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The Immortal Woman
A sweeping generational story of heartbreak, resilience, and yearning, revealing an insider’s view of the fractured lives of Chinese immigrants and those they leave behind.
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The Invitation
Stacey May Fowles’ debut picture book is a whimsical, warmhearted story of how a super-special surprise can lead to anxiety — or invite imagination.
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The Irrationalist
In her remarkable second collection, poet Suzanne Buffam sketches an ideal world as yet unrealized.
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The Jesuit Disruptor
A fresh look at a complex pope with a simple agenda: radically reforming the Catholic Church.
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The Joyful Living Colouring Book
A splendid colouring book of original new illustrations with a few choice words of hope that will inspire and delight.
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Marvel as the Kids share their intimate memories and behind-the-scenes stories of how they created their greatest sketches and most beloved characters, from the Chicken Lady and Buddy Cole to Cabbage Head and Sir Simon \u0026amp;Hecubus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy\u003c\/i\u003e spans the entirety of the Kids’ storied career, from their early club shows in Toronto and New York to their recent live reunion tours across North America. Along for the ride are a plethora of fans, peers, and luminaries to celebrate the career and legacy of Canada’s most subversively hilarious comedy troupe. You’ll read tributes from Seth Meyers, Judd Apatow, Garry Shandling, Paul Feig, Mike Myers, David Cross, Michael Ian Black, Brent Butt, Jonah Ray, Dana Gould, Bob Odenkirk, Andy Richter, and Canada’s newest comedy sensation, Baroness Von Sketch. 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Marvel as the Kids share their intimate memories and behind-the-scenes stories of how they created their greatest sketches and most beloved characters, from the Chicken Lady and Buddy Cole to Cabbage Head and Sir Simon \u0026amp;Hecubus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy\u003c\/i\u003e spans the entirety of the Kids’ storied career, from their early club shows in Toronto and New York to their recent live reunion tours across North America. Along for the ride are a plethora of fans, peers, and luminaries to celebrate the career and legacy of Canada’s most subversively hilarious comedy troupe. You’ll read tributes from Seth Meyers, Judd Apatow, Garry Shandling, Paul Feig, Mike Myers, David Cross, Michael Ian Black, Brent Butt, Jonah Ray, Dana Gould, Bob Odenkirk, Andy Richter, and Canada’s newest comedy sensation, Baroness Von Sketch. As an added bonus, the book includes never-before-seen photographs and poster art from the personal archives of the Kids themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for diehard fans and new initiates alike, \u003ci\u003eThe Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy\u003c\/i\u003e will make you laugh and make you cry … and it may even crush your head.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Modern sketch comedy owes them the hugest debt of gratitude.” — \u003cstrong\u003ePaul Feig, February 23, 2017\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_9_Auth":"Paul Feig","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS WITH THE KIDS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eFeatures exclusive interviews with all five members of The Kids in the Hall: Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS WITH COMEDY ROYALTY:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eFeatures exclusive interviews and tributes from comedy luminaries, including Lorne Michaels, Seth Meyers, Judd Apatow, Garry Shandling, Paul Feig, Mike Myers, David Cross, Michael Ian Black, Brent Butt, Jonah Ray, Dana Gould, Bob Odenkirk, Andy Richter, and Canada’s newest comedy sensation, Baroness Von Sketch.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMEDIA INVOLVEMENT:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eWe’re publishing simultaneously in North America, and we hope to be able to arrange for Paul and the Kids to do media, this will be confirmed closer to publication.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREUNION ON NETFLIX?:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eIn September 2017, news outlets reported that Lorne Michaels was in talks with Netflix to get the Kids back on TV in a Netflix original series (similar to what he’d done with Mr. Show). Additional details when they’re available.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e[Introduction to The Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy (uncorrected)]\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n \n \u003cp\u003eOn a spring-like Sunday evening in May of 2015, I entered San Francisco’s prestigious Warfield Theater to catch up with my old friends, the legendary comedy troupe known as the Kids In The Hall. As longtime stage director Jim Millan ushered me into the backstage domain, I found them distractedly immersed in their various pre-show rituals, and as usual, it fell to Kevin McDonald to be the first to greet me, offering drinks and snacks before walking me over to a large round table where Mark McKinney nodded hello from behind a newspaper and Bruce McCulloch broke briefly from a conversation with his wife Tracy to raise an eyebrow in lieu of a verbal greeting. A jittery Scott Thompson darted in and out of the room, seeming to have misplaced something important, while Dave Foley offered me a warm handshake with one hand while nursing a soft drink in the other, having recently gone on the wagon. By this point, I had known the troupe for over thirty years, but while these five middle-aged men had long since outgrown their childlike name, very little else seemed to have changed about them since the day we met. While a sense of imminent fun hung over the backstage area, this was not a party; these men were about to go to work at the job they had created for themselves back on the streets of Toronto in the early 80s. As curtain time approached, Millan politely asked all visitors to clear the room and take their seats, affording me my first opportunity to get an unscientific read on the age demographics of the 2300 fans in the sold-out house. Surprisingly, it wasn’t all silver foxes like myself and it seemed to me that roughly half the house was comprised of millennials or younger, a large cross-section of these people hadn’t even been born when \u003cem\u003eThe Kids In The Hall\u003c\/em\u003e TV series was still on network television in the early 1990s, and it was entirely possible that, for many, this was their first time at a Kids In The Hall live show. As the house lights dimmed, a recording of Shadowy Men on A Shadowy Planet’s “Having An Average Weekend,” the official theme for the Kids’ TV series, echoed through the auditorium to cheers of instant recognition. The air was as electric as I was nostalgic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eTaking in the moment I realized that the Kids and I had come a long way, some 30 years and 2,634 miles (4239 km) to be precise, to get here. My mind raced back to Toronto in the winter of 1985, at the very show where I had first realized that maybe, just maybe, these guys had something special. As in all the best stories, it opens on a dark and stormy night, when an especially nasty blizzard was heaping obscene amounts of snow upon the city. TTC streetcars were backed up all along Queen Street and most major surface routes, and you couldn’t get a cab to save your life. Frankly, if you had nothing better to do, you were best advised to stay home under a blanket, preferably near a space heater.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eYet some of us brave comedy aficionados \u003cem\u003edid\u003c\/em\u003e have something better to do, we who had bravely trudged through six-foot snowdrifts, past cars that wouldn’t be dug out until morning, just to get to a tiny cabaret bar called The Rivoli, where a photocopied poster on a telephone pole out front beckoned, “Man The Laff Boats, it’s The Kids In The Hall.” \u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eOnce safely inside the warm confines of the Riv, we bought our drinks from the bartender and talent booker, Carson, and took our seats just as Dave, Kevin, Bruce, Mark, and Scott commandeered two cramped but functional stages and went about the hilarious business of fulfilling their weekly residency. Besides the dreadful weather, the news that day had been dominated by a horrific Air India plane crash, and a kind of black cloud seemed to hang in the air above the city. Earlier that afternoon, the five Kids had huddled backstage to mull over whether they should even play the show at all, operating on the assumption that nobody would make it through the storm, or feel much like laughing if they did. Instead, they opted do the show anyway, for themselves, audience or not.\u003c\/p\u003e \n \u003cp\u003e “The show went on,” says McDonald, “and for some reason, this became the first night that we had a lineup around the block and even had to turn people away. After that night, we always had a great audience at the Rivoli.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThe troupe had been honing their act for months, and I had been laughing along with their uniquely suburban takes on social justice, big city life, and institutional hypocrisy. Week after week, I had witnessed them creating fresh new material out of the ether, creating new characters and forging a unique comedy aesthetic, right before our eyes. While clearly informed by \u003cem\u003eMonty Python’s Flying Circus\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSCTV\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eSaturday Night Live\u003c\/em\u003e, their highly disruptive comedy that was as anarchic as any punk rock show playing in the neighbouring bars of the Queen Street strip. Sure they were all white males, but in the early 80s just having one of those white males be openly gay, and not always playing it for laughs, seemed revolutionary. While they played all the female roles themselves, it never seemed like a campy drag act, and their “ladies” were frequently the heroes of their scenes. While the name was already age inappropriate – even then, they were all in their early to mid-twenties -- it also announced them as perennial outsiders, the punks in the corridor, ready to break into the big room by any means necessary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eI had discovered them early on, and organically. After my younger brother, the sketch comedian and writer Mike Myers, had flourished at the Second City Theatre’s comedy workshops, I found myself following him to class and soon I too was learning the ways and history of improv comedy alongside my fellow students, Kevin and Dave. They said they had been doing shows and that I should come to see them. As fate would have it, my girlfriend at the time mentioned a comedy troupe she’d heard about that featured a fellow student from York University named Scott. Of course, all roads were leading us to The Rivoli, and as Toronto thawed out and warmed up, so too did the buzz around The Kids In The Hall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eEventually that buzz translated into a career in television and I became a regular member of the studio audience for their live tapings. Soon, our secret was out, and their name spread across the country and beyond. 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The Kids in the Hall
The definitive, authorized story of legendary sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.
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The King of Shanghai
The seventh novel in the Ava Lee series finds Ava getting caught up in the election for the chairmanship of the Triad Societies.
