Montreal writer Dany Laferrière became "Immortal" in 2015, when he was inducted into the Académie française, the highest honour in all French literature.
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Author:Gollner, Adam
Summary:Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Discursive worksAvailable Formats:
Author:Lavoie, Frédérick
Summary:Addressing himself to Artyom, a four-year-old victim of the conflict in Ukraine, Frédérick Lavoie explores the roots of that conflict.
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Author:Péan, Stanley
Summary:Stanley Péan's Taximan is the trace, the record of exile from Haiti.
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, AnecdotesAvailable Formats:
Author:Pronovost, André
Summary:Kerouac & Presley starts in the Montreal neighbourhood where a teenage girl was brutally murdered in the International Year of the Woman, and from there it moves to Connecticut and the Abbey wh
Genre: Creative nonfictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Fletcher, Raquel
Summary:What does diversity mean for the Quebec identity? Who gets to consider themselves a Quebecer?
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Political scienceAvailable Formats:
Author:Homel, David
Summary:In 1970, when he travelling in Spain as an 18-year-old, David Homel took a false step and ended up in pieces at the foot of a cliff.
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Author:Perron, Sandra
Summary:Sandra Perron, Canada's first female infantry officer, describes her experiences serving in the Canadian Forces, including the harassment she suffered during training and her deployments to Bo
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Author:Paris, Erna
Summary:One thousand years ago, a civilization existed in Spain that was famed throughout Europe.
Genre: History and geographyAvailable Formats:
Author:Ritland, Laura
Summary:East and West, Laura Ritland's astonishing debut, is a book of visions.
Genre: Canadian poetryAvailable Formats:
Author:De Meijer, Sadiqa
Summary:The Outer Wards, Sadiqa de Meijer's new collection, explores questions of maternal love and duty--and the powerlessness that comes with the disruption of that role through illness.
Genre: Canadian poetryAvailable Formats:
Author:Nepveu, Pierre
Summary:The Hardness of Matter and Water fulfills a poetic odyssey Quebecois poet Pierre Nepveu began over four decades ago.
Genre: Canadian poetryAvailable Formats:
Author:Macgill, Christine
Summary:Every immigrant that comes to Canada has a story. This book captures ten of those stories and the remarkable resiliency and fortitude of the human spirit.
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Author:Buell, John
Summary:An orphaned boy watches as his older brother and idol graduates from petty thievery into big-league crime. A bank heist goes awry, leaving loose threads and dangerous links back to the brothers.
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Author:Barton, John
Summary:A bold experiment in autobiography, Lost Family: A Memoir is a book of sonnets that centres around the deaths of John Barton's parents and sister, but also tracks much of the poet's early
Genre: Canadian poetryAvailable Formats:
Author:Arthur, James
Summary:Complicated histories that parents pass on to their children.
Genre: Canadian poetryAvailable Formats: