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{"id":7325048995899,"title":"King of Infinite Space","handle":"king-of-infinite-space","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Beautiful Mind\u003c\/em\u003e, here is an engaging biography of a world-famous Canadian geometry genius, Donald Coxeter, whose work has slowly and steadily become the air we breathe, with everyday applications in telecommunication and e-commerce, among other fields.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKing of Infinite Space\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecombines two bestselling categories, popular science and biography. It makes geometry accessible through the fascinating life of the 20th century's greatest classical geometer -- a man who also happens to be a Canadian. Coxeter's story weaves together several rich and surprising threads, from the idiosyncratic nature of his personal life to the geopolitical fabric of his times -- what he calls the wild wicked world -- and illuminates the importance of mathematics therein. Indeed, Coxeter is credited with saving classical geometry from near extinction: for over fifty years, he fought a quiet war of attrition against disdain for his unfashionable geometry, stoically retaining his passion for the beauty of shapes.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-08T15:01:04-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-08T15:01:04-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":2195,"price_min":2195,"price_max":2195,"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":43244485640251,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780887847776","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"King of Infinite Space - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2195,"weight":608,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9780887847776","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887847776.jpg?v=1736366394"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887847776.jpg?v=1736366394","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24979672498235,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.641,"height":657,"width":421,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887847776.jpg?v=1736366394"},"aspect_ratio":0.641,"height":657,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887847776.jpg?v=1736366394","width":421}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Beautiful Mind\u003c\/em\u003e, here is an engaging biography of a world-famous Canadian geometry genius, Donald Coxeter, whose work has slowly and steadily become the air we breathe, with everyday applications in telecommunication and e-commerce, among other fields.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKing of Infinite Space\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecombines two bestselling categories, popular science and biography. It makes geometry accessible through the fascinating life of the 20th century's greatest classical geometer -- a man who also happens to be a Canadian. Coxeter's story weaves together several rich and surprising threads, from the idiosyncratic nature of his personal life to the geopolitical fabric of his times -- what he calls the wild wicked world -- and illuminates the importance of mathematics therein. Indeed, Coxeter is credited with saving classical geometry from near extinction: for over fifty years, he fought a quiet war of attrition against disdain for his unfashionable geometry, stoically retaining his passion for the beauty of shapes.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003eSiobhan Roberts has written for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Walrus, Toronto Life, Canadian Geographic, Saturday Night\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e, and the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e. Visit Siobhan Roberts' website: http:\/\/www.siobhanroberts.com\/\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Roberts, Siobhan","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"400","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc"}
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{"id":7325027369019,"title":"Oyama Pink Shale","handle":"oyama-pink-shale","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGovernor General's Literary Award finalist Sharon Thesen's \u003cem\u003eOyama Pink Shale\u003c\/em\u003e is a sly, self-directed, yet joyously emancipatory work. By animating and voicing various moments and selves -- indebted adult friend to artists, cold documentarian of a haunted sanatorium, engaged contemporary ticking off beauties, among others -- Thesen's poems show the transience of the earthly moment while convincing us of the thread of spirit that links all our lost bits and makes them possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere's an uncontainable buoyancy and lift in the lines and quick-shifting frames as they swerve toward the darker, more gravid complexities of contemporary life. \u003cem\u003eOyama Pink Shale\u003c\/em\u003e exhibits a love for both the quotidian and the oblique angle, and a singular talent for the music of cumulative wonder.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-08T10:31:55-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-08T10:31:55-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":2295,"price_min":2295,"price_max":2295,"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":43252615872571,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780887842726","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Oyama Pink Shale - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2295,"weight":100,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9780887842726","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\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGovernor General's Literary Award finalist Sharon Thesen's \u003cem\u003eOyama Pink Shale\u003c\/em\u003e is a sly, self-directed, yet joyously emancipatory work. By animating and voicing various moments and selves -- indebted adult friend to artists, cold documentarian of a haunted sanatorium, engaged contemporary ticking off beauties, among others -- Thesen's poems show the transience of the earthly moment while convincing us of the thread of spirit that links all our lost bits and makes them possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere's an uncontainable buoyancy and lift in the lines and quick-shifting frames as they swerve toward the darker, more gravid complexities of contemporary life. \u003cem\u003eOyama Pink Shale\u003c\/em\u003e exhibits a love for both the quotidian and the oblique angle, and a singular talent for the music of cumulative wonder.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"ContributorBio_0":"Sharon Thesen is the author \u003cem\u003eThe Good Bacteria\u003c\/em\u003e, which was a finalist for the Governor General’ s Literary Award for Poetry, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and the ReLit Award, and seven previous collections of poetry. She received the Pat Lowther Memorial Award for her collection \u003cem\u003eA Pair of Scissors\u003c\/em\u003e and she has been for a finalist for the British Columbia Book Prize. She was born in Tisdale, Saskatchewan, and now lives in British Columbia, where she is a professor at University of British Columbia.","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Thesen, Sharon","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"80","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc"}
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{"id":7325027139643,"title":"A Pair of Scissors","handle":"a-pair-of-scissors","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhether riffing on rush-hour traffic, on walking the dog, or on watching TV, Sharon Thesen's incantatory poems capture elusive, overlooked moments, and together form an incisive and witty portrait collage of our daily lives.In spinning acts of violence into fairytales, mundane anxieties into catchy advertising jingles, and pedestrian scenes into surrealistic filmscapes, Thesen reveals to us a pair of scissors -- a double-edged sword where workaday events hold transcendent magic, and artful fantasies are born of inescapable banality. Sharon Thesen's collection brims with honesty, toughness, humour, and genius.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-08T10:25:07-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-08T10:25:07-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1695,"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":43252618625083,"title":"trade paperback with flaps","option1":"trade paperback with flaps","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780887846472","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"A Pair of Scissors - trade paperback with flaps","public_title":"trade paperback with flaps","options":["trade paperback with flaps"],"price":1695,"weight":191,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9780887846472","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\u003eWhether riffing on rush-hour traffic, on walking the dog, or on watching TV, Sharon Thesen's incantatory poems capture elusive, overlooked moments, and together form an incisive and witty portrait collage of our daily lives.In spinning acts of violence into fairytales, mundane anxieties into catchy advertising jingles, and pedestrian scenes into surrealistic filmscapes, Thesen reveals to us a pair of scissors -- a double-edged sword where workaday events hold transcendent magic, and artful fantasies are born of inescapable banality. Sharon Thesen's collection brims with honesty, toughness, humour, and genius.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"ContributorBio_0":"Sharon Thesen is the author \u003cem\u003eThe Good Bacteria\u003c\/em\u003e, which was a finalist for the Governor General’ s Literary Award for Poetry, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and the ReLit Award, and seven previous collections of poetry. She received the Pat Lowther Memorial Award for her collection \u003cem\u003eA Pair of Scissors\u003c\/em\u003e and she has been for a finalist for the British Columbia Book Prize. She was born in Tisdale, Saskatchewan, and now lives in British Columbia, where she is a professor at University of British Columbia.","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Thesen, Sharon","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"88","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc"}
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{"id":7325024026683,"title":"Yesno","handle":"yesno","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA stunning collection of poetry by one of our most beloved and renowned poets,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eYesno\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a companion volume to the much-praised\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eUn\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Anansi, 2003), and continues Dennis Lee's urgent poetic project, which is to grapple with the question of the earth's and humankind's future. But where the earlier book concentrated on the deadly impasse to which we humans have brought the planet,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eYesno\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis lighter and more playful, canvassing the possibility of hope. It explores an ethic of yesno, simultaneously embracing pessimism and hope. In the author's own words: \"Before I began\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eYesno\u003c\/em\u003e, I thought it would be a pendulum swing from\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eUn\u003c\/em\u003e, moving from bleakness to hope. But the poems kept misfiring, sounding forced. Eventually, I realized the task was more complex. Namely, to articulate a world in which the demolition derby and the possibility of living more constructively in the natural order are both real. And at once. So, not just no; not just yes; but yesno.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-08T09:14:42-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-08T09:14:42-05:00","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":43249777082427,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780887847585","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Yesno - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":109,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9780887847585","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887847585.jpg?v=1736345631"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887847585.jpg?v=1736345631","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24979535036475,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.658,"height":608,"width":400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887847585.jpg?v=1736345631"},"aspect_ratio":0.658,"height":608,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887847585.jpg?v=1736345631","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA stunning collection of poetry by one of our most beloved and renowned poets,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eYesno\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a companion volume to the much-praised\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eUn\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Anansi, 2003), and continues Dennis Lee's urgent poetic project, which is to grapple with the question of the earth's and humankind's future. But where the earlier book concentrated on the deadly impasse to which we humans have brought the planet,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eYesno\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis lighter and more playful, canvassing the possibility of hope. It explores an ethic of yesno, simultaneously embracing pessimism and hope. In the author's own words: \"Before I began\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eYesno\u003c\/em\u003e, I thought it would be a pendulum swing from\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eUn\u003c\/em\u003e, moving from bleakness to hope. But the poems kept misfiring, sounding forced. Eventually, I realized the task was more complex. Namely, to articulate a world in which the demolition derby and the possibility of living more constructively in the natural order are both real. And at once. So, not just no; not just yes; but yesno.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e"}
{"ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003eDennis Lee is the author of more than twenty books, including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCivil Elegies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e, which won the Governor General's Literary Award, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlligator Pie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e, the children's classic. His most recent collection of poems is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTestament\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Lee, Dennis","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"80","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc"}
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{"id":7324954886203,"title":"Metaphysical Dog","handle":"metaphysical-dog","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the National Book Award, and selected for The Globe Books 100 and New York Times 100 Most Noteable Books in 2013.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a career-defining work, Frank Bidart brings us everything that makes him so remarkable in these indelible poems of sex, art, desire, and beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \"Those Nights\" Frank Bidart writes: \"We who could get \/ somewhere through \/ words through \/ sex could not.\" Words and sex, art and flesh: in Metaphysical Dog, Bidart explores their nexus. The result stands among this deeply adventurous poet’s most powerful and achieved work, an emotionally naked, fearlessly candid journey through many of the central axes, the central conflicts of his life, and ours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNear the end of the book, Bidart writes: \"In adolescence, you thought your work ancient work: to decipher at last human beings’ relation to God. Decipher love. To make what was once whole whole again: or to see why it never should have been thought whole.\" This \"ancient work\" reflects what the poet sees as fundamental in human feeling, what psychologists and mystics have called the \"hunger for the Absolute\" — a hunger as fundamental as any physical hunger. This hunger must confront the elusiveness of the Absolute, our self-deluding, failed glimpses of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is one of the most fascinating and ambitious books of poetry in many years.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-07T17:06:07-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-07T17:06:07-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"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":43249789141051,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9781770893627","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Metaphysical Dog - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":209,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9781770893627","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770893627.jpg?v=1736287477"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770893627.jpg?v=1736287477","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24978912247867,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":600,"width":400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770893627.jpg?v=1736287477"},"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":600,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770893627.jpg?v=1736287477","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the National Book Award, and selected for The Globe Books 100 and New York Times 100 Most Noteable Books in 2013.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a career-defining work, Frank Bidart brings us everything that makes him so remarkable in these indelible poems of sex, art, desire, and beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \"Those Nights\" Frank Bidart writes: \"We who could get \/ somewhere through \/ words through \/ sex could not.\" Words and sex, art and flesh: in Metaphysical Dog, Bidart explores their nexus. The result stands among this deeply adventurous poet’s most powerful and achieved work, an emotionally naked, fearlessly candid journey through many of the central axes, the central conflicts of his life, and ours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNear the end of the book, Bidart writes: \"In adolescence, you thought your work ancient work: to decipher at last human beings’ relation to God. Decipher love. To make what was once whole whole again: or to see why it never should have been thought whole.\" This \"ancient work\" reflects what the poet sees as fundamental in human feeling, what psychologists and mystics have called the \"hunger for the Absolute\" — a hunger as fundamental as any physical hunger. This hunger must confront the elusiveness of the Absolute, our self-deluding, failed glimpses of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is one of the most fascinating and ambitious books of poetry in many years.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003eFrank Bidart is the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWatching the Spring Festival\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eStar Dust\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e, and many other books. He has won the Wallace Stevens Award and Bollingen Prize for American Poetry.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Bidart, Frank","Imprint":"Anansi International","NumberOfPages":"128","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc"}
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{"id":7232490111035,"title":"Getting Us to Grandma’s","handle":"getting-us-to-grandmas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNo one knows maps like Nikki — but can she get her family to Grandma's house in time?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNikki’s family is preparing for a long road trip from Toronto to the Bronx to attend Uncle Travis's wedding. They pack their suitcases, boxes of Jamaican black cake, and most importantly to Nikki, the big map book!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNikki loves geography and enjoys tracing the routes to all the places her relatives live — her Grandpa in Florida, her cousins in Atlanta, DC, and Boston. She daydreams of England, where other family lives, and Jamaica and Africa, where her roots run deep.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer attention comes back to the road trip when it’s clear that Daddy’s taken a wrong turn. “I can help!” says Nikki, who proves to be an excellent navigator. 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Getting Us to Grandma’s
No one knows maps like Nikki — but can she get her family to Grandma's house in time for the wedding?
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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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Holding Still For As Long As Possible
A dazzling portrait of twenty-somethings who grew up on text-messaging and the war on terror.
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ages 7
to 10
/ grades 2
to 5
Rooster Summer
Spend a rooster summer on the farm with these irresistible read-aloud poems.
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ages 3
and up
/ grades P
and up
Every Wrinkle Has a Story
Yotam learns about the beauty of aging in this sweet conversation between grandfather and grandson.
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/ grades 8
to 12
Say Yes and Keep Smiling
In the sequel to Suck it In and Smile, Ellie is wrestling her life under control — but how long can she keep it together, and does she even want to?
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ages 8
to 12
/ grades 3
to 7
Alone
A fully-illustrated treatment of the true stories of three young refugees who journey alone to North America, seeking refugee status.
