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Divine Milk Chocolate Advent Calendar

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Enjoy the countdown to Christmas with a scrumptious piece of fair-trade milk chocolate every day. Jennifer is 14 years old and lives in Bayerebon 3 village. Her father is a cocoa farmer and a member of the Kuapa Kokoo farmers' cooperative, and her mother runs a shop selling basic foodstuffs like rice.

Price:CA$ 14.95 Special Price:CA$ 13.46

One World - A Global Anthology of Short Stories

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A teenage Nigerian girl struggles to shed her cultural roots in the US... An Inuit girl is rowed by her parents to the shore, unaware of the fate that awaits her... A Filipina maid in Hong Kong gets entangled with her employer... The lover of an African freedom fighter has to choose between fidelity and survival… Includes a story each from Orange Prize winning novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri, Caine Prize 2008 winner Henrietta Rose-Innes, and emerging authors such as Chika Unigwe from Nigeria, Lucinda Nelson Dhavan from India, Petina Gappah from Zimbabwe and Elaine Chiew from Malaysia. One World is a collection that speaks with the clarity and intensity of the human experience. The swift transition from story to story, from continent to continent, from child’s perspective to adult’s; together, these evoke the complex but balanced texture of the world we live in. The diversity of subject, style and perspective results in vivid and poignant stories that will haunt the reader. All authors' royalties from the sale of One World will be donated to Medecins Sans Frontieres. Size: 210mm x 148mm, 192 pages

Price:CA$ 18.95

2010 Family Calendar

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A bright and brilliant idea for a busy family or shared house. Each month has five columns - one for each family, household or office member!

Price:CA$ 19.95

Work in Progress: The Caine Prize 2009

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Now in its tenth year, The Caine Prize presents another unmissable opportunity to tune into what is happening in African fiction. It is awarded to a short story by an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or elsewhere. This edition collects the five 2009 shortlisted stories, along with 12 stories written at the Caine Prize Writers’ Workshop, which took place in Ghana in Spring 2009. Shortlisted authors for the 2009 prize are: Mamle Kabu (Ghana), The End of Skill Parselelo Kantai (Kenya), You Wreck Her Alistair Morgan (South Africa), Icebergs EC Osondu (Nigeria), Waiting Mukoma wa Ngugi (Kenya), How Kamau wa Mwangi Escaped into Exile Work in Progress (the title comes from one of the workshop stories) is now available - watch out for the winner to be announced in this July. The four African winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer, Naguib Mahfouz and John Coetzee are patrons of The Caine Prize. Previous winners and entrants include Segun Afolabi, Leila Aboulela, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Brian Chikwava, Mary Watson, Binyavanga Wainaina and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor. Size: 210mm x 147mm, 228 pages

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Nine Lives

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How do people keep going against all the odds in their efforts to change the world? Meet nine remarkable individuals who tell their own inspiring life stories and are blazing trails for others to follow. From Cambodia to Israel-Palestine, nine stories from individuals standing up for their rights. ‘You can cut the flower, but you cannot stop the coming of spring.’ Malalai Joya, the young member of the Afghan parliament, refuses to let injustice go unchallenged. Her words reflect the irrepressible attitudes and actions of all the women and men who tell their stories here. Nine Lives presents the life stories of people who have been confronted with seemingly insurmountable obstacles, opposition and oppression. Whether it is human rights activist Harry Wu, who spent nineteen years in Chinese labour camps, or Nobel laureate and President of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias Sánchez, each of the nine voices has confronted an urgent and inescapable need to dig deep, either to rescue themselves or to forge a fresh way forward for others. Youk Chhang - who has dedicated his life to laying bare the atrocities of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge. Malalai Joya - one of the first women elected to Afghanistan’s parliament, now banned for denouncing her warlord fellow MPs. Harry Wu - survivor of and campaigner against China’s laogai labor camps. Chaeli Mycroft - a teenage girl with cerebral palsy whose campaign for disability rights has lit up South Africa. Sompop Jantraka - Thai campaigner who has rescued thousands of girls and women from the sex trade. Oscar Arias - Nobel Peace Prize winner and President of Costa Rica, which has no army. Monireh Baradaran - who survived years of imprisonment and torture under Iran’s theocratic regime. Bassam Aramin - Palestinian peace campaigner whose daughter was shot by Israeli troops. Rami Elhanan - Israeli peace campaigner whose daughter was killed in a suicide bombing. Size: 21.4cm x 13.8cm 280 pages, paperback Peter Braaksma, the author of Nine Lives, talks about the reason for writing the book and the remarkable people that feature in it. Harry Wu, one of the contributors to Nine Lives, talks about freedom:

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People First Economics

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Toxic debt, rising job losses, collapsing commodity prices and expanding poverty. How can we rein in these beasts unleashed by the free market economy? People First Economics takes a long, hard look at the mess globalized capitalism is in, and shifts the focus back to where it belongs – putting the needs of people and the environment first. Vanessa Baird and David Ransom have gathered a passionate group of writers, activists, leaders and thinkers to seize this opportunity to replace deep-rooted problems with well-founded solutions. People First Economics buzzes inspiration and action. Evo Morales promotes his 10 step programme to save the world, life and humanity... Michel Albert advocates a classless alternative to capitalism... Naomi Klein encourages public revolt... It’s about radical changes that are social, moral and ecological it provides the opportunity to rethink what really matters in life. Size: 210mm x 148mm, 192 pages, paperback

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