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  • Trash!

    A Garbageman's Story

    by Simon Pare-Poupart ...
    Translated by Pablo Strauss ...
    **“Raffish and spirited . . . a nonconformist cri de coeur . . . Usually, comparisons to Bourdain are fatuous. This time it’s accurate . . . It’s been a long time since I’ve read so good and rowdy a memoir about blue-collar work.” — Dwight Garner, The New York TimesAN INDIE BESTSELLERA Montreal garbageman's sharp and funny memoir/exposé, in which he attempts to convince people to "stop imagining ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Trash!

    A Garbageman's Story

    by Simon Paré-Poupart ...
    Narrated by Jean Brassard ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 10 min

    A Montreal garbageman’s sharp and funny memoir/exposé, in which he attempts to convince people to “stop imagining that your garbage magically disappears”This fascinating no-bullshit account of twenty years in waste management paints a vivid portrait of the heroic labor, anarchic spirit, and violent conditions of the people who keep our cities clean.Paré-Poupart’s story is atypical: he started ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Love in a Time of Hate

    Art and Passion in the Shadow of War

    by Florian Illies ...
    Translated by Simon Pare ...
    **“An enthralling and insightful cultural history—one that shows how, over the course of one pivotal decade, love, freedom and the freedom to love gave way to fear, madness and despair.” —Malcolm Forbes, Washington Post Book ReviewAn ingeniously orchestrated popular history brings to life the most pivotal decade of the twentieth century**As the Roaring Twenties wind down, Jean-Paul Sartre waits in ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Shadow of Myself

    by Peter Flamm ...
    Translated by Simon Pare ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    **A vivid, hallucinatory rediscovered classic about split identity in the wake of World War I trauma, translated into English for the first time."Unsettling... Creates a picture of a tormented mind, and evokes the profound dislocation felt by veterans returning home from a savage conflict." —The Times**In this searingly poetic novel, we are plunged into the disturbed consciousness of an ex-soldier ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

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  • The Magic Mountain

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Translated by Simon Pare ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Hans Castorp filled his lungs with the pure mountain air--this fresh, light atmosphere that was so easy to inhale and held no scent of moisture, no content, no memories...' Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (1924) is a social comedy with tragic overtones, providing a portrait of Europe in the first decades of the twentieth century. The novel recounts how an apparently simple North German engineer, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Leon and Louise

    by Alex Capus ...
    Translated by Simon Pare ...
    Summer 1918. The First World War is drawing to a close when Léon Le Gall, a French teenager from Cherbourg who has dropped out of school and left home, falls in love with Louise Janvier. Both are severely wounded by German artillery fire, are separated, and believe each other to be dead. Briefly reunited two decades later, the two lovers are torn apart again by Louise's refusal to destroy Léon's ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Cyberpunk

    The New Totalitarianism

    by Asma Mhalla ...
    Translated by Simon Pare ...
    Asma Mhalla’s wildly popular Cyberpunk is a prescient, urgent deep dive into techno-political totalitarianism with more than 50,000 copies sold since its release in France.French political scientist Mhalla interrogates how the marriage of Big Tech with anti-democratic shifts in government toward totalitarianism is transforming our brains into political battlefields. To Mhalla, control of civil ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

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  • The Chinese Phantom

    the hunt for the world’s most dangerous arms dealer

    by Christoph Giesen, Philipp Grüll, Frederik Obermaier, Bastian Obermayer ...
    Translated by Simon Pare ...
    A gripping, real-life thriller following the authors’ attempt to uncover the truth about one of the world’s most wanted men.Karl Lee, alias Li Fangwei, plays a key role in the secret struggle between the world powers, bypassing Western sanctions to supply dictators with the weapons they need to wipe out their neighbouring countries — or even to trigger a third world war.For almost two decades, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Greed

    The page-turning thriller that warned of financial melt-down

    by Marc Elsberg ...
    Translated by Simon Pare ...
    CORRUPT BIG BUSINESS, ECONOMY IN MELTDOWN, THE THRILLER THAT WARNED US ALL'Marc Elsberg is nothing if not prescient' GUARDIANIt’s the near future: the world economy is in freefall. Mass unemployment and hunger rage as banks, corporations and countries go bankrupt. But one group are doing just fine: the super-rich.Nobel prize-winning economist Herbert Thompson drives to an emergency summit in ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Code Zero

    The unputdownable international bestselling thriller

    by Marc Elsberg ...
    Translated by Simon Pare ...
    DISCOVER THE TECHNO THRILLER THAT ROCKED THE INTERNET GENERATIONA Guardian thriller of the month: 'Elsberg is nothing if not prescient'_______ZERO, an anonymous activist, has given the world a warning: stop the tech giants before it’s too late.But is anyone listening?Thousands of teenagers are signing up to Freemee, the biggest new social media site, uploading personal information in exchange for ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The First Days of Berlin

    The Sound of Change

    by Ulrich Gutmair ...
    Translated by Simon Pare ...
    Berlin in the early 1990s, right after the fall of the Berlin Wall: this is the place to be. Berlin-Mitte, the central district of the city, with its wastelands and decaying houses, has become the centre of a new movement. Artists, musicians, squatters, club owners, DJs and ravers are reclaiming the old city centre and bringing it back to life. This interregnum between two systems – the collapse ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • My Man's a Bear

    by Vincent Bourgeau, Simon Pare ...
    On a dansing night, a woman and a bear fall in love. Life is sweet, life is soft, until the bear vanishes. A French love story written by reknown author Vincent Bourgeau and translated by Simon Pare. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD