Canadian fiction

  • Blood like fate : Blood like magic, book 2

    Creator

    Sambury, Liselle

    Abstract

    In the spellbinding sequel to Blood Like Magic, Voya fights to save her witch community from a terrible future in this "poignant, smart, and wholly unique" (Tracy Deonn, New York Times bestselling author of Legendborn) novel that's perfect for fans of Legendborn and Cemetery Boys. Voya Thomas may have passed her Calling to become a full-fledged witch, but the cost was higher than she'd ever imagined. Her grandmother is gone. Her cousin hates her. And her family doesn't believe that she has what it takes to lead them.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Margaret K. McElderry Books

    New York

    Margaret K. McElderry Books

    Non spécifié
  • An ordinary violence

    Creator

    Chartrand, Adriana

    Abstract

    Terrible things happen side by side with the ordinary. Dawn hasn't spoken to her brother, Cody, since he was sent to prison for a violent crime seven years ago. But when Dawn's seemingly perfect life in the big city implodes, she is forced to return to her childhood home and the prairie city that still holds so much pain for her and her fractured family. Cody is released from prison with a mysterious new friend by his side, and Dawn must follow increasingly sinister leads to uncover their nefarious plans to access a dangerous supernatural network.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    House of Anansi

    Non spécifié
  • All that matters

    Creator

    Choy, Wayson

    Abstract

    Set in Vancouver's Chinatown in the 1930s and 1940s, Choy continues the story of the Chen family household, this time narrated by First Son, Kiam-Kim. We first meet Kiam-Kim at the age of eight, staring at the yellowed photograph of his mother, who died in China when he was just a baby. Kiam-Kim, Poh-Poh (his larger-than-life grandmother) and Mr. Chen, his demure and honest father, journey to a new life in Vancouver's Old Chinatown.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Anchor Canada

    [Toronto, Ontario]

    HarperCollins Canada

    Non spécifié
  • A student of weather

    Creator

    Hay, Elizabeth

    Abstract

    From some accidents of love and weather we never quite recover. At the worst of the Prairie dust bowl of the 1930s, a young man appears out of a blizzard and forever alters the lives of two sisters. There is the beautiful, fastidious Lucinda, and the tricky and tenacious Norma Joyce, at first a strange, self-possessed child, later a woman who learns something of self-forgiveness and of the redemptive nature of art.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Emblem Editions

    Toronto, Ontario

    Emblem Editions

    Non spécifié
  • A minor chorus

    Creator

    Belcourt, Billy-Ray

    Abstract

    Winner of the 2023 BC and Yukon Ethel Wilson Prize — Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize — National bestseller. An urgent first novel about breaching the prisons we live inside from one of Canada’s most daring literary talents. An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern Alberta in search of what eludes him: the shape of the novel he yearns to write, an autobiography of his rural hometown, the answers to existential questions about family, love, and happiness.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Hamish Hamilton

    Toronto

    Hamish Hamilton Canada

    Non spécifié
  • When we lost our heads

    Creator

    O'Neill, Heather

    Abstract

    The #1 national bestseller "Marvelous . . . viciously funny and acutely intelligent" (Maclean's), When We Lost Our Heads is the spellbinding story of two young women whose friendship is so intense it not only threatens to destroy them, it changes the course of history Marie Antoine is the charismatic, spoiled daughter of a sugar baron. At age twelve, with her pile of blond curls and unparalleled sense of whimsy, she's the leader of all the children in the Golden Mile, the affluent strip of nineteenth-century Montreal where powerful families live.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    HarperCollins Publishers

    Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.

    Non spécifié
  • Dream wheels

    Creator

    Wagamese, Richard

    Abstract

    From the acclaimed author of Keeper’n Me and For Joshua, Dream Wheels is a vital and unsparing novel from one of the most fascinating voices in Canadian writing. Joe Willie Wolfchild is on the verge of becoming a World Champion rodeo cowboy when a legendary bull cripples him. At the same time, in the same city, Claire Hartley is brutally assaulted and her 14-year-old son, Aiden, is critically injured during a burglary. The young Ojibway-Sioux man, the Black single mother and her mixed-race son find their lives irrevocably changed.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Anchor Canada

    New York

    Anchor Canada

    Non spécifié
  • Bloom : The overthrow, book 1

    Creator

    Oppel, Kenneth

    Abstract

    The first book in bestselling author Kenneth Oppel's explosive new trilogy. It was just rain. But after the downpour, odd black plants begin to shoot up. Suddenly—They. Are. Everywhere. They take over fields and twine around houses. They bloom and throw off toxic pollen—and feed. Strangely, three Salt Spring Island teens seem immune. Anaya, Petra and Seth. What's their connection? What's their secret? A week ago, they wouldn't have thought they had one. But they'd better figure it out fast—the invasion has already begun.

    Audience
    Juvenile**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    HarperCollins

    Non spécifié
  • Le radeau : l'histoire extraordinaire d'une famille ordinaire des plaines

    Creator

    Dubé, Jean-Pierre

    Abstract

    Le radeau est l'histoire de six frères et sœurs qui se retrouvent à deux reprises autour d'un repas pour rattraper les longues années de silence et de séparation. Thomas, le benjamin de la famille, réunit ses frères et sœurs pour la Saint Jean-Baptiste – ainsi que pour leur montrer sa nouvelle maison dans le village de Saint-Raymond – région dont est originaire la famille. Malgré les apparences, les six frères et sœurs ont passé les années sans se connaître et chacun porte en lui un lourd secret.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Quebec (Quebec)

    Éditions du Blé

    Saint-Boniface

    Les Éditions du blé

    Non spécifié
  • Recipe for a good life

    Creator

    Crewe, Lesley

    Abstract

    On paper, Kitty's life is perfect. She lives in Montreal, so vibrant in the 1950s; she married her childhood sweetheart, who happens to also be a handsome movie star; and her detective novels, written under a plausibly male nom de plume, are bestsellers. But Kitty is suffocating under the truth of her life: Montreal feels chaotic and lonely without her mother, and with her father all but estranged. Her husband is a glib Lothario. And she never, ever wants to write another detective novel. When she says as much to her publishers, they panic. She's their golden goose.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Vagrant Press

    Toronto

    Vagrant Press,c2023

    Non spécifié