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Patsy Keane survived her childhood, and some days that's all that matters. As the child of an alcoholic mother, Patsy is not prone to nostalgia. She lives in a world of her own creation, where Beverly Keane's maternal shortcomings are just a bad memory. It would be a perfect world if Patsy wasn't eternally haunted by the memory of what really happened on the day her sister Kathleen went missing-and by the foolish lie she told that day. She's lived with it for forty-two years. Since that terrible time, Patsy has distanced herself from everyone and everything in her past.

Trying to come to terms with the passing of her husband, a famous and controversial artist in Calgary, Aimee Westerberg is spiralling into depression instead. Her identity as Georges Westerberg's younger second wife leads to a fight with his family over his estate. Aimee attempts to hide from it all in her work as an art-restorer at the Glenbow museum, only to find herself pursued by journalist, Bear Cardinal, who is writing an expose on her late husband.

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.

Je n'écris pas pour me faire comprendre ; j'écris parce qu'à l'intérieur de moi il y a une petite fille effrayée. J'écris parce que les livres de Nelligan, d'Hébert et d'Agnant brûlent entre mes mains. Parce que je rêve sans cesse à des yeux qui saignent. Je ne demande aucun médicament, aucune rédemption. J'écris pour arrêter des histoires. Les plus toxiques. Les plus violentes. Les plus communes et blanches.

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?