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{"id":6811306885179,"title":"I Am Ariel Sharon","handle":"i-am-ariel-sharon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA bold and innovative novel, \u003ci\u003eI Am Ariel Sharon\u003c\/i\u003e dives into the tortured mind of the controversial Israeli prime minister as he lies comatose and faces an ultimate reckoning.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward-winning Palestinian Canadian novelist Yara El-Ghadban imagines the confrontation at death’s door between Ariel Sharon, the “King of Israel,” and the women closest to him — his mother, his wives, and the mysterious nurse Rita. Like latter-day Greek furies, they lament the brutality of his life and maltreatment of the Palestinian people and demand he face up to his part in the bloodshed of Israel’s wars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is an extraordinary, magical, and impassioned story of nearly impossible empathy, the singular work of a novelist in full flight.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-21T17:15:46-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-21T12:33:05-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Award Winning","Adult BIPOC Voices","Arachnide Editions","By (author) El-Ghadban Yara","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2020-11-17","Translated by Grady Wayne"],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":2295,"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":40191006113851,"title":"trade paperback with flaps","option1":"trade paperback with flaps","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487007973","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"I Am Ariel Sharon - trade paperback with flaps","public_title":"trade paperback with flaps","options":["trade paperback with flaps"],"price":2295,"weight":209,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487007973","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40191006244923,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487007980","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"I Am Ariel Sharon - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487007980","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40191006343227,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487007997","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"I Am Ariel Sharon - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487007997","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_bb729d3a-c8de-49ff-b7be-bf8f6a028137.jpg?v=1654444813"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_bb729d3a-c8de-49ff-b7be-bf8f6a028137.jpg?v=1654444813","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22170967703611,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"width":1575,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_bb729d3a-c8de-49ff-b7be-bf8f6a028137.jpg?v=1654444813"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_bb729d3a-c8de-49ff-b7be-bf8f6a028137.jpg?v=1654444813","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA bold and innovative novel, \u003ci\u003eI Am Ariel Sharon\u003c\/i\u003e dives into the tortured mind of the controversial Israeli prime minister as he lies comatose and faces an ultimate reckoning.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward-winning Palestinian Canadian novelist Yara El-Ghadban imagines the confrontation at death’s door between Ariel Sharon, the “King of Israel,” and the women closest to him — his mother, his wives, and the mysterious nurse Rita. Like latter-day Greek furies, they lament the brutality of his life and maltreatment of the Palestinian people and demand he face up to his part in the bloodshed of Israel’s wars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is an extraordinary, magical, and impassioned story of nearly impossible empathy, the singular work of a novelist in full flight.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Now her crystalline French has been deftly and beautifully rendered into English by Wayne Grady: ‘I’m a grain of salt on the tongue of the earth. I dissolve in the mouths of the mountains of Sinai.’ This is a richly imagined, vitally important book.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Steven Heighton, Governor General’s Literary Award–winning author of The Waking Comes Late","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eYara El-Ghadban is an emerging writer in North America and is now being published in English for the first time.\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\n\u003cli\u003eThe novel was acclaimed when it was originally published in French.\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\n\u003cli\u003eFor fiction and nonfiction audiences alike.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\\n\u003c\\\/strong\u003e\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\n\u003c\\\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES:\u003c\\\/strong\u003e\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\n\u003c\\\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"By remaining in the liminal space of coma, I Am Ariel Sharon avoids partisan and political blind spots and addresses the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a perspective that history and analysis all-too-often tend to exclude: the humanity of a man, with all the horror and the light it encompasses. Here resides the great intelligence of Yara El-Ghadban’s book, which, taking up and going beyond Spinoza’s famous formula, reaffirms that literature can at once laugh, cry, hate, and understand.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Lettres québécoises","OtherText_Review_1":"Yara El-Ghadban paints a picture of a country devastated by an ethical shortcoming that affects everyone, Palestinians and Israelis. Through this chorus of female voices and through the character of a nurse who reads to the patient, she calls for wisdom.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"TelQuel","OtherText_Review_2":"[Yara El-Ghadban’s] prose forces us to look anew. Readers accustomed to the repetitive stories of textbooks and the media will be transported into the eye of the hurricane and enveloped in the close proximity and conflagration of war … and carried away by a pen that combines history and feeling with extraordinary panache. Don’t wait. 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I Am Ariel Sharon
I Am Ariel Sharon dives into the tortured mind of the controversial Israeli prime minister as he lies comatose and faces an ultimate reckoning.
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{"id":6819094528059,"title":"Compassion and Solidarity","handle":"compassion-and-solidarity","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the forthright style that has earned him a reputation for controversy, theologian Gregory Baum presents the Faith and Justice movement in the churches -- especially the Roman Catholic Church -- together with the considerable opposition to it. He discusses why many Christians are becoming activists, turning their faith into deeds by working for the liberation of the poor, not only in South America and the Third World but in Canada, as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBaum argues for a new ecumenism, permitting a more representative opinion within the Church and, in a larger sense, for what he believes are the fundamentals of a \"just society.\" He says that there is a new realization that God is on the side of the oppressed -- that Christians are here to help in the struggle for liberation.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-30T17:46:57-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-30T16:28:53-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Nonfiction","By (author) Baum Gregory","House of Anansi Press","Massey Lectures","pub date: 1992-09-29","The CBC Massey Lectures"],"price":1495,"price_min":1495,"price_max":1695,"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":40249733185595,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887845321","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Compassion and Solidarity - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1695,"weight":136,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887845321","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40249826934843,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887848513","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Compassion and Solidarity - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9780887848513","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40249828081723,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770895942","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Compassion and Solidarity - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770895942","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4141ed9c-069b-4322-8d24-14e100998e33.jpg?v=1653883209"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4141ed9c-069b-4322-8d24-14e100998e33.jpg?v=1653883209","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22140964634683,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.626,"height":575,"width":360,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4141ed9c-069b-4322-8d24-14e100998e33.jpg?v=1653883209"},"aspect_ratio":0.626,"height":575,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4141ed9c-069b-4322-8d24-14e100998e33.jpg?v=1653883209","width":360}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eIn the forthright style that has earned him a reputation for controversy, theologian Gregory Baum presents the Faith and Justice movement in the churches -- especially the Roman Catholic Church -- together with the considerable opposition to it. He discusses why many Christians are becoming activists, turning their faith into deeds by working for the liberation of the poor, not only in South America and the Third World but in Canada, as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBaum argues for a new ecumenism, permitting a more representative opinion within the Church and, in a larger sense, for what he believes are the fundamentals of a \"just society.\" He says that there is a new realization that God is on the side of the oppressed -- that Christians are here to help in the struggle for liberation.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Compassion and Solidarity
In his 1987 CBC Massey Lectures, Gregory Baum considers the Faith and Justice movement in the churches together with the considerable opposition to it.
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{"id":6819092004923,"title":"Designing Freedom","handle":"designing-freedom","description":"\u003cp\u003eDistinguished cyberneticist Stafford Beer states the case for a new science of systems theory and cybernetics. His essays examine such issues as The Real Threat to All We Hold Most Dear, The Discarded Tools of Modern Man, A Liberty Machine in Prototype, Science in the Service of Man, The Future That Can Be Demanded Now, The Free Man in a Cybernetic World. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDesigning Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e ponders the possibilities of liberty in a cybernetic world.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-30T17:46:54-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-30T16:28:20-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Nonfiction","By (author) Beer Stafford","House of Anansi Press","Massey Lectures","pub date: 1993-11-18","The CBC Massey Lectures"],"price":1495,"price_min":1495,"price_max":1795,"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":40249728892987,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887845475","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Designing Freedom - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1795,"weight":136,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887845475","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40249796296763,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887848551","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Designing Freedom - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9780887848551","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40249797705787,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770896079","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Designing Freedom - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770896079","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_28beee8c-f596-4343-9606-362306836f4f.jpg?v=1653883323"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_28beee8c-f596-4343-9606-362306836f4f.jpg?v=1653883323","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22140968075323,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.623,"height":1123,"width":700,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_28beee8c-f596-4343-9606-362306836f4f.jpg?v=1653883323"},"aspect_ratio":0.623,"height":1123,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_28beee8c-f596-4343-9606-362306836f4f.jpg?v=1653883323","width":700}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eDistinguished cyberneticist Stafford Beer states the case for a new science of systems theory and cybernetics. His essays examine such issues as The Real Threat to All We Hold Most Dear, The Discarded Tools of Modern Man, A Liberty Machine in Prototype, Science in the Service of Man, The Future That Can Be Demanded Now, The Free Man in a Cybernetic World. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDesigning Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e ponders the possibilities of liberty in a cybernetic world.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Designing Freedom
In his 1973 CBC Massey Lectures, distinguished cyberneticist Stafford Beer ponders the possibilities of liberty in a cybernetic world.
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Perspectives on Our Age
These interviews give unique insight into Jacques Ellul's life, his work, and the origins and development of his beliefs and theories.
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The Ethical Imagination
Ethicist and McGill University professor Margaret Somerville discusses how we can find a shared ethics for an interdependent world.
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The Tracey Fragments
A captivating look through the eyes of a girl piecing together the feelings and fragments of her quest to find a lost brother.
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Wings to Fly
In this sequel to Ticket to Curlew, Josie is glad to have a new friend arrive, someone with whom she can explore and dream about the future.
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19 Knives
Jarman's short stories employ dazzling linguistic verve and staggering metaphoric powers in every sentence.
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The Betrayal of Africa
This book in the Groundworks Guides series shows that today a real possibility for positive change in Africa now exists.
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ages 12
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and up
Two Moons in August
Martha Brooks deftly explores the worlds of mourning, family, friendship and love in this moving novel about healing and hope.