Canadian Family

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.

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.

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.

Éduquer un enfant et un adolescent pour les rendre heureux, c’est leur apprendre à: Être eux-mêmes; Être en relation avec les autres; Être créateurs de leur vie, de leurs rêves et du monde.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sous le ciel aveuglant de Noirax couve une longue tradition de secrets qu’il faudra un jour détricoter. Dans la Malmaison, les pères entretiennent depuis longtemps le silence, nourrissent les panses et multiplient les désidératas: Pampelune, la bougresse, Héléna, la Pimparela, des femmes au destin tragique. Le père est rassuré : le domaine est paisible, endormi. On a fermé la porte de la Maison aux parfums de crainte que la vérité s’en échappe. Son fils, Jeanty, de retour au bercail après une déconvenue amoureuse, entame sa propre quête identitaire.

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.

Après avoir assisté sa femme dans son suicide, Jaco découvre que celle-ci a longtemps mené une double vie: il y a quatorze ans en Haïti, Marine a mis au monde Clara. Avec une vieille amie bienfaitrice, Jaco quitte Montréal pour se rendre sur place afin de découvrir la vérité sur sa femme et pour remettre à Clara l’héritage qui lui est dû. Mais à son arrivée, la jeune fille a disparu.

Canadian Jim Armstrong married in haste during the Second World War after a one-night stand. When his wife and their small son join him in Canada, it's four years since they've seen each other. War bride Joan discovers Jim has no intention of the family returning to England. She struggles to adapt to life on a remote farm in Ontario, far from her family and cold-shouldered by Jim's mother. Jim, haunted by his wartime experiences in Italy, Iingering feelings for a former lover, and the demands of the farm, begins to doubt his love for Joan.

As kids, Mark and his cousin, Talia, spent many happy summers together at the family cottage in Ontario, Canada, but a fight between their parents put an end to the annual event. Living on opposite coasts - Mark in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Talia in Victoria, British Columbia - they haven’t seen each other in years. When their grandfather dies unexpectedly, Mark and Talia find themselves reunited at the cottage again, cleaning it out while the family decides what to do with it.

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.

Certainty follows Gail Lim, a producer of radio documentaries in Vancouver, as she works to uncover the history of her parents' relationship and struggles to come to terms with the events that brought them together. Gail's search for the truth leads her to Amsterdam where she meets a war photographer named Sipke, who tells her the story of a woman named Ani - and in so doing, reveals valuable information that not only sheds further light on Gail's parents, but also brings Gail face to face with the complications in her own life and closer to unraveling the questions that have gripped her imagination.

Yaotl and Sascho splashed along the shores of the behcha, spears hefted, watching for the flash of fin to rise to the surface and sparkle in the sunlight. Tender feelings, barely discovered, flushed their faces. In the distance, the warning about the kw'ahtıı sounds, but on this fatal day, it goes unheard; Yaotl and Sascho fall into the hands of the Indian Agents. Transport to Fort Providence residential school is only the beginning of their ordeal, for the teachers believe it is their sworn duty to “kill the Indian inside”.

English hairdresser, Ethel, is alone after the deaths of her family and her wartime fiancé. Widow and single mother, Alice, bringing up two daughters, receives an unexpected inheritance that will transform her life. War bride, Joan, is mother to three small children with a fourth on the way and money in short supply. All are brought together in a rural Canadian town where they each try to build a future - often in spite of the men in their lives.

Je suis un fantôme. Je suis au milieu d'une grande sœur et d'un petit frère. Mes notes à l'école c'est B, des fois B. Je suis pas tellement populaire, mais pas tellement l'inverse non plus. Je suis toujours quelque chose entre les deux. Des fois je trouve ça correct, même pratique. D'autres fois (il faut bien l'avouer), je trouve ça plate.

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.