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Showing 1 - 12 of 14 results for “jonathan kaplansky”
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  • Not Even the Sound of a River

    by Hélène Dorion ...
    Translated by Jonathan Kaplansky ...
    Not Even the Sound of a River is a moving tale of love's phantom pains as shared through the relationships between three generations of mothers and daughters.Hanna drives down the St. Lawrence River to her late mother's hometown, hoping to find out more about the distant woman who began to reveal herself only through notebooks discovered in her effects. As the river widens, so does Hanna's ... Read more

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  • The Love of Man

    by Hélène Rioux ...
    Éléonore in three phases: twelve weeks in Corsica, twelve days in Andalusia, twelve hours in Montreal. Don Juan in three incarnations: in Corsica, he's Clément, a ladies' man who's fading fast; in Andalusia, he's Don Miguel Mañara, who dreamed of seducing a thousand and two women; in Montreal, he's Byron and his last unfinished poem. Love, its truth and its lies. Life and death hovering over us. ... Read more

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  • The Origin of the Future

    by Francis Catalano ...
    Translated by Jonathan Kaplansky ...
    The not-often seen together combination of poetic writing interspersed with historical events and modern-day occurrences with a view to the future marks Francis Catalano's work as noteworthy. Québec's past is vividly imagined, and The Origin of the Future reveals the author's background as a poet as he creates a kind of road trip partway between an essay and a novel. The narrator looks for what ... Read more

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  • Canadian Adventurers and Explorers 5-Book Bundle

    David Thompson / Vilhjalmur Stefansson / Samuel de Champlain / George Simpson / Phyllis Munday

    by D.T. Lahey, Tom Henighan, Tom Shardlow, Kathryn Bridge, Francine Legaré ...
    Translated by Jonathan Kaplansky ...
    Series series Quest Biography
    Presenting five titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. Canada is a vast land with many remote regions to be explored. Among the intrepid explorers who travelled the wilderness and mapped Canada’s geography are: the French founder of Quebec, Samuel de Champlain; surveyor David Thompson; Arctic explorer Vilhjamur Stefansson; legendary Upper Canada ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 11–15

    William Lyon Mackenzie King / René Lévesque / Samuel de Champlain / John Grierson / Lucille Teasdale

    by Deborah Cowley, Marguerite Paulin, Gary Evans, Francine Legaré, lian goodall ...
    Translated by Jonathan Kaplansky ...
    Series series Quest Biography
    Presenting five titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: longtime Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King; Quebec premier and separatist René Lévesque; the explorer of Quebec, Samuel de Champlain; National Film Board founder John Grierson; and medical humanitarian Lucille Teasdale.IncludesWilliam ... Read more

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  • Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 11–20

    William Lyon Mackenzie King / René Lévesque / Samuel de Champlain / John Grierson / Lucille Teasdale / Maurice Duplessis / David Thompson / Mazo de la Roche / Susanna Moodie / Gabrielle Roy

    by lian goodall, Marguerite Paulin, Francine Legaré, Gary Evans, Deborah Cowley, Tom Shardlow, Heather Kirk, Anne Cimon, André Vanasse ...
    Translated by Jonathan Kaplansky, Nora Alleyn ...
    Series series Quest Biography
    Presenting ten titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: influential politicians Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and Premiers René Lévesque and Maurice Duplessis; intrepid explorers Samuel de Champlain and David Thompson; National Film Board founder John Grierson; medical humanitarian Lucille ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The End of the World Is Elsewhere

    by Hélène Rioux ...
    Translated by Jonathan Kaplansky ...
    Series Book 56 - Essential Translations Series
    Autumnal equinox. The End of the World sails on the Aegean Sea. Aboard is Marjolaine, a cook who recently lost her job at a greasy spoon. She rubs shoulders with chess players, a bookseller, a retired professor, a romance novelist, a blue-haired singer … Meanwhile, elsewhere on the planet, people play cards, while others celebrate, read, dream or cry, and still others die. All these lives ... Read more

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  • René Lévesque

    Charismatic Leader

    by Marguerite Paulin ...
    Translated by Jonathan Kaplansky ...
    Series Book 12 - Quest Biography
    René Lévesque entered provincial politics in 1960 when Jean Lesage persuaded him to join his Liberal dream team. In 1968 he founded the Parti Québécois (PQ). Under the PQ banner, Lévesque served as premier from 1976 to 1985. ... Read more

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  • Reading Nijinsky

    by Hélène Rioux ...
    Translated by Jonathan Kaplansky ...
    A translator, fed up with translating paperback romances, undertakes the translation of the autobiography of a sadistic serial killer, Leonard Ming. She travels from Canada to Spain to do her work, encountering love and death in the seaside Andalusian town of Almunecar. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Like a Hurricane

    by Jonathan Bécotte ...
    Translated by Jonathan Kaplansky ...
    ★**“Immediately takes one’s breath away with its poetry and power…Deeply affecting. An ideal tool to illustrate poetic elements or emphasize stories of sharing scary yet necessary truths.”—School Library Journal, starred review**A young teen's secret is tearing him apart.He knows he is gay but is afraid to share this knowledge with his parents or his friends. What if they reject him? And what can ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • Samuel de Champlain

    by Francine Legaré ...
    Translated by Jonathan Kaplansky ...
    Series Book 13 - Quest Biography
    A navigator and cartographer, Samuel de Champlain’s passion was for America, which he struggled to explore and have recognized. He still dreamed of reaching India, with its spices and its many riches, by continuing further to the West. But the land called New France – a harsh land from India – was his greatest love. He defended it fiercely to those in power in France and was responsible for its ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ethnopsychiatry

    Translated by Jonathan Kaplansky ...
    by Henri Ellenberger ...
    Series Book 56 - McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society
    What is the relationship between culture and mental health? Is mental illness universal? Are symptoms of mental disorders different across social groups? In the late 1960s these questions gave rise to a groundbreaking series of articles written by the psychiatrist Henri Ellenberger, who would go on to publish The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry in 1970 ... Read more

    $41.99 USD