Barbara Lambert: 6 books

When botanical artist Clare Livingstone unexpectedly inherits her uncle's property in Tuscany, she travels to Italy to learn why, despite their long estrangement and complicated past, she was chosen to maintain his legacy. The hill town of Cortona, however, won't give up its secrets easily. Clare...

From an old house with gingerbread in Vancouver - where it is possible to tell the days of the week by the smells drifting from the chocolate factory in the basement - to Dresden before the fire-storm, Nicaragua during the time of the Sandinistas, these stories take us to places where our senses can...

Nestled on the British Columbia coast, the community of Powell River sent several Canadian men and women overseas to fight in the World War II. When all was said and done, more than forty war bride families made their home in Powell River and the nearby town of Stillwater. War Brides and Rosies compiles...

Yiddish Hip Hop, a nineteenth-century “Hasidic Slasher,” obscure Yiddish writers, and immigrant Jewish newspapers in Buenos Aires, Paris, and New York are just a few of the topics featured in Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture. Editors Lara Rabinovitch, Shiri Goren, and Hannah...

Girls, Boys, Robots - Everyone is Welcome here!   This stellar collection will appeal to both teens and grown-ups who dream of future worlds. ~Kirkus Starred Review What’s it like to be a space station detective? To be homesick for Mars? What do you say when your robot gets you in...

This volume explores the politics of memory involved in 'coming to terms with the past' of mass dictatorship on a global scale. Considering how a growing sense of global connectivity and global human rights politics changed the memory landscape, the essays explore entangled pasts of dictatorships.