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The Secret Legacy
Nobel Peace Prize winner and noted Maya activist Rigoberta Menchú Tum returns once more to the world of her childhood in The Secret Legacy.
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The Greats
With the unexpected help of a giant prehistoric sloth, ghostly grandfathers return to help a suicidal teenager.
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{"id":6819077488699,"title":"When I Went to the Library","handle":"when-i-went-to-the-library","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhen I Went to the Library\u003c\/em\u003e celebrates the rich history and tradition of the library. It also reminds readers that simply going to the library or reading a book can lead to adventures and make for memorable stories. With an introduction by Michele Landsberg, a respected authority on children's books, \u003cem\u003eWhen I Went to the Library\u003c\/em\u003e reminds everyone -- especially children -- that the influence of libraries and books is alive and, like this memorable collection of stories, it is worth celebrating.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-30T17:46:37-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-30T16:24:42-04:00","vendor":"Groundwood Books Ltd","type":"","tags":["age range 8 - 12","Edited by Pearson Debora","Groundwood Books","pub date: 2002-04-01"],"price":995,"price_min":995,"price_max":995,"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":40249710903355,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780888995131","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"When I Went to the Library - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":995,"weight":177,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780888995131","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_42830080-774b-4523-939b-48253e2349f9.jpg?v=1731042018"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_42830080-774b-4523-939b-48253e2349f9.jpg?v=1731042018","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24903053803579,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":618,"width":400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_42830080-774b-4523-939b-48253e2349f9.jpg?v=1731042018"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":618,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_42830080-774b-4523-939b-48253e2349f9.jpg?v=1731042018","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhen I Went to the Library\u003c\/em\u003e celebrates the rich history and tradition of the library. It also reminds readers that simply going to the library or reading a book can lead to adventures and make for memorable stories. With an introduction by Michele Landsberg, a respected authority on children's books, \u003cem\u003eWhen I Went to the Library\u003c\/em\u003e reminds everyone -- especially children -- that the influence of libraries and books is alive and, like this memorable collection of stories, it is worth celebrating.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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When I Went to the Library
When I Went to the Library reminds everyone — especially children — that the influence of libraries and books is alive and worth celebrating.
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Erin Moure explores the limits of our notions of language, and plays with the power of words to convey meaning or intelligibility.
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This touching, witty novel introduces us to a number of voyages of discovery.
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The Myth of Ability
John Mighton’s revolutionary bestselling guide to how every child can learn math through his groundbreaking JUMP program.
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{"id":6819003695163,"title":"Crowd of Sounds","handle":"crowd-of-sounds","description":"Once in a long while a lyric poet comes along whose technique, emotional pitch, and intellect combine in sublime balance and take poetry to a new level. Witness Adam Sol.\n\nSol's work is exhilarating in its range. Here he is gentle and mournful, attuned to his surroundings, and suddenly over here he mounts a sneak attack and hits us with erotic joy, erotic threat, history, elegy, comic absurdity, and acts of disturbing ventriloquism somehow stitching it all together with a tightly scored thematic coherence.\n\nFor once our eyes are not our first concern, Sol writes, and in poem after poem, as he conducts jay, wasp, streetcar, busker, and lover's breath, he awakens our listening. These poems are about music but they are also about the silence it breaks, and the inevitable recurrence of that silence.","published_at":"2022-12-15T08:49:32-05:00","created_at":"2022-03-30T15:36:44-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Award Winning","Adult Poetry","By (author) Sol Adam","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2003-04-01"],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":1895,"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":40249577111611,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887846885","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Crowd of Sounds - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":118,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887846885","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a9573a09-5df2-43cc-bd78-243304677c81.jpg?v=1678596676"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a9573a09-5df2-43cc-bd78-243304677c81.jpg?v=1678596676","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324495183931,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":612,"width":396,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a9573a09-5df2-43cc-bd78-243304677c81.jpg?v=1678596676"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":612,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a9573a09-5df2-43cc-bd78-243304677c81.jpg?v=1678596676","width":396}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"Once in a long while a lyric poet comes along whose technique, emotional pitch, and intellect combine in sublime balance and take poetry to a new level. Witness Adam Sol.\n\nSol's work is exhilarating in its range. Here he is gentle and mournful, attuned to his surroundings, and suddenly over here he mounts a sneak attack and hits us with erotic joy, erotic threat, history, elegy, comic absurdity, and acts of disturbing ventriloquism somehow stitching it all together with a tightly scored thematic coherence.\n\nFor once our eyes are not our first concern, Sol writes, and in poem after poem, as he conducts jay, wasp, streetcar, busker, and lover's breath, he awakens our listening. These poems are about music but they are also about the silence it breaks, and the inevitable recurrence of that silence."}
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Crowd of Sounds
Adam Sol's sublime poems are about music, but they are also about the silence it breaks, and the inevitable recurrence of that silence.
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{"id":6818979020859,"title":"The Address Book","handle":"the-address-book","description":"\u003cp\u003eGovernor General's Award-finalist Steven Heighton employs his signature blend of emotional fierceness and linguistic beauty to tap into \"This whim \/ against what drifts to dark.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Address Book\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of remarkably well-crafted love letters, letters of loss, and lyrical moments of complaint and redress where music and intelligence are the last guard against wind walls of real grief. Elegiac, angry, tender, and brazenly heart-felt, these poems achieve their effect through total conviction; a complete immersion in the rich palette of human emotions — comfortable and otherwise. The collection's second half includes the author's versions from Western poetry's sustaining giants, including Beaudelaire, Rimbaud, Sappho, Catullus, Homer, and Rilke.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-30T15:33:47-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-30T14:20:38-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Heighton Steven","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2004-02-23"],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":1895,"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":40249494700091,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887846984","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"The Address Book - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":127,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887846984","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d63597b8-c44a-4c40-a898-8f22f17b7bd5.jpg?v=1653882805"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d63597b8-c44a-4c40-a898-8f22f17b7bd5.jpg?v=1653882805","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22140950118459,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.658,"height":608,"width":400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d63597b8-c44a-4c40-a898-8f22f17b7bd5.jpg?v=1653882805"},"aspect_ratio":0.658,"height":608,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d63597b8-c44a-4c40-a898-8f22f17b7bd5.jpg?v=1653882805","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eGovernor General's Award-finalist Steven Heighton employs his signature blend of emotional fierceness and linguistic beauty to tap into \"This whim \/ against what drifts to dark.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Address Book\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of remarkably well-crafted love letters, letters of loss, and lyrical moments of complaint and redress where music and intelligence are the last guard against wind walls of real grief. Elegiac, angry, tender, and brazenly heart-felt, these poems achieve their effect through total conviction; a complete immersion in the rich palette of human emotions — comfortable and otherwise. The collection's second half includes the author's versions from Western poetry's sustaining giants, including Beaudelaire, Rimbaud, Sappho, Catullus, Homer, and Rilke.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The Address Book
A collection of remarkably well-crafted love letters, letters of loss, and lyrical moments of complaint and redress.
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Perspectives on Our Age
These interviews give unique insight into Jacques Ellul's life, his work, and the origins and development of his beliefs and theories.
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Night Street Repairs
An astonishing work by a master of the poetic form operating at the height of his powers.
