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{"id":6684293169211,"title":"The In-the-News Bundle $55.00","handle":"the-in-the-news-bundle","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe subjects of these books speak to what is happening around the world today. 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The Trap
The Trap follows the reclusive novelist Linda Conrads who sets out to trap the man she believes murdered her sister using her latest novel.
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In Thirteen Shells, Ottawa author Nadia Bozak takes this to a new level by dulling these edges with the unassailable love of a girl for her parents…Shell is no angel. She lies and steals, at least a little. Experiments with drugs. And has her petty jealousies. But by the midpoint in the novel, the readers find themselves rooting for Shell, hoping that her dreams will come true. And that is the novel's brilliance.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOttawa Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Ottawa Citizen","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“Bozak’s interwoven stories most obviously parallel [Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women]. Both Shell and Munro’s women and girls come of age in extremely realistic fictional Ontario towns. Both can be broken down to stand alone as stories, or read through as a novel. Both focus less on a particular climax, and more on the ongoing understated crises of expectations: the ones we put on ourselves, and the ones other people have of us. Furthermore, both authors are masterful when it comes to language, churning out brilliant turns of phrase worth revisiting….Thirteen Shells quietly captures each painful gasp of growing up: the anxiety and shame, along with the treasures found along the way.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Owen Sound Sun-Times","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“...Thirteen Shells is enticing, reminding us of the difficulty and joy of simply growing up and getting on with it.” — \u003cstrong\u003eRory Runnells, \u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Rory Runnells","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e“richly detailed...There's a grittiness and emotional dynamism in these... tales” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Open Book","OtherText_Review_8":"\u003cp\u003e“Nadia Bozak's gorgeous collection of linked short stories, Thirteen Shells is drawing tons of praise, including comparisons to Alice Munro, for its deft rendering of a young girl coming of age...Bozak's funny and poignant prose connects us with Shell's deeply relatable longings.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOpen Book\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Quill \u0026 Quire","OtherText_Review_9":"\u003cp\u003e“As a vivid picture of growing up in the ‘80’s, Thirteen Shells is a landmark.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe London Yodeller\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"CBC Candy Palmater show","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Told in the tradition of Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women, Thirteen Shells is a novel-in-stories about a young girl coming of age in the 1980s.","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2016-05-07","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Told in the tradition of Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women, Thirteen Shells is a novel-in-stories about a young girl coming of age in the 1980s."}
Thirteen Shells
Told in the tradition of Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women, Thirteen Shells is a novel-in-stories about a young girl coming of age in the 1980s.
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The Sniper
Jason Bourne meets John McClane in this electrifying Taiwanese thriller about a young special-forces sniper ordered to assassinate a high-level government official.
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Sequence special hardcover edition
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of A.F. Moritz's poetry collection Sequence is limited to 50 copies.
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In the Orchard, the Swallows
Named a Book of the Year by both the Guardian and Chapters/Indigo, In the Orchard, the Swallows is a moving story of lost love in war-torn Pakistan.
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Hitchens vs. Blair
Two formidable minds, one powerfully charged debate: is religion a force for good in this world?
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{"id":6582728982587,"title":"The Disciple of Las Vegas","handle":"the-disciple-of-las-vegas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAva and Uncle go deep inside the shady world of online gambling in the second installment of the pulse-pounding Ava Lee novels. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAva and Uncle are hired by Tommy Ordonez, the richest man in the Philippines, to recover $50 million lost in a land swindle. The Filipino billionaire’s reputation is on the line, and his family is on the brink of disaster. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAva tracks the missing funds from Canada to San Francisco to accounts in Costa Rica, and uncovers an illegal online gambling ring in Las Vegas. There, she confronts David “the Disciple” Douglas, one of the greatest poker players in the world, and his partner, Jeremy Ashton, a former banker with ties to a high-ranking U.K. cabinet minister. 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The Disciple of Las Vegas
Ava Lee goes deep inside the shady world of online gambling in the second installment of the pulse-pounding series.
