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1) Cœur atout
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Les nouvelles de Cœur atout, qui mettent en scène des petites gens de la Gaspésie et de la Côte-Nord, constituent en quelque sorte une poignée de main aux années cinquante et soixante, la plupart ayant été écrites et publiées dans des magazines de cette époque. Ce sont des vies tranquilles et ordinaires, mais sous les apparences, on sent gronder le vent de changement qui va bientôt déferler sur la société québécoise....
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Dans ce roman, son onzième livre, Nicole Houde fait évoluer ses personnages à l'époque de la Crise des années trente, dans les villages de l'Anse-Saint-Jean et de Saint-Fulgence, près de Chicoutimi, des usines de l'Alcan et des chantiers de la Price Brothers. Je pense à toi est une vaste saga où la romancière, tout en demeurant fidèle à l'histoire qui guide ses pas dans l'approche de ses personnages, de leurs mentalités et...
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En éliminant le sous-bois qui gêne le passage d'un oléoduc, la multinationale Domidion provoque un déversement mortel sur la côte de la Colombie-Britannique. Dorian Asher, le PDG, s'amuse à oublier son divorce et son mal-être par des dépenses somptuaires. Le chercheur Gabriel Quinn, responsable de la catastrophe, retourne s'enfermer près de la réserve de sa mère, désormais condamnée. Il y rencontre des survivants : Mara Reid,...
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Ville de Québec, août 1932 Pendant que la Crise économique fait des ravages, semant chômage et misère sur son chemin, le quartier Saint-Sauveur est endormi lorsqu'un terrible incendie se déclare dans la maison de Louis et de Florence. Seules la petite Marie et sa mère réussissent à s'extirper des flammes, alors que Louis et son fils Pierre périssent... Florence, qui a grandi dans un orphelinat à la suite du décès de sa mère,...
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Samuel Butler was an individualistic Victorian era writer who published a variety of works. He is also known for examining Christian orthodoxy, considerable studies of evolutionary thought, studies of Italian art, and works of literary history as well as criticism. Butler even made prose translations of "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" which remain some of the most popular to this day. His authority on literature came through his posthumous novel, "The...
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Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans is a novel in which very little happens; its narrative concentrates almost entirely on its principal character, and is mostly a catalogue of the tastes and inner life of Jean Des Esseintes. He is an eccentric, reclusive aesthete and antihero, who loathes 19th century bourgeois society and tries to retreat into an ideal artistic world of his own creation. Against Nature contains many themes that became associated...
7) Bluebird
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If Winton is an aria, Knox is early Rolling Stones.' The GuardianA stunning new novel about longing, regret, redemption and the terrible legacy of decades of secrets buried in an Australian beachside suburb.
A house perched impossibly on a cliff overlooking the stunning, iconic Bluebird Beach. Prime real estate, yet somehow not real estate at all, The Lodge is, like those who live in it, falling apart.
Gordon Grimes has become the accidental keeper...
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Qué secretos encierra un cuadro? ¿Qué razones llevaron a Gustave Coubert a pintar el lienzo más provocativo de la historia? ¿Qué motivos llevan a una obra de arte a pasar más tiempo escondida que expuesta? ¿Por qué sus dueños la colgaron en su cuarto de baño?
Los hermanos Montalbán, anticuarios castizos de Madrid, y sus ayudantes, Edmundo Esparza y Emilia Sanders, deben realizar una curiosa investigación sobre el cuadro El origen del...
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"An impressively accomplished retelling of the Gatsby story," in which a Russian businessman engages an impoverished bookseller's help pursuing a lover. (Los Angeles Review of Books)
On a rainy afternoon in London's old Chelsea, a charming multi-billionaire Russian oligarch, Gorsky, walks into an ailing bookshop and writes the first of several quarter-of-a-million pound checks. With that money, Gorsky has tasked Nikola, the store's bored and...
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The Foreigner (1909) tells the story of Kalman Kalmar, a young Ukrainian immigrant working in rural Saskatchewan. It addresses the themes of male maturation, cultural assimilation, and a form of "muscular Christianity" recurring in Connor's popular Western tales. Daniel Coleman's afterword considers the text's departure from Connor's established fiction formulas and provides a unique framework for understanding its depiction of difference.
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This far-ranging look at the characters found in Celtic and British myth and poetry is a great resource for those interested in the gods and heroes of ancient Briton. With sections on King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, the Gaelic gods, and tales of the druids, this comprehensive study of Celtic myth and legend will delight scholars and the general reader alike.
Drawing on the early writings of Ireland, Scotland and Wales, Charles Squire...
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A gritty and darkly hilarious novel quaking with life-winner of Australia's Miles Franklin Award-that follows a queer, First Nations Australian woman as she returns home to face her family and protect the land of their ancestors.
Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent her adulthood avoiding two things: her hometown and prison. A tough, generous, reckless woman accused of having too much lip, Kerry uses anger to fight the avalanche of bullshit the...
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In 1927, South Africa passes the Immorality Act, prohibiting sexual intercourse between “Europeans” (white people) and “natives” (Black people). Those who break the draconian new law face imprisonment—for men of up to five years, for women, four years.
Abram and his wife Alisa have their share of marital problems, but they also have a comfortable life in South Africa with their two young girls. But then the Act is passed. Alisa is black,...
14) The Singularity
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Lyrical and devastating, The Singularity is a breathtaking study of grief, migration, and motherhood from one of Sweden's most exciting contemporary novelists.
In an unnamed coastal city filled with refugees, the mother of a displaced family calls out her daughter's name as she wanders the cliffside road where the child once worked. The mother searches and searches until, spent from grief, she throws herself into the sea, leaving her other children...
15) Kalyana
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Growing up in the Fiji Islands in the late 1960s, Kalyana Mani Seth is an impressionable, plump young girl suited to the meaning of her name: blissful, blessed, the auspicious one. Her mother educates Kalyana about her Indian heritage, vividly telling tales of mischievous Krishna and powerful Mother Kali, and recounting her grandparents' migration to the tiny, British colony.
While the island nation celebrates its recently granted independence, new...
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An extraordinary new writer makes her literary debut with this suspenseful novel of desire, obsession, power and vulnerability, in which a crisis of inheritance leads to the downfall of a wealthy family of Persian Jews in early twentieth-century Iran. For all his wealth and success, Asher Malacouti-the head of a prosperous Jewish family living in the Iranian town of Kermanshah-cannot have the one thing he desires above all: a male son. His young wife...
18) Coconut Dreams
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Coconut Dreams explores the lives of the Pinto family through seventeen linked short stories. Starting with a ghost story set in Goa, India in the 1950s, the collection weaves through various timelines and perspectives to focus on two children, Aiden and Ally Pinto. These siblings tackle their adventures in a predominantly white suburb with innocence, intelligence and a timid foot in two distinct cultures.
In these stories, Derek Mascarenhas takes...
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When Lee Ann Revell, a newspaper reporter for the Charleston Courier, receives an assignment to interview Rabbi Jacob Rabinowitz for a story on latch-key kids in 1999, she feels an immediate attraction to the tall, dark, and handsome man. Lee Ann and the Rabbi are opposites. He, of course is Jewish, and she was raised Southern Baptist. She wore her blonde hair in a French braid, and he wore a yarmulke that did not conceal his luxuriant black hair....
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A renowned Russian ballerina is stranded in Puerto Rico as a revolution tears her homeland apart - and she finds herself in the middle of another uprising. In a truly multicultural story and a daring example of global fiction, Rosario Ferré uses her prodigious talents to deliver an unforgettable tale of love, politics, and the power of female expression. Based loosely on a real episode in the life of famous prima ballerina Anna Pavlova, Flight of...
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