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  • Working 9 to 5

    A Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie

    by Ellen Cassedy ...
    "A must-read for any activist or reader in search of inspiration." —Liz Shuler, president, AFL-CIO2022 Sarton Awards Finalist for Memoir2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medalist - Women's Issues category9 to 5 wasn't just a comic film—it was a movement built by Ellen Cassedy and her friends.Ten office workers in Boston started out sitting in a circle and sharing the problems they ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Hand in Hand: An Autobiographical Novel

    by Rashel Veprinski, Ellen Cassedy, Anita Norich ...
    From this prolific poet, author, and labor movement activist, a headily bittersweet love story set among the young Jewish literati of World War I–era New York City. One fateful winter night, Miriam Eidelberg finds herself strolling across the Williamsburg Bridge with her literary hero, the man whose poems she knows by heart. Nyezhiner, a star of the Yiddish artistic clique Di yunge—"the young ones ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • So We Died

    A Memoir of Life and Death in the Ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania

    by Levi Shalit, Justin Cammy ...
    Translated by Veronica Belling, Ellen Cassedy, Andrew Cassel ...
    Series series Jews and Judaism: History and Culture
    In the shadow of death, Levi Shalit wrote to remember—so we would never forget.So We Died: A Memoir of Life and Death in the Ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania (Azoy zaynen mir geshtorbn) is a powerful eyewitness account of the Shavl ghetto during the Nazi occupation of Lithuania. Written in Yiddish by Levi Shalit and available now for the first time in English, the work fills a stark void in ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories

    by Blume Lempel ...
    Translated by Ellen Cassedy, Yermiyahu Ahron Taub ...
    Winner of the Modern Language Association’s Fania & Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies (2018)Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub (the translators) on encountering Blume Lempel’s stories wrote: "When we began reading and translating, we didn’t know we were going to find a mother drawn into an incestuous relationship with her blind son. We didn’t know we’d meet a young woman lying ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • On the Landing

    Stories by Yenta Mash

    by Yenta Mash, Jessica Kirzane ...
    Translated by Ellen Cassedy ...
    Series series NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
    In these sixteen stories, available in English for the first time, prize-winning author Yenta Mash traces an arc across continents, across upheavals and regime changes, and across the phases of a woman's life. Mash's protagonists are often in transit, poised "on the landing" on their way to or from somewhere else. In imaginative, poignant, and relentlessly honest prose, translated from the Yiddish ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    Working 9 to 5

    A Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie

    by Ellen Cassedy ...
    Narrated by Hillary Huber ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 57 min

    9 to 5 wasn’t just a comic film—it was a movement built by Ellen Cassedy and her friends.Ten office workers in Boston started out sitting in a circle and sharing the problems they encountered on the job. In a few short years, they had built a nationwide movement that united people of diverse races, classes, and ages.They took on the corporate titans. They leafleted and filed lawsuits and started a ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps.This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive ... Read more

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  • Auschwitz Escape - The Klara Wizel Story

    by Danny Naten ...
    At the tender age of 16, Klara Wizel had a picturesque life with a loving and supportive family. There was no way to know that the Holocaust was creeping toward her and that soon this young Hungarian Jew would be fighting for her life due to the most notorious doctor of the 20th century, Dr. Josef Mengele.Swept up in a week long deportation process along with fifteen thousand other Hungarian Jews, ... Read more

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  • On the Down Low

    Forbidden romance, a small town teacher, an outback pilot ... rural romance from a bright new voice. Perfect for readers of Rachael Johns, Alissa Callen and Stella Quinn.

    by Renae Black ...
    ‘Warm-hearted and authentic...this debut will take you to the heart of the outback’ — bestselling Australian author Alissa CallenIt’s hard to hide love in the outback...Hallie Harris has gone as far away as possible to escape the city and the humiliating revelations of her last relationship. Love is the last thing on her mind when she arrives at Karilga, a remote cattle station in outback ... Read more

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  • The Light of Days

    The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos

    by Judy Batalion ...
    THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Also on the USA Today, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Globe and Mail, Publishers Weekly, and Indie bestseller lists.One of the most important stories of World War II, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture: a spectacular, searing work of Holocaust history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave... ... Read more

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  • By My Mother's Hand

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  • Sold to the Enemy

    Crave and Claimed, #5

    by Sam Crescent ...
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    The moment Drago Jones sees Selma, he knows he wants her. There's only one problem—she's his enemy's daughter. With his reputation, it's not too hard to get Kent to offer up his kid, giving Drago exactly what he wants.Selma knew her father wasn't a good man. As soon as she could, she ran from him, and tried to live a life of love and compassion, giving back to those that needed her. Now, she's ... Read more

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