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Heroes in My Head
The incredible story of renowned feminist activist Judy Rebick’s struggle with depression and Dissociative Identity Disorder.
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We will also be doing a targeted IndieNext campaign for Chicken.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA COMPANION TO THE CRITICALLY LAUDED \u003cem\u003eWHERE DID YOU SLEEP LAST NIGHT?\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eLynn Crosbie’s last novel, \u003cem\u003eWhere Did You Sleep Last Night?\u003c\/em\u003e was released to rave reviews (including a starred review in \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e), and in many ways \u003cem\u003eChicken\u003c\/em\u003e picks up the themes of love, power, desire, and devastation contributed to \u003cem\u003eWhere Did You Sleep Last Night?\u003c\/em\u003e’s critical appeal. The LA setting and sensuous, dreamlike narrative is also very similar to Eve Babitz’s \u003cem\u003eSex and Rage\u003c\/em\u003e, which was recently reissued to incredible fanfare.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLYNN CROSBIE’S CULT FOLLOWING:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eCrosbie has an international fanbase of artists, authors, and readers who admire her writing and explosive personality. She writes in the confessional tradition of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath and has received praise from Miriam Toews, Heather O’Neill, and Douglas Coupland, among others.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eU.S. OUTREACH:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eChicken\u003c\/em\u003e will be available on Edelweiss and NetGalley and galleys will be given away at ALA Annual. We will also be doing a targeted IndieNext campaign for Chicken.\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":"\u003cp\u003e“Chicken, the new novel by Toronto author and poet Lynn Crosbie, is a clamorous, electrifying kaleidoscope of sex and violence that veers toward sensory overload. But just when you think you can’t take any more, there are moments of desperate tenderness and melancholy that almost make you weep. Oh, and it’s funny too.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Crosbie’s prose is seductive and deft, and imbued with yearning . . . Chicken sounds a clarion call for the necessity and potential of transgressive literature — the kind that allows difficult, conflicting truths to exist simultaneously. Crosbie defiantly acknowledges both the deviant and the sacred, the romantics and rebels that exist in all of us.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuill and Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"An acidly funny, raw, and devastating love story of a decrepit, fallen film star and the young feminist filmmaker who revives his career.","ProductFormDescription":"Lossless Format Audio, WAV","PublicationDate":"2018-05-22","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"An acidly funny, raw, and devastating love story of a decrepit, fallen film star and the young feminist filmmaker who revives his career.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Chicken
An acidly funny, raw, and devastating love story of a decrepit, fallen film star and the young feminist filmmaker who revives his career.
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The Smile of the Wolf
In medieval Iceland dead men rise from the grave, monsters roam the hills, and two men try to avoid paying the ultimate price for murder.
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The memoir of growing up in a communist family at the height of the Cold War by the late esteemed historian, and political activist James Laxer.
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Twitch Force
A stunning volume of brave and original lyric poetry concerned with love and loss, despair and hope, aging and timelessness.
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The Family Clause
From acclaimed Swedish author Jonas Hassen Khemiri comes a novel about a family on the verge of collapse.
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Foresight
The second book in the gripping Ava Lee spin-off series features Uncle Chow Tung and his ascendancy to the head of the Triad gang in Fanling.
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The Shadow
Ruth Ware meets Shari Lapena in this internationally bestselling psychological thriller about the inescapable pull of destiny and revenge.
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Don’t miss it.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eEntertainment Vancouver\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Entertainment Vancouver","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“Irani’s storytelling is a mix of fanciful wordplay … punctuated by poetic insights.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eStir\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Stir","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem \u003eBuffoon\u003c\/em\u003e is full of powerful moments and rich metaphor.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBroadway World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Broadway World","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem \u003eBuffoon \u003c\/em\u003e… traces the evolution of a clown — thematically and conceptually — and his discovery of his art … [Irani] synthesizes slapstick with tragedy in a final moment that … lands with a shattering effect.”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Review_7_Auth":"Drew Rowsome","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"My Gay Toronto","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003eThree-time Governor General’s Literary Award–shortlisted author and playwright Anosh Irani’s critically acclaimed one-man show \u003cem\u003eBuffoon \u003c\/em\u003eis a masterclass of tragicomic theatre.\u003c\/p\u003e","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeName_0":"Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play","ProductFormDescription":"epub","PublicationDate":"2021-09-07","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003eThree-time Governor General’s Literary Award–shortlisted author and playwright Anosh Irani’s critically acclaimed one-man show \u003cem\u003eBuffoon \u003c\/em\u003eis a masterclass of tragicomic theatre.\u003c\/p\u003e","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Buffoon
Three-time Governor General’s Literary Award–shortlisted author and playwright Anosh Irani’s critically acclaimed one-man show Buffoon is a masterclass of tragicomic theatre.
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Dog Park
A ferociously plotted novel of intrigue, betrayal, and murder in the global fertility market.
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{"id":6582772072507,"title":"What Remains","handle":"what-remains","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA funny, poignant, and at times heartbreaking memoir about one mother and her love of beautiful \u003ci\u003eobjets \u003c\/i\u003e— and how it ultimately proved destructive.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeing left with a strand of even the highest quality milky-white pearls isn’t quite the same thing as pearls of wisdom to live by, as Karen von Hahn reveals in her memoir about her stylish and captivating mother, Susan — a mercurial, grandiose, Guerlain-and-vodka-soaked narcissist whose search for glamour and fulfillment through the acquisition and collection of beautiful things ultimately proved hollow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA tale of growing up in 1970s and 1980s Toronto in the fabulousness of a bourgeois Jew-\u003ci\u003eish\u003c\/i\u003e family that valued panache over pragmatism and making a design statement over substance, von Hahn’s recollections of her dramatic and domineering mother are exemplified by the objects she held most dear: from a strand of prized pearls, to a Venetian mirror worthy of the palace of Versailles, to the silver satin sofas that were the epitome of her signature style. 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She also describes the misunderstandings and sometimes hurt and pain that come with being raised by her stunning, larger-than-life mother who in many ways embodied the flash-and-glam, high-flying, wealth-accumulating generation that gave birth to our modern-day material culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlternating between satire and sadness, von Hahn reconstructs the past through a series of exquisitely impressionistic memories, ultimately questioning the value of the things we hold dear and — after her complicated, yet impossible-to-forget mother is gone — what exactly remains.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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What Remains
A funny, poignant, and at times heartbreaking memoir about one mother and her love of beautiful objets — and how it ultimately proved destructive.
