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Swastika
Par Michael Slade. 2005
When an allied raid forces SS General Streicher to abandon his V-2 rocket factory, it sets in motion a monstrous…
conspiracy that still lies hidden today. In present day Vancouver, the RCMP's Special X squad is on the hunt for a pair of Nazi-inspired killers. The cat and mouse game moves between wartime Germany and the manhunt in Vancouver. 2005.From the age of eight, Roberta Bondar knew she wanted to be an astronaut. In January 1992 she made Canadian…
history when she became the first Canadian woman, and first neurologist, to go into space on board Discovery. The story of her journey to become a leading astronaut is a fascinating tale of dedication, commitment, and courage. Grades 4-7. 2004.Easy money (Good reads)
Par Gail E Vaz-Oxlade. 2010
The author will show you how to make your money work for you. Budgeting, saving, and getting your debt paid…
off have never been so easy to understand or to do. 2010.Frybread
Par Ferguson Plain. 2003
Dakota's friends had never seen frybread before, so Dakota explains how it is made. Frybread, scone, bannock, or gullet -…
there are as many ways to call it as there is to make it. 2003.In the line of duty: stories of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Par Gladys E. Neale. 1997
Frybread
Par Ferguson Plain. 2003
Dakota's friends had never seen frybread before, so Dakota explains how it is made. Frybread, scone, bannock, or gullet -…
there are as many ways to call it as there is to make it. Grades 2-4 and older readers. 2003.Les vacances d'été sannoncent comme un long fleuve tranquille à Sainte-Mathilde-du-Grand-Repos, minuscule village reclus où il n'y a justement pas…
grand-chose d'autre à faire que de se reposer. Annabelle, Jerry-Mini et Alexis s'attendent à se tourner les pouces, jusqu'à ce que leur quotidien soit plongé en plein délire de science-fiction. Tout bascule avec l'arrivée d'une énorme patate velue. Autant dire qu'une légume naura jamais fait autant de ravage, et que l'avenir du village repose désormais sur les épaules de trois jeunes bien ordinairesLac Adélard (Noire)
Par François Blais. 2019
Le lac Adélard a toujours eu la réputation d'être hanté. Certains prétendent y avoir aperçu une étrange fillette portant une…
cage d'oiseau. D'autres y auraient vu une jeune femme couverte de sang. Élie ne sait pas trop s'il doit croire ces histoires. Ce qu'il sait, en revanche, c'est qu'une petite balade en quatre roues près du lac est un excellent prétexte pour inviter la belle Anna. Il est loin d'imaginer que cette expédition leur permettra de découvrir une partie de l'horrible histoire que cache cet endroit à la réputation inquiétanteLes aventures du Trench: 1 Les brigadiers du temps
Par Mathieu Daigneault. 2010
Quelques années après sêtre enfui de chez lui, Éric, un jeune Montréalais téméraire et rebelle, découvre un cadavre au fond…
dune ruelle, un corps calciné vêtu dun manteau bizarrement intact. Sans abri, Éric sapproprie létrange manteau, sans savoir quil sagit en fait dun véhicule extraterrestre qui permet à celui qui le porte de voyager dans le temps.... -- 4e de couvTyranaël: 5 : La mer allée avec le soleil
Par Élisabeth Vonarburg. 1997
Saga de science-fiction. Le cinquième et dernier tome résoud toutes les énigmes. La Terre surpeuplée essaime sur la planète Tyranaël…
où habite un être qui a vu "en rêve" la dramatique arrivée des Etrangers. L'auteure qui sait combiner le "réalisme de la science-fiction avec des études de caractère intensément dramatiques" (The Montreal Downtowner) jouit d'une réputation des plus enviables tant dans le monde francophone qu'anglophone. La critique souligne également sa capacité à concilier le sérieux, le luxuriant et le poétiqueLe poids des illusions
Par Maxime Houde. 2008
"La mort de Kathryn, sa femme, a plongé Stan Coveleski dans une terrible dépression. Il a beau vouloir donner le…
change à Emma, sa secrétaire voit bien que son patron a tout abandonné... sauf l'alcool ! Certes, il mène un semblant d'enquête pour une cliente pas commode, mais l'affaire se présente mal et le détective récolte surtout des coups sur la tête, gracieuseté entre autres du lieutenant-détective Caron, un ancien collègue qui ne l'a jamais porté dans son coeur. Amoché, sans le sou, Coveleski ne réagit pas au départ d'Emma, qui n'en peut plus, ne se défend pas quand il est de nouveau tabassé par deux voyous, ne proteste pas quand il est évincé de son propre appartement..." -- 4e de couvTyranaël: 3 : Mon frère l'ombre
Par Élisabeth Vonarburg. 1997
Saga de science-fiction. Le cinquième et dernier tome résoud toutes les énigmes. La Terre surpeuplée essaime sur la planète Tyranaël…
où habite un être qui a vu "en rêve" la dramatique arrivée des Etrangers. L'auteure qui sait combiner le "réalisme de la science-fiction avec des études de caractère intensément dramatiques" (The Montreal Downtowner) jouit d'une réputation des plus enviables tant dans le monde francophone qu'anglophone. La critique souligne également sa capacité à concilier le sérieux, le luxuriant et le poétique. [SDMTyranaël: 2 : Le jeu de la perfection
Par Élisabeth Vonarburg. 1996
Saga de science-fiction. Le cinquième et dernier tome résoud toutes les énigmes. La Terre surpeuplée essaime sur la planète Tyranaël…
où habite un être qui a vu "en rêve" la dramatique arrivée des Etrangers. L'auteure qui sait combiner le "réalisme de la science-fiction avec des études de caractère intensément dramatiques" (The Montreal Downtowner) jouit d'une réputation des plus enviables tant dans le monde francophone qu'anglophone. La critique souligne également sa capacité à concilier le sérieux, le luxuriant et le poétique. [SDMMilitant: 2, Nouvel ordre
Par Dïana Bélice. 2023
2042. Le sort de l'humanité est en jeu. Le véritable objectif de Paul Montès est révélé au grand jour. Et…
c'est bien pire que tout ce qu'aurait pu imaginer Mathis. Alors que le jeune militant prend conscience que son ennemi ne reculera devant rien, il perd tranquillement pied. La bataille qu'il doit mener pèse lourd sur ses épaules. Malgré la pression, réussira-t-il à garder la tête froide ? À vaincre une fois pour toutes ses adversaires ? À sauver la planète Terre ? Et si l'alliance avec Tokhe n'était pas suffisante pour y arriver ?Saltsea
Par David Helwig. 2006
A lovely, meditative novel, a story about memory, and about how what once was continues to affect what is and…
what will be. It is the story of a place -- a hotel on the shores of Prince Edward Island, of the family that used to own it, and the people who have been its caretakers.Entry Island: Winner of the ITV Specsavers Best Crime Thriller Read of the Year
Par Peter May. 2013
WINNER: DEANSTON SCOTTISH CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014WINNER: ITV SPECSAVERS CRIME THRILLER BOOK CLUB BEST READ OF THE YEAR…
2014'A wonderfully complex book' PETER JAMESA detective is haunted by the feeling he knows his murder suspect - despite the fact they have never met.IF YOU FLEE FATE... When Detective Sime Mackenzie is sent from Montreal to investigate a murder on the remote Entry Island, 850 miles from the Canadian mainland, he leaves behind him a life of sleeplessness and regret. FATE WILL FIND YOU... But what had initially seemed an open-and-shut case takes on a disturbing dimension when he meets the prime suspect, the victim's wife, and is convinced that he knows her - even though they have never met. And when his insomnia becomes punctuated by dreams of a distant Scottish past in another century, this murder in the Gulf of St. Lawrence leads him down a path he could never have foreseen, forcing him to face a conflict between his professional duty and his personal destiny.LOVED ENTRY ISLAND? Read the first book in Peter May's acclaimed China thrillers series, THE FIREMAKERLOVE PETER MAY? Buy his new thriller, A SILENT DEATHEntry Island: An edge-of-your-seat thriller you won't soon forget
Par Peter May. 2013
WINNER: DEANSTON SCOTTISH CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014WINNER: ITV SPECSAVERS CRIME THRILLER BOOK CLUB BEST READ OF THE YEAR…
2014'A wonderfully complex book' PETER JAMESA detective is haunted by the feeling he knows his murder suspect - despite the fact they have never met.IF YOU FLEE FATE... When Detective Sime Mackenzie is sent from Montreal to investigate a murder on the remote Entry Island, 850 miles from the Canadian mainland, he leaves behind him a life of sleeplessness and regret. FATE WILL FIND YOU... But what had initially seemed an open-and-shut case takes on a disturbing dimension when he meets the prime suspect, the victim's wife, and is convinced that he knows her - even though they have never met. And when his insomnia becomes punctuated by dreams of a distant Scottish past in another century, this murder in the Gulf of St. Lawrence leads him down a path he could never have foreseen, forcing him to face a conflict between his professional duty and his personal destiny.LOVED ENTRY ISLAND? Read the first book in Peter May's acclaimed China thrillers series, THE FIREMAKERLOVE PETER MAY? Buy his new thriller, A SILENT DEATH(P)2013 Quercus Publishing LtdRoar Back (The Émile Cinq-Mars Thrillers #8)
Par John Farrow. 2020
"Remarkable stuff. Fans of Bill James' Harpur and Iles saga of cops and robbers are in for quite a treat"…
- Kirkus Reviews Starred ReviewSergeant-Detective Émile Cinq-Mars fails with a task set to him by his former captain and the consequences look set to spark a gangland war in Montreal.Montreal, 1978. Newly promoted Sergeant-Detective Émile Cinq-Mars attends the scene of seventeen break-ins at an apartment complex. Nothing more than stolen toasters. Cinq-Mars suspects that the burglaries are a trial run for a bigger heist . . . until he discovers a body pinned to a wall with a machete in one apartment. When the former captain of Night Patrol, Armand Touton, receives a tip from an undercover informant in the Mafia, Cinq-Mars is ordered to intervene with a prisoner's release: the man must stay behind bars. He fails with the task and the immediate consequences are devastating. While trying to remedy his failure, solve the mystery of the break-ins and the case of the dead body, a chilling aspect emerges . . . gangland Montreal is bracing for war.Entry Island: Winner of the ITV Specsavers Best Crime Thriller Read of the Year
Par Peter May. 2014
WINNER: DEANSTON SCOTTISH CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014WINNER: ITV SPECSAVERS CRIME THRILLER BOOK CLUB BEST READ OF THE YEAR…
2014'A wonderfully complex book' PETER JAMESA detective is haunted by the feeling he knows his murder suspect - despite the fact they have never met.IF YOU FLEE FATE... When Detective Sime Mackenzie is sent from Montreal to investigate a murder on the remote Entry Island, 850 miles from the Canadian mainland, he leaves behind him a life of sleeplessness and regret. FATE WILL FIND YOU... But what had initially seemed an open-and-shut case takes on a disturbing dimension when he meets the prime suspect, the victim's wife, and is convinced that he knows her - even though they have never met. And when his insomnia becomes punctuated by dreams of a distant Scottish past in another century, this murder in the Gulf of St. Lawrence leads him down a path he could never have foreseen, forcing him to face a conflict between his professional duty and his personal destiny.LOVED ENTRY ISLAND? Read the first book in Peter May's acclaimed China thrillers series, THE FIREMAKERLOVE PETER MAY? Buy his new thriller, A SILENT DEATHEntry Island: Winner of the ITV Specsavers Best Crime Thriller Read of the Year
Par Peter May. 2014
WINNER: DEANSTON SCOTTISH CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014WINNER: ITV SPECSAVERS CRIME THRILLER BOOK CLUB BEST READ OF THE YEAR…
2014'A wonderfully complex book' PETER JAMESA detective is haunted by the feeling he knows his murder suspect - despite the fact they have never met.IF YOU FLEE FATE...When Detective Sime Mackenzie is sent from Montreal to investigate a murder on the remote Entry Island, 850 miles from the Canadian mainland, he leaves behind him a life of sleeplessness and regret. FATE WILL FIND YOU...But what had initially seemed an open-and-shut case takes on a disturbing dimension when he meets the prime suspect, the victim's wife, and is convinced that he knows her - even though they have never met. And when his insomnia becomes punctuated by dreams of a distant Scottish past in another century, this murder in the Gulf of St. Lawrence leads him down a path he could never have foreseen, forcing him to face a conflict between his professional duty and his personal destiny.LOVED ENTRY ISLAND? Read the first book in Peter May's acclaimed China thrillers series, THE FIREMAKERLOVE PETER MAY? Buy his new thriller, A SILENT DEATH