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Some Things I've Lost
Everyday objects are transformed through exquisite paper sculptures.
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Like the wilderness into which Claire Fuller's characters disappear, Our Endless Numbered Days is rigged with barbs and poisons, tricks and tragedies. It’s weird and wild and sometimes terrifying, but it’s also beautiful and heartbreaking and breathlessly alive.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmy Stewart, author of New York Times Bestseller The Drunken Botanist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Amy Stewart, author of New York Times Bestseller The Drunken Botanist","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Graciously written and capriciously imagined, Our Endless Numbered Days holds up a magnifying lens to the human spirit and deftly captures both its fragility and its resilience. The brilliant ending, like the best endings do, casts new light on all that comes before it.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCathy Marie Buchanan, author of The Painted Girls\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Cathy Marie Buchanan, author of The Painted Girls","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“Our Endless Numbered Days is suspenseful, utterly riveting, and as dark as midnight in the forest.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eRebecca Hunt, author of Everland and Mr. Chartwell\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Rebecca Hunt, author of Everland and Mr. Chartwell","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“This young girl’s harrowing experience growing up in the wilderness and living only with her father establishes that what’s more terrifying than the perils of nature is being made captive by the ideals of one’s parents. 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I was much impressed by the conviction of the child’s-eye view, the vivid climate, and the power of the narrative.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePenelope Lively\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Penelope Lively","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“You don’t really know what’s going on in this surreal psychological thriller until the OMG–worthy denouement. Eight-year-old Peggy is kidnapped by her survivalist father, who tells her the world has come to an end and keeps her prisoner in a deserted cabin. The true horror of what happens to Peggy, a survivalist of a different stripe, emerges only in the final pages. Prepare yourself.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFlare\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Flare","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“Fuller’s book has the winning combination of an unreliable narrator and a shocking ending.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e“Both shocking and subtle, brilliant and beautiful, a poised and elegant work that recalls the early work of Ian McEwan in the delicacy of its prose and the way that this is combined with some very dark undertones.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDesmond Elliott Prize Jury\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Desmond Elliott Prize Jury","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A powerful and mysterious debut about a father and his eight-year-old daughter who abandon their family to live alone in the forest for nine years.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeName_0":"Desmond Elliott Prize for Best First Novel","PrizeYear_0":"2015","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2015-02-22","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A powerful and mysterious debut about a father and his eight-year-old daughter who abandon their family to live alone in the forest for nine years.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Our Endless Numbered Days
A powerful and mysterious debut about a father and his eight-year-old daughter who abandon their family to live alone in the forest for nine years.
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Kapusta
In Kapusta poetry flourishes as a book "beyond the book," in a space of performance that starts and stops time.
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The Global Refugee Crisis: How Should We Respond?
The eighteenth semi-annual Munk Debate discusses the West’s response to the global refugee crisis.
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The Exclusives
The Exclusives is a thriller that examines a schoolgirl friendship gone awry at an elite private school.
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{"id":6815267160123,"title":"The Butcher's Hook","handle":"the-butchers-hook","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnne Jaccob is coming of age in late eighteenth-century London, the daughter of a wealthy merchant. When she is taken advantage of by her tutor — a great friend of her father’s — and is set up to marry a squeamish snob named Simeon Onions, she begins to realize just how powerless she is in Victorian society. Anne is watchful, cunning, and bored.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer saviour appears in the form of Fub, the butcher’s boy. Their romance is both a great spur and an excitement. Anne knows she is doomed to a loveless marriage to Onions and she is determined to escape with Fub and be his mistress. But will Fub ultimately be her salvation or damnation? And how far will she go to get what she wants?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDark and sweeping, \u003cem\u003eThe Butcher’s Hook\u003c\/em\u003e is a richly textured debut featuring one of the most memorable characters in fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T12:06:57-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-24T09:49:06-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Anansi International","By (author) Ellis Janet","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2016-03-05"],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":2295,"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":40209203691579,"title":"trade paperback with flaps","option1":"trade paperback with flaps","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000998","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Butcher's Hook - trade paperback with flaps","public_title":"trade paperback with flaps","options":["trade paperback with flaps"],"price":2295,"weight":399,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487000998","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40209314611259,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487001001","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Butcher's Hook - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487001001","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40209315135547,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487001018","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Butcher's Hook - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487001018","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_1df9ce5e-2ca1-423d-b4ac-d2c916b455ad.jpg?v=1655624196"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_1df9ce5e-2ca1-423d-b4ac-d2c916b455ad.jpg?v=1655624196","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22243413786683,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.66,"height":2400,"width":1584,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_1df9ce5e-2ca1-423d-b4ac-d2c916b455ad.jpg?v=1655624196"},"aspect_ratio":0.66,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_1df9ce5e-2ca1-423d-b4ac-d2c916b455ad.jpg?v=1655624196","width":1584}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eAnne Jaccob is coming of age in late eighteenth-century London, the daughter of a wealthy merchant. When she is taken advantage of by her tutor — a great friend of her father’s — and is set up to marry a squeamish snob named Simeon Onions, she begins to realize just how powerless she is in Victorian society. Anne is watchful, cunning, and bored.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer saviour appears in the form of Fub, the butcher’s boy. Their romance is both a great spur and an excitement. Anne knows she is doomed to a loveless marriage to Onions and she is determined to escape with Fub and be his mistress. But will Fub ultimately be her salvation or damnation? And how far will she go to get what she wants?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDark and sweeping, \u003cem\u003eThe Butcher’s Hook\u003c\/em\u003e is a richly textured debut featuring one of the most memorable characters in fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The Butcher's Hook
Anne Jaccob, a nineteen-year old daughter of a wealthy merchant falls in love with Fub, the butcher’s son — an imperfect match.
