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  • The Stars

    by Jacques Goldstyn ...
    Translated by Helen Mixter ...
    Series series Aldana Libros
    A dazzling story about love—for the stars, and for one another—between two young people, set in the multicultural city of Montréal.Every day, Yakov takes his sisters to the park. He's supposed to look after them, but their games are boring, so he reads about space and dreams of becoming an astronaut instead. His father, though, has other plans: he wants Yakov to take over his grocery store when he ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Help Me, Jacques Cousteau

    by Gil Adamson ...
    With her multiple-award-winning, bestselling, and critically acclaimed novel The Outlander, Gil Adamson established herself as one of our preeminent fiction writers. But ten years before The Outlander, when Adamson published another book of fiction with a small press, readers and critics immediately sat up and took note. Barbara Gowdy called Help Me, Jacques Cousteau outstanding . . . smart, ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Phantoms on the Bookshelves

    by Jacques Bonnet ...
    "A charming book full of erudition and wit" that explores the human impulse to accumulate books ( Literary Review).Jacques Bonnet, a lifelong accumulator of books ancient and modern, lives in a house large enough to accommodate his tens of thousands of volumes, as well as some overspill from the libraries of his friends. While his musings on the habits of collectors from the earliest known ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Violinist of Auschwitz

    by Jean-Jacques Felstein ...
    A son chronicles his Jewish mother's real-life efforts to save as many young women as possible from the Auschwitz gas chambers during World War II.Arrested in 1943 and deported to Auschwitz, Elsa survived because she had the "opportunity" to join the women's orchestra. But Elsa kept her story a secret, even from her own family. Indeed, her son would only discover what had happened to his mother ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • People's History of Quebec, A

    by Jacques Lacoursière, Robin Philpot ...
    This lively guide to Quebec history tells the fascinating story of the settlement of the St. Lawrence River Valley over nearly 500 years. But it also tells of the Montreal and Quebec-based explorers and traders who travelled, mapped, and inhabited most of North America, and embrothered the peoples they met. Combining vast research and great story telling, Jacques Lacoursière and Robin Philpot ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Volkswagen Blues

    by Jacques Poulin ...
    Translated by Sheila Fischman ...
    A 2005 Canada Reads SelectionIn this classic road novel, Jacques Poulin tells the story of a man in search of his brother. The geographical journey — through Detroit, into Chicago, on to St. Louis, along the Oregon Trail and into California — becomes a metaphor for the exploration of the history of the French in North America. ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • The Social Contract

    by Jean Jacques Rousseau ...
    For the study of the great writers and thinkers of the past, historical imagination is the first necessity. Without mentally referring to the environment in which they lived, we cannot hope to penetrate below the inessential and temporary to the absolute and permanent value of their thought. Theory, no less than action, is subject to these necessities; the form in which men cast their speculations ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Propaganda

    The Formation of Men's Attitudes

    by Jacques Ellul ...
    This seminal study and critique of propaganda from one of the greatest French philosophers of the 20th century is as relevant today as when it was first published in 1962. Taking not only a psychological approach, but a sociological approach as well, Ellul’s book outlines the taxonomy for propaganda, and ultimately, it’s destructive nature towards democracy. Drawing from his own experiences ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Fast Food My Way

    by Jacques Pépin, Ben Fink ...
    Easy, everyday dishes with a French twist from the multiple James Beard Award-winning chef, " a great teacher and truly a master technician" (Julia Child).In this companion volume to the PBS series, Jacques Pépin shows you how to create great-tasting dishes ranging from stunning salads such as Tomato and Mozzarella Fans to Supreme of Chicken with Balsamic Vinegar and Shallot Sauce to his ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Montreal Noir

    by Jacques Filippi, John McFetridge ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    "American crime fiction fans will welcome the opportunity to sample the short fiction of some worthy Canadian authors." — Publishers WeeklyFollowing the success of Toronto Noir, the Noir Series explores new Canadian terrain, featuring both English and Francophone authors. Like the city it springs from, Montreal Noir is an intriguing mix of culture, identities, and neighborhoods with one thing in ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Redwall

    The first book in the beloved, bestselling saga

    by Brian Jacques ...
    Series Book 1 - Redwall
    The first book in the classic fantasy Redwall series – perfect for readers aged 9+.Redwall Abbey, tranquil home to a community of peace-loving mice, is threatened by the evil, one-eyed rat warlord Cluny the Scourge and his battle-hardened horde of predators.Cluny is certain that Redwall will fall easily to his fearsome army but he hasn't bargained for the courage and strength of the Redwall mice ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Enlightenment Collection

    by Baruch Spinoza, John Locke, Friedrich Engels, Thomas Paine, Karl Marx, Rene Descartes, David Hume, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Henry David Thoreau, Charles Darwin, Steppenwolf Press ...
    The Enlightenment included a range of ideas centered on the sovereignty of reason and the evidence of the senses as the primary sources of knowledge and advanced ideals such as liberty, progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government and separation of church and state. In France, the central doctrines of the Enlightenment philosophers were individual liberty and religious tolerance, in ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus