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  • All But My Life

    A Memoir

    by Gerda Weissmann Klein ...
    All But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty.From her comfortable home in Bielitz (present-day Bielsko) in Poland to her miraculous survival and her liberation by American troops--including the man who was to become her husband--in Volary, Czechoslovakia, in 1945, Gerda takes the reader on a terrifying journey.Gerda's serene and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Grandma Gerda's big coup

    by Holly J. Black ...
    Grandma Gerda was tired of always having to go to the table and ask for food or say how to beg. Her pension was simply not enough, although she has always worked into her life. For this reason, she had decided to rob a bank with her friends. And her grandson Tommy was supposed to advise her, as he had experience with something like this, since he worked for the police. ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Windsor Caper

    by Gerda Weissmann Klein ...
    This is a gentle and magical story with a strong retro feel, from a time when mobile phones and computers only existed in science fiction and perhaps life was a bit simpler. As well as providing some amusing insights into the differences between the American and British versions of the English language, it vividly brings alive some of the fascinating pageantry and drama of English History and ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Tomorrow Belonged to Her

    Classic Science Fiction Written by Women

    by Leigh Brackett, Evelyn E. Smith, Mary Shelley, Andre Norton, Margaret St. Clair, Lynn Venable, Miriam Allen DeFord, Francis Stevens, Katherine MacLean, Dorothy Quick, Mary Carlson, Gerda Rhoads ...
    Narrated by Scott Miller ...
    Series Audiobook box set - Lost Sci-Fi Authors

    Unabridged

    9 hours 54 min

    Science fiction has always belonged to bold imaginations—and many of the boldest belonged to women whose stories helped shape the genre from its earliest days.Tomorrow Belonged to Her brings together eighteen classic science fiction stories written by remarkable women whose ideas continue to inspire readers decades later. These pioneering authors explored distant worlds, impossible inventions, ... Read more

    $20.60 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Girl in the Cellar

    Surviving the Holocaust in Nazi-Occupied Poland

    by Gerda Krebs Seifer ...
    In September of 1939, thirteen-year-old Gerda Krebs's world changed when the Nazis invaded her hometown of Przemyśl, taking everything she held dear—her home, irreplaceable heirlooms, and ultimately, most of her family members. Escaping deportation to an extermination camp by hiding in the home of a Polish woman and using the papers of the woman's deceased, illegitimate daughter, Gerda never let ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Memory's Last Breath

    Field Notes on My Dementia

    by Gerda Saunders ...
    A "courageous and singular book" (Andrew Solomon), Memory's Last Breath is an unsparing, beautifully written memoir -- "an intimate, revealing account of living with dementia" ( Shelf Awareness).Based on the "field notes" she keeps in her journal, Memory's Last Breath is Gerda Saunders' astonishing window into a life distorted by dementia. She writes about shopping trips cut short by unintentional ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Hours After

    Letters of Love and Longing in War's Aftermath

    by Gerda Weissmann Klein, Kurt Klein ...
    "This collection of beautifully handwritten letters is unusual in its honesty and beauty, written in the face of such great sorrow and such exquisite joy." — The Jewish TranscriptOver fifty years ago, Gerda Weissmann was barely alive at the end of a 350-mile death march that took her from a slave labor camp in Germany to the Czech border. On May 7, 1945, the American military stormed the area, and ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • We Are Light

    by Gerda Blees ...
    Translated by Michele Hutchison ...
    Shortlisted for the Dublin Literary AwardWinner of the 2021 European Union Literature Prize"A riveting experimental novel about a commune where the members’ belief that they can live on light and love alone proves fatal for one of them." ―Publishers Weekly, starred reviewOne apartment, three women, one man. One of the women is dead. When the emergency personnel arrive, they realize: Elisabeth ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    1950s Science Fiction 9 - 25 Classic Science Fiction Short Stories from the 1950s

    Robots, Paradoxes and Adventures Beyond the Stars

    by Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Harlan Ellison, Harry Harrison, John Wyndham, Robert Sheckley, A. Bertram Chandler, Robert Silverberg, Lester Del Rey, Alan E. Nourse, Randall Garrett, Roger D. Aycock, J. F. Bone, Charles E. Fritch, Richard R. Smith, John Victor Peterson, Dick Purcell, Gerda Rhoads, Herbert D. Kastle, Mel Hunter, Dorothy Quick ...
    Narrated by Scott Miller ...
    Series Audiobook box set - Lost Sci-Fi Decades

    Unabridged

    12 hours 18 min

    The 1950s were a golden age of science fiction—a decade when writers imagined astonishing futures, questioned humanity’s place in the universe, and explored the consequences of technology with equal parts wonder and caution. 1950s Science Fiction 9 brings together twenty-five unforgettable stories from some of the greatest names ever to write the genre.Travel to distant worlds where first contact ... Read more

    $23.35 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Forbidden Love: A Queer Film Classic

    by Jean Bruce, Gerda Cammaer ...
    Series series Queer Film Classics
    A Queer Film Classic on the 1992 feature documentary on lesbian experience from the 1940s to the 1960s as seen through the lens of lesbian pulp fiction. This award-winning movie became the most popular ever produced by the National Film Board of Canada, and became emblematic of the bold new queer cinema of the early 1990s. In 2014, the NFB re-released the film in a digitally remastered version ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories 7: More Than 31 Hours of Classic Science Fiction

    Legendary Authors. Timeless Stories. Endless Imagination.

    by Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, Isaac Asimov, Harlan Ellison, Jack London, Clifford D. Simak, Robert Silverberg, John Wyndham, Frederik Pohl, Fritz Leiber, Fredric Brown, Edmond Hamilton, Murray Leinster, A. Bertram Chandler, Harry Harrison, Robert Sheckley, Hal Clement, Lester Del Rey, E. M. Forster, Alan E. Nourse, Chester S. Geier, Paul MacNamara, George O. Smith, Murray F. Yaco, Henry Slesar, Frank Lillie Pollock, Morrison Colladay, Herbert D. Kastle, J. F. Bone, Hugh B. Cave, Kenneth Sterling, Charles E. Fritch, Don Mark Lemon, Dick Purcell, Gerda Rhoads, Theodore Sturgeon, Mel Hunter, Ron Cocking, Frank R. Stockton, Dorothy Quick ...
    Narrated by Scott Miller ...
    Series Audiobook box set - Lost Sci-Fi Anthologies

    Unabridged

    31 hours 4 min

    50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories 7: More Than 31 Hours of Classic Science FictionPrepare for another unforgettable voyage through the golden age of science fiction with 50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories 7. Featuring more than 31 hours of classic storytelling, this outstanding anthology brings together fifty remarkable tales from the visionary authors whose ideas helped define the genre for ... Read more

    $34.34 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Language Matters in Namibia

    History, Development, and Contemporary Dynamics

    Edited by Collen Sabao, Petrus Angula Mbenzi, Gerda-Elisabeth Wittmann ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Africa
    Language Matters in Namibia investigates the diversity of Namibia’s ethnolinguistic communities and cultures, considering how languages intersect with questions of nationhood, memory, identity and decoloniality.Namibia is a country characterised by multilingualism, with 13 officially recognised languages (10 indigenous and 3 European-based). Within this diverse linguistic landscape, only 3.4% of ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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