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Kanata Classics eBook Series

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  • The Tin Flute

    Kanata Classics Edition

    by Gabrielle Roy ...
    Series series Kanata Classics
    Part of the groundbreaking Kanata Classics list, with a new introduction by Heather O'Neill, this classic is an affecting story of familial tenderness, sacrifice, and survival, imbued with Gabrielle Roy's unique brand of compassion and compelling understanding.The first among her repertoire of award-winning novels, The Tin Flute is Gabrielle Roy's sympathetic novel about a family's struggle to ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Giovanni's Room

    by James Baldwin ...
    Series series Vintage International
    James Baldwin’s groundbreaking novel whose frank exploration of sexuality and self-acceptance was decades ahead of its time—named one of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the past 100 years“Baldwin writes . . . with unusual candor and yet with such dignity and intensity.”—The New York TimesIn 1950s Paris, a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Light Years

    by James Salter ...
    Series series Vintage International
    **A brilliant portrait of a marriage from the PEN/Faulkner Award-winner and author of A Sport and a Pastime, with an introduction by Richard Ford.“Light Years is a novel of almost holy radiance to me. It is great in every sense of the word: vast, and timeless, and enduring.”—Lauren Groff, bestselling author of Fates and Furies**“Remarkable. An unexpectedly moving ode to beautiful lives frayed by ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Lisette's List

    A Novel

    From Susan Vreeland, bestselling author of such acclaimed novels as Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Luncheon of the Boating Party, and Clara and Mr. Tiffany, comes a richly imagined story of a woman’s awakening in the south of Vichy France—to the power of art, to the beauty of provincial life, and to love in the midst of war.In 1937, young Lisette Roux and her husband, André, move from Paris to a village ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes)

    Translated by Robin Buss ...
    'I read it for the first time when I was seventeen and loved every page. I find its depiction of a golden time and place just as poignant now as I did then' Nick HornbyThe Lost Estate is Robin Buss's translation of Henri Alain-Fournier's poignant study of lost love, Le Grand Meaulnes.When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Vertigo

    Series Book 5 - Pushkin Vertigo
    The original breath-taking psychological thriller behind Hitchcock’s legendary film—the story of a man tormented by his search for the truth, and ultimately destroyed by a terrible secretIt could have happened to any of us, but it happened to a man named Flavieres. His days as a detective were over, and everyone knew he had his reasons. But when an old friend appeared out of nowhere with concerns ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Diana

    A charming love story set in The Roaring Twenties

    Beautiful, resourceful, treacherous, vulnerable. She was a woman full of contradictions and he would never stop loving her. As a young girl Diana is irrepressible, untameable and, to the orphaned John, endlessly fascinating. Only daughter of a wealthy businessman, she is drawn both to a rigorous outdoor life in the west country with her horses and the glittering London society that will be her ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Conformist

    Series series Italia
    Secrecy and Silence are second nature to Marcello Clerici, the hero of The Conformist, a book which made Alberto Moravia one of the world's most read postwar writers. Clerici is a man with everything under control - a wife who loves him, colleagues who respect him, the hidden power that comes with his secret work for the Italian political police during the Mussolini years. But then he is assigned ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Holiday with Violence

    by Ellis Peters ...
    English teens on vacation in Italy are caught up in a murderous conspiracy, from the Edgar Award–winning author of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael.CWA Diamond Dagger Award–Winning AuthorOn a train ride across Northern Italy, a quartet of young English tourists en route to Venice are charmed by a kindly older fellow passenger. Inviting them into his first-class compartment, their new friend, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The First Actress

    A Novel of Sarah Bernhardt

    by C. W. Gortner ...
    “This novel about Sarah Bernhardt, the iconic French actress, is both a riveting portrait of the artist as a passionate young woman and a luscious historical novel full of period detail.”—Melanie Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of Mistress of the Ritz and The Aviator’s WifeFrom her beginnings as the daughter of a courtesan to her extraordinary transformation into the most celebrated ... Read more

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  • Catastrophe

    And Other Stories

    "Weird [and] wonderful" stories by a Strega Prize winner with "shades of Fellini, shades of Dickens, shades of the great Italian horror director Mario Bava" ( Los Angeles Times).From "The Epidemic," which traces the gradual effects of a "state influenza" that targets those who disagree with the government, to "The Collapse of the Baliverna," in which a man puzzles over whether a misstep on his ... Read more

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  • The Kill

    Translated by Brian Nelson ...
    by Émile Zola ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'It was the time when the rush for spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hounds, the cracking of whips, the flaring of torches. The appetites let loose were satisfied at last, shamelessly, amid the sound of crumbling neighbourhoods and fortunes made in six months. The city had become an orgy of gold and women.' The Kill (La Curée) is the second volume in Zola's great cycle of ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD