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  • Crazy Genie

    by Inès Cagnati ...
    Translated by Liesl Schillinger ...
    A young girl clings fiercely to the damaged love of her mother—a taciturn farmworker cast out by her family and scorned by her village—in this devastating and lyrically rendered novel from a French-Italian maverick.Marie lives with her mother, Genie, in a ramshackle house by a willow-lined river in rural France. Every morning, Genie walks to the neighboring farms to do what work there is to be ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Bassoon Reed Making

    A Pedagogic History

    by Christin Schillinger ...
    "Unique in its scope and breadth, and thus stands alone as a general history of reed making pedagogy." ―Dennis Michel, Bassoonist, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Head of Woodwinds in the Chicago College of Performing ArtsWithheld by leading pedagogues in an effort to control competition, the art of reed making in the early twentieth century has been shrouded in secrecy, producing a generation ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Free Day

    by Inès Cagnati ...
    Translated by Liesl Schillinger ...
    A haunting and powerful portrait of a young French girl, and her desire to escape the world in which she is born, without losing her identityIn the marshy countryside of southwestern France, fourteen-year-old Galla rides her battered bicycle twenty miles, twice a month, from the high school she attends on scholarship back to her family’s rocky, barren farm. Galla’s loving, overwhelmed mother would ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Three By Echenoz

    Big Blondes, Piano, and Running

    by Jean Echenoz ...
    Translated by Linda Coverdale, Mark Polizzotti ...
    A single volume that gathers together three of the most remarkable novels from Jean Echenoz, the “most distinctive French voice of his generation” (The Washington Post), Three by Echenoz demonstrates the award-winning author's extraordinary versatility and elegant yet playful style at its finest.“A parodic thriller sparkling with wit” (L'Humanité), Big Blondes probes our universal obsession with ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Psychology of Stupidity

    Edited by Jean-Francois Marmion ...
    **"We need books like this one." --Steven PinkerAt last, stupidity explained! And by some of the world's smartest people, among them Daniel Kahneman, Dan Ariely, Alison Gopnik, Howard Gardner, Antonio Damasio, Aaron James, and Ryan Holiday.**And so I proclaim, o idiots of every stripe and morons of all kinds, this is your moment of glory: this book speaks only to you. But you will not recognize ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Lady of the Camellias

    by Alexandre Dumas fils ...
    Translated by Liesl Schillinger ...
    The landmark novel that inspired Verdi’s opera La Traviata, in a sparkling new translation"One of the greatest love stories of all time," according to Henry James, and the inspiration for Verdi’s opera La Traviata, the Oscar-winning musical Moulin Rouge!, and numerous ballets, stage plays (starring Lillian Gish, Eleonora Duse, Tallulah Bankhead, and Sarah Bernhardt, and films (starring Greta Garbo ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Luckless

    The Idea of Luck in Ancient Greek Thought

    by Daniel Schillinger ...
    What is luck? What is the significance of luck for our ethical and political lives? Could it be the case that luck is an intoxicating illusion, which threatens to obscure the true explanations of human action, excuse wrongdoing or cowardice, provoke powerful emotions, and cloud judgment? Schillinger's original interpretation of the idea of luck in ancient Greek thought challenges both scholars of ... Read more

    $63.59 CAD

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    Thalia Book Club: Amor Towles A Gentleman in Moscow

    by Amor Towles ...
    Narrated by Liesl Schillinger, Boyd Gaines ...
    Series series Thalia Book Club

    Unabridged

    1 hour 33 min

    A Gentleman in Moscow recounts the story of Count Alexander Rostov. In 1922, on the heels of the Russian Revolution, the Count is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal and sentenced to permanent house arrest in Moscow’s grand Hotel Metropol. In something of a literary feat, as the Count’s story progresses over three decades, the walls of the Metropol seem to expand, rather than ... Read more

    $6.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Garden of Monsters

    by Lorenza Pieri ...
    Translated by Liesl Schillinger ...
    In Southern Tuscany, two families are at war while a young woman discovers her path in the acclaimed Italian author's English-language debut.The Biagini are local ranchers, while the wealthy Sanfilippi belong to Rome's upper middle-class. When Sauro, an ambitious rancher, and Filippo, a hedonistic politician, become friends and business partners, the stories of their families become irrevocably ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Dare to Un-Lead

    The Art of Relational Leadership in a Fragmented World

    by Celine Schillinger ...
    2022 PORCHLIGHT LEADERSHIP & STRATEGY BOOK OF THE YEARA transformational book for trying times, Dare to Un-Lead will challenge the way you think and feel about the role of leadership in your life.What is revered as leadership today is often nothing more than a destructive set of obsolete behaviors and systems evolved from the centuries-old industrial theories popularized by Frederick Taylor and ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bassoon Reed Making

    A Pedagogic History

    by Christin Schillinger ...
    Withheld by leading pedagogues in an effort to control competition, the art of reed making in the early 20th century has been shrouded in secrecy, producing a generation of performers without reed making fluency. While tenets of past decades remain in modern pedagogy, Christin Schillinger details the historical pedagogical trends of bassoon reed making to examine the impact different methods have ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Complex Cases in Peripheral Vascular Interventions

    Edited by Martin Schillinger, Erich Minar ...
    This new title provides a systematic review of complex cases in peripheral vascular interventions (PVI), a minimal invasive endovascular approach to treating peripheral arteries. This increasingly evolving area in interventional therapies offers reduced risk for complications compared to conventional surgery and takes advantage of advanced techniqu ... Read more

    $119.54 CAD