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  • Running behind
    Author:
    Taekema, Sylvia
    Summary:

    Even though he was once his biggest rival, Jake Jarvis is thrilled when Spencer Solomon agrees to join the Diamonds cross-country team to compete in the Barry's Bay provincial championships. Everyone is pumped, everyone is focused...
  • Rose's run
    Author:
    Dumont, Dawn
    Summary:

    Rose Okanese, a single mother with two kids, has been pushed into a corner by Rez citizens to claim some self-respect, and decides that the fastest way to do that is to run the reserve's annual marathon. Though Rose hasn't run in twenty...
  • Rose Emma book 1
    Author:
    Mayrand, Gisèle
    Summary:

    Rose Emma Levèrs, très jolie jeune fille de dix-huit ans, fille aînée de Adrien et Cécile, des cultivateurs heureux de leur sort, épouse Yvan, fils cadet de Léone Valois Mayer, une veuve aigrie, anoblie par l’héritage de son mari. En...
  • Ronald Reagan, My Father
    Author:
    Davis, Brian Joseph
    Summary:

    A copy editor suffers brain damage from West Nile virus and is suddenly filled with cannibalistic violence and award-winning minimalist poetry. (It’s a little like Awakenings, but directed by David Cronenberg.)

    Mayor...
  • Resurrection of Joseph Bourne : or, a word or two on those Port Annie miracles
    Author:
    Hodgins, Jack
    Summary:

    In this new edition of Jack Hodgins’ Governor General–winning novel (for 1979), the reader is taken into the everyday eccentricities of life in Port Annie on the west coast of Vancouver Island, a town that keeps slipping into the ocean...
  • Quenamican
    Author:
    Magini, Roger
    Summary:

    Quenamican fait appel, à travers la dépossession matérielle et amoureuse, aux fondements de l’aventure, et marque le pouvoir de sublimation de la littérature et la jubilation que procure l’acte d’écrire. Avec ce grand hommage à Gérard...
  • Pontypool Changes Everything: Movie Edition
    Author:
    Burgess, Tony
    Summary:

    The compelling, terrifying story of a devastating virus. Have you ever imagined what it would be like to kill someone? Wondered, in your darkest secret thoughts, about the taste of human flesh? What if you woke up and began your morning...
  • Onyx John
    Author:
    Ferguson, Trevor, Steenhout, Ivan
    Summary:

    Lorsque nous rencontrons Onyx John Cameron pour la première fois, il est confortablement installé sur la côte du Maine avec sa sensuelle maîtresse Oréo. Mais cet idyllique tableau s’altère à mesure qu’Onyx dévoile son passé et les...
  • One careless moment : a Porter Cassel mystery
    Author:
    Hugelschaffer, Dave
    Summary:

    When a small fire starts to creep through the underbrush deep within a Montana forest valley, Porter Cassel is brought in to organize the firefighters charged with containing it. The fire moves quickly from bad to worse, rapidly scaling...
  • One Bloody Thing After Another
    Author:
    Comeau, Joey
    Summary:

    Jackie has a map of the city on the wall of her bedroom, with a green pin for each of her trees. She has a first-kiss tree and a broken-arm tree. She has a car-accident tree. There is a tree at the hospital where Jackie’s mother passed...
  • No. 22 Pleasure City
    Author:
    Fishman, Mark
    Summary:

    A Japanese detective agency in Midwest America; a sex triangle with the vampish Angela at its apex, and love-sick Pohl and lust-warped Burnett at the receiving ends; a Fat Man devouring a huge luncheon amidst the splendors of his garden...
  • No quarter : a novel
    Author:
    Jantunen, John
    Summary:

    In this blistering new novel from visionary author John Jantunen, three young men with a history of violence are on a collision course set against the idyllic backdrop of northern Ontario's cottage country. Rene Descartes, a...
  • Never Play Another Man's Game
    Author:
    Knowles, Mike
    Summary:

    Heists, double crosses, and brutality drive this fast-paced fourth installment of the Wilson Mystery series

    An armoured car carrying a huge payday will be rolling through the city every Friday for four weeks. Out of...
  • Natasha and other stories
    Author:
    Bezmozgis, David
    Summary:
  • My June
    Author:
    Neil, Danial
    Summary:

    In this hauntingly beautiful novel with its palette of blues and greys, Danial Neil explores the world of Reuben Dale after the sudden death from a stroke of his beloved wife, June. Neil takes us inside suffering to show us the thoughts...
  • Mot
    Author:
    Hétu, Julie
    Summary:

    Cybèle et ses enfants Elmihra et Mot nous entraînent à tour de rôle dans le tourbillon d’une vie où plane la mort, annoncée par trois grains d’or dont Cybèle a hérité. En Espagne, où Cybèle a trouvé refuge en fuyant la guerre du Liban,...
  • Men & Women Stories
    Author:
    GARNER, Hugh
    Summary:

    A collection of short stories, depicting a variety of characters and situations.
  • Mademoiselle Cassie
    Author:
    Donovan, Marie-Andrée
    Summary:

    « Jadis, sa parole était si facile. Comme un petit ruisseau en cascades, les mots débordaient au rythme de ses mains, qui les accompagnaient. Maintenant, ils s'affolent, s'embarrassent, pour finir par se perdre dans le brouillard....
  • L’hystérie de l’ange
    Author:
    Houde, Nicole, Muszynski, Laure
    Summary:

    Ce polar, au ton ludique, est porté par la truculence de Bérénice Fontaine, soupçonnée d’être l’instigatrice d’un complot au lac Brôme, où un cadavre a été découvert. Roman policier ? Thriller psychologique ? Un récit plein de...
  • L’échelle de Jacob
    Author:
    Yanofsky, Joel
    Summary:

    L’Échelle de Jacob est une comédie romanesque écrite sous la forme d’un journal. Un roman à l’humour décapant, plein d’esprit, de dialogues cocasses et d’observations amusantes sur les charmes et les travers de la vie de banlieue, et...

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