Malgré ses grands talents de flûtiste, la jeune Mireille a renoncé à se produire sur scène. Maintenant bibliothécaire à l'Université de Montréal, elle joue seulement pour le plaisir. Mais tout bascule le jour où Paul...
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Author:Duff, MichelineSummary: - Author:Somerset, A.J.Summary:
Once a celebrated war photographer, Lucas Zane is burnt out after covering twenty years of war. Drunk, hallucinatory, all ambition fled, Zane earns the rent working for an impresario of shoestring pornographic movies. Here he encounters...
- Author:Gibson, GraemeSummary:
Exclusively available from Anansi Digital, Communion is one of the lost, great works by a Canadian literary titan. Originally published in 1971, Communion continues the story of Felix Oswald that began in Five Legs. We meet Felix Oswald...
- Author:Kinsella, SophieSummary:
Sophie Kinsella's debut is a rollicking romp through the perils of shopping and spending, spending, spending! Becky can't resist a sale, and she's only a little overdrawn on her VISA. Besides, that new scarf is just too cute to pass up...
- Author:Mattison, AliceSummary:
Decades ago in Brooklyn, three girls demonstrated against the Vietnam War, and each followed a distinct path into adulthood. Helen became a violent revolutionary. Val wrote a controversial book, Bright Morning of Pain, which was...
- Author:Rooney, SallySummary:
Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend and comrade-in-arms is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry...
- Author:Lemaitre, PierreSummary:
Février 1927. Le Tout-Paris assiste aux obsèques de Marcel Péricourt. Sa fille, Madeleine, doit prendre la tête de l'empire financier dont elle est l'héritière, mais le destin en décide autrement. Son fils, Paul, d'un geste...
- Author:Balzac, Honoré deSummary:
Lisbeth Fischer feels she's been wronged--though much of what she perceives may only reside in her imagination. Seeking vengeance against the family of her beautiful cousin, Adeline, she leverages the uncontrollable sexual appetites of...
- Author:Leblanc, FrançoisSummary:
Il a douze ans, l'âge du cul-de-sac de l'enfance. Partagé entre une mère hospitalisée et un père qu'il déteste, obsédé par le Livre Guinness des records et les mystères de l'univers, il accepte sa solitude...
- Author:Paton, AlanSummary:
This is the most distinguished novel that has come out of South Africa in the 20th century, and it is one of the most important novels that has appeared anywhere in modern times. Cry, the Beloved Country is in some ways a sad book; it...
- Author:Coccia, PaulSummary:
In the gay community, a young, husky man is known as a "cub" Seventeen-year-old Theo fits the definition perfectly, but he is very self-conscious about his body. So when his best friend signs him up for a cooking competition...
- Author:Smith, Michael V.Summary:
Cumberland is an industrial town located halfway between Ottawa and Montreal on the shore of the St. Lawrence River. It's facing the close of its factories and mills in the wake of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Ernest, a...
- Author:Dion, CélineSummary:
Rosie, Pat et Michou se débattent avec les secrets d’une longue amitié, leurs amours à la fois émouvantes et complexes, de même que le choc de brusques changements dans une étape de leur vie qu’elles espéraient paisible. Quels pouvoirs...
- Author:Bayegnak, Guy ArmelSummary:
Adolescente passionnée par les questions d'environnement, Evina s'engage à restaurer son établissement scolaire, le lycée de Bangante. Pour réaliser son projet, elle doit frapper aux portes de personnalités importantes de la ville –...
- Author:Mohr, JoshuaSummary:
Mohr takes listeners to 2003 San Francisco as the country divides into groups for and against the Iraq War. Damascus, a dive bar in the Mission District, becomes the unlikely setting for a showdown between the opposing sides. Tensions...
- Author:Primeau, Marguerite-ASummary:
Instituteur, Joseph Lormier quitte Montréal en 1919 pour aller enseigner dans le nord albertain. Il fonde le village de L’Avenir, berceau d’une paroisse canadienne-française. Mais lorsque la crise économique bat son plein, un...
- Author:Khorram, AdibSummary:
Darius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows more about Hobbit social cues than Persian ones. He's a Fractional Persian--half, his mom's side--and his first-ever trip to Iran is about to change his life. Darius has...
- Author:Michalski, LizSummary:
Eden's disappearance is a disaster for more reasons than one. She has a rare condition that causes her to age rapidly--ironic, considering her father is the boy who will never grow up--which also makes her blood incredibly valuable. It'...
- Author:Georgescu, IoanaSummary:
Daughter of Here is an experiment in memory, desire, and time. As Dolores sifts through her whirlwind romance with Célestin, her larger-than-life love for her daughter Mo, and her own childhood behind the Iron Curtain, her narrative...
- Author:Homa, AvaSummary:
Leila dreams of making films to bring the suppressed stories of the Kurdish people onto the global stage. But when her brother's activism leads to his disappearance, Leila begins a campaign to save him.
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