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  • The 6:41 to Paris

    by Jean-Philippe Blondel ...
    After decades, former lovers come face to face in a novel filled with a "suspenseful dread that makes you want to turn every page at locomotive pace" ( St. Louis Post-Dispatch).Cécile, a stylish forty-seven-year-old, has spent the weekend visiting her parents in a provincial town southeast of Paris. By early Monday morning, she's exhausted. These trips back home are always stressful, and she ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Emotions

    A Novel

    by Jean-Philippe Toussaint ...
    Translated by Mark Polizzotti ...
    An analyst at the heart of the European Union revisits his past and anticipates the future after his father’s death, in this brilliant, nuanced novel of love, politics, masculinity, and memory.A European civil servant specializing in strategic foresight, Jean Detrez works on the future with scientific rigor. However, the unexpected seems to invade his life, both professional and personal. The ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • You Crushed It

    by Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard ...
    Translated by Neil Smith ...
    With the caustic daring of Bret Easton Ellis and the offbeat, psychological insight of Douglas Coupland, You Crushed It is a captivating exploration of love and the corroding nature of power in creative industries.Raph Massi is crushing it. A young up-and-coming comedian, he's successfully navigating the internal cosmos of the stand-up industry and burying long-borne insecurities with each ... Read more

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  • The Buddhist Chef

    100 Simple, Feel-Good Vegan Recipes: A Cookbook

    by Jean-Philippe Cyr ...
    100 simply delicious vegan recipes--good for the planet, and for you--from the chef and blogger behind The Buddhist Chef.A practicing Buddhist for over two decades, Jean-Philippe Cyr, aka The Buddhist Chef, believes that everyone has the power to make their vision of the world a reality--and that the most impactful way to do that is through the food we choose to make, eat, and share. This ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Sports and Pastimes

    by Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard ...
    Translated by Aimee Wall ...
    Series series Literature in Translation Series
    Inspired by Erik Satie's work of the same name, Sports and Pastimes is the latest novel by acclaimed Montreal playwright and author Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard.Translated by Aimee Wall (whose translation of Vickie Gendreau's Testament for BookThug in 2016 drew critical reviews), this fast-paced story follows the daily life, at once empty and overloaded, of a group of friends who spend all their ... Read more

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  • Self-Portrait Abroad

    by Jean-Philippe Toussaint ...
    Translated by John Lambert ...
    Series series Netherlandic and Belgian Literature
    In Self-Portrait Abroad, our narrator—a Belgian author much like Toussaint himself—travels the globe, finding the mundane blended everywhere with the exotic: With his usual poker face, he keeps up on Corsican gossip in Tokyo and has a battle of nerves in a butcher shop in Berlin; he wins a boules tournament in Cap Corse, takes in a strip club in Japan's historic Nara, gets pulled through Hanoi on ... Read more

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  • Reticence

    by Jean-Philippe Toussaint ...
    Translated by John Lambert ...
    "A little thing happened to me. Which could have just as easily happened to you. You're on vacation in a hotel with your son in a small village and you're about to go see some friends, but something holds you back, a mysterious reticence that prevents you from going to find them. Here is the novel of this reticence, small and specific, and of the fears that it instigates, little by little. Because ... Read more

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  • The Truth about Marie

    by Jean-Philippe Toussaint ...
    Translated by Matthew B. Smith ...
    Series series French Literature
    Moving through a variety of locales and adventures, The Truth about Marie revisits the unnamed narrator of Toussaint's acclaimed Running Away, reporting on his now disintegrated relationship with the titular Marie—the story switching deftly between first- and third-person as the narrator continues to drift through life, and Marie does her best to get on with hers. Like all of Toussaint's novels, ... Read more

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  • Glitches

    by Jean-Philippe Aumasson ...
    In these three interconnected stories, reality bends and breaks in unexpected ways. A woman trapped in a deadly time loop discovers her fate may hinge on a simple ritual. Another finds herself questioning her sanity after a cupcake accident leads her to an ethereal Japanese professor. A man awakens to confront supernatural threats in a sinister city where darkness breeds violence. Through ... Read more

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  • Rise above It, Rise in It

    Transform Through Life's Seasons - Stronger, Wiser, and Defined by Purpose

    by Loudrige Jean-Philippe ...
    When life applies pressure, you are not meant to break; you are meant to rise. This book is a guide to transforming every season of testing into a season of becoming.Life will test you through infertility, grief, career, love, the pursuit of happiness, and the search for identity and purpose, among countless other trials.Rise Above It, Rise In It is a masterclass in resilient living and purposeful ... Read more

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  • Exposed

    by Jean-Philippe Blondel ...
    Translated by Alison Anderson ...
    "Art, love and longing, the French way . . . an emotionally taut portrayal of late-in-life, post-marriage drift" from the author of The 6:41 to Paris ( The New York Times Book Review).A French teacher on the verge of retirement is invited to a glittering opening that showcases the artwork of his former student, who has since become a celebrated painter. This unexpected encounter leads to the older ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Very French Christmas

    The Greatest French Holiday Stories of All Time

    by Guy de Maupassant, Jean-Philippe Blondel, Paul Arène, François Coppée, Anatole Le Braz, Dominique Fabre, Alphonse Daudet, Antoine Gustave Droz, Anatole France, Irène Némirovsky ...
    Series series Very Christmas
    Joyeux Noël: "[An]endearing collection of Christmas stories from ten of France's most esteemed writers―past and present―skillfully translated." ― Foreword ReviewsThis collection brings together the best French Christmas stories of all time, featuring classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, plus stories by the esteemed twentieth century authors Irène Némirovsky and Nobel Prize winner ... Read more

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