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Le passeur (Medium)
By Lois Lowry, Frederique Pressmann. 1994
Dans le monde où vit Jonas, la guerre, la pauvreté, le chômage, le divorce n'existent pas. Les inégalités n'existent pas.…
La désobéissance et la révolte n'existent pas. L'harmonie règne dans les cellules familiales constituées avec soin par le comité des sages. Les personnes trop âgées, ainsi que les nouveaux-nés inaptes sont élargis, personne ne sait exactement ce que cela veut dire. Dans la communauté, une seule personne détient véritablement le savoir: cest le dépositaire de la mémoire. Lui seul sait comment était le monde, des générations plus tôt, quand il y avait des animaux, quand l'œil humain pouvait encore voir les couleurs, quand les gens tombaient amoureux. Dans quelques jours, Jonas aura 12 ans. Au cours d'une grande cérémonie, il se verra attribuer, comme tous les enfants de son âge, sa future fonction dans la communauté. Jonas ne sait pas encore qu'il est unique. Un destin extraordinaire lattend. Un destin qui peut le détruire. Années 5-8. Suivi de "L'Élue". Titre uniforme: The giver.Heureux les heureux
By Yasmina Reza. 2013
"Dans le 95, qui va de la place Clichy à la porte de Vanves, je me suis souvenue de ce…
qui m'avait enchaînée à Igor Lorrain. Non pas l'amour, ou n'importe lequel des noms qu'on donne au sentiment, mais la sauvagerie. Il s'est penché et il a dit, tu me reconnais? J'ai dit, oui et non. Il a souri. Je me suis souvenue aussi qu'autrefois je n'arrivais jamais à lui répondre avec netteté. - Tu t'appelles toujours Hélène Barnèche ? - Oui. -Tu es toujours mariée avec Raoul Barnèche?- Oui. J'aurais voulu faire une phrase plus longue, mais je n'étais pas capable de le tutoyer. Il avait des cheveux longs poivre et sel, mis en arrière d'une curieuse façon, et un cou empâté. Dans ses yeux, je retrouvais la graine de folie sombre qui m'avait aspirée. Je me suis passée en revue mentalement. Ma coiffure, ma robe et mon gilet, mes mains. Il s'est penché encore pour dire, tu es heureuse? J'ai dit, oui, et j'ai pensé, quel culot. Il a hoché la tête et pris un petit air attendri, tu es heureuse, bravo." -- 4e de couv.Une divine plaisanterie: roman (Littérature étrangère)
By Margaret Laurence, Edith Soonckindt. 2006
Rachel Cameron a trente-quatre ans. Elle est célibataire et enseigne dans la petite ville de Manawaka, au Canada, où elle…
a toujours vécu. Rachel refuse toute vie sociale et, habitant toujours avec sa mère, s'enferme obstinément dans une vie rythmée par les soins qu'elle lui prodigue quotidiennement. Avec le directeur de l'école, avec sa mère, avec sa collègue, Rachel ne trouve jamais la force de s'exprimer, de se révéler. Celle qui se définit elle-même comme un anachronisme rencontre bientôt en la personne de Nick Kazlik son premier amour, son premier amant qui va transformer sa vie à jamais. Mais celui auquel elle se donne déjà corps et âme s'empresse de disparaître, sans donner de nouvelles, dès lors qu'elle lui parle naïvement de son désir d'enfant... -- 4e de couv. Prix littéraire du Gouverneur général du Canada. Titre uniforme: A jest of GodThe perfect circle
By Sheila Fischman, Pascale Quiviger. 2006
Marianne, a young Montrealer, has come to live in Tuscany to draw and write and examine her life. Here she…
meets Marco, a temptingly seductive man who still lives in his mother's house and who's not prepared to commit himself to anything resembling a shared life. Though he breaks her heart, again and again, Marianne can only avoid him by returning to Canada. Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award, 2006. 2006. Uniform title: Cercle parfait.The secret of Gabi's dresser (A holocaust Remembrance Ser.)
