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SOME<br />
HOT<br />
NEW BOOKS<br />
To get you<br />
through<br />
the Winter<br />
months<br />
INSTORE NEW RELEASES NOW!<br />
The Nine<br />
The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of<br />
Nazi Germany by Gwen Strauss<br />
The Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band<br />
of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a<br />
ten-day journey across the front lines of WWII from Germany back to Paris.<br />
The nine women were all under thirty when they joined the resistance. They smuggled arms<br />
through Europe, harbored parachuting agents, coordinated communications between regional<br />
sectors, trekked escape routes to Spain and hid Jewish children in scattered apartments. They<br />
were arrested by French police, interrogated and tortured by the Gestapo. They were subjected to<br />
a series of French prisons and deported to Germany. The group formed along the way, meeting<br />
at different points, in prison, in transit, and at Ravensbrück. By the time they were enslaved<br />
at the labor camp in Leipzig, they were a close-knit group of friends. During the final days of<br />
the war, forced onto a death march, the nine chose their moment and made a daring escape.<br />
Drawing on incredible research, this powerful, heart-stopping narrative from Gwen Strauss is<br />
a moving tribute to the power of humanity and friendship in the darkest of times.<br />
House of Kwa<br />
Wild Swans meets educated in this riveting true story spanning<br />
four generations by Mimi Kwa<br />
Mimi Kwa ignored the letter for days. When she finally opened it, the news was so shocking<br />
her hair turned grey. Why would a father sue his own daughter? The collision was over the<br />
estate of Mimi’s beloved Aunt Theresa, but its seed had been sown long ago. In an attempt to<br />
understand how it had come to this, Mimi unspools her rich family history in House of Kwa.<br />
One of a wealthy silk merchant’s 32 children, Mimi’s father, Francis, was just a little boy when<br />
the Kwa family became caught up in the brutal and devastating Japanese occupation of<br />
Hong Kong during World War II. Years later, he was sent to study in Australia by his now<br />
independent and successful older sister Theresa. There he met and married Mimi’s mother,<br />
a nineteen-year-old with an undiagnosed, chronic mental illness. Soon after, ‘tiger’ Mimi<br />
arrived, and her struggle with the past - and the dragon - began ... Riveting, colourful and<br />
often darkly humorous, House of Kwa is an epic family drama spanning four generations, and<br />
an unforgettable story about how one woman finds the courage to stand up for her freedom<br />
and independence, squaring off against the ghosts of the past and finally putting them to rest.<br />
True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee<br />
by Abraham riesman<br />
Stan Lee—born Stanley Martin Lieber in 1922—was one of the most beloved and influential<br />
entertainers to emerge from the twentieth century. He served as head editor of Marvel for three<br />
decades and, in that time, launched more pieces of internationally recognizable intellectual<br />
property than anyone other than Walt Disney: Spider-Man, the Avengers, the X-Men, Black<br />
Panther, the Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Thor . . . the list seems to never end. On top of that,<br />
his carnival-barker marketing prowess more or less single-handedly saved the comic-book<br />
industry and superhero fiction. Without him, the global entertainment industry would be<br />
wildly different—and a great deal poorer. But Lee’s unprecedented career was also filled with<br />
spectacular failures, controversy, and bitter disputes. Lee was dogged by accusations over<br />
who really created Marvel’s signature characters—for whom Lee had always been suspected<br />
of taking more than his proper share of credit. A major business venture, Stan Lee Media,<br />
resulted in stock manipulation, bankruptcy, and criminal charges. And in his final years, after<br />
the death of his beloved wife, Joan, rumors swirled that Lee was a virtual prisoner in his own<br />
home, beset by abusive grifters and issuing cryptic video recordings as a battle to control his<br />
fortune and legacy ensued.<br />
A Runner’s High<br />
by dean Karnazes<br />
The iconic superhuman endurance runner embarks on his toughest challenge yet-the Western<br />
States 100-offering insights into why running is so challenging and rewarding.<br />
Dean Karnazes has pushed his body and mind to inconceivable limits, from running in the<br />
shoe-melting heat of Death Valley to the lung-freezing cold of the South Pole. He’s raced and<br />
competed across the globe and once ran 50 marathons, in 50 states, in 50 consecutive days.<br />
In A Runner’s High, Karnazes chronicles his return to the Western States 100-Mile Endurance<br />
Run in his mid-fifties after first completing the race decades ago. The Western States, infamous<br />
for its rugged terrain and extreme temperatures, becomes the most demanding competition<br />
of his life, a physical and emotional reckoning and a battle to stay true to one’s purpose.<br />
Confronting his age, wearying body, career path and life choices, we see Karnazes as we<br />
never have before, raw and exposed. A Runner’s High is both an endorphin-fuelled page-turner<br />
and a love letter to the sport from one of its most celebrated ambassadors.<br />
Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy<br />
by Anne Sebba<br />
Ethel Rosenberg’s story has been called America’s Dreyfus Affair: a catastrophic failure of<br />
humanity and justice that continues to haunt the national conscience, and is still being played<br />
out with different actors in the lead roles today.<br />
On 19th June 1953 Ethel Rosenberg became the first woman in the US to be executed for a<br />
crime other than murder. She was thirty-seven years old and the mother of two small children.<br />
Yet even today, at a time when the Cold War seems all too resonant, Ethel’s conviction for<br />
conspiracy to commit espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union makes her story still controversial.<br />
This is an important moment to recount not simply what FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover called<br />
the ‘trial of the century’, but also a timeless human story of a supportive wife, loving mother<br />
and courageous idealist who grew up during the Depression with aspirations to become an<br />
opera singer. Instead, she found herself battling the social mores of the 1950s and had her<br />
life barbarically cut short on the basis of tainted evidence for a crime she almost certainly did<br />
not commit. Ethel’s tragic story lays bare a nation deeply divided and reveals what happens<br />
when a government motivated by fear tramples on the rights of its citizens.<br />
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