Winner, Trillium Book Award. In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions during a family wedding, a teenage girl looks for happiness inside a pack of cigarettes, a mother...
Identity (Psychology)
- Auteur:Mutonji, TéaSommaire:
- Auteur:Mutonji, TéaSommaire:
Finalist, Rogers Writers' Trust of Canada Fiction Prize; Finalist, Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction; a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year. In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese...
- Auteur:LeZotte, Ann ClareSommaire:
Mary Lambert has always felt safe and protected on her beloved island of Martha's Vineyard. Her great-great-grandfather was an early English settler and the first deaf islander. Now, over a hundred years later, many people there--...
- Auteur:Howard, LindaSommaire:
Lizette Henry wakes up one morning and makes a terrifying discovery: She doesn't recognize the face she sees in the mirror. She remembers what she looks like, but her reflection is someone else's. To add to the shock, two...
- Auteur:Chamberlain, PennySommaire:
Twelve-year-old Pepper and her misfit brother, Everett, are spending their summer on Shack Island with Grandma. Pepper has mysterious dreams that foretell the future, so she decides to practice her ESP skills to see if she can get...
- Auteur:Walsh, AnnSommaire:
Rana’s on the team — but is he still all alone? Short-listed for the 1996 Silver Birch Award As a Sikh living in small-town British Columbia, Rana knows he is different. In fact, he is the first Sikh in Dinway to try out for the hockey...
- Auteur:Barker, Adam J., Battell Lowman, EmmaSommaire:
"Through an engaging, and sometimes enraging, look at the relationships between Canada and Indigenous nations, Settler: Identity and Colonialism in 21st Century Canada explains what it means to be Settler and argues that accepting...
- Auteur:LeZotte, Ann ClareSommaire:
A riveting standalone companion to the Schneider Family Book Award winner, Show Me a Sign by Deaf author and librarian, Ann Clare LeZotte.Three years after being kidnapped as a "live specimen" in a cruel experiment to...
- Auteur:Gilbert, SkySommaire:
A daring foray into the groundbreaking genre of autobiographical fiction. Sad Old Faggot is the absorbing, sometimes embarrassing, always entertaining story of a lonely, self-obsessed, selfish, deluded, impotent 62-year-old gay...
- Auteur:Sommaire:
Palace intrigues and clientelism drove politics at the viceregal court of colonial Mexico. By carefully reconstructing social networks in the court of Viceroy Duke of Alburquerque (1702-1710), Christoph Rosenmüller reveals that the Duke...
- Auteur:Hall, MichaelSommaire:
Red's factory-applied label clearly says that he is red, but despite the best efforts of his teacher, fellow crayons and art supplies, and family members, he cannot seem to do anything right until a new friend offers a fresh...
- Auteur:Lawton, GeorginaSommaire:
After her father died, Lawton began to unravel the truth about her parentage, and the racial identity that she had been denied. She fled from England and the turmoil of her home life to live in Black communities around the globe and to...
- Auteur:Bird-Wilson, LisaSommaire:
For readers of Tommy Orange's There There and Terese Marie Mailhot's Heart Berries, Probably Ruby is an audacious, brave and beautiful book about an adopted woman's search for her Indigenous identity. Relinquished as an infant, Ruby is...
- Auteur:Cabot, Meg.Sommaire:
Having recently discovered she is the sole heir to the throne of a tiny European principality, fourteen-year-old Manhattan resident Mia has a primetime interview in which she manages to alienate almost everyone. Mia is swept up in a...
- Auteur:Cabot, Meg.Sommaire:
In a series of humorous diary entries, a New York City ninth grader agonizes over her love life, final exams, and future role as the princess of Genovia.
- Auteur:Shingoose, NahanniSommaire:
A coming-of-age story about a teen girl who experiences her Indigenous heritage in a meaningful way. Part Ojibwe and part white, River lives with her white mother and stepfather on a farm in Ontario. Teased about her Indigenous heritage...
- Auteur:Slaughter, KarinSommaire:
Andrea Cooper thinks she knows everything about her mother, Laura. But all that changes when an afternoon trip to the mall explodes into violence and Andrea sees a totally different side of her.
- Auteur:Collectif d’élèvesSommaire:
L’arrivée au Canada d’une jeune orpheline indienne, la prise de conscience d’un adolescent de son homosexualité, le dilemme d’une étudiante canadienne d’origine musulmane qui doit choisir si elle portera ou non le hijab, un jeune...
- Auteur:Taylor, JessSommaire:
Paul, who is not always the same Paul, but could very well be a similar Paul, another Paul in a long line of Pauls. Paul runs through forests, drinks in student housing, flirts with girls, at times is a girl, loves men, makes friends,...
- Auteur:Luo, SusieSommaire:
Set in New York and China over three decades, Paper Names explores what it means to be American from three different perspectives. There's Tony, a Chinese-born engineer turned Manhattan doorman, who immigrated to the United States...