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{"id":6817703526459,"title":"Mister Roger and Me","handle":"mister-roger-and-me","description":"\u003cp\u003eHelen, alias \"Joe,\" would rather be a boy and have all kinds of adventures like Lady Oscar, her favourite cartoon heroine. She daydreams about living in another time and achieving great things, but she must be content delivering newspapers and working at the bingo hall. After all, she is only eight years old, even though she claims to be ten.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003eWhen Roger, an old man who drinks like a fish, swears like a sailor, and dreams about dying, moves into the working-class neighbourhood where Helen lives with her family, the two make uneasy acquaintances. 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Mister Roger and Me
A heartbreaking and hilarious story about the unlikely friendship between a spirited eight-year-old and her neighbour, a disgruntled old man.
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The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804-2012
An updated edition of the magisterial history of the Balkan region from the Misha Glenny, the bestselling author of McMafia and DarkMarket.
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Is Work Killing You?
From the bestselling author of The Little Book of Stress Relief comes the definitive guide to treating excessive stress in the workplace.
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Bone and Bread
A heady, powerfully emotional novel that is part family saga, part love story, and part mystery.
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The writing in this collection boils with meaning, beauty and menace, and signals the liftoff of an exciting new literary talent.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Michael Christie, author of The Beggar's Garden","OtherText_Review_1":"These fresh, edgy, unflinching stories about contemporary life on the urban and rural West Coast will resonate with readers at all stages of life: parents watching their children grow up too quickly, young couples starting families, brothers and sisters at crossroads in life coping with the fraying adulthood brings to childhood bonds.","OtherText_Review_10":"…an exceptional debut","OtherText_Review_10_Auth":"Zoe Whittall","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_11":"With this impressive debut collection, Théodora Armstrong establishes herself as a fresh and multi-faceted talent, capable of mining everyday human dramas to create evocative and lasting tales about the human condition.","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"PRISM International","OtherText_Review_12":"…Armstrong writes beautifully…","OtherText_Review_12_Auth":"Georgie Binks","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Christine Mazur","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_2":"[Armstrong] is a fresh, new voice in Canadian short fiction, but a fresh, new voice that’s already proven her to be a force in the form. 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Clear Skies is the kind of collection that leaves you satisfied, but wanting more.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Michelle Lalonde","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Montreal Gazette","OtherText_Review_5":"Théodora Armstrong’s début collection launches House of Anansi Press’s new short-fiction imprint, Astoria, in impressive fashion. This is a writer to watch, and a book not to be missed... These darkly intimate and subtly heart-breaking pieces are pure pleasure to read. Armstrong is an electrifying new voice on the short fiction scene.","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Stacey Madden","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Quill \u0026amp; Quire","OtherText_Review_6":"Armstrong’s themes of agency and inevitability are distilled to their essence and given another ironic twist, and her typically spare language is honed to a fine edge.","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Steven W. Beattie","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_7":"A worthwhile, well-honed collection that's probing and nuanced... Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility also highlights an author whose regional scope ought to be appreciated well past the borders of British Columbia.","OtherText_Review_7_Auth":"Brett Josef Grubisic","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_8":"The stories in this collection are a rare phenomenon, capable of taking the reader to places so familiar one forgets they’ve never been there. The writing is crisp, taut, and evocative, and each story has a separate pleasure to give. 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Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility
"Théodora Armstrong's stories are brash and brainy." - Mark Anthony Jarman
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{"id":6816229720123,"title":"Maggie \u0026amp; Me","handle":"maggie-amp-me","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLong-listed for the Green Carnation Prize and\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e' selection for Memoir of the Year.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"This amazing book tells the story of an appalling childhood with truth and clarity unsmudged by self-pity. It grips from beginning to end.\" — Diana Athill, Costa Book Award–winning author of Somewhere Towards the End \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrank McCourt's \u003cem\u003eAngela's Ashes\u003c\/em\u003e crossed with Billy Elliot, Maggie \u0026amp; Me is a unique, tender, and witty memoir of surviving the tough streets of small town Scotland during the Thatcher years.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eOctober 12, 1984. An IRA bomb blows apart the Grand Hotel in Brighton. 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Maggie & Me
A unique, tender, and witty memoir of surviving the tough streets of small-town Scotland during the Thatcher years.
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The Scottish Banker of Surabaya
The fifth installment in the popular Ava Lee series, The Scottish Banker of Surabaya exposes the dark world of money laundering and the Italian mob.
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Can the World Tolerate an Iran with Nuclear Weapons?
The tenth edition of the Munk Debates discusses if the world can tolerate an Iran with nuclear weapons?
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A brilliant collection from Michael Crummey, bestselling author of Galore.
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With the publication of the book coinciding with the fourth anniversary of the war’s end, I feel there will be a chance to get this message out both to Sri Lankans and to an American audience: wars can and do end, peace is possible so long as there is acknowledgment of wrongdoing to be set beside the necessity of forgiveness.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Lovingly written, historically rich and compassionate to all sides of the turmoil.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_1":"…with prose both lingering and breathtaking – the children, even the lane’s bully who could have been different with just the occasional kindness, will charm you, tease you, play with you, and when they leave you, they’ll shatter your heart.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"BookDragon, book review blog produced by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center (APAC)","OtherText_Review_2":"By the time Freeman’s characters are finally tested, some found wanting, some proving to be caring neighbours after all, the reader is thoroughly invested in the fate of all the residents on Sal Mal Lane.","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Joel Yanofsky","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"The Montreal Gazette","OtherText_Review_3":"Ru Freeman is a tender-hearted fireball.","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Hope Mills","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"The Millions","OtherText_Review_4":"There is something positively Russian in the feel of this book – in its full-bodied evocation of domestic lives...which, beyond logic and any ability I might have to convey it, draw us in almost hypnotically.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Kathleen Byrne","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_5":"It is the Heraths, and especially their children — Suren, Rashmi, Nihil and little Devi — who are at the heart of this generous story…They are wondrous to behold, with their intelligence, imagination and innocence. 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On Sal Mal Lane
This epic novel explores the lives of the families that live on Sal Mal Lane and the heartbreaking ways this once harmonious community turns to war.
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{"id":6816228114491,"title":"October 1970","handle":"october-1970","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLonglisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Selected as an Amazon.ca Best Book.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOctober 1970. Two kidnappings. One dead. A crisis unlike anything the country had ever seen — here is the story behind history…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThirty years after the October Crisis, Sam Nihilo, a freelance writer whose career is in a slump, is drawn to the conspiracy theories that have proliferated in the wake of the events. While investigating the death of one of the FLQ hostages, Nihilo sees his life consumed by an inquiry that leads him further into a flurry of facts, both known and newly discovered. Soon, secret agents, corrupt police officers, politicians, and former terrorists of the Front de Liberation du Quebec form a mysterious constellation around him, and at the centre lies a complicated and dangerous truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of Don DeLillo's \u003cem\u003eLibra\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOctober 1970\u003c\/em\u003e is a thrilling fictional account of the events that shaped one of the most volatile moments in recent history.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-25T16:27:50-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-25T14:33:45-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Arachnide Editions","By (author) Hamelin Louis","pub date: 2013-09-03","Translated by Grady Wayne"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":2495,"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":40213753856059,"title":"trade paperback with flaps","option1":"trade paperback with flaps","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770891036","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"October 1970 - trade paperback with flaps","public_title":"trade paperback with flaps","options":["trade paperback with flaps"],"price":2495,"weight":762,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770891036","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40213754314811,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770894105","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"October 1970 - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770894105","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40213755297851,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770897182","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"October 1970 - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770897182","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_19126a75-a07b-4f6e-ab03-f2ea6f16813b.jpg?v=1678596359"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_19126a75-a07b-4f6e-ab03-f2ea6f16813b.jpg?v=1678596359","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324486271035,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.671,"height":2692,"width":1805,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_19126a75-a07b-4f6e-ab03-f2ea6f16813b.jpg?v=1678596359"},"aspect_ratio":0.671,"height":2692,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_19126a75-a07b-4f6e-ab03-f2ea6f16813b.jpg?v=1678596359","width":1805}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLonglisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Selected as an Amazon.ca Best Book.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOctober 1970. Two kidnappings. One dead. A crisis unlike anything the country had ever seen — here is the story behind history…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThirty years after the October Crisis, Sam Nihilo, a freelance writer whose career is in a slump, is drawn to the conspiracy theories that have proliferated in the wake of the events. While investigating the death of one of the FLQ hostages, Nihilo sees his life consumed by an inquiry that leads him further into a flurry of facts, both known and newly discovered. Soon, secret agents, corrupt police officers, politicians, and former terrorists of the Front de Liberation du Quebec form a mysterious constellation around him, and at the centre lies a complicated and dangerous truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of Don DeLillo's \u003cem\u003eLibra\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOctober 1970\u003c\/em\u003e is a thrilling fictional account of the events that shaped one of the most volatile moments in recent history.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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October 1970. Two kidnappings. One dead. A crisis unlike anything the country had ever seen — here is the story behind history …
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The Polymers
The Polymers is a bold work from one of our most ambitious poetic minds.