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ages 4
to 7
/ grades K
to 2
The King of the Birds
A young girl brings home a peacock, but he refuses to show off his colorful tail! Inspired by the life of Flannery O'Connor.
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ages 10
to 15
/ grades 5
to 10
The King's Daughter
An eighteen-year-old orphan is summoned to sail from France to the wilds of North America to become a king's daughter and marry a French settler.
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But Malabourg has one unusual feature: in the heart of the forest there’s a lake the kids call “the tomb.” It’s the place where three young women have disappeared, one by one. As rumours and allegations spread through the village, Alexis and Mina struggle to make sense of the tragedies before deciding the only way to forget is to leave. Alexis relocates to France to learn how to compose perfume and Mina moves hundreds of kilometres away from the sea. 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Perrine Leblanc has created a kind of québécois noir: ominous, compelling, and totally convincing.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWayne Grady, Author of Emancipation Day\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Wayne Grady, Author of Emancipation Day","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Some become authors through hard work; some are born authors like Perrine Leblanc.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eKim Thúy, Author of Ru and Màn\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Kim Thúy, Author of Ru and Màn","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“...promisingly dark and offbeat...” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Quill \u0026amp; Quire","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“...exactly what Leblanc is up to isn’t clear until literally the last page, when the novel’s two halves are deftly reconnected in a way that ends up making perfect structural and emotional sense.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMontreal Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Montreal Gazette","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“This slim novel, which deftly blends murder, mystery, romance, and a coming-of-age story, is a testament to the talent of the author.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e, STARRED REVIEW\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“There’s real skill here, and a faith that the reader will be engaged enough in the sensual details that Leblanc generously lards her prose with. This short book contains both brutality and moments of real grace and beauty, rewarding the reader who didn’t open it just to find out who killed whom.” — \u003cstrong\u003eNaben Ruthnum, \u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Naben Ruthnum","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"National Post","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A mesmerizing story about the disappearance of three young women and a deeply disturbing portrait of a small town gone bad.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeName_0":"Governor General's LIterary Awards (French to English Translation)","PrizeYear_0":"2015","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2015-09-19","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A mesmerizing story about the disappearance of three young women and a deeply disturbing portrait of a small town gone bad.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
The Lake
A mesmerizing story about the disappearance of three young women and a deeply disturbing portrait of a small town gone bad.
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How it visits us in dreams, sneaking past our conscious minds and our unique talents, subsuming our wounds and our idiosyncrasies. How it takes us and deposits us just where we must be – in the shock of cold, clean waters, in the beautiful and the terrible surge of now.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Miramichi Reader\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"The Miramichi Reader","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"The Miramichi Reader","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Ed O’Loughlin is a natural storyteller, a good one, and he invites the reader right alongside in his honest search for meaning through reminiscence, memory, and adventure. With precision and expertise, he probes past and present chapters of his life, all the while imparting his own brand of wisdom and humour. A great pleasure to read!” — \u003cstrong\u003eFrances Itani, author of Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Tell\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Frances Itani, author of Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Tell","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“War correspondent, father, husband, son, friend, and grieving brother — Ed O’Loughlin has given us a powerful and unusual memoir. At times heartbreaking and often laugh-aloud funny, \u003cem\u003eThe Last Good Funeral\u003c\/em\u003e is set to be among the very best of books for 2022.” — \u003cstrong\u003eChristine Dwyer Hickey, author of Walter Scott Prize winner The Narrow Land\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Christine Dwyer Hickey, author of Walter Scott Prize winner The Narrow Land","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Sunday Times","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“Deftly and with increasing assurance, O’Loughlin weaves the tapestry of a life, pulling at the threads and dropped stitches of experience that have brought him to this difficult time and place … A soul-baring account of love in the time of cholera.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Sunday Times","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“An absorbing, meditative text, equally affectionate and unflinching, engaging head-on with the pain of saying farewell to youth and accepting mortality … A moving testament to the paths that lost loved ones, however briefly they were known, can still lead us on.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Irish Times","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“[A] beautiful and curious memoir … unflinching in the face of tragedy — but, more than that, it is a robust examination of memory in its most ineffable form.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBusiness Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Business Post","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“There are so many good things here you get the feeling that he has negotiated his way past the rocks of his own reluctance about writing about himself and can’t really believe that he’s managed it.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eIrish Independent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Irish Independent","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA pensive and poignant recollection of love, loss, marriage, mental health and the life events that have shaped the author's identity.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ProductFormDescription":"Lossless Format Audio, WAV","PublicationDate":"2022-03-15","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A pensive and poignant recollection of love, loss, marriage, mental health and the life events that have shaped the author's identity.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
The Last Good Funeral of the Year
A pensive and poignant recollection of love, loss, marriage, mental health and the life events that have shaped the author's identity.
