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  • The Street

    by Ann Petry ...
    WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR TAYARI JONES"How can a novel’s social criticism be so unflinching and clear, yet its plot moves like a house on fire? I am tempted to describe Petry as a magician for the many ways that The Street amazes, but this description cheapens her talent… Petry is a gifted artist." — Tayari Jones, from the IntroductionThe Street follows the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Narrows

    A Novel

    by Ann Petry ...
    “Petry is the writer we have been waiting for; hers are the stories we need to fully illuminate the questions of our moment, while also offering a page-turning good time. Ann Petry, the woman, had it all, and so does her insightful, prescient and unputdownable prose.” — Tayari Jones, New York Times Book ReviewFrom author of the bestselling novel The Street, a “masterpiece of social realism” (Wall ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Country Place

    A Novel

    by Ann Petry ...
    “Petry is the writer we have been waiting for; hers are the stories we need to fully illuminate the questions of our moment, while also offering a page-turning good time. Ann Petry, the woman, had it all, and so does her insightful, prescient and unputdownable prose.” — Tayari Jones, New York Times Book ReviewFrom the author of the bestselling novel The Street, Ann Petry’s classic 1947 ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Harriet Tubman

    Conductor on the Underground Railroad

    by Ann Petry ...
    This quintessential middle grade biography of Harriet Tubman now features a cover by NAACP Image Award winner and Caldecott Honor illustrator Kadir Nelson, a foreword by National Book Award finalist Jason Reynolds, and additional new material. A selection of the Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List.Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad was praised by the New Yorker as ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Ann Petry: The Street, The Narrows (LOA #314)

    by Ann Petry ...
    In one volume, two landmark novels about the terrible power of race in America from one of the foremost African American writers of the past century.Ann Petry is increasingly recognized as one of the essential American novelists of the twentieth century. Now, she joins the Library of America series with this deluxe hardcover volume gathering her two greatest works. Published in 1946 to widespread ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Miss Muriel and Other Stories

    by Ann Petry ...
    “Petry is the writer we have been waiting for; hers are the stories we need to fully illuminate the questions of our moment, while also offering a page-turning good time. Ann Petry, the woman, had it all, and so does her insightful, prescient and unputdownable prose.” — Tayari Jones, New York Times Book ReviewFrom the author of the bestselling novel The Street, comes a powerful collection of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Street

    by Ann Petry ...
    Narrated by Danielle Deadwyler ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 25 min

    With a new introduction from New York Times best-selling author Tayari Jones, The Street was Ann Petry's first novel, originally published in 1946 and hailed by critics as a masterwork.The Street tells the poignant, often heartbreaking story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and her spirited struggle to raise her son amid the violence, poverty, and racial dissonance of Harlem in the late ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Gone to an Aunt's

    Remembering Canada's Homes for Unwed Mothers

    by Anne Petrie ...
    Thirty or forty years ago, everybody knew what that phrase meant: a girl or a young, unmarried woman had gotten herself pregnant. She was “in trouble.” She had brought indescribable shame on herself and her family. In those days it was unthinkable that she would have her child and keep it. Instead she had to hide. Most likely she would be sent away to a home for unwed mothers, where she would stay ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Thalia Book Club: Ann Petry's The Street with Sapphire, Sonia Manzano, and Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

    by Ann Petry ...
    Narrated by Sapphire, Sonia Manzano, Roslyn Ruff, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts ...
    Series series Thalia Book Club

    Unabridged

    1 hour 29 min

    Sapphire (Push), Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts (Harlem is Nowhere), and actress Sonia Manzano (The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano) discuss the gritty, emotional 1946 classic set in Harlem. Actress Roslyn Ruff (The Piano Lesson; The Help) will read an excerpt.// Other narrators: Sonia Manzano, Roslyn Ruff ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Harriet Tubman

    by Ann Petry ...
    Narrated by Robin Miles, Jason Reynolds ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 4 min

    This quintessential middle grade biography of Harriet Tubman now features a foreword written and read by National Book Award finalist Jason Reynolds and additional new material. A selection of the Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List.Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad was praised by the New Yorker as “an evocative portrait,” and by the Chicago Tribune as “superb.” It ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Digital Work and the Platform Economy

    Understanding Tasks, Skills and Capabilities in the New Era

    Edited by Seppo Poutanen, Anne Kovalainen, Petri Rouvinen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
    "Uberization," "digitalization," "platform economy," "gig economy," and "sharing economy" are some of the buzzwords that characterize the current intense discussions about the development of the economy and work around the world, among both experts and laypersons. Immense changes in the ways goods are manufactured, business is done, work tasks are performed, education is accomplished, and so on, ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • The Nordic Minuet

    Royal Fashion and Peasant Tradition

    by Petri Hoppu ...
    This major new anthology of the minuet in the Nordic countries comprehensively explores the dance as a historical, social and cultural phenomenon. One of the most significant dances in Europe, with a strong symbolic significance in western dance culture and dance scholarship, the minuet has evolved a distinctive pathway in this region, which these rigorous and pioneering essays explore.As well as ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD