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Ainé d’une famille unie, beau bonhomme et bon joueur de football, Sébastien Tardif a un bel avenir devant lui. Mais un jour, le malheur heurte sa famille de plein fouet, après un grave accident qui plonge la mère dans un profond coma. Sébastien et sa sœur cadette, Annie, sont confiés, par le Service de l’aide à l’enfance, à des familles d’accueil distinctes.

Suite à un spectacle désastreux, ils décident d’accompagner leur jolie voisine (dont ils sont tous les deux secrètement amoureux), Cassandra, dans un voyage sur les routes afin de lui remonter le moral.

Sans donner d’explications, Evelyn quitte précipitamment son mari et sa riche résidence en banlieue de Toronto pour se rendre sur la côte ouest au chevet de Claude, son ex-amant québécois qu’elle n’a plus revu depuis des années. Claude est à l’agonie et sa mort plonge Evelyn dans un profond désarroi qui ravive en elle le souvenir d’une autre disparition, celle de Tom, ce fils rebelle dont elle est sans nouvelles.

Nicola aura bientôt 18 ans. Élevé par un père aimant et protecteur, il mène une vie paisible jusqu’à ce qu’il découvre un terrible secret derrière l’apparente banalité de son existence. Profondément troublé par le mensonge tissé autour de lui depuis toujours, il quitte son nid douillet le soir de son anniversaire. Destination : à la dérive. De Montréal au Pacifique, puis de Yellowknife à l’Atlantique.

With its starting point in the late 1940s, Cadillac Road is the story of red-haired and fierce narrator Sharon Desjardins: from her earliest childhood memories of leaving Northern Quebec and a violent father to adventures in Buffalo and Crystal Beach with her mother and younger sister, Gloria; from dreams of escaping claustrophobic poverty in shabby Grenville to going to Toronto, mingling with high society and marrying a wealthy lawyer, having turned down local boy and first love Clinton McClary because she doesn't think he'll amount to much.

A story of love and lust with philosophical overtones, Via Roma oscillates between joy and tragedy. Drawn to and intrigued by two men of Italian descent, both equally smart, loyal and attractive, Sophie Wolfe, a native-born Montrealer, chooses one over the other, setting into motion a series of events that culminates in the death of her husband. Part murder mystery, part road trip, this novel asks the question: “Why do people die?” Sophie journeys into the heart of the Italian mainland and discovers this country's wondrous abilities to restore health and happiness to those who grieve.

In Sarah Sheard's celebrated novel Almost Japanese, a young girl's obsession with a famous Japanese musician blossoms into personal transformation. In spare, lyrical prose, Sheard documents Emma's discovery of her new next door neighbour, a dazzling Japanese symphony conductor. Things Japanese soon begin to transform Emma's world. Several years later, she must journey to Japan on a private pilgrimage to connect to the source of her obsession.

"Funny, sad, and smart ... Part wacky road novel, part romantic comedy, McAllister's debut flies along yet reaches deep." -Stewart O'Nan, author of West of Sunset For Hunter Cady, meeting Kaitlyn is the greatest thing that has ever happened to him. Whereas he had spent most of his days accomplishing very little, now his life has a purpose. Smart, funny, and one of a kind, Kait is somehow charmed by Hunter's awkwardness and droll humor, and her love gives him reason to want to be a better man.

"I'm sorry," he said, slowly untying the ribbon that held his mask in place. "It's just-I didn't want you to think of me any differently." Somehow I kept my mouth from falling open. I knew his face, but my mind couldn't accept that he was the person looking down at me. "My real name is Alec." Felicity has her entire future planned. Ever since her older sister ran away, she's had the full weight of her mother's expectations on her shoulders. So she works hard to get straight As and save for college.

Set in the early 1990s, Ashley Little's follow-up to her award-winning novel Anatomy of a Girl Gang introduces readers to eleven-year-old Tucker Malone-the only child of a narcoleptic touring stripper-who believes his father is Sam Malone, the Boston barkeep who regularly appears on Tucker's TV screen. He and his mother move from motel to motel until, one night in Niagara Falls, his mother is hit by a car after falling asleep in the street.