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  • Karla's Choice: A John le Carré Novel - Nick Harkaway

    Karla's Choice: A John le Carré Novel - Nick Harkaway
    Oct 22 2024
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    Title: Karla's Choice: A John le Carré Novel
    Author: Nick Harkaway
    Narrator: TBD
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 0:00:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 10-22-2024
    Publisher: Viking Canada
    Genres: Thriller & Horror, Political Thriller, Espionage, International Mystery

    Summary:
    An extraordinary new novel set in the world of John le Carré's most iconic spy, George Smiley, written by the acclaimed novelist Nick Harkaway It is spring in 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus. With the wreckage of the West’s spy war with the Soviets strewn across Europe, he has eyes only for a more peaceful life. And indeed, with his marriage more secure than ever, there is a rumor in Whitehall—unconfirmed and a little scandalous—that George Smiley might almost be happy. But Control has other plans. A Russian agent has defected, and the man he was sent to kill in London is nowhere to be found. Smiley reluctantly agrees to one last simple task: interview Szusanna, a Hungarian émigré and employee of the missing man, and sniff out a lead. But, as Smiley well knows, even the softest step in the shadows resounds with terrible danger. Soon, he is back there, in East Berlin, and on the trail of his most devious enemy’s hidden past. Set in the missing decade between two iconic instalments in the George Smiley saga, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Nick Harkaway’s Karla’s Choice is an extraordinary, thrilling return to the world of spy fiction’s greatest writer, John le Carré.
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  • Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies - Deborah Levy

    Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies - Deborah Levy
    Oct 22 2024
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    Title: Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies
    Author: Deborah Levy
    Narrator: Alix Dunmore
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 0:00:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 10-22-2024
    Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Canada
    Genres: Biography & Memoir, Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies, Literary Criticism

    Summary:
    From twice Booker-shortlisted author Deborah Levy, a feast of observations about everything from the particular beauty of lemons on a table, to the muses that have shaped her life, to the streets of Paris. In The Position of Spoons, Deborah Levy invites us into the interiors of her world, sharing her most intimate thoughts and experiences, as she traces and measures her life against the backdrop of the literary and artistic muses that have shaped her. From Marguerite Duras to Colette and Ballard, and from Lee Miller to Francesca Woodman and Paula Rego, we can relish here the richness of their work and, in turn, the richness of the author’s own. Each page draws upon Levy’s life in exalting ways, encapsulating the wonderful precision and astonishing depth of her writing, as she seamlessly shifts between and mediates on questions of morality, language, suburbia, gender, consumerism, and the poetics of everyday living. From the child born in South Africa, to her teenage years in Britain, to her travels across the world as a young woman, each page is a beautiful, tender composition of the questioning self: a portrait of Deborah Levy’s writing life and intellectual vitality in all its dimensions.
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  • Good Allies: How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism during the Second World War - Tim Cook

    Good Allies: How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism during the Second World War - Tim Cook
    Sep 17 2024
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    Title: Good Allies: How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism during the Second World War
    Author: Tim Cook
    Narrator: David Ferry
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 16:27:25
    Language: English
    Release date: 09-17-2024
    Publisher: Allen Lane Canada
    Genres: History, World, Military

    Summary:
    From our country's most important war historian, a gripping account of the turbulent relationship between Canada and the US during the Second World War. The two nations entered the war amidst rivalry and mutual suspicion, but learned to fight together before emerging triumphant and bound by an alliance that has lasted to this day. When the Second World War broke out in 1939, it set in motion a deadly struggle between the Axis powers and the Allies, but also fraught negotiations between and among the Allies. On questions of diplomacy, economic policy, industrial might, military capabilities, and even national sovereignty, thousands of lives and the fate of the free world depended on back-room deals and desperate trade-offs between soldiers, diplomats, and leaders. In North America, Canada and the US strained to forge a new military alliance to guard their coasts and fend off German U-boats and the menace of a Japanese invasion. Wartime economies were entwined to produce a staggering contribution of weapons to keep Britain and other allies in the war. The defence of North America against enemy threats was essential before the US and Canada could send armies, navies, and air forces overseas. In his trademark style, Tim Cook employs eyewitness accounts to vividly lay bare the brutality of combat and the courage of North Americans under fire. Behind the fighting fronts, the charged and often secret communications between national leaders Churchill, Roosevelt, and King reveal how their personalities shaped the outcome of history’s most destructive war, the fate of the British Empire, and the North American alliance that lives on to this day. The Good Allies is a masterful account of how Canadians and Americans made the transition from wary rivals to steadfast allies, and how Canada thrived in the shadow of the military and global superpower. In exploring this complex and crucial dimension of the Second World War and its legacy, Cook recounts two nations’ story of cooperation, of sacrifice, and of bleeding together to save the world from the fascist threat.
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    16 hrs and 27 mins