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  • Black Moses

    A Novel

    by Alain Mabanckou ...
    Translated by Helen Stevenson ...
    The "heart-breaking" (New York Times Book Review), rollicking, award-winning novel that has been described as "Oliver Twist in 1970s Africa" (Les Inrockuptibles)"One of the most compelling books you'll read in any language this year." —Rolling StoneWinner of the Hurston-Wright Legacy AwardLonglisted for the Man Booker International PrizeShortlisted for the ... ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dealing with the Dead

    A Novel

    by Alain Mabanckou ...
    Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPRFrom one of Africa’s greatest living writers, a ghostly reckoning with Congolese history"Alain Mabanckou addresses the reader with exuberant inventiveness in novels that are brilliantly imaginative in their forms of storytelling. His voice is vividly colloquial, mischievous and often outrageous as he explores, from multiple angles, the country where he ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Order without Design

    How Markets Shape Cities

    by Alain Bertaud ...
    An argument that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urban economics to the design of regulations and infrastructure.Urban planning is a craft learned through practice. Planners make rapid decisions that have an immediate impact on the ground—the width of streets, the minimum size of land parcels, the heights of buildings. The language they use to describe ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Course of Love

    by Alain De Botton ...
    In Edinburgh, a couple, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love. They get married, they have children -- but no relationship is as simple as "happily ever after." The Course of Love is a novel that explores what happens after the birth of love, what it takes to maintain love, and what happens to our original ideals under the pressures of an average existence. With philosophical insight and psychological ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Happiness is a Smoking Gun

    A Clarissa Spencer Cozy Mystery, #1

    by Alaine Allister ...
    Series Book 1 - A Clarissa Spencer Cozy Mystery
    A bossy cat. An eccentric aunt. An unsolved murder.Out of work reporter Clarissa Spencer is being stalked by a stray cat. She can't cook to save her life, her garden is an overgrown mess and her chocolate chip cookie addiction is out of control. Then to top it all off, she gets struck by lightning.Clarissa thinks she has it bad - until she learns the town mayor has been murdered. Okay, so it could ... Read more

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  • Living in Victory

    The Journey from Where I Am to Where He Wants Me to Be

    by Alain Walljee ...
    Many Christians are frustrated because their respective realities do not seem to be consistent with the promises of the Word of God. In Living in Victory, we go to where Christians currently stand, and show them the way to victorious living.One consistent truth about God reflected throughout the Bible is that wherever God is present, He changes the situation for the better. We see evidence of this ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Consolations of Philosophy

    by Alain De Botton ...
    Series series Vintage International
    From the author of How Proust Can Change Your Life, a delightful, truly consoling work that proves that philosophy can be a supreme source of help for our most painful everyday problems.Perhaps only Alain de Botton could uncover practical wisdom in the writings of some of the greatest thinkers of all time. But uncover he does, and the result is an unexpected book of both solace and humor. Dividing ... Read more

    Was $16.99 CAD Now $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

    by Alain De Botton ...
    From the international bestselling author of The Architecture of Happiness and How Proust Can Change Your Life comes this lyrical, erudite look at our world of work.We spend most of our time at work, but what we do there rarely gets discussed in the sort of lyrical and descriptive prose our efforts surely deserve. Determined to correct this lapse, armed with a poetic perspective and his trademark ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Le Grand Meaulnes, in the originial French

    by Alain-Fournier ...
    According to Wikipedia: "Le Grand Meaulnes is the only novel by French author Alain-Fournier. Fifteen-year-old François Seurel narrates the story of his relationship with seventeen-year-old Augustin Meaulnes as Meaulnes searches for his lost love. Impulsive, reckless and heroic, Meaulnes embodies the romantic ideal, the search for the unobtainable, and the mysterious world between childhood and ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes)

    by Henri Alain-Fournier ...
    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

  • The Name of the Game is Murder

    A Clarissa Spencer Cozy Mystery, #6

    by Alaine Allister ...
    Series Book 6 - A Clarissa Spencer Cozy Mystery
    Sun, fun, family...and a bingo hall murder?Clarissa Spencer’s love life is heating up. And that means it’s time to introduce her boyfriend to her parents. Will they approve of him? Will their special brand of crazy scare him away? Poor Clarissa is a bundle of nerves.A suspicious death provides the perfect distraction. Who killed Bobby the bingo caller? The list of suspects is long but if anyone ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Religion for Atheists

    A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

    by Alain De Botton ...
    From the author of The Architecture of Happiness, a deeply moving meditation on how we can still benefit, without believing, from the wisdom, the beauty, and the consolatory power that religion has to offer.Alain de Botton was brought up in a committedly atheistic household, and though he was powerfully swayed by his parents' views, he underwent, in his mid-twenties, a crisis of faithlessness. His ... Read more

    Was $12.99 CAD Now $10.99 CAD