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The Hockey Sweater and Other Stories
The Hockey Sweater, the title story in this 20-story collection, has become an enduring Canadian classic.
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A Friend Is a Friend Is a Friend
In this companion to best-selling titles A Family Is a Family Is a Family and A Kid Is a Kid Is a Kid, a child explores how to make a friend.
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El pan de la guerra
Parvana tiene 11 años y vive en Afganistán bajo el mandato de los talibanes. Cuando detienen a su padre buscará una solución desesperada: convertirse en un chico.
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Fake Gnus
Kid reporter Scoop Jackson asks readers to consider what is fake news and what is fact, while looking for the gnus that have escaped from their pen at the zoo.
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{"id":7325161750587,"title":"Flood","handle":"flood","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen a flood kills eleven-year-old Andy Flynn's mother and stepfather, the only world he has ever known is gone and he is alone. Aunt Mona, whom he has never met, takes him to live with her in Halifax, on the opposite side of the country. During the flight, Aunt Mona tells him harshly that his father was not a war hero killed in battle, as Andy's mother led him to believe, but a no-good thief and drunk who is very much alive in Halifax. Andy is stunned, and as soon as they reach their destination, he runs away from his aunt to find his father.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJames Heneghan's remarkable gift for storytelling shines as strongly as ever in this moving and funny tale.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-09T11:54:44-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-09T11:54:44-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":1295,"price_min":1295,"price_max":1295,"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":43250080120891,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780888994660","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Flood - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1295,"weight":174,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9780888994660","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":[],"featured_image":null,"options":["Title"],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eWhen a flood kills eleven-year-old Andy Flynn's mother and stepfather, the only world he has ever known is gone and he is alone. Aunt Mona, whom he has never met, takes him to live with her in Halifax, on the opposite side of the country. During the flight, Aunt Mona tells him harshly that his father was not a war hero killed in battle, as Andy's mother led him to believe, but a no-good thief and drunk who is very much alive in Halifax. Andy is stunned, and as soon as they reach their destination, he runs away from his aunt to find his father.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJames Heneghan's remarkable gift for storytelling shines as strongly as ever in this moving and funny tale.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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{"id":6818795585595,"title":"Revolver","handle":"revolver","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe highly anticipated follow-up to the award-winning poetry collection drift, Kevin Connolly's \u003cem\u003eRevolver\u003c\/em\u003e is a daring marriage of brilliant technical skill and explosive imagination. Each of the poems in this extraordinary collection is written in a different vocal register -- revolving through poetic voices with precise control and sharp wit. Connolly reveals himself to be one of the few poets in Canada who can pull off such a high wire act, and make it both thrilling and meaningful.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-30T10:30:45-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-30T09:10:54-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Connolly Kevin","House of Anansi Press","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":40247942774843,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887847950","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Revolver - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":136,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887847950","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40247944118331,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887849350","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Revolver - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9780887849350","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40247944773691,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770897441","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Revolver - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770897441","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_811118b5-f8f9-4f35-992a-8233293db9b2.jpg?v=1678600516"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_811118b5-f8f9-4f35-992a-8233293db9b2.jpg?v=1678600516","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324555214907,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_811118b5-f8f9-4f35-992a-8233293db9b2.jpg?v=1678600516"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_811118b5-f8f9-4f35-992a-8233293db9b2.jpg?v=1678600516","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eThe highly anticipated follow-up to the award-winning poetry collection drift, Kevin Connolly's \u003cem\u003eRevolver\u003c\/em\u003e is a daring marriage of brilliant technical skill and explosive imagination. Each of the poems in this extraordinary collection is written in a different vocal register -- revolving through poetic voices with precise control and sharp wit. Connolly reveals himself to be one of the few poets in Canada who can pull off such a high wire act, and make it both thrilling and meaningful.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Revolver
The poems of Revolver are a daring marriage of brilliant technical skill and explosive imagination.
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{"id":7325036544059,"title":"Day","handle":"day","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1939, Alfred Day had wanted war. And when he got it, he found purpose in its turmoil: he found his proper role as tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew; and -- most extraordinary of all -- he found Joyce, a woman to love. But now, that's all gone: the war took it away. And maybe the war has taken him away, too.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBefore Hitler and the bombs, Alfred was a boy in Staffordshire, helpless to defend his mother and resist his abusive father. The RAF gave him order, skills, another family, a way to be a man. It taught him how to burn through lifetimes on night ops and brief, sweet leaves, surviving. But it didn't prepare him for capture, for prison camp and chaos as the war wound down. And it certainly didn't prepare him for an empty peace. So, in 1949, Alfred winds back time to see where he lost himself as an extra in a POW film -- and begins to do what he's never dared -- to remember.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDay\u003c\/em\u003e, A. L. Kennedy has crafted a superb novel about the brutal simplicities of war and the complexities of human emotion. Above all,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDay\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis wonderful storytelling: the freight of history and humanity carried effortlessly by the beauty of the writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-08T12:12:54-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-08T12:12:54-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":1895,"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":43249278517307,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780887848087","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Day - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":363,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9780887848087","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887848087.jpg?v=1736356310"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887848087.jpg?v=1736356310","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24979625279547,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.63,"height":613,"width":386,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887848087.jpg?v=1736356310"},"aspect_ratio":0.63,"height":613,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887848087.jpg?v=1736356310","width":386}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1939, Alfred Day had wanted war. And when he got it, he found purpose in its turmoil: he found his proper role as tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew; and -- most extraordinary of all -- he found Joyce, a woman to love. But now, that's all gone: the war took it away. And maybe the war has taken him away, too.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBefore Hitler and the bombs, Alfred was a boy in Staffordshire, helpless to defend his mother and resist his abusive father. The RAF gave him order, skills, another family, a way to be a man. It taught him how to burn through lifetimes on night ops and brief, sweet leaves, surviving. But it didn't prepare him for capture, for prison camp and chaos as the war wound down. And it certainly didn't prepare him for an empty peace. So, in 1949, Alfred winds back time to see where he lost himself as an extra in a POW film -- and begins to do what he's never dared -- to remember.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDay\u003c\/em\u003e, A. L. Kennedy has crafted a superb novel about the brutal simplicities of war and the complexities of human emotion. Above all,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDay\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis wonderful storytelling: the freight of history and humanity carried effortlessly by the beauty of the writing.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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{"id":6813798531131,"title":"Chicken","handle":"chicken","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eWhere Did You Sleep Last Night\u003c\/i\u003e, an acidly funny, raw, and devastating love story of a decrepit, fallen film star and the young feminist filmmaker who revives his career.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in disparate parts of Los Angeles, \u003ci\u003eChicken \u003c\/i\u003euproariously, grievously, relates the collision and inevitably ruinous paths of two incendiary figures. One is the once beautiful and very famous Parnell Wilde, a maverick actor arrogant in his disastrous fall. The other is Annabel Wrath, a much younger, idiosyncratic cult filmmaker with contradictory motives for seeking the older man out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The two are profoundly altered by their meeting and its harrowing denouement and manage to save each other from their paths of torment and dizzying spirals of decline. 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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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{"id":7425234337851,"title":"Pitiful","handle":"pitiful","description":"\u003cp\u003e“This poem begins where Bulimia ends\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eor maybe, just maybe, when it started. Where\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ethe differential diagnosis is confused\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eby decades of self-made violence. Poverty,\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ecolonialism, god, all prisms that will shatter\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eone day, if not now…”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePart self-interrogation, part confession, part hospital diary, the intense, heartbreakingly frank poems in Brandi Bird’s second collection detail the author’s ongoing struggles with eating disorders and depression, conditions that disproportionately afflict Indigenous girls, women, and two-spirited persons. These challenging poems investigate the relationship between sexuality and eating disorders as well as how the voyeurism of religion (the idea of being eternally watched) intersects with both of those spheres. They also raise questions about body shaming and body sovereignty—a failed sovereignty in this case, as \"sovereignty\" itself is a communal concept. 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Where\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ethe differential diagnosis is confused\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eby decades of self-made violence. Poverty,\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ecolonialism, god, all prisms that will shatter\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eone day, if not now…”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePart self-interrogation, part confession, part hospital diary, the intense, heartbreakingly frank poems in Brandi Bird’s second collection detail the author’s ongoing struggles with eating disorders and depression, conditions that disproportionately afflict Indigenous girls, women, and two-spirited persons. These challenging poems investigate the relationship between sexuality and eating disorders as well as how the voyeurism of religion (the idea of being eternally watched) intersects with both of those spheres. They also raise questions about body shaming and body sovereignty—a failed sovereignty in this case, as \"sovereignty\" itself is a communal concept. In the tradition of poets like Amy Berkowitz (\u003cem\u003eTender Points\u003c\/em\u003e) and Hannah Green (\u003cem\u003eXanax Cowboy\u003c\/em\u003e), the poems in \u003cem\u003ePitiful\u003c\/em\u003e also lay bare the way patriarchy, medical sexism, and bigotry have not only sabotaged the treatment of such conditions but often make them worse.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Pitiful
Part self-interrogation, part hospital diary, these heartbreakingly frank poems detail the author’s struggles with eating disorders and depression.
