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Urve Tamberg

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Toronto, Canada

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Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Literature & Fiction

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Urve Tamberg didn’t realize that she wanted to be a writer until a few years ago. She was side-tracked for couple of decades to pursue a career in marketing and business development in the health care sector. But the stories she had heard from her immigrant parents about the history, people, and culture of Estonia stayed with her. She was inspired by about those little-known tales of stubbornness, ingenuity, and bravery, so a few years ago she began to write historical fiction for teens. Urve lives in Oakville, Ontario with her husband, three children, and a little black dog named Shimmer.

Her first book, The Darkest Corner of the World, is inspired by true stories of the Estonian people and their struggle to survive during the Soviet and Na ...more

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REVIEW – Dance of the Banished by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Dance of the Banished is an evocative title suggesting a novel about exile, punishment, and isolation. But it is also a love story about two Alevi Kurd young people separated by war, and isolated from their culture. Divided by an ocean, Ali and Zeynep long to be together. Their dreams are similar to those of […]

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The Darkest Corner of the World

4.09 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions

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Willodeen

by Katherine Applegate (Goodreads Author)

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I'm Good and Other Lies

by Bev Katz Rosenbaum

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