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Mermaids and Ikons
Beloved poet and novelist Gwendolyn MacEwen’s first work of nonfiction in a handsome A List edition.
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Sidewalk Flowers
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I Make My Own Fun
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Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2025
The prestigious and highly anticipated annual anthology of the best poetry published in English from the shortlist of the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize.
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Extraordinary, emotional, and beautifully rendered.\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eSTARRED REVIEW\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003eThe ink, watercolor, gouache pictures have a unique, sometimes startling look as they divide into strips or fill the pages. They capture both the city's pace and its stark beauty, even on a raw winter's day. Smith's art has been award winning, but here he becomes author as well as illustrator. He does both titles proud in this stirring piece. STARRED REVIEW\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003eThe use of line, reflection, and perspective masterfully evoke a bustling gray city, making this thoughtful book an artful choice.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"School Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_3":"The atmosphere will draw listeners in immediately … and many youngsters will appreciate the recognition of how sensorily overwhelming a cityscape can be and the tips for finding smaller pools of quiet and respite.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003eSmith's understated portrait of longing for the return of a beloved family member takes readers on a quiet but powerful emotional journey … The story's spotlight is not on the loss of the pet, or on its return, but on the state of suspension in between — a mixture of grief, resignation, and patient waiting — and the independent child narrator’s loving regard for the animal as an autonomous being.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e[T]he images do most of the talking. They range from modest vignettes of city life — a portion of wire fencing, a swatch of building — to showstoppers including a fractured illustration of the downcast boy's funhouse-like reflection in a mirrored-glass skyscraper.\u003cem\u003e . . \u003c\/em\u003e[H]eartrending.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Shelf Awareness, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_6":"Small in the City is an unusual, useful parable, offering hope and reassurance for any young reader in the midst of a worrisome or frightening situation, whether it's a missing pet or something else ― or simply life itself.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"BookPage","OtherText_Review_7":"Small in the City is the best picture book I’ve seen so far this year, and among the most moving I know. For the right child it will be revelatory.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"New York Times Book Review","OtherText_Review_8":"Some picture books make you want to hug them to your chest and not let go until the fullness in your heart subsides. 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Small in the City
The first picture book that award-winning Sydney Smith has both written and illustrated is about feeling small in the city and finding your way home.
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Who Will Bury You?
Intimate stories about Zimbabweans in moments of transition that force them to decide who they really are and choose the people they call their own.
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Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2024
The prestigious and highly anticipated annual anthology of the best poetry published in English from the shortlist of the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize.
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How to Restore a Timeline
A kaleidoscopic blend of personal essays and cultural criticism exploring PTSD, trauma as entertainment, and living during the apocalypse.
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Alego
An enchanting and utterly authentic introduction to the life of an Inuit child and her world.
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Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress
Morris is a little boy who loves using his imagination. But most of all, Morris loves his classroom’s dress-up center and its tangerine dress.
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We will also be doing a targeted mailing to indies booksellers, building on the reputation of our short story imprint, Astoria, following the Indies Introduce nomination for \u003cem\u003eDouble Dutch\u003c\\\/em\u003e by Laura Trunkey.\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\n\u003c\\\/ul\u003e\\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES\u003c\\\/strong\u003e:\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\n\u003c\\\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“[A]n intimate and fascinating read.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"This Magazine","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Suggesting Alice Munro is both high and lazy praise – an easy way to say well-set short fiction and a pretty future for Crocker in CanLit – but there’s a quality to this Newfoundland author’s work that fans of the Nobel Prize winner will recognize, if they’re willing to displace age, place and decoration accordingly. Where Munro so remarkably captures rural banality, Crocker taps a similarly enthralling mundanity in Quebec’s urban bustle and Eastern Canada’s could-be-anywhere suburban sprawls.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“A fine and enthralling collection that will excite and seduce readers.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eBarrelling Forward\u003c\/em\u003e, is a short-story collection unique for its diverse points of view … Crocker draws us in immediately … these brief pieces resonate with the reader for a long time.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Barrelling Forward is a brilliantly crafted debut collection set against the backdrop of the crashing oil economy in contemporary Newfoundland.","ProductFormDescription":"Digital Audio, MP3","PublicationDate":"2017-03-18","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Barrelling Forward is a brilliantly crafted debut collection set against the backdrop of the crashing oil economy in contemporary Newfoundland.","Subtitle":"Stories","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Barrelling Forward
Barrelling Forward is a brilliantly crafted debut collection set against the backdrop of the crashing oil economy in contemporary Newfoundland.
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Nostalgia for the Absolute
George Steiner considers the decline of formal religious systems and the consequent moral and emotional emptiness in Western culture.
