Rachel, the mother of the aging professor Thomas Vanderlinden, shared her life with two men. Both went by the name of Rowland Vanderlinden. The first husband went abroad and never returned. The second, whom Rachel also unquestioningly...
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Auteur:Berry, SteveSommaire:A mysterious manuscript discovered in the tomb of Charlemagne sends Cotton Malone on a perilous international quest that takes him and twin sisters with their own agenda from an ancient German cathedral to the harsh, unforgiving world...
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Cotton Malone knows that his father died when his submarine sunk in the north Atlantic in 1971, but not much else. Using his government contacts to discover the details behind his father's demise, he learns that the sub was on a...
- Auteur:Fairbrother, AlisonSommaire:
Twentysomething Ellie thought she was her father's favorite child; she was sure he would leave her his most prized possession, a baseball with which they played catch, and which sat on his desk, as a kind of inspiration: her poet...
- Auteur:Ozeki, RuthSommaire:
A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and learning to take charge of one's life, by the Booker Prize-finalist author of A Tale for the Time Being. Benny Oh is a fourteen year-old boy living in the Pacific Northwest...
- Auteur:Brady, AliSommaire:
Two best friends torn apart by a life-altering secret. They have one summer to set the record straight. When twelve-year-olds Kat Steiner and Blake O'Neill meet at Camp Chickawah, they have an instant connection. But everything...
- Auteur:Novak, BrendaSommaire:
After the death of her father, Marlow travels to Florida to help her mother settle the family estate. But when her father's will reveals an earth-shattering secret, she finds herself questioning her past, and her future.
- Auteur:Cramer, W. DaleSommaire:
After a series of bizarre events, ironworker Mick Brannigan finds himself knee-deep in laundry--and considering a retreat to his hopelessly littered kitchen. He soon learns important lessons from unlikely sources.
- Auteur:Crum, ShuttaSommaire:
In the small town of Baylor, Kentucky, twelve-year-old Jessie K. Bovey and her friends confront some of life's questions during their summer vacation in the late 1960s.
- Auteur:Martin, Emily WinfieldSommaire:
A New York Times Snow and Rose didn't know they were in a fairy tale. People never do. . . . Once, they lived in a big house with spectacular gardens and an army of servants. Once, they had a father and mother who loved them more...
- Auteur:Segura, AlexSommaire:
Pete Fernandez is a mess, so he decides to move back to Miami and drink himself into oblivion. But when a coworker asks him to investigate a missing daughter, he finds himself in the heart of the underworld.
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Auteur:Guay-Poliquin, ChristianSommaire:When the electricity inexplicably goes out nationwide, the mundanities of life gradually shift to the rigours of survival. In this post-apocalyptic setting, an unnamed mechanic jumps into his beat-up car and drives east, journeying 4,...
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Auteur:Charles, NormaSommaire:In this fast-paced novel for readers ten and up, James Graham, a Canadian journalist, is kidnapped in a market in Buenaventura, Colombia, right in front of Marco, his thirteen-year-old son. When the kidnappers try to grab Marco, his...
- Auteur:Johnson, LeahSommaire:
Three days. Two girls. One life-changing music festival. Toni is grieving the loss of her roadie father and needing to figure out where her life will go from here--and she's desperate to get back to loving music. Olivia is a...
- Auteur:Craigie, GregorSommaire:
"A gem of a novel." - Terry Fallis, two-time winner of the Leacock Medal for Humour Longlisted for the 2024 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. Stephen Millburn moved halfway across the country, from Ottawa to Victoria, to...
- Auteur:Houde, NicoleSommaire:
PORTRAITS D’ANCIENNES JEUNES FILLES, c’est l’histoire de la rencontre fortuite de trois inconnus esseulés dans les rues de Montréal. Rebelle, la jeune Josée a quitté sa famille et son village pour venir s’installer en ville avec sa...
- Auteur:Chabon, MichaelSommaire:
For the September 2016 issue of GQ, Michael Chabon wrote a piece about accompanying his son Abraham, then thirteen, to Paris Men's Fashion Week. Despite his own indifference, what gradually emerged as Chabon ferried his son to and...
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Auteur:Bunting, EveSommaire:Robert and his friend Charlie are proud of their fathers, who are working on the construction of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.
- Auteur:Campbell, Bonnie JoSommaire:
Campbell's heroine is 16-year-old Margo Crane. Complicit in her father's death, Margo flees home for the Stark River. And as she follows the current, she learns the ways of the world from the eccentric characters she meets.
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Auteur:Ellis, SarahSommaire:Winner of the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize and the TD CCBC Canadian Children's Literature Award. Kip is spending the summer with his grandmother and his five eccentric girl cousins, including Emily, who thinks she's a dog...
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