Valery the Great is a crackling, electric collection of dark humour that follows the bizarre and beautiful lives of its protagonists. Sometimes sweet and gentle, sometimes sharply sarcastic, the unique narrative voices in this...
Canadian fiction
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Author:McCluskey, ElaineSummary: - Author:Manners, StevenSummary:
John Munin is a rational man, a gifted Montreal psychiatrist who believes that the soul and psyche are interesting only in dissection. Even relationships are ripe for analysis, and Munin has identified "six elements that are...
- Author:Delany, VickiSummary:
In the bucolic mountain town of Trafalgar, British Columbia, a young woman is found dead of a heroin overdose, her baby lying at her side. While this should be an open-and-shut drug case, restraint marks on the victim suggest that the...
- Author:Mootoo, ShaniSummary:
In a well-to-do Trinidadian family, a father and his daughter struggle to find their true identities, both as individuals and as members of a tightly structured, traditional household. A story about the complex interaction of race,...
- Author:Cruise, David, Griffiths, AlisonSummary:
The story begins during the Ice Age and moves through history, revealing a fascinating cast of characters. A young girl faces the prospect of marriage into a faraway tribe; a Russian cartographer nearly meets his end at the hands of her...
- Author:Gauvin, MitchellSummary:
This is the manuscript of Xavier Bernard, an average, mundane and altogether unexceptional author who has attempted to claw back his lackluster life story by writing it himself. Free to invent the facts and improve on truth, he will...
- Author:Spafford-Fitz, KarenSummary:
Fourteen-year-old Simone is having trouble making friends at her new school when her leadership studies class is paired with kindergarten students to mentor throughout the school year. To her surprise, Simone enjoys the Kinderbuddy...
- Author:Stintzi, John ElizabethSummary:
Alani Baum, a non-binary photographer and teacher, hasn't seen their mother since they ran away with their girlfriend when they were seventeen - almost thirty years ago. But when Alani gets a call from a doctor at the assisted living...
- Author:Thornley, ScottSummary:
Two bodies have been found in the master bedroom of a mansion in Dundurn's old-money neighbourhood under the mountain. Howard Terry and his son Matthew have both been shot twice in the chest. Under Matthew's body is a doll with blood...
- Author:de la Roche, MazoSummary:
First published in 1954, in Variable Winds at Jalna, the immediate sequel to Rennys Daughter, Maitland Fitzturgis and his sister, Sylvia Fleming, travel from Ireland for his official acceptance by the family as Adelines husband. Finch...
- Author:Soucy, GaetanSummary:
New York, at the end of the 1920s. Xavier X. Mortanse, a seventeen-year-old apprentice demolition man, who claims to be an immigrant from Hungary, falls into a hole -- the beginning of myriad bizarre humiliations he suffers, only to be...
- Author:Lego, M.L.Summary:
Yannick Simard, magnat de la haute finance québécoise, voit sa vie basculer le jour où sa femme et ses deux chères filles meurent sous ses propres yeux, sans même qu'il ne puisse rien tenter pour les sauver. Lorsqu'il apprend que Johnny...
- Author:Lego, M.L.Summary:
The day his wife and two daughters succumbed under his eyes, a financial Tycoon by the name of Yannick Simard toppled over the edge. There is nothing he could have done to prevent their death. After learning that Johnny Boy, the biggest...
- Author:Lego, M.L.Summary:
Vengeance 2: De moins en moins drôle, de plus en plus intrigant... Au terme d'une très longue tournée, Johnny Boy quitte le monde musical pour s'offrir une sabbatique d'une durée indéterminée. Après deux ans de pure insouciance passés...
- Author:Tate, NikkiSummary:
Sixteen-year-old Spencer loves his job at the local racing stable, but when he becomes convinced that someone is drugging the racehorse Lord of the Flies, no one believes him. In an effort to find out who is behind a dangerous race-...
- Author:Bennett, JonathanSummary:
In these powerful stories the verandah people are Jonathan Bennett's own compatriots: Australians for whom the ever-present verandah is both stage and shelter, a retreat from hostile bushland or city street and a seductive barrier to...
- Author:Bowen, GailSummary:
When a judge's body is found in Wascana Park, Joanne and friend Hilda Mc Court must determine if the judge had come to regret the harsh sentences she had handed down, or was she getting senile? She had left two wills and the murder...
- Author:Jetté, BrunoSummary:
Ne manquez pas ce troisième volet de « La traite des fous » : suspense, délire et folie à l’état pur! Dans ce troisième volet de « La traite des fous », Bruno Jetté reçoit une offre mirobolante qu’il ne peut franchement pas refuser. En...
- Author:Dupuis-Morency, ClaraSummary:
L'astrologie nous attire, parce qu'elle parle de nous. Elle est réponse dans les jours sombres et source d'espoir pour le futur. Un peu de magie pour nous rappeler que nos vies sont meublées d'impondérable, un peu...
- Author:Robertson, DavidSummary:
Brady is abducted by the Mikho corporation, while Eva and Cole fight an old enemy. Cole barely escapes the fight alive, so once again, it's up to Eva to save the day. After a vicious battle with Mihko's newest test subject, Eva...
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