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Alone
A fully-illustrated treatment of the true stories of three young refugees who journey alone to North America, seeking refugee status.
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{"id":6817704935483,"title":"Mai at the Predators' Ball","handle":"mai-at-the-predators-ball","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Governor General's Literary Award: Translation. Shortlisted for the Cole Foundation Prize for Translation.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLiterary legend and four-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award Marie-Claire Blais delivers the latest installment in her ongoing portrait of life in contemporary North America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this swirling fresco, we meet unforgettable characters, some familiar from previous works, some new. This time, Blais lets us into the consciousness of fifteen-year-old Mai, an unusually perceptive young woman whose uncensored observations on femininity and youth, freedom and constraint belie her age. 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Mai at the Predators' Ball
The fifth in the ten-book "Soifs" novel cycle. In this vibrant novel, we enter the lives of unforgettable characters, some familiar from previous works and some new.
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The other end of the board, an eight-foot two-by-four, that he didn’t trim off, either because he didn’t want to spend time sawing it, or because he would get in trouble for wasting wood, was left jutting out on the other side of the post. “That piece of plywood is the shield. Now I’m going to come down the hill on that bicycle. That's my horse. And this” — a pole about six feet long — “is my lance.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“You watch.” He took me by the shoulders and stood me off to the side. “Now you’re going to see how it was done.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHe came off that bit of hill on that bicycle that didn’t have any tires, just bare metal rims that rattled as he picked up speed. The hill, because the bicycle didn’t have any petals and he needed the assistance of gravity. One end of his lance tucked up under his arm, the other end — “You have to hit the shield right dead centre. 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A moving tribute to an older brother that traverses the thresholds of memoir, fiction, and fantasy and reimagines what could have been.
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Anthony and the Gargoyle
A boy befriends a baby gargoyle in this magical wordless story in graphic-novel style from award-winning creators Jo Ellen Bogart and Maja Kastelic.
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It is rare and delightful to find a novel where language and character move so seamlessly together, hand in hand … A piece of this book will linger.” — \u003cem \u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp \u003e“Sensual and strange.” — \u003cem \u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp \u003e“Uncanny and debaucherous.” — \u003cem \u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp \u003e“[Wilhelmy] is a meticulous recorder of the dramatic wilderness … Lovely writing.” — \u003cem \u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e “With a miniaturist’s touch, Audrée Wilhelmy creates a singular universe suffused with sap and silence, at once lush to the limit, smothering and amoral … A \u003cem \u003etour de force\u003c\/em\u003e of audacity and sensuality achieved unhesitatingly in full-bodied writing that is precise and without misstep. 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It’s in her style, of course. In her method, certainly. In her inventiveness, no doubt. But it goes beyond all that. With Wilhelmy, it lies in the pact she makes with the reader, as if the singularity of the universe she offers us does not come so much from literature, as from witchcraft. 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White Resin
An ethereal love story of the almost-impossible reconciliation between the manufactured world and the haunting and feminine nature that envelops it.
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I’m Not Sydney!
Sydney and his friends gather outside to play, transforming one by one to climb, leap, lumber and soar into a shared jungle of their imagination.
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These Are Not the Words
A poignant, gritty story about a girl who sees her parents as flawed human beings for the first time, and finds the courage to make a fresh start.
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to 1
The House Next Door
Alone on his lot, a little house has stood for as long as anyone can remember, stoically weathering the storms. But one day, the wind brings change.
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ages 10
to 15
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to 10
The King's Daughter
An eighteen-year-old orphan is summoned to sail from France to the wilds of North America to become a king's daughter and marry a French settler.
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The Quiet
Anne-Marie Turza's formidable debut poetry collection presents a landscape where anything might appear, out of myth, history, or science.
