This is the story of Edouard, Stephane, and the spirited girl they find alone and apparently lost in Paris. When the two men offer the young Quebec girl shelter for the night, their lives are profoundly and irrevocably changed. Stephane...
Manners and customs
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Auteur:Hennel, LeahSommaire:A stunning debut collection of photography focusing on contemporary cowboy culture and the modern ranching lifestyle throughout central and southern Alberta. Growing up in the city, Leah Hennel would spend summers with her cousins on a...
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Auteur:Brontë, AnneSommaire:Like her sister Charlotte’s Jane Eyre, Anne Brontë’s classic lays bare the vulnerable position of the governess in 19th century England. Let down by irresponsible parents, ill-treated by employers, Agnes’s one chance at happiness lies,...
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Auteur:Murakami, HarukiSommaire:In 1995, the Japanese city of Kobe suffered a massive earthquake. Nearly 6,000 people died. after the quake was the imaginative response from Japan's leading novelist, Haruki Murakami: six stories, each dealing not directly with...
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Auteur:Gildiner, CatherineSommaire:In 1960, Cathy McClure, age 12, is thrown out of Catholic school. Her father’s drugstore, faced with a superhighway and encroaching chain stores, has fallen upon hard times. So the family decides to leave Lewiston, New York, for a fresh...
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Auteur:Grant, ShauntaySommaire:À quoi ressemblait la communauté ? Des maisons aux couleurs vives, logées dans la colline ; des champs où les garçons jouaient au football ; un étang où les en- fants faisaient du rafting ; la pêche en abondance; des immenses feux de...
- Auteur:Mitchell, W. O.Sommaire:
Set in the forties and fifties, these stories take us back to a simpler, gentler world, the one we all like to think we grew up in. The Kid at the centre of the stories is a boy on a Saskatchewan farm down Government Road from Crocus,...
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Auteur:Reid, StacySommaire:England, 1817. Miss Adeline Hays is out of options. Determined to escape marriage to a repugnant earl, Adeline plans to deliberately allow herself to be caught in a compromising position at a house party with the much kinder man she'd...
- Auteur:Broad, ChrisSommaire:
The number one bestseller. "Chris Broad explores Japan in all its quirky glory... Endlessly fascinating!" —Will Ferguson, author of Hokkaido Highway Blues. "Carves a unique path across Japan, bringing him into contact...
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Auteur:Green, ValerieSommaire:When Fort Victoria was first established in the mid-nineteenth century, eight pioneer families of Europe’s upper class formed the social elite of the modest colony. The self-named aristocracy of this new land, these families shaped a...
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Auteur:Murakami, HarukiSommaire:A Japanese yuppie plunges into chaos after he discovers a snapshot depicting a unique crossbreed of sheep.
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Auteur:Fowler, Therese AnneSommaire:This program includes a bonus interview with the author. A Well-Behaved Woman is the riveting audiobook about iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her illustrious family as they rule Gilded Age New York, from the New York Times bestselling...
- Auteur:Soderstrom, MarySommaire:
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...
- 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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