For readers of Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See and Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, a transportive historical novel about finding morality in the throes of war and colonization Released from Nazi forced labor as World...
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Author:Lazurko, AnneSummary: - Author:Deborah, PriscilleSummary:
Comment se donner le droit d'exister quand son frère de neuf ans vient de mourir d'une maladie incurable? Prisonnière de ce drame familial, Priscille Deborah peine à donner un sens à sa vie. Longtemps, elle se refuse au bonheur. Jeune...
- Author:Ramqvist, KarolinaSummary:
Feminist autofiction from one of Sweden's blazing talents. Blending autofiction and essay, The Bear Woman is a journey of feminism and literary detective work spanning centuries and continents. In the 1540s, a young French noblewoman,...
- Author:Fatima, CatherineSummary:
In a kind of 'Catherine Millet meets Roland Barthes baring of life with hints of the work of Chris Kraus', Sludge Utopia by Catherine Fatima is an auto-fictional novel about sex, depression, family, shaky ethics, ideal forms of life,...
- Author:Boulerice, SimonSummary:
Pourquoi Simon sourit-il autant? Et que cache-t-il derrière ce sourire? Que camouflent les costumes de mascotte qu'il emprunte ou les masques qu'il revêt? D'où lui viennent cette légèreté, cette juvénilité? C'est à...
- Author:Legendre, ClaireSummary:
Vous avez peur des araignées, du vide, du regard des autres, de la maladie. Qu'on vous trahisse, qu'on vous abandonne, que les prédictions de la petite gitane se réalisent. Alors vous arrêtez de fumer, vous fuyez les insectes, les...
- Author:Fontaine, GabrielSummary:
Il est né pour une brillante carrière. Aux portes de l'Université Laval, toutes les avenues lui sont ouvertes. Il choisit le Droit. Une excellente performance professionnelle, jusqu'à la magistrature à la Cour d'appel du...
- Author:Stepanova, MariaSummary:
An exciting contemporary Russian writer explores terra incognita: the still-living margins of history. With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters,...
- Author:Elias, DavidSummary:
A sweeping, cinematic novel about the life of the Winter Queen, Elizabeth Stuart October 1612. King James I is looking to expand England's influence in Europe, especially among the Protestants. He invites Prince Frederic of the...
- Author:Adele, PoynterSummary:
Based on a true story, Dancing in a Jar elaborates on the real-life love affair of a young couple who leave New York City to live in the outport community of St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, during the Great Depression when the husband, Don...
- Author:Bruneau, CarolSummary:
Maud Lewis is a folk art legend who persevered through stigma, poverty, and disability to create beautiful and lasting pieces of art. Brighten the Corner Where You Are brings illumination to Maud's life.
