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i heard a crow before i was born
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ISBN: 9781773104089
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Goose Lane Editions
i heard a crow before i was born. i heard tsó:ka’we before i was born. i heard a crow before i was born opens with a dream-memory that transforms into a stark, poetic reflection on the generational...
Called by Mother Earth
A Father's Search for His Son
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781778530142
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Breakwater Books
This raw and intimate memoir takes us inside the mind of a father who embarked on a ten-month journey through rugged and remote terrain in British Columbia in search of his missing son. After setting...
Everywhere the Undrowned
A Memoir of Survival and Imagination
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CA$27.95
ISBN: 9781469678962
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: University of North Carolina Press
This is what it is to survive. You find what floats and you hold on. Even if it is smaller than you. Holding on is all fourteen-year-old Stephanie Clare Smith can do when she's left home alone in New...
No Letter in Your Pocket
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ISBN: 9781771837873
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Guernica Editions
Incest denial and sexual assaults disrupt a young woman’s solo spiritual quest and her two romantic adventures in India in 1990-91. Two decades later, after profound healing, she’s resilient at...
The Burden of Exile
A Banned Journalist's Flight from Dictatorship
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CA$23.99
ISBN: 9781459748545
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Dundurn Press
A memoir of danger, oppression, and international politics by a survivor of the Eritrean dictatorship. A view into a secretive country and the uneasy alliances of Africa, and a story of family resilience.
Rescue Me
Behind the Scenes of Search and Rescue
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CA$26.00
ISBN: 9781773860947
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Caitlin Press
Behind the scenes of the riskiest search and rescue operations in North America.
The Sadness of Geography (Tamil Edition)
My Life as a Tamil Exile
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CA$24.99
ISBN: 9781459747852
Pub Date: April 2021
Imprint: Dundurn Press
A riveting story of a boy whose courage, perseverance, wit, and occasional burst of good luck guided him to the safety of his adopted home, Canada.
Escaping Extermination
Hungarian Prodigy to American Musician, Feminist, and Activist
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CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781557539847
Pub Date: September 2020
Imprint: Purdue University Press
Written shortly after the close of World War II, Escaping Extermination tells the poignant story of war, survival, and rebirth for a young, already acclaimed, Jewish Hungarian concert pianist, Agi Jambor....
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Finding Home in the Bitterroots
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9780870710001
Pub Date: March 2020
Imprint: Oregon State University Press
The story of one woman's journey into the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness of Idaho and Montana to investigate the disappearance of her friend and discover the truth about her family.
The Sadness of Geography
My Life as a Tamil Exile
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CA$19.99
ISBN: 9781459745025
Pub Date: July 2019
Imprint: Dundurn Press
A riveting story of a boy whose courage, perseverance, wit, and occasional burst of good luck guided him to the safety of his adopted home, Canada.
No Friend but the Mountains
Writing from Manus Prison
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CA$22.99
ISBN: 9781487006839
Pub Date: June 2019
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
Kurdish-Iranian journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani’s account of his detainment on Australia’s notorious Manus Island prison.
The Children of La Hille
Eluding Nazi Capture during World War II
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780815610588
Pub Date: November 2015
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Following the horrors of Kristallnacht in November of 1938, frightened parents were forced to find refuge for their children, far from the escalating anti-Jewish violence. To that end, a courageous...
The Children of La Hille
Eluding Nazi Capture during World War II
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CA$67.95
ISBN: 9780815634225
Pub Date: November 2015
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Following the horrors of Kristallnacht in November of 1938, frightened parents were forced to find refuge for their children, far from the escalating anti-Jewish violence. To that end, a courageous...
Sheva's Promise
A Chronicle of Escape From a Nazi Ghetto
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780815610182
Pub Date: May 2013
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
In this gripping memoir, Lederman tells her story of survival during one of the most horrific episodes in history. Beginning with Lederman as a young girl in Poland in 1941, Sheva’s Promise traces...
Arctic Scientist, Gulag Survivor
The Biography of Mikhail Mikhailovich Ermolaev, 1905-1991
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CA$44.95
ISBN: 9781552382561
Pub Date: November 2009
Imprint: University of Calgary Press
One of the most prominent Soviet Arctic scientists of the 1920s and 1930s, Mikhail Mikhailovich Ermolaev was a geologist, physicist, and oceanographer. After working in the Arctic for some thirteen...
Forty Years on the Frontier
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780803293205
Pub Date: November 2004
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
There is no other pioneer record of this section quite like it.-American Historical ReviewWhen originally published in 1925, one reviewer called Forty Years on the Frontier "the odyssey of a nineteenth-century...
i heard a crow before i was born
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781773104089
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Goose Lane Editions
Called by Mother Earth
A Father's Search for His Son
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781778530142
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Breakwater Books
Everywhere the Undrowned
A Memoir of Survival and Imagination
CA$27.95
ISBN: 9781469678962
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: University of North Carolina Press
No Letter in Your Pocket
CA$21.25 CA$25.00
ISBN: 9781771837873
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Guernica Editions
The Burden of Exile
A Banned Journalist's Flight from Dictatorship
CA$23.99
ISBN: 9781459748545
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Rescue Me
Behind the Scenes of Search and Rescue
CA$26.00
ISBN: 9781773860947
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Caitlin Press
Behind the scenes of the riskiest search and rescue operations in North America.
The Sadness of Geography (Tamil Edition)
My Life as a Tamil Exile
CA$24.99
ISBN: 9781459747852
Pub Date: April 2021
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Escaping Extermination
Hungarian Prodigy to American Musician, Feminist, and Activist
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781557539847
Pub Date: September 2020
Imprint: Purdue University Press
Remote
Finding Home in the Bitterroots
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9780870710001
Pub Date: March 2020
Imprint: Oregon State University Press
The Sadness of Geography
My Life as a Tamil Exile
CA$19.99
ISBN: 9781459745025
Pub Date: July 2019
Imprint: Dundurn Press
No Friend but the Mountains
Writing from Manus Prison
CA$22.99
ISBN: 9781487006839
Pub Date: June 2019
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
The Children of La Hille
Eluding Nazi Capture during World War II
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780815610588
Pub Date: November 2015
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
The Children of La Hille
Eluding Nazi Capture during World War II
CA$67.95
ISBN: 9780815634225
Pub Date: November 2015
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Sheva's Promise
A Chronicle of Escape From a Nazi Ghetto
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780815610182
Pub Date: May 2013
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Arctic Scientist, Gulag Survivor
The Biography of Mikhail Mikhailovich Ermolaev, 1905-1991
CA$44.95
ISBN: 9781552382561
Pub Date: November 2009
Imprint: University of Calgary Press
Forty Years on the Frontier
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780803293205
Pub Date: November 2004
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press