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  • Author:
    Roy, Suzanne
    Summary:

    Les années ont passé. Alice mène une vie paisible en compagnie de sa famille, en sachant que ce sera bientôt le moment où elle devra annoncer la vérité à son fils. Quand Stéphane prend la fuite et que Véra surgit au beau...

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    Gauthier, Stéphanie
    Summary:

    Une fille trop curieuse s'ouvre sur un incident banal – un accrochage automobile à première vue sans conséquence – qui s'avérera le déclencheur d'un jeu de cache-cache narratif admirablement maîtrisé. Tout un réseau d'acteurs se...

  • Author:
    Daigneault, Claude
    Summary:

    Une famille et ses invités se retrouvent à la merci d’une tempête de verglas qui s’abat sur la maison ancestrale de la campagne lanaudoise. La situation se complique à un moment crucial pour ces gens qui ne s’aiment plus et dont les...

  • Author:
    Houde, Nicole
    Summary:

    Dans le premier récit de ce recueil, Céline affronte courageusement la mort. Atteinte d’un cancer foudroyant, elle refuse tout traitement palliatif et retourne à l’Anse-St-Jean, son village natal, pour renouer, une dernière fois, avec...

  • Author:
    Arbour, Marie-Christine
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    À travers l’amour, l’admiration et le rejet, ce roman décrit la fascination qu’exerce une mère sur sa fille. Prise en otage par elle, celle-ci se mesure à ses propres peurs face au sexe et aux hommes. Déçue et trompée, mais toujurs en...

  • Author:
    Saint-Pierre, Éliane
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    1946, Saint-Antoine-le-Vieux. Louise Chénier, seize ans, est engagée comme domestique par le notaire Philippe Dorval et son épouse Odette. La jeune fille, issue d'un milieu pauvre, s'applique dès lors à suivre bien...

  • Author:
    Munsch, Robert, Kusugak, Michael
    Summary:

    Une légende inuite raconte que des Qallupilluits se cachent sous la glace de mer. Ces créatures capturent les enfants qui s’aventurent sans leurs parents près des crevasses de la glace. Mais la jeune Allashua doute de leur existence et...

  • Author:
    Zaremba, Eve
    Summary:

    Eve Zaremba places her street-smart heroine as the head of security in a large, urban condominium. It seems like an easy way to make a living to Helen; that is, until the body of an environmental activist turns up...

  • Author:
    Doucette, Paul H.
    Summary:

    France 1945. MPs, Sergeant Jack Reilly and his partner Sergeant Frank Contini, find themselves closing in on a gang of thieves who have been pilfering military goods for the black market. In the course of arresting the villains, Jack is...

  • Author:
    Stewart, Kay, Bullock, Chris
    Summary:

    The third book in the Danutia Dranchuk mystery series reunites RCMP constable Danutia Dranchuk with her friend, drama critic Arthur Fairweather. Danutia is observing a youth rehabilitation program in England when Arthur returns to the...

  • Author:
    Spafford-Fitz, Karen
    Summary:

    Brett is president of her school's Unity Club. When a new group home for at-risk youth opens in the neighborhood, Brett becomes friends with Jude, one of the boys who lives at the home. After a series of acts of vandalism, the...

  • Author:
    Laverdure, Bertrand, Avasilichioaei, Oana
    Summary:

    From celebrated Quebecois author Bertrand Laverdure comes Universal Bureau of Copyrights , a bold, strange and addictive story that envisions a world where free will doesn't exist, and an enigmatic global corporation buys and sells the...

  • Author:
    Friesen, Bernice
    Summary:

    Universal Disorder is about a young boy growing up on the Canadian Prairies in the 1970s and 1980s; he has developmental disorders -- is on the autism spectrum and has OCD -- and finds solace in the world of numbers. Years later, he...

  • Author:
    Brouwer, Sigmund
    Summary:

    Jace has taken up boxing on the wrong side of the tracks as he prepares to seek vengeance on his abusive father with two other teen vigilantes in this fast-paced entry in the Retribution trilogy.

  • Author:
    LeBlanc, Amy
    Summary:

    In Snowton, Alberta, secrets flourish like the crocuses in spring. When Louise Till lets herself into a neighbor's home using a surreptitiously copied key, she discovers more than she ever wanted to know about her small town and herself...

  • Author:
    Edwards, Wallace
    Summary:

    A traveling artist takes the reader through a collection of illustrations of fantastical hybrid creatures. This edition combines both written and spoken words.

  • Author:
    Jennings, Sharon
    Summary:

    As Rebecca is about to turn twelve years old, she begins to realize that Joe, her father, is not the most supportive of parents. Rather he seems to want to turn her away from friendships, from involvement with others, from anyone who...

  • Author:
    Delany, Vicki
    Summary:

    Walter Desmond is back in Trafalgar, British Columbia, officially exonerated for a crime he didn’t commit. But if Walter didn’t commit murder, someone else did. And when two women are attacked, the media gets active and tempers...

  • Author:
    Fluttert, Pam
    Summary:

    Kat is alone with a secret she doesn?t want to keep, but can?t risk telling. A victim of longtime sexual abuse at the hands of her family?s trusted friend, Kat is torn between trying to protect herself and safeguarding her little sister...

  • Author:
    Fallis, Terry
    Summary:

    On his first day at Turner King, David Stewart quickly realizes that the world of PR is a far cry from his previous job on Parliament Hill, and before he even has time to find the washroom, David is assigned a major project: devise a...

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