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Scarborough
By Catherine Hernandez. 2017
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction)
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Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighbourhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest city in North America; like many inner-city…
communities, it suffers under the weight of poverty, drugs, crime, and urban blight. A multitude of voices tells the story of a tight-knit neighbourhood under fire: among them, Victor, a black artist harassed by the police; Winsum, a West Indian restaurant owner struggling to keep it together; and Hina, a Muslim school worker who witnesses first-hand the impact of poverty on education. And then there are the three kids who work to rise above a system that consistently fails them: Bing, a gay Filipino boy who lives under the shadow of his father's mental illness; Sylvie, Bing's best friend, a Native girl whose family struggles to find a permanent home to live in; and Laura, whose history of neglect by her mother is destined to repeat itself with her father. 2017.Washington Black: a novel
By Esi Edugyan. 2018
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Award winning fiction, Bestsellers (Fiction), Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Historical fiction
Human-transcribed braille
Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was…
born. When his master's eccentric brother chooses him to be his manservant, Wash is terrified of the cruelties he is certain await him. But Christopher Wilde, or "Titch," is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor, and abolitionist. He initiates Wash into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky; where two people, separated by an impossible divide, might begin to see each other as human; and where a boy born in chains can embrace a life of dignity and meaning. But when a man is killed and a bounty is placed on Wash's head, Titch abandons everything to save him. What follows is their flight along the eastern coast of America, and, finally, to a remote outpost in the Arctic, where Wash, left on his own, must invent another new life. Bestseller. Winner of the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize. 2018.Washington Black
By Esi Edugyan. 2019
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Adventure stories, Historical fiction, Canadian fiction
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La Barbade, 1830. À onze ans, Washington Black n'a d'autre horizon que le champ de canne à sucre de la…
plantation où il travaille avec d'autres esclaves. Quand le destin frappe à sa porte, c'est sous les traits de Titch, un scientifique anglais, jeune frère de son maître qui le choisit comme serviteur. Wash montre un talent inné pour le dessin et une curiosité d'esprit telle qu'il est promu assistant pour le projet fou de l'extravagant inventeur : construire un ballon dirigeable. Lorsqu'un vent mauvais les oblige à quitter précipitamment l'île à son bord, l'aventure prend un cours inattendu. Du pôle Nord à la Nouvelle-Écosse, de Londres à Amsterdam, plus qu'un voyage, c'est un parcours initiatique qui attend le jeune Wash, en ce siècle de découvertes. Mais le chemin le plus dur à parcourir sera celui qui le conduira vers la liberté, une liberté assumée et entière