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  • Audiobook

    The Big Show

    The Classic Account of WWII Aerial Combat

    Narrated by Julian Elfer ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 16 min

    Pierre Clostermann DFC was one of the oustanding Allied aces of the Second World War. A Frenchman who flew with the RAF, he survived over 420 operational sorties, shooting down scores of enemy aircraft while friends and comrades lost their lives in the deadly skies above Europe.The Big Show, his extraordinary account of the war, has been described as the greatest pilot's memoir of WWII. ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fantômas (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Mystery Novel

    Fantômas gathers the inaugural exploits of one of modern popular fiction's most unsettling figures: the elusive criminal mastermind whose disguises, crimes, and escapes destabilize every boundary between order and chaos. Moving with sensational speed through murder mystery, police procedural, gothic melodrama, and proto-noir, the work stands at the crossroads of Belle Époque feuilleton culture and ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?

    A Comedian's Guide to Autism

    *Nominated for Best Book at the 2025 Chortle Awards*'Outstanding, I want to press it into the hands of every newly diagnosed person' Fern Brady'Like a Martian's guide to living on Earth. Funny, enlightening and gobsmacking' Frank Skinner'A hilarious, crystal-clear guide to autism' Phil Wang'An illuminating and joyously entertaining book' Daily ExpressWhy wer... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Simply West African

    Easy, Joyful Recipes for Every Kitchen: A Cookbook

    by Pierre Thiam ...
    Experience the vibrant cuisines of West Africa any night of the week with 80 easy, accessible recipes from a James Beard Award–winning chef.“Chef Pierre Thiam offers an entry point into the cooking of a region that has been ignored by the mainstream food culture for way too long.”—Jessica B. Harris, culinary historian and author of High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to AmericaA BEST ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

  • Planet of the Apes

    A Novel

    by Pierre Boulle ...
    The original novel that inspired the films!First published more than fifty years ago, Pierre Boulle’s chilling novel launched one of the greatest science fiction sagas in motion picture history.In the not-too-distant future, three astronauts land on what appears to be a planet just like Earth, with lush forests, a temperate climate, and breathable air. But while it appears to be a paradise, ... Read more

    Was $7.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

  • The Letter of Petrus Peregrinus

    On the Magnet, A.D. 1269

    by Pierre ...
    The Letter of Petrus Peregrinus on the Magnet, A.D. 1269 is a foundational scientific treatise that stands as one of the earliest known works dedicated entirely to the study of magnetism. Written by Petrus Peregrinus of Maricourt, a 13th-century French scholar and engineer, this remarkable letter—addressed to Sygerus of Foucaucourt—offers a detailed and systematic exploration of the properties and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The long arm of Fantômas

    The anthology 'The Long Arm of Fantômas' masterfully brings together the sinister genius of the mercurial criminal mastermind, Fantômas, a creation born from the uncanny imaginations of Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain. This collection traverses the rich tapestry of early 20th-century French crime fiction, showcasing an array of enthralling narratives that delve into chaos, intrigue, and the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Idiocy

    Translated by Peter Behrman de Sinéty ...
    An audacious, unabashedly transgressive memoir about two acts of escape by the author: rebelling aginst his family to seek a freer life in Paris and then, later, from the French military during the Algerian War.Pierre Guyotat was one of the most radical and uncompromising writers of the twentieth century, a literary successor to Sade, Bataille, and Genet whose visceral fictions and bold ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Energy, the flip side of money

    by Pierre Noizat ...
    Discover the hidden connections between energy, information, and society. Pierre Noizat sheds light on thermodynamics with clarity and insight, bridging science, philosophy, and economics. From entropy to digital currency, this book reveals the physics behind our modern world. An inspiring guide for curious minds eager to understand the forces shaping reality. A fresh, accessible take on the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rise of the Papal States

    by Pierre Daunou ...
    WHOEVER has read the Gospel, knows that Jesus Christ founded no temporal power, no political sovereignty. He declares that his kingdom is not of this world; he charges his apostles not to confound the mission he gives them, with the power exercised by the princes of the earth. St. Peter and his colleagues are sent not to govern but to instruct and the authority with which they are clothed, ... Read more

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  • I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual

    A Memoir of Nazi Terror

    by Pierre Seel ...
    Translated by Joachim Neugroschel ...
    On a fateful day in May 1941, in Nazi-occupied Strasbourg, seventeen-year- old Pierre Seel was summoned by the Gestapo. This was the beginning of his journey through the horrors of a concentration camp.For nearly forty years, Seel kept this secret in order to hide his homosexuality. Eventually he decided to speak out, bearing witness to an aspect of the Holocaust rarely seen. This edition, with a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Distinction

    A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

    Translated by Richard Nice ...
    No judgment of taste is innocent. In a word, we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly illuminates this situation of the middle class in the modern world. France’s leading sociologist focuses here on the French bourgeoisie, its tastes and preferences. Distinction is at once a vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of the bourgeois mind.In the course of everyday life people ... Read more

    $38.99 USD