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Thrifty
An entertaining guide to living the richly frugal life by bestselling author and national columnist Marjorie Harris.
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{"id":6818368389179,"title":"O Resplandor","handle":"o-resplandor","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere is inventive new poetry from one of our most original and admired poets: Erin Moure, two-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry, winner of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and a finalist for the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoure's brilliant collection explores the idea that the act of reading contains all the experiences of the body itself: love, splendour, travel, doubling, loss. The \"resplandor\" of the title refers to the radiance of the body when the language of the book flows into ears and eyes. In unexpected ways -- through impossible translation, anachronistic journeys, and a fictional mystery that involves a search for a translator who exists only in the future beyond the book itself - \u003cem\u003eO Resplandor\u003c\/em\u003e confounds notions of authorship and translation, all while conveying the clamour over love and loss. Richly challenging and charged with Erin Moure's distinctive energy, \u003cem\u003eO Resplandor\u003c\/em\u003e is a work about the powerful light contained in the human body, in translation, and in poetry - even as it shows how these are all one and the same in the end: inventions.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-29T16:14:54-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-29T14:22:44-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Moure Erín","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2010-02-01"],"price":2295,"price_min":2295,"price_max":2295,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40232242217019,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887848148","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"O Resplandor - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2295,"weight":218,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887848148","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3100e96c-d2ba-477a-b261-7f16ed98471e.jpg?v=1682245667"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3100e96c-d2ba-477a-b261-7f16ed98471e.jpg?v=1682245667","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23431558955067,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.749,"height":577,"width":432,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3100e96c-d2ba-477a-b261-7f16ed98471e.jpg?v=1682245667"},"aspect_ratio":0.749,"height":577,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3100e96c-d2ba-477a-b261-7f16ed98471e.jpg?v=1682245667","width":432}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eHere is inventive new poetry from one of our most original and admired poets: Erin Moure, two-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry, winner of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and a finalist for the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoure's brilliant collection explores the idea that the act of reading contains all the experiences of the body itself: love, splendour, travel, doubling, loss. The \"resplandor\" of the title refers to the radiance of the body when the language of the book flows into ears and eyes. In unexpected ways -- through impossible translation, anachronistic journeys, and a fictional mystery that involves a search for a translator who exists only in the future beyond the book itself - \u003cem\u003eO Resplandor\u003c\/em\u003e confounds notions of authorship and translation, all while conveying the clamour over love and loss. Richly challenging and charged with Erin Moure's distinctive energy, \u003cem\u003eO Resplandor\u003c\/em\u003e is a work about the powerful light contained in the human body, in translation, and in poetry - even as it shows how these are all one and the same in the end: inventions.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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O Resplandor
Erin Moure explores the idea that the act of reading is a practice of embodiment, containing all the experiences of the body itself.
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{"id":6818368290875,"title":"What Becomes","handle":"what-becomes","description":"\u003cp\u003eA. L. Kennedy's remarkable new collection of stories shows us exactly what becomes of the broken-hearted. She reveals the sadness, violence, hurt, and terror, but also the redemption of love, and she does so with enormous human compassion, wild leaps of humour, and the brilliantly original linguistic skill that distinguishes her as one of the world's finest writers. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlways attuned to the moment of epiphany, these twelve stories are profound, intimate observations of men and women whose lives ache with possibility. Each story is a dramatization of the instant in a life that exposes it all; love and the lack of love, hope and the lack of hope. These men and women are perfectly ordinary people whose marriages flounder; who sit on their own in a cinema watching a film with no soundtrack; who risk sex in a hotel with an anonymous stranger. 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What Becomes
Twelve remarkable stories show us what becomes of the broken hearted.
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The Great Poochini
A very funny story full of adventure and punning for dog and opera lovers alike. Winner of the Governor General’s Award for illustration.
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ages 9
to 7
/ grades 4
to 7
Home Is Beyond the Mountains
Samira is only nine years old when the Turkish army invades Persia in 1918, and her family must flee into the mountains. Will she ever see home again?
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ages 9
to 12
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to 7
The Big Swim
A timeless and poignant story about a boy's first summer at camp, told with humor and wit.
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Guilt About the Past
Internationally acclaimed author Bernhard Schlink (The Reader) explores the phenomenon of guilt in the aftermath of war.
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{"id":6818367602747,"title":"Patient Frame","handle":"patient-frame","description":"\u003cp\u003eGovernor General's Literary Award finalist and bestselling author Steven Heighton's considerable dramatic lyric powers reach a new sophistication and intensity in his astonishing collection \u003cem\u003ePatient Frame\u003c\/em\u003e. From the court of Medici to the My Lai massacre; from love for a daughter and mother, through nightmare and displacement, to moments of painful acceptance; from erotic passion to situations of deep moral failure, these poems are part of an ongoing search, a scanning of our human horizons for moments of lasting value. Heighton's work has long shown a resolve to achieve some viable rapprochement between the mind's cold structures and the earthbound drives of the body.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDynamic, vigorous, tender poems as engaged with the moment as they are with traditions of East and West. \u003cem\u003ePatient Frame\u003c\/em\u003e brings together more of Heighton's vital translations of poets as diverse as Jorge Luis Borges and Horace. \u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-29T16:14:47-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-29T14:20:56-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Award Winning","Adult Poetry","By (author) Heighton Steven","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2010-04-10"],"price":2295,"price_min":2295,"price_max":2295,"available":false,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40232216330299,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887849527","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Patient Frame - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2295,"weight":145,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887849527","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4dde4de4-50f9-4ad4-8ac9-561964a2e408.jpg?v=1668328476"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4dde4de4-50f9-4ad4-8ac9-561964a2e408.jpg?v=1668328476","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22926477656123,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":612,"width":396,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4dde4de4-50f9-4ad4-8ac9-561964a2e408.jpg?v=1668328476"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":612,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4dde4de4-50f9-4ad4-8ac9-561964a2e408.jpg?v=1668328476","width":396}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eGovernor General's Literary Award finalist and bestselling author Steven Heighton's considerable dramatic lyric powers reach a new sophistication and intensity in his astonishing collection \u003cem\u003ePatient Frame\u003c\/em\u003e. From the court of Medici to the My Lai massacre; from love for a daughter and mother, through nightmare and displacement, to moments of painful acceptance; from erotic passion to situations of deep moral failure, these poems are part of an ongoing search, a scanning of our human horizons for moments of lasting value. Heighton's work has long shown a resolve to achieve some viable rapprochement between the mind's cold structures and the earthbound drives of the body.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDynamic, vigorous, tender poems as engaged with the moment as they are with traditions of East and West. \u003cem\u003ePatient Frame\u003c\/em\u003e brings together more of Heighton's vital translations of poets as diverse as Jorge Luis Borges and Horace. \u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The Good Body
Bill Gaston's classic hockey novel is a triumphant blend of mordant humour and heartbreak.
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Heaven is Small
With sly humour and brilliant insight, Schultz explores what it's like to be truly alive only after you're dead.
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ages 14
and up
/ grades 9
and up
The News
This Groundwork Guide takes a critical look at the state of the news worldwide. Television, radio, newspaper and internet — who owns these sources?
