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Warrior Nation: Rebranding Canada in an Age of AnxietyOnce known for peacekeeping, Canada is becoming a militarized nation whose apostles-the New Warriors-are fighting to shift public opinion. New Warrior zealots seek to transform postwar Canada's central myth-symbols. Peaceable kingdom. Just society. Multicultural tolerance. Reasoned public debate. Their replacements? A warrior nation. Authoritarian...
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WretchednessMalm , Sweden. A cellist meets a spun-out junkie. That could have been me. His mind starts to glitch between his memories and the avant-garde music he loves, and he descends into his past, hearing all over again the chaotic song of his youth....
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It's a Punderful Life: A Fun Collection of Puns and WordplayPuns often mistakenly get a bad rep, but if they're good enough for Oscar Wilde and Shakespeare (whose work featured over 3000 puns), it's good enough for us. Hot off the back of her incredibly popular Monday Punday online series, Gemma Correll has surveyed...
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The Safety of Unknown Cities"One of the most impressive debut novels . . . centered around relationship-driven fiction catalyzed by horrific events, mostly realistic, sometimes supernatural. . . . Indeed it's sexual, it's graphically written, but it's also . . . an affecting and powerful novel about heartbreak...
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Girl Genius Volume 13: Agatha Heterodyne and the Sleeping CityAdventure, Romance, Mad Science Agatha and her friends try to save her town from the vast armies of the Wulfenbach Empire. Author: Kaja Foglio, Phil FoglioPublisher: Studio FoglioPublished: 07/08/2014Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 10.70h x 7.30w x 0.50dISBN: 9781890856595Audience: Young AdultAward: Hugo Award -...
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Carver: A Life in PoemsNewbery Honor BookNational Book Award finalistCoretta Scott King Author Honor BookBoston Globe-Horn Book AwardFlora Stieglitz Straus Award Beautiful verse explores agricultural scientist George Washington Carver's life and many achievements, from his work as a botanist and inventor to his unsung gifts as a painter,...
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GrantedUsing natural, biblical, and classical imagery, these poems explore the difficulties of faith and love--particularly the difficulties of their expression, their performance. Moving between dramatic and interior monologue, and moving through intersecting histories, the ambiguities of inwardness and the eros of wakeful existence, these...
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The Dog Walked Down the Street: An Outspoken Guide for Writers Who Want to PublishA book for first time and experienced writers in search of answers and support while going through the process of writing, publishing, and selling a book.Author: Sal GlynnPublisher: Cypress HousePublished: 09/01/2006Pages: 81Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 5.20h x 8.90w x 0.30dISBN: 9781879384668Award: Independent Publisher Book...
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The Lion's Share [With Finger Puppets]Lion always wants more than everyone else, and he thinks it's only fair that he gets the most But will he still want the Lion's share when all the fun is over? The fabulous lion finger puppet will be irresistible to any child whilst...
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Making Art a Practice: How to Be the Artist You AreHelping artists catapult into further action, this guide is a treasury of insight and inspiration. Rather than focus on art techniques that build skills or overcome creative blocks through playful activities or writing, this guide walks the artist through exercises designed to develop the...
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The Confident Creative: Drawing to Free the Hand and MindUsing simple methods and yogic theory, this unique guide focuses on the art of drawing as a way to unblock creativity and create artistic confidence. Both practicing and beginning artists will learn to develop drawing skills, overcome creative blocks, and enter the meditative state...
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The Helios DisasterLONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE Knausgård is an impressive writer --Publishers Weekly Knausgård's writing is crystalline and careful --Kirkus Reviews Boström Knausgård's careful exploration of mental illness is restrained and entirely unsentimental. (...) Her prose is unobtrusive in its...
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Variations on Dawn and DuskActing as poetic records of light, the poems in Variations on Dawn and Dusk follow the sun as it warms, cools, colors, and shifts the space of Robert Irwin's untitled (dawn to dusk) in the desert of Marfa, TX. Built on the footprint of...
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Kali's Story: An Orphaned Polar Bear RescueFollow the rescue of orphaned polar bear Kali (pronounced Cully) from the Inupiat village of Kali (Point Lay in English) to the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage to his new home at the Buffalo Zoo in New York with Luna, a female polar bear. This...
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Because I Stubbed My ToeA young boy stubs his toe, which leads to a sequence of silly events and one delicious ending.Author: Shawn ByousPublisher: Capstone Young ReadersPublished: 01/01/2014Pages: 32Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 11.20h x 9.10w x 0.30dISBN: 9781623700881Audience: Ages 4-8Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 2.1Point Value: 0.5Interest Level: Lower GradeQuiz...
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In a Day's Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America's Most Vulnerable Workers2019 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in General Nonfiction Winner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award Winner of the 2018 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social JusticeIn a Day's Work is a . . . much-needed addition to the literature on sexual harassment in...
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The Buddha Walks Into the Office: A Guide to Livelihood for a New GenerationWisdom for Generation Next on how to make your work meaningful, satisfying, and of benefit to others Does it ever seem that a lot of the people you work with are, well, jerks? This book is about how not to let work turn you...
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The Pause Principle: Step Back to Lead ForwardWe live and lead in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world. But paradoxically, Kevin Cashman contends that leaders today must not merely act more quickly but pause more deeply. He details a catalytic process to guide you to step back in order...
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Ripley's Believe It or Not! Dare to Look!, 10Dare to Look! is the 10th book - and best yet - in the phenomenal bestselling Ripley's Believe It or Not! annual series. It offers up the world of weird in an all-new collection of unbelievable stories from across the globe. The new Ripley's...
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Curse of the Broomstaff: Volume 3The secret society of janitors with wizard-like powers continue the battle, but now, the stakes are even higher. The Bureau of Educational Maintenance is after Alan Zumbro, and this time the evildoers mean business--deadly business. Spencer, Daisy, and their little team of Rebels must...
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