In a finely woven series of flashbacks and correspondence, Lev Termen, the Russian scientist, inventor, and spy, tells the story of his life to his "one true love," Clara Rockmore, the finest theremin player in the world. In the first...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Michaels, SeanSummary: - Author:Akinturk, Ayse SuleSummary:
Us, Now is a collection of stories connecting Newfoundland and Labrador to the world via racialized NL Newfoundlanders. These are stories that fit George Elliot Clarke's thinking on what a truly Canadian national tale might be:...
- Author:Bertin, KrisSummary:
A woman becomes obsessed with a story about her family from 1890-when a naked, mute girl stumbled onto their property-and whether or not it really happened. A self-help guru and his chief strategist take their most affluent and unstable...
- Author:Arbour, Marie-ChristineSummary:
Nous sommes en 1977. Il est possible de rêver de pays inconnus et de peuples authentiques aux mœurs radicalement différentes. L’exotisme vient avec sa part de mystère. À quarante ans, Leucid Roy, un citadin endurci qui travaille dans...
- Author:Fagan, CarySummary:
"Valentine Schwartz had it all: his girlfriend was the most beautiful girl in school, he came from a rich family, and his best friend, Huddie Rosen, all but worshiped him. Although Valentine wasn't the brightest student, no one could...
- Author:Coleman, Reed FarrelSummary:
It all begins when PI Gulliver Dowd is approached by Ellis Torres, a street kid, on Valentino Pier in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. Ellis has lost his dog, and after Gulliver helps to find the dog for him, they go their separate...
- Author:McCluskey, ElaineSummary:
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...
- 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...
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