People are always crossing the bridge for work, to visit family, or for play. Some going this way; others going that way. Back and forth they go. With friends on foot and in bicycles, in cars and trucks, the bridge is an incredibly busy...
Communities
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Auteur:Raúl The ThirdSommaire: - Auteur:Aglukark, SusanSommaire:
"A meaningful portrait of a young child living and loving in a unique period of North American history." - Kirkus. Ukpik loves living in her camp in the North with her family and she especially loves thinking up names for her...
- Auteur:Liddell, Merilyn RuthSommaire:
"A misguided experiment. A devastated world. A chance for rebirth. In a world decimated by a killer virus, an isolated mountain community is left more dysfunctional than dystopian. Small town. Big secrets. It's a place where...
- Auteur:Bell, KristenSommaire:
Actress, producer, and parent Kristen Bell (The Good Place, Veronica Mars, Frozen) and creative director and parent Benjamin Hart have a new challenge for you and your kids: become a purple person! What is a purple person? Great...
- Auteur:McDonald, FleurSommaire:
A riveting new novel of rural suspense from the bestselling Voice of the Outback. 1980: Rose and Ian Kelly arrive in the small South Australian town of Barker for supplies, before driving a further couple of hundred kilometres to begin...
- Auteur:Walters, EricSommaire:
In a world gone dark, life goes on for Adam and his fortified neighborhood of Eden Mills even if the extreme steps taken by his battle-hardened mentor Herb, his police chief mom, and the other leaders in the name of security and...
- Auteur:McConvey, J.R.Sommaire:
Part dark satire, part surreal Gothic folktale, The Last Ham is a story about populist politics run amok in the age of illusion. Weeks before Easter in the sleepy town of Bedford, a macabre death coincides with the arrival of a stranger...
- Auteur:Keefer, Janice KulykSommaire:
Summer 1960's. At northern Ontario's Kalyna Beach, Ukrainian-Canadian women are exchanging their 'racy' novels with one another, but real life provides a more interesting story. There is Sonia Martyn, unhappy because...
- Auteur:Rimmer, KellySommaire:
Berlin, Germany, 1930—When the Nazis rise to power, Jürgen Rhodes is offered a high-level position in their burgeoning rocket program. Jürgen and his wife Sofie fiercely oppose Hitler's radical views, and joining his ranks is...
- Auteur:Sainte-Marie, BuffySommaire:
A love letter to Indigenous communities everywhere, this picture book gorgeously illustrated by Julie Flett celebrates seasons, nature, and community. Based on Academy Award-winning Cree icon Buffy Sainte-Marie's song of the same name,...
- Auteur:Hernandez, CatherineSommaire:
A poignant, multi-voiced novel about life in the inner city. Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighbourhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest city in North America; like many inner-city communities, it suffers under the...
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Auteur:Coleman, William D., Brydon, DianaSommaire:Faced with finding a livable response to globalization, many communities are renegotiating their identities and functions and, in some instances, entirely new communities are being formed. Renegotiating Community asks what happens to...
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Auteur:Friesen, AngnakulukSommaire:The northern lights shine, women gather to eat raw caribou meat and everyone could be family in this ode to small-town life in Nunavut, written in English and Inuktitut. Sisters Angnakuluk Friesen and Ippiksaut Friesen collaborate on...
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Auteur:Dawson, JoanSommaire:Beaubassin was once a prosperous farming community at the head of the Cumberland Basin; Africville was the vibrant home of Black Nova Scotians who struggled to make a living and found spiritual solace in their church. Both are now gone...
- Auteur:Laffoley, StevenSommaire:
Following the Second World War, a new generation of politicians and planners across North America set out to reimagine their cities. With great verve and vision, they conceived of brave new urban landscapes filled with elevated highways...
- Auteur:Kubica, MarySommaire:
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER-OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD! "Dark and twisty, with white-knuckle tension and jaw-dropping surprises." -Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling author of Home Before Dark In this smart and chilling...
- Auteur:Nowicki, ColeSommaire:
From prairie towns to sprawling cities, Laser Quit Smoking Massage revels in the peculiarities of the Canadian West. A unique and exciting new voice in Canadian literature, Cole Nowicki's witty, insightful, and ever-curious reportage...
- Auteur:Luqman-Dawson, AminaSommaire:
After an entire young life of enslavement, twelve-year-old Homer escapes Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada, leaving his beloved mother behind. Much as he adores her and fears for her life, Homer knows there's no...
- Auteur:Allen, JennieSommaire:
In a world that's both more connected and more isolating than ever before, we're often tempted to do life alone, whether because we're so busy or because relationships feel risky and hard. But science confirms that...
- Auteur:Watson, S. J.Sommaire:
A gripping new psychological thriller from S.J. Watson, the New York Times bestselling author of Before I Go to Sleep, in which a documentary filmmaker travels to a sleepy fishing village to shoot her new film and encounters a dark...
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