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The Last Neanderthal
Anchor Canada |
April 17, 2018 |
288 pages
"40,000 years in the past, the last family of Neanderthals roams the earth. After a crushingly hard winter, their numbers are low, but Girl, the oldest daughter, is just coming of age and her family is determined to travel to the annual meeting place and find Girl a mate. However, through hunting... More Info
Birds Art Life
Anchor Canada |
March 27, 2018 |
272 pages
"For fans of When Breath Becomes Air and H is for Hawk, an elegant and exuberant memoir about a year of bird-watching, reflection and art--a field guide to things small and significant. For Vladimir Nabokov, it was butterflies. For John Cage, it was mushrooms. For Sylvia Plath, it was bees. Each of... More Info
All Our Wrong Todays
Anchor Canada |
February 20, 2018 |
400 pages
There's no such thing as the life you're "supposed" to have. You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we'd have? Well, it happened. In Tom Barren's 2016, humanity thrives in a techno-utopian paradise of flying cars, moving sidewalks and moon bases, where avocados never go bad and punk... More Info
The Midwife of Venice
Anchor Canada |
March 26, 2013 |
352 pages
At midnight, the dogs, cats, and rats rule Venice. The Ponte di Ghetto Nuovo, the bridge that leads to the ghetto, trembles under the weight of sacks of rotting vegetables, rancid fat, and vermin. Shapeless matter, perhaps animal, floats to the surface of Rio di San Girolamo and hovers on its... More Info
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Things Fall Apart
Anchor Canada |
April 21, 2009 |
224 pages
Professor:
Prof. Amanda Joy
Course Codes:
ANTH 2001
Semester:
Winter-2018
THINGS FALL APART tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a “strong man” of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first of these stories traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world in which he lives, and in its classical purity of line and... More Info
Solitude
Anchor Canada |
December 26, 2017 |
272 pages
Governor General's Award-winner Michael Harris explores the profound emotional and intellectual benefits of solitude, and how we may achieve it in our fast-paced world. The capacity to be alone--properly alone--is one of life's subtlest skills. Real solitude is a contented and productive state that... More Info
A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Anchor Canada |
May 5, 2009 |
336 pages
Teasing, provocative, and very funny, Mohammed Hanif’s debut novel takes one of the subcontinent’s enduring mysteries and out if it spins a tale as rich and colourful as a beggar’s dream. Why did a Hercules C130, the world’s sturdiest plane, carrying Pakistan’s military dictator General... More Info
Perfect
Anchor Canada |
September 19, 2017 |
320 pages
From the author of the international bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, comes another exquisite and emotionally resonant novel about the search for the truth and unconditional love. On a foggy spring morning in 1972, twelve-year-old Byron Hemming and his mother are driving to school... More Info
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Nine Women, One Dress
Anchor Canada |
July 25, 2017 |
272 pages
A charming, hilarious, sweet-as-candy romp of a debut novel that brings together nine unrelated women, each touched by the same little black dress that weaves through their lives, bringing a little magic with it. Natalie is a Bloomingdale's sales girl mooning over her lawyer ex-boyfriend who's... More Info
A God in Ruins
Anchor Canada |
December 29, 2015 |
400 pages
The stunning companion to Kate Atkinson's #1 bestseller Life After Life, "one of the best novels I've read this century" (Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl). Kate Atkinson's dazzling Life After Life explored the possibility of infinite chances, following Ursula Todd as she lived through the... More Info
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Anchor Canada |
September 14, 2004 |
560 pages
One of the world's most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer. In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some... More Info
Homegoing
Anchor Canada |
May 2, 2017 |
320 pages
"Homegoing is an inspiration." --Ta-Nehisi Coates An unforgettable New York Times bestseller of exceptional scope and sweeping vision that traces the descendants of two sisters across three hundred years in Ghana and America. A riveting kaleidoscopic debut novel and the beginning of a major career:... More Info
Nostalgia
Anchor Canada |
February 28, 2017 |
272 pages
"From one of Canada's most celebrated writers, two-time Giller Prize winner Moyez Vassanji, comes a taut, ingenuous and dynamic novel about a future where eternal life is possible, and identities can be chosen. In the indeterminate future in an unnamed western city, physical impediments to... More Info
Nothing Like Love
Anchor Canada |
January 3, 2017 |
432 pages
A sparkling, witty and confident debut from a rising Canadian star whose Trinidadian roots and riotous storytelling heritage inform her completely delightful novel. It is 1974 in the town of Chance, Trinidad--home to a colourful cast of cane farmers, rum-drinkers, scandal-mongers . . . and a bright... More Info
The Kite Runner
Anchor Canada |
April 23, 2018 |
400 pages
An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present day. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy Afghan youth and the son of his father's servant,... More Info
This Is Happy
Anchor Canada |
September 6, 2016 |
288 pages
'"All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them,' Isak Dinesen once said. Sorrows are all pain otherwise, pain without sense or meaning. But joys, too, it seems to me, need their context. And sometimes their coexistence needs to be borne. The coexistence or... More Info
Black Mass
Anchor Canada |
July 8, 2008 |
256 pages
Fascinating, enlightening, and epic in scope, Black Mass looks at the historic and modern faces of Utopian ideology: Society’s Holy Grail, but at what price? During the last century global politics was shaped by Utopian projects. Pursuing a dream of a world without evil, powerful states waged war... More Info
And Home Was Kariakoo
Anchor Canada |
October 8, 2015 |
400 pages
Part travelogue, part memoir, and part history-rarely-told, here is a powerful and timely portrait of a constantly evolving land. From a description of Zanzibar and its evolution to a visit to a slave-market town at Lake Tanganyika; from an encounter with a witchdoctor in an old coastal village to... More Info
Troublesome Young Men
Anchor Canada |
May 13, 2008 |
448 pages
Acclaimed historian Lynne Olson’s collective biography explores one of the most important turning points in 20th-century history – the months leading up to Winston Churchill’s accession to Prime Minister and the decisive turning of the tide in Britain against the appeasement of Hitler. They... More Info
Crimes Against My Brother
Anchor Canada |
March 31, 2015 |
416 pages
"Crimes Against My Brother takes us through a long series of petty betrayals, crushing heartbreaks, loneliness and death. . . . David Adams Richards has again proven his mastery." National Post Harold, Evan and Ian are inseparable as boys--so much so that one night, abandoned in the forest by the... More Info
The Rise and Fall of Great Powers
Anchor Canada |
July 21, 2015 |
416 pages
The New York Times and Globe & Mail-bestselling author of The Imperfectionists returns with an intricately woven novel about a bookseller who travels the world to make sense of her puzzling past. Tooly Zylberberg tells a story: as a child, she was stolen from home, stashed at a den of thieves,... More Info
A Walk in the Woods
Anchor Canada |
April 23, 2018 |
289 pages
God only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to undertake a gruelling hike along the world's longest continuous footpath—The Appalachian Trail. The 2,000-plus-mile trail winds through 14 states, stretching along the east coast of the United States, from... More Info
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
Anchor Canada |
December 30, 2014 |
320 pages
"One of the most remarkable creations in recent literature" (USA Today), Flavia de Luce, is back in Alan Bradley's New York Times-bestselling mystery series. Bishop's Lacey is never short of two things: Mysteries to solve and pre-adolescent detectives to solve them.
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Anchor Canada |
November 10, 2009 |
400 pages
Winner of the 2007 Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger A delightfully dark English mystery, featuring precocious young sleuth Flavia de Luce and her eccentric family. The summer of 1950 hasn’t offered up anything out of the ordinary for eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce: bicycle explorations... More Info
Bark
Anchor Canada |
October 28, 2014 |
208 pages
"The glory of Moore's writing isn't simply that it toys with our expectations; it is that--like life itself--it turns them on their heads and gives them a good hard shake. . . . A long time in coming, Bark is a reminder--if one was needed--that when it comes to writing stories, Moore is still ahead... More Info
Emancipation Day
Anchor Canada |
November 4, 2014 |
336 pages
"Grady's novel reads with the velvety tempo of the jazz music of its day. . . . Grady fearlessly explores heated race relations and the masks we all assume." Chatelaine With his curly black hair and his wicked grin, everyone swoons and thinks of Frank Sinatra when Navy musician Jackson Lewis takes... More Info
Happy City
Anchor Canada |
November 11, 2014 |
368 pages
"Happy City is not only readable but stimulating. It raises issues most of us have avoided for too long. Do we live in neighbourhoods that make us happy? That is not a silly question. Montgomery encourages us to ask it without embarrassment, and to think intelligently about the answer." --The New... More Info
The Beautiful and the Damned
Anchor Canada |
September 2, 2014 |
272 pages
"Deb's work has been compared to Naipaul's, but his voice is unique, more honest, a gaze refreshingly different. . . . As subtle and sensitive as it is shocking and significant, you will not read a better book on the 'human' face of globalization this year." The Globe and Mail In 2004, after six... More Info
The Child's Child
Anchor Canada |
June 3, 2014 |
320 pages
"In the hands of Vine . . . the book-within-a-book strategy evolves into something infinitely more intricate--a sinister, constantly shifting Rubik's Cube of motives, betrayals, and violence." --Entertainment Weekly When their grandmother dies, Grace and Andrew Easton inherit her sprawling,... More Info
The Hungry Ghosts
Anchor Canada |
April 1, 2014 |
384 pages
"A novel of raw human longing. . . . his stripped-down prose focuses on the deeply personal with precision and insight. . . . Selvadurai's work reminds me that the contemporary novel doesn't necessarily have to resort to thrills or high jinks in order to find its usefulness.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Anchor Canada |
May 18, 2004 |
240 pages
International Bestseller #1 National Bestseller in Canada Foreign rights have been sold to the UK, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Spain, Japan, Greece, Finland, Denmark, Holland and Brazil. Film rights have been bought by Hey Day (the makers of Harry Potter) together with Brad Grey (producer of The... More Info
The Wisdom of Psychopaths
Anchor Canada |
October 1, 2013 |
288 pages
Psychopath. The word conjures up images of serial killers, rapists, suicide bombers, gangsters. But think again: you could probably benefit from being a little more psychopathic yourself. Psychologist Kevin Dutton has made a speciality of psychopathy, and is on first-name terms with many notorious... More Info
The Magic of Saida
Anchor Canada |
August 6, 2013 |
320 pages
"The Magic of Saida is the sort of novel that, upon finishing, one wants to immediately read again, to examine, to study just how Vasssanji works his narrative magic, and to allow oneself to savour it just that little bit longer." —The Globe and Mail The Magic of Saida tells the haunting story of... More Info
Sleeping Funny
Anchor Canada |
July 2, 2013 |
320 pages
"A satisfying mix of straightforward realism and grounded fantastic, and shows the writer at her best . . . . An accomplished collection of tender, witty writing." —National Post Sleeping Funny is a rare book--a debut that introduces a mature writer in full possession of her powers, one who... More Info
Good to a Fault
Anchor Canada |
June 4, 2013 |
400 pages
Marina Endicott's critically and commercially beloved novel, published for the first time by Anchor Canada. In a moment of self-absorption, Clara Purdy's life takes a sharp left turn when she crashes into a beat-up car carrying an itinerant family of six. The Gage family had been travelling to a... More Info
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Anchor Canada |
June 4, 2013 |
384 pages
Recently retired, sweet, emotionally numb Harold Fry is jolted out of his passivity by a letter from Queenie Hennessy, an old friend, who he hasn't heard from in twenty years. She has written to say she is in hospice and wanted to say goodbye. Leaving his tense, bitter wife Maureen to her chores,... More Info
The Blondes
Anchor Canada |
June 4, 2013 |
400 pages
A breakout novel for a young writer whose last book was shortlisted for the Trillium Prize alongside Anne Michaels and Margaret Atwood, and whom the Toronto Star called a "force of nature." Hazel Hayes is a graduate student living in New York City when she learns that she is pregnant from an... More Info
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Anchor Canada |
April 2, 2013 |
512 pages
Two systems drive the way we think and make choices, Daniel Kahneman explains: System One is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System Two is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Examining how both systems function within the mind, Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities as well as the... More Info
Agamemnon's Daughter
Anchor Canada |
April 2, 2013 |
272 pages
Now in paperback, one of the novels that garnered Kadare the inaugural Man Booker International Prize for fiction, plus two stunning new stories. Agamemnon's Daughteris an impeccably crafted, psychologically incisive tale of a disappointed lover's odyssey through a single day and his gradual... More Info
Season of the Rainbirds
Anchor Canada |
March 5, 2013 |
208 pages
The first novel by the author ofMaps for Lost Lovers: a powerful and exquisitely written story set in a small town in Pakistan after the murder of a corrupt and prominent local judge. When a sack of letters that were thought to have disappeared in a train crash nineteen years earlier reappears... More Info
Natural Order
Anchor Canada |
August 7, 2012 |
384 pages
“It’s beautiful,” I said, even though it wasn’t my style. It was cut glass and silver. Something a movie star might wear. Is this what my boy thought of me? I wondered as he fastened it around my neck. He called me Elizabeth Taylor and I laughed and laughed. I wore that necklace throughout... More Info
1q84
Anchor Canada |
January 22, 2013 |
1184 pages
The year is 1984. Aomame is riding in a taxi on the expressway, in a hurry to carry out an assignment. Her work is not the kind that can be discussed in public. When they get tied up in traffic, the taxi driver suggests a bizarre 'proposal' to her. Having no other choice she agrees, but as a result... More Info
Unquenchable
Anchor Canada |
October 23, 2012 |
384 pages
Written with the trademark wit and verve that has earned MacLean a devoted international following as well as myriad awards for her wine writing,Unquenchableis much more than a shopping list for the thrifty tippler.
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Last Man in Tower
Anchor Canada |
August 7, 2012 |
480 pages
Real estate developer Dharmen Shah rose from nothing to create an empire and hopes to seal his legacy with a building named The Shanghai, which promises to be one of the city's most elite addresses. Larger-than-life Shah is a dangerous man to refuse. But he meets his match in a retired... More Info
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
Anchor Canada |
October 30, 2012 |
288 pages
Colonel de Luce, in desperate need of funds, rents his beloved estate of Buckshaw to a film company. They will be shooting a movie over the Christmas holidays, filming scenes in the decaying manse with a reclusive star. She is widely despised, so it is to no one's surprise when she turns up... More Info
Madame Proust and the Kosher Kitchen
Anchor Canada |
December 2, 2003 |
480 pages
Stretching between turn-of-the-century Paris and contemporary Canada, Mme Proust and the Kosher Kitchen is the story of three women whose lives intersect across time to reveal the intrinsic bonds of our collective and personal histories. It is a rich and compassionate debut, a novel that encourages... More Info
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Anchor Canada |
November 30, 2010 |
384 pages
Written with a delightfully dry sense of humour and the wisdom of a born storyteller, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand explores the risks one takes when pursuing happiness in the face of family obligation and tradition. When retired Major Pettigrew strikes up an unlikely friendship with Mrs. Ali, the... More Info
Dear Undercover Economist
Anchor Canada |
August 25, 2009 |
240 pages
A fantastic collection of witty, insightful, and often outrageous Financial Timescolumns that answer readers' personal dilemmas using the latest economic theory. Tim Harford employs his idiosyncratic style to explain economic principles so that anyone can understand them and reveals how they apply... More Info
Inside the Whale
Anchor Canada |
June 2, 2009 |
272 pages
Inside the Whale is a story about the big things that hold us together and the small things that prove our undoing. It is a dazzling celebration of the bright joys, hard losses and deep contentments borne by two eccentric families as the twentieth century unfolds. Fizzing with eclectic characters... More Info
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