worn in a line along my earlobe, the high forehead I’d inherited from my mom, and my blues eyes, just like my dad’s: everything about me told them just how foreign I was. Even my brown and hopelessly curly hair that stood out in corkscrew-like tufts from my head — another hand-me-down from Mom and a source of wonder, of compliments, and admiration during my childhood in Canada — was not enough for them to see me as a Tunisian. Me, the daughter born of the marriage of Nadia the Tunisian and Alex the Canadian. In their eyes, I was some kind of strange mix, a hybrid, a monstrosity produced by the meeting of two distinct worlds but clearly belonging to neither.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThis is Monia Mazigh’s second work of fiction with Anansi. Her first, \u003cem\u003eMirrors and Mirages\u003c\/em\u003e, was widely praised for the authentic depiction of the lives of Muslim women.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePerfect for book clubs, this novel weaves together the experiences of two women: a mother and her Canadian-born daughter set against the backdrop of political chaos and revolution without striking a false note. 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Hope Has Two Daughters
Hope Has Two Daughters offers a glimpse inside two Iranian revolutions from the perspectives of a mother and daughter.
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Hopscotch
When her family must move once more, Ophelia uses her imagination to make magic out of a scary situation.
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to 10
/ grades 2
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How Emily Saved the Bridge
The amazing story of Emily Warren Roebling, the woman who stepped in to oversee the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, which was completed in 1883.
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The upfront and unabashed sex makes for a voyeuristic, sometimes hilarious, read. Think HBO's Girls in book form.","OtherText_Review_10":"... one of the bravest, strangest, most original novels I’ve read this year.","OtherText_Review_10_Auth":"Christopher Boucher","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Boston Globe","OtherText_Review_11":"[Sheila Heti is] a brilliant, original thinker and an engaging writer.","OtherText_Review_11_Auth":"Chris Kraus","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Los Angeles Review of Books","OtherText_Review_12":"... vital and funny ...","OtherText_Review_12_Auth":"James Wood","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"New Yorker","OtherText_Review_13":"[I'm] in awe of this new Toronto writer who seems to be channeling Henry Miller one minute and Joan Didion the next.","OtherText_Review_13_Auth":"Alan Cheuse","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"NPR","OtherText_Review_14":"... boldly original ... [Heti] writes cinematically, but with the cockeyed emotional realism of filmmakers like Miranda July and Lena Dunham.","OtherText_Review_14_Auth":"Michael Schaub","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"NPR","OtherText_Review_15":"This is a novel that wonders if the ugly can be beautiful, if there is clarity to be found in the drifting.","OtherText_Review_15_Auth":"Michelle Dean","OtherText_Review_15_Src":"NPR","OtherText_Review_16":"How Should a Person Be? reveals a talented young voice of a still inchoate generation.","OtherText_Review_16_Auth":"Kay Hymowitz","OtherText_Review_16_Src":"Wall Street Journal","OtherText_Review_17":"... bound to be quoted over and over ... Sheila Heti does know something about how many of us, right now, experience the world, and she has gotten that knowledge down on paper, in a form unlike any other novel I can think of.","OtherText_Review_17_Auth":"David Haglund","OtherText_Review_17_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_18":"... brilliant, forthright and sometimes very funny ...","OtherText_Review_18_Auth":"Akiva Gottlieb","OtherText_Review_18_Src":"The National","OtherText_Review_19":"Sheila Heti's vaguely autobiographical new novel might make her the Joan Didion of the 'Girls' generation.","OtherText_Review_19_Src":"Salon","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Marie Claire","OtherText_Review_2":"...a self-conscious, darkly funny exploration of the strained complexities of female friendship, the makings of bad art, and the finer points of awkward sex...[Heti] celebrates the extraordinary imperfection in ordinary life.","OtherText_Review_20":"[Heti's] book has a freshness and verve that make you wonder where she will go next.","OtherText_Review_20_Src":"Irish Times","OtherText_Review_21":"An engaging mashup of memoir, fiction and philosophy... It doesn't answer the question, how should a person be? But it does find an engaging new way of asking it.","OtherText_Review_21_Auth":"Scarlett Thomas","OtherText_Review_21_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_22":"Heti does have a wicked sense of humour and some of her one-liners are genuinely laugh out loud.","OtherText_Review_22_Auth":"John Harding","OtherText_Review_22_Src":"Daily Mail","OtherText_Review_23":"... a Joycean experiment ...","OtherText_Review_23_Auth":"Anthony Cummins","OtherText_Review_23_Src":"Telegraph","OtherText_Review_24":"Heti is ... capable of arresting sentences that feel utterly now...","OtherText_Review_24_Auth":"Claire Allfree","OtherText_Review_24_Src":"UK Metro","OtherText_Review_25":"How Should a Person Be? is a question to be revisited by the author herself, or another writer, or many other writers - but it's also the question novels were invented to respond to.","OtherText_Review_25_Auth":"Joanna Biggs","OtherText_Review_25_Src":"London Review of Books","OtherText_Review_26":"Ms. Heti's deadpan, naked voice is what makes Sheila's journey so engaging... throughout, the reader is beguiled by blunt, sly observations. It is easy to see why a book on the anxiety of celebrity has turned the author into one herself.","OtherText_Review_26_Src":"Economist","OtherText_Review_27":"[Heti's] lack of self-censorship [gives] the prose an irrefutable force.","OtherText_Review_27_Auth":"Holly Williams","OtherText_Review_27_Src":"The Independent","OtherText_Review_28":"... sharp, witty ...","OtherText_Review_28_Auth":"Natasha Lehrer","OtherText_Review_28_Src":"Jewish Chronicle Online","OtherText_Review_29":"…there is something in her story that will resonate with every reader, as Heti's honest rendition of some of life's most humbling truths challenges the novel as we know it.","OtherText_Review_29_Auth":"Hannah Sayle","OtherText_Review_29_Src":"Memphis Flyer","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Jackie Wong","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"The Georgia Straight","OtherText_Review_3":"...a portrait of the artist as a young woman, a postmodern self-help book and an autobiography of the mind.","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Rebecca Wigod","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_4":"...an unforgettable book: intellectually exacting, unsettling in its fragility, bodily as anything painted by Freud, experimental yet crafted as hell, and yes, very funny.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Claudia Dey","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_5":"...the good kind of genre muddle...How Should a Person Be? emerges as part of an entirely different genre: the realistic self-help book. You might not want to follow in Sheila's footsteps, but tagging along on her quixotic mission will be as useful as anything else you're likely to read this year.","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Michael Hingston","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Vue","OtherText_Review_6":"Heti flails out in all directions, employing a winsome flexibility and an underlying sadness that deflates any pretension and focuses on the big questions of life. The exuberance of youth is shot through with magic threads of wisdom.","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Candace Fertile","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Edmonton Journal","OtherText_Review_7":"From pithy quotables ('Night fell, but then, there are always holes to fall into,') to the oddly profound ('If now in some ways I drink too much, it's not that I lack a reverence for the world'), this is a novel that rewards reading, sitting with, and rereading.","OtherText_Review_7_Auth":"Lauren Elkin","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Quarterly Conversation","OtherText_Review_8":"This is a novel that abounds with [...] wisdom, arrived at in fresh and new ways. For all its inventiveness, there is an old-fashioned integrity, an attention to thought in the prose, resulting in unusual and sharp-eyed observations . . . we are treated to some truly profound ruminations on what it means to be an artist in our indifferent era.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_Review_9":"... what Heti’s brain and fingertips offer are expanded possibilities for what the novel can be and can become ... How Should a Person Be? makes curious and combative company.","OtherText_Review_9_Auth":"Anakana Schofield","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A brilliant portrayal of finding a beautiful life by one of Canada's most exciting literary talents.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_2":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_3":"Long-listed","PrizeCode_0":"05","PrizeCode_1":"03","PrizeCode_2":"03","PrizeCode_3":"05","PrizeName_0":"ReLit Awards: Novel","PrizeName_1":"Huffington Post Best Books","PrizeName_2":"New York Times Notable Books","PrizeName_3":"Women's Prize for Fiction","PrizeYear_0":"2011","PrizeYear_1":"2012","PrizeYear_2":"2012","PrizeYear_3":"2013","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2014-04-05","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"Anansi Book Club Editions","ShortDescription":"A brilliant portrayal of finding a beautiful life by one of Canada's most exciting literary talents.","Width":"5","WidthCode":"in"}
How Should a Person Be?
A brilliant portrayal of finding a beautiful life by one of Canada's most exciting literary talents.
