Canadian Family

Zelda, 21 ans, n'est pas tout à fait comme les jeunes femmes de son âge, parce que sa mère buvait trop quand elle était enceinte. Qu'à cela ne tienne, elle mènera sa vie comme elle l'entend ! Zelda aime son grand frère Gert, son amoureux Marxy, son nouveau travail à la bibliothèque, faire des listes et, surtout, elle voue un culte immodéré aux Vikings. Mais, alors qu'elle rêve de combats à l'épée et de Valkyries, elle découvre que Gert s'est lié à de dangereux dealers pour payer les factures.

The Mighty Muskrats are off to the city to have fun at the Exhibition Fair. But when Chickadee learns about Grandpa’s little sister, who was scooped up by the government and adopted out to strangers without her parents’ permission many years ago, the Mighty Muskrats have a new mystery to solve. Once in the bright lights of the big city, the cousins get distracted, face off with bullies, meet some heroes and unlikely teachers, and learn many of the difficulties of life in the city, as well as hard truths about their country’s treatment of First Nations people.

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.

For seventeen-year-old Adanna Nkwachi, life is all about duty: to school and the debate team, to her Nigerian parents, and even to her cousin Genny as Ada helps prepare Genny’s wedding to Afrobeats superstar Skeleboy. Because ever since her older brother, Sam, had a fight with their parents a few years ago and disappeared, somebody has to fill the void he left behind. Ada may never know what caused Sam to leave home, but the one thing she’s certain of is that it’s on her to make sure her parents’ sacrifices aren’t in vain.

It's 1998. And Mansoor Visram has lived in Canada for 25 years, ever since dictator Idi Amin expelled South Asians from Uganda. As a refugee with a wife and child, Mansoor has tried his best to recreate the life they once had, but starting over in Canada has been much harder than he expected. He's worked as a used car salesman, as a gas station attendant, and now he runs a small dry cleaner in suburban Calgary. But he's hatching plans for a father and son empire that will bring back the wealth and status the Visrams enjoyed in Uganda.

Flat Stanley goes north! Stanley Lambchop and his family are in British Columbia, Canada, for some skiing and winter fun. But when Stanley and his new friend Nick go snowboarding - with Stanley as the snowboard, of course - they take a midair tumble just as the wind picks up...and find themselves floating in an amazing Canadian cross-country journey that might just be Stanley's wildest adventure yet!

«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!»

Originaire de Gaspésie, Camille Aubry habite la ville de Québec où elle complète, à 25 ans, un doctorat en psychologie. Hantée par un drame familial survenu neuf ans plus tôt, Camille soulage les souffrances de ses patients psychiatriques tout en tentant de réparer son propre traumatisme. Survient Léo, son jeune voisin, à qui elle offre un refuge apaisant quand ça s’agite trop chez lui. Au fil de leurs échanges se tisse une amitié précieuse et salvatrice entre le garçon négligé et la femme abîmée.

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.

Ma grande sœur me torture!Tu as bien lu : elle est abominable, monstrueuse et parfois, carrément inhumaine! Ça fait des années que ça dure. Puisque ma mère ne me croit pas, j'ai décidé de raconter les cruautés que j'ai subies, par ordre chronologique. Certaines te feront rire, t'étonneront ou t'effrayeront même! Une chose est certaine : ces anecdotes, qui remontent aussi loin qu'à ma naissance, sont réellement arrivées.

Une mère partie en voyage, un père qui n’a fait que passer, Simone et Léo se retrouvent seuls. À quinze et dix ans, ils font le choix de faire comme si. Comme si tout allait bien. Sans rien dire, au cas où un adulte aurait la bonne idée de s’en mêler. Et de les séparer. Avec sa plume brève et sensible, Pascale Wilhelmy nous emmène dans l’univers de deux enfants devenus grands. Beaucoup trop tôt.

Faire partie d’une famille nombreuse, c’est toute une aventure ! Du moins, c’est ce que croit Jade, qui a… six frères et sœurs ! Entre les cris, le bruit et le chaos ambiant, pas facile de trouver un peu de tranquillité dans la maison. Trop souvent, la jeune fille a plutôt l’impression de vivre dans un zoo. Quand les parents annoncent que la famille partira pour la première fois en vacances au bord de la mer, l’excitation est à son comble. Mais les enfants Métivier sont loin de se douter qu’ils ne sont pas au bout de leurs surprises.

Nous nous attachons dans ce livre à expliquer comment éviter ces déformations, à apprendre à les dépister le plus tôt possible et donner les meilleures chances de correction, grâce à une action thérapeutique de « bon sens ».

The Second World War had been under way for a year when Marie and John Williamson welcomed two English brothers to join them and their two children in their small house in north Toronto for the duration of the conflict. Marie wrote over 150 letters to the boys’ mother, Margaret Sharp, imagining that she could make Margaret feel she was still with her children. She shepherded the boys through education decisions and illnesses, eased them into a strange new life, and rejoiced when they embraced unfamiliar winter sports.

Pour vivre votre maternité sereine et heureuse.

Comment se sent-on quand on a presque quinze ans, qu’on n’a pas de famille et que par-dessus le marché, on est balancée dans une maison habitée par la vieille folle du quartier ? En faisant taire les rumeurs, en surmontant ses peurs et surtout, en suivant sa petite voix curieuse, Amandine apprendra que la vérité se cache parfois aux endroits où l’on s’y attend le moins. Que peut faire une adolescente devant les avances incessantes et sournoises d’un beau-père qu’elle déteste, une mère qui est absente plus souvent qu’autrement et une vie qui va à la dérive ?

Kerstin Ostheim, a journalist, and P. J. Banner, a freelance photographer, have been together six months after meeting on a dating website. They are getting married in two weeks and as the wedding fast approaches, they question their compatibility while investigating mysterious horse killings that are taking place in Ogweyo's Cove, the Pacific tourist haven where they live.

Growing up with a menacing drunk for a father and a grief-stricken mother, a girl spends her 1980s childhood staring at the television to escape the depression and looming violence that fill her suburban home. After winning a modelling competition, she dedicates herself to becoming a placid image onto which anything can be projected, a blank slate with a blank stare. Earning enough in Paris to retire in her 20s, she buys a studio in Montreal and retreats from the world, cultivating her existence as an image through her virtual reality avatar. But then her mother develops cancer.

Nightmares still haunt Chloe 13 years after she lost her baby sister. Her mother, Jules, with a busy tech career and long history of chronic pain, has little time for Chloe. After Chloe drops out of university to travel for a year, Jules’s OxyContin dependency quickly becomes a problem. Aftershock follows their parallel journeys: Jules struggles to regain control of her life and come to terms with the emotional pain that has so long manifested itself in her body. Chloe, after a rocky visit with her estranged father in New Zealand, resolves to go off the map....

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.