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Exploring family, loss, tragedy, identity, and self-discovery, the third book in the award winning Pass Me By series, Lily, is a heartfelt tale about how our stories carry through time, and how we come to terms with change.17 year old trans girl Lily, visits her estranged grandfather Ed, as he struggles with his rapidly developing Alzheimers. Lily too, faces struggles of her own.

Debut stories about the absurdity of growing up and being human in the twenty-first century. A woman finds her childhood friend working in a booth at a psychic fair in the West Edmonton Mall courtyard. A lonely neuropsychology student steals cocaine from his lab rat to impress a Tinder date. Teenage girls play a dangerous game and discover a portal to another reality.

In the vast, lawless ocean beneath the thick surface ice of Jupiter's moon Europa, independent undersea miners compete against megacorporations for natural resources, and pirates hunt for unwary prey. Kassia McCullough will stop at nothing to enact revenge on Pretorious Grant, the man she holds responsible for her father's suicide. When Grant's half-brother escapes from prison, Kassia may just have her chance to capture her elusive and powerful enemy. Earth Detective Max Danzig has his own reasons for pursuing the nefarious siblings.

Threatened by encroaching colonialism, one Métis family struggles to protect their way of life. In 1869, the arrival of surveyors from the new Dominion of Canada sends ripples of anxiety through the people of Red River. As the Métis Nation begins negotiating terms for joining Confederation, each member of the Rougeau family adapts in their own way: Clément looks outward, trying to maintain his livelihood as a carter, while his wife, Marienne, looks inward, determined to hold their fracturing family together.

À partir de quarante ans, la vie est toute tracée. C'est ce qu'il pensait avant de rencontrer Marie un après-midi dans un bar. Il est chauffeur de taxi, père de trois enfants, marié depuis quinze ans, propriétaire d'une maison avec jardin en périphérie de Bruxelles et sa belle petite vie roulait tranquillement. Jusqu'à ce que Marie lui sourie et lui offre la possibilité d'un nouveau départ. À partir de quarante ans, la vie est toute tracée. C'est ce qu'il pensait avant de rencontrer Marie un après-midi dans un bar.

« Depuis toujours, je restais complètement sourd à l'appel de la parentalité. Mais "les choses ont changé", comme Céline l'a mille fois chanté. Et pour qu'Armelle m'aime encore, j'avais entrepris une longue introspection qui avait comme objet de reconsidérer un des choix les plus conséquents de nos vies adultes. » Heureux en couple avec Armelle, Thomas s'apprête à inverser sa vasectomie. Mère en instance de divorce, Marianne s'apprête à recharger ses batteries en vacances.

A stunning, evocative novel set in Ireland and Canada, Away traces a family’s complex and layered past. The narrative unfolds with shimmering clarity, and takes us from the harsh northern Irish coast in the 1840s to the quarantine stations at Grosse Isle and the barely hospitable land of the Canadian Shield; from the flourishing town of Port Hope to the flooded streets of Montreal; from Ottawa at the time of Confederation to a large-windowed house at the edge of a Great Lake during the present day.

Tout juste arrivés au camping du lac aux Sables, Max, Laurence et Charlie sont enchantés par la beauté des lieux et se promettent des vacances de rêve. Pendant que la petite Charlie court se baigner, ses parents ouvrent une bouteille et trinquent à l'été. Puis un incident survient, qui fait pâlir le soleil, suivi d'un deuxième incident tournant à l'engueulade. Dans sa colère, Max insiste alors pour repartir aussitôt.

The year is 2120, and Nikos Wulf is at the top of his game. Within Winnipeg's sublevels, he is the undisputed king of bounty hunters, working for the elite Bounty Commission Eco-Terror Taskforce. The job: defend the ecological infrastructure holding back climate collapse. But when a series of bounties go wrong, Nikos finds himself on the trail of a troubling new player among the city's anti-establishment. Duty-bound to protect the people, Nikos must risk it all to unearth an insidious enemy bent on destroying everything he's ever known.

Laure Beausejour has grown up in a dormitory in Paris surrounded by prostitutes, the insane, and other forgotten women. She dreams with her best friend, Madeleine, of using her needlework skills to become a seamstress and one day marry a nobleman. But in 1669, Laure is sent across the Atlantic to New France with Madeleine as filles du roi. The girls know little of the place they are being sent to, except for stories of ferocious winters and tales of Indigenous people who eat the hearts of French priests. To be banished to Canada is a punishment worse than death.