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“steve sem sandberg”

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  • The Emperor of Lies

    by Steve Sem-Sandberg ...
    Translated by Sarah Death ...
    Longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize In February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second-largest Jewish ghetto in the Polish city of Lódz. Its chosen leader: Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, a sixty-three-year-old Jewish businessman and orphanage director — and the elusive, authoritarian power sustaining the ghetto's very existence. From one of Sweden's most critically ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • W.

    A Novel

    by Steve Sem-Sandberg ...
    Translated by Saskia Vogel ...
    In this internationally acclaimed novel, Steve Sem-Sandberg brilliantly refracts the story of Georg Büchner’s groundbreaking play Woyzeck through a new lens.W., the astonishing novel by August Prize–winning author Steve Sem-Sandberg, is a literary reimagining of one of modern literature’s touchstone texts, the play Woyzeck. Considered the first modern drama, Woyzeck tells the story of a loyal ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Chosen Ones

    A Novel

    by Steve Sem-Sandberg ...
    The Am Spiegelgrund clinic, in glittering Vienna, masqueraded as a well-intentioned reform school for wayward boys and girls and a home for chronically ill children. The reality, however, was very different: in the wake of Germany's annexation of Austria on the eve of World War II, its doctors, nurses, and teachers created a monstrous parody of the institution's benign-sounding brief. The Nazi ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    W.

    A Novel

    by Steve Sem-Sandberg, Saskia Vogel - Translator ...
    Narrated by Adam Gold ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 54 min

    A reimagining of Buechner’s classic play Woyzeck, the tale of jealousy, love turned to hate, and murder and its consequences propels this internationally acclaimed novelThe novel W. is a literary prequel to one of modern literature’s touchstone texts, the play Woyzeck—the basis of films, operas, and numerous translations and adaptations. Considered the first modern drama, Woyzeck tells the story ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Death in the City of Light

    The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris

    by David King ...
    The gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris.As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with tracking down the elusive murderer in a twilight world of Gestapo, gangsters, resistance fighters, pimps, prostitutes, spies, and other ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Hitler's Willing Executioners

    Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

    by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen ...
    This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly. Hitler's Willing Executioners provides conclusive evidence that the extermination of European Jewry engaged the energies and enthusiasm of tens of thousands of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World

    The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World

    by Richard Rhodes ...
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  • The Double Game

    by Dan Fesperman ...
    **From the acclaimed author of Layover in Dubai—the story of a journalist’s journey to Vienna, Prague, and Budapest in search of the truth about a spy-turned-novelist’s decades of dark secrets…“As fiendishly clever a spy story as you could hope for…. A guaranteed delight for any espionage fan.” —The Seattle Times**A few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, spook-turned-novelist Edwin Lemaster ... Read more

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  • In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

    by Irene Gut Opdyke ...
    IRENE GUT WAS just 17 in 1939, when the Germans and Russians devoured her native Poland. Just a girl, really. But a girl who saw evil and chose to defy it.“No matter how many Holocaust stories one has read, this one is a must, for its impact is so powerful.”—School Library Journal, StarredA Book Sense Top Ten PickA Publisher’s Weekly Choice of the Year’s Best BooksA</e... ... Read more

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  • Midnight in Peking

    The Murder That Haunted the Last Days of Old China

    by Paul French ...
    January, 1937: Peking is a heady mix of privilege and scandal, lavish cocktail bars and opium dens, warlords and corruption, rumours and superstition – and the clock is ticking down on all of it.In the exclusive Legation Quarter, the foreigners are jumpy. Japanese troops are poised to attack, and word has it the Chinese government is about to cut a deal with Tokyo, leaving Peking to its fate. Fear ... Read more

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  • HHhH

    A Novel

    by Laurent Binet ...
    Translated by Sam Taylor ...
    “Captivating . . . [HHhH] has a vitality very different from that of most historical fiction.” —James Wood, The New Yorker**The basis for the major motion picture, "The Man with the Iron Heart " available on streaming and home video.HHhH: "Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich," or "Himmler's brain is called Heydrich." The most lethal man in Hitler's cabinet, Reinhard Heydrich seemed indestructible—until ... Read more

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