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Owen at the Park
Working with his dad in the park, Owen gets to do his favorite job. First, he clears the park of picnickers and geese, and then the magic happens …
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Fever at Dawn
A story of love based on the original ninety-six letters written by Miklós and Lili, two Holocaust survivors, and the author’s parents.
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Xiphoid Process
Award-winning Kevin Connolly’s new collection extends its author’s investigation of identity, authority, intention, and authenticity.
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He turned into a side alley and walked down it until he came to a door. A single small lamp, a votive offering to the Virgin Mary, burned over the entrance. A tall broad-shouldered man stood next to the door. He looked Danilo up and down and nodded. Danilo entered and went up a narrow wooden staircase, and when he stepped through a door he found himself on a large landing with a marble balustrade, large windows overlooking the Grand Canal, tapestries, and marble flooring. Everything was sparkling and impeccable, as if the whole setting had been installed only that morning. Several fashionable Venetian youths were hanging about on the landing gossiping and laughing but they did not bother with him, only giving him a cursory glance and then returning to their skittish talk.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA very pretty, very young maidservant, in a tight bodice with a flared skirt, was coming up the stairs; she nodded at Danilo, held his gaze, and whispered, “Follow me, sir!” She led him further up the broad torch-lit staircase to the second floor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen they entered the main salon, Danilo was dazzled by the sumptuous carpets, the tapestries, the paintings, the gold and silver, the opulent furniture, the gilded mirrors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Ah, here you are!” An elegant young woman turned away from the window and greeted him as if they were old friends. She was perhaps twenty-two or twenty-three. Her manners, self-assurance, and sophistication made her seem older; the freshness of her beauty made her seem younger. She was standing by a tall window that looked over the canal. Her red hair tumbled freely down her bare shoulders, her breasts barely concealed, her long robe open along one side, exposing a length of perfect leg, sparkling white, in silk. She looked at him with an amused, calculating expression.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“You are a handsome fellow, my friend. So, we are to work together.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDanilo bowed. “Madam.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“And gallant, too!” She favored him with the brightest of smiles. “I am indeed pleased. My name is Veronica Libero. My work is to give pleasure — sensual, sexual, intellectual, and cultural. The quality of the conversation is essential. People must relax. They must feel free to express themselves. My clientele is varied — but on the whole, it consists, with a few necessary and unfortunate exceptions, of the very best of society. Many of Venice’s leaders are my friends. I do use the word ‘friend’ with caution. But I think I can say that. So, among the clientele who frequent my little abode, there are also foreigners, German merchants, people who deal with Charles V, some ecclesiastical figures who visit Venice from time to time, several Frenchmen who are close to the Court of François I, and of course Turks and Persians and Arabs.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Yes, I see.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Now, some of these gentlemen speak languages I don’t understand; we would like very much to know what they are saying, what they are talking about. I understand you speak Turkish, Persian, and Arabic.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Yes, madam, I do.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Call me Veronica, please.” Her eyes sparkled in merriment. “And who shall you be? Let’s invent someone, shall we? You are … Daniel del Monte!” For her, Danilo realized, life was a game.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe bowed. Now he had three names: David, Daniel, and Danilo. He felt, somehow, that he should kiss her hand. She moved with the fluid ease, casualness, and feigned intimacy of royalty.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“In a few minutes, the visitors will arrive. I will entertain them — as will some of my friends and colleagues. But our guests often speak in their own languages among themselves.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I see.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“And here, let me show you. I do apologize for the indignity of it, but you will be stowed away here, in this closed little alcove.” She pressed against a small decorative detail, and pulled it aside. A door — up to that point invisible — opened and Danilo saw what looked like a padded closet, or perhaps an invisible corridor running parallel to the wall of the salon. A whiff of stale air wafted out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I have put in a stool to make it more comfortable.” Veronica turned to him. “You have a good memory, I hope.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I believe it is fairly good — ah, Veronica.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Would you like a glass of wine?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I shall abstain, thank you.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Very wise, Daniel, a clear head is essential in this business. Venice is like the Virgin Mary or, if you prefer classical allusions, she is like Aphrodite freshly risen from the sea. She is a gallant lady and she needs to be protected.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Venice has many enemies.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Yes, and many jealousies. Venice is rich and Venice is a republic, Venice is small, and she belongs to all of us. She has been around a long time — a thousand years at least — and so she deserves our care and solicitude.” She smiled. Her perfume — a heady mixture of jasmine and rose — made Danilo dizzy. The lamps sparkled off the gilt and silver and glass.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVeronica put her hand on Danilo’s shoulder, and gazed straight into his eyes. “I must warn you, my dear Daniel. One of our guests is of a particularly violent temperament. He’s quite brilliant — a Turkish gentleman, Signor Muharrem; he is excessively intelligent and cultured and charming — but he is known to have murdered many a man, and some women, too.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDanilo held her gaze and nodded. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“He delights in strangling people with his bare hands, and he is adept with a dagger. He must not discover our little game. Even if there is trouble, you are not to intervene. Julian will take care of it.” She nodded towards a tall broad-shouldered man who had been standing against one wall. The man nodded at Danilo. Veronica smiled. “Silence is essential.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Certainly.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Here, now I shall lock you in. For a little while, my dear friend, you shall be my prisoner.”\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBESTSELLING HISTORICAL SERIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe first two books in the Grazia dei Rossi Trilogy — \u003cem\u003eThe Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Legacy of Grazia dei Rossi\u003c\/em\u003e — were national bestsellers and also sold to territories abroad.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAN APPETITE FOR WOMEN’S FICTION\/BOOK CLUB POTENTIAL:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe success of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet has shown there continues to be an appetite for strong, plot- and character-driven women’s fiction. 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Readers interested in Jewish history will delight in it.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCanadian Jewish News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Canadian Jewish News","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The final novel in the trilogy follows Grazia’s only son as he returns to Venice at the height of European Christendom’s persecution of the Jews.","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2019-04-02","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"Grazia dei Rossi Trilogy","ShortDescription":"The final novel in the trilogy follows Grazia’s only son as he returns to Venice at the height of European Christendom’s persecution of the Jews.","Subtitle":"Book 3","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Son of Two Fathers
The final novel in the trilogy follows Grazia’s only son as he returns to Venice at the height of European Christendom’s persecution of the Jews.
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More Lost Massey Lectures
This second anthology of early CBC Massey Lectures features the work of George Grant, Claude Levi-Strauss, Frank Underhill, and Barbara Ward.
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And then they were gone …\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFor hundreds of thousands of years Great Auks thrived in the icy seas of the North Atlantic, bobbing on the waves, diving for fish and struggling up onto rocky shores to mate and hatch their fluffy chicks. But by 1844, not a single one of these magnificent birds was alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn this stunningly illustrated non-fiction picture book, award-winning author and illustrator Jan Thornhill tells the tragic story of these birds that “weighed as much as a sack of potatoes and stood as tall as a preteen’s waist.” Their demise came about in part because of their anatomy. They could swim swiftly underwater, but their small wings meant they couldn’t fly and their feet were so far back on their bodies, they couldn’t walk very well. Still the birds managed to escape their predators much of the time … until humans became seafarers.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eGreat Auks were pursued first by Vikings, then by Inuit, Beothuk and finally European hunters. Their numbers rapidly dwindled. They became collectors’ items — their skins were stuffed for museums, to be displayed along with their beautiful eggs. (There are some amazing stories about these stuffed auks — one was stolen from a German museum during WWII by Russian soldiers; another was flown to Iceland and given a red-carpet welcome at the airport.)\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough undeniably tragic, the final demise of the Great Auk led to the birth of the conservation movement. Laws were eventually passed to prevent the killing of birds during the nesting season, and similar laws were later extended to other wildlife species.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCorrelates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.3\t\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eExplain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.4\t\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eDetermine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words or phrases in a text relevant to a grade 4 topic or subject area.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781554988655","Height":"11","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Groundwood Books","KeyTextFeatures":"author's note;historical context","MetaKeywords":"birds; nature and the natural world; extinction; endangered species; history; wildlife; conservation; respect for environment; questioning; summarizing; Common Core aligned; CC Literature Key Ideas and Details; grade 4; Kirkus starred review; Booklist starred review; School Library Journal starred review; White Raven Award; Governor General's Literary Award; short list; nonfiction; picture book; glossary; map; labels; scientific nomenclature; references; further reading","NumberOfPages":"44","OtherText_Review_0":"A sobering, beautifully presented extinction story.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_1":"Accompanied by exquisitely rendered drawings … the text will enthrall and sadden readers, perhaps reminding them that when a species is gone, it has disappeared forever.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"International Literacy Association","OtherText_Review_2":"Young environmentalists will certainly be interested in this nonfiction title describing the demise of a species, the Great Auk, the last of which was seen before the start of the Civil War. Thousands of these birds, adept fishers and swimmers, once inhabited the North Atlantic region. The author describes how nature and humans spelled disaster for these creatures that were awkward on land and unable to fly due to their very small wings. Because the Great Auks were so easy to hunt, they provided food for explorers arriving in the area and were often burned for fuel. Eventually, with a reduced habitat and smaller numbers, they became prized for private collections because of their rarity. The author tells the Great Auk’s story in an engaging fashion, identifying turning points from which things could have resulted differently for this species. At the book’s conclusion, Thornhill performs an interesting switch by explaining how the demise of this oddly appealing bird eventually led to the thriving puffin population on Funk Island. Accompanied by exquisitely rendered drawings, created on a computer with Corel Painter, the text will enthrall and sadden readers, perhaps reminding them that when a species is gone, it has disappeared forever.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Literacy Daily","OtherText_Review_3":"This vivid, fascinating story emphasizes not only the importance of conservation but also how deeply intertwined the human and animal worlds can be. Eye-opening and tragic, to be sure, but surprisingly hopeful all the same.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Booklist, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_4":"The images have an etched and naturalistic quality that adds beauty and an emotional connection to the story of a long-extinct animal. Prose and science come together to highlight the loss of a species and then connect this extinction with modern conservation efforts.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"School Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_5":"Thornhill's detailed artwork will attract many readers, as will the engrossing and tragic tale.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Resource Links","OtherText_Review_6":"Thornhill’s approach to this historical event is so advanced it’s simple: she tells the tale … And what a tale it is.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_7":"Thornhill gracefully melds history and science, offering both detail and wit, as well as stirring illustrations that convey both the vast scale of oceans and the delicate patterns of an auk egg.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"The New York Times","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"For hundreds of thousands of years, Great Auks thrived. 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The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk
For hundreds of thousands of years, Great Auks thrived. And then they were gone …
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{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9780887848384","AlsoRecommendedISBN_3":"9781770892699","AlsoRecommendedISBN_4":"9781770893320","BASICMainSubject":"FIC019000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"FICTION \/ Literary","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong \u003eLISA MOORE\u003c\/strong\u003e is the acclaimed author of the novels \u003cem \u003eCaught\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem \u003eFebruary\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem \u003eAlligator\u003c\/em\u003e; the story collections \u003cem \u003eOpen\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem \u003eSomething for Everyone\u003c\/em\u003e; and the young-adult novel \u003cem \u003eFlannery\u003c\/em\u003e. Her books have won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and CBC’s Canada Reads, been finalists for the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Moore is also the co-librettist, along with Laura Kaminsky, of the opera \u003cem \u003eFebruary\u003c\/em\u003e, based on her novel of the same name. 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She makes us feel what they feel, which is the point of literature and maybe even the point of being human.