On a prédit un destin exceptionnel à Yändicha, une belle Huronne du Canada, passionnée de danse et éprise de liberté. Lors d'un spectacle à Québec, Etienne Gallois, le directeur d'une troupe de théâtre, remarque l...
France
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Auteur:Saint-Pierre, ÉlianeSommaire: - Auteur:Korman, GordonSommaire:
There are two things Trevor loves more than anything else: playing war-based video games and his great-grandfather Jacob, who is a true-blue, bona fide war hero. At the height of the war, Jacob helped liberate a small French village,...
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Auteur:Cook, TimSommaire:Why does Vimy matter? How did a four-day battle at the midpoint of the Great War, a clash that had little strategic impact on the larger Allied war effort, become elevated to a national symbol of Canadian identity? Tim Cook, Canada’s...
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Auteur:Thiessen, VernSommaire:France, 1917. Four wounded Canadian soldiers recover in a field hospital in the wake of the battle for Vimy Ridge, waiting to find out where they'll be sent next: back home or back to the front. Along with a young nurse from Nova...
- Auteur:Laxer, EmilySommaire:
Over the last few decades, politicians in Europe and North America have fiercely debated the effects of a growing Muslim minority on their respective national identities. Some of these countries have prohibited Islamic religious...
- Auteur:Doucette, Paul H.Sommaire:
"France 1945. MPs, Sergeant Jack Reilly and his partner Sergeant Frank Contini, find themselves closing in on a gang of thieves who have been pilfering military goods for the black market. In the course of arresting the villains,...
- Auteur:Michèle CartierSommaire:
Une Atalaya pour Gerry Roufs, de Michèle Cartier, la compagne du navigateur disparu en haute mer il y a huit ans, relate les faits saillants de l'interminable recherche du corps de Gerry Roufs à la suite du tragique et célèbre...
- Auteur:Marie-Claude DenysSommaire:
D'un côté, Samuel de Champlain, navigateur, géographe, explorateur, fondateur, personnage plus grand que nature, cependant figé depuis 1898. De l'autre, Marie, professeure d'informatique au secondaire, mère...
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Auteur:Brooke, JohnSommaire:HQ has ruled that Chief Inspector Aliette Nouvelle's failure to carry her gun directly contributed to the messy conclusion of a major murder case she'd led the previous summer. Her career now depends on a drastic about-face....
- Auteur:BICKEL, LennardSommaire:
The story of Louis Braille, born in France in 1809, and his struggle amid harsh conditions to perfect a code of raised dots punched through sheets of paper, to fashion an alphabet that opened the world of learning to the blind.
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Comment se donner le droit d’exister quand son frère de neuf ans vient de mourir d’une maladie incurable? Prisonnière de ce drame familial, Priscille Deborah peine à donner un sens à sa vie. Longtemps, elle se refuse au bonheur. Jeune...
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Auteur:Walcott, DerekSommaire:Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two Caribbean men. Camille Pissarro, born in 1830, leaves his native St. Thomas to follow his vocation as a painter in Paris. The poet himself hunts for a detail -- "a slash of pink on the inner thigh...
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Auteur:Faber, FelizSommaire:How can love between two men possibly be responsible for a horse’s death during the Kentucky Derby? Reporter Will Yeats wants to know the truth. Seventeen years ago, a love affair between a jockey and a horse trainer and a tragic...
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Auteur:Johnston, A. J. B.Sommaire:Set in early-18th-century France, Thomas: A Secret Life is the imagined life of Thomas Pichon. We first meet Thomas as a twelve-year old in the small town of Vire, Normandy. Precociously sensuous by nature, Thomas is inclined to poetry...
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Auteur:Connelly, KarenSommaire:In her first book of poetry since The Small Words in My Body, which won the Pat Lowther Prize for 1990, Karen Connelly writes, in the tradition of the writer-adventurer, of vivid encounters and reflections abroad and at home,...
- Auteur:Furst, AlanSommaire:
Set in the shadowy back streets and glittering salons of wartime Paris. Film producer Jean Casson, a Paris sophisticate struggles to come to terms with the uncomfortable realities of life under German occupation, as he becomes caught up...
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Auteur:Dumas, AlexandreSommaire:Growing up in genteel poverty in 17th-century France, young d'Artagnan dreams of becoming a hero and sets out to join the elite company of the King's trusted Musketeers. Beautiful and deadly women, priceless treasures and scandalous...
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Auteur:Lebovitz, DavidSommaire:An American pastry chef living in Paris shares his deliciously funny, offbeat, and irreverent look at the city of lights.
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Auteur:Finnin, AnnSommaire:"I was only an apprentice. I swear it. By all the angels in Heaven." Condemned to death by the Holy Office for sorcery, fifteen-year-old Michael de Lorraine is rescued from the flames by Abbot Francis and granted refuge at Sainte Felice...
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