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  • Magda Nachman

    An Artist in Exile

    by Lina Bernstein ...
    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

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Yellow Peril

    That Chink Scumbag

    by Patrizia Barrera ...
    Translated by Magda Pala ...
    Two tragedies, the Chinese Massacre of 1871 and Child Prostitution, sum up the troubled -and toxic- relationship between the United States of America and China.A spirited, witty book that exposes many hidden, hideous truths. ... Read more

    $10.97 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Magda's Odyssey

    by Deanna Barnhardt Kawatski ...
    Narrated by Deanna Barnhardt Kawatski ...

    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

    $15.99 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

  • Predatory Thinking

    A Masterclass in Out-thinking the Competition

    by Dave Trott ...
    'A brilliant advertising copywriter and a great team leader. His ideas are equally applicable to writing a novel, making a film, launching a product, managing a football team, instituting life changes and any activity you can imagine. Genius' - Sunday TimesLife is a zero-sum game.Drawing on Eastern and Western philosophy, and colourful characters from Picasso and Socrates to Warren Beatty, this ... Read more

    $16.99 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

    $18.99 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

    $13.99 CAD

  • My Life in Propaganda

    Language and Totalitarian Regimes

    by Magda Stroinska ...
    Series series Reflections
    My Life in Propaganda is Magda Stroińska’s personal account of growing up with communist propaganda in Eastern Europe. She looks at the influence of her family history that contradicted what she was taught at school; the cognitive and emotional effects of compulsory school readings; socialist realist art and film; and Radio Free Europe and Voice of America and their role in shaping her generation ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • 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

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • No More Faking It

    A woman’s guide to getting the love, pleasure and fulfillment she deeply desires

    by Magda Kay ...
    No More Faking It: A Woman's Guide to Getting the Love, Pleasure, and Fulfillment She Deeply DesiresAre you tired of pretending everything is okay in your relationships? Do you find yourself putting others' needs before your own and feeling unfulfilled? Do you feel stuck in the same dynamic where your needs always come last? No More Faking It is your ultimate guide to breaking free from this cycle ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Little Book: Story Reader for a Free Ukraine

    by Mykola Matwijszuk, Volodymyr Shyba ...
    Narrated by Volodymyr Shyba, Lorene Shyba ...

    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