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Idaa Trail
This is a fictional story of a modern-day canoe trip along the Idaa trail, a traditional route that the Dogrib people traveled from Great Slave Lake to Great Bear Lake.
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{"id":6818955919419,"title":"Drift","handle":"drift","description":"What are we thinking at any given moment? What happens to a thought as that moment, on its way to oblivion, collides with its successor?\n\nRambunctious, witty, joyous, and bittersweet, drift is an investigation conducted by a truly unfettered imagination. In fluid, sparkling cadences, Kevin Connolly's poems let the mind's downtime have the stage for a change -- the desert sky transformed; Spring Break as viewed by passing skipjacks; narratives of danger and dream narrative; a meditation on the business end of a sea cucumber; figures of history disfigured and left to wander the consumer grid -- such are the entirely odd, entirely current events in Connolly's world, a realm that stands at an acute angle from the place we normally live in but which we all seem to drift into. 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Drift
A Trillium Book Award for Poetry winner, this collection reminds us that our solitude is painful, yet precious.
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Spud in Winter
Spud can't get get the killing he witnessed out of his mind. Should tell the police? He decides to take on the task of helping solve the crime.
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ages 12
to 15
/ grades 7
to 10
Skinnybones and the Wrinkle Queen
An unlikely duo plans the road trip of a lifetime -- but can they keep from throttling each other before their goals are realized?
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Odd Man Out
When Kip is spending the summer with his grandmother and his five eccentric girl cousins, he discovers a very puzzling binder his late father kept.
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Liar
From the grotesque to the beautiful, Lynn Crosbie's depiction of the lover adrift alters how we think of the love poem.
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Emily Carr
This remarkable portrait of Emily Carr is a classic of Canadian art biography and won the Governor General's Award for Nonfiction.
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Airstream Land Yacht
Ken Babstock's brilliant third collection of poetry testifies to the harrowing beauty of everyday experience.
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Wings to Fly
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Vaudeville! is an enchanted tale on the scale of New York itself, overflowing with puzzles and horrors.
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The Tracey Fragments
A captivating look through the eyes of a girl piecing together the feelings and fragments of her quest to find a lost brother.
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Rex Zero, King of Nothing
Rex and his friends begin Grade 6 with trouble on the home front, but storybook solutions, it turns out, are no match for real-life adult problems.
