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Series: Is Work Killing You?Paperback
Dr. David Posen MD9781770892750
$19.95SELF-HELP
Feb 02, 2013
A timely, insightful, and essential guide to conquering stress from the bestselling author of The Little Book of Stress Relief.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 and low productivity: Volume, Velocity, and Abuse. He shares revealing anecdotes and offers clear descriptions of the biology... + Read More
With tensions between Iran, Israel, and Western powers reaching new highs over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear enrichment program, the tenth edition of the Munk Debates investigates how the world should respond to Iran’s nuclear ambitions. For some, the case for a pre-emptive strike on Iran is ironclad. An Iranian bomb would flood the volatile Middle East with nuclear weapons and trap Israel in a state of perilous insecurity — along with much of the world’s oil supply. Others argue that a nuclear Iran could be the very stabilizing force that th... + Read More
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Series: The Truth About LuckWhat I Learned on My Road Trip with GrandmaPaperback
Iain Reid9781770892415
$19.99BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 23, 2013
"Reid’s writing is . . . engaging and humorous." — Winnipeg Free PressIn 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 adult life, his ninety-two-year-old grandmother is nearing the end of hers. Between escorting his grandma to local attractions and restaurants, the two exchange memories and she be... + Read More
From the author of the Toronto Star’s wildly popular column “Fed” comes the essential guide to throwing the perfect dinner party in any situation. 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 dinner parties, every week opening his home to strangers and friends alike in an effort to perfect the ... + Read More
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Series: Bone and BreadPaperback
Saleema Nawaz9781770890091
$22.95FICTION
Mar 30, 2013
A heady, powerfully emotional novel that is part family saga, part love story, and part mystery.Beena and Sadhana are sisters who share a bond that could only have been shaped by the most unusual of childhoods ? and by shared tragedy. Orphaned as teenagers, they have grown up under the exasperated watch of their Sikh uncle, who runs a bagel shop in Montreal’s Hasidic community of Mile End. Together, they try to make sense of the rich, confusing brew of values, rituals, and beliefs that form their inheritance. Yet as they grow towards adulthood,... + Read More
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Series: CaughtHardcover
Lisa Moore9780887842450
$29.95FICTION
May 24, 2013
Shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Selected as an Amazon.ca Best Book and for The Globe 100 Books in 2013. "In the creation of David Slaney, Lisa Moore brings us an unforgettable character, embodying the exuberance and energy of misspent youth. Caught is a propulsive and harrowing read."—Patrick deWitt, author of The Sisters Brothers Internationally acclaimed author Lisa Moore offers us a remarkable new novel about a man who escapes from prison to embark upon one of the most ambitious pot-sm... + Read More
"Théodora Armstrong’s stories are brash and brainy." - Mark Anthony JarmanSet against the divergent landscape of British Columbia ? from the splendours of nature to its immense dangers, from urban grease and grit to dry, desert towns ? Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility examines human beings and their many frailties with breathtaking insight and accuracy.Théodora Armstrong peoples her stories with characters as richly various ? and as compelling ? as her settings. A soon-to-be father and haute cuisine chef mercilessly berates his staff while... + Read More
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Series: Travelling LightPaperback
Peter Behrens9780887848278
$18.95FICTION
May 04, 2013
From Peter Behrens, one of our most beloved storytellers and the author of the bestselling and award-winning novels The Law of Dreams and The O’Briens, comes a spectacular collection of riveting stories about growing up and growing older, falling in and out of love, and finding ourselves and losing each other. Moving from the magisterial streets of Montreal to the cramped spaces of New York City to the wide open plains of the west, these stories bring their settings magically alive, and within them offer us an incredible array of brilliantly ... + Read More
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Series: For SurePaperback
France Daigle9781770892040
$24.95FICTION
Jun 29, 2013
For Sure is the tender story of a young family living in Moncton, New Brunswick, and a subtle, complex exploration of the relationship between place, language, and culture.For Sure is among other things a labyrinth, a maze, an exploration of the folly of numbers, a repository, a defense and an illustration of the Chiac language. Written in dazzling prose ? which is occasionally interrupted by surprising bits of information, biography, and definitions that appear on the page ? Daigle perfectly captures the essence of a place and offers us a refl... + Read More
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Series: Swimming HomePaperback
Deborah Levy9781770893320
$18.95FICTION
Oct 13, 2012
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and selected as a New York Times Notable Book, Swimming Home is 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 discover a body floating face down in the swimming pool. But the girl is very much alive. She is Kitty Finch: a sexy, mysterious young woman who walks naked out of the water and straight into the heart of their holiday. But why is she there? What does... + Read More
Long-listed for the Green Carnation Prize and The Sunday Times' selection for Memoir of the Year. "This amazing book tells the story of an appalling childhood with truth and clarity unsmudged by self-pity. It grips from beginning to end." — Diana Athill, Costa Book Award–winning author of Somewhere Towards the End Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes crossed with Billy Elliot, Maggie & Me is a unique, tender, and witty memoir of surviving the tough streets of small town Scotland during the Thatcher years. October 12, 1984. An IRA bomb blows apart th... + Read More
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Series: On Sal Mal LanePaperback
Ru Freeman9781770893559
$22.95FICTION
May 18, 2013
One of Reader's Digest Best Summer Reads (US).Set against the backdrop of the Sri Lankan civil war, Ru Freeman’s epic novel explores the lives of the diverse families that live on Sal Mal Lane and the heartbreaking ways this once harmonious community turns on one another with the country on the brink of war.On the day the Herath family moves in, Sal Mal Lane is a quiet street, disturbed only by the cries of the children whose triumphs and tragedies sustain the families that live there. As each neighbour adapts to the newcomers in different ways... + Read More
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Series: An Ava Lee NovelThe Scottish Banker of SurabayaAn Ava Lee Novel: Book 5Paperback
Ian Hamilton9781770892347
$19.95FICTION
Feb 16, 2013
"[A] globe-hopping crime thriller." — National PostAva begins an investigation into what she thinks is a Ponzi scheme. The trail leads her to a bank in Indonesia that is run by a Scot, but in actuality is a front for an elaborate money-laundering operation for Italian mobsters. The relationship between Ava and the Scotsman turns nasty and personal. Meanwhile, Uncle’s health problems become apparent...
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Series: Under the KeelPaperback
Michael Crummey9781770892699
$19.95POETRY
Apr 13, 2013
The brilliant new collection from Michael Crummey, bestselling author of Galore. 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; the transcendent properties of home brew. Whether charting the merciless complications of childhood, or the unpredictable consolations of middle age, the... + Read More
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Series: The PolymersPaperback
Adam Dickinson9781770892170
$19.95POETRY
Apr 13, 2013
The Polymers is a bold new work from one of our most ambitious poetic minds. Structured as an imaginary science project, the varied pieces in this collection investigate the intersection of poetry and chemicals, specifically plastics, attempting to understand their essential role in culture. Through various procedures, constraints, and formal mutations, the poems express the repeating structures fundamental to plastic molecules as they appear in cultural and linguistic behaviours such as arguments, anxieties, and trends. A wildly expe... + Read More
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Series: 1996Paperback
Sara Peters9781770892712
$19.95POETRY
Mar 22, 2013
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 the raw reality of existence through fearless candor. With profound clarity, elegance, and humour, Sara Peters reminds us of the harrowing and beautiful complexity of life itself. 1996 marks the undeniable arrival of an essential and brave new voice.
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Series: Metaphysical DogPaperback
Frank Bidart9781770893627
$19.95POETRY
May 18, 2013
Shortlisted for the National Book Award, and selected for The Globe Books 100 and New York Times 100 Most Noteable Books in 2013. In a career-defining work, Frank Bidart brings us everything that makes him so remarkable in these indelible poems of sex, art, desire, and beauty.In "Those Nights" Frank Bidart writes: "We who could get / somewhere through / words through / sex could not." Words and sex, art and flesh: in Metaphysical Dog, Bidart explores their nexus. The result stands among this deeply adventurous poet’s most powerful and achieved... + Read More
The highly anticipated annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry. Each year, the best books of poetry published in English internationally and in Canada are honoured with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious and richest literary awards. Since 2001 this annual prize has acted as a tremendous spur to interest in and recognition of poetry, focusing worldwide attention on the formidable talent of poets writing in English. And each year The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology features the work of the extraord... + Read More
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Series: Anansi Book Club EditionsAnnabelAnansi Book Club editionPaperback
Kathleen Winter9781770893344
$14.95FICTION
Apr 06, 2013
A finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General's Literary Award, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and a #1 national bestseller, Kathleen Winter's spectacular debut novel is now available in a new edition. In 1968, into the beautiful, spare environment of remote coastal Labrador, a mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but both at once. Only three people are privy to the secret — the baby's parents, Jacinta and Treadway, and a trusted neighbour, Thomasina. Together the adults mak... + Read More
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Series: Anansi Book Club EditionsUnder the Hawthorn TreeAnansi Book Club editionPaperback
Ai Mi9781770893504
$14.95FICTION
Apr 06, 2013
A bestseller in China with more than 1 million copies sold and adapted for film by internationally acclaimed director Zhang Yimou, 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 — now available in a new edition. Yichang municipality, Hubei province, China, early 1970s. High-school student Jingqiu is one of many educated urban youth sent to the countryside to be "re-educated" under a dictate from Chairman Mao. Jing's father is a political prisoner somewh... + Read More
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Series: Anansi Book Club EditionsThe Sisters BrothersAnansi Book Club editionPaperback
Patrick DeWitt9781770893351
$14.95FICTION
Apr 06, 2013
Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the Stephen Leacock Medal, the Prix des libraires du Quebec and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and a #1 national bestseller, The Sisters Brothers is a violent, lustful, hung-over and hilarious odyssey through the underworld of the 1850s frontier. Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die: Eli and Charlie Sisters can be counted on for that. Though Eli has never shared his brother’s penchant for whiskey and killing, he’s ... + Read More
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Series: The Secret of the CrownPaperback
John Fraser CM9781770891074
$19.95HISTORY
Apr 06, 2013
Now available in paperback, award-winning journalist, author, and monarchical authority John Fraser offers a fascinating account of Canada’s ongoing affair with royalty, set against the backdrop of an historic wedding, a Diamond Jubilee year, and a rogue prince. With his trademark wit and artful agility, Fraser looks at the Crown’s evolution from the Age of Deference to the era of celebrity to the present popular revival. He examines the differences between tribal monarchy and constitutional monarchy, the key roles of the governor gen... + Read More
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Series: CommunionElectronic book text, EPUB
Graeme Gibson9781770893467
$4.99FICTION
Oct 13, 2012
Exclusively available from Anansi Digital, Communion is one of the lost, great works by a Canadian literary titan. Originally published in 1971, Communion continues the story of Felix Oswald that began in Five Legs. We meet Felix Oswald again, a self-mocking and obsessed hero, a voyeur, and all-time loser, after he graduates from school and accepts a job as a part-time veterinarian’s assistant. A groundbreaking work of experimental fiction, Communion is a must-read for lovers of Canadian literature. Featuring an introductio... + Read More
In 1966, before they were international sensations, Margaret Atwood and Charles Pachter teamed up to create Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein — now a unique piece of cultural history and available for the first time as an enhanced eBook for iPad. In this imaginative work, only existing as an artist book of fifteen copies until recently, Charles Pachter set the poetry of Margaret Atwood to his beautiful and whimsical artwork. Produced originally on handmade paper made with materials found around his house, this is a rare piece of art that should... + Read More
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Series: NorthwordsNorthwordsElectronic book text, EPUB
Joseph Boyden9781770893399
$4.99LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Oct 01, 2012
Northwords is a cross-platform project that takes urban Canadian writers Joseph Boyden, Sarah Leavitt, Rabindranth Maharaj, Noah Richler, and Alissa York to some of the world’s most extreme environments, to join the conversation about the north. Introduced by award-winning journalist and radio personality Shelagh Rogers, Northwords is a collection of stories written by acclaimed Canadian authors as they experienced one of Canada’s most awe-inspiring northern national parks Torngat Mountains National Park, the country’s newest national... + Read More
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Series: The Magazine of New WritingGranta 122BetrayalPaperback
John Freeman9781905881659
$19.95LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Jan 03, 2013
In a world of the future, people exist in a perpetual state of rehearsing evacuations, and one man's rehearsal involves leaving his parents behind. A firespotter knows all too well that where there's smoke, there's fire - but fails to spot the blaze that consumes half her family. Then there's the Custer impersonator who takes his role in a re-enactment too literally, and too far. And the massage therapist struggling to help a veteran whose biggest regret is tattooed across his back. With award-winning reportage, memoir, fiction and phot... + Read More
Series: Granta 7Paperback
Bill Buford9780140140828
$23.99 USDLITERARY CRITICISM
Dec 31, 1990
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Series: Granta 43Paperback
Bill Buford9780140140583
$31.99FICTION
Jan 07, 2008
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Series: Granta: The Magazine of New WritingGranta 81Paperback
Ian Jack9780903141581
$23.99 USDFICTION
Apr 15, 2003
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Series: Middle AgeA Natural HistoryPaperback
David Bainbridge9781846272684
$15.99SCIENCE
May 03, 2013
David Bainbridge is a vet with a particular interest in evolutionary zoology - and he has just turned forty. As well as the usual concerns about greying hair, failing eyesight and goldfish levels of forgetfulness, he finds himself pondering some bigger questions: have I come to the end of my productive life as a human being? And what I am now for? By looking afresh at the latest research from the fields of anthropology, neuroscience, psychology, and reproductive biology, it seems that the answers are surprisingly, reassuringly encouraging. In c... + Read More
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Series: ConvictionsMy Life with a Good CommunistPaperback
Jo Langer9781847083388
$22.99BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 03, 2011
Jo Langer and her husband Oscar were committed communists; she Hungarian, he Slovakian. During the Second World War the couple, both Jewish, escaped to America. Most members of their extended family were murdered in the Holocaust. After the war, they returned to Czechoslovakia to help build communism. She worked for state exports in Bratislava; he was an economist working for the Central Committee. In 1951 Oscar Langer was arrested and detained as part of the anti-Semitic purge of the Communist Party that culminated in the infamous Sl�nksk� tri... + Read More
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Series: OrkneyPaperback
Amy Sackville9781847086655
$15.99FICTION
Feb 06, 2014
On a remote island in Orkney, a curiously matched couple arrive on their honeymoon. He is an eminent literature professor; she was his pale, enigmatic star pupil. Alone beneath the shifting skies of this untethered landscape, the professor realises how little he knows about his new bride and yet, as the days go by and his mind turns obsessively upon the creature who has so beguiled him, she seems to slip ever further from his yearning grasp. Where does she come from? Why did she ask him to bring her north? What is it that constantly draws he... + Read More
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Series: Running with the PackThoughts From the Road on Meaning and MortalityPaperback
Mark Rowlands9781847082022
$21.95PHILOSOPHY
Jul 01, 2013
'Most of the serious thinking I have done over the past twenty years has been done while running.' Mark Rowlands has run for most of his life. He has also been a professional philosopher. And for him the two - running and philosophising - are inextricably connected. In Running with the Pack he tells us about the most significant runs of his life - from the entire day he spent running as a boy in Wales, to the runs along French beaches and up Irish mountains with his beloved wolf Brenin, and through Florida swamps more recently with his dog... + Read More
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Series: The Devil's WorkshopPaperback
Jáchym Topol9781846274176
$19.99
Aug 01, 2013
The devil had his workshop here in Belarus. The deepest graves are in Belarus. But nobody knows about them' A young boy grows up in Terezín - an infamous fortress town with a sinister past. Together with his friends he plays happily in this former Nazi prison, scouting the tunnels for fragments of history under the careful eye of one of its survivors, Uncle Lebo, until one day there is an accident, and he is forced to leave. Returning to Terezín many years later, he joins Lebo's campaign to preserve the town, but before long the authoriti... + Read More
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Series: Gargling with TarPaperback
Jáchym Topol9781846271625
$15.99FICTION
Jul 01, 2013
Czechoslovakia, 1968. The Soviet troops have just invaded and, for the young orphan Ilya, life is suddenly turned on its head. At first there is relief that the mean-spirited nuns who run his orphanage have been driven out by the Red Army, but as the children are left to fend for themselves, order and routine quickly give way to brutality and chaos, and Ilya finds himself drawn into the violence. When the troops return, the orphans are given military training and, with his first-hand knowledge of the local terrain, Ilya becomes guide to a Sovie... + Read More
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Series: What to Eat?10 Chewy Questions About FoodPaperback
Hattie Ellis9781846272165
$15.99COOKING
May 03, 2013
Deciding what to eat is no longer a simple matter of instinct and appetite. Every choice we make about the food we put on our plates is complicated. Is meat good or bad for me? Is buying local always best? Is organic worth it? WHAT TO EAT? asks all these questions and more: some are specific, going back to the nature of particular foods such as milk, meat and fish. Some are more general and challenging, examining the green and the good at a time when money is short and choices matter. The book also offers answers. This is a refreshingly ... + Read More
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Series: Instead of a BookLetters to a FriendPaperback
Diana Athill9781847084149
$17.99
Oct 04, 2012
Diana Athill has corresponded with the American poet Edward Field for over thirty years, freely sharing jokes, pleasures and pains with her old friend, and writing with an intimacy and spontaneity even more revealing than the candour of her celebrated memoirs.Edited, selected and introduced by Athill, and annotated with her own delightful notes, this collection of those letters reveals a sharply intelligent woman with a keen eye for the absurd, a brilliant turn of phrase and a wicked sense of humour. Covering her career as an editor, the advent... + Read More
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Series: Looking for TranswonderlandTravels in NigeriaPaperback
Noo Saro-Wiwa9781847083319
$15.99BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jan 03, 2013
Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England but spent her childhood summers in Nigeria - a country she considered an unglamorous parallel universe, devoid of all creature comforts. After her father, activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, was murdered there in 1995, Noo rarely returned to the land of her birth. More than a decade later, she decided to come to terms with Nigeria. From the exuberant chaos of Lagos, to the calm beauty of the eastern mountains; the eccentricity of a Nigerian dog show to the empty Transwonderland Amusement Park, Noo combines travelogue... + Read More
Binyavanga Wainaina tumbled through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him.This world came to him as a chaos of loud and colourful sounds: the hair dryers at his mother's beauty parlour, black mamba bicycle bells, mechanics in Nairobi, the music of Michael Jackson - all punctuated by the infectious laughter of his brother and sister. He could fall in with their patterns, but it would take him a while to carve out his own. In this vivid and compelling debut, Wainaina takes us through his school days, his fa... + Read More
Granta has long been known for the quality of its travel writing. The 1980s were the culmination of a golden age, when writers including Paul Theroux and Bruce Chatwin, James Hamilton-Paterson and James Fenton set out to document life in largely unfamiliar territory, bringing back tales of the beautiful, the extraordinary and the unexpected. By the mid 1990s, travel writing seemed to change, as a younger generation of writers that appeared in the magazine made journeys for more complex and often personal reasons. Decca Aitkenhead reported on se... + Read More
Presenting a diverse and dazzling collection from all over the continent, from Morocco to Zimbabwe, Uganda to Kenya. Helon Habila focuses on younger, newer writers - contrasted with some of their older, more established peers - to give a fascinating picture of a new and more liberated Africa. These writers are characterized by their engagement with the wider world and the opportunities offered by the end of apartheid, the end of civil wars and dictatorships, and the possibilities of free movement. Their work is inspired by travel and exile.... + Read More
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Series: Anansi Book Club Editions Under the Hawthorn Tree Anansi Book Club edition Paperback 9781770893504 $14.95 FICTION Apr 06, 2013