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Crâbe
By Emilie Pedneault. 2023
En continuité avec l'œuvre de l'autrice Nord-Côtière, Crâbe raconte le déracinement nécessaire et la difficulté d'être au monde comme femme…
et comme mère. Le recueil explore l'ambiguïté de la maternité, qui ne répare qu'à moitié les traumatismes enfouis en soi. Malgré tout, de page en page, les mots tissent des images porteuses d'espoir et de métamorphoseAvec Troubles, nos ombres, Jennifer Bélanger aménage un espace sécuritaire où peuvent s'exprimer librement les personnes LGBTQ2IA+, hors des injonctions…
au bonheur et à la célébration. Ici, les ombres sont invitées à troubler la parole, avec leurs bagages remplis d'enfances difficiles, de traumatismes sociaux, de violences conjugales et de blessures encore vives qu'il importe de nommer pour valoriser nos expériences singulières, plurielles, complexesBleus et joies: carnets
By Juliette Bélanger-Charpentier. 2023
Dans Bleus et joies, Juliette Bélanger-Charpentier recense comme dans un journal intime ses réflexions sur ce qui l'habite, la secoue,…
l'indigne et l'émeut. À travers une série de textes à l'intersection de la poésie et du récit, elle rend un hommage poignant aux creux de vagues, aux accalmies qui s'ensuivent et aux jours heureux qui continuent d'exister à travers les éclaboussuresLe plancher de la lune (Poésie)
By Jean-Christophe Réhel. 2023
Pas facile pour le narrateur d'avoir les deux pieds sur Terre. Surtout s'l doit s'y battre avec des mots qui…
refusent de collaborer, des phrases qui se dressent comme des obstacles et des livres qui n'en finissent plus de l'assommer. Par bonheur, il y a son chien, la Lune avec son horizon d'étoiles, et toutes les merveilles qui y scintillent. Un recueil qui met des mots doux sur le défi quotidien de ceux et celles pour qui lire est un sentier semé d'embûchesMilitant: 2, Nouvel ordre
By Dïana Bélice. 2023
2042. Le sort de l'humanité est en jeu. Le véritable objectif de Paul Montès est révélé au grand jour. Et…
c'est bien pire que tout ce qu'aurait pu imaginer Mathis. Alors que le jeune militant prend conscience que son ennemi ne reculera devant rien, il perd tranquillement pied. La bataille qu'il doit mener pèse lourd sur ses épaules. Malgré la pression, réussira-t-il à garder la tête froide ? À vaincre une fois pour toutes ses adversaires ? À sauver la planète Terre ? Et si l'alliance avec Tokhe n'était pas suffisante pour y arriver ?Mise en forme: récit
By Mikella Nicol. 2023
Après une rupture amoureuse, Mikella Nicol s'entraîne intensivement pour se réapproprier sa vie. Dans le sillon de sa pratique, elle…
fera l'expérience des contradictions de l'industrie du fitness et de son idéal de beauté. À la croisée du récit autobiographique et de l'essai, déclaration de résistance au nom des portées disparues, Mise en forme témoigne d'une histoire intime et collective des corps, revendiquant le droit des femmes à disposer du leur et à circuler librementAdieu les crevettes
By Charlotte Francœur. 2023
À l'intérieur d'une petite boîte, trois avortons, trois disparues fantasmées, surnommées crevettes, vivotent. Non-mère de cette non-vie, la narratrice choisit…
le vide du ventre afin d'échapper au destin tragique de celles qui l'ont précédée. Car au bal des absentes, la mort rôde inlassablement. Recueil de deuil, de colère et de compassion, Adieu les crevettes est une reprise de pouvoir sur les rouages filiaux qui enchaînent, une ode à l'amour maternel et à la liberté de choixSoft Inheritance
By Fawn Parker. 2023
In her exceptional poetic debut, Fawn Parker meditates on grief, illness, and the open-handed relationship between material objects and memory.…
Written after her mother was diagnosed with cancer, Soft Inheritance follows the poet's rapidly evolving reality where "kindness is a scar," though "not all scar-makers are kind. ,"" Both a treatise on the sick body and the state of ""after"-post-caretaking, post-breakup, post-moving, and post-death-these poems question what is inherited, and ask what can safely be left behind. A diamond ring? A cancerous gene? Soft Inheritance is a finely crafted love letter to the people and places that imprint on a life.Shadow Blight
By Annick MacAskill. 2022
Shadow Blight considers the pain and isolation of pregnancy loss through the lens of classical myth. Drawing on the stories…
of Niobe-whose monumental suffering at the loss of her children literally turned her to stone-and others, this collection explores the experience of being swept away by grief and silenced by the world. Skirting the tropes (“o how beautiful / the poets make our catastrophes”), MacAskill interweaves the ancient with the contemporary in a way that opens possibilities and offers a new language for those “shut up in stillness.”My Grief, the Sun
By Sanna Wani. 2022
Xanax Cowboy: Poems
By Hannah Green. 2023
Bottom Rail on Top
By D. M. Bradford. 2023
A rolling call and response between antebellum Black history and the present that mediates it. Somewhere in the cut between…
Harriet Jacobs and surveillance, Southampton and sneaker game, Lake Providence and the supply chain, Bottom Rail on Top sets off a mediation between the complications of legacy and selfhood. In a kind of archives-powered unmooring of the linear progress story, award-winning poet D.M. Bradford fragments and recomposes American histories of antebellum Black life and emancipation, and stages the action in tandem with the matter of his own life. Amidst echoes and complicities, roots and flights, lineage and mastery, it's a story of stories told in knots and asides, held together with paper trails, curiosities, and hooks — a study that doesn't end.John Turner: An Intimate Biography of Canada's 17th Prime Minister
By Steve Paikin. 2022
In this masterful and engaging biography, acclaimed journalist Steve Paikin brings to life John Turner (1929-2020), one of the most…
glamorous and successful politicians in Canadian history. Born in England, raised in BC, Turner was a champion sprinter and a Rhodes scholar who captured the national imagination as escort for Princess Margaret on her 1959 Canadian tour. Elected to Parliament in 1962, he served in Prime Minister Lester Pearson's cabinet and as Pierre Trudeau's attorney general, minister of justice, and finance minister. In 1984, he won a hotly-contested Liberal leadership contest and served a brief four months as Canada's seventeenth prime minister before falling to Brian Mulroney in a Progressive Conservative landslide. In this surprisingly candid and personal book, Paikin draws on unprecedented access to Turner's personal and public papers to show how he struggled to meet the towering expectations that came with his abundant gifts, and keep his faith in Canadian democracy despite the challenges of his own careerDes vacances à temps partiel: 1 (Titan #Vol. 52)
By Élyse Poudrier. 2003
Pour son deuxième roman, Élyse Poudrier nous propose une histoire à deux voix narratives. D’un côté, il y a Anouk,…
une intellectuelle toujours plongée dans les livres, et de l’autre, celui qu’elle surnomme Gilligan, un jeune homme bronzé qui travaille comme sauveteur pour pouvoir se payer un appartement. Deux personnalités fort différentes aux points de vue en apparence opposés finissent par se rejoindre. Et c’est là toute la beauté de cette histoire : comment l’auteure arrive à montrer la distance entre ces deux personnages pour ensuite les amener à s’apprivoiser. Du grand art !Le raisin devient banane: roman (Boréal inter #1)
By Raymond Plante. 1989
Septembre en appartement à Montréal m'a appris plus que mon cours secondaire au complet. Quoi? À peu près tout ce…
qu'il faut pour devenir banane... je veux dire un homme. Par exemple: comment remplir une demande d'emploi chez McDonald ou déchirer les billets à la porte d'un cinéma; qu'un condom, ça ne se prête pas; qu'une banane vaut un steak; que Luc n'est pas parlable quand il s'ennuie de sa blonde; que Roger Boily, notre colocataire, est une ordure; que les bébés aiment Mozart... et la liste pourrait ainsi s'allonger jusqu'à demain matin. Le raisin devient banane, c'est l'apprentissage de la débrouillardise, l'initiation au monde adulte avec des rires et des larmes, du bruit et des musiques. Un raisin qui vieillit n'a pas le choix: il ratatine ou il devient banane. Le raisin devient banane est le dix-septième livre de Raymond Plante, qui a mérité plusieurs prix, dont celui du Conseil des Arts du Canada, en 1986, pour Le dernier des raisins.Drôle en verrat: histoires drôles
By Gilles Latulippe. 2007
Health for All: A Doctor's Prescription for a Healthier Canada
By Jane Philpott. 2024
