Rebecca n'a plus que six mois à vivre. Ce seront les six mois les plus merveilleux de son existence, lui promet son amie Charlotte. Après avoir mis au point le programme VIA, pour « Vie Intense Accélérée », les deux femmes s'embarquent...
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Author:Tremblay, CaroleSummary: - Author:Power, Craig FrancisSummary:
Think the world can’t get any crazier? Think again. Set in near-future Toronto, Skeet Love tells the story of Shane, a conspiracy theorist and aspiring rapper; Nina, his girlfriend; and Brit, the couple’s lover. Wildly suspecting the...
- Author:Dowhal, DanSummary:
Desperately fleeing for his life, Brad Evans escapes Manhattan and hides in a trailer in the country. There he writes an expos of Phasmatia, the world's first great Internet religion, and its megalomaniacal unholy messiah, Sky Fisher....
- Author:Coles, Megan GailSummary:
February in Newfoundland is the longest month of the year. Another blizzard is threatening to tear a strip off downtown St. John's, while inside The Hazel restaurant a storm of sex, betrayal, addiction, and hurt is breaking. Iris, a...
- Author:Lent, JohnSummary:
Lent continues to explore the spatial viewpoints of the unique, often funny, dysfunctional Connelly family, to whom readers were first introduced in his previous experimental fiction, Monet's Garden. Then, as now, we get to hear...
- Author:Santur, Hassan GhediSummary:
Long-listed for the 2011 ReLit Awards Andrew Christiansen, a war photographer turned cabdriver, is having a bad year. His mother has just died; his father, on the verge of a nervous breakdown, gets arrested; and he’s married to a...
- Author:Nawaz, SaleemaSummary:
"In these dark days, Saleema Nawaz dares to write of hope. Songs for the End of the World is a loving, vivid, tenderly felt novel about men, women, and a possible apocalypse. I couldn't put it down." — Sean Michaels,...
- Author:Vérant, SamanthaSummary:
Everybody wants a piece of Grand Chef Sophie Valroux. With her once-destroyed reputation fully recovered and then some, Sophie is making her mark in the culinary world. She’s running the restaurants of Château de Champvert, the...
- Author:Duhaime, GérardSummary:
Willie, le garçon à l’anorak, s’est enfermé dans le mutisme, loin des adultes qui l’ont trahi. Entre les bosquets et les ruisseaux de la toundra, tandis que se joue en silence le sort de la terre meurtrie, il fera connaissance avec des...
- Author:Boulé, ClaireSummary:
Une femme se fond dans les contours d’un paysage champêtre, évoluant dans un espace travaillé à la spatule, à grands coups de lumière. Un professeur à la retraite anticipe sa fin dans la nature morte d’un tableau cubiste. Un sans-abri s...
- Author:Poitras, Marie-HélèneSummary:
Novembre, un soir de neige et de violence. Dans un appartement de Montréal, une rencontre qui n’aurait jamais dû avoir lieu. Le quotidien bouleversé par l’arrivée d’un être venu apporter la peur en cadeau. Quelques mois plus tard,...
- Author:Gao, XingjianSummary:
Part travel diary, part philosophy, part love story, "Soul Mountain" is a novel that journeys deep into the heart of modern-day China.
- Author:Scott, GailSummary:
A welfare cheque floats down the river, a cowboy spreads the Word of the Lord and crotches tick like clocks: the world of Spare Parts is unpredictable, evocative and vividly distorted. Its initial appearance, in 1981, caused a stir; at...
- Author:Nason, JimSummary:
Sky Rayburn, a somewhat eccentric but well-respected veterinarian, always had a troubled relationship with her daughter Moira. When Moira is killed in a car accident, Skye has no choice but to take in her two-year-old grandson Duncan....
- Author:Kawatski, DeannaSummary:
A tale that begins in 1970 and involves two childhood friends, Emily and Rachel. Emily remains in their northern hometown while Rachel sets out for Europe. The focus is on Emily and her quest for wholeness, which leads her, at the age...
- Author:Greer, DarrenSummary:
The people in gay bars on Christmas Day are so desperate for basic human contact that they'd go home with a Doc Marten shoe if it made a move, and maybe even if it didn't. So begins the story of Cameron Dodds, a...
- Author:Greer, DarrenSummary:
Cameron Dodds has just turned thirty. A writer, he get his ideas from the lives of others, often borrowing stories from the patients of his workplace, the Salvation Army Treatment Centre. When one of the patients, Darrel Greene, hangs...
- Author:Wilde, OscarSummary:
Does the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville really exist? And if he does, will he meet his match in the Otis family? Or will the rambunctious Otis children be the very death of him? The answers lie in these witty, hilarious tales.
- Author:Richler, HowardSummary:
The bawdy English language has never been overly concerned with purity, and this promiscuous proclivity has contributed to many alluring word histories. Words, like species, evolve, and particularly those words that have been in...
- Author:Yovanoff, BrennaSummary:
Don't miss this gripping, emotional prequel to the hit Netflix series, Stranger Things! The never-before-told backstory of the beloved Dig Dug maven, Max Mayfield, written by New York Times bestselling author Brenna Yovanoff. This...
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