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{"id":6582688153659,"title":"The Girl from Chimel","handle":"the-girl-from-chimel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNobel Peace Prize winner and noted Maya activist Rigoberta Menchú Tum brings the world of her childhood vividly to life in \u003cem\u003eThe Girl from Chimel\u003c\/em\u003e. This evocative memoir for children is beautifully illustrated by noted Mazatec-Mexican artist Domi.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBefore the thirty-six-year war in Guatemala, despite the hardships the Maya people had endured since the time of the Conquest, life in their highland villages had a beauty and integrity that were changed forever by the conflict and brutal genocide that were to come. 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The Girl from Chimel
Nobel Peace Prize winner and noted Maya activist Rigoberta Menchú Tum brings the world of her childhood vividly to life in this illustrated memoir.
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A hilarious look at the life of three brothers, told by the youngest (and most often terrorized) brother.
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The Real World of Democracy
In his 1964 CBC Massey Lectures C. B. MacPherson examines rival ideas of democracy and their impact on each other.
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{"id":7168146112571,"title":"Kiss the Undertow","handle":"kiss-the-undertow","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe water slurps my shoulders, torso, and back in a big, wet kiss, bending my image into an ironic clone of the truth. I bow to its dominance and let it break me open. The water alone will have me.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWatched obsessively by her guru-like coach, a nameless swimmer battles the element of water in a gruelling physical regimen. Outside of training, she floats loose in waters murky, salty, and chlorinated, engaging in aimless self-destruction, restraint looming just beyond her drifting hand. Incrementally, swimming is killing her; the pool is killing her. Hovering always nearby is a prickly vulture, waiting to feed on the swimmer’s remains …\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntense and immersive, \u003cem\u003eKiss the Undertow \u003c\/em\u003eis a psychologically gripping account of endurance pushed to extremes. \u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-11-21T15:24:59-05:00","created_at":"2023-07-27T14:56:04-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Arachnide Editions","By (author) Larochelle Marie-Hélène","Feminist Reads","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2024-06-04","Thrillers \u0026 Mystery","Translated by Winters Michelle"],"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":41383066501179,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487012106","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Kiss the Undertow - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2299,"weight":163,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487012106","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":41383067975739,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487012113","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Kiss the Undertow - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1899,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487012113","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487012106.jpg?v=1709572599"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487012106.jpg?v=1709572599","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover: Kiss the Undertow, A Novel by Marie-Hélène Larochelle, translated by Michelle Winters. A black-and-white image of a young woman’s face and left shoulder underwater with bubbles coming out of her nose. Her eyes are closed and her dark hair floats toward the water’s surface, where light filters through. Small, round copper sparkles speckle the cover.","id":24263864909883,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"width":1575,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487012106.jpg?v=1709572599"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487012106.jpg?v=1709572599","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe water slurps my shoulders, torso, and back in a big, wet kiss, bending my image into an ironic clone of the truth. I bow to its dominance and let it break me open. The water alone will have me.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWatched obsessively by her guru-like coach, a nameless swimmer battles the element of water in a gruelling physical regimen. Outside of training, she floats loose in waters murky, salty, and chlorinated, engaging in aimless self-destruction, restraint looming just beyond her drifting hand. Incrementally, swimming is killing her; the pool is killing her. Hovering always nearby is a prickly vulture, waiting to feed on the swimmer’s remains …\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntense and immersive, \u003cem\u003eKiss the Undertow \u003c\/em\u003eis a psychologically gripping account of endurance pushed to extremes. \u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Kiss the Undertow
The disturbing story of a swimmer navigating the abuse of her body and mind as she trains for competition, exploring the nature of power and will.
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Suck It in and Smile
A funny, touching look at the life of a social media influencer who starts to question the #goals life she has created for herself.
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Highly Recommended.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCM Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"CM Magazine","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“Why Are You Doing That? not only tells a charming story, but, as an added benefit, shows young readers how their food winds up on their plate.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“Together, Amado and Monroy present Chepito’s world as a pleasant and purposeful one where children, adults, animals, and crops are bound together in a traditional and appealing way of life.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Quill \u0026amp; Quire","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A curious little boy learns all about food and where it comes from in this companion to Amado and Monroy’s first picture book, What Are You Doing?","PrizeCodeText_0":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"03","PrizeName_0":"Canadian Children's Book Centre Best Books for Kids and Teens","PrizeYear_0":"2014","ProductFormDescription":"Web PDF","PublicationDate":"2014-06-01","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd","ShortDescription":"A curious little boy learns all about food and where it comes from in this companion to Amado and Monroy’s first picture book, What Are You Doing?","teachersguide_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781554987337\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=teachersguide\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Width":"7","WidthCode":"in"}
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to 7
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to 2
Why Are You Doing That?
A curious little boy learns all about food and where it comes from in this companion to Amado and Monroy’s first picture book, What Are You Doing?
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El Niño
El Niño tracks the survival of one woman and a young, undocumented migrant as they journey through the no-man’s-land of a remote southwestern desert.
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Baziju are currently at work on a new manuscript project called Short Moral Tales.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorBio_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eROO BORSON\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of ten books of poetry, including \u003cem\u003eShort Journey Upriver Toward Oishida\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. She has also been involved in a number of collaborative projects, including \u003cem\u003eIntroduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei\u003c\/em\u003e, by Pain Not Bread (Roo Borson, Kim Maltman, and Andy Patton). Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies, such as \u003cem\u003eTwentieth Century Poetry and Poetics\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eHarbrace Anthology of Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eNorton Introduction to Literature\u003c\/em\u003e. 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It is a meditation on the way we travel between places and between times, and how words and ideas travel between languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBaziju explores the literature of China, from centuries past to the present, exploring, at the same time, the meaning of hope and of home: childhood homes, the homes we grow into, and the homes in our minds. In Lu Xun's classic story \"My Old Home,\" the hero returns from a distant city to the home he left two decades earlier. Hope, he ponders, \"is just like the roads of the earth… . [T]o begin with the earth has no roads, but where many people pass, there a road is made.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese sensual, deeply personal prose poems ponder change, loss, friendship, and belonging. 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Box Kite
Prose poems that are a meditation on the way we travel between places and between times, and how words and ideas travel between languages.
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Bonnie Jack
From the acclaimed author of the internationally bestselling Ava Lee series, a bold and captivating new novel about a search for lost family and the cost of keeping secrets.
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Soft as Bones
A poetic memoir as intricately woven as a dreamcatcher about overcoming the pain of generational trauma with the power of traditional healing
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