Canadian Family

In the summer of 2020, with a heat wave bearing down and a brood of periodical cicadas climbing into the trees, Husha mourns the recent death of her mother while quarantining with her ailing grandfather, Arthur, at his lakeside cabin in remote Ontario. They’re soon joined by Husha’s ex-lover, Nellie, who arrives without explanation to complete their trio. Also among them is a strange book, discovered by Husha while cleaning out her mother’s house.

Stevie, a recovering alcoholic and kitchen manager of Chappy’s, a small-chain restaurant, is frantically trying to prevent the people around her from going supernova: her PTSD-suffering veteran son, her uproariously demented parents, the polyglot eccentrics who work in her kitchen, the blind geriatric dog she inherits, and a damaged 5-year-old who landed on her doorstep and might just be her granddaughter. In the tight grip of new corporate owners, Stevie battles corporate’s “restructuring” to save her kitchen.

Immature et un peu impulsive, Gabrielle ne rêve que d'un futur avec un époux amoureux et une ribambelle d'enfants. Mais Juliette, sa soeur cadette, est même plus impulsive qu'elle et finit par l'entraîner dans le sillage des tragédies causées par ses décisions irréfléchies. Cela a toujours été ainsi pour ces deux soeurs.

As a boy, George Elliott Clarke knew that a great deal was expected from him and his two brothers. The descendants of a highly accomplished, Virginia-descended family on his father, Bill’s, side, George felt called to live up to the family name. In contrast, his mother, Gerry’s, family were warm, down-to-earth country folk. Such contradictions underlay much of his life and upbringing - Black and White, country and city, outstanding and ordinary, high and low. George interrogates these dualities in Where Beauty Survived and shows us how they shaped him as a poet and thinker.

"Canadian Family Adventures" follows the tale of 10 Irish siblings who immigrate to Canada in the late 1880s. Their mother, Maggie Collins, wants her children, between the ages of 10 years old and 30 years old, to have a good life, and she arranges for them to sail to Canada. The ten siblings arrive in Canada by ship, and each one settles in a different area of Canada and pursues a different career.

The recipient of the Journey Prize and Edna Staebler Award, Heather Birrell made a splash in the literary world with her first collection, I Know You Are But What Am I? In Mad Hope, Birrell employs her keen insight into the human condition to present tales featuring a complex array of characters, including a gay man caring for a friend and a science teacher faced with a shocking request.

Caroline Allard a mis deux enfants au monde. Bien qu'elle les aime énormément, elle soulage son irrépressible envie de défoulement en écrivant des chroniques rigolotes à leur sujet. Son premier roman, tiré de son blogue, a remporté le Grand Prix littéraire Archambault et lui a aussi permis de visiter moult salons du livre, ce qui a pour avantage de l'autoriser à fuir ponctuellement la maison pour s'amuser en bonne compagnie.

À quinze ans, Martin Larocque savait ce qu'il voulait faire dans la vie : être papa. Fier «propriétaire» de trois garçons, et ayant acquis une importante connaissance sur la parentalité, il propose une réflexion décomplexante sur l'éducation des enfants parce que, dans ce magnifique univers de parents, si vous essayez d'être comme tout le monde et de faire «comme il faut», vous ne saurez jamais à quel point vous êtes un bon parent ! Ce livre offre un discours rafraîchissant et déculpabilisant sur la parentalité qui fera un grand bien aux lecteurs.

Qui n’aimerait pas que son enfant soit avide d’apprendre et persévérant; qu’il soit capable d’introspection, de contemplation, de concentration; qu’il se montre chaque jour reconnaissant, ne tenant rien pour acquis? Pourtant, notre époque ne cesse de l’éloigner de ces aspirations, de le détourner de la nature, du jeu libre, du silence…

Dans ce deuxième livre, Tara cède la parole aux enfants. C’est à leur tour de raconter, en mots et en dessins, leur quotidien au sein de cette famille pour le moins atypique. Le livre est enrichi de multiples photos tirées des tournages de la cinquième saison de la téléréalité.

Accordion Crimes opens in 1890 in Sicily as an accordion maker completes his finest instrument and dreams of owning a music store in America. He and his 11-year-old son, carrying little more than the accordion, voyage to the teeming, violent port of New Orleans. Within a year, the accordion maker is murdered by an anti-Italian lynching mob, but his instrument carries Proulx's story as it falls into the hands of various immigrants who carry it from Iowa to Texas, from Maine to Louisiana, looking for a decent life.

Tout se joue avant 2 ans se veut d’abord et avant tout un ouvrage d’initiation et de vulgarisation aux 1000 premiers jours, où l’on s’attarde aux connaissances qui nous permettront de construire les piliers de la santé physique et mentale de demain, c’est construire un départ juste et une société prospère pour chaque enfant.

Bien connue grâce à sa page Facebook et à sa tournée de spectacles, Bianca Longpré, alias "Mère ordinaire", partage son histoire personnelle et se livre sans faux-semblants dans un ouvrage touchant et divertissant, rempli d’anecdotes inédites.

«Toute va ben été» [tutvabete] expression locale? Ce qu'on se dit pour se con­­vaincre que tout finira par s'arranger, mais sans pouvoir s'exprimer correctement parce qu'on est CLAIREMENT DÉPASSÉ PAR LA VIE. Sans prétention, sans compromis, sans filtre, voici mes réflexions et mes anecdotes sur ces étapes de la vie, de l'adolescence à l'âge adulte, qui nous font dire (en serrant un peu les dents): «Toute va ben été!»

Laura et Marie-Douce sont des camarades de classe. La première est populaire, tandis que la seconde se fond dans le décor. Marie-Douce admire Laura en silence et rêve de lui ressembler, mais Laura n'a pas du tout envie de lui adresser la parole.

Une jeune fille vit mal sa différence, différence à laquelle sa famille refuse de donner un nom. Percevant que ses mots et ses actions font mal aux autres, elle décide de fuguer, de s’enfermer dans le mutisme, de prendre le temps d’explorer qui elle pourrait être si on ne lui imposait pas autant de limites.

On the brink of 40, Bea Rose has lost her lover, her business, and her bearings. When the opportunity arises to work on a summer production of King Lear to be staged in various parks around Montreal, she takes it, despite her utter lack of theatre experience. Things get off to a rocky start when Bea meets the artistic director, Artie White, a childhood friend whose presence stirs up painful memories. At the same time, Bea's father begins behaving erratically, and her younger sister Cara discovers cracks in the foundation of an apparently perfect life.

Beena and Sadhana are sisters who share a bond that could only have been shaped by the most unusual of childhoods - and by shared tragedy. Orphaned as teenagers, they have grown up under the exasperated watch of their Sikh uncle, who runs a bagel shop in Montreal's Hasidic community of Mile End. Together, they try to make sense of the rich, confusing brew of values, rituals, and beliefs that form their inheritance. Yet as they grow towards adulthood, their paths begin to diverge.

Niko Kiriakos, tentative heir to the ailing Calypso Shipping fleet, always suspected he was cursed. Following his sudden disappearance, his wife, Anna, and daughter, Zoe, are left adrift. Unmoored, they begin to test the boundaries of their lives, struggling with issues of loyalty, identity and what it means to be a family. Spanning years and tracing a route from Niagara Falls to Greece, Escape Plans is an unblinking look at the ties that bind us together and the things that pull us apart.

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 survivor navigates her boyfriend's tricky family and her own confusing desires. A mother examines unresolved guilt while seeking her missing daughter in a city slum. A lover exploits his girlfriend's secrets for his own purposes. Whether in Ecuador or San Francisco, rural Ontario or northern Manitoba, the landscape in each of Carter's poignant short stories reflects each character's journey.