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Standing Heavy

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Series Book 42 - Biblioasis International Translation Series
Winner of the 2023 Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize • Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize • One of The Walrus' Best Fall Books of 2023A funny, fast-paced, and poignant take on Franco-African history, as told through the eyes of three African security guards in Paris.All over the city, they are watching: Black men paid to stand guard, invisible among the wealthy flâneurs and yet ... Read more

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Winner of the 2023 Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize • Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize • One of The Walrus' Best Fall Books of 2023A funny, fast-paced, and poignant take on Franco-African history, as told through the eyes of three African security guards in Paris.All over the city, they are watching: Black men paid to stand guard, invisible among the wealthy flâneurs and yet
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Comrade Papa

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Series Book 49 - Biblioasis International Translation Series
A Financial Times Best Book of 2024: Fiction in TranslationInternational Booker-nominated satirist GauZ’ returns with a panoramic journey into the colonization of the African interior.Mourning the recent deaths of his parents, a young white man in nineteenth-century France joins a colonial expedition attempting to establish trading routes on the Ivory Coast and finds himself caught between ... Read more

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A Financial Times Best Book of 2024: Fiction in TranslationInternational Booker-nominated satirist GauZ’ returns with a panoramic journey into the colonization of the African interior.Mourning the recent deaths of his parents, a young white man in nineteenth-century France joins a colonial expedition attempting to establish trading routes on the Ivory Coast and finds himself caught between
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Rocky's Rescue, Emma's Journey

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Emma is a young girl with a troubled home life where her parents are always fighting and she just wants to be anywhere else. She starts going to the local dog shelter with her friend Caleb where she meets Rocky, a pitbull puppy who also has a troubled past. They find strength and love and trust in each other. This is the first of a nine book series called the Grunge and Glam Heroes Collection. ... Read more

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Emma is a young girl with a troubled home life where her parents are always fighting and she just wants to be anywhere else. She starts going to the local dog shelter with her friend Caleb where she meets Rocky, a pitbull puppy who also has a troubled past. They find strength and love and trust in each other. This is the first of a nine book series called the Grunge and Glam Heroes Collection.
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A funny, fast-paced, and poignant take on Franco-African history, as told through the eyes of three African security guards in Paris.All over the city, they are watching: Black men paid to stand guard, invisible among the wealthy flâneurs and yet the only ones who truly see. From Les Grands Moulins to a Sephora on the Champs-Élysées, Ferdinand, Ossiri, and Kassoum find their way as undocumented ... Read more

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A funny, fast-paced, and poignant take on Franco-African history, as told through the eyes of three African security guards in Paris.All over the city, they are watching: Black men paid to stand guard, invisible among the wealthy flâneurs and yet the only ones who truly see. From Les Grands Moulins to a Sephora on the Champs-Élysées, Ferdinand, Ossiri, and Kassoum find their way as undocumented
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Paint , Punishment and Pitbulls: A Story of Healing, Hope and Home

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After a brush with trouble and a court order he didn't see coming, Caleb finds himself in a place he never expected—a run-down animal shelter filled with misunderstood dogs and even more misunderstood people. Forced to trade his graffiti cans for paintbrushes, Caleb begins a community service project that slowly peels back the layers of his own pain. With every mural stroke, he discovers stories ... Read more

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After a brush with trouble and a court order he didn't see coming, Caleb finds himself in a place he never expected—a run-down animal shelter filled with misunderstood dogs and even more misunderstood people. Forced to trade his graffiti cans for paintbrushes, Caleb begins a community service project that slowly peels back the layers of his own pain. With every mural stroke, he discovers stories
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The Years

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**WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREOne of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyShortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize**Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work and a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions ... Read more

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**WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREOne of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyShortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize**Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work and a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions
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The Godmother

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A New York Times “100 Notable Books of 2019”Inspiration for the major motion picture Mama WeedTranslated from the international bestseller La DaronneWinner of the European Crime Fiction Prize and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, France’s most prestigious prize for crime fiction“Exuberant… Maybe crime doesn’t pay, but the guile and guts — and humour ... ... Read more

