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Uncle Holland
From the international best-selling author of Sidewalk Flowers, a picture book about crime, punishment…and art.
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She has written \u003cem\u003eMy Friend (Mi amiga)\u003c\/em\u003e, illustrated by Alfonso Ruano; \u003cem\u003eUn Barrilete para el Día de los Muertos \/ Barrilete: A Kite for the Day of the Dead\u003c\/em\u003e;\u003cem\u003e Cousins (Primas)\u003c\/em\u003e, illustrated by Luis Garay; \u003cem\u003eTricycle (El triciclo)\u003c\/em\u003e, illustrated by Alfonso Ruano, which is on the Américas Award Commended List and is a USBBY Outstanding International Book; and \u003cem\u003eWhat Are You Doing? \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eWhy Are You Doing That?\u003c\/em\u003e, both illustrated by Manuel Monroy. She lives in Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Illustrated by","ContributorRole_2":"Translated by","Contributor_0":"Schimel, Lawrence","Contributor_1":"Rivera, Alba","Contributor_2":"Amado, Elisa (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003eThe little girl in this story likes Sundays best of all -- it’s the day her father calls. 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It means leaving her grandmother, her friends … and her dog, Kika, behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a powerful story from a young child’s perspective about what it’s like to have an absent parent and to have to leave your home, country and those you love for a new life.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781773067919","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Groundwood Books","MetaKeywords":"Realistic illustrations; moving to America; separation; missing home; leaving home; Moving away from home; missing your parents; missing your father; appreciating family; when you have to move away; Children separated from parents; immigrant struggles; immigrant problems; away from family; absent parents; Picture books; translated books; fiction; set in latin America; immigration","NumberOfPages":"48","OtherText_Review_0":"The story provides parents and teachers a different context for talking with young learners about paid jobs, the labor that goes into caring for family members, and the costs of giving up time with family in order to spend time working away from home.","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Professor Yanna Van Der Meulen Rodgers","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Rutgers","OtherText_Review_1":"Readers will enjoy deciphering the various visual elements...its themes are relevant to all children.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Kirkus","OtherText_Review_2":"...readers...will admire the heroine’s stoicism and faith in the importance of having her family whole again.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Publisher's Weekly","OtherText_Review_3":"The feelings of missing a loved one are realistically conveyed and will resonate with children.","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Linda Ludke","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"School Library Journal","OtherText_Review_4":"...honest and compelling text...Highly Recommended.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Katie Edwards","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"CM Magazine","OtherText_Review_5":"...completely original...","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"The Horn Book Magazine","OtherText_Review_6":"Most youngsters will understand the daunting prospect of a big move . . . and listeners may find the girl's emotional growth both familiar and reassuring.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A moving story about a common reality -- what it's like for a little girl whose father has left his family behind to go find work.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2011-11-15","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd","ShortDescription":"A moving story about a common reality -- what it's like for a little girl whose father has left his family behind to go find work.","Width":"8.5","WidthCode":"in"}
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Sign me up! Swearing Is Good for You makes science feel downright celebratory.” — \u003cstrong\u003eMary Norris\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Mary Norris","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e[From the Introduction]\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen I was about nine years old, I was smacked for calling my little brother a ‘twat.’ I had no idea what a twat was – I thought it was just a silly way of saying ‘twit’ – but that smack taught me that some words are more powerful than others and that I had to be careful how I used them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut as you’ve no doubt gathered, that experience didn’t exactly cure me of swearing. In fact it probably went some way towards piquing my fascination with profanity. Since then I’ve had a certain pride in my knack for colourful and well-timed swearing: being a woman in a male-dominated field, I rely on it to camouflage myself as one of the guys. Calling some equipment a piece of shit is often a necessary rite of passage when I join a new team.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo when I discovered that other scientists have been taking swearing seriously for a long time – and that I’m not the only person who finds judicious profanity useful – I was fucking delighted! I first began to realise there was more to swearing than a bit of banter or blasphemy when I happened to read a study that involved 67 volunteers, a bucket of ice water, a swear word and a stopwatch. I was working in a neuroscience lab at the time and that study changed the course of my research. It set me on a quest to study swearing: why we do it, how we do it, and what it tells us about ourselves. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor example, I’m definitely not the only person who uses swearing as a way of fitting in at work. Research shows that swearing can help build teams in the work place. From the factory floor to the operating theatre, scientists have shown that teams who share the same lexicon of swearing tend to work more effectively together, feel closer, and be more productive than those that don’t. These same studies show that managing stress in the same way that we manage pain – with a fucking good swear – is more effective than any number of team building exercises.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwearing has also helped to develop the field of neuroscience. By providing us with a useful emotional barometer, swearing has been used as a research tool for over 150 years. It has helped us to discover some fascinating things about the structure of the human brain, such as its division into left and right hemispheres, and the role of cerebral structures like the amygdala in the regulation of emotions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwearing has taught us a great deal about our minds, too. We know that people who learn a second language often find it less stressful to swear in their adopted tongue, which gives us an idea of the childhood developmental stages at which we learn emotions and taboos. Swearing also makes the heart beat faster, and primes us to think aggressive thoughts while, paradoxically, making us less likely to be physically violent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd swearing is a surprisingly flexible part of our linguistic repertoire. It re-invents itself from generation to generation as taboos shift. Profanity has even become part of the way we express positive feelings – we know that football fans use ‘fuck’ just as frequently when they’re happy as when they are angry or frustrated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat last finding is one of my own. With colleagues at City University, London, I’ve studied thousands of football fans and their bad language during big games. It’s no great surprise that football fans swear, and that they are particularly fond of ‘fuck’ and ‘shit.’ But we noticed something interesting about the ratio between these two swearwords. The ‘fuck-shit’ ratio is a reliable indicator of which team has scored because, it turns out that ‘shit’ is almost universally negative while ‘fuck’ can be a sign of something good or bad. Swearing amongst football fans also isn’t anywhere near as aggressive as you might think; fans on Twitter almost never swear about their opponents and reserve their outbursts for players on their own team.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwearing is one of those things that comes so naturally, and seems so frivolous, that you might be surprised by the number of scientists who are studying it. But neuroscientists, psychologists, sociologists and historians have long taken an interest in bad language, and for good reason. Although swearing might seem frivolous it teaches us a lot about how our brains, our minds and even our societies work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book won’t just look at swearing in isolation. One of the things that makes swearing so fucking amazing is the sheer breadth of connections it has with our lives. Throughout this book I’ll cover many different topics, some of which may seem like digressions. There are plenty of pages that contain no profanity whatsoever but, from the indirectness of Japanese speech patterns to the unintended consequences of potty training chimpanzees, everything relates back to the way that we use bad language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs this book simply an attempt to justify rudeness and aggression? Not at all. I certainly wouldn’t want profanities to become commonplace: swearing needs to maintain its emotional impact in order to work. We only need to look at the way that swearing has changed over the last 100 years to see that, as some swearwords become mild and ineffectual through over-use or shifting cultural values, we reach for other taboos to fill the gap. Where blasphemy was once the true obscenity, the modern unsayables include racist and sexist terms as swearwords. Depending on your point of view this is either a lamentable shift towards political correctness or timely recognition that bigotry is ugly and damaging.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Quote_from_review_0":"\"Lively . . . In exploring the universe of swearing, [Byrne] has lined up some nifty stories.\"","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“[Swearing] deserves a closer, clinical look. 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Byrne provides a refreshing, entertaining, instructive examination of a ‘surprisingly flexible part of a linguistic repertoire.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"In the vein of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat comes a fascinating and fun look at the new science of bad language.","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2017-11-25","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"In the vein of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat comes a fascinating and fun look at the new science of bad language.","Subtitle":"The Amazing Science of Bad Language"}
Swearing Is Good For You
In the vein of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat comes a fascinating and fun look at the new science of bad language.
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Middle of Nowhere
A middle-grade novel about two maybe-orphans and their unlikely friendship with a cranky old neighbor.
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The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804-2012
An updated edition of the magisterial history of the Balkan region from the Misha Glenny, the bestselling author of McMafia and DarkMarket.
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Ravenscrag
A playful, semi-autobiographical, retro science fiction novel about mind control, memory, and madness — based on historical events.
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Victim Without a Face
The first book in the Fabian Risk series, Victim Without a Face is a chilling novel about the ultimate revenge.
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Fever at Dawn
A story of love based on the original ninety-six letters written by Miklós and Lili, two Holocaust survivors, and the author’s parents.
