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Nombre d'écrivains ont été tour à tour fascinés, inspirés ou tourmentés par l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue, ce pays à la fois western catholique…
et Klondike québécois , selon la formule de François Ruph reprise par l'historien Benoît-Beaudry Gourd. On dit qu'il y sévit des froids à couper les loups en deux. On dit que gisent au fond du lac Témiscamingue assez de chevaux pour peupler les écuries d'un village entier. La région de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue semble superbement méconnue. Pourtant, ce pays aux confins de l'histoire a tant à raconter, tant à montrer. Fin connaisseur de l'histoire littéraire de cette immense contrée où l'orignal broute les nymphéas , Denis Cloutier nous offre une Abitibi-Témiscamingue depuis longtemps débarrassée de son manteau glaciaire, l'essouchée (les premières occupations de la terre) comme celle den-dssour (les mines, la ruée vers les métaux). 2012.By Alice Thomas Ellis. 1996
Eloise declares herself determined to have a baby. Simon doesn't want one, and Eloise's mother Clare sends her best friend…
to deal with the emergency. Clare turns up to join them just as Eloise returns from her wanderings with a newborn baby. Did she steal the baby? Or was she pregnant all along? The baby has startling green eyes, the cat won't stay in the same room with it, and Eloise behaves more and more oddly. 1996.By Alexander Wolfe. 1988
By Paulo Coelho. 1999
Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy, longs to see the world and dreams about a treasure hidden in the Egyptian pyramids.…
He sells his flock and leaves his home in Spain, sails first to Tangiers, crosses the desert, and eventually reaches Egypt. Along the way, he is led by a series of spiritual guides, perhaps the most important of whom is the alchemist who advises him to follow his heart. 1999. Uniform title: Alquimista.By Jean-Paul Sermain, Antoine Galland. 2004
By Jean-Paul Sermain, Antoine Galland. 2004
By Jean-Paul Sermain, Antoine Galland. 2004
By Isabel Allende. 2005
A retelling of the legend of Zorro. In the early 1800s, Diego de la Vega leaves Southern California and travels…
to Napoleonic Spain for his formal education. There he joins an underground resistance movement and, disguised as Zorro, fights for the oppressed. Some descriptions of sex and some violence. Bestseller 2005. Uniform title: Zorro.By Jean-Pierre Vernant. 1999
Jean-Pierre Vernant raconte les mythes de la Grèce ancienne. Il évoque les origines de l'Univers, la guerre des dieux et…
les liens que l'humanité n'a cessé d'entretenir avec le divin. De la castration d'Ouranos aux ruses de Zeus, de l'invention de la femme au voyage d'Ulysse, des aventures d'Europe au destin boiteux d'Oedipe et à la course aux Gorgones, l'auteur nous fait entendre ces vieux mythes toujours vivants. Jean-Pierre Vernant, qui a consacré sa vie à la mythologie grecque, nous permet alors de mieux en déchiffrer le sens souvent multiple. C'est à cette rencontre entre le conteur et le savant que ce livre doit son originalité.By François Ricard, H Beaugrand. 2002
By Amanda Leduc. 2020
Amanda Leduc's brilliant new novel, woven with fairy tales of her own devising and replete with both catastrophe and magic,…
is a vision of what happens when we ignore the natural world and the darker parts of our own natures. Heather is sleeping peacefully after the birth of her twin daughters when the sound of the world ending jolts her awake. Stumbling outside with her babies and her new husband, Brendan, she finds that their city has been destroyed by falling meteors and that her little family are among only a few who survived. But the mountain that looms over the city is still green--somehow it has been spared the destruction that has brought humanity to the brink of extinction. Heather is one of the few who know the mountain, a place city-dwellers have always been forbidden to go. Her dad took her up the mountain when she was a child on a misguided quest to heal her legs, damaged at birth. The tragedy that resulted has shaped her life, bringing her both great sorrow and an undying connection to the deep magic of the mountain, made real by the beings she and her dad encountered that day: Estajfan, a centaur born of sorrow and of an ancient, impossible love, and his two siblings, marooned between the magical and the human world. Even as those in the city around her--led by Tasha, a charismatic doctor who fled to the city from the coast with her wife and other refugees--struggle to keep everyone alive, Heather constantly looks to the mountain, drawn by love, by fear, by the desire for rescue. She is torn in two by her awareness of what unleashed the meteor shower and what is coming for the few survivors, once the green and living earth makes a final reckoning of the usefulness of human life and finds it wanting. At times devastating, but ultimately redemptive, Amanda Leduc's fable for our uncertain times reminds us that the most important things in life aren't things at all, but rather the people we want by our side at the end of the world.By Amanda Leduc. 2020
Amanda Leduc's brilliant new novel, woven with fairy tales of her own devising and replete with both catastrophe and magic,…