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A New York Times “100 Notable Books of 2019”Inspiration for the major motion picture Mama WeedTranslated from the international bestseller La DaronneWinner of the European Crime Fiction Prize and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, France’s most prestigious prize for crime fiction“Exuberant… Maybe crime doesn’t pay, but the guile and guts — and humour ...
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A controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from France's most famous literary figureParis, 2022. François is bored. He's a middle-aged lecturer at the Sorbonne and an expert on J. K. Huysmans, the famous nineteenth-century "decadent" author. But François's own decadence is considerably smaller in scale. He sleeps with his students, eats microwave dinners, reads the classics, ... Read more

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A controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from France's most famous literary figureParis, 2022. François is bored. He's a middle-aged lecturer at the Sorbonne and an expert on J. K. Huysmans, the famous nineteenth-century "decadent" author. But François's own decadence is considerably smaller in scale. He sleeps with his students, eats microwave dinners, reads the classics,
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French Revolutions

Cycling the Tour de France

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Self-confessed loafer Time Moore, seduced by the speed and glamour of the biggest annual sporting even in the world, sets out to cycle the course of the Tour de France. All 3,630km of it. Racing old men on butchers' bikes and chased by cows, Moore soon resorts to standard race tactics - cheating and drugs - in a hilarious and moving tale of true adventure. ... Read more

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Self-confessed loafer Time Moore, seduced by the speed and glamour of the biggest annual sporting even in the world, sets out to cycle the course of the Tour de France. All 3,630km of it. Racing old men on butchers' bikes and chased by cows, Moore soon resorts to standard race tactics - cheating and drugs - in a hilarious and moving tale of true adventure.
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Every Day Is for the Thief

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NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY DWIGHT GARNER, THE NEW YORK TIMES • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle |NPR | The Root | The Telegraph | The Globe and MailNATIONAL BESTSELLER • FINALIST, PHILLIS WHEATLEY BOOK AWARD • TEJU COLE WAS NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL AFRICANS OF THE YEAR BY NEW AFRICAN MAGAZINEFor readers of Chimamanda Ngozi Ad... ... Read more

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NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY DWIGHT GARNER, THE NEW YORK TIMES • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle |NPR | The Root | The Telegraph | The Globe and MailNATIONAL BESTSELLER • FINALIST, PHILLIS WHEATLEY BOOK AWARD • TEJU COLE WAS NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL AFRICANS OF THE YEAR BY NEW AFRICAN MAGAZINEFor readers of Chimamanda Ngozi Ad...
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Ever After High: Ashlynn Ella's Story

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Join Ashlynn Ella, daughter of Cinderella, as her woodland friends help her get ready for her Legacy Year at school, where she will train for her destiny to marry a prince. But what if she meets the woodsman of her dreams instead? Read all about it in this exclusive Ever After High short story by Newbery Honor author Shannon Hale. ... Read more

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Join Ashlynn Ella, daughter of Cinderella, as her woodland friends help her get ready for her Legacy Year at school, where she will train for her destiny to marry a prince. But what if she meets the woodsman of her dreams instead? Read all about it in this exclusive Ever After High short story by Newbery Honor author Shannon Hale.
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A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

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“Look, for people who’re going to be dead soon, we’re not doing too badly.”“The novel of the year” is what La Presse called this extraordinary book, a love story that takes place in the days leading up to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. A first work of fiction by one of French Canada’s most admired journalists, Gil Courtemanche, it was first published in Quebec in 2000, spent more than a year on ... Read more

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“Look, for people who’re going to be dead soon, we’re not doing too badly.”“The novel of the year” is what La Presse called this extraordinary book, a love story that takes place in the days leading up to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. A first work of fiction by one of French Canada’s most admired journalists, Gil Courtemanche, it was first published in Quebec in 2000, spent more than a year on
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