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  • To Live and Die in Scoudouc

    by Herménégilde Chiasson ...
    Translated by Jo-Anne Elder ...
    First published in 1974, Mourir à Scoudouc emerged out of a period of cultural awakening. Chiasson's poems denounced the narrow limitations of the past and traced the lines of a fresh collective vision. The poems were lyrical, referentially modern, and steeped in the rhythms and forms that had emerged from the Americas, Europe, and India.Now, more than 40 years later, Herménégilde Chiasson is ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Swallow Finds a Nest

    by Émilie Demers, Réjean Roy ...
    Translated by Jo-Anne Elder ...
    After travelling thousands of kilometres, Swallow discovers that the place where she usually nests has been transformed from top to bottom. The family farm has been replaced by a large-scale agricultural operati on. She has to look for a new place to give birth to her young. The journey is long, but not without humour and hope. She meets Moose, Deer, Raccoon, all of whom have their own ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Human Presences and Possible Futures

    Selected Poems

    by Robert Dickson ...
    Translated by Jo-Anne Elder ...
    Series Book 10 - Essential Translations Series
    This collection of poetry is a selection of award-winning Franco-Ontarian poet Robert Dickson's various collections of poetry, including his Governor-General Award winning Humains paysages en temps de paix relative. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Voices and Echoes

    Canadian Women’s Spirituality

    Edited by Jo-Anne Elder, Colin O’Connell ...
    Series Book 4 - Studies in Women and Religion
    “Every time we raise our voices, we hear echoes.” Jo-Anne Elder, from the ForewordThrough short stories, journal entries and poetry, the women in Voices and Echoes explore the changing landscape of their spiritual lives. Experienced writers such as Lorna Crozier, Di Brandt and Ann Copeland, as well as strong new voices, appear to speak to each other as they draw from a wealth of personal resources ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

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  • The Years

    by Annie Ernaux ...
    Translated by Alison L. Strayer ...
    **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

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Most Beautiful Walk in the World

    A Pedestrian in Paris

    by John Baxter ...
    Thrust into the unlikely role of professional "literary walking tour" guide, an expat in Paris provides the most irresistibly witty and revealing tour of the city in years.In this enchanting Paris memoir, acclaimed author and long-time resident John Baxter remembers his yearlong experience of giving "literary walking tours" through the city. Baxter sets off with unsuspecting tourists in tow on the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Paris to the Moon

    by Adam Gopnik ...
    Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner--in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as there have been Americans.In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York City for the urbane glamour of the City of Light. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Paris, Paris

    Journey into the City of Light

    by David Downie ...
    “Beautifully written and refreshingly original . . . makes us see [Paris] in a different light.”—San Francisco Chronicle Book ReviewSwapping his native San Francisco for the City of Light, travel writer David Downie arrived in Paris in 1986 on a one-way ticket, his head full of romantic notions. Curiosity and the legs of a cross-country runner propelled him daily from an unheated, seventh-floor ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris

    An Adventure History of Paris

    by Graham Robb ...
    The New York Times bestseller: the secrets of the City of Light, revealed in the lives of the great, the near-great, and the forgotten—by the author of the acclaimed The Discovery of France.This is the Paris you never knew. From the Revolution to the present, Graham Robb has distilled a series of astonishing true narratives, all stranger than fiction, of the lives of the great, the near-great, and ... Read more

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  • Flaneuse

    Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London

    by Lauren Elkin ...
    *Shortlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay*Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 by the Financial Times, Guardian, New Statesman*, Observer**, The Millions* and Emerald Street**'Flâneuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from the French. Feminine form of flâneur [flanne-euhr], an idler, a dawdling observer, usually found in cities.That is an imagin... ... Read more

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  • Wisdom in Nonsense

    Invaluable Lessons from My Father

    by Heather O'Neill ...
    Series series CLC Kreisel Lecture Series
    I broke all the rules that my dad gave me. It was he who had given me, in part, the confidence to think of my life as being worthy to mix with those of the geniuses. —Heather O’Neill With generosity and wry humour, novelist Heather O’Neill recalls several key lessons she learned in childhood from her father: memories and stories about how crime does pay, why one should never keep a diary, and that ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Combat Journal for Place d'Armes

    A Personal Narrative

    by Scott Symons ...
    Series Book 16 - Voyageur Classics
    Originally published in 1967, Combat Journal for Place d'Armes, set in Montreal, was initially met with shock and anger by most reviewers. As D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover once had, it challenged the attitudes and morals held by most people in its time regarding life and literature. Despite this initial reaction, the novel earned author Scott Symons the Beta Sigma Phi Best First Canadian ... Read more

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