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The Butcher's Hook
Anne Jaccob, a nineteen-year old daughter of a wealthy merchant falls in love with Fub, the butcher’s son — an imperfect match.
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Weekend Dad
A little boy spends the weekend at his dad’s new apartment in this picture book about how things change when parents separate — and the important things that stay the same.
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The Ninth Grave
Fabian Risk is on the hunt for a serial killer in this spine-tingling thriller set six months before the events of Victim Without a Face.
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Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2025
The prestigious and highly anticipated annual anthology of the best poetry published in English from the shortlist of the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize.
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Jim Harrison's epic novel pits a son against his family's dark, destructive legacy.
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Hip Hop World
A fascinating and critical look at hip hop, the world's most popular music, and what it means to young people all over the globe.
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{"id":6816227852347,"title":"Blood","handle":"blood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSelected for The Globe 100 Books in 2013.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith the 2013 CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlood runs red through every person’s arteries and fulfills the same functions in every human being. The study of blood has advanced our understanding of biology and improved medical treatments, but its cultural and social representations have divided us perennially. Blood pulses through religion, literature, and the visual arts. Every time it pools or spills, we learn a little more about what brings human beings together and what pulls us apart. For centuries, perceptions of difference in our blood have separated people on the basis of gender, race, class, and nation. 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Blood
Bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers an examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and the way that it unites and divides us today.
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Readers who love mysteries, along with singing and dancing, will enjoy this clever story that opens an intriguing window into theater history.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“This quirky, funny mystery [is] sure to delight readers of all ages, especially budding theater kids.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Children's Literature Comprehensive Database","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“The combination of humor, heart, and growth gives depth to this story. Theater lovers, current performers, and fans of historical or realistic fiction will enjoy this peek into the past.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eChildren’s Literature Comprehensive Database\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Historical Novel Society","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“The Rehearsal Club\u003c\/em\u003e is charming, and often quite funny, with vivid, sympathetic heroines and a well-drawn supporting cast.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eHistorical Novels Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA mystery spans decades at a New York boarding house for actresses in this story of sisterhood and following your dreams under marquee lights.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeName_0":"Ontario Library Association Best Bets","PrizeYear_0":"2025","ProductFormDescription":"EPUB","PublicationDate":"2025-02-04","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA mystery spans decades at a New York boarding house for actresses in this story of sisterhood and following your dreams under marquee lights.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","Width":"5","WidthCode":"in"}
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The Girl of the Wish Garden
This beautiful story is inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale “Thumbelina” and the award-winning art of Nasrin Khosravi.
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The Family Clause
From acclaimed Swedish author Jonas Hassen Khemiri comes a novel about a family on the verge of collapse.
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We’ve all been there, and it’s a joy to realize that we’re not alone on the journey.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eElizabeth Renzetti, author of \u003cem\u003eShrewed: A Wry and Closely Observed Look at the Lives of Women and Girls\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e\"With much-needed humour and wisdom, Myers reminds us that even in the midst of uncertainty, we’re never alone on this journey. This book is a necessary, heartfelt guide for those seeking their own unique path through the maze of midlife. A must read!\" —\u003cstrong\u003eChelene Knight, award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eLet It Go: Free Yourself from Old Beliefs and Find a New Path to Joy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003e\"From the wise vantage point of mid-age, Christina Myers has located a voice ringing with clarity—a writer who finally trusts her own instincts.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eTara McGuire, former broadcaster and author of \u003cem\u003eHolden After and Before: Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eHalfway Home\u003c\/em\u003e is a love letter to mothers and grandmothers, sisters and daughters, witches and crones. Christina Myers’s storytelling is gentle and honest, a must-read memoir for women of all ages. So many times, I found myself nodding and exclaiming, ‘Yes! That’s exactly it!’ It’s a mirror but also an invitation to join a secret coven of wise women.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eK. J. Aiello, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Monster and the Mirror: Mental Illness, Magic, and the Stories We Tell\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003e\"Christina Myers’s essays are bewitching in their insight and exhilarating in their clear-eyed examination of the oppressive systems that seek to crush and contain women. With tenderness and gleeful moments of discovery, \u003cem\u003eHalfway Home\u003c\/em\u003e begins a map that readers and the author create together, finding a way forward in a strange new world where traditional paths for women lead nowhere and new ones are still being cleared.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eHollay Ghadery, award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eFuse\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_5":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eHalfway Home\u003c\/em\u003e is a gracefully written exploration of what it means to be a woman in a complicated world, navigating the terrain from first bras and first periods to hot flashes and perimenopause and the uncharted landscape beyond. Christina Myers offers up a warm-hearted, absorbing read that you'll want to devour in one sitting and return to in quiet moments with a cup of tea and a box of tissues as you laugh-cry your way through essays that make you want to shout out loud in solidarity. In sharing her own journey with honesty, vulnerability, and insight, Myers invites you to extend compassion to the younger self you once were and to embrace the flawed beauty of the crone you are becoming. This is a book that demands to be shared with all the wise women in your own world—sisters, mothers, daughters, friends—as it reminds you of the truth we all need to hear: Amidst all the messiness, chaos, and unravelling that comes along with midlife, you are not, and never will be, alone.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eJulie MacLellan, former arts and culture editor and journalist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_6":"\u003cp\u003e\"These clever, articulate, powerful true stories explore many issues relevant to midlife: the misinformation we carry from childhood, ‘the gospel of worthiness,’ ‘the doctrine of the makeover,’ ‘the sacred knowledge of women,’ and more. Most of all, the author deals with the need to belong, including as a mother, a sexual being, [and] a feminist … readers rooting for this lively, fiercely honest writer will be happy that Christina Myers finds her way home.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eBeth Kaplan, author of \u003cem\u003eMidlife Solo: Writing through Chaos to Find My Place in the World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_7":"\u003cp\u003e\"As I run around looking like a hot mess—where my body and mind change, disappoint, and introduce themselves anew each year—I need \u003cem\u003eHalfway Home\u003c\/em\u003e for my own survival. As Christina Myers writes, the old maps are no longer reliable. Friends, leggings, growing children, and forms, she makes me laugh, cry, shiver, hold my breath, and sigh, inspiring a conversation with my younger, present, and future self. What are the big brown envelopes we carry with us over the decades? What myths have we swallowed whole that we struggle to break free? How do we measure ourselves, time, and (mid)life itself? \u003cem\u003eHalfway Home\u003c\/em\u003e reminds me to let go of the ‘aspirational impossibilities’ and welcome in the things we have been systematically ‘taught to forget.’ Myers reminds me I get to decide how to live this one midlife. Let her see you, so you too can see yourself through.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eCarys Cragg, author of \u003cem\u003eDead Reckoning: How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father\u003c\/em\u003e, finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_8":"\u003cp\u003e\"Compulsively readable, Christina Myers’s \u003cem\u003eHalfway Home: Thoughts from Midlife\u003c\/em\u003e is the tour through life that every Gen X woman never knew she needed. From Sears training bras, sneaking tampons into the ladies’ room, and makeover magazines, to being forced to wear a too-tight employee uniform T-shirt before the rise of the #MeToo movement, Myers has seen it all, as she mothers teenagers who do and don’t need her anymore, allowing sapphire-blue leggings to transform her life. Let this midlife new best friend lovingly guide you through your anti-wrinkle cream, perimenopause, and climate change uncertainties. Grieving all the other lives we might have had, Myers prepares us to move into our wisest years yet, where a woman past her prime isn’t less than what she was before: instead, she is more. I would follow her anywhere.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eCatherine Lewis, author of \u003cem\u003eZipless\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThere is a new openness about women’s health, with extensive public conversations about topics that would have been taboo for previous generations: menstruation, perimenopause, menopause – the things we’re not supposed to talk about.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOlder women have become more visible on social media, there are Instagram and TikTok feeds celebrating their fashion,\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFor women who are in or approaching midlife. 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Halfway Home
Award-winning author Christina Myers navigates the uncharted territory of midlife in a time of rapid social, cultural, and environmental change.
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West Coast Wild ABC
Explore the wild and wonderful Pacific west coast from A to Z!
