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    Moonwalking

    by Zetta Elliott, Lyn Miller-Lachmann ...
    Narrated by Michael Crouch, Caz Harleaux ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 40 min

    For fans of Jason Reynolds and Jacqueline Woodson, this middle-grade novel-in-verse follows two boys in 1980s Brooklyn as they become friends for a season.Punk rock-loving JJ Pankowski can't seem to fit in at his new school in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, as one of the only white kids. Pie Velez, a math and history geek by day and graffiti artist by night is eager to follow in his idol, Jean-Michel ... Read more

    $23.35 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Views

    by Marc-Uwe Kling ...
    Translated by Boris Löbsack ...
    Black Mirror meets Stieg Larsson in Views, a compulsive thriller that explores the toxic relationship between technology and humanity, and the fallout after unthinkable lines are crossed.Sixteen-year-old Lena Palmer has gone missing when a violent video of her assault by masked men goes viral. Yashira, chief inspector at the German FBI, has been put in charge of the case. As a single mother of a ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • President Truman And (The Challenge Of) The Potsdam Conference 1945

    by Col. Uwe F. Jansohn ...
    This monograph examines how U.S. President Harry S. Truman was prepared for the Potsdam Conference from 17 July to 2 August 1945 which is seen as a crucial turning point in modern history. Reviewing his preparations and assessing his actions during the actual conference allows one to examine whether Truman had a strategy for the Potsdam Conference in 1945 with achievable objectives. This monograph ... Read more

    $1.38 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Triumph Of The Absurd

    A Reporter's Love for the Abandoned People of Vietnam

    by Uwe Siemon-Netto ...
    Almost half a century ago, a young reporter from Germany arrived in still-glamorous Saigon to cover the Vietnam War over a period of five years. In this memoir he now tells the story of how he fell in love with the Vietnamese people. He praises the beauty, elegance and feistiness of their women. He describes blood-curdling Communist atrocities and fierce combat scenes he had witnessed. He ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Urchin at War

    The Tale of a Leipzig Rascal and his Lutheran Granny under Bombs in Nazi Germany

    by Uwe Siemon-Netto, Barbara Taylor Bradford ...
    What was it like to grow up as an urban urchin under bombs in Nazi Germany? Did he have a real childhood? Did he play pranks on grownups, as young rascals do in normal times? Could he be shielded against Nationalist ideology? In Urchin at War, Uwe Siemon-Netto answers these questions in the affirmative with humour and drama.The son of a lawyer blinded in World War I, he describes the parallel ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Peace and Chaos

    A great discovery should not end up as the creator of mad disease neither in the present nor in the future!

    by Uwe ...
    An artistic piece of portrayal of modern-day yin-yang, push-pull, space-time, force-gravity or Peace and Chaos. A beautifully chronicled literature of moder-day Chaos unleashed by Internet on our lives and to restore some Peace back is so exquisitely portrayed using different shades of a modern-day femme fatale.Internet was supposed to be the discovery of the Century, it turned out as a modern-day ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • February 1933

    The Winter of Literature

    by Uwe Wittstock ...
    Translated by Daniel Bowles ...
    It all happened in a flash. February 1933 was the month in which the fate of German writers, as for so many others, was decided. In a tensely spun narrative, Uwe Wittstock tells the story of a demise which was predicted by some but also scarcely thought possible. He reveals how, in a matter of weeks, the glittering Weimar literary scene gave way to a long, dark winter, and how the net drew ever ... Read more

    Was $23.99 CAD Now $14.99 CAD

  • First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship

    Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers

    by Richard Lachmann ...
    A history of why great powers decline, from Spain to the United StatesThe extent and irreversibility of US decline is becoming ever more obvious as America loses war after war and as one industry after another loses its technological edge. Lachmann explains why the United States will not be able to sustain its global dominance, and contrasts America's relatively brief period of hegemony with the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Qualityland

    by Marc-Uwe Kling ...
    In the near future sci-fi world of Qualityland, algorithms help create an idyllic life for its citizens, but what if the perfect world wasn't built for you?Welcome to QualityLand, the best country on Earth. Here, a universal ranking system determines the social advantages and career opportunities of every member of society. An automated matchmaking service knows the best partners for everyone and ... Read more

    Was $17.99 CAD Now $2.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Writers' Castle

    Reporting History at Nuremberg

    by Uwe Neumahr ...
    Translated by Jefferson Chase ...
    **A gripping new approach to the Nuremberg Trial, told through the stories of the many great writers who came to witness it“A riveting group portrait that puts these celebrity reporters in the spotlight... An engaging blend of gossipy anecdote and precise, thought-provoking analysis” — Financial Times**Nuremberg, 1945. As the trials of Nazi war criminals begin, some of the world's most famous ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Kangaroo Chronicles

    by Marc-Uwe Kling ...
    Translated by Paul-Henri Campbell, Sarah Cossaboon ...
    Marc-Uwe lives together with a kangaroo. The kangaroo is a communist and it is really into Nirvana. It's a classical Berlin flat-sharing community, where the deep questions of life are debated: Is lying in a hammock already a kind of passive resistance? Must the Kangaroo place its pouch onto the conveyor belt at the airport security check? Did the Kangaroo really fight for the Vietcong? And why is ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Tower

    Tales from a Lost Country

    by Uwe Tellkamp ...
    In derelict Dresden a cultivated, middle-class family does all it can to cope amid the Communist downfall. This striking tapestry of the East German experience is told through the tangled lives of a soldier, surgeon, nurse and publisher. With evocative detail, Uwe Tellkamp masterfully reveals the myriad perspectives of the time as people battled for individuality, retreated to nostalgia, chose to ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD