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  • The Mouse of the Opera

    by Tuula Pere ...
    Illustrated by Outi Rautkallio ...
    A curious wood mouse, Maurice decides to explore the opera house, which glimmers like a giant lantern from across the lawn. Lured by beautiful music, he sneaks in for a tour of the opera house’s rehearsals, wardrobe room, restaurant, and orchestra pit.The uninvited guest causes a great commotion, triggering a wild chase. Luckily, a gentle caretaker understands that even a little mouse can yearn ... Read more

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  • Pere Goriot

    by Honore de Balzac ...
    Père Goriot marked the beginning of Balzac’s towering project La Comédie Humaine, his series of novels and short stories depicting “the whole pell-mell of civilization.”It is the masterful study of father Goriot, a man who has sacrificed everything for his daughters, and the other inhabitants of a Parisian boarding house in 1819.Goriot has literally bankrupted himself to shore up the finances of ... Read more

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  • Le Père Goriot

    by Honoré de Balzac ...
    Le Père Goriot is widely considered Balzac's most important novel. This is the story of the relationship between a doting father and his two adult daughters. Blinded by his love for his children, Père Goriot can not see their flaws and gives them everything they ask for even though the giving destroys him. A cautionary tale about the dangers of placing society and money before all else. ... Read more

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  • No Room for Small Dreams

    Courage, Imagination and the Making of Modern Israel

    by Shimon Peres ...
    In 1934, eleven-year-old Shimon Peres emigrated to the land of Israel from his native Poland, leaving behind an extended family who would later be murdered in the Holocaust. Few back then would have predicted that this young man would eventually become one of the towering figures of the twentieth century. Peres would indeed go on to serve the new state as prime minister, president, foreign ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Greatest Works of French Literature (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. 90+ Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Philosophical Essays…

    by Marcel Proust, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Baudelaire, Émile Zola, Jules Verne, Victor Hugo, Molière, Voltaire, Alexandre Dumas pere, Alexandre Dumas fils, Stendhal0, Jean-Jacques Rousseau1, Jean Racine2, François Rabelais3, Gustave Flaubert4, Gaston Leroux5, George Sand6, Pierre Corneille7, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos8, Wesley Calderwick1 ...
    The Greatest Works of French Literature gathers an extraordinary arc of French writing, from Renaissance satire and classical tragedy to Enlightenment polemic, nineteenth-century realism, decadence, adventure, and psychological fiction. Its range encompasses theatrical eloquence, philosophical provocation, lyrical intensity, social indictment, historical romance, and studies of desire and ambition ... Read more

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  • Numbers

    An Introduction and Commentary

    by Caio Peres, Peter Altmann, Tremper Longman III, David G. Firth ...
    Series Book 4 - Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries
    Two Scholars Reengage with Numbers in this Tyndale CommentaryThe book of Numbers has had something of a renaissance in scholarly engagement in recent years. This Tyndale Old Testament Commentary volume by Peter Altmann andCaio Peres distills that conversation with sensitivity and rigor. With input from two authors from different contexts, it helps to illuminate Numbers for the contemporary reader ... Read more

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  • Narratives from the Sephardic Atlantic

    Blood and Faith

    by Ronnie Perelis ...
    Series series Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies
    Identity, family, and community unite three autobiographical texts by New World crypto-Jews, or descendants of Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity in 17th-century Iberia and Spanish America. Ronnie Perelis presents the fascinating stories of three men who were caught within the matrix of inquisitorial persecution, expanding global trade, and the network of crypto-Jewish activity. Each ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Creatures of the Night (Boxed Set Edition)

    Classic Vampire, Werewolf, and Gothic Horror Tales from Medieval Folklore to Pulp Fiction

    by Robert E. Howard, Bram Stoker, E. F. Benson, John William Polidori, Richard Francis Burton, Jan Neruda, Sheridan Le Fanu, Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer, Alice and Claude Askew, Hume Nisbet, Dudley Wright, Marie de France, Alexandre Dumas Père, George W. M. Reynolds, Eugene Field, Émile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian, Rudyard Kipling, Gladys Gordon Trenery, Clifford Ball ...
    Creatures of the Night (Boxed Set Edition) surveys the nocturnal imagination across centuries, gathering Gothic terror, supernatural romance, adventure fantasy, folklore, and fin-de-siècle sensation. Its range extends from medieval lays and early vampire lore to Victorian penny dreadfuls, colonial uncanny tales, and twentieth-century weird fiction. Vampires, spectres, shape-shifters, and morally ... Read more

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  • Pere Goriot

    by Honore Balzac ...
    Edith Wharton's "Madame de Treymes" is a remarkable example of the form. It is the story of the tactical defeat but moral victory of an honest and upstanding American in his struggle to win a wife from a tightly united but feudally minded French aristocratic family. He loses, but they cheat. . . . In a masterpiece of brevity, Wharton dramatizes the contrast between the two opposing forces: the ... Read more

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  • The Shoemaker's Splendid Lamp

    by Tuula Pere ...
    Illustrated by Georgia Styloy ...
    Series Book 1 - History
    The shoemaker lives in a small cottage with his large family. Every day he toils away, making boots so his family can eat. The shoemaker's sickly youngest son, Aron, often sits beside him. The doctor has warned the shoemaker that little Aron might not live long enough to see next summer.The shoemaker longs to make more shoes to feed his family, but the cottage gets so dark, he must stop working ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • As Needed for Pain

    A Memoir of Addiction

    by Dan Peres ...
    In the vein of Mary Karr's Lit, Augusten Burroughs' Dry and Sarah Hepola's Blackout, As Needed for Pain is a raw and riveting—and often wryly funny—addiction memoir from one of New York media's most accomplished editors which explores his never-before-told story of opioid addiction and the drastic impact it had on his life and career.Dan Peres wasn't born to be a media insider. As an awkward, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Traveling Companions

    by Tuula Pere ...
    Illustrated by Catty Flores ...
    Series Book 1 - Nepal
    After devastation caused by a landslide, the people of a small mountain village are forced to leave their ruined homes and embark on a difficult journey towards the valley.However, an unlikely trio has to stay behind and wait for help. The rope-maker’s son, Tony, has injured his leg; the oldest of the village is weakened by his age; and the blind blacksmith is not likely to make the difficult trek ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD