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The hill
By Karen Bass. 2016
Jared’s plane has crashed in the Alberta wilderness, and Kyle is first on the scene. When Jared insists on hiking…
up the highest hill in search of cell phone reception, Kyle hesitates; his Cree grandmother has always forbidden him to go near it. There’s no stopping Jared, though, so Kyle reluctantly follows. After a night spent on the hilltop - with no cell service - the teens discover something odd: the plane has disappeared. Nothing in the forest surrounding them seems right. In fact, things seem very wrong. And worst of all, something - a creature that should only exist in legend - is hunting them. For senior high readers. 2016.The deportees and other stories
By Roddy Doyle. 2007
Short stories, each taking a new slant on the immigrant experience in Ireland. In "Guess Who's Coming to the Dinner",…
a father who prides himself on his open-mindedness is forced to confront his feelings when one of his daughters brings home a black fella. In "57 per cent Irish" Ray Brady tries to devise a test of Irishness by measuring reactions to Robbie Keane's goal against Germany in the 2002 World Cup, Riverdance and "Danny Boy". In "Deportees", Jimmy Rabbitte, the man who formed The Commitments, decides it's time to find a new band, and this time no White Irish need apply. Some descriptions of sex and violence, and strong language. 2007.The break
By Katherena Vermette. 2016
When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break…
- a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house - she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime. In a series of shifting narratives, people who are connected, both directly and indirectly, with the victim - police, family, and friends - tell their personal stories leading up to that fateful night. Lou, a social worker, grapples with the departure of her live-in boyfriend. Cheryl, an artist, mourns the premature death of her sister Rain. Paulina, a single mother, struggles to trust her new partner. Phoenix, a homeless teenager, is released from a youth detention centre. Officer Scott, a Métis policeman, feels caught between two worlds as he patrols the city. Bestseller. Canada Reads 2017. Winner of the 2017 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, the 2017 Evergreen Award and the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award. 2016.The Blythes are quoted
By L. M Montgomery. 2009
Adultery, illegitimacy, misogyny, revenge, murder, despair, bitterness, hatred, and death - usually not the terms associated with L.M. Montgomery. In…
this her last work, Montgomery brought these topics to the forefront, in stories featuring a grown up Anne and her family around the time of the First World War. 2009.The back of the turtle
By Thomas King. 2014
Gabriel returns to Smoke River, the reserve where his mother grew up and to which she returned with Gabriel’s sister.…
The reserve is deserted after an environmental disaster killed the population, including Gabriel’s family, and the wildlife. Gabriel, a brilliant scientist working for DowSanto, created GreenSweep, and indirectly led to the crisis. Now he has come to see the damage and to kill himself in the sea. But as he prepares to let the water take him, he sees a young girl in the waves. Plunging in, he saves her, and soon is saving others. Who are these people with their long black hair and almond eyes who have fallen from the sky? Bestseller. Winner of the 2014 Governor General’s Award for Fiction. 2014.Son of a trickster (Trickster trilogy. #1.)
By Eden Robinson. 2017
Everyone knows a guy like Jared: the burnout kid in high school who sells weed cookies and has a scary…
mom who's often wasted and wielding some kind of weapon. Jared does smoke and drink too much, and he does make the best cookies in town, and his mom is a mess, but he's also a kid who has an immense capacity for compassion and an impulse to watch over people more than twice his age, and he can't rely on anyone for consistent love and support, except for his flatulent pit bull, Baby Killer, and now she's dead. Bestseller. 2017.Simple gifts: four heartwarming Christmas stories
By Jude Deveraux, Judith McNaught. 2001
Four Christmas stories from Jude Deveraux and Judith McNaught. Deveraux's include "Just Curious", where, in the snow-covered hills of Virginia,…
a young widow finds that miracles really do come in the least expected packages. In McNaught's "Double Exposure", a determined young woman photographs a magnificent wedding at a reclusive tycoon's Newport estate, and manages to unlock the secrets of a man's heart. Some descriptions of sex. 2001.Rien que la vie: [nouvelles]
By Alice Munro. 2014
Alice Munro nous emporte avec ses personnages jusqu'aux moments charnières de leurs existences, là où tout peut basculer : une…
mère perd la trace de son enfant, un soldat saute inopinément du train qui le ramène chez lui, une jeune institutrice part enseigner dans un sanatorium reculé, une femme perdue se lie à un inconnu… Le hasard des rencontres, l'étrangeté des actes manqués, les coups funestes du destin, autant de lignes de force que Munro ausculte et nous restitue avec la grâce d'un « Tchekhov de notre temps ». Pour la première fois, elle se confie également sur sa propre vie dans la dernière partie du recueil. Alice Munro est, plus que jamais, l'écrivain de l’âme humaine. 2014.Retraite: [nouvelles]
By Renaud Jean. 2014
" Dans ce premier recueil de nouvelles, subtilement construit, magnifiquement écrit, Renaud Jean superpose avec audace deux tonalités, presque deux…
genres. La moitié de ces nouvelles appartient à un monde fantastique, onirique, où des êtres qui nous ressemblent pourtant sont plongés dans une réalité radicalement différente de la nôtre. À linverse, lautre moitié est constituée de scènes réalistes, minutieusement rendues, de la vie montréalaise daujourdhui, mais qui sont hantées par un mystérieux sentiment de distance, dappréhension. Comme si les protagonistes étaient toujours, dune certaine manière, en retrait deux-mêmes, de la Grande Aventure de lexistence. " -- 4e de couv.Revenge of the Vinyl Cafe
By Stuart McLean. 2012
The world can be a perilous place. And the seemingly friendly world of Canada’s favourite fictional family is no different.…
Everyone is afraid of something: Dave, for example, is afraid of dolls, germs, and Mary Turlington. Sam, on the other hand, is afraid of bees, UFOs, and “mewpilated” cows. Morley’s fears—public nudity and drop-in visits—are slightly less peculiar. It’s hard to be brave in the face of sewer monsters, deformed fish heads, abandoned car wrecks, and ravenous bears, but in this collection of Vinyl Cafe stories, Dave and the gang pluck up the courage to deal with all kinds of danger, both real and imagined. Bestseller. 2012.Red Wolf
By Jennifer Dance. 2014
Life is changing for Canada's Anishnaabek Nation and for the wolf packs that share their territory. In the late 1800s,…
both Native people and wolves are being forced from the land. Starving and lonely, an orphaned timber wolf is befriended by a boy named Red Wolf. But under the Indian Act, Red Wolf is forced to attend a residential school far from the life he knows, and the wolf is alone once more. Courage, love and fate reunite the pair, and they embark on a perilous journey home. But with winter closing in, will Red Wolf and Crooked Ear survive? And if they do, what will they find? For junior high readers. 2014.Red Stick (White Indian series. #26.)
By Donald Clayton Porter. 1994
As Tecumseh rises up in the West, Little Hawk, son of the White Indian, ponders taking up arms against the…
British. Meanwhile Gao, the White Indian's courageous nephew, marries and vows revenge on the soldiers who scorned him. Sequel to "War Clouds"; followed by "Creek Thunder". Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 1994.Big bang: nouvelles
By Neil Smith, Paul Gagné, Lori Saint-Martin. 2007
Dans ce premier recueil, des manifestations inattendues d'humour et de tendresse forment un univers fantasque. Écrites dans une prose incisive…
et limpide, les huit nouvelles qui le composent convient le lecteur à une exploration du besoin qu'ont les hommes et les femmes de nouer des liens, aussi ténus soient-ils, et peu importe ce qu'il en coute. 2007. Titre uniforme: Bang crunch.Polyamorous love song (Department of narrative studies ; #12)
By Jacob Wren. 2014
An avant-garde novel of intertwined narratives concerning the relationship between artists and the world. With a diverse palette of vivid…
characters - from people who wear furry mascot costumes at all times, to a group of "New Filmmakers" that devises increasingly unexpected sexual scenarios with complete strangers, to a secret society that concocts a virus that only infects those on the political right - this book is about the visual arts, theatre, and performance of all types. 2014.Le chant de la terre innue
By Jean Bédard. 2014
" On fait monter une jeune Innue sur une plateforme de bois construite dans les arbres. Toute seule, juchée parmi…
les branches, elle attend la visite de l'animal totémique qui guidera son destin. Au terme de cette épreuve initiatique, que l'on réserve d'habitude aux garçons, elle sera prête à partir avec son clan à la recherche du caribou, qui a déserté la taïga.Car, sans le caribou, nul équilibre, nulle joie. Ce conte poétique, raconté avec tendresse et humour par le grand-père de l'héroïne, est un hommage aux forces de la nature, et à tous ceux qui en tirent les enseignements. " -- 4e de couv.Le torrent (Littérature)
By Anne Hébert. 1989
Ces contes écrits au cours de plusieurs années attirent le lecteur dans le monde claustrophobe d'Hébert. Quant aux personnages, s'ils…
réussissent à s'en échapper, leur liberté ne leur apporte pas la joie, mais une écrasante réalisation personnelle. La première nouvelle de ce recueil est un puissant récit. 1989, c1950.Once: stories
By Rebecca Rosenblum. 2008
Urban stories with a strong contemporary feel, recording incidents in the lives of twenty-somethings - students, techies in an office…
building, a girl toiling in the warehouse of a wholesale fruit and vegetable distributor, a boy who hustles for drug money, waitresses. These are constricted and often random lives and Rosenblum's vision mercilessly portrays their shapelessness. Strong language, some descriptions of violence, and some descriptions of sex. c2008.Odette Toulemonde et autres histoires
By Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt. 2006
La vie a tout offert à l'écrivain Balthazar Balsan et rien à Odette Toulemonde. Pourtant, c'est elle qui est heureuse.…
Lui pas. Leur rencontre fortuite va bouleverser leur existence. Huit récits, huit femmes, huit histoires d'amour. De la petite vendeuse à la milliardaire implacable, de la trentenaire désabusée à une mystérieuse princesse aux pieds nus en passant par des maris ambigus, des amants lâches et des mères en mal de filles, c'est une galerie de personnages inoubliables qu'Eric- Emmanuel Schmitt poursuit avec tendresse dans leur quête du bonheur.Nos gloires secrètes: nouvelles
By Tonino Benacquista. 2013
Un meurtrier anonyme, un poète vengeur, un parfumeur amoureux, un antiquaire combattant, un enfant silencieux, un milliardaire misanthrope. Les personnages…
de ces six histoires ont un point commun : leur vie intérieure est bien plus exaltante que leur vie quotidienne. Et leur part d'ombre n'est rien en comparaison de leur part lumineuse. Une vérité que l'on tait, un exploit que l'on cache, un passé inavouable. Lequel d'entre nous ne garde pas, enfouie au plus profond, sa gloire secrète? 2013.Moral disorder
By Margaret Atwood. 2006
Interconnected short stories that span the life of a skeptical, stoic, book-loving woman named Nell, from age 11, where she…
awaits the birth of an unexpected sibling, to her eventual marriage and life on a farm. Atwood dissects the demands of family, the persistence of sexism, the siege of old age, and the complex temperaments of other species. Some strong language and descriptions of violence. 2006.