Clarisse, une couturière en apparence sans histoire, mène une existence bien tranquille quand Éva, une ambitieuse jeune comédienne, lui commande une robe extravagante pour un premier rôle dans une pièce très attendue, Sept nuits dans la...
Literary
- Auteur:Vallée, DanièleSommaire:
- Auteur:Woods, JaneSommaire:
Set in a small town in Quebec, Running Downhill Like Water is made up of four interconnected stories spanning fifty years of the lives of four people whose prospects have been violently shattered. Lucy, a perennial misfit, is thwarted...
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In Racket, editor and acclaimed fiction writer Lisa Moore introduces us to ten of the most exciting new writers currently at work in Newfoundland. Featuring a diverse range of previously unpublished short stories, this unique anthology...
- Auteur:Saint-Éloi, RodneySommaire:
Dans ce récit admirablement écrit, l'auteur rend hommage à sa mère, Bertha. Cette grande dame noire à l'énergie et à la générosité exemplaires, «amoureuse de l'amour», vient de mourir. Rodney, son fils aîné, raconte l...
- Auteur:Walsh, HelenSommaire:
'Part Real Housewives, part grown-up Nancy Drew.' — Missy Marston, author of Bad Ideas When Jane's partner goes missing she needs to find out if he's in danger while also contending with the politics of a large international film...
- Auteur:Kobayashi, TamaiSommaire:
Not every story has a happy ending.Since her brother's death, eight-year-old Egg Murakami has been living day-to-day on the family ostrich farm near Bittercreek, discovering life to be an ever-perplexing condition. Mama Murakami has...
- Auteur:Veilleux, MaudeSommaire:
Winter blankets Montreal, while a bookseller and her lover dream of Prague. As the narrator's open marriage becomes the subject of a novel, reality blurs with fiction, and she tries to reconcile the need to create with the desire for...
- Auteur:Boulerice, SimonSommaire:
Pourquoi Simon sourit-il autant? Et que cache-t-il derrière ce sourire? Que camouflent les costumes de mascotte qu'il emprunte ou les masques qu'il revêt? D'où lui viennent cette légèreté, cette juvénilité? C'est à...
- Auteur:Battigelli, Rosanna MicelottaSommaire:
The characters in Pigeon Soup & Other Stories are navigating relationships and grappling with issues of translocation, language and identity, religion and culture, and food. These tales portray the dark places they inhabit...
- Auteur:Hill, Laurie RaySommaire:
From the moment she holds her baby niece, Rose is on a mission. Terrified that her baby niece will fall victim to the sexual abuse rampant in the family, Rose tells us in her own warm, funny, down-to-earth voice, how she reluctantly...
- Auteur:L. Taggart, SarahSommaire:
Is love real if the beloved isn't? Girl, Interrupted meets Rebecca in this taut tale of love and madness When Tia meets Pacifique, it's a once-in-a-lifetime love. They spend five wild days and nights together, and then Tia wakes up in...
- Auteur:Woodcock, GeorgeSommaire:
George Woodcock, critique littéraire, historien et anarchiste, a eu un accès privilégié à la complexe histoire personnelle de George Orwell, dont il fut un ami proche. Rassemblant souvenirs, lettres et divers témoignages, cette...
- Auteur:Smith, RussellSommaire:
A fast-paced comic extravaganza and from the author of the runaway bestseller and Governor General's Award-nominated How Insensitive. 'Noise takes on the kind of high-jinx romantic comedy loved by Hollywood.' — Quill & Quire Set in...
- Auteur:Aritha, Van HerkSommaire:
Arachne Manteia is a road rider, a traveling sales rep who drives a classic Mercedes and peddles women's underwear for a living. From her working class childhood to her comfortable adult life, Arachne refuses the conventional and...
- Auteur:Hillier, SuzanneSommaire:
Two high school friends take very different paths during WWII. The traditional Angie falls in love—forever—with a sailor, whose life is suddenly ended by a German torpedo, while her friend Dorothy attempts something unheard of in the...
- 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:Michaud, Andrée A.Sommaire:
From internationally acclaimed crime writer Andrée A. Michaud, a brilliant and original tragicomic thriller about one man's search for peace and sanctuary amid invasive neighbours and a mysterious death. Retired fifty-something...
- Auteur:Rubio, MarySommaire:
Mary Henley Rubio has spent over two decades researching Montgomery's life, and has put together a comprehensive and penetrating picture of this Canadian literary icon, all set in rich social context. Extensive interviews with...
- Auteur:Smith, RaySommaire:
The Lord Nelson Tavern: a Halifax watering hole in the early 1960s. The group of young university students who hang out there—a ramshackle coterie of aspiring artists, economists, poets, and philosophers—come together to gossip and...
- Auteur:Svec, Henry AdamSommaire:
A grossly inaccurate "memoir" about Canadian folk legends. Henry Adam Svec has been pushing boundaries in Canadian folklore since he unearthed songs by CFL players in Library and Archives Canada, thereby thrusting himself into...