It was cold; bitterly paralysingly cold. There was a dampness in the air that bit into the marrow of your bones and stayed there. The red in the thermometer was below zero and still dropping steadily, and the weather forecasts offered...
Québec--Montréal
- Auteur:Sanderson, DouglasSommaire:
- Auteur:Warren, Jean-PhilippeSommaire:
Dans l'esprit de bien des gens, la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle confirme le repli conservateur d'une population canadienne-française engagée dans un combat ardu pour la survivance. Mais que faire d'un homme comme Honoré Beaugrand, qui...
- Auteur:Legault, MichelSommaire:
Je suis revenu dans l'Est parce que mon coeur déboussolé avait perdu le nord. Correcteur à la pige dans la trentaine, jeune homme aux angoisses affectives étouffantes et incorrigible romantique, Max est de retour dans le quartier de son...
- Auteur:Barlow, MatthewSommaire:
This vibrant biography of Griffintown, an inner-city Montreal neighbourhood, brings to life the history of Irish identity in the legendary enclave. As Irish immigration dwindled by the late nineteenth century, Irish culture in the city...
- Auteur:Austin, DavidSommaire:
In the 1960s, for at least a brief moment, Montreal became what seemed an unlikely centre of Black Power and the Caribbean left. In October 1968 the Congress of Black Writers at McGill University brought together well-known Black...
- Auteur:Moutquin, Marc-AndréSommaire:
Solitaire et sans attaches, Jacques suit les conseils d’un ami et accepte un contrat dans un village situé au nord de Puvirnituq, dans le Nunavik. Habitué aux régions éloignées, c’est pourtant la première fois qu’il se retrouve à un...
- Auteur:Thúy, KimSommaire:
"Em, c'est le fifil qui relie les ouvriers des plantations de caoutchouc et les femmes des salons de manucure aux orphelins de l'opération Babylift, qui a évacué des enfants de Saigon en 1975. Em, c'est celle qui aime."
- Auteur:Decker, DonnaSommaire:
Through the braided narratives of three spirited characters, this novel bears witness to the infamous “American” crime that metastasized uber-civilized Montreal. Everyone wants a Marin at her party. Bohemian and beautiful, this...
- Auteur:Hage, RawiSommaire:
Cockroach is as urgent, unsettling, and brilliant as Rawi Hage's bestselling and critically acclaimed first book, De Niro's Game. The novel takes place during one month of a bitterly cold winter in Montreal's restless immigrant...
- Auteur:Speare, Elizabeth GeorgeSommaire:
Miriam Willard and her family are taken captive by Indians from a New Hampshire settlement and brought to Canada as prisoners at the beginning of the French and Indian War.
- Auteur:Arcan, NellySommaire:
Rose Dubois and Julie O’Brien find themselves on the roof of a Montreal apartment building on a scorching summer’s day, and from that moment on their fates are intertwined. Worldwide climate change and dramatic shifts in weather...
- Auteur:Sanderson, Douglas, Norris, J. F.Sommaire:
"It's been a long time now, nearly two years since we met at that party." "Yeah," Tessie said bitterly, "and nearly five years since I was a clever little girl who thought she'd found a way to make a hundred dollars. There was only...
- Auteur:Pierre, ÉmelineSommaire:
Les nouvelles de ce recueil nous transportent au Québec, en Afrique et au cœur des Antilles, derrière le décor exotique et trompeur des hôtels et des plages. Coupeur de canne ou ouvrière en Guadeloupe, travailleur clandestin en...
- Auteur:McFetridge, JohnSommaire:
An artfully told police procedural set in an explosive era in recent history
Montreal 1970. The “Vampire Killer” has murdered three women and a fourth is missing. Bombs explode in the stock exchange, McGill University,...
- Auteur:di Michele, MarySommaire:
A masterwork from one of Canada’s most important poets
Referencing the post-war neorealist film by Vittorio De Sica, Mary di Michele’s Bicycle Thieves commemorates her Italian past and her life in Canada through...
- Auteur:Houde, NicoleSommaire:
Voici un livre étonnant. On y découvre une Nicole Houde rieuse et moqueuse, tendre et grave, avec un brin de fantaisie impertinente. Des fées et des mages s'amusent au milieu d'une foule de personnages croisés au hasard de promenades...
- Auteur:Bissonnette, Lise, Fischman, SheilaSommaire:
Full of the mordant wit and unflinching observations we've come to admire in Bissonette's earlier, award-winning novels and stories, An Appropriate Place is as much a commentary on the triumphs and self-deception of the political...
- Auteur:McFetridge, JohnSommaire:
Constable Eddie Dougherty returns in this gripping police procedural
Montreal, Labour Day weekend, 1972. The city is getting ready to host the first game in the legendary Summit Series between Canada and the USSR. Three...
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