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  • Simone de Beauvoir’s Political Thinking

    by Lori Marso, Patricia Moynagh, Emily Zakin, Sonia Kruks, Karen Shelby, Mary Caputi ...
    By exploring the life and work of the influential feminist thinker Simone de Beauvoir, this book shows how each of us lives within political and social structures that we can--and must--play a part in transforming. It argues that Beauvoir’s careful examination of her own existence can also be understood as a dynamic method for political thinking.As the contributors illustrate, Beauvoir's political ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Fifty-One Key Feminist Thinkers

    Edited by Lori Marso ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    The feminist thinkers in this collection are the designated "fifty-one key feminist thinkers," historical and contemporary, and also the authors of the entries. Collected here are fifty-one key thinkers and fifty-one authors, recognizing that women are fifty-one percent of the population. There are actually one hundred and two thinkers collected in these pages, as each author is a feminist thinker ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Resistance

    Stories from World War II France

    by Édith Thomas ...
    Translated by Michelle Chilcoat ...
    Series Book 34 - Texts and Translations
    Based on real events of the French Resistance during World War II, Édith Thomas's stories explore how ordinary people respond to the extraordinary conditions of political occupation. The stories, first published under the title Contes d'Auxois (Auxois Stories) by an underground press in 1943, were written to oppose Vichy-Nazi propaganda and to offer encouragement to civilians who felt resigned to ... Read more

    $32.98 CAD

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  • Village of Secrets

    Defying the Nazis in Vichy France

    by Caroline Moorehead ...
    From the author of the runaway bestseller A Train in Winter comes the extraordinary story of a French village that helped save thousands, including many Jewish children, who were pursued by the Gestapo during World War II.Le Chambon-sur-Lignon is a small village of scattered houses high in the mountains of the Ardèche. Surrounded by pastures and thick forests of oak and pine, the plateau Vivarais ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • But You Did Not Come Back

    A Memoir of the Holocaust

    by Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Judith Perrignon ...
    A breathtakingly beautiful memoir by a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau and an astonishing addition to the library of literature on the HolocaustMarceline Loridan-Ivens was just fifteen when she was arrested along with her father in the Vichy-ruled part of France. Her mother and siblings managed to escape arrest. On their arrival at the camps, the two were separated--her father sent to Auschwitz, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • When Paris Went Dark

    The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940–1944

    by Ronald C. Rosbottom ...
    The spellbinding and revealing chronicle of the Nazi occupation of Paris during World War II." When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944 resonated eerily with 2017 America. . . . This book is a compelling, sobering warning about the dangers of complacency in the face of intolerance."―Celeste Ng, Wall Street JournalOn June fourteen, 1940, ... ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Looking for The Stranger

    Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic

    by Alice Kaplan ...
    A New York Times Notable Book. A literary exploration that is "surely destined to become the quintessential companion to Camus's most enduring novel" ( PopMatters).The Stranger is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus's novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. It's the rare novel that's as likely ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • August 1914

    France, the Great War, and a Month that Changed the World Forever

    by Bruno Cabanes ...
    Translated by Stephanie O'Hara ...
    A renowned military historian closely examines the first month of World War I in France.On August 1, 1914, war erupted into the lives of millions of families across France. Most people thought the conflict would last just a few weeks . . .Yet before the month was out, twenty-seven thousand French soldiers died on the single day of August 22 alone—the worst catastrophe in French military history. ... Read more

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  • Fighters in the Shadows

    A New History of the French Resistance

    by Robert Gildea ...
    The story of the French Resistance is central to French identity, but it is a story built on myths. 'La Résistance française' was not simply a national effort to free the country from German occupation, but a wider struggle, filled with conflicts and division. It included Spanish republicans, Italian and even German anti-Nazis. The defence against the Holocaust brought in Jewish resisters and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Last Love of George Sand

    A Literary Biography

    by Evelyne Bloch-Dano ...
    George Sand is one the most celebrated writers and controversial personalities of nineteenth-century France; she is as famous for her bohemian lifestyle as for her written work. The Last Love of George Sand portrays the writer, political activist, and cultural figure as she starts a new chapter in her ever-surprising life: the mature years with her last lover, the young and talented engraver ... Read more

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  • Tete-a-Tete

    The Tumultuous Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre

    by Hazel Rowley ...
    “Enthralling . . . Here we find an ugly, walleyed existentialist philosopher, the elegantly beautiful author of The Second Sex and the Gallic equivalent of a bevy of young starlets who share the bed of one or the other--or sometimes both. Readers will turn these pages alternately mesmerized and appalled.” — Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book WorldPassionate, freethinking existentialist ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Left Bank

    Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940–50

    by Agnès Poirier ...
    An incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged against the wartime destruction and postwar rebirth of ParisIn this fascinating tour of a celebrated city during one of its most trying, significant, and ultimately triumphant eras, Agnes Poirier unspools the stories of the poets, writers, painters, and philosophers ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD