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The boat people
Par Sharon Bala. 2018
When a rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody civil war reaches Vancouver's…
shores, the young father thinks he and his six-year-old son can finally start a new life. Instead, the group is thrown into a detention processing center, with government officials and news headlines speculating that among the "boat people" are members of a separatist militant organization responsible for countless suicide attacks--and that these terrorists now pose a threat to Canada's national security. As the refugees become subject to heavy interrogation, Mahindan begins to fear that a desperate act taken in Sri Lanka to fund their escape may now jeopardize his and his son's chance for asylum. Canada Reads 2018. Bestseller. 2018.The book of ifs and buts: stories (Vintage tales)
Par Rabindranath Maharaj. 2002
Nine stories that mainly deal with the experiences of ethnically Indian Trinidadian men who have immigrated to Canada. In "Swami…
Pankaj", a Trinidadian master farmer, who wishes nothing more than to retire to the Himalayas and become a mystic, leads a strange second life as a Brampton taxi driver. "The House in Lengua Village" concerns a schoolteacher who returns home, only to unexpectedly officiate at his father's funeral. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2002.The butterfly ward
Par Margaret Gibson. 1976
Collection of compassionate short stories by an award-winning Canadian writer. Delves into the personalities of those who are considered "insane"…
by those of us who consider ourselves "normal." Gibson attempts to show that one person's so-called madness us another person's reality. Some strong language. 1976.The Blythes are quoted
Par L. M Montgomery. 2009
Adultery, illegitimacy, misogyny, revenge, murder, despair, bitterness, hatred, and death - usually not the terms associated with L.M. Montgomery. In…
this her last work, Montgomery brought these topics to the forefront, in stories featuring a grown up Anne and her family around the time of the First World War. 2009.The Brer Rabbit book
Par Enid Blyton. 1963
The book of laughter and forgetting
Par Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim. 1982
Many of the characters in this collection of stories are obsessed with the past. It's all too easy in Czechoslovakia…
for the Communist Party machine to erase a person from the records leaving only the files of the secret police as a hidden immortality. As one character says: "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting". Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. 1982.The book of sand (Modern Classics Ser.)
Par Jorge Luis Borges, Alastair Reid, Norman Thomas Di Giovanni. 1979
All these stories were written in the author's seventies. "Blind man's exercises", he calls them, but although increasing blindness has…
given his writings a deeper sadness, his way of conjuring with images is as potent as ever. 1979.The book of negroes
Par Lawrence Hill. 2007
Abducted as an 11-year-old child from her village in West Africa, Aminata Diallo is sent to live as a slave…
in South Carolina. Years later, she forges her way to freedom, serving the British in the Revolutionary War and registering her name in the historic "Book of Negroes", a record of freed Loyalist slaves who resettled in Nova Scotia, only to find that the haven they sought was steeped in an oppression all its own. Some descriptions of sex and violence. Winner of the 2008 OLA Evergreen Award. Winner of Canada Reads 2009. Also known as "Someone knows my name". Bestseller. 2007.Sous la jupe: [nouvelles]
Par Danièle Vallée, Suzon Demers. 2013
Né du désir de l'auteure Danièle Vallée et de l'artiste visuelle Suzon Demers de réaliser un projet ensemble, "Sous la…
jupe" est un livre qui veut susciter un double plaisir, littéraire et visuel. S’inspirant de quatorze peintures de Demers ayant pour sujet des personnages féminins, Vallée à écrire quatorze nouvelles donnant vie à ces personnages. 2013.The blue Camaro
Par R. P MacIntyre. 1994
The black monk and other stories
Par Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. 1994
The black madonna
Par Doris May Lessing. 1964
The blondes
Par Emily Schultz. 2012
New York in under attack! Random but deadly attacks, all by women with light hair, have begun terrorizing the city's…
inhabitants. As the days pass, it becomes clear that the attacks are symptoms of a strange contagion that is transforming blondes from all walks of life into rabid killers. Hazel flees the city and sets out to cross the border into Canada where she will find the one woman who might be able to help her in a world gone awry. c2012.The black widow (Gabriel Allon. #16.)
Par Daniel Silva. 2016
Art restorer, assassin, and spy Gabriel Allon finds himself poised to become the chief of Israel's secret intelligence service, but…
not before answering the French government's request to eliminate the person responsible for detonating a massive bomb in Paris. Sequel to "The English spy", followed by "House of spies". Bestseller. 2016.Stornaway: l'âge du bois
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.Tante Anna (Collection Témoignage)
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.Tempête sur la Caniapiscau (Ethnos ; #3)
Par Diane Bergeron. 2006
Qajack est un jeune Inuk de 15 ans très attaché à son coin de pays et aux coutumes ancestrales. Quand…
une tempête s'abat sur la rivière Caniapiscau, Qajack devra puiser dans les enseignements de son grand-père pour aider sa communauté à rétablir le fragile équilibre naturel le long du cours d'eau obstrué de barrages. Quelques descriptions de violence. Pour les lecteurs d'école secondaire. 2006.Sortie 21: roman (Collection Littérature d'Amérique)
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.Sur le fil: [nouvelle]s
Par Maude Déry. 2013
" Composé de quinze nouvelles articulées autour du thème de la perte (perte de l'être aimé, d'un parent, d'un enfant,…
de sa motricité, de sa beauté, etc.), Sur le fil met en scène des personnages aux prises avec les tourments de la vie. Des hommes et des femmes aux destins brisés se débattent avec leur souffrance ; seuls certains parviendront à trouver la force de se relever. " -- 4e de couv.