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  • Chaim Potok

    Confronting Modernity Through the Lens of Tradition

    Edited by Daniel Walden ...
    Chaim Potok was a world-class writer and scholar, a Conservative Jew who wrote from and about his tradition and the conflicts between observance and acculturation. With a plain, straightforward style, his novels were set against the moral, spiritual, and intellectual currents of the twentieth century. This collection aims to widen the lens through which we read Chaim Potok and to establish him as ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

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  • The Gates of November

    by Chaim Potok ...
    "REMARKABLE . . . A WONDERFUL STORY."--The Boston GlobeThe father is a high-ranking Communist officer, a Jew who survived Stalin's purges. The son is a "refusenik," who risked his life and happiness to protest everything his father held dear. Now, Chaim Potok, beloved author of the award-winning novels The Chosen and My Name is Asher Lev, unfolds the gripping true story of a father, a son, and a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Old Men at Midnight

    Stories

    by Chaim Potok ...
    From the celebrated author of The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev, a trilogy of related novellas about a woman whose life touches three very different men—stories that encompass some of the profoundest themes of the twentieth century.Ilana Davita Dinn is the listener to whom three men relate their lives.As a young girl, she offers English lessons to a teenage survivor of the camps. In “The Ark ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • In the Beginning

    A Novel

    by Chaim Potok ...
    “Powerful . . . It successfully recreates a time and place and the journey of a soul.”—The New York TimesAll beginnings are hard—that is the lesson David Lurie learns early and painfully in his life. As a boy in the depression-shadowed Bronx, he must begin to hold his own against neighborhood bullies and the treacherous frailties of his own health. As a young man in a world menaced by a distant, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • All the Light We Cannot See

    A Novel

    by Anthony Doerr ...
    *NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Holidays

    by William McInnes ...
    From bestselling author William McInnes, a book about the languid, unending holidays of summer; it's about going away and staying at home, about sunburn, seagulls, family and friends.Remember those long, languid holidays when the only decisions to be made were what to pack in the Esky and who should get the front seat on the drive to the beach?Let William McInnes reignite your nostalgia for ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Summary and Analysis of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

    Based on the Book by J.D. Vance

    by Worth Books ...
    Series series Smart Summaries
    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Hillbilly Elegy tells you what you need to know—before or after you read J.D. Vance's book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This short summary and analysis of Hillbilly Elegy includes:Historical contextChapter-by-chapter overviewsCharacter ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Summary and Analysis of Night

    Based on the Book by Elie Wiesel

    by Worth Books ...
    Series series Smart Summaries
    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Night tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Elie Wiesel's book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This short summary and analysis of Night includes:Historical contextChapter-by-chapter overviewsAnalysis of the main charactersTh. ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nobody's Son

    A Memoir

    by Mark Slouka ...
    "I have never before read anything except Nabokov’s Speak, Memory that so relentlessly and shrewdly exhausted the kindness and cruelty of recollection’s shaping devices." —Geoffrey WolffBorn in Czechoslovakia, Mark Slouka’s parents survived the Nazis only to have to escape the Communist purges after the war. Smuggled out of their own country, the newlyweds joined a tide of refugees moving from ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Education of a Young Poet

    by David Biespiel ...
    "Biespiel’s supple memoir of becoming a poet will surely inspire other writers to embrace the bodily character of writing and feel the power and, sometimes, the emptiness of the act of writing poetry." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)The Education of a Young Poet is David Biespiel’s moving account of his awakening to writing and the language that can shape a life. Exploring the original source ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Red, Black, and Jew

    New Frontiers in Hebrew Literature

    by Stephen Katz ...
    Between 1890 and 1924, more than two million Jewish immigrants landed on America's shores. The story of their integration into American society, as they traversed the difficult path between assimilation and retention of a unique cultural identity, is recorded in many works by American Hebrew writers. Red, Black, and Jew illuminates a unique and often overlooked aspect of these literary ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Inventing the Language to Tell It

    Robinson Jeffers and the Biology of Consciousness

    by George Hart ...
    From 1920 until his death in 1962, consciousness and its effect on the natural world was Robinson Jeffers’s obsession. Understanding and explaining the biological basis of mind is one of the towering challenges of modern science to this day, and Jeffers’s poetic experiment is an important contribution to American literary history—no other twentieth-century poet attempted such a thorough engagement ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD