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  • Colourless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously Essays
    Author:

    Frutkin, Mark

    Summary:

    In the tradition of Kafka’s Parables and Paradoxes and The Book of Embraces by Eduardo Galeano, this collection of short essays and “alternative versions” is a vivid, perhaps even shocking, reminde

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  • The Lost Gargoyle Series 3-Book Bundle The Gargoyle in My Yard / The Gargoyle at the Gates / The Gargoyle Overhead
    Author:

    Dowding, Philippa

    Summary:

    This special three-book bundle collects all the books in the Lost Gargoyle series! In The Gargoyle in My Yard, Katherine meets an ancient wandering gargoyle named Gargoth.

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  • Carter and the Curious Maze Weird Stories Gone Wrong
    Author:

    Dowding, Philippa

    Summary:

    Carter discovers a creepy maze at the fair and travels farther and farther back in time. How will he ever get back to the present?

    Genre: Canadian fiction, Juvenile fiction

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  • Everton Miles Is Stranger Than Me The Night Flyer's Handbook
    Author:

    Dowding, Philippa

    Summary:

    The sequel to The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden, shortlisted for the OLA Red Maple Award. I wander around like any normal, paranoid, self-absorbed teenager.

    Genre: Canadian fiction

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  • Weird Stories Gone Wrong 3-Book Bundle Carter and the Curious Maze / Myles and the Monster Outside / Jake and the Giant Hand
    Author:

    Dowding, Philippa

    Summary:

    They’re troubling. They’re bizarre. And they JUST might be true. They’re Weird Stories Gone Wrong.

    Genre: Canadian fiction, Juvenile fiction

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  • The Night Flyer's Handbook 2-Book Bundle The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden / Everton Miles Is Stranger Than Me
    Author:

    Dowding, Philippa

    Summary:

    The Night Flyers glide effortlessly over the rooftops of their small town in a strange, magical escape from the pressures of high school.

    Genre: Canadian fiction, Juvenile fiction

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  • Alex and The Other Weird Stories Gone Wrong
    Author:

    Dowding, Philippa

    Summary:

    Beware The Other … Alex is the loneliest boy at school. Not only are his parents away (again), but his beloved cat is missing.

    Genre: Canadian fiction, Juvenile fiction

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  • Atmospheres Apollinaire
    Author:

    Frutkin, Mark

    Summary:

    Short-listed for the 1988 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, Ottawa-Carleton Book Award and Trillium Book Award Paris, the City of Light, was once the scene of a brilliant magnesium fl

    Genre: Canadian fiction, General fiction

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  • Iron Mountain
    Author:

    Frutkin, Mark

    Summary:

    Of one of Mark Frutkin's previous books of verse, Poetry Canada Review said it provided "a supernatural fusion of the earthbound with the heavenly to forge the lightning of poetry."

    Genre: Canadian poetry

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  • Walking Backwards Grand Tours, Minor Visitations, Miraculous Journeys, and a Few Good Meals
    Author:

    Frutkin, Mark

    Summary:

    From Istanbul to New Delhi to Boulder, Colorado, through Venice, Paris, Rome, and points between.

    Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Travel writing

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  • Erratic North A Vietnam Draft Resister's Life in the Canadian Bush
    Author:

    Frutkin, Mark

    Summary:

    In geology an erratic is a "boulder or rock formation transported some distance from its original source, as by a glacier." In award-winning novelist Mark Frutkin’s case, his movement fro

    Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Canadian nonfiction, History and geography

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  • The Gargoyle in My Yard
    Author:

    Dowding, Philippa

    Summary:

    Commended for the 2009 Resource Links Best Books and for the 2010 Best Books for Kids and Teens, short-listed for the 2012 Diamond Willow Award  Chosen for the Toronto Public Library's 2015 Gr

    Genre: Canadian fiction, Juvenile fiction

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  • The Gargoyle Overhead
    Author:

    Dowding, Philippa

    Summary:

    Short-listed for the 2012 Silver Birch Express Award What if your best friend was a naughty 400-year-old gargoyle? And what if he just happened to be in terrible danger?

    Genre: Canadian fiction, Juvenile fiction

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  • The Gargoyle at the Gates
    Author:

    Dowding, Philippa

    Summary:

    2014 Red Cedar Book Award — Shortlisted 2014 Forest of Reading, Silver Birch Express — Shortlisted, Fiction 2013 Diamond Willow Award — Shortlisted 2013 Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award — Sh

    Genre: Canadian fiction, Juvenile fiction

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  • The Lion of Venice
    Author:

    Frutkin, Mark

    Summary:

    This magical new novel by Governor General and Trillium Prize nominee Mark Frutkin, set in 13th century Venice and Cathay, is a dazzling fresco of shimmering language, brimming with golden tableaus

    Genre: Canadian fiction, Historical fiction

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