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  • Magda Nachman

    An Artist in Exile

    Series series Modern Biographies
    The political and social turmoil of the twentieth century took Magda Nachman from a privileged childhood in St. Petersburg at the close of the nineteenth century, artistic studies with Léon Bakst and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin at the Zvantseva Art Academy, and participation in the dynamic symbolist/modernist artistic ferment in pre-Revolutionary Russia to a refugee existence in the Russian countryside ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Magda's Odyssey

    Unabridged

    5 hours 23 min

    From the mysterious beginning to the heart-wrenching end, this young adult novel has all the ingredients of a winner: strange dreams, twins separated at birth, a cruel parent, and a spunky young hero who is plagued by a sense that she was missing part of herself. Fourteen-year-old Magda sets out on a quest to find that missing part. Accompanied by her faithful terrier, Sky, Magda hitchhikes out of ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Door

    by Magda Szabo ...
    Translated by Len Rix ...
    Series series NYRB Classics
    One of The New York Times Book Review's "10 Best Books of 2015"An NYRB Classics OriginalThe Door is an unsettling exploration of the relationship between two very different women. Magda is a writer, educated, married to an academic, public-spirited, with an on-again-off-again relationship to Hungary’s Communist authorities. Emerence is a peasant, illiterate, impassive, abrupt, seemingly ageless. ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • Magda's Gift

    The Supernatural Intelligence Network #5

    by TK Eldridge ...
    Series Book 5 - The Supernatural Intelligence Network
    What would you do for revenge?Magda has to make them pay for what they did to her family. But when she sneaks into the mansion that houses the Wilder Institute, she realizes nothing is as she was led to believe.Will a Yuletide miracle give her a new chance at life? ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Murder on the Golden Arrow

    A 1920s Historical Cozy Mystery

    Narrated by Kim Bretton ...
    Series series Kitty Worthington Mysteries

    Unabridged

    7 hours 29 min

    What's a bright young lady to do when her brother becomes the main suspect in a murder? Why, solve the case of course.England. 1923. After a year away at finishing school where she learned etiquette, deportment, and the difference between a fish fork and a salad one, Kitty Worthington is eager to return home. But minutes after she and her brother Ned board the Golden Arrow, the unthinkable happens ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Abigail

    by Magda Szabo ...
    Translated by Len Rix ...
    From the author of The Door, a beloved coming-of-age tale set in WWII-era Hungary.Abigail, the story of a headstrong teenager growing up during World War II, is the most beloved of Magda Szabó’s books in her native Hungary. Gina is the only child of a general, a widower who has long been happy to spoil his bright and willful daughter. Gina is devastated when the general tells her that he must go ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Iza's Ballad

    Translated by George Szirtes ...
    by Magda Szabó ...
    When Ettie's husband dies, her daughter Iza insists that her mother give up the family house in the countryside and move to Budapest. Displaced from her community and her home, Ettie tries to find her place in this new life, but can't seem to get it right. She irritates the maid, hangs food outside the window because she mistrusts the fridge and, in her naivety and loneliness, invites a prostitute ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Katalin Street

    by Magda Szabo ...
    Translated by Len Rix ...
    **FINALIST FOR THE 2017 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZEFrom the author of The Door, selected as one of the New York Times "10 Best Books of 2015," this is a heartwrenching tale about a group of friends and lovers torn apart by the German occupation of Budapest during World War II.**In prewar Budapest three families live side by side on gracious Katalin Street, their lives closely intertwined. A game is ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • The Fawn

    Translated by Len Rix ...
    by Magda Szabó ...
    From the author of The Door and Abigail and for fans of Elena Ferrante and Clarice Lispector, a newly translated novel about a theater star who is forced to reckon with her painful and tragic past.In The Door, in Iza’s Ballad, and in Abigail, Magda Szabó describes the complex relationships between women of different ages and backgrounds with an astute and unsparing eye. Eszter, the narrator and ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • The Letter From Magda

    The Award Winning Strong Women/Mitchell Pappas mystery thrillers, #8

    by Gus Leodas ...
    Series Book 8 - The Award Winning Strong Women/Mitchell Pappas mystery thrillers
    'My dearest Johanna, I pray you never have to read this letter while your father and I are alive.' So begins Magda's letter to her daughter urging her to change identity and to run and hide.Unable to decipher her mother's warning letter after surviving an assault in Switzerland, Johanna Wagner returns home to uncover the family mystery. Johanna and Michael Warner, the doomed and surviving children ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Little Book: Story Reader for a Free Ukraine

    Unabridged

    1 hour 30 min

    Publisher proceeds from the book go to humanitarian aid for Ukrainian people displaced by Russian aggression.The Little Book was originally published in 1932 and made a vital contribution to the curriculum for Canadian-Ukrainian children in prairie schools. The book features charming parables and poems to help children from kindergarten to grade 9 to understand Ukrainian language and culture. This ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Big Tournament

    Book 1

    Illustrated by Mathilde Van Gheluwe ...
    Series Book 1 - Magda, Intergalactic Chef
    Can a little chef with a big heart save the galaxy with the communal spirit of cooking?Twelve-year-old Magda was born on Azuki, a tiny moon with incredible plant life. Magda may be a bit of a mess, but she’s also a gifted chef—so gifted her unique and delicious dishes earn her a spot in the centuries-old Intergalactic Cooking Tournament! Kids from all over the galaxy hope to win honor for their ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD