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The Wayfinders
Distinguished anthropologist Wade Davis leads us on a fascinating tour through a handful of indigenous cultures.
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Dani fights for her dream, in spite of her father’s insistence that her older brother should be the one to play hockey. Mike finds the kind of family he has longed for in his coworkers at the restaurant where he works. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these seven stories by Laurel Croza (author of the award-winning picture books \u003ci\u003eI Know Here\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFrom There to Here\u003c\/i\u003e), five teenagers, a doll and a squirrel break out of the expectations placed upon them. 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A thoughtful read for a contemplative teen . . .” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"School Library Journal","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“. . . the stories are beautifully written and described. This short story collection would be a great tool within the classroom . . .” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCM Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"CM Magazine","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“[A] highly recommended collection of seven short stories about a series of fascinating and unique characters.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eResource Links\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Resource Links","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“[P]acked with emotional growth ... With \u003cem\u003eThe Whirlpool\u003c\/em\u003e, Laurel Croza has provided a worthwhile addition to the young CanLit collection of short story anthologies as it enlightens, reassures and inspires.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCanLit for Little Canadians Blog\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"CanLit for Little Canadians Blog","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"From Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner Laurel Croza comes a mesmerizing collection of short stories about the whirlpool of adolescence.","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2018-05-01","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd","ShortDescription":"From Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner Laurel Croza comes a mesmerizing collection of short stories about the whirlpool of adolescence.","Subtitle":"Stories","Width":"5","WidthCode":"in"}
ages 14
to 10
/ grades 9
to 5
The Whirlpool
From Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner Laurel Croza comes a mesmerizing collection of short stories about the whirlpool of adolescence.
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The White Cat and the Monk
A monk leads a simple life, studying his books and searching for truth. One evening, his cat, Pangur, leads the monk to the truth he has been seeking.
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The Wild Beasts of Wuhan
Ava Lee uncovers the secret world of art fraud in the third book in the wildly popular and bestselling Ava Lee series.
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{"id":7325038051387,"title":"The Winter War","handle":"the-winter-war","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn the surface, the Paul family are living the liberal, middle-class Scandinavian dream. Max Paul is a renowned sociologist and his wife Katriina has a well-paid job in the public sector. They live in an airy apartment in the centre of Helsinki. But look closer and the cracks start to show.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs he approaches his sixtieth birthday, the certainties of Max's life begin to dissolve. He hasn't produced any work of note for decades. His wife no longer loves him. His grown-up daughters — one in London, one in Helsinki — have problems of their own. So when a former student turned journalist shows up and offers him a seductive lifeline, Max starts down a dangerous path from which he may never find a way back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFunny, sharp, and brilliantly truthful, Teir's debut has the feel of a big, contemporary, humane American novel, but with a distinctly Scandinavian edge.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-08T12:48:07-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-08T12:48:07-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":false,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":43249240178747,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9781487000448","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"The Winter War - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":499,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9781487000448","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487000448.jpg?v=1736358407"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487000448.jpg?v=1736358407","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24979630129211,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487000448.jpg?v=1736358407"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487000448.jpg?v=1736358407","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eOn the surface, the Paul family are living the liberal, middle-class Scandinavian dream. Max Paul is a renowned sociologist and his wife Katriina has a well-paid job in the public sector. They live in an airy apartment in the centre of Helsinki. But look closer and the cracks start to show.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs he approaches his sixtieth birthday, the certainties of Max's life begin to dissolve. He hasn't produced any work of note for decades. His wife no longer loves him. His grown-up daughters — one in London, one in Helsinki — have problems of their own. So when a former student turned journalist shows up and offers him a seductive lifeline, Max starts down a dangerous path from which he may never find a way back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFunny, sharp, and brilliantly truthful, Teir's debut has the feel of a big, contemporary, humane American novel, but with a distinctly Scandinavian edge.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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{"id":6818431172667,"title":"The Withdrawal Method","handle":"the-withdrawal-method","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Trillium Award \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePasha Malla's extraordinary stories grant us entry into fascinating worlds: the complex world of children acting out half-understood fantasies of adulthood; the modern world of young couples navigating hairpin emotional turns; a near future world where Niagara Falls has run dry. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Withdrawal Method\u003c\/em\u003e is a remarkably inventive, assured, and smart collection from one of our best young writers, one who pairs emotional depth with great technical skill. These extraordinary stories peel back layers to reveal the strange, the wondrous, the unexpected.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-30T09:06:28-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-29T16:19:09-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Award Winning","Adult Short Stories","Astoria","By (author) Malla Pasha","pub date: 2008-04-01"],"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":40234019258427,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887848179","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"The Withdrawal Method - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":381,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887848179","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40234026172475,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887848995","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Withdrawal Method - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9780887848995","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40234028793915,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770898011","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Withdrawal Method - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770898011","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_02bfb77c-9123-4c5f-878b-28c8440cafc3.jpg?v=1678599373"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_02bfb77c-9123-4c5f-878b-28c8440cafc3.jpg?v=1678599373","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324543287355,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"width":1575,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_02bfb77c-9123-4c5f-878b-28c8440cafc3.jpg?v=1678599373"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_02bfb77c-9123-4c5f-878b-28c8440cafc3.jpg?v=1678599373","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Trillium Award \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePasha Malla's extraordinary stories grant us entry into fascinating worlds: the complex world of children acting out half-understood fantasies of adulthood; the modern world of young couples navigating hairpin emotional turns; a near future world where Niagara Falls has run dry. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Withdrawal Method\u003c\/em\u003e is a remarkably inventive, assured, and smart collection from one of our best young writers, one who pairs emotional depth with great technical skill. These extraordinary stories peel back layers to reveal the strange, the wondrous, the unexpected.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The Withdrawal Method
Haunting, fresh and humorous, Malla's inventive stories reveal the strange and wondrous found in familiar situations.
The World Beneath Her Feet
The new heartwarming novel from the bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart and The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
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{"id":7425232175163,"title":"The Wren","handle":"the-wren","description":"\u003cp\u003eA.F. Moritz’s twenty-third book of poems originated with an impulse, beginning in April 2019, to write a series of continuous poems. The first goal was to keep them short. The second was to make them separate, in the process reflecting the whole of human life, stable in moments and bodies. In \u003cem\u003eThe Wren\u003c\/em\u003e, Moritz arranges 70 short poems in a sort of galaxy: an apparent scatter, not of stars but of poems, of feeling-thoughts. What is the unity of these active “states” of ours, given that they do not simply follow, or hook onto, or neighbour, or echo one another in a chain of resemblance that seems to have gaps and missing links that reappear later, healed? The title was chosen partly to speak to Moritz’s \u003cem\u003eThe Sparrow: Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (2018), but also because, among the many short poems of this collection, one of them asked to be central: a poem about a small bird that hops from within a thicket of stems to peer out at the poet for a second and then disappears back inside. This tiny story of a tiny fellow creature is the narrative, the “novel,” of this book: a little story that is nonetheless one of the great and ever-retold stories.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-07-21T13:30:53-04:00","created_at":"2025-07-21T13:26:41-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult New Releases","Adult Poetry","By (author) Moritz A.F.","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2026-04-07"],"price":1899,"price_min":1899,"price_max":2299,"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":42334333698107,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487014049","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"The Wren - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2299,"weight":168,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487014049","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":42334333829179,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487014056","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Wren - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1899,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487014056","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_4c841530-c2b3-4ecd-a27a-02d25350bbf5.jpg?v=1753118822"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_4c841530-c2b3-4ecd-a27a-02d25350bbf5.jpg?v=1753118822","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover: The Wren by A. F. Moritz. An illustration of a wren perches on a branch, leaning forward and looking upward, over a beige background. The text appears in a serif font, with the title in a medium brown and the author's name in black.","id":25594413318203,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_4c841530-c2b3-4ecd-a27a-02d25350bbf5.jpg?v=1753118822"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_4c841530-c2b3-4ecd-a27a-02d25350bbf5.jpg?v=1753118822","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eA.F. Moritz’s twenty-third book of poems originated with an impulse, beginning in April 2019, to write a series of continuous poems. The first goal was to keep them short. The second was to make them separate, in the process reflecting the whole of human life, stable in moments and bodies. In \u003cem\u003eThe Wren\u003c\/em\u003e, Moritz arranges 70 short poems in a sort of galaxy: an apparent scatter, not of stars but of poems, of feeling-thoughts. What is the unity of these active “states” of ours, given that they do not simply follow, or hook onto, or neighbour, or echo one another in a chain of resemblance that seems to have gaps and missing links that reappear later, healed? The title was chosen partly to speak to Moritz’s \u003cem\u003eThe Sparrow: Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (2018), but also because, among the many short poems of this collection, one of them asked to be central: a poem about a small bird that hops from within a thicket of stems to peer out at the poet for a second and then disappears back inside. This tiny story of a tiny fellow creature is the narrative, the “novel,” of this book: a little story that is nonetheless one of the great and ever-retold stories.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The Wren
In The Wren, A.F. Moritz arranges 70 short poems in a sort of galaxy: an apparent scatter, not of stars but of poems, of feeling-thoughts.
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ages 4
to 2
/ grades K
to 2
The Zombie Prince
An empowering story about how friendship and imagination can help overcome bullying, illustrated by Governor’s General Award–winner Luc Melanson.
