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{"id":6582736650299,"title":"Hack Attack","handle":"hack-attack","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince 2006, award-winning investigative journalist Nick Davies has worked tirelessly — determined, driven, brilliant — to uncover the truth about the goings on behind the scenes at the News of the World and News International. This book brings us the definitive, inside story of the whole scandal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eHack Attack: The Inside Story of How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch\u003c\/em\u003e, Nick Davies reveals how he worked with a network of lawyers, politicians, and celebrities to expose the facts and to stand up to Rupert Murdoch, arguably one of the most powerful men in the world; how News International attempted to protect itself with lies and threats and money; how the police and the press regulators failed; how the prime minister ended up with the wrong man inside his office. 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The definitive, inside story about the behind-the-scenes phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World and News International.
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{"id":6582726918203,"title":"Congotronic special hardcover edition","handle":"congotronic-special-hardcover-edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Shane Book's poetry collection Congotronic is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second collection from Canadian poet and filmmaker Shane Book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once original, strange, funny, and unnerving, Shane Book’s \u003cem\u003eCongotronic\u003c\/em\u003e takes the reader into unstable territory, where multiple layers of voice, diction, and music collide. Some of these poems have the sparse directness of a kind of bleak prayer; others mingle the earthbound rhythms of hip-hop with the will-to-transcendence of high Romanticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarnessing techniques of the cinematic and audio arts, Book’s poems splice, sample, collage, and jump-cut language from an array of sources, including slave narratives, Western philosophy, hip hop lyrics, and the diaries of plantation owners.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book’s anchoring series contains an apocryphal narrative grounded in the journey of the Middle Passage and an older mythic history from the West African epic of Sundiata. Here is a world poet of the Sonic Global South sheathed in a Northern Hemispheric glow suit, high “on Coltrane, on Zeus” but also on the old and new schools of Descartes, M.I.A., Cecil Taylor, Gilbert Ryle, Freud, and Jay-Z, among others — or as one poem puts it, the \"aural truths.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:07:33-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:07:33-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult BIPOC Voices","Adult Poetry","Adult Special Edition","Anansi International","By (author) Book Shane","pub date: 2014-09-27"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"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":39403414880315,"title":"hardcover special edition","option1":"hardcover special edition","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770899025","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Congotronic special hardcover edition - hardcover special edition","public_title":"hardcover special edition","options":["hardcover special edition"],"price":1995,"weight":200,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770899025","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0969b2c0-7b1f-46bc-aa9a-a525a9aba98a.jpg?v=1678595587"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0969b2c0-7b1f-46bc-aa9a-a525a9aba98a.jpg?v=1678595587","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324463923259,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.8,"height":2999,"width":2400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0969b2c0-7b1f-46bc-aa9a-a525a9aba98a.jpg?v=1678595587"},"aspect_ratio":0.8,"height":2999,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0969b2c0-7b1f-46bc-aa9a-a525a9aba98a.jpg?v=1678595587","width":2400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Shane Book's poetry collection Congotronic is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second collection from Canadian poet and filmmaker Shane Book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once original, strange, funny, and unnerving, Shane Book’s \u003cem\u003eCongotronic\u003c\/em\u003e takes the reader into unstable territory, where multiple layers of voice, diction, and music collide. Some of these poems have the sparse directness of a kind of bleak prayer; others mingle the earthbound rhythms of hip-hop with the will-to-transcendence of high Romanticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarnessing techniques of the cinematic and audio arts, Book’s poems splice, sample, collage, and jump-cut language from an array of sources, including slave narratives, Western philosophy, hip hop lyrics, and the diaries of plantation owners.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book’s anchoring series contains an apocryphal narrative grounded in the journey of the Middle Passage and an older mythic history from the West African epic of Sundiata. Here is a world poet of the Sonic Global South sheathed in a Northern Hemispheric glow suit, high “on Coltrane, on Zeus” but also on the old and new schools of Descartes, M.I.A., Cecil Taylor, Gilbert Ryle, Freud, and Jay-Z, among others — or as one poem puts it, the \"aural truths.\"\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Congotronic special hardcover edition
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Shane Book's poetry collection Congotronic is limited to 50 copies.
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{"id":6582723084347,"title":"The Book of Fate","handle":"the-book-of-fate","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSelected as one of \u003cem\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/em\u003e's 75 Notable Translations of 2013\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpanning five turbulent decades in Iranian history, from before the 1979 revolution, through the Islamic Republic, and up to the present, \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Fate\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful story of friendship and passion, fear and hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA teenager in pre-revolutionary Tehran, Massoumeh is an average girl, passionate about learning. On her way to school she meets a local man and falls in love, but when her family discovers his letters they accuse her of bringing them dishonour. She is badly beaten by her brother, and her parents hastily arrange for her to marry a man she’s never met. 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Her fate, so long dictated by family loyalty and tradition, is now tied to the changing fortunes of her country.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:06:39-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:06:39-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult BIPOC Voices","Anansi International","Book Club Pick","By (author) Saniee Parinoush","pub date: 2013-08-31","Translated by Khalili Sara"],"price":1495,"price_min":1495,"price_max":1695,"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":39403408588859,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770893849","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Book of Fate - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770893849","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39412943454267,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770893832","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Book of Fate - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1695,"weight":535,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770893832","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39412943978555,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770895768","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Book of Fate - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770895768","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_a5d07009-6462-4e8d-8e23-5439856c088e.jpg?v=1723950087"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_a5d07009-6462-4e8d-8e23-5439856c088e.jpg?v=1723950087","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24743103168571,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_a5d07009-6462-4e8d-8e23-5439856c088e.jpg?v=1723950087"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_a5d07009-6462-4e8d-8e23-5439856c088e.jpg?v=1723950087","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSelected as one of \u003cem\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/em\u003e's 75 Notable Translations of 2013\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpanning five turbulent decades in Iranian history, from before the 1979 revolution, through the Islamic Republic, and up to the present, \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Fate\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful story of friendship and passion, fear and hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA teenager in pre-revolutionary Tehran, Massoumeh is an average girl, passionate about learning. 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Sad as it is, it imparts lessons of gratitude for what is taken for granted and for appreciating the goodness that helps one steer through life’s darkest periods. It is more an ode to women, not just of Iran but of societies all over the world, who have had to struggle to get their basic rights.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_3":"...this engrossing story is difficult to put down at any juncture.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_4":"...the novel was enlightening.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_5":"The Book of Fate is a gentle reminder to all of us that selflessness and loyalty to family are important as are moral values and goodness of heart. Sad as it is, it imparts lessons of gratitude for what is taken for granted and for appreciating the goodness that helps one steer through life’s darkest periods. It is more an ode to women, not just of Iran but of societies all over the world, who have had to struggle to get their basic rights.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_6":"Domestic drama, social revolution, exotic setting and a strong female narrator -- what more does a novel need?","OtherText_Review_0":"The Book of Fate is a gentle reminder to all of us that selflessness and loyalty to family are important as are moral values and goodness of heart. Sad as it is, it imparts lessons of gratitude for what is taken for granted and for appreciating the goodness that helps one steer through life’s darkest periods. It is more an ode to women, not just of Iran but of societies all over the world, who have had to struggle to get their basic rights.","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Faryal Leghari","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Gulf News","OtherText_Review_1":"...this family saga shines a bright light on what it is like to live according [to] the expectations of family and society.","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Emily Walz","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Minneapolis Star Tribune","OtherText_Review_2":"[The Book of Fate] thrusts open a window onto the tough choices in all women's lives...","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Nancy Wigston","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_3":"Domestic drama, social revolution, exotic setting and a strong female narrator -- what more does a novel need?","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Charlotte Duggan","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_4":"Saniee has successfully pursued the perennial theme of the potentially explosive interaction between the individual and society, as well as the consequences of discrimination, intolerance and extremism.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Veronica Sen","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Sydney Morning Hearld","OtherText_Review_5":"...this engrossing story is difficult to put down at any juncture.","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Tess Heckel","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Historical Novel Society","OtherText_Review_6":"...the novel was enlightening.","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Kate Wilson","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Dead Ink","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Spanning five turbulent decades in Iranian history, The Book of Fate is a powerful story of friendship and passion, fear and hope.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"03","PrizeName_0":"World Literature Today's 75 Notable Translations","PrizeYear_0":"2013","ProductFormDescription":"epub","PublicationDate":"2013-08-31","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Spanning five turbulent decades in Iranian history, The Book of Fate is a powerful story of friendship and passion, fear and hope."}
The Book of Fate
Spanning five turbulent decades in Iranian history, The Book of Fate is a powerful story of friendship and passion, fear and hope.
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The Acacia Gardens
The seventh in the ten-book "Soifs" novel cycle. In The Acacia Gardens, memorable characters are confronted by an evil that lives among them and that has taken root.
