In 1779 Calum MacDonald was driven from his home and set sail from the Scottish Highlands with his family for Canada - 'the land of trees'. They become a clan, with their own identity and history. Alexander remembers the thrilling and...
Immigrants
- Auteur:Macleod, AlistairSommaire:
- Auteur:Gilligan, RuthSommaire:
At the start of the twentieth century, a young girl and her family emigrate from Lithuania in search of a better life in America, only to land on the Emerald Isle instead. In 1958, a mute Jewish boy locked away in a mental institution...
- Auteur:Dickner, NicolasSommaire:
Three people follow their own personal voyages into Montréal.
- Auteur:Nasrallah, DimitriSommaire:
Winner, 2011 Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction Longlisted for the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlisted for CBC Canada Reads 2016 Swiftly paced, poignantly moving, and beautifully imagined, Niko is the powerful epic...
- Auteur:Foon, Dennis, Youssef, MarcusSommaire:
Two of the most produced, popular, and important Canadian plays for young audiences are back in an updated edition. In New Canadian Kid, Nick has just moved to Canada from a country called Homeland, where he is forced to grapple with...
- Auteur:Massoudi, MehrnazSommaire:
Both charming and powerful, this memoir unfolds the story of a young girl born in Iran who eventually triumphs over sexism and abuse to become a successful woman and mother in Canada. The book opens with a dramatic account of a terrible...
- Auteur:Dueck, AdeleSommaire:
When Lisa asks her grandmother, Nettie Pauls, about her life before she came to Canada, Grandmother Nettie hands her her old diary that tells an amazing tale of survival during a time of war, famine, and terror.
- Auteur:Bezmozgis, DavidSommaire:
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My Parents: Memoirs of New World Icelanders is a collection of essays written by second-generation Icelandic immigrants in North America, describing the lives of their parents. Originally collected in 1956 by Dr. Finnbogi Gumundsson,...
- Auteur:Gay, Marie-LouiseSommaire:
Mustafa et sa famille ont voyagé très longtemps avant d'arriver dans leur nouveau pays. Certains soirs, le jeune garçon revoit sa terre natale dans des songes remplis de fumée, de feu et de grands bruits, qui le laissent complètement...
- Auteur:Stefanovic, SofijaSommaire:
In the tradition of Little Failure, a funny, dark, and tender coming-of-age memoir about life as a perpetual fish-out-of-water, from the Yugoslavian-born comedic storyteller, MothStorySLAM favorite, and host of the Women of Letters...
- Auteur:Mazigh, Monia, Reed, Fred A.Sommaire:
In the spirit of Amy Tan’s international bestselling novel The Joy Luck Club, Mirrors and Mirages is an intricately woven, deftly told story that follows the lives of women and their daughters.In Mirrors and Mirages, Monia Mazigh lets...
- Auteur:Farah, ÀlainSommaire:
Alain épouse Virginie en la crypte de l'oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal. En apparence, ce sera le plus beau jour de sa vie - de leur vie. Tout le monde est là, les parents de la mariée, la grande amie, les parents du narrateur -...
- Auteur:Goupil, MylèneSommaire:
Mélie habite seule avec sa mère toujours fatiguée, loin de sa famille restée à l’autre bout du monde, et surtout loin de son papa dont elle ne sait rien. Lorsque Mélie trouve un téléphone intelligent dans le parc, elle commence à...
- Auteur:Yee, LisaSommaire:
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - Twelve year-old Maizy discovers her family’s Chinese restaurant is full of secrets in this irresistible novel that celebrates food, fortune, and family. Welcome to the Golden Palace! Maizy has never been...
- Auteur:Qu, AnnaSommaire:
A young girl forced to work in a Queens sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerful debut memoir about labor and self-worth that traces a Chinese immigrant's journey to an American future. As a teen, Anna Qu is...
- Auteur:Jones, Stephen MackSommaire:
Detroit ex-cop August Snow takes up vigilante justice when his beloved neighborhood of Mexicantown is caught in the crosshairs of a human trafficking scheme. When the body of an anonymous young Hispanic woman dressed as Queen Marie...
- Auteur:Behar, RuthSommaire:
Pura Belpr? Award Winner Ruth Behar's inspiring story of a young Jewish girl who escapes Poland to make a new life in Cuba, while she works to rescue the rest of her family The situation is getting dire for Jews in Poland on the...
- Auteur:Langston, LauraSommaire:
Baba had made Lesia a promise: just remember the flower is not always open, but if your effort is true, your rewards will be sweet. Fifteen-year-old Lesia treasures those words as she and her family leave Baba in their Ukrainian...
- Auteur:Yee, PaulSommaire:
Jason is on outsider. A recent immigrant from China, he lives in a close-minded town with his mother and younger brother. Trying hard to fit in, Jason falls in with the wrong crowd and ends up in trouble with the police. Jason finds he...