Ada est une vraie grincheuse: elle boude, elle râle, elle déteste tout. Mais ce qu'elle déteste le plus, c'est le samedi, parce que c'est le jour de son cours de ballet. Ada déteste son tutu rose, le long trajet en auto pour s'y rendre...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Gravel, EliseSummary: - Author:Burt, HeatherSummary:
Runner-up for the 2008 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize On a stifling August day, six-year-old Clare Fraser and seven-year-old Rudy Vantwest make eye contact from opposite sides of their street. For an instant they are connected, then each...
- Author:Mehlmann, GloriaSummary:
Adam's Tree is a fictional account of life on the Cowesses First Nation in Saskatchewan during the 1940's and 50's.This period in history finds forces like regulatory policy, World War II, systemic racism, and the long reach of the...
- Author:Mehlmann, GloriaSummary:
Adam's Tree is a fictional account of life on the Cowesses First Nation in Saskatchewan during the 1940's and 50's. This period in history finds forces like regulatory policy, World War II, systemic racism, and the long reach of the...
- Author:McMillian, MelodySummary:
Addison Addley hates math. He hates public speaking too. Actually, he hates anything that involves work, but he only has a couple of weeks to write and memorize his grade five speech. The problem is, he can’t think of a single topic....
- Author:McMillian, MelodySummary:
Addison's mother wants to sell their comfortable old house and move into a townhouse in a new development across town - a shoe box near a shoe factory, Addison calls it. As usual, Addison's brain goes into overdrive as he tries to solve...
- Author:Waldman, DebbySummary:
Addy has worn hearing aids for as long as she can remember. Her mother tells her this makes her special, but now that Addy's in grade six, she'd wants to be special for what she's done. When Addy joins the school running club to keep...
- Author:Lorrain, FranceSummary:
Adèle, 20 ans, rêve de devenir journaliste et de pouvoir vivre de sa plume, contrairement à ses frères et sa sœur, tous prêts à faire fructifier la ferme familiale. Un changement de rédacteur en chef au journal de Saint-Jovite, où elle...
- Author:Lorrain, FranceSummary:
« Promettez-moi de ne jamais vous marier, de ne jamais choisir d'époux ou d'épouse qui risque de vous abandonner ou de vous briser le coeur, ni d'avoir d'enfants. » Nous sommes dans les Hautes-Laurentides, en 1922. Rose rend l'âme en...
- Author:Jean-Louis MorganSummary:
Années 1950. Tout juste remis d'une impossible histoire d'amour, Eric Sanscartier est banni de la Rive-Sud par l'influent bandit qui l'employait. Le jeune journaliste parvient à survivre de peine et de misère à...
- Author:Tremblay d'Essiambre, LouiseSummary:
Adrien va enfin connaître les joies de la paternité. Sa femme Maureen en est à son cinquième mois de grossesse et cette fois, tout semble aller pour le mieux. Pourtant, une ombre viendra assombrir la naissance de l'enfant tant attendu...
- Author:Tremblay d'Essiambre, LouiseSummary:
Voici le dernier tome des Mémoires d’un quartier, un au revoir émouvant à une famille attachante…
1972: Mariage, naissance, déménagement, la vie suit son cours dans le quartier des Lacaille et elle bouscule un peu tout le monde...
- Author:Edizel, LorenSummary:
John arrives in a Montreal airport with a suitcase in hand. We do not know where he is from, or who he is. The novel sets out to explore his identity by following his daily movements and intimate thoughts, as well as his connections to...
- Author:Macdonald, Ann-MarieSummary:
Mary Rose MacKinnon is a successful author of YA fiction doing a tour of duty as stay-at-home mom while her partner, Hilary, takes a turn focusing on her career. She tries valiantly to balance the (mostly) solo parenting of two young...
- Author:Helmer, Marilyn, Deas, MikeSummary:
Bad weather, bugs and boredom -- DJ and the boys in Camp Lots-o-Fun's cabin six are starting to call it Camp Not-so-Fun. To make matters worse, one of the boys has it in for DJ. But DJ isn't about to let that bother him. His lively...
- Author:Greer, DarrenSummary:
When Jacob is called back to Advocate, he is not only returning home again, something he knows he cannot really do; he is going to face his dying grandmother and the people of the town who turned on one of their own. Twenty years...
- Author:Bissonnette, Lise, Fischman, SheilaSummary:
An art critic dies alone, leaving only a letter to a former lover about the women and men he has loved. But it's a letter that discloses too much -- a final lifting of imposture that must nevertheless remain concealed. Affairs of Art,...
- Author:Robart-Johnson, SharonSummary:
"Africa's Children is a testament to one's heritage, a belief in one's ancestors, and a record of truth ... no told!" – Dr. Henry V. Bishop, chief curator, Black Cultural Centre, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia...
- Author:Hofmann, KarenSummary:
After retiring from the heady world of academia, Sidonie von Täler has returned to the small Okanagan Valley town she escaped in her youth for the lights of the big city. The family orchard has since gone to seed, and even decades...
- Author:Bennett, JonathanSummary:
While most of the action takes place in Sydney, Australia, and Toronto, this whirlwind tour of long-separated twins also lands in Hawaii, London, Scotland, Madrid, and Mallorca. The twins — Curt, an Australian jazz musician, and William...
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