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Par Daniel Pennac. 2007
La question de l'école est abordée du point de vue du mauvais élève, mêlant souvenirs autobiographiques et réflexions sur la…
pédagogie et les dysfonctionnements de l'institution scolaire, sur le rôle des parents et le souhait des jeunes de savoir et d'apprendre. Prix Renaudot 2007.Par Jean-Simon DesRochers. 2011
Début janvier. À la tombée du jour, sur une route provinciale, la poudrerie gêne la visibilité. Emportés par une rafale,…
une dizaine de véhicules entrent en collision. Le spectaculaire carambolage qui s'ensuit plonge ses victimes dans l'air glacial. Treize solitudes regardent s'écouler les minutes dans cet étrange sablier où ils sont tombés. Militaire, étudiant, masseuse, peintre, ministre, fillette, ingénieur, camionneur : ils ressemblent à un peu tout le monde et viennent d'un peu partout, sans lien apparent sinon cet accident, aussi brutal qu'imprévisible. Certains en mourront, quelques-uns en sortiront brisés, d'autres tenteront de reprendre en main leur existence. Aucun n'aura vécu ce carambolage sans y avoir laissé ou reconquis une part de lui-même.Par Lyonel Trouillot. 2006
2004. Port-au-Prince, année du bicentenaire de l'indépendance d'Haïti. Un jeune homme, victime de l'intervention policière chargée d'assurer l'ordre, trouve la…
mort en se joignant à une manifestation organisée par les étudiantsPar Stefan Zweig. 2012
En 1913, dans une ville de garnison autrichienne, Anton Hofmiller, jeune officier de cavalerie, reçu au château du très riche…
Kekesfalva, invite par erreur Edith, la fille de son hôte qui est paralysée, à danser. Pour réparer cette maladresse, il multiplie les attentions que la jeune fille interprète comme les signes d'un amour naissant.Par Anne Michaels. 2023
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERA breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling author of Fugitive Pieces and…
The Winter Vault.1917. On a battlefield near the River Aisne, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory—a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night, his childhood on a faraway coast—as the snow falls.1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near another river—alive, but not whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and endeavours to keep on living. But the past erupts insistently into the present, as ghosts begin to surface in his pictures: ghosts whose messages he cannot understand. So begins a narrative that spans four generations, moments of connection and consequence igniting and re-igniting as the century unfolds. In luminous moments of desire, comprehension, longing, and transcendence, the sparks fly upward, working their transformations decades later. This resonance through time—not only of actions but also of feelings and perceptions—desire in its many forms—are at the heart of this novel’s profound investigation. Held is a deeply affecting and intensely beautiful novel, full of unforgettable characters and imagery, wisdom and compassion. It explores the deepest mysteries, and the ways in which desire in its many forms—and perhaps the deepest desire, to find meaning—manifests itself. Held moves through history to light upon Darwin, Sir Ernest Rutherford, North Sea ganseys, early photography, Ella Mary Leather, modern field hospitals…while lovers find each other and snow drifts down across the centuries. From the WW1 battlefield where the novel begins, and its opening lines, Held is alive with seeking: "We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?”Par Sheila Heti. 2024
Sheila Heti collected 500,000 words from a decade's worth of journals, put the sentences in a spreadsheet, and sorted them…
alphabetically. She cut and cut and was left with 60,000 words of brilliance and mayhem, joy and sorrow. These are her alphabetical diaries.Par Dimitri Nasrallah. 2023
Par Darren Greer. 2014
In the small town of North River, every day that goes by bleeds into the next. Poverty begets hopelessness, hopelessness…
breeds violence, violence causes despair. The only way to change fate, a minister tells his son, is to leave. The minister’s son, Jake MacNeil, chooses to ignore his father’s advice. Only when he realizes what has become of his life — working a grueling dead-end job, living with a drunk, friends with a murderer — does he decide to make something of himself. But nothing comes without a cost: in choosing freedom, Jake abandons his own son, Nathan, to the care of the boy’s abusive mother. Years later, a reformed Jake comes back for Nathan, to finally set things right. But in North River, everything comes around again; and when a dangerous figure from the past becomes hell-bent on dragging the new Jake “back down where he belongs”, three generations of MacNeil men must come together to pay the full price of hope. Gritty, unrelenting, yet peppered with Darren Greer’s trademark poignance, Just Beneath My Skin is the work of an author at the height of his game.Par Carol Windley. 2006
From the acclaimed author of Visible Light comes a collection of seven outstanding stories, each set against the rural landscape…
of Vancouver Island and the cities of the Pacific Northwest. In these stories the memories and dreams of characters are examined, revealing them to be both cages and keys to the cages. The life lessons learned by the characters are often as complicated and painful as they are illuminating. In the title story, two sisters fall in love with their math tutor on one of the Gulf Islands, inhabited equally by the ghosts of the misfits and Hollywood stars who came to live there, and the children of an alternative school, run by the girls’ criminally optimistic father. In “Sand and Frost,” a young girl drops out of UBC, returns home, and discovers that her domineering grandmother is the sole survivor of a shocking act of family violence. In “What Saffi Knows,” a child, unable to explain to her self-involved parents, struggles with the knowledge of the whereabouts of another missing child. In these remarkable seven stories, Carol Windley creates a sense of place and of people that breathe the cool wet air of a spring morning on Gabriola Island.Par Shashi Bhat. 2013
When Mira Acharya’s father dies, the challenges facing her Indo-Canadian family become that much more daunting. Ravi, her autistic older…
brother, requires special care but longs to be just like other children. Their mother must work full time to keep a roof over their heads and still make time to be a parent to an over-achiever and a developmentally challenged child. As much as Mira loves her mother and brother, she resents the situations in which living with them places her. It is only when Mira is older that she realizes a truth she has been missing all along: though her family’s experience may be unusual, what holds them together – has always held them together – is universal. Shashi Bhat’s debut novel, The Family Took Shape, is a touching, hilarious, and endearingly honest story about one unique family’s search for happiness in Canadian suburbia.Par Peter Unwin. 2013
In Life Without Death, the latest short story collection from Peter Unwin, ordinary men and women search for meaning in…
lives subject to change, chance, coincidence, and catastrophe. A man recalls a lifetime of love and loss while copying contacts out of his old little black book. A woman is left her dying father's secret stash of pornography, and is entrusted with the unenviable task of disposing of it. A new father unexpectedly discovers a way of connecting to his autistic son. For one day, guests to a wedding set aside their various past misdeeds in order to celebrate a young couple's union. A teenager newly introduced to a life of petty crime suddenly finds himself in way over his head. A man's former acquaintance resurfaces decades later as the subject of a haunting art film. Unwin's characters live full, complex lives within each story. Though they may not find the simple answers they seek, if such answers even exist, they-and readers-gain something farmore valuable on their journeys: perspective.Par Susan Doherty Hannaford. 2015
Word Guild Award for Best Young Adult fiction 2016 Grace Irwin Award 2016 Literary Classics silver medal for Y/A fiction…
2016 Shortlisted for the Frank Hegyi Award-Ottawa Independent Writers Literary Classics silver medal for High school fiction 2017 Set in 1936 Montreal, A Secret Music is the story of Lawrence Nolan, a sensitive fifteen-year-old piano prodigy who grows up in the shadow of his mother’s mental illness. Forced to keep this shameful secret, he attempts to raise himself and his ten year old brother. He counteracts the deep ache and creeping mistrust caused by his mother’s emotional absence by escaping into the intense realm of Chopin and Schubert, the only language he understands. When his brother becomes ill, he is left with enormous responsibilities. At a piano competition in Montreal, Lawrence makes a climactic decision that puts his future on hold in order to salvage his family life. In A Secret Music, Susan Doherty Hannaford re-creates the Depression-Era world of Montreal and demonstrates how music can redeem a life.Par Mary Rose Donnelly. 2011
Retired schoolteacher Flossy O’Reilly has spent almost all of her eight decades in the seaside community of Great Village, Nova…
Scotia. It is now a quiet Maritime village: where relationships between friends and family move at the pace of the tides; where there is no rush because, sooner or later, everyone finds out what they need to know with a trip to the general store. When Ruth, the teenaged granddaughter of an old friend, arrives from Ontario for a three-week stay, time suddenly catches up with Great Village. As Flossy watches the sometimes tactless young woman grow into her own, she begins to question whether maintaining the calm surface of her life was worth keeping secrets from and about those closest to her — or if everyone could benefit from a little more candour. With grace, patience, and wisdom, Mary Rose Donnelly paints a rich portrait of life in small-town Nova Scotia, and of relationships as charming as they are complex.Par Aaron Bushkowsky. 2014
Alex is a playwright suffering from writer’s block and harsh reviews. His best friend, Roy, is a theatre director with…
lung cancer and six months left to live. In pursuit of fresh air and great wine, they go on a road trip to the Okanagan Valley, where Roy rediscovers his passion for theatre. But when he decides to stage a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at a winery, disaster ensues: the woman cast in the lead is the winery owner’s wife and has no talent; wildfires encroach upon the surrounding forest; and Roy slips closer to death, one cigarette at a time. Curtains for Roy is a hilarious peek into the world of theatre, where the greatest drama is offstage and the best performances take place behind the curtain.Par Ann Sei Lin. 2024
Ann Sei Lin's enchanting and action-packed debut, first in a series, will sweep readers away to an aerial world of…
magic, danger and political intrigue. Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Lim, Kalynn Bayron and the films of Studio Ghibli.Kurara has never known any other life than being a servant onboard the Midori, a flying ship serving the military elite of the Mikoshiman Empire, a vast realm of floating cities. Kurara also has a secret — she can make folded paper figures come to life with a flick of her finger. But when the Midori is attacked and Kurara's secret turns out to be a power treasured across the empire, a gut-wrenching escape leads her to the gruff Himura, who takes her under his wing. Under Himura's tutelage, and with the grudging support and friendship of his crew, Kurara learns to hunt shikigami — wild paper spirits sought after by the Princess of Mikoshima.But what does the princess really want with the shikigami? Are they merely enchanted figures without will or thought, or are they beings with souls and minds of their own? As fractures begin to appear both across the empire and within Kurara's understanding of herself, Kurara will have to decide who she can trust. Her fate, and the fate of her friends — and even the world — may rest on her choice. And time is running out.Par Dimitri Nasrallah. 2022
This ePUB was produced through the Literary Image Description group’s “eBooks for Everyone” project and is the One eRead Canada…
selection for 2024. "A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration. It’s 1986, and after four months of unemployment Muna Heddad is in a bind. She and her son have moved to Montreal from Beirut to escape a never-ending civil war. She had plans to find work as a French teacher, but no one in Quebec has confidence in a new arrival like her to teach the language. She needs to start making money, and fast. The only work Muna can find is at a weight-loss center where she gets a job as a hotline operator. All day, she takes calls from people responding to ads seen in magazines or on TV. On the phone, she’s Mona, and she’s quite good at listening. These strangers all have so much to say once someone shows interest in their lives--marriages gone bad, parents dying, isolation, personal inadequacies. Even as her daily life in Canada is filled with invisible barriers at every turn, at the office Muna is privy to her clients’ deepest secrets. Much to her surprise, Muna finds that she is actually becoming successful at selling diet plans. Even though she’s pretending to be someone else, her natural empathy can’t help but shine when listening to the confidential tribulations of people who, elsewhere in life, wouldn’t sit with her for lunch or offer her a job. Following international acclaim for Niko (2011) and The Bleeds (2018), Dimitri Nasrallah has written a vivid love letter to the 1980s, bringing this era of Montreal into the current moment through his deeply endearing portrait of Muna Heddad’s struggle."Par Caroline Fernandez. 2022
A CCBC Best Books for Kids and Teens pick!Asha and Baz have a paper rocket to launch! Whoever builds the…
rocket that travels the farthest will get to meet astronaut Chris Hadfield. The only problem is Asha and Baz don’t know how to power their rocket. Stuck and unsure, the kids brainstorm by drawing a rocket in the sand using a stick. But this is a very unusual stick. In fact, it’s a magic stick! And it transports them back in time to meet a person who might be able to help them with their rocket problem: scientist Mary Sherman Morgan.Par Victor Dixen. 2020
Cuando cae, la noche la Corte despierta... La Corte de las Tinieblas es la primera entrega de «Vampyria», la serie…
de fantasía barroca que arrasa en todo el mundo. Año 1715. El Rey Sol se transmutó en vampyro y, de esta forma, se convirtió en El Rey de las Tinieblas. Desde entonces, ha estado reinando como un déspota absoluto sobre Vampyria, una coalición de territorios que incluye Francia y sus reinos vasallos y que viven bajo una edad oscura. Sobre la población se imponen una serie de leyes que hacen que ésta viva en un terror perpetuo, siendo literalmente desangrados para así alimentar a la aristocracia vampýrica.Tres siglos más tarde. Acusada de conspirar contra la corona, la familia de Jeanne es masacrada. Jeanne, como única superviviente, se integra bajo una falsa identidad en la prestigiosa escuela de la Gran Caballeriza, que entrena a jóvenes nobles antes de que ingresen en la Corte de las Tinieblas. Jeanne tiene un único objetivo: la venganza. Pero entre los muertos vivientes de Versalles, existen traiciones de los otros aspirantes a escuderos y conspiraciones de los rebeldes que actúan en la sombra. ¿Podrá Jeanne sobrevivir el tiempo suficiente para cumplir su misión? Reseñas:«Con un ritmo demoledor, «Vampyria» es una lectura fascinante y hechizante».France Info «Victor Dixen transforma al Rey Sol en un vampiro inmortal. Todo un logro».Le Figaro «Vibramos con Jeanne y solo tenemos un deseo; pasar las páginas una y otra vez.»20 minutes «Una novela cautivadora, formidablemente efectiva, para devorar.»RTL«Un libro de vampiros como nunca he disfrutado. Combina elementos clásicos con toques originales que hacen de esta obra, una de mis favoritas.»Greywindbooks «Sin duda se convierte en mi mejor lectura del año y de mis favoritas de la vida.»La reflexionista de libros«Tiene todos los ingredientes para ser un bombazo. Sangre en un ambiente gótico y francés, amistad y traición, intrigas palaciegas, personajes peculiares, asaltos y asesinatos, secretos y mentiras...»Blackrose_val«Una novela oscura, atrapante y escalofriante en ciertos puntos, como un Hogwarts siniestro, en la que estás deseando saber en todo momento qué le depara a Jeanne.»Nira love books «Un libro de fantasía oscura.Me ha gustado mucho porque no es el típico libro de vampiros, sino que va más allá de eso.»Los libros de Juliet «Un gran comienzo de saga, resulta adictivo desde el primer momento, lleno de acción, sorpresas y emoción, y tanto la ambientación como la trama son una pasada.»Fiebre lectora «Las intrigas de palacio me han enamorado y es que no hay nada como una buena puñalada por la espalda, una traición, mentiras bien elaboradas y personajes bastante curiosos.»Libronteli«Tiene una ambientación muy buena, se nota todo el trabajo que hay por detrás de documentación e investigación.»Maittepuntobooks «Dixen crea un mundo vampírico con el concepto de vampiro clásico pero también con ideas nuevas interesantes en este tipo de literatura.»Magiceverywhere_books«Un buen inicio de serie, con una historia que engancha desde la primera página.» Andrea_books_butterfly «Vampyria promete ser una saga larga con un universo propio rico y original que saca brillo a las clásicas historias de vampiros y les devuelve un lustre más que convincente.»Blog La CopelaPar Neil Gaiman. 2006
Cuentos y relatos breves en los que Gaiman nos regala un nuevo punto de vista sobre el mundo. Este extraordinario…
libro nos sumerge en el universo particular de Neil Gaiman: tierno, gótico, infantil, fantástico, cargado de un oscuro sentido del humor y, sobre todo, de una imaginación fuera de lo común y un talento que lo convierten en un escritor excepcional.Los meses, convertiros en personajes que hablan y se relacionan, intercambian opiniones en su reunión anual; un hombre medio devorado nos habla de cómo se hizo amigo de su querido caníbal; incluso Sherezade, la mayor contadora de historias de todos los tiempos, recibe un homenaje. Un misterioso circo que aterroriza al público con su asombrosa actuación antes de desaparecer en mitad de la noche y llevarse a una espectadora con ellos; en una Inglaterra victoriana un tanto extraña, Sherlock Holmes y su inseparable ayudante deben resolver el asesinato de un miembro de la familia real; los miembros de un exclusivo club epicúreo, hastiados ya de haber probado todo lo imaginable, se van a Egipto para degustar el mítico pájaro del Sol, sin imaginar siquiera las consecuencias que traerá tamaño atrevimiento... Reseñas:«Un compendio precioso. Neil Gaiman es un Tesoro nacional.»Washington Post Book World «Las historias de Objetos frágiles son una pequeña muestra del talento y de la maravillosa imaginación de Gaiman.»USA TodayPar Ann Aguirre. 2023
From New York Times bestselling author Ann Aguirre comes the magical town of St. Claire, where anything is possible…Iris Collins…
is the messy one in her family. The "chaos bunny." Her sisters are all wildly successful, while she can't balance her budget for a single month. It's no wonder she's in debt to her roommates. When she unexpectedly inherits a house from her great aunt, her plan to turn it into a B&B fails—as most of her plans do. She winds up renting rooms like a Victorian spinster, collecting other lost souls...and not all of them are "human." Eli Reese grew up as the nerdy outcast in school, but he got rich designing apps. Now he's successful by any standards. But he's never had the same luck in finding a real community or people who understand him. Over the years, he's never forgotten his first crush, so when he spots her at a café, he takes it as a sign. Except then he gets sucked into the Iris-verse and somehow ends up renting one of her B&B rooms. As the days pass, Eli grows enchanted by the misfit boarders staying in the house…and even more so by Iris. Could Eli have finally found a person and a place to call "home"?