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  • The Matryoshka Memoirs

    A Story of Ukrainian Forced Labour, the Leica Camera Factory, and Nazi Resistance

    by Sasha Colby ...
    “[Colby] breathes new life into well-trodden WWII tropes, building a vivid, novelistic narrative focused on memory and family.” — Publishers Weekly“The writing is vivid and lyrical, the narratives are arresting, and the women are unforgettable.” — Craig Howes, Director, Center for Biographical Research, University of Hawaiʻi at MānoaA remarkable story of strength and resilience in the crucible of ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Staging Modernist Lives

    H.D., Mina Loy, Nancy Cunard, Three Plays and Criticism

    by Sasha Colby ...
    Three modernist women, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961), Mina Loy (1882-1966), and Nancy Cunard (1896-1965), came to define the interwar avant-garde through their experimental writing and unconventional pursuits.In Staging Modernist Lives, Sasha Colby dramatizes these women’s lives and writing in three new plays that traverse the origins of modernism, Parisian literary circles, two world wars, ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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    The Matryoshka Memoirs

    A Story of Ukrainian Forced Labour, the Leica Camera Factory, and Nazi Resistance

    by Sasha Colby ...
    Narrated by Allyson Voller ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 57 min

    Irina Nikifortchuk was nineteen years old and a Ukrainian schoolteacher when she was abducted to be a forced laborer in the Leica camera factory in Nazi Germany. Eventually pulled from the camp hospital to work as a domestic in the Leica owners' household, Irina survived the war and eventually found her way to Canada.Decades later Sasha Colby, Irina's granddaughter, seeks out her grandmother's ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Women We Buried, Women We Burned

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    For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues that impact women's lives. This is her own story.Snyder was eight years old when her mother died, and her distraught father thrust the family into an evangelical, cult-like existence halfway across the country. Furiously rebellious, she was expelled from school and home at age sixteen. Living out of ... Read more

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    A Brilliant Life

    My Mother’s Inspiring True Story of Surviving the Holocaust

    by Rachelle Unreich ...
    Narrated by Rachel Griffiths ...

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    The powerful, true story of a Holocaust survivor told by her daughter—a tale that reminds us of the resilience of the soul and the ability of the heart to heal.As Mira is nearing the end of her life, her daughter Rachelle wants to find out how her mother had lived through four concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and a Death March. There was a mystery to her survival, it seemed—which perhaps ... Read more

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    A Nurse’s Tale

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    Narrated by Faith Alabi ...

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    Inspired by a true storyDaughterMidwifePrincess‘A fascinating story reflecting the past moving alongside the present day’ USA Today Bestseller Glynis PetersBorn Nigerian royalty, Princess Adenrele Ademola trained as a nurse at Guy’s Hospital in London and stepped up to serve the people of Britain when war broke out – facing both the devastation of the Blitz and the prejudice of some of the peo... ... Read more

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    A Living Remedy

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    by Nicole Chung ...
    Narrated by Jennifer Kim ...

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    5 hours 58 min

    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKWinner, Tillie Olsen Award for Creative WritingNamed a Best Book of the Year by: Time * Harper’s Bazaar * Esquire * Booklist * USA Today * Elle * Good Housekeeping * New York Times * Electric Literature * TodayFrom the bestselling author of ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW comes a searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s se... ... Read more

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    The Sewing Girl's Tale

    A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America

    by John Wood Sweet ...
    Narrated by Gabra Zackman ...

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    New York Times Editors’ ChoiceWinner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the New York Society Library's New York City Book AwardA riveting Revolutionary Era drama of the first published rape trial in American history and its long, shattering aftermath, revealing how much has changed over two centuries—and how much has notOn a moonless night in the summer of 1793 a crime wa... ... Read more

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    Go Back and Get It

    A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing

    by Dionne Ford ...
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    An unexpected family photograph leads Dionne Ford to uncover the stories of her enslaved female ancestors, reclaim their power, and begin to healCountless Black Americans descended from slavery are related to the enslavers who bought and sold their ancestors. Among them is Dionne Ford, whose great grandmother was the last of six children born to a Louisiana cotton broker and the enslaved woman he ... Read more

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    Shmutz

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    “Hilarious and endearing...Shmutz is a dirty book with a pure heart.” —The New York TimesIn this witty, provocative, and “compulsively readable coming-of-age story” (Cosmopolitan), a young Hasidic woman on a quest to get married fears she will never find a groom because of her secret addiction to porn.Like the other women in her ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn community, Raizl expects to find a husband ... Read more

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    Counting Lost Stars

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    by Kim van Alkemade ...
    Narrated by Andi Arndt ...

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    13 hours 54 min

    New York Times bestselling author of Orphan #8, Kim van Alkemade returns with a gripping and poignant historical saga in which an unmarried college student who’s given up her baby for adoption helps a Dutch Holocaust survivor search for his lost mother.1960, New York City: College student Rita Klein is a pioneering woman in the new field of computer programming—until she unexpectedly becomes ... Read more

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    The Edge of Anarchy

    The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America

    by Jack Kelly ...
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    Unabridged

    11 hours 16 min

    The dramatic story of the explosive 1894 clash of industry, labor, and government that shook the nation and marked a turning point for AmericaThe Edge of Anarchy offers a vivid account of the greatest uprising of working people in American history. At the pinnacle of the Gilded Age, a boycott of Pullman sleeping cars by hundreds of thousands of railroad employees brought commerce to a standstill ... Read more

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