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The Red Rock
In this innovative graphic fable, author and illustrator Tomio Nitto uses comic-book technique to deliver a strong environmental message.
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He has also written and illustrated \u003cem\u003eA Brave Soldier\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFour Pictures \u003c\/em\u003eby Emily Carr. A Canadian, he now lives in France.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Illustrated by","Contributor_0":"Pendziwol, Jean E. (CA)","Contributor_1":"Debon, Nicolas (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Red Sash is the story of a young Metis boy who lives near the fur trading post of Fort William, on Lake Superior, nearly 200 years ago.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Red Sash\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of a young Metis boy who lives near the fur trading post of Fort William, on Lake Superior, nearly 200 years ago. His father spends the long winter months as a guide, leading voyageurs into the northwest to trade with the Indigenous Peoples for furs. Now it is Rendezvous, when the voyageurs paddle back to Fort William with their packs of furs, and North West Company canoes come from Montreal bringing supplies for the next season. It is a time of feasting and dancing and of voyageurs trading stories around the campfire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith preparations underway for a feast in the Great Hall, the boy canoes to a nearby island to hunt hare. But once there, a storm begins to brew. As the waves churn to foam, a canoe carrying a gentleman from the North West Company appears, heading toward the island for shelter. The boy helps land the canoe, which has been torn by rocks and waves. Then he saves the day as he paddles the gentleman across to Fort William in his own canoe, earning the gift of a voyageur's red sash.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJean E. 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to 12
/ grades 4
to 7
The Rehearsal Club
A mystery spans decades at a New York boarding house for actresses in this story of sisterhood and following your dreams under marquee lights.
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ages 3
to 6
/ grades P
to 1
The Remembering Stone
When Alice loses a keepsake from her grandfather, she worries that she won’t have anything to remember him by.
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The Return of History
A timely and fascinating analysis of twenty-first-century geopolitics by Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General Jennifer Welsh.
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The Rights Revolution
In his 2000 CBC Massey Lectures, Michael Ignatieff confronts controversial human rights questions and defends the individualism of rights language.
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The Rise of Populism
The twenty-third semi-annual Munk Debate takes on the future of liberalism against the rising tide of populism.
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The Rivers North of the Future
David Cayley compiles Ivan Illich's moving and insightful thoughts concerning the fate of the Christian Gospel.
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The Riveter
For readers of The English Patient and All the Light We Cannot See comes a cross-cultural love story set against the dramatic backdrop of the Allied invasion of Europe in WWII.
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The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Karen Solie's collection The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out is limited to 50 copies.
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Ferrying the intimate self through the public realm, these poems meditate on the tensile strength of our most elemental bonds and beliefs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsistently attuned to the demotic and the enigmatic, she returns our language to us as if new again, in a style somehow both nomadic and steady, both unpredictable and meticulously crafted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntelligent, witty, tough-minded, and perceptive, \u003cem\u003eThe Road In Is Not the Same Road Out\u003c\/em\u003e offers Solie's most exciting and captivating work to date, in poems of natural contemplation and uncertainty ranging under the aegis of lyric grace.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781770898219","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781770898219\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","MetaKeywords":"Canadian; women writers; Canadian poetry; Reflective poems; Reflection; Poems about Paintings; A Disaster At Sea; The Raft of the Medusa; Technology vs the natural world; Technology; Nature; Natural World; Hopeful poems; Poems about Hope; Hope; Canadian poets; Modern landscapes; Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize; Women Authors","NumberOfPages":"112","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“…remarkable…[t]here are glimmers of hope in these poems…” — \u003cstrong\u003eCandace Fertile, \u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Candace Fertile","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Quill \u0026 Quire","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“…she might be the most technically sound sentence engineer in the country, prose authors included.” — \u003cstrong\u003eJacob McArthur Mooney, \u003cem\u003eThe National Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Jacob McArthur Mooney","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"The National Post","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“Solie at her best” — \u003cstrong\u003eEmma Healey, \u003cem\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Emma Healey","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"The Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“Unease is arguably the dominant mood of our cultural moment — and Karen Solie taps into it brilliantly in her fourth collection, The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out, a follow-up to her Griffin Poetry Prize-winning Pigeon.” — \u003cstrong\u003eBarb Carey, \u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Barb Carey","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"In her fourth collection Karen Solie advances her extraordinary poetics of impetus and second thoughts.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeName_0":"Trillium Book Award","PrizeYear_0":"2016","ProductFormDescription":"Web PDF","PublicationDate":"2015-04-02","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"In her fourth collection Karen Solie advances her extraordinary poetics of impetus and second thoughts.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out
In her fourth collection Karen Solie advances her extraordinary poetics of impetus and second thoughts.
