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If a local biker war isn't enough - 7 corpses are found buried on a farm - MacNeice receives a desperate phone call from the mayor of Dundurn. Dredging is nearly completed on the ambitious waterfront project the mayor hopes will revive his mini rust belt of a city, when 6 more bodies turn up at the bottom of the lake, and 2 of them, encased in concrete, are fairly fresh. The mayor wants MacNeice to fix things fast, but theres another "visionary" on the loose in Dundurn - a serial killer who wants to rid the city of high-achieving young women of colour.

During a mosquito-infested summer in Edmonton, Métis journalist Leo Desroches, who has just been released from jail, is called to the scene of an apparent overdose of a young Native man in the inner city. Some white rocks spill out of the body bag. They are not crack cocaine, as Leo first thinks, but rough diamonds. The victim was not a drug user, but a worker at one of the new diamond mines above the Arctic Circle. Leo is led to investigate a smuggling ring and a deadly, billion dollar conflict between Native groups, rival gangs, and international mining conglomerates. 2015.

Undercover as a homeless man, Leo Desroches, a half-Cree, half-French-Canadian reporter in Edmonton, has his hands full both on the job and in his personal life. As he tries to reconnect with his estranged son and fight his urge to gamble, he is consumed by a story that turns into a personal crusade: a search for a missing Native street kid hes befriended. When the boy is found brutally murdered, Leo explores the depths of Native street culture in a local gang, but secrets soon emerge that threaten not only the gang members, but Leos life - and his sanity.

Mai 1983. Un jeune étudiant en littérature se fait agresser par un homme qu'il a suivi chez lui au Port de mer, une tour d'habitation située près du métro Longueuil. Il n'en parlera à personne. Pendant les mois qui suivront, aucun de ses proches ne saisira la détresse insidieuse qui l'amènera au bord de l'abîme.

Adam Coryell est un élève de dix-sept ans tout à fait ordinaire – enfin, si l'on excepte sa passion immodérée pour les stylos-plume. Mais sa vie tranquille change du tout au tout quand un article scientifique selon lequel tout corps humain est apte à exceller dans au moins un sport tombe entre les mains de mizz Davenport, sa prof de lettres et d'éducation physique pour le moins excentrique. On déclare les mensurations d'Adam idéales pour jouer au... golf. Pourtant, Adam n'a jamais posé la main ni sur un bois ni sur un fer.

Camille travaille dans un café du Plateau Est. Du haut de sa vingtaine, elle comble le temps entre ses ses quarts de travail de bières et de joints sur son balcon. Boucaner pour quitter brièvement une tête surchargée. Puis, Camille rencontre Lou. Ou plutôt, Lou atterrit dans la vie de Camille. Entre le biodôme et le parc Laurier, ces deux femmes apprennent à s'aimer, malgré le quotidien étouffant et les montagnes russes qui s'affolent.

Il fait chaud, la ville est insupportable en été, surtout après si longtemps à contempler alternativement les murs de la maison et l'écran de l'ordinateur. Diane et Claudine, on les comprend, souhaitent désespérément s'évader en nature, que leur rosé ne soit pas seul à prendre le frais. Sauf que des chalets à portée de leur budget, ça n'existe tout simplement pas.

Toni has always had nightmares about fire, and she also has burn scars but no idea how she got them. So when fire destroys the orphanage she has grown up in, she is ready to make her way to Toronto, where she hopes to discover the truth about the mother she believes hurt and then abandoned her. Toronto proves to be both daunting and exciting for Toni, whose charm and innocence attract attention—not always positive—wherever she goes.

For fans of Queenie and Honey Girl, a coming-of-age story about queer Black identity, love, passion, chosen family, and rediscovering life's pleasures after loss. Jade Brown, a twenty-four-year-old first-generation Jamaican woman living in Toronto, must find a way to pick up the pieces and discover who she is following the mysterious death of her twin sister. Grappling with her grief, Jade seeks solace in lovers and friends during an array of hilarious and heartbreaking adventures.

A new heartfelt novel about the power of loneliness and the strength of love that overcomes it by critically acclaimed author Roselle Lim. Newly minted professional matchmaker Sophie Go has returned to Toronto, her hometown, after spending three years in Shanghai. Her job is made difficult when she is revealed as a fraud: she never actually graduated from matchmaking school. In a competitive market like Toronto, no one wants to take a chance on an inexperienced and unaccredited matchmaker, and soon Sophie becomes an outcast.