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The Acacia Gardens
The seventh in the ten-book "Soifs" novel cycle. In The Acacia Gardens, memorable characters are confronted by an evil that lives among them and that has taken root.
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Torngat Sketches
Sarah Leavitt's contribution to Northwords, a cross-platform project that takes urban writers to some of the world’s most extreme environments.
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Under the Hawthorn Tree
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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ages 8
to 11
/ grades 3
to 6
The Hollow under the Tree
An escaped lion is hiding in the middle of the city, and it is up to Sadie and Theo to save him!
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The Gallery of Lost Species
The debut novel by award-winning poet Nina Berkhout is the compelling story of a fractured family looking for beauty in all the wrong places.
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Seamus’s Short Story
Seamus would give anything to be taller! One day, while playing dress-up in his mother's closet, he finds a way to reach new heights.
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The Accusation
A major publishing phenomenon, The Accusation by anonymous North Korean writer Bandi is the first piece of fiction to come out of North Korea.
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{"id":6819092561979,"title":"Democracy on Trial","handle":"democracy-on-trial","description":"\u003cp\u003eIs democracy as we know it in danger? More and more we confront one another as aggrieved groups rather than as free citizens. Deepening cynicism, the growth of corrosive individualism, statism, and the loss of civil society are warning signs that democracy may be incapable of satisfying the yearnings it itself unleashes – yearnings for freedom, fairness, and equality. In her 1993 CBC Massey Lectures, political philosopher Jean Bethke Elshtain delves into these complex issues to evaluate democracy's chances for survival. \u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-30T17:46:55-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-30T16:28:28-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Nonfiction","By (author) Elshtain Jean Bethke","House of Anansi Press","Massey Lectures","pub date: 1993-11-08","The CBC Massey Lectures"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":2295,"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":40249731317819,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887845451","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Democracy on Trial - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":181,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887845451","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40249797836859,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887848544","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Democracy on Trial - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":2295,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9780887848544","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40249799213115,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770896055","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Democracy on Trial - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770896055","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3e19b008-6117-49c1-b925-5c1aef610e8f.jpg?v=1678605633"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3e19b008-6117-49c1-b925-5c1aef610e8f.jpg?v=1678605633","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324588310587,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.627,"height":2386,"width":1495,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3e19b008-6117-49c1-b925-5c1aef610e8f.jpg?v=1678605633"},"aspect_ratio":0.627,"height":2386,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3e19b008-6117-49c1-b925-5c1aef610e8f.jpg?v=1678605633","width":1495}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eIs democracy as we know it in danger? More and more we confront one another as aggrieved groups rather than as free citizens. Deepening cynicism, the growth of corrosive individualism, statism, and the loss of civil society are warning signs that democracy may be incapable of satisfying the yearnings it itself unleashes – yearnings for freedom, fairness, and equality. In her 1993 CBC Massey Lectures, political philosopher Jean Bethke Elshtain delves into these complex issues to evaluate democracy's chances for survival. \u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Democracy on Trial
In her 1993 CBC Massey Lectures, political philosopher Jean Bethke Elshtain delves into complex issues to evaluate democracy's chances for survival.
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{"id":6582728032315,"title":"De Niro's Game","handle":"de-niros-game","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. In Rawi Hage's unforgettable novel, winner of the 2008 IMPAC Prize, this famous quote by Camus becomes a touchstone for two young men caught in Lebanon's civil war. Bassam and George are childhood best friends who have grown to adulthood in war torn Beirut. Now they must choose their futures: to stay in the city and consolidate power through crime; or to go into exile abroad, alienated from the only existence they have known. Bassam chooses one path: obsessed with leaving Beirut, he embarks on a series of petty crimes to finance his departure. 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Rawi Hage's brilliant style mimics a world gone mad: so smooth and apparently sane that its razor-sharp edges surprise and cut deeply. A powerful meditation on life and death in a war zone, and what comes after.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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De Niro's Game
As a part of the launch of the new A-List series, a curated selection of titles from Anansi's backlist featuring handsome new covers and introductions by well-known Canadian writers, comes Rawi Hage's De Niro's Game, with a new introduction.
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Family members are echo chambers, not empty but rather overflowing with the sounds and sensations of other moments, some mere seconds past, others distant and impossible.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eLarissa Lai, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Century\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Anne Michaels, author of Fugitive Pieces","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003e\"Fiercely poetic and luminous with surrealist imagery,\u003cem\u003e Silver Repetition\u003c\/em\u003e is a deeply moving and humane exploration of fractured self, deep longing, lost memories, diaspora, and aching family ties. Here is a gorgeous book that reads like a luxurious dreamscape from beginning to end. Wang is a thrilling and captivating new voice in contemporary fiction.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eLindsay Wong, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Woo-Woo\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Lindsay Wong, author of The Woo-Woo and Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003e\"This is a book of tenderness—compassionate, sore, seeking. 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This book is a definitively Asian-Canadian take on realism and horror, containing allusions to traditional figures of Asian horror and folklore like the Ringu girl and the nu gui, or ghost woman.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLily wrote \u003cem\u003eSilver Repetition\u003c\/em\u003e for a generation of first\/second gen immigrants who cannot relate to the traditional “immigrant narrative” but can also never “assimilate” either because to “assimilate,” already implies otherness. 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Silver Repetition
A young Asian immigrant mends her fractured sense of self in this exquisite coming-of-age debut novel about family, grief, and identity.
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Payback
In her 2008 CBC Massey Lectures, Margaret Atwood delivers a wide ranging, entertaining, and imaginative look at the topic of debt.
