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A woman is no man: a novel
By Etaf Rum. 2019
Three generations of Palestinian American women living in Brooklyn are torn between individual desire and the strict mores of Arab…
culture in this heart-wrenching story of love, intrigue, courage, and betrayal that will resonate with women from all backgrounds, giving voice to the silenced and agency to the oppressedUne mère en partage
By Yves Jacob. 2007
En 2001, la belle demeure normande d'Héloïse devient maison d'accueil pour enfants en difficulté. A tout prix, Héloïse veut sauver…
les petits Raphaël et Justine, porteurs d'un douloureux secret... A la suite d'un drame familial, Héloïse Le Meur devient assistante maternelle pour la Protection de l'enfance. Sa propriété s'y prête : vaste, au coeur de la verdure normande et peuplée d'animaux. Arrivent Justine et Raphaël, cinq et quatre ans, à la fois violents et fragiles. Victimes de mauvais traitements, leur passé est déjà lourd. Après deux ans de tendresse et d'amour prodigués par Héloïse et les siens, Justine et Raphaël doivent retourner chez leur mère. Pour Héloïse, c'est un déchirement ; pour les enfants, le chaos total...World's Worst Parrot (Orca Currents)
By Alice Kuipers. 2020
Ava works hard at maintaining a certain image online and at school. As far as anyone else knows, life is…
great. But when she inherits an African gray parrot from her great-uncle Bernie (whom she barely remembers), Ava’s carefully crafted world starts to crumble. The parrot, Mervin, is loud and messy and obnoxious. Ava’s brother thinks it’s hilarious to post videos of Ava trying to deal with the crazy bird. He even creates a profile for the two of them. Everyone wants to see more of Ava and Mervin. Suddenly, Ava is internet famous—in the worst possible way. Her friends think the parrot is gross and start acting weird. But then a new girl at school helps Ava see that this parrot might not be the worst gift in the world and that just being yourself is the best way to be.The Big Dig
By Lisa Harrington. 2019
Just as fourteen-year-old Lucy is starting to figure out life after her mom's death, her dad ships her off to…
Cape John, her mom's hometown, for the summer. Worse, she has to live with her nutty great-aunt Josie, who doesn't cook edible food or suffer fools. Soon Lucy meets Colin, freshly moved from the West Coast, who's digging an enormous hole in his new yard. He spends every day digging deeper in protest of his family's unilateral decision to move to this tiny oceanside community. As Colin digs in the ground, Lucy digs through her family's history, and eventually both of them uncover a shocking truth. The Big Dig asks big questions of its readers: Are secrets ever okay? What defines a family? And can we ever really know our parents? Lisa Harrington's light and funny voice blends seamlessly with Lucy's grief, creating an authentic and riveting emotional landscape.Sur une île inventée
By Maryse Rouy. 2018
" Léa et Alice, qui sont en 2e secondaire, doivent faire une recherche sur un événement de l'histoire du Québec.…
Le tirage au sort leur attribue l'Expo 67. La grand-mère de Léa, décédée récemment, avait dix-huit ans lors de l'Expo. Après sa mort, la mère de Léa a entassé dans un débarras des boîtes de souvenirs qu'elle n'avait pas le courage de trier. Léa, poussée par l'espoir d'y trouver des objets ou des documents qui pourraient servir à sa recherche, va secrètement fouiller dans les boîtes. Elle tombe d'abord sur une photo, qui l'intrigue au plus haut point, et découvre ensuite le journal intime que sa grand-mère a tenu pendant la durée de l'Expo... "Dans le cœur de Florence: roman
By Lucie Bergeron. 2019
Florence a 16 ans. Pas d'amis, pas d'amoureux. Mais elle écrit. Elle passe tout son temps à écrire dans son…
cahier, à imaginer, inventer, créer. Quand elle n'écrit pas, ses idées se bousculent comme une rivière en crue. Son écriture est fougueuse, déliée, pas encore domptée. Le rythme de l'urgence. Florence écrit comme elle pense. À la maison, rien n'est simple pour Florence, et elle riposte. Coups de gueule, insolence, provocation. Elle trouve refuge sur la grève, happée par le paysage sauvage de Charlevoix. Elle parle à sa mère, qui n'est plus là. Les épaules appuyées contre la montagne, le coeur sur le rivage. Des garçons gravitent autour d'elle. Manu, Toby, le bluesman. Florence les évite, les désire, les repousse. Seule la création lui permet de garder son équilibre, à cet âge où l'avenir ressemble à un banc de brume. Son cahier d'écriture, dont elle ne se sépare jamais, est sa bouée. Mais elle le perd. Et tout bascule. Poussée dans le vide sans parachute. Elle ira jusqu'au bout dans l'affirmation de sa créationLa faute des autres: roman historique / 2, Les réalités
By Josée Ouimet. 2019
Saint-Pie-de-Bagot, 1946. La guerre est finie, laissant dans son sillage des horreurs qu'aucun homme, aucune femme n'avait connues auparavant. Fernand…
et Henriette vivent un petit bonheur tranquille avec leur fils Maurice, espérant pouvoir donner des frères et des sœurs à ce premier-néLe clan Picard: roman historique / 3, Les ambitions d'Aglaé
By Jean-Pierre Charland. 2018
Québec, 1962. Aglaé approche de l'âge adulte. Deux scénarios s'offrent à elle : terminer son cours classique pour faire plaisir…
à sa mère ou travailler à la radio un rêve qu'elle caresse depuis qu'elle est enfant. En même temps, elle réalise que ses ambitions professionnelles ne plaisent pas à tous les hommes. Heureusement, certains ne s'effraient pas de son désir d'autonomie! De son côté, Édouard a vent des projets dAglaé et tente de l'aider. Mais Thalie veille sur sa fille et ne voit pas d'un bon oeil cette présence envahissanteÀ l'ombre de la mine: 2, Clara et Yuri
By France Lorrain. 2018
Au milieu des années 1950, les familles de Marek et Kristoff Rudenko, des immigrants ukrainiens installés au Québec quarante ans…
plus tôt, sont bien établies. Ils y vivent toujours dans leur Abitibi d'adoption avec leurs enfants, se relevant comme ils le peuvent des épreuves qui les ont marqués. Ce deuxième tome nous plonge dans les tourments vécus par la génération suivante, qui a ses propres combats à mener et ses drames à surmonterFanny Cloutier ou L'été des grandes vérités: 3
By Stéphanie Lapointe. 2019
À 14 ans, Fanny Cloutier a entrepris l'écriture d'un journal intime parce qu'elle aime dessiner et parce qu'elle a dû…
aller vivre chez sa tante à Ste-Lorette. Tandis que son père essayait de développer une invention à l'étranger, Fanny devait s'intégrer dans une nouvelle famille et dans une nouvelle école. Puis, elle a déménagé au Japon en étant forcée de laisser Henri derrière elle. Dans ce troisième tome, Fanny revient du Japon et elle compte passer un été de rêves. Henri revient dans sa vie, mais pas pour sortir avec elle. En se sentant plus proche de son père, l'adolescente aimerait arriver à se confier à luiLes fabuleuses aventures d'Aurore
By Douglas Kennedy. 2019
Aurore est une petite fille autiste dotée d'un super-pouvoir et qui s'exprime à l'aide d'une tablette numérique. Quand Lucie, la…
meilleure amie de sa grande soeur, disparaît au parc d'attractions Monster Land, Aurore s'improvise détectiveLes Foley
By Annie-Claude Thériault. 2019
Les Foley ce sont cinq portraits de femmes que Laura semble raccrocher aux murs vides de sa maison. Des portraits…
qui sentent la tourbe, l'orme qui brûle et le caramel. Des moments d'histoires qui se révèlent par temps gris avec un thé ou un whiskey. Ce sont des femmes qui bercent, qui lisent, qui trappent, qui cuisinent et qui aiment. Mal, souvent, mais qui aiment. Des femmes qui cherchent finalement peut-être simplement toutes la même chose: survivre. Ne pas s'effacerThe Heart's Invisible Furies
By John Boyne. 2017
From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, a sweeping, heartfelt saga about…
the course of one man's life, beginning and ending in post-war Ireland.Cyril Avery is not a real Avery--or at least that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then who is he? Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community, and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the intervention of a hunchbacked Redemptorist nun, Cyril is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely more glamorous and dangerous Julian Woodbead. At the mercy of fortune and coincidence, he will spend a lifetime coming to know himself and where he came from and--over his many years--will struggle to discover an identity, a home, a country and much more. In this, Boyne's most transcendent work to date, we are shown the story of Ireland from the 1940s to today through the eyes of one ordinary man. The Heart's Invisible Furies is a novel to make you laugh and cry while reminding us all of the redemptive power of the human spirit.Girl, unframed
By Deb Caletti. 2020
A teen girl's summer with her mother turns sinister in this gripping thriller about the insidious dangers of unwanted attention,…
from Printz Honor medal–winning and National Book Award finalist author Deb Caletti—perfect for fans of Courtney Summers's Sadie . Sydney Reilly has a bad feeling about going home to San Francisco before she even gets on the plane. How could she not? Her mother is Lila Shore— the Lila Shore—a film star who prizes her beauty and male attention above all else...certainly above her daughter. But Sydney's worries multiply when she discovers that Lila is involved with the dangerous Jake, an art dealer with shady connections. Jake loves all beautiful objects, and Syndey can feel his eyes on her whenever he's around. And he's not the only one. Sydney is starting to attract attention—good and bad—wherever she goes: from sweet, handsome Nicco Ricci, from the unsettling construction worker next door, and even from Lila. Behaviors that once seemed like misunderstandings begin to feel like threats as the summer grows longer and hotter. It's unnerving, how beauty is complicated, and objects have histories, and you can be looked at without ever being seen. But real danger, crimes of passion, the kind of stuff where someone gets killed—it only mostly happens in the movies, Sydney is sure. Until the night something life-changing happens on the stairs that lead to the beach. A thrilling night that goes suddenly very wrong. When loyalties are called into question. And when Sydney learns a terrible truth: beautiful objects can break10 things i hate about pinky
By Sandhya Menon. 2020
The delightful follow-up to When Dimple Met Rishi and There's Something about Sweetie , which follows Ashish's friends Pinky and…
Samir as they pretend to date in order to achieve their individual goals, to disastrous and hilarious results. Pinky Kumar wears the social justice warrior badge with pride. From raccoon hospitals to persecuted rock stars, no cause is too esoteric for her to champion. But a teeny tiny part of her also really enjoys making her conservative, buttoned-up corporate lawyer parents cringe. Samir Jha might have a few...quirks remaining from the time he had to take care of his sick mother, like the endless lists he makes in his planner and the way he schedules every minute of every day, but those are good things. They make life predictable and steady. Pinky loves lazy summers at her parents' Cape Cod lake house, but after listening to them harangue her about the poor decisions she's made (a.k.a. boyfriends she's had), she hatches a plan. Get her sorta-friend-sorta-enemy—who is a total Harvard-bound Mama's boy—to pose as her perfect boyfriend for the summer. When Samir's internship falls through, leaving him with an unplanned summer, he gets a text from Pinky asking if he'll be her fake boyfriend in exchange for a new internship. He jumps at the opportunity; Pinky's a weirdo, but he can survive a summer with her if there's light at the end of the tunnel. As they bicker their way through lighthouses and butterfly habitats, sparks fly, and they both realize this will be a summer they'll never forgetBig summer: A novel
By Jennifer Weiner. 2020
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Sexy and satisfying, Big Summer is the perfect quarantine read." — USA TODAY "The…
beach read to end all beach reads." — Entertainment Weekly "Big fun, and then some. It's empowering and surprising—a reminder to put down the phone and enjoy each moment for what it is." — The Washington Post A deliciously funny, remarkably poignant, and simply unputdownable novel about the power of friendship, the lure of frenemies, and the importance of making peace with yourself through all life's ups and down. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Good in Bed and Best Friends Forever , Big Summer is the perfect escape with one of the most lovable heroines to come to the page in years. Six years after the fight that ended their friendship, Daphne Berg is shocked when Drue Cavanaugh walks back into her life, looking as lovely and successful as ever, with a massive favor to ask. Daphne hasn't spoken one word to Drue in all this time—she doesn't even hate-follow her ex-best friend on social media—so when Drue asks if she will be her maid-of-honor at the society wedding of the summer, Daphne is rightfully speechless. Drue was always the one who had everything—except the ability to hold onto friends. Meanwhile, Daphne's no longer the same self-effacing sidekick she was back in high school. She's built a life that she loves, including a growing career as a plus-size Instagram influencer. Letting glamorous, seductive Drue back into her life is risky, but it comes with an invitation to spend a weekend in a waterfront Cape Cod mansion. When Drue begs and pleads and dangles the prospect of cute single guys, Daphne finds herself powerless as ever to resist her friend's siren song. A sparkling novel about the complexities of female relationships, the pitfalls of living out loud and online, and the resilience of the human heart, Big Summer is a witty, moving story about family, friendship, and figuring out what matters mostThe book of two ways: A novel
By Jodi Picoult. 2020
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Small Great Things and A Spark of Light comes a…
&“powerful&” ( The Washington Post ) novel about the choices that alter the course of our lives. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MARIE CLAIRE Everything changes in a single moment for Dawn Edelstein. She&’s on a plane when the flight attendant makes an announcement: Prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing is, the thoughts are not of her husband but of a man she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt Armstrong. Dawn, miraculously, survives the crash, but so do all the doubts that have suddenly been raised. She has led a good life. Back in Boston, there is her husband, Brian, their beloved daughter, and her work as a death doula, in which she helps ease the transition between life and death for her clients. But somewhere in Egypt is Wyatt Armstrong, who works as an archaeologist unearthing ancient burial sites, a career Dawn once studied for but was forced to abandon when life suddenly intervened. And now, when it seems that fate is offering her second chances, she is not as sure of the choice she once made. After the crash landing, the airline ensures that the survivors are seen by a doctor, then offers transportation to wherever they want to go. The obvious destination is to fly home, but she could take another path: return to the archaeological site she left years before, reconnect with Wyatt and their unresolved history, and maybe even complete her research on The Book of Two Ways—the first known map of the afterlife. As the story unfolds, Dawn&’s two possible futures unspool side by side, as do the secrets and doubts long buried with them. Dawn must confront the questions she&’s never truly asked: What does a life well lived look like? When we leave this earth, what do we leave behind? Do we make choices . . . or do our choices make us? And who would you be if you hadn&’t turned out to be the person you are right now?These ghosts are family: A novel
By Maisy Card. 2020
Longlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A "rich, ambitious debut novel" ( T he New York…
Times Book Review ) that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures over generations, in the tradition of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. *An Entertainment Weekly , Millions , and LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2020 Pick and Buzz Magazine 's Top New Book of the New Decade* Stanford Solomon's shocking, thirty-year-old secret is about to change the lives of everyone around him. Stanford has done something no one could ever imagine. He is a man who faked his own death and stole the identity of his best friend. Stanford Solomon is actually Abel Paisley. And now, nearing the end of his life, Stanford is about to meet his firstborn daughter, Irene Paisley, a home health aide who has unwittingly shown up for her first day of work to tend to the father she thought was dead. These Ghosts Are Family revolves around the consequences of Abel's decision and tells the story of the Paisley family from colonial Jamaica to present-day Harlem. There is Vera, whose widowhood forced her into the role of a single mother. There are two daughters and a granddaughter who have never known they are related. And there are others, like the houseboy who loved Vera, whpose lives might have taken different courses if not for Abel Paisley's actions. This "rich and layered story" ( Kirkus Reviews ) explores the ways each character wrestles with their ghosts and struggles to forge independent identities outside of the family and their trauma. The result is a "beguiling...vividly drawn, and compelling" ( BookPage , starred review) portrait of a family and individuals caught in the sweep of history, slavery, migration, and the more personal dramas of infidelity, lost love, and regretThe kings of cool: A prequel to savages
By Don Winslow. 2012
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Cartel , The Force , and The Border In Savages ,…
Don Winslow introduced Ben and Chon, twenty-something best friends who risk everything to save the girl they both love, O. Among the most celebrated literary thrillers, Savages was a Top 10 Book of the Year selection by Janet Maslin in The New York Times and Stephen King in Entertainment Weekly . Now, in this high-octane prequel to Savages , Winslow reaches back in time to tell the story of how Ben, Chon, and O became the people they are. Spanning from 1960s Southern California to the recent past, The Kings of Cool is a breathtakingly original saga of family in all its forms—fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, friends and lovers. As the trio at the center of the book does battle with a cabal of drug dealers and crooked cops, they come to learn that their future is inextricably linked with their parents' history. A series of breakneck twists and turns puts the two generations on a collision course, culminating in a stunning showdown that will force Ben, Chon, and O to choose between their real families and their loyalty to one anotherTranscendent kingdom: A novel
By Yaa Gyasi. 2020
A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed…
national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama . Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after an ankle injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. But even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her family's loss, she finds herself hungering for her childhood faith and grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as tantalizing as it is elusive. Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief—a novel about faith, science, religion, love. Exquisitely written, emotionally searing, this is an exceptionally powerful follow-up to Gyasi's phenomenal debut