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The night birds
By Thomas James Maltman. 2007
Minnesota, 1876. Lonely teenager Asa's aunt Hazel comes to live with his family after a long stay in a mental…
institution. Asa appreciates her company and stories, which teach him about his German-immigrant relatives, their divide over slavery, and Hazel's bond with a Dakota warrior. Violence, some strong language and some descriptions of sex. Alex Award. 2007.La plus secrète mémoire des hommes: roman (Roman français)
By Mohamed Mbougar Sarr. 2021
Paris, 2018. Diégane Latyr Faye, jeune écrivain sénégalais, rencontre sa compatriote Siga D. La sulfureuse sexagénaire lui transmet «Le labyrinthe…
de l'inhumain», un livre paru en 1938 et écrit par un certain T.C. Elimane. Fasciné, Diégane part sur les traces de cet homme mystérieux. Prix Transfuge du meilleur roman de langue française 2021, prix Goncourt 2021, prix Hennessy du livre 2021.S'adapter: roman (Bleue)
By Clara Dupont-Monod. 2021
Dans les Cévennes, l'équilibre d'une famille est bouleversé par la naissance d'un enfant handicapé. Si l'aîné de la fratrie s'attache…
profondément à ce frère différent et fragile, la cadette se révolte et le rejette. Prix Landerneau des lecteurs 2021, prix Femina 2021, prix Goncourt des lycéens 2021.The Sleeping Car Porter
By Suzette Mayr. 2022
Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter,…
must contend with the perils of white passengers, ghosts, and his secret love affair The Sleeping Car Porter brings to life an important part of Black history in North America, from the perspective of a queer man living in a culture that renders him invisible in two ways. Affecting, imaginative, and visceral enough that you’ll feel the rocking of the train, The Sleeping Car Porter is a stunning accomplishment. Baxter’s name isn’t George. But it’s 1929, and Baxter is lucky enough, as a Black man, to have a job as a sleeping car porter on a train that crisscrosses the country. So when the passengers call him George, he has to just smile and nod and act invisible. What he really wants is to go to dentistry school, but he’ll have to save up a lot of nickel and dime tips to get there, so he puts up with “George.” On this particular trip out west, the passengers are more unruly than usual, especially when the train is stalled for two extra days; their secrets start to leak out and blur with the sleep-deprivation hallucinations Baxter is having. When he finds a naughty postcard of two queer men, Baxter’s memories and longings are reawakened; keeping it puts his job in peril, but he can’t part with the postcard or his thoughts of Edwin Drew, Porter Instructor. "Suzette Mayr’s The Sleeping Car Porter offers a richly detailed account of a particular occupation and time—train porter on a Canadian passenger train in 1929—and unforcedly allows it to illuminate the societal strictures imposed on black men at the time—and today. Baxter is a secretly-queer and sleep-deprived porter saving up for dental school, working a system that periodically assigns unexplained demerits, and once a certain threshold is reached, the porter loses his job. Thus, success is impossible, the best one can do is to fail slowly. As Baxter takes a cross-continental run, the boarding passengers have more secrets than an Agatha Christie cast, creating a powder keg on train tracks. The Sleeping Car Porter is an engaging and illuminating novel about the costs of work, service, and secrets." – Keith Mosman, Powell's Books "I thought The Sleeping Car Porter was fantastic! It strikes a balance between being about the struggles of being black and gay at that time while not being too heavy handed with it. I enjoyed his constant mental math on how many demerits he might receive for each infraction. The reader really gets a sense of the conflict that Baxter is going through. I really liked reading a book from the perspective of a porter." – Hunter Gillum, Beaverdale BooksWinter counts: A novel
By David Heska Wanbli Weiden. 2020
An addictive and groundbreaking debut thriller set on a Native American reservation and hailed by CJ Box as " a…
hell of a debut" "Winter Counts is both a propulsive crime novel and a wonderfully informative book." —Louise Erdrich Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that's hard to forget. But when heroin makes its way into the reservation and finds Virgil's own nephew, his vigilantism suddenly becomes personal. He enlists the help of his ex-girlfriend and sets out to learn where the drugs are coming from, and how to make them stop. They follow a lead to Denver and find that drug cartels are rapidly expanding and forming new and terrifying alliances. And back on the reservation, a new tribal council initiative raises uncomfortable questions about money and power. As Virgil starts to link the pieces together, he must face his own demons and reclaim his Native identity. He realizes that being a Native American in the twenty-first century comes at an incredible cost. Winter Counts is a tour-de-force of crime fiction, a bracingly honest look at a long-ignored part of American life, and a twisting, turning story that's as deeply rendered as it is thrilling. Winner of the 2021 Spur best western contemporary novel award and Best first novel award.La femme en vert (Les Enquêtes d'Erlendur Sveinsson #4)
By Arnaldur Indriðason, Éric Boury. 2006
Dans une banlieue de Reykjavik, au cours d'une fête d'anniversaire, un bébé mâchouille un objet qui se révèle être un…
os humain. Le commissaire Erlendur et son équipe arrivent et découvrent sur un chantier un squelette enterré là, soixante ans auparavant. Cette même nuit, Eva, la fille d'Erlendur, appelle son père au secours sans avoir le temps de lui dire où elle est. Il la retrouve à grand-peine dans le coma et enceinte. Erlendur va tous les jours à l'hôpital rendre visite à sa fille inconsciente et, sur les conseils du médecin, lui parle, il lui raconte son enfance de petit paysan et la raison de son horreur des disparitions. L'enquête nous est livrée en pointillé dans un magnifique récit, violent et émouvant, qui met en scène, à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, une femme et ses deux enfants.Veiller sur elle
By Jean-Baptiste Andrea. 2023
Août 1986. Dans un monastère italien où il vit depuis quarante ans, veillant sur sa dernière oeuvre, Mimo se meurt.…
Au cours de ses dernières heures, entre souvenirs et divagations, il plonge dans l'histoire de sa vie : son apprentissage chez un sculpteur alcoolique et brutal, sa rencontre avec Viola, fille unique de la famille Orsini, dont il tombe amoureux, et son succès. Prix Goncourt 2023.The brutal telling (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #5)
By Louise Penny. 2009
A stranger is found murdered in the village bistro and antiques store and all clues point to bistro owner Olivier…
being the killer. Once again, Chief Inspector Gamache and his team are called in to strip back layers of lies, exposing both treasures and rancid secrets long buried - but not forgotten. Some strong language. 2009.The brutal telling (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #5)
By Louise Penny. 2009
A stranger is found murdered in the village bistro and antiques store and all clues point to bistro owner Olivier…
being the killer. Once again, Chief Inspector Gamache and his team are called in to strip back layers of lies, exposing both treasures and rancid secrets long buried - but not forgotten. Some strong language. 2009.Si tu passes la rivière: roman (Hamac)
By Geneviève Damas. 2013
" Si tu passes la rivière, si tu passes la rivière, a dit le père, tu ne remettras plus les…
pieds dans cette maison . Cest ainsi que commence la poignante histoire de François, jeune paysan naïf et ultra sensible en quête de vérité et de liberté. Prisonnier de son milieu familial rigide et fermé, il passe le plus clair de son temps à garder les cochons auxquels il parle et se confie. Avec ce premier roman, Geneviève Damas fait preuve dune maîtrise remarquable en dépeignant dune manière aussi juste un univers rempli dhumanité, de compassion et de silences... " -- 4e de couv