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  • Audiobook

    Querelle of Roberval

    by Kevin Lambert ...
    Narrated by Nicolas Van Burek ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 1 min

    Shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction PrizeHomage to Jean Genet’s antihero and a brilliant reimagining of the ancient form of tragedy, Querelle of Roberval, winner of the Marquis de Sade Prize, is a wildly imaginative story of justice, passion, and murderous revenge.As a millworkers’ strike in the northern lumber town of Roberval drags on, tensions start to escalate between the ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Beyond the Cobbled Road: Fading Light

    Series Book 1 - Beyond the Cobbled Road
    Humans are considered the lowest beings in the Six Realms. They have short lives, weak bodies and are only useful as servants. And they certainly aren't worthy of learning the magical arts.But that all changes when a human servant named Kye helps to save the life of an elven maister named Arden. In return, Arden offers to take Kye on as his apprentice, teaching him the craft and making him the ... Read more

    $5.63 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Istanbul Convention in Action

    Case Studies from Selected States Parties

    Series series The Association of Human Rights Institutes series
    This timely book evaluates the implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, otherwise called the Istanbul Convention, as part of ongoing debates on gender equality and human rights treaties compliance in Europe.While identifying the Convention as the ‘gold standard’ in addressing gender-based violence (GBV), expert ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    I'm from Bouctouche, Me

    Roots Matter

    Narrated by Nicolas Van Burek ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 19 min

    In the 1950s most of Acadian society was poor, uneducated, isolated, and dominated by the Roman Catholic clergy. In the following decade two individuals, Pierre E. Trudeau and Louis J. Robichaud, pointed the way for Acadians like Savoie to make important contributions to Canada's development. Trudeau's objective was Canadian unity and he turned to Acadie to show Quebec that there was a viable ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Les Belles Soeurs

    Translated by John Van Burek, Bill Glassco ...
    Germaine Lauzon has won a million trading stamps from a department store. Her head swimming with dreams of refurbishing and redecorating her working-class home from top to bottom with catalogue selections ranging from new kitchen appliances to “real Chinese paintings on velvet,” she invites fourteen of her friends and relatives in the neighbourhood over to help her paste the stamps into booklets ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Forever Yours, Marie-Lou

    Translated by John Van Burek, Bill Glassco ...
    This second revised edition of Forever Yours, Marie-Lou, which played at the 1990 Stratford Festival, is John Van Burek and Bill Glassco’s new translation of Michel Tremblay’s original French text. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Runaway Rodents

    The Untold Story of Toronto’s Infamous Capybaras

    Illustrated by Dominika Burek ...
    Two capybaras are delivered to the Toronto High Park Zoo. When an opportunity to escape comes up, they take it! This sets off a frenzy across the city, with some Torontonians cheering the renegades on, and others plotting their downfall.Follow the adventures of these giant rodents as they meet new animals and try new things. You’ll meet Muck the movie-loving chipmunk, Ed the stealthy coyote and a ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Black Rock

    An Eddie Dougherty Mystery

    Narrated by Nicolas Van Burek ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 6 min

    Set amid the tumult of 1970 Montreal, this is “an extremely good crime novel [with] a seriously compelling mystery.” — BooklistA superb police procedural and a compelling page-turner for readers of Dennis LehaneThe police in Montreal have their hands full as FLQ, a militant separatist group, continue a campaign of violence. Bombs explode at the stock exchange and at McGill University. Riots break ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hosanna

    Translated by John Van Burek, Bill Glassco ...
    A transvestite’s illusion of herself is shattered when she goes to a costume party dressed up as Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra.Cast of 2 men ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Welcome to Whigville: A Memoir

    by Bob Burek ...
    "Welcome to Whigville takes us back to postwar America, into a little Mid-Michigan village the locals called Whigville—a small settlement smackdab in the middle of the arsenals of democracy, Flint and Detroit, and the hometown of young Bob Burek. From sandlot baseball to a lettered career on the manicured diamonds of Central Michigan University, Bob's character was shaped by working-class parents, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Ariadne's Thread

    The women in my family

    Ariadne’s Thread came from the need to tell stories of the amazing women in my family. All of them, born in Russia before the 1917 Revolution, settled in France where they had to adapt to a life radically different from what they had known. When their world collapsed, they could either collapse with it, or reinvent themselves. These women taught me the art of survival: resilience in adversity, ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD