Living with her mole-obsessed, gun-happy father on a farm, Sally has her work cut out. But with the love of local farm boy Johnny Hutchins, life can be full of frolics. Devon Girl is a light-...
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Author: Burrow, ZalieSummary:Genre: General fiction
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Author: Burke, MartynSummary:
"According to what we've been told, the source of all knowledge is somewhere just south of Sunset Boulevard. The problem is that Danny has lost the address." So begins Martyn Burke's tragi-comic...
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Author: Quiviger, PascaleSummary:
Marianne, a young Montrealer, has come to live in Tuscany to draw and write and examine her life. Here she meets Marco, a temptingly seductive man who still lives in his mother's house and who's...
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Author: Smith, Michael V.Summary:
In a small working-class town, the building of a new dam uproots everyone and everything including the graveyard and those who rest beneath it.
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Author: Cavenne, AlainSummary:
« Les gens sont bien plus caves qu’à plaindre. Il ne leur vient même pas un début de soupçon qu’ils se font bourrer. Un bon jour, il va bien falloir que quelqu’un fasse quelque chose ! […] La vie...
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Author: Garner, Hugh, Harris, Amy LavenderSummary:
This story with its shocking expose of social evils, holds a forceful message for both sexes. Its strange mixture of power, tension and torment mark it as a human story that will thrill and grip...
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Author: Morissette, GuillaumeSummary:
Set in Montreal, New Tab spans a year in the life of a twenty-six year old videogame designer as he attempts to reset his life, in the process chronicling with humor disillusion, boredom, self-...
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Author: Bouchet, David, Holden Rothman, ClaireSummary:
Twelve-year-old Souleye has just immigrated to Montreal from Senegal with his family. He wants to become “from here” as quickly as possible, but Canada and Senegal prove to be two completely...
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Author: Kowalski, WilliamSummary:
Walter Davis is young, handsome, intelligent, dynamic and personable. The product of a bi-racial marriage but abandoned by his father as a young child, he prides himself on three things: his drive...
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Author: McCall, NathanSummary:
Barlowe, an African American in his forties, rents a ramshackle house in Atlanta's old Fourth Ward. When a white couple buys and renovates the house next door, fear and suspicion build as the...
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Author: Galchen, RivkaSummary:
When Dr. Leo Liebenstein's wife disappears, she leaves behind a single clue: a woman who looks, talks, and behaves almost exactly like her. While everyone else is fooled by this imposter, Leo...
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Author: Bolaño, RobertoSummary:
An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of young factory workers have disappeared.
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Author: Stegner, WallaceSummary:
A retired literary agent revisits his journals from a trip he took to his mother's birthplace some years before. His memories reveal that he has been less of a mere spectator through life than he...
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Author: Hoffman, AliceSummary:
Rae, young, unmarried, and far from home, awaits the birth of her first child. Lila, a fortune-teller with no interest in the future, lost her own daughter many years earlier. When these two women...
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Author: Duhaime, GérardSummary:
Willie, le garçon à l’anorak, s’est enfermé dans le mutisme, loin des adultes qui l’ont trahi. Entre les bosquets et les ruisseaux de la toundra, tandis que se joue en silence le sort de la terre...