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{"id":6818430779451,"title":"The Order of Good Cheer","handle":"the-order-of-good-cheer","description":"\u003cp\u003eIndian summer, 1607. Intrepid explorer and map-maker Samuel de Champlain has founded a new and precarious settlement in Annapolis Royal, New France (present-day Nova Scotia). As winter looms, two threats emerge: boredom amongst the men and the deadly sickness scurvy. Champlain hits upon the idea of a moveable feast -- an order of \"good cheer\" -- where nobles and men can enjoy good local food, excellent wine, and camaraderie.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSeparated by the breadth of a continent and exactly four hundred years is twenty-first-century blue-collar worker Andy Winslow and his friends, whose urban landscape is threatened by encroaching environmental and economic disaster. In alternating narratives, award winning author and master storyteller Bill Gaston bridges the divide across land and time in this illuminating story about survival, love, friendship, and feast.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-30T09:06:25-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-29T16:18:34-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["By (author) Gaston Bill","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2008-06-01"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1895,"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":40234010968123,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887848162","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Order of Good Cheer - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":417,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887848162","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40234015653947,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887848872","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Order of Good Cheer - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9780887848872","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40234018046011,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770897243","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Order of Good Cheer - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770897243","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_100fef5a-7efd-4345-8a1f-2e3f28e04d56.jpg?v=1678600632"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_100fef5a-7efd-4345-8a1f-2e3f28e04d56.jpg?v=1678600632","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324555771963,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.633,"height":2343,"width":1482,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_100fef5a-7efd-4345-8a1f-2e3f28e04d56.jpg?v=1678600632"},"aspect_ratio":0.633,"height":2343,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_100fef5a-7efd-4345-8a1f-2e3f28e04d56.jpg?v=1678600632","width":1482}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eIndian summer, 1607. Intrepid explorer and map-maker Samuel de Champlain has founded a new and precarious settlement in Annapolis Royal, New France (present-day Nova Scotia). As winter looms, two threats emerge: boredom amongst the men and the deadly sickness scurvy. Champlain hits upon the idea of a moveable feast -- an order of \"good cheer\" -- where nobles and men can enjoy good local food, excellent wine, and camaraderie.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSeparated by the breadth of a continent and exactly four hundred years is twenty-first-century blue-collar worker Andy Winslow and his friends, whose urban landscape is threatened by encroaching environmental and economic disaster. In alternating narratives, award winning author and master storyteller Bill Gaston bridges the divide across land and time in this illuminating story about survival, love, friendship, and feast.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The Order of Good Cheer
Master storyteller Bill Gaston bridges land and time in this illuminating historical novel of camaraderie and companionship.
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{"id":6818367701051,"title":"Guilt About the Past","handle":"guilt-about-the-past","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe six essays that make up this compelling book view the long shadow of past guilt as a German experience as well as a global one. International bestselling author Bernhard Schlink explores the phenomenon of guilt and how it attaches to a whole society, not just to individual perpetrators. He considers how to use the lessons of history to motivate individual moral behaviour, how to reconcile a guilt-laden past, the role of law in this process, and how the theme of guilt influences his own fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBased on the Weidenfeld Lectures Schlink delivered at Oxford University, \u003cem\u003eGuilt about the Past\u003c\/em\u003e is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand how events of the past can affect a nation's future, tapping into worldwide interest in the aftermath of war and how to forgive and reconcile the various legacies of the past.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-29T16:14:48-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-29T14:21:14-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Nonfiction","By (author) Schlink Bernhard","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2010-04-03"],"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":40232220360763,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887849596","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Guilt About the Past - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":154,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887849596","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40232536932411,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887842696","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Guilt About the Past - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9780887842696","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40232540307515,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770896444","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Guilt About the Past - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770896444","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_7843f9a4-028a-41f2-befc-662a39308d4c.jpg?v=1678600719"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_7843f9a4-028a-41f2-befc-662a39308d4c.jpg?v=1678600719","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324555935803,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.625,"height":576,"width":360,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_7843f9a4-028a-41f2-befc-662a39308d4c.jpg?v=1678600719"},"aspect_ratio":0.625,"height":576,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_7843f9a4-028a-41f2-befc-662a39308d4c.jpg?v=1678600719","width":360}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eThe six essays that make up this compelling book view the long shadow of past guilt as a German experience as well as a global one. International bestselling author Bernhard Schlink explores the phenomenon of guilt and how it attaches to a whole society, not just to individual perpetrators. He considers how to use the lessons of history to motivate individual moral behaviour, how to reconcile a guilt-laden past, the role of law in this process, and how the theme of guilt influences his own fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBased on the Weidenfeld Lectures Schlink delivered at Oxford University, \u003cem\u003eGuilt about the Past\u003c\/em\u003e is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand how events of the past can affect a nation's future, tapping into worldwide interest in the aftermath of war and how to forgive and reconcile the various legacies of the past.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Guilt About the Past
Internationally acclaimed author Bernhard Schlink (The Reader) explores the phenomenon of guilt in the aftermath of war.
