Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Selected as an Amazon.ca Best Book. October 1970. Two kidnappings. One dead. A crisis unlike anything the country had ever seen — here is the story behind history . . . Thirty years after the...
Québec
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Author:Grady, Wayne, Hamelin, LouisSummary: -
Author:Paskal RainvilleSummary:Lorsque l'horreur atteint son apogée, que la peur nous terrorise, nous glace le sang et que le meurtre se transforme en une sorte de jeu macabre où la fiction dépasse parfois la réalité... Voilà ce à quoi Hope Town, ce...
- Author:MacLeod, ElizabethSummary:
The award-winning Scholastic Canada Biography series highlights the lives of remarkable Canadians whose achievements have inspired and changed the lives of those who followed. Born in 1907, Joseph-Armand grew up in a Valcourt, a small...
- Author:Mathieu, AndréSummary:
En 1880, Donald Morrison, un jeune homme libre et droit, vit paisiblement avec ses proches dans le petit village de Mégantic. Mais la famille Morrison doit travailler avec ardeur pour tenter de survivre, et les dettes qui s'...
- Author:Moreau, PatrickSummary:
OEuvre sinon mal aimée, du moins largement méconnue d'Alain Grandbois, Les voyages de Marco Polo ne manque pourtant pas d'intérêt, du moins si l'on accepte de lire ce récit comme une authentique création littéraire et non pas...
- Author:Ayotte, MartineSummary:
L'enfance de Martine Ayotte lui a été volée. Alors qu'elle a à peine trois ans, un véritable cauchemar commence. Son père s'invite dans son lit au cœur de la nuit et abuse d'elle. Or cet événement ne sera...
- Author:Penny, LouiseSummary:
The ninth book in Louise Penny's New York Times bestselling, critically acclaimed series featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. "There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." — Leonard Cohen Christmas is approaching...
- Author:Penny, LouiseSummary:
"...the events in GLASS HOUSES challenge Gamache's conscience unlike any of the previous audiobooks, with Bathurst prying open the hero's heart and soul and laying it bare for listeners to experience at a visceral level." — Audiofile...
- Author:Katz, ShawnSummary:
In 2011, proclaiming the need for austerity, Québec's governing Liberal Party announced a draconian increase in tuition fees. Enraged that the government would destroy a legacy of public education, so hard won during the 1960s Quiet...
- Author:Poitras, Marie HélèneSummary:
Dans la langue incisive et poétique qui a fait sa marque, Marie Hélène Poitras interroge la manière dont humains et animaux se donnent et se reprennent les uns aux autres, et les compromis nécessaires à la vie ensemble. Un recueil...
- Author:Michaud, JacintheSummary:
From the mid-1960s to the mid-80s, feminist activism in North America and Europe reached its peak, animated by a disparate array of issues and ideas. Frontiers of Feminism compares Québécois and Italian feminisms, revealing both the...
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"Entangling the Quebec Actadds original and valuable insight to existing scholarship on the Quebec Act, which has declined in the past half century despite significant constitutional developments in Canada and the rise of "new" imperial...
- Author:Forget, MichelSummary:
Vendeur, conducteur de camion, livreur d'huile à chauffage, plongeur, cuisinier, serveur – Michel Forget a fait tous les métiers avant de trouver sa voie?: la scène. Enfant hyperactif et turbulent, il a été élevé...
- Author:Corbo, ClaudeSummary:
Paul Gouin (1898-1976) a laissé sa marque comme l'un des grands défenseurs de l'héritage culturel canadien-français, qu'il concevait comme étant aussi un puissant levier de développement économique. Homme...
- Author:Reichs, KathySummary:
Tempe Brennan investigats the connections between a long-dead business man, the smuggling of mummified dogs from Peru, and the death of a teenage girl killed in a hit and run. When she discovers a human trafficking enterprise at the...
- Author:Boileau, JoséeSummary:
Fourteen young university students, murdered because they were women, are memorialized in this definitive account of the tragic day that forced a reckoning with violence against women in our culture. The victims of what became known as...
- Author:Lambert, FrançoisSummary:
François Lambert, personnage médiatique incontournable du Québec, nous offre une nouvelle édition de son tout premier livre, mis à jour selon ses derniers développements et l'évolution des marchés. L'ancien dragon...
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Author:Wren, JecobSummary:Authenticity is a Feeling: My Life in PME-ART is a compelling hybrid of history, memoir, and performance theory. It tells the story of the interdisciplinary performance group PME-ART and their ongoing endeavour to make a new kind of...
- Author:Mouawad, WajdiSummary:
When he discovers the brutal murder of his wife, Wahhch Debch is paralyzed by spasms of grief: he must know at all costs who did this. Spurred by rage, he embarks on a furious odyssey across America that awakens long-buried memories...
- Author:Penny, LouiseSummary:
The 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec investigating a sinister plot in the City of Light On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a family for a...
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