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“pierre boulle”

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  • The Bridge On The River Kwai

    by Pierre Boulle ...
    The Bridge on the River Kwai tells the story of three POWs who endure the hell of the Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam railway - Colonel Nicholson, a man prepared to sacrifice his life but not his dignity; Major Warden, a modest hero, saboteur and deadly killer; Commander Shears, who escaped from hell but was sent back.Ordered by the Japanese to build a bridge, the Colonel refuses, as it is ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Desperate Games

    by Pierre Boulle ...
    Translated by David Carter ...
    Long before Battle Royale or The Hunger Games, the author of The Planet of the Apes imagined a world governed by science and brutality gone mad in this long-neglected, dystopian sci-fi classic, now in a new translationDespairing at the state of world degeneration, a group of the world's most renowned intellectuals form the new Scientific World Government, aiming to put the world to rights. Elected ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Color of Liberty

    Histories of Race in France

    by Pierre H. Boulle, M. Fred Constant ...
    France has long defined itself as a color-blind nation where racial bias has no place. Even today, the French universal curriculum for secondary students makes no mention of race or slavery, and many French scholars still resist addressing racial questions. Yet, as this groundbreaking volume shows, color and other racial markers have been major factors in French national life for more than three ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

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  • Babylon

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  • Darker Days

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  • Perilous Enchantment

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