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  • A Taxi to Biarritz

    A Taxi to Biarritz: A Pianist's Journey of a Lifetime by Mathieu Ortlieb is a haunting and heartfelt novel that intertwines music, memory, and redemption against the backdrop of World War II. At 83, Yvonne, a reclusive former pianist, embarks on an unexpected road trip from Paris to Biarritz with Jean-Pierre, her disillusioned taxi driver. Haunted by her past, Yvonne confronts the guilt of her ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Sarah's Key

    A Novel

    **Now a major motion picture!From beloved international sensation and #1 New York Times bestselling author Tatiana de Rosnay come's her celebrated novel Sarah's Key.**Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Little French Bistro

    A Novel

    by Nina George ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Little Paris Bookshop, an extraordinary novel about self-discovery and new beginnings.Marianne is stuck in a loveless, unhappy marriage. After forty-one years, she has reached her limit, and one evening in Paris she decides to take action. Following a dramatic moment on the banks of the Seine, Marianne ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Yellow Dog (Inspector Maigret)

    Translated by Linda Asher ...
    Series Book 5 - Inspector Maigret
    An eerie mystery in which a local wine dealer is shot and a strange yellow dog starts to circle the town—Inspector Maigret must navigate small-town dynamics to find the elusive culprit.Late at night in a small seaside town, not a single light is on, and everyone is asleep. Or almost everyone: a man, drunk, departs for home after another evening at a hotel bar, where he and a few others regularly ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Night at the Crossroads (Inspector Maigret)

    Translated by Linda Coverdale ...
    Series Book 6 - Inspector Maigret
    Another riveting tale from Georges Simenon, in which two siblings, living in isolation, are suspects in a tale of deception, theft, and murder.It’s been seventeen hours of interrogation, yet Carl Andersen’s air of elegance remains unruffled. Inspector Maigret is bewildered by the behavior exhibited by the only probable suspect of the case at Three Widows Crossroads, the location of Carl’s isolated ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • A Crime in Holland (Inspector Maigret)

    Translated by Siân Reynolds ...
    Series Book 7 - Inspector Maigret
    A thought-provoking mystery unfolds in a small coastal Dutch town after a host’s private party ends in murder.A French professor is staying in a coastal Dutch town while on a lecture tour—but when his host is murdered, he’s held for questioning as the prime suspect. Maigret’s assistance is requested, so he travels to the northeast of Holland, where he meets the attendees of a small private ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Department of Missing Persons

    A Novel

    Translated by Grace McQuillan ...
    A startling debut novel about the burden of Holocaust memory and the implacable zest for life.Thirty-six years after her mother was liberated from Bergen-Belsen, the unnamed narrator lives a comfortable life in Paris. Her mother sees ghosts at every turn, longing to find the family that disappeared behind the miasma of the Holocaust, but she cannot reconcile her mother’s trauma to the cheery ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien (Inspector Maigret)

    Translated by Linda Coverdale ...
    Series Book 3 - Inspector Maigret
    Suddenly witness to a man’s dreadful death, Inspector Maigret finds himself faced with a series of sordid events that drove the man to despair in this haunting tale of guilt and tragedy.While stopped at a railway station on the northern edge of Holland, Inspector Maigret catches sight of a traveler acting oddly: the man glances around furtively, pulls out handfuls of coins to pay for purchases, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Grand Banks Café (Inspector Maigret)

    Translated by David Coward ...
    Series Book 8 - Inspector Maigret
    A crew’s captain turns up dead, but it’s the evil eye that haunts them—Inspector Maigret must navigate stone-faced sailors to solve the fishy sequence of events.A fishing boat docks at a port in Normandy—and hours later its captain is floating in the harbor, strangled to death. When Inspector Maigret arrives, at the behest of his old school friend, he finds the Océan’s crew will say nary a word ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Murder chez Proust

    A Mystery

    When Adeline Bertrand-Verdon, the haughty, conniving president of the Proust Association, is murdered, Inspector Jean-Pierre Foucheroux is called on to lead the investigation. Soon Inspector Foucheroux is overwhelmed by a seemingly endless list of suspects: from her assistant to her colleagues, her fiancé to her lover, almost everyone Adeline knew had motive to kill her. Meanwhile, Gisele Dambert, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Flemish House (Inspector Maigret)

    Translated by Shaun Whiteside ...
    Series Book 14 - Inspector Maigret
    A moody, rain-swept mystery from Georges Simenon that unfolds in a border town haunted by floods and deep secrets.In The Flemish House, Maigret arrives in the rainy, flood-prone town of Givet on the Belgian border to solve the case of a missing young woman. He has been hired by the wealthy Peeters family, who are suspected of being responsible, to clear their name. As he plumbs the mysteries, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Almost French

    Love and a New Life in Paris

    The charming true story of a spirited young woman who finds adventure--and the love of her life--in Paris."This isn't like me. I'm not the sort of girl who crosses continents to meet up with a man she hardly knows. Paris hadn't even been part of my travel plan..."A delightful, fresh twist on the travel memoir, Almost French takes us on a tour that is fraught with culture clashes but rife with ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD