1755. Pour Marie-Lysandre, une jeune Acadienne, et Benjamin, un soldat anglais, c'est le coup de foudre au premier regard. Toutefois, l'heure est au chambardement: Marie-Lysandre voit son peuple brutalement délogé de ses terres par l'...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Roy, PierreSummary: - Author:Oaten, JimSummary:
Dodging down back-alleys in bomb-torn Beirut. Wheeling past God and traffic in Mombassa, Kenya. Slipping around the edges of Alzheimer's disease, the Gulf War, and the eternity of CNN. Set somewhere between here and the heat-death of...
- Author:Sherrard, ValerieSummary:
Short-listed for the 2012 SYRCA Snow Willow Award Lexie Malton is an average Vancouver teen with fairly typical issues. Her stepmother is far from her favourite person, she has a sister with special needs, and life outside the home is...
- Author:Staunton, TedSummary:
Toubon et son meilleur ami Dany remarquent que les filles adorent les musiciens, même s'ils sont un peu crétins. Ils décident donc de former un groupe et Toubon se découvre une passion pour la musique. Avec un son à faire vomir le chat...
- Author:Mitchell, W. O.Summary:
Set in the forties and fifties, these stories take us back to a simpler, gentler world, the one we all like to think we grew up in. The Kid at the centre of the stories is a boy on a Saskatchewan farm down Government Road from Crocus,...
- Author:Choyce, LesleySummary:
Dorf a toujours été fidèle à sa devise : « Si ça en vaut la peine, fais-le. Si ça n'en vaut pas la peine, fais-le quand même. » Mais il a déménagé à la ville et le terrain est différent. Il ne peut plus faire rouler sa planche oû bon...
- Author:Bush, CatherineSummary:
An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2013, A Canada Reads Top 40 Pick, and a NOW Magazine Book of the Year. While in Copenhagen, Sara Wheeler, a Toronto journalist, happens upon Cirkus Mirak, a touring Ethiopian children’s circus. She later meets...
- Author:Staunton, TedSummary:
Following the demise of his first band, Ace has started a duo called Two with Lisa, a girl he has a huge crush on. As Ace and Lisa get serious about their music, Denny, Ace's hapless friend, tries to help out by filming their every move...
- Author:Wilson, JohnSummary:
Short-listed for the 1998 Sheila A. Egoff Award for Children’s Literature and Geoffrey Bilson Award In his third young adult title, John Wilson takes on the rich territory of the 1845 Franklin expedition. Cabin boy David Young travels...
- Author:Deen, NatashaSummary:
In this high-interest novel for teen readers, football player Luc is forced to take a dance class, where he discovers an unexpected new passion.
- Author:Hollingshead, GregSummary:
A new collection of short fiction from the Governor General’s Literary Award-winning author and Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Greg Hollingshead. Act Normal is a collection of sharp, new comic stories about sex, art, and the daily...
- Author:Gravel, EliseSummary:
Ada est une vraie grincheuse: elle boude, elle râle, elle déteste tout. Mais ce qu'elle déteste le plus, c'est le samedi, parce que c'est le jour de son cours de ballet. Ada déteste son tutu rose, le long trajet en auto pour s'y rendre...
- Author:Burt, HeatherSummary:
Runner-up for the 2008 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize On a stifling August day, six-year-old Clare Fraser and seven-year-old Rudy Vantwest make eye contact from opposite sides of their street. For an instant they are connected, then each...
- Author:Mehlmann, GloriaSummary:
Adam's Tree is a fictional account of life on the Cowesses First Nation in Saskatchewan during the 1940's and 50's.This period in history finds forces like regulatory policy, World War II, systemic racism, and the long reach of the...
- Author:Mehlmann, GloriaSummary:
Adam's Tree is a fictional account of life on the Cowesses First Nation in Saskatchewan during the 1940's and 50's. This period in history finds forces like regulatory policy, World War II, systemic racism, and the long reach of the...
- Author:McMillian, MelodySummary:
Addison Addley hates math. He hates public speaking too. Actually, he hates anything that involves work, but he only has a couple of weeks to write and memorize his grade five speech. The problem is, he can’t think of a single topic....
- Author:McMillian, MelodySummary:
Addison's mother wants to sell their comfortable old house and move into a townhouse in a new development across town - a shoe box near a shoe factory, Addison calls it. As usual, Addison's brain goes into overdrive as he tries to solve...
- Author:Waldman, DebbySummary:
Addy has worn hearing aids for as long as she can remember. Her mother tells her this makes her special, but now that Addy's in grade six, she'd wants to be special for what she's done. When Addy joins the school running club to keep...
- Author:Jean-Louis MorganSummary:
Années 1950. Tout juste remis d'une impossible histoire d'amour, Eric Sanscartier est banni de la Rive-Sud par l'influent bandit qui l'employait. Le jeune journaliste parvient à survivre de peine et de misère à...
- Author:Edizel, LorenSummary:
John arrives in a Montreal airport with a suitcase in hand. We do not know where he is from, or who he is. The novel sets out to explore his identity by following his daily movements and intimate thoughts, as well as his connections to...
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