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  • The Stars

    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

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Violinist of Auschwitz

    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

  • Volkswagen Blues

    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

    $8.99 CAD

  • 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

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To Will & To Do, Volume One

    An Introduction to Christian Ethics

    by Jacques Ellul ...
    Translated by Jacob Marques Rollison ...
    To Will & To Do presents one of the most significant theological contributions of the dynamic twentieth-century thinker Jacques Ellul. Benefiting from recent scholarship on Ellul and a discovery of a lost manuscript, this new edition renders the full text available in English for the first time, combining a fresh translation of Volume I with a first English translation of Volume II. Together, the ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Phantoms on the Bookshelves

    "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

  • Fast Food My Way

    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

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Origins of AIDS

    It is now forty years since the discovery of AIDS, but its origins continue to puzzle doctors, scientists and patients. Inspired by his own experiences working as a physician in a bush hospital in Zaire, Jacques Pépin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in central Africa that triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS and traces its subsequent development into the most dramatic and ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Jacques Pépin Heart & Soul In The Kitchen

    In the companion book to his final PBS series, the renowned chef shows his close relationship to the land and sea as he cooks for close friends and family.Jacques Pépin Heart & Soul in the Kitchen is an intimate look at the celebrity chef and the food he cooks at home with family and friends—200 recipes in all. There are the simple dinners Jacques prepares for his wife, like the world's best ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Irving vs. Irving

    Canada's Feuding Billionaires And The Stories They Won't Tell

    They are Canada’s third wealthiest family, the fifth-largest private landowner in the U.S.A. They have a monopoly on New Brunswick’s English-language print media and billions of dollars in offshore accounts.They are the Irvings. And they have always placed a premium on discretion and family unity. They built their empire —which includes Canada’s largest refinery, soon to be linked by pipeline to ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • 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

  • People's History of Quebec, A

    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