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  • A Late Journey

    A Memoir

    The 1992 discovery of 160 letters that the author’s mother and father had exchanged in Nazi Germany served as the catalyst for a long journey of remembering what it was like growing up in the shadow of the Holocaust. Research into the letters not only revealed the history of immense suffering of the author’s parents, but also uncovered a host of previously well-kept family secrets. A Late Journey ... Read more

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  • The Collaborator

    An enthralling story of heroism, passion, and betrayal based on astonishing true events set in the darkest days of World War II in Budapest. For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Alice Network and My Name is Eva.Budapest, 1944: The Germans have invaded. Jewish journalist Miklos Nagy risks his life and confronts the dreaded Adolf Eichmann in an attempt save thousands of Hungarian Jews from ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Auschwitz Violinist

    Series Book 3 - Adam Lapid Mysteries
    What if your friend was murdered and the police wouldn't investigate?Israel, 1950 – When private detective Adam Lapid runs into Yosef Kaplon on a crowded Tel Aviv street, he can hardly believe his eyes.The last time they met was in Auschwitz. They were prisoners together in the same barracks. Then one day, Kaplon was gone. Adam was sure he was dead.Soon after Kaplon tells Adam his remarkable story ... Read more

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  • The Lost

    A Search for Six of Six Million

    A New York Times Notable Book • Winner of the National Jewish Book Award • Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award • A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist“A gripping detective story, a stirring epic, a tale of ghosts and dark marvels, a thrilling display of scholarship, a meditation on the unfathomable mystery of good and evil, a testimony to the enduring power of the ancient archetypes ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Counterlife

    A Novel

    by Philip Roth ...
    NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER“Magnificent … splendid…. I hope The Counterlife felt, as Mr. Roth wrote it, like a triumph, because that is certainly how it reads to me.” —New York Times Book ReviewThe Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies. Wherever they may find ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Inside Story

    by Martin Amis ...
    Martin Amis's dazzling autobiographical novel of a unique literary life seen through the lens of friendships, family, sex and love, is wise, warm, heartbreaking and funny: the heart-to-heart testimony of an incomparable writer.This is the portrait of an extraordinary life lived by a great writer. Martin Amis leads us through boisterous romantic entanglements and literary friendships, the ... Read more

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  • Foreign Correspondence

    A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over

    As a young girl in a working-class neighborhood of Sydney, Australia, Geraldine Brooks longed to discover the places where history happens and culture comes from, so she enlisted pen pals who offered her a window on adolescence in the Middle East, Europe, and America. Twenty years later Brooks, an award-winning foreign correspondent, embarked on a human treasure hunt to find her pen friends. She ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Song of Names

    Martin Simmonds’ father tells him, “Never trust a musician when he speaks about love.” The advice comes too late. Martin already loves Dovidl Rapoport, an eerily gifted Polish violin prodigy whose parents left him in the Simmonds’s care before they perished in the Holocaust. For a time the two boys are closer than brothers. But on the day he is to make his official debut, Dovidl disappears. Only ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Operation Shylock

    A Confession

    by Philip Roth ...
    "One of Roth's grand inventions. . . . [He is] a comic genius." -The New York Review of Books"A brilliant novel of ideas. . . . Roth has gone farther into his own genius than he ever has before." -The Nation"The uncontested master of comic irony." -Time"Diabolically clever, engaging. . . . [A] white-water unstoppable narrative. . . . Roth is so spelndidly convincing. . . that the r... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Girl from Human Street

    Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family

    by Roger Cohen ...
    An intimate and profoundly moving Jewish family history—a story of displacement, prejudice, hope, despair, and love.In this luminous memoir, award-winning New York Times columnist Roger Cohen turns a compassionate yet discerning eye on the legacy of his own forebears. As he follows them across continents and decades, mapping individual lives that diverge and intertwine, vital patterns of struggle ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Russian Disco

    Born in Moscow, Wladimir Kaminer emigrated to Berlin in the early '90s when he was 22. Russian Disco is a series of short and comic autobiographical vignettes about life among the émigrés in the explosive and extraordinary multi-cultural atmosphere of '90s Berlin. It's an exotic, vodka-fuelled millennial Goodbye to Berlin. The stories show a wonderful, innocent, deadpan economy of style ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Mazel Tov

    by J. S. Margot ...
    Translated by Jane Hedley-Prole ...
    A heartwarming, funny and provocative memoir of a woman navigating clashing cultures during her decades-long friendship with an Orthodox Jewish family, new in paperbackWhen 20-year-old student J. S. Margot took a tutoring job in 1987, little did she know it would open up an entire world.In the family's Orthodox Jewish household she would encounter endless rules - 'never come on a Friday, never ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD