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{"id":6818367930427,"title":"The Big Swim","handle":"the-big-swim","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Ethan arrives at summer camp for the first time, he has just three modest goals. First, to survive. Second, not to be hated. Third, not to be the worst at anything. But these goals turn out to be relatively easy to achieve. Instead, his real challenge comes in the form of a new cabin mate. Zachary arrives at camp late, surrounded by a cloud of rumors, and Ethan finds himself intrigued and somehow envious of the new arrival. Zach doesn’t seem to care what anybody thinks of him. He doesn’t even seem upset when he is forced to miss the Big Swim, the legendary camp event where a select few try to swim across the lake and back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Zach attracts the attention of Amber Levine -- the girl with an easy smile and a freckle on one knee -- at the same time that Amber attracts the attention of Ethan. And life gets even more complicated when Zach decides to try the Big Swim on his own, and he manages to convince Amber and Ethan to help him. Original and smartly observed, this story will strike a chord with anyone who has ever been to summer camp.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-29T16:14:50-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-29T14:21:30-04:00","vendor":"Groundwood Books Ltd","type":"","tags":["age range 9 - 12","By (author) Fagan Cary","Childrens Accessible ebooks","Groundwood Books","pub date: 2010-04-01"],"price":995,"price_min":995,"price_max":995,"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":40232224096315,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780888999702","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"The Big Swim - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":995,"weight":136,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780888999702","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40232562753595,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781554983025","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Big Swim - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":995,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781554983025","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40232566095931,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781554985760","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Big Swim - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":995,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781554985760","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_e2c2d184-fa5f-440e-aa59-74a929db3757.jpg?v=1731042040"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_e2c2d184-fa5f-440e-aa59-74a929db3757.jpg?v=1731042040","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24903053901883,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2252,"width":1501,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_e2c2d184-fa5f-440e-aa59-74a929db3757.jpg?v=1731042040"},"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2252,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_e2c2d184-fa5f-440e-aa59-74a929db3757.jpg?v=1731042040","width":1501}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Ethan arrives at summer camp for the first time, he has just three modest goals. First, to survive. Second, not to be hated. Third, not to be the worst at anything. But these goals turn out to be relatively easy to achieve. Instead, his real challenge comes in the form of a new cabin mate. Zachary arrives at camp late, surrounded by a cloud of rumors, and Ethan finds himself intrigued and somehow envious of the new arrival. Zach doesn’t seem to care what anybody thinks of him. He doesn’t even seem upset when he is forced to miss the Big Swim, the legendary camp event where a select few try to swim across the lake and back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Zach attracts the attention of Amber Levine -- the girl with an easy smile and a freckle on one knee -- at the same time that Amber attracts the attention of Ethan. And life gets even more complicated when Zach decides to try the Big Swim on his own, and he manages to convince Amber and Ethan to help him. Original and smartly observed, this story will strike a chord with anyone who has ever been to summer camp.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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ages 9
to 12
/ grades 4
to 7
The Big Swim
A timeless and poignant story about a boy's first summer at camp, told with humor and wit.
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{"id":6816107102267,"title":"The Market Wedding","handle":"the-market-wedding","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Morris the fishmonger and Minnie the hat seller fall in love, Morris comes up with a wedding plan designed to deliver the very best for his beloved bride-to-be… with unexpected consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMorris sells all kinds of fish from the lake, in Kensington Market. Across the way, Minnie sells hats straight from Paris. One day their eyes meet, and they fall in love. Morris wants to give Minnie a beautiful home with fine furnishings, but he is only a poor fishmonger. And so he comes up with a brilliant plan — he will make their wedding so fancy that their guests will have to shower them with lavish gifts. 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The text says everyone followed the bride and groom inside and up the stairs. They see by the moonlight. They want to make a toast but have no glasses. A woman runs to her shop to get some. The baker says he just made bread, and runs to get it. The fruit seller goes to get oranges. 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Morris wants to give Minnie a beautiful home with fine furnishings, but he is only a poor fishmonger. And so he comes up with a brilliant plan — he will make their wedding so fancy that their guests will have to shower them with lavish gifts. His Minnie will live like a movie star!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMorris’s plan backfires, of course, but like all good love stories, the tale ends in a happy — if surprising — fashion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCary Fagan’s witty adaptation of \u003cem\u003eThe Ghetto Wedding\u003c\/em\u003e by Abraham Cahan is accompanied by Regolo Ricci’s vibrant illustrations, resulting in a timeless and delightful tale.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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ages 7
to 10
/ grades 2
to 5
The Market Wedding
The reissue of an award-winning, humorous and richly illustrated retelling of a Yiddish story.
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{"id":6816106676283,"title":"Does State Spying Make Us Safer?","handle":"does-state-spying-make-us-safer","description":"\u003cp\u003eDoes government surveillance make us safer? The thirteenth Munk Debate, held in Toronto on Friday, May 2, 2014, pitted Michael Hayden and Alan Dershowitz against Glenn Greenwald and Alexis Ohanian to debate whether state surveillance is a legitimate defence of our freedom — the democratic issue of the moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a risk-filled world, democracies are increasingly turning to large-scale state surveillance, at home and abroad, to fight complex and unconventional threats — but is it justified? For some, the threats more than justify the current surveillance system, and the laws and institutions of democracies are more than capable of balancing the needs of individual privacy with collective security. 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But for others, we are in peril of sacrificing to a vast and unaccountable state surveillance apparatus the civil liberties that guarantee citizens’ basic freedoms and our democratic way of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this edition of the Munk Debates, former head of the CIA and NSA Michael Hayden and civil liberties lawyer Alan Dershowitz square off against journalist Glenn Greenwald and reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian to debate the legitimacy of state surveillance. With issues of Internet privacy increasingly gaining prominence, the Munk Debate on the Surveillance State asks: Should government be able to monitor our activities in order to keep us safe?\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Does State Spying Make Us Safer?
The thirteenth Munk Debate tackles whether state surveillance is a legitimate defence of our freedom — the democratic issue of the moment.
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Do Humankind’s Best Days Lie Ahead?
The seventeenth semi-annual Munk Debates tackles whether humankind’s best days lie ahead.
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The Path of Most Resistance
An entertaining and insightful collection of stories by award-winning author Russell Wangersky about passive aggression in our everyday lives.
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Dos conejos blancos
In this moving and timely story, a young child describes what it is like to be a migrant as she and her father travel north toward the US border.
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The Men in White
A heartwarming play about the modern immigrant experience, realizing one’s dreams, and the unifying power of sport.
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Waterloo Express
The remarkable debut poetry collection from renowned bestselling novelist and Governor General’s Literary Award–winning poet Paulette Jiles.
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Many of his novels are still in print.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eThe travelling companions had been back on the road a few hours, and Lew had picked up his drinking where he’d left off before deciding to nap. As they made their way south through Spring Valley, on the northwest edge of Lincoln County, near the borders of White Pine and Nye counties, they caught sight of a herd out to pasture less than a mile away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Interesting,” Hackberry mumbled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey approached slowly, and the herd didn’t scatter. The animals scarcely paid the two cowboys any mind. Will and Lew counted thirty-odd head, no horns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Thirty-one,” said Will.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“GS?” asked Hackberry, checking the brand high on their hindquarters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The Lazy GS. The Swallow brothers’ outfit over in White Pine. Got a whole post office just for them, up in the district they call Shoshone.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“You know ’em?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“By reputation, mostly,” said Will. “Smug bastards. Don’t treat their men good. Horses neither.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWill and Lew stayed on their horses a minute, smoking in silence and circling the herd. The wheels in Hackberry’s head were turning, as if he were focusing every ounce of concentration on the task of sobering up so he could think clearly for a moment. He opened his mouth a few times but nothing came out. Will put him out of his misery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Something botherin’ you, Lew?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“You reckon they just wandered all the way out here?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Sure do look that way.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNowhere did they see the slightest trace of horse tracks, either fresh or old. No one knew that these cattle were out here with the two men, some twenty miles south of the Lazy GS Ranch and the county line.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Figger you could blot that brand?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I don’t have my gear on me,” answered Will. “Plus we’d have to wait for it to scar. Risky.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Well, we can’t just go and sell them in Ely. Word would get around too fast.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEly was the biggest livestock hub in this part of Nevada. Ranches from all over the eastern, central, and northern parts of the state sent their cattle through Ely on the way to Denver.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Not sure what to do. The Swallows may be bastards, but we could still bring them their cattle back. They’d pay us handsomely.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLew sat up tall on his horse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Really, Bill? Really?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“What?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Did they castrate you along with them steers over the summer?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWill thought for a moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I know a place not far from the Utah state line. Oasis. Kinda place where they don’t ask questions.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“You took the words right out of my mouth. Oasis! Now there’s the Will James I thought I knew.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow it was Hackberry’s turn to think a little. He was positively reinvigorated, and grinning like a kid.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“From Oasis, I’ll catch the train to Denver. I know people there. It’ll be easy and we’ll be rich. I’m sure we can get thirty-five a head, at least, maybe forty, who knows — maybe even fifty! Those sure are some nice fat cattle!”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFifty a head was over the top. Will wasn’t about to get carried away, but the prospect of making somewhere in the region of five hundred dollars for a bit more than a week’s work was nothing to sneeze at. It would be enough to set Will up for the winter, maybe even the entire next year, without having to worry too much about what to do next. He’d finally have time to draw, maybe even travel to the West Coast and study at art school. He could visit his idol, the great cowboy painter Charles Russell, in his studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Okay then,” said Will. “We should get there in ten days or so. But you’re gonna have to follow my lead. I know the area better than you, and you’re pretty damn drunk. You got many of those jugs left?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHackberry indicated that he did not, and adopted a malicious look that had been known to get him into trouble. Will steered them back to the matter at hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Once we get to Oasis, I know I can trust you. 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Based on a true story, Benediction is a gritty, trenchantly observed tale of fraud and reinvention in the old American West.
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A worthy goal and a terrific idea for a book.” — \u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This book takes a very interesting look at the relations between Canada and the United States during and shortly after the American Civil War … For anyone interested in United States–Canadian relationships, this book is a great introduction to the subject.” — \u003cem\u003eCivil War News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Laxer offers an introduction to North American history for those who are new to the subject, and a catalyst for deep arguments amongst serious thinkers. For educators, this history is a brilliant example of how historians use these historical thinking concepts.” — \u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR JAMES LAXER AND \u003cem\u003eTECUMSEH AND BROCK\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An authoritative and sympathetic grasp of Native history … \u003cem\u003eTecumseh and Brock\u003c\/em\u003e promises a valuable alternative to the notion that history is invariably written by the victors. Here, the vanquished also get their due in a story of immensely tragic dimensions.” — \u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Lively … far-reaching … Laxer has written a rousing piece of Canadian history.” — \u003cem\u003eMontreal Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Laxer’s book cleverly explains the war and the emergence of a Canadian identity through the lives of British Major General Sir Isaac Brock and Shawnee chieftain Tecumseh … Laxer, a professor of political science at York University, takes a lively approach to the account of the border war that rebuffed an American incursion into Canada. He uncovers fascinating details about North American natives during the early eighteenth century and offers historical sidebars such as the Russian attempt to mediate between the Americans and the British. 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Laxer proves Canadian history doesn’t have to be dull, particularly when told through the lives of people who lived it.” — \u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A superb narrative of the causes, course, and legacy of the war of 1812.” — \u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Laxer’s book serves as a good short introduction to the war.” — \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A clever, scholarly, and entirely readable contribution.” — \u003cem\u003eEdmonton Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Laxer’s splendidly written, well-crafted book is a compelling narrative bound to excite and arouse Canadians looking for a great story.” — \u003cem\u003eChronicle Herald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Among the plethora of books to appear this year to mark the 200th anniversary of the start of the War of 1812, James Laxer’s Tecumseh and Brock stands out.” — \u003cem\u003eKingston Whig-Standard\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR JAMES LAXER AND \u003cem\u003eMISSION OF FOLLY: CANADA AND AFGHANISTAN\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e “In this timely and important book, James Laxer investigates Canada’s dubious involvement in George Bush’s war in Afghanistan. Challenging the official narrative trumpeted by the media, Laxer shows how this war can truly be considered a mission of folly.” — Linda McQuaig, journalist and author of \u003cem\u003eHolding the Bully’s Coat: Canada and the U.S. Empire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Jim Laxer has taken a difficult foreign policy issue and made it accessible to every Canadian. In Mission of Folly, Laxer explains in brilliant detail just why most of us feel so uneasy about Canada’s role in Afghanistan. This terrific book will add a needed voice to the debate and fuel the call to bring our troops home now.” — Maude Barlow, National Chairperson, Council of Canadians\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is the one book you must read to understand the Afghanistan war.” — Duncan Cameron, rabble.ca political columnist and Visiting Professor, Political Science, SFU\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR JAMES LAXER AND \u003cem\u003eTHE BORDER: CANADA, THE U.S., AND ADVENTURES ALONG THE 49TH PARALLEL\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Thoroughly engaging … Spiced with anecdote, telling bits of history, and personal accounts of travels along and across Canada’s borders with the U.S., The Border is informed with the easy grace of the raconteur … At once magisterial and entertaining, The Border is an essential contribution to our knowledge of our country, and our relationship with our southern neighbours.” — \u003cem\u003eEdmonton Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Insightful … Laxer is scrupulous in his scholarship, and one cannot argue with his research.” — \u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR JAMES LAXER AND \u003cem\u003eSTALKING THE ELEPHANT: MY DISCOVERY OF AMERICA\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Laxer takes a fresh look at American life as he sets out on a physical and intellectual journey across the country … This is an entertaining, disturbing, and sometimes whimsical snapshot of the Unites States at the dawn of a new century … Highly recommended.” —\u003cem\u003e Library Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is an important book … This is a debate for our time, perhaps for all time … This is a book by a Canadian that can change the United States.” — David Shribman, Pulitzer Prize winner and Washington bureau chief for the \u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e, in the \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Laxer records his vignettes with humour and verve. This is quality reporting.” — Thomas Axworthy, Adjunct Lecturer, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, in \u003cem\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Real characters come alive under Laxer’s pen.”—\u003cem\u003e Hamilton Spectator\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Always entertaining and often illuminating … Laxer takes his place among the likes of Theroux, Naipaul, and Bryson, who with their respective literary backgrounds have used their travels as a way of revealing a larger truth, providing snapshots of a place and a time.” — \u003cem\u003eEdmonton Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Laxer gets great mileage out of memorable descriptions of events — an NFL game tailgate party, a personal protection seminar for gun owners, the crowd outside an execution in Texas — that are peculiarly American, without being typically American … His book is fascinating.” — \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“‘To see ourselves as others see us is a gift,’ Burns wrote. Laxer offers us that gift: the journals of a lively, curious foreigner exploring the U.S.A.” — \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR JAMES LAXER AND \u003cem\u003eTHE UNDECLARED WAR: CLASS CONFLICT IN THE AGE OF CYBER CAPITALIS\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The Undeclared War offers a resolute wake-up call … Interesting and provocative.” — \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Laxer does for contemporary economics and public discourse what Steven Spielberg did for the Normandy landing in the first twenty-five minutes of Saving Private Ryan, laying out the grisly groundwork for a future campaign.” — \u003cem\u003eEdmonton Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Laxer] skilfully synthesizes economics, history, and current events to show that social and economic inequalities have steadily deepened in the last decade.” — \u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“With characteristic rigour and subtlety, James Laxer brings the focus of political debate back where it belongs: to the distribution of social good. The result is a book that not only radiates keen intelligence but, more importantly, communicates a realistic hope for justice.” — Mark Kingwell, author of \u003cem\u003eUnruly Voices: Essays on Democracy, Civility and the Human Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR JAMES LAXER AND IN SEARCH OF \u003cem\u003eA NEW LEFT: CANADIAN POLITICS AFTER THE NEOCONSERVATIVE ASSAULT\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e “Probing, thoughtful, animated, and intellectually invigorating.” — \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A useful and compelling guide to how the Canadian left arrived at its sorry state, and how it may be able to reassert itself.” — Peter C. 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Staking Claims to a Continent
The second work of history in James Laxer’s North American trilogy looks at the turbulent 1860s, the decade that defined North America.
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Red-Handed
The true stories that inspired Lisa Moore’s novel Caught.
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Graeme Gibson Interviews Alice Munro
In honour of Alice Munro’s Nobel Prize for Literature, Anansi Digital released a candid interview with Munro by Canadian novelist Graeme Gibson.
