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Sacred Leaf
Sacred Leaf, the sequel to I Am a Taxi, depicts the price people in Latin America pay for cocaine use in North America.
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The Saver
A stunning young adult novel about an iron-willed but endearing teenager who must fend for herself after the death of her mother.
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This second anthology of early CBC Massey Lectures features the work of George Grant, Claude Levi-Strauss, Frank Underhill, and Barbara Ward.
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Gil Adamson, author of Ridgerunner, weaves an utterly original tale of an extraordinary family with a knack for eccentric behaviour.
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{"id":6818429894715,"title":"The Spare Room","handle":"the-spare-room","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of several prestigious prizes, \u003cem\u003eThe Spare Room\u003c\/em\u003e is extraordinary writer Helen Garner's intense, moving investigation of the boundaries and limits of a lifelong friendship.As the novel opens, Helen lovingly prepares the spare room in her home for her dear friend Nicola, who is coming to visit for three weeks while receiving controversial treatment for late-stage cancer. From the moment Nicola staggers off the plane, gaunt and hoarse but still somehow grand, Helen becomes her nurse, her guardian angel, and her stony judge. \u003cem\u003eThe Spare Room\u003c\/em\u003e tells an unforgettable story full of complex humour, rage, and compassion.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-30T09:06:17-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-29T16:16:49-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["By (author) Garner Helen","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2009-02-01"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1895,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40233984786491,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887848384","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Spare Room - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":209,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887848384","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40233988718651,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887849015","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Spare Room - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9780887849015","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40233989701691,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770897632","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Spare Room - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770897632","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_fc4d466e-2e6a-49ff-abb6-bf5f31dcc8b6.jpg?v=1655628497"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_fc4d466e-2e6a-49ff-abb6-bf5f31dcc8b6.jpg?v=1655628497","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22243509665851,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.64,"height":2344,"width":1500,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_fc4d466e-2e6a-49ff-abb6-bf5f31dcc8b6.jpg?v=1655628497"},"aspect_ratio":0.64,"height":2344,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_fc4d466e-2e6a-49ff-abb6-bf5f31dcc8b6.jpg?v=1655628497","width":1500}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of several prestigious prizes, \u003cem\u003eThe Spare Room\u003c\/em\u003e is extraordinary writer Helen Garner's intense, moving investigation of the boundaries and limits of a lifelong friendship.As the novel opens, Helen lovingly prepares the spare room in her home for her dear friend Nicola, who is coming to visit for three weeks while receiving controversial treatment for late-stage cancer. From the moment Nicola staggers off the plane, gaunt and hoarse but still somehow grand, Helen becomes her nurse, her guardian angel, and her stony judge. \u003cem\u003eThe Spare Room\u003c\/em\u003e tells an unforgettable story full of complex humour, rage, and compassion.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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I was in tears. You know how it ends, but it had me wondering if I would have the necessary patience to care for someone who is ill. Garner is a beautiful writer.","OtherText_Review_10":"Swift, beautiful, and relentless, The Spare Room is a brutal novel in the best sense.","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Alice Sebold","OtherText_Review_11":"The beauty of [The Spare Room] lies in its insistence on the frank and inescapable fight between life and death...It does not seek to instruct or to uplift: it seeks, rigorously and unflinchingly, to tell the truth...A triumph of art over artifice.","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Newsweek","OtherText_Review_12":"The old cliche that 'you've got to laugh' in the face of tragedy is given new meaning by Garner...And she dares to express the unspeakable thoughts we often think when confronted by another's illness...What Garner brings is a forensic self-examination and a dazzling ability to turn self-realisation into universal language...as the best fiction should...[The Spare Room] tells a simple and honest story that forces us to confront our own lives and relationships...The Spare Room is intensely rewarding. It's a rare book that can make you laugh as much as this, while giving your head and your heart a workout. Helen Garner, welcome back to the world of fiction. We need you here.","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"PopMatters.com","OtherText_Review_13":"The Spare Room has the intimate and matter-of-fact feel of a memoir...The prose is brisk, focused and often darkly funny...Cancer is not cured; there is no Nabokovian last-minute escape from death into the unreality of story or language itself. The book ends, as it begins - sharply, with tacit acknowledgement that anger and feelings of helplessness have a large part to play in love and death.","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_14":"The Spare Room is a brilliant success...Garner never lets up on the intensity, never backs off from her close-up on the intimate elemental conflict at the novel's core. Indeed, she ratchets it to a near-operatic peak no less searing for occasional doses of mordant humour...She's not interested in handy resolutions or any conventional notion of closure, perhaps because she knows - and gives her readers credit for knowing - that life itself rarely works that way. The Spare Room resonates deeply. It may well be the shortest epic you'll ever read.","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"Montreal Gazette","OtherText_Review_15":"The Spare Room is an absolutely harrowing read...It's an utterly devastating, all-too-human novel that will force readers to face both their fears and their potential...Helen Garner is one of the great writers of our time...With The Spare Room she has created a bold, uncompromising work that strikes to the very core.","OtherText_Review_15_Src":"Edmonton Journal","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Lynn Tompson, Bookseller","OtherText_Review_2":"Pain is not often detailed so exactly in fiction...Every detail of life glows with the energy field of ordinary things, about which [Garner] writes so beautifully...I read it in one sitting, leaning forward in my chair...","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Marina Endicott","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_3":"...A book so sensitive, sad, funny, and alive, it surely deserves an honoured place on many shelves.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Daily Telegraph","OtherText_Review_4":"[A] daring and dazzling novel...[Garner] writes with a diamond drill, depicting human relationships with such brutal clarity they seem to be rendered for the first time...The scenes evoking...the outrageous laughter you can share only with a dear friend are as light and appealing as a summer's day...you can trust Helen Garner. As deeply as she'll take you into the darkest territory of the heart, she will not abandon you.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"LA Times","OtherText_Review_5":"[The Spare Room] cuts to the bone of what friendship comes to mean to two women...reads as memoir, or a rant of despair, frustration and blackly comic rage...Garner does more with this simple story in under 200 pages than many authors do with complex narratives in lengthy novels...not to be missed.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_6":"A perfect novel, imbued with all of Garner's usual clear-eyed grace...How is it that she can enter this heartbreaking territory - the dying friend who comes to stay - and make it not only bearable but glorious and funny? There is no answer except: Helen Garner is a great writer; The Spare Room is a great book.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Peter Carney","OtherText_Review_7":"Helen Garner was my favourite discovery of the year.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Anne Enright","OtherText_Review_8":"Helen Garner wrestles with a conscience-battering test of the limits of mercy...The Spare Room reads like an unsparing memoir in which flashes of dark humour and simple happiness lighten the grim record of an overwhelmingly difficult chapter in a woman's life...To know all is not necessarily to forgive all: understanding can suffice.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_9":"Masterful.","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Vogue","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A glorious exploration of friendship between two strong women — one of them with cancer.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"05","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeName_0":"IMPAC Dublin Literary Award","PrizeName_1":"Commonwealth Writers' Prize - Best Book","PrizeYear_0":"2010","PrizeYear_1":"2009","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2009-02-01","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A glorious exploration of friendship between two strong women — one of them with cancer.","Width":"5","WidthCode":"in"}
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Jump at Home: Grade 7
Give your child the tools and the confidence to master math with John Mighton's revolutionary JUMP at Home Math workbook for Grade 7.
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Jump at Home: Grade 5
Give your child the tools and the confidence to master math with John Mighton's revolutionary JUMP at Home Math workbook for Grade 5.
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Give your child the tools and the confidence to master math with John Mighton's revolutionary JUMP at Home Math workbook for Grade 4.
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Look Around, Baby!
In Look Around, Baby! the young baby gazes at the world, sits up and begins to play and to interact with his older brother.
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and up
Sita's Ramayana
A beautifully illustrated feminist graphic-novel version of the story of Sita from the great Indian epic -- The Ramayana.
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It paints a vivid portrait with honesty, sympathy and wit, of a much neglected milieu, and it addresses urgent social questions. It is horrifying, tender and funny. [. . .] Pigeon English will be read by millions.","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Lewis Jones","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Telegraph","OtherText_Review_1":". . . exceptional . . . Opoku’s plight is both heart-warming and heartbreaking.","OtherText_Review_10":". . . an authentic and audacious first novel . . . It will be a while before the buzz about [Kelman] dies down.","OtherText_Review_10_Auth":"Lesley McDowell","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Scotsman","OtherText_Review_11":". . . a tour de force . . . Funny and poignant, Pigeon English is fired with an uncontainable spirit, a rare distillate of boyhood optimism and adult wisdom.","OtherText_Review_11_Auth":"Brian D. Johnson","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Maclean's","OtherText_Review_12":"Kelman has crafted a book that soars.","OtherText_Review_12_Auth":"Mary Jo Anderson","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Chronicle Herald","OtherText_Review_13":". . . engaging . . . Kelman's dead-on evocation of the horrors and freedoms of an inner-city childhood deserves attention.","OtherText_Review_13_Auth":"Benjamin Evans","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"Telegraph","OtherText_Review_14":". . . chilling and charming . . . [Pigeon English is] a coming-of-age tale that feels achingly accurate.","OtherText_Review_14_Auth":"Rebecca Caldwell","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_15":"A violent and riveting coming of age story, Stephen Kelman's debut novel also contains well-timed moments of comedy, affecting family drama, and just enough hopefulness to dilute the setting's biting flavour of despair.","OtherText_Review_15_Auth":"Brett Joseph Grubisic","OtherText_Review_15_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_16":". . . something of a phenomenon . . .","OtherText_Review_16_Auth":"Michael D. Langan","OtherText_Review_16_Src":"Buffalo News","OtherText_Review_17":"[Stephen Kelman] took a real-life knife murder of an immigrant boy a decade ago as his starting point, but the youth he created is distinctly and wonderfully his own.","OtherText_Review_17_Auth":"Jim Higgins","OtherText_Review_17_Src":"Milwaukee Journal Sentinel","OtherText_Review_18":". . . riveting . . .","OtherText_Review_18_Auth":"Yvonne Zipp","OtherText_Review_18_Src":"Christian Science Monitor","OtherText_Review_19":"... a topical novel with a great narrative voice ... the ending will crush you.","OtherText_Review_19_Auth":"Quentin Mills-Fenn","OtherText_Review_19_Src":"Uptown Winnipeg","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Malcolm Jack","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"The List","OtherText_Review_2":"Told with humour, despite the gritty subject matter and setting . . . Pigeon English charms its way into some hard places.","OtherText_Review_20":"Few writers nail a voice as well as Stephen Kelman does ...","OtherText_Review_20_Auth":"Julienne Isaacs","OtherText_Review_20_Src":"Geez Magazine","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Adrian Turpin","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Financial Times","OtherText_Review_3":"Harrison Opoku, the 11-year-old Ghanaian boy who is the narrator of this very fine coming-of-age novel, may well be about to take his place among other well-loved children in literature. [. . .] To be moved to care this deeply for a fictional character is a rare experience.","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Ursula Fuchs","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_4":"Kelman blends Ghanaian slang such as \"Asweh\" (\"I swear\") and \"hutious\" (\"frightening\") with familiar London-ese to fresher and funnier effect. [. . .] Pigeon English does an admirable job of revealing the frightened teenage boys behind gang members' tough facades.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Rachel Aspden","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_5":"Most novels aren’t as imaginative, gut-wrenching and powerful as Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman, and this one is Kelman’s first. It’s immediately engaging, and it doesn’t let go. [. . .] Pigeon English is an amazing novel. It’s a window on a world many of us will never experience (thankfully), and it is beautifully and intelligently written.","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Candace Fertile","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Edmonton Journal","OtherText_Review_6":"Kelman has created an endearing character at once foreign yet familiar . . . Pigeon English is a mesmerizing tale of naïveté and discovery that has us rooting on the sidelines, hoping that Harri will triumph.","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Gina Roitman","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Rover Arts","OtherText_Review_7":"Pigeon English convincingly evokes life on the edge as lived by many British children today; the humour, the resilience, the sheer ebullience of its narrator -- a hero for our times -- should ensure the book becomes, deservedly, a classic.","OtherText_Review_7_Auth":"John Harding","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Daily Mail","OtherText_Review_8":"Filled with energy, humour and compassion, Pigeon English is a gut-wrenchingly sad novel that makes you laugh out loud.","OtherText_Review_8_Auth":"Alex Clark","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_9":". . . a very impressive debut . . .","OtherText_Review_9_Auth":"Emily Donaldson","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Booker-shortlisted Pigeon English is an exciting story of a boy balancing on the edge of manhood and of the forces that try to shape the way he falls.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_2":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_3":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_4":"Long-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeCode_2":"04","PrizeCode_3":"03","PrizeCode_4":"05","PrizeName_0":"Desmond Elliott Prize","PrizeName_1":"Man Booker Prize for Fiction","PrizeName_2":"Guardian First Book Award","PrizeName_3":"Toronto Star Reviewers' Top 100 Books","PrizeName_4":"IMPAC Dublin Literary Award","PrizeYear_0":"2011","PrizeYear_1":"2011","PrizeYear_2":"2011","PrizeYear_3":"2011","PrizeYear_4":"2013","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2011-03-12","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Booker-shortlisted Pigeon English is an exciting story of a boy balancing on the edge of manhood and of the forces that try to shape the way he falls.","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
Pigeon English
Booker-shortlisted Pigeon English is an exciting story of a boy balancing on the edge of manhood and of the forces that try to shape the way he falls.
