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{"id":7325057450043,"title":"Thumb on a Diamond","handle":"thumb-on-a-diamond","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Horn Book Fanfare Top Ten List selection and an SSLI Honor Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThumb and Susan come up with an ingenious plan that will take all of the village's nine school-aged kids on the trip of a lifetime. They'll form a baseball team, win the regional title and qualify to be sent to the provincial championships in Vancouver, courtesy of the school board.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNever mind that none of them has ever played baseball before. Never mind that there are no other teams to compete for the regional championship. Never mind that the village is not even wide enough to accommodate a baseball diamond.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith a lot of ingenuity and a little grownup help, including the advice of a shipwrecked British children's writer-cum-cricket-expert named Mr. Entwhistle, the New Auckland Beavers go into training and start packing their bags. But what will happen when they get to Vancouver? Will they be humiliated by the toughest teams in the province?\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-08T17:02:07-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-08T17:02:07-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":895,"price_min":895,"price_max":895,"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":41929942106171,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780888997050","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Thumb on a Diamond","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":895,"weight":227,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9780888997050","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\u003eA Horn Book Fanfare Top Ten List selection and an SSLI Honor Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThumb and Susan come up with an ingenious plan that will take all of the village's nine school-aged kids on the trip of a lifetime. They'll form a baseball team, win the regional title and qualify to be sent to the provincial championships in Vancouver, courtesy of the school board.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNever mind that none of them has ever played baseball before. Never mind that there are no other teams to compete for the regional championship. Never mind that the village is not even wide enough to accommodate a baseball diamond.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith a lot of ingenuity and a little grownup help, including the advice of a shipwrecked British children's writer-cum-cricket-expert named Mr. Entwhistle, the New Auckland Beavers go into training and start packing their bags. But what will happen when they get to Vancouver? Will they be humiliated by the toughest teams in the province?\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"ContributorBio_0":"Ken Roberts is the author of several popular books for young readers, including \u003cem\u003eHiccup Champion of the World, Crazy Ideas, Pop Bottles, Nothing Wright, Past Tense\u003c\/em\u003e (shortlisted for a Governor General’s Award) and two highly praised previous Thumb books — \u003cem\u003eThe Thumb in the Box\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThumb on a Diamond\u003c\/em\u003e (Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice, SSLI Honor Book, Horn Book Fanfare Top Ten List). Ken is chief librarian of the Hamilton Public Library. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario.","ContributorBio_1":"Leanne Franson is a children's book illustrator who was born in Regina, Saskatchewan and who lives now in Montreal. She has illustrated the books in Ken Roberts' Thumb series.","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Illustrated by","Contributor_0":"Roberts, Ken","Contributor_1":"Franson, Leanne","Imprint":"Groundwood Books","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd"}
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{"id":7325053419579,"title":"The Camel in the Sun","handle":"the-camel-in-the-sun","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInspired by a retelling of a traditional Muslim hadith, or account of the words or actions of the Prophet, which the author first heard in Sri Lanka, this is the story of a camel whose cruel owner only realizes what suffering he has caused when the Prophet appears and shows love to the animal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe camel has worked its entire life for a man called Halim, carrying bundles of spices, dates, incense, silver and wool on long journeys across the desert, east of the Red Sea. It often has to climb steep dunes, run when it is exhausted, and wait in the hot sun while Halim sits in the shade talking to the other merchants. One day the camel is overwhelmed by sadness and finds itself in tears. But still Halim shows no sympathy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen they arrive in the beautiful garden-filled city of Medina where the Prophet lives, the merchant refreshes himself with food and drink and then naps on a pillow of sand, once again leaving the tired camel to stand alone in the burning sun. But when the Prophet sees the camel's plight, everything changes. Halim finally empathizes with the camel's pain and suffering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Camel in the Sun\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas inspired by a Muslim story told to the author when he was in Sri Lanka. That story was a retelling of a hadith, and this book was respectfully inspired by both the retelling and a translation of the hadith itself. It is an unforgettable story about empathy. It is beautifully, respectfully and sensitively illustrated by Linda Wolfsgruber, whose images and earthy palette reflect her time spent in the Middle East.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-08T16:04:33-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-08T16:04:33-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":1795,"price_min":1795,"price_max":1795,"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":43233284325435,"title":"hardcover","option1":"hardcover","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9781554983810","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Camel in the Sun - hardcover","public_title":"hardcover","options":["hardcover"],"price":1795,"weight":372,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9781554983810","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781554983810.jpg?v=1736370213"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781554983810.jpg?v=1736370213","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24979690684475,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.672,"height":775,"width":521,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781554983810.jpg?v=1736370213"},"aspect_ratio":0.672,"height":775,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781554983810.jpg?v=1736370213","width":521}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInspired by a retelling of a traditional Muslim hadith, or account of the words or actions of the Prophet, which the author first heard in Sri Lanka, this is the story of a camel whose cruel owner only realizes what suffering he has caused when the Prophet appears and shows love to the animal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe camel has worked its entire life for a man called Halim, carrying bundles of spices, dates, incense, silver and wool on long journeys across the desert, east of the Red Sea. It often has to climb steep dunes, run when it is exhausted, and wait in the hot sun while Halim sits in the shade talking to the other merchants. One day the camel is overwhelmed by sadness and finds itself in tears. But still Halim shows no sympathy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen they arrive in the beautiful garden-filled city of Medina where the Prophet lives, the merchant refreshes himself with food and drink and then naps on a pillow of sand, once again leaving the tired camel to stand alone in the burning sun. But when the Prophet sees the camel's plight, everything changes. Halim finally empathizes with the camel's pain and suffering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Camel in the Sun\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas inspired by a Muslim story told to the author when he was in Sri Lanka. That story was a retelling of a hadith, and this book was respectfully inspired by both the retelling and a translation of the hadith itself. It is an unforgettable story about empathy. It is beautifully, respectfully and sensitively illustrated by Linda Wolfsgruber, whose images and earthy palette reflect her time spent in the Middle East.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003eGriffin Ondaatje is a writer and documentary filmmaker. He edited \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Monkey King and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e, a collection of South Asian tales. He directed \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eComplete Unknown\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e, a documentary feature film on Bob Dylan, and worked as a producer for CBC's Documentary Unit. His next book is a children’s novel entitled \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mosquito Brothers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e. He has three children and lives in Toronto with his family.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorBio_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003eLinda Wolfsgruber is a world-renowned artist who has exhibited her work throughout Europe and in the United States and Japan. She has won many awards, including the Austrian Children's and Juvenile Book Award for Illustration (four times) and the Golden Apple of the Biennial of Illustration Bratislava.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003eVisit Linda Wolfsgruber's website:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003ehttp:\/\/www.lindawolfsgruber.at\/\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Illustrated by","Contributor_0":"Ondaatje, Griffin","Contributor_1":"Wolfsgruber, Linda","Height":"10.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Groundwood Books","NumberOfPages":"40","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd","Width":"7.0625","WidthCode":"in"}
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{"id":7325051093051,"title":"Beautiful Griselda","handle":"beautiful-griselda","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrincess Griselda was so beautiful that almost everyone she met fell head over heels in love with her. And that's not just a saying. They actually lost their heads.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this wonderfully original fairy tale Isol takes on the dangers of narcissism. Griselda not only causes anyone who looks at her to lose his head -- she collects the lost heads, oblivious to the fact that everyone is terrified of looking at her. Eventually she runs out of companions, until she finally finds a prince so myopic that for a short while he is able to be with her (before the inevitable happens). But they are together long enough that at the end of nine months she has an extremely beautiful baby who, for the first time in Griselda's life, takes her out of herself -- unfortunately with the inevitable result.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-08T15:46:10-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-08T15:46:10-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":1895,"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":43244429213755,"title":"hardcover","option1":"hardcover","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9781554981052","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Beautiful Griselda - hardcover","public_title":"hardcover","options":["hardcover"],"price":1895,"weight":358,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9781554981052","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781554981052.jpg?v=1736369044"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781554981052.jpg?v=1736369044","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24979684425787,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.768,"height":727,"width":558,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781554981052.jpg?v=1736369044"},"aspect_ratio":0.768,"height":727,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781554981052.jpg?v=1736369044","width":558}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003ePrincess Griselda was so beautiful that almost everyone she met fell head over heels in love with her. And that's not just a saying. They actually lost their heads.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this wonderfully original fairy tale Isol takes on the dangers of narcissism. Griselda not only causes anyone who looks at her to lose his head -- she collects the lost heads, oblivious to the fact that everyone is terrified of looking at her. Eventually she runs out of companions, until she finally finds a prince so myopic that for a short while he is able to be with her (before the inevitable happens). But they are together long enough that at the end of nine months she has an extremely beautiful baby who, for the first time in Griselda's life, takes her out of herself -- unfortunately with the inevitable result.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003eIsol is an award-winning author and illustrator, who\u0026nbsp;has been honored with the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for her outstanding contribution to children’s literature. She is\u0026nbsp;renowned for creating picture books, which, as noted in the citation from the ALMA jury, are created “from the eye level of the child.” She lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003eVisit Isol's website:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003ehttp:\/\/www.isol-isol.com.ar\/\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003eVisit Isol's blog:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003ehttp:\/\/www.isol-isol.com.ar\/\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorBio_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eELISA AMADO\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e is a Guatemalan-born author and translator. She has written \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Friend\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMi amiga\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e), illustrated by Alfonso Ruano; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eUn Barrilete para el Día de los Muertos\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e \/ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarrilete: A Kite for the Day of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCousins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrimas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e), illustrated by Luis Garay; and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTricycle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eEl triciclo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e), illustrated by Alfonso Ruano, which is on the Américas Award Commended List and is a USBBY Outstanding International Book. She lives in Toronto.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Translated by","Contributor_0":"Isol","Contributor_1":"Amado, Elisa","Imprint":"Groundwood Books","NumberOfPages":"32","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd"}
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{"id":7325037396027,"title":"Swimming Home","handle":"swimming-home","description":"\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and selected as a\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eNotable Book,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSwimming Home\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a sexy psychological thriller from a highly acclaimed writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoet Joe and his war-correspondent wife Isabel arrive with their daughter and another couple to a rented villa in the south of France to discover a body floating face down in the swimming pool. But the girl is very much alive. She is Kitty Finch: a sexy, mysterious young woman who walks naked out of the water and straight into the heart of their holiday. But why is she there? What does she want from them all? And why does Joe’s enigmatic wife invite her to stay?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaking place over a single week,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSwimming Home\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ereveals how a group of beautiful, flawed tourists in the French Riviera come loose at the seams. Both profound and thrilling, Deborah Levy explores what it means to be alive and how the most devastating secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-08T12:29:48-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-08T12:29:49-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":1895,"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":43249272520763,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9781770893320","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Swimming Home - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":191,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9781770893320","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770893320.jpg?v=1736357327"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770893320.jpg?v=1736357327","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24979628884027,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.649,"height":2488,"width":1615,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770893320.jpg?v=1736357327"},"aspect_ratio":0.649,"height":2488,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770893320.jpg?v=1736357327","width":1615}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and selected as a\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eNotable Book,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSwimming Home\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a sexy psychological thriller from a highly acclaimed writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoet Joe and his war-correspondent wife Isabel arrive with their daughter and another couple to a rented villa in the south of France to discover a body floating face down in the swimming pool. But the girl is very much alive. She is Kitty Finch: a sexy, mysterious young woman who walks naked out of the water and straight into the heart of their holiday. But why is she there? What does she want from them all? And why does Joe’s enigmatic wife invite her to stay?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaking place over a single week,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSwimming Home\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ereveals how a group of beautiful, flawed tourists in the French Riviera come loose at the seams. Both profound and thrilling, Deborah Levy explores what it means to be alive and how the most devastating secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003eDeborah Levy writes fiction, plays, and poetry. She is the author of highly praised novels, including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeautiful Mutants\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSwallowing Geography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBilly and Girl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSwimming Home\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e, her most recent novel, was serialized on BBC Radio 4 as a Book at Bedtime and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Levy, Deborah","Imprint":"Anansi International","NumberOfPages":"168","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc"}
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{"id":7325036544059,"title":"Day","handle":"day","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1939, Alfred Day had wanted war. And when he got it, he found purpose in its turmoil: he found his proper role as tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew; and -- most extraordinary of all -- he found Joyce, a woman to love. But now, that's all gone: the war took it away. And maybe the war has taken him away, too.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBefore Hitler and the bombs, Alfred was a boy in Staffordshire, helpless to defend his mother and resist his abusive father. The RAF gave him order, skills, another family, a way to be a man. It taught him how to burn through lifetimes on night ops and brief, sweet leaves, surviving. But it didn't prepare him for capture, for prison camp and chaos as the war wound down. And it certainly didn't prepare him for an empty peace. So, in 1949, Alfred winds back time to see where he lost himself as an extra in a POW film -- and begins to do what he's never dared -- to remember.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDay\u003c\/em\u003e, A. L. Kennedy has crafted a superb novel about the brutal simplicities of war and the complexities of human emotion. Above all,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDay\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis wonderful storytelling: the freight of history and humanity carried effortlessly by the beauty of the writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-08T12:12:54-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-08T12:12:54-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":1895,"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":43249278517307,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780887848087","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Day - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":363,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9780887848087","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887848087.jpg?v=1736356310"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887848087.jpg?v=1736356310","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24979625279547,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.63,"height":613,"width":386,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887848087.jpg?v=1736356310"},"aspect_ratio":0.63,"height":613,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887848087.jpg?v=1736356310","width":386}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1939, Alfred Day had wanted war. And when he got it, he found purpose in its turmoil: he found his proper role as tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew; and -- most extraordinary of all -- he found Joyce, a woman to love. But now, that's all gone: the war took it away. And maybe the war has taken him away, too.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBefore Hitler and the bombs, Alfred was a boy in Staffordshire, helpless to defend his mother and resist his abusive father. The RAF gave him order, skills, another family, a way to be a man. It taught him how to burn through lifetimes on night ops and brief, sweet leaves, surviving. But it didn't prepare him for capture, for prison camp and chaos as the war wound down. And it certainly didn't prepare him for an empty peace. So, in 1949, Alfred winds back time to see where he lost himself as an extra in a POW film -- and begins to do what he's never dared -- to remember.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDay\u003c\/em\u003e, A. L. Kennedy has crafted a superb novel about the brutal simplicities of war and the complexities of human emotion. Above all,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDay\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis wonderful storytelling: the freight of history and humanity carried effortlessly by the beauty of the writing.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003eA. L. Kennedy is the critically acclaimed author of multiple award-winning novel \u003ci\u003eDay\u003c\/i\u003e and several other works of fiction and nonfiction. She has twice been selected as \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Young British novelists. She lives in London, U.K.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003eVisit A.L. Kennedy's website: http:\/\/www.a-l-kennedy.co.uk\/ Follow A.L. Kennedy on Twitter: http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/writerer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Kennedy, A.L.","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"288","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc"}
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{"id":7325031039035,"title":"Sex and Death","handle":"sex-and-death","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA provocative and haunting collection of short stories that probe two of the most powerful forces shaping the human experience.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe drive for life — for survival and reproduction — and the drive for death — for violence and self-destruction — are the two dominant, instinctive urges of human behaviour. These conflicting compulsions, characterized by Freud as\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eEros\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThanatos\u003c\/i\u003e, are also the central themes of great literature. In\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSex and Death\u003c\/i\u003e, some of today’s most compelling writers from around the globe — Kevin Barry, Lynn Coady, Robert Drewe, Ceridwen Dovey, Damon Galgut, Petina Gappah, Sarah Hall, Peter Hobbs, Yiyun Li, Alexander MacLeod, Ben Marcus, Jon McGregor, Guadalupe Nettel, Courttia Newland, Taiye Selassie, Ali Smith, Wells Tower, Alan Warner, Claire Vaye Watkins, Clare Wigfall — explore these challenging themes with honesty, psychological acuity, brutality, tenderness, and empathy, in stories that are illuminating, disquieting, funny, and utterly dazzling.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-08T11:37:04-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-08T11:37:04-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"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":43249659150395,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9781770898837","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Sex and Death - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":400,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9781770898837","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770898837.jpg?v=1736354164"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770898837.jpg?v=1736354164","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24979600441403,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770898837.jpg?v=1736354164"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781770898837.jpg?v=1736354164","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA provocative and haunting collection of short stories that probe two of the most powerful forces shaping the human experience.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe drive for life — for survival and reproduction — and the drive for death — for violence and self-destruction — are the two dominant, instinctive urges of human behaviour. These conflicting compulsions, characterized by Freud as\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eEros\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThanatos\u003c\/i\u003e, are also the central themes of great literature. In\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSex and Death\u003c\/i\u003e, some of today’s most compelling writers from around the globe — Kevin Barry, Lynn Coady, Robert Drewe, Ceridwen Dovey, Damon Galgut, Petina Gappah, Sarah Hall, Peter Hobbs, Yiyun Li, Alexander MacLeod, Ben Marcus, Jon McGregor, Guadalupe Nettel, Courttia Newland, Taiye Selassie, Ali Smith, Wells Tower, Alan Warner, Claire Vaye Watkins, Clare Wigfall — explore these challenging themes with honesty, psychological acuity, brutality, tenderness, and empathy, in stories that are illuminating, disquieting, funny, and utterly dazzling.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSARAH HALL\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e is the author of the novels \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHaweswater\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Electric Michelangelo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaughters of the North\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow To Paint A Dead Man\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wolf Border\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e. She has won the Commonwealth Writers Prize, a Betty Trask Award, a Lakeland Book of the Year prize, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the James Tiptree Jr. Award and the Portico Prize for Fiction, and her novels have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and Arthur C. Clarke Award, and longlisted for the Orange Prize and the Dublin IMPAC Award. Her first collection of short stories, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful Indifference\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e, won the Portico Prize for Fiction 2012 and the Edge Hill short story prize, and was also short-listed for the Frank O’Connor Prize. She lives in Norwich, UK.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorBio_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003ePeter Hobbs' debut novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Short Day Dying\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003e, was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and won a Betty Trask Prize.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorRole_0":"Edited by","ContributorRole_1":"Edited by","Contributor_0":"Hall, Sarah","Contributor_1":"Hobbs, Peter","Imprint":"Anansi International","NumberOfPages":"336","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc"}
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{"id":7325027729467,"title":"The Good Bacteria","handle":"the-good-bacteria","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn crisp, intimate, and uncluttered language, award-winning and critically acclaimed poet Sharon Thesen gives us a layered meditation on energy and endings: the irrepressible energy of life; and the end of the natural world, of home, of love, youth, and safety.Thesen's talent is for catching beauty at the periphery of things -- a glimpse of neighbour's yellow dress, a tube of polysporin, a blue-and-white tin awning the mind momentarily mistakes for a lake.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThesen's voice -- musical, personable, alive to joy and despair in equal measure -- reminds us of the kind of spiritual yearning that can surprise any of us, even in our most mundane moments. With nods to predecessors who searched for the Ideal in the local -- Frank O'Hara, Robert Creeley, S. T. Coleridge, and John Berryman -- \u003cem\u003eThe Good Bacteria\u003c\/em\u003e is a beautiful addition to Sharon Thesen's considerable achievements.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-08T10:37:41-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-08T10:37:41-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":1895,"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":43252613808187,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780887847462","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Good Bacteria - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":136,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9780887847462","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\u003eIn crisp, intimate, and uncluttered language, award-winning and critically acclaimed poet Sharon Thesen gives us a layered meditation on energy and endings: the irrepressible energy of life; and the end of the natural world, of home, of love, youth, and safety.Thesen's talent is for catching beauty at the periphery of things -- a glimpse of neighbour's yellow dress, a tube of polysporin, a blue-and-white tin awning the mind momentarily mistakes for a lake.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThesen's voice -- musical, personable, alive to joy and despair in equal measure -- reminds us of the kind of spiritual yearning that can surprise any of us, even in our most mundane moments. With nods to predecessors who searched for the Ideal in the local -- Frank O'Hara, Robert Creeley, S. T. Coleridge, and John Berryman -- \u003cem\u003eThe Good Bacteria\u003c\/em\u003e is a beautiful addition to Sharon Thesen's considerable achievements.\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":"96","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc"}
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{"id":7325026680891,"title":"Swithering","handle":"swithering","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTo swither means to suffer indecision or doubt, but there is no faltering in these poems. There is no uncertainty in line or sound or image, only in the themes of flux and change and transformation that thread through this powerful third collection. Robin Robertson has written a book of remarkable cohesion and range that calls on his knowledge of folklore and myth to fuse the old with the new. From raw, exposed poems about the end of childhood to erotically charged lyrics about the ends of desire, from a brilliant retelling of the metamorphosis and death of Actaeon to the final freeing of the waters in Holding Proteus, these poems are bright epiphanies of passion and loss.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-08T10:14:39-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-08T10:14:39-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":1895,"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":43249745133627,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780887847394","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Swithering - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":136,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9780887847394","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887847394.jpg?v=1736349198"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887847394.jpg?v=1736349198","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24979555516475,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.643,"height":605,"width":389,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887847394.jpg?v=1736349198"},"aspect_ratio":0.643,"height":605,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887847394.jpg?v=1736349198","width":389}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTo swither means to suffer indecision or doubt, but there is no faltering in these poems. There is no uncertainty in line or sound or image, only in the themes of flux and change and transformation that thread through this powerful third collection. Robin Robertson has written a book of remarkable cohesion and range that calls on his knowledge of folklore and myth to fuse the old with the new. From raw, exposed poems about the end of childhood to erotically charged lyrics about the ends of desire, from a brilliant retelling of the metamorphosis and death of Actaeon to the final freeing of the waters in Holding Proteus, these poems are bright epiphanies of passion and loss.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003eRobin Robertson is from the northeast coast of Scotland and now lives in London.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Robertson, Robert","Imprint":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003eHouse of Anansi Press\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","NumberOfPages":"96","Publisher":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(33,37,41);\"\u003eHouse of Anansi Press Inc\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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{"id":7325023797307,"title":"Gun Dogs","handle":"gun-dogs","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat is a Gun Dog? An uncontrolled creature purportedly under our control? These poems strain at the lead. The torque is felt in the line, the verb, the wild thinking in metaphor. The maturity of James Langer's vision reveals itself here in the cumulative effect of his rhetoric. He won't land on his quarry -- Love, Forgiveness, Respect of Place, Clarity of Memory. He will, however, attain wisdom within these poems, a measured equanimity that can be traced back to the Stoics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese lines are like those of Les Murray, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, and Robin Robertson. Here is a debut from a genuine, fully formed talent whose poems reach the sublime.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-01-08T09:07:15-05:00","created_at":"2025-01-08T09:07:15-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press","type":"","tags":[],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":1895,"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":43252624326715,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780887848223","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Gun Dogs - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":118,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9780887848223","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\u003eWhat is a Gun Dog? An uncontrolled creature purportedly under our control? These poems strain at the lead. The torque is felt in the line, the verb, the wild thinking in metaphor. The maturity of James Langer's vision reveals itself here in the cumulative effect of his rhetoric. He won't land on his quarry -- Love, Forgiveness, Respect of Place, Clarity of Memory. He will, however, attain wisdom within these poems, a measured equanimity that can be traced back to the Stoics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese lines are like those of Les Murray, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, and Robin Robertson. Here is a debut from a genuine, fully formed talent whose poems reach the sublime.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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No Vacancy
With the help of her Catholic friend, an eleven-year-old Jewish girl creates a provocative local tourist attraction to save her family’s failing motel.
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ages 13
and up
Lost Girl Found
In war-torn Sudan, a girl must make heart-rending choices as she fights for survival and a chance at a future.
