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  • The 6:41 to Paris

    by Jean-Philippe Blondel ...
    After decades, former lovers come face to face in a novel filled with a "suspenseful dread that makes you want to turn every page at locomotive pace" ( St. Louis Post-Dispatch).Cécile, a stylish forty-seven-year-old, has spent the weekend visiting her parents in a provincial town southeast of Paris. By early Monday morning, she's exhausted. These trips back home are always stressful, and she ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Buddhist Chef

    100 Simple, Feel-Good Vegan Recipes: A Cookbook

    by Jean-Philippe Cyr ...
    100 simply delicious vegan recipes--good for the planet, and for you--from the chef and blogger behind The Buddhist Chef.A practicing Buddhist for over two decades, Jean-Philippe Cyr, aka The Buddhist Chef, believes that everyone has the power to make their vision of the world a reality--and that the most impactful way to do that is through the food we choose to make, eat, and share. This ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Café Unfiltered

    by Jean-Philippe Blondel ...
    Translated by Alison Anderson ...
    "Finely drawn . . . charming and engrossing.”—Suzanne Vega, singer-songwriterAt a classic café in the French provinces, anonymity, chance encounters, and traumatic pasts collide against the muted background of global instability. Jean-Philippe Blondel, author of the bestselling The 6:41 to Paris, presents a moving fresco of intertwined destinies portrayed with humor, insight, and tenderness. In ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Sports and Pastimes

    by Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard ...
    Translated by Aimee Wall ...
    Series series Literature in Translation Series
    Inspired by Erik Satie's work of the same name, Sports and Pastimes is the latest novel by acclaimed Montreal playwright and author Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard.Translated by Aimee Wall (whose translation of Vickie Gendreau's Testament for BookThug in 2016 drew critical reviews), this fast-paced story follows the daily life, at once empty and overloaded, of a group of friends who spend all their ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • This is Not the End of the Book

    A conversation curated by Jean-Philippe de Tonnac

    by Umberto Eco, Jean-Claude Carrière ...
    Translated by Polly McLean ...
    'The book is like the spoon: once invented, it cannot be bettered' - Umberto Eco.These days it is impossible to get away from discussions of whether the book will survive the digital revolution. Blogs, tweets and newspaper articles on the subject appear daily, many of them repetitive, most of them admitting ignorance of the future. Amidst the twittering, the thoughts of Jean-Claude Carrière and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Glitches

    by Jean-Philippe Aumasson ...
    In these three interconnected stories, reality bends and breaks in unexpected ways. A woman trapped in a deadly time loop discovers her fate may hinge on a simple ritual. Another finds herself questioning her sanity after a cupcake accident leads her to an ethereal Japanese professor. A man awakens to confront supernatural threats in a sinister city where darkness breeds violence. Through ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Exposed

    by Jean-Philippe Blondel ...
    Translated by Alison Anderson ...
    "Art, love and longing, the French way . . . an emotionally taut portrayal of late-in-life, post-marriage drift" from the author of The 6:41 to Paris ( The New York Times Book Review).A French teacher on the verge of retirement is invited to a glittering opening that showcases the artwork of his former student, who has since become a celebrated painter. This unexpected encounter leads to the older ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Buddhist Chef's Vegan Comfort Cooking

    Easy, Feel-Good Recipes for Every Day

    by Jean-Philippe Cyr ...
    75+ easy, comforting, and oh-so-delicious vegan recipes for every home cook—from the bestselling author of The Buddhist Chef.Jean-Philippe Cyr—vegan chef, blogger, and bestselling cookbook author—is back with even more delicious vegan recipes. Inspired by the comfort foods he enjoyed cooking with his grandmother while growing up, his classical culinary training, as well as his travels around the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Self-Portrait Abroad

    by Jean-Philippe Toussaint ...
    Translated by John Lambert ...
    Series series Netherlandic and Belgian Literature
    In Self-Portrait Abroad, our narrator—a Belgian author much like Toussaint himself—travels the globe, finding the mundane blended everywhere with the exotic: With his usual poker face, he keeps up on Corsican gossip in Tokyo and has a battle of nerves in a butcher shop in Berlin; he wins a boules tournament in Cap Corse, takes in a strip club in Japan's historic Nara, gets pulled through Hanoi on ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Very French Christmas

    The Greatest French Holiday Stories of All Time

    by Guy de Maupassant, Jean-Philippe Blondel, Paul Arène, François Coppée, Anatole Le Braz, Dominique Fabre, Alphonse Daudet, Antoine Gustave Droz, Anatole France, Irène Némirovsky ...
    Series series Very Christmas
    Joyeux Noël: "[An]endearing collection of Christmas stories from ten of France's most esteemed writers―past and present―skillfully translated." ― Foreword ReviewsThis collection brings together the best French Christmas stories of all time, featuring classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, plus stories by the esteemed twentieth century authors Irène Némirovsky and Nobel Prize winner ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reticence

    by Jean-Philippe Toussaint ...
    Translated by John Lambert ...
    "A little thing happened to me. Which could have just as easily happened to you. You're on vacation in a hotel with your son in a small village and you're about to go see some friends, but something holds you back, a mysterious reticence that prevents you from going to find them. Here is the novel of this reticence, small and specific, and of the fears that it instigates, little by little. Because ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Truth about Marie

    by Jean-Philippe Toussaint ...
    Translated by Matthew B. Smith ...
    Series series French Literature
    Moving through a variety of locales and adventures, The Truth about Marie revisits the unnamed narrator of Toussaint's acclaimed Running Away, reporting on his now disintegrated relationship with the titular Marie—the story switching deftly between first- and third-person as the narrator continues to drift through life, and Marie does her best to get on with hers. Like all of Toussaint's novels, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus