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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.The Confessions of Nipper Mooney: a novel
Par Ed Kavanagh. 2001
On a beautiful morning out in the meadow, Nipper Mooney experiences both the phenomenon of lost time and the death…
of his father. Soon he is sent to All Angels, a rigid Catholic school where Nipper, a sensitive and inquisitive boy, only finds more questions. He survives this claustrophobic and often violent world by becoming a reader, a dreamer, and developing a scrappy toughness, as he journeys through the beauties and horrors of childhood. Some strong language. 2001.The birth house
Par Ami McKay. 2006
Young Dora Rare befriends Marie Babineau, the local midwife, who wants Dora as her successor. After initial reluctance and intensive…
training, Dora is left the practice on the eve of her marriage to Archer Bigelow. When Dr. Gilbert Thomas arrives with the promise of fast, painless childbirth, Dora is determined, despite fierce opposition, to protect the birthing traditions and women's wisdom that have been passed down to her. Some descriptions of violence and strong language. Descriptions of sex. Winner of the 2007 OLA Evergreen Award. Canada Reads 2011. 2006.The architects are here
Par Michael Winter. 2007
When a freak accident blows out the windows of novelist Gabriel English's apartment, driving a billboard into his bed, he…
is forced to come to terms with the disappearance of his lover Nell. He returns home to Newfoundland with his childhood friend David, and discovers that Nell may be implicated in injuring David's father. The friendship between Gabriel and David is tested, there are revelations, confrontations, and a denouement with the Hurley clan, a family both men have feared since childhood. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex, some violence. 2007.Sea of tranquility: a novel
Par Lesley Choyce. 2003
For Sylvie, Ragged Island is the only world she has ever known, and she plans to live out her years…
there. When the Nova Scotia government decides to shut down the ferry service to the island, the residents see their world beginning to disappear. Strong language. 2003.No great mischief
Par Alistair MacLeod. 1999
Alexander MacDonald shares the story of his family, Scottish immigrants who have been in Canada for almost two hundred years.…
Most of the family's time has been spent on Cape Breton island but in recent times the male members of the family have moved off to become specialist shaft miners in demand around the world. The story of the brothers, their troubles and their triumphs, are shared by Alexander, the youngest among them and the only one not to earn his living in the mines. 1999.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.Glass voices
Par Carol Bruneau. 2007
Lucy and Harry Caines lose their house and first child in the 1917 Halifax Explosion, and carve out a life…
for themselves and their second child in a survivor's village of ramshackle houses, gambling, moonshine, and illegal fishing. Fifty-two years later, with Lucy's son married to the daughter of her worst enemy and her grandson Robert quitting school to go on a hippie pilgrimage, the family is forced to work together when Harry suffers a severe stroke, and gains a new perspective on the past. Some descriptions of sex. Some strong language. 2007.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.Fall on your knees
Par Ann-Marie MacDonald. 1996
In the first quarter of the twentieth century, an ambitious Cape Breton father and his Lebanese child-bride raise four extraordinary…
girls. Kathleen is a gifted singer preparing for an opera career; Frances is the bad girl, an incorrigible liar; Mercedes is an obsessive Catholic, trying to protect the flock; but it is Lily who takes us on a quest for truth and redemption. Strong language and descriptions of sex and violence. Canada Reads 2010. Co-winner of the 1997 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1996.Courage in the storm
Par Thomas H Raddall. 1987
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.Cape Breton Road
Par D. R MacDonald. 2000
It is the late 1970s, and nineteen-year-old Innis Corbett is deported from his home near Boston for car theft and…
returned to his mother's birthplace on Cape Breton Island to stay with his uncle Starr. Desperate to get away, Innis starts to grow a secret cash crop of marijuana and looks for a car to steal. When Starr's girlfriend comes to stay while fleeing another relationship, a bitter jealous rivalry begins to rage between the two men that leads ultimately to violence. 2000.Anne of the island: an Anne of Green Gables story (Anne of Green Gables. #3.)
Par L. M Montgomery. 1962
Anne's world is changing -- childhood friends are marrying and Anne herself leaves P.E.I. for college. She hopes for love,…
but it seems to elude her. Sequel to "Anne of Avonlea" (DC14239). Followed by "Anne's house of dreams" (DC00862). Grades 5-8. 1962. 1915. (Anne of Green Gables ; 3)Alligator: A Novel
Par Lisa Moore. 2005
Intertwined characters knowingly, and even wilfully, place themselves in danger. Colleen watches violent videos, tries her hand at eco-terrorism, and…
finally runs away to find alligators in Louisiana. Madeleine, her aunt, scrambles to finish a movie while ignoring her failing health. And Frank, a 19-year-old still reeling from his mother's death, obsesses over Colleen and finds himself intertwined with Valentin, a bloodthirsty Russian gangster. Some descriptions of sex, violence, and strong language. 2005.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.Make or Break Spring
Par Janet McNaughton. 1998
In the spring of 1945, fifteen-year-old Evelyn McCallum finds herself competing with her best friend, Peter Tilley, and Stan Dawe,…
the golden boy of her school, for the scholarship that bears her father's name. Although he has been missing in action for three years Evelyn clings to the hope that her father might somehow still be alive. As the war ends in Europe and her final year of high school draws to a close, her life alters in ways that will change her forever. Sequel to "Catch me once, catch me twice" (EB67373). Junior and Senior high school readers. 1998.Curse of the Red Cross ring
Par Earl B Pilgrim. 2000
Set in Newfoundland in 1929, Azariah Roberts is a successful fisherman and a respected father figure to the people in…
his town. There is nothing he wouldn't do for his people; when there is trouble, Uncle Az, which is known to his friends, could always set things right. But after he and his men unearth the long-dead remains of a Viking warrior, all that is about to change. 2000.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.