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Canadian fiction, East coast fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction)
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Helen is a woman shattered by the drowning death of her husband, Cal. Now in her mid-50s and reconciled to…
loneliness, Helen sews prom and wedding dresses for a living and cares for her grandchildren. After having spent half a lifetime picking up the pieces after Cal's death, she has taken the major step of renovating the house, and finds herself unexpectedly stirred by the presence of her carpenter, Barry. 2009.
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Award winning fiction, Canadian fiction, East coast fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction)
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille
Intertwined characters knowingly, and even wilfully, place themselves in danger. Colleen watches violent videos, tries her hand at eco-terrorism, and…
finally runs away to find alligators in Louisiana. Madeleine, her aunt, scrambles to finish a movie while ignoring her failing health. And Frank, a 19-year-old still reeling from his mother's death, obsesses over Colleen and finds himself intertwined with Valentin, a bloodthirsty Russian gangster. Some descriptions of sex, violence, and strong language. 2005.
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Canadian fiction, General fiction, Short stories
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
Featuring writings from the last two decades, which capture the paranoia of post-9/11, the white noise of the information age,…
dislocation, bomb scares, sexual freedom, aberration, fractured identities, awakenings of every sort, redemption, and love. Includes pieces by such writers as Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, Mavis Gallant, and Eden Robinson. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2006.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Short stories
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Ten short stories of heartbreak and getting through it. Includes stories of a husband's memory of an early piercing love…
affair, a mother and her infant boy getting knocked down by the force of a fire hose, and the interconnectedness of a bus ride in Nepal and a wedding on the shore of Quidi Vidi Lake. 2002.
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Suspense and thrillers, Mysteries and crime stories
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Imprisoned for marijuana possession, twenty-five-year-old Canadian David Slaney has escaped his cell. Now he plans to win back the woman…
he loves, evade the cops, track down his old partner, Hearn, and get back into the drug business. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2013
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Family stories, General fiction
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From the celebrated author of February and Caught comes an exhilarating new novel that asks: What makes a family? How…
does it shape us? And can we ever really choose who we love? As the snowstorm of the century rages toward Newfoundland, twenty-one-year-old Xavier is beaten and stabbed in a vicious attack. His mother, Jules, must fight her way through the shuttered streets of St. John's to reach the hospital where Xavier lies unconscious. When a video of the attack surfaces, Jules struggles to make sense of what she sees in the footage. While Xavier's story unfolds, so, too, do the stories that brought him there. Here, across families and generations, are stories of mothers, fathers, sisters, and brothers; of children cared for, neglected, lost, and re-found; of selfless generosity and reluctant debt. Above all, Moore, in the inimitable largesse of her art, paints a shimmering portrait of the sacrifice, pain, and wild joy of loving.
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Canadian fiction, Short stories
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Ce premier recueil de nouvelles de Lisa Moore est paru en 1995, soit sept ans avant Open (Boréal, 2004), et…
a fait figure de révélation au Canada anglais. Dans chacune de ces histoires, les joies et les misères de l’amour traversent comme un courant électrique le quotidien de ces personnages qui vivent à Terre-Neuve, aujourd’hui. Ces histoires sont tangibles, lumineuses, attachantes. Moore cerne les moments décisifs de l’existence de ses personnages au milieu de décors d’une simplicité trompeuse : la cafétéria d’un hôpital de St. John’s éclairée par la seule lueur des machines distributrices, le squelette d’une maison en construction « comme une cage thoracique enfermant un poumon de ciel bleu », un petit village du bout du monde noyé dans le brouillard – et chaque fois l’image s’imprime dans notre mémoire. Moore montre comment l’amour, qui vient accompagné du désir, est parfois source d’émerveillement, parfois un piège.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), General fiction
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Flannery Malone's been in love with Tyrone O’Rourke since they were kids, but Tyrone has grown from a dorky kid…
into an outlaw graffiti artist, too cool for school. Which is a problem, since he and Flannery are partners for the entrepreneurship class that she needs to graduate. Meanwhile, Flannery’s mother, Miranda, can’t pay the heating bills, let alone buy Flannery’s biology book, her little brother, Felix, is careening out of control, and her best-friend-since-forever, Amber, has fallen for a guy who is making her forget all about the things she’s always cared most about - Flannery included - leading Amber down a dark and dangerous path of her own. When Flannery decides to make a love potion for her entrepreneurship project, rumours that it actually works go viral, and she suddenly has a hot commodity on her hands. But a series of shattering events makes her realize that real-life love is far more potent - and potentially damaging - than any fairy-tale prescription. For senior high readers. 2016.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Family stories
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Conveying the strains of family life and love in Newfoundland, this collection of short stories uses images of light and…
darkness to bring its characters to life. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 1995.
