Told entirely in letters to a heroine we never meet, Nuclear Family is a comedic novel about a fractured family of New England Jews and their discontents.
Family life
- Auteur:Fogel, SusannaSommaire:
- Auteur:Wigmore, GillianSommaire:
Three poetic novellas centred around the author's background of growing up as the child of a veterinarian.Full of humour and compassion, Night Watchcollects three novellas that explore the lives of rural veterinarians. Wigmore's vets...
- Auteur:Gutman, DanSommaire:
Coke and Pepsi McDonald never asked to be geniuses. They never asked to get lowered into a basket of boiling french fries, frozen in ice cream, or kidnapped on a roller coaster either. But that's what happens when a villain named Archie...
- Auteur:Morgan-Cole, Trudy J.Sommaire:
For decades, the Holloways have operated a convenience store in the working-class neighborhood of Rabbittown in St. John's, and every customer has a story. In a vibrant, contemporary family saga, filled with idiosyncratic characters,...
- Auteur:Bruck, JulieSommaire:
Winner of the 2012 Governor General’s Award for Poetry
Globe 100 Book for 2012
Shortlisted for Pat Lowther Memorial Award and CAA Award for Poetry 2013
Comic and sober by turns, these poems ask us
... - Auteur:Erskine, KathrynSommaire:
Ten-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father.
- Auteur:Gutman, DanSommaire:
Coke and Pepsi McDonald don't want to get locked in their burning school, thrown into a pit at the top of a sand dune, or drowned in a vat of liquefied Spam. But what else can you do when you're being chased across the country by your...
- Auteur:Fitzpatrick, WilhelminaSommaire:
At times irreverent and darkly humorous, Mercy of St. Jude is a story of profound loss, and the unforeseen effects that secrets can have on those we love. When Mercedes Hann dies, her great-niece, Annie Byrne, returns to Newfoundland...
- Auteur:BLADES, AnnSommaire:
Mary's father tells her she cannot keep a wolf puppy since the only animals kept by families in the cold North are those that work or provide food.
- Auteur:Michalos, LouiseSommaire:
Marilla Cuthbert was fifty-two years old when the plucky red-headed Anne Shirley came to live with her and her brother, Matthew, at Green Gables farm on Prince Edward Island. A seemingly cold and dour spinster, her heart eventually...
- Auteur:Davis, Tanita S.Sommaire:
Teens Octavia and Tali learn about strength, independence, and courage when they are forced to take a car trip with their grandmother, who tells about growing up Black in 1940s Alabama and serving in Europe during World War II as a...
- Auteur:Hamilton, VirginiaSommaire:
As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.
- Auteur:Abbott, TonySommaire:
Told from multiple points of view, a white family on a 1959 road trip between Ohio and Florida, visiting Civil War battlefields along the way, crosses paths with a black family near Atlanta, where one of their children has gone missing...
- Auteur:Patterson, Richard NorthSommaire:
Educated, engaged, and the youngest in a prominent family, Whitney has everything she and her father have ever wanted. But the arrival of Benjamin Blaine awakens a sense of independence within Whitney, changing her entire world.
- Auteur:Dooley, SarahSommaire:
Fourteen-year-old Livvie Owen, who has autism, and her family have been forced to move frequently because of her outbursts, but when they face eviction again, Livvie is convinced she has a way to get back to a house where they were all...
- Auteur:Alcott, Louisa MaySommaire:
Follows the adventures of Jo March and her husband, Professor Bhaer, as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place.
- Auteur:Tessier, ChantalSommaire:
Romane enchaîne les relations avec les hommes. Qui plus est, pour la plupart, il s'agit d'hommes mariés ou déjà en couple qui ne souhaitent pas s'engager. C'est connu, les filles sans père sont des filles perdues......
- Auteur:Bouchard, MarjolaineSommaire:
1955. Pour Étienne Lacombe, la vie est pleine de morts. Son quotidien se trouve d'ailleurs vite altéré à la suite du décès de sa tante Camille. Surprotégé par son entourage, le garçon cultive une fascination à l'endroit de...
- Auteur:Vryenhoek, LeslieSommaire:
Ledger of the Open Hand looks at the intimate power of money and emotional debt through the eyes of a woman trying to grab hold of her own life. Beholden to a shrewd friend and burdened by family obligations and guilt, Meriel-Claire (MC...
- Auteur:Léger, HugoSommaire:
Quand le contrat le plus lucratif, le plus juteux de ta carrière de biographe te tombe dessus, tu dis oui, merci madame, comme vous voudrez madame. Philippe a du métier, il sait que toute vérité n'est pas bonne à lire. Mais alors...