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Travels in Cuba
Even for an experienced traveler like Charlie, Cuba is a place unlike any he has visited before — an island full of surprises, secrets and puzzling contradictions.
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Travels with My Family
Marie-Louise Gay and David Homel combine their writing and illustrating talents with their own family memories to produce a very unique travelogue.
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Trembling River
From internationally acclaimed crime writer Andrée A. Michaud, a beguiling story of trauma and lost innocence.
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{"id":7014714146875,"title":"Trinity Street","handle":"trinity-street","description":"\u003cp\u003eHeartsick, reverent, irreverent, and quietly political, \u003cem\u003eTrinity Street\u003c\/em\u003e is the much-anticipated fifth collection from poet Jen Currin, winner of the Audre Lorde Award and a Lambda finalist. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile Trinity Street is in fact an actual street in Vancouver, it is also the site of an imaginary garden and imperfect utopia in the title poem of this new collection. Currin’s poems weave together the meditative and the disruptive, the queer and quotidian, and the worlds of the dead and the living. Connections are made through prayer and protest; friendships are forged on a planet challenged by climate crisis, collective grief, and the perils of late capitalism. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese poems vibrate with unexpected shifts and precise, startling imagery, the touchstones of a poet whose work critics have described as “thrilling,” “emotionally evocative,” and “revelatory.”\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-10-14T10:50:50-04:00","created_at":"2022-10-13T16:51:34-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult LGBTQ+","Adult Poetry","By (author) Currin Jen","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2023-04-04"],"price":1699,"price_min":1699,"price_max":1999,"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":40874727374907,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487011628","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Trinity Street - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1999,"weight":181,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487011628","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40874727899195,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487011635","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Trinity Street - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1699,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487011635","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_74ee39a5-a840-454e-96cb-499f1236618c.jpg?v=1717905104"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_74ee39a5-a840-454e-96cb-499f1236618c.jpg?v=1717905104","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover: Trinity Street, poems, by Jen Currin. A photo of a park bench at night, lit up by a light source off-camera. The light also hits the bright green grass surrounding the bench, and a tree on the far left side. Even the trunk appears illuminated in green from the grass reflecting light. Trees and bushes to the right of the bench appear in the shadows. Far in the distance, city lights are just barely visible.","id":24629796634683,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":2400,"width":1800,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_74ee39a5-a840-454e-96cb-499f1236618c.jpg?v=1717905104"},"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_74ee39a5-a840-454e-96cb-499f1236618c.jpg?v=1717905104","width":1800}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eHeartsick, reverent, irreverent, and quietly political, \u003cem\u003eTrinity Street\u003c\/em\u003e is the much-anticipated fifth collection from poet Jen Currin, winner of the Audre Lorde Award and a Lambda finalist. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile Trinity Street is in fact an actual street in Vancouver, it is also the site of an imaginary garden and imperfect utopia in the title poem of this new collection. Currin’s poems weave together the meditative and the disruptive, the queer and quotidian, and the worlds of the dead and the living. Connections are made through prayer and protest; friendships are forged on a planet challenged by climate crisis, collective grief, and the perils of late capitalism. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese poems vibrate with unexpected shifts and precise, startling imagery, the touchstones of a poet whose work critics have described as “thrilling,” “emotionally evocative,” and “revelatory.”\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Trinity Street
Heartsick, reverent, irreverent, and quietly political, Trinity Street is the much-anticipated fifth collection from acclaimed poet Jen Currin.
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True Confessions of a Heartless Girl
Acclaimed novelist Martha Brooks has written an unforgettable story about a terribly complex heroine and the effects she has on those around her.
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Jim Harrison's epic novel pits a son against his family's dark, destructive legacy.
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ages 3
to 6
/ grades P
to 1
Tug
A lively look at the journey of a West Coast tugboat towing a log boom, as seen through the eyes of a young boy.
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ages 8
to 10
/ grades 3
to 5
Tuk and the Whale
Told by a young Inuit boy, this story imagines what might have happened if the people of a Baffin Island winter camp had encountered European whalers.
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Turtle Pond
A delightful tribute to turtles and turtle-watching, from a young child’s perspective.
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Twenty-First Century Capitalism
In his 1992 CBC Massey Lectures, economist Robert Heilbroner explores capitalism as both an economic system and a political order.
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{"id":6812120711227,"title":"Twitch Force","handle":"twitch-force","description":"\u003cp\u003eA muscle’s “twitch force” is a measurement of its energy potential. It’s history dependent: you can forget it, but it’s engraved on you where you can’t see it, and all it wants to do is repeat. Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Michael Redhill’s first collection of poetry in eighteen years, \u003ci\u003eTwitch Force\u003c\/i\u003e has a gnomic, satirical, and lucid intelligence. In “Ingredients,” heredity’s recipe is told via short-form family narrative; in “My Arrangements,” a stolen laptop battery leads to an encounter with the Israeli Olympic women’s beach volleyball team; while in “The Women,” human beauty is parsed down to the level of chromosomes: “I’m beautiful; I have my mother’s feet. The women who change into men are beautiful men who were once beautiful women.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is poetry concerned with love and its loss, despair and hard-won hope, knowledge and essential mystery, aging and timelessness. Readers are cautioned: ideas that present as self-explanatory may be closer than they appear. \u003ci\u003eTwitch Force\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunningly realized return to the form from one of Canada’s bravest and most original poets.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-22T16:47:14-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-22T11:25:08-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Redhill Michael","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2019-04-09"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"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":40195639246907,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487006181","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Twitch Force - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":180,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487006181","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_af60f8fe-cd46-4f77-aeb2-2d7381436a9b.jpg?v=1678599846"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_af60f8fe-cd46-4f77-aeb2-2d7381436a9b.jpg?v=1678599846","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"This image is in shades of black and white. An x-ray of a stretched-out frog is against a black background. All of the frogÕs bones and joints are visible along with the hazy outline of its body and skin. An extra leg comes out from the frogÕs hip. It is shorter than the two main legs and longer than the two main arms. Text: Twitch Force. Michael Redhill. Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize.","id":23324548104251,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_af60f8fe-cd46-4f77-aeb2-2d7381436a9b.jpg?v=1678599846"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_af60f8fe-cd46-4f77-aeb2-2d7381436a9b.jpg?v=1678599846","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eA muscle’s “twitch force” is a measurement of its energy potential. It’s history dependent: you can forget it, but it’s engraved on you where you can’t see it, and all it wants to do is repeat. Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Michael Redhill’s first collection of poetry in eighteen years, \u003ci\u003eTwitch Force\u003c\/i\u003e has a gnomic, satirical, and lucid intelligence. In “Ingredients,” heredity’s recipe is told via short-form family narrative; in “My Arrangements,” a stolen laptop battery leads to an encounter with the Israeli Olympic women’s beach volleyball team; while in “The Women,” human beauty is parsed down to the level of chromosomes: “I’m beautiful; I have my mother’s feet. The women who change into men are beautiful men who were once beautiful women.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is poetry concerned with love and its loss, despair and hard-won hope, knowledge and essential mystery, aging and timelessness. Readers are cautioned: ideas that present as self-explanatory may be closer than they appear. \u003ci\u003eTwitch Force\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunningly realized return to the form from one of Canada’s bravest and most original poets.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Twitch Force
A stunning volume of brave and original lyric poetry concerned with love and loss, despair and hope, aging and timelessness.
