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The Debba
By Avner Mandelman. 2010
1977. David Starkman returns from self-imposed exile in Canada to his native Israel after learning of the murder of his…
war hero father, Isser. Isser's will includes an unusual provision - that within 45 days, a controversial play he'd written, 'The Debba', be staged. David, who once belonged to an elite Israeli army unit, decides to fulfill his father's request, while searching for clues to solve the murder. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2011 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Crime Novel. 2010.The heaven shop
By Deborah Ellis. 2004
Binti and her siblings are orphaned when their father dies of AIDS. Split up and sent to relatives all over…
Malawi, they suffer increasing hardship. But Binti is not about to give up; she will look outside herself and find a new way to be special. For junior and senior high readers. 2004.The green library
By Janice Kulyk Keefer. 1996
Eva has carefully constructed her world in a bid to make herself invisible. The structure falls to pieces when a…
stranger gives her a photograph of a boy identical to her own son, but who lived in the 1930s in another place. The photograph sets Eva on a journey to trace her family's unknown history. 1996.The Cooperman variations: a Benny Cooperman mystery (Benny Cooperman Mystery Ser.)
By Howard Engel. 2001
Benny is unexpectedly visited by Vanessa Moss, a former high school beauty, now Head of Entertainment at a TV network.…
A friend was murdered while at her house, and Vanessa fears she was the target. She asks Benny to protect her, so he travels to Toronto, where he poses as her assistant. As he tries to help his client, assist the local cops, and avoid making enemies, he discovers that taking care of Vanessa is a seductive but risky business. 2001.The bone collector's son
By Paul Yee. 2004
Fourteen-year old Bing-wing Chan resents his father not only because the man gambles away all their money, but also because…
he now forces Bing to help him in his gruesome job. Ba is the bone collector, digging up the bones of the deceased Chinese so they can be sent to China. Bing encounters some strange incidents after they dig up a skeleton with no skull, but ghosts, magic and a fortune teller help him find his courage. For junior high readers. 2003.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 boat people
By Sharon Bala. 2018
When a rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody civil war reaches Vancouver's…
shores, the young father thinks he and his six-year-old son can finally start a new life. Instead, the group is thrown into a detention processing center, with government officials and news headlines speculating that among the "boat people" are members of a separatist militant organization responsible for countless suicide attacks--and that these terrorists now pose a threat to Canada's national security. As the refugees become subject to heavy interrogation, Mahindan begins to fear that a desperate act taken in Sri Lanka to fund their escape may now jeopardize his and his son's chance for asylum. Canada Reads 2018. Bestseller. 2018.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.Sweetness in the belly
By Camilla Gibb. 2005
White, English, and orphaned at eight, Lilly grows up in Morocco as a Muslim, moves to Harar, Ethiopia, for five…
years and settles in London after political upheaval makes her vulnerable. She agonizes over the uprootings that famine, corruption, and political instability caused in Ethiopia in the 1970s and '80s. Also painful is not knowing whether Aziz, her Ethiopian lover, is alive or dead, putting Lilly in a 17-year limbo between grief and desperate hope. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2005.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 recipes: Stories
By Madeleine Thien. 2001
A collection of seven stories on the theme of family relationships. It examines the experience of alienation and the conflict…
between generations and cultures. Winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the City of Vancouver Book Award. Regional Finalist for the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book. Some strong language. 2001.Ru
By Kim Thúy. 2009
Ru est composé de très courts récits liés un peu comme dans une ritournelle : la première phrase du chapitre…
reprend le plus souvent l’idée qui terminait le chapitre précédent, permettant ainsi de faire le pont entre tous les événements que la narratrice a connus : sa naissance au Vietnam pendant la guerre, la fuite avec les boat people, son accueil dans une petite ville du Québec, ses études, ses liens familiaux, son enfant autiste, etc. La vie de l’auteure est bourrée de gens charmants, singuliers, de situations difficiles ou saugrenues vécues avec un bonheur égal, et elle sait jouer à merveille avec les sentiments du lecteur, oscillant entre le tragique et le comique, entre le prosaïque et le spirituel. 2009.Retour à Killybegs: roman (Roman)
By Sorj Chalandon. 2011
L'auteur se glisse ici dans la peau de Tyrone Meehan, un traître. Sur trois générations, il raconte la vie de…
cet homme originaire d'Irlande du Nord, qui a grandi entre un père violent et une mère qui ploie sous le fardeau des naissances et de la misère. La haine des Anglais, très tôt enseignée par le père, pousse le jeune Tyrone dans l'IRA. Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française 2011.Ragged company
By Richard Wagamese. 2009
Four chronically homeless people - Amelia One Sky, Timber, Double Dick and Digger - seek refuge in a warm movie…
theatre, and fall in love with the movies. Returning to the theatre, they meet Granite, a jaded and lonely journalist, and a friendship is struck. When the four find a winning lottery ticket, but can't claim the prize for lack of proper identification, they enlist the help of Granite, and their lives, and fortunes, become forever changed. Some descriptions of violence, explicit strong language. 2008.Empois: [roman] (Dragonville. #3.)
By Michèle Plomer. 2013
" On tente toujours la chance quand on s'aventure sur la glace. Dans son village qui ressemble à une peinture…
à numéro, Sylvie aux prises avec un furieux adversaire doit choisir à qui elle peut faire confiance. Lors d'un séjour en Chine elle fait une mystérieuse découverte qui se répercutera d'étonnantes façons sur sa vie. De son côté, Li est en danger dans cet occident qui ondule de montagnes verdoyantes. Sur les murs de la blanchisserie où ses collègues dorment sur des planches à repasser, il poursuit son oeuvre en manifestant son amour pour Lung qui ne vit que pour le protéger. Empois est un roman qui infuse chez le lecteur un savoir au sujet de l'amour et de la générosité. Un roman qui nous aide à jauger le poids du désir avec celui de la procréation, mais surtout qui nous guide sur le chemin de la chance. " -- 4e de couv.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.Nikolski
By Nicolas Dickner. 2005
À l'aube de la vingtaine, Noah, Joyce et un narrateur non identifié quittent leur lieu de naissance pour entamer une…
longue migration. Fraîchement débarqués à Montréal, ils tentent de prendre leur vie en main, malgré les erreurs de parcours, les amours défectueuses et leurs arbres généalogiques tordus. Ils se croient seuls; pourtant, leurs trajectoires ne cessent de se croiser, laissant entrevoir une incontrôlable symétrie au sein de leurs existences. 2005.No safe place
By Deborah Ellis. 2010
Orphaned Abdul from war-torn Baghdad, Rosalia, a Rom girl who has escaped the white slave trade, Cheslav, gone AWOL from…
a Russian military school, and Jonah, their boat pilot's ten-year-old nephew, are stalled in the Channel, trying to get to England after the pilot has died. The four of them end up hijacking a yacht and, despite their fear and mistrust, form a kind of makeshift family. And as the authorities close in on them, they find refuge in an unusual place - a child's secret cave on the English coast. For senior high readers. Some descriptions of violence. 2010.My name is Parvana
By Deborah Ellis. 2012
Parvana, now fifteen, has been reunited with her mother and sisters and is living in a village where her mother…
has opened a school for girls. But even though the Taliban has been driven from the government, the country is still at war, and many continue to view the education and freedom of girls and women with suspicion and fear. When local men threaten the school and her family, she must draw on every ounce of bravery and resilience she possesses to survive. For junior and senior high readers. Companion to The Breadwinner trilogy: “The breadwinner” (DC22033), “Parvana’s journey” (DC25167), and “Mud city” (DC25745). 2012.Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran
By Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt. 2001
L'histoire d'une amitié entre un jeune Juif de douze ans et un vieil épicier arabe. Un récit très simple, salubre…
en ces temps de haine et de racisme, avec un petit côté "La Vie devant soi" qui n'est pas vraiment gênant. De l'humour et de l'émotion. Deuxième volet de la Trilogie de l'Invisible. Années 5-8. 2001.