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The Elevated Train to Utopia eBook Series

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  • Meditations, Magic, and Manslaughter

    The Elevated Train to Utopia, #1

    by Gregory Alan Norton ...
    Series Book 1 - The Elevated Train to Utopia
    Meditations, Magic, and Manslaughter represents some of the best new work of Gregory Alan Norton whose previous works were well reviewed. This novella spans both literary, historical, and occult fiction. The narrative opens in 1918 in southwestern Indiana where the French Vincennois community undergoes daily struggle against mainstream, rural, anti-immigrant culture from that era. A coal miner ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by Annie Ernaux ...
    Translated by Tanya Leslie ...
    **WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA New York Times Notable Book**In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion.Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her 2 year relationship with a married foreigner where every word, event, ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Midas Murders

    by Pieter Aspe ...
    Translated by Brian Doyle ...
    Series series The Pieter Van In Mysteries
    In the second novel by the international bestselling Pieter Aspe, Inspector Van In races against the clock to thwart a series of terrorist plotsOne quiet snow-covered Sunday morning in Bruges, a prominent business executive is found dead in the streets, apparently due to an alcoholic hemorrhage, but for Inspector Van In, there is something about the autopsy that does not add up. When he questions ... Read more

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  • The Preacher's Bride Claim

    by Laurie Kingery ...
    Series Book 1 - Bridegroom Brothers
    Claiming Their FutureFor the Thornton brothers, the Oklahoma Land Rush is the perfect opportunity to finally put down some roots. A new start, a new community-what more could preacher Elijah Thornton need? Not a wife-not after the pain of losing his fiancée. But something draws him to the pretty nurse whose eyes are clouded by trouble.Only by claiming her own homestead can Alice Hawthorne avoid an ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Art of Sleeping Alone

    Why One French Woman Suddenly Gave Up Sex

    by Sophie Fontanel ...
    Sophie Fontanel, bestselling novelist and iconic editor of French Elle, tells the provocative story of her decision to stop having sex—a choice that profoundly changed her view of herself and her place in the world.At the age of twenty-seven, after many years of having (and, for the most part, enjoying) an active sex life, beloved French author, journalist, editor, and fashion blogger Sophie ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Total Chaos

    by Jean-Claude Izzo ...
    Translated by Howard Curtis ...
    Series Book 1 - The Marseilles Trilogy
    An ex-cop takes on the mafia in the blockbuster novel that kicks off the Marseilles trilogy with what "may be the most lyrical hard-boiled writing yet" ( The Nation).In Jean-Claude Izzo's "Mediterranean noir" mysteries, the city of Marseilles is explosive, breathtakingly beautiful, and deadly. Total Chaos introduces readers to Fabio Montale, a disenchanted cop who turns his back on a police force ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • La Superba

    by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer ...
    Translated by Michele Hutchison ...
    "An ode to the imagination."—NRC HandelsbladA joy to read, La Superba, winner of the most prestigious Dutch literary prize, is a Rabelaisian, stylistic tour-de-force. Migration, legal and illegal, is at the center of this novel about a writer who becomes trapped in his walk on the wild side in mysterious and exotic Genoa, the labyrinthine port city nicknamed "La Superba."Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer (b. ... Read more

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  • Suburra

    by Carlo Bonini, Giancarlo de Cataldo ...
    Translated by Antony Shugaar ...
    The "razor-sharp political thriller set during the dying days of Berlusconi's regime" that inspired the Netflix original series ( New Statesman).This "fast-moving crime thriller" takes a deep dive into a politically and financially corrupt contemporary Italy, where crime families, corrupt politicians, and new rabid criminal elements battle each other for control of a glittering prize—a ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Autoportrait

    by Edouard Levé ...
    Translated by Lorin Stein ...
    In this brilliant and sobering self-portrait, Édouard Levé hides nothing from his readers, setting out his entire life, more or less at random, in a string of declarative sentences.Autoportrait is a physical, psychological, sexual, political, and philosophical triumph. Beyond "sincerity," Levé works toward an objectivity so radical it could pass for crudeness, triviality, even banality: the author ... Read more

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  • French Connections: Art Heist on The Riviera

    by Simon Worrall ...
    This true crime story about an art heist on the French Riviera and the sting operation mounted by the legendary head of the FBI's Art Crime Unit, Robert Wittman, gives the reader a rare glimpse inside the world of art theft as the story jumps from France to Florida to Barcelona.You couldn't make it up. ... Read more

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  • Three To Kill

    by Jean-Patrick Manchette ...
    Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith ...
    "His books are all action, unfolding with a laconic efficiency that would make his killers proud."—The EconomistBusinessman Georges Gerfaut witnesses a murder—and is pursued by the killers. His conventional life knocked off the rails, Gerfaut turns the tables and sets out to track down his pursuers. Along the way, he learns a thing or two about himself. . . . Manchette—masterful stylist, ironist, ... Read more

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  • After the Circus

    A Novel

    by Patrick Modiano ...
    Translated by Mark Polizzotti ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    One of the hallmarks of French author Patrick Modiano’s writing is a singular ability to revisit particular motifs and episodes, infusing each telling with new detail and emotional nuance. In this evocative novel the internationally acclaimed author takes up one of his most compelling themes: a love affair with a woman who disappears, and a narrator grappling with the mystery of a relationship ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD