<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[bl results for ca:0* -(ca:004* OR ca:005* OR ca:006*) AND nw:[0 TO 180]]]></title><description><![CDATA[bl results for ca:0* -(ca:004* OR ca:005* OR ca:006*) AND nw:[0 TO 180]]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/pcin/rss/search?query=ca%3A0%2A%20-%28ca%3A004%2A%20OR%20ca%3A005%2A%20OR%20ca%3A006%2A%29%20AND%20nw%3A%5B0%20TO%20180%5D&amp;searchType=bl&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;sort=NEWLY_ACQUIRED&amp;suppress=true&amp;title=General%20Information%20%26%20Media&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:50:14 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Starry and Restless]]></title><description><![CDATA[She hid on a Red Cross boat to reach Omaha Beach on D-Day. She walked the abandoned streets of Hong Kong to take food to her daughter's father, a prisoner of war. She fought off the advances of overzealous Yugoslavian diplomats, found overlooked details of world history in a dentist's kitchen in Sarajevo. She traveled alone to Mexico. She traveled alone to Congo. She traveled alone to the American South. She married Hemingway. She married a Chinese poet-playboy-publisher, then married a British war hero. She fell in love with H. G. Wells. She gave birth and raised a child on her own. She landed on the front page of the newspaper. She wrote for the great magazines of her time--Vogue, The New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar. She wrote a play. She wrote a memoir. She wrote a genre-breaking travel narrative. She wrote bestsellers. She wrote and wrote and wrote. She changed the very way we think about writing and the way journalists craft stories--which sources are viable, which details are important--and the way women move and work in the world. She was Martha Gellhorn. She was Emily "Mickey" Hahn. She was Rebecca West. Each woman was starry-eyed for success, for adventure, and helped ensure that other starry and restless women could make unforgettable lives for themselves. They fought for their lives and their work. They were praised and criticized for it all.]]></description><link>https://pcin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C757488</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pcin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C757488</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cooke, Julia]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://pcin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/757488012</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Three Women Who Changed Work, Writing, and the World</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780374609788/MC.GIF&amp;client=strtp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's Roll]]></title><description><![CDATA["Master all the skills you need to deliver a tabletop role-playing game programme in the library! For librarians or teachers who aren't players themselves, the scope of role-playing games can seem overwhelming. Starting from the basics, Let's roll is a practical guide to delivering a tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) in a school or public library, all within the time constraints imposed on library sessions ... Featuring case studies from librarians around the world and focusing on their experiences of setting up TTRPGs, Let's roll will help librarians, teachers and other educators deliver an engaging programme that results in significant benefits on a budget, and is a huge amount of fun!"--]]></description><link>https://pcin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C756003</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pcin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C756003</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Maxwell, Lucas]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://pcin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/756003012</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Guide to Setting up Tabletop Role-playing Games in your School or Public Library</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781783306138/MC.GIF&amp;client=strtp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lament for A Literature]]></title><description><![CDATA["Lament for a Literature is a sweeping account of how English Canada once forged a confident literary culture -- and how that culture has steadily collapsed. For decades, books provided the country's most searching reflections on its history, politics, and identity; they shaped the national conversation and anchored a shared sense of who Canadians were. Author and media executive Richard Stursberg traces how this ecosystem emerged, flourished, and then eroded. He follows the rise of a vigorous publishing industry in the 1960s and '70s, the period when Canadian writers reached international prominence, and the subsequent decades in which foreign ownership, shifting cultural priorities, fragile institutions, and policy failures hollowed out the sector. Clear, forceful, and grounded in deep research, Lament for a Literature shows what happens when a nation loses the infrastructure that sustains its stories -- and outlines practical reforms, including a Canadian Book Law, to rebuild the foundations of a literary culture capable of renewing itself"--]]></description><link>https://pcin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C755599</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pcin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C755599</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Stursberg, Richard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://pcin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/755599012</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Collapse of Canadian Book Publishing</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781998365753/MC.GIF&amp;client=strtp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paper Girl]]></title><description><![CDATA[From one of our most acclaimed chroniclers of the forces eroding America's social fabric, her most personal and powerful work: a reckoning with the changes that have rocked her own beloved small Ohio hometown. Urbana, Ohio, was not a utopia when Beth Macy grew up there in the '70s and '80s--certainly not for her family. Her dad was known as the town drunk, which hurt, as did their poverty. But Urbana had a healthy economy and thriving schools, and Macy had middle-class schoolmates whose families became her role models. Though she left for college on a Pell Grant and then a faraway career in journalism, she still clung gratefully to the place that had helped raise her. But as Macy's mother's health declined in 2020, she couldn't shake the feeling that her town had dramatically hardened. Macy had grown up as the paper girl, delivering the local newspaper, which was the community's civic glue. Now she found scant local news and precious little civic glue. Yes, much of the work that once supported the middle class had gone away, but that didn't begin to cover the forces turning Urbana into a poorer and angrier place. Absenteeism soared in the schools and in the workplace as a mental health crisis gripped the small city. Some of her old friends now embraced conspiracies. In nearby Springfield, Macy watched as her ex-boyfriend--once the most liberal person she knew--became a lead voice of opposition against the Haitian immigrants, parroting false talking points throughout the 2024 presidential campaign. This was not an assignment Beth Macy had ever imagined taking on, but after her mother's death, she decided to figure out what happened to Urbana in the forty years since she'd left. The result is an astonishing book that, by taking us into the heart of one place, brings into focus our most urgent set of national issues. Paper Girl is a gift of courage, empathy, and insight. Beth Macy has turned to face the darkness in her family and community, people she loves wholeheartedly, even the ones she sometimes struggles to like. And in facing the truth--in person, with respect--she has found sparks of human dignity that she has used to light a signal fire of warning but also of hope.]]></description><link>https://pcin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C757580</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pcin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C757580</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Macy, Beth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://pcin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/757580012</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Memoir of Home and Family in A Fractured America</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593656730/MC.GIF&amp;client=strtp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life After Ambition]]></title><description><![CDATA["Channeling the subversive and sharp-eyed voice showcased in her popular column for The Cut, this memoir stylishly interrogates the aspirations of young adulthood, early middle age, motherhood and life after ambition -- for readers of Ada Calhoun, Jia Tolentino, Jessi Klein, and Maggie Smith. Building off her wildly popular viral essays "Losing My Ambition" and "The Mindfuck of Mid-Life," rising star Amil Niazi explores what life looks like "post-ambition." With sly humor and a deep literary sensibility, she interrogates her own evolving ambitions, and how they intersect with adulthood, motherhood, age, identity, class, and race, and how it has shaped her and a generation of Millennials. And, most importantly, now that she is "done with ambition" -- what happens next? Life After Ambition is an achingly relatable, intensely funny punch to the gut which reveals that, though we hide them from one another, we all have the same painful bruises. Niazi has written a book that is, at its core, about optimism, about the joy of choosing something different, and about the thrill of finding ourselves when we thought all was lost. A whip-smart reimagination of how to live our lives, Life After Ambition will set the stage for rising star Amil Niazi for many years (and books) to come"--]]></description><link>https://pcin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C756831</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pcin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C756831</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Niazi, Amil]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://pcin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/756831012</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A &quot;good Enough&quot; Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780771005213/MC.GIF&amp;client=strtp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bigfoot Sightings]]></title><description><![CDATA["Whether it is called Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yeti, or something else, bipedal primates appear in folklore, legends, and eyewitness accounts in every state in the union and many places around the world. Bigfoot Sightings: True Tales from Across America looks at the history and first-person accounts from various sources. You'll encounter a trove of stories based on physical and circumstantial evidence as well as personal testimony, myths, legends, and possible scientific explanations. Documenting the evidence and hearing witnesses out, Bigfoot Sightings contemplates the mysterious beast and its enigmatic existence. For skeptics and enthusiasts alike, you will get plenty of information to help you form your own opinion about what lurks in the wild and whether you will be safe on your next hike or camping trip!"--]]></description><link>https://pcin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C757405</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pcin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C757405</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Willis, Jim]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://pcin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/757405012</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>True Tales From Across America</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781578598694/MC.GIF&amp;client=strtp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Precarious Enterprise]]></title><description><![CDATA["In 1970, Scott McIntyre cofounded what became Canadian publisher Douglas & McIntyre. In the intervening years, he has watched the rise and fall of publishers, booksellers, and book trends from every corner of the industry. He saw the founding of a significant independent Canadian publisher in British Columbia, the growth of Indigenous literature and government support for publishers, and the increasing global demand for Canadian books. Scott McIntyre has lived the story of Canadian book publishing. Beginning his career at McClelland & Stewart in 1967, he went on to cofound his own publishing house, Douglas & McIntyre, in 1970 and made his mark on the industry amid the country's exhilarating literary coming-of-age. Becoming one of Canada's largest and most respected publishing houses and among the first to embrace Indigenous issues, Douglas & McIntyre and its associated children's publisher, Groundwood Books, published some 900 authors and 2,000 books in less than 50 years. For McIntyre, the authors always came first, and he worked closely with many important figures, including Doris Shadbolt, Wayson Choy, Richard Wagamese, Anna Porter, Will Ferguson, Doug Coupland, Hugh Brody, Robert Bringhurst, Wade Davis, and Farley Mowat. Telling stories featuring a colourful array of characters who rebuilt the publishing world following WWII and anecdotes about how book publishing works, McIntyre touches upon the guiding philosophy and historic traditions still animating the industry today. More than the story of one publisher and his company, this is a first-person account of the buoyant period when writers, their books, and the companies who published them changed the nation"--]]></description><link>https://pcin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C756857</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pcin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S12C756857</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McIntyre, Scott]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://pcin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/756857012</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Making A Life in Canadian Publishing</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781770418196/MC.GIF&amp;client=strtp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>