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  • Tree

    A Life Story

    by David Suzuki, Wayne Grady ...
    The story of a single tree, from the moment the seed is released from its cone until, more than five hundred years later, it lies on the forest floor as a nurse log, giving life to ferns, mosses, and hemlocks, even as its own life is ending.In this unique biography, David Suzuki and Wayne Grady tell story that spans a millennium and includes a cast of millions but focuses on a single tree, a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Emancipation Day

    by Wayne Grady ...
    "Grady's novel reads with the velvety tempo of the jazz music of its day. . . . Grady fearlessly explores heated race relations and the masks we all assume." —ChatelaineWith his curly black hair and his wicked grin, everyone swoons and thinks of Frank Sinatra when Navy musician Jackson Lewis takes the stage. It's World War II, and while stationed in St. John's, Newfoundland, Jack meets the well ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Tree

    A Life Story

    by David Suzuki, Wayne Grady ...
    Only God can make a tree,” wrote Joyce Kilmer in one of the most celebrated of poems. In Tree: A Life Story, authors David Suzuki and Wayne Grady extend that celebration in a biography” of this extraordinary - and extraordinarily important - organism. A story that spans a millennium and includes a cast of millions but focuses on a single tree, a Douglas fir, Tree describes in poetic detail the ... Read more

    $10.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • I Am Ariel Sharon

    by Yara El-Ghadban ...
    Translated by Wayne Grady ...
    A bold and innovative novel, I Am Ariel Sharon dives into the tortured mind of the controversial Israeli prime minister as he lies comatose and faces an ultimate reckoning.Award-winning Palestinian Canadian novelist Yara El-Ghadban imagines the confrontation at death’s door between Ariel Sharon, the “King of Israel,” and the women closest to him — his mother, his wives, and the mysterious nurse ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Up From Freedom

    by Wayne Grady ...
    For readers of Colson Whitehead, James McBride, Yaa Gyasi and Lawrence Hill, Up From Freedom is a powerful and emotional novel about the dangers that arise when we stay silent in the face of prejudice or are complicit in its development.As a young man, Virgil Moody vowed he would never be like his father, he would never own slaves. When he moves from his father's plantation in Savannah to New ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Columbus and the Fat Lady

    And Other Stories

    by Matt Cohen ...
    Series series A List
    First published in 1972, Columbus and the Fat Lady introduced readers to Governor General’s Literary Award–winning author Matt Cohen’s skewed and hilarious worldview. By turns funny, surreal, wistful, savagely satirical, and brilliantly inventive, the stories in this collection intrigue and surprise the reader with their unexpected language and plots. He conjures up images that are both absurd and ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Lakes

    The Natural History of a Changing Region

    by Wayne Grady ...
    The Great Lakes have been central to the development of eastern North America. In this beautifully designed, comprehensive gem of a guide to the ecosystem at the heart of Canada” (The Tyee), award-winning science and nature writer Wayne Grady makes scientific concepts accessible as he reveals how human impact has changed this life-giving region.The Great Lakes: A Natural History of a Changing ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Breakfast at the Exit Cafe

    Travels Through America

    by Wayne Grady, Merilyn Simonds ...
    What begins as a road trip through America soon becomes a journey of discovery into themselves and into the heart of the next-door neighbour they thought they knew. For Wayne Grady, the thrill of landscape and history is tempered by memories of racism and his own family roots. Merilyn Simonds, her ear tuned for the offbeat, finds curious echoes of the ex-pat promised land she grew up with. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pandexicon

    How the Language of the Pandemic Defined Our New Cultural Reality

    by Wayne Grady ...
    Did you keep a list of the words coined by Covid? Wayne Grady did! They're deftly woven into a journal/timeline, taking us through two years of surrealism and limbo.—Margaret AtwoodThis exploration of the many new terms of the Covid-19 pandemic provides insight into the ways an ever-evolving vocabulary helped us cope with our anxiety and adapt to a new reality.When the pandemic struck in early ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • La Sagouine

    by Antonine Maillet ...
    Translated by Wayne Grady ...
    The premise is deceptively simple: a dirt-poor charwoman and former prostitute leans on her mop and tells her life story. But what a story! As she reminisces and rants, telling stories about herself, her friends and neighbours, the priest and his church, and every other aspect of life in her village, she is actually telling the story of Acadie.More than 30 years after its first publication in ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Beothuk Saga

    by Bernard Assiniwi ...
    Translated by Wayne Grady ...
    This astounding novel fully deserves to be called a saga. It begins a thousand years ago in the time of the Vikings in Newfoundland. It is crammed with incidents of war and peace, with fights to the death and long nights of lovemaking, and with accounts of the rise of local clan chiefs and the silent fall of great distant empires. Out of the mists of the past it sweeps forward eight hundred years, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Angel's Jig

    by Daniel Poliquin ...
    Translated by Wayne Grady ...
    Long-shortlisted, 2017 ReLit AwardsFacing the dwindling years of his life, an old man waits for his turn on the auction block, hoping to be sold to a family as decent as the one he is leaving. It is not the first time he has been here, and it may not be the last.Mute in life but loquacious on the page, the old man tells the colourful story of his rootless life. Abandoned by his family and first ... Read more

    $14.39 USD