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José Speaks Out
José Mujica is a former revolutionary, past president of Uruguay and climate activist. José's speech to the UN is part of the Speak Out series.
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Look! Look!
A girl in India discovers an ancient step well in this companion book to the creators’ much-loved Out of the Way! Out of the Way!
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A boy loves his garden and everything in it, especially the caterpillars who will become butterflies. But his pet chicken Coco loves them too ...
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The last two years have left Cassie stunned, unable to reconcile the shell of a woman lying in the hospital bed with the force of nature that was her mother. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCassie's memories of Nina span decades and landscapes, from a farmhouse in Massachusetts to the streets of New York and the mountains of New Mexico. Nina was a charismatic iconoclast—an architect and builder who could wield a circular saw as easily as discuss politics art. But as Cassie comes to realize, Nina's brilliant constructions were only possible when she walled off whole sides of herself. Hiding is not unique to Nina—Cassie knows AA is full of just such intelligent, hilarious, powerful women. And when her critical gaze turns to her own life and how she’s raising her two daughters, she sees her mother's influence everywhere. In the end, Nina's devastating descent threatens to pull the family under, and Cassie's constant action is propelled by grief until she realizes that all that remains is to let it go.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487011840","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487011840\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"344","OtherText_Accolades_0":"\u003cp\u003eNina is brilliant and drunk. She’s also a mother, whose children celebrate her gifts and struggle to survive her parenting. Sabrina Reeves’s first novel is as gorgeous, ruthless, and unforgettable as its protagonist.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Peter Behrens, author of the Governor General’s Literary Award–winning The Law of Dreams","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003eA portrait of childhood and motherhood that turns these concepts on their heads, shining a light over all their gaps and insufficiencies. Sabrina Reeves’s love of her characters is reckless and palpable, propelling the reader forward across every heartrending page.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Sean Michaels, Scotiabank Giller Prize winner and author of Do You Remember Being Born","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003eThere are never enough accounts of mothers and daughters; the bedside lamentations, the diversions, the lengths women must go to reach—and care—for each other, and very often, finally, just to let go. 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In \u003cem\u003eLittle Crosses\u003c\/em\u003e, when a mother requires critical intervention, her daughter balances the brilliant, neurotic exuberance of her mom’s life with her own, and with the entrenched aggravations of their complex time together. Sabrina Reeves creates a hypnotic character who invigorates a jubilant, intimate, painful, loving, and astonishing novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Trevor Ferguson, Hugh MacLennan Prize winner and author of The River Burns","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eWill appeal to women who find themselves stretched between caring for their young children and ageing parents.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReaders who face the challenge of caring for loved ones who struggle with alcoholism and addiction will find the story relatable. Good discussion points for book clubs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe author is married to David Usher of the band Moist. David is also an Anansi author. 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Little Crosses
A daughter examines her complicated relationship with a charismatic, narcissistic mother who now lives with alcohol-related dementia.
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The Animals Come Out
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A stylistically dazzling dystopian novel about things, people, and the forces and seams between them.
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A Year Without Mom
A stunning graphic novel debut, A Year Without Mom follows twelve-year-old Dasha through a year full of turmoil after her mother leaves for America.
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Every book of hers in an occasion to celebrate!Ó Ð Miriam Toews, author of Women Talking.","id":23324594634811,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"width":1575,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4fed8130-af39-454b-a37c-05fda233b45e.jpg?v=1678606397"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4fed8130-af39-454b-a37c-05fda233b45e.jpg?v=1678606397","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe highly anticipated new literary suspense novel from Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning author Lynn Coady.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter her mother’s sudden death, Karen finds herself back in her childhood home in Nova Scotia for the first time in a decade, acting as full-time caregiver to Kelli, her older sister. Overwhelmed with grief and the daily needs of Kelli, who was born with a developmental disability, Karen begins to feel consumed by the isolation of her new role. On top of that, she’s weighed down with guilt over her years spent keeping Kelli and their independent-to-a-fault mother, Irene, at arm’s length. And so when Trevor — one of Kelli’s support workers — oversteps his role and offers friendly advice and a shoulder to cry on, Karen gratefully accepts his somewhat overbearing friendship. When she discovers how close Trevor was to Irene, she comes to trust him all the more. But as Trevor slowly insinuates himself into Karen and Kelli’s lives, Karen starts to grasp the true aspect of his relationship with her mother — and to experience for herself the suffocating nature of Trevor’s “care.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScotiabank Giller Prize–winning author Lynn Coady delivers a creepy and wholly compelling novel about the complex relationship between mothers and daughters and sisters, women and men, and who to trust and how to trust in a world where the supposedly selfless act of caregiving can camouflage a sinister self-interest.