C’est fou ce que les gens peuvent perdre : des papiers, des bijoux, de l’argent ; les cheveux, les dents, la vue ; les illusions, l’espoir, la vie ; leur identité… Quand Hélène Heden réalise qu’elle n’a vraiment plus rien à perdre, elle...
Canadian fiction
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Auteur:West, MartinSommaire:Montaigne Medal Finalist (Eric Hoffer Awards).
The stories in Cretacea and Other Stories from the Badlands mostly take place in hot weather, where dust and sweat envelop everyone and everything. A teenage boy spends a summer with...
- Auteur:West, MartinSommaire:
Montaigne Medal Finalist (Eric Hoffer Awards) - The stories in Cretacea and Other Stories from the Badlands mostly take place in hot weather, where dust and sweat envelop everyone and everything. A teenage boy spends a summer with his...
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Auteur:Balzer, DavidSommaire:This debut collection of stories — featuring a talk-show host and her talking hand, a women’s activity group that writes to prisoners, and a poncho-making nudist — is as unique as it is compelling. Set in their own melodramatic worlds,...
- Auteur:Demers, OlivierSommaire:
Soldats perdus ou révolutionnaires, bourreaux aux prises avec leurs fantômes, érudits complotistes, amoureux transis, tueurs férus de poésie ou passa-gers clandestins, les personnages de ces nouvelles sont emportés puis transformés par...
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Auteur:Savignac, LinaSommaire:Tome 3 Voici Charles, le troisième volet d’une saga familiale. Après avoir fait la connaissance d’Éva, d’Eugénie et de Marguerite, vous avez rencontré Lili, la fille de Marguerite. Maintenant, je suis fière de vous proposer Charles, l’...
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Auteur:Bailey, LindaSommaire:When her sister becomes ill, Annie and her dog Carson set out on a trip across Canada to see her, visiting Saskatchewan, Quebec, and Prince Edward Island on the way.
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Auteur:Rosenbaum, RichardSommaire:In 1995, Canadian novelist and critic Hal Niedviecki started publishing Broken Pencil, a magazine dedicated to the zine scene, the independent and alternative arts community that had been boiling below the surface of Canada’s...
- Auteur:Havrelock, DeidreSommaire:
An exuberant celebration of the Buffalo's return to the wild. Since Declan was born, his kokum has shared her love of Buffalo through stories and art. But Declan longs to see real Buffalo. Then one magical night, herds of the majestic...
- Auteur:Roig, DeniseSommaire:
Brilliant is a collection of short stories set in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, a polyglot city where cultures collide and converge, where money -- and sometimes justice -- is no object, where in less than two...
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Auteur:Reynolds, TomSommaire:A Peeping Tom, a child’s disappearance, a fire, a startling decision and a truth learned too late: these are the elements that make up Break Me, an entertaining and sinister little book. The story is superbly constructed and the...
- Auteur:Hasiuk, BrendaSommaire:
We may be lost but we are never alone. That is the message to be found in Brenda Hasiuk’s new collection of short stories, Boy Lost in Wild. Adrift in unfamiliar surroundings, strangers to the strangers around them, the characters in...
- Auteur:Bechtel, GregSommaire:
Greg Bechtel offers ten charged stories about the impossible-turned-possible secrets, paranoia, sex, conspiracies, and magic that will appeal to fans of Neil Gaiman, China Mieville, Barbara Gowdy, and Jonathan Lethem, and readers of...
- Auteur:Ferguson, JennySommaire:
A fractured depiction of life after a death in a bifurcated Alberta/Saskatchewan community.
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Auteur:Difalco, SamSommaire:Finalist, ReLit Awards (shortlist).
Black Rabbit & Other Stories is a debut collection of great intensity and versatility. The stories range from the fantastic to the gritty, from urban dystopias to worlds of dreamlike...
- Auteur:Scott, MarcSommaire:
Jack Delorme, un détective privé canadien, se voit offrir une enquête par un diplomate à la retraite et sa femme : retrouver leur fillette enlevée sur une plage du Mexique. D'autre part, André Sigouin, policier municipal suspendu pour s...
- Auteur:Addison, Marilou, Guilbault, GenevièveSommaire:
L’été est enfin arrivé ! Le soleil, les petits boulots, la belle vie et surtout, les amours de vacances ! Pour Nadeige, le retour dans son quartier est signe de renouveau, mais aussi de choix difficiles. Retourner au collège, ou rester...
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Auteur:de Nikolits, LisaSommaire:When Joss finds herself having to make mortgage payments without help from her depressed, stoner boyfriend who has just moved out, and the company she works for folds leaving her suddenly unemployed, she is forced to sell her house, on...
- Auteur:Goodman, JoannaSommaire:
When Arabella Slominski Boot catches her loutish husband in bed with her best friend, she packs up, takes her son Kenny and drives to Louisiana to see her mother. Surrounded by eccentric characters, like a Harley-Davidson riding palm...
- Auteur:Kerr, ConorSommaire:
Avenue of Champions is a collection of interlinked stories that investigates the inherent connection of Indigenous peoples to the land and the permanence of culture, language and ceremony as a form of resistance to displacement. Based...
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