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  • The Reunion

    by Lotte Kirkeby Hansen ...
    Translated by Paul Larkin ...
    Visceral and poetic, these short stories reveal everyday miracles and trivialities, human desires and anxieties in a very recognizable reality. The woman who cooks soup for the lover whose fidelity she questions, the man who loses courage when faced with the birth of his child, the married couple who know they have embarked on their last summer together.In English for the first time, readers of ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Running in the Shadows of the Gods

    by Paul Larkins ...
    ‘Running in the Shadows of the Gods’ recounts how one runner dreamt of following the greats of British athletics. It also explores how the 1980s defined the way we see athletics today. In his book, Paul Larkins recounts what it was like to watch Seb Coe and Steve Ovett on TV, racing in far-flung stadiums on their way to world records before finally competing against them himself. Occasionally he ... Read more

    $7.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Fortunate Man

    by Henrik Pontoppidan ...
    Translated by Paul Larkin ...
    **A Nobel Prize-winner's unforgettable novel about a man who sheds the stifling country life of his childhood for the excitement of Copenhagen.This masterpiece of Danish literature, admired by the likes of Georg Lukács and Ernst Bloch, is now available in a new English translation.**A Fortunate Man tells the story of Per Sidenius, a Lutheran pastor's son who revolts against his family and flees ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • The Liar

    by Martin A. Hansen ...
    Translated by Paul Larkin ...
    Delicately attuned to the complexities of both the natural world and human psychology, this potent classic of twentieth-century Danish literature is narrated by an isolated schoolteacher stuck in a mire of loneliness, deception, and spiritual despair.One of the greatest works of modern Scandinavian fiction, The Liar tells the story of Johannes Lye, a teacher and parish clerk on tiny Sand Island ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • The White Bear

    by Henrik Pontoppidan ...
    Translated by Paul Larkin ...
    Love, faith, and the political mingle in these two short novels by a Nobel Prize-winning Danish author. One about a young couple making a new life in Rome, the other about a priest who goes to live among native peoples in Greenland, both books explore the reaches of the human heart through their complex and unforgettable characters.Henrik Pontoppidan, the Danish Nobel laureate, is admired for the ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Decision Making for Sports Officials

    Training and Assessment Perspectives

    by Ian Cunningham, Aden Kittel, Duncan Mascarenhas, Clare MacMahon, Paul Larkin ...
    Series series Routledge Psychology of Sport, Exercise and Physical Activity
    This essential guidebook provides a comprehensive, holistic, and evidence-based account for improving the decision making of sports officials across different sports and levels. By combining cutting-edge research with practical strategies, this book provides fundamental frameworks for developing decision-making skills that support the needs of officials themselves, officiating educators, sport ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

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    The Reunion

    by Lotte Kirkeby Hansen, Lotte Kirkeby Hansen ...
    Narrated by Sofia Engstrand ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 19 min

    Visceral and poetic, these short stories reveal everyday miracles and trivialities, human desires and anxieties in a very recognizable reality. The woman who cooks soup for the lover whose fidelity she questions, the man who loses courage when faced with the birth of his child, the married couple who know they have embarked on their last summer together.In English for the first time, readers of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube

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    INTRODUCED BY JAN MORRIS'[This] gloriously ornate account of that epic journey is a classic' ROBERT MACFARLANE'The feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling ahead is a prospect of inconjecturable magic.'In 1933, aged eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on his 'great trudge', a year-long journey by foot from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul. Three decades ... Read more

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  • The Other Side

    by Alfred Kubin ...
    The Other Side tells of a dream kingdom which becomes a nightmare, of a journey to Pearl, a mysterious city created deep in Asia, which is also a journey to the depths of the subconcious, or as Kubin himself called it, 'a sort of Baedeker for those lands which are half known to us'. Written in 1908, and more or less half way between Meyrink and Kafka, it was greeted with wild enthusiasm by the ... Read more

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  • Time No Longer

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    by Taylor Caldwell ...
    On the eve of World War II, twin brothers are divided by the murder of a German Jew, in this epic tale from a #1 New York Times– bestselling author."Superb, magnificent, written at white heat." — Philadelphia InquirerKarl Erlich loves his country. But these are dangerous times for Germany, whose poor and downtrodden have been seduced by an Austrian sign painter named Adol... ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories

    by Robert Walser ...
    Translated by Damion Searls ...
    A Schoolboy’s Diary brings together more than seventy of Robert Walser’s strange and wonderful stories, most never before available in English. Opening with a sequence from Walser’s first book, “Fritz Kocher’s Essays,” the complete classroom assignments of a fictional boy who has met a tragically early death, this selection ranges from sketches of uncomprehending editors, overly passionate readers ... Read more

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  • When I Was a Child

    An Autobiographical Novel

    by Vilhelm Moberg ...
    At the beginning of the twentieth century, in the poverty-stricken Swedish region of Småland, young Valter, the son of a soldier, explores the world around him and watches his older brothers emigrate to America. In this novel of the life of a farm boy, first published in three volumes in 1946, Vilhelm Moberg sensitively explores his own childhood.When Valter, a boy with great imagination, ... Read more

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