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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

  • 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

  • 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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  • 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

  • Reading French Psychoanalysis

    Edited by Dana Birksted-Breen, Sara Flanders, Alain Gibeault ...
    Series series New Library of Psychoanalysis Teaching Series
    How has psychoanalysis developed in France in the years since Lacan so dramatically polarized the field?In this book, Dana Birksted-Breen and Sara Flanders of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and Alain Gibeault of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society provide an overview of how French psychoanalysis has developed since Lacan. Focusing primarily on the work of psychoanalysts from the French ... Read more

    $131.99 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • How to Travel

    by The School of Life, Alain de Botton ...
    Going traveling is one of the few things we undertake in a direct attempt to make ourselves happy—and frequently, in fascinating ways, we fail. We get bored, cross, anxious, or lonely. It isn’t surprising: our societies act as if going traveling were simple, just a case of handing over the right sum of money. But a satisfying journey isn’t something we can simply buy, and sadly something that ... Read more

    $15.19 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

  • 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

  • How to Overcome Your Childhood

    by The School of Life, Alain de Botton ...
    A guide to breaking free from the enduring, and sometimes damaging, behavioral patterns we learned in childhood.As we try to navigate the complexities and anxieties of adulthood, considering our childhoods can feel like a daunting task. They happened so long ago; we can probably barely remember, let alone relate to, the little person we used to be. But one of the most powerful explanations for why ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus