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Ablutions
From the author of the award-winning The Sisters Brothers comes a dark, boozy, and hilarious tale from the LA underworld.
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Book Uncle and Me
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Moving Targets
Moving Targets is an expansive and essential collection of critical prose by legendary novelist, poet, and essayist Margaret Atwood.
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Incorporating a grouping of new, previously unpublished work and a selection of important poems from her six earlier collections, this volume introduces North American readers to poetry that has been described by critics as “fearless,” “mesmerizing,” and “containing a surprising radicalism and power.”\u003c\\\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCamp’s work is recognized for its wide-ranging and eclectic subject matter, its technical control, and its musicality, with pop culture, high culture, the domestic confessional, close observation, and found language featured as recurring elements of style.\u003c\\\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA timely retrospective that represents a new chapter in Camp’s career, \u003ci\u003eHow to Be Happy Though Human\u003c\\\/i\u003e promises to gain a wide readership for this thoughtful, engaging, and popular writer.\u003c\\\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487009076","excerpt_0":"https:\\\/\\\/biblioshare.org\\\/BNCservices\\\/BNCServices.asmx\\\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487009076\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Anansi International","MetaKeywords":"Karen Solie; accessible poetry; mid-career poet; post covid reading; Dearly; Atwood; Jacinda Ardern; Mary Oliver; taika waititi; Eleanor Catton; Rupi Kaur; Lang Leav; Nayyirah Waheed; Patricia Lockwood; Yrsa Daley-Ward; poem of the day; north american debut; Jericho Brown; gift book; John Ashbery; Robert Hass; contemporary poetry; world literature; Fiona Apple; Olivia Gatwood; Life of the Party; Depression and Other Magic Tricks; Billy Ray Belcourt; gifts for mom; poetry month","NumberOfPages":"176","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINTRODUCING AN INTERNATIONAL POETRY SENSATION:\u003c\\\/strong\u003e\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eKate Camp has been much revered in New Zealand since her debut collection was published over twenty years ago, and has subsequently won all of the country’s major literary awards for poetry. She is highly respected and cited as an influence for up-and-coming poets worldwide. the publication of \u003cem\u003eHow to Be Happy Though Human\u003c\\\/em\u003e represents a career milestone as the first collection of her poetry to be published outside of NZ. It also represents the opportunity for a new and greater readership in North America to discover her unforgettable work and signals an exciting new direction in Anansi’s poetry program — a mandate to bring the best voices in international poetry to readers in North America. In NZ, Camp is published by Victoria University Press, the country’s preeminent independent literary publisher, who brought us acclaimed titles such as \u003cem\u003eThe Luminaries\u003c\\\/em\u003e by Eleanor Catton and \u003cem\u003eCan You Tolerate This?\u003c\\\/em\u003e by Ashleigh Young.\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\n\u003c\\\/ul\u003e\\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCRITICALLY ACCLAIMED MULTIDISCIPLINARY AUTHOR:\u003c\\\/strong\u003e\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eNot only is Camp an acclaimed and respected poet working at the height of her craft, but she is also an excellent and accomplished memoirist, essayist, and host of a nationally syndicated radio program, in which she offers commentary on classic literature. In 2016, she was the recipient of the prestigious Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship (one of New Zealand’s foremost literary awards) and in 2017 travelled to Menton, France for seven months to work on developing a new prose project. Her work in the memoir and essay form often traverses extremely personal themes, including infertility and addiction.\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\n\u003c\\\/ul\u003e\\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEXCITING, ECLECTIC POETICS:\u003c\\\/strong\u003e\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eCamp’s poetry has been praised for its wide-ranging, culturally attuned, and eclectic subject matter, often drawing from popular culture and diverse fields of reference such as medicine, anthropology, economy, and literature. Another hallmark of her poetics is an irresistible and powerful blend of humour and seriousness that makes her work engaging and accessible.\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\n\u003c\\\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Night Sky On Any Day In History\u003c\\\/strong\u003e\u003cbr \\\/\u003e\u003cbr \\\/\u003eI want you to look into an oncoming night.\u003cbr \\\/\u003eIs it a little green? Does it have the cool orange\u003cbr \\\/\u003ebeginnings of a streetlight? Tip your head back\u003cbr \\\/\u003eas someone with a nosebleed might.\u003cbr \\\/\u003eSurvey the lower sky. Are there chimneys\u003cbr \\\/\u003emaking mini city silhouettes? Satellite dishes,\u003cbr \\\/\u003etheir smooth, grey craters turned in one direction?\u003cbr \\\/\u003e\u003cbr \\\/\u003eYou might insist you hear a nightingale.\u003cbr \\\/\u003eMight see, at a distance, the huge screen\u003cbr \\\/\u003eadvertising an upcoming concert by the Beach Boys.\u003cbr \\\/\u003eYou could spend your time watching trains pull\u003cbr \\\/\u003etheir strings of yellow windows along in lines.\u003cbr \\\/\u003e\u003cbr \\\/\u003eOr you might come here, where I am,\u003cbr \\\/\u003ewhere I stand upon the rarely silent floor\u003cbr \\\/\u003elooking up at the rectangle moon\u003cbr \\\/\u003eof our neighbour's window.\u003c\\\/p\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"How to Be Happy Though Human introduces New Zealand’s Kate Camp’s eclectic and musical poetry to international audiences for the first time.","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2020-09-01","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"How to Be Happy Though Human introduces New Zealand’s Kate Camp’s eclectic and musical poetry to international audiences for the first time.","Subtitle":"New and Selected Poems","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
How to Be Happy Though Human
How to Be Happy Though Human introduces New Zealand’s Kate Camp’s eclectic and musical poetry to international audiences for the first time.
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The Hollow under the Tree
An escaped lion is hiding in the middle of the city, and it is up to Sadie and Theo to save him!
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Nostalgia for the Absolute
George Steiner considers the decline of formal religious systems and the consequent moral and emotional emptiness in Western culture.
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In this companion to best-selling titles A Family Is a Family Is a Family and A Kid Is a Kid Is a Kid, a child explores how to make a friend.
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The Wren
In The Wren, A.F. Moritz arranges 70 short poems in a sort of galaxy: an apparent scatter, not of stars but of poems, of feeling-thoughts.
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ages 7
to 10
/ grades 2
to 5
Leo and Ralph
Leo’s best friend is a short, furry alien named Ralph. The friends are forced say goodbye when Leo’s family moves away — but why should they?
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ages 13
to 18
/ grades 11
to 12
The Butterfly's Sting
For Bo and her siblings, the underground fight club may finally provide escape from life with an abusive uncle — but only if she can win.
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ages 8
to 12
/ grades 3
to 7
The Sunshine Project
In the final book in the Book Uncle trilogy, Anil faces a dilemma when the city decides to build a solar panel factory on the site of a mangrove forest.
