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  • A Guest in my Own Country

    A Hungarian Life

    by George Konrad ...
    Winner of the 2007 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Biography, Autobiography & MemoirA powerful memoir of war, politics, literature, and family life by one of Europe's leading intellectuals.When George Konrad was a child of eleven, he, his sister, and two cousins managed to flee to Budapest from the Hungarian countryside the day before deportations swept through his home town. ... Read more

    $16.39 CAD

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    More True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle (The Country Nurse Series, Book Two)

    by Mary J. MacLeod ...
    Series Book 2 - The Country Nurse
    From the author of Call the Nurse, come new tales of a London nurse working to help and heal a community on a remote Scottish island. Lively, touching, engaging reading for fans of Call the Midwife and All Creatures Great and Small."Julia MacLeod shares unique and enchanting experiences as a nurse in rural Scotland. Her stories will ring true with every nurse—or anyone—who has ever cared for a ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Raquela

    A Woman of Israel

    by Ruth Gruber ...
    A National Jewish Book Award–winning biography: A look at the early years of Israel's statehood, experienced through the life of a pioneering nurse.During her extraordinary career, nurse Raquela Prywes was a witness to history. She delivered babies in a Holocaust refugee camp and on the Israeli frontier. She crossed minefields to aid injured soldiers in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and organized ... Read more

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  • The Sunflower

    On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness

    by Simon Wiesenthal ...
    A Holocaust survivor's surprising and thought-provoking study of forgiveness, justice, compassion, and human responsibility, featuring contributions from the Dalai Lama, Harry Wu, Cynthia Ozick, Primo Levi, and more.You are a prisoner in a concentration camp. A dying Nazi soldier asks for your forgiveness. What would you do?While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken ... Read more

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  • From Holocaust to Harvard

    A Story of Escape, Forgiveness, and Freedom

    by John Stoessinger ...
    A true and touching human tale of survival and achievement.When John Stoessinger was ten years old, Adolf Hitler annexed his homeland of Austria, ripping the boy from his home and his friends in Vienna. His grandparents encouraged his mother and stepfather to take young John somewhere safe. You must have a future,” his grandfather told him before he and his parents boarded the train and waved ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Anne Frank

    The Book, the Life, the Afterlife

    by Francine Prose ...
    “Prose’s book is a stunning achievement. . . . Now Anne Frank stands before us. . . a figure who will live not only in history but also in the literature she aspired to create.” — Minneapolis Star TribuneIn June, 1942, Anne Frank received a diary for her thirteenth birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic. For two years, she described ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Listening to Country

    by Ros Moriarty ...
    The moving and personal story of one woman's journey into the remote and rugged Tanami Desert with the matriarchs of her husband's family. Shortlisted for both The Age Book of the Year and The Australian Human Rights Commission Literature Award. 'This big land, Australia. It's big enough for everyone!' calls Annie Karrakayn across the pre-dawn campfire to the other Law women stirring from the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Hunger of Memory

    The Education of Richard Rodriguez

    by Richard Rodriguez ...
    Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum.Here is the poignant journey of a “minority student” who pays the cost of his social assimilation and academic success with a painful alienation ... Read more

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  • The Stone Thrower

    A Daughter's Lessons, a Father's Life

    by Jael Ealey Richardson ...
    A daughter discovers herself while uncovering her father's legendary past in football.At the age of thirty, Jael Ealey Richardson travelled with her father -- former CFL quarterback Chuck Ealey -- for the first time to a small town in southern Ohio for his fortieth high school reunion. Knowing very little about her father's past, Richardson was searching for the story behind her father's move from ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Weight of Freedom

    by Nate Leipciger ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    Nate Leipciger, a thoughtful, shy eleven-year-old boy, is plunged into an incomprehensible web of ghettos, concentration and death camps during the German occupation of Poland. As he struggles to survive, he forges a new, unbreakable bond with his father and yearns for a free future. But when he is finally liberated, the weight of his pain will not ease, and his memories remain etched in tragedy. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • My Outback Life

    The sequel to the bestselling memoir A Sunburnt Childhood

    by Ms Toni Tapp Coutts ...
    Having grown up on the massive Killarney cattle station near Katherine, NT, Toni Tapp Coutts was well prepared when her husband, Shaun, took a job at McArthur River Station in the Gulf Country, 600 kilometres away near the Queensland border.Toni became cook, counsellor, housekeeper and nurse to the host of people who lived on McArthur River and the constant stream of visitors. She made firm ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Rough Amusements

    The True Story of A'Lelia Walker, Patroness of the Harlem Renaissance's Down-Low Culture

    by Ben Neihart ...
    When A'Lelia Walker died in 1931 after a midnight snack of lobster and chocolate cake washed down with champagne, it marked the end of one of the most striking social careers in New York's history. The daughter of rags-to-riches multi-millionaire Madame C.J. Walker (the washerwoman who marketed the most successful straightening technique for African American hair), A'Lelia was America's first ... Read more

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