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  • Author:
    Beausoleil, Jean-Marc
    Summary:

    Fuyant ses ennuis financiers et ses mauvaises habitudes de drogues, Frédéric Latouche quitte Montréal pour Port-au-Prince. Il décroche alors un emploi de professeur au Collège international français, se lie d’amitié avec Frantz, le don...

  • Author:
    St. Jean, Trina
    Summary:

    Jessica struggles with retrograde amnesia after she is injured by a bison on her family's ranch.

  • Author:
    Story, Kate
    Summary:

    Blasted is a story of Ruby Jones, an irreverent, exuberant, and troubled woman who lurches between love affairs and cities. The narrative shifts between generations and geographies, between contemporary life and stories as old as the...

  • Author:
    Bush, Catherine
    Summary:

    "For those who loved Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior comes a new climate-themed, Shakespeare-inspired novel from bestselling author Catherine Bush. The time is now or an alternate near now, the world close to our own. A...

  • Author:
    Brouwer, Sigmund
    Summary:

    When Josh Ellroy, left-winger for the Kamloops Blazers, and his dad find more than a dozen dead cattle on the family ranch, Josh has some serious decisions to make. On one hand, the Western Hockey League playoffs are ahead, plus a...

  • Author:
    Chapman, Brenda
    Summary:

    Two murders, fourteen years apart, both shrouded in secrets. David McKenna lies dying in a Kingston hospital, his children gathered from across the country to say a final goodbye. But the family reunion opens old wounds. David’s only...

  • Author:
    Benvie, Rob
    Summary:

    A howl into the void, a ghost story, and a bit of a metaphysical hellride. A misanthropic ghostwriter roams an island off the Kenyan coast. An Arizona teenager awaits the next stage in a secretive covenant. A renowned poet retraces her...

  • Author:
    Pierre, Émeline
    Summary:

    Les nouvelles de ce recueil nous transportent au Québec, en Afrique et au cœur des Antilles, derrière le décor exotique et trompeur des hôtels et des plages. Coupeur de canne ou ouvrière en Guadeloupe, travailleur clandestin en...

  • Author:
    Goulet, Sylvain
    Summary:

    Sylvain Goulet est l’auteur de Susciter une réflexion qui t’appartienne, un livre de réflexion personnelle, et de huit romans, toujours sous le thème de l’inspiration. Le jeune Nathaniel, 16 ans, qui traverse une période d’anxiété, en...

  • Author:
    Berry, Michelle
    Summary:

    Welcome to Blind Crescent, where everyone is watching, but nobody sees a thing. In this fictitious slice of suburban life, Michelle Berry peels back the pretensions of manicured lawns and the rictus smiles of friendly neighbours. With a...

  • Author:
    Ross, Mary Kay
    Summary:

    Having lost her husband through divorce, and her daughter who has left home to go to university, Claire, at midlife, finds herself bereft; she is aging and she feels she has never really been sufficiently engaged in her own life. A...

  • Author:
    Carter, Scott
    Summary:

    Dave Bolden’s life feels like it’s on repeat. He works his eight hours at a boutique accounting firm, goes home, gets drunk and wakes up the next day to go back to work with a hangover. But his life changes when an eighteen-wheel truck...

  • Author:
    Miall, Laurence
    Summary:

    When his parents' car is hit by a train, Luke, a failed actor, returns to his Edmonton hometown to attend their funeral, wrap up their affairs, and prepare their house to be sold off. But while all others around him grieve, Luke remains...

  • Author:
    Uppal, Priscila
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    This short story is taken from the collection Cover Before Striking. The most common phrase in print is “cover before striking,” a warning to those about to innocently strike a match to be careful not to burn their fingers. Uppal’s...

  • Author:
    Coupal, Denis
    Summary:

    Tom 'Brooder' Doran, Deputy Chief of the Police in Beaufort, Quebec, has his hands full when financier Paul Carignan is struck by a stray bullet. Tom investigates but collides with the unwillingness of town leaders to...

  • Author:
    Coupal, Denis
    Summary:

    A man is shot by a hunter in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, and his sons want justice.

  • Author:
    Wishinsky, Frieda
    Summary:

    It's hard enough for Eve to adjust to a new high school without the extra weight she's gained over the summer. Her best friend is ashamed to hang out with her, and she's become the focus of a schoolmate's cruelty. Determined not to be "...

  • Author:
    Sanderson, Douglas, Norris, J. F.
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    "It's been a long time now, nearly two years since we met at that party." "Yeah," Tessie said bitterly, "and nearly five years since I was a clever little girl who thought she'd found a way to make a hundred dollars. There was only...

  • Author:
    Delany, Vicki
    Summary:

    RCMP Sergeant Ray Robertson is in the Turks and Caicos Islands, enjoying two weeks of leave from his job training police in Haiti with the UN. On an early-morning jog along famed Grace Bay Beach he discovers a dead man in the surf. Ray...

  • Author:
    Sapergia, Barbara
    Summary:

    The time is World War I, and Canadian soldiers are proving their worth in the trenches of Europe. But on the home front, Ukrainian Canadians are being sent to internment camps, "Canada's gulag". Blood and Salt is about this forgotten...

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