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Russie, début du XXe siècle. Yakov Bok, menuisier juif accusé du meurtre rituel d'un enfant, est arrêté et emprisonné pendant… plusieurs années avant que s'ouvre le procès qui l'innocentera. Prix Pulitzer de fiction 1966.
A Alger, l'obsession d'un collectionneur de disques pour une pièce rare des années 1960 le conduit à soulever un coin… du voile qui dissimule les mystères de la guerre d'Algérie et de ses prolongements. Prix Utopiales européen 2011, Grand prix de l'imaginaire 2012 (Etonnants voyageurs).
Daniel Misumi has just moved to a new house. It's big and old and far away from his friends and… his life before. AND it's haunted ... or is it? Megabat was just napping on a papaya one day when he was stuffed in a box and shipped halfway across the world. Now he's living in an old house far from home, feeling sorry for himself and accidentally scaring the people who live there. Daniel realizes it's not a ghost in his new house. It's a bat. And he can talk. And he's actually kind of cute. Megabat realizes that not every human wants to whack him with a broom. This one shares his smooshfruit. Add some buttermelon, juice boxes, a light saber and a common enemy and you've got a new friendship in the making! Winner of the 2020 Silver Birch Express Award. Grades 3-6. 2018.
The first in an exciting new series, this suspenseful debut brings readers on a journey filled with secrets, mystery, and… unforgettable characters.With a dad who disappeared years ago and a mother who's a bit too busy to parent, Emmy is shipped off to Wellsworth, a prestigious boarding school in England, where she's sure she won't fit in.But then she finds a box of mysterious medallions in the attic of her home—medallions that belonged to her father. Her father who may have gone to Wellsworth.When she arrives at school, she finds the strange symbols from the medallions etched into walls and books, which leads Emmy and her new friends, Jack and Lola, to Wellsworth's secret society: The Order of Black Hollow Lane. Emmy can't help but think that the society had something to do with her dad's disappearance, and that there may be more than just dark secrets in thehalls of Wellsworth... Winner of the 2020 Silver Birch Fiction Award.
1956. A small group of evangelical Christian missionaries and their families journeyed to the rainforest in Ecuador intending to convert… the Waorani, a people who had never had contact with the outside world. Calling it Operation Auca, the group spent several days dropping gifts from an aircraft, and then the five men in the party rashly entered the "intangible zone." They were all killed, leaving their wives and children to fend for themselves. A fictionalized account of the real-life women who were left behind, and their struggles - with grief, with doubt, and with each other - as they continued to pursue their evangelical mission in the face of the explosion of fame that followed their husbands' deaths. Winner of the 2019 Governor General’s Award for Fiction. Bestseller. 2019.
L'une s'immobilise devant les fenêtres de sa maison en banlieue avec le poids de la mort au creux du ventre;… l'autre cherche à traverser l'écran pour se transformer en image grâce à son avatar numérique, en quête d'absolu. L'une a donné naissance à l'autre, qui tente maintenant de renaître à travers un corps virtuel, loin de la morosité du nid familial. Récit d'une lumineuse lucidité propre à ouvrir les consciences et à faire vibrer les âmes, De synthèse met en lumière l'aboutissement d'une relation filiale du point de vue d'une femme-image renouant avec sa famille au moment où sa mère entre en phase terminale, au terme d'une longue période de dégénérescence. C'est une histoire de corps, de disparition, de reflets, de composition et de décomposition. C'est l'histoire d'une image à parfaire, par-delà le désastre de la chair. Prix du Gouverneur général, section romans et nouvelles, 2018. 2017.
Ayant toujours eu peur de tout, Ferdinand F. n'a jamais véritablement pris de risque dans sa vie, voyant les jours… se succéder sans histoire jusqu'à ses 81 ans. S'il était reconnu, enfant, pour son magnifique sourire, le voilà un vieillard solitaire qui n'a pas profité des chances qui lui ont été offertes tout au long de son existence. En effet, même s'il se faisait approcher par Georges Foisy, fils de diplomate, il n'a jamais voulu se lier d'amitié avec ce dernier parce qu'il était jaloux de lui, particulièrement lorsqu'il a constaté que Frangin, son copain imaginaire, s'était mis à jouer avec son pire ennemi. Changeant d'école, il termine ses études avant de s'enrôler dans l'armée lors de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, mais feint toutes sortes de maladies afin d'éviter d'être envoyé au front. Ses talents indéniables en batterie lui auraient également permis de joindre les Beatles si sa mère parlait anglais, il aurait pu se marier à une bibliothécaire décomplexée s'il n'avait pas fait de mauvais rêves et il aurait pu visiter les villes dominées par les gratte-ciel s'il n'avait pas aussi peur de l'avion. Tout change cependant en 2005 quand un vieil ennemi le contacte afin de sauver l'être le plus cher à ses yeux. Pour les lecteurs d'école secondaire. Prix du Gouverneur général, section littérature jeunesse, texte, 2018. 2018.
A collection of short stories set in Vancouver, in and around the port, about working men grappling with masculinity and… responsibility. Includes the title story, winner of the 2014 Journey Prize. 2018.
A New York Times bestseller! An Edgar Award Winner! A Booklist Top 10 YA Book for Adult Readers. One of… the Best YA Novels of 2018 by Publishers Weekly. One of B&N Teen Blog's Best YA Books of 2018. Bustle's Best Young Adult Books of 2018. Good Morning America's Best Books of 2018. In NPR's Guide to 2018's Greatest Reads. In Paste's 30 Best Young Adult Novels of 2018. Nominated for YALSA's 2019 Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers. 4 Starred Reviews from Kirkus, School Library Journal, Booklist, Publishers Weekly! "Sadie: a novel for readers of any age, and a character as indelible as a scar. Flat-out dazzling."—A. J. Finn, #1New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window" Sadie is an electrifying, high-stakes road trip. Clear your schedule. You're not going anywhere until you've reached the end." —Stephanie Perkins,New York Times bestselling author of There's Someone Inside Your House and Anna and the French Kiss" A haunting, gut-wrenching, and relentlessly compelling read." —Veronica Roth, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Carve the Mark and the Divergent series. A missing girl on a journey of revenge. A Serial—like podcast following the clues she's left behind. And an ending you won't be able to stop talking about. Sadie hasn't had an easy life. Growing up on her own, she's been raising her sister Mattie in an isolated small town, trying her best to provide a normal life and keep their heads above water.But when Mattie is found dead, Sadie's entire world crumbles. After a somewhat botched police investigation, Sadie is determined to bring her sister's killer to justice and hits the road following a few meager clues to find him.When West McCray—a radio personality working on a segment about small, forgotten towns in America—overhears Sadie's story at a local gas station, he becomes obsessed with finding the missing girl. He starts his own podcast as he tracks Sadie's journey, trying to figure out what happened, hoping to find her before it's too late.Courtney Summers has written the breakout book of her career.Sadie is propulsive and harrowing and will keep you riveted until the last page. Winner of the 2020 White Pine Fiction Award.
Ce n'est pas comme ça que ça aurait dû se passer. D'habitude, les choses sont différentes. Mais voilà, il y… a les bouchons de circulation, la pression familiale, la curiosité ou la guerre, et soudain les événements prennent un tournant inattendu. Et cette chaleur qui pèse et exacerbe toutes les tensions...En dix-huit nouvelles, Aurélie Resch explore les désordres possibles lorsque le soleil, la fièvre ou le feu font sentir leurs effets et obligent les personnages à composer avec des circonstances extrêmes. Gagnant de Prix Trillium 2018. 2017.
Lorsque qu'une jeune Métisse est victime d'une violente agression, les contrecoups se font sentir dans toute la communauté du quartier… North End de Winnipeg. Policiers chargés de l'enquête, famille, amis et connaissances voient leurs certitudes ébranlées à mesure que se précise le fil des évènements. Entre les femmes qui se relaient au chevet de l'adolescente et celles qui errent dans l'ombre, au dehors, des liens puissants se dessinent, esquissant le portrait d'une identité morcelée. Les voix de chacune prennent de l'ampleur, jusqu'à ce que la ligne brisée de leurs destins en vienne à former un arbre généalogique aux racines profondément ancrées dans le territoire manitobain. 2017.
En août 1992, dans une vallée perdue de l'est de la France, deux adolescents trompent l'ennui d'une journée de canicule… en volant un canoë pour aller voir ce qui se passe de l'autre côté du lac, sur la plage naturiste. Pour Anthony, 14 ans, ce sera l'été de son premier amour, celui qui orientera le reste de sa vie. Prix Goncourt 2018. 2018.
Sadie's been raising her sister Mattie in an isolated Colorado town, trying her best to provide a normal life and… keep their heads above water. When Mattie is found dead, and the police investigation is botched, Sadie is determined to bring her sister's killer to justice. She hits the road following a few meager clues. When West McCray, a radio personality working on a segment about small, forgotten towns in America, hears Sadie's story, he becomes obsessed with finding the missing girl. He starts his own podcast as he tracks Sadie's journey, trying to figure out what happened, hoping to find her before it's too late. For senior high readers. Winner of the 2020 White Pine Fiction Award. 2018.
Au début du XXe siècle, la construction du chemin de fer vers le Nord de l'Ontario entraîne la découverte d'importants… gisements d'or et d'argent. De partout, prospecteurs, aventuriers, bûcherons et fermiers affluent. Parmi eux, le fils aîné du forgeron d'un petit village du Québec, qui disparaîtra dans des circonstances mystérieuses au lendemain du grand feu de juillet 1911. Alexandre, son frère cadet destiné au sacerdoce depuis l'enfance, part à sa recherche. "La quête d'Alexandre", premier tome des Chroniques du Nouvel-Ontario, nous amène à la suite d'Alexandre au coeur de cette région sauvage, de ce pays neuf rempli de périls et de promesses. Suivi d'"Entre l'aube et le jour". Prix Champlain, 1981. 2011.
Nineteenth-century England. After her father's disappearance Nan Sparrow, ten, works as a "climbing boy," aiding chimney sweeps, but when her… most treasured possessions end up in a fireplace, she unwittingly creates a golem. Winner of the 2018 Governor General’s Award for Young People's Literature. Grades 4-7. 2018.
Follows a seventy-year-long wartime marriage between two seemingly incompatible partners in sometimes tender, sometimes excruciating detail. Studded with allusions to… poems and novels, it is set in locations that include London during the 1920s and 1940s, Tunisia during World War Two, the Cotswolds, a new post-war suburb, and a Mediterranean cruise ship. The protagonist, Harry Miles, is born on a working-class London street, wins a scholarship, and grows into a sensitive man torn between a love of poetry and a more prosaic ability to understand what is required of him and to do it. Evelyn, the magnetic and demanding woman whom he marries as WW2 breaks out, increasingly tests Harry's capacity to love, and, on the cusp of death, abandons him. This is a love story, albeit an unconventional one. Winner of the 2018 Roger’s Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Bestseller. 2018.
Josh Tyler fronts a top-selling worship band and is in demand all over the world. But, in the past, his… failed romantic relationships almost destroyed both his reputation and his family. He's determined to never risk it happening again. The last thing he needs is some American girl tipping his ordered life upside down. Especially one who despises everything he's ever worked for and manages to push every button he has. Winner of the 2018 RITA Award for Romance with Religious or Spiritual Elements. 2017.
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.