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{"id":6818367275067,"title":"The Good Body","handle":"the-good-body","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Good Body\u003c\/em\u003e is a triumphant blend of mordant humour and heartbreak. It tells the comic and poignant story of a retired pro-hockey ruffian named Bobby Bonaduce who is stubbornly ignoring a disease - multiple sclerosis - that may be killing him. Bobby returns to his hometown and scams his way into university in a misguided attempt to redeem his messy past and lay emotional claim to a son he abandoned twenty years earlier.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith this terrific novel, Bill Gaston demonstrates yet again that he is \"a writer of great empathy, capable it seems of getting beneath the skin of anybody.\" (2002 Giller Prize jury)\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-29T16:14:47-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-29T14:20:48-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["By (author) Gaston Bill","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2010-04-10"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1895,"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":40232214659131,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887849602","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Good Body - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":318,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887849602","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40232459272251,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887843020","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Good Body - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9780887843020","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40232462483515,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770896390","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Good Body - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770896390","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_bc55d974-c717-4fd5-a6e3-009fc7b94373.jpg?v=1678600554"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_bc55d974-c717-4fd5-a6e3-009fc7b94373.jpg?v=1678600554","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324555345979,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.657,"height":2400,"width":1576,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_bc55d974-c717-4fd5-a6e3-009fc7b94373.jpg?v=1678600554"},"aspect_ratio":0.657,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_bc55d974-c717-4fd5-a6e3-009fc7b94373.jpg?v=1678600554","width":1576}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Good Body\u003c\/em\u003e is a triumphant blend of mordant humour and heartbreak. It tells the comic and poignant story of a retired pro-hockey ruffian named Bobby Bonaduce who is stubbornly ignoring a disease - multiple sclerosis - that may be killing him. Bobby returns to his hometown and scams his way into university in a misguided attempt to redeem his messy past and lay emotional claim to a son he abandoned twenty years earlier.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith this terrific novel, Bill Gaston demonstrates yet again that he is \"a writer of great empathy, capable it seems of getting beneath the skin of anybody.\" (2002 Giller Prize jury)\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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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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Midsummer Night in the Workhouse
A new selection of Diana Athill’s beautifully written and perceptive short stories.
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A moving tribute to the power of friendship and the heart-opening effect that taking care of a wounded creature has on a wounded boy.
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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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David French's classic of Canadian drama tells the story of a Newfoundland family that has emigrated and lost all sense of its place in the world.
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To listen, visit \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.wolfeislandrecords.com\/stevenheighton\"\u003ewww.wolfeislandrecords.com\/stevenheighton\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"POETRY \/ Canadian \/ General","BISACSubject_0":"POE011000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTEVEN HEIGHTON\u003c\/strong\u003e (1961-2022)’s most recent books were the novel \u003cem\u003eThe Nightingale Won’t Let You Sleep\u003c\/em\u003e (Hamish Hamilton, 2017), the Governor General’s Literary Award–winning poetry collection \u003cem\u003eThe Waking Comes Late \u003c\/em\u003e(House of Anansi Press, 2016), and the memoir \u003cem\u003eReaching Mithymna\u003c\/em\u003e (Biblioasis, 2020), which was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. 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His fiction and poetry have been translated into ten languages, have appeared in the \u003cem\u003eLondon Review of Books, Tin House, Poetry, Brick, \u003c\/em\u003ethe \u003cem\u003eIndependent, \u003c\/em\u003ethe \u003cem\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and The Walrus Magazine, among others; have been internationally anthologized in \u003cem\u003eBest English Stories, Best American Poetry, The Minerva Book of Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBest American Mystery Stories\u003c\/em\u003e; and have won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry, the Gerald Lampert Award, the K. M. Hunter Award, the P. K. Page Founders’ Award, the Petra Kenney Prize, the Air Canada Award, and four gold National Magazine Awards. In addition, Heighton was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Trillium Book Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Journey Prize, the Moth Prize, and Britain’s W. H. Smith Award. Heighton was also a fiction reviewer for the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e. He lived in Kingston, Ontario. In 2021, Wolfe Island Records released an album of his songs, \u003cem\u003eThe Devil’s Share\u003c\/em\u003e. To listen, visit \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.wolfeislandrecords.com\/stevenheighton\"\u003ewww.wolfeislandrecords.com\/stevenheighton\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Heighton, Steven (CA)","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","EAN":"9780887846984","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9780887846984\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"96","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A collection of remarkably well-crafted love letters, letters of loss, and lyrical moments of complaint and redress.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2004-02-23","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A collection of remarkably well-crafted love letters, letters of loss, and lyrical moments of complaint and redress.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
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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Three Wishes
Deborah Ellis presents the stories of children of the war-torn Middle East, based on interviews with Israeli and Palestinian children.
