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  • American Stranger

    A Novel

    by David Plante ...
    A daughter of Jewish refugees searches for love and a spiritual home in this novel by the National Book Award–nominated author of Difficult Women.Brought up in a secular household on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Nancy Green knows suspiciously little about her parents' past. She knows they escaped Germany, avoiding the fate of so many of their fellow Jews during World War II, but the few family ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Death of a Greek Lover

    by David Plante ...
    A landmark work dedicated to the author's partner, this set of linked poems explores love and loss through the lens of myth, faith, and art. Heavily influenced by the work of C. P. Cavafy, Plante's paen to his beloved will stay with readers long after the last verse.In 1965, the novelist David Plante met the poet and editor Nikos Stangos, with whom he lived until Stangos's death in 2004. Over ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Difficult Women

    by David Plante ...
    David Plante's dazzling portraits of three influential women in the literary world, now back in print for the first time in decades.Difficult Women presents portraits of three extraordinary, complicated, and, yes, difficult women, while also raising intriguing and, in their own way, difficult questions about the character and motivations of the keenly and often cruelly observant portraitist ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • ABC

    by David Plante ...
    An original and radiant novel about grief, obsession, and the need for meaning from the author of The Family, a finalist for the National Book Award.When his young son dies in a freak accident, Gerard struggles to find a reason in the smallest of details, including the scrap of paper containing the Sanskrit alphabet that is found at the site. Latching on to this final “clue,” he delves into the ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $10.99 CAD

  • The Bench Ain’T Bad

    Kids Don’T Build Boats Iii

    by David E. Plante ...
    The Bench Aint Bad, the third book in the Kids Dont Build Boats series, invites readers to spend time with the narratorJacobas he recounts the ups and downs of his business experiences and personal life. By telling about the successes, failures, and moments in which God worked in the marriage of Jacob and Marjorie, the husband-and-wife writing team of David E. Plante and Lorraine M. Plante uses ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Fantasies of the Body

    by David Plante ...
    In this short, masterful gem of a novel, David Plante’s seasoned narrator contemplates the connection between physical beauty and love, drawing on literary references and personal experiences to explore these themes.The unnamed narrator of this brief, urgent novel, a young novelist making his way in the literary world, writes of his fascination with two enigmatic, troubled young men, one a Boston ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anna’S Courage

    Kébec Series, Book 3

    by David E. Plante ...
    In this third book in the Kbec series, fur trader and horse breeder Zoel Smith relies on his God-given skills and strengths to forge his own pathinstead of staying with his adoptive parents, Henry and Anna, and assisting with their mission caring for sick and abandoned Indians. But the path he has chosen is not easy; the conflict between the French and the English is quickly escalating. As Zoel ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Abenaki Valley

    Kébec Series, Book 1

    by David E. Plante ...
    Pursuing a strategy of colonial expansion in the early 1600s, France encourages its citizens to leave their motherland and venture to the New World. They focus on the St. Lawrence River area and sponsor settlements along its shores, calling this region New France.One of these intrepid individuals is Henry Priest. The government employs Henry, an educated teacher and linguist, to travel to the New ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Kids Don't Build Boats

    by David E. Plante ...
    The early 1940s werent easy years for America or the world at large. Jacob was just a young boy in New Hampshire when World War II broke out. His father was sent away to fight faceless monsters, while Jacob and his remaining family moved in with his grandparents. It was easy living with his grandparents, despite his mothers worry that something might happen to Jacobs father. One day, though, ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • U're Warned

    by David E. Plante ...
    Were never alone. Jesus or the Devil will guide, encourage, and teach us when we draw near to him. Those who choose the Devil may not know it in the beginning, but they will be made aware later on.This story is about a wretched family that unknowingly leverages the Devil to illegally make tons of money and avoid detection and prosecution. How they make money is universal news today, and everyone ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Smith & Priest

    Kébec Series, Book 2

    by David E. Plante ...
    Set in the lush wilderness of America in the 1600s, Smith & Priest continues the adventures of professional French educator Henry Priest and his adopted son, Zoel Smith. After crossing the Atlantic Ocean to join French settlers in Quebec City, Henry and Zoel hope to build their fur trade business and share the Gospel.The duoalong with partners, Josh and Yancytravels south to the Connecticut River ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Age of Terror

    A Novel

    by David Plante ...
    Set in the seamy world of the Russian sex slave trade, The Age of Terror is the harrowing story of Joe, a disillusioned young American expatriate and lapsed Catholic who searches for life's meaning in the Soviet Union on the eve of its disintegration.Plante plays brilliantly with our assumptions of both the United States and Russia, and ultimately proclaims a universal theme of sacredness and ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD