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French Canadian fiction, Canadian fiction, Serious and literary fiction
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Au milieu du mois de mai, une crise existentielle banale, mais bouleversante, frappe Olive. La jeune ingénieure qui a toujours…
suivi les yeux fermés un parcours traditionnel se retrouve confinée dans son emploi doré du centre-ville de Montréal. Acculée au mur, elle devra se questionner. Comment se libérer? Elle se laissera porter tout le long du pays, jusqu'à Haida Gwaii, interrogeant son rapport au travail moderne en vivant enfin des aventures dignes de mention, de la rencontre de sugar daddies à l'exploration de ses limites au sein d'une fondation distribuant des rouleaux aux fruits
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French Canadian fiction, Canadian fiction, Short stories, Serious and literary fiction, Family stories
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"Plus qu'un recueil de nouvelles, Aux absents les os est le portrait choral d'une culture familiale dissonante, étalé sur trois…
générations. Avec une plume aussi concise qu'évocatrice, Diane Gravel présente tour à tour les dislocations internes, familiales et personnelles, dans des récits lapidaires où psychologie et lyrisme ne font qu'un. Il y a un os, oui, mais aussi beaucoup de cœur."
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Serious and literary fiction, Science fiction
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Anticipating climate fiction and the new weird literary genre, while garnering fans from Doris Lessing and J. G. Ballard to…
China Miéville and Patti Smith since it was first published in 1967, this fantasia about predatory male sexual behavior during an apocalyptic climate catastrophe reads as though author Anna Kavan had seen the future. Ice is slowly covering the entire globe; as the glacial tide creeps forward, the fabric of society begins to break down. Through this chaotic landscape, a nameless narrator hunts for the white-haired girl he once loved—or perhaps wishes to annihilate. Battling a powerful enemy known only as the Warden, he travels through nightmarish and ever-shifting scenes, where the object of his obsession remains constantly just out of reach. She is guarded by the Warden and by a cruel older woman who wishes her ill—but each time the narrator seems poised to rescue her the encroaching ice wreaks violence on her fragile body, or his own base nature sends him hurtling onward in his kaleidoscopic pursuit. Again and again the girl appears, but inevitably she eludes him. This dystopian classic, the last book Anna Kavan published in her lifetime, renders her apocalyptic vision of environmental devastation and possessive violence in unforgettable, propulsive, oneiric prose
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Serious and literary fiction, Ghost and horror stories, Suspense and thrillers
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Stephen King's "The Life of Chuck" is a "phenomenal" ( USA TODAY ) tale of life and legacy—now a feature…
film directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Tom Hiddleston, Mark Hamill, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Karen Gillan—available for the first time in a beautiful stand-alone edition with a new introduction by Stephen King and a design surprise . Originally featured in the acclaimed story collection If It Bleeds , this unforgettable, mind-bending tale unfolds in reverse, taking readers through the extraordinary life of Charles "Chuck" Krantz. In a crumbling world plagued by natural disasters, collapsing infrastructure, and mass panic, bizarre billboards and advertisements appear throughout town: "Charles Krantz. Thirty-nine great years. Thanks, Chuck!" Marty Anderson, a schoolteacher, becomes obsessed with these messages as the world, inexplicably linked to Chuck's life, seems to be approaching its end. Told in three acts, presented in reverse order, The Life of Chuck explores one man's past. We see him in middle age on a business trip in Boston as he is seduced by a busker into spinning a gorgeous sidewalk dance. And we see him as a child, in a house haunted by a terrible secret, learning to dance with his grandmother. In these pages King reminds us that life's quotidian pleasures are even more glorious because they are fleeting: the outrageous good fortune of a beautiful blue day after a string of gray ones; the delight of dancing when every move feels perfect; a serendipitous meeting. King's ability to describe pure joy rivals his ability to terrify us. Now a major motion picture and winner of the Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award, The Life of Chuck is a glorious story about community and about humanity at its best, a celebration of joy, mystery, existential wonder, and the multitudes contained in all of us
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French Canadian fiction, Canadian fiction, Historical fiction, Serious and literary fiction
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Alors qu'il est plongé dans la rédaction de Moby Dick, Herman Melville fait la connaissance de Nathaniel Hawthorne, une rencontre…
qui bouleversera le cours de sa vie et celui de son roman. De cette histoire vraie subsistent aujourd'hui une poignée de lettres qui ont servi de point d'ancrage à La part de l'océan, un livre comme une traversée sans carte et sans boussole. Au fil des pages, un deuxième échange se tisse entre celle qui retrace la création du grand roman américain et un compagnon mi-réel et mi-inventé, un homme qui est d'abord un poème
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French Canadian fiction, Canadian fiction, Serious and literary fiction
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Alors qu'il se rend à une entrevue dans l'immeuble même où il avait planté le décor de son premier roman,…
Rémi Roche - qui entretient de troublantes similitudes avec un certain Jean-Simon DesRochers - aperçoit un autocollant sur lequel sont écrits les mots Look∞Around. Pourtant, la personne qui appose ces autocollants dans des lieux attentivement choisis du Quartier latin, Anya Moreno, est disparue à tout jamais de sa vie en 1999. Dès lors, ce n'est pas seulement le passé, mais la réalité au présent qui s'affole. DesRochers imagine ici le face-à-face ultime entre un personnage et son auteur, là exactement où se situe la frontière entre le réel et la fiction... pour peu qu'il y en ait une
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French Canadian fiction, Canadian fiction, Serious and literary fiction, Fantasy
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Havre-Aubert, Îles-de-la-Madeleine. 1930. Laurena se retrouve désœuvrée sur un archipel à la dérive. Elle se saoule de thé trop fort…
et trace dans les cendres du foyer un ailleurs où elle pourrait échapper aux funestes prémonitions qui la hantent. Un soir, seule, elle met le cap sur Montréal, où elle compte signer son propre destin. Dents de fortune navigue entre les mémoires, les histoires et les superstitions pour recomposer une traversée à la fois singulière et plurielle, aussi lumineuse que déchirante
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French Canadian fiction, Canadian fiction, Serious and literary fiction
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Spécialiste en écrits anciens et débusqueur de manuscrits contrefaits, Eugène Rolland enseigne à l'université. Il s'efforce aussi d'entamer la soixantaine…
avec sérénité. Sauf qu'une déconfiture professionnelle et un monde contemporain qui lui semble chaque jour plus hostile le convainquent qu'il est condamné à l'obsolescence. Déterminé à dénoncer la supercherie dont il s'estime victime, le paléographe amorce une enquête sur laquelle il perd rapidement tout contrôle. Et les gens qu'il aime n'y pourront rien
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Short stories, Multi-cultural fiction, Serious and literary fiction
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Intimate stories about Zimbabweans in moments of transition that force them to decide who they really are and choose the…
people they call their own. Set in Toronto and Zimbabwe, the twelve elegant stories in Who Will Bury You? touch on themes of loss, identity, and inequality as they follow the lives of Zimbabweans who often feel like they are on the outside looking in. A mother and daughter navigate new relationship dynamics when the daughter comes out as a lesbian. Two sisters wonder what will hold them together after their grandmother's death. A daughter tries to tell her father she loves him as she prepares to leave home for the first time. A journalist takes her grieving mother on a trip to report on girls who are allegedly being abducted by mermaids. A girl born to be the river god's wife becomes a hero when chaos breaks out in the mighty Zambezi. A group of mothers discover just how far they are willing to go to protect their children during wartime. Ephemeral yet beautifully satisfying, the stories in Chido Muchemwa's debut collection ask what makes people leave home, what makes them come back, and what keeps them there
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Serious and literary fiction
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FOR ANYONE WHO'S EVER BEEN CALLED FUNNY AS AN INSULTFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things,…
a sparkling and funny new novel of entertainment, ambition, art, and love.Cherry Hendricks might be down on her luck, but she can write the book on what makes something funny: she's a professional clown who creates raucous, zany fun at gigs all over Orlando. Between clowning and her shifts at an aquarium store for extra cash, she's always hustling. Not to mention balancing her judgmental mother, her messy love life, and her equally messy community of fellow performers.Things start looking up when Cherry meets Margot the Magnificent - a much older lesbian magician - who seems to have worked out the lines between art, business, and life, and has a slick, successful career to prove it. With Margot's mentorship and industry connections, Cherry is sure to take her art to the next level. Plus, Margot is sexy as hell. It's not long before Cherry must decide how much she's willing to risk for Margot and for her own explosive new act - and what kind of clown she wants to be under her suit. Equal parts bravado, tenderness and humour, and bursting with misfits, magicians and mimes, Stop Me If You've Heard This One is a masterpiece of comedic fiction that asks big questions about art and performance, friendship and community, and the importance of timing in jokes and in life.
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Romance, Serious and literary fiction, LGBTQ+ fiction, Friendship stories
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A loose circle of lovers and friends encounter, confront, and provoke one another in a volatile year of self-discovery in…
Iowa City. A novel of friendship and chosen family, The Late Americans asks fresh questions about love and sex, ambition and precarity, and about how human beings can bruise one another while trying to find themselves. It is Brandon Taylor's richest and most involving work of fiction to date, confirming his position as one of our most perceptive chroniclers of contemporary life. Adult. Descriptions of sex. Strong language. Violence
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Family stories, Multi-cultural fiction, Serious and literary fiction, Historical fiction, General fiction
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In 1939, Tom Morton, a widower with a young son, met Mitsuko, a recent emigrant from Japan, and married her.…
Their marriage was torn apart by anti-Japanese sentiments in World War II that sent her to an internment camp. Twenty years later, his son Bill travels to Japan in search of answers to the mysteries of his childhood. Adult. Unrated
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A beguiling novel about a woman losing her hearing and an utterly original take on perception and self-perception. Since she…
was little, Louise has been not quite hearing and not quite deaf?her life with this invisible disability has been one of in-betweenness. After an audiology test shows that almost all her hearing is gone, her doctor suggests getting a cochlear implant. The operation will be irreversible, making the decision all the more fraught. The technology would give Louise a new sense of hearing?but it would be at the expense of her natural hearing, which, for all its weakness, has shaped her unique relationship with the world, full of whispers and shadows. Adult. Unrated
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Family stories, General fiction, Serious and literary fiction
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Confronted by a family health crisis, Matt becomes more attuned to the needs of those he loves-and how he can…
best fit himself into the world-largely inspired by more passionate and ambitious young women in his life: his girlfriend, and public school teacher participating in the Oklahoma Teachers' strike of 2018, and his younger sister, and teenage idealist determined to make a difference. Throughout the novel, Rob Roensh raises the question of what we can see if we learn how to look. Some strong language
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Mysteries and crime stories, Women sleuths, Serious and literary fiction, Gentle mysteries
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"Fast-paced, suspenseful, and emotionally involving, this book is once again one that weaves a renowned fictional spell around the mysteries of the human heart."-- OCLC
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Suspense and thrillers, Family stories, Serious and literary fiction, General fiction
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Vincent D'Orsi is a middle-aged widower who is not aging gracefully. He was forced into early retirement from his job…
at the World Bank after washing dirty laundry in public. After an unsettling meeting with someone who might be with the CIA, he tries to make sense of his life and his relationship with his daughter. Adult. Unrated
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Suspense and thrillers, Mysteries and crime stories, Serious and literary fiction, Legal stories, General fictionAnthologies
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An emerging master of the thriller pits brooding hero Phil Broker against the legendary Witness Protection Program, which has unwittingly…
hidden his ex-wife's killer. In The Big Law, Logan unfurls a sublime premise--The Fugitive in reverse--and graces it with ingenious plotting and fascinating explorations of the forces that drive men both to selfless heroism and murderous greed. The Big Law's intricate mechanics are set in motion by one fatal choice: Broker's naive ex-wife Caren decides to blow the whistle on her feckless husband, Keith Angland, a St. Paul cop who's moonlighting as an informant for the Chicago mob. Unwisely for her, she confides in Tom James, a disaffected reporter nursing dreams of the perfect crime. Seeing a way out of his dead-end life and into his dreams, Tom cajoles Caren into entrusting him with the suitcase full of greenbacks the mob has paid her informant husband. When Caren is killed, Tom frames Angland, absconds with the suitcase, runs to the FBI (known to its employees as the Big Law), and wangles himself a berth in the Witness Protection Program. Only Broker senses something amiss in Tom's testimony, and he sets out to find the truth. But to do that, he must find Tom, who has the Big Law and a big suitcase full of cash on his side
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General fiction, Science fiction, Mysteries and crime stories, Historical fiction, Suspense and thrillers, Serious and literary fiction
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A sweeping story of community, crime, and gentrification, tracing more than fifty years of life in one Brooklyn neighborhood. Adult. Descriptions of sex. Strong language. Violence
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Ghost and horror stories, Serious and literary fiction, Movie and television tie-ins, Suspense and thrillers
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The &“haunting…tender, intimate book that makes an epic interior journey&” (The New York Times), Lisey&’s Story is a literary masterpiece—an…
extraordinarily moving and haunting portrait of a marriage and its aftermath. *Also an Apple TV+ limited series starring Julianne Moore and Clive Owen*Lisey lost her husband Scott, after a twenty-five year marriage of profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was an award-winning, bestselling novelist and a very complicated man. Early in their relationship, Lisey knew there was a place Scott went that both terrified and healed him, could eat him alive or give him the ideas he needed in order to live. Now it&’s Lisey&’s turn to face Scott&’s demons, to go to that terrifying place known as Boo&’ya Moon. What begins as a widow&’s effort to sort through the papers of her celebrated husband becomes a nearly fatal journey into the darkness he inhabited. &“Intricate...exhilarating&” (The New Yorker), perhaps Stephen King&’s most personal and powerful novel ever, Lisey&’s Story is about the wellsprings of creativity, the temptations of madness, and the secret language of love. It is a beautiful, &“rich portrait of a marriage, and the complicated affection that outlives death&” (The Washington Post).
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Historical fiction, Science fiction, Serious and literary fiction, Suspense and thrillers
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A novel that imagines a future in which sweeping civil conflict has forced America's young people to flee its borders,…
into an unwelcoming world. Brimming with mystery, suspense, and Kalfus's distinctive comic irony, 2 A.M. in Little America poses several vital questions: What happens when privilege is reversed? Who is watching and why? How do tribalized politics disrupt our ability to distinguish what is true and what is not? This is a story for our time gripping, unsettling, prescient by one of our most acclaimed novelists. Adult. Unrated