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MORE THAN JUST A WINE AND CHEESE NIGHT
Book club meetings that will get you fired up
Need to get your book club talking? The Art of Book Club Maintenance is your resource for tips, tools, and freebies for your monthly book-and-gab fest. Don't miss our new feature: a recipe your club will go gaga over!
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 WIN A SET OF ANNABEL PAPERBACKS FOR YOUR BOOK CLUB!
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 PAPERBACK.
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 make a difficult decision: to raise the child as a boy named Wayne. But as Wayne grows to adulthood within the hyper-masculine hunting culture of his father, his shadow-self -- a girl he thinks of as Annabel -- is never entirely extinguished, and indeed is secretly nurtured by the women in his life.
Haunting, sweeping in scope, and stylistically reminiscent of Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex, Annabel is a compelling debut novel about one person's struggle to discover the truth in a culture that shuns contradiction.
To enter to win five copies of Annabel for your book club, reply to this email telling us which book raised the most controversy in your book club. The winning book club will be chosen at random at 12:00 p.m. EST on February 25, 2011. Canadian residents only please, excluding Quebec.
More Annabel resources:
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ANANSI POTLUCK PICKS
A tried, tested, and true recipe courtesy of an Anansi staffer
Most-Requested Potluck Cornbread: a repeat item from our brilliant Design and Digital Assets Coordinator, Alysia Shewchuk
An Anansi potluck just wouldn't be the same without Alysia's cornbread. It's moist, sweet, and just the right amount of spicy -- we devour the whole pan every time.
Prep Time:
15 Minutes
Cook Time:
1 Hour
Ingredients
1 cup butter, melted
1 cup white sugar
4 eggs
1 (15 ounce) can cream-style corn
1/2 (4 ounce) can chopped green chile peppers, drained
1/2 cup shredded Monterey Jack cheese
1/2 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup yellow cornmeal
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Lightly grease a
9x13 inch baking dish.
2. In a large bowl, beat together butter and sugar. Beat in eggs one
at a time. Blend in cream corn, chiles, Monterey Jack and Cheddar
cheese.
3. In a separate bowl, stir together flour, cornmeal, baking powder
and salt. Add flour mixture to corn mixture; stir until smooth. Pour
batter into prepared pan.
4. Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour, until a toothpick inserted into
center of the pan comes out clean.
5. Serve to your book club and prepare yourself for rave reviews.
Here we are at our summer potluck on Toronto Island: 
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