Canadian Fiction

Les élèves de cette école ont désespérément besoin d’une chose : MOI ! Leurs têtes débordent de rêves. Leurs coeurs sont remplis d’espoir. À travers leurs amours, leurs joies et leurs peines, je promets de les aider à réaliser leurs désirs les plus fous. Anna deviendra-t-elle aussi populaire qu’elle le souhaite ? Thomas renouera-t-il les liens avec Eddy ? Ma mère trouvera-t-elle le grand amour ? Attention, j’arrive !

Born into a magical Cree world in snowy Northern Manitoba, Champion and Ooneemeetoo Okimasis are all too soon torn from their family and thrust into the hostile world of a Catholic residential school. Their language is forbidden, their names are changed to Jeremiah and Gabriel, and both boys are abused by priests. As young men, estranged from their own people and alienated from the culture imposed upon them, the Okimasis brothers fight to survive. Wherever they go, the Fur Queen - a wily, shape-shifting trickster - watches over them with a protective eye.

Je m'appelle Alex Gravel-Côté et, si j'écris un journal intime, c'est uniquement parce que j'ai perdu un pari contre ma grande sœur, et que madame s'est mis dans la tête de m'utiliser comme cobaye pour son cours de psychologie.

À Montréal, juste avant Noël, un homme et une femme meurent le cou transpercé par ce qui semble être un instrument de torture. Auparavant, ils ont entendu la voix de Lee Harvey Oswald, l’assassin présumé du président Kennedy. Un sans-abri se jette du haut d’un édifice de la place d’Armes. Ayant séjourné à plusieurs reprises en psychiatrie, il prétendait avoir participé, avec le FLQ, à l’assassinat de Pierre Laporte.

Sam, Otter, Atim, and Chickadee are four inseparable cousins growing up on the Windy Lake First Nation. Nicknamed the Mighty Muskrats for their habit of laughing, fighting, and exploring together, the cousins find that each new adventure adds to their reputation. When a visiting archeologist goes missing, the cousins decide to solve the mystery of his disappearance.

Il revenait vers moi pour me prendre par les épaules, puis se remettait à faire des bonds en énumérant toutes les choses qu'il pourrait m'acheter. Il jubilait. Moi, je me sentais… C'était quoi, donc, ce sentiment? C'était flou, comme l'embryon d'une émotion. Peut-être l'humiliation.

Avan Jogia grew up as a teen idol. He stumbled into the spotlight during the birth of the internet, the early days of Instagram and Twitter, before everyone online was a star. He spent his time in that spotlight writing, observing the cult of celebrity, the hilarity, the absurdity, and sometimes sinister side of being idolized before you’ve even had the chance to decide for yourself who you are. Now, in his most revealing and honest work to date, he has assembled a book of poems as an act of self-dissection.

From the author of the beloved Hum If You Don't Know the Words comes a rich, unforgettable story of three unique women in post-Apartheid South Africa who are brought together in their darkest time and discover the ways that love can transcend the strictest of boundaries.

Aleya’s world starts to unravel after a café customer leaves behind a collection of short stories. Surprised and disturbed to discover that it has been dedicated to her, Aleya delves into the strange book. A mad scientist seeks to steal his son’s dreams. A struggling writer, skilled only at destruction, finds himself courted by Hollywood. A woman seeks to escape her body and live inside her dreams. Citizens panic when a new city block manifests out of nowhere. The more Aleya reads, the deeper she sinks into the mysterious writer’s work.

Un mois s’est écoulé depuis l’annonce qui a bouleversé la vie d’Audrey et de Milan. Malgré leurs craintes et leurs appréhensions, ils tentent de naviguer le mieux possible dans ce nouveau tourbillon qui les emporte. Par chance, ils peuvent toujours compter sur la très volontaire Megan, qui fera tout pour se rendre essentielle aux yeux du couple. Tant mieux, puisqu’en plus de gérer sa propre situation, Audrey en a plein les bras avec les amours confus de Félicia!

Readers of Patrick Taylor's books know Mrs. Kinky Kincaid as the unflappable housekeeper who looks after two frequently frazzled doctors in the colourful Irish village of Ballybucklebo. She is a trusted fixture in the lives of those around her, and it often seems as though Kinky has always been there.Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Voici l’histoire de Victoire Du Saut, fondatrice de la cordonnerie à l’origine de la fortune de la famille Dufresne, bien connue des Montréalais pour l’imposant manoir qui porte son nom dans le quartier d’Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. Cette grande fresque historique et familiale est propulsée par la vision et l’audace d’une femme de tête. S’y mêlent les émois d’une idylle impossible, les dangers d’un sulfureux triangle amoureux, et les effets d’un bouleversant secret de famille qui ne laissera personne indemne.

Ville-Marie, petite ville sur les bords du lac Témiscamingue, dont tous les habitants connaissent Daniel Verrier: il vient de perdre ses deux enfants en bas âge, morts par noyade. Miné par le remords - il est en partie responsable de leur mort - , délaissé par sa femme et aux prises avec de graves problèmes psychologiques, dont une amnésie partielle, Verrier sombre lentement dans la folie.

The author of How to Do Everything and Red Green's Beginner's Guide to Women has never been afraid to take on jobs doomed to failure. This latest project is perhaps the nearest he has come to a triumph. In The Woulda Coulda Shoulda Guide to Canadian Inventions, Red surveys, analyzes, critiques, and in some cases tells you how to re-create at home the best Canadian inventions, from the Wonderbra to the hard-cup jockstrap, by way of insulin, the walkie-talkie, synchronized swimming, and more.

Après dix-huit mois de confinement, Catherine essaie de sortir de sa tanière pour se rouvrir à l’amour. En l’absence de ses habituelles alliées, prises parleur propre cheminement, Catherine devra plonger en elle-même pour y trouver les réponses. Un flirt au boulot, c’est oui ou c’est non? Une nouvelle chance avec Félix? Et s’il valait mieux prendre de la distance et accepter une offre de voyage au bord de la mer pour y voir clair et qui sait? Peut-être même trouver l’amour.

The Williams family gave into an odd, overwhelming desire to purchase and move into a Victorian home they had come upon by chance...but shortly after moving in, strange things began to happen. It became abundantly clear that the Williams' new home was haunted.

Kay and Thea are half-sisters, separated in age by almost twenty years, but deeply attached. When their stern father dies, Thea returns to Nova Scotia for her long-promised marriage to the captain of the Morning Light. But she cannot abandon her orphaned young sister, so Kay too embarks on a life-changing voyage to the other side of the world.

Summer descends over the picturesque King’s Cove as Darling and Lane’s mutual affection blossoms. But their respite from solving crime is cut short when a British government official arrives in Nelson to compel Darling to return to England for questioning about the death of a rear gunner under his command in 1943. In Darling’s absence, Ames oversees the investigation into the suspicious death of a local elderly woman and uncovers a painful betrayal inflicted 40 years earlier.

While many volumes devoted to the punk and hardcore scenes in America grace bookstore shelves, Canada’s contributions to the genre remain largely unacknowledged. For the first time, the birth of Canadian punk - a transformative cultural force that spread across the country at the end of the 1970s - is captured between the pages of this important resource. Delving deeper than standard band biographies, this book articulates how the advent of punk reshaped the culture of cities across Canada, speeding along the creation of alternative means of cultural production, consumption, and distribution.

From the doyenne of detective novels and the inspiration for the major TV series Murder in a Small Town (starring Rossif Sutherland and Kristin Kreuk), the eighth Karl Alberg detective story—is he the detective or the suspect? Maria Buscombe was a housewife living in Sechelt, British Colombia, until seven years ago when she suddenly abandoned her family. Now it seems she has returned—just in time to be murdered. What made her leave? What made her return? And who was sending her money and photographs of her daughter all that time?