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In scope and skill, Béchard's portrait of those who are both drawn to and entangled by conflict is reminiscent of the best works of Graham Greene and Philip Caputo. This novel is a fitting paean to the wrecked souls of an endless war.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Elliot Ackerman, author of Green on Blue","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInto the Sun\u003c\/em\u003e is ambitious, elegant, and filled with a kind of ferocious intelligence. Béchard explores the culture of the war zone, creating a compelling picture of that dark and turbulent place.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Roxana Robinson, author of Sparta","OtherText_Accolades_2":"We wake from this book as witnesses to Kabul, to America and to the crimes of men who need destruction to find definition and women desperate to understand. Béchard is channeling Melville and Conrad, their oceans and rivers replaced with dust and smoke. There are sentences on these pages that will be quoted in universities and taped to newsroom desks for a century.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Benjamin Busch, author of Dust to Dust","OtherText_Accolades_3":"Into the Sun is the sort of book I'm always hungry for — the serious novel in which the guns literally go off. Béchard makes me think of Graham Greene and Robert Stone, which is heady company, indeed.","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Richard Ford","OtherText_Accolades_4":"Deni Ellis Béchard's Into the Sun is an ambitious novel that succeeds on all levels. It's a riveting mystery-thriller that also probes deeper into the nature of war and the ways in which it attracts and transforms some people. 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The action is gripping, but what really propels the narrative along is a simmering, growing tension. . . . a hell of a good story.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_3":"Into the Sun, Béchard's latest novel, is a masterful blend of the best of long and short fiction techniques and proof of an exceptional imagination.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"The Ottawa Review of Books","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"When a car bomb explodes, a journalist is shocked to discover that the vehicle’s passengers three fellow ex-pats in an unlikely love triangle.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2016-09-24","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"When a car bomb explodes, a journalist is shocked to discover that the vehicle’s passengers three fellow ex-pats in an unlikely love triangle.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Into the Sun
When a car bomb explodes, a journalist is shocked to discover that the vehicle’s passengers three fellow ex-pats in an unlikely love triangle.
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Beautifully produced, exceptionally entertaining.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Midwest Book Review","OtherText_Review_2":"The story is stark and ambiguous … It’s this understatedness that lets the book’s sly humour land.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"The Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_3":"With quiet artwork and a story that has a fable-like quality to it, this title presents a unique addition to the picture book field.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Resource Links","OtherText_Review_4":"A charming modern-day fable, without a simplistic moral, about what makes for and what undoes the sense of otherness.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Brain Pickings","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A lonely mouse gazes up at the cat in the palace tower next door. 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/ grades P
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Friend or Foe?
A lonely mouse gazes up at the cat in the palace tower next door. Determined to find out if he is a friend, he bravely makes his way into the palace …
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ages 14
and up
/ grades 9
and up
Aluta
University life is better than Charlotte ever dreamed, but her exposure to new ideas in 1981 Ghana will be an exciting and dangerous adventure.
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A Florence Diary
A Florence Diary is the charming and vivacious account of Diana Athill’s travels to post-war Florence.
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Xiphoid Process
Award-winning Kevin Connolly’s new collection extends its author’s investigation of identity, authority, intention, and authenticity.
