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Par Michel Tremblay. 1994
Marcel and his cousin experience the mystical arrival of summer on the final day of exams at Ecole Saint-Stanislas. While…
Marcel is in the class for "slow learners," his cousin is part of the "gifted" program. It is only towards the end of exams that Marcel's cousin recognizes Marcel's own special type of genius. Sequel to "The fat woman next door is pregnant." 1994. Uniform title: Premier quartier de la lune.Par Michel Tremblay. 1981
It is May 2, 1942 in Montreal. All the women on Rue Fabre are pregnant; the fat woman next door…
is pregnant with the author himself. Tremblay has created the period in which many of the well-known characters in his plays were born. Prequel to "The first quarter of the moon" (DC15399). Canada Reads 2009. 1981. Uniform title: La grosse femme d'à côté est enceinte.Par David Robertson. 2014
Alice, a single mother raising her three young daughters on the rez where she grew up, has never had an…
easy life, but has managed to get by with the support of her best friend, Gideon, and her family. When an unthinkable loss occurs, Alice is forced onto a different path, one that will challenge her belief in herself and the world she thought she knew. 2014.Par William T Vollmann. 2015
Tells the story of the Nez Perce War, with flashbacks to the Civil War. Defrauded and intimidated at every turn,…
the Nez Perces finally went on the warpath in 1877, subjecting the U.S. Army to its greatest defeat since Little Big Horn as they fled from northeast Oregon across Montana to the Canadian border. The main character is not the legendary Chief Joseph, but his pursuer, General Oliver Otis Howard, the brave, shy, tormented, devoutly Christian Civil War veteran. 2015. If you request this book on CD it will be on 2 or more CDs. You must play the first CD to the end before playing the next CD.Par Jennifer Manuel. 2016
Depicts the lonely world of Bernadette, a woman who has spent the last forty years living alone on the periphery…
of a remote West Coast First Nations reserve, serving as a nurse for the community. Only weeks from retirement, Bernadette finds herself unsettled, with no immediate family of her own. And then a shocking announcement crackles over the VHF radio of the remote medical outpost: Chase Charlie, the young man that Bernadette loves like a son, is missing. Winner of the 2017 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. 2016.Par David Homel, Fred A Reed, Monique Proulx. 2003
Florence doesn't like writers, books, dogs, alcohol, old people, pleasure, or love, only her partner Zeno - though she'd never…
admit it. The two of them run an Internet business that puts lesser known writers and artists back in the limelight. Zeno sends Florence to find his favourite author, the mysterious Pierre Laliberté, in this novel of literature and the people who create it. Strong language. Canada Reads 2004. 2002, 2003. Uniform title: Cœur est un muscle involontaire.Par David Treuer. 1999
Simon, a Native American, is released from prison after serving ten years for murder. As he settles into the American…
Indian neighborhood of Minneapolis where his troubles began, we witness the events that both haunt and shape his family. Some descriptions of sex, descriptions of violence, some strong language. 1999.Par Liliane L Gratton. 2001
Premier roman d'une auteure originaire de l'Est de l'Ontario. C'est dans ce milieu rural qu'elle situe son récit qui, autour…
du personnage central d'Angélique, évoque les secrets d'une famille et un drame amoureux. 2001.Par Katherena Vermette. 2016
When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break…
- a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house - she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime. In a series of shifting narratives, people who are connected, both directly and indirectly, with the victim - police, family, and friends - tell their personal stories leading up to that fateful night. Lou, a social worker, grapples with the departure of her live-in boyfriend. Cheryl, an artist, mourns the premature death of her sister Rain. Paulina, a single mother, struggles to trust her new partner. Phoenix, a homeless teenager, is released from a youth detention centre. Officer Scott, a Métis policeman, feels caught between two worlds as he patrols the city. Bestseller. Canada Reads 2017. Winner of the 2017 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, the 2017 Evergreen Award and the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award. 2016.Par Edwin Shrake. 2001
Doc Swift - half Cherokee, half Irish, part medical doctor, past healer - seeks the supernatural creature who guards the…
treasures and wisdom of his tribal ancestors. But first he needs to find the German settler named Gruber who had reportedly encountered the beast deep in the lands of Comancheria. 2001.Par Éric Plamondon. 2017
Il avait démissionné, une jeune Mi'gmaq se trouvait sous sa protection, deux hommes étaient morts et une partie du Québec…
voulait qu'on en finisse une fois pour toutes avec les Indiens. Cette histoire commence en Gaspésie, le 11 juin 1981. Cette histoire commence il y a des millénaires, avant les Vikings, avant les Basques, avant Cartier. Cette histoire commence avec les Mi'gmaq. Pour eux, c'est la fin des terres, Gespeg. Pour d'autres, c'est le début d'un nouveau monde. Alors que trois cents policiers de la Sûreté du Québec débarquent sur la réserve de Restigouche pour saisir les filets des pêcheurs mi'gmaq, un agent de la faune change de camp, une adolescente affronte ceux qui ont humilié son père, un vieil ermite sort du bois, une jeune enseignante s'apprête à retourner dans son pays - pendant que le saumon devenu taqawan, au retour de son long périple en mer, remonte la rivière jusqu'au lieu de sa naissance. 2017.Par Jean O'Neil. 1996
Récit dans lequel l'auteur s'attache à illustrer l'histoire d'un village des Cantons-de-l'Est et celle d'une famille d'habiles entrepeneurs de l'endroit…
: les Legendre. La période évoquée, 1852-fin des années 1940 environ ("l'âge du bois"), précède "l'âge de bière" et succède à "l'âge de la fourrure." Pour amateurs de récits généalogiques québécois. 1996.Par Colette Verreault-Milot. 1981
Contre toute attente, la douce et timide tante Anna ose se révolter et refuser ce foyer du troisième âge ou…
on l'a reléguée, hors du champ des "vivants." L'auteur nous raconte cette révolte d'une manière vraie et crue, sans complaisance ni fausse pudeur. 1981.Par Gilles Raymond. 1990
Pierre Usher, un jeune assiste social, réclame en héritage la maison ancestrale laissée à l'abandon depuis la mort tragique de…
son grand père paternel, afin de la restaurer et de la revendre. Sortie 21... ou à deux pas du XXIe siècle, quelle place est faite aux jeunes dans un monde sans merci? 1990.Par François X Côté. 2006
Le narrateur, qui est devenu homme tronc à cinq ans, suite à une rencontre malencontreuse avec une souffleuse, tente de…
trouver à travers l'écriture un exutoire à ses rêves. Prix Robert-Cliche 2006.Par Jean-Paul Dubois. 1999
Par Pierre-Marc Drouin. 2010
Jeune homme au passé lourd, Jean-François Gagnon peut enfin réaliser son rêve: changer de peau! A vingt ans, ses études…
universitaires l'obligent à quitter sa région natale au profit de la grande métropole. Finie la petite vie de banlieue dans un trou comme Sainte-Anne. Finie la persécution. Finie l'humiliation. Maintenant, c'est vive Montréal, les colocs, les filles et les manifs pour le plaisir de mettre le feu aux poubelles! Et Jean-François est bien déterminé à se reconstruire de A à Z. Quelques descriptions de nature sexuelle. c2010.Par Thomas King. 2014
Gabriel returns to Smoke River, the reserve where his mother grew up and to which she returned with Gabriel’s sister.…
The reserve is deserted after an environmental disaster killed the population, including Gabriel’s family, and the wildlife. Gabriel, a brilliant scientist working for DowSanto, created GreenSweep, and indirectly led to the crisis. Now he has come to see the damage and to kill himself in the sea. But as he prepares to let the water take him, he sees a young girl in the waves. Plunging in, he saves her, and soon is saving others. Who are these people with their long black hair and almond eyes who have fallen from the sky? Bestseller. Winner of the 2014 Governor General’s Award for Fiction. 2014.Par Lynda A Archer. 2016
At ninety years of age, Elinor, a Saskatchewan Cree artist, inveterate roll-your-own smoker, and talker to rivers and stuffed bison,…
sets out to find something that was stolen almost a lifetime ago. With what little time she has left, she is determined to find the child taken from her after she, only a child herself, was raped at a residential school. It is 1968, and a harsh winter and harsher attitudes await Elinor, her daughter, and her granddaughter as they set out on an odyssey to right past wrongs, enduring a present that tests their spirit and chips away at their aboriginal heritage. 2016.