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  • Voices of the Left Behind

    Project Roots and the Canadian War Children of World War II

    by Olga Rains, Lloyd Rains, Melynda Jarratt ...
    Voices of the Left Behind contains the personal stories of nearly 50 Canadian war children who have been helped by Project Roots. It is filled with fascinating archival images and documents as well as original wartime correspondence between the mothers, the Canadian fathers, and the Department of National Defence, Veterans Affairs, and other Canadian institutions. Letters from the war children to ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • In a League of Their Own

    The moving saga of Rachel Campbell and her family continues...

    by Millie Gray ...
    Series series Campbell Family Saga
    THE MOVING SAGA OF RACHEL CAMPBELL AND HER FAMILY CONTINUES...It's October 1954 and life in post-war Britain is slowly starting to return to normal. For Rachel Campbell, however, her family is proving to be a constant challenge. As her children grow older and start families of their own, Rachel must help them learn the often difficult lessons of life.Back from his National Service in Korea, Sam ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

  • The Railway Man

    by Eric Lomax ...
    During the Second World War Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio.Left emotionally scarred and unable to form normal relationships, Lomax suffered for years until, with the help of his wife, Patti Lomax, and of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, he came terms with what happened. Fifty ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Girl Who Came Home

    A Novel of the Titanic

    by Hazel Gaynor ...
    Inspired by true events, the New York Times bestselling novel The Girl Who Came Home is the poignant story of a group of Irish emigrants aboard RMS Titanic—a seamless blend of fact and fiction. This moving historical novel explores the tragedy's impact and its lasting repercussions on survivors and their descendants.Ireland, 1912. Fourteen members of a small village set sail on RMS Titanic, hoping ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • My Mother's Secret

    A Novel Based on a True Holocaust Story

    by J.L. Witterick ...
    Inspired by a true story, My Mother’s Secret is a captivating and ultimately uplifting tale intertwining the lives of two Jewish families in hiding from the Nazis, a fleeing German soldier, and the mother and daughter who save them all.Franciszka and her daughter, Helena, are simple, ordinary people...until 1939, when the Nazis invade their homeland. Providing shelter to Jews in Nazi-occupied ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Lost Child of Philomena Lee

    A Mother, Her Son and a Fifty Year Search

    by Martin Sixsmith ...
    The Lost Child of Philomena Lee is the tale of a mother and a son whose lives were scarred by the forces of hypocrisy on both sides of the Atlantic and of the secrets they were forced to keep. A compelling narrative of human love and loss, Martin Sixsmith's moving account is both heartbreaking yet ultimately redemptive.When she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Unfinished Child

    by Theresa Shea ...
    Marie finds herself unexpectedly pregnant at 39. Meanwhile, her best friend, Elizabeth, has never been able to conceive, despite years of fertility treatments. In a genetic test routinely offered to older mothers, Marie discovers that the child she is carrying has Down syndrome. Intertwined throughout the novel is the story of Margaret, a woman who gave birth to a daughter with Down syndrome in ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • The Secret of the Blue Trunk

    by Lise Dion ...
    Translated by Liedewij Hawke ...
    In this true story, Armande Martel, a young nun from Quebec, is arrested by the Germans in 1940 during a stay at her religious order’s mother house in Brittany. She spends the war years in a German concentration camp. After her return to Canada, she leaves the Church, finds the love of her life in Montreal, and adopts Lise Dion.Growing up, Lise is familiar with only a few facts of her mother’s ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Orphan Train

    A Novel

    by Christina Baker Kline ...
    #1 New York Times BestsellerAvailable in a special hardcover edition, Christina Baker Kline’s smash bestseller, a captivating historical novel that is “a lovely novel about the search for family that also happens to illuminate a fascinating and forgotten chapter of American history” (Ann Packer).Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Edge of Lost

    by Kristina McMorris ...
    From bestselling author Kristina McMorris comes an ambitious and heartrending story of immigrants, deception, and second chances.On a cold night in October 1937, searchlights cut through the darkness around Alcatraz. A prison guard’s only daughter—one of the youngest civilians who lives on the island—has gone missing. Tending the warden’s greenhouse, convicted bank robber Tommy Capello waits ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Somewhere in France

    A Novel of the Great War

    by Jennifer Robson ...
    A daring young woman will risk her life to find her destiny in this atmospheric, beautifully drawn historical debut novel—a tale of love, hope, and danger set during the First World War.Lady Elizabeth Neville-Ashford wants to travel the world, pursue a career, and marry for love. But in 1914, the stifling restrictions of aristocratic British society and her mother’s rigid expectations forbid Lilly ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • City of the Lost: Part One

    by Kelley Armstrong ...
    Series Book 1 - City of the Lost
    In City of the Lost, a thrilling new eBook in six parts, New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author Kelley Armstrong delivers us to Rockton, a secret little town in the far north where the hunted go to hide. And where a hunter has now come to play.Casey Duncan once killed a man and got away with it. Since then she’s become a talented police detective, tethered only to her job, her best ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD