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Finding Callidora

A horrific betrayal sets the destiny of the Alevizopoulos family, farmers who dare to choose a side, first in the Great War of 1914-1918, then in the Greco-Turkish war of 1919-1922. Theodore, the patriarch, ...

All That Belongs

Par (auteur) Dora Dueck
Catégories: Littérature générale

Catherine, an archivist, has spent decades committed to conserving the pasts of others, only to find her own resurfacing on the eve of her retirement. Carefully, she mines the failing memories of her ...

Claremont

How to survive the unthinkable?
This is the question nine-year-old Tom has to face after witnessing his parent's murder-suicide. After the horrific event, Tom refuses to speak. At first, he moves in ...

Even Weirder Than Before

Par (auteur) Susie Taylor
Catégories: Romans en cadre familial

The early 1990s: there’s no internet, VHS is still a thing, and Daisy Radcliffe’s family is disintegrating. As the stability of her old life disappears, she is set adrift into the odd territory between ...

Flannery

Par (auteur) Lisa Moore
Catégories: Romans (Jeunesse)

A spellbinding story about chasing love, fighting family, losing friends and starting all over again, from the internationally acclaimed Lisa Moore.

Sixteen-year-old Flannery Malone has it bad. She’s ...

Coconut Dreams

Par (auteur) Derek Mascarenhas
Catégories: Nouvelles

Coconut Dreams takes a fresh look at the world of the new immigrant and the South Asian experience. Starting with a ghost story set in Goa, India, in the 1950s, the linked stories explore the lives of ...

No Good Asking

Par (auteur) Fran Kimmel
Catégories: Littérature générale

A profoundly moving exploration of our capacity to heal one another.

Ellie and Eric Nyland have moved their two sons back to Eric’s childhood farmhouse, hoping for a fresh start. But there’s no denying ...

A Circle on the Surface

Par (auteur) Carol Bruneau
Catégories: Littérature générale

It’s 1943. Enman and Una Greene are newly married. Enman brings Una to his childhood home in rural Barrein, Nova Scotia, where Una feels increasingly trapped, and longs for the city life she once had. ...

Refuge

Par (auteur) Merilyn Simonds
Catégories: Littérature générale

To whom do we offer refuge — and why?

After a life that rubbed up against the century’s great events in New York City, Mexico, and Montreal, 96-year-old Cassandra MacCallum is surviving well enough, ...

Dear Evelyn

Par (auteur) Kathy Page
Catégories: Romans en cadre familial

Born between the wars on a working-class London street, Harry Miles wins a scholarship and a chance to escape his station, but discovers instead that poetry is what offers him real direction. When he ...