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  • In Fear of Her Life

    The True Story of a Violent Marriage

    Frances Smith is a pseudonym for a woman who lived in fear of her life for 22 years. Married at 16 to a Dublin criminal, she endured years of relentless mental and physical torture until she found the strength to fight back. This is her courageous story told with brutal honesty and at times humour. It chronicles her descent to the brink of suicide and consequent rebuilding of her life. ... Read more

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  • After Dinner Conversation Magazine

    After Dinner Conversation Magazine, #50

    Series Book 50 - After Dinner Conversation Magazine
    Named Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023" by Chill SubsDelight in intriguing, thought-provoking conversations about ethics, philosophy, and social issues! After Dinner Conversation is a monthly literary magazine publishing short fiction. Each issue features both established writers and up-and-coming authors who contribute fascinating philosophical insights on controversial topics like marriage equality ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Story

    A Common and Unordinary Tell

    by Frances Smith ...
    Wrought by a childhood replete with trying circumstances and telling experiences (conveyed in Frances Smith's earlier book), and in tandem with resultant beliefs and attitudes she held toward herself and the world she was about to enter, the commencement of legal adulthood also removed any buttressing protection minority provided. Too many confused and self-critical assessments would ill-serve ... Read more

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  • Growing Up While Going Down the Rabbit Hole

    by Frances Smith ...
    As the author’s childhood tumbles from her memory onto the pages of print, the reader is privy to all sorts of surprising revelations. Be prepared to chuckle with glee, feel your mouth gape reading about situations too weird to be untrue, wince as your heart breaks in sadness and anger over sordid situations, and shake your head both in disbelief and even perfect understanding of unusual childhood ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Bande de Filles

    Girlhood Identities in Contemporary France

    by Frances Smith ...
    Series series Cinema and Youth Cultures
    Few films in the twenty-first century have represented coming-of-age with the beauty and brutality of Bande de Filles (or Girlhood). This book provides an in-depth examination of Céline Sciamma’s film, focusing on its portrayal of female adolescence in contemporary Paris.Motivated by the absence of black female characters in French cinema, Sciamma represents the lives of figures that have passed ... Read more

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  • Imagine

    Living in a Socialist U.S.A.

    The polar ice caps are melting, hurricanes and droughts ravish the planet, and the earth's population is threatened by catastrophic climate change. Millions of American jobs have been sent overseas and aren't coming back. Young African-American men make up the majority of America's prison population. Half of the American population are poor or near poor, living precariously on the brink, while the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature

    This abridgement of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature will make the entries of the greatest general interest available to a wider audience, providing the same calibre of scholarship and information as the original volume. The Concise collects more than 400 biographies (authors, critics, literary characters and historical figures) of both well-known figures and the lives and ... Read more

    $45.59 CAD

  • The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature

    This abridgement of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature will make the entries of the greatest general interest available to a wider audience, providing the same calibre of scholarship and information as the original volume. The Concise collects more than 400 biographies (authors, critics, literary characters and historical figures) of both well-known figures and the lives and ... Read more

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  • . . . and Now the Journey Continues

    The Two Serial Killers in Southern California at Long Last Meet. Will It Be Before or After They Complete Their Evil Deeds?

    The Journey Continues -- is the third part of the trilogy about two serial killers. The book begins as one of the serial killers at long last finds his intended victim. Because of the pressure caused by a true crime book about two serial killers in Southern California specifically the High Desert he is determined to find the second serial killer. The book continues as he leaves messages for the ... Read more

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  • Colonel Carter Of Cartersville

    Colonel Carter of Cartersville (1891) is a comic novella by Francis Hopkinson Smith. A Virginian gentleman Colonel Carter is stranded in New York without funds. He is campaigning for a railroad for Fairfax County in Virginia. The novel was successfully adapted for the screen in 1915. ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Think of Me

    Unabridged

    13 hours 53 min

    From the New York Times bestselling author of We Must Be Brave comes a new sweeping historical novel about one couple’s journey through war, love, and loss, and how the people we love never really leave us.An epic love. A second chance.During the perils of World War II in Alexandria, Egypt, two people from different worlds will find their way back to each other time and time again, their love a ... Read more

    $29.50 CAD