A poignant and incandescent debut that explores the bonds of community and what it really means to change Chinelo--or Nelo, as her best friend, Kate, calls her--is all about her neighbourhood, Ginger East. She loves its chill vibe, its...
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- Auteur:Onomé, LouisaSommaire:
- Auteur:Karon, JanSommaire:
Set in the quiet, small town of Mitford and starring aging Episcopal priest Father Tim Kavanagh, the books are welcome reminders of the simpler and gentler pleasures of life. Now the series concludes with Light from Heaven. An old,...
- Auteur:Warren, DianneSommaire:
A newly-single woman revisits the poor choices she had made through her life, returning to the small town in western Canada where she grew up and lived through the violent death of a close friend in an unsolved hit-and-run accident.
- Auteur:Bloodworth-Thomason, LindaSommaire:
Dr. Wood McIlmore is the leading citizen of Paris, Arkansas. Married to his high school sweetheart Milan, Wood has it all. But everything changes dramatically when his daughter Elizabeth announces plance to marry Luke, her college...
- Auteur:Bock, Maxime RaymondSommaire:
Amis d’autrefois, amoureux incertains, familles amochées, artistes se mesurant à la puissance de l’art et athlètes déchus – trahis par leur corps défaillant – se côtoient dans une ville de Montréal chargée des traces fuyantes de son...
- Auteur:De La Pena, MattSommaire:
Every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma ride the bus across town. But today, CJ wonders why they don't own a car like his friend Colby. Why doesn't he have an iPod like the boys on the bus? How come they always have to...
- Auteur:Walsh, AliceSommaire:
Set in the fictional town of Paddy's Arm, Newfoundland, Alice Walsh's debut mystery novel is at once harrowing and homey, equal parts police procedural and diner gossip. When Claire and Bram?s only child dies suddenly, it at first...
- Auteur:Brooke, JohnSommaire:
Montreal is a city that has always represented the ideal of languages and peoples meeting, mixing and producing a culture greater than the sum of diverse parts. Last Days of Montreal travels through an imaginary cityscape, powered by...
- Auteur:Gougeon, RichardSommaire:
Montréal, 1936. Les ambitieux projets que l'entêté épicier Théodore Sansoucy caressait ne se sont pas concrétisés comme il l'entendait. Pour l'instant, dans le petit logement à l'étage supérieur de son...
- Auteur:Gougeon, RichardSommaire:
Montréal, 1935. Dans le quartier ouvrier de Maisonneuve, la pauvreté règne et le chômage est le pain quotidien des miséreux. La famille nombreuse de Théodore Sansoucy s'entasse dans un logement au-dessus de son épicerie-...
- Auteur:Läckberg, CamillaSommaire:
Est-ce son récent mariage avec l'inspecteur Patrik Hedström qui conduit Erika Falck à se pencher sur son passé familial ? Cherchant à reconstituer la jeunesse de sa mère, qu'elle a peu connue, Erika tombe sur un journal...
- Auteur:Krisher, TrudySommaire:
In 1961 fifteen-year-old Pert, who lives with her mother in Kinship, Georgia, meets her long-absent father and discovers the true meaning of home.
- Auteur:Carr, RobynSommaire:
Dr. June Hudson keeps her passionate visits with undercover DEA agent Jim Post a secret from her community, but an old flame's return to town after twenty years makes things complicated.
- Auteur:King, StephenSommaire:
Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and...
- Auteur:Buitrago, JairoSommaire:
Inspired by Muhammad Ali, Jimmy starts training to become a boxer, and while his future looks bright, he decides leaving his small town for big matches might not be the best option for him.
- Auteur:Urrea, Luis AlbertoSommaire:
Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US when she was young. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only man who has left town. In fact,...
- Auteur:Karon, JanSommaire:
Though Father Tim dislikes change, he dislikes retirement even more. When he decides to take on a difficult ministry, he begins to think he likes change -- until an unexpected event propels him on a journey that shakes his faith, his...
- Auteur:Delany, VickiSommaire:
Trouble is brewing in the small, bucolic mountain town of Trafalgar, British Columbia. An American who came to Trafalgar as a Vietnam War draft dodger has left land and money to the town. But there’s a catch. The money must be used to...
- Auteur:Delany, VickiSommaire:
In the small Canadian town of Trafalgar, young constable Molly Smith throws herself into solving the murder case of a highly unpopular newcomer to town, hoping to win the approval of her hard-edged supervisor, Sergeant John Winters,...
- Auteur:Sheldon, Charles MonroeSommaire:
The last words of a desperate, unemployed printer point out the difference between believing in Christianity and actually living it.