Il fallait bien du courage pour tout quitter et fonder une ville en pleine nature sauvage ! 1642. Bien qu'à ses débuts, la colonie française en Amérique prend tranquillement de l'expansion. Après Québec et Trois-...
Canadian fiction
- Author:Filiatrault, JohaneSummary:
- Author:Duprey Stehlik, Tania, Vuleta Jovanovic, VanjaSummary:
When Violet's father comes to pick her up at school, one of her classmates asks: How come your Dad is blue and you're not? Violet comes to appreciate the beauty of being different.
- Author:Van Tol, AlexSummary:
Mike has fallen for his best friend Lindsay. And he’s pretty sure she feels the same way, until a simple misunderstanding destroys Lindsay’s trust. When Lindsay ends up in a compromising situation, someone is filming the whole thing,...
- Author:Fadanni, LaurentSummary:
Corsé, généreux, vif... Dans ce recueil enivrant de vingt nouvelles, Laurent Fadanni, poète et vigneron, laisse Bacchus lui inspirer des personnages savoureux et hauts en couleur. Ainsi, un vin frais et léger tel qu'un...
- Author:Villeneuve, GisèleSummary:
Visiting Elizabeth follows a friendship that begins and ends with a needle. Elizabeth teaches Ariane to speak her mind. So when Elizabeth is struck and killed by a car, Ariane vows to speak for two. Soon, a hybrid language rolls off her...
- Author:Lloy, Susan ESummary:
Angst, seduction, escape and extinction control these many tales-a whisper in the ear convinces a lady to take the plunge, another to take up surfing, and a young man to jump in front of a moving train-and there is joy in settling a...
- Author:Metcalf, JohnSummary:
A reSet original. 'Vital Signs' brings together the collected novellas by John Metcalf, a modern master of the form, a writer who Alice Munro has said 'often comes as close to the baffling comedy of human experience as a writer can get...
- Author:Hartt-Snowbell, SarahSummary:
New Year’s 1955 is coming up fast, and eleven-year-old Vivian is determined to buy a snazzy new diary. The diary is soon put to good use, as Vivian must untangle the web of problems in her life, including a stolen keepsake of...
- Author:Simpson, WilliamSummary:
Someone is stringing up blood drained corpses across the city, in what appear to be ritual killings, leaving the cops scrambling for answers before more bodies pile up. Meanwhile, Sun, a young woman recently added to the ranks of the...
- Author:Koops, SheenaSummary:
Onja Claibourn is almost fifteen. Her world is one of sage, buffalo bills, brown-eyed susans, cactus, flax, buckbrush, foxtail and orange moss -- the world of the valley just beyond the family farm. Old roads twist like a game of snakes...
- Author:Corbeil, CaroleSummary:
After experiencing the disintegration of their parents' marriage, Claudine and Janine Beaulieu's lives are further complicated when their mother Odette remarries an Anglophone and they are forced to "turn English." Now, years later,...
- Author:Wissing, CarolineSummary:
Runaway teen Annabel, nicknamed Ghost, doesn’t speak. Her interaction with her world is limited to how well she can convey her wants and feelings to others, and how intuitive others are in interpreting her expressions and gestures....
- Author:MacLennan, HughSummary:
In the 1980s the Bureaucracy eliminated all knowledge of the past in the wake of a nuclear holocaust. In 2030 André Gervais discovers two metal boxes containing manuscripts, diaries, and other personal papers that have somehow survived...
- Author:Russell, VirginiaSummary:
Winner of the Canadian Children's Book Centre Choice: Best Books for Kids & Teens Dave gets more excitement than he bargained for on his summer holidays to British Columbia's Gulf Islands while visiting his grandparents....
- Author:Michaud, MoniqueSummary:
Deux voisines, un palier. Marijo au 101 et Léonie au 102. Deux solitudes qui habitent dans l’impasse de l’Espérance. Mille après mille, leur route est sinueuse. Ces voisines de cœur avancent malgré tout, car elles sont débordantes de...
- Author:Chalifour, NicolasSummary:
Pris d'un fiévreux désir de romanesque, Antoine, un écrivain en exil à Lisbonne, se laisse entraîner dans le sillage d'attachants guérilleros sans domicile fixe qui souhaitent libérer la ville des griffes de l'...
- Author:Poulin, JacquesSummary:
In this classic road novel, Jacques Poulin tells the story of a man in search of his brother. The geographical journey — through Detroit, into Chicago, on to St. Louis, along the Oregon Trail and into California — becomes a metaphor for...
- Author:Poulin, JacquesSummary:
Un long suspense rythmé par les intrigues qui se nouent au fil d'un voyage initiatique à travers l'Amérique du Nord. Couronné par le prix Canada-Belgique.
- Author:Spafford-Fitz, KarenSummary:
Highlighting girls' volleyball, a sport which has overtaken girls' basketball in popularity, Volleyball Vibe shows how engagement in sports can boost self-esteem, confidence, and foster responsibility and teamwork. The main character,...
- Author:Guy-Béland, JulienSummary:
Une jeune femme s'est fait voler son prénom par une hackeuse notoire, et tout le monde les confond. Par exemple ce riche Californien qui insiste pour qu'elle vienne travailler pour lui. Autrement, sa vie n'a rien de...
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