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{"id":7447677009979,"title":"Stella and Sam ABC","handle":"stella-and-sam-abc","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEvery day is a new adventure for Stella and Sam in this new board book! Join them in Angel-making in the snow, Bathing with ducks, Catch-playing and Dog-walking all the way home. 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{"id":6582758768699,"title":"The Scream of the Butterfly","handle":"the-scream-of-the-butterfly","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe mayor of Copenhagen is found murdered in his luxury apartment. Detective Lars Winkler is put on this sensitive case, which is further complicated by the fact that the victim’s mother is the leader of the country’s most radical political party and the current minister of finance. Lars notices the minister and her husband are strangely untouched by their son’s death. When he begins to dig into the mayor’s past, he slowly uncovers the dark story of a young, idealistic man who had only one wish: to free himself of his family and live his own life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDark and chilling, \u003cem\u003eThe Scream of the Butterfly\u003c\/em\u003e is Scandinavian crime at its best.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:14:30-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:14:30-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["A Lars Winkler Novel","By (author) Melander Jakob","pub date: 2015-11-06","Spiderline"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1995,"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":39403467341883,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770894426","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Scream of the Butterfly - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770894426","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":39413717467195,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000868","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Scream of the Butterfly - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487000868","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":39413717565499,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770894419","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Scream of the Butterfly - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":599,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770894419","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_dcb958b5-1540-4fd9-ae0c-73fb5eb20872.jpg?v=1723950095"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_dcb958b5-1540-4fd9-ae0c-73fb5eb20872.jpg?v=1723950095","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24743103201339,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":638,"width":413,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_dcb958b5-1540-4fd9-ae0c-73fb5eb20872.jpg?v=1723950095"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":638,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_dcb958b5-1540-4fd9-ae0c-73fb5eb20872.jpg?v=1723950095","width":413}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eThe mayor of Copenhagen is found murdered in his luxury apartment. Detective Lars Winkler is put on this sensitive case, which is further complicated by the fact that the victim’s mother is the leader of the country’s most radical political party and the current minister of finance. Lars notices the minister and her husband are strangely untouched by their son’s death. When he begins to dig into the mayor’s past, he slowly uncovers the dark story of a young, idealistic man who had only one wish: to free himself of his family and live his own life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDark and chilling, \u003cem\u003eThe Scream of the Butterfly\u003c\/em\u003e is Scandinavian crime at its best.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The Scream of the Butterfly
Detective Winkler is put on a highly sensitive case and what he uncovers threatens to expose the dark past of many in the highest echelons of power.
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The Tobacconist
Set in Austria in the 1930s, The Tobacconist tells the story of one young man and his friendship with Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna.
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The Guardian of Amsterdam Street
Roma meets A Gentleman in Moscow in this vivid portrait of the twentieth century, witnessed by one boy from his self-imposed refuge in Mexico City.
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King of the Dump
A fun, thoughtful story about big machinery, recycling and learning to let go of the things we no longer need.
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For Bo and her siblings, the underground fight club may finally provide escape from life with an abusive uncle — but only if she can win.
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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. Just as \u003cem\u003eSCTV\u003c\/em\u003e had put Canadian comedy on the map, \u003cem\u003eThe Kids In The Hall\u003c\/em\u003e updated it and made it even cooler.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eAs they moved into film and theatre tours, various tensions within the troupe would at times threaten their fragile union, but like any thirty-year marriage, they have somehow made it work for three decades and as the curtain opened at Warfield in 2015, the marriage analogy is underlined by the sight of all five Kids in bridal gowns, symbolically re-affirming their vows via classic sketches, while offering new material, just as they had back in those chilly Rivoli days.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eAfter the show, Kevin made it clear to me that while these five strong willed individuals would probably always find something to fight over, but that this same tension was probably also the secret to their longevity. As with their fictional garage rock band in their beloved sketch, Rod Torfulson’s Armada featuring Herman Menderchuck, there were times in the Kids’ career when they questioned if they were going to make it, but judging by the heroes welcome they received in San Francisco, it was clear they had finally arrived (having eaten).\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eIt wasn’t easy, and it wasn’t always fun. As a troupe, they’ve often made risky artistic choices, and probably shot themselves in the foot more than once, all in the name of reaching a consensus, according to McDonald, the state of their union was as strong as ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e “I always say that, individually, we’re five smart guys, but together we add up to one dumb guy,” McDonald would later tell me during one of our many conversations for this book. “We create most of our own problems, then we're sad about it, but later on, we can see the humour in them. I think it helps us write better sketches.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThese pages constitute the inside story of how that One Dumb Guy would go on to write some of the funniest sketch comedy ever performed and inspire their peers and subsequent generations of sketch comedians to create programs such as\u003cem\u003e Mr. Show with Bob \u0026 David\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe State\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Ben Stiller Show\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePortlandia\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eKey \u0026 Peele\u003c\/em\u003e, and most recently, \u003cem\u003eThe Baroness Von Sketch Show\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eToday, the Kids In The Hall can still make me laugh whenever I see them or their work, and despite cheating death and worse, they’re still here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThe story of just how they \u003cem\u003egot\u003c\/em\u003e here begins in earnest in the province of Alberta, when a young drunk punk named Bruce McCulloch met a well-traveled diplomat’s son named Mark McKinney. \u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS WITH THE KIDS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS WITH COMEDY ROYALTY:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMEDIA INVOLVEMENT:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREUNION ON NETFLIX?:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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). 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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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He knows exactly what will happen if any of the teachers find out the truth. He remembers his last horrible foster home all too clearly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCurtis gets pretty good at forging his mother's signature, but when the credit card maxes out and the landlord starts pressuring for the rent, it's more than a twelve-year-old can handle. Just in time, Curtis and Artie make friends with Mrs. Burt, the cranky, lonely old lady who lives across the street. And when the authorities start to investigate, the boys agree to go with Mrs. Burt to her remote cabin by the lake, and the three of them abscond in her 1957 Chevy Bel Air.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the lake, the boys' days are filled with wood-chopping, outhouse-building, fishing, swimming and Mrs. Burt's wonderful cooking. 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Middle of Nowhere
A middle-grade novel about two maybe-orphans and their unlikely friendship with a cranky old neighbor.
