Canadian Family

Things aren't going Milo's way. His acting career is floundering, he got dumped, his miserable father vanished, and people keep moving into his house. He finally decides to take action - to help the only person he really likes, the autistic boy next door who's being bullied. But, well, that doesn't really go his way either.

It's the dead of winter in Winnipeg and Wendy Reimer, a 30-year-old trans woman, feels like her life is frozen in place. When her Oma passes away Wendy receives an unexpected phone call from a distant family friend with a startling secret: Wendy's Opa (grandfather) - a devout Mennonite farmer - might have been transgender himself. At first she dismisses this revelation, but as Wendy's life grows increasingly volatile, she finds herself aching for the lost pieces of her Opa's truth.

Après avoir lu quelques-unes des lettres écrites par sa mère, Maélie décide de ranger les autres et de prendre une pause. Elle ne se sent pas assez solide pour tout apprendre d’un coup. Les émotions qui remontent à la surface sont trop fortes pour qu’elle parvienne à les affronter. Pour le moment, du moins.

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.

Dan Ainslie, a brilliant doctor working with the miners of his native Cape Breton Island, is forty-two and deeply in love with his wife. Longing for the son he can never have, he comes to love the young Alan MacNeil, whose father deserted him and his mother several years before. Alan's father's return brings tragedy to those around him.

Le père de Maélie a refait surface dans sa vie. Mais est-ce vraiment une bonne chose? Comment savoir s'il est sincère ou s'il ne cache pas des intentions malsaines? Cet homme mystérieux repousse autant qu'il attire, et Maélie ne sait pas quelle attitude adopter face à lui. Le laisser entrer dans sa vie ou le rejeter pour toujours?

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.

Retour à la case zéro.Maélie n'est plus sûre de rien. L'homme qu'elle croyait être son père n'était qu'un leurre. Sa mère n'a pas tout dit. A sûrement menti. Elle avait ses raisons, il faut croire. Alors comment connaître la vérité? Comment percer ce nouveau mystère?

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.