Spat Ryan has demons. They haunt him by day and share his drink at night. Raised in Montreal by a bagman for the Irish mob, Spat has fictionalized or ignored chunks of his life too painful to recall. A chance meeting with an old friend...
Québec--Montréal
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Author:Macdonald, EdSummary: -
Author:Richler, MordecaiSummary:Moses Berger est encore enfant quand il entend pour la première fois parler de Solomon Gursky. Ce personnage mystérieux deviendra bientôt pour lui une obsession qui l'incitera à mener une vaste enquête aux quatre coins du monde. Toute...
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Author:Lavorato, MarkSummary:From one of Canada’s brightest emerging writers comes an unforgettable tale of love, art, and life. Set in the vividly imagined streets of 1920s Montreal, Serafim and Claire is the beautiful, moving, and compulsively readable story of...
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Author:Lavery, JohnSummary:No writer in Canada today is more in love with the English, and French, languages than John Lavery. That love is gloriously requited. In inventive, incantatory prose, Sandra Beck, his long-awaited first novel, paints a very unusual...
- Author:Villeneuve, Marie-PauleSummary:
À peine sorti d’une cure de désintoxi-cation et souffrant toujours d’un amour déçu, le jeune et brillant Nicolas, 20 ans, part à la conquête du bonheur. Admis à l’Université de Montréal, il quitte le Saguenay pour se retrouver en...
- Author:Howarth, IanSummary:
Rock ‘n’ Radio illustrates that Montreal was at the epicentre of the rock radio revolution in Canada, eventually attracting talented DJs from the U.S., Canada and the U.K. Their personal stories and the inevitable collision with the...
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Author:Launier, VéroniqueSummary:Aude Vanier is a sixteen-year-old rock star with a problem—stone monsters keep attacking her. And when they do, she finds herself chanting in a language she doesn’t understand. Guillaume de Rouen has been stuck as a gargoyle on a church...
- Author:Leblanc, FrançoisSummary:
Entre sa douce moitié qui a pris amant et un toxicomane qui menace de lui faire la peau, Antoine Barcelo ne sait plus trop à quel saint se vouer. Malgré l’ennui et la violence sourde qui traversent son quotidien, malgré une sexualité...
- Author:Demos, JohnSummary:
National Book Award finalist John Demos brings to life the compelling story of Eunice Williams, a Puritan girl who was captured and adopted by Native Americans In this riveting historical fiction narrative, National Book Award Finalist...
- Author:Naves, Elaine KalmanSummary:
In the winter of 1868 a name Montreal society associated with art, good breeding, and culture became fodder for scandal mongers. The Notman name, synonymous with fine photography, was suddenly making headlines featuring the words "...
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Author:High, StevenSummary:Over the span of seven years, hundreds of people displaced by mass violence told their stories to the Montreal Life Stories project. From the outset, the project’s organizers sought to develop an alternative model to traditional oral...
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Author:McFetridge, JohnSummary:“An extremely good crime novel, brimming with historical verisimilitude . . . with a richly detailed protagonist and a seriously compelling mystery.” — Booklist on Black Rock
In the weeks before hosting the 1976 Summer...
- Author:Sylvestre, OlivierSummary:
Après dix années passées dans l'antre de la bête, un intervenant nous ouvre la porte de son centre de répit pour toxicomanes, avec sa sonnette stridente et sa vitre pare-balles, sa lasagne, ses larmes et ses espoirs fous, malgré tout....
- Author:Nasrallah, DimitriSummary:
Winner, 2011 Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction Longlisted for the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlisted for CBC Canada Reads 2016 Swiftly paced, poignantly moving, and beautifully imagined, Niko is the powerful epic...
- Author:Morissette, GuillaumeSummary:
Set in Montreal, New Tab spans a year in the life of a twenty-six year old videogame designer as he attempts to reset his life, in the process chronicling with humor disillusion, boredom, self-destruction, Facebook chats, Concordia...
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Author:Michaud, MartinSummary:Tormented, rebellious police detective Victor Lessard races to track down a ruthless killer in Montreal. "Martin Michaud is a master at twisty storytelling and compelling atmosphere." - Catherine McKenzie. "Never Forget is a crackerjack...
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Author:Myles, Stephanie, Brochu, ClaudeSummary:The decline and fall of the Montreal Expos. In 1969, the Montreal Expos played their first game. Thirty-two years later, the team that once boasted baseball’s best farm system is nearly dead. In this book, former Expos president Claude...
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Author:Rudin, PhyllisSummary:In this coming-of-age story, Benjie Gabai is convinced he’s been the victim of a terrible cosmic hoax. Instead of being born in the 18th century as a French-Canadian voyageur, God has plunked him down in present-day Montreal, into a...
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Author:Rivard, KenSummary:Motherwild is an unvarnished journey of the struggle to survive on a violent and dangerous yet loving and alive Montreal working-class street. Set over the course of a year beginning in December 1959, Joey Cantell faces the personal...
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Author:Dagenais, Michèle, Feldstein, PeterSummary:Built within an exceptional watershed, Montreal is intertwined with the waterways that ring its island and flow beneath it in underground networks. Montreal, City of Water focuses on water not only as a physical element – both shaping...
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