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{"id":7168139690043,"title":"Arms \u0026 Legs","handle":"arms-legs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA taut and suspenseful domestic drama that explodes the comforting and constricting confines of marriage and early parenthood.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a Florida almost claustrophobic with life, Georgie’s marriage has stagnated. But there’s no room to attend to it, as dangers small and large crowd in: teeth break, her son can’t find his words, there’s something in her husband’s eye, termites swarm the neighbourhood, and she finds a dead boy in the burning woods.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd then—there’s Jason.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the repercussions of her discovery of the body, and her affair, come to land, Georgie digs deep, examining the undercurrents of her actions with curiosity, humour, and cutting emotional intelligence. \u003cem\u003eArms \u0026amp; Legs\u003c\/em\u003e is a deliriously insightful excavation of love, desire, parenthood, and relationships at their best, and worst.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-07-27T14:34:20-04:00","created_at":"2023-07-27T14:29:14-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Anansi International","By (author) Lane Chloe","Feminist Reads","pub date: 2024-04-09","Thrillers \u0026 Mystery"],"price":1899,"price_min":1899,"price_max":2299,"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":41383001161787,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487012038","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Arms \u0026 Legs - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2299,"weight":236,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487012038","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":41383002046523,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487012045","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Arms \u0026 Legs - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1899,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487012045","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487012038.jpg?v=1709572447"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487012038.jpg?v=1709572447","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover: Arms and Legs, A Novel by Chloe Lane. A pair of legs from knees to toes sticks up vertically from the bottom of the cover. The legs are painted in a light skin tone with shading against a black background.","id":24263856619579,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2475,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487012038.jpg?v=1709572447"},"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2475,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487012038.jpg?v=1709572447","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA taut and suspenseful domestic drama that explodes the comforting and constricting confines of marriage and early parenthood.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a Florida almost claustrophobic with life, Georgie’s marriage has stagnated. But there’s no room to attend to it, as dangers small and large crowd in: teeth break, her son can’t find his words, there’s something in her husband’s eye, termites swarm the neighbourhood, and she finds a dead boy in the burning woods.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd then—there’s Jason.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the repercussions of her discovery of the body, and her affair, come to land, Georgie digs deep, examining the undercurrents of her actions with curiosity, humour, and cutting emotional intelligence. \u003cem\u003eArms \u0026amp; Legs\u003c\/em\u003e is a deliriously insightful excavation of love, desire, parenthood, and relationships at their best, and worst.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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When their troubled paths inevitably cross, they form a sacred bond based on the mutual understanding of what it means to be othered, illuminating the interconnectedness of humanity and our innate relationship with the natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-10-14T10:39:37-04:00","created_at":"2022-10-13T16:52:34-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult BIPOC Voices","By (author) Moorthy Rachael","House of Anansi Press","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2023-05-30"],"price":1999,"price_min":1999,"price_max":2499,"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":40874728063035,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487011420","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"River Meets the Sea - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2499,"weight":445,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487011420","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40874728226875,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487011437","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"River Meets the Sea - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1999,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487011437","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_7400e9d7-1aa9-4373-9032-0a612dec0786.jpg?v=1710327433"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_7400e9d7-1aa9-4373-9032-0a612dec0786.jpg?v=1710327433","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24315335540795,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"width":1575,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_7400e9d7-1aa9-4373-9032-0a612dec0786.jpg?v=1710327433"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_7400e9d7-1aa9-4373-9032-0a612dec0786.jpg?v=1710327433","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA spellbinding, spirited tale of two men exploring masculinity, race, and belonging in a desperate search to feel at home in their own skins.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn enthralling nautical epic, \u003cem\u003eRiver Meets the Sea\u003c\/em\u003e traces the dual timelines of a white-passing Indigenous foster child in 1940s Vancouver and a teenage immigrant in the suburbs of Nanaimo in the 1970s. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA natural-born storyteller, Ronny is a left-handed “alley mutt” without a birth certificate who searches for his mother everywhere — most powerfully, he hears her voice in the surging Stó:lō River. Born in the middle of the ocean on a merchant ship departing Sri Lanka, Chandra is a Tamil boy with “skin like a charred eggplant” who finds his haven from the pressure to assimilate by swimming and surfing in the Salish Sea. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoving gracefully between these parallel stories like a wave, the novel traces the seemingly separate lives of these sensitive young men and their everlasting connections to water. When their troubled paths inevitably cross, they form a sacred bond based on the mutual understanding of what it means to be othered, illuminating the interconnectedness of humanity and our innate relationship with the natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Moorthy’s protagonists, Chandra and Ronny, feel familiar in their search for meaning and belonging, even as they grapple with the implications of race and masculinity. 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River Meets the Sea
A spellbinding, spirited tale of two men exploring masculinity, race, and belonging in a desperate search to feel at home in their own skins.
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The Sultan of Sarawak
Ava Lee clashes with the most powerful family in Malaysian Borneo in this exhilarating new thriller from bestselling author Ian Hamilton.
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The much-anticipated follow-up to the multi-million-copy selling South Korean sensation Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982.
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The General of Tiananmen Square
Ava Lee squares off against the Chinese government over a controversial film in the latest thriller from bestselling author Ian Hamilton.
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Trembling River
From internationally acclaimed crime writer Andrée A. Michaud, a beguiling story of trauma and lost innocence.
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Democracy on Trial
In her 1993 CBC Massey Lectures, political philosopher Jean Bethke Elshtain delves into complex issues to evaluate democracy's chances for survival.
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{"id":6819076997179,"title":"O Cidadan","handle":"o-cidadan","description":"\u003cp\u003eA candid and passionate consideration of citizenship viewed through the feminine, \u003cem\u003eO Cidadan\u003c\/em\u003e examines borders in language and in the body, to explore ways in which we might rethink nation and community in our era. Erin Moure's poems pulse: they shift and overlap, echo, capture sensual and political hinges in our social topography. Drawing on puns, shadows, images, charts and crosswords, Moure's poetic forms belie any settled, safe habitation of the page -- extending the textual possibilities of language and expression, as Moure grapples with how we might exist as citizens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGritty, argumentative, funny, and moody, \u003cem\u003eO Cidadan\u003c\/em\u003e is Erin Moure's final volume in a decade-long trilogy of work exploring language, feeling, responsibility and identity within the liminal territories we occupy. The first, critically acclaimed volumes were \u003cem\u003eSearch Procedures\u003c\/em\u003e, nominated for the 1996 Governor General's Award for poetry, and \u003cem\u003eA Frame of the Book\u003c\/em\u003e (also called \u003cem\u003eThe Frame of a Book\u003c\/em\u003e), nominated for the 1999 QSPELL A. M. Klein Poetry Prize and the 1999 Pat Lowther Memorial Award.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-30T17:46:36-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-30T16:24:34-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Moure Erín","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2002-04-01"],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":1895,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40249710379067,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887846748","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"O Cidadan - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":263,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887846748","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_ca40531e-4132-4ab0-bd57-8ed60980c3a9.jpg?v=1682245605"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_ca40531e-4132-4ab0-bd57-8ed60980c3a9.jpg?v=1682245605","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23431558791227,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.665,"height":648,"width":431,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_ca40531e-4132-4ab0-bd57-8ed60980c3a9.jpg?v=1682245605"},"aspect_ratio":0.665,"height":648,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_ca40531e-4132-4ab0-bd57-8ed60980c3a9.jpg?v=1682245605","width":431}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eA candid and passionate consideration of citizenship viewed through the feminine, \u003cem\u003eO Cidadan\u003c\/em\u003e examines borders in language and in the body, to explore ways in which we might rethink nation and community in our era. Erin Moure's poems pulse: they shift and overlap, echo, capture sensual and political hinges in our social topography. Drawing on puns, shadows, images, charts and crosswords, Moure's poetic forms belie any settled, safe habitation of the page -- extending the textual possibilities of language and expression, as Moure grapples with how we might exist as citizens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGritty, argumentative, funny, and moody, \u003cem\u003eO Cidadan\u003c\/em\u003e is Erin Moure's final volume in a decade-long trilogy of work exploring language, feeling, responsibility and identity within the liminal territories we occupy. The first, critically acclaimed volumes were \u003cem\u003eSearch Procedures\u003c\/em\u003e, nominated for the 1996 Governor General's Award for poetry, and \u003cem\u003eA Frame of the Book\u003c\/em\u003e (also called \u003cem\u003eThe Frame of a Book\u003c\/em\u003e), nominated for the 1999 QSPELL A. M. Klein Poetry Prize and the 1999 Pat Lowther Memorial Award.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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O Cidadan
Moure's candid, passionate poetry explores the ways we might rethink nation and community.
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The Rivers North of the Future
David Cayley compiles Ivan Illich's moving and insightful thoughts concerning the fate of the Christian Gospel.
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The Way of the Screenwriter
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Augustino and the Choir of Destruction
The third in the ten-book "Soifs" novel cycle, this novel is set in a post-September 11 world on an island in the Gulf of Mexico.
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The City of Words
In his 2007 CBC Massey Lectures, renowned author Alberto Manguel takes a fresh look at the rise of violent intolerance in our societies.