is a vision of what happens when we ignore the natural world and the darker parts of our own natures. Heather is sleeping peacefully after the birth of her twin daughters when the sound of the world ending jolts her awake. Stumbling outside with her babies and her new husband, Brendan, she finds that their city has been destroyed by falling meteors and that her little family are among only a few who survived. But the mountain that looms over the city is still green--somehow it has been spared the destruction that has brought humanity to the brink of extinction. Heather is one of the few who know the mountain, a place city-dwellers have always been forbidden to go. Her dad took her up the mountain when she was a child on a misguided quest to heal her legs, damaged at birth. The tragedy that resulted has shaped her life, bringing her both great sorrow and an undying connection to the deep magic of the mountain, made real by the beings she and her dad encountered that day: Estajfan, a centaur born of sorrow and of an ancient, impossible love, and his two siblings, marooned between the magical and the human world. Even as those in the city around her--led by Tasha, a charismatic doctor who fled to the city from the coast with her wife and other refugees--struggle to keep everyone alive, Heather constantly looks to the mountain, drawn by love, by fear, by the desire for rescue. She is torn in two by her awareness of what unleashed the meteor shower and what is coming for the few survivors, once the green and living earth makes a final reckoning of the usefulness of human life and finds it wanting. At times devastating, but ultimately redemptive, Amanda Leduc's fable for our uncertain times reminds us that the most important things in life aren't things at all, but rather the people we want by our side at the end of the world.By Sheung-King. 2020
A young translator travels from his home in Toronto to Hong Kong, Macau, Prague, Tokyo. His unnamed lover comes with…
him: in restaurants and hotel rooms, they entertain each other with comic and enigmatic folk tales. Yet their verbal play and philosophical questions mask the fragility of their own relationship, which is made still more tenuous by he woman's unexplained disappearances. You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked. is an intimate novel of memory and longing that challenges Western tropes and Orientalism. Embracing the playful surrealism of Haruki Murakami and the atmospheric narratives of filmmaker Wong Kar-wai, Sheung-King's debut is at once lyrical and punctuated, and wholly unique, and marks the arrival of a bold new voice in Canadian literature.By Lucy Brownridge. 2020
Science tells us that young children develop best when they are read to. In this follow-up to Read to Your…
Baby Every Day , soothe your toddler with retellings of traditional folk tales, fairy tales, and fables from around the world paired with images of Chloe Giordano's charming hand-embroidered illustrations on cloth. Every tale is the perfect length to read aloud to your toddler before bedtime and carries a message of empathy, friendship, and care for the world around us. Bond with your toddler and help them grow as you read to them these timeless stories: THE THREE WISHES, Scandinavia THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER, Ancient Rome BRER RABBIT AND THE WELL, North America HOW THE BEAR LOST HIS TAIL, Iroquois THE MAGIC PEAR TREE, China WHY THE BANANAS BELONG TO THE MONKEY, Brazil THE FISHERMAN AND THE GENIE, Syria THE RAINBOW SERPENT, Indigenous Australia THE STONECUTTER, Japan KING MIDAS, Ancient Greece THE CLEVER LITTLE TURTLE, Mexico ANANSI AND THE TURTLE, Caribbean THE SCRUFFY DUCKLING, Denmark A BAG FULL OF STORIES, Cambodia THE MICE AND THE ELEPHANTS, India THE FEAST, Mali SNOWFLAKE, THE SNOW CHILD, Russia WHY CATS CHASE MICE, Nigeria THE LION AND THE THORN, Ancient Greece HOW THE WREN BECAME KING OF THE BIRDS, IrelandBy Kevin Crossley-Holland. 2018
'Burning ice, biting flame; that is how life began'The extraordinary Scandinavian myth cycle is one of the most enduring, exciting,…
dramatic and compelling of the world's great stories. The Penguin Book of the Norse Myths compellingly retells these stories for the modern reader, taking us from the creation of the world through the building of Asgard's Wall to the final end in Ragnarok. You'll discover how Thor got his hammer and how Odin lost his eye, the terrible price of binding the wolf Fenrir and why Loki the trickster can never be trusted. The Norse myths are as thrilling to read as they are of vast cultural and historical importance. In this gripping book Kevin Crossley-Holland brings alive the passion, cruelty and heroism of these unforgettable stories.By Sue Lynn Tan. 2022
"Growing up on the moon, Xingyin is accustomed to solitude, unaware that she is being hidden from the feared Celestial…
Emperor who exiled her mother for stealing his elixir of immortality. But when Xingyin's magic flares and her existence is discovered, she is forced to flee her home, leaving her mother behind. Alone, powerless, and afraid, she makes her way to the Celestial Kingdom, a land of wonder and secrets. Disguising her identity, she seizes an opportunity to learn alongside the emperor's son, mastering archery and magic, even as passion flames between her and the prince. To save her mother, Xingyin embarks on a perilous quest, confronting legendary creatures and vicious enemies. But when treachery looms and forbidden magic threatens the kingdom, she must challenge the ruthless Celestial Emperor for her dream-striking a dangerous bargain in which she is torn between losing all she loves or plunging the realm into chaos. |Daughter of the Moon Goddess| begins an enchanting duology which weaves ancient Chinese mythology into a sweeping adventure of immortals and magic, of loss and sacrifice-where love vies with honor, dreams are fraught with betrayal, and hope emerges triumphant." -- Provided by publisherBy Thomas Maltman. 2012
By Edrick Thay. 2003
In this fascinating collection, Thay narrates the unexplained--and inevitably tagic--tales that make the Old South one of America's most storied…
regions. Explore centers of paranormal lore in Savannah, New Orleans, or Charleston, or meet stubborn yet genteel ghosts obsessed with the survival of Old DixieBy Chi-Young Kim, Sun-Mi Hwang, Nomoco. 2014
Sprout, an egg-laying hen, longs to escape from the coop, hatch an egg, and watch the birth of her chick.…
One day she breaks free into the wider world and learns to survive with other animals. Translated from Korean. 2013By Naomi Novik. 2018
When her moneylender father can no longer collect his debts, Miryem takes over and earns a reputation of being able…
to turn silver into gold. This draws the attention of the icy Staryk people, whose king sets her an impossible task. Luckily she finds some unexpected allies. 2018