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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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{"id":6817706016827,"title":"Thrifty Gardening","handle":"thrifty-gardening","description":"\u003cp\u003eBestselling author and gardening columnist Marjorie Harris offers a timely and entertaining guide for gardeners at every stage of life. Whether you're moving into your first apartment or condo, upgrading to a house, or downsizing to smaller digs, Harris shares the best tips on how to create a beautiful garden for any space — all on a budget.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe highly anticipated sequel to her popular book \u003cem\u003eThrifty: Living the Frugal Life with Style\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Thrifty Gardener\u003c\/em\u003e marries Harris's passion for gardening with her thrifty lifestyle savvy so that everyone can create a natural oasis whatever their living situation is — and without breaking the bank.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-28T16:55:47-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-28T14:26:50-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Nonfiction","By (author) Harris Marjorie","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2012-03-03"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1995,"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":40220059172923,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887842719","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Thrifty Gardening - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":327,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887842719","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40220281077819,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770890541","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Thrifty Gardening - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770890541","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40220283043899,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770897762","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Thrifty Gardening - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770897762","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_8d657f93-5720-4a85-9261-42e1c4dcc643.jpg?v=1678597054"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_8d657f93-5720-4a85-9261-42e1c4dcc643.jpg?v=1678597054","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324504752187,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.742,"height":539,"width":400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_8d657f93-5720-4a85-9261-42e1c4dcc643.jpg?v=1678597054"},"aspect_ratio":0.742,"height":539,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_8d657f93-5720-4a85-9261-42e1c4dcc643.jpg?v=1678597054","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eBestselling author and gardening columnist Marjorie Harris offers a timely and entertaining guide for gardeners at every stage of life. Whether you're moving into your first apartment or condo, upgrading to a house, or downsizing to smaller digs, Harris shares the best tips on how to create a beautiful garden for any space — all on a budget.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe highly anticipated sequel to her popular book \u003cem\u003eThrifty: Living the Frugal Life with Style\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Thrifty Gardener\u003c\/em\u003e marries Harris's passion for gardening with her thrifty lifestyle savvy so that everyone can create a natural oasis whatever their living situation is — and without breaking the bank.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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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":6817705001019,"title":"Somewhere Over the Sea","handle":"somewhere-over-the-sea","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this deeply moving and elegantly written book, Halfdan W. Freihow takes Gabriel, his young autistic son, on a journey through the full spectrum of human experience. With great love, profound tenderness, and gentle wit, Freihow captures Gabriel's triumphs and disappointments, his joy and frustration, while struggling to help him make sense of a world that he himself does not, and cannot, fully comprehend. A powerful, honest, and achingly beautiful narrative, \u003cem\u003eSomewhere Over the Sea \u003c\/em\u003edescribes a complex, loving relationship that is sometimes fraught with misunderstanding, but always bolstered by unconditional love. A must-read for all parents.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-28T16:54:43-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-28T14:24:51-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Nonfiction","By (author) Freihow Halfdan W.","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2012-06-02","Translated by Ferguson Robert"],"price":1295,"price_min":1295,"price_max":1495,"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":40220048556091,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770891005","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Somewhere Over the Sea - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1495,"weight":209,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770891005","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40220190507067,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770891937","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Somewhere Over the Sea - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1295,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770891937","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40220192243771,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770897625","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Somewhere Over the Sea - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1295,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770897625","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_e4e4c5d8-9fd1-47d4-9489-22ebb4c2334d.jpg?v=1678596957"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_e4e4c5d8-9fd1-47d4-9489-22ebb4c2334d.jpg?v=1678596957","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324502655035,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.663,"height":2251,"width":1492,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_e4e4c5d8-9fd1-47d4-9489-22ebb4c2334d.jpg?v=1678596957"},"aspect_ratio":0.663,"height":2251,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_e4e4c5d8-9fd1-47d4-9489-22ebb4c2334d.jpg?v=1678596957","width":1492}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eIn this deeply moving and elegantly written book, Halfdan W. Freihow takes Gabriel, his young autistic son, on a journey through the full spectrum of human experience. With great love, profound tenderness, and gentle wit, Freihow captures Gabriel's triumphs and disappointments, his joy and frustration, while struggling to help him make sense of a world that he himself does not, and cannot, fully comprehend. A powerful, honest, and achingly beautiful narrative, \u003cem\u003eSomewhere Over the Sea \u003c\/em\u003edescribes a complex, loving relationship that is sometimes fraught with misunderstanding, but always bolstered by unconditional love. A must-read for all parents.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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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.
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A beautifully photographed book about three Guatemalan brothers who, after their grandfather's death, lead their family's Day of the Dead celebration.
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Zagreb Cowboy
Set in 1991 Yugoslavia, Zagreb Cowboy is the spectacular debut featuring one of the most compelling characters in crime fiction: Marko della Torre.
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Can the World Tolerate an Iran with Nuclear Weapons?
The tenth edition of the Munk Debates discusses if the world can tolerate an Iran with nuclear weapons?
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Bone and Bread
A heady, powerfully emotional novel that is part family saga, part love story, and part mystery.
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Killing Pilgrim
The second novel in the Marko della Torre series, Killing Pilgrim is a propulsive political thriller set against the backdrop of war-torn Yugoslavia.
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{"id":6816111132731,"title":"El Niño","handle":"el-nio","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInspired by J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, \u003cem\u003eEl Niño\u003c\/em\u003e tracks the survival of one woman and a young, undocumented migrant as they journey through the no-man’s-land of a remote southwestern desert.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHoney hasn’t seen her mother, Marianne, in more than two years. She drives deep into the once-prosperous border region of the Oro Desert for a surprise visit, only to discover that Marianne has vanished.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlone in an unforgiving environment populated with hostile locals, she meets Chávez, a young “coyote” or human trafficker, who convinces Honey he knows her mother’s whereabouts and agrees to take her there — for a price. As they make their way through the Oro’s brutal no-man’s-land they are tracked by Ocho, a teenage bounty hunter determined to recruit Chávez. 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El Niño
El Niño tracks the survival of one woman and a young, undocumented migrant as they journey through the no-man’s-land of a remote southwestern desert.
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The text says she asks what Grant’s work is. His French isn’t the best, but he knows cow is une vache. The woman shakes her head, laughs and leaves. The painting didn’t look much like a cow. To the right he is on the street by a painting of a brown cow. Paint supplies and a beret are on the ground. In the distance is the Eiffel Tower.","id":21808062005307,"position":4,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":2.538,"height":197,"width":500,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6ed135ff-720d-41ba-9377-376c1e97584e.jpg?v=1648149607"},"aspect_ratio":2.538,"height":197,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6ed135ff-720d-41ba-9377-376c1e97584e.jpg?v=1648149607","width":500}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eGrant Wood believed that to be a real artist, he had to live in Paris. But once he got there, he realized that to be a great painter he needed to return to the people and places—and even animals—that he knew and loved the best.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by the life of artist Grant Wood, this is the sensitively imagined story of the great American painter and a cow named Tillie. Skillfully mixing fact with fiction, Monica Kulling’s text explores the making of an artist, while Sydney Smith’s illustrations echo Grant Wood’s own techniques. The result is a gently wise picture book that will encourage young readers and artists to trust the love that is sometimes only found close to home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncludes an author’s note that provides biographical information about Grant Wood.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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ages 4
to 8
/ grades K
to 3
Grant and Tillie Go Walking
I realized that all the really good ideas I’d ever had came to me while I was milking a cow. So I went back to Iowa. — Grant Wood