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_1":"...here is writing that examines the richness of the everyday with an incredibly keen eye and renders it without sentimentality but with profound empathy...Like standing in the February winter wind, reading this novel is harrowing, almost painful, but once you step out of it, you appreciate the warmth in your world that much more.","OtherText_Review_10":"It has been a joy indeed to discover Lisa Moore. Despite her great success with a previous novel and two collections of short fiction, February is the first book I have read by this talented Canadian writer. I shall soon be reading the rest.","OtherText_Review_10_Auth":"Gabriel Weston","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Daily Telegraph","OtherText_Review_11":"Lisa Moore is an astonishing writer. She brings to her pages what we are always seeking in fiction and only find the best of it: a magnetizing gift for revealing how the earth feels, looks, tastes, smells, and an unswerving instinct for what's important in life.","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Richard Ford","OtherText_Review_12":"Lisa Moore's work is passionate, gritty, lucid and, beautiful. She has a great gift.","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Anne Enright","OtherText_Review_13":"Loneliness is hard to write about without become maudlin or cliched. But Moore never errs on the side of sentimentality...There's an economy in Moore's style that shows us how a once vibrant life can be whittled down by pain and loneliness. But, by grounding her writing in the physical world, Moore shows how life's everyday tasks and encounters create a comforting continuity that allows forward movement.","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_14":"Luminous.","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"More","OtherText_Review_15":"Moore deftly weaves together the present...and the past, evoking memory and grief in pitch-perfect detail.","OtherText_Review_15_Src":"New Yorker","OtherText_Review_16":"Moore never errs on the side of sentimentality...Loneliness is hard to write about without becoming maudlin or cliched. But Moore seems to understand this very human facility, describing the unconscious ways we sometimes try to avoid feeling overwhelmed by it...Moore shows how life's everyday tasks and encounters create a comforting continuity that eventually wears down emotional pain to allow forward movement...You'll be surprised at this novel's ability to uplift.","OtherText_Review_16_Src":"Ottawa Citizen","OtherText_Review_17":"Moore pens another triumph...emotional tension, coupled with an acute eye for regional setting and dialect, has long been a hallmark of Moore's work...the hauntingly beautiful February, is likely to turn some heads and hearts as well.","OtherText_Review_17_Src":"Chronicle Herald","OtherText_Review_18":"Moore's writing resembles poetry...She expertly captures her characters' physical surroundings in sharp-edged fragments of colour and sensation...Helen comes across as a perfectly ordinary woman...But that's what [February] is about: a perfectly ordinary woman whose life is profoundly changed by an extraordinary event. This is a marvellous book.","OtherText_Review_18_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_19":"Soaring.","OtherText_Review_19_Src":"Chatelaine","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"matrix","OtherText_Review_2":"...here is writing that examines the richness of the everyday with an incredibly keen eye and renders it without sentimentality but with profound empathy.","OtherText_Review_20":"There is no one else in the country who can touch Lisa Moore's elegant rendering of language...She's distinctive, and what she does with language is nothing less than dazzling, and then there is her uncanny ability to inhabit every pore and sinew of her endearingly human characters...What she does with language is pure art.","OtherText_Review_20_Src":"Salty Ink","OtherText_Review_21":"This mesmerising book is full of tears, and is a graceful meditation on how to survive life's losses.","OtherText_Review_21_Src":"Marie Claire","OtherText_Review_22":"...a stark tale of cauterizing grief, one that left me spellbound in admiration...a well-conceived work of the imagination...","OtherText_Review_22_Src":"Sun Times (Owen Sound)","OtherText_Review_23":"[February] is what great prose should be...a work of art...a moving narrative of risk, love, loss, and surviving...","OtherText_Review_23_Src":"Newfoundland Quarterly","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"matrix","OtherText_Review_3":"...Moore has established with her second novel a distinctive voice in Canadian literature. Language in Moore's capable hands is often deceptively spare, revealing for the careful reader layers of acute insight. Her writing in February is characterized by a raw, stream-of-consciousness intensity...","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_Review_4":"...Moore, whose previous novel, Alligator (2006), won a Commonwealth Writers' Prize, renders sensations with the precision of a Vermeer.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_5":"A solid, unflinching, unsentimental study of grief...Moore's descriptive powers, her enviable ability to highlight defining elements of character (either individual or societal) by making perceptive observations, are, as always, in evidence.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Daily Telegram","OtherText_Review_6":"Although Moore does a good job of depicting remembered incidents the novel is best in its intimate rendering of thought and feeling.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Express","OtherText_Review_7":"An intense and absorbing read.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Coventry Telegraph","OtherText_Review_8":"Canadian writer Lisa Moore's second novel solidifies her reputation as a gifted writer whose prose exhibits an urgency, precision, and sensitivity worthy of the legacy of Virginia Woolf.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"The World","OtherText_Review_9":"Complex yet clear, compelling and profound, the style is a joy to read and Lisa Moore's story-spinning gift is great. 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Lisa Moore's unforgettable second novel examines the aftermath of 1982's Ocean Ranger disaster within the community of St. John's.
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The Bush Garden
Originally published by Anansi in 1971, this attractive A List edition features Northrop Frye’s timeless essays on literature and painting.
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ages 12
and up
/ grades 6
and up
Strange Light Afar
Eight Japanese folktales, retold in a way you’ve never imagined. Beautiful, strange and unforgettable.
