Le bouillant Barney Panofsky s’est toujours laissé guider par deux croyances : la vie est absurde et les humains sont incapables de se comprendre véritablement. Alors, pourquoi se priver ? Beuveries, parties de hockey et de jambes en l’...
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Author: Richler, MordecaiSummary: - Author: Lavoie, FrédérickSummary:
Voir Cuba avant que ça change ; Voir Cuba avant l’après. Sur l’île des Caraïbes, le présent semble pencher vers l’avenir. Entre le réchauffement des relations avec les États-Unis et la fin annoncée du règne des Castro, le pays est « en...
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Eunice immigre au Canada avec son père et sa grand-mère. Sa mère ne peut pas les rejoindre tout de suite. Eunice va alors ressentir un tel manque qu’elle en perdra la parole. Incapable de parler, elle vit un blocage total. On va suivre...
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L’une s’immobilise devant les fenêtres de sa maison en banlieue avec le poids de la mort au creux du ventre; l’autre cherche à traverser l’écran pour se transformer en image grâce à son avatar numérique, en quête d’absolu. L’une a donné...
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Revivre une, puis plusieurs naissances. Raconter ce qui demeure un choc brutal, un moment imprévisible. Explorer comment cette arrivée spectaculaire, animale, violente, gluante peut se révéler comme une catharsis. Venir au monde se...
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According to the author, the principles needed to run an effective healthcare system are similar to those required to run a successful professional hockey team: know your goals, work as a team, hold individuals accountable, and measure...
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Author: Bennett, VanoraSummary:"St. Petersburg, 1911: Inna Feldman has fled the pogroms of the south to take refuge with distant relatives in Russia's capital city. Welcomed by the flamboyant Leman family, she is apprenticed into their violin-making workshop. She...
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One of cherished author Debbie Macomber's classic novels, an enchanting tale of a love that is challenged at every turn, is available for the first time as an eBook. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER At a magical Christmas fete, Karen...
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Author: Toews, MiriamSummary:A transformative and necessary work--as completely unexpected as it is inspired--by the award-winning author of the bestselling novels All My Puny Sorrows and A Complicated Kindness. The sun rises on a quiet June morning in 2009....
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From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world with music it had never heard before, a fierce, tender, heartbreaking story unlike anything you've ever read. Fact can be as strange...
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Author: Lansens, LoriSummary:In Leaford, Ontario, love and grief combine to awaken an obese woman from her loneliness. When her husband doesn't come home on the eve of their 25th wedding anniversary, Mary Gooch, who has never learned to be self-sufficient,...
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Author: Kohn, SallySummary:As a progressive commentator on Fox News and now CNN, Sally Kohn has made a career out of bridging intractable political differences, learning how to talk civilly to people whose views she disagrees with passionately. Famously "...
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Author: Vail, RachelSummary:Fourteen-year-old Charlie feels guilty because she has a crush on her best friend's boyfriend, and her loyalties become even more confused when she discovers that her mother is dating the boyfriend's father.
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Author: Awumey, EdemSummary:Ito Baraka is going to die. In Gatineau, far from the sun, in a dark, shabby flat he shares with his Native girlfriend, Kimi. But before he can die, he has a book to finish, in which he recounts events in a country where the suns burns...
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Author: Cragg, CarysSummary:The author writes of her experiences corresponding with and ultimately meeting the man who murdered her father.
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Surrey: A City of Stories is the legacy project proposed by the Surrey Heritage Advisory Commission in celebration of Canada 150. The Commission's aspirations were high: they hoped to create a book that would be an experience--both a...
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Wayside Sang concerns entwined migrations of Black-other diaspora coming to terms with fossil-fuel psyches in times of trauma and movement. This is a poetic account of economy travel on North American roadways, across the Peace and...
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Author: Richardson, BillSummary:When night falls, a peculiar thief steals each letter of the alphabet, creating a topsy-turvy world as she goes.
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Author: Curtis, Christopher PaulSummary:Newbery Medalist Christopher Paul Curtis brings his trademark humor and heart to the story of a boy struggling to do right in the face of history's cruelest evils. Twelve-year-old Charlie is down on his luck: His dad just died, the...
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Author: Henstra, SarahSummary:The battle of the sexes goes to college in this nervy debut adult novel by a powerful new voice. A smart, dark, and take-no-prisoners look at rape culture and the extremes to which ideology can go, The Red Word is a campus...
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