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Dr. Wilson opens a doorway, allowing her readers to both witness and reconcile with this dark chapter in Canada’s history.” —\u003cstrong\u003eJane Middelton-Moz, therapist, author, and founder of the MSW Indigenous Trauma and Resiliency (ITR) Program at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_16":"\u003cp\u003e“Journalist Marie Wilson brings us into the emotion-charged rooms, the sacred spaces of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation hearings. She listens with the heart of a mother, looking into the souls of the adult Survivors standing before her and seeing the children they once were. Though she holds nothing back, in the end this is a triumphant, restorative narrative—a testament to the healing that happens when we share our deepest, darkest truths.” —\u003cstrong\u003eJudy Rodgers, founding director of Images \u0026 Voice of Hope, board member of The Peace Studio\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_17":"\u003cp\u003e“TRC Commissioner Marie Wilson beautifully centres the Survivors at the heart of her book\u003cem\u003e. North of Nowhere \u003c\/em\u003eincludes stories of heartbreak and of loss but also celebrates stories of resurgence and redemption. It powerfully ruptures the colonial myth-making and storytelling that has for so long suppressed Indigenous voices, languages, and cultures. Commissioner Wilson calls on everyone and, in particular, invites Canadians to bear witness and to promise in a sacred trust to never stop telling the stories of residential school Survivors. 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She has turned the story of the Canadian TRC into a healing narrative for the whole world.” —\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Vollenhoven, South African journalist, managing director of Vision in Africa\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003e“Marie Wilson's remarkable memoir is a schooling in painful facts and brave reckonings.” —\u003cstrong\u003eElizabeth Hay, author of \u003cem\u003eAll Things Consoled\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_20":"\u003cp\u003e“Through vivid personal stories, Marie Wilson transmits both the tremendous technical challenges of the TRC journey, and even more importantly, the passion, courage, and heart that are needed to move towards reconciliation, one story at a time. \u003cem\u003eNorth of Nowhere\u003c\/em\u003e fills a crucial void in the literature on truth commissions and transitional justice: the heart element of this work.” —\u003cstrong\u003eVirginie Ladisch, International Center for Transitional Justice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_21":"\u003cp\u003e“During Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, I watched Marie Wilson listen so deeply to so many Survivors who shared their terrible truths, and I wondered: How could she bear to witness it all? We find out in this heartfelt book, crafted from the careful observations of a seasoned journalist, mother, and grandmother. An insider’s look at the TRC, a meditation on love, and a timely reminder that we as a country cannot ignore our painful past if we hope to move forward together.” —\u003cstrong\u003eDuncan McCue, professor of Indigenous journalism and (story)telling at Carleton University, author of \u003cem\u003eDecolonizing Journalism: A Guide to Reporting in Indigenous Communities\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_22":"\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eNorth of Nowhere\u003c\/em\u003e is both a necessary call and a collaborative invitation for all Canadians. A beautiful blend of both a heartbreaking account and an inspiring call to rise, told with the care and empathy of a mother. Even in the midst of residential school despair, there are glimpses of hope in seeing how sport could briefly lift the spirits of struggling children, serving as a powerful reminder of the importance of sport in reconciliation.” —\u003cstrong\u003eLizanne Murphy, Canadian women’s basketball Olympian\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_23":"\u003cp\u003e“This amazing, compelling, and moving book from former journalist, Commissioner, and Warrior Marie Wilson, is not only a testimony of the stories, the tears, the smell, the ache, and the hopes heard during the TRC, and the behind-the-scenes camaraderie between the three Commissioners. It is a real gift to humanity to immortalize the spirit of the TRC hearings, a call for a new beginning, and a special blessing bringing the circles of truth and light to healing. I cried. I got angry. I felt ashamed. I smiled. I laughed. I got inspired. I am hopeful for the future. Thank you, Marie, for your openness and authenticity in sharing those stories so that they become our stories for generations to come.” —\u003cstrong\u003eDenise Amyot, former president of Colleges Institutes Canada and former ADM and CEO of a federal Crown corporation in the Government of Canada\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_24":"\u003cp\u003e“Marie Wilson's book, \u003cem\u003eNorth of Nowhere\u003c\/em\u003e, is a tour de force. It's that rare thing: both an intimate memoir and a compelling portrait of a crucial part of Canada's past and present. The only woman, northerner, and non-Indigenous member of the three TRC commissioners, Wilson brought a unique combination of journalism skills and cross-cultural experience as a member of a Dene family to the most revealing and far-reaching inquiry into Indigenous peoples' individual and collective experiences with the country's residential school system. Told with nuance, deep insight, and power, this book offers the reader a unique chance for understanding Canada's past and present, all told in an intimate, illuminating, and compelling story.” —\u003cstrong\u003eCynthia Reyes, author of \u003cem\u003eA Good