1.
Series:
Deaf Heaven
Paperback
Garry Gottfriedson
9781553804499
$15.95
POETRY
Mar 15, 2016
As the title suggests, this new collection of poetry from Garry Gottfriedson of the Secwepemc (Shuswap) Nation deals with the ways in which the world is deaf to the problems First Nations people face in Canada today. Gottfriedson examines such issues as the Truth and Reconciliation movements as well as the missing and murdered Aboriginal women. The poems focus not only on postcolonial issues but also on First Nations internal problems. Although the book speaks of age-old themes, it explores them through fresh modern eyes offering thought-provok...
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2.
Series:
Wordplay
Arranged & Deranged Wit
Paperback
Howard Richler
9781553804529
$19.95
HUMOR
Mar 15, 2016
To some extent, everyone plays with language and uses it as a form of recreation as well as a means of communication. Recognizing that the creation of true wit is a subjective endeavour, Richler suggests that the commission of language wit occurs not only wittingly, but also unwittingly and sometimes even half-wittedly. When we consciously manipulate language for the purpose of wit, Richler designates this process arranged wit, and because sometimes the humour seemingly emanates from the mind of a nitwit rather than a wit, Richler designates th...
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3.
Series:
Taking a Chance on Love
Paperback
Mary Razzell
9781553804550
$11.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Mar 15, 2016
Falling in love creates an enchanted time, and when it's on the magical Sunshine Coast of British Columbia during the Second World War, it is never to be forgotten. The increased emotions of a country at war and the heartache as many of the young men join up to serve their country are always present. A special music becomes the background. It is the era of the big band, and Glen Miller, Count Basie and Frank Sinatra top the Hit Parade on the radio each week. For Meg, who is seventeen, it is a special time, but she is also living in an isolated ...
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4.
Series:
Last Chance Island
Paperback
Norma Charles
9781553804581
$11.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 9 - 12
Mar 15, 2016
In this compelling tale, two very different stories intersect with surprising results. There's the story of two African children, Kalu and his cousin, Aisha, who escape from their village after it's destroyed by rebel soldiers. The kids flee to the coast where they find work on a fishing boat bound for Britain. They think they're safe, until the nervous fisherman leaves them with little food or water on Last Chance Island off the coast of Ireland. Meanwhile, Spike, a Canadian teen, finds out that her father has died, and she is being sent to li...
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5.
Series: Happy the Pocket Mouse
Mouse Tales
Hardcover
Philip Roy
9781553804444
$12.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Jan 31, 2016
Mouse Tales, the first volume in the "Happy the Pocket Mouse" series, has been read to tens of thousands of students in Atlantic Canada and Ontario over the past five years, and has gathered a substantial following. Here, now, thanks to the artistic vision of Andrea Torrey Balsara, fans everywhere will delight in the new and revised hard-cover edition. Readers of all ages will identify with Happy's bedtime struggle after a long day, his request for a story to help him fall asleep, and his nighttime anxieties when he must come to grips with the ...
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6.
Series:
From There
Some Thoughts on Poetry and Place
Paperback
Stephen Burt
9781553804611
$10.95
LITERARY CRITICISM
Mar 15, 2016
In his 2015 Garnett Sedgewick lecture, award-winning poet and literary critic Stephen Burt discusses the relation of poetry to time, space and place. He examines the widespread contemporary view of critics like Helen Vendler who claim that "modern lyric poetry, imagines a speaking self [existing] outside space and time: that while you are reading a poem, it does not matter who or where you are." But taking his examples from Chaucer onwards through Shakespeare, the landscape poets of the eighteenth century, and Wordsworth, along with a number of...
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