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However Far Away

Par (auteur) Rajinderpal S. Pal
Catégories: Littérature générale

A sweeping family saga set against the backdrop of a Sikh wedding.

On the morning of his nephew’s wedding, Devinder Gill is certain the delicate balance of his life will not be upset. Dev is married ...

These Songs I Know By Heart

Par (auteur) Erin Brubacher
Catégories: Littérature générale

Married and divorced in her 20s, looking for friendship in her 30s, and contemplating pregnancy at 40, our narrator wonders if she’s going through life out of order. But Alice, The Turtle, The Kid, ...

As the Andes Disappeared

Caroline is seven years old when her family flees Pinochet’s regime, leaving Chile for Montreal on Christmas Eve, 1986. She fears Santa won’t find them on the plane but wakes to find a new doll at ...

Roar

Par (auteur) Shelley Thompson
Catégories: Romans en cadre familial

A novel inspired by the original screenplay for the award-winning feature film Dawn, Her Dad & the Tractor, about a young trans woman who returns to her family farm in the wake of her mother's death, ...

Places Like These

Par (auteur) Lauren Carter
Catégories: Littérature générale

A widow visits a spiritualist community to attempt to contact her late husband. A grieving teenager confronts the unfairness of his small-town world and the oncoming ecological disaster. A sexual assault ...

This Is How We Love

Par (auteur) Lisa Moore
Catégories: Littérature générale

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 ...

Fake It So Real

Par (auteur) Susan Sanford Blades
Catégories: Littérature générale

Fake it so Real takes on the fallout from a punk-rock lifestyle—the future of “no future. ” It’s 1983, and Gwen, a Nancy Spungen look-alike, meets Damian, the enigmatic leader of a punk band. ...

Why Birds Sing

Par (auteur) Nina Berkhout
Catégories: Littérature générale

A charming novel about a disgraced opera singer, her cancer-plagued brother-in-law, a temperamental parrot named Tulip, and a competitive whistling group called the Warblers.

The Sweetness in the Lime

Par (auteur) Stephen Kimber
Catégories: Roman sentimental

Eli Cooper is a resolutely single, 50-something newspaper copy editor. He is too busy—and too self-absorbed—to acknowledge what’s missing in his life. But then, on a single day in February 2008, ...

The Desirable Sister

Par (auteur) Taslim Burkowicz
Catégories: Littérature générale

Gia and Serena Pirji are sisters, the first-generation born in Canada to immigrant parents. Gia’s fair skin grants her membership to cliques of white kids as a teen, while Serena’s dark skin means ...