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{"id":6818926067771,"title":"Hey Dad!","handle":"hey-dad","description":"\u003cp\u003eA family car trip across Canada brings Megan and her dad face to face with how sad and happy growing up can be.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-30T13:29:23-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-30T12:13:08-04:00","vendor":"Groundwood Books Ltd","type":"","tags":["age range 8 - 12","By (author) Doyle Brian","Childrens Accessible ebooks","Groundwood Books","pub date: 1991-08-01"],"price":795,"price_min":795,"price_max":795,"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":40249081200699,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780888997081","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Hey Dad! - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":795,"weight":136,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780888997081","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40249083592763,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781554980192","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Hey Dad! - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":795,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781554980192","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40249085657147,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781554986057","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Hey Dad! - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":795,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781554986057","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_c1ab4d67-f5d5-42cf-969c-3274006cc545.jpg?v=1731043404"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_c1ab4d67-f5d5-42cf-969c-3274006cc545.jpg?v=1731043404","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24903057211451,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2249,"width":1500,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_c1ab4d67-f5d5-42cf-969c-3274006cc545.jpg?v=1731043404"},"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2249,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_c1ab4d67-f5d5-42cf-969c-3274006cc545.jpg?v=1731043404","width":1500}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eA family car trip across Canada brings Megan and her dad face to face with how sad and happy growing up can be.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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A family car trip across Canada brings Megan and her dad face to face with how sad and happy growing up can be.
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I had occasion to be speaking again with Mark in early February, when he suddenly said that he had a delicate\/awkward matter to raise with me. Apparently there was a possibility that President Bush would attend the UN meeting scheduled for the end of May, and the UN desperately wanted him to be there. \r\n\r\nI had been told (I can surmise by whom, but it was never revealed) that if I were to attack the United States before that date, the president probably wouldn't come. \r\n\r\nYou must understand that though I take myself overly seriously from time to time, it was a bit much to think that my words could deter the President of the UNited States. Nonetheless, Mark said to me (I think I'm capturing it with authentic accuracy), \"Stephen, I must ask you, no, I must plead with you, no, I must instruct you that you are not to attack U.S. policy before the meeting in May. I don't care what you do after that, but beforehand, you must refrain from criticism.\" \r\n\r\nI could scarce credit what I was hearing. I laughed again, and told Mark that it seemed to me that things were verging on the absurd. On the other hand, I also assured him that I had no immediate plans to go on the attack, and if I did, I'd let him know in advance and resign with appropriate dignity. \r\n\r\nI relate these surreal circumstances because they speak to an UNlovely pattern of Pavlovian obeisance to the UNited States. Apparently, criticism is permitted of the G8, Tony Blair's Commission on Africa, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, the Government of South Africa, the Government of Zimbabwe, the King of Swaziland, and the United Nations itself -- all of whom this book excoriates from time to time -- but almost never the sacrosanct \"integrity\" of the United States of America. \r\n\r\nBut that's only one small part of my postscript to these lectures. 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Race Against Time
Humanitarian Stephen Lewis describes how the world is falling desperately short of UN goals for reducing poverty, inequality, and mortality rates.
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{"id":6818925740091,"title":"Alligator","handle":"alligator","description":"\u003cp\u003eLisa Moore's \u003cem\u003eAlligator\u003c\/em\u003e gives dramatic birth to a new kind of fiction: North Atlantic Gothic. The story moves with the swiftness of a gator in attack mode through the lives of a group of brilliantly rendered characters in contemporary St. John's, Newfoundland-- a city whose spiritual location is somewhere in the heart of Flannery O'Connor country. Its denizens jostle each other in uneasy arabesques of desire, greed, lust, and ambition, juxtaposed with a yearning for purity, depth, and redemption. Meet Madeleine, the driven aging filmmaker whose mission is to complete a Bergmanesque magnum opus before she dies; Frank, a young man of innocence and determination whose life is a strange anthology of unpredictable dangers; Valentin, the sociopathic Russian refugee whose predatory tendencies threaten everyone he encounters; and Colleen, at seventeen a hard-edged female Holden Caulfield, drawn inexorably to the places where alligators thrive. In these pages humanity is a bizarre combination of the reptilian and the saintly. Listen to its heartbeat, and be moved -- and delighted.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-30T13:29:18-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-30T12:12:34-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Award Winning","Anansi Book Club Editions","Book Club Pick","By (author) Moore Lisa","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2005-09-13"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1995,"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":40249078087739,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887847554","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Alligator - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":372,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887847554","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40249080250427,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887848445","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Alligator - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9780887848445","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40249080840251,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770895560","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Alligator - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770895560","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_878d98da-efec-4330-9792-c27d150970cb.jpg?v=1653802511"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_878d98da-efec-4330-9792-c27d150970cb.jpg?v=1653802511","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22137949061179,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.649,"height":616,"width":400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_878d98da-efec-4330-9792-c27d150970cb.jpg?v=1653802511"},"aspect_ratio":0.649,"height":616,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_878d98da-efec-4330-9792-c27d150970cb.jpg?v=1653802511","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eLisa Moore's \u003cem\u003eAlligator\u003c\/em\u003e gives dramatic birth to a new kind of fiction: North Atlantic Gothic. The story moves with the swiftness of a gator in attack mode through the lives of a group of brilliantly rendered characters in contemporary St. John's, Newfoundland-- a city whose spiritual location is somewhere in the heart of Flannery O'Connor country. Its denizens jostle each other in uneasy arabesques of desire, greed, lust, and ambition, juxtaposed with a yearning for purity, depth, and redemption. Meet Madeleine, the driven aging filmmaker whose mission is to complete a Bergmanesque magnum opus before she dies; Frank, a young man of innocence and determination whose life is a strange anthology of unpredictable dangers; Valentin, the sociopathic Russian refugee whose predatory tendencies threaten everyone he encounters; and Colleen, at seventeen a hard-edged female Holden Caulfield, drawn inexorably to the places where alligators thrive. In these pages humanity is a bizarre combination of the reptilian and the saintly. Listen to its heartbeat, and be moved -- and delighted.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Alligator
Alligator moves with the swiftness of a gator in attack mode through the lives of a group of characters in contemporary St. John's, Newfoundland.
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Winner of the Governor General's Award, The Crazy Man is a moving and unforgettable story of a period of crisis in a young girl's life.
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This thoughtful book in the Groundwork Guides series helps young readers understand the difficult subject of genocide.
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Empire
This thoughtful Groundwork Guide compares the American Empire to those of the past, including the British, Roman, Chinese, Incan and Aztec empires.
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This remarkable portrait of Emily Carr is a classic of Canadian art biography and won the Governor General's Award for Nonfiction.
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Skinnybones and the Wrinkle Queen
An unlikely duo plans the road trip of a lifetime -- but can they keep from throttling each other before their goals are realized?
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Odd Man Out
When Kip is spending the summer with his grandmother and his five eccentric girl cousins, he discovers a very puzzling binder his late father kept.
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ages 10
to 14
/ grades 5
to 9
I Am a Taxi
Deep in the jungle, working in a cocaine operation, twelve-year-old Diego must take a terrible risk if he ever wants to see his family again.
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The Ethical Imagination
Ethicist and McGill University professor Margaret Somerville discusses how we can find a shared ethics for an interdependent world.
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to 12
/ grades 4
to 7
Spud in Winter
Spud can't get get the killing he witnessed out of his mind. Should tell the police? He decides to take on the task of helping solve the crime.