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Every book of hers is an occasion to celebrate!","OtherText_Accolades_0_Src":"Miriam Toews","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Watching You Without Me is both a suspenseful, deeply creepy page-turner and a beautifully subtle character study of a grieving woman slowly unravelling while trying to understand how to care for her sister, and herself, in an ableist world. Another masterpiece from the singular Lynn Coady.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Zoe Whittall","OtherText_Accolades_2":"Watching You Without Me is like a Lorrie Moore book suffering a Patricia Highsmith fever dream. You slide right along on Coady’s witty and endearing style, and meanwhile the trap has closed over you without your ever standing a chance.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Jonathan Lethem","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eThese days, when I tell this story to friends, it’s always the moment Trevor lets himself in with his key the next day — a Sunday — that makes them kind of whoop in their seats. Or flop backward in a gesture of full-bodied incredulity. Or just stare at me like I’m an idiot. But, I explain, Trevor had a key, and that was what he was used to doing. Apparently my mother had given it to him for both of their convenience. The key was sanctioned. She hadn’t given it to any of the other care workers, but that was because, I assumed, they were on a rotation — you never knew who would be coming to bathe Kelli from week to week. Trevor, however, only covered walks, and he turned up like clockwork every Tuesday and Friday morning at ten on the dot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this was Sunday, some of my friends argue, and he wasn’t working, he was visiting. Yes, I say, but why would he deviate from habit? This was a house he had a key for, and whenever he came over, he would open the door and come in. That was his routine. So it’s understandable he’d do the same thing on Sunday he would’ve done on a Tuesday or Friday. Isn’t it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the time, I thought nothing of it. Trevor said he’d come at ten on Sunday, just as he did on Tuesdays and Fridays, and it was ten on the dot when he inserted his key in the door. Kelli and I had our jackets on, ready to go.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI have to admit, everything about that day was off. It started with Trevor’s insistence we all cram into the cab of his pickup truck when there was a perfectly comfortable two-door sedan parked in the driveway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“No,” said Trevor. “I’m more comfortable driving the truck.” As if the question of who would drive had already been discussed and dispensed with.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo Kelli got in the middle, which she was not too happy about, especially when I had to root around beneath her thighs and buttocks to find the middle safety belt, which it turned out had been used so rarely it had been all but consumed by the tuck of the seat. Then I stuffed myself in beside her, which I was not happy about because being crammed against my sister was a lot like cuddling up against a lavishly padded space heater. And then, of course, there was Trevor, squeezing in behind the wheel, calling, “Suck in your guts, girls!” before he closed the door.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Knee,” said Kelli a moment after we pulled out of the driveway. Which meant her right knee was cramping up, as it often did when she sat in close quarters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Your knee sore, Kelli?” I asked.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Knee sore.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“She’s got arthritis,” I explained to Trevor. “We should maybe get the sedan …”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrevor glanced down at Kelli’s thighs, like two massive, sweatpants-clad loaves of bread squashed together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Ah, you’re good, darlin.’”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Knee sore.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It’s a short trip.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was a thirty-minute trip out of town, the last five minutes of which took place along a winding dirt road that grew darker the deeper it took us into the woods.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is like a fairy tale, I remember thinking. But the cautionary, old-world kind, the kind that never bothered with happy endings. Where parents take their innocent and trusting children to the forest and abandon them for hungry old ladies to entice into their ovens, for talking wolves to swallow whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Kelli’s knee,” said Kelli.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Almost there, Beaner.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd it was true. All at once the woods opened up — also like a fairy tale, but this time of the Disney variety. Because what stood before us was a mansion. An honest-to-god Regency-style mansion like something out of Masterpiece Theatre. Where was the horse and carriage? Where were Mr. Darcy and the Bennett sisters? It had a Doric portico and French windows and buttresses and balustrades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is it,” said Trevor. “Barnbarroch Manor.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI burst out laughing. The angry kind.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“Moments of genuinely unnerving violence and aggression . . . What works so well in Coady’s new novel is not so much the moments when she tightens the narrative screws, but rather when she lingers on the warped material they are being screwed into.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“An enticing and propulsive two-bodies-on-a-collision-course plot . . . 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Watching You Without Me
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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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A Twilight Celebration
The eighth in the ten-book "Soifs" novel cycle. A Twilight Celebration is a spellbinding novel brimming with urgent concerns and irrepressible empathy, true to Blais' singular idiom.
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Songs for Angel
Ninth in the Soifs cycle, Songs for Angel interrogates violence and hate and takes us into the soul of a white supremacist on the verge of a racist attack.
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The Acacia Gardens
The seventh in the ten-book "Soifs" novel cycle. In The Acacia Gardens, memorable characters are confronted by an evil that lives among them and that has taken root.
