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Cherie Dimaline
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"Once I opened VenCo, I was propelled through an entire night of
charmed reading. Cherie Dimaline creates a world utterly
fantastical, yet real. VenCo is funny, tense, and cracking with a
dark, divine energy." ---Louise Erdrich, New York Times bestselling
author of The Sentence For fans of The Once and Future Witches and
Practical Magic, comes an incredibly imaginative, highly
anticipated new novel featuring witches, magic, and a road trip
across America--from Cherie Dimaline, the critically acclaimed
author of Empire of Wild. Métis millennial Lucky St. James is
barely hanging on when she learns she'll be evicted from the tiny
Toronto apartment she shares with her cantankerous but loving
grandmother Stella. But then one night, something strange and
irresistible calls out to Lucky. She burrows through a wall to find
a tarnished silver spoon, humming with otherworldly energy, etched
with a crooked-nosed witch and the word SALEM. Lucky is familiar
with the magic of her indigenous ancestors, but she has no idea
that the spoon connects her to a teeming network of witches across
North America who have anxiously awaited her discovery. Enter
VenCo, a front company fueled by vast resources of dark money (its
name is an anagram of "coven.") VenCo's witches hide in plain sight
wherever women gather: Tupperware parties, Mommy & Me classes,
suburban book clubs. Since colonial times, they have awaited the
moment the seven spoons will come together and ignite a new era,
returning women to their rightful power. But as reckoning
approaches, a very powerful adversary is stalking their every move.
He's Jay Christos, a roguish and deadly witch-hunter as old as
witchcraft itself. To find the last spoon, Lucky and Stella embark
on a rollicking and dangerous road trip to the darkly magical city
of New Orleans, where the final showdown will determine whether
VenCo will usher in a new beginning...or remain underground
forever. A wildly imaginative and compulsively readable fantasia of
adventure, history, Americana, feminism, and magic, VenCo is a
novel only the supremely gifted Cherie Dimaline could write.
"Crackling with magic, mystery, adventure, and intrigue, VenCo is a
captivating tribute to the bonds of families we are born into and
the ones that we create, and a delightful testament to the power of
all womankind."-- Nikki Erlick, New York Times bestselling author
of The Measure
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Venco (Hardcover)
Cherie Dimaline
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R733
R608
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In the Remixed Classics series, authors from marginalized
backgrounds reinterpret classic works through their own cultural
lens to subvert the overwhelming cishet, white, and male canon.
This queer YA reimagining of The Secret Garden subverts the cishet
and white status quo of the original in a tale of family secrets
wonderful and horrifying. Mary Lennox didn't think about death
until the day it knocked politely on her bedroom door and invited
itself in. When a terrible accident leaves her orphaned at fifteen,
she is sent to the wilderness of the Georgian Bay to live with an
uncle she's never met. At first the impassive, calculating girl
believes this new manor will be just like the one she left in
Toronto: cold, isolating, and anything but cheerful, where staff is
treated as staff and never like family. But as she slowly allows
her heart to open like the first blooms of spring, Mary comes to
find that this strange place and its strange people--most of whom
are Indigenous--may be what she can finally call home. Then one
night Mary discovers Olive, her cousin who has been hidden away in
an attic room for years due to a "nervous condition." The girls
become fast friends, and Mary wonders why this big-hearted girl is
being kept out of sight and fed medicine that only makes her feel
sicker. When Olive's domineering stepmother returns to the manor,
it soon becomes clear that something sinister is going on. With the
help of a charming, intoxicatingly vivacious Metis girl named
Sophie, Mary begins digging further into family secrets both
wonderful and horrifying to figure out how to free Olive. And some
of the answers may lie within the walls of a hidden, overgrown and
long-forgotten garden the girls stumble upon while wandering the
wilds... The Remixed Classics Series A Clash of Steel: A Treasure
Island Remix by C.B. Lee So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix
by Bethany C. Morrow Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix by
Aminah Mae Safi What Souls Are Made Of: A Wuthering Heights Remix
by Tasha Suri Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix by Anna-Marie
McLemore My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix by Kalynn Bayron
Teach the Torches to Burn: A Romeo & Juliet Remix by Caleb
Roehrig Into the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix by Cherie
Dimaline Most Ardently: A Pride & Prejudice Remix by Gabe Cole
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A NO. 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER One of the most anticipated books
of the summer for Time, Harper's Bazaar, Bustle and Publishers
Weekly 'Deftly written, gripping and informative. Empire of Wild is
a rip-roaring read!' Margaret Atwood 'Empire of Wild is doing
everything I love in a contemporary novel and more. It is tough,
funny, beautiful, honest and propulsive' Tommy Orange, author of
There There 'Dimaline turns an old story into something newly
haunting and resonant' New York Times 'An utterly compelling blend
of propulsive narrative, starkly beautiful writing and passionate,
near dysfunctional love' Daily Mail Broken-hearted Joan has been
searching for her husband, Victor, for almost a year - ever since
he went missing on the night they had their first serious argument.