From one of Canada's most respected and high-profile health professionals (and former federal Minister of Health), a timely, practical, ambitious,…
and deeply personal call for action on health that sets out the roadmap to our future well-being.Jane Philpott has spent her life learning what makes people sick and what keeps people well. She has witnessed miracles in modern medicine. She has also watched children die of starvation in a world that has plenty of food. With Health for All, she sounds a clarion call for a radical disruption in a health care system that is broken—but not beyond repair. The vision is rooted in a deep-seated commitment to health equity.Decades ago, a few visionary Canadian leaders put laws in place to ensure health care insurance for all. But the structures to deliver that care were never fully developed as envisioned. As a result, our health systems are not comprehensive or well-coordinated. In the wake of a pandemic, we risk it all falling apart. More than six million people have no family doctor, nor any other access to primary care. Emergency rooms are routinely closed. Exhausted health workers wonder if it will ever get better. Some say we should hand health care over to the private sector. But to abandon our commitment to publicly funded health care now would only lead to more expensive and less equitable care. Philpott outlines a different solution—an ambitious, once-in-a-generation reset of health systems with universal access to primary care teams.What sets this book apart is that it’s more than a prescription for better medical care. Philpott looks at the big picture of health for all. This includes an intimate look at the personal roots of well-being: hope, belonging, meaning, and purpose. Then, through real-life stories, she examines the impact of the social determinants of health. Finally, she explains that none of this will happen without the political will to do the hard work of rebuilding a healthy society. The remedy we await is serious leadership to implement what we already know and to put the well-being of Canadians at the top of the agenda.Core of my heart, my country: women's sense of place and the land in Australia and Canada, 1828-1950
By Maggie MacKellar. 2004
When Georgiana Molloy gave birth on the beach at Augusta in 1830 with boxes of her possessions lying where they'd…
landed, she was one of the many women who literally had to remake their homes out of the broken bones of their past. In this passionate book Maggie MacKellar tells the stories of women on the frontier in Canada and Australia who ventured out in bonnets and petticoats to collect seeds, who abandoned sidesaddles to ride in the mountains, who risked their reputations to climb mountains - and beyond this it tells of the risky business of women who put their lives on the page to claim the importance of their experience. Core of My Heart, My Country weaves together experience and insight from women who lived and wrote in different landscapes, in different climates and in different eras. It is a provocative and remarkable encounter with buried stories and persistent myths.Three crooked kings (Three Crooked Kings #1)
By Matthew Condon. 2013
In 1949, a young Terence Murray Lewis graduated from the police academy, ready to start his career in law enforcement.…
Over the next four decades, he rose to the pinnacle of power as the knighted Commissioner of Police in Queensland before his spectacular downfall and imprisonment after the Fitzgerald Inquiry in the late 1980s. Three Crooked Kings follows Lewis’ journey through the ranks, as he becomes part of the so-called Rat Pack with detectives Glen Hallahan and Tony Murphy under the guiding influence of Commissioner Frank Bischof. The alleged suicide of prostitute and brothel madam Shirley Brifman in the early 1970s provides the turning point for a culture that reigned unchecked for several decades. It was part of a grand narrative teeming with murder, pay-offs, political machinations, drug heists, assisted suicides, police in-fighting and a complicated system of corruption that ultimately collapsed under its own weight. Based on unprecedented interviews with Terry Lewis and access to his personal papers, Three Crooked Kings is the missing piece in the puzzle of the story of Queensland’s endemic generational corruption.