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2025
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**A Globe and Mail and Hill Times Best Book of 2025.In this emotional missive from the diaspora, Globe and Mail columnist Marsha Lederman gathers her columns searching for the humanitarian middle of the Israel-Palestine conflict.**Since 2023, the best-selling and award-winning author and journalist has been reflecting, with deep empathy, on the horrific October 7th attacks on Israeli citizens, rising anti-Semitism, and the brutal violence against ...
Kiss the Red Stairs
The Holocaust, Once Removed: A Memoir
2022
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**WINNER of the Cindy Roadburg Memorial Prize—Western Canada Jewish Book AwardsNATIONAL BESTSELLERFor readers of All Things Consoled by Elizabeth Hay and They Left Us Everything by Plum Johnson, Kiss the Red Stairs is a compelling memoir by award-winning journalist Marsha Lederman delves into her parents’ Holocaust stories in the wake of her own divorce, investigating how trauma migrates through generations with empathy, humour, and resilience.**
Kiss the Red Stairs
The Holocaust, Once Removed: A Memoir
- Narrated by
- Marsha Lederman
Unabridged
14 hours 22 min
2022
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**WINNER of the Cindy Roadburg Memorial Prize—Western Canada Jewish Book AwardsNATIONAL BESTSELLERFor readers of All Things Consoled by Elizabeth Hay and They Left Us Everything by Plum Johnson, Kiss the Red Stairs is a compelling memoir by award-winning journalist Marsha Lederman delves into her parents’ Holocaust stories in the wake of her own divorce, investigating how trauma migrates through generations with empathy, humour, and resilience.**
- Narrated by
- Marsha Lederman
Unabridged
7 hours 1 min
2025
EN
**A Globe and Mail and Hill Times Best Book of 2025.In this emotional missive from the diaspora, Globe and Mail columnist Marsha Lederman gathers her columns searching for the humanitarian middle of the Israel-Palestine conflict.**Since 2023, the best-selling and award-winning author and journalist has been reflecting, with deep empathy, on the horrific October 7th attacks on Israeli citizens, rising anti-Semitism, and the brutal violence against ...
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- Dawn Promislow
Unabridged
6 hours 1 min
2025
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Told in a completely distinctive and mesmerizing voice, Wan is the story of Jacqueline, a privileged artist in 1970s South Africa. After an anti-apartheid activist comes to hide in her garden house, Jacqueline's carefully constructed life begins to unravel.
These Precious Days
Essays
2021
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The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays."The elegance of Patchett’s prose is seductive and inviting: with Patchett as a guide, readers will really get to grips with the power of struggles, failures, and triumphs alike." —Publisher's Weekly“Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcom...
Signal Fires
A novel
2022
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**NATIONAL BEST SELLER • From the beloved author of Inheritance:"a haunting, moving, and propulsive exploration of family secrets” (Meg Wolitzer, author of The Interestings)Two families. One night. A constellation of lives changed forever.A TIME Best Fiction Book of the Year • A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction • A Real Simple Best Book of the Year**An ancient majestic oak stands beneath the stars on Divis...
Study for Obedience
A novel
2023
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**WINNER OF THE 2023 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEShortlisted for the 2023 Booker PrizeIncluded in Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2023Longlisted for the Dublin Literary AwardFor readers of Shirley Jackson, Iain Reid, and Claire-Louise Bennett, a haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction.**A young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote northern country of her forebears to be housekeeper to her ...
Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons
The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt
2023
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A captivating dual biography of two famous women whose sons would change the course of the 20th century—by award-winning historian Charlotte Gray.Born into upper-class America in the same year, 1854, Sara Delano (later to become the mother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt) and Jennie Jerome (later to become the mother of Winston Churchill) refused to settle into predictable, sheltered lives as little-known wives to prominent men. Instead, both women concentrated their ...
The Magician
A Novel
2021
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**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDFrom the internationally bestselling author of Brooklyn and The Master comes the novel of a lifetime, Colm Tóibín's most dazzling and ambitious book yet.**When the Great War breaks out in 1914 Thomas Mann, like so many of his fellow countrymen, is fired up with patriotism. He imagines the Germany of great literature and music, that had drawn him away from the stifling, conservative town of his childhood, might...
Permanent Astonishment
Growing Up Cree in the Land of Snow and Sky
2021
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERCapricious, big-hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canada’s most acclaimed Indigenous writers and performersTomson Highway was born in a snowbank on an island in the sub-Arctic, the eleventh of twelve children in a nomadic, caribou-hunting Cree family. Growing up in a land of ten thousand lakes and islands, Tomson relished being pulled by dogsled beneath a night sky alive with stars, sucking the juices from roast...
Doppelganger
A Trip into the Mirror World
2023
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**#1 NATIONAL BESTELLER • Winner of the 2024 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction • Winner of the 2024 Vine National Canadian Jewish Book Award for Non-Fiction • Finalist for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism • Shortlisted for the 2024 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize • A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 • *Vulture’*s #1 Book of 2023 • A Guardian Best Ideas Book of 2023What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired another self—a double...











