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  • The Long Way

    by Bernard Moitessier ...
    Translated by William Rodarmor ...
    The Long Way is Bernard Moitessier's own incredible story of his participation in the first Golden Globe Race, a solo, non-stop circumnavigation rounding the three great Capes of Good Hope, Leeuwin, and the Horn. For seven months, the veteran seafarer battled storms, doldrums, gear-failures, knock-downs, as well as overwhelming fatigue and loneliness. Then, nearing the finish, Moitessier pulled ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • And Their Children After Them

    A Novel

    by Nicolas Mathieu ...
    Translated by William Rodarmor ...
    The internationally acclaimed coming-of-age story set in a forgotten, hopeless region of France—for fans of Sally Rooney and Nathan HillThis poignant portrait of working-class teens captures the defining moments of 4 summers in the 1990s—from Nirvana to the World Cup.August, 1992. One afternoon during a heatwave in a desolate valley somewhere in eastern France, with its dormant blast furnaces and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Blumkin Project

    A Biographical Novel

    by Christian Salmon ...
    Translated by William Rodarmor ...
    This page-turning biographical novel follows the footsteps of a forgotten legend of the Russian Revolution, from Odessa to Moscow, Istanbul, and beyond.Yakov Blumkin claimed to have had nine lives. Born to a poor Jewish family and orphaned as a child, he was a Socialist Revolutionary, a terrorist, the assassin of the German ambassador Wilhelm von Mirbach, a poet close to the avant-garde, a member ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The State of Israel vs. the Jews

    by Sylvain Cypel ...
    Translated by William Rodarmor ...
    **PopMatters: Best Book of the YearFrom an award-winning journalist, a perceptive study of how Israel’s actions, which run counter to the traditional historical values of Judaism, are putting Jewish people worldwide in an increasingly untenable position.**More than a decade ago, the historian Tony Judt considered whether the behavior of Israel was becoming not only “bad for Israel itself” but also ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Man With No Title

    by Xavier Le Clerc ...
    Translated by William Rodarmor ...
    Mohand-Said Ait-Taleb is an enigma. Living in France but ravaged by memories of the war in Algeria, he has withdrawn into his own world, away from his wife and children. When his son Xavier discovers articles by Albert Camus describing the appalling conditions his father grew up in, he starts to piece together the story of his life.Xavier retraces the steps of this dignified, illiterate and strong ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • The Long Way

    Sheridan House Maritime Classic

    by Bernard Moitessier ...
    Translated by William Rodarmor ...
    Series series Maritime Classics
    The Long Way is Bernard Moitessier's own incredible story of his participation in the first Golden Globe Race, a solo, non-stop circumnavigation rounding the three great Capes of Good Hope, Leeuwin, and the Horn. For seven months, the veteran seafarer battled storms, doldrums, gear-failures, knock-downs, as well as overwhelming fatigue and loneliness. Then, nearing the finish, Moitessier pulled ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Article 353

    A Novel

    by Tanguy Viel ...
    Translated by William Rodarmor ...
    This atmospheric noir novel retraces the steps that led to a murder off the coast of Brittany, probing the relationship between law and justice.In a depressed town on France's northern coast, a man named Martial Kermeur has been arrested for the murder of real estate developer Antoine Lazenec after throwing him overboard. Called before a judge, Kermeur goes back to the beginning to explain what ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles

    A Novel

    by Katherine Pancol ...
    Translated by William Rodarmor, Helen Dickinson ...
    Series Book 1 - A Joséphine Cortès Novel
    Le Divorce meets The Elegance of the Hedgehog in this hilariously entertaining mega-bestseller from FranceWhen her chronically unemployed husband runs off to start a crocodile farm in Kenya with his mistress, Joséphine Cortès is left in an unhappy state of affairs. The mother of two—confident, beautiful teenage Hortense and shy, babyish Zoé—is forced to maintain a stable family life while making ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • French Feast

    A Traveler's Literary Companion

    Edited by William Rodarmor ...
    Series Book 23 - Traveler's Literary Companions
    This book isn’t the usual kind of book about food. It has no restaurant reviews, and very few recipes. You won’t hear about that darling place in Dordogne, but you may learn how to slice a cuttlefish. This is about food as experience. And who better to describe that experience than the French?French Feast is a wide-ranging collection of mostly short stories with delicious idiosyncratic twists. Who ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • The Girl You Call

    A Novel

    by Tanguy Viel ...
    Translated by William Rodarmor ...
    In this shrewd, timely novel with the allure of old-school noir, an aging boxer and his daughter fight back against political corruption and sexual abuse.At 40, the great boxer Max Le Corre was enjoying a renaissance, back at the top of the ticket after a long absence. When he wasn’t in the ring, he worked as a driver for the mayor, Quentin Le Bars. Above all, he was a father to Laura, his 20-year ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Pow! Right in the Eye!

    Thirty Years behind the Scenes of Modern French Painting

    by Berthe Weill ...
    Translated by William Rodarmor ...
    Series series Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Collection
    Memoir of a provocative Parisian art dealer at the heart of the 20th-century art world, available in English for the first time.Berthe Weill, a formidable Parisian dealer, was born into a Jewish family of very modest means. One of the first female gallerists in the business, she first opened the Galerie B. Weill in the heart of Paris’s art gallery district in 1901, holding innumerable exhibitions ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

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    The Blumkin Project

    by Christian Salmon ...
    Narrated by Ramiz Monsef ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 56 min

    This page-turning biographical novel follows the footsteps of a forgotten legend of the Russian Revolution, from Odessa to Moscow, Istanbul, and beyond.Yakov Blumkin claimed to have had nine lives. Born to a poor Jewish family and orphaned as a child, he was a Socialist Revolutionary, a terrorist, the assassin of the German ambassador Wilhelm von Mirbach, a poet close to the avant-garde, a member ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus