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  • Sherazade

    by Leila Sebbar ...
    SHERAZADE, AGED 17, DARK CURLY HAIR, GREEN EYES, MISSING Sherazade is seventeen, Algerian, and a ¬runaway in Paris. Although she has no morals, no scruples, no politics, no apparent emotional depth and little education, Sherazade remains curiously unattached but innocent in the city's underworld of drop-outs, outcasts, political activists and junkies. With honesty and lyricism this novel exposes ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Arabic as a Secret Song

    by Leïla Sebbar, Mildred Mortimer ...
    Translated by Skyler Artes ...
    Series series CARAF Books
    The celebrated and highly versatile writer Leïla Sebbar was born in French colonial Algeria but has lived nearly her entire adult life in France, where she is recognized as a major voice on the penetrating effects of colonialism in contemporary society. The dramatic contrast between her past and present is the subject of the nine autobiographical essays collected in this volume. Written between ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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  • The President's Hat

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    **This international bestseller is a charming “fable of romance and redemption” about an unsuspecting accountant who happens upon the life-changing power of a rather special hat (Telegraph)“As entertaining as it is original, this is the story to enjoy like a chocolate with a surprise centre” –Marie France“Impossible to resist” –L'Express**Dining alone in an elegant Parisian brasserie, accountant ... Read more

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  • Miss Seeton Sings

    by Heron Carvic ...
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    When a flood of perfectly faked banknotes hits the market, retired art teacher Miss Emily Seeton, the Yard’s famed ‘MissEss’, is chosen to investigate a respected Geneva bank. Somehow, the forger is also mixed up in the theft of valuable paintings.But Miss S. is new to air travel – surely the names Geneva and ‘Genova’ must be the same place? Bamboozling both the crooks and the police who vainly ... Read more

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  • Time Is a Killer

    by Michel Bussi ...
    Translated by Shaun Whiteside ...
    From the acclaimed author of After the Crash— "Harlan Coben fans will enjoy Bussi's . . . mystery with its intriguing characters and twisty conclusion" ( Library Journal).A fatal accident in the past, broken lives, family secrets . . . Michel Bussi serves up a gripping thriller, set amid the beautiful scenery of Corsica.In the summer of 2016, Clotilde is spending her vacation in Corsica with her ... Read more

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  • Travels with My Aunt

    by Graham Greene ...
    A retired London bank manager is yanked out of the suburbs by his eccentric aunt for a "cheerfully irreverent" romp across Europe ( The Guardian ).Now that the dullish Henry Pulling has left his job with an agreeable pension and a firm handshake, he plans to spend more time weeding his dahlias. Then, for the first time in fifty years, he sees his aunt Augusta at his mother's funeral. Charging into ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • A Kind of Anger

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    Eric Ambler is at the top of his form with A Kind of Anger, which expertly combines a satire of paparazzi-driven media culture with a classic espionage tale filled with breathless suspense.Six weeks ago, Lucia Bernardi fled the Swiss villa where her lover was murdered—and then she vanished. No one can find her: Not the police, who want her for murder; not the tabloids, who want her for her story; ... Read more

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  • The Allure of Chanel

    by Paul Morand ...
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    With a foreword by Karl Lagerfeld, “this enchanting, tiny book”—a series of transcriptions from interviews with the fashion icon—is the closest anyone can get to a face-to-face with Coco [Chanel]” (The Spectator)Coco Chanel invited Paul Morand to visit her in St. Moritz at the end of the Second World War when he was given the opportunity to write her memoirs; his notes of their conversations were ... Read more

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  • The Foundling Boy

    by Michel Déon ...
    Translated by Julian Evans ...
    It is 1919. On a summer's night in Normandy, a new-born baby is left in a basket outside the home of Albert and Jeanne Arnaud. The childless couple take the foundling in, name him Jean, and decide to raise him as their own, though his parentage remains a mystery. Though Jean's life is never dull, he grows up knowing little of what lies beyond his local area. Until the day he sets off on his ... Read more

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  • Songs My Mother Never Taught Me

    by Selcuk Altun ...
    Translated by Ruth Christie, Selcuk Berilgen ...
    After the death of his overbearing mother, the privileged Arda reclines in his wealth, reflecting on his young life, and on the life of his father, the famous mathematician Mürsel Ergenekon, who was murdered on Arda's fourteenth birthday. While on the other side of the city 'your humble servant' Bedirhan has decided to pack in his ten-year career as an assassin. Their two lives become ... Read more

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