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{"id":6582723313723,"title":"Born Liars","handle":"born-liars","description":"\u003cp\u003eLying is an intrinsic part of our social fabric, but it is also a deeply problematic and misunderstood aspect of what makes us human. Ian Leslie takes us on a fascinating journey that makes us question not only our own relationship to the truth, but also virtually every daily encounter we have. On the way he dissects the history of the lie detector, how parents affect their children’s attitude to lying (and vice versa), Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, the philosophical ambiguity of telling the truth, Bill Clinton’s presentational prowess, Wonder Woman’s lasso of truth, and why we should be wary of anyone with more than 150 Facebook friends.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBorn Liars\u003c\/em\u003e is thought-provoking, anecdotally driven narrative nonfiction at its best. Ian Leslie’s intoxicating blend of anthropology, biology, cultural history, philosophy, and popular psychology belies a serious central message: that humans have evolved and thrived in large part because of their ability to deceive.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:06:44-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:06:44-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Nonfiction","Anansi International","By (author) Leslie Ian","pub date: 2011-05-21"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":2195,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39403408883771,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770890282","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Born Liars - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770890282","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":39412944797755,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887843341","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Born Liars - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2195,"weight":503,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887843341","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":39412944863291,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770895775","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Born Liars - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770895775","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_693ba5bf-7c9a-4363-8508-d0ca60a9cf2b.jpg?v=1723950478"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_693ba5bf-7c9a-4363-8508-d0ca60a9cf2b.jpg?v=1723950478","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24743107723323,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.623,"height":642,"width":400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_693ba5bf-7c9a-4363-8508-d0ca60a9cf2b.jpg?v=1723950478"},"aspect_ratio":0.623,"height":642,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_693ba5bf-7c9a-4363-8508-d0ca60a9cf2b.jpg?v=1723950478","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eLying is an intrinsic part of our social fabric, but it is also a deeply problematic and misunderstood aspect of what makes us human. Ian Leslie takes us on a fascinating journey that makes us question not only our own relationship to the truth, but also virtually every daily encounter we have. On the way he dissects the history of the lie detector, how parents affect their children’s attitude to lying (and vice versa), Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, the philosophical ambiguity of telling the truth, Bill Clinton’s presentational prowess, Wonder Woman’s lasso of truth, and why we should be wary of anyone with more than 150 Facebook friends.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBorn Liars\u003c\/em\u003e is thought-provoking, anecdotally driven narrative nonfiction at its best. Ian Leslie’s intoxicating blend of anthropology, biology, cultural history, philosophy, and popular psychology belies a serious central message: that humans have evolved and thrived in large part because of their ability to deceive.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Born Liars
Learn the truth about lying with this engaging look at how deception gives us a survival edge and shapes humankind.
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{"id":7524393123899,"title":"Going Home","handle":"going-home","description":"\u003cp\u003eLike his contemporaries Robert Bringhurst, Ronald Wright, Dennis Lee, Don McKay, and Jan Zwicky, Tim Lilburn has long been a deep thinker on issues of ecology and writing, and on how the two fit together philosophically, morally, and ethically.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eGoing Home\u003c\/em\u003e, Lilburn addresses how we relate (often uneasily) to our physical landscape in Canada and the United States.Retrieving an almost lost strand in the Western intellectual tradition -- the erotic, contemplative strand, from Plato to John Cassian to the Areopagite -- Lilburn traces a history of eros and desire in the hope that this exercise and its awakening can lead us home to a full residence in North America. Surprising and enlightening, the collection finishes with two unforgettable personal essays, where Lilburn writes about his effort to enact desire in the place where his ancestors are buried, the flatlands and coulees of southern Saskatchewan.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2026-01-16T15:56:24-05:00","created_at":"2026-01-16T13:31:21-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":[],"price":2195,"price_min":2195,"price_max":2195,"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":43249948327995,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":".9780887847851","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Going Home - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2195,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":".9780887847851","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887847851_HR_4c62a3c9-7628-4fab-b993-5ab57de41945.jpg?v=1768590622"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887847851_HR_4c62a3c9-7628-4fab-b993-5ab57de41945.jpg?v=1768590622","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":26292650737723,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.677,"height":2324,"width":1574,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887847851_HR_4c62a3c9-7628-4fab-b993-5ab57de41945.jpg?v=1768590622"},"aspect_ratio":0.677,"height":2324,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9780887847851_HR_4c62a3c9-7628-4fab-b993-5ab57de41945.jpg?v=1768590622","width":1574}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eLike his contemporaries Robert Bringhurst, Ronald Wright, Dennis Lee, Don McKay, and Jan Zwicky, Tim Lilburn has long been a deep thinker on issues of ecology and writing, and on how the two fit together philosophically, morally, and ethically.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eGoing Home\u003c\/em\u003e, Lilburn addresses how we relate (often uneasily) to our physical landscape in Canada and the United States.Retrieving an almost lost strand in the Western intellectual tradition -- the erotic, contemplative strand, from Plato to John Cassian to the Areopagite -- Lilburn traces a history of eros and desire in the hope that this exercise and its awakening can lead us home to a full residence in North America. Surprising and enlightening, the collection finishes with two unforgettable personal essays, where Lilburn writes about his effort to enact desire in the place where his ancestors are buried, the flatlands and coulees of southern Saskatchewan.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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{"id":7425234206779,"title":"Ultra Blue","handle":"ultra-blue","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGraeme Bezanson’s debut collection, \u003cem\u003eUltra Blue\u003c\/em\u003e, is a book-length sequence of poems about the emotional lives of boys and the challenges of growing up within contemporary constructions of masculinity.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The truth no one wants to name,” writes bell hooks, “is that all boys are being raised to be killers even if they learn to hide the killer within.” These intense, insistently strange poems developed from Bezanson's struggles with guiding his young son through a culture of toxic masculinity and violence. This is work in dialogue with existing texts of boyhood and masculinity, in particular Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s \u003cem\u003eEmile\u003c\/em\u003e. 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Ultra Blue is a sequence of poems about the emotional lives of boys and the challenges of growing up within contemporary masculinity.
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Innie Shadows
A taut and unsparing novel about a community plagued by violence, drugs, corruption, and prejudice—but where love and justice prevail.
