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"How a Poem Moves is the perfect antidote to the condition commonly known as Fear of Poetry. And Adam Sol is the perfect companion on this tour of the sounds, sights, and emotional delights of poetry. As someone who's spent most of her life reading and writing poems, I'm thrilled by Sol's ability to describe what he loves in a way that teaches me to see it too." --Tracy K. Smith, U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Life on Mars"Adam Sol approaches poetry with a unique sensitivity; one that illustrates, with exceptional clarity and insight, just how a poem moves." -- Scott Griffin, founder of the Griffin Poetry Prize"With an eye to poets of diverse backgrounds and aesthetic modes, and featuring impromptu asides on rhythm and meter, How a Poem Moves is just as at home in the university classroom as the doctor's waiting room. Sol is a thoughtful and affable guide to ignite -- or reignite -- a love of poetry." -- Cassidy McFadzean, award-winning author of Hacker Packer"There is in our wounded world a great need for the balm and challenge poetry can provide. These beautiful, rich, and often surprising meditations get the reader excited about the gift that poems contain... This is a book I will pass out like religious tracts to my friends. I am grateful for it." -- Shelagh Rogers, host and producer at The Next Chapter, CBC Radio OneDeveloped from Adam Sol's popular blog, How a Poem Moves walks readers through an array of contemporary poems. Always compassionate and engaging, Sol delivers a collection of thirty-five short essays that are perfect for a quick read or grouped together as a curriculum, demonstrating poetry's range and pleasures through encounters with individual poems that span traditions, techniques, and ambitions. This illuminating book is for readers who are afraid they "don't get" poetry but who believe that, with a welcoming guide, they might conquer their fear and cultivate an appreciation for the form.

A true-life story of crisis, love, transformation, and triumph set in the colorful, dangerous world of auto racing. Crash Test is Canadian race car driver Chris Bye’s story of his brother’s nearly fatal highway accident in North Carolina and epic struggle to recover from severe brain damage. It’s also his own story of emerging from a coma of self-centeredness through helping his brother recover, every step of the way. Set in the North American racing world, this book shows how two men’s tenacity, tested on the race track, helped bring them through what became the race of their lives. Crash Test is also an inside look at making a living in the world of professional sports car racing, with thrilling flashbacks to races that the brothers participated in, including winning the Toronto Star 24 Hours of Mosport with Porsche.

A beautifully written memoir that explores the life of a tattoo artist and what tattooing and art mean in our lives.

"Happy Go Money is informative but also accessible, smart and funny, silly and sexy, tough and also kind. Melissa Leong has given money a makeover -- and it now looks even better." -- Elaine Lui, LaineyGossip.com and author of Listen to the Squawking Chicken "A must-read for anyone who wants to fall in love with their money." -- Shannon Lee Simmons, founder of the New School of Finance "This might be the only personal finance book I have actually enjoyed reading from cover to cover. The one thing the title doesn't tell you is that Melissa is hilarious. You will laugh as much as you learn!" -- Cait Flanders, author of The Year of Less "You don't need more money to be happy, says Melissa Leong. But getting control of your finances helps you get through tough times with less stress. I loved Melissa's zippy writing style and radical honesty in mining her own life for examples and success stories." -- Ellen Roseman, Toronto Star personal finance columnist and author of seven books Want more money and more happiness? Melissa Leong has you covered with this indispensable financial guide. Fresh, funny and empowering, Happy Go Money challenges everyone to revamp their relationship with their money so they can dial down their worries and supersize their joy. Melissa Leong is a personal finance writer, keynote speaker, on-air personality and bestselling author. She appears on CTV's The Social as its resident money expert and was a staff reporter at the Financial Post.

From her days in second wave feminist activism to her battle against the precursor to NAFTA to her indefatigable fight for social justice and water rights for all, Maude shares her stories and her expertise to inspire us and show us how we can do it too.

A stunning collection of photographs from the World Hockey Association's seven-year stint, divided into sections featuring cities and teams. Includes photographs of all the major players.

Hearts on Fire is a history of five years of triumph for Canadian music and a celebration of the innovative new artists that rose the profile of Canadian music on the international stage. Everyone from The Be Good Tanyas to Broken Social Scene to Feist to Arcade Fire is celebrated in this triumphant tale of unparalleled creativity.

