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The Great Poochini
A very funny story full of adventure and punning for dog and opera lovers alike. Winner of the Governor General’s Award for illustration.
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The Good Body
Bill Gaston's classic hockey novel is a triumphant blend of mordant humour and heartbreak.
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The Farmer's Daughter comprises three witty, memorable portraits of decidedly unconventional lives.
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The Big Swim
A timeless and poignant story about a boy's first summer at camp, told with humor and wit.
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{"id":6818365898811,"title":"Queen of Hearts","handle":"queen-of-hearts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People and the IODE Violet Downey Book Award, and an American Library Association Notable Children's Book and a Kirkus Reviews Best Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIt's 1941, and Canada is two years into World War II. Meanwhile, in rural Manitoba, fifteen-year-old Marie-Claire Cote begins a war of her own as she and her brother and sister, all stricken with tuberculosis, are taken by their anguished parents to \"chase the cure\" at nearby Pembina Hills Sanatorium.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhile her roommate retains a dogged cheerfulness that is both heroic and irritating, Marie-Claire resists with all of her prideful strength while she fights her own illness and tries to seek privacy where there is none. Her father, overwhelmed by fear and guilt, never visits. 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Queen of Hearts
Set in a TB sanatorium during World War II, this is a haunting and ultimately joyful novel from Governor General's Award winner Martha Brooks.
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{"id":6818367602747,"title":"Patient Frame","handle":"patient-frame","description":"\u003cp\u003eGovernor General's Literary Award finalist and bestselling author Steven Heighton's considerable dramatic lyric powers reach a new sophistication and intensity in his astonishing collection \u003cem\u003ePatient Frame\u003c\/em\u003e. From the court of Medici to the My Lai massacre; from love for a daughter and mother, through nightmare and displacement, to moments of painful acceptance; from erotic passion to situations of deep moral failure, these poems are part of an ongoing search, a scanning of our human horizons for moments of lasting value. Heighton's work has long shown a resolve to achieve some viable rapprochement between the mind's cold structures and the earthbound drives of the body.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDynamic, vigorous, tender poems as engaged with the moment as they are with traditions of East and West. \u003cem\u003ePatient Frame\u003c\/em\u003e brings together more of Heighton's vital translations of poets as diverse as Jorge Luis Borges and Horace. \u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-29T16:14:47-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-29T14:20:56-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Award Winning","Adult Poetry","By (author) Heighton Steven","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2010-04-10"],"price":2295,"price_min":2295,"price_max":2295,"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":40232216330299,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887849527","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Patient Frame - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2295,"weight":145,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887849527","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4dde4de4-50f9-4ad4-8ac9-561964a2e408.jpg?v=1668328476"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4dde4de4-50f9-4ad4-8ac9-561964a2e408.jpg?v=1668328476","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22926477656123,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":612,"width":396,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4dde4de4-50f9-4ad4-8ac9-561964a2e408.jpg?v=1668328476"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":612,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4dde4de4-50f9-4ad4-8ac9-561964a2e408.jpg?v=1668328476","width":396}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eGovernor General's Literary Award finalist and bestselling author Steven Heighton's considerable dramatic lyric powers reach a new sophistication and intensity in his astonishing collection \u003cem\u003ePatient Frame\u003c\/em\u003e. From the court of Medici to the My Lai massacre; from love for a daughter and mother, through nightmare and displacement, to moments of painful acceptance; from erotic passion to situations of deep moral failure, these poems are part of an ongoing search, a scanning of our human horizons for moments of lasting value. Heighton's work has long shown a resolve to achieve some viable rapprochement between the mind's cold structures and the earthbound drives of the body.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDynamic, vigorous, tender poems as engaged with the moment as they are with traditions of East and West. \u003cem\u003ePatient Frame\u003c\/em\u003e brings together more of Heighton's vital translations of poets as diverse as Jorge Luis Borges and Horace. \u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Patient Frame
These dynamic, vigorous, tender poems are part of an ongoing search, a scanning of our human horizons for moments of lasting value.
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Our Lady of Guadalupe
An unusual and beautiful pop-up book that tells the miraculous story of how the Lady of Guadalupe appeared to Juan Diego, a humble peasant.
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O Resplandor
Erin Moure explores the idea that the act of reading is a practice of embodiment, containing all the experiences of the body itself.
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ages 14
and up
/ grades 9
and up
No Safe Place
A timely and gripping novel about four young migrants who seek safe haven in England and end up adrift in the English Channel.
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ages 9
to 12
/ grades 4
to 7
Home Is Beyond the Mountains
Samira is only nine years old when the Turkish army invades Persia in 1918, and her family must flee into the mountains. Will she ever see home again?
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Gordon is also, we discover in the first paragraph, recently deceased - although this is \"an event he failed to notice.\" When Gordon finds himself suddenly employed at the Heaven Book Company, the world's largest romance publisher, he begins to notice that something is odd: his routines within the company's walls, though familiar in some respects, have taken on a strange cast - stranger than is usual in the average suburban office.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith sly deadpan humour, brilliant insight into the human condition, and exceptionally beautiful writing, Schultz explores what it means to be truly alive only after you're dead.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Heaven is Small
With sly humour and brilliant insight, Schultz explores what it's like to be truly alive only after you're dead.