By Kathy Kacer. 1999
Gabi lives happily with her family in their Czechoslovakian village when the Nazis invade her country. Then she and the…
other Jewish children are harassed by their fellow students and deserted by former friends. When a rumour circulates that the Nazis are taking Jewish girls away from their families, Gabi realizes that she needs to find a hiding place, and quickly. Winner of the 2000 Silver Birch Award. Grades 4-7. 1999.Wow, Canada!: exploring this land from coast to coast to coast (Wow Canada! Ser.)
By Vivien Bowers. 1999
12-year-old Guy keeps a journal as he tours Canada with his parents and younger sister, Rachel. Learn about each province…
and territory, with information about major cities along the way, and other fun Canadian facts in sections like "According to Mom/Dad", "Exceedingly Weird", and "Food I Was Introduced to for My Own Good". Also included is "Guy's Family Car Trip Survival Tips". Grades 3-6. 1999.Days of anger (Dedalus Europe 1992-95 Ser.)
By Christine Donougher, Sylvie Germain. 1993
Hidden in the depths of a forest is the body of Catherine Corvol, murdered as much out of love as…
hatred. Her sensuality and her spilt blood seep insidiously into the enclosed world of this cool and momentous novel. 1989, 1993. Uniform title: Jours de colere.The luminaries
By Eleanor Catton. 2013
It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he…
stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky. Winner of the 2013 Governor General’s Award for Fiction, and the 2013 Man Booker Prize. Bestseller. 2013.The Sisters brothers
By Patrick DeWitt. 2011
Oregon, 1851. Eli and Charlie Sisters, notorious professional killers, are on their way to California to kill a man named…
Hermann Kermit Warm. On the way, the brothers have a series of unsettling and violent experiences in the Darwinian landscape of Gold Rush America. Charlie makes money and kills anyone who stands in his way; Eli doubts his vocation and falls in love. And they bicker a lot. Then they get to California, and discover that Warm is an inventor who has come up with a magical formula, which could make all of them very rich. Strong language and descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2011 Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction and the 2012 Leacock Award. 2011.The hours
By Michael Cunningham. 1999
This novel takes Virginia Woolf's life and work as inspiration for a meditation on artistic behaviour, failure, love and madness.…
Moving across the decades and between England and America, the story explores the pain and trauma of creativity and the immutable relationship between writer and reader. Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.The stream
By Brian Clarke. 2000
Apart from a few protesters, the announcement of an industrial park in a depressed rural area is widely welcomed, it…
promises new jobs and new hope for those who live there. A few miles away, in a small valley with a stream running through it, the management of a farm passes from father to son after years of wrangling between them about the way it should be run. Over time, unnoticed by anyone, these two events begin to take their toll on the valley and the surrounding land. Winner of the 2000 BP Natural World Book Prize. 2000.Solar bones
By Mike McCormack. 2017
Once a year, on All Souls' Day, it is said in Ireland that the dead may return. 'Solar Bones' is…
the story of one such visit. Marcus Conway, a middle-aged engineer, turns up one afternoon at his kitchen table and considers the events that took him away and then brought him home again. Mike McCormack captures, in continuous, flowing prose, a whole life, suspended in a single hour. Winner of the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award; BGE Irish Book of the Year; Goldsmiths Prize. 2017.The sellout
By Paul Beatty. 2016
Born in the 'agrarian ghetto' of Dickens, on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles, the narrator of The Sellout is…
raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist, and spends his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. When his father is killed in a drive-by shooting, all that’s left is a bill for a drive-through funeral. What’s more, Dickens has literally been wiped off the map to save California from further embarrassment. Fuelled by despair, the narrator sets out to right this wrong with the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court. Man Booker Prize winner 2016.Before I go to sleep
By S. J Watson. 2014
Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name, your identity, your…
past, even the people you love, all forgotten overnight. And the one person you trust may only be telling you half the story. Welcome to Christine's life. Christine, an amnesiac who, following a mysterious accident, cannot remember her past or form new memories, desperately tries to uncover the truth about who she is and who she can trust. Winner of the 2011 Crime Writer's Association John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger and the Galaxy National UK Thriller & Crime Novel of the Year, 2011. 2014.A brief history of seven killings
By Marlon James. 2015
On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the…
Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine guns blazing. The attack nearly killed the Reggae superstar, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Marley would go on to perform at the free concert on December 5, but he left the country the next day, not to return for two years. Spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters - assassins, journalists, drug dealers, and even ghosts - this is the fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time and its bloody aftermath, from the streets and slums of Kingston in the 1970s, to the crack wars in 1980s New York, to a radically altered Jamaica in the 1990s. Winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize. 2015.The pain eater
By Beth Goobie, Stephanie Fysh. 2017
She hadn't told anyone. Not a single soul. Not one word about that night and what had been done to…
her had ever passed Maddy Malone's lips. She'd thought about it at first - had been desperate, even frantic, to tell. But then had come the shame, and the intimidation from the boys who raped her - and the one who held her down. Now it's the beginning of a new school year and Maddy is hoping that she can continue to hide, making herself as quiet and small as possible. She is consumed with keeping the memories at bay, forcing them down through small cuts and the burn from the end of a cigarette. But when her English class is given the assignment of writing a collaborative novel about a fifteen-year-old girl, The Pain Eater, fact and fiction begin to meet up. When the boys spread rumours about Maddy, she realizes that continuing to hide the truth will only give them more control, and she slowly gains the courage. For senior high readers. Winner of the 2018 White Pine Fiction Honour Book Award. 2017.Zolitude: stories
By Paige Cooper. 2018
Paige Cooper's short stories catalogue moments in love. These are stories about women who built time machines when they were…
nine, or who predict cataclysm, or who think their dreams are reality. They include police horses with talons and giant eagles and weredeer. At the center of it all is love. And if love is the problem, what is the solution? Being closer? Or being alone? Winner of the 2018 Concordia University First Book Prize (QWF). 2018. Zolitude -- Spiderhole -- Ryan & Irene, Irene & Ryan -- Thanatos -- The emperor -- Slave craton -- Moriah -- The tin luck -- Record of working -- La folie -- Pre-occupants -- Retirement -- The roar -- Vazova on love. Uniform title: Short stories.The party wall (Biblioasis international translation series #17)
By Catherine Leroux, Lazer Lederhendler. 2016
Ties together stories about siblings joined in surprising ways. A woman learns that she absorbed her twin sister's body in…
the womb and that she has two sets of DNA; a girl in the deep South pushes her sister out of the way of a speeding train, losing her legs; and a political couple learn that they are non-identical twins separated at birth. Winner of the Quebec Bookseller's Prize and the Prestigious France-Quebec Prize. 2016. Uniform title: Mur mitoyen.The marrow thieves
By Cherie Dimaline. 2017
In a future world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led…
to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's indigenous population - and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world. But getting the marrow - and dreams - means death for the unwilling donors. Driven to flight, a 15-year-old and his companions struggle for survival, attempt to reunite with loved ones, and take refuge from the "recruiters" who seek them out to bring them to the marrow-stealing 'factories.' For senior high readers. Bestseller. Canada Reads 2018. Winner of the 2017 Governor General’s Award for Young People's Literature and the 2018 Amy Mathers Teen Book Award. Winner of the 2018 Burt Award for First Nations, Inuit and Métis Young Adult Literature. 2017.Fifteen dogs
By André Alexis. 2014
A bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo leads them to grant human consciousness and language to a group of…
dogs overnighting at a Toronto veterinary clinic. Suddenly capable of complex thought, the pack is torn between those who resist the new ways of thinking, preferring the old 'dog' ways, and those who embrace the change. The gods watch from above as the dogs venture into their newly unfamiliar world, as they become divided among themselves, as each struggles with new thoughts and feelings. Winner of the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize, winner of the 2015 Roger’s Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Bestseller. Winner of Canada Reads 2017. 2014.