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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.By L. M Montgomery. 2009
Adultery, illegitimacy, misogyny, revenge, murder, despair, bitterness, hatred, and death - usually not the terms associated with L.M. Montgomery. In…
this her last work, Montgomery brought these topics to the forefront, in stories featuring a grown up Anne and her family around the time of the First World War. 2009.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.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.By L. Marie Adeline. 2014
The only thing that Cassie Robichaud has ever really wanted is Will Foret, the love of her life. But when…
Will discovers that Cassie is part of S.E.C.R.E.T., an underground group devoted to helping women experience their deepest fantasies, Will breaks it off. Heartbroken, Cassie dries her tears and devotes herself to helping the latest S.E.C.R.E.T. recruit, Solange Faraday. Cassie also reignites her relationship with bad-boy Jesse, even if he can never love her as deeply as Will did. The final book in the trilogy. Sequel to "S.E.C.R.E.T shared". 2014.By L. Marie Adeline. 2013
Still wounded from a recent heartbreak, Cassie Robichaud throws herself into service with S.E.C.R.E.T., the mysterious organization that changed her…
life last year by bringing her deepest fantasies to life, one step at a time. Now it’s Cassie’s turn to guide the group’s newest candidate, Dauphine Mason, recruiting men to execute a new set of fantasies. While it gets Cassie’s mind off Will, the man she truly loves, it also gives her the chance to help watch S.E.C.R.E.T. work its magic on someone new. Sequel to "S.E.C.R.E.T.". Bestseller. 2013.By L. Marie Adeline. 2013
Cassie Robichaud's life is filled with regret and loneliness after the death of her husband. She waits tables at the…
rundown Café Rose in New Orleans, and every night she heads home to her solitary one-bedroom apartment. But when she discovers a notebook left behind by a mysterious woman at the café, Cassie's world is forever changed. The notebook's stunningly explicit confessions shock and fascinate Cassie, and eventually lead her to S∙E∙C∙R∙E∙T, an underground society dedicated to helping women realize their wildest, most lurid fantasies. Includes sex and strong language. 2013.By Jean Little. 2004
Shakespeare, a Seeing Eye puppy, is sent to the home of a troubled foster child, Tessa, whom he expects to…
love him on sight. Shakespeare soon realizes why his new owner is called 'Stoneface', and begins to teach Tessa to love. Before he knows it, Shakespeare finds himself in a variety of dangerous situations, from being attacked by Zorro, a very tough rooster, to nearly drowning in a creek. Grades 3-6. 2004.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.By Jennifer Tremblay, Aline Apostolska, Geneviève Lefebvre, Marie Christine Bernard, Philibert Deladurantaye, Sébastien Chabot. 2015
" En 1616, 1639, 1759, 1801, 1890, 1939, qui étaient les aventuriers, les veuves, les Amérindiennes, les marins, les jeunes…
hommes et les jeunes femmes, les fidèles et les infidèles qui cédaient à la tentation de la chair et transgressaient les limites que leur imposait leur culture ? Quand Marie relevait son jupon, que se passait-il ? Éros surgissait et, non loin de lui, Thanatos guettait. Voici six récits libertins, inspirés par des faits réels ou pure fiction, tous alimentés par le désir, lui-même moteur de l'histoire... et de l'Histoire. " -- 4e de couv.By Bex Brian. 2003
Vivienne Yellow is an American, in a Paris hospital bed after being hit by a truck. Through hazy memories, coloured…
by her own morphine-stoked sexual longings, she recounts pieces of her past. The only link to the outside world is Sonia, a fellow patient, who brings Vivienne stories of what's happening outside of her hospital room. 2003.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.By Stéphane Dompierre. 2014
" De la littérature érotique. Assumée. Celle qui donne chaud dans le ventre, qui fait rougir de plaisir et d'excitation.…
Du sexe, des pulsions, de l'émotion. Des histoires pour adultes consentants où le plaisir des sens n'exclut pas l'élégance... Succombez aux charmes de ces seize auteurs délurés. " -- 4e de couv.By L. M Montgomery. 1935
When she was twenty, nearly everyone thought Patricia Gardiner ought to be having beaus - except Pat herself. For Pat,…
Silver Bush was both home and heaven, and she was too busy planning the Christmas family reunion, entertaining a countess, playing matchmaker, and preparing for the arrival of the new hired man. Yet as those she loved started to move away, Pat began to question the wisdom of her choice of Silver Bush over romance. 1988, c1935.By Eden Robinson. 2000
The Haisla community on the north west coast of British Columbia is devastated when the pride of their village, young…
Jimmy Hill, disappears at sea in a boating accident. Jimmy's sister Lisamarie reflects on the effect his death has on their community and on their family. She also reflects on their family, their culture, and Jimmy's life. Some strong language. 2000.By Richard Wagamese. 2014
Franklin Starlight is sixteen years old and has had the most fleeting of relationships with his real father, Eldon. The…
rare moments they've shared haunt and trouble Frank, but when he is called to visit his father, he answers it as a son's duty. He finds Eldon decimated after years of drinking, dying of liver failure in a small town flophouse. Eldon asks his son to take him into the mountains, so he may be buried in the traditional Ojibway manner. What ensues is a journey through the rugged and beautiful backcountry of the B.C. Interior, and a journey into the past, as the two men push forward to Eldon's end. Bestseller. Winner of the 2015 Evergreen Award. 2014.By E. L James, Denyse Beaulieu. 2015
By E. L James, Denyse Beaulieu. 2013
Enfin réunis, Christian et Ana ont tout : l'amour, la passion, l'intimité, la richesse et une infinité de possibles, mais…
le destin et le malheur s'associent pour plonger Ana dans le pire des cauchemars. Suite de « Cinquante nuances plus sombres ». Livre comportant des passages de nature sexuelle. 2013. Titre uniforme: Fifty shades freed.By E. L James, Aurélie Tronchet. 2013
Après avoir accepté un nouvel arrangement avec Christian Grey, Anastasia est confrontée aux tourments de la jalousie tandis que celui-ci…
tente de vaincre ses démons intérieurs. Livre comportant des passages de nature sexuelle, de la violence, et du langage grossier. Suite de « Cinquante nuances de Grey », suivi de « Cinquante nuances plus claires ». 2013. Titre uniforme: Fifty shades darker.By E. L James. 2012
Lorsqu’Anastasia Steele, étudiante en littérature, interviewe le richissime jeune chef d’entreprise Christian Grey, elle le trouve très séduisant mais profondément…
intimidant. Convaincue que leur rencontre a été désastreuse, elle tente de l’oublier – jusqu’à ce qu’il débarque dans le magasin où elle travaille et l’invite à un rendez-vous en tête-à-tête. Mais Grey est tourmenté par des démons intérieurs, et consumé par le besoin de tout contrôler. Lorsqu’ils entament une liaison passionnée, Ana découvre ses propres désirs, ainsi que les secrets obscurs que Grey tient à dissimuler aux regards indiscrets. Livre comportant des passages de nature sexuelle, de la violence et du langage grossier. 2012.