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Adventure stories, Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction)
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June 1978. David Slaney's escaped from prison and has got to make good on the heist that went wrong, win…
back the woman he loves, and make a big enough profit to buy himself a new life. First, though, he must get himself across a vast country full of watchful eyes, booby traps, and friends who might be foes. And then, on to Colombia, where the real test of his mettle begins. 2013.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Short stories
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Lisa Moore returns with her third story collection, a soaring chorus of voices, dreams, loves, and lives. Taking us from…
the Fjord of Eternity to the streets of St. John's and the swamps of Orlando, these stories show us the timeless, the tragic, and the miraculous hidden in the underbelly of our everyday lives. A missing rock god may have jumped a cruise ship - in the Arctic. A grieving young woman may live next to a serial rapist. A man's last day on earth replays in the minds of others in a furiously sensual, heartrending fugue. 'Something for everyone' finds Moore fired with peak ambition - she seems bent on nothing less than rewiring the circuitry of the short story itself. 2018.
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School stories, General fiction, Friendship stories
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From debut author Lisa Moore Ramée comes this funny and big-hearted debut middle grade novel about friendship, family, and standing…
up for what's right, perfect for fans of Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give and the novels of Renée Watson and Jason Reynolds. Twelve-year-old Shayla is allergic to trouble. All she wants to do is to follow the rules. (Oh, and she'd also like to make it through seventh grade with her best friendships intact, learn to run track, and have a cute boy see past her giant forehead.) But in junior high, it's like all the rules have changed. Now she's suddenly questioning who her best friends are and some people at school are saying she's not black enough. Wait, what? Shay's sister, Hana, is involved in Black Lives Matter, but Shay doesn't think that's for her. After experiencing a powerful protest, though, Shay decides some rules are worth breaking. She starts wearing an armband to school in support of the Black Lives movement. Soon everyone is taking sides. And she is given an ultimatum. Shay is scared to do the wrong thing (and even more scared to do the right thing), but if she doesn't face her fear, she'll be forever tripping over the next hurdle. Now that's trouble, for real. "Tensions are high over the trial of a police officer who shot an unarmed Black man. When the officer is set free, and Shay goes with her family to a silent protest, she starts to see that some trouble is worth making." (Publishers Weekly, "An Anti-Racist Children's and YA Reading List")
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Canadian fiction, Serious and literary fiction
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« À première vue, Helen O'Mara s'occupe de sa maison, de ses petits-enfants, et suit assidûment ses cours de yoga.…
Toutefois, dans les riches heures où elle se retrouve seule avec elle-même, elle revit la vie qu'elle a partagée avec Cal, son mari mort il y a de nombreuses années, quand la plate-forme de forage Ocean Ranger a sombré corps et bien, le jour de la Saint-Valentin, au milieu de l'Atlantique. Une nuit de novembre, la sonnerie du téléphone la réveille. C'est son fils, John, qui lui annonce qu'une femme est enceinte de lui et qui lui demande conseil. Pendant que John se débat avec l'idée d'être père, Helen apprend à dire adieu au passé, à cautériser les vieilles blessures [...]. » -- 4e de couv
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Friendship stories
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From the award-winning author of A Good Kind of Trouble, Lisa Moore Ramée, comes a hilarious and heartfelt young middle…
grade novel, in the vein of Judy Blume, about friendship, fitting in, and the ups and downs of middle school. Sure to resonate with fans of Rebecca Stead, Meg Medina, and Kelly Yang. Eleven-year-old Kylie's friends seem so much more mature than she is. And with middle school just a summer away, she's worried her friends might leave her behind, especially because she keeps embarrassing them. So Kylie applies her scientific brain to solve the problem and comes up with the Everybody Experiment: Hypothesis: Kylie Stanton will be mature if she does what everybody else does. Experiment: This summer, when all of Kylie's friends do something, she will do it too. Suddenly it's a whole new grown-up world for Kylie, with parties, unsupervised excursions, and boys. But the more research Kylie puts into the Everybody Experiment, the more she begins to wonder how she can do what everybody else does . . . without letting go of herself. Praise for The Everybody Experiment: ""Kylie is an endearing, relatable protagonist readers will root for...heartwarming and empowering."" -Kirkus Reviews "A meaningful and methodological story of friendship, family, and finding one's own voice." -The Horn Book ""Ramée's middle grade novel is well paced, traversing Kylie's summer with ease and dipping the reader into pivotal moments."" -ALA Booklist
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Short storiesCanadian non-fiction
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Second recueil d'une auteure terre-neuvienne, son premier à être traduit en français. Dix nouvelles solidement charpentées, qui évoquent avec art…
et réalisme l'intimité de personnages ordinaires à travers une série de petits faits admirablement mis en valeur. 2002, 2004. Titre uniforme: Open.
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General fiction, Humourous fiction, Family stories, Animal stories
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A mother and child discuss how the mother's love would remain constant even if her child were a stinky skunk,…
scary ape, or bug-eating green alien. A One Book 4 Colorado finalist, this book is read by Colorado Lt. Governor Joe Garcia. For preschool-grade 2
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Family stories, Animal stories, General fiction
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When Mama tucks her little boy into bed, he has a few questions. He wants to know what she would…
do if he were a big scary ape, a smelly skunk, a meat-eating dinosaur, or maybe a green alien. Mama, of course, assures him she will love him no matter what. For grades K-3
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Politics and government, Social issues, Biography
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Riveting nonfiction from multi-award-winning author Lisa Moore, based on the shocking true story of a teenaged boy who endured abuse…
and solitary confinement at a reform school in Newfoundland, but survived through grit and redemptive love.Invisible Prisons is an extraordinary, empathetic collaboration between the magnificent writer Lisa Moore, best-known for her award-winning fiction, and a man named Jack Whalen, who as a child was held for four years at a reform school for boys in St John’s, where he suffered jaw-dropping abuses and deprivations. Despite the odds stacked against him, he found love on the other side, and managed to turn his life around as a husband and father. His daughter, Brittany, vowed at a young age to become a lawyer so that she could seek justice for him. Today, that is exactly what she is doing—and Jack's case is part of a lawsuit currently before the courts.The story has parallels with Unholy Orders by Michael Harris about the Mount Cashel orphanage, and with the many horrific stories about residential schools—all of which expose a paternalistic state causing harm and a larger society looking away. Yet two powerful qualities set this story apart. As much as it is about an abusive system preying on children, it is also a tender tale of love between Jack and his wife Glennis, who saw the good man inside a damaged person and believed in him. And it is written in a novelistic way by the great Lisa Moore, who makes vividly real every moment and character in these pages.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Mysteries and crime stories
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" Juin 1978. David Slaney vient de séchapper dune prison de Nouvelle-Écosse où il purgeait une peine pour trafic de…
cannabis entre la Colombie et le Canada. Son obsession : retrouver son meilleur ami, Hearn, à Vancouver, pour tenter une seconde fois un gros coup et reconquérir sa petite amie. Le voici donc lancé dans une course effrénée à travers le pays, la police à ses trousses. Porté par la beauté de la langue de Lisa Moore et des personnages lumineux, Piégé nous raconte une histoire de courage et de trahison, de tempêtes en haute mer, damour, dagents secrets, de collusion entre le gouvernement et le crime organisé, dambition sans borne, de linnocence et de sa perte, et de centaines de ballots de marijuana. Il y est surtout question du sentiment dinvincibilité qui vient avec la jeunesse, et des folies quil occasionne. Après le très émouvant Février, Lisa Moore nous revient avec un roman dune tout autre facture, un périple irrésistible qui nous entraîne de lAtlantique au Pacifique, des côtes de Terre-Neuve jusquaux plages du Mexique. Une aventure trépidante. Envoûtante. " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Caught.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), General fiction
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Flannery, seize ans, est amoureuse de Tyrone O'Rourke depuis toujours. Depuis la maternelle, plus précisément, mais c'est du pareil au…
même. Jumelée à Tyrone pour un projet d'entrepreneuriat, Flannery est aux anges ! Et quand il lui propose de fabriquer des potions d'amour, elle accepte sans hésiter, des papillons dans le ventre. S'agit-il d'une déclaration voilée ? Est-ce que lui aussi pense à elle depuis leurs jeux d'enfants, bien avant qu'il se mette à sécher les cours et à faire des graffitis aux quatre coins de la ville ? On peut bien rêver... Évidemment, la vraie vie n'a rien d'un rêve, et ça, Flannery ne le sait que trop bien. Depuis quelque temps, on dirait que rien ne va. Il y a sa mère qui ignore comment elle paiera le prochain loyer, son frère qui n'est pas de tout repos et sa meilleure amie, Amber, qui ne semble plus avoir une seule minute à lui accorder. Et il y a Tyrone, bien sûr, qui disparaît toujours en coup de vent et qui n'est plus tout à fait le Tyrone qu'elle a connu. Au milieu de tout ça, Flannery doit se débrouiller toute seule, et elle commence à en avoir marre. Pour les lecteurs du collégial. 2016.