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A graphic that reads, "For the Cool Dad" has the background of red wrapping paper. Seven book covers are scattered across the graphic including: THE LIBRARIANIST, A WAITER IN PARIS, ASIAN VEGETABLES, ONE FOOT ON THE PLATFORM, THE RIVETER, JOHN CANDY, and IN TOO DEEP.
From fascinating historical deep dives to gorgeous recipes to try in the new year, these are books for the Cool Dad in your life. ๐
๐ Shop these books on our website here: houseofanansi.com ๐
The CBC names โจLETTERS TO KAFKAโจ as one of BEST BOOKS OF 2025!!
Iโm so delighted, humbled, and obliged ๐ฅนโค๏ธ๐ซถ
You can grab your copy wherever you buy books! Or the library! Itโs available AROUND THE WORLD!
More details: ๐ www.christineestima.com
Cc: @houseofanansi.bsky.social
A graphic reads, "For the Poet" over brown wrapping paper. Covers of six books appear underneath, including: WELLWATER, SHADOW PRICE, PROCESSION, SCIENTIFIC MARVEL, GREAT SILENT BALLAD, and XANAX COWBOY.
๐จ โ๏ธ Got an artist on your list this year? Poetry makes the perfect present!
๐ Click here to explore our Poetic Presents gift guide: houseofanansi.com/collections/...
Today is the LAST DAY to shop our Black Friday Sale online! Get 30% OFF BOOKS when you use the code: BLACKFRIDAY2025 (after discounts, before tax).
๐ Shop the sale here: houseofanansi.com
The new metaphysical in A.F. Moritz's Great Silent Ballad, reviewed today!
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My #HistoricalFiction roundup for @thestar.com includes titles by 4 Canadian women novelists: Donna Jones Alward,
@annykchoi.bsky.social @cestima.bsky.social & Natalie Jenner.
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Paul Myers joins us to chat about his new book, John Candy: A Life In Comedy.
Paul is also the host of the @recordstoreday.bsky.social
podcast, so heโs got stories about some of our favorite artists, and we canโt get enough!
@pantheonpodcasts.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social #JohnCandy
This Friday and Saturday only, our Prose and Poems hats, puzzles, and tote bags are 50% OFF at the Anansi Bookshop! ๐งข These make perfect gifts for the stylish book lovers in your life.
๐ Our bookshop is located at 128 Sterling Road, Toronto. Friday hours: 1pm - 6pm. Saturday hours: 11am - 5pm.
A graphic with the background of green wrapping paper reads, "For the ... True Crime Podcast Listener." The books include: BURY THE LEAD, THE THERAPIST, AN ORDINARY VIOLENCE, THE BREAK, THE STRANGER UPSTAIRS, and WIDOWS AND ORPHANS.
๐ You'll never guess who did it ...
From cold cases to thrilling chases, these books are perfect gifts for the True Crime Podcast Listener in your life! ๐
๐ Click here to shop these books and more: houseofanansi.com/collections/...
A green graphic with vintage yellow stars and the House of Anansi and Groundwood Books logos reads, "Shop Our Black Friday Sale."
A green graphic reads, "In Store: Friday, November 28 from 1pm - 6pm, Saturday, November 29 from 11am - 5pm. 40% OFF BOOKS, 50% OFF HATS, PUZZLES, AND TOTE BAGS."
A green graphic reads, "Online: Friday, November 28 - Monday, December 1. 30% OFF BOOKS with code: BLACKFRIDAY2025. Plus! Free shipping on orders over $35 (after discounts, before tax)."
โจ Announcing Our ... BLACK FRIDAY SALE! โจ
๐ Browse our titles to get ready to save this weekend here: https://houseofanansi.com ๐๏ธ
Note: We are not shipping orders to the U.S. at this time.
Strongly agree with your daughter! ๐
26.11.2025 14:39 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Paul's book is a monumental but tender biography, with interview content from Candy's many friends, famous and not famous.
A perfect Holiday gift, and as my daughter Avolyn recently said, John Candy as Del Griffith in Planes, Trains and Automobiles IS Thanksgiving ๐
Read an excerpt from the enthralling new short story collection, PLANET EARTH (@houseofanansi.bsky.social), by Nicholas Ruddock. It's right here and free for our Open Book readers!
#AmReading #ShortStories #Fiction #CanLit
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A graphic reads, "For the Historical Fiction Fan" over red wrapping paper. Covers of six books appear underneath, including: LETTERS TO KAFKA, THE RIVETER, A DAUGHTER'S PLACE, THE GOLDEN DAUGHTER, FEVER AT DAWN, and RIDGERUNNER.
โจ Stories that deliver on thrills, romance, and suspense! These are gifts for the Historical Fiction Fan. ๐
๐ Click here to explore our Historical Fiction Gift Guide: houseofanansi.com/collections/...
WATCH Paul Myers, author of JOHN CANDY: A LIFE IN COMEDY, on TVO! @therundowntvo.bsky.social ๐บ
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A yellow book titled, 'Inheritance' by Jane Park sits on a dark blue background. The cover features a painting of the prairies with an illustration of a flower and ornate knife.
Introducing ... INHERITANCE, a novel by Jane Park ๐ก๏ธ
In INHERITANCE, a Korean Canadian woman returns to the prairies, where she revisits her childhood and confronts her haunting guilt.
๐ผ Publishes April 7th, 2026. Learn more here: https://houseofanansi.com/products/inheritance
Books are scattered across a wooden table with golden ornaments around them. The books include: I MAKE MY OWN FUN, A DAUGHTER'S PLACE, THE GOLDEN DAUGHTER, LETTERS TO KAFKA, THE HAND OF IMAN, THIS IS HOW WE LOVE, THE RIVETER, and BURY THE LEAD.
So ... are we ready to talk about the holidays? ๐คญ
You'll find that our website's home page is TAKEN OVER by customized book collections for every reader in your life โ It's never been so easy to give the gift of reading! ๐
๐ Explore our gift guide collections here: https://houseofanansi.com
A hand holds up the books I MAKE MY OWN FUN and AS THE EARTH DREAMS in front of a bookcase. The cover of I MAKE MY OWN FUN is bright pink with iridescent golden text, and features a plastic doll arm sticking out of martini glass full of blood, waving. The cover of AS THE EARTH DREAMS features bold blue text with a spiral texture and a vibrant illustrated bug on a black background.
Can you believe these books have been out for a month?!
โจ I MAKE MY OWN FUN, written by Hannah Beer
๐ชฒ AS THE EARTH DREAMS, edited by Terese Mason Pierre (@teresempierre.bsky.social)
๐ Available now where books are sold! Purchase your copies here: https://houseofanansi.com/collections/new-releases
Quill Christie-Peters discussion her incredible new work of non-fiction, ON WHOLENESS (@houseofanansi.bsky.social), and the power of collective liberation. Check it our interview with the author here!
#AmReading #Nonfiction #Indigenous #Writing
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Doesnโt #ADaughtersPlace look gorgeous sitting at the beautiful bar in #LaPlume at #TheWell Last night? This is where #OSLER, the prestigious law firm, held its annual womenโs book club meeting, and I will forever be grateful that they picked my novel!!!
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The mint green cookbook HEYDAYS AT THE JUNE MOTEL features a photograph of various plates of food being shared over a table. A seal that reads, "Taste Canada Awards GOLD" sits over the edge of the book.
๐ HEYDAYS AT THE JUNE MOTEL: BEACH TOWN CLASSICS is a 2025 Taste Canada Award WINNER, earning GOLD in the General Cookbooks category! ๐
๐ Learn more about the mouth-watering recipes in this cookbook here: https://houseofanansi.com/products/heydays-at-the-june-motel
WATCH Paul Myers (@pulmyears.bsky.social) on WGN TV Chicago discussing JOHN CANDY: A LIFE IN COMEDY! ๐บ
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The book PLANET EARTH by Nicholas Ruddock sits on the edge of a wooden table. The cover features an abstract painting, with red resembling fire between land and sky.
๐ PLANET EARTH by Nicholas Ruddock, a collection of international award-winning stories of life and love in the midst of planetary decline has been out for one week!
โQuick and brilliant.โ โ Guelph Today ๐ฅ
๐ Out now! Learn more here: https://houseofanansi.com/products/planet-earth
Seeing #NoStarsintheSky and #ADaughtersPlace together on #literaryfestival tables just never gets old. Thank you @houseofanansi.bsky.social for the gift of these books! And thank you #wildwriters for inviting me this weekend to be a part of your wonderful festival! It was such a treat! ๐๐๐ฅฐ๐๐จ๐ฆ
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JOHN CANDY: A LIFE IN COMEDY by Paul Myers has a bright pink spine and a black and white portrait on the cover of John Candy smiling.
โจ โA genuine story โฆ If youโre looking to offset the bitterness of our times with the taste of lifeโs sweetness, try a dose of Candy.โ โ The Literary Review of Canada ๐ฌ
๐ Learn more about JOHN CANDY: A LIFE IN COMEDY by Paul Myers here: https://houseofanansi.com/products/john-candy
Book covers for two CBC Massey Lectures through House of Anansi: Astra Taylorโs The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart (https://houseofanansi.com/collections/the-massey-lectures/products/the-age-of-insecurity) and Alex Neveโs Universal: Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured World (https://houseofanansi.com/collections/the-massey-lectures/products/universal). In the former, author and activist Astra Taylor exposes how seemingly disparate crisesโrising inequality and declining mental health, the ecological emergency, and the threat of authoritarianismโoriginate from a social order built on insecurity; in the latter, human rights activist and former secretary general of Amnesty International Canada Alex Neve investigates where we went wrong, how we have progressed, and what we can do to fulfill the promise that human rights are inherent, inalienable, and applicable to all people. Massey Lectures series: https://houseofanansi.com/collections/the-massey-lectures
Late in the day daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: two CBC Massey Lectures through @houseofanansi.bsky.social: @astra.bsky.socialโs The Age of Insecurity & @alexneve.bsky.socialโs Universal: houseofanansi.com/collections/...
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Pun appreciated! โบ๏ธ
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A graphic reads, "WINNER of the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry, Three Years in a Row," showing the book covers of WELLWATER by Karen Solie in 2025, SCIENTIFIC MARVEL by Chimwemwe Undi in 2024, and XANAX COWBOY by Hannah Green in 2023.
WELLWATER by Karen Solie is now the third WINNER of the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry by House of Anansi in a row! ๐
๐ Learn more about WELLWATER and House of Anansi's poetry collections on our website here: https://houseofanansi.com/collections/poetry/products/wellwater
congratulations to Karen Solie, winner of the 2025 Governor General's Award for Poetry! here's my review of the book, in case you hadn't seen: / @houseofanansi.bsky.social ;
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๐ The WINNER of the 2025 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry is ...
โจ WELLWATER by Karen Solie! โจ
๐ Learn more about WELLWATER here: https://houseofanansi.com/products/wellwater #GGBooks #GGBooks2025
