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  • Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch

    A Novel

    by Rivka Galchen ...
    The startling, witty, highly anticipated second novel from the critically acclaimed author of Atmospheric DisturbancesIt is 1618 in the German duchy of Württemberg. Plague is spreading, the Thirty Years’ War has begun, and fear and suspicion are in the air throughout the Holy Roman Empire. In the small town of Leonberg, Katharina Kepler, an illiterate widow, is accused of being a witch.Katharina ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Lives of the Scientists: or, How to Predict the End of the World

    by Rivka Galchen ...
    One of our most brilliant, acclaimed novelists turns to nonfiction with a mind-expanding, slyly humorous personal exploration of the scientific imagination.In Lives of the Scientists: or, How to Predict the End of the World, Rivka Galchen offers a profound and playful exploration of the lives of scientists, the persistence of error, and the quixotic faith required to make sense of a turbulent ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Rat Rule 79

    by Rivka Galchen, Elena Megalos ...
    Series series Yonder
    From the New Yorker “20 Under 40” author of Atmospheric Disturbances comes a brain-twisting adventure story of a girl named Fred on a quest through a world of fantastical creatures, strange logic, and a powerful prejudice against growing up.Fred and her math-teacher mom are always on the move, and Fred is getting sick of it. She’s about to have yet another birthday in a new place without friends. ... Read more

    $20.60 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Little Labors

    by Rivka Galchen ...
    In paperback at last: Rivka Galchen’s beloved baby bible—slyly hilarious, surprising, and absolutely essential reading for anyone who has ever had, held, or been a babyIn this enchanting miscellany, Galchen notes that literature has more dogs than babies (and also more abortions), that the tally of children for many great women writers—Jane Bowles, Elizabeth Bishop, Virginia Woolf, Janet Frame, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • American Innovations

    by Rivka Galchen ...
    A wickedly smart and deeply emotional collection of imaginative storiesIn one of the intensely imaginative stories in Rivka Galchen’s American Innovations, a narrator’s furniture walks out on her. In another, the narrator feels compelled to promise to deliver a takeout order that has incorrectly been phoned in to her. In a third, the petty details around a property transaction detail the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Rat Rule 79

    An Adventure

    by Rivka Galchen ...
    “Rivka Galchen delivers joy and cleverness reminiscent of The Phantom Tollbooth, Alice in Wonderland, and Hayao Miyazaki movies” (NPR, Best Books of 2019) in Rat Rule 79, a brain-twisting adventure story about friendship, growing up, and peanut-butter-pickle sandwiches.Fred and her math-teacher mom are always on the move, and Fred is getting sick of it. She’s about to have yet another birthday in ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    Atmospheric Disturbances

    by Rivka Galchen, Billy Jean ...
    Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 39 min

    When Dr. Leo Liebenstein’s wife disappears, she leaves behind a single, confounding clue: a woman who looks, talks, and behaves almost exactly like her and even audaciously claims to be her. While everyone else is fooled by this imposter, Leo knows better. Certain that his real wife is alive and in hiding, Leo embarks on a quixotic journey to reclaim his lost love. From the streets of New York to ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch

    A Novel

    by Rivka Galchen ...
    Narrated by Natasha Soudek ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 47 min

    The startling, witty, highly anticipated second novel from the critically acclaimed author of Atmospheric DisturbancesIt is 1618 in the German duchy of Württemberg. Plague is spreading, the Thirty Years’ War has begun, and fear and suspicion are in the air throughout the Holy Roman Empire. In the small town of Leonberg, Katharina Kepler, an illiterate widow, is accused of being a witch.Katharina ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Passenger: Space

    by The Passenger, Lauren Groff, Rivka Galchen, Jo Marchant ...
    Series series The Passenger
    Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.IN THIS VOLUME: Night, Sleep, Death and the Stars by Lauren Groff・ The Universe Underground by Paolo Giordano・ We All Hated Each Other So Much by Frank Westermann・plus: discovering new planets and destroying satellites; returning to the Moon (this time to stay); the Mars delusio. ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Rushing to Paradise

    by J. G. Ballard ...
    J.G. Ballard – author of Crash and Empire of the Sun – explores the extremes of ecology and feminism in this highly acclaimed modern fable.Dr Barbara Rafferty is a fearless conservationist, determined to save a rare albatross from extinction. Her crusade gains widespread coverage when earnest young environmentalist Neil Dempsey is shot during an ill-fated attempt to rescue the bird from its ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray

    by Jorge Amado ...
    Translated by Gregory Rabassa ...
    A Penguin ClassicWidely considered the greatest work by the foremost Brazilian author of the twentieth century, The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray comes to Penguin Classics in a new translation by the dean of Portuguese-language translators, Gregory Rabassa. It tells the story of Joaquim Soares da Cunha, who drops dead after he abandons his life of upstanding citizenship to assume the identity ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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    The Miniature Wife

    and Other Stories

    by Manuel Gonzales ...
    Narrated by Manuel Gonzales, Kirsten Potter, Lee Osorio ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 8 min

    **The inspiration for the Peacock series starring Matthew MacFadyen and Elizabeth BanksIn the tradition of George Saunders and Aimee Bender, an exuberantly imagined debut that chronicles an ordinary world marked by unusual phenomena.**The eighteen stories of Manuel Gonzales’s exhilarating first book render the fantastic commonplace and the ordinary extraordinary, in prose that thrums with energy ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook