Montréal, avenue du Parc, rue Saint-Viateur. Des passants se croisent, vont et viennent, anonymes dans la foule. L’art subtil de Mary Soderstrom consiste à nous faire pénétrer dans l’intimité de ces inconnus qui semble, au premier abord...
Manners and customs
- Auteur:Soderstrom, MarySommaire:
- Auteur:McCall Smith, AlexanderSommaire:
The latest installment of Alexander McCall Smith's perennially popular and irresistibly charming 44 Scotland Street series. When Pat accepts her narcissistic ex-boyfriend Bruce's invitation for coffee, she has no idea of the...
- Auteur:HOWARD, AudreySommaire:
Lally Fraser, widowed at twenty, seeks comfort with dashing young millowner Roly Sinclair. But when she finds she is expecting his baby, she turns to his dour brother Harry. Secretly in love with her, Harry offers her marriage. Roly,...
- Auteur:Pamuk, OrhanSommaire:
Selling Turkish spirits on the street and dreaming of becoming rich in a rapidly developing Istanbul, street youth Melvut Karatas elopes with the wrong woman and builds a family over decades marked by a series of dead-end jobs and an...
- Auteur:Pajer, BernadetteSommaire:
Can death bring a man back to life? When UW Professor Benjamin Bradshaw discovers a despised colleague dead inside the Faraday Cage of the Electric Machine, his carefully controlled world shatters. The facts don't add up, the police...
- Auteur:Sawai, GloriaSommaire:
In her stunning, Governor-General's-Award-winning debut collection of short stories, Gloria Sawai examines the heartbreaking lives of people on the margins.
In her stunning debut collection of short stories, Gloria Sawai examines...
- Auteur:Laurens, StephanieSommaire:
Wealthy and roguish, Demon Cynster is perfectly content without love. Having witnessed his Cynster brethren driven to their knees by women, he knows all too well what the power of love can do to a man. But he never banked on meeting...
- Auteur:Laurens, StephanieSommaire:
Unlike his brothers, Vane Cynster vows to never marry. The eligible women of London have different plans for him, however. Seeking safety at Bellamy Hall, the residence of his eccentric godmother, Vane doesn't expect to meet any new...
- Auteur:Joyce, JamesSommaire:
Told in Joyce’s signature free indirect style and filled with allusions to Irish history and Greek mythology, this semi-autobiographical novel traces the development of his protagonist, Stephen Dedalus, from a young boy into an...
- Auteur:HARDY, ThomasSommaire:
Elfride is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Cornwall based on St. Juliot, where Thomas Hardy began the book during the first days of his courtship of his first wife Emma. Blue-eyed and high-spirited...
- Auteur:Hainsworth, Gavin, Freund-Hainsworth, KatherineSommaire:
From prospectors to politicians, promoters to profiteers, New Westminster's known them all. It is Western Canada's oldest city, aptly named by Queen Victoria as the first capital of the new colony of British Columbia. On the mighty...
- Auteur:Scali, DominiqueSommaire:
New Babylon n'existe pas. Mais s'il fallait crâeer cette ville, les duels y seraient permis et il n'y aurait pas d'autre loi que celle interdisant les hommes de loi. On y aurait constamment le souffle coupâe, áa cause des paysages, et...
- Auteur:Jackson, JoshilynSommaire:
Every fifteen years, trouble comes after the three Slocumb women. Now, as the youngest turns fifteen, she's desperate to know who used their yard as a makeshift cemetery, and why. The unlikely matriarch, forty-five-year-old Ginny, doesn...
- Auteur:White, JerrySommaire:
Jerry White's London in the Eighteenth Century is an unrivalled, panoramic account of the city's dramatic century of rebirth by its leading expert. London in the eighteenth century had risen from the ashes. The city and its people had...
- Auteur:JACOBS, AnnaSommaire:
When, after the death of her mother, Cassandra Trent is told that she must join her aunt and have a London Season, she is full of rage. She is convinced that she will never fit into polite society, but develops a close relationship...
- Auteur:Alexander, TashaSommaire:
At her friend Ivy's behest, Lady Emily Ashton reluctantly agrees to attend a party at the sprawling English country estate of a man she finds odious. But the despised Lord Fortescue is not to be her greatest problem. Kristiana von Lange...
- Auteur:McAllister, RowanSommaire:
William Carey has played many roles in his thirty-two years of life. Though born to privilege, he fled his disapproving family and, purely out of spite, devoted himself to a life of danger and infamy. William never thought twice about...
- Auteur:Sebastian, CatSommaire:
When Amelia Allenby escaped a stifling London ballroom for the quiet solitude of the Derbyshire countryside, the very last thing she wanted was an extremely large, if - she grudgingly admits - passably attractive man disturbing her...
- Auteur:Collins, GarySommaire:
Among the bays, inlets, and communities of the province, author Gary Collins has earned a seat at the head of the table as Newfoundland and Labrador’s favourite storyteller. Now, with six books under his belt, the “Story Man” from Hare...
- Auteur:Perry, AnneSommaire:
No breath of scandal has ever touched the aristocratic Moidore family–until Sir Basil’s beautiful widowed daughter is stabbed to death in her own bed, a shocking, incomprehensible tragedy. Inspector William Monk is ordered to...