Mila a beau ne plus avoir 9 ans, il lui arrive d’être rattrapée par ses souvenirs d’enfance. Ce qui s’est passé là-bas, à mi-chemin entre le rêve et l’insomnie, se poursuit sous d’autres formes ici, une vingtaine d’années plus tard. Que...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Brassard, MarioSummary: - Author:Brons, JanetSummary:
The head of the Canadian High Commission’s trade section is found brutally clubbed and stabbed to death in the Official Residence in London, England. Scotland Yard’s Detective Chief Inspector Stephen Hay is called in to investigate,...
- Author:Roig, DeniseSummary:
The days of which Denise Roig writes in A Quiet Night and a Perfect End are filled with Chinese-cooking lessons, wedding preparations, and day trips to the Laurentian mountains. They're peopled by fundamentalist fishermen, mothers...
- Author:Mullin, Caryl CudeSummary:
Meryl's mother was a great bard—a storyteller and musician who sang of life and the world around her. Meet Meryl, already an orphan, who wants to follow in her mother's footsteps. Highly spirited and curious, she has broken a sacred...
- Author:Rogal, StanSummary:
A Rogue's Decameron consists of ten tales based within the spirit of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and Boccaccio's The Decameron: extravagance, joy and ribald humour around sex, lust, vice, death and other "hungers...
- Author:Penny, LouiseSummary:
Previously published as The Murder Stone. The acclaimed fourth novel in the bestselling Chief Inspector Gamache series, by international phenomenon and number one New York Times bestseller Louise Penny. It's the height of summer, and...
- Author:Altrows, RonaSummary:
Rona Altrows’ short stories go to the core of what it is to be human — to cherish a departed mate beyond reason, to love a child to distraction, to keep the faith with a friend no matter what, to laugh in the face of self-doubt. This...
- Author:Greene, ElizabethSummary:
Judith, at fifty, feels that her life is irremediably stalled, and she is depressed. Although she has a secure job teaching English at a university, she is the single mother of a son on the autistic spectrum who has been lurching...
- Author:McLeod, Darrel J.Summary:
A subversive novel by acclaimed Cree author Darrel J. McLeod, infused with the contradictory triumph and pain of finding conventional success in a world that feels alien. James, a talented and conflicted Cree man from a tiny settlement...
- Author:Blais, Marie-ClaireSummary:
Following the life of newborn infant, Emmanuel, this great contemporary novel of Quebec exposes a painful history central to the new consciousness that emerged in the 1960s known as “the quiet revolution.” The story of Emmanuel and his...
- Author:Mulcahy, Don, Edwards, CaterinaSummary:
Migration stories are an essential component of Canada's historical/literary continuum; we need to know of such writings to rationalize about who Canadians really are, and where they are from. Aren't we all the children of migration?...
- Author:Doherty, SusanSummary:
Set in 1936 Montreal, this is the story of Lawrence Nolan, a fifteen-year-old piano prodigy who is forced to keep the shameful secret of his mother's mental illness as he attempts to raise himself and his younger brother. When his...
- Author:Miller, JohnSummary:
Born with a split lip and cleft palate, Toshy Wolfman's life is an uphill battle. Believing he is dim-witted and ugly, Toshy finds his resentment slowly building as he is ridiculed, used, and misled. Ultimately, he is imprisoned...
- Author:Burrows, SteveSummary:
A Calgary Herald Bestseller! Sometimes, the wrong choice is the only choice you have. Chief Inspector Domenic Jejeune is hoping an overseas birding trip might hold some answers in his fugitive brother’s manslaughter case. But there are...
- Author:King, ThomasSummary:
- Author:Burrows, SteveSummary:
Newly appointed police inspector Domenic Jejeune doesn’t mind ruffling a few feathers to flush out suspects in the brutal murder of a renowned ecological activist. 2015 Arthur Ellis Award — Winner, Best First Novel • Globe and Mail 100...
- Author:Adderson, CarolineSummary:
Nicola’s adorable little dog, June Bug, keeps getting into trouble. She steals the neighbor’s turkey, yanks down the Christmas tree and destroys Mum’s almost-finished giant crossword. Everyone is mad, and it looks as though June Bug’s...
- Author:Rahman, BahramSummary:
Young Aria returns to school after recovering from an accident and being fitted with a prosthetic leg, but the school has no furniture and sitting on the floor is too painful. She finds a way to build her own bench, surprising and...
- Author:Kujawa, Hana, Kujawa, MandiSummary:
Marcus, a young boy who feels second best at school, suffers a serious brain injury as a side effect of a virus. In hospital, and with fellow patient Emily's help, Marcus learns to embrace who he really is as he finds ways to cope with...
- Author:Christenson, TanyaSummary:
When he was five years old, Creighton's mother left. He and his father know she has started a career as a singer but not much more than that. Dad's work with a carnival means they have not set down roots anywhere for long and as a...
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