Le troisième roman pour adultes de Daniel Marchildon est aussi son projet le plus ambitieux en vingt ans de carrière littéraire. La science qu'il a acquise passionnément sur la fabrication et l'histoire du whisky s'y trouve habilement...
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- Auteur:Marchildon, DanielSommaire:
- Auteur:Carley, RodSommaire:
Rod Carley has concocted another hilarious romp behind the theatre curtain – a showdown between artistic freedom and censorship in rural Ontario. Kinmount is the last place down-and-out director Dave Middleton wants to revisit yet there...
- Auteur:Schultz, EmilySommaire:
Welcome to 1984 and the town of South Wakefield. Chris Lane is 14 and he's sure that he can see the future, or at least guess what's inside of Christie Brinkley's mind. But he can't foresee the closing of Joyland, the town's only video...
- Auteur:de la Roche, MazoSommaire:
Chronicling the early years of the formidable manor Jalna and the Whiteoak family who inhabit it, this bundle gathers together the first four novels in Mazo de la Roche's treasured Canadian saga. Includes: The Building of Jalna Morning...
- Auteur:de la Roche, MazoSommaire:
History flows swiftly on, and even the formidable family home of Jalna is swept up in its currents in this collection of books 9-12 of the Jalna series. Fortunes rise and crumble as older generations give way to the young, and the reins...
- Auteur:de la Roche, MazoSommaire:
Perhaps the most classic novels of Mazo de la Roche's monumental family saga are these four, which were the first books written in the series, though they fall in the middle of her books' multi-generation narrative. These, including the...
- Auteur:de la Roche, MazoSommaire:
All good things must come to an end, and this four-book bundle closes Mazo de la Roche's beloved Jalna series with stories of return, rebirth, and hope for a new day. As the dark clouds of World War II begin to clear, the scattered...
- Auteur:MacNamara, Jane E.Sommaire:
A guide to researching your family’s inheritance history in Ontario. Whether your ancestor left hundreds of acres of land, money, or a few modest belongings, the records created when those legacies were distributed can provide valuable...
- Auteur:Wagamese, RichardSommaire:
Saul Indian Horse, who is dying in a big city hospice, embarks on a journey of imagination back through his life.
- Auteur:Roberts, JuliaSommaire:
In Mixed Company explores taverns as colonial public space and how men and women of diverse backgrounds – Native and newcomer, privileged and labouring, white and non-white – negotiated a place for themselves within them. The stories...
- Auteur:Nino RicciSommaire:
As the young Italian boy Vittorio Innocent arrives in the New World, leaving the arms of his dying mother for the troubled haven of his father, he and his half-sister Rita must make their way in a farming community whose ways are both...
- Auteur:Swift, Jamie, Stewart, KeithSommaire:
Privatization of power soon became one of the biggest political disasters in Ontario history. Hydro reveals a train wreck that was decades in the making. First there was blind faith in the nuclear option, steeped in ecological arrogance...
- Auteur:Loewen, RoydenSommaire:
The history of the twentieth century is one of modernization, a story of old ways being left behind. Many traditionalist Mennonites rejected these changes, especially the automobile, which they regarded as a symbol of pride and...
- Auteur:JAMES, Charles C.Sommaire:
This paper takes the reader through the early settlement from 1783 to the modern period of 1888-1912. We see how farming and farm industries developed and how the population was distributed during these times. We see the trends of...
- Auteur:Bell, Nancy MSommaire:
The youngest child of the local doctor and evangelical preacher, Annie Baldwin was expected to work hard and not protest. Life on a pioneer farm was tough, so neighbors helped each other. George Richardson, the underage Doctor Bernardo...
- Auteur:Coakley, MarkSommaire:
A thoroughly researched and authoritative page-turner about this unprecedented operation — and bust
Mark Coakley lifts the veil on the riveting story of a group of criminals — Ontario police would call them “a gang with...
- Auteur:Cole, JoshSommaire:
The quarter century that followed the end of the Second World War was marked by intense social and economic transformation: the changing face of postwar capitalism, a revolution in communications technology, the rise of youth culture,...
- Auteur:Beach, MegsSommaire:
In the late 1960s Penny is the youngest of four kids, known on her street as the girl with the mean brothers. She spends all year looking forward to her summers spent at Go Home Lake, where she passes the days in a soaked bathing suit,...
- Auteur:Tsubouchi, DavidSommaire:
“Gambatte” means do your best and never give up, and that spirit is at the heart of David Tsubouchi’s life story. This memoir of the former Ontario cabinet minister begins as his family strives for acceptance amid the imprisonment of...
- Auteur:McCoy, TedSommaire:
Bridget Donnelly. Charlotte Reveille. Kate Slattery. Emily Boyle. Until now, these were nothing but names marked down in the admittance registers and punishment reports of Kingston Penitentiary, Canada's most notorious prison. In...