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  • Skeletons in the Closet

    par Jean-Patrick Manchette ...
    Traduit par Alyson Waters ...
    Eugéne Tarpon, the private-eye protagonist from Manchette’s No Room at the Morgue, appears once more for a characteristically brisk and brutal story full of unexpected comedy and feeling.Private eye Eugéne Tarpon is back to sleeping in his office, waiting for a paying job to turn up. Then he gets a call from a sometime contact in the police department. He's referring a nice old lady—a distant ... En savoir plus

    $18.39 CAD

  • Take a Closer Look

    par Daniel Arasse ...
    Traduit par Alyson Waters ...
    A renowned art historian explores what paintings can teach us—if we can really learn to see them.What happens when we look at a painting? What do we think about? What do we imagine? How can we explain, even to ourselves, what we see or think we see? And how can art historians interpret with any seriousness what they observe?In six engaging, short narrative "fictions," each richly illustrated in ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • No Room at the Morgue

    par Jean-Patrick Manchette, Howard A. Rodman ...
    Traduit par Alyson Waters ...
    Inspired by the works of Dashiell Hammett, No Room at the Morgue is Jean-Patrick Manchette's unparalleled take on the private eye novel — fierce, politically inflected, and finely rendered by the haunting, pitch-black prose for which the author is famed.No Room at the Morgue came out after Jean-Patrick Manchette had transformed French crime fiction with such brilliantly plotted, politically ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • Henri Duchemin and His Shadows

    par Emmanuel Bove ...
    Traduit par Alyson Waters ...
    An NYRB Classics OriginalEmmanuel Bove was one of the most original writers to come out of twentieth-century France and a popular success in his day. Discovered by Colette, who arranged for the publication of his first novel, My Friends, Bove enjoyed a busy literary career, until the German occupation silenced him. During his lifetime, his novels and stories were admired by Rilke, the surrealists, ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Taormina

    par Yves Ravey ...
    Traduit par Alyson Waters ...
    Vacationing in Sicily in an attempt to resuscitate their doomed marriage, a hapless couple soon fall under suspicion for a horrific crime in this razor-sharp noir about migration, police corruption, and the self-absorption of the middle class.Unhappy couple Melvil and Luisa are on holiday in Sicily in a last-ditch effort to save their broken marriage, but one wrong turn off the highway leaves them ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

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  • A King Alone

    par Jean Giono ...
    Traduit par Alyson Waters ...
    An existential detective story by one of France's most popular modern writers, set in a mid-nineteenth century mountain village, available in English for the first timeA King Alone is set in a remote Alpine village that is cut off from the world by rugged mountains and by long months when the ground is covered with snow and the heavens with cloud. One such winter, villagers begin mysteriously to ... En savoir plus

    $18.39 CAD

  • The Monroe Girls

    par Antoine Volodine ...
    Traduit par Alyson Waters ...
    For readers of Thomas Pynchon, a conspiratorial adventure through a bleak future where the dead (and their political factions) never really die, from one of France’s most visionary writersBreton has seen brighter days. Now his body sags as he pulls a pair of binoculars to his withered face. He peers from the grimy window of a near-empty psychiatric compound—one of the last buildings standing after ... En savoir plus

    $23.19 CAD

  • The River

    par Claude Ponti ...
    Traduit par Margot Kerlidou, Alyson Waters ...
    A psychedelic adventure story of friendship, peril, gender questions, and foraging in two floating villages, perfect for 5-8 year olds — the latest fantasy world from beloved writer and illustrator Claude Ponti.In two floating villages on the river Longo live a pair of boat-faring communities, sailing where their whim or the current takes them. The Oolongs are known for the delicious roots, fruits ... En savoir plus

    $21.59 CAD

  • The Colors of Infamy

    par Albert Cossery ...
    Traduit par Alyson Waters ...
    A delightful, deeply funny novel about the triumph of the perfect prankster — an elegant gentleman pickpocket in Cairo.His eyes “shine with a glimmer of perpetual amusement”; his sartorial taste is impeccable; Ossama is “a thief, not a legitimated thief, such as a minister, banker, or real-estate developer; he is a modest thief.” He knows “that by dressing with the same elegance as the licensed ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Biomimicry

    When Nature Inspires Amazing Inventions

    par Seraphine Menu ...
    Illustré par Emmanuelle Walker ...
    Nature did it first! A beautiful and whimsically illustrated explanation of cool inventions like Velcro and scuba suits that were inspired by the natural worldDiscover how bats led to the development of radar, whales inspired the pacemaker, and the lotus flower may help us produce indestructible clothing. "Biomimicry" comes from the Greek "bio" (life) and "mimesis" (imitation)." Here are various ... En savoir plus

    $14.39 CAD

  • Proud Beggars

    Traduit par Thomas W. Cushing ...
    par Albert Cossery ...
    Early in Proud Beggars, a brutal and motiveless murder is committed in a Cairo brothel. But the real mystery at the heart of Albert Cossery’s wry black comedy is not the cause of this death but the paradoxical richness to be found in even the most materially impoverished life.Chief among Cossery’s proud beggars is Gohar, a former professor turned whorehouse accountant, hashish aficionado, and ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Meeselphe

    par Claude Ponti ...
    Illustré par Claude Ponti ...
    Confident, bristly-haired Meeselphe tumbles headfirst into a whimsical world of riddles, monsters, and magical landscapes – celebrated French children’s book author-illustrator Claude Ponti’s latest adventureLeaning out of her treehouse window, Meeselphe wonders what it’s like way down on the ground, a place she’s never been – but she’s certain there are many unfamiliar, delightful, and curious ... En savoir plus

    $15.19 CAD