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The first quarter of the moon
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.Star gazing
Par Linda Gillard. 2008
Blind since birth, widowed in her twenties, now lonely in her forties, Marianne's passionate nature finds solace and expression in…
music, a love she finds she shares with Keir, a man she encounters on her doorstep one winter's night. Can Marianne trust her feelings for this reclusive stranger who wants to take a blind woman to his island home on Skye, to 'show' her the stars? 2008.Next episode (New Canadian library)
Par Sheila Fischman, Hubert Aquin. 2001
As he awaits trial, a young separatist writes an espionage story in the psychiatric ward of the Montreal prison where…
he has been detained. He also reflects on his dissent and distress, and on the political realities of Quebec of the 1960's. First published in 1965. Winner of Canada Reads 2003. 2001. Uniform title: Prochain épisode.Gambler's fallacy
Par Judith Elaine Cowan. 2001
A collection of seven stories set in Trois-Rivières, Québec. They feature an erratic cast of ordinarily forgotten folks who have…
fallen through the cracks. These include a woman called Raymonde, who is anxiously awaiting guests to her lover's book launching, and Jacques, a man of simplicity, observing the often unnoticed and underappreciated aspects of daily life. 2001.Coming to terms (Cover-to-cover Books)
Par Rose Bevins. 2004
Gina isn't looking forward to the weekend - instead of spending it at her best friend's house, her mother's friends…
are visiting with their son, Ricky, who's blind. She'll be stuck in the house with him while the adults go to a high school reunion. How is she supposed to act around Ricky when she's never even met a blind person before? Grades 4-7. 2004.Black bird: a novel
Par Michel Basilières. 2003
Holed up in a shambling house at the base of Mount Royal is the family Desouche: three generations of English-…
and French-Canadians caught in the gears of a national crisis. When one of the eldest, an Anglo Montrealer, dies at the hand of one of the youngest, a militant separatist, so begins a transformative year of misfortune. 2003.Alone in an untamed land: the filles du Roi diary of Hélène St. Onge (Dear Canada)
Par Maxine Trottier. 2002
Hélène St. Onge is a recently orphaned thirteen-year-old girl from France, who sets off for Quebec, or Nouvelle France, in…
1666 as a companion to her older sister Catherine. When Catherine dies on the way, Hélène goes to live at her aunt's tavern, where she learns important skills like how to skin a muskrat, while meeting many of the famous people of the new colony. She hopes the friendships she has made, like with her half-Mohawk friend Kateri, will help her to survive the harsh life and bitter winters of seventeenth century Montreal. Grades 5-8. 2003.A different kind of Beauty
Par Sylvia McNicoll. 2004
Elizabeth's at it again - she's raising a puppy for the guide dog program. But this time, for sure, she…
won't fall in love. She's too busy, for one thing: it's her first year at high school, she's going to be an aunt, and she's engaged to be married - sort of, maybe, in sixteen years or so, if Scott's still around. Sequel to: "Bringing Up Beauty". For junior and senior high readers. 2004.The sleeping sword
Par Michael Morpurgo. 2002
Blinded in an accident, Bun Bendle stumbles one day into an underground tomb containing a shield and a beautiful ancient…
sword. As he touches the hilt, his whole body is gripped by an incredible, centuries-old power. It is a power that will change Bun's life forever. Grades 2-4. 2002.From the corner of his eye
Par Dean R Koontz. 2000
At the age of three, to stop a fast-spreading cancer, Bartholomew Lampion was blinded by eye surgery. Barty grows up…
a prodigy, and at the age of 13, he regains his sight and sets out to transform the lives of everyone around him.French toast, a white cane and memories
Par Laura Fay Robbie. 2006
A heart-warming account about laughter, tears, and the importance of facing life's obstacles with courage. A true story about a…
memorable vacation, one big brother who daydreams, an important epiphany, and a hilarious little boy named Chase. 2006.The Immaculate Conception
Par Lazer Lederhendler, Gaétan Soucy. 2005
In 1920s Montreal, 75 parishioners die one terrible night at the hands of an arsonist. Among the survivors are Remouald,…
whose nightmarish, repressed childhood memories cause him constant turmoil; Séraphon, his invalid father who holds a self-destructive secret; and schoolteacher Clémentine Clément, who obsesses in solitude over past tragedies, unrequited passions, and the grim suspicion that something is woefully amiss with a group of young boys in her class. Some descriptions of sex and strong language. Descriptions of violence. 2005. Uniform title: Immaculée Conception.The flying canoe
Par Sheila Fischman, Roch Carrier. 2004
Retelling of the classic Quebec folklore "La chasse-galerie". On New Year's Eve, 1846, 11-year-old Baptiste finds himself far from his…
friends and family and has come to the woods of Ottawa Valley to live and work among some lumberjacks. As the New Year approaches, they grow more and more homesick. Grades 3-6. 2004. Uniform title: Chasse-galerie.Mad shadows (New Canadian Library)
Par Marie-Claire Blais. 1990
A harrowing pathology of the soul centering on a family group: Patrice, the beautiful and narcissistic son; his ugly and…
malicious sister, Isabelle-Marie; and Louise, their vain and uncomprehending mother. These characters inhabit an amoral universe where beauty reflects no truth and love is an empty delusion. The characters are ultimately annihilated by their own obsessions. Original French edition published in 1959. 1990. Uniform title: Belle bête.The tin flute (New Canadian Library)
Par Alan Brown, Gabrielle Roy. 1989
Trapped by poverty and unemployment in the slums of Montreal, Rosanna LaCasse and her eldest daughter cope differently with the…
problems of urban living. Winner of the Governor General's Award. 1989. Uniform title: Bonheur d'occasion.Wild horse summer
Par Hope Ryden. 1997
Alison does not want to leave Chicago for a summer on her aunt and uncle's Wyoming ranch - she hardly…
knows her relatives, and she's worried she'll be trapped into watching her cousin Kelly, who is blind. And with her extreme fear of heights, she can't even get on a horse. Over the course of the summer, she confronts the obstacles she faces in both predictable and unpredictable ways. Grades 4-7. 1997.What would Joey do? (Joey Pigza Ser. #3)
Par Jack Gantos. 2002
Joey tries to keep his life from degenerating into total chaos when his mother sends him to be home-schooled with…
a hostile blind girl, his divorced parents cannot stop fighting, and his grandmother is dying of emphysema. Some violence. Sequel to "Joey Pigza loses control" (DC24896). Grades 4-7. 2002.A house divided
Par Catherine Cookson. 1999
Set at the end of the Second World War, a young man, blinded in action and a decorated war hero,…
returns home and strives to put his life back in order the best way he can. 1999.The million dollar putt
Par Dan Gutman. 2006
Edward "Bogie" Bogard may be blind, but he can learn just about anything he sets his mind to, and when…
he goes to a driving range, he discovers that he has a natural golf swing. Because blind golfing is a team sport, he gets Birdie, the kooky asthmatic girl next door, to be his coach. Then someone mysteriously enters Bogie in a golfing tournament with a million-dollar prize. Grades 5-8. 2006.Querelle of Roberval (Biblioasis International Translation Series #39)
Par Kevin Lambert. 2022
As a millworkers’ strike in the northern lumber town of Roberval drags on, tensions start to escalate between the workers—but…
when a lockout renews their solidarity, they rally around the mysterious and magnetic influence of Querelle, a dashing newcomer from Montreal. Strapping and unabashed, likeable but callow, by day he walks the picket lines and at night moves like a mythic Adonis through the ranks of young men who flock to his apartment for sex. As the dispute hardens and both sides refuse to yield, sand stalls the gears of the economic machine and the tinderbox of class struggle and entitlement ignites in a firestorm of passions carnal and violent. Trenchant social drama, a tribute to Jean Genet’s antihero, and a brilliant reimagining of the ancient form of tragedy, Querelle of Roberval, winner of France’s Marquis de Sade Prize, is a wildly imaginative story of justice, passion, and murderous revenge.