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The Deleted World
A brilliant selection of poems by Nobel prize winner Tomas Tranströmer, translated from the Swedish by renowned Scottish poet Robin Robertson.
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The Wild Beasts of Wuhan
Ava Lee uncovers the secret world of art fraud in the third book in the wildly popular and bestselling Ava Lee series.
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Under the Hawthorn Tree
Under the Hawthorn Tree is a story of first love and forbidden love, set against the backdrop of the final days of the Cultural Revolution.
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Dr. Brinkley's Tower
Dr. Brinkley’s Tower is a sensational, passionate story of jealousy and greed set against the backdrop of Mexico in the 1930s.
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North America’s Lost Decade?
The eighth semi-annual Munk Debate asks will North America rebound from economic stagnation, or is the future more uncertain than ever?
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to 12
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Middle of Nowhere
A middle-grade novel about two maybe-orphans and their unlikely friendship with a cranky old neighbor.
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Thrifty Gardening
Gardener extraordinaire Marjorie Harris gives you the best tips and trade secrets on creating that perfect natural oasis the thrifty way.
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{"id":6817705918523,"title":"The Juliet Stories","handle":"the-juliet-stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award: Fiction and selected as a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eJuliet Friesen is ten years old when her family moves to Nicaragua. It is 1984, the height of Nicaragua's post-revolutionary war, and the peace-activist Friesens have come to protest American involvement. In the midst of this tumult, Juliet's family lives outside of the boundaries of ordinary life. They've escaped, and the ordinary rules don't apply. Threat is pervasive, danger is real, but the extremity of the situation also produces a kind of euphoria, protecting Juliet's family from its own cracks and conflicts.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Juliet's younger brother becomes sick with cancer, their adventure ends abruptly. 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The Juliet Stories
A stunning novel set against the backdrop of the political turmoil in 1980s revolutionary Nicaragua.
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{"id":6817705721915,"title":"The New Measures","handle":"the-new-measures","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award: Poetry and the League of Canadian Poets: Raymond Souster Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe follow up to \u003cem\u003eThe Sentinel\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize, A. F. Moritz's \u003cem\u003eThe New Measures\u003c\/em\u003e is a bold collection of fiery, passionate, visionary, and fiercely singing new work. These poems make unique music, by turns tender and forceful, terrified and assured, grateful and enraged. They revel in pleasure, and the thirst for more pleasure. And they insist on the hope -- perhaps paradoxical, perhaps impossible, yet never extinguished -- for the perfection of a world both natural and human. \u003cem\u003eThe New Measures\u003c\/em\u003e makes fear and grief into prophecy and joy at each turn of phrase. It is a brilliant new work from one of our greatest poets.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-28T16:54:48-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-28T14:25:59-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","Adult Starred Reviews","By (author) Moritz A.F.","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2012-04-07"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"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":40220054814779,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770891104","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The New Measures - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":109,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770891104","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_39058a22-f2dd-4e6e-84c8-2fcd6e157b27.jpg?v=1709286881"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_39058a22-f2dd-4e6e-84c8-2fcd6e157b27.jpg?v=1709286881","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24253405823035,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":618,"width":400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_39058a22-f2dd-4e6e-84c8-2fcd6e157b27.jpg?v=1709286881"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":618,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_39058a22-f2dd-4e6e-84c8-2fcd6e157b27.jpg?v=1709286881","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award: Poetry and the League of Canadian Poets: Raymond Souster Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe follow up to \u003cem\u003eThe Sentinel\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize, A. F. Moritz's \u003cem\u003eThe New Measures\u003c\/em\u003e is a bold collection of fiery, passionate, visionary, and fiercely singing new work. These poems make unique music, by turns tender and forceful, terrified and assured, grateful and enraged. They revel in pleasure, and the thirst for more pleasure. And they insist on the hope -- perhaps paradoxical, perhaps impossible, yet never extinguished -- for the perfection of a world both natural and human. \u003cem\u003eThe New Measures\u003c\/em\u003e makes fear and grief into prophecy and joy at each turn of phrase. It is a brilliant new work from one of our greatest poets.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The New Measures
A bold collection from Griffin Poetry Prize and Governor General's Literary Award winner poet A.F. Moritz.
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{"id":6817705656379,"title":"Chaser","handle":"chaser","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChaser\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of poems that grows from the troubling premise that each of us lives in a state of pre-diagnosis. Our bodies are never under our control, and when illness strikes we must redraw the boundary between the well and the unwell, interacting with the world differently. In these poems, the experience of illness is applied to individuals, communities, economic systems, and travel between nations. In bracing, electric language and form, the book’s three threads — one following a group of patients and a character known as Invalid, one examining a scientist’s study of tuberculosis, and a third examining the language of manic economy — explore different notions of consumption, wellness, discovery, and growth.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-12-15T08:49:42-05:00","created_at":"2022-03-28T14:25:51-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Knight Erin","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2012-04-07"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"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":40220054028347,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770890114","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Chaser - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":136,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770890114","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_093d53a7-7779-4e7f-8dd2-b67ebb417324.jpg?v=1678596532"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_093d53a7-7779-4e7f-8dd2-b67ebb417324.jpg?v=1678596532","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324490956859,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":618,"width":400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_093d53a7-7779-4e7f-8dd2-b67ebb417324.jpg?v=1678596532"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":618,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_093d53a7-7779-4e7f-8dd2-b67ebb417324.jpg?v=1678596532","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChaser\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of poems that grows from the troubling premise that each of us lives in a state of pre-diagnosis. Our bodies are never under our control, and when illness strikes we must redraw the boundary between the well and the unwell, interacting with the world differently. In these poems, the experience of illness is applied to individuals, communities, economic systems, and travel between nations. In bracing, electric language and form, the book’s three threads — one following a group of patients and a character known as Invalid, one examining a scientist’s study of tuberculosis, and a third examining the language of manic economy — explore different notions of consumption, wellness, discovery, and growth.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Chaser
An exciting and provocative collection from one of the most promising young voices in Canadian poetry.
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This richly illustrated biography tells the story of his remarkable life, culminating in the War of 1812. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eTecumseh, born in 1768, lived during turbulent times: the thirteen colonies revolted against British rule, becoming the United States in 1776, and settlers had begun to push westward, rapidly encroaching on the traditional lands of the First Peoples. Tecumseh realized that unless the tribes came together to form a great confederacy, they would never be able to hold onto their land. And so he began to travel great distances, encouraging many tribes to join forces with him against the Americans. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOn June 18, 1812, the US declared war on Great Britain. Tecumseh sided with the British, hoping to create an independent native state north of the Ohio River. He developed a magnetic friendship with Major General Isaac Brock, commander of the British troops in Upper Canada, and together they took Fort Detroit. Tecumseh and Brock agreed that one of the goals of their alliance should be to restore lands that had been taken from native peoples. But shortly afterwards Brock was killed in the Battle of Queenston Heights. Tecumseh rallied those loyal to him and fought on relentlessly, but was killed in the Battle of Moraviantown in 1813. Tecumseh's dreams were never fulfilled, but he remains a symbol of justice for the First Peoples of North America.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTecumseh\u003c\/em\u003e will be published on the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812. 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Tecumseh
A gorgeously illustrated biography of Tecumseh — the great Shawnee chief — published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812.
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Somewhere Over the Sea
A beautifully written and deeply intimate work of literary nonfiction that conveys the profound love of one father for his autistic son.
