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French Canadian fiction, Canadian fiction, General fiction
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Laissé à lui-même par sa mère partie avec quelqu'un d'autre et son père toujours absent, Sam avance dans sa vie…
comme un somnambule. Sur le point de terminer son secondaire, il peine à rester éveillé à l'école, où il ne se rend que pour la forme et pour rassurer son meilleur ami, Munger, et Mia, sa blonde, de qui il s'éloigne petit à petit
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French Canadian fiction, Canadian fictionPoetry
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Noémie Pomerleau-Cloutier signe ici une première œuvre pour la jeunesse dans laquelle elle effectue une plongée tout en douceur et…
en sensibilité dans un cerveau atypique et flamboyant. Alternant entre joie et tristesse, entre colère et douceur, entre acceptation et indignation face à un diagnostic qui vient mettre des mots parfois tranchants sur la réalité, le protagoniste de Tête boule disco traverse la vie à sa manière, sans s'excuser. Le recueil se déploie comme autant de miroirs pour nous faire voir l'intérieur des choses, la lumière surtout, celle qui jaillit parfois alors qu'on ne s'y attend pas
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Humourous fiction, Serious and literary fiction, Family stories
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In the absurdist literary tradition of George Saunders and Percival Everett comes a brilliant debut novel by a writer who…
is "bang-on brilliant" (Miriam Toews), about a biologist in Ukraine battling to save the country’s snail species from the brink of extinction.One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 • One of 49th Shelf's Most Anticipated 2025 Spring FictionUkraine, 2022. Yeva is a loner and a maverick scientist who lives out of her mobile lab. She scours the country’s forests and valleys, trying and failing to breed rare snails while her relatives urge her to give up, settle down and finally start a family of her own. What they don’t know: Yeva already dates plenty of men—not for love, but to fund her work—entertaining Westerners who come to Ukraine on guided romance tours believing they’ll find docile brides untainted by feminism and modernity. Nastia and her sister, Solomiya, are also entangled in the booming marriage industry, posing as a hopeful bride and her translator while secretly searching for their missing mother—a flamboyant protestor who vanished after years of fierce activism against the romance tours. So begins a journey of a lifetime across hundreds of miles: three angry women, a truckful of kidnapped bachelors, and Lefty, a last-of-his-kind snail with one final shot at perpetuating his species. But their plans come to a screeching halt as Russia invades. In a stunningly ambitious and achingly raw metafictional spiral, Endling brilliantly balances horror and comedy, drawing on Reva’s own experiences as a Ukrainian expat tracking her family’s delicate dance of survival behind enemy lines. As fiction and reality collide on the page, Reva probes the hard truths of war: What stories must we tell ourselves to survive? To carry on with the routines of life under military occupation? And for those of us watching from overseas: can our sense of normalcy and security ever be restored, or have they always been a fragile illusion? Endling is a tour de force from an author on the cutting edge of fiction, weaving a story of love, loss, humor, and devastation that only she can tell.See Less
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French Canadian fiction, Canadian fiction, Historical fiction
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Rym vit la tendre enfance avec ses cousines en Algérie. Exilées au Québec après la guerre civile, elles grandissent à…
l'ombre de quatre générations marquées par la colonisation, la résistance et le déracinement. Rym raconte l'épopée familiale comme elle a appris à faire le thé : sans jamais laver la théière, en déposant le poids de l'histoire
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French Canadian fiction, Canadian fiction, Serious and literary fiction
Human-narrated audio
Une histoire silencieuse est l'aboutissement d'un attentif travail de mémoire au plus près des surgissements fantomatiques du passé, et la…
silhouette de Thérèse apparaît progressivement parmi les mots et les souvenirs, dans la scansion des voix et la blancheur des images
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Family stories, Serious and literary fiction, Humourous fiction
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
In the absurdist literary tradition of George Saunders and Percival Everett comes a brilliant debut novel by a writer who…
is "bang-on brilliant" (Miriam Toews), about a biologist in Ukraine battling to save the country&’s snail species from the brink of extinction. One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 • One of 49th Shelf's Most Anticipated 2025 Spring FictionUkraine, 2022. Yeva is a loner and a maverick scientist who lives out of her mobile lab. She scours the country&’s forests and valleys, trying and failing to breed rare snails, while her relatives urge her to settle down and finally start a family of her own. What they don't know: Yeva already dates plenty of men—not for love, but to fund her work—entertaining Westerners who come to Ukraine on guided romance tours believing they'll find docile brides untainted by feminism and modernity. Nastia and her sister, Solomiya, are also entangled in the booming marriage industry, posing as a hopeful bride and her translator while secretly searching for their missing mother, who vanished after years of fierce activism against the romance tours. Together they embark on the journey of a lifetime across hundreds of miles: three angry women, a truckful of kidnapped bachelors, and Lefty, a last-of-his-kind snail with one final shot at perpetuating his species. But their plans come to a screeching halt when Russia invades. In a stunningly ambitious and achingly raw metafictional spiral, Endling brilliantly balances horror and comedy, drawing on Reva's own experiences as a Ukrainian expat tracking her family's delicate dance of survival behind enemy lines. As fiction and reality collide on the page, Reva probes the hard truths of war: What stories must we tell ourselves to survive? To carry on with the routines of life under military occupation? And for those of us watching from overseas: Can our sense of normalcy and security ever be restored, or have they always been a fragile illusion? Endling is a tour de force from an author who weaves a story of love, loss, humor, and hope that only she can tell.