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  • The Tigress

    A Curious Love Story

    by Walter Serner ...
    When Bichette, the eponymous Tigress and uncrowned queen of Paris prostitutes, meets the grifter Fec, the unbelievable seems to happen: she is “tamed” and falls head over heels for him — and he for her. This sets off a dangerous game that spirals toward wild escalation in the luxury hotels and casinos of the French Riviera before reaching its grotesque culmination in Montmartre. The nihilism and ... Read more

    $15.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Last Loosening

    A Handbook for the Con Artist & Those Aspiring to Become One

    by Walter Serner, Mark Kanak (Translator) ...
    A cofounder of Dada and its enfant terrible, Walter Serner was a brilliant observer of society — his activities in the 1920s have been called "a dance on the rim of a volcano." His Last Loosening: Dada Manifesto was written in 1918 and published in 1920. Slightly revised later as Serner became disgusted with Dada, it forms the first part of this volume, its philosophical foundation. Serner's ... Read more

    $15.21 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • At the Blue Monkey

    33 Outlandish Stories

    by Walter Serner ...
    Translated by Erik Butler ...
    Walter Serner’s first story collection, published in German in 1921, brought to narrative form the philosophy of his earlier Dada manifesto/handbook, Last Loosening: A Handbook for the Con Artist & Those Who Wish to Be One—life is a con job and demands the skills of a swindler. With its depiction of a world of appearances in which nothing can be trusted, At the Blue Monkey helped establish the ex ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • The Fall

    by Albert Camus ...
    Series series Vintage International
    NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR • One of the most widely read novels of all time—from one of the best-known writers of all time—about a lawyer from Paris who brilliantly illuminates the human condition.Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searing study of modern amorality. ... Read more

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  • Getting Lost

    by Annie Ernaux ...
    Translated by Alison L. Strayer ...
    WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThe diary of one of France’s most important, award-winning writers during the year she had a passionate and secret love affair with a Russian diplomatGetting Lost is the diary Annie Ernaux kept during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, a Russian diplomat. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but ... Read more

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  • Casino Royale

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    by Ian Fleming ...
    Series Book 1 - James Bond
    A high-stakes baccarat game turns deadly as British secret agent James Bond attempts to take down Le Chiffre, paymaster for the Soviet counterintelligence organization SMERSH. Aided by stalwart CIA agent Felix Leiter and the beautiful but duplicitous Vesper Lynd, Bond battles the odds to bankrupt Le Chiffre, lay waste SMERSH’s cashflow, and escape alive.Influenced by author Ian Fleming’s own ... Read more

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  • Grand Hotel

    by Vicki Baum, Margot Bettauer Dembo ...
    Translated by Basil Creighton ...
    A luxury hotel in 1920s Berlin is a microcosm of modern society in this classic that inspired a hit Broadway musical and the classic film starring Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, and John Barrymore.“Prefigures Downtown Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs by examining multiple characters from different classes.” —Shelf AwarenessThe luxury Grand Hotel is a revolving door for the stray souls of 1920s Berlin. ... Read more

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  • The Department of Missing Persons

    A Novel

    by Ruth Zylberman ...
    Translated by Grace McQuillan ...
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  • Whatever

    by Michel Houellebecq, Won Prix Goncourt in 2010 for The Map and the Territory ...
    Series series Serpent's Tail Classics
    Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny and clever novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time. A computer programmer by day, he is tolerably content, until, that is, he's packed off with a colleague - the unimaginably ugly, sexually-frustrated virgin Raphael ... Read more

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  • Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

    by Simone de Beauvoir ...
    Series series Perennial Classics
    From the groundbreaking author of The Second Sex "a book that will leave no one indifferent, and no one affected in quite the same way" ( New York Times ).A superb memoir by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an ... ... Read more

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  • Epitaph for a Spy

    by Eric Ambler ...
    When Josef Vadassy arrives at the Hotel de la Reserve at the end of his Riviera holiday, he is simply looking forward to a few more days of relaxation before returning to Paris. But in St. Gatien, on the eve of World War II, everyone is suspect–the American brother and sister, the expatriate Brits, and the German gentleman traveling under at least one assumed name. When the film he drops off at ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD