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Camp X (Camp X ; #1)
Par Eric Walters. 2002
It's 1943 and George and his older brother Jack are living in Whitby, Ontario. Their father is fighting World War…
II in Europe and their mother works in a munitions factory. One afternoon the boys stumble across Camp X, a secret spy base. In the most exciting summer of their lives, George and Jack find themselves enlisted in the fight against the Axis powers. Winner of the 2003 Silver Birch Award. Followed by "Camp 30" (EB72862). For junior high readers. 2002. (Camp X ; 1)The Vinyl Café unplugged
Par Stuart McLean. 2000
Another medley of stories featuring Dave, Morley and their family. Both poignant and funny, these stories follow the folks from…
the Vinyl Café neighbourhood as they undergo a range of the human experience from home renovations to toilet training a cat. Winner of the 2001 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal. 2000.The mummy congress: science, obsession, and the everlasting dead
Par Heather Anne Pringle. 2001
After covering a conference of mummy experts, science reporter Heather Pringle became so intrigued with mummies that she spent a…
year circling the globe, visiting leading scientists in the field. She also investigated preserved Italian saints, Scandinavian mummies in bogs, and frozen Inca princesses. Pringle researched Egyptian embalmers, the past public craze for mummy unwrappings, and the Russians' attempts to preserve Stalin, and along the way learned what mummies have to tell us about ourselves. Winner of the 2002 CNIB Torgi Award. 2001.Elephant winter
Par Kim A Echlin. 1997
Sophie Walker is home, back from Africa to nurse her dying mother. Home is her mother's farm in Southern Ontario,…
which borders on "Safari" -- a tacky tourist spot now deserted in the grey months of winter. From her mother's kitchen window Sophie sees not cows, or horses, or sheep, but a group of immense Indian elephants playing gracefully in the snow. There is a man too -- the keeper of the elephants -- and with a faraway gesture, barely discernible in the last light of dusk, he beckons to her. Sophie walks out, leaving behind for a moment the bleak melancholy that hangs over the farmhouse, and thus begins her Elephant Winter. Winner of the 1998 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award.Demi-gods
Par Eliza Robertson. 2017
1950. Willa’s mother has a new beau. The arrival of his blue-eyed, sun-kissed sons at Willa’s summer home signals the…
end of her safe childhood. As her entrancing older sister Joan pairs off with Kenneth, nine-year-old Willa is drawn to his strange and solitary younger brother, Patrick. Left to their own devices, Willa is swept up in Patrick’s wicked games. As they grow up, their encounters become increasingly charged with sexuality and degradation. But when Willa finally tries to reverse the trajectory of their relationship, an act of desperation has devastating results. Winner of the 2018 Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction (QWF). 2017.Under this unbroken sky
Par Shandi Mitchell. 2009
Western Canada, 1938. Ukrainian farmer Teodor Mykolayenko returns to his family, who have been living with his sister Anna, after…
a year spent in prison for the crime of trying to feed them. Channelling the great inner power that enabled him to survive drought, starvation, war, and Stalin, Teodor farms the land and watches his family heal and strengthen. But their hopes are short-lived when Anna's rogue husband returns with a plan that threatens to take away everything they've built. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2009.The Truth Commission
Par Susan Juby. 2015
As a project for her "creative non-fiction module" at a school for the arts, Normandy Pale chronicles the work of…
the Truth Commission, through which she and her two best friends ask classmates and faculty about various open secrets, while Norm's famous sister reveals some very unsettling truths of her own. Senior high readers. Winner of the 2016 BC Book Prize. Winner of the 2016 Amy Mathers Teen Book Award. 2015.The orenda
Par Joseph Boyden. 2013
"The Orenda" opens with a brutal massacre and the kidnapping of the young Iroquois Snow Falls, a spirited girl with…
a special gift. Her captor, Bird, is an elder and one of the Huron nation’s great warriors and statesmen. It has been years since the murder of his family, but they are never far from his mind. In Snow Falls, Bird recognizes the ghost of his lost daughter and sees that the girl possesses powerful magic that will be useful to him on the troubled road ahead. Bird’s people have battled the Iroquois for as long as he can remember, but both tribes now face a new, more dangerous threat from afar. Christophe, a charismatic Jesuit missionary, has found his calling among the Huron, and devotes himself to learning and understanding their customs and language in order to lead them to Christ. Bestseller. Winner of Canada Reads 2014. 2013.Red Mars (Mars Trilogy #Bk. 1)
Par Kim Stanley Robinson. 1996
About 100 people, mostly Russian and American scientists, have been sent on a mission to Mars -- they are to…
establish a community for humans. But conflicts among the colonists have divided them into the Reds and the Greens. The Reds want to leave the planet in its virgin state, but the Greens want to transform it. In the perilous and hostile landscape, the settlers act out many human emotions -- love, hate, envy, and ambition. Followed by "Green Mars". Some strong language.Days without end: a novel
Par Sebastian Barry. 2016
After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole,…
go on to fight in the Indian wars and, ultimately, the Civil War. Having fled terrible hardships they find these days to be vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in. Their lives are further enriched and imperilled when a young Indian girl crosses their path, and the possibility of lasting happiness emerges, if only they can survive. Winner of the 2016 Costa Book Award and the 2017 Walter Scott Prize. 2016.Golden Hill
Par Francis Spufford. 2016
New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan Island, 1746. One rainy evening, a charming and handsome young…
stranger fresh off the boat from England pitches up to a counting house on Golden Hill Street, with a suspicious yet compelling proposition - he has an order for a thousand pounds in his pocket that he wishes to cash. But can he be trusted? This is New York in its infancy, a place where a young man with a fast tongue can invent himself afresh, fall in love, and find a world of trouble. Winner of the 2016 Costa First Novel Award. 2016.The annals of Chile
Par Paul Muldoon. 1994
The haunting of Maddy Clare
Par Simone St. James. 2012
London, 1922. Working as a temp, Sarah Piper is assigned to assist ghost investigator Alistair Gellis. Alistair has discovered an…
apparition who will only talk to women and needs Sarah to uncover the mystery behind the ghost’s death. Explicit descriptions of sex and some violence. RITA Award, 2013 Arthur Ellis Best Crime First Novel Award. 2012.Rabbit at rest (Rabbit series. #4.)
Par John Updike. 1996
Fifty-five and retired, Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom sees his life fading just as his wife Janice finds new strength and purpose.…
Some strong language. Sequel to "Rabbit is rich". Followed by "Rabbit remembered". Bestseller 1990. Winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. (Rabbit series ; 4)Mensonges et autres tromperies
Par François Jobin. 2013
" Le mensonge mène à tout, même à des vérités inattendues. Histoires de famille inavouables, enfants pas si candides, escorte…
masculine ou dévote pseudo vertueuse : dans Mensonges et autres tromperies, neuf personnages en quête d'existence trichent avec les règles, quand ils ne se jouent tout simplement pas du lecteur. Sous la plume allègre de François Jobin, tantôt rieuse, tantôt grave, leurs petits mondes apparemment sans histoire se révèlent, grâce à l'imposture, le faux et la fabulation, scintiller de mille feux. " -- 4e de couv.La corde au cou: roman ((Collection Littérature québécoise (Éditions Pierre Tisseyre)).)
Par Claude Jasmin, Serge Provencher. 2010
Un jeune chômeur, issu d'un milieu défavorisé, tue la femme qu'il aime après l'avoir trouvée dans les bras d'un vieux…
millionnaire jouisseur. Roman qui constitue un réquisitoire brillant et émouvant contre l'inégalité sociale et les injustices qu'elle entraîne. c1960.Le jeune homme sans avenir: roman
Par Marie-Claire Blais. 2012
" Un homme, un écrivain, dans un aéroport d'une île du Sud dont les fenêtres laissent voir la mer, est…
retenu captif à cause du retard de son vol. Un adolescent musicien, ancien enfant prodige, vivant dans la rue en compagnie de son chien, se demande de quoi sera fait son repas du soir. Petites Cendres, qui ne danse plus et ne chante plus avec les autres travestis comme autrefois, refuse de sortir de son lit pour assister au couronnement de la reine des nuits. En superposant ces trois univers, Marie-Claire Blais poursuit son ambitieux projet de déchiffrement du monde que constitue la suite romanesque intitulée Soifs... " -- 4e de couv.Divisadero: [roman]
Par Michael Ondaatje, Michel Lederer. 2007
[...] Une ferme en Californie, deux soeurs (Anna et Claire) et un garçon (Cooper), un amour fou, une nuit d'orage,…
un père meurtrier : des instants de violence qui mettront le feu au reste de leurs vies . À Las Vegas, Cooper se fait joueur professionnel, et c'est Claire qui lui sauve la mise en le protégeant des gangsters qui veulent sa peau. Le Sud-Ouest de la France, aujourd'hui. Cloîtrée dans une maison mystérieuse, Anna se penche sur la vie d'un obscur écrivain du début du XXe siècle, Lucien Segura, et tombe amoureuse d'un manouche. Divisadero est un roman qui traite des forces qui unissent les familles et les font éclater, de la frontière qui nous sépare de nos frères et sœurs, et de tous les êtres qui nous entourent, des subtils échos qui se répercutent à travers le temps et lespace pour former le chant du monde. -- 4e de couv.Hyperion (Les cantos d'Hypérion. #2.)
Par Dan Simmons, Guy Abadia. 2007
Sur Hypérion, le père Hoyt a trouvé son cruciforme. Il le porte imprimé dans sa chair à tout jamais. Sur…
Hypérion, le colonel Kassad a rencontré la belle Moneta, hérissée de piquants. Il a vu les Extros empalés, la guerre universelle, la mort de tous les mondes. Il a un compte à régler avec le gritche. Sur Hypérion, le poète Silenus fut l'un des compagnons du roi Billy le Triste. Il a chanté pour lui l'amer triomphe d'un dieu usurpateur. Prix Hugo 1990.Le monde de Barney: roman ((Les grandes traductions (Albin Michel (Firme))).)
Par Mordecai Richler, Bernard Cohen, Michael Panofsky. 1999
Drôle de vie que celle de Barney ! Barney Panofsky, juif canadien, expatrié dans les années cinquante à Paris, où…
il a côtoyé la bohème artistique. De retour au pays, il devient importateur de fromages français, puis producteur de télévision. De ses trois épouses, la première, nymphomane, se suicidera. Il abandonnera la deuxième le jour même de leur mariage. Quant à la troisième, elle le quittera au bout de trente-six ans. Accusé du meurtre d'un de ses copains, Barney finira solitaire et poivrot, laissant cette autobiographie. Drôle d'histoire ? Oui. Ecrite d'une plume virtuose, avec un humour et un souffle ahurissants. -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Barney's version.