Ainé d’une famille unie, beau bonhomme et bon joueur de football, Sébastien Tardif a un bel avenir devant lui. Mais un jour, le malheur heurte sa famille de plein fouet, après un grave accident qui plonge la mère dans un profond coma....
Road fiction
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Author:Bélanger, Pierre-LucSummary: - Author:Schneider, JasonSummary:
Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain could not have envisioned what his death would mean to Generation X – or that he would influence one young man from small-town Quebec to take his own life . . .
3,000 Miles is the story of Andre, a...
- Author:Gault, ConnieSummary:
In a drought-ridden Saskatchewan of the 1930s, self-possessed, enigmatic Elena finds herself living alone in the small village of Trevna. Her mother has been dead for many years, and her father, burdened by the hardships of drought, has...
- Author:Miller, SamuelSummary:
For fans of literary classics such as The Catcher in the Rye and The Perks of Being a Wallflower comes a stirring new thought-provoking novel from debut author Sam Miller about a loss shrouded in mystery with twists and turns down every...
- Author:Bennett, JonathanSummary:
While most of the action takes place in Sydney, Australia, and Toronto, this whirlwind tour of long-separated twins also lands in Hawaii, London, Scotland, Madrid, and Mallorca. The twins — Curt, an Australian jazz musician, and William...
- Author:Sheard, SarahSummary:
In Sarah Sheard's celebrated novel Almost Japanese, a young girl's obsession with a famous Japanese musician blossoms into personal transformation. In spare, lyrical prose, Sheard documents Emma's discovery of her new next door...
- Author:Bauer Mueller, PamelaSummary:
A year has passed since puppy raiser Diego handed Aloha’s harness over to her blind partner Kimberly Louise. Now Diego is traveling to Georgia to visit his beloved friend again! This heartwarming story follows the exciting cross-country...
- Author:Mouawad, WajdiSummary:
When he discovers the brutal murder of his wife, Wahhch Debch is paralyzed by spasms of grief: he must know at all costs who did this. Spurred by rage, he embarks on a furious odyssey across America that awakens long-buried memories...
- Author:McGrath, EamonSummary:
Rollins’s Get in the Van meets Bidini’s On a Cold Road in an original fever dream
While touring Europe, Eamon McGrath wrestled with one of the biggest questions on the mind of any touring artist: should...
- Author:Lindberg, TraceySummary:
Bernice Meetoos, a Cree woman, leaves her home in Northern Alberta following tragedy and travels to Gibsons, BC. She is on something of a vision quest, seeking to understand the messages from The Frugal Gourmet (one of the only...
- Author:Cazeault, Patrice, Belzil, Miro, Doucet, ThierrySummary:
Suite à un spectacle désastreux, ils décident d’accompagner leur jolie voisine (dont ils sont tous les deux secrètement amoureux), Cassandra, dans un voyage sur les routes afin de lui remonter le moral. En chemin, ils devront échapper à...
- Author:Macpherson, MargaretSummary:
Body Trade weaves together two stories of survival. The main narrative follows Rosie and Tanya, two young Canadian women who decide to leave the Northwest Territories and head south on an ill-conceived road trip through California,...
- Author:Hamilton, IanSummary:
From the acclaimed author of the internationally bestselling Ava Lee novels, a bold and captivating new novel about a search for lost family and the cost of keeping secrets. As a boy, Jack Anderson was abandoned by his mother in a...
- Author:Auður A. ÓlafsdóttirSummary:
After being dumped and then winning the lottery, a woman in her thirties, along with her best friend's four-year-old deaf-mute son, takes a transformative road trip through Iceland, encountering eccentrics and finding herself.
- Author:Andrychuk, KristinSummary:
With its starting point in the late 1940s, Cadillac Road is the story of red-haired and fierce narrator Sharon Desjardins: from her earliest childhood memories of leaving Northern Quebec and a violent father to adventures in Buffalo and...
- Author:Annand, BettySummary:
Canada by Jove is a historical fiction novel about a handsome and daring young Englishman, Bert White, who accompanies his brother, Ernie, on a journey across the ocean to Canada in 1910. They leave England with only a few pence in...
- Author:Diaczuk, DougSummary:
"You" and L, a mysterious third gender runaway, hit the road on a mission to find the meaning of life. Traveling by plane, bus and car, You run into trouble with the cops, mourn a family tragedy, smoke hundreds of cigarettes,...
- Author:Johnson, HaroldSummary:
Charlie Muskrat part chasser l'orignal. Bien décidé à ne pas revenir bredouille, il se retrouve à Prince Albert au volant de son fidèle pick-up, Tonnerre, avec une carabine Winchester sous le siège du passager, un réservoir d'...
- Author:Bushkowsky, AaronSummary:
Alex is a playwright suffering from writer’s block and harsh reviews. His best friend, Roy, is a theatre director with lung cancer and six months left to live. In pursuit of fresh air and great wine, they go on a road trip to the...
- Author:Stevenson, RobinSummary:
It's an ordinary nightmare of a family trip until Theo realizes that the beautiful girl beside the hotel pool is his childhood babysitter, and his first crush. Theo hasn't seen Ronnie for five years, but when she invites him to go with...
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