Annaka has always hated her first name. That's why, when her mother packed her up at age seven and moved from Yarmouth to Halifax, she decided she would go by Anna. Now Anna is back in Yarmouth after the death of her beloved Grampy, and...
Domestic fiction
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Author:Fenton, AndreSummary: - Author:Tremblay d'Essiambre, LouiseSummary:
Le troisième tome de la populaire série Les sœurs Deblois, de Louise Tremblay-D’Essiambre. La benjamine des sœurs Deblois est au centre de ce roman, tel un point de convergence vers lequel se dirigent les plus nobles aspirations des...
- Author:Montgomery, L. M.Summary:
Anne, a young orphan from the fictional community of Bolingbroke, Nova Scotia (based upon the real community of New London), is sent to Prince Edward Island after a childhood spent in strangers' homes and orphanages. Marilla and Matthew...
- Author:Hill, LawrenceSummary:
Canadian Langston Cane V finds his writing career (and, indeed, his life) in stasis until inspired by his mentor to write about an ancestor who purportedly died fighting alongside John Brown at Harpers Ferry. Traveling to Baltimore, the...
- Author:Strout, ElizabethSummary:
An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this new work of fiction by #1 bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout. Recalling Olive Kitteridge in its richness, structure, and...
- Author:Freedman, ArielaSummary:
When Hannah accompanies her husband and small children to Jerusalem for the year, she becomes fascinated with a group of expat women at her son's daycare, as well as a young Palestinian woman named Jenna. As she grows close to Jenna she...
- Author:Jetté, BrunoSummary:
L’incroyable saga de la famille Rendall se poursuit
Le richissime et puissant John John Rendall meurt en laissant dans le deuil sa jeune épouse et ses cinq enfants. Randy, le fils aîné, reprend le flambeau et devient le maître...
- Author:Groff, LaurenSummary:
In the late 1960s, a group of young idealists form a commune in western New York State. Into this group is born Bit, who grows into a quiet, distant man. Over the course of 50 years, Bit witnesses the utopia crumble and the world change...
- Author:Ross, SinclairSummary:
“Its an immense night out there, wheeling and windy. The lights on the street and in the houses against the black wetness, little unilluminating glints that might be painted on it. The town seems huddled together, cowering on a high...
- Author:Keane, Mary BethSummary:
A profoundly moving novel about two neighboring families in a suburban town, the friendship between their children, a tragedy that reverberates over four decades, and the power of forgiveness. Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope are two...
- Author:Karon, JanSummary:
It's easy to feel at home in Mitford. In these high, green hills, the air is pure, the village is charming, and the people are generally lovable. Yet, Father Tim, the bachelor rector, wants something more. Enter a dog the size of a sofa...
- Author:Smiley, JaneSummary:
The story of a man, whose wife and daughters refuse to accept the fact that he is dying.
- Author:Suman, DefneSummary:
Told from four different perspectives, At the Breakfast Table is a story of hidden histories and family secrets, from the author of The Silence of Scheherazade. Prinkipo Island, Turkey, 2017. In the glow of a late summer morning, family...
- Author:McEwan, IanSummary:
On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister, Cecilia, strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood...
- Author:Lorrain, FranceSummary:
Au chant des marées, c'est l'histoire de Marjolaine et de Philippe, qui héritent d'une maison sur l'Île Verte au printemps 1980. Soucieux de fuir certains événements douloureux du passé, le jeune couple déménage sur ce territoire isolé...
- Author:Valognes, AurélieSummary:
1968. Jean a six ans quand il est confié du jour au lendemain à sa grand-mère. Pour l'été. Pour toujours. Il n'a pas prévu ça. Elle non plus.Mémé Lucette n'est pas commode, mais dissimule un coeur tendre. Jean,...
- Author:Lavoie, Marie-ReneeSummary:
Like a Québécois Bridget Jones's Diary, Marie-Renée Lavoie's Autopsy of a Boring Wife tells the hysterically funny and ultimately touching tale of forty-eight-year-old Diane, a woman whose husband leaves her and is having...
- Author:Crewe, LesleySummary:
From the author of Relative Happiness and Shoot Me comes a riveting story about one terrible secret-a secret kept in shame, buried deep for self-preservation, and exposed in a moment that changes forever the lives of everyone involved....
- Author:Urquhart, JaneSummary:
An Irish family escapes the potato famine by emigrating to Canada. The novel traces its contribution to the culture of its adopted land--from Irish sense of humor to Irish idealism--the latter leading one of its members to engage in...
- Author:Weber, CarlSummary:
In Baby Momma Drama, sisters Jasmine and Stephanie struggle to understand the complicated relationships they have with the men in their lives. Luckily, they've got each other to turn to when the going gets tough.
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