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  • Shadows of Marrakech

    par Philip Brebner ...
    Running a bed and breakfast in Riad Waqi, an old courtyard house in exotic Marrakech, is not the escape it seems for Ramzi, a disillusioned Scottish scientist. He cannot decide who are more exasperating, staff or guests, especially when one of the visitors, Paul Gallisot, a young Frenchman, is murdered in the city.Up for a challenge, Ramzi turns detective and makes his own investigations into the ... En savoir plus

    $5.50 CAD

  • Fado

    A Novel

    par Philip Brebner ...
    Fado, a word meaning fate or destiny, refers to a type of music that embodies the Portuguese spirit of yearning.Told by a mysterious narrator, Fado is a novelette that spans one year, a year marked by religious and pagan festivals, political holidays and the seasons.At the heart of the tale are two characters, Maria Salvador, a Fado singer from Lisbon, and from Porto, Joaquim Oliveira, a veteran ... En savoir plus

    $3.65 CAD

  • Hydrogen

    par Philip Brebner ...
    Hydrogen: the lightest element, the lifting gas of airships—and highly inflammable.Lakehurst New Jersey, crash site of the Hindenburg. Alone in a motel room Peter Miller recalls how, as a German ten year old, he stowed away on a Zeppelin, shot down in a bombing raid on London in 1916. The only survivor, he is raised as an English orphan at a school for destitute boys founded by the eccentric Dr ... En savoir plus

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  • The Fabulous Road

    par Philip Brebner ...
    The Cook. The Dervish. The Geographer. The Artist. The Jongleur. The Scholar.  The Historian.  A group of men are imprisoned by their Sultan and await death; they are to be executed for petty crimes.  They all have one regret—not to have done the pilgrimage to Mecca. Whereupon, a talking parrot, centuries old, flies into their cell and rebukes them, suggesting they undertake the overland ... En savoir plus

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  • A Country of Vanished Dreams

    par Philip Brebner ...
    ‘Sad is the day when the children of our revolution become our enemies.’ 1987. Algeria is on the brink of civil war.  In the market square in El Oued, a political fugitive Muhammad Madani poses as Rahwun, the storyteller.  With tales that roar back and forth through time, he narrates the history of that magical and formidable country, fables of intrigue and of strife, of children sold and of women ... En savoir plus

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  • Questions of Travel

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    Laura Fraser grows up in Sydney, motherless, with a cold, professional father and an artistic bent. Ravi Mendis lives on the other side of the globe -- exploring the seductive new world of the Internet, his father dead, his mother struggling to get by.Their stories alternate throughout Michelle de Kretser's ravishing novel, culminating in unlikely fates for them both, destinies influenced by ... En savoir plus

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  • All the Light We Cannot See

    A Novel

    par Anthony Doerr ...
    *NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Road to Oxiana

    par Robert Byron ...
    In 1933 Robert Byron began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Teheran to Oxiana--the country of the Oxus, the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which forms part of the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. The Road to Oxiana offers not only a wonderful record of his adventures, but also a rare account of the architectural treasures of a region now ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Full Tilt

    Ireland to India with a Bicycle

    par Dervla Murphy ...
    When Dervla Murphy was ten, she was given a bicycle and an atlas, and within days she was secretly planning a trip to India. At the age of thirty-one, in 1963, she finally set off and this book is based on the daily diary she kept while riding through Persia, Afghanistan and over the Himalayas to Pakistan and India. A lone woman on a bicycle (with a revolver in her trouser pocket) was an almost ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Janissary Tree

    A Novel

    par Jason Goodwin ...
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    WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVELThis first book in the Investigator Yashim series is a richly entertaining tale, full of exotic history and intrigue, introduces Investigator Yashim: In 1830s Istanbul, an extra-ordinary hero tackles an extraordinary plot that threatens to topple the Ottoman EmpireIt is 1836. Europe is modernizing, and the Ottoman Empire must follow suit. But just before the ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Birds Without Wings

    Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in southwest Turkey (Anatolia) in the early part of the last century—a quirky community in which Christian and Muslim lives and traditions have co-existed peacefully over the centuries and where friendship, even love, has transcended religious differences.But with the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and the onset of the Great War, ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • A House in Fez

    Building a Life in the Ancient Heart of Morocco

    par Suzanna Clarke ...
    The Medina -- the Old City -- of Fez is the best-preserved, medieval walled city in the world. Inside this vibrant Moroccan community, internet cafes and mobile phones coexist with a maze of donkey-trod alleyways, thousand-year-old sewer systems, and Arab-style houses, gorgeous with intricate, if often shabby, mosaic work.While vacationing in Morocco, Suzanna Clarke and her husband, Sandy, are ... En savoir plus

    $19.50 CAD