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  • Elephant

    by Paul Pickering ...
    In a country house in England a precocious teenage exile from revolutionary Russia sets down his adventures on paper, beginning with his first ball in St Petersburg and how he frees a huge African elephant from a cruel circus. But a hundred years later an American academic feels the boy may have invented the elephant as the only kind and uplifting being in dark times. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • “We Had All the Good Songs!”

    Reflections on Australia’s Voice Referendum

    Edited by Matt Qvortrup, Paul Pickering ...
    The Voice Referendum was a momentous event in Australian politics. It was a historical turning point, but one where history stubbornly refused to turn. In this book leading public intellectuals – both indigenous and non-indigenous – reflect of the change that never was. Why was the referendum lost? What does it mean for Australian perception of themselves? How will the wounds be healed? ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Lucy

    by Paul Pickering ...
    Paul Pickering's new anti-war novel Lucy is about obedience and rebellion, how one survivor in the actual and moral wasteland of immediate post-war Berlin takes over the lives of three others, psychologically and sexually, in the way Hitler took over a country.The worldwide protests surrounding the 2024 conflict in Gaza mirror the rebel spirit at the heart of Pickering's important, groundbreaking ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Leopard's Wife

    A Novel

    by Paul Pickering ...
    Now a famous classical pianist, S. Miles-Harcourt, aka “Smiles,” arrives in Congo to play a Peace and Reconciliation Concert, and to make amends with his former schoolteacher and mentor, Lyman Andrew, who has buried himself in the war-torn jungle. Smiles owes his success to the man he helped ruin and harbors a dark secret from his brutal public school days. But a bomb has exploded at the hotel in ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Clara: A Novel

    War Could Not Destroy Her Spirit or Lessen Her Love

    by Kurt Palka ...
    Inspired by a true story and based on a wealth of family documents, this elegant and compelling novel chronicles the lives of two families from the 1930s through the coming of the Nazis and World War II, and the long, difficult post-War period to the present. A must-read for fans of Irene Nemirovsky, Hans Fallada, and Bernhard Schlink's The Reader.This vividly realized, masterfully executed novel ... Read more

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  • I Can Live No Longer: The Story of an Indomitable Man, the only Volunteer to Auschwitz.

    by Jeremy Kowalski ...
    He evaded death so many times it seemed it would never take him. The only man in history to go to Auschwitz as a volunteer, to form a resistance movement and document German atrocities. One of the few who succeeded in escaping. He sent drawings from there to his children and wrote letters to his wife, delivering them via the underground conspiracy along with reports. The British historian Michael ... Read more

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  • Remember Us

    My Journey from the Shtetl Through the Holocaust

    by Vic Shayne, Martin Small ...
    A New York Times Best Seller!Remember Us is a look back at the lost world of the shtetl: a wise Zayde offering prophetic and profound words to his grandson, the rich experience of Shabbos, and the treasure of a loving family. All this is torn apart with the arrival of the Holocaust, beginning a crucible fraught with twists and turns so unpredictable and surprising that they defy any attempt to ... Read more

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  • Anarchy and Old Dogs

    by Colin Cotterill ...
    Series Book 4 - A Dr. Siri Paiboun Mystery
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  • Sword of Honour

    by Evelyn Waugh ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Evelyn Waugh's masterful depiction of World War II, with an introduction by Martin StannardWaugh's own unhappy experience of being a soldier is superbly re-enacted in this story of Guy Crouchback, a Catholic and a gentleman, commissioned into the Royal Corps of Halberdiers during the war years 1939-45. High comedy - in the company of Brigadier Ritchie-Hook or the denizens of Bellamy's Club - is ... Read more

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  • The Great Cake Mystery: Precious Ramotswe's Very First Case

    by Alexander McCall Smith ...
    Series Book 1 - Precious Ramotswe Mysteries for Young Readers
    THE NO. 1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY - Young ReadersFans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, the basis of the HBO TV show, and its proprietor Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, and good humor—not to mention help from her loyal assistant, Grace ... Read more

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  • The Scent of Secrets

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    by Jane Thynne ...
    Series Book 3 - Clara Vine
    Rich with political intrigue and authentic period details, this historical crime novel--the first of three--is perfect for fans of Roberta Rich, Charles Todd and Robert Harris. In Berlin, 1933, British actress Clara Vine finds herself dangerously involved with the British intelligence service.Clara Vine, a half-Jewish Anglo-German, uses her unique access to the upper echelons of pre-war Nazi ... Read more

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