One hung-over morning in a Walmart parking lot in a little town
near Georgian Bay, she is drawn to a revival tent where the local
Metis have been flocking to hear a charismatic preacher. By the
time she staggers into the tent the service is over, but as she is
about to leave, she hears an unmistakable voice. She turns, and
there is Victor. Only he insists he is not Victor, but the Reverend
Eugene Wolff, on a mission to bring his people to Jesus. With only
two allies - her Johnny-Cash-loving, 12-year-old nephew Zeus, and
Ajean, a foul-mouthed euchre shark with deep knowledge of the old
Metis ways - Joan sets out to remind the Reverend Wolff of who he
really is. If he really is Victor, his life and the life of
everyone she loves, depends upon her success.
A NO. 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER One of the most anticipated books
of the summer for Time, Harper's Bazaar, Bustle and Publishers
Weekly 'Deftly written, gripping and informative. Empire of Wild is
a rip-roaring read!' Margaret Atwood 'Empire of Wild is doing
everything I love in a contemporary novel and more. It is tough,
funny, beautiful, honest and propulsive' Tommy Orange, author of
There There 'Dimaline turns an old story into something newly
haunting and resonant' New York Times 'An utterly compelling blend
of propulsive narrative, starkly beautiful writing and passionate,
near dysfunctional love' Daily Mail Broken-hearted Joan has been
searching for her husband, Victor, for almost a year - ever since
he went missing on the night they had their first serious argument.
One hung-over morning in a Walmart parking lot in a little town
near Georgian Bay, she is drawn to a revival tent where the local
Metis have been flocking to hear a charismatic preacher. By the
time she staggers into the tent the service is over, but as she is
about to leave, she hears an unmistakable voice. She turns, and
there is Victor. Only he insists he is not Victor, but the Reverend
Eugene Wolff, on a mission to bring his people to Jesus. With only
two allies - her Johnny-Cash-loving, 12-year-old nephew Zeus, and
Ajean, a foul-mouthed euchre shark with deep knowledge of the old
Metis ways - Joan sets out to remind the Reverend Wolff of who he
really is. If he really is Victor, his life and the life of
everyone she loves, depends upon her success.
The thrilling follow-up to the bestselling, award-winning novel The
Marrow Thieves, about a dystopian world where the Indigenous people
of North America are being hunted for their bone marrow and ability
to dream. Years ago, when plague and natural disasters killed
millions of people, much of the world stopped dreaming. Without
dreams, people are haunted, sick, mad, unable to rebuild. The
government soon finds that the Indigenous people of North America
have retained their dreams, an ability rumored to be housed in the
very marrow of their bones. Soon, residential schools pop up and
are re-opened across the landscape to bring in the dreamers and
harvest their dreams. Seventeen-year-old French lost his family to
the schools and has spent the years since heading into the north
with his new "found family"-a group of other dreamers, who like
him, are trying to build and thrive as a community. But then French
wakes up in a pitch-black room, locked in and alone for the first
time in years, and he knows immediately where he is-and what it
will take to get out. Meanwhile, out in the world, his found family
searches for him and dodges new dangers-school Recruiters, a blood
cult, even the land itself. When their paths finally collide,
French must decide how far he is willing to go-and how many loved
ones is he willing to betray-in order to survive. This engrossing,
action-packed, deftly-drawn novel expands on the world of Cherie
Dimaline's award-winning The Marrow Thieves, and it will haunt
readers long after they've turned the final page.
Humanity has nearly destroyed its world through global warming, but
now an even greater evil lurks. The indigenous people of North
America are being hunted and harvested for their bone marrow, which
carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population
has lost: the ability to dream. In this dark world, Frenchie and
his companions struggle to survive as they make their way up north
to the old lands. For now, survival means staying hidden-but what
they don't know is that one of them holds the secret to defeating
the marrow thieves. "Miigwans is a true hero; in him Dimaline
creates a character of tremendous emotional depth and tenderness,
connecting readers with the complexity and compassion of Indigenous
people. A dystopian world that is all too real and that has much to
say about our own." Kirkus Reviews
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