In this book, a son (Robert Davidson) learns to carve argillite from his father and grandfather. While carving, the son thinks back on a trip with his father when they gathered argillite from Slatechuck Mountain on Haida Gwaii. He...
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Auteur:Davidson, Robert, Gibbons, Janine, Davidson, Sara FlorenceSommaire: - Auteur:Allain, CarolSommaire:
D’un monde vertical prônant la rigueur, l’autorité et le devoir, nous sommes passés à un monde horizontal axé sur la mobilité, la flexibilité et l’instantanéité, accentuées par la mondialisation et l’omniprésence du numérique. L’...
- Auteur:Davidson, Robert, Gibbons, Janine, Davidson, Sara FlorenceSommaire:
In this book, a grandfather and grandson (Robert Davidson) spend the day jigging for halibut off the northern tip of Haida Gwaii. They begin by rowing together in a wooden dinghy from their home in the village of Massett toward the...
- Auteur:Leblond, DianeSommaire:
Cette saga à travers les générations familiales ne peut être qu’inventée puisqu’elle est née du silence qu’engendrent les morts… de ces parcelles de vérités ou de mensonges, de ces histoires qui n’appartiennent à personne dans la quête...
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Auteur:Michaels, AnneSommaire:In 1940 a Jewish boy in Poland escapes the Nazi soldiers who killed his family and is rescued by a Greek geologist. This story follows the boy across two continents as we witness his transformation from a half-wild casualty of the...
- Auteur:Atlas, GalitSommaire:
Galit Atlas sheds light on the family secrets and emotions that haunt us like ghosts, keep us from living to our full potential, and create gaps between what we want for ourselves and what we are able to have.
- Auteur:Honeyman, GailSommaire:
Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. That, combined with her unusual appearance (scarred cheek, tendency to wear the same clothes year in, year out),...
- Auteur:Black, DanielSommaire:
AN ESSENCE MAGAZINE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR. "Don't Cry for Me is a perfect song."--Jesmyn Ward. A Black father makes amends with his gay son through letters written on his deathbed in this wise and penetrating novel of...
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Auteur:Thien, MadeleineSommaire:At the centre of this epic tale are enigmatic Sparrow, a genius composer who wishes desperately to create music yet can find truth only in silence; his mother and aunt, Big Mother Knife and Swirl, survivors with captivating singing...
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Auteur:Gaetz, DayleSommaire:Fourteen-year-old Matt has only one goal in life: to become a hermit. He has no use for school, but he loves the solitude of the forest. When he hikes up to the cabin he built for himself, he discovers a mysterious stranger named...
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Auteur:O'Brien, PeterSommaire:Cleopatra at the Breakfast Table is about storytelling in the digital age. It’s a jaunty account of a single father, 55, and his daughter, 15, studying Grade 10 Latin together. The book explores the bustling life of teenaged girls, the...
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Auteur:McNicoll, SylviaSommaire:A fatal collision — who’s to blame? Two bodies, two souls switch in search of justice. When fifteen-year-old Hallie gets knocked flying by a Hurricane SUV, her life ends without her ever having kissed a boy. At an otherworldly...
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Auteur:Flett, JulieSommaire:** IBBY Canada 2022 Honor List ** When a young girl moves from the country to a small town, she feels lonely and out of place. But soon she meets an elderly woman next door, who shares her love of arts and crafts. Can the girl navigate...
- Auteur:Reeves, RogerSommaire:
An incandescent collection that interrogates the personal and political nature of desire, freedom, and disaster. In his brilliant, expansive second volume, Whiting Award-winning poet Roger Reeves probes the apocalypses and raptures of...
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Being German Canadian explores how multi-generational families and groups have interacted and shaped each other's integration and adaptation in Canadian society, focusing on the experiences, histories, and memories of German...
- Auteur:Olsson, LindaSommaire:
Deeply forlorn following the devastating loss of her fiancé, young New Zealand writer Veronika resettles alone in a quaint Swedish village. Her arrival is quietly observed by Astrid, an elderly, reclusive neighbor, whose companionship...
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Auteur:Hosseini, KhaledSommaire:a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years-from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding-that puts the violence, fear, hope and faith of this country in...
- Auteur:Hosseini, KhaledSommaire:
After more than two years on the bestseller lists, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel of enormous contemporary relevance. A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile...
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