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“vera maloff”

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  • Our Backs Warmed by the Sun

    Memories of a Doukhobor Life

    by Vera Maloff ...
    For many, the Doukhobor story is a sensational one: arson, nudity and civil disobedience once made headlines. But it isn't the whole story. Our Backs Warmed by the Sun: Memories of a Doukhobor Life is an intricately woven, richly textured memoir of a family's determination to live in peace and community in the face of controversy and unrest.When author Vera Maloff set out to find the truth about ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

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  • A Mountain of Crumbs

    A Memoir

    by Elena Gorokhova ...
    Elena Gorokhova’s A Mountain of Crumbs is the moving story of a Soviet girl who discovers the truths adults are hiding from her and the lies her homeland lives by.Elena’s country is no longer the majestic Russia of literature or the tsars, but a nation struggling to retain its power and its pride. Born with a desire to explore the world beyond her borders, Elena finds her passion in the complexity ... Read more

    $22.50 CAD

  • Just a Little Run Around the World

    5 Years, 3 Packs of Wolves and 53 Pairs of Shoes

    by Rosie Swale Pope ...
    After her husband died of cancer, 57-year-old Rosie set off to run around the world, raising money in memory of the man she loved. Followed by wolves, knocked down by a bus, confronted by bears, chased by a naked man with a gun and stranded with severe frostbite, Rosie's breathtaking 20,000-mile solo journey is as gripping as it is inspiring.Rosie's solo run around the world started out of sorrow ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Frozen Woman

    by Jon Michelet ...
    Translated by Don Bartlett ...
    Shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger 2018Two time winner of Norway's Best Crime NovelA FROZEN BODYA MURDERED BIKERA RADICAL LAWYER WITH A MURKY PASTA FROZEN BODY... A MURDERED BIKER... A RADICAL LAWYER WITH A MURKY PASTIn the depths of the Norwegian winter, the corpse of a woman is discovered in the garden of a notorious left-wing lawyer, Vilhelm Thygesen. She has been st... ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

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  • The Serbian Dane

    by Barbara J. Haveland, Leif Davidsen ...
    Iranian Mullahs have offered a $4 million reward to the person who carries out their fatwa, the death sentence of the internationally acclaimed author Sara Santanda. A Danish daily newspaper has in cooperation with Danish PEN Centre invited her to Copenhagen, and police officer Per Toftlund of the Danish Secret Police is put in charge of protecting the author. A politician in parliament strikes a ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Girl from the Metropol Hotel

    Growing Up in Communist Russia

    by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya ...
    Translated by Anna Summers ...
    **Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for AutobiographyThe prizewinning memoir of one of the world’s great writers, about coming of age as an enemy of the people and finding her voice in Stalinist Russia**Born across the street from the Kremlin in the opulent Metropol Hotel—the setting of the New York Times bestselling novel A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles—Ludmilla ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Where Bears Roam The Streets

    by Jeff Parker ...
    “Parker’s exquisitely titled book is as off-kilter as a Kurt Vonnegut novel, and wholly absorbing.” —Maclean’sJeff Parker went to Russia intending to write a book about the country’s resurgence as a major global superpower under President Vladimir Putin and about the emergence, for perhaps the first time in history, of a Russian middle class. But Russia tends to resist any attempt to pin it down. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Red Daughter

    A Novel

    by John Burnham Schwartz ...
    Running from her father’s brutal legacy, Joseph Stalin’s daughter defects to the United States during the turbulence of the 1960s. For fans of We Were the Lucky Ones and A Gentleman in Moscow, this sweeping historical novel and unexpected love story is inspired by the remarkable life of Svetlana Alliluyeva.“The Red Daughter does exactly what good historical fiction should do: It sends you down the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Dear Canada: Hoping for Home

    by Brian Doyle, Rukhsana Khan, Paul Yee, Afua Cooper, Ruby Slipperjack, Irene N. Watts, Kit Pearson, Jean Little, Shelley Tanaka ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    In these eleven original stories, characters bravely face the challenges of settling into a new life.In this wonderful new short story anthology, eleven of Canada's top children's authors contribute stories of immigration, displacement and change, exploring the frustration and uncertainty those changes can bring. Told in first-person narratives, this collection features a diverse cast of boys and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The President's Last Love

    by Andrey Kurkov ...
    Translated by George Bird ...
    'A bittersweet work, tough and touching at the same time. Kurkov's style is spare and effective, drawing us with deceptive ease into a dense, complex world full of wonderful characters' Michael PalinA sharp, engaging satire that delves into Ukraine's history.Moscow, 2013. Bunin, the Ukrainian President, has joined other heads of state in an open air swimming pool to drink vodka and celebrate with ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • LILACS in the DUST BOWL

    by Diana Stevan ...
    Series Book 2 - Lukia's Family Saga
    Author Diana Stevan's sequel to the award-winning Sunflowers Under Fire. Lukia's story continues in Lilacs in the Dust Bowl, an inspirational family saga about love and heartache during the Great Depression.In 1929, when Lukia Mazurets, a widow and a Ukrainian peasant farmer, immigrates to Canada with her four children, she has no idea the stock market is about to crash and throw the world into a ... Read more

    $9.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I Am China

    A Novel

    by Xiaolu Guo ...
    Rock 'n' roll, revolution, and romance are seductively woven together in this intense and moving novel from the author of Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous YouthIn her flat in north London, Iona Kirkpatrick sets to work on a new project translating a collection of letters and diaries by a Chinese musician. With each letter and journal entry, Iona becomes more and more intrigued with the unfolding ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD