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The Slippers' Keeper
The moving story of Joe Purdon, one of North America’s early conservationists.
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Friend or Foe?
A lonely mouse gazes up at the cat in the palace tower next door. Determined to find out if he is a friend, he bravely makes his way into the palace …
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Under the Keel special hardcover edition
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Michael Crummey's poetry collection Under the Keel is limited to 50 copies.
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He learns how to catch a catfish with his bare hands, learns the true meaning of the appearance of a snake in the granary, flees from an army of bees and mistakes a hungry albino cobra snake for a pink inner tube. And he survives, with trepidation and pride, his circumcision - a ceremony that brings together the entire village. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFinally, Grandma Sabou decides that Baba is educated enough to go to school, and he moves back to the city, where his family struggles to provide him with a formal education. 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Our Endless Numbered Days
A powerful and mysterious debut about a father and his eight-year-old daughter who abandon their family to live alone in the forest for nine years.
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Up Up Up
Up Up Up is Julie Booker’s radiant debut, a taut collection of 20 short, powerful stories brought to life with a unique voice.
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The Ninth Grave
Fabian Risk is on the hunt for a serial killer in this spine-tingling thriller set six months before the events of Victim Without a Face.
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Carnival
A memorable novel about the beautiful, twisted existence of life in the modern city, told from the perspective of a taxi driver.
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Un saumon pour Simon
Simon discovers that catching a salmon is more difficult than it looks in this touching story with evocative watercolor illustrations.
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Le chandail d’Amos
A curmudgeonly old sheep reluctantly gives up his wool and then plots to get it back, even though it has been knit into a brightly colored sweater.
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And the divergent possibilities in the novel’s ambiguous ending scene give readers two very different stories to ponder after the final word.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWillamette Week\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_13":"\u003cp\u003e\"Bright and entertaining from beginning to end.\" —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_14":"\u003cp\u003e\"A touching, affectionate novel showing, without cliché or agenda, that engagement in old age is a courageous act to be applauded.\" —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e Big Issue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_15":"\u003cp\u003e\"deWitt is at his best writing dramatic and comedic scenes … He’s a writer who plays with the conventions of the realist novel.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBritish Columbia Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_16":"\u003cp\u003e\"This novel begs to be read.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_17":"\u003cp\u003e\"Filled with profound heartbreak and humour … After just a few pages of acclimatization to his style, we’re immersed in deWitt’s world.\" —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_18":"\u003cp\u003e\"DeWitt is a fabulous stylist and unquestionably gifted storyteller … \u003cem \u003eThe Librarianist \u003c\/em\u003estands out most when [he] explores the depths of human relationships and traces the evolutionary development of one man for whom fellow humans have led to unplanned disappointments.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCanadian Notes and Queries\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e\"deWitt’s writing and endearing characters create a memorable world.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e\"deWitt is one of the great literary ventriloquists, producing funny, quirky, richly imagined novels shaped each time by a wildly different narrative voice.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e\"A character study of almost defiant gentleness.\" —\u003cstrong \u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e\"Personal and existential ... deWitt cobbles together a complicated but heartfelt treatise on introversion and the value of a life lived through books ... [\u003cem \u003eThe Librarianist\u003c\/em\u003e] never strays far from what makes his novels so delightful: his dexterity with language, his interest in what happens when words fail, and the rare moments where they land.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWalrus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e\"Utterly charming … Characters come alive immediately on the page and there’s simply an energy to deWitt’s books that make them pleasurable to spend time with.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e\"deWitt’s great gift lies in his ability to depict the Everyman in extremis – heroism hidden in plain sight.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Daily Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_8":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem \u003e\"The Librarianist\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel that’s interested in happiness … There are elements to be savoured in the nuance of particulars on the page.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eZoomer Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_9":"\u003cp\u003e\"A bittersweet tale of a retired librarian … deWitt imbues the people he meets with color and quirks, leaving a trail of sparks … This one gradually takes hold until it won’t let go.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA new novel from bestselling author Patrick deWitt explores the life of an ordinary man whose world is turned upside down by a chance encounter.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"03","PrizeName_0":"Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour","PrizeName_1":"CBC 2023 Best Canadian Fiction","PrizeYear_0":"2024","PrizeYear_1":"2023","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover jacket","PublicationDate":"2023-07-04","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA new novel from bestselling author Patrick deWitt explores the life of an ordinary man whose world is turned upside down by a chance encounter.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","Subtitle":"A Novel","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
The Librarianist
A new novel from bestselling author Patrick deWitt explores the life of an ordinary man whose world is turned upside down by a chance encounter.
