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  • The Forty Days of Musa Dagh

    by Franz Werfel ...
    Translated by Geoffrey Dunlop, James Reidel ...
    Series series Verba Mundi International Literature Series
    The internationally acclaimed novel based on the heroic resistance during the Armenian genocide of 1915.This is the story of how the people of several Armenian villages in the mountains along the coast of present-day Turkey and Syria chose not to obey the Turkish government's deportation order. Instead, they fortified a plateau on the slopes of Musa Dagh—Mount Moses—and repelled Turkish soldiers ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fairy Tales

    Dramolettes

    by Robert Walser, Reto Sorg ...
    Translated by Daniele Pantano, James Reidel ...
    Three mini-plays by the German wunderkind and asylum-dweller.Fairy Tales gathers the unconventional verse dramolettes of the Swiss writer Robert Walser. Narrated in Walser's inimitable, playful language, these theatrical pieces overturn traditional notions of the fairy tale, transforming the Brothers Grimm into metatheater, even metareflections.Snow White forgives the evil queen for trying to kill ... Read more

    $17.49 CAD

  • In Hora Mortis / Under the Iron of the Moon

    Poems

    by Thomas Bernhard ...
    Translated by James Reidel ...
    Series series The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
    Haunting and darkly humorous poems by the internationally acclaimed Austrian novelist, playwright, and memoiristThomas Bernhard (1931–1989) has been compared to Kafka and Beckett, and critics have ranked his novels among the masterpieces of the twentieth century. But in fact he began his career in the 1950s as a poet, publishing three books of well-received verse before turning to fiction. In Hora ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

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  • The Dovekeepers

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    by Alice Hoffman ...
    An ambitious and mesmerizing historical novel from the bestselling author of Rules of Magic. The Dovekeepers is “striking….Hoffman grounds her expansive, intricately woven, and deepest new novel in biblical history, with a devotion and seriousness of purpose” (Entertainment Weekly).Nearly two thousand years ago, nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada, a mountain ... Read more

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  • The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Man Booker Prize Winner)

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    by Richard Flanagan ...
    Series series Vintage International
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • A magisterial novel of love and war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present.Available now on Prime Video: Justin Kurzel’s highly anticipated series based on this Booker Prize–winning novel by Richard Flanagan; starring Jacob Elordi, Ciarán Hinds, Odessa Young, Olivia DeJonge and Simon Baker."Magnificent." —*The New York ... Read more

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  • Burial Rites

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    by Hannah Kent ...
    Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes—charged with the brutal murder of her former master and sent to await execution on an isolated farm.Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution.Horrified at ... Read more

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  • The Lost Child of Philomena Lee

    A Mother, Her Son and a Fifty Year Search

    by Martin Sixsmith ...
    The Lost Child of Philomena Lee is the tale of a mother and a son whose lives were scarred by the forces of hypocrisy on both sides of the Atlantic and of the secrets they were forced to keep. A compelling narrative of human love and loss, Martin Sixsmith's moving account is both heartbreaking yet ultimately redemptive.When she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent ... Read more

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  • All the Light We Cannot See

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    by Anthony Doerr ...
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