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A Bird's IQ

Innovation, Intelligence, and Problem Solving in the Avian World

by Louis Lefebvre ...

Translated by Pablo Strauss ...

“This book is a gem, witty, entertaining, insightful, and deeply informative—a must-read for anyone interested in birds or brains.” JENNIFER ACKERMAN, New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, What an Owl Knows, and The Bird Way“A vivid book on avian intelligence.”—Booklist, STARRED ReviewDiscover the secret intelligence of birds, revealed by one of the world’s leading res... ... Read more

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“This book is a gem, witty, entertaining, insightful, and deeply informative—a must-read for anyone interested in birds or brains.” JENNIFER ACKERMAN, New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, What an Owl Knows, and The Bird Way“A vivid book on avian intelligence.”—Booklist, STARRED ReviewDiscover the secret intelligence of birds, revealed by one of the world’s leading res...
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Of Vengeance

by J.D. Kurtness ...

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“Let's be honest: Who hasn't fantasized about shooting someone in the face with a hunting rifle?”One day, a thirteen-year-old girl decides to startle a classmate. Instead, she accidentally kills him.And she likes it.Over the years, she begins experimenting with murder. Her victims are, of course, people that deserve it: a careless driver, a CEO of an energy corporation that is destroying the ... Read more

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“Let's be honest: Who hasn't fantasized about shooting someone in the face with a hunting rifle?”One day, a thirteen-year-old girl decides to startle a classmate. Instead, she accidentally kills him.And she likes it.Over the years, she begins experimenting with murder. Her victims are, of course, people that deserve it: a careless driver, a CEO of an energy corporation that is destroying the
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What I Know About You

by Éric Chacour ...

Translated by Pablo Strauss ...

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A Garbageman's Story

by Simon Pare-Poupart ...

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**“Raffish and spirited . . . a nonconformist cri de coeur . . . Usually, comparisons to Bourdain are fatuous. This time it’s accurate . . . It’s been a long time since I’ve read so good and rowdy a memoir about blue-collar work.” — Dwight Garner, The New York TimesA Montreal garbageman's sharp and funny memoir/exposé, in which he attempts to convince people to "stop imagining that your garbage ... Read more

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**“Raffish and spirited . . . a nonconformist cri de coeur . . . Usually, comparisons to Bourdain are fatuous. This time it’s accurate . . . It’s been a long time since I’ve read so good and rowdy a memoir about blue-collar work.” — Dwight Garner, The New York TimesA Montreal garbageman's sharp and funny memoir/exposé, in which he attempts to convince people to "stop imagining that your garbage
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The Country Will Bring Us No Peace

by Matthieu Simard ...

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ONE OF BOOK RIOT'S "20 MUST-READ HORROR BOOKS YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF"Simon and Marie can’t seem to have a baby. And so they flee the city for an idyllic village, where things will certainly be better. But the town is gloomy, even hostile -- things haven’t been the same since the factory closed down and a broadcast antenna was erected. Now there are no birds singing, and people have started ... Read more

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ONE OF BOOK RIOT'S "20 MUST-READ HORROR BOOKS YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF"Simon and Marie can’t seem to have a baby. And so they flee the city for an idyllic village, where things will certainly be better. But the town is gloomy, even hostile -- things haven’t been the same since the factory closed down and a broadcast antenna was erected. Now there are no birds singing, and people have started
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The Longest Year

by Daniel Grenier ...

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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” meets Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in Daniel Grenier’s epic novel, which tells the story of a boy who ages only one out of every four years.There’s something extraordinary about Thomas Langlois.Thomas is a young boy growing up in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with a French-Canadian father, Albert, and an American mother, ... Read more

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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” meets Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in Daniel Grenier’s epic novel, which tells the story of a boy who ages only one out of every four years.There’s something extraordinary about Thomas Langlois.Thomas is a young boy growing up in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with a French-Canadian father, Albert, and an American mother,
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Mind Myths

How Pop Science Gets Your Brain Wrong

by Dr. Albert Moukheiber ...

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“A timely reminder that we are not just our brains. Arm yourself against the forces of misinformation by reading this book!”—Gina Rippon, author of The Gendered BrainChallenge everything you think you know about your brain. Expose the myths. Embrace the complexity. Transform your understanding of human nature and behavior.Modern culture bombards us with seductive brain myths—from the "left-brain ... Read more

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“A timely reminder that we are not just our brains. Arm yourself against the forces of misinformation by reading this book!”—Gina Rippon, author of The Gendered BrainChallenge everything you think you know about your brain. Expose the myths. Embrace the complexity. Transform your understanding of human nature and behavior.Modern culture bombards us with seductive brain myths—from the "left-brain
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I Never Talk About It

by Véronique Côté, Steve Gagnon, Marie-Claude Plourde ...

Translated by Lisa Carter, Allison M. Charette, Anissa Bachan, Kathryn Gabinet-Kroo, Melissa Bull, Farrah Gillani, Daniel Grenier, Benjamin Hedley, Natalia Hero, Cassidy Hildebrand, Aleshia Jensen, Pierre-Luc Landry, G. Lefebvre, Tony Malone, Anna Matthews, Riteba McCallum, Peter McCambridge, Felicia Mihali, Jessica Moore, Tom Moore, Guillaume Morissette, Rhonda Mullins, Jean-Paul Murray, Dimitri Nasrallah, Peter Bush, Lori Saint-Martin, Ros Schwartz, Jacob Siefring, Neil Smith, Pablo Strauss, J.C. Sutcliffe, Michèle Thibeau, Carly Rosalie Vandergriendt, David Warriner, Elizabeth West, Emily Wilson ...

Cupcakes, panda bears, break-ups, wearing sunglasses at night... The local and the universal come together in these 37 short stories, brought into English by different translators from all over the world. This project aims to show there are all kinds of ways to bring across an author's voice in translation… at least 37 of them (one for each story). Translators include literary translation students ... Read more

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Cupcakes, panda bears, break-ups, wearing sunglasses at night... The local and the universal come together in these 37 short stories, brought into English by different translators from all over the world. This project aims to show there are all kinds of ways to bring across an author's voice in translation… at least 37 of them (one for each story). Translators include literary translation students
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Aquariums

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An intimate yet wide-sweeping story of a marine biologist working to save ocean ecosystems from climate change.With the world’s oceans ravaged by climate change, Émeraude, a young marine biologist, works to preserve aquatic ecosystems by recreating them for zoos. When her work earns her a spot aboard a research vessel with an extended mission in the Arctic, it is the inescapable draw of the ocean ... Read more

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An intimate yet wide-sweeping story of a marine biologist working to save ocean ecosystems from climate change.With the world’s oceans ravaged by climate change, Émeraude, a young marine biologist, works to preserve aquatic ecosystems by recreating them for zoos. When her work earns her a spot aboard a research vessel with an extended mission in the Arctic, it is the inescapable draw of the ocean
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The Dishwasher

by Stéphane Larue ...

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Series series Biblioasis International Translation Series
The Dishwasher is Stephane Larue’s debut novel. Published in French in 2016 by Le Quartanier, it won the 2017 Quebec Booksellers’ Prize, the 2017 Senghor Prize, was shortlisted for the 2017 Governor-General’s Award for French-language fiction and sold over 30,000 copies in Quebec. A hyperrealist bildungsroman for the the 21st century, this first-person narrative will resonate with thirty-something ... Read more

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The Dishwasher is Stephane Larue’s debut novel. Published in French in 2016 by Le Quartanier, it won the 2017 Quebec Booksellers’ Prize, the 2017 Senghor Prize, was shortlisted for the 2017 Governor-General’s Award for French-language fiction and sold over 30,000 copies in Quebec. A hyperrealist bildungsroman for the the 21st century, this first-person narrative will resonate with thirty-something
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Asbestos

by Sébastien Dulude ...

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Stand By Me meets Knausgaard: an explosive 1980s coming-of-age story in a hardscrabble Quebec mining town.Thetford Mines, an asbestos-mining town in Quebec, summer 1986. Nine-year-old Steve Dubois and ten-year-old Poulie revel in the joys of friendship, roaming free on their BMXs, building forts, reading Tintins, filling their disaster scrapbook, sharing escapades on the high slag heaps and ... Read more

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Stand By Me meets Knausgaard: an explosive 1980s coming-of-age story in a hardscrabble Quebec mining town.Thetford Mines, an asbestos-mining town in Quebec, summer 1986. Nine-year-old Steve Dubois and ten-year-old Poulie revel in the joys of friendship, roaming free on their BMXs, building forts, reading Tintins, filling their disaster scrapbook, sharing escapades on the high slag heaps and
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Horsefly

by Mireille Gagné ...

Translated by Pablo Strauss ...

A chilling tale about what happens when we mess with nature.In 1942, a young entomologist, Thomas, is sent to a remote island to work on biological weapons for the Allied military. The scientists live like prisoners while they produce anthrax and look for the perfect virus carrier among the island’s many insects.Sixty years later, in the same region of Quebec, a heat wave unleashes swarms of ... Read more

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A chilling tale about what happens when we mess with nature.In 1942, a young entomologist, Thomas, is sent to a remote island to work on biological weapons for the Allied military. The scientists live like prisoners while they produce anthrax and look for the perfect virus carrier among the island’s many insects.Sixty years later, in the same region of Quebec, a heat wave unleashes swarms of
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