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  • A Chill in the Air

    An Italian War Diary, 1939-1940

    This recently discovered “trenchant, intelligent” follow-up to the British expatriate’s classic memoir, War in Val d’Orcia, chronicles life in Italy in the year leading up to WW2 (New Yorker).This insightful diary provides a vivid, ground-level account of how Mussolini decided on a course of action that would devastate his country and ultimately destroy his regime. In 1939 it was not a foregone ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Eine seltsame Zeit des Wartens

    Italienisches Tagebuch 1939/40

    Traduit par Anne Emmert ...
    "Ein ruhiger herrlicher Sommerabend; die Trauben reifen, die Ochsen pflügen. Nur der Mensch ist völlig verrückt geworden." In der Rückschau ist es leicht, Anzeichen für drohendes Unheil auszumachen. Aber wer mittendrin in der Geschichte steckt, kann nur versuchen, sich aus Gehörtem, Gesehenem und Gelesenem ein Bild zusammenzusetzen. Im Sommer 1940 tritt Italien in den Zweiten Weltkrieg ein, ein ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Images and Shadows

    Part of a Life

    An extraordinary memoir by Iris Origo, who chronicled political life in A Chill in the Air and War in Val d'Orcia, and now turns inward to describe her own family, the work of writing, and the transcience of memory.Images and Shadows, Iris Origo’s autobiographical account of her early life, is as perceptive and humane and beautifully written as her celebrated memoir War in Val d’Orcia. Origo’s ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Freedom's Detective

    The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan and the Man Who Masterminded America's First War on Terror

    par Charles Lane ...
    "A riveting narrative history about early attempts to crack down and even stamp out the Ku Klux Klan's reign of domestic terrorism . . . magnificent." —Douglas Brinkley, New York Times–bestselling author of American MoonshotIn the years following the Civil War, a new battle began. Newly freed African American men had gained their voting rights and would soon have a chance to transform Southern ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Attribution

    A Novel

    par Linda Moore ...
    **2023 National Indie Excellence Awards Winner in Literary Fiction2023 National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist in Contemporary Novel2023 IPPY Awards Gold Medalist Winner2023 NIEA Winner in Literary Fiction2023 Eric Hoffer Book Awards Winner2022 CIBA Somerset Book Awards First Place Winner“...superb descriptions of Spain, its cities and museums, and seventeenth century art—as well as the often ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • War in Val d'Orcia

    An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944

    par Iris Origo ...
    “Remarkably moving” diaries about life in Tuscany during the German occupation of WWII—with stunning rediscovered photographs (The New York Times).“A compelling story of heroism, compassion.” —The Washington PostIn the Second World War, Italy was torn apart by German armies, civil war, and the Allied invasion. In a corner of Tuscany, one woman—born in England, married to an Italian—kept a record ... En savoir plus

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  • The Merchant of Prato

    Francesco di Marco Datini, 1335-1410

    par Iris Origo ...
    This intimate biography of Francesco di Marco Datini offers fascinating insights into the methods of medieval trade and vibrancy of Italian life in 14th-century Tuscany.“For God and Profit” is how the medieval merchant Francesco di Marco Datini headed a notebook in which he kept track of his business dealings, and these were certainly his guiding lights. Born in the 1330s in the Tuscan town of ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Lincoln's Lie

    A True Civil War Caper Through Fake News, Wall Street, and the White House

    This “delicious, suspenseful . . . and cleverly written romp through a dramatic and forgotten moment in American history” reveals how Lincoln manipulated the media during the Civil War—shining new light on the current ‘fake news’ crisis (Elizabeth Gilbert)In 1864, during the bloodiest days of the Civil War, two newspapers published a call, allegedly authored by President Lincoln, for the immediate ... En savoir plus

    $18.39 CAD

  • Barcelona Dreaming

    A Novel

    par Rupert Thomson ...
    New York Times Book Review Editor’s ChoiceThree novellas are “cleverly linked together” in this “beguiling love letter to the great city” set before the financial crash of 2008 (Condé Nast Traveller).“Ironic, observant, alert . . . its atmosphere [is] invoked with intimate knowledge and a matchless sense of place.” —Colm TóibínBarcelona Dreaming is narrated by an English woman who runs a g... ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • A Shot in the Moonlight

    How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South

    par Ben Montgomery ...
    The sensational true story of George Dinning, a freed slave, who in 1899 joined forces with a Confederate war hero in search of justice in the Jim Crow south. “Taut and tense. Inspiring and terrifying in its timelessness.”(Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad )Named a most anticipated book of 2021 by O, The Oprah MagazineNamed a "must-read" by the Chicago ... En savoir plus

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  • Superior

    The Return of Race Science

    par Angela Saini ...
    This fascinating critique of race science, from the Enlightenment to the 21st century, is an “easy-to-read blend of science reporting, cultural criticism, and personal reflection” (Slate).“An important and timely reminder that race is ‘a social construct’ with ‘no basis in biology.’” —Kirkus ReviewsAfter the horrors of the Nazi regime in World War II, the mainstream scientific world turned its ... En savoir plus

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Common Wind

    Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution

    par Julius S. Scott ...
    This widely acclaimed and influential work of African American history traces the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era.“An important part of the tradition of scholarship that puts the end of modern slavery in a global perspective.” —Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams and Race RebelOut of the grey expanse of official records in Spanish, English and French, The Common Wind ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD