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  • All But My Life

    A Memoir

    by Gerda Weissmann Klein ...
    All But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty.From her comfortable home in Bielitz (present-day Bielsko) in Poland to her miraculous survival and her liberation by American troops--including the man who was to become her husband--in Volary, Czechoslovakia, in 1945, Gerda takes the reader on a terrifying journey.Gerda's serene and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Memory's Last Breath

    Field Notes on My Dementia

    by Gerda Saunders ...
    A "courageous and singular book" (Andrew Solomon), Memory's Last Breath is an unsparing, beautifully written memoir -- "an intimate, revealing account of living with dementia" ( Shelf Awareness).Based on the "field notes" she keeps in her journal, Memory's Last Breath is Gerda Saunders' astonishing window into a life distorted by dementia. She writes about shopping trips cut short by unintentional ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Don't Stand In Line

    A Memoir

    by Gerda Barker ...
    When a young girl learns there is more to life than inner city Chicago, a child of Polish immigrants sets out to create her own American dream with one question in mind-what does it take to be extraordinary?Gerda Barker finds art, marries a rock star, and becomes one of few female criminal defense lawyers in Chicago.Along the way she will find if she has what it takes to follow her American dream. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Hours After

    Letters of Love and Longing in War's Aftermath

    by Gerda Weissmann Klein, Kurt Klein ...
    "This collection of beautifully handwritten letters is unusual in its honesty and beauty, written in the face of such great sorrow and such exquisite joy." — The Jewish TranscriptOver fifty years ago, Gerda Weissmann was barely alive at the end of a 350-mile death march that took her from a slave labor camp in Germany to the Czech border. On May 7, 1945, the American military stormed the area, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Rise Of The Snow Queen Book Three The Story Of Gerda And Kai

    by G.W. Mullins ...
    Series Book 3 - Rise Of The Snow Queen
    What begins as a simple, bittersweet tale about a man turned into a polar bear, grandly unfolds into a rich, mythical adventure in the book series Rise Of The Snow Queen. Based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, author G.W. Mullins expands on this story creating a new mythology that takes readers into the world of snow and ice.In book three: To save the life of her friend Kai, Gerda a young ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Creation of Patriarchy

    by Gerda Lerner ...
    Narrated by Elizabeth Wiley ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 5 min

    A major new work by a leading historian and pioneer in women's studies, The Creation of Patriarchy is a radical reconceptualization of Western civilization that makes gender central to its analysis. Gerda Lerner argues that male dominance over women is not "natural" or biological, but the product of an historical development begun in the second millennium BC in the Ancient Near East. As patriarchy ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Girl in the Cellar

    Surviving the Holocaust in Nazi-Occupied Poland

    by Gerda Krebs Seifer ...
    In September of 1939, thirteen-year-old Gerda Krebs's world changed when the Nazis invaded her hometown of Przemyśl, taking everything she held dear—her home, irreplaceable heirlooms, and ultimately, most of her family members. Escaping deportation to an extermination camp by hiding in the home of a Polish woman and using the papers of the woman's deceased, illegitimate daughter, Gerda never let ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • One Last Shot: Based on a True Story of Wartime Heroism

    The Story of Wartime Photographer Gerda Taro

    by Kip Wilson ...
    "This is not just a story of the violence of fascism, but of the burning joy of freedom, and the exhilaration of shaping, with sweat and blood, a better world."From critically acclaimed author Kip Wilson comes this gripping coming of age historical fiction novel in verse about Gerda Taro, a vibrant, headstrong photojournalist with a passion for capturing the truth amid political turmoil and the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • We Are Light

    by Gerda Blees ...
    Translated by Michele Hutchison ...
    Shortlisted for the Dublin Literary AwardWinner of the 2021 European Union Literature Prize"A riveting experimental novel about a commune where the members’ belief that they can live on light and love alone proves fatal for one of them." ―Publishers Weekly, starred reviewOne apartment, three women, one man. One of the women is dead. When the emergency personnel arrive, they realize: Elisabeth ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Forbidden Love: A Queer Film Classic

    by Jean Bruce, Gerda Cammaer ...
    Series series Queer Film Classics
    A Queer Film Classic on the 1992 feature documentary on lesbian experience from the 1940s to the 1960s as seen through the lens of lesbian pulp fiction. This award-winning movie became the most popular ever produced by the National Film Board of Canada, and became emblematic of the bold new queer cinema of the early 1990s. In 2014, the NFB re-released the film in a digitally remastered version ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Documents on the Expulsion of the Sudeten Germans

    Survivors Speak Out

    by Dr. Wilhelm Turnwald ...
    Translated by Gerda Johannsen, Victor Diodon ...
    The end of World War II marked the beginning of one of the most gruesome genocides in history: the expulsion and destruction of the Sudeten German ethnic group as it existed at that time in the border districts of Czechoslovakia, a country that had been established in 1918 by the victors of World War I.In a scandalous perversion of every sense of justice, the post-War Federal German governments ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    Sunset Song

    by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Gerda Stevenson ...
    Narrated by Full Cast, Lesley Hart ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 53 min

    Gerda Stevenson's dramatisation of the 1932 novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, set in north-east Scotland before and during the First World War. Episode 1: Chris Guthrie is torn between her love of the land and her ambition to become a teacher. As Chris' domineering father struggles with the harshness of the land, her mother's fear of childbirth leads her to despair. A full cast dramatisation. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBooks