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  • Nora & John

    The Russian Love Story

    by John Murray, Nora Murray ...
    TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: Narrative that is direct, candid, unpretentious. A member of a highly privileged caste in Soviet society… reduced to a ‘mozho’ girl mixing with foreigners, with instructions to report on them… the real story is in the simple, graphic and almost entirely persuasive account of her observations – some amusing and others horribly or pitifully gruesome.In the unforgiving WWII ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nora & John

    The Russian Love Story. (A spy story book)

    by Nora Murray, John Murray ...
    THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: "Narrative that is direct, candid, unpretentious.Cold War Best Seller. Best autobiographiesThe Full True Story of Joseph Stalin's young 'mozho', spy, Nora MurrayA young cold war 'mozho' girl's best seller autobiography. Nora became that spy when Joseph Stalin's brutal secret police wrecked her privileged childhood, making her homeless with the loss of friends, mother ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Families, Mobility, and Work

    Edited by Barbara Neis, Nora Spinks, Christina Murray ...
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    Employment-related geographical mobility is widespread and increasing within Canada and around the world. Prolonged daily commutes, working away for extended periods, and being employed in mobile workplaces can affect work and family lives along with creating personal risk and compromising well-being.Families, Mobility, and Work allows readers to experience and explore many of the challenges, ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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  • Nothing Ordinary

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  • Precarity

    Uncertain, insecure and unequal lives in Aotearoa New Zealand

    Edited by Bridgette Masters-Awatere, Clifford van Ommen, Natasha Matamua, Shiloh Groot ...
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  • Violence Against Women

    Myths, Facts, Controversies

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  • Women and Gendered Violence in Canada

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    by Chris Bruckert, Tuulia Law ...
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  • Indigenous Homelessness

    Perspectives from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand

    by Paul Andrew, Tim Aubry, Yale Belanger, Cynthia Bird, Christina Birdsall-Jones, Marleny M. Bonnycastle, Deidre Brown, Rebecca Cherner, Patricia Franks, Susan Farrell0, Joshua Freistadt1, Charmaine Green2, Kelly Greenop3, Shiloh Groot4, Darrin Hodgetts5, Selena Kern6, Pita Richard Wiremu King7, Fran Klodawsky8, Gabrielle Lindstrom9, Paul Memmott0, Daphne Nash1, Julia Parrel2, Sarah Prout3, Mohi Rua4, Rebecca Schiff5, Rebecca Schiff6, Annette Siddle7, Maureen Simpkins8, Barbara A. Smith9, Wilfreda E. Thurston0, Alina Turner1, David Turner2, Jeanette Waegemakers Schiff3, Tiniwai Chas Te Whetu4, Rob Willetts5 ...
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