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Restitution

Restitution

Europe, on the eve of the Second World War, and a Jewish family feels the Nazi danger closing in

Led by their indomitable mother, Marie, the Reesers make a daring esca...

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Last River Child

Last River Child

A young woman struggles against a small town’s superstitious fears at the turn of the last century


In the summer of 1900 a meteorite lands on the day of Pe...

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Song Over Quiet Lake

Song Over Quiet Lake

The magical story of friendship between twenty-something Sylvia Hardy and Lydie Jim, an eighty-two year old Tlingit elder from the Yukon. As students at the University of Britis...

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Madwoman of Bethlehem

Madwoman of Bethlehem

In mid-20th century Bethlehem, a woman finds that the only way to take control of her life is to feign madness It is 1957, and Amal is an inmate of the “Bethlehem Oasis for Troubled Wome...

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Tell Me a Story, Tell Me the Truth

Tell Me a Story, Tell Me the Truth

“That’s how we lived, surrounded by ghosts. They sat at the table while we ate our Sunday meal. They lay beside us in the bed as we slept...” In Tell Me a Story, Tell Me the Truth, author Gina R...

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White Space Between

White Space Between

Winner of the 2009 Canadian Jewish Book Award for Fiction A family's story of the Holocaust lies buried in the soil of a graveyard in Prague, in the old neighborhoods of Montréal, in the ...

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