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  • Cassandra

    by Christa Wolf ...
    Cassandra, daughter of the King of Troy, is endowed with the gift of prophecy but fated never to be believed. After ten years of war, Troy has fallen to the Greeks, and Cassandra is now a prisoner, shackled outside the gates of Agamemnon's Mycenae. Through memories of her childhood and reflections on the long years of conflict, Cassandra pieces together the fall of her city. From a woman living in ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • They Divided the Sky

    A Novel by Christa Wolf

    by Christa Wolf ...
    Translated by Luise von Flotow ...
    Series series Literary Translation
    First published in 1963, in East Germany, They Divided the Sky tells the story of a young couple, living in the new, socialist, East Germany, whose relationship is tested to the extreme not only because of the political positions they gradually develop but, very concretely, by the Berlin Wall, which went up on August 13, 1961.The story is set in 1960 and 1961, a moment of high political cold war ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Medea

    by Christa Wolf ...
    Medea is among the most notorious women in the canon of Greek tragedy: a woman scorned who sacrifices her own children to her jealous rage. In her gripping new novel, Christa Wolf explodes this myth, revealing a fiercely independent woman ensnared in a brutal political battle.Medea, driven by her conscience to leave her corrupt homeland, arrives in Corinth with her husband, the hero Jason. He is ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • August

    by Christa Wolf ...
    Translated by Katy Derbyshire ...
    Series series The German List
    Christa Wolf was arguably the best-known and most influential writer in the former East Germany. Having grown up during the Nazi regime, she and her family were forced to flee their home like many others, nearly starving to death in the process. Her earliest novels were controversial because they contained veiled criticisms of the Communist regime which landed her on government watch lists. Her ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • City of Angels

    or, The Overcoat of Dr. Freud, A Novel

    by Christa Wolf ...
    Translated by Damion Searls ...
    The stunning final novel from East Germany's most acclaimed writerThree years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the writer Christa Wolf was granted access to her newly declassified Stasi files. Known for her defiance and outspokenness, Wolf was not especially surprised to discover forty-two volumes of documents produced by the East German secret police. But what was surprising was a thin green ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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  • The Lake

    by Perrine LeBlanc ...
    Translated by Lazer Lederhendler ...
    The latest from Governor General’s Literary Award winner Perrine Leblanc is a mesmerizing story about the disappearance of three young women and a deeply disturbing portrait of a small town gone bad.In between the mountains and the sea, on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, there’s a village called Malabourg. The village is surrounded by all the usual features of the region: a river with ... Read more

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  • When the Doves Disappeared

    A Novel

    by Sofi Oksanen ...
    Translated by Lola Rogers ...
    From the internationally acclaimed author of Purge comes a chillingly suspenseful, deftly woven new novel that opens up a little-known yet still controversial chapter of history: the occupation, resistance, and collaboration in Estonia during and after World War II.1941: In Communist-ruled, war-ravaged Estonia, two men are fleeing from the Red Army — Roland, a fiercely principled freedom fighter, ... Read more

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  • Arcadia

    by Lauren Groff ...
    **From the bestselling author of Fates and Furies comes a gripping, romantic, and tragic tale of trying to achieve utopia."Beautifully crafted." —Booklist**In the fields of western New York State in the 1970s, a few dozen idealists set out to live off the land, founding what would become a commune centered on the grounds of a decaying mansion called Arcadia House.Arcadia's inhabitants include ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • The Bone Cage

    by Angie Abdou ...
    Digger, an 85-kilo wrestler, and Sadie, a 26-year-old speed swimmer, stand on the verge of realizing every athlete’s dream – winning a gold medal at the Olympics. Both athletes are nearing the end of their careers, and are forced to confront the question: what happens to athletes when their bodies are too worn to compete? The blossoming relationship between Digger and Sadie is tested in the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Spin

    by Robert Charles Wilson ...
    Series Book 1 - Spin
    From the author of Axis and Vortex, the first Hugo Award-winning novel in the environmental apocalyptic Spin Trilogy...One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out. They all flared into brilliance at once, then disappeared, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Away

    by Jane Urquhart ...
    A stunning, evocative novel set in Ireland and Canada, Away traces a family’s complex and layered past. The narrative unfolds with shimmering clarity, and takes us from the harsh northern Irish coast in the 1840s to the quarantine stations at Grosse Isle and the barely hospitable land of the Canadian Shield; from the flourishing town of Port Hope to the flooded streets of Montreal; from Ottawa at ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

    by L.Frank Baum ...
    The Book of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank BaumThis book was completed by Denslow, famous for Frank Baum\'s work in the United States, with the addition of paintings. American literature for children. This is an adventure story of a girl Dorothy living in Kansas with her uncle Henry Aunt Em. ... Read more

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