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  • The Solo Honeymoon

    A Brief Beautiful True Love Story

    by Laura Murphy ...
    **GLOBE & MAIL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES SUMMER READING PICKA romantic, life-affirming memoir about a young woman’s solo honeymoon to Europe after her fiancé’s sudden death, and the community of hope and wonder she builds along the way.**Laura and Devon were on the cusp of their wedding. Both young professionals, they lived a full life in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, where they were often found ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Solo Honeymoon

    A Brief Beautiful True Love Story

    by Laura Murphy, Bret Witter ...
    Narrated by Laura Murphy ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 14 min

    A romantic, life-affirming memoir about a young woman’s solo honeymoon to Europe after her fiancé’s sudden death weeks before their wedding, and the community of hope and wonder she built along the wayWhen Laura and Devon sat down to plan their honeymoon, Castellina in Chianti, Italy, was the obvious destination. Four months later, Laura found herself standing in a secret spot at the edge of the ... Read more

    $26.00 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Survivors of Slavery

    Modern-Day Slave Narratives

    by Laura Murphy ...
    Slavery is not a crime confined to the far reaches of history. It is an injustice that continues to entrap twenty-seven million people across the globe. Laura Murphy offers close to forty survivor narratives from Cambodia, Ghana, Lebanon, Macedonia, Mexico, Russia, Thailand, Ukraine, and the United States, detailing the horrors of a system that forces people to work without pay and against their ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • My Opportunity with God

    by Laura Murphy ...
    Do not see the cross you bear as an obstacle, but as an opportunity.Father DanAuthor Laura Murphy was involved in a serious car crash in October 1987. Twenty years later, she became a minister of care at a large Chicago hospital. She used her tragic experience as an opportunity to better relate to each patient and understand his or her pain.My Opportunity with God is a collection of true stories ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The New Slave Narrative

    The Battle Over Representations of Contemporary Slavery

    by Laura Murphy ...
    A century and a half after the abolition of slavery in the United States, survivors of contemporary forms of enslavement from around the world have revived a powerful tool of the abolitionist movement: first-person narratives of slavery and freedom. Just as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and others used autobiographical testimonies in the fight to eradicate slavery, today’s new slave ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The New Slave Narrative

    The Battle Over Representations of Contemporary Slavery

    by Laura Murphy ...
    A century and a half after the abolition of slavery in the United States, survivors of contemporary forms of enslavement from around the world have revived a powerful tool of the abolitionist movement: first-person narratives of slavery and freedom. Just as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and others used autobiographical testimonies in the fight to eradicate slavery, today’s new slave ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art

    Expanding Cinema

    Edited by Jill Murphy, Laura Rascaroli ...
    Series series Film Culture in Transition
    As the cinematic experience becomes subsumed into today's ubiquitous technologies of seeing, contemporary artworks lift the cinematic out of the immateriality of the film screen and separate it into its physical components within the gallery space. How to read these reformulations of the cinematic medium - and their critique of what it is and has been? In Theorizing Cinema Through Contemporary Art ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature

    by Laura T. Murphy ...
    Series series Western African Studies
    Metaphor and the Slave Trade provides compelling evidence of the hidden but unmistakable traces of the transatlantic slave trade that persist in West African discourse. Through an examination of metaphors that describe the trauma, loss, and suffering associated with the commerce in human lives, this book shows how the horrors of slavery are communicated from generation to generation.Laura T. ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

  • Elon

    by Laura Murphy, Nia Parry ...
    Illustrated by Elin Vaughan Crowley ...
    Meet Elon, a mischievous, young elephant who longs for adventure. She sets off on a moonlit journey through the rainforest and discovers that she has the power to change things for the better. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery

    Edited by Laura Murphy ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery reveals the way recent scholarship in the field of slavery studies has taken a more expansive turn, in terms of both the geographical and the temporal. These new studies perform area studies-driven analyses of the representation of slavery from national or regional literary traditions that are not always considered by scholars of slavery and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Freedomville

    The Story of a 21st-Century Slave Revolt

    by Laura T. Murphy ...
    A celebrated revolution brought freedom to a group of enslaved people in northern India. Or did it?Millions of people today are still enslaved; nearly eight million of them live in India, more than anywhere else. This book is the story of a small group of enslaved villagers in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh who founded their own town of Azad Nagar—Freedomville—after staging a rebellion against ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Before Dawn

    by Laura F. Murphy ...
    Feisty New Yorker, Max, falls for her mysterious coworker, Tommy, who is fourteen years her senior. Wanting to please him and meet his beauty standards she conflictingly conceals her natural hair from him and avoids tanning so her skin doesn’t get too dark. Max tightly holds onto their forbidden romance while trying to figure out who she is and her place in a world she doesn’t always fit in. Too ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus