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Son of a trickster (Trickster trilogy. #1.)
Par Eden Robinson. 2017
Everyone knows a guy like Jared: the burnout kid in high school who sells weed cookies and has a scary…
mom who's often wasted and wielding some kind of weapon. Jared does smoke and drink too much, and he does make the best cookies in town, and his mom is a mess, but he's also a kid who has an immense capacity for compassion and an impulse to watch over people more than twice his age, and he can't rely on anyone for consistent love and support, except for his flatulent pit bull, Baby Killer, and now she's dead. Bestseller. 2017.Run away / (N Ser.)
Par Harlan Coben. 2019
Paige is addicted to drugs and to an abusive boyfriend. And she's made it clear that she doesn't want to…
be found. Then, by chance, Simon sees her playing guitar in Central Park. But she's not the girl he remembers; she is living on the edge, frightened, and clearly in trouble. Simon approaches her, beg her to come home. She runs. And Simon follows her into a dark and dangerous world he never knew existed. Now his family and his life are on the line. And in order to protect Paige from the evils of that world, Simon must face them head on. Bestseller. 2019.Gutter Child: A Novel
Par Jael Richardson. 2021
A fierce and illuminating debut from FOLD founder Jael Richardson about a young woman who must find the courage to…
determine her own future and secure her freedomSet in an imagined world in which the most vulnerable are forced to buy their freedom by working off their debt to society, Gutter Child uncovers a nation divided into the privileged Mainland and the policed Gutter. In this world, Elimina Dubois is one of only 100 babies taken from the Gutter and raised in the land of opportunity as part of a social experiment led by the Mainland government. But when her Mainland mother dies, Elimina finds herself all alone, a teenager forced into an unfamiliar life of servitude, unsure of who she is and where she belongs. Elimina is sent to an academy with new rules and expectations where she befriends Gutter children who are making their own way through the Gutter System in whatever ways they know how. When Elimina’s life takes another unexpected turn, she will discover that what she needs more than anything may not be the freedom she longs for after all. Richardson’s Gutter Child reveals one young woman’s journey through a fractured world of heartbreaking disadvantages and shocking injustices. Elimina is a modern heroine in an altered but all too recognizable reality who must find the strength within herself to forge her future and defy a system that tries to shape her destiny.Faire les sucres: roman (Collection "Coursière")
Par Fanny Britt. 2020
L'argent ne fait pas le bonheur, paraît-il, mais ne donne-t-il pas l'occasion de s'arrêter, de "penser à soi" ? Comment…
ne pas voir l'absurdité de cette affirmation, "penser à soi", comme si ce n'était pas ce que nous faisons déjà la majorité du temps ? Dans ce roman choral sur la dislocation progressive d'un couple, Fanny Britt creuse sans merci la question de nos privilèges. On y rencontre Adam et Marion, dont la vie auréolée de succès sera mêlée à celle de Celia, qui a compris quelque chose du monde qu'ils ne savent pas encore. Faire les sucres parcourt d'un pas vif le Montréal prospère des foodies et des artistes du divertissement, visite une fabrique de bonbons salés sur l'île de Martha's Vineyard au Massachusetts, assiste aux répétitions d'une chorale anglophone, et écoute monter l'eau dans les arbres d'une érablière de la région d'OkaFive wives: A Novel
Par Joan Thomas. 2019
1956. A small group of evangelical Christian missionaries and their families journeyed to the rainforest in Ecuador intending to convert…
the Waorani, a people who had never had contact with the outside world. Calling it Operation Auca, the group spent several days dropping gifts from an aircraft, and then the five men in the party rashly entered the "intangible zone." They were all killed, leaving their wives and children to fend for themselves. A fictionalized account of the real-life women who were left behind, and their struggles - with grief, with doubt, and with each other - as they continued to pursue their evangelical mission in the face of the explosion of fame that followed their husbands' deaths. Winner of the 2019 Governor General’s Award for Fiction. Bestseller. 2019.