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  • Leon and Louise

    by Alex Capus ...
    Translated by Simon Pare ...
    Summer 1918. The First World War is drawing to a close when Léon Le Gall, a French teenager from Cherbourg who has dropped out of school and left home, falls in love with Louise Janvier. Both are severely wounded by German artillery fire, are separated, and believe each other to be dead. Briefly reunited two decades later, the two lovers are torn apart again by Louise's refusal to destroy Léon's ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Life is Good

    by Alex Capus ...
    Translated by John Brownjohn ...
    Max has been married to Tina for twenty-five years. She is the love of his life, but now he must come to terms with the fact that she is to spend a year away on a work assignment—away, for the first time, from their home, their children and their life together. Her absence leaves him feeling like an Odysseus in reverse: he stays put whilehis Penelope goes out into the world.Max, alone with his ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Ripper

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  • All the Light We Cannot See

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    by Anthony Doerr ...
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  • City of Buried Ghosts

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    Series Book 2 - The Catalan Crime Thrillers
    Digging into the past unearths a modern murder in the second crime thriller featuring Inspector Elisenda Domènech from the author of City of Good Death.Still recovering from tragedy, Inspector Elisenda Domènech takes on a new case involving a body discovered on an archaeological dig. Seemingly executed as part of an ancient tribal ritual, it soon becomes clear that this body is no antiquity but ... Read more

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  • Lost Paradise

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    Translated by Susan Massotty ...
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  • Best European Fiction 2012

    by Nicole Krauss ...
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  • The Dark Blue Winter Overcoat and Other Stories from the North

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