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{"id":6582746808379,"title":"The Mark Tartaglia Series Bundle","handle":"the-mark-tartaglia-series-bundle","description":"\u003cp\u003eMark Tartaglia of the London murder squad investigates a series of bizarre and brutal murders in these gripping and compulsively readable thrillers — get the exclusive bundle featuring books 1, 2, and 3 now!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis bundle includes:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDie With Me\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen fourteen-year-old Gemma Kramer’s broken body is found on the floor of St. Sebastian’s Church in a quiet London suburb, the official ruling is that she jumped to her death from the organ gallery. 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But when a witness claims to have seen Gemma kissing a much older man outside shortly beforehand, and a toxicology report reveals traces of a date-rape drug in the girl’s system, a murder investigation is launched.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e?At the helm is Mark Tartaglia, a stubborn detective known for following his hunches. It’s Tartaglia’s first time in charge, and he walks right into a political minefield as the murder squad turns up three more suspicious deaths — all originally ruled suicides — involving vulnerable young women falling from high places. Can Tartaglia and his team connect the dots between victims in order to find a serial killer with a chilling predilection for lonely girls and deadly heights?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOur Lady of Pain\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn a snowy February morning, London art dealer Rachel Tenison goes for a jog through Holland Park. 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The Mark Tartaglia Series Bundle
Mark Tartaglia of the London murder squad investigates a series of bizarre and brutal murders in these gripping and compulsively readable thrillers.
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{"id":6582745169979,"title":"Little Snowfall","handle":"little-snowfall","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Little Snowfall\" is a short story about a beautiful, young woman named Pixie, who suspects her new neighbour is James Franco. The problem is that her neighbour says his name is Edward and denies he is the famous actor\/artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePixie has a monstrous crush on James Franco and is sure that Edward is lying about his true identity. After hearing him say his stay is only temporary, she gives herself two weeks — by Valentine's Day — to make him fall in love with her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePixie quickly befriends and seduces the man who denies he’s James Franco. But Pixie has secrets of her own that soon threaten to derail their budding relationship before it even has a chance to begin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat unfolds is a sweet, comical romance between two illusionists that culminates in a dramatic confrontation at a major art show on Valentine’s Day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten as a teaser for Lynn Crosbie’s new novel about Kurt Cobain, \u003cem\u003eWhere Did You Sleep Last Night?\u003c\/em\u003e, \"Little Snowfall\" is fun and romantic nod to the hugely popular fan fiction genre.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:11:15-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:11:15-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Anansi Digital","By (author) Crosbie Lynn","pub date: 2015-02-14"],"price":199,"price_min":199,"price_max":199,"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":39403441619003,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000660","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Little Snowfall - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":199,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487000660","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39413547860027,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000677","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Little Snowfall - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":199,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487000677","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_a5777d62-6a1b-44e4-828e-f143cb33cc31.jpg?v=1723949613"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_a5777d62-6a1b-44e4-828e-f143cb33cc31.jpg?v=1723949613","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24743102185531,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_a5777d62-6a1b-44e4-828e-f143cb33cc31.jpg?v=1723949613"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_a5777d62-6a1b-44e4-828e-f143cb33cc31.jpg?v=1723949613","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\"Little Snowfall\" is a short story about a beautiful, young woman named Pixie, who suspects her new neighbour is James Franco. The problem is that her neighbour says his name is Edward and denies he is the famous actor\/artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePixie has a monstrous crush on James Franco and is sure that Edward is lying about his true identity. After hearing him say his stay is only temporary, she gives herself two weeks — by Valentine's Day — to make him fall in love with her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePixie quickly befriends and seduces the man who denies he’s James Franco. But Pixie has secrets of her own that soon threaten to derail their budding relationship before it even has a chance to begin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat unfolds is a sweet, comical romance between two illusionists that culminates in a dramatic confrontation at a major art show on Valentine’s Day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten as a teaser for Lynn Crosbie’s new novel about Kurt Cobain, \u003cem\u003eWhere Did You Sleep Last Night?\u003c\/em\u003e, \"Little Snowfall\" is fun and romantic nod to the hugely popular fan fiction genre.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Little Snowfall
"Little Snowfall" is a short story about a beautiful, young woman named Pixie, who suspects her new neighbour is James Franco.
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La Guerre, Yes Sir!
This first novel in Roch Carrier's La Guerre trilogy contains a wedding, a funeral, and a full company of Carrier's joyful, blaspheming characters.
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In the Orchard, the Swallows
Named a Book of the Year by both the Guardian and Chapters/Indigo, In the Orchard, the Swallows is a moving story of lost love in war-torn Pakistan.
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Tight dialogue and a protagonist who becomes a symbol of hope for a better world.\" — \u003cem\u003eLa Repubblica\u003c\/em\u003e (Italy)\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\"Gripping … an agonizing childhood in the Iran of the ayatollahs, with its revolutionary committees and moral police always lurking.\" — \u003cem\u003eStavanger Aftenblad\u003c\/em\u003e (Norway)\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\"[\u003cem\u003eI Hid My Voice\u003c\/em\u003e] is a new literary sensation. A child’s untold words become a scream against heartlessness and indifference.\" — \u003cem\u003ePanorama\u003c\/em\u003e (Italy)\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\"A voice as a metaphor for a country, Iran, where censorship rules.\" — \u003cem\u003eLa Gazzetta di Mantova\u003c\/em\u003e (Italy)\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\"Saniee skillfully integrates concepts and theories about the psychology of the child and demonstrates how easy it is to cause, as parents, irremediable damages to a child, but also how easy it is not to cause them…. Shahaab is not only a child who confronts a difficulty, his muteness is in fact that of a nation terrorized by a harsh regime…\" — \u003cem\u003eThe Cultural Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\"I would recommend this book to any parent as a compulsory reading, especially to those who have more than one child. I would recommend it to a father so he can better understand what happens in the soul of his child … The novel reveals two voices: Shahab and his mother; they bring to light the pain of the sensible and imaginative child, the pain of a mother who feels the truth and struggles with an absent father whose only desire is to work.\" — \u003cem\u003eSunday Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Saniee skillfully integrates concepts and theories about the psychology of the child and demonstrates how easy it is to cause, as parents, irremediable damages to a child, but also how easy it is not to cause them…. Shahaab is not only a child who confronts a difficulty, his muteness is in fact that of a nation terrorized by a harsh regime…","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"The Cultural Supplement","OtherText_Review_1":"I would recommend this book to any parent as a compulsory reading, especially to those who have more than one child. I would recommend it to a father so he can better understand what happens in the soul of his child … The novel reveals two voices: Shahab and his mother; they bring to light the pain of the sensible and imaginative child, the pain of a mother who feels the truth and struggles with an absent father whose only desire is to work.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Sunday Journal","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The story of a four-year-old boy who cannot speak and the shame it brings upon his family in modern-day Iran, based on real events.","ProductFormDescription":"epub","PublicationDate":"2016-08-06","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"The story of a four-year-old boy who cannot speak and the shame it brings upon his family in modern-day Iran, based on real events."}
I Hid My Voice
The story of a four-year-old boy who cannot speak and the shame it brings upon his family in modern-day Iran, based on real events.
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A House Divided
In this Anansi Digital work, James Laxer analyzes the descent of the United States into civil conflict.
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Homeland
Alissa York's contribution to Northwords, a cross-platform project that takes urban Canadian writers to some of the world’s most extreme environments.
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The Heaviest Dress
“[Silcoff is] like a latter-day Fran Lebowitz, or a less acidic David Rakoff." — Globe and Mail
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{"id":6582736748603,"title":"Hair Hat","handle":"hair-hat","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFeaturing a preview of Carrie Snyder’s highly anticipated debut novel, \u003cem\u003eGirl Runner\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnansi Digital brings you Carrie Snyder’s debut collection, \u003cem\u003eHair Hat\u003c\/em\u003e, “a potent work of original imagination.” (Edmonton Journal)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these mysterious and wondrous stories, eleven disparate people — some of them related, some of them neighbours, glancing acquaintances, or even complete strangers — are transformed by a man with hair shaped like a hat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe lives depicted here are familiar, observed in all their ordinary detail. 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Hair Hat
Carrie Snyder's wondrous first collection of stories, also featuring a preview of her powerful debut novel, Girl Runner.
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Hack Attack
The definitive, inside story about the behind-the-scenes phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World and News International.
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Graeme Gibson Interviews Alice Munro
In honour of Alice Munro’s Nobel Prize for Literature, Anansi Digital released a candid interview with Munro by Canadian novelist Graeme Gibson.
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The Goddess of Yantai
To protect the woman she loves, Ava Lee must infiltrate the seedy world of the Syndicate — a cabal of senior officials in the Chinese film industry.