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Après avoir fait la connaissance de Ludovic Pinard, Maude Lacroix devient adepte de séances de relaxation. C'est avec l'aide du jeune homme que Maude tentera de retrouver ses parents biologiques, dont tous semblaient en ignorer l'identité. Selon son tuteur, Lucien Lacroix, qui avait toujours prétendu avoir trouvé Maude sur le pas de sa porte, son père et sa mère, des étrangers, étaient morts dans un accident d'auto en 1955.

Elle a probablement raison de faire ce qu'elle fait... Danika Silva ne peut pas supporter le lieutenant Greer Burns. Le frère aîné de sa colocataire est peut-être vachement sexy, mais il est aussi froid et sans âme qu'un robot. Elle veut simplement obtenir son diplôme et oublier son insupportable supérieur. Mais lorsque Danika commet une dangereuse erreur, elle se retrouve en probation (sous la supervision de Greer), et se voit forcée d'interagir avec ce grossier et monstrueux imbécile. Se rapporter à lui tous les jours. Fait!

Une accal­mie peut être aussi impré­vi­sible que riche en émo­tions. Louis Cha­gnon, le timide ado­les­cent du Plateau-Mont-Royal devenu grand diplo­mate, en a fait sou­vent l'expérience, dans ses amours comme dans ses mis­sions impos­sibles sur la scène internationale. Tout comme lui, les per­son­nages qui croisent son che­min sont bal­lo­tés dans les tour­mentes de l'histoire contem­po­raine, de la fin de la guerre du Viet­nam aux sou­bre­sauts des rela­tions Québec-­Ottawa.

Young and homeless on the streets of Toronto, a fugitive from an unquiet past that has followed him from his hometown in Northern Ontario, Benjamin Doheney is sustained by unusual sources of strength: his devotion to Sanskrit, the ancient literary language of India; the love he shares with Aditi, a PhD student in Sanskrit at the University of Toronto; and his vision of a future with her in India, a land in which she has her own troubled history, and which he has never seen.

After accepting a ride home, sixteen-year-old Emma Kennedy is raped by a boy from school. But handsome, popular Ross Schroeder tells everyone the sex was consensual, and Emma is immediately branded as a slut. Even Emma's best friend, Jen, doesn't believe Emma's version of events. In fact, she is angry with Emma because she feels betrayed. After all, she liked Ross first. But when Ross starts showing interest in Jen, Emma knows she will have to find a way to get Jen to believe that she really is in grave danger. Before it's too late.

This is the story of Levi Pepperfield, who tries to navigate his future while indulging in the sorrows of his past. With the intersection of parallel worlds-of age and youth, of teacher and student, of man and woman, of real and fictional characters-and the help of a female rabbi, a former student, and a succession of literary giants both real and imagined, Levi begins to find his purpose and gets a second chance at life. Perhaps.

Ninety-year-old Mitra has much history behind her. Young Sofija cannot grasp what her great-grandmother Mitra is telling her about life when Mitra was a young girl, growing up in a village back in Yugoslavia. These two are as far apart in their ways of thinking as they are in age. Inspired by a true story, Baba's Story encompasses many people and a vast geographic area, revealing differences in culture, time, and situation.

In the gay community, a young, husky man is known as a "cub" Seventeen-year-old Theo fits the definition perfectly, but he is very self-conscious about his body. So when his best friend signs him up for a cooking competition at Heat, the city's newest trendy restaurant, Theo is nervous. He's confident in his baking ability, and dreams of opening his own bakery one day, but he's not a chef, and he hates being in the spotlight.

After the death of her boyfriend, sixteen-year old Valentine stops going to school, quits seeing her friends and, finally, won't leave her bed. Desperate for her daughter to recover, Valentine's mother takes her on a trek in Thailand. In the mountains north of Chiang Mai, Valentine finds a world she didn't know existed, where houses are on stilts and elephants still roam wild. She learns about the Burmese civil war and the relentless violence against the Karen and Rohingya peoples.

Fourteen-year-old Tanya Kofsky is invisible. She hates that no one listens to her, at home or at her new school. So as student elections get underway, Tanya starts secretly painting controversial images on the walls of the school. Soon everyone is talking about this amazing artist with a lot to say. The election results turn out to be a catalyst for more rebellion. And not just from students. Teachers, tired of the principal's authoritarian leadership, start promoting self-expression.