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  • Mistakes to Run With

    A Memoir

    by Yasuko Thanh ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER“On rare occasions, you read a book that gives you the sense it had to be written, that the impulse to get these words on the page was more about necessity than choice. Books such as those are full of passion, pain and urgency, and offer the kind of triumph you feel lucky to witness. Mistakes to Run With is one such book—it feels driven by the compulsion to document, by the ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Pizza Before We Die

    An Eyewitness Account in Gaza

    by Hassan Kanafani ...
    A heart-wrenching personal account of the ongoing devastation in Gaza by an ordinary citizen who bears witness to the undoing of his community and homelandThe human tragedy unfolding in Gaza has been made all the more tragic by the widespread denial and apathy expressed by much of the rest of the world. Here is an urgent first-hand account of life and death in Gaza, written not by a war ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To the Bridge

    A Novel

    by Yasuko Thanh ...
    From the bestselling author of Mistakes to Run With, a heartrending tale of a mother hell-bent on saving her family after her daughter's suicide attempt—despite the destruction it might mean for herself.When Rose’s seventeen-year-old daughter, Juliet, attempts suicide, she does everything she can to hold her family together despite the inevitable unraveling that follows. Her husband Syd thinks ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Floating Like the Dead

    Stories

    by Yasuko Thanh ...
    In this sharply observed and erotically charged debut collection, Journey Prize-winner Yasuko Thanh immerses us in the lives of people on the knife edge of desire and regret, hungry for change yet still yearning for a place to call home, if only for a little while.In a story set in 1960s Germany and crackling with sexual tension, a young woman on the verge of making a life-changing decision is ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Knight Captain is the New Princess-to-Be Vol. 1

    by Yasuko Yamaru ...
    Series Book 1 - The Knight Captain is the New Princess-to-Be
    Christina, a.k.a. "Lady Chris," was born into a noble family and treated more or less like a boy growing up. Now a dashing young woman, Chris is not only captain of the imperial guards--she personally protects Prince Leonardo, who has been a dear friend since childhood. When his father, the king, demands he find a suitable girl to marry, Leo insists that he's already found one: Chris! Chris is ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • The Knight Captain is the New Princess-to-Be Vol. 4

    by Yasuko Yamaru ...
    Series Book 4 - The Knight Captain is the New Princess-to-Be
    Having returned to the capital, Chris and Leo begin planning for the wedding! Everything seems to be going well, but one day the king suddenly announces that the second prince, Leo's younger brother, will be ascending to the throne. With their wedding now canceled, will the happy couple ever make it to the altar? ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • The Knight Captain is the New Princess-to-Be Vol. 2

    by Yasuko Yamaru ...
    Series Book 2 - The Knight Captain is the New Princess-to-Be
    In order to support Prince Leo, Chris agrees to officially take his hand in marriage. But the other nobles are not fans of the union, and to mollify them Chris gets sent to a boarding school to become more "ladylike." Unfortunately for her, her fellow classmates are young ladies intent on marrying the prince themselves! Chris might be hot stuff on the battlefield, but is she prepared for this kind ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • The Knight Captain is the New Princess-to-Be Vol. 3

    by Yasuko Yamaru ...
    Series Book 3 - The Knight Captain is the New Princess-to-Be
    Back from boarding school, Chris visits her family home with Leo. Urged on by the king, the two announce their marriage. Chris's family is thrilled, but when her father urges her to quit being a knight, an unexpected father-daughter fight breaks out! ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • Handbook of Global Migration and Japan

    Edited by Yasuko Hassall Kobayashi, Shinnosuke Takahashi ...
    Series series Handbooks on Japanese Studies
    This handbook explores Japan’s relationship with migration by reconceptualizing the country from transnational perspectives.Through a critical reassessment of the traditional notion that Japan lacks an immigration policy, this volume reveals the ways in which the Japanese state and society have, in practice, engaged with immigration issues. It explores incremental policy adaptations, intricate ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • The Falling Maria

    by Yasuko Thanh ...
    A dark, surreal, and vividly imagined novel about a woman whose fall from grace transforms her into a feminist hero in the afterlife.Maria-Thérèse Mandapat, a controversial figure in life and death, is known by many descriptors. Survivor of a cold and brutal childhood under her grandfather’s rule. Fighter pilot for France in the first world war. Daredevil barnstormer wending her way across the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Art and Activism in the Nuclear Age

    Exploring the Legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Edited by Roman Rosenbaum, Yasuko Claremont ...
    This book explores the contemporary legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki following the passage of three quarters of a century, and the role of art and activism in maintaining a critical perspective on the dangers of the nuclear age.It closely interrogates the political and cultural shifts that have accompanied the transition to a nuclearised world. Beginning with the contemporary socio-political and ... Read more

    $75.57 CAD

  • Imagined Communities and Educational Possibilities

    A Special Issue of the journal of Language, Identity, and Education

    Edited by Yasuko Kanno, Bonny Norton ...
    Imagined Communities and Educational Possibilities focuses on three main themes: imaged communities expand the range of possible selves, technological advances in the last two decades have had a significant impact on what is possible to imagine, and imagination at even the most personal level is related to social ideologies and hegemonies. The diverse studies in this issue demonstrate convincingly ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD