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Walter Presents eBook Series

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  • The Ghost of Frederic Chopin

    by Eric Faye ...
    Translated by Sam Taylor ...
    Series series Walter Presents
    An intricately plotted mystery and an engrossing story imbued with the foggy atmosphere of post-Communist Prague, the third book in the Walter Presents Library is a bewitching mystery about a woman who claims to transcribe music from the ghost of Chopin.Prague, 1995: Vera Foltynova, a widow in her late 50s, claims to receive visits from the ghost of great composer Frederic Chopin. What's more, she ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Moment

    by Douglas Kennedy ...
    Thomas Nesbitt is a divorced American writer living a very private life in Maine. Until, one wintry morning, his solitude is disrupted by the arrival of a package postmarked Berlin.But what is more unsettling is the name accompanying the return address on the package: Petra Dussmann. For she is the woman with whom Thomas had an intense love affair twenty-five years before in a divided Berlin, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Doppler

    by Erlend Loe ...
    Translated by Don Bartlett, Don Shaw ...
    A Guardian Book of the Year and Chapters/Indigo Best BookA bestseller in Scandinavia -- Doppler is the enchanting, subversive, and very unusual story about one man and his moose.This beguiling modern fable tells the story of a man who, after the death of his father, abandons his home, his family, his career, and the trappings of civilization for a makeshift tent in the woods where he adopts a ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Winter Journey

    by Diane Armstrong ...
    Diane Armstrong's bestselling fictional debutA mother's silence, a village with a terrible secret, and an Australian woman who travels to Poland to uncover the truth ... When forensic dentist Halina Shore arrives in Nowa Kalwaria to take part in a war crimes investigation, she finds herself at the centre of a bitter struggle in a community that has been divided by a grim legacy. What she does not ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Noise of Time

    A Novel

    by Julian Barnes ...
    A masterful novel dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, from the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending.The book begins in 1936, with Dmitri Shostakovich petrified at the age of thirty and fearing for his livelihood and even his life. His opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District has just been denounced in Pravda in an article that certainly reflects ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Old Man and Mr Smith

    by Peter Ustinov ...
    From the late and great Peter Ustinov comes a story full of wit, satire and insight. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Prague

    A Novel

    by Arthur Phillips ...
    BONUS: This edition contains excerpts from Arthur Phillips's The Tragedy of Arthur, The Song Is You, The Egyptologist, and Angelica.A first novel of startling scope and ambition, Prague depicts an intentionally lost Lost Generation as it follows five American expats who come to Budapest in the early 1990s to seek their fortune—financial, romantic, and spiritual—in an exotic city newly opened to ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Suitcase

    A Novel

    by Sergei Dovlatov ...
    Sergei Dovlatov's subtle, dark–edged humor and wry observations are in full force in The Suitcase as he examines eight objects—the items he brought with him in his luggage upon his emigration from the U.S.S.R. These seemingly undistinguished possessions, stuffed into a worn–out suitcase, take on a riotously funny life of their own as Dovlatov inventories the circumstances under which he acquired ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • Chess

    A Novel

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    Translated by Anthea Bell ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    '... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad!'A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At first, they crumble, until they are helped by whispered advice from a stranger in the crowd - a man ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Ringmaster's Daughter

    by Jostein Gaarder ...
    From the author of SOPHIE'S WORLD, 'A masterful mixture of fantasy and reality...a simply wonderful read' SHE.Panina Manina, a trapeze artist, falls and breaks her neck. As the ringmaster bends over her, he notices an amulet of amber around her neck, the same trinket he had given his own lost child, who was swept away in a torrent some sixteen years earlier.This tale is narrated by Petter, a ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Lucky Breaks

    by Yevgenia Belorusets ...
    Translated by Eugene Ostashevsky ...
    Powerful, off-beat stories about women living in the shadow of the now-frozen, now-thawing war in UkraineOut of the impoverished coal regions of Ukraine known as the Donbass, where Russian secret military intervention coexists with banditry and insurgency, the women of Yevgenia Belorusets’s captivating collection of stories emerge from the ruins of a war, still being waged on and off, ever since ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Best European Fiction 2013

    by John Banville ...
    Series series Best European Fiction
    2013 may be the best year yet for Best European Fiction. The inimitable John Banville joins the list of distinguished preface writers for Aleksandar Hemon's series, and A. S. Byatt represents England among a luminous cast of European contributors. Fans of the series will find everything they've grown to love, while new readers will discover what they've been missing! ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus