Canadian Family

Sous le ciel aveuglant de Noirax couve une longue tradition de secrets qu’il faudra un jour détricoter. Dans la Malmaison, les pères entretiennent depuis longtemps le silence, nourrissent les panses et multiplient les désidératas: Pampelune, la bougresse, Héléna, la Pimparela, des femmes au destin tragique. Le père est rassuré : le domaine est paisible, endormi. On a fermé la porte de la Maison aux parfums de crainte que la vérité s’en échappe. Son fils, Jeanty, de retour au bercail après une déconvenue amoureuse, entame sa propre quête identitaire.

Beena and Sadhana are sisters who share a bond that could only have been shaped by the most unusual of childhoods - and by shared tragedy. Orphaned as teenagers, they have grown up under the exasperated watch of their Sikh uncle, who runs a bagel shop in Montreal's Hasidic community of Mile End. Together, they try to make sense of the rich, confusing brew of values, rituals, and beliefs that form their inheritance. Yet as they grow towards adulthood, their paths begin to diverge.

Immature et un peu impulsive, Gabrielle ne rêve que d'un futur avec un époux amoureux et une ribambelle d'enfants. Mais Juliette, sa soeur cadette, est même plus impulsive qu'elle et finit par l'entraîner dans le sillage des tragédies causées par ses décisions irréfléchies. Cela a toujours été ainsi pour ces deux soeurs.

L'idée du siècle de mes parents? Avoir un autre enfant! Non mais, comme si on était pas déjà beaucoup trop dans notre famille! Dire que je passerai très certainement en bas du 25 % d'attention parentale. Aussi bien dire presque zéro! Pire idée du monde. Heureusement que j'ai aussi pour me réconforter un brin de cette nouvelle style bombe nucléaire.

A widow visits a spiritualist community to attempt to contact her late husband. A grieving teenager confronts the unfairness of his small-town world and the oncoming ecological disaster. A sexual assault survivor navigates her boyfriend's tricky family and her own confusing desires. A mother examines unresolved guilt while seeking her missing daughter in a city slum. A lover exploits his girlfriend's secrets for his own purposes. Whether in Ecuador or San Francisco, rural Ontario or northern Manitoba, the landscape in each of Carter's poignant short stories reflects each character's journey.

It's 1998. And Mansoor Visram has lived in Canada for 25 years, ever since dictator Idi Amin expelled South Asians from Uganda. As a refugee with a wife and child, Mansoor has tried his best to recreate the life they once had, but starting over in Canada has been much harder than he expected. He's worked as a used car salesman, as a gas station attendant, and now he runs a small dry cleaner in suburban Calgary. But he's hatching plans for a father and son empire that will bring back the wealth and status the Visrams enjoyed in Uganda.

Tout se joue avant 2 ans se veut d’abord et avant tout un ouvrage d’initiation et de vulgarisation aux 1000 premiers jours, où l’on s’attarde aux connaissances qui nous permettront de construire les piliers de la santé physique et mentale de demain, c’est construire un départ juste et une société prospère pour chaque enfant.

À la mort de son amoureux Léon, Étienne, sage-femme, s’exile seule sur une île au cœur du Saint-Laurent. Elle y travaille comme infirmière de garde, renouant ainsi avec son premier métier. Son quotidien paisible est secoué par l’arrivée impromptue de son beau-fils, qui l’amènera à revisiter un drame survenu vingt ans plus tôt et dont elle croyait avoir fait le deuil.

Caroline Allard a mis deux enfants au monde. Bien qu'elle les aime énormément, elle soulage son irrépressible envie de défoulement en écrivant des chroniques rigolotes à leur sujet. Son premier roman, tiré de son blogue, a remporté le Grand Prix littéraire Archambault et lui a aussi permis de visiter moult salons du livre, ce qui a pour avantage de l'autoriser à fuir ponctuellement la maison pour s'amuser en bonne compagnie.

«Toute va ben été» [tutvabete] expression locale? Ce qu'on se dit pour se con­­vaincre que tout finira par s'arranger, mais sans pouvoir s'exprimer correctement parce qu'on est CLAIREMENT DÉPASSÉ PAR LA VIE. Sans prétention, sans compromis, sans filtre, voici mes réflexions et mes anecdotes sur ces étapes de la vie, de l'adolescence à l'âge adulte, qui nous font dire (en serrant un peu les dents): «Toute va ben été!»

Flat Stanley goes north! Stanley Lambchop and his family are in British Columbia, Canada, for some skiing and winter fun. But when Stanley and his new friend Nick go snowboarding - with Stanley as the snowboard, of course - they take a midair tumble just as the wind picks up...and find themselves floating in an amazing Canadian cross-country journey that might just be Stanley's wildest adventure yet!

Originaire de Gaspésie, Camille Aubry habite la ville de Québec où elle complète, à 25 ans, un doctorat en psychologie. Hantée par un drame familial survenu neuf ans plus tôt, Camille soulage les souffrances de ses patients psychiatriques tout en tentant de réparer son propre traumatisme. Survient Léo, son jeune voisin, à qui elle offre un refuge apaisant quand ça s’agite trop chez lui. Au fil de leurs échanges se tisse une amitié précieuse et salvatrice entre le garçon négligé et la femme abîmée.

The Second World War had been under way for a year when Marie and John Williamson welcomed two English brothers to join them and their two children in their small house in north Toronto for the duration of the conflict. Marie wrote over 150 letters to the boys’ mother, Margaret Sharp, imagining that she could make Margaret feel she was still with her children. She shepherded the boys through education decisions and illnesses, eased them into a strange new life, and rejoiced when they embraced unfamiliar winter sports.

Yaotl and Sascho splashed along the shores of the behcha, spears hefted, watching for the flash of fin to rise to the surface and sparkle in the sunlight. Tender feelings, barely discovered, flushed their faces. In the distance, the warning about the kw'ahtıı sounds, but on this fatal day, it goes unheard; Yaotl and Sascho fall into the hands of the Indian Agents. Transport to Fort Providence residential school is only the beginning of their ordeal, for the teachers believe it is their sworn duty to “kill the Indian inside”.

Margaret, Elsie, Phoenix, Cedar : quatre femmes, mères et filles, issues de la communauté amérindienne du North End, un quartier défavorisé de Winnipeg, Manitoba. Quatre membres d'une même famille, les Stranger, chacune hantée par ses propres démons. Quatre personnages qui cherchent désespérément la lumière. Dans cette fresque poignante, Katherena Vermette immerge le lecteur dans l'univers mouvant d'une lignée de femmes autochtones, dessinant la force de leurs liens, la souffrance héritée du passé et l'espoir de briser enfin la fatalité.

Stevie, a recovering alcoholic and kitchen manager of Chappy’s, a small-chain restaurant, is frantically trying to prevent the people around her from going supernova: her PTSD-suffering veteran son, her uproariously demented parents, the polyglot eccentrics who work in her kitchen, the blind geriatric dog she inherits, and a damaged 5-year-old who landed on her doorstep and might just be her granddaughter. In the tight grip of new corporate owners, Stevie battles corporate’s “restructuring” to save her kitchen.

For seventeen-year-old Adanna Nkwachi, life is all about duty: to school and the debate team, to her Nigerian parents, and even to her cousin Genny as Ada helps prepare Genny’s wedding to Afrobeats superstar Skeleboy. Because ever since her older brother, Sam, had a fight with their parents a few years ago and disappeared, somebody has to fill the void he left behind. Ada may never know what caused Sam to leave home, but the one thing she’s certain of is that it’s on her to make sure her parents’ sacrifices aren’t in vain.

Kerstin Ostheim, a journalist, and P. J. Banner, a freelance photographer, have been together six months after meeting on a dating website. They are getting married in two weeks and as the wedding fast approaches, they question their compatibility while investigating mysterious horse killings that are taking place in Ogweyo's Cove, the Pacific tourist haven where they live.

Nightmares still haunt Chloe 13 years after she lost her baby sister. Her mother, Jules, with a busy tech career and long history of chronic pain, has little time for Chloe. After Chloe drops out of university to travel for a year, Jules’s OxyContin dependency quickly becomes a problem. Aftershock follows their parallel journeys: Jules struggles to regain control of her life and come to terms with the emotional pain that has so long manifested itself in her body. Chloe, after a rocky visit with her estranged father in New Zealand, resolves to go off the map....

On the brink of 40, Bea Rose has lost her lover, her business, and her bearings. When the opportunity arises to work on a summer production of King Lear to be staged in various parks around Montreal, she takes it, despite her utter lack of theatre experience. Things get off to a rocky start when Bea meets the artistic director, Artie White, a childhood friend whose presence stirs up painful memories. At the same time, Bea's father begins behaving erratically, and her younger sister Cara discovers cracks in the foundation of an apparently perfect life.