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How to Host a Dinner Party
House of Anansi |
June 11, 2013 |
264 pages
We've all been there: twenty minutes before guests arrive, and you're unsure if you've got enough wine, or enough chairs, or whether your friend is a vegetarian or a vegan. Hosting a dinner party is hard, but Corey Mintz can help. For his popular Toronto Star column, "Fed," he has presided over 115... More Info
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1996
House of Anansi Press |
April 9, 2013 |
88 pages
Sara Peters' visionary debut collection is a book about obsessions — about desire, violence, sex, beauty, and cruelty, about how they lace through our days, leaving us changed. In these startling poems of mystery and terror, we meet remarkable characters enduring unspeakable things, confronting... More Info
$19.95
Under the Keel
House of Anansi Press |
April 9, 2013 |
96 pages
Michael Crummey's first collection in a decade has something for everyone: Love and marriage and airport grief; how not to get laid in a Newfoundland mining town; total immersion baptism; the grand machinery of decay; migrant music and invisible crowns and mortifying engagements with babysitters;... More Info
$18.95
The Truth About Luck
House of Anansi Press |
May 14, 2013 |
288 pages
In The Truth about Luck, Iain Reid, author of the highly popular coming-of-age memoir One Bird's Choice, accompanies his grandmother on a five-day vacation ? which turns out to be a "staycation" at his basement apartment in Kingston. While the twenty-eight-year-old writer is at the beginning of his... More Info
The Truth about Stories
House of Anansi Press |
May 24, 2013 |
172 pages
Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and... More Info
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Cockroach
House of Anansi Pr |
July 21, 2009 |
305 pages
Cockroachis as urgent, unsettling, and brilliant as Rawi Hage's bestselling and critically acclaimed first book, De Niro's Game. The novel takes place during one month of a bitterly cold winter in Montreal's restless immigrant community, where a self-described thief has just tried but failed to... More Info
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Swimming Home
House of Anansi |
October 13, 2012 |
168 pages
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and selected as aNew York TimesNotable Book,Swimming Homeis a sexy psychological thriller from a highly acclaimed writer. Poet Joe and his war-correspondent wife Isabel arrive with their daughter and another couple to a rented villa in the south of France to... More Info
Is Work Killing You?
House of Anansi Press |
April 9, 2013 |
256 pages
From the bestselling author of The Little Book of Stress Relief comes the definitive guide to treating ? and eliminating ? excessive stress in the workplace. Dr. David Posen, a popular speaker and a leading expert on stress mastery, identifies the three biggest problems that contribute to burnout... More Info
$19.95
The Real World of Technology
House Of Anansi |
October 1, 1999 |
209 pages
"In this expanded edition of her bestselling 1989 CBC Massey Lectures, renowned scientist and humanitarian Ursula M. Franklin examines the impact of technology upon our lives and addresses the extraordinary changes in the bitsphere since Real World of Technology was first published. In four new... More Info
$29.95
Carnival
House of Anansi |
September 29, 2012 |
304 pages
Winner of the Quebec Writers' Federation Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize In the Carnival city there are two types of taxi drivers -- the spiders and the flies. The spiders patiently sit in their cars and wait for the calls to come. But... More Info
$16.95
The Griffin poetry prize anthology
House of Anansi Pr |
August 5, 2005 |
93 pages
Selections from the Griffin Poetry Prize winners includes the work of exciting contemporary poets from around the world. Original.
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Life's little difficulties
House of Anansi Press |
May 24, 2013 |
155 pages
Terry, a doting father who consults the I Ching daily, and Carmen, his waitress wife, raise their baby son Etienne and struggle to understand the meaning of life. Original.
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Finding Peace
House of Anansi Pr |
February 1, 2003 |
90 pages
One of our deepest human desires and needs is to live in peace. We all yearn for peace, but what is it exactly? How do we find it, and how can we bring peace to our lives and our communities? Jean Vanier reflects on recent world events, identifying the sources of conflict and fear within and among... More Info
Made for Happiness
House of Anansi Pr |
March 28, 2005 |
203 pages
In Made for Happiness, Jean Vanier offers us an uplifting, contemporary, and practical application of philosophy to our human needs and yearnings. Having discovered, through his work with people with disabilities, the degree to which our society is divided and our values are misplaced, Vanier... More Info
Mean
House Of Anansi |
April 1, 1999 |
84 pages
Mean is a stunning exploration of the threshold and divide between our primeval origins and traditions, and the meanness of our everyday lives. Ken Babstock means to edge closer to what the elements give up, what they create, and what exists below their surfaces.
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Necessary Illusions
House of Anansi |
May 24, 2013 |
422 pages
This is an essential introduction to the "propaganda model" of media analysis. Chomsky offers a message of hope, reminding us that resistance is possible, necessary and effective.
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On the Eve of the Millennium
House of Anansi Pr |
November 1, 1994 |
166 pages
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Winter
House of Anansi Press |
September 30, 2011 |
288 pages
"This year's CBC Massey Lectures celebrates fifty years with bestselling author, essayist, cultural observer, and famed New Yorker contributor Adam Gopnik, whose subject is winter -- the season, the space, the cycle. Gopnik takes us on an intimate tour of the artists, poets, composers, writers,... More Info
$17.95
Nostalgia for the Absolute
House of Anansi Press |
March 1, 1997 |
61 pages
The decline of formal religious systems has left a moral and emotional emptiness in Western culture. George Steiner, internationally renowned thinker and scholar, pursues this and examines the alternative "mythologies" of Marxism, Freudian psychology, Lévi-Straussian anthropology, and fads of... More Info
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February
House of Anansi |
January 18, 2010 |
310 pages
In 1982, the oil rig Ocean Ranger sank off the coast of Newfoundland during a Valentine's Day storm. All eighty-four men aboard died. February is the story of Helen O'Mara, one of those left behind when her husband, Cal, drowns on the rig.
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Working the Dead Beat
House of Anansi |
September 29, 2012 |
448 pages
Globe and Mailcolumnist Sandra Martin honours the lives of Canada's famous, infamous, and unsung heroes in this unique collection of obituaries of the first decade of the twenty-first century. Here are Canadian icons such as Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, social... More Info
Thrifty
House of Anansi Pr |
May 1, 2010 |
232 pages
Bestselling author and national columnist Marjorie Harris offers a timely and entertaining guide to living the thrifty life. Here are solid tips on how to haggle, how to find fashion deals, maintaining home and hearth on a budget, and money-saving ideas on gardening, travel, and entertainment.... More Info
The Hockey Sweater and Other Stories
House of Anansi Press |
March 12, 2013 |
152 pages
The Hockey Sweater, the title story in this 20-story collection, has become an enduring classic: a Quebec boy and Habs fan is shipped a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater by mistake. It encapsulates everything you need to understand French and English Canada, told with humour and love. This edition... More Info
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Poems for All the Annettes
House of Anansi Press |
March 12, 2013 |
104 pages
Originally published by Contact Press in 1962, then later by House of Anansi in 1967, and again in a revised, expanded edition in 1972, Poems for All the Annettes stands as one of the essential documents of the great Al Purdy's career. So many beloved poems are here?"At Roblin Lake," "At the Quinte... More Info
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Five Legs
House of Anansi Press |
March 12, 2013 |
244 pages
First published by Anansi in 1969, Five Legs was a breakthrough for Canadian experimental fiction, selling 1,000 copies in its first week. At the time Scott Symons wrote that "Five Legs has more potent writing in it, page for page, than any other young Canadian novel that I can think of." Or indeed... More Info
The Selected Short Fiction of Lisa Moore
House of Anansi Press |
March 12, 2013 |
296 pages
Lisa Moore's stories are bright, emotionally engaging, tangible. She marks out the precious moments of her characters' lives against deceptively commonplace backdrops — a St. John's hospital cafeteria lit only by the lights in the snack machines; a half-built house "like a rib cage around a... More Info
Kamouraska
House of Anansi Press |
March 12, 2013 |
232 pages
A classic of Canadian literature by the great Quebecoise writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Quebec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnieres: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder;... More Info
Survival
House of Anansi Press |
March 12, 2013 |
328 pages
When first published in 1972, Survival was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has continued to be read and taught, and it continues to shape the way Canadians look at themselves. Distinguished, provocative, and written in effervescent,... More Info
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Civil Elegies
House of Anansi Press |
March 12, 2013 |
64 pages
Civil Elegies is Dennis Lee's uncompromising exploration of citizenship, both Canadian and human. Eli Mandel has called Civil Elegies one of the most important contemporary books of poetry in our country. It was the winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry in 1972. This edition... More Info
Has the European Experiment Failed?
House of Anansi Press |
December 11, 2012 |
112 pages
In the sweep of human history, the European Union stands out as one of humankind's most ambitious endeavors. It encompasses half a billion people, twenty-seven member states, twenty-three languages, and an economy valued at over $15 trillion. Modern Europe's stunning achievements aside, its... More Info
Time Warped
House of Anansi |
September 15, 2012 |
352 pages
We are obsessed with time. However hard we might try, it is almost impossible to spend even one day without the marker of a clock. But how much do we understand about time, and is it possible to retrain our brains and improve our relationship with it? Drawing on the latest research from the fields... More Info
Mister Roger and Me
House of Anansi |
September 29, 2012 |
240 pages
Helen, alias "Joe," would rather be a boy and have all kinds of adventures like Lady Oscar, her favourite cartoon heroine. She daydreams about living in another time and achieving great things, but she must be content delivering newspapers and working at the bingo hall. After all, she is only eight... More Info
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North America's Lost Decade?
House of Anansi Pr |
February 25, 2012 |
92 pages
As stock markets gyrate, Europe lurches from crisis to crisis, and recovery in the United States slows, the future of the North American economy is more uncertain than ever. Can individual entrepreneurship, corporate innovation, and governments create a new era of sustained economic growth? Or,... More Info
The Blue Book
House of Anansi |
September 1, 2012 |
384 pages
Elizabeth Barber is crossing the Atlantic by liner with her perfectly adequate boyfriend, Derek, who might be planning to propose. In fleeing the UK -- temporarily -- Elizabeth may also be in flight from her past and the charismatic Arthur, once her partner in what she came to see as a series of... More Info
The Circle Game
House of Anansi Press |
March 12, 2013 |
96 pages
The appearance of Margaret Atwood's first major collection of poetry marked the beginning of a truly outstanding career in Canadian and international letters. The voice in these poems is as witty, vulnerable, direct, and incisive as we've come to know in later works, such as Power Politics, Bodily... More Info
The Unmemntioable
House of Anansi Pr |
February 14, 2012 |
120 pages
This powerful collection of poems, joining letters that should not be joined, tells the stories of Ukrainian immigrants as they settle on Saskatoon Mountain in Alberta, leaving behind memories of the Old Country. Original.
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The Deserter's Tale
House of Anansi Pr |
January 19, 2007 |
256 pages
by Joshua Key as told to Lawrence Hill
House of Anansi Press; 2007
Hardcover; 256 pages
978-0-88784-208-5
In this first-ever memoir from a young US soldier who participated for eight months in the war in Iraq and then fled to Canada, Joshua Key offers a vivid and damning indictment of how the war... More Info
Race against time
House of Anansi Pr |
June 8, 2006 |
214 pages
"I have spent the last four years watching people die." With these wrenching words, diplomat and humanitarian Stephen Lewis opens his 2005 Massey Lectures. In 2000, the United Nations introduced eight Millennium Development Goals on fundamental issues such as education, health, and cutting poverty... More Info
Payback
House of Anansi Pr |
September 16, 2008 |
230 pages
Collected here, the Massey Lectures from legendary novelist Margaret Atwood investigate the highly topical subject of debt. She doesn't talk about high finance or managing money; instead, she goes far deeper to explore debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure... More Info
Cockroach
House of Anansi |
July 30, 2008 |
305 pages
The novel takes place during one month of a bitterly cold winter in Montreal's restless immigrant community, where a self-described "thief" has just tried but failed to commit suicide by hanging himself from a tree in a local park. Rescued against his will, the narrator is obliged to attend... More Info
February
House of Anansi Pr |
January 30, 2010 |
310 pages
In 1982, the oil rig Ocean Ranger sank off the coast of Newfoundland during a Valentine's Day storm. All eighty-four men aboard died. February is the story of Helen O'Mara, one of those left behind when her husband, Cal, drowns. It begins in the present-day, but spirals back again and again to the... More Info
Holding still for as long as possible
House of Anansi Press |
August 10, 2009 |
301 pages
Three twenty-five-years-olds - two women and a man - who grew up on anti-anxiety meds and who now spend their time text-messaging each other truncated emotional reactions to events they cannot control or even comprehend. A portrait of life in the seedy but gentrifying Toronto neighbourhood of... More Info
Hitchens Vs. Blair
House of Anansi |
March 15, 2011 |
88 pages
Presents the text of a debate between former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and British intellectual Christopher Hitchens about the role and influence of religion in the modern world.
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The Little Book of Rob Ford
House of Anansi |
June 30, 2011 |
128 pages
House of Anansi 2011
Paperback, 160 pages
9781770890077
From
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One Bird's Choice
House of Anansi Pr |
March 1, 2011 |
264 pages
The author, accepting a part-time job near his childhood home, describes his experiences after he moves back home to live with his parents.
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