From an emergency room in Calgary, where an intern hears his poorly timed joke about suicide, Zan winds up on the psychologist’s couch. But the doctor’s efforts to investigate Zan’s mental state are constantly stymied by his misfiring...
Manitoba--Winnipeg
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Author:Margoshes, DaveSummary: - Author:Hill, LawrenceSummary:
Nous sommes au début des années 1980. Mahatma Grafton vient de décrocher un emploi dans un quotidien de Winnipeg. C’est son premier poste. Avant même son arrivée, les journalistes s’amusent à deviner d’où il peut bien venir… On parie...
- Author:Hunter, MaureenSummary:
Bertha Rand, Winnipeg's Cat Lady, was a familiar figure in the news; many knew her as the mad woman who lived in squalour with over fifty felines. In her tiny house on Queen Street, Bertha took in sick and abandoned cats, battling...
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Author:Burstow, BonnieSummary:This novel traces the life experiences of a once highly successful woman who falls prey to electroshock and subsequently struggles, partly successfully, partly in vain, to piece back together her life. Naomi Cohan Smith suffers enormous...
- Author:Mackay, Robert W.Summary:
Winnipeg, 1914. Tom Macrae is working on his law degree and enjoying the company of his sweetheart, Ellen. When the call to arms comes, both Tom and Ellen are torn from their secure, settled lives in the prairie city. Tom finds himself...
- Author:Diehl, CharlenlSummary:
Out of Grief, Singing is an achingly beautiful account of how a woman comes to terms with the loss of her newborn. After a bewildering series of rapid diagnoses and emergency interventions, Charlene's daughter Chloe is born. But...
- Author:Chicoine, JeanSummary:
Du Québec au Manitoba, d’un livre volé à la rédaction de son propre récit, le narrateur traîne son désir jusque dans les quartiers populaires de Winnipeg. Mais plus que les aventures sexuelles, c’est la co-habitation des langues...
- Author:Chicoine, JeanSummary:
Histoire d’amour dans laquelle le narrateur trouve sa bien-aimée, l’ange de Jean Chicoine termine la trilogie du Village Osborne, quartier populaire et flyé près du centre-ville de Winnipeg. Ce roman bilingue et bilangue poursuit l’...
- Author:Hunter, CatherineSummary:
When young, unlucky Wendy Li finds herself floating above the trees and buildings of her home town Winnipeg, she immediately suspects she's been murdered by her husband's jealous ex-lover, Evelyn. But no one is aware of Wendy...
- Author:Decter, NoraSummary:
Sixteen-year-old Jolene, named after the girl in the Dolly Parton song, is from a long line of lowlifes, but at least they're musical lowlifes. Her mother is a tanning-salon manager who believes she can channel her karaoke habit...
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Author:Deverell, WilliamSummary:A merry band of Newfoundland smugglers carrying on a grand tradition. A high-powered RCMP inspector obsessed with their capture. A day-dreaming police scientist caught in a dilemma between the call of duty and his infatuation with a...
- Author:Preston, AlisonSummary:
One summer afternoon in 1954 a jealous four-year-old girl named Cherry Ring bites her baby brother Pete on the cheek. She bites him so hard that little Pete needs a skin graft to repair the damage and will have a scar for the rest of...
- Author:Preston, AlisonSummary:
In the spring of 1964, troubled teenager Cookie Blue is found dead in the Red River. Blue Vengeance follows her younger brother Danny and Cookie's friend Janine through a lazy Winnipeg summer, as they plot to kill the despised...
- Author:Chisvin, HeatherSummary:
The mystery surrounding Anna Grieve and her mentally fragile older sister, Esther, begins in Russia in the 1880s. The persecution of Jews has become so vicious that the girls' mother decides to send her children to Winnipeg with...
- Author:Fontaine, TheodoreSummary:
Theodore (Ted) Fontaine lost his family and freedom just after his seventh birthday, when his parents were forced to leave him at an Indian residential school by order of the Roman Catholic Church and the Government of Canada. Twelve...