Home\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAn Honest House\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003e“Marie Wilson elicits emotional and insightful responses that move us along our journeys of understanding the truth of Canada.” —\u003cstrong\u003eShelagh Rogers and Monique Gray Smith\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003e“Beautifully written, Marie Wilson’s \u003cem\u003eNorth of Nowhere\u003c\/em\u003e is a stunning work of truth, power, and wisdom. An imperative read for all Canadians to understand the layers of shrapnel left by the residential school system that will leave you with emotion and hope. Wilson is an incredibly brilliant and gifted writer.” —\u003cstrong\u003eAngela Sterritt, author of \u003cem\u003eUnbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_5":"\u003cp\u003e“I hope everyone reads this and finds their way to support Survivors, their families, and their communities as they continue to reclaim so much of what was stolen. What a profound and riveting read.” —\u003cstrong\u003eRichard Van Camp, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Lesser Blessed\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGodless but Loyal to Heaven\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_6":"\u003cp\u003e“Canada needs this book. \u003cem\u003eNorth of Nowhere\u003c\/em\u003e brings us face-to-face with our buried past; it will make us stronger for the future. As a Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner, Marie Wilson walks with us, guides us, and helps us see, hear, and accept the difficult truth of our country. With beautiful writing, superb insights, and sensitivity, she leaves readers not guilty or damaged but optimistic for a shared future as we travel a national road to reconciliation.” —\u003cstrong\u003eWhit Fraser, Vice Regal Consort of Canada\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_7":"\u003cp\u003e“Profoundly moving and surprisingly optimistic.” —\u003cstrong\u003eCharlotte Gray, (CM), author of \u003cem\u003ePassionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_8":"\u003cp\u003e“The long-matured work of a true elder, this magnificent book is a sober masterpiece of sacred activism.” —\u003cstrong\u003eAndrew Harvey, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_9":"\u003cp\u003e“A powerful, readable, personal, and uniquely informed review of the historic damage done to Indigenous people in Canada and a compelling reminder of how and why we can change that legacy. I strongly recommend this book.” —\u003cstrong\u003eThe Right Honourable Joe Clark\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePrior to her work in reconciliation, Marie Wilson spent more than twenty years with CBC\/Radio-Canada as an award-winning journalist and broadcaster in Canada’s North and in Quebec.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWilson was the only woman among the three TRC commissioners; however, it should be noted that she is a non-Indigenous person. She spent six years criss-crossing the country as a commissioner.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe work of truth and reconciliation in the wake of the residential school system and other destructive effects of colonization on Indigenous Peoples is ongoing. There is still much to discuss and learn about moving relations between Indigenous Peoples and settlers forward in a good way.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCanada can offer both positive and negative examples for other settler-colonial nations reckoning with their treatment of their Indigenous populations (Australia, New Zealand, the US).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWilson lives in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSimultaneous audiobook (read by the author).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“Profoundly moving.” —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBroadview Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“The former Truth and Reconciliation commissioner Marie Wilson’s \u003cem\u003eNorth of Nowhere\u003c\/em\u003e serves as an accessible companion text to the commission’s 2015 final report, which documents the history of Canada’s residential schools. The book’s value lies in her attention to survivors’ testimonies … Given all she has heard, it’s worth noting that Wilson keeps hope at the centre of her book.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Literary Review of Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eNorth of Nowhere\u003c\/em\u003e is beautifully written.” —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“An outstanding book.” —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSaltWire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong \u003eThe incomparable first-hand account of the historic Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada told by one of the commissioners who led it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","PrizeCodeText_0":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"03","PrizeName_0":"The Hill Times 100 Best Book of 2024","PrizeYear_0":"2024","ProductFormDescription":"epub","PublicationDate":"2024-06-11","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong \u003eThe incomparable first-hand account of the historic Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada told by one of the commissioners who led it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","Subtitle":"Song of a Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
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The incomparable first-hand account of the historic Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada told by one of the commissioners who led it.
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October 1970
October 1970. Two kidnappings. One dead. A crisis unlike anything the country had ever seen — here is the story behind history …
