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Nirliit
A young woman from Montreal follows the geese to the Inuit North in this deeply felt witnessing of contemporary Aboriginal life, as shaped by decades of colonial rule and government neglect. Having worked in the North for years, Juliana L�veill�-Trudel's account of the Indigenous experience offers a portrait of a valiant people undaunted by institutionalized racism, but in many cases broken by domestic violence, and corrupted by corporate mining and the presence of temporary workers up for the summer from the South in search of big paycheques. Delivered across two searing monologues, Nirliit is a testament to a people's perseverance as much as it is an apology by those who inflicted those circumstances upon them. L�veill�-Trudel courageously transcends the borders between historical divisions to make a meaningful individual connection.
How to Catch a Bear Who Loves to Read
Julia has many friends in the forest by her house, but she dreams of meeting a bear--one she can play with and hug. Julia tries to attract one with delicious food. To her surprise, it's not just good smells that attract bears--books do, too! Full color.x 11 5/16.
The Orange Grove
The author of The Bicycle Eater shares “a fluid and troubling fable” of brotherhood, tragedy, and the limits of art, written in “a subtle and fine poetry” (La Presse, CA). Twin brothers Amed and Aziz live in the peaceful shade of their family’s orange grove. But when a bomb kills the boys’ grandparents, the war that plagues their country changes their lives forever. Blood must repay blood. And in order to avenge their grandparents’ deaths, one brother must offer the ultimate sacrifice. Years later, the surviving twin—now a student actor in wintry Montreal—is given a role which forces him to confront the past. Author Larry Tremblay, an actor and director himself, poses the difficult question: can art ever adequately address suffering? Both current and timeless, The Orange Grove depicts the haunting inheritance of war and its aftermath.
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"Une jeune femme du Sud qui, comme les oies, fait souvent le voyage jusqu'à Salluit, parle à Eva, son amie du Nord disparue, dont le corps est dans l'eau du fjord et l'esprit, partout. Le Nord est dur - « il y a de l'amour violent entre les murs de ces maisons presque identiques » - et la missionnaire aventurière se demande « comment on fait pour guérir son cour ». Elle s'active, s'occupe des enfants qui peuplent ses journées, donne une voix aux petites filles inuites et raconte aussi à Eva ce qu'il advient de son fils Elijah, parce qu'il y a forcément une continuité, une descendance, après la passion, puis la mort. Juliana Léveillé-Trudel livre un récit d'amour et d'amitié beau et rude comme la toundra. Nirliit partage la « beauté en forme de coup de poing dans le ventre » qu'exhale le Nord." -- Page 3 of cover.
Contemporary Canadian Picture Books
This enriched reference guide offers a unique overview of more than 200 picture books published by Canadian publishing houses between 2017–2019. The authors cover key themes in contemporary Canadian titles that match broad curriculum trends in education. Response activities are included in the text, for example frameworks for critical literacy discussions, along with annotated bibliographies that specifically recognize titles by Indigenous authors and illustrators. The book also contains original interviews with a dozen rising stars in Canadian writing and book illustration. While the book is specifically geared for educators, it also supports public libraries, Education researchers, and future picture book creators, as well as families who are interested in learning more about reading development and related literacy activities for the home setting.
Lightness
Fiction. Women's Studies. Translated by Anita Anand. Told with startling, unapologetic honesty and in a haunting, minimalist style, LIGHTNESS is the story of a woman's profound sense of alienation, beginning with her own physical body and its desires. In this original and moving take on anorexia, we go deep into the mind of the narrator as she carries out her secret, prolonged hunger strike against the constraints of her life. The original French version of LIGHTNESS (D (c)terrer les os) won the Best First Novel Prize at the Biennale litt (c)raire des C dres in 2018 and was adapted for stage at the Centre du Th (c) tre d'Aujourd'hui in Montreal.
I Just Want to Be Super
Kids can be super in so many ways. One morning, Nino findsa mask that gives him amazing powers. He can't wait to blast into action! Butno one will let him do all the super things he wants to do. Instead, everybodytells him stuff like, Put away yourdishes. Get dressed. BeCAREFUL. Will Nino ever get thechance to show just how super he can be? With empathy,exuberance and imagination reminiscent of Calvinand Hobbes and Where The Wild ThingsAre, dynamic writer-illustrator duo Andrew Katz and Tony Luzano tell astory all children will relate to, one about stretching their limits and discoveringjust what it means to be super.
The Old Garden
Political prisoner Hyun Woo is freed after eighteen years to find no trace of the world he knew. The friends with whom he shared utopianist dreams are gone. His Seoul is unrecognizably transformed and aggressively modernized. Yoon Hee, the woman he loved, died three years ago. A broken man, he drifts toward a small house in Kalmoe, where he and Yoon Hee once stole a few fleeting months of happiness while fleeing the authorities. In the company of her diaries, he relives and reviews his life, trying to find meaning in the revolutionary struggle that consumed their youth—a youth of great energy and optimism, victim to implacable history. Hyun Woo weighs the worth of his own life, spent in prison, and that of the strong-willed artist Yoon Hee, whose involvement in rebel groups took her to Berlin and the fall of the wall. With great poignancy, Hwang Sok-yong grapples with the immortal questions—the endurance of love, the price of a commitment to causes—while depicting a generation that sacrificed youth, liberty, and often life, for the dream of a better tomorrow.
Populäre Heimat / La petite patrie populaire
Der Begriff ,Heimat‘ ist ebenso ein typisch deutscher wie das Genre ‚Heimatroman‘, in der ländliche Regionen nostalgisch verklärt und als Idylle konstruiert werden. Wurde bereits im österreichischen Anti-Heimat-Roman der 1960er Jahre die traditionelle Gattung konterkariert, so lässt sich seit nunmehr zwei Jahrzehnten in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur eine neue Mode des regional situierten Erzählens beobachten. Die dort gebräuchlichen Modi der Inszenierung von Heimat sind weit ausdifferenziert und reichen von der Weiterschreibung des traditionellen Heimatromans bis zur kritischen Brechung. Trotz der terminologischen Leerstelle des ,Heimatromans‘ lässt sich eine vergl...
