Au printemps 1759, alors que la colonie émerge d'un rude hiver, il n'y a qu'un sujet à la bouche des Canadiens : la menace anglaise. Les espions français rapportent qu'une importante flotte s'est réunie à...
Historical fiction
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Author:Mathieu, AndréSummary: - Author:Mathieu, AndréSummary:
Au coeur de l'été 1759, sous la gouverne du général Wolfe, l'armée anglaise s'est installée à la Pointe-Lévy. Les canons ennemis bombardent Québec sans relâche. Wolfe sait qu'il ne peut envahir la ville en...
- Author:Mathieu, AndréSummary:
En cette fin d'été 1759, le général Montcalm espère toujours que les Anglais retourneront d'eux-mêmes en Angleterre, ou que les deux armées s'affronteront de façon civilisée, comme les règles de la guerre l...
- Author:Lemaître, PierreSummary:
"Pour le commerce, la guerre présente beaucoup d'avantages, même après." Au lendemain du plus grand carnage du xxe siècle, deux rescapés des tranchées, passablement abîmés, prennent leur revanche en réalisant une...
- Author:Vanderhaeghe, GuySummary:
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The first novel in nearly a decade from the three-time Governor General's Award‒winning author of The Last Crossing, August Into Winter is an epic story of crime and retribution, of war and its long shadow,...
- Author:Miller, KeiSummary:
In the wake of Marlon James's Man Booker Prize-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings, Augustown-set in the backlands of Jamaica-is a magical and haunting novel of one woman's struggle to rise above the brutal vicissitudes of history...
- Author:Schlesier, Karl H.Summary:
The Nez Percé War of 1877 draws young John Seton, whose upbringing and ancestry cast him as an outsider in sharply contrasting worlds. His quest to find identity and place in the clash of cultures propels him on the historical 1200-...
- Author:Mathieu, AndréSummary:
Alors que les années 1910 s'achèvent, la petite Aurore Gagnon vit paisiblement au sein d'une famille unie, à Sainte-Philomène-de-Fortierville. Mais le malheur la guette. La maladie rôde et emporte sa mère, laissant la...
- Author:Bergen, DavidSummary:
Away from the Dead is set in the chaotic times of the Russian revolution, and traces the lives of various characters connected through love and family and loyalty. The novel follows the lives of a bookseller south of Kiev who deserts...
- Author:Greenwood, KerrySummary:
Searching for the murderer of a famous author, sexy, sassy Phryne Fisher goes undercover and is up to her ears in fashion gossip and office politics. Phryne is asked to investigate the puzzling death of a famous author and illustrator...
- Author:Jennings, GarySummary:
The Spanish conquest of Mexico through the eyes of an Aztec chief as he looks for a way to defeat the enemy. He is Tenamaxtli who vows revenge after the Spaniards burn his father at the stake. He learns Spanish, studies their armament...
- Author:Wykes, MeganSummary:
Set in Toronto in the blistering summer of 1971, Back to the Garden is about four strangers who take a chance on a new psychological treatment: group therapy. What seems, at first, like a good idea, quickly spirals out of control as the...
- Author:Cotton, Ralph W.Summary:
Former hired gun Larry Shaw tries to help a prostitute determine the father of her unborn child. Of the three candidates, one stands out--the notorious William H. Bonney. And as a cattle war brews, Bonney has a proposal for Shaw--lend...
- Author:Marston, MissySummary:
Wildly funny and wonderfully moving, Bad Ideas is about just that — a string of bad ideas — and the absurdity of love Trudy works nights in a linen factory, avoiding romance and sharing the care of her four-year-old niece with Trudy's...
- Author:Perkins-Valdez, DolenSummary:
In the bitter aftermath of a terrible, bloody war, as a divided nation tries to come together once again, Madge, Sadie, and Hemp are caught up in a desperate, unexpected battle for survival in a community desperate to lay the pain of...
- Author:Skelton, JohnSummary:
In 1755, on the eve of the Seven Years’ War, fifteen-year-old Nola and her Acadian parents face expulsion from Grand Pry the British. Nola, her friends Hector and Jocelyne, Nola’s grandfather, and a band of bold teenagers manage to flee...
- Author:Sapkowski, AndrzejSummary:
War rages across the lands, and the future of magic is under threat. Ciri, the heiress to the throne of Cintra, has vanished--until a rumor places her in the Niflgaard court, preparing to marry the Emperor. Injured or not, Geralt has a...
- Author:Trollope, AnthonySummary:
This sequel to The Warden satirizes the struggle for ascendancy among the clergy of a cathedral city. The contest is between the outgoing church authorities led by Archdeacon Grantly and the newcomers led by Mrs. Proudie and her protégé...
- Author:Dobbs, Alda P.Summary:
A riveting tale of one girl's dangerous journey to cross the U.S. border, based on a true story. It is 1913, and twelve-year-old Petra Luna's mamá has died while the revolution rages in Mexico. Before her papá is dragged...
- Author:Lee, Rebecca HaganSummary:
Griffen Abernathy has sworn an oath never to marry, or, if he must, to never fall in love with his wife. He is forced into wedding when his father insists that he do so before going to war. Lady Alyssa Carrollton wants only to work in...
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