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  • 21 Days in October

    by Magali Favre ...
    Translated by Arielle Aaronson ...
    It’s before dawn in Montreal on October 16, 1970. Gaétan is finishing his shift at Dominion Textile just as the Canadian government proclaims the War Measures Act following two kidnappings—the only time in history outside of the two World Wars. Police and soldiers storm the streets and make sweeping arrests, imprisoning nearly 500 Quebec citizens without charge and holding them incommunicado for ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • À la Mère de Famille

    Recipes from the Beloved Parisian Confectioner

    by Julien Merceron, Jean Cazals ...
    Whip up sweet treats from Paris at home with this collection of ninety-five recipes by the chief chocolatier of a revered Parisian confectioner.Beloved À la Mère de Famille confectioneries are a venerable Parisian institution. This, their first cookbook after more than 260 years in business, is as tempting and gorgeous as the shop's bewitching displays. With the edges of the book dyed a brilliant ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Leopard-Skin Hat

    by Anne Serre ...
    Translated by Mark Hutchinson ...
    A quintessential early novel about an intense friendship, by the winner of the 2020 Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle.SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEA Leopard-Skin Hat may be the French writer Anne Serre’s most moving novel yet. Hailed in Le Point as a “masterpiece of simplicity, emotion and elegance,” it is the story of an intense friendship between “the Narrator” and his close ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Beginners

    by Anne Serre ...
    Translated by Mark Hutchinson ...
    Quintessential Anne Serre—this restless, prowling novel explores love as a form of greed, and confused need as one shape of bereftnessAnna has been living happily for twenty years with loving, sturdy, outgoing Guillaume when she suddenly (truly at first sight) falls in love with Thomas. Intelligent and handsome, but apparently scarred by a terrible early emotional wound, he reminds Anna of Jude ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Tajín and the Twelve Thunders

    A Pre-Columbian Myth (A Picture Book)

    by Magaly Morales ...
    “A thunderous gem!” proclaims Kirkus in a starred review.A mischievous boy tricks the 12 thunder gods in order to create the first hurricanes in Magaly Morales’s debut author-illustrated picture book, a retelling of a Mexican folktaleTajín is a fun-loving child full of energy and mischief. When his antics prove too rough for even the monkeys of the forest, he’s sent to the pyramid of Los Nichos.< ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Parasite

    by Michel Serres ...
    Translated by Lawrence R. Schehr ...
    Series Book 1 - Posthumanities
    Influential philosopher Michel Serres’s foundational work uses fable to explore how human relations are identical to that of the parasite to the host body. Among Serres’s arguments is that by being pests, minor groups can become major players in public dialogue—creating diversity and complexity vital to human life and thought. ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Vote Wolf

    by Davide Cali ...
    Illustrated by Magali Clavelet ...
    It’s election time at the farm and the usual candidates are running: Peter Piggles, Jane Chicklette and the Mouse Brothers. But this year, someone new has entered the race: George Wolf, and he has attracted a HUGE amount of attention.He’s charming, likeable and VERY FUNNY. But when he’s voted in, strange things start to happen. First, a sheep disappears . . . then a chicken . . . then three mice . ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • European Solidarity with Chile – 1970s – 1980s

    Edited by Kim Christiaens, Idesbald Goddeeris, Magaly Rodríguez García ...
    Series Book 3 - Studies in Political Transition
    The overthrow of the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende and the coming to power of a military regime led by Augusto Pinochet on 11 September 1973 drew worldwide attention towards Chile. The political repression shook the world and ignited one of the largest social movements of the 1970s and 80s. Hundreds of solidarity committees and a gamut of human rights and justice ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Michel Serres and French Philosophy of Science

    Materiality, Ecology and Quasi-Objects

    by Massimiliano Simons ...
    Series series Michel Serres and Material Futures
    Massimiliano Simons provides the first systematic study of Serres's work in the context of 20th-century French philosophy of science. By proposing new readings of Serres's philosophy, Simons creates a synthesis between his predecessors, Gaston Bachelard, Georges Canguilhem and Louis Althusser as well as contemporary Francophone philosophers of science such as Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Suzy Storck

    by Magali Mougel ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Another unbearably hot evening. 8:54pm. Suzy Storck sits by the window on this hot and airless night, waiting for her husband to come home. Upstairs she can hear her children, yelling and clamouring at their bedroom door. She's locked them in. Suzy realises she never chose any of this. She wonders how she ended up here. After tonight, she might never find her way out.This stark play, written in ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Leggera come una Piuma

    by Magali Dubreuil Bourguet ...
    A story rich with poetry, emotion and humour, approaching the topic of Alzheimer's disease in a kind and quirky way.The meeting between two extraordinary women, separated by three generations, unites them into one, single, universal, artistic entity. This personal adventure, rich in poetry and emotion, makes us laugh and makes us cry. Alice and Piuma waltz through life to the melody of the passage ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Governesses

    by Anne Serre ...
    Translated by Mark Hutchinson ...
    Publishers Weekly Best Books in Fiction 2018The sensational US debut of a major French writer—an intense, delicious meringue of a novellaIn a large country house shut off from the world by a gated garden, three young governesses responsible for the education of a group of little boys are preparing a party. The governesses, however, seem to spend more time running around in a state of frenzied ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD