Canadian Fiction

The Handsome Man is a collection of linked stories that follow several years of the life of a young man as he is drawn around the world: from Toronto to Montreal, New York, Ohio, New Mexico, British Columbia, Berlin, Rome, and Northern Ontario, along the way meeting hippies, healers, drinkers, movie stars, old friends, and welcoming strangers. He isn’t traveling, however; he’s running away. But as far and fast as he runs, the world won’t let him disappear, and each new encounter and every lost soul he meets along this journey brings him closer and closer to certain truths he’d locked away.

Deni Béchard s’envole vers la République démocratique du Congo pour enquêter sur l’insaisissable Richmond Voos, un soi-disant militant écologiste que l’on devine corrompu jusqu’à la moelle. Entre ciel et terre, il fait la connaissance de Sola, une Américaine qui se rend à Kinshasa afin d’aider une jeune orpheline qui se dit possédée par un démon. Leurs recherches permettront de lever le voile sur les conflits d’intérêts qui gangrènent les grandes organisations internationales et sur les tensions raciales encore bien palpables en Afrique comme en Amérique.

Diane et Gilles, deux étudiants universitaires Québécois partis parfaire leurs connaissances en Europe, expérimenteront des épreuves imprévues en visitant les peuples Basque et Catalan. C'est en Espagne et en France qu'ils découvrent l'analogie entre le Québec et ces deux peuples minoritaires. L'emblème du Québec qu'ils arborent sur leur sac-à-dos bouleversera leur voyage et les obligera à furi.

Les poèmes d’une vie ce sont les émotions à la naissance de ses trois enfants, des poèmes d’ambiance pudiquement érotiques et surtout le journal de son grand amour avec François, décédé d’un cancer à 49 ans. Sa production est remarquable par la « musicalité « qui s’en dégage. Elle confie ici à Alexandre Stanke l’accompagnement musical de ses textes pour en amplifier la saveur de l’écoute.

Set in Canada with Greece in their not-distant memory, these linked stories resonate with emotional power and the inherent longing of being away from home. At turns funny and poignant, lyrical and straightforward, Nick Papandreou creates characters and situations that charm us with their wit, soul, language, and longing.

Ambroise Zéphyr échoue à son examen médical. Verdict : il est atteint d’une maladie incurable qui ne lui laisse que trente jours à vivre. Fasciné depuis l’enfance par les abécédaires et les caractères d’imprimerie, ce graphiste féru d’art et d’histoire décide de prendre le large et de s’offrir un dernier (et merveilleux) périple autour du monde avec sa femme, Zappora Ashkenazi. Premier arrêt : A pour Amsterdam, puis B pour Berlin, C pour Chartres… Mais qu’arrivera-t-il lorsque viendra la lettre Z, la fin de l’alphabet ?

Malgré ses douze ans, Fabien a une peur bleue du dentiste. Surtout depuis que le Dr Sinistre est arrivé dans sa ville. Pourtant, ses parents insistent pour lui prendre un rendez-vous. Il faut dire que depuis l'arrivée du Dr Sinistre dans le quartier, d'étranges choses se produisent. Sans compter que tous les élèves de sa classe qui ont dû aller chez ce dentiste ne sont plus les mêmes. Fabien surmontera-t-il sa peur du dentiste ?

Redeemed From the Ashes is the story of a misguided young woman named Evelyn Richardson whose maimed husband Carl goes missing as a result of the Halifax Explosion of 1917. Bedridden because of an injury, she is unable to immediately search him out. The chances of finding him grow thin as the days pass into cruel winter and the chaos of a shattered city remains.

Lire la quinzaine de nouvelles de ce recueil posthume de Yolande Bastarache, c’est pénétrer dans un lumineux jardin secret sur lequel souffle doucement la brise du large, peuplé d’êtres attachants faits de fiction et de mémoire.

On a mangy beach in Key West, 16-year-old Myra meets Elijah, a Tanzanian musician twice her age. Trapped on a Spring Break family vacation, Myra longs to lose her virginity to Elijah, and is shocked to learn he lives with Gayl, a secretive, violent woman with a strange power over him. When Myra and her splitting-up family return home, she falls in with a pot-smoking anarchist crowd. But when Gayl and Elijah follow her north, she walks willingly into their world, engaging in more and more abject sexual games. As Myra enters unfamiliar worlds of sex, porn, race, and class, she explores territories unknown in herself.

The youngest child of the local doctor and evangelical preacher, Annie Baldwin was expected to work hard and not protest. George Richardson, the underage Doctor Bernardo boy, orphaned and shipped to Canada a few years earlier, is loaned to the Baldwins to help bring in the hay. The Great War brought a lot of changes to life, even in the back woods of Ontario. In spite of the differences in their social standing, George and Annie fell in love. When George departed for France, he promised to return to her when the war was over. Like so many others, Annie waited and hoped.

Attorney Kenneth King can't wait to get away on vacation and leave the courtroom behind. He only has one last errand to do for his boss: drop off a flash drive to fellow attorney Emma James. But as soon as the drive is in his hands, his boss is murdered and Kenneth becomes the next target. With nowhere left to turn, he reaches out to Emma for help, but that only puts them both in danger.

Truth spoken plainly and powerfully is difficult to dismiss and impossible to ignore. Edited with purpose by A. Gregory Frankson, AfriCANthology: Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets brings together some of Canada's most influential dub, page, and spoken word poetic voices and gives them space to speak freely about their personal journeys in piercing verse and unapologetic prose. Just as individual experiences of Blackness are diverse across Canada, each contributor recounts aspects of navigating their unique personal, professional, and artistic paths in Black skin.

Waiting to die in a remote Canadian cannabis facility wasn't exactly how Jack Glasser expected to go out. Having survived a yearlong coma and a bizarre Neural Acceleration experiment, a quick and easy consulting job for GreenLeaf Cannabis seemed like a no-brainer. Now his only hope rests on his computer-like mind and his brother, Luke, a serial gambler whose main talent is burning through jet fuel and expensive bourbon.

Two young women attending college decide to have a summer adventure canoeing the rapids-strewn Thelon River that runs 450 miles through the uninhabited Barren Lands of subarctic Canada. Holly made the trip once before with a group of skilled paddlers she trained with at camp, and she wants to share that experience with her friend and lover, Lee, believing it will draw them closer. But a week in, Holly, the risk-taker, falls while taking a selfie near the edge of a cliff. She is left injured and comatose, and soon dies.

To Stephanie, Andrew Simmons seemed like the perfect man. He was smart, handsome, tall, and athletic. And best of all, he was interested in her. As their romance begins to blossom, the truth about Andrew's past comes to light. A misguided choice made many years before hung over him. When they start a family together, Andrew tries to move on from the past and enjoy his family life, but the past still haunts him.

Hoofprints on the Canadian is a book that is made up of several short stories about the life and times of African Americans in the West. Each story has its own hero and villain. The thing that ties them together is the attempt to showcase African Americans in a different light. The stories prove that the color of a man’s skin will not tell you if he is good or bad. It also will not tell you if he is brave or heroic or if he is a sniffling coward.

The time is 1916. Sara is a 10 year old girl in rural Prince Edward Island. Roy is a 10 year old boy in mining town, Nova Scotia. Through their eyes we see, feel and experience their childhood challenges. We follow them through adolescence and their turbulent teen years. We celebrate their courtship and suffer their lost innocence in the wedding ritual. They take us through the Great Depression and share with us the frustrations, dreams and challenges they face in adulthood. As parents they introduce us to their children. This story appeals to all ages because Sara and Roy hold up a mirror and ask the reader to recognize truth about the human condition for many Canadian families through difficult economic times. We witness love that does not come neatly wrapped and experience the quiet, sometimes desperate, drama of lives unfolding.

Based in part on actual events, Moki is the story of an old man who, on his deathbed recounts an incredible tale of being kidnapped by a family of gypsies in the 1940s. The young teen is forced to learn their ways and is quickly absorbed into the gypsy life quickly acquiring the skills of picking pockets and scamming the gullible at carnivals and in small towns across the Canadian Prairies

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