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{"id":6582745169979,"title":"Little Snowfall","handle":"little-snowfall","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Little Snowfall\" is a short story about a beautiful, young woman named Pixie, who suspects her new neighbour is James Franco. The problem is that her neighbour says his name is Edward and denies he is the famous actor\/artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePixie has a monstrous crush on James Franco and is sure that Edward is lying about his true identity. After hearing him say his stay is only temporary, she gives herself two weeks — by Valentine's Day — to make him fall in love with her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePixie quickly befriends and seduces the man who denies he’s James Franco. But Pixie has secrets of her own that soon threaten to derail their budding relationship before it even has a chance to begin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat unfolds is a sweet, comical romance between two illusionists that culminates in a dramatic confrontation at a major art show on Valentine’s Day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten as a teaser for Lynn Crosbie’s new novel about Kurt Cobain, \u003cem\u003eWhere Did You Sleep Last Night?\u003c\/em\u003e, \"Little Snowfall\" is fun and romantic nod to the hugely popular fan fiction genre.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:11:15-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:11:15-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Anansi Digital","By (author) Crosbie Lynn","pub date: 2015-02-14"],"price":199,"price_min":199,"price_max":199,"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":39403441619003,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000660","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Little Snowfall - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":199,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487000660","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":39413547860027,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000677","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Little Snowfall - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":199,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487000677","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_a5777d62-6a1b-44e4-828e-f143cb33cc31.jpg?v=1723949613"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_a5777d62-6a1b-44e4-828e-f143cb33cc31.jpg?v=1723949613","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24743102185531,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_a5777d62-6a1b-44e4-828e-f143cb33cc31.jpg?v=1723949613"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_a5777d62-6a1b-44e4-828e-f143cb33cc31.jpg?v=1723949613","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\"Little Snowfall\" is a short story about a beautiful, young woman named Pixie, who suspects her new neighbour is James Franco. The problem is that her neighbour says his name is Edward and denies he is the famous actor\/artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePixie has a monstrous crush on James Franco and is sure that Edward is lying about his true identity. After hearing him say his stay is only temporary, she gives herself two weeks — by Valentine's Day — to make him fall in love with her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePixie quickly befriends and seduces the man who denies he’s James Franco. But Pixie has secrets of her own that soon threaten to derail their budding relationship before it even has a chance to begin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat unfolds is a sweet, comical romance between two illusionists that culminates in a dramatic confrontation at a major art show on Valentine’s Day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten as a teaser for Lynn Crosbie’s new novel about Kurt Cobain, \u003cem\u003eWhere Did You Sleep Last Night?\u003c\/em\u003e, \"Little Snowfall\" is fun and romantic nod to the hugely popular fan fiction genre.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Little Snowfall
"Little Snowfall" is a short story about a beautiful, young woman named Pixie, who suspects her new neighbour is James Franco.
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{"id":6814254235707,"title":"Passing Ceremony","handle":"passing-ceremony","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe brilliant debut novel by Helen Weinzweig, one of the first feminist writers in Canada and the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eBasic Black With Pearls\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Helen Weinzweig’s brilliant debut novel, a wedding reception becomes a gothic dream. The bride is not all she seems and there is something ambiguous about the groom — and just about everyone else at the surreal and strangely moving wedding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike a piece of music, \u003ci\u003ePassing Ceremony\u003c\/i\u003e is composed of brief, suggestive fragments that grow into a tightly integrated whole. There are bits of real and imagined conversation; polite dialogues that slide into mad comic banality; and scenes that could be quiet nightmares out of Borges. A satire and a rueful meditation on the ways people hurt one another, Weinzweig gives us a world suspended in time, an uneasy territory of the soul, which we all inhabit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition features a new introduction by Jim Polk.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T09:40:27-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-23T13:25:04-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["A List","By (author) Weinzweig Helen","Feminist Reads","Introduction by Polk Jim","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2017-08-26"],"price":1495,"price_min":1495,"price_max":1495,"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":40206684127291,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487002602","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Passing Ceremony - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1495,"weight":180,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487002602","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40206701559867,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487002619","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Passing Ceremony - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487002619","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40206702641211,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487002626","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Passing Ceremony - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487002626","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_70c68297-8760-46da-859e-433c1caa762b.jpg?v=1654443721"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_70c68297-8760-46da-859e-433c1caa762b.jpg?v=1654443721","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22170944929851,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_70c68297-8760-46da-859e-433c1caa762b.jpg?v=1654443721"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_70c68297-8760-46da-859e-433c1caa762b.jpg?v=1654443721","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe brilliant debut novel by Helen Weinzweig, one of the first feminist writers in Canada and the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eBasic Black With Pearls\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Helen Weinzweig’s brilliant debut novel, a wedding reception becomes a gothic dream. 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Her novels have been taught and discussed in women’s studies courses across campuses. She was a highly regarded literary figure in the 1960s and 1970s; her works speak to the experiences of women who lived during that time, and her style and voice was groundbreaking.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eBasic Black with Pearls\u003c\/em\u003e by Helen Weinzweig will be published by the New York Review of Books in Fall 2017.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eThe A List edition will feature an introduction by Jim Polk.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eThis A List edition coincides with both the 150th anniversary of Canada’s confederation and the 50th anniversary of House of Anansi Press.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eYou sit there, father of the bride, you sit there straight and proud. In the middle of a middle row to the right of the aisle. How is it you are not in your rightful place, in the second pew to the left, beside the mother of the bride? It is your son Thomas who sits there in your stead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou are being examined: more eyes are on you than on your daughter repeating her vows.\nSpeculations. You are taking an awful risk being here. And if you had to bring your little dark wife, poor child, so young, why did you not dress her properly?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd as sensitive observers we should be registering your deeply moving feelings, or, at the very least, some sentimental reflections. You are being stubborn. We cannot read you. Give us something to go on: some memories, a few regrets. Alternatively, cogent theories on marriage gleaned from your vast studies: references to tribal customs would be acceptable. Yet nothing of literary interest comes through. No philosophies? We remember you as quite a philosopher, with a tendency to place mundane events in historical, usually ancient Greek, perspective. Surely, this is the very moment … ah … a passing thought: the groom appears to you as a man without bones, the kind whose flesh is as yielding as a woman’s; and the idea of those two softnesses copulating is disgusting to you. Too strong? Offensive, merely, then. That will have to do for now. Perhaps, later, at the reception, after a few drinks, we’ll get back to you.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eWeinzweig is considered one of the first feminist writers in Canada, \u003cem\u003ePassing Ceremony\u003c\/em\u003e was her debut novel. Her novels have been taught and discussed in women’s studies courses across campuses. 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Its form seems built from mysterious, unconscious forces . . . As a whole, the powerful novel resembles a shattered reflection in a mirror, each page a different-sized shard of a splintered psyche . . . There’s a reason people are returning to [Helen Weinzweig’s] work now. Her art was committed to unshackling us from the illusion of any form of certainty — to keeping the unknown, unknown.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A wedding reception becomes a gothic dream. The bride is not all she seems and there is something ambiguous about the groom.","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2017-08-26","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A wedding reception becomes a gothic dream. The bride is not all she seems and there is something ambiguous about the groom.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Passing Ceremony
A wedding reception becomes a gothic dream. The bride is not all she seems and there is something ambiguous about the groom.
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The Zombie Prince
An empowering story about how friendship and imagination can help overcome bullying, illustrated by Governor’s General Award–winner Luc Melanson.
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A quirky and revealing exploration of the tangled science, history, and culture of human hair.
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Two lovers plot a daring heist in this atmospheric noir about fate and fortune on the fringes of the American dream.
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to 7
/ grades K
to 2
Gargantua (Jr!)
Before Gargantua Junior was born, Mom had a reputation for being a little wild. Now Junior wants to help her repair damage and protect the Earth!
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Zagreb Cowboy
Set in 1991 Yugoslavia, Zagreb Cowboy is the spectacular debut featuring one of the most compelling characters in crime fiction: Marko della Torre.
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Columbus and the Fat Lady
Governor General’s Literary Award–winning author Matt Cohen’s first collection of satirical and surreal short stories.
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If the moon was bright he walked all night, wading through dry prairie grass. He was alone and carried his meagre belongings on his back. It was November and snow clung to the hollows and shadows, but that snow was old, dry, delicate as meringue. He had come down the leeward side of the Rockies and had descended into the rolling grassland that runs from Alberta all the way into Montana. Having left the only real home he had ever known, he was looking for the border.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eCold as the days were, the sun was intense. Every noon he boiled in his coat and every night he lay shivering on the frigid ground and whined like a dog. After four days and nights, his feet were very bad. He suspected they were bloody by now but he couldn’t bring himself to pull off the boots and look.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eThis was open country. To the east, long grass and low trees all the way to the horizon, and to the west, the land bled into the cloud-like silhouette of the mountains. Days ago he had lost sight of the ranges he called home, and now he paced alongside peaks he remembered dimly from long ago, when he was a younger man, a line of only half-familiar shapes, the faces of acquaintances. He’d stolen everything he could from a ranger’s station outside Banff, including a knapsack, a hatchet, matches, and a blanketcoat with ROCKY MTNS PARK stencilled across the shoulder blades and STN 153 on the chest. He’d found nothing useful for hunting. No gun, not even a knife.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eThe jerky he’d been eating began to fume right through the canvas of his knapsack and sicken him as he walked. Holding the bag to his belly he clawed through it, dropping behind him the last strips of meat. Then the reeking square of oilcloth in which they had been wrapped fluttered down to settle on a tuft of grass like a tiny umbrella. He took out the hatchet and considered dropping it as well, to get rid of the weight, but couldn’t open his hand. The hatchet had great utility, so he slid it back into his bag. He was god-almighty thirsty and dreamed as he walked, dreamed of a river, of drinking gallons of water from that cold river.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eOne afternoon he came upon a gully packed with young trees which turned out to be mostly dry, but he dug down and sipped at a muddy pool. Then he rolled onto his side under the cover of shrubs and slept hard. When he rose a few hours later it was getting on to dark and he was stiff and trembling.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eThat night he found himself on the road he had been looking for. He followed it until he was standing, as planned, outside the little guard hut at the Sweetgrass border crossing between Alberta and Montana. He stood by the lightless window and swayed on numb legs. A bright coin of a moon overhead and no wind at all. The world was utterly still, so quiet he could hear his own ears humming. William Moreland stood like an idiot before the hut and waited for the guard. He stared about with hollow eyes and slowly came to the conclusion that he should probably do something.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eBeyond the hut was a small gabled house and an unoccupied corral. There was a motorcar up on blocks by the kitchen door, but no lights to be seen anywhere. Moreland tried to call out with his dry throat but all that came out was a thin hiss; his first attempt to speak in more than a week. 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Ridgerunner
Part literary Western and part historical mystery, Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize winner Ridgerunner is now available as a paperback.
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Cave Paintings
A young space traveler discovers art painted millennia before by a human being—just like him.
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The Swells
In this darkly hilarious satire by the inimitable Will Aitken, class war erupts aboard a luxury cruise ship.
