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{"id":6818368389179,"title":"O Resplandor","handle":"o-resplandor","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere is inventive new poetry from one of our most original and admired poets: Erin Moure, two-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry, winner of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and a finalist for the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoure's brilliant collection explores the idea that the act of reading contains all the experiences of the body itself: love, splendour, travel, doubling, loss. The \"resplandor\" of the title refers to the radiance of the body when the language of the book flows into ears and eyes. In unexpected ways -- through impossible translation, anachronistic journeys, and a fictional mystery that involves a search for a translator who exists only in the future beyond the book itself - \u003cem\u003eO Resplandor\u003c\/em\u003e confounds notions of authorship and translation, all while conveying the clamour over love and loss. Richly challenging and charged with Erin Moure's distinctive energy, \u003cem\u003eO Resplandor\u003c\/em\u003e is a work about the powerful light contained in the human body, in translation, and in poetry - even as it shows how these are all one and the same in the end: inventions.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-29T16:14:54-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-29T14:22:44-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Moure Erín","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2010-02-01"],"price":2295,"price_min":2295,"price_max":2295,"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":40232242217019,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887848148","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"O Resplandor - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2295,"weight":218,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887848148","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3100e96c-d2ba-477a-b261-7f16ed98471e.jpg?v=1682245667"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3100e96c-d2ba-477a-b261-7f16ed98471e.jpg?v=1682245667","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23431558955067,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.749,"height":577,"width":432,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3100e96c-d2ba-477a-b261-7f16ed98471e.jpg?v=1682245667"},"aspect_ratio":0.749,"height":577,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3100e96c-d2ba-477a-b261-7f16ed98471e.jpg?v=1682245667","width":432}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eHere is inventive new poetry from one of our most original and admired poets: Erin Moure, two-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry, winner of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and a finalist for the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoure's brilliant collection explores the idea that the act of reading contains all the experiences of the body itself: love, splendour, travel, doubling, loss. The \"resplandor\" of the title refers to the radiance of the body when the language of the book flows into ears and eyes. In unexpected ways -- through impossible translation, anachronistic journeys, and a fictional mystery that involves a search for a translator who exists only in the future beyond the book itself - \u003cem\u003eO Resplandor\u003c\/em\u003e confounds notions of authorship and translation, all while conveying the clamour over love and loss. Richly challenging and charged with Erin Moure's distinctive energy, \u003cem\u003eO Resplandor\u003c\/em\u003e is a work about the powerful light contained in the human body, in translation, and in poetry - even as it shows how these are all one and the same in the end: inventions.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781770899797","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9780887845604","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9780887845604","AlsoRecommendedISBN_3":"9780887847271","BASICMainSubject":"POE011000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POETRY\/Canadian","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eERÍN MOURE\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet and translator (primarily of Galician and French poetry into English) who welcomes texts that are unconventional or difficult because she loves and needs them. Among other honours, she is a two-time winner of Canada’s Governor General’s Award (in poetry and translation), a winner of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Nelson Ball Prize, a co-recipient of the QWF Spoken Word Prize, a three-time finalist for a Best Translated Book Award in poetry, and a three-time finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. She is based in Tiohtià:ke\/Montréal.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"POETRY \/ Canadian \/ General","BISACSubject_0":"POE011000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eERÍN MOURE\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet and translator (primarily of Galician and French poetry into English) who welcomes texts that are unconventional or difficult because she loves and needs them. Among other honours, she is a two-time winner of Canada’s Governor General’s Award (in poetry and translation), a winner of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Nelson Ball Prize, a co-recipient of the QWF Spoken Word Prize, a three-time finalist for a Best Translated Book Award in poetry, and a three-time finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. 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O Resplandor
Erin Moure explores the idea that the act of reading is a practice of embodiment, containing all the experiences of the body itself.
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{"id":6818367635515,"title":"Bloom","handle":"bloom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBloom\u003c\/em\u003e is the electrifying debut collection from one of our best emerging poets. If a studio technician could \"remix\" poems by modern and contemporary poets so they retold the story of the Manhattan Project from the viewpoint of Louis Slotin, simultaneously putting Robert Lowell in whispered conversation with Ted Hughes, as vocalized by a Canadian physicist from Winnipeg, over the current state of literary utopian projects, we'd hear something nearly as captivating as Michael Lista's Bloom. As it is, we also get \"Lista\" swimming ghostlike through this palimpsest-narrative, inhabiting Slotin and brashly \"tickling the dragon's tail\" at the nucleus of untested notions of creation, stasis, and destruction. In \u003cem\u003eBloom\u003c\/em\u003e, one of the most dangerous historical fulcrums of the last century is somehow made viscerally present again, and, more wondrously, made to radiate outward into very current crises.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-12-15T08:49:34-05:00","created_at":"2022-03-29T14:21:05-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Lista Michael","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2010-04-03"],"price":2299,"price_min":2299,"price_max":2299,"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":40232218591291,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887849510","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Bloom - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2299,"weight":127,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887849510","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_7ffd6463-9f81-4fe2-ad17-7e3705891fcf.jpg?v=1695624631"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_7ffd6463-9f81-4fe2-ad17-7e3705891fcf.jpg?v=1695624631","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23815114096699,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.648,"height":611,"width":396,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_7ffd6463-9f81-4fe2-ad17-7e3705891fcf.jpg?v=1695624631"},"aspect_ratio":0.648,"height":611,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_7ffd6463-9f81-4fe2-ad17-7e3705891fcf.jpg?v=1695624631","width":396}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBloom\u003c\/em\u003e is the electrifying debut collection from one of our best emerging poets. If a studio technician could \"remix\" poems by modern and contemporary poets so they retold the story of the Manhattan Project from the viewpoint of Louis Slotin, simultaneously putting Robert Lowell in whispered conversation with Ted Hughes, as vocalized by a Canadian physicist from Winnipeg, over the current state of literary utopian projects, we'd hear something nearly as captivating as Michael Lista's Bloom. As it is, we also get \"Lista\" swimming ghostlike through this palimpsest-narrative, inhabiting Slotin and brashly \"tickling the dragon's tail\" at the nucleus of untested notions of creation, stasis, and destruction. In \u003cem\u003eBloom\u003c\/em\u003e, one of the most dangerous historical fulcrums of the last century is somehow made viscerally present again, and, more wondrously, made to radiate outward into very current crises.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9780887848230","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781487003661","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487006181","BASICMainSubject":"POE011000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POETRY\/Canadian","BiographicalNote":"Michael Lista is the author of \u003cem\u003eBloom\u003c\/em\u003e. He is also the Poetry Editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e, and he writes a popular monthly column, \u003cem\u003eOn Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e, for the \u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e. Michael lives in Toronto. \n\nFollow Michael Lista on Twitter:\nhttp:\/\/www.twitter.com\/michaellista\/","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"POETRY \/ Canadian \/ General","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"SCIENCE \/ History","BISACSubject_0":"POE011000","BISACSubject_1":"SCI034000","ContributorBio_0":"Michael Lista is the author of \u003cem\u003eBloom\u003c\/em\u003e. He is also the Poetry Editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e, and he writes a popular monthly column, \u003cem\u003eOn Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e, for the \u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e. Michael lives in Toronto. \n\nFollow Michael Lista on Twitter:\nhttp:\/\/www.twitter.com\/michaellista\/","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Lista, Michael (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBloom\u003c\/em\u003e is the electrifying debut collection from one of our best emerging poets. If a studio technician could \"remix\" poems by modern and contemporary poets so they retold the story of the Manhattan Project from the viewpoint of Louis Slotin, simultaneously putting Robert Lowell in whispered conversation with Ted Hughes, as vocalized by a Canadian physicist from Winnipeg, over the current state of literary utopian projects, we'd hear something nearly as captivating as Michael Lista's Bloom. As it is, we also get \"Lista\" swimming ghostlike through this palimpsest-narrative, inhabiting Slotin and brashly \"tickling the dragon's tail\" at the nucleus of untested notions of creation, stasis, and destruction. In \u003cem\u003eBloom\u003c\/em\u003e, one of the most dangerous historical fulcrums of the last century is somehow made viscerally present again, and, more wondrously, made to radiate outward into very current crises.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9780887849510","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9780887849510\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","MetaKeywords":"History; Canadian; oppenheimer; nuclear bomb; barbieheimer; christopher nolan; cillian murphy","NumberOfPages":"96","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“Perfectly weighted.” — \u003cstrong\u003eMichael Landry, \u003cem\u003esalon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Michael Landry","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"salon","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“There is much to take from this collection. Not only is its face beautiful, its body yields clues both to the genetic makeup of poetry - the process of parenting and birthing it - and the purpose of life.” — \u003cstrong\u003eNigel Beale, \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Nigel Beale","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“Bloom is all one might hope for in a book of poetry: an unencumbered, nervy fusion of imagination and form.” — \u003cstrong\u003eJennifer Still, \u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Jennifer Still","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The electrifying debut poetry collection from one of Canada's most exciting voices.","PrizeCodeText_1":"Long-listed","PrizeCode_1":"05","PrizeName_0":"Quill and Quire Books of the Year","PrizeName_1":"ReLit Awards: Poetry","PrizeYear_0":"2010","PrizeYear_1":"2011","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2010-04-03","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"The electrifying debut poetry collection from one of Canada's most exciting voices.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
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The electrifying debut poetry collection from one of Canada's most exciting voices.
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{"id":6818367602747,"title":"Patient Frame","handle":"patient-frame","description":"\u003cp\u003eGovernor General's Literary Award finalist and bestselling author Steven Heighton's considerable dramatic lyric powers reach a new sophistication and intensity in his astonishing collection \u003cem\u003ePatient Frame\u003c\/em\u003e. From the court of Medici to the My Lai massacre; from love for a daughter and mother, through nightmare and displacement, to moments of painful acceptance; from erotic passion to situations of deep moral failure, these poems are part of an ongoing search, a scanning of our human horizons for moments of lasting value. Heighton's work has long shown a resolve to achieve some viable rapprochement between the mind's cold structures and the earthbound drives of the body.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDynamic, vigorous, tender poems as engaged with the moment as they are with traditions of East and West. \u003cem\u003ePatient Frame\u003c\/em\u003e brings together more of Heighton's vital translations of poets as diverse as Jorge Luis Borges and Horace. \u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-29T16:14:47-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-29T14:20:56-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Award Winning","Adult Poetry","By (author) Heighton Steven","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2010-04-10"],"price":2295,"price_min":2295,"price_max":2295,"available":false,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40232216330299,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887849527","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Patient Frame - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2295,"weight":145,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887849527","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4dde4de4-50f9-4ad4-8ac9-561964a2e408.jpg?v=1668328476"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4dde4de4-50f9-4ad4-8ac9-561964a2e408.jpg?v=1668328476","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22926477656123,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":612,"width":396,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4dde4de4-50f9-4ad4-8ac9-561964a2e408.jpg?v=1668328476"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":612,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4dde4de4-50f9-4ad4-8ac9-561964a2e408.jpg?v=1668328476","width":396}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eGovernor General's Literary Award finalist and bestselling author Steven Heighton's considerable dramatic lyric powers reach a new sophistication and intensity in his astonishing collection \u003cem\u003ePatient Frame\u003c\/em\u003e. From the court of Medici to the My Lai massacre; from love for a daughter and mother, through nightmare and displacement, to moments of painful acceptance; from erotic passion to situations of deep moral failure, these poems are part of an ongoing search, a scanning of our human horizons for moments of lasting value. Heighton's work has long shown a resolve to achieve some viable rapprochement between the mind's cold structures and the earthbound drives of the body.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDynamic, vigorous, tender poems as engaged with the moment as they are with traditions of East and West. \u003cem\u003ePatient Frame\u003c\/em\u003e brings together more of Heighton's vital translations of poets as diverse as Jorge Luis Borges and Horace. \u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781487006181","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781487001278","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487001865","BASICMainSubject":"POE011000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POETRY\/Canadian","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTEVEN HEIGHTON\u003c\/strong\u003e (1961-2022)’s most recent books were the novel \u003cem\u003eThe Nightingale Won’t Let You Sleep\u003c\/em\u003e (Hamish Hamilton, 2017), the Governor General’s Literary Award–winning poetry collection \u003cem\u003eThe Waking Comes Late \u003c\/em\u003e(House of Anansi Press, 2016), and the memoir \u003cem\u003eReaching Mithymna\u003c\/em\u003e (Biblioasis, 2020), which was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. He was also the author of the novel \u003cem\u003eAfterlands\u003c\/em\u003e, which was published in six countries, was a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e Editor’s Choice, and was a “best of year” selection from ten publications in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. The novel was optioned for film by Pall Grimsson. His other poetry collections include \u003cem\u003eThe Ecstasy of Skeptics\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Address Book\u003c\/em\u003e. His fiction and poetry have been translated into ten languages, have appeared in the \u003cem\u003eLondon Review of Books, Tin House, Poetry, Brick, \u003c\/em\u003ethe \u003cem\u003eIndependent, \u003c\/em\u003ethe \u003cem\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and The Walrus Magazine, among others; have been internationally anthologized in \u003cem\u003eBest English Stories, Best American Poetry, The Minerva Book of Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBest American Mystery Stories\u003c\/em\u003e; and have won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry, the Gerald Lampert Award, the K. M. Hunter Award, the P. K. Page Founders’ Award, the Petra Kenney Prize, the Air Canada Award, and four gold National Magazine Awards. In addition, Heighton was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Trillium Book Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Journey Prize, the Moth Prize, and Britain’s W. H. Smith Award. Heighton was also a fiction reviewer for the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e. He lived in Kingston, Ontario. In 2021, Wolfe Island Records released an album of his songs, \u003cem\u003eThe Devil’s Share\u003c\/em\u003e. To listen, visit \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.wolfeislandrecords.com\/stevenheighton\"\u003ewww.wolfeislandrecords.com\/stevenheighton\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"POETRY \/ Canadian \/ General","BISACSubject_0":"POE011000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTEVEN HEIGHTON\u003c\/strong\u003e (1961-2022)’s most recent books were the novel \u003cem\u003eThe Nightingale Won’t Let You Sleep\u003c\/em\u003e (Hamish Hamilton, 2017), the Governor General’s Literary Award–winning poetry collection \u003cem\u003eThe Waking Comes Late \u003c\/em\u003e(House of Anansi Press, 2016), and the memoir \u003cem\u003eReaching Mithymna\u003c\/em\u003e (Biblioasis, 2020), which was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. He was also the author of the novel \u003cem\u003eAfterlands\u003c\/em\u003e, which was published in six countries, was a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e Editor’s Choice, and was a “best of year” selection from ten publications in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. The novel was optioned for film by Pall Grimsson. His other poetry collections include \u003cem\u003eThe Ecstasy of Skeptics\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Address Book\u003c\/em\u003e. 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Heighton was also a fiction reviewer for the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e. He lived in Kingston, Ontario. In 2021, Wolfe Island Records released an album of his songs, \u003cem\u003eThe Devil’s Share\u003c\/em\u003e. To listen, visit \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.wolfeislandrecords.com\/stevenheighton\"\u003ewww.wolfeislandrecords.com\/stevenheighton\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Heighton, Steven (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003eGovernor General's Literary Award finalist and bestselling author Steven Heighton's considerable dramatic lyric powers reach a new sophistication and intensity in his astonishing collection \u003cem\u003ePatient Frame\u003c\/em\u003e. From the court of Medici to the My Lai massacre; from love for a daughter and mother, through nightmare and displacement, to moments of painful acceptance; from erotic passion to situations of deep moral failure, these poems are part of an ongoing search, a scanning of our human horizons for moments of lasting value. 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These dynamic, vigorous, tender poems are part of an ongoing search, a scanning of our human horizons for moments of lasting value.
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Evil in Return
Elena Forbes's thrilling creation Detective Tartaglia is back — this time to solve the grisly professional killing of a famous novelist.
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{"id":6818365538363,"title":"The Munk Debates","handle":"the-munk-debates","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Munk Debates is Canada's premier international debate series, a highly anticipated cultural event and feast of ideas. Launched in 2008 by philanthropists Peter and Melanie Munk, these debates bring together some of the world's greatest thinkers to discuss the most pressing political, social, and cultural issues that are shaping the course of world events. 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A timely and provocative exploration of major political, social, and cultural issues in the form of debates by the world's leading thinkers.
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Methodist Hatchet
The exhilarating fourth collection from one of Canada’s most talented poets, Governor General’s Literary Award winner Ken Babstock.
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One Bird's Choice
One Bird's Choice is a hilarious and heartwarming comic memoir that bridges the divide between the Boomer and Boomerang generations.
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Does the 21st Century Belong to China?
A Munk Debate on the key geopolitical issue of the century: the rise of China.
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Dr. Brinkley's Tower
Dr. Brinkley’s Tower is a sensational, passionate story of jealousy and greed set against the backdrop of Mexico in the 1930s.
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Under the Hawthorn Tree is a story of first love and forbidden love, set against the backdrop of the final days of the Cultural Revolution.
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North America’s Lost Decade?
The eighth semi-annual Munk Debate asks will North America rebound from economic stagnation, or is the future more uncertain than ever?
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Thrifty Gardening
Gardener extraordinaire Marjorie Harris gives you the best tips and trade secrets on creating that perfect natural oasis the thrifty way.
