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The Disciple of Las Vegas
Ava Lee goes deep inside the shady world of online gambling in the second installment of the pulse-pounding series.
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{"id":6582724821051,"title":"Carry Me","handle":"carry-me","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSet during the decades between the First and Second World Wars, \u003ci\u003eCarry Me \u003c\/i\u003eis a devastating historical saga about war, love, and escape, from the Governor General’s Literary Award–winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Law of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe O’Briens\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarry Me\u003c\/i\u003e begins in 1909 on the Isle of Wight, England, and follows Billy Lange, the son of the skipper of a racing yacht belonging to a wealthy German-Jewish baron. 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It has been a long time since I’ve become tearful at the end of a novel but I must confess to doing so reading the final pages. The fate that befalls the young lovers at the centre of Carry Me is heartbreaking — and mesmerizing.”— Toronto Star\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Vividly imagined … This ambitious novel provides a panoramic view of a continent and a microscopic view of two individuals hovering precariously between the two World Wars … Moving seamlessly back and forth between times and countries, Behrens paints a stunningly intimate portrait in wide, universal strokes.” — Booklist\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “There’s no doubt about Behrens’ talent.” — Kirkus Reviews\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Behrens is so fine at both sweeping and granular evocations of history, so good at vividly and economically painting his minor players … [his] prose thrills to the indelible and irrevocable.” — Washington Post\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “A gripping story about a harrowing time in European history… Behrens is a gifted storyteller and Carry Me is no exception. It is not only a deeply researched historical novel, but it’s also a well-crafted and true tale of people, families and love affairs.” —Vancouver Sun\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “A powerful tale … the tension and the expertly drawn portrait of Europe at war make this novel a winner.” — Now Magazine\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Eventful … impressive use of the past as a mirror to the world we live in now.” — Quill \u0026 Quire\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “[Carry Me] is both poetry and cartography… . Behrens has mined truths so skillfully that in reading they can slip by unnoticed; they’re never glaring or contrived. They leave the reader with a feeling Billy describes as he’s driving across Germany… . Great writing keeps readers on this threshold, in liminal space, wanting to know and understand more than literature or life will allow, anxious for the next big lesson. Carry Me is full of this kind of searching, characters looking for a way to map their lives against war and love and change.” — Portland Press Herald\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Behrens is a beautiful, lyric writer. His understanding of the age and command of it, moment to moment, is impressive … everything is beautiful in the details, in the smallness of personal moments even as we know that no matter how calm, how peaceful the moment, it will not last.” — Jason Sheehan, NPR\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Carry Me’s perspective on war’s tragedies is beautifully composed, and heartbreakingly credible.” — Shelf Awareness\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Behrens is a master, at home in the broad sweep of history and the intimate detail of a character’s experience. This is a novel that could be, should be, read in a hundred years.” — Jury, The Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR PETER BEHRENS AND THE O’BRIENS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “[The O’Briens] is impressive in its scope and ambitious in its goals. Behrens’s writing is always tight, and some of his descriptions are flat-out jaw-dropping.” — Globe and Mail\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “A distinctly twentieth-century — and decidedly Canadian — family epic … pitch-perfect.” — National Post\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “The O’Briens is a major accomplishment” — New York Times\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Brimming with complex and nuanced characters, Behrens’s second novel lives up to the expectations set by his award-winning debut.” — Winnipeg Free Press\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Behrens’s characters are painfully real … the battle of the O’Brien family is as legendary and epic as any war.” — Telegraph-Journal\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “A truly wonderful writer who will no doubt be dominating the literary award nomination lists this fall.” — Montreal Gazette\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Behrens’ fine writing moves readers from one decade to the next, and we become more attached to each of the characters with each passing year … a sweeping Canadian saga that will carry readers along.” —Vancouver Sun\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR PETER BEHRENS AND THE LAW OF DREAMS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e Winner, Governor General’s Literary Award\u003cbr\/\u003eFinalist, Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize\u003cbr\/\u003eFinalist, Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Canada and the Caribbean): Best Book\u003cbr\/\u003eFinalist, CBA Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year\u003cbr\/\u003eFinalist, Amazon.ca\/Books in Canada First Novel Award\u003cbr\/\u003eLonglisted, IMPAC Dublin Literary Award\u003cbr\/\u003e An Amazon.ca Best Books of the Decade, 2000–2010 National Bestseller\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“[A]bsorbing, unsparing, and beautifully written […] a masterly novel.” — New York Times\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Behrens has fashioned a beautiful idiom for his book, studded with slippery archaisms and mournful, musical refrains […] the language and the things it describes seem to be spun out of a single material. And we move through it as willingly, or compulsively, as the protagonist, the wind of love and hate at our backs.” — Newsday\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“A work of richly empathetic imagination that reminds us once again of how powerful historical fiction can be in skilled hands. In fact, the story has a factual and emotional authenticity that calls to mind the similarly masterful debut Thomas Flanagan made with his now classic novel of Irish history, The Year of the French.” — LA Times\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“The Law of Dreams rings with a strange, hard poetry, a mingling of Behrens’s rich narrative voice and scraps of startling wisdom that seem to emanate directly from Fergus’s mind [… ] In the life of this determined young man, Behrens illuminates one of the nineteenth century’s greatest tragedies and the massive migration it launched. A novel that animates the past this vibrantly should make volumes of mere history blush. ‘Life burns hot,’ Fergus thinks, and so do these pages.” — Washington Post Book World\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Behrens’ use of crisp dialogue clearly conveys the fear, the longing and the unbridled hope of a young man teetering on the brink between starvation and salvation. But it is in his economical narrative that Behrens truly shines. ‘Life honed to the very edge. Sharpened on a whetstone. Chopping through the days. Working time like it was a sweep of hay.’” — Winnipeg Free Press\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“From a mountaintop in Ireland to the beckoning promise of America, there are scenes that will remain imprinted upon the reader’s mind. Peter Behrens is a tremendously talented writer.” — Alistair MacLeod\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“An emotional epic bearing echoes of Melville and Ondaatje, conveying scents and shimmers of a vanished world under the skin of our own.” — Jonathan Lethem\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “The Law of Dreams is the best literary adventure novel I’ve read since Lonesome Dove, a brilliant heart-felt celebration of the capacity of the human spirit.” — Howard Frank Mosher\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Behrens captures his narrator’s naïveté and the casual anti-Semitism of the times with great skill and intelligence … as true an observation about human nature as there is.","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Dennis Bock","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"New York Times Book Review","OtherText_Review_1":"Behrens is a powerful stylist.","OtherText_Review_10":"A powerful tale … the tension and the expertly drawn portrait of Europe at war make this novel a winner.","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Now Magazine","OtherText_Review_11":"Eventful … impressive use of the past as a mirror to the world we live in now.","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Quill \u0026amp; Quire","OtherText_Review_12":"Carry Me’s perspective on war’s tragedies is beautifully composed, and heartbreakingly credible.","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Shelf Awareness","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_2":"With stunning imagery and fully realized characters, Peter Behrens’ third novel is a worthy followup to The O’Briens and his critically acclaimed first novel, Law of Dreams … Timely in its depiction of North America as the mythical land of hope for so many, and timeless in its exploration of the effects of bigotry and the power of love, Carry Me is a brilliant and entertaining read.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_3":"Carry Me is another meditation on history and destiny … that make[s] the past feel stunningly close at hand.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Vogue","OtherText_Review_4":"Carry Me is a moving meditation on identity and belonging, and a love story to get happily lost in.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Montreal Gazette","OtherText_Review_5":"[A] staggeringly epic new novel about love and loss, identity and salvation in a society in the midst of a nervous collapse. It has been a long time since I’ve become tearful at the end of a novel but I must confess to doing so reading the final pages. The fate that befalls the young lovers at the centre of Carry Me is heartbreaking — and mesmerizing.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_6":"Vividly imagined … This ambitious novel provides a panoramic view of a continent and a microscopic view of two individuals hovering precariously between the two World Wars … Moving seamlessly back and forth between times and countries, Behrens paints a stunningly intimate portrait in wide, universal strokes.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_7":"There’s no doubt about Behrens’ talent.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_8":"Behrens is so fine at both sweeping and granular evocations of history, so good at vividly and economically painting his minor players … [his] prose thrills to the indelible and irrevocable.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Washington Post","OtherText_Review_9":"A gripping story about a harrowing time in European history… Behrens is a gifted storyteller and Carry Me is no exception. It is not only a deeply researched historical novel, but it’s also a well-crafted and true tale of people, families and love affairs.","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Set during the decades encompassing the First and Second World Wars, Carry Me is a devastating historical saga about love and family.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeName_0":"National Jewish Book Awards","PrizeName_1":"The Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature","PrizeYear_0":"2016","PrizeYear_1":"2017","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2016-02-20","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Set during the decades encompassing the First and Second World Wars, Carry Me is a devastating historical saga about love and family."}
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Set during the decades encompassing the First and Second World Wars, Carry Me is a devastating historical saga about love and family.
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Beyond Intelligence
An exploration of how best to nurture a child’s unique gifts, and set them on a path to a happily productive life — in school and beyond.
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Are Men Obsolete?
The 12th semi-annual Munk Debate takes on one of the biggest socio-economic phenomena of our time — the decline of the power and status of men.
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The 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology
The prestigious annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry from the shortlist of the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize.
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In Too Deep
The unlikely story of a bunch of small-town Canadian punks who conquered the global music industry
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Chinatown Vancouver
An illustrated history of the buildings in Vancouver’s Chinatown, celebrating the vibrancy of the Chinese community.
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She is a high school dropout with an MFA from Columbia University.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eSoft as Bones\u003c\/em\u003e is intended for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. There are many Cree-specific cultural artifacts and stories woven throughout each section, which fellow Indigenous people will find familiar. However, it is also very much intended for people wanting to learn and understand Canada’s history of colonialism and genocide against Indigenous peoples.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHealing and overcoming intergenerational trauma are the motifs of Chyana’s work and life. 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Soft as Bones
A poetic memoir as intricately woven as a dreamcatcher about overcoming the pain of generational trauma with the power of traditional healing.
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Widows and Orphans
In Port Ellis, there's no off-season for murder! No. 2 in the bestselling Quill & Packet Mystery series.
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A Daughter's Place
A sweeping historical romance inspired by the real-life daughter of Miguel de Cervantes, celebrated author of Don Quixote
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Everything Is Fine Here
A tender coming of age novel set in Uganda in which a young woman grapples with the truth about her sister in a country that punishes gay people.
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{"id":7299168141371,"title":"The Creation of Half-Broken People","handle":"the-creation-of-halfbroken-people","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStupendous African Gothic, by the winner of Yale University’s Windham–Campbell Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShowcasing African Gothic at its finest, The Creation of Half-Broken People is the extraordinary tale of a nameless woman plagued by visions. She works for the Good Foundation and its museum filled with artifacts from the family’s exploits in Africa, the Good family members all being descendants of Captain John Good, of King Solomon’s Mines fame.\u003cbr\u003e\nOur heroine is happy with her association with the Good family, until one day she comes across a group of protestors outside the museum. Instigating the group is an ancient woman, who our heroine knows is not real. She knows too that the secrets of her past have returned. After this encounter, the nameless woman finds herself living first in an attic and then in a haunted castle, her life anything but normal as her own intangible inheritance unfolds through the women who inhabit her visions.\u003cbr\u003e\nWith a knowing nod to classics of the Gothic genre, Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu weaves the threads of a complex colonial history into the present through people “half-broken” by the stigmas of race and mental illness, all the while balancing the humanity of her characters against the cruelty of empire in a hypnotic, haunting account of love and magic.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2024-08-29T18:02:52-04:00","created_at":"2024-08-29T17:56:32-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult BIPOC Voices","Adult Coming Soon","Anansi International","By (author) Ndlovu Siphiwe Gloria","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2025-04-08"],"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":41820383248443,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487013271","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Creation of Half-Broken People - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2499,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487013271","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":41820383379515,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487013288","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Creation of Half-Broken People - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1999,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487013288","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_690bf0e5-593f-46cb-b23c-dd0c12c75e0d.jpg?v=1730587409"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_690bf0e5-593f-46cb-b23c-dd0c12c75e0d.jpg?v=1730587409","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24892331393083,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2700,"width":1800,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_690bf0e5-593f-46cb-b23c-dd0c12c75e0d.jpg?v=1730587409"},"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2700,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_690bf0e5-593f-46cb-b23c-dd0c12c75e0d.jpg?v=1730587409","width":1800}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStupendous African Gothic, by the winner of Yale University’s Windham–Campbell Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShowcasing African Gothic at its finest, The Creation of Half-Broken People is the extraordinary tale of a nameless woman plagued by visions. She works for the Good Foundation and its museum filled with artifacts from the family’s exploits in Africa, the Good family members all being descendants of Captain John Good, of King Solomon’s Mines fame.\u003cbr\u003e\nOur heroine is happy with her association with the Good family, until one day she comes across a group of protestors outside the museum. Instigating the group is an ancient woman, who our heroine knows is not real. She knows too that the secrets of her past have returned. After this encounter, the nameless woman finds herself living first in an attic and then in a haunted castle, her life anything but normal as her own intangible inheritance unfolds through the women who inhabit her visions.\u003cbr\u003e\nWith a knowing nod to classics of the Gothic genre, Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu weaves the threads of a complex colonial history into the present through people “half-broken” by the stigmas of race and mental illness, all the while balancing the humanity of her characters against the cruelty of empire in a hypnotic, haunting account of love and magic.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The Creation of Half-Broken People
Stupendous African Gothic, by the winner of Yale University’s Windham–Campbell Prize
