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  • Grandma Gerda's big coup

    Grandma Gerda was tired of always having to go to the table and ask for food or say how to beg. Her pension was simply not enough, although she has always worked into her life. For this reason, she had decided to rob a bank with her friends. And her grandson Tommy was supposed to advise her, as he had experience with something like this, since he worked for the police. ... Read more

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  • All But My Life

    A Memoir

    All But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty.From her comfortable home in Bielitz (present-day Bielsko) in Poland to her miraculous survival and her liberation by American troops--including the man who was to become her husband--in Volary, Czechoslovakia, in 1945, Gerda takes the reader on a terrifying journey.Gerda's serene and ... Read more

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  • The Windsor Caper

    This is a gentle and magical story with a strong retro feel, from a time when mobile phones and computers only existed in science fiction and perhaps life was a bit simpler. As well as providing some amusing insights into the differences between the American and British versions of the English language, it vividly brings alive some of the fascinating pageantry and drama of English History and ... Read more

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  • The Hours After

    Letters of Love and Longing in War's Aftermath

    "This collection of beautifully handwritten letters is unusual in its honesty and beauty, written in the face of such great sorrow and such exquisite joy." — The Jewish TranscriptOver fifty years ago, Gerda Weissmann was barely alive at the end of a 350-mile death march that took her from a slave labor camp in Germany to the Czech border. On May 7, 1945, the American military stormed the area, and ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Girl in the Cellar

    Surviving the Holocaust in Nazi-Occupied Poland

    In September of 1939, thirteen-year-old Gerda Krebs's world changed when the Nazis invaded her hometown of Przemyśl, taking everything she held dear—her home, irreplaceable heirlooms, and ultimately, most of her family members. Escaping deportation to an extermination camp by hiding in the home of a Polish woman and using the papers of the woman's deceased, illegitimate daughter, Gerda never let ... Read more

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  • We Are Light

    by Gerda Blees ...
    Translated by Michele Hutchison ...
    Shortlisted for the Dublin Literary AwardWinner of the 2021 European Union Literature Prize"A riveting experimental novel about a commune where the members’ belief that they can live on light and love alone proves fatal for one of them." ―Publishers Weekly, starred reviewOne apartment, three women, one man. One of the women is dead. When the emergency personnel arrive, they realize: Elisabeth ... Read more

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  • Forbidden Love: A Queer Film Classic

    Series series Queer Film Classics
    A Queer Film Classic on the 1992 feature documentary on lesbian experience from the 1940s to the 1960s as seen through the lens of lesbian pulp fiction. This award-winning movie became the most popular ever produced by the National Film Board of Canada, and became emblematic of the bold new queer cinema of the early 1990s. In 2014, the NFB re-released the film in a digitally remastered version ... Read more

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  • How to Start a Hobby in Ringette

    This publication, published by SamEnrico, covers How to Start a Hobby in Ringette ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Memory's Last Breath

    Field Notes on My Dementia

    A "courageous and singular book" (Andrew Solomon), Memory's Last Breath is an unsparing, beautifully written memoir -- "an intimate, revealing account of living with dementia" ( Shelf Awareness).Based on the "field notes" she keeps in her journal, Memory's Last Breath is Gerda Saunders' astonishing window into a life distorted by dementia. She writes about shopping trips cut short by unintentional ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Language Matters in Namibia

    History, Development, and Contemporary Dynamics

    Series series Routledge Contemporary Africa
    Language Matters in Namibia investigates the diversity of Namibia’s ethnolinguistic communities and cultures, considering how languages intersect with questions of nationhood, memory, identity and decoloniality.Namibia is a country characterised by multilingualism, with 13 officially recognised languages (10 indigenous and 3 European-based). Within this diverse linguistic landscape, only 3.4% of ... Read more

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  • My Past Is Mine

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Gerda Rhoads ...
    On a train cutting through the autumn countryside, Eddie Tomlinson is drawn into a conversation that feels less like chance than recognition. Lonely and shaken by a loss he can barely name, he tells a stranger about the day his world changed: a night at the movies when color simply vanished, leaving everything in stark black, white, and gray. What begins as a baffling problem of sight becomes a ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • One Last Shot: Based on a True Story of Wartime Heroism

    The Story of Wartime Photographer Gerda Taro

    by Kip Wilson ...
    "This is not just a story of the violence of fascism, but of the burning joy of freedom, and the exhilaration of shaping, with sweat and blood, a better world."From critically acclaimed author Kip Wilson comes this gripping coming of age historical fiction novel in verse about Gerda Taro, a vibrant, headstrong photojournalist with a passion for capturing the truth amid political turmoil and the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD