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Dans Le boulevard, Chris, un jeune homme vivant avec une déficience intellectuelle, devait faire face au départ soudain de sa mère le jour de ses dix-huit ans. Deux ans ont passé. Chris partage désormais son appartement avec sa blonde Chloé dans le bloc de madame Sylvester, près du boulevard. Les jours s'écoulent avec leur lot de petits défis et de moments heureux pour le jeune concierge et son entourage. Mais voilà que Chris, qui n'aime pas le changement, doit composer avec des événements pour le moins inattendus.

Dans ce livre exploratoire de la mémoire où s'entrecroisent fiction et souvenirs, Macha, début trentaine, raconte les lieux qu'elle a habités et traversés depuis son enfance : des grandes maisons de Vineuil et de Kinshasa, en passant par l'appartement de Brazzaville, celui tout petit de Paris, la gentilhommière normande, jusqu'à la maison hantée d'Orléans et la cage de Verdun, on découvre avec elle les plages, la vie d'expatriée, la pauvreté, la peinture, le racisme et l'antisémitisme, le rejet à l'école, les premiers émois et les premiers effrois, la faim, le manque.

White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences... Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn't write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American--in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from R.F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel. Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena's a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody.

Luka Dekker and her sister Connie are the inheritors of a secretive and disturbing family history going back three generations to the disappearance of their great-grandfather. Their troubled mother, Lark, also mysteriously disappeared; and their beloved grandmother, who raised the two girls, had a life haunted by a traumatic event that is only revealed after her death. The story unfolds against a backdrop of the drug-fueled Downtown Eastside of Vancouver and the horrific pig farm murders, the seductive beauty of rural Saskatchewan, and the glittering lights of a famous prairie dance hall.

Vancouver. A day like any other. Kyle, a successful cosmetic surgeon, is punishing himself with a sprint up a mountain. Charlotte, wife of a tech tycoon, is combing the farm belt for local cheese and a sense of purpose. Back in the city their families go about their business: landscaping, negotiating deals, skipping school. It's a day like any other-until suddenly it's not. When the earthquake hits, the city erupts in chaos and fear. Kyle's and Charlotte's families, along with two passersby, are thrown together in an oceanfront mansion.

Kasia Van Schaik's debut story collection follows the journey of Charlotte Ferrier, a child of divorce raised by a single mother in a small town in British Columbia after moving from South Africa. Mother and daughter wait out the end of a bad year in a Mexican hotel; a friendship is tested as forest fires demolish Charlotte's town; a childhood friend disappears while travelling through Europe; and a girl on the beach examines the memories of dying jellyfish. The stories traverse the most intimate and transforming moments of female experience in a world threatened by ecological crisis.

Wendy McGrath's The Santa Rosa Trilogy, a decade in the making, is finally available in a complete collection. Join a young Canadian girl in mid-century Edmonton, Alberta, as she seeks answers to life's questions and finds beauty in the mundane. Santa Rosa: What is real when seen through the eyes of a child? When does the harshness of reality transform idyllic memories?

Fifteen-year-old Gale is desperate to get out of Whitehorse, a fact that is immediately clear to counsellor Helen Cotillard when Gale walks into her office with her reluctant stepmother. It's 1995, and one counselling agency for kids and families serves all of the Yukon. Gale has been having anxiety attacks, the last one so severe it landed her in the hospital. Helen soon begins to realize that Gale's distress at being separated from her little sister Buddie too closely parallels a calamity from her own past.

Immigration to Montreal. Young Senegalese coming to Quebec. A new world of contradictions and beauty. An epic contemporary vision of what it means to be uprooted, and what it takes to plant roots in a new land.

Celia's vision of the past during a weather disturbance becomes a reality when her great-niece is horribly abused.