An Oprah Editor's Pick, named as one of Globe & Mail's Best 100 Books of 2014, and one of Quill & Quire's Best Books of 2014 "Bewitching riddle of a novel." – O, the Oprah Magazine "Baillie reminds us of the power of novels to renew the world." – Booklist From the author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated novel The Incident Report comes a hypnotic novel follo…
Ten-year-old Cassie lives with her working-class family in 1919 Winnipeg. The Great War and Spanish Influenza have taken their toll, and workers in the city are frustrated with low wages and long hours. When they orchestrate a general strike, Cassie – bright, determined and very bored at school – desperately wants to help. <br/> She begins volunteering for the strike committee as a papergirl, dist…
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"Hop-Frog or the Eight Chained Orangutans" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849. The title character, a person with dwarfism taken from his homeland, becomes the jester of a king particularly fond of practical jokes. Taking revenge on the king and his cabinet for the king's striking his friend and fellow dwarf Trippetta, he dresses the king and his…