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Snow Summer
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{"id":6814272290875,"title":"A Plea for Constant Motion","handle":"a-plea-for-constant-motion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eQuietly atmospheric and darkly foreboding, \u003ci\u003eA Plea for Constant Motion\u003c\/i\u003e is an ominous, and occasionally unnerving, new work of fiction by award-winning author Paul Carlucci\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePenetrating and visceral, yet always offset by small moments of tenderness and humour, \u003ci\u003eA Plea for Constant Motion \u003c\/i\u003eis a powerful examination of the innate desire in everyone to change their lives and strive for something better.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo couples share a disastrous dinner after their children are killed in a botched kidnapping overseas. A teacher with a passion for cartography orchestrates a bizarre apology after intentionally hitting a student. Desperate to be friends, a man ignores his neighbour’s strange behaviour to the peril of himself and others. 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A Plea for Constant Motion
Quietly atmospheric and darkly foreboding, A Plea for Constant Motion is an ominous, and occasionally unnerving, collection of stories.
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{"id":6811314126907,"title":"This Lovely City","handle":"this-lovely-city","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn atmospheric and utterly compelling debut novel about a Jamaican immigrant living in postwar London, \u003ci\u003eThis Lovely City\u003c\/i\u003e shows that new arrivals have always been the prime suspects — but that even in the face of anger and fear, there is always hope.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLondon, 1950.\u003c\/i\u003e With the war over and London still rebuilding, jazz musician Lawrie Matthews has answered England’s call for labour. Arriving from Jamaica aboard the \u003ci\u003eEmpire Windrush\u003c\/i\u003e, he’s rented a tiny room in south London and fallen in love with the girl next door.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlaying in Soho’s jazz clubs by night and pacing the streets as a postman by day, Lawrie has poured his heart into his new home — and it’s alive with possibility. 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A must read for fans of Zadie Smith and Call the Midwife.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_5":"This hotly anticipated debut offers a vivid portrait of the immigrant experience in postwar London.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Sunday Times","OtherText_Review_6":"You’ll be rooting for the pair from start to finish.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Glamour","OtherText_Review_7":"[A] mistress of suspense, Hare keeps us guessing to the last page. I loved the postwar atmosphere: bombed, broken London as a visual metaphor for the story’s violence and racism.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Daily Mail","OtherText_Review_8":"A well-told mystery, a powerful depiction of the prejudice experienced by the Windrush generation, and a poignant love story, This Lovely City is a must read.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Irish Times","OtherText_Review_9":"Expect to be obsessed … [A book] you need to know about.","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Good Housekeeping","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"An atmospheric and utterly compelling debut novel about a Jamaican immigrant living in postwar London who becomes a prime suspect in a grisly crime.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2020-04-07","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"An atmospheric and utterly compelling debut novel about a Jamaican immigrant living in postwar London who becomes a prime suspect in a grisly crime.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
This Lovely City
An atmospheric and utterly compelling debut novel about a Jamaican immigrant living in postwar London who becomes a prime suspect in a grisly crime.
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Her poem, beautifully illustrated by Nathalie Dion, is a study in contrasts and a message of the hope that carries us through the year and through our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCorrelates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.2\u003cbr\u003e\nRetell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.4\u003cbr\u003e\nIdentify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781773064239","Height":"8.875","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Groundwood Books","MetaKeywords":"optimism; imagination; hopeful; perseverance and determination; poetry; seasons; nature; uncertainty; appreciation; courage; positive attitude; figurative language; personification; simile; child as narrator; first person narration; poetic language; metaphors; imagery; determining importance; connecting; Common Core aligned; CC Literature Key Ideas and Details; CC Literature Craft and Structure; CC Literature Integration of Knowledge and Ideas; grade one; kindergarten; picture book; gift book","NumberOfPages":"32","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eWritten in a similar vein to the acclaimed Once Upon a Northern Night, this book can be read as a meditation on nature, or on finding hope in the face of adversity or tragedy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe author wrote this story as a reaction to the bad-news cycle, suggesting the importance of hope as an action.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReaders will enjoy spotting the cat throughout the story.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis beautiful book will have crossover gift appeal.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCurriculum connections: Language arts \/ poetry; Science \/ nature, seasons.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eWritten in a similar vein to the acclaimed Once Upon a Northern Night, this book can be read as a meditation on nature, or on finding hope in the face of adversity or tragedy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe author wrote this story as a reaction to the bad-news cycle, suggesting the importance of hope as an action.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReaders will enjoy spotting the cat throughout the story.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis beautiful book will have crossover gift appeal.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCurriculum connections: Language arts \/ poetry; Science \/ nature, seasons.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“Along with Pendziwol’s poetic text, Dion’s illustrations shimmer with hope.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“[T]he text is poetic and the artwork is riveting.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePostmedia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Postmedia","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Jean E. 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ages 3
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/ grades P
to 2
I Found Hope in a Cherry Tree
Jean E. Pendziwol’s newest picture book is a lyrical meditation on nature and hope.
