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{"id":6818430386235,"title":"The English Major","handle":"the-english-major","description":"\u003cp\u003eJim Harrison has been called \"a writer with immortality in him\" by London's Sunday Times, and the New York Times Book Review has written that \"[his] storytelling instincts are nearly flawless.\" Harrison's novel \u003cem\u003eReturning to Earth\u003c\/em\u003e was hailed by The Plain Dealer as an artistic achievement worthy of Faulkner.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe English Major\u003c\/em\u003e is a wryly funny novel that sparkles with the generous humanity of Harrison's vision. In it, he sends Cliff -- a sixty-something former teacher, divorced and robbed of his farm by a real-estate shark of an ex-wife -- on a road trip across America. Armed with a childhood puzzle and a mission to rename all the states and state birds, Cliff's adventures take him through a whirlwind affair with a former student to a snake farm in Arizona owned by an old classmate to the high-octane existence of his big-time movie producer son in San Francisco. \u003cem\u003eThe English Major\u003c\/em\u003e is the map of a man's journey into -- and out of -- himself, and it is vintage Harrison: reflective and sharp with wicked wit.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-30T09:06:22-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-29T16:17:51-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["By (author) Harrison Jim","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2008-09-02"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1895,"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":40233999958075,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887848353","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The English Major - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":299,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887848353","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40234004086843,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887849398","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The English Major - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9780887849398","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c9222ab1-73c8-4f6b-9f8d-4501fc67e1e1.jpg?v=1678601737"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c9222ab1-73c8-4f6b-9f8d-4501fc67e1e1.jpg?v=1678601737","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324562128955,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":595,"width":397,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c9222ab1-73c8-4f6b-9f8d-4501fc67e1e1.jpg?v=1678601737"},"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":595,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c9222ab1-73c8-4f6b-9f8d-4501fc67e1e1.jpg?v=1678601737","width":397}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eJim Harrison has been called \"a writer with immortality in him\" by London's Sunday Times, and the New York Times Book Review has written that \"[his] storytelling instincts are nearly flawless.\" Harrison's novel \u003cem\u003eReturning to Earth\u003c\/em\u003e was hailed by The Plain Dealer as an artistic achievement worthy of Faulkner.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe English Major\u003c\/em\u003e is a wryly funny novel that sparkles with the generous humanity of Harrison's vision. In it, he sends Cliff -- a sixty-something former teacher, divorced and robbed of his farm by a real-estate shark of an ex-wife -- on a road trip across America. Armed with a childhood puzzle and a mission to rename all the states and state birds, Cliff's adventures take him through a whirlwind affair with a former student to a snake farm in Arizona owned by an old classmate to the high-octane existence of his big-time movie producer son in San Francisco. \u003cem\u003eThe English Major\u003c\/em\u003e is the map of a man's journey into -- and out of -- himself, and it is vintage Harrison: reflective and sharp with wicked wit.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The English Major
A riotous, moving novel that sends a divorced 60+ former teacher on a road trip across America.
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Thrifty
An entertaining guide to living the richly frugal life by bestselling author and national columnist Marjorie Harris.
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{"id":6818368290875,"title":"What Becomes","handle":"what-becomes","description":"\u003cp\u003eA. L. Kennedy's remarkable new collection of stories shows us exactly what becomes of the broken-hearted. She reveals the sadness, violence, hurt, and terror, but also the redemption of love, and she does so with enormous human compassion, wild leaps of humour, and the brilliantly original linguistic skill that distinguishes her as one of the world's finest writers. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAlways attuned to the moment of epiphany, these twelve stories are profound, intimate observations of men and women whose lives ache with possibility. Each story is a dramatization of the instant in a life that exposes it all; love and the lack of love, hope and the lack of hope. These men and women are perfectly ordinary people whose marriages flounder; who sit on their own in a cinema watching a film with no soundtrack; who risk sex in a hotel with an anonymous stranger. 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L. Kennedy's remarkable new collection of stories shows us exactly what becomes of the broken-hearted. She reveals the sadness, violence, hurt, and terror, but also the redemption of love, and she does so with enormous human compassion, wild leaps of humour, and the brilliantly original linguistic skill that distinguishes her as one of the world's finest writers. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAlways attuned to the moment of epiphany, these twelve stories are profound, intimate observations of men and women whose lives ache with possibility. Each story is a dramatization of the instant in a life that exposes it all; love and the lack of love, hope and the lack of hope. These men and women are perfectly ordinary people whose marriages flounder; who sit on their own in a cinema watching a film with no soundtrack; who risk sex in a hotel with an anonymous stranger. 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There is nothing idealized about Kennedy's characters or the situations they find themselves in; instead, every story serves as a magnifying glass, revealing darker impulses and truths that we, as readers, often prefer to keep concealed.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Edmonton Journal","OtherText_Review_4":"Kennedy is that rarest kind of writer who combines wry emotional intelligence with technical impeccability.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Jessica Schagerl","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Matrix Magazine","OtherText_Review_5":". . . [a] harrowing collection . . . [A. L. 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What Becomes
Twelve remarkable stories show us what becomes of the broken hearted.
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{"id":6818368389179,"title":"O Resplandor","handle":"o-resplandor","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere is inventive new poetry from one of our most original and admired poets: Erin Moure, two-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry, winner of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and a finalist for the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoure's brilliant collection explores the idea that the act of reading contains all the experiences of the body itself: love, splendour, travel, doubling, loss. The \"resplandor\" of the title refers to the radiance of the body when the language of the book flows into ears and eyes. In unexpected ways -- through impossible translation, anachronistic journeys, and a fictional mystery that involves a search for a translator who exists only in the future beyond the book itself - \u003cem\u003eO Resplandor\u003c\/em\u003e confounds notions of authorship and translation, all while conveying the clamour over love and loss. Richly challenging and charged with Erin Moure's distinctive energy, \u003cem\u003eO Resplandor\u003c\/em\u003e is a work about the powerful light contained in the human body, in translation, and in poetry - even as it shows how these are all one and the same in the end: inventions.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-29T16:14:54-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-29T14:22:44-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Moure Erín","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2010-02-01"],"price":2295,"price_min":2295,"price_max":2295,"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":40232242217019,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887848148","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"O Resplandor - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2295,"weight":218,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887848148","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3100e96c-d2ba-477a-b261-7f16ed98471e.jpg?v=1682245667"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3100e96c-d2ba-477a-b261-7f16ed98471e.jpg?v=1682245667","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23431558955067,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.749,"height":577,"width":432,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3100e96c-d2ba-477a-b261-7f16ed98471e.jpg?v=1682245667"},"aspect_ratio":0.749,"height":577,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3100e96c-d2ba-477a-b261-7f16ed98471e.jpg?v=1682245667","width":432}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eHere is inventive new poetry from one of our most original and admired poets: Erin Moure, two-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry, winner of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and a finalist for the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoure's brilliant collection explores the idea that the act of reading contains all the experiences of the body itself: love, splendour, travel, doubling, loss. The \"resplandor\" of the title refers to the radiance of the body when the language of the book flows into ears and eyes. In unexpected ways -- through impossible translation, anachronistic journeys, and a fictional mystery that involves a search for a translator who exists only in the future beyond the book itself - \u003cem\u003eO Resplandor\u003c\/em\u003e confounds notions of authorship and translation, all while conveying the clamour over love and loss. Richly challenging and charged with Erin Moure's distinctive energy, \u003cem\u003eO Resplandor\u003c\/em\u003e is a work about the powerful light contained in the human body, in translation, and in poetry - even as it shows how these are all one and the same in the end: inventions.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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O Resplandor
Erin Moure explores the idea that the act of reading is a practice of embodiment, containing all the experiences of the body itself.
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Guilt About the Past
Internationally acclaimed author Bernhard Schlink (The Reader) explores the phenomenon of guilt in the aftermath of war.
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{"id":6818367111227,"title":"Heaven is Small","handle":"heaven-is-small","description":"\u003cp\u003eAward-winning author and poet Emily Schultz offers an immensely readable, funny, and sharp novel about a man who works for a Harlequin-like publisher, and gradually discovers that he has arrived in \"heaven.\" Like Will Ferguson's international bestseller, \u003cem\u003eHappiness\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHeaven is Small\u003c\/em\u003e is a smart, satirical novel from one of our best.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHeaven is Small\u003c\/em\u003e is the funny, layered, startling, and profound story of Gordon Small, a degree-clutching slacker and failed fiction writer. 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Heaven is Small
With sly humour and brilliant insight, Schultz explores what it's like to be truly alive only after you're dead.
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The Good Body
Bill Gaston's classic hockey novel is a triumphant blend of mordant humour and heartbreak.
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{"id":6818367635515,"title":"Bloom","handle":"bloom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBloom\u003c\/em\u003e is the electrifying debut collection from one of our best emerging poets. If a studio technician could \"remix\" poems by modern and contemporary poets so they retold the story of the Manhattan Project from the viewpoint of Louis Slotin, simultaneously putting Robert Lowell in whispered conversation with Ted Hughes, as vocalized by a Canadian physicist from Winnipeg, over the current state of literary utopian projects, we'd hear something nearly as captivating as Michael Lista's Bloom. As it is, we also get \"Lista\" swimming ghostlike through this palimpsest-narrative, inhabiting Slotin and brashly \"tickling the dragon's tail\" at the nucleus of untested notions of creation, stasis, and destruction. In \u003cem\u003eBloom\u003c\/em\u003e, one of the most dangerous historical fulcrums of the last century is somehow made viscerally present again, and, more wondrously, made to radiate outward into very current crises.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-12-15T08:49:34-05:00","created_at":"2022-03-29T14:21:05-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Lista Michael","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2010-04-03"],"price":2299,"price_min":2299,"price_max":2299,"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":40232218591291,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887849510","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Bloom - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2299,"weight":127,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887849510","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_7ffd6463-9f81-4fe2-ad17-7e3705891fcf.jpg?v=1695624631"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_7ffd6463-9f81-4fe2-ad17-7e3705891fcf.jpg?v=1695624631","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23815114096699,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.648,"height":611,"width":396,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_7ffd6463-9f81-4fe2-ad17-7e3705891fcf.jpg?v=1695624631"},"aspect_ratio":0.648,"height":611,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_7ffd6463-9f81-4fe2-ad17-7e3705891fcf.jpg?v=1695624631","width":396}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBloom\u003c\/em\u003e is the electrifying debut collection from one of our best emerging poets. If a studio technician could \"remix\" poems by modern and contemporary poets so they retold the story of the Manhattan Project from the viewpoint of Louis Slotin, simultaneously putting Robert Lowell in whispered conversation with Ted Hughes, as vocalized by a Canadian physicist from Winnipeg, over the current state of literary utopian projects, we'd hear something nearly as captivating as Michael Lista's Bloom. As it is, we also get \"Lista\" swimming ghostlike through this palimpsest-narrative, inhabiting Slotin and brashly \"tickling the dragon's tail\" at the nucleus of untested notions of creation, stasis, and destruction. In \u003cem\u003eBloom\u003c\/em\u003e, one of the most dangerous historical fulcrums of the last century is somehow made viscerally present again, and, more wondrously, made to radiate outward into very current crises.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The electrifying debut poetry collection from one of Canada's most exciting voices.
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{"id":6818367602747,"title":"Patient Frame","handle":"patient-frame","description":"\u003cp\u003eGovernor General's Literary Award finalist and bestselling author Steven Heighton's considerable dramatic lyric powers reach a new sophistication and intensity in his astonishing collection \u003cem\u003ePatient Frame\u003c\/em\u003e. From the court of Medici to the My Lai massacre; from love for a daughter and mother, through nightmare and displacement, to moments of painful acceptance; from erotic passion to situations of deep moral failure, these poems are part of an ongoing search, a scanning of our human horizons for moments of lasting value. Heighton's work has long shown a resolve to achieve some viable rapprochement between the mind's cold structures and the earthbound drives of the body.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eDynamic, vigorous, tender poems as engaged with the moment as they are with traditions of East and West. \u003cem\u003ePatient Frame\u003c\/em\u003e brings together more of Heighton's vital translations of poets as diverse as Jorge Luis Borges and Horace. \u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-29T16:14:47-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-29T14:20:56-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Heighton Steven","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2010-04-10"],"price":2295,"price_min":2295,"price_max":2295,"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":40232216330299,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887849527","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Patient Frame - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2295,"weight":145,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887849527","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4dde4de4-50f9-4ad4-8ac9-561964a2e408.jpg?v=1668328476"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4dde4de4-50f9-4ad4-8ac9-561964a2e408.jpg?v=1668328476","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22926477656123,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":612,"width":396,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4dde4de4-50f9-4ad4-8ac9-561964a2e408.jpg?v=1668328476"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":612,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4dde4de4-50f9-4ad4-8ac9-561964a2e408.jpg?v=1668328476","width":396}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eGovernor General's Literary Award finalist and bestselling author Steven Heighton's considerable dramatic lyric powers reach a new sophistication and intensity in his astonishing collection \u003cem\u003ePatient Frame\u003c\/em\u003e. From the court of Medici to the My Lai massacre; from love for a daughter and mother, through nightmare and displacement, to moments of painful acceptance; from erotic passion to situations of deep moral failure, these poems are part of an ongoing search, a scanning of our human horizons for moments of lasting value. Heighton's work has long shown a resolve to achieve some viable rapprochement between the mind's cold structures and the earthbound drives of the body.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eDynamic, vigorous, tender poems as engaged with the moment as they are with traditions of East and West. \u003cem\u003ePatient Frame\u003c\/em\u003e brings together more of Heighton's vital translations of poets as diverse as Jorge Luis Borges and Horace. \u003c\/p\u003e"}
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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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Evil in Return
Elena Forbes's thrilling creation Detective Tartaglia is back — this time to solve the grisly professional killing of a famous novelist.
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Give your child the tools and the confidence to master math with John Mighton's revolutionary JUMP at Home Math workbook for Grade 8.
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Their teachers often comment on the confidence the students have gained and the improvement they have shown in their daily work - all because of JUMP.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Principal, Toronto","OtherText_Review_6":"When I was in grades 1, 2, 3, and 4, I hated math a lot because it's so hard. But when John Mighton came and taught math to my class, I suddenly thought math was so fun and easy.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Student, Toronto","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Give your child the tools and the confidence to master math with John Mighton's revolutionary JUMP at Home Math workbook for Grade 1.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2004-07-20","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"JUMP at Home Math Workbooks","ShortDescription":"Give your child the tools and the confidence to master math with John Mighton's revolutionary JUMP at Home Math workbook for Grade 1.","Width":"8.375","WidthCode":"in"}
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Jump at Home: Grade 1
Give your child the tools and the confidence to master math with John Mighton's revolutionary JUMP at Home Math workbook for Grade 1.
