La nuit comme le jour, le ciel est rempli de surprises à découvrir. Même à l'œil nu, tu peux repérer des constellations impressionnantes, des planètes et des étoiles filantes. La lune et le soleil sont toujours au rendez-vous,...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Dufresne, RhéaSummary: - Author:Beaulé, MarieSummary:
Au début des années cinquante, je naissais avant terme. Le soleil inondait le lit de ma mère, épuisée par un accouchement difficile. J’ai passé les premières heures de ma vie à lutter pour respirer à la chaleur de la bavette du poêle,...
- Author:Jantunen, JohnSummary:
A high school football star who chooses a tour of duty in Afghanistan over a potentially lucrative career in the pros. A woman whose career as a nine-ball champion was cut short at the Nationals. A motorcycle accident that leaves a boy...
- Author:Andrew, Suzanne AlyssaSummary:
Nik is an eccentric art student obsessed with painting his dancer girlfriend, Jennifer. When one day she inexplicably disappears, Nik’s world is shattered. Determined to find her, he embarks on a cross-country journey following a scant...
- Author:Helm, MichaelSummary:
In Cities of Refuge, Michael Helm’s keenly anticipated new novel, a single act of violence resonates through several lives, connecting closeby fears to distant political terrors. At the story’s centre is the complex, intensely charged...
- Author:Engel, HowardSummary:
After more than twenty years, Mike Ward is back. Older and a lot wise, he's been sent by the Canadian wire service to cover the spoiled children and their controlling parents: the actors and producers of Hollywood. It's 1940....
- Author:Matheson, Shirlee SmithSummary:
The sequel to Shirlee Smith Matheson’s critically acclaimed Prairie Pictures follows the main character, Sherri, as she is uprooted once again and forced to adjust to life in Calgary and get ready to start at yet another new school....
- Author:Rotenberg, DavidSummary:
On the Hua Shan (the Holy Mountain) 250 years before Christ, the most powerful man in the world, the First Emperor, bequeaths a talisman - a narwhal tusk with carvings depicting the growth of Shanghai for the next 2500 years - to his...
- Author:Heffron, DorrisSummary:
A moving historical tale and remarkable literary achievement, City Wolves is the story of Canada’s first woman veterinarian, Meg Wilkinson. Born in 1870 on a farm near Halifax, Meg’s childhood experience with wolves makes her determined...
- Author:Wright, RichardSummary:
It's the late 1930s and two sisters, Clara and Nora Callan, face the future with both hope and uncertainty. Clara, a 30ish schoolteacher who lives in small-town Ontario, longs for love and adventure. Nora, her flighty and very pretty...
- Author:Kacer, KathySummary:
It's a dangerous time for thirteen-year-old Clara and her family. They have just been imprisoned in Terezin (Terezinstadt), a ghetto in a medieval town near Prague - which was built to show the world how "well" the Nazis were treating...
- Author:Von Carolsfeld, WiebkeSummary:
How to survive the unthinkable? This is the question nine-year-old Tom has to face after witnessing his father kill his mother and then turn the gun on himself. After the horrific event, Tom refuses to speak. At first, he moves in with...
- Author:Berry, KatieSummary:
Lawless, British Columbia is on edge after a powerful earthquake jolts the region, quickly followed by a string of savage animal attacks. Newly stationed to the area after her predecessor mysteriously disappears, Conservation Officer...
- Author:Clark, Michael J.Summary:
A reformed smuggler finds himself embroiled in a mind-bending criminal conspiracy in this page-turning debut. Pastor Tommy Bosco runs a Winnipeg skid row mission that caters to ex-criminals and ex-addicts trying to make a better life....
- Author:McClintock, NorahSummary:
Connie Suarez, downsized from her job as a legal secretary, is working as a maid. She's getting used to picking up after people and putting their lives in order. But she is not prepared for the mess that awaits her when she arrives at...
- Author:Armstrong, ThéodoraSummary:
Set against the divergent landscape of British Columbia — from the splendours of nature to its immense dangers, from urban grease and grit to dry, desert towns — Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility examines human beings and their many...
- Author:McCullough, KimSummary:
In this powerful Canadian coming-of-age novel, Claire and her Metis friend Jeff both struggle to overcome loss and dislocation, to restart their emotional growth and reconnect with the central people in their lives -- including each...
- Author:Waldman, DebbySummary:
In this retelling of a Jewish folktale, Rachel and Jacob must work together to solve the trickiest riddles of all. This edition combines both written and spoken words.
- Author:Duff, MichelineSummary:
Malgré ses grands talents de flûtiste, la jeune Mireille a renoncé à se produire sur scène. Maintenant bibliothécaire à l'Université de Montréal, elle joue seulement pour le plaisir. Mais tout bascule le jour où Paul...
- Author:Endicott, MarinaSummary:
As the week opens, 50-something Hugh Argylle, owner of the Argylle Art Gallery, has a jarring fall from a ladder - a fall that leaves him with a fractured off-kilter vision of his own life and the lives of his friends, who are going...
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