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The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume III
A Novel
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CA$37.95
ISBN: 9781478031185
Pub Date: January 2025
Imprint: Duke University Press
The Weather Diviner
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781778530319
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: Breakwater Books
Set in a tragic, transformative year in an extraordinary place with larger-than-life characters, The Weather Diviner is a story of self-discovery—not just for one young woman, but for Newfoundland...
Just a Mother
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CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771965187
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: Biblioasis
The fourth installment in Roy Jacobsen’s bestselling Barrøy Chronicles. After a long journey through Norway, Ingrid has returned to Barrøy, the island that bears her family name. The Second World...
Matisse: The Only Blue
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CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781771837446
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Guernica Editions
Matisse: The Only Blue interweaves scenes from the second half of artist Henri Matisse's life in the south of France (1907-1954), with reflections on his artwork. The work explores: artistic creation...
Eyes of the Rigel
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CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771964753
Pub Date: April 2022
Imprint: Biblioasis
The highly anticipated third novel in a historical series that began with International Booker-shortlisted The Unseen The war is over, and Ingrid Barrøy leaves the island that shares her name to search...
Résistance
Contes de la Seconde Guerre mondiale en France
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CA$28.95
ISBN: 9781603294997
Pub Date: November 2021
Based on real events of the French Resistance during World War II, Édith Thomas's stories explore how ordinary people respond to the extraordinary conditions of political occupation. The stories, first...
The Singing Forest
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CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771964319
Pub Date: September 2021
Imprint: Biblioasis
A NYT Book Review Best Historical Fiction Book of the Year "The Singing Forest blends thought-provoking reflections on the moral reckoning of war...
My Best Friend Was Angela Bennett
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CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771338639
Pub Date: June 2021
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
It's 1942, and the Nazi Juggernaut continues to crush Europe, while on the island of Newfoundland the loss of a generation awaits. Two girls who are best friends heading into their last year of high school visit a local park-and their lives are changed forever. The beautiful, talented Angela faces loss and then a darkness, a darkness so shameful that she cannot share it with anyone, not even her best friend. Dorothy faces the prospect of becoming the island's first "lady lawyer," one who offers hope for women seeking salvation from the chauvinism that dominates domestic life. A fearless examination of the monumental barriers that have stood in the way of women, My Best Friend Was Angela Bennett is a story of how a friendship endures through the most difficult of times.
White Shadow
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CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771964036
Pub Date: April 2021
Imprint: Biblioasis
The highly anticipated sequel to International Booker and Dublin Impac Award-shortlisted The Unseen No-one can be alone on an island . . . But Ingrid is alone on Barrøy, the island that bears her name,...
Hill of Beans
A Novel of War and Celluloid
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CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780826362599
Pub Date: March 2021
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
Leslie Epstein's Hill of Beans is the story of how one nation, one industry, and in particular one man responded to the desperate hope of freedom in the Second World War.
Hanna, I Forgot to Tell You
A Novel
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CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781682830680
Pub Date: October 2020
Imprint: Texas Tech University Press
Malka attempts to escape the horrors of the Holocaust by hiding out in the Christian neighborhoods of Warsaw.
God's Zoo
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CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781771835701
Pub Date: October 2020
Imprint: Guernica Editions
God's Zoo captures the brutality of the Second World War in Eastern Europe, told through the eyes of young Fenix, a boy who lives in the small Hungarian-Czechoslovak city of Ipolyság. Fenix lives in...
The House of Izieu
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CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771337250
Pub Date: August 2020
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
The House of Izieu is a novel inspired by the life and experiences of Sabine Zlatin who, as a Jew using a fake identity, managed to find families to care for Jewish children who were in French refugee camps. She created a safe home for a number of other children called "The House of Izieu" which is now a museum. Unfortunately, she was not able to save the 44 children in her care. After one wonderful year of freedom in that house they were discovered, and Klaus Barbie ordered their deportation to Auschwitz where they were killed. Sabine's husband was also caught with two teenage boys he was helping escape and was also eventually killed. Sabine, suffering from loss and the guilt of not having saved the children, manages to continue contributing to the underground efforts as well as efforts to reunite people after the war's end.
Hawk and the Hare
Based on a True Story
Price:
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781777010126
Pub Date: April 2020
Imprint: Tidewater Press
It is 1944 and the young Canadians of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry have had enough of drills and night marches and waiting. Private Ewen Morrison is 21 years old when he joins the regiment in Sussex...
Look After Her
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CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771336734
Pub Date: September 2019
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Finalist for the 2019 Foreword Indie Award for General Fiction.
Upon the death of their art-loving parents, thirteen and fourteen year old Jewish sisters are kidnapped by a family friend and taken to a brothel. There they are held captive by their shared shame and by the younger sister's forced addiction to morphine. Love and psychodrama gives them the courage to finally escape Vienna. Once in England, however, Hedy discovers her younger sister Susannah longs to be independent-- and in Italy. But in 1938, despite the safety they each have found among the privileged, they return to Vienna just before Hitler arrives, putting their own lives and those of two children in danger. With the background of anti-Semitism and exploitation, of sex and love and art and dramatic ruses, all during the terrifying rise of fascism in Austria and Italy, Look After Her reveals this truth: no matter how close we...
Land Beyond the Sea
Price:
CA$19.95
ISBN: 9781550817522
Pub Date: May 2019
Imprint: Breakwater Books
**CANADA BOOK AWARD WINNER** **NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDS FINALIST, HISTORICAL FICTION** **BEST ATLANTIC-PUBLISHED BOOK AWARD FINALIST** In the small hours of October 14, 1942, a German U-boat...
The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume III
A Novel
CA$37.95
ISBN: 9781478031185
Pub Date: January 2025
Imprint: Duke University Press
The Weather Diviner
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781778530319
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: Breakwater Books
Just a Mother
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771965187
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: Biblioasis
Matisse: The Only Blue
CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781771837446
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Guernica Editions
Eyes of the Rigel
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771964753
Pub Date: April 2022
Imprint: Biblioasis
Résistance
Contes de la Seconde Guerre mondiale en France
CA$28.95
ISBN: 9781603294997
Pub Date: November 2021
The Singing Forest
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771964319
Pub Date: September 2021
Imprint: Biblioasis
My Best Friend Was Angela Bennett
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771338639
Pub Date: June 2021
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
It's 1942, and the Nazi Juggernaut continues to crush Europe, while on the island of Newfoundland the loss of a generation awaits. Two girls who are best friends heading into their last year of high school visit a local park-and their lives are changed forever. The beautiful, talented Angela faces loss and then a darkness, a darkness so shameful that she cannot share it with anyone, not even her best friend. Dorothy faces the prospect of becoming the island's first "lady lawyer," one who offers hope for women seeking salvation from the chauvinism that dominates domestic life. A fearless examination of the monumental barriers that have stood in the way of women, My Best Friend Was Angela Bennett is a story of how a friendship endures through the most difficult of times.
White Shadow
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771964036
Pub Date: April 2021
Imprint: Biblioasis
Hill of Beans
A Novel of War and Celluloid
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780826362599
Pub Date: March 2021
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
Hanna, I Forgot to Tell You
A Novel
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781682830680
Pub Date: October 2020
Imprint: Texas Tech University Press
God's Zoo
CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781771835701
Pub Date: October 2020
Imprint: Guernica Editions
The House of Izieu
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771337250
Pub Date: August 2020
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
The House of Izieu is a novel inspired by the life and experiences of Sabine Zlatin who, as a Jew using a fake identity, managed to find families to care for Jewish children who were in French refugee camps. She created a safe home for a number of other children called "The House of Izieu" which is now a museum. Unfortunately, she was not able to save the 44 children in her care. After one wonderful year of freedom in that house they were discovered, and Klaus Barbie ordered their deportation to Auschwitz where they were killed. Sabine's husband was also caught with two teenage boys he was helping escape and was also eventually killed. Sabine, suffering from loss and the guilt of not having saved the children, manages to continue contributing to the underground efforts as well as efforts to reunite people after the war's end.
Hawk and the Hare
Based on a True Story
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781777010126
Pub Date: April 2020
Imprint: Tidewater Press
Look After Her
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771336734
Pub Date: September 2019
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Finalist for the 2019 Foreword Indie Award for General Fiction.
Upon the death of their art-loving parents, thirteen and fourteen year old Jewish sisters are kidnapped by a family friend and taken to a brothel. There they are held captive by their shared shame and by the younger sister's forced addiction to morphine. Love and psychodrama gives them the courage to finally escape Vienna. Once in England, however, Hedy discovers her younger sister Susannah longs to be independent-- and in Italy. But in 1938, despite the safety they each have found among the privileged, they return to Vienna just before Hitler arrives, putting their own lives and those of two children in danger. With the background of anti-Semitism and exploitation, of sex and love and art and dramatic ruses, all during the terrifying rise of fascism in Austria and Italy, Look After Her reveals this truth: no matter how close we...
Land Beyond the Sea
CA$19.95
ISBN: 9781550817522
Pub Date: May 2019
Imprint: Breakwater Books