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  • I Made a Promise I Could Not Keep

    Speculative Essays

    by David Homel ...
    Books and their writers can get into some pretty murky territory when they set out into the world. Some writers, who might be completely reasonable people in the rest of their lives, turn into liars and sneak-thieves when it comes to telling their tales. They might even make promises they know they can't keep. They're not necessarily setting traps or practising to deceive. Something seems like a ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • How Did I Get Here?

    A Writer's Education

    by David Homel ...
    Award-winning author mixes memoir and fiction, truth and make-believe in mediations on his youth, his education, and the influences that led to his writing career. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Travels with My Family Bundle

    by Marie-Louise Gay, David Homel ...
    Series series Travels with My Family
    Travels with My FamilyFamily vacations are supposed to be something to look forward to. Unless, that is, your parents have a habit of turning every outing into a risky proposition — by accident, of course. So instead of dream vacations to Disney World and motels with swimming pools, these parents are always looking for that out-of-the-way destination where other tourists don't go. Their adventures ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Not Everybody Lives the Same Way

    A Novel

    by Jean-Paul Dubois ...
    Translated by David Homel ...
    International bestseller Not Everybody Lives the Same Way is a powerfully original and unusual novel. Masterfully translated by David Homel and brilliantly animated by Jean-Paul Dubois’s keen feeling for humanity and intense revolt against all forms of injustice, it asks the question: What does it takes to live a dignified life?Winner of the Prix Goncourt for FictionPaul Hansen is in prison. He’s ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Body Music

    by Julie Maroh ...
    Translated by David Homel ...
    Julie Maroh's first book, Blue Is the Warmest Color, was a graphic novel phenomenon; it was a New York Times bestseller and the controversial film adaptation by French director Abdellatif Kechiche won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013. Maroh's latest book, Body Music, marks her return to the kind of soft, warm palette and impressionistic sensibility that made her debut book so ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lunging into the Underbrush

    A Life Lived Backward

    by David Homel ...
    In 1970, David Homel escaped the American draft by moving to Paris. But a hiking accident in Spain led to a harrowing journey through botched surgeries, opiate addiction, the loneliness of a crippled traveler, and the constant pain that would define his life for years to come.Today, planning to stay in the game as long as possible, he has a few ideas about how to do just that. By confronting body ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Case of David Zimmerman

    by Lucas Harari, Arthur Harari ...
    Translated by David Homel ...
    A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearA captivating graphic novel from the Harari brothers: Lucas, the author-illustrator of the graphic novel Swimming in Darkness, and Arthur, the Oscar-winning co-writer of the Palme d'Or–winning film Anatomy of a FallIn Paris, David Zimmerman, a photographer in his thirties, seems perpetually adrift in life, consigned to a career photographing weddings and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Return

    by Dany LaFerrière ...
    Translated by David Homel ...
    At the age of twenty-three, the narrator hurriedly packed his bags and left behind the stifling heat of Port-au-Prince for the unending winter of Montreal. It was 1976, and Baby Doc Duvalier's regime had just killed a journalist colleague. But thirty-three years later, after his father's death, he decides to return him to Baradères, the village where he was born.How does one return from exile? In ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Summer in the City

    by Marie-Louise Gay, David Homel ...
    Illustrated by Marie-Louise Gay ...
    Series Book 3 - Travels with My Family
    Charlie can't wait for school to be over. But he's wondering what particular vacation ordeal his parents have lined up for the family this summer. Canoeing with alligators in Okefenokee? Getting caught in the middle of a revolutionary shootout in Mexico? Or perhaps another trip abroad?Turns out, this summer the family is staying put, in their hometown. Montreal, Canada. A "staycation," his parents ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Teardown

    by David Homel ...
    David Homel’s eighth novel is an exquisitely written, brutally honest, brave work from a two-time Governor General Award winner at the peak of his powers.Phil Brenner has fallen into a slump. All of his life’s achievements have somehow crept into disarray. As a freelance journalist, his career pinnacles keep receding in the rearview, as he struggles to stay relevant in a culture that prizes ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • I Am a Japanese Writer

    A Novel

    by Dany LaFerrière ...
    Translated by David Homel ...
    A devilishly intelligent new novel by the internationally bestselling author and Prix Médicis winner, Dany Lafferière.A black writer from Montreal has found the perfect title for his next book I Am a Japanese Writer. His publisher gives him an advance on the strength of the title alone. The problem is, he can't seem to write a word of it. He can scarcely summon the energy to put pen to paper, and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Traveling Circus

    by Marie-Louise Gay, David Homel ...
    Illustrated by Marie-Louise Gay ...
    Series Book 4 - Travels with My Family
    Charlie and his family are about to embark on another trip, to another out-of-the-way place off the beaten path. This time they are heading to an island in Croatia, a country Charlie has never even heard of. An incredibly beautiful country that lives in the shadow of war and conflict.Even for a seasoned traveler like Charlie, Croatia is a very different experience. To travel in a country where the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus