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February
By Lisa Moore. 2009
Helen is a woman shattered by the drowning death of her husband, Cal. Now in her mid-50s and reconciled to…
loneliness, Helen sews prom and wedding dresses for a living and cares for her grandchildren. After having spent half a lifetime picking up the pieces after Cal's death, she has taken the major step of renovating the house, and finds herself unexpectedly stirred by the presence of her carpenter, Barry. 2009.Alligator: A Novel
By Lisa Moore. 2005
Intertwined characters knowingly, and even wilfully, place themselves in danger. Colleen watches violent videos, tries her hand at eco-terrorism, and…
finally runs away to find alligators in Louisiana. Madeleine, her aunt, scrambles to finish a movie while ignoring her failing health. And Frank, a 19-year-old still reeling from his mother's death, obsesses over Colleen and finds himself intertwined with Valentin, a bloodthirsty Russian gangster. Some descriptions of sex, violence, and strong language. 2005.The Penguin book of contemporary Canadian women's short stories
By Lisa Moore. 2006
Featuring writings from the last two decades, which capture the paranoia of post-9/11, the white noise of the information age,…
dislocation, bomb scares, sexual freedom, aberration, fractured identities, awakenings of every sort, redemption, and love. Includes pieces by such writers as Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, Mavis Gallant, and Eden Robinson. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2006.Open: stories
By Lisa Moore. 2002
Ten short stories of heartbreak and getting through it. Includes stories of a husband's memory of an early piercing love…
affair, a mother and her infant boy getting knocked down by the force of a fire hose, and the interconnectedness of a bus ride in Nepal and a wedding on the shore of Quidi Vidi Lake. 2002.Caught
By Lisa Moore. 2014
Imprisoned for marijuana possession, twenty-five-year-old Canadian David Slaney has escaped his cell. Now he plans to win back the woman…
he loves, evade the cops, track down his old partner, Hearn, and get back into the drug business. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2013This is how we love
By Lisa Moore. 2022
From the celebrated author of February and Caught comes an exhilarating new novel that asks: What makes a family? How…
does it shape us? And can we ever really choose who we love? As the snowstorm of the century rages toward Newfoundland, twenty-one-year-old Xavier is beaten and stabbed in a vicious attack. His mother, Jules, must fight her way through the shuttered streets of St. John's to reach the hospital where Xavier lies unconscious. When a video of the attack surfaces, Jules struggles to make sense of what she sees in the footage. While Xavier's story unfolds, so, too, do the stories that brought him there. Here, across families and generations, are stories of mothers, fathers, sisters, and brothers; of children cared for, neglected, lost, and re-found; of selfless generosity and reluctant debt. Above all, Moore, in the inimitable largesse of her art, paints a shimmering portrait of the sacrifice, pain, and wild joy of loving.Les chambres nuptiales: nouvelles
By Lisa Moore. 2005
Ce premier recueil de nouvelles de Lisa Moore est paru en 1995, soit sept ans avant Open (Boréal, 2004), et…
a fait figure de révélation au Canada anglais. Dans chacune de ces histoires, les joies et les misères de l’amour traversent comme un courant électrique le quotidien de ces personnages qui vivent à Terre-Neuve, aujourd’hui. Ces histoires sont tangibles, lumineuses, attachantes. Moore cerne les moments décisifs de l’existence de ses personnages au milieu de décors d’une simplicité trompeuse : la cafétéria d’un hôpital de St. John’s éclairée par la seule lueur des machines distributrices, le squelette d’une maison en construction « comme une cage thoracique enfermant un poumon de ciel bleu », un petit village du bout du monde noyé dans le brouillard – et chaque fois l’image s’imprime dans notre mémoire. Moore montre comment l’amour, qui vient accompagné du désir, est parfois source d’émerveillement, parfois un piège.Flannery
By Lisa Lynne Moore. 2016
Flannery Malone's been in love with Tyrone O’Rourke since they were kids, but Tyrone has grown from a dorky kid…
into an outlaw graffiti artist, too cool for school. Which is a problem, since he and Flannery are partners for the entrepreneurship class that she needs to graduate. Meanwhile, Flannery’s mother, Miranda, can’t pay the heating bills, let alone buy Flannery’s biology book, her little brother, Felix, is careening out of control, and her best-friend-since-forever, Amber, has fallen for a guy who is making her forget all about the things she’s always cared most about - Flannery included - leading Amber down a dark and dangerous path of her own. When Flannery decides to make a love potion for her entrepreneurship project, rumours that it actually works go viral, and she suddenly has a hot commodity on her hands. But a series of shattering events makes her realize that real-life love is far more potent - and potentially damaging - than any fairy-tale prescription. For senior high readers. 2016.Degrees of nakedness: stories
By Lisa Lynne Moore. 1995
Conveying the strains of family life and love in Newfoundland, this collection of short stories uses images of light and…
darkness to bring its characters to life. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 1995.Caught
By Lisa Lynne Moore. 2013
June 1978. David Slaney's escaped from prison and has got to make good on the heist that went wrong, win…
back the woman he loves, and make a big enough profit to buy himself a new life. First, though, he must get himself across a vast country full of watchful eyes, booby traps, and friends who might be foes. And then, on to Colombia, where the real test of his mettle begins. 2013.Something for everyone
By Lisa Lynne Moore. 2018
Lisa Moore returns with her third story collection, a soaring chorus of voices, dreams, loves, and lives. Taking us from…
the Fjord of Eternity to the streets of St. John's and the swamps of Orlando, these stories show us the timeless, the tragic, and the miraculous hidden in the underbelly of our everyday lives. A missing rock god may have jumped a cruise ship - in the Arctic. A grieving young woman may live next to a serial rapist. A man's last day on earth replays in the minds of others in a furiously sensual, heartrending fugue. 'Something for everyone' finds Moore fired with peak ambition - she seems bent on nothing less than rewiring the circuitry of the short story itself. 2018.A good kind of trouble
By Lisa Moore Ramée. 2019
From debut author Lisa Moore Ramée comes this funny and big-hearted debut middle grade novel about friendship, family, and standing…
up for what's right, perfect for fans of Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give and the novels of Renée Watson and Jason Reynolds. Twelve-year-old Shayla is allergic to trouble. All she wants to do is to follow the rules. (Oh, and she'd also like to make it through seventh grade with her best friendships intact, learn to run track, and have a cute boy see past her giant forehead.) But in junior high, it's like all the rules have changed. Now she's suddenly questioning who her best friends are and some people at school are saying she's not black enough. Wait, what? Shay's sister, Hana, is involved in Black Lives Matter, but Shay doesn't think that's for her. After experiencing a powerful protest, though, Shay decides some rules are worth breaking. She starts wearing an armband to school in support of the Black Lives movement. Soon everyone is taking sides. And she is given an ultimatum. Shay is scared to do the wrong thing (and even more scared to do the right thing), but if she doesn't face her fear, she'll be forever tripping over the next hurdle. Now that's trouble, for real. "Tensions are high over the trial of a police officer who shot an unarmed Black man. When the officer is set free, and Shay goes with her family to a silent protest, she starts to see that some trouble is worth making." (Publishers Weekly, "An Anti-Racist Children's and YA Reading List")Février: roman
By Lisa Lynne Moore. 2010
« À première vue, Helen O'Mara s'occupe de sa maison, de ses petits-enfants, et suit assidûment ses cours de yoga.…
Toutefois, dans les riches heures où elle se retrouve seule avec elle-même, elle revit la vie qu'elle a partagée avec Cal, son mari mort il y a de nombreuses années, quand la plate-forme de forage Ocean Ranger a sombré corps et bien, le jour de la Saint-Valentin, au milieu de l'Atlantique. Une nuit de novembre, la sonnerie du téléphone la réveille. C'est son fils, John, qui lui annonce qu'une femme est enceinte de lui et qui lui demande conseil. Pendant que John se débat avec l'idée d'être père, Helen apprend à dire adieu au passé, à cautériser les vieilles blessures [...]. » -- 4e de couvOpen: nouvelles
By Lisa Moore, Dominique Fortier. 2004
Second recueil d'une auteure terre-neuvienne, son premier à être traduit en français. Dix nouvelles solidement charpentées, qui évoquent avec art…
et réalisme l'intimité de personnages ordinaires à travers une série de petits faits admirablement mis en valeur. 2002, 2004. Titre uniforme: Open.I love you, Stinky Face (Stinky Face)
By Cyd Moore, Lisa McCourt. 2004
A mother and child discuss how the mother's love would remain constant even if her child were a stinky skunk,…
scary ape, or bug-eating green alien. A One Book 4 Colorado finalist, this book is read by Colorado Lt. Governor Joe Garcia. For preschool-grade 2I love you, Stinky Face
By Lisa McCourt, Cyd Moore. 1998
When Mama tucks her little boy into bed, he has a few questions. He wants to know what she would…
do if he were a big scary ape, a smelly skunk, a meat-eating dinosaur, or maybe a green alien. Mama, of course, assures him she will love him no matter what. For grades K-3Piégé: [roman]
By Lisa Lynne Moore, Claudine Vivier. 2014
" Juin 1978. David Slaney vient de séchapper dune prison de Nouvelle-Écosse où il purgeait une peine pour trafic de…
cannabis entre la Colombie et le Canada. Son obsession : retrouver son meilleur ami, Hearn, à Vancouver, pour tenter une seconde fois un gros coup et reconquérir sa petite amie. Le voici donc lancé dans une course effrénée à travers le pays, la police à ses trousses. Porté par la beauté de la langue de Lisa Moore et des personnages lumineux, Piégé nous raconte une histoire de courage et de trahison, de tempêtes en haute mer, damour, dagents secrets, de collusion entre le gouvernement et le crime organisé, dambition sans borne, de linnocence et de sa perte, et de centaines de ballots de marijuana. Il y est surtout question du sentiment dinvincibilité qui vient avec la jeunesse, et des folies quil occasionne. Après le très émouvant Février, Lisa Moore nous revient avec un roman dune tout autre facture, un périple irrésistible qui nous entraîne de lAtlantique au Pacifique, des côtes de Terre-Neuve jusquaux plages du Mexique. Une aventure trépidante. Envoûtante. " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Caught.Flannery (Boréal inter ; #69)
By Lisa Lynne Moore, Fanny Britt. 2016
Flannery, seize ans, est amoureuse de Tyrone O'Rourke depuis toujours. Depuis la maternelle, plus précisément, mais c'est du pareil au…
même. Jumelée à Tyrone pour un projet d'entrepreneuriat, Flannery est aux anges ! Et quand il lui propose de fabriquer des potions d'amour, elle accepte sans hésiter, des papillons dans le ventre. S'agit-il d'une déclaration voilée ? Est-ce que lui aussi pense à elle depuis leurs jeux d'enfants, bien avant qu'il se mette à sécher les cours et à faire des graffitis aux quatre coins de la ville ? On peut bien rêver... Évidemment, la vraie vie n'a rien d'un rêve, et ça, Flannery ne le sait que trop bien. Depuis quelque temps, on dirait que rien ne va. Il y a sa mère qui ignore comment elle paiera le prochain loyer, son frère qui n'est pas de tout repos et sa meilleure amie, Amber, qui ne semble plus avoir une seule minute à lui accorder. Et il y a Tyrone, bien sûr, qui disparaît toujours en coup de vent et qui n'est plus tout à fait le Tyrone qu'elle a connu. Au milieu de tout ça, Flannery doit se débrouiller toute seule, et elle commence à en avoir marre. Pour les lecteurs du collégial. 2016.Black nature: four centuries of African American nature poetry
By Phillis Wheatley, Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, Marilyn Nelson, June Jordan, Ishmael Reed, Margaret Walker, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Lucille Clifton, Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, Yusef Komunyakaa, Nikki Giovanni, Sherley Anne Williams, Arna Bontemps, Rita Dove, Al Young, Janice N. Harrington, Patricia Smith, Anthony Walton, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Natasha Trethewey, Terrance Hayes, Carl Phillips, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Roberson, Harryette Mullen, Reginald Shepherd, Michael S. Harper, Jackson, Claudia Rankine, Ravi Howard, Kwame Alexander, Cornelius Eady, Sean Hill, Melvin Dixon, Elizabeth Alexander, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Gregory Pardlo, Wendy S. Walters, Robert Hayden, Jean Toomer, Douglas Kearney, Wanda Coleman, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Thylias Moss, Anne Spencer, Camille T. Dungy, Tara Betts, Myronn Hardy, Toi Derricotte, Claude McKay, Evie Shockley, Ross Gay, Shane Book, Frank X. Walker, Indigo Moor, Alvin Aubert, Gerald Barrax, Remica Bingham, Cyrus Cassells, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Joanne Gabbin, Kendra Hamilton, Mark McMorris, E. Miller, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Lenard Moore, Cynthia Parker-Ohene, Stephanie Pruitt, Tim Seibles, Afaa Weaver, Sterling A. Brown, Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson, James A. Emanuel, C. S. Giscombe, George Moses Horton, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Helene Johnson, Patricia Spears Jones, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Shara McCallum, George Marion McClellan, G. E. Patterson, Mona Lisa Saloy, Amber Flora Thomas, Melvin B. Tolson, Askia M. Touré, Albery Whitman, Toni Wynn. 2009
This anthology of verse by ninety-three writers spans the history of black poetry in America, with the earliest pieces by…
Phillis Wheatley and the latest by Nikki Giovanni and Rita Dove. The 180 selections are presented in themed cycles rather than chronologically. 2009