"No one is better connected to the Seattle -- and national -- soccer scene than Matt Pentz, which makes him the perfect person to tell this fascinating story. And he tells it with insight, passion, perspective and more than a fair amount of poetry." -- Larry Stone, sports columnist, Seattle Times The Seattle Sounders were a sensation from the start, drawing crowds that rivaled those of almost any other North American pro sports franchise. By the 2016 season, Seattle was averaging more than 42,000 fans at home, the second most of any soccer team in the Western Hemisphere and more than behemoths like Chelsea F.C. and A.C. Milan overseas. But, for all of its early consistent success, Seattle had yet to actually win the league. In order to reach the ambitious goals the club set for itself, the Sounders needed the jolt of a championship. To get there would require tumult previously unknown to a club built on stability, a clash of egos and a title run so unlikely it could hardly have been scripted. This is a Cinderella story for sports enthusiasts everywhere, all MLS fans and every Sounder at heart. Matt Pentz is a Seattle-based writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian the Athletic, and ESPN, among other publications. As an award-winning beat reporter at the Seattle Times, he covered the Sounders' historic run to their first MLS Cup championship. This is his first book.

With insight and humor, Dr. Philipp Schott shares tales from the unlikely path he took into his career of veterinary science along with anecdotes from his successful small-animal clinic. His collected wisdom includes the best way to give your cat a pill, how to prevent your dog from opening a fridge, and much more.

"This book is accessible, relatable, and full of storytelling about real people. It deeply resonates with me as a traditional counsellor, educator, and Indigenous person. Suzanne Methot, a brave Nehiyaw writer and community helper, takes up the challenges of logically explaining a child's traumatized brain and body and how these impacts continue into adulthood. Methot also explores Indigenous health-care models, proving that Indigenous values provide solutions. This book uncovers the critical need for legislation that moves from creating 'a renewed relationship' with Indigenous peoples to creating real structural change." -- Dr. Cyndy Baskin, Mi'kmaq Nation, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Ryerson University Five hundred years of colonization have taken an incalculable toll on the Indigenous peoples of the Americas: substance use disorders and shockingly high rates of depression, diabetes, and other chronic health conditions brought on by genocide and colonial control. With passionate logic and chillingly clear prose, author and educator Suzanne Methot uses history, human development, and her own and others' stories to trace the roots of Indigenous cultural dislocation and community breakdown in an original and provocative examination of the long-term effects of colonization. But all is not lost. Methot also shows how we can come back from this with Indigenous ways of knowing lighting the way.

The book is about how to become rich through an attitude adjustment, by owning your own business and how to master your finances. It includes general tips for investments, tax savings, insurance, estate planning and etc. Plus, it actually gives the names of companies recommended for investments.

Can Harper's carefully crafted conservativism carry the day in the 21st century's third federal election?

"With deep reporting and smart writing, Andrew Reeves not only illuminates the long, strange tale of the Asian carp in North America but also shows us its underlying truths. This is a story about cities and water, food and soil, humans and other species -- and one fantastically troublesome fish." -- Michelle Nijhuis, science journalist and winner of the aaas Kavli Science Journalism Award "The definitive narrative of carp in America... A must-read for those who love the Mississippi River watershed and the Great Lakes, for those interested in 'invasive' species, for sportfishers and environmental historians." -- Emma Marris, author of Rambunctious Garden "This detailed account of the invasion of Asian carp into North American waterways reads like a Kurt Vonnegut novel or science fiction. Yet the carp's unbelievable progress splashes another clear warning about how so-called solutions have become the chief cause of our problems." -- Andrew Nikiforuk, author of Empire of the Beetle Intelligent investigative writing meets experiential journalism in this important look at one of North America's most voraciously invasive species Politicians, ecologists and government wildlife officials are fighting a desperate rearguard action to halt the onward reach of Asian carp, now within a handful of miles from entering Lake Michigan. With writing that is both urgent and wildly entertaining, Andrew Reeves traces the carp's explosive spread throughout North America from an unknown import meant to tackle invasive water weeds to a continental scourge that bulldozes through everything in its path. From aquaculture farms in Arkansas to the bayous of Louisiana; from marshlands in Indiana to labs in Minnesota; and from the Illinois River to the streets of Chicago, where the last line of defense has been laid to keep Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes, Overrun takes us on a firsthand journey into the heart of a crisis.