A gutsy, no-holds-barred, coming-of-age story. In the Point St. Charles of the author’s childhood people move for one of two reasons: their apartment is on fire, or the rent is due. Starting in 1968, eight-year-old Kathy Dobson shares...
Québec--Montréal
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Author:Dobson, KathySummary: - Author:Deverell, WilliamSummary:
Montreal journalist Lou Sabatino, under witness protection after nearly being gunned down by the Mafia, is sucked into the quirky world of a conniving Russian dominatrix who has secretly recorded herself putting the whip to the bare...
- Author:Martel, PierreSummary:
Un jour, l'existence de Charles Désilet est totalement bouleversée lorsqu'il revoit par hasard, dans la rue, celui qui a lâchement assassiné sa sœur vingt ans plus tôt et qui, à ses yeux, a bénéficié de l'indulgence du tribunal. Une...
- Author:Vu, Caroline, Steenhout, IvanSummary:
Ce roman choc raconte la vie tumultueuse d’une famille nord-vietnamienne ballottée par les caprices de l’Histoire et aux prises avec sa propre folie. À travers un récit teinté d’humour, on découvre les aventures rocambolesques d’un clan...
- Author:Behrens, PeterSummary:
From Peter Behrens, one of our most beloved storytellers and the author of the bestselling and award-winning novels The Law of Dreams and The O’Briens, comes a spectacular collection of riveting stories about growing up and growing...
- Author:Kalbfleisch, JohnSummary:
A Mohawk who thought he was the rightful king of France, an Anglican priest who could barely speak English and just maybe the assassin of Abraham Lincoln: what do these three men have in common? Not much, perhaps, except the Montreal...
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Author:Guzzo-McParland, ConnieSummary:A sequel to The Girls of Piazza d’Amore, this novel is a sweeping epic that chronicles the lives of three women of different generations, all living in Montreal, but connected and haunted by the same Italian village past. After...
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Author:Sands Brodoff, AmiSummary:A family’s story of the Holocaust lies buried in the soil of a graveyard in Prague, in the old neighborhoods of Montréal, in the serenity of a small New Jersey town, and in the memory of Jana – a woman finally asked to bear witness. Far...
- Author:Soucy, Gaetan, Lederhendler, LazerSummary:
East-end Montreal in the mid-1920s. A popular restaurant is razed by an arsonist. Seventy-five people perish in the inferno. While strolling with his wheelchair-ridden father, a man furtively salvages a charred icon from the ruins. He...
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Author:Hébert, Louis-PhilippeSummary:The Girl Before, the Girl After is the story of a man who would rather remain anonymous. The boutique where used to work has been condemned, and so has the house where he rented a room, torn down to make way for a luxury hotel. His...
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Author:Kirby, PeterSummary:Inspector Luc Vanier is drinking his way through Christmas Eve when he is called out to investigate the murder of five homeless people. His investigation takes him into the backrooms of the Catholic Church, the boardrooms of Montreal's...
- Author:Montrose, David, Burton Smith, KevinSummary:
Finally, after 58 years The Body on Mount Royal is back in print, starring hard-drinking private dick, Russell Teed. From the back cover of the 1953 edition: Take a brutally beaten body, a lonely spot on Montreal's famous mountain, and...
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Author:Cherry, PaulSummary:The Quebec-chartered “Nomad” chapter of the Hells Angels had two specific goals: to monopolize the Quebec drug trade; and to expand that trade across other parts of Canada. Their war against rival dealer gangs escalated to a boiling...
- Author:Palmer, AlSummary:
One of the earliest Canadian noir novels, Sugar-Puss on Dorchester Street tells the story of Gisele Lepine, beautiful farmer’s daughter who leaves her sleepy faming community for the neon lights of Montreal. In the fast-paced city,...
- Author:Lavery, JohnSummary:
No writer in Canada today is more in love with the English, and French, languages than John Lavery. That love is gloriously requited. In inventive, incantatory prose, Sandra Beck, his long-awaited first novel, paints a very unusual...
- Author:Villeneuve, Marie-PauleSummary:
À peine sorti d’une cure de désintoxi-cation et souffrant toujours d’un amour déçu, le jeune et brillant Nicolas, 20 ans, part à la conquête du bonheur. Admis à l’Université de Montréal, il quitte le Saguenay pour se retrouver en...
- Author:Howarth, IanSummary:
Rock ‘n’ Radio illustrates that Montreal was at the epicentre of the rock radio revolution in Canada, eventually attracting talented DJs from the U.S., Canada and the U.K. Their personal stories and the inevitable collision with the...
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Author:Launier, VéroniqueSummary:Aude Vanier is a sixteen-year-old rock star with a problem—stone monsters keep attacking her. And when they do, she finds herself chanting in a language she doesn’t understand. Guillaume de Rouen has been stuck as a gargoyle on a church...
- Author:Leblanc, FrançoisSummary:
Entre sa douce moitié qui a pris amant et un toxicomane qui menace de lui faire la peau, Antoine Barcelo ne sait plus trop à quel saint se vouer. Malgré l’ennui et la violence sourde qui traversent son quotidien, malgré une sexualité...
- Author:Demos, JohnSummary:
National Book Award finalist John Demos brings to life the compelling story of Eunice Williams, a Puritan girl who was captured and adopted by Native Americans In this riveting historical fiction narrative, National Book Award Finalist...
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