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...
City and Town life
- Auteur:Bock, Maxime RaymondSommaire:
- 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.
- Auteur:García Márquez, GabrielSommaire:
One morning, slanderous posters start appearing all over the town, revealing family secrets and maligning individuals. Ghosts of the past reappear, along with old feuds and infidelities. Torrential rains then flood the town and chaos is...
- Auteur:Mulder, MichelleSommaire:
Picture a busy avenue. Now plant trees along the boulevard, paint a mural by the empty lot, and add a community garden. Set up benches along the sidewalks and make space for kids' chalk drawings, and you've set the scene for a...
- Auteur:Rhodes-Pitts, SharifaSommaire:
As gentrification encroaches on historic Harlem, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts untangles the myth and meaning of its storied legacy. Drawing on Harlem's history and her own observations, Rhodes-Pitts introduces a variety of observers who shared...
- Auteur:Jackson, HollySommaire:
THE MUST-READ MULTIMILLION BESTSELLING MYSTERY SERIES - More dark secrets are exposed in this addictive, true-crime fueled sequel when Pip finds herself in another deadly case. Pip is not a detective anymore. With the help of Ravi...