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  • Younie, The Flea Market Doll
    Norman Beaupré
    The author bought a doll at a flea market right outside of the Porte de Clignancourt in Paris several years ago. He bought it on account of a sticker on the doll saying that this doll brought happiness to whoever possessed it. He thought that the doll was very good material for a novel that dealt with the flea market doll telling her own story. So this is the story of the doll ...
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    8,53 €

  • Lucienne, the Simple-Minded
    Norman Beaupré
    Here is the story of three generations of women from Quebec that touches upon the emigration to New England in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. It is woven of adventures and events striking enough to elicit a genuine interest in those who enjoy the effects of the passion of love, the close attachment to one’s vibrant heritage, the challenge of emigra...
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    8,17 €

  • An Artist of Daring Creativity
    Norman Beaupré
    Among the many books that Norman Beaupré has written and published, this particular one, An Artist of Daring Creativity is most probably the highlight of his career as an established writer. As an author, he values the creative spirit that goes into any work of art, especially one that demonstrates a rare quality of expression.          Micheline Bousquet is just such an artist...
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    7,28 €

  • Cajetan the Stargazer
    Norman Beaupré
    Who has gazed at the magnificence of a Gothic cathedral and not been awestruck by its splendid architecture? One has to believe that the medieval builder of cathedrals was not only a genius but a creative artist of great talent. Such is the architect, Cajetan the Stargazer, of this historical novel set in the late 13th and early 14th Centuries. The setting gives a sweeping brus...
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    10,42 €

  • Of Boa Constrictors, Elephants and Imaginary Whales
    Norman Beaupré
    It’s a surprising combination of the illustrations of three animals that represent a collection of cautionary tales. The author counts on the creative imagination of the reader to grasp the full meaning of the three animals represented here: a boa constrictor, an elephant and a whale. The boa constrictor and the elephant are taken from the imaginative tale of St-Exupéry’s 'The ...
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    9,66 €

  • When the Flowers are Gone
    Norman Beaupré
    This is the sequel to the first part of the author’s memoir, The Little Eater of Bleeding Hearts. The first part goes from early childhood to about the age of seventeen when we leave the young man on the beach at Fortunes Rocks in Biddeford, Maine. The second part When the Flowers Are Gone covers the age of maturity, from seventeen on to the stages of  full growth up to retirem...
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    8,68 €

  • The Boy With the Blue Cap
    Norman Beaupré
    Melding the historical, the imaginary, and the fine arts, The Boy With the Blue Cap presents the story behind Van Gogh’s paintings through the narrative of a young, precocious boy, Camille Roulin, son of a postal worker. Camille develops a close relationship with the artist and pulls the reader into the story as he follows Van Gogh around Arles, exploring his world of vibrant c...
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    13,10 €

  • In Search of the Fallen Divina Maria Callas
    Norman Beaupre
    Another book on Maria Callas? Yes, but this one delivers an inside view of the Diva’s apartment in Paris and covers the last several months of her life. How is this done if she was a recluse and avoided the public? It’s done through the skill and creative imagination of a young man, originally from northern Maine, who goes from Boston to New York and on to Paris seeking those s...
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    10,34 €

  • Marginal Enemies
    Norman Beaupré
    Two boys grow up during World War II, Gerard in New England, Morgen in Berlin. They live parallel lives: their families experience similar changes, similar suffering. The world says they are enemies. What makes an enemy? Why are people designated as enemies? If these two later met, what would they think of each other?WWII and the Hitler's elimination of the undesirables alt...
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    8,65 €

  • La Souillonne
    Norman Beaupré
    The character of the Souillonne was taken from Norman Beaupré’s first novel, Le Petit Mangeur de Fleurs, an autobiographical novel that came out in 1999. The author found so fascinating the figure of a marginalized woman carrying on her shoulders the burden of destiny, at times exhausting and at the same time invigorating, that he made her the protagonist of a dramatic monologu...
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    5,69 €

  • The Day the Horses Went to the Fair
    Norman Beaupré
    An author always looks for an angle when writing fiction which Beaupré has done with this novel. He came up with revenants or ghosts for all of his characters as a way of weaving the story together without making it a documentary of Rosa Bonheur's life and paintings of animals. The author has conjured the likes of a Mozart, a Cervantes and Sir Walter Scott while including o...
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    5,98 €

  • Of Boa Constrictors, Elephants and Imaginary Whales
    Norman Beaupre
    It’s a surprising combination of the illustrations of three animals that represent a collection of cautionary tales. The author counts on the creative imagination of the reader to grasp the full meaning of the three animals represented here: a boa constrictor, an elephant and a whale. The boa constrictor and the elephant are taken from the imaginative tale of St-Exupéry’s “The ...
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    11,12 €