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Il est déjà compliqué de trouver l’homme idéal. Mais quand une jeune femme -- c’est le cas de Jane Hayes--, est obsédée par un personnage de roman, ça devient encore plus difficile. Comme si ce n’était pas suffisant, la jeune New-Yorkaise est totalement, irrationnellement, follement amoureuse de l’acteur qui incarne son personnage fétiche, Mr Darcy, dans une populaire adaptation d’Orgueil et préjugés de Jane Austen. Résultat, sa vie amoureuse est proche du néant: aucun homme n’est à la hauteur!

Alors qu’elle vide la maison de son défunt père, Mair Ellis découvre un éblouissant châle ancien et une boucle de cheveux d’enfant. Débute alors une quête qui changera à jamais sa vie. Se rendant au Cachemire sur les traces de ses grands-parents, Mair tente de recoller les morceaux de l’histoire fascinante de Nerys, sa grand-mère, qui avait quitté la campagne galloise au début des années 1940 pour accompagner son mari missionnaire affecté en Inde.

Nous voici à l’aube d’un siècle nouveau, témoins d’une ère où modernité et tradition s’affrontent. Tandis qu’Alexandrine et Clovis tentent de se remettre d’un deuil épouvantable, Albert et Victoire vivront l’envers de la tragédie qui frappe Emma, Matthieu et leurs enfants. De leur côté, James et Lysbeth doivent affronter la peur et la maladie, alors même qu’un amour impossible se transforme en une amitié sincère et salvatrice. Drames, joies, infortunes et espoirs fous ponctuent les jours de ces gens d’une autre époque, mais qui pourtant nous ressemblent.

Moving, entertaining, and witty, A Thousand Consolations is a literary romantic comedy for fans of David Nicholls’s Us and Emma Straub’s Modern Lovers.Paula doesn’t put much faith in the candles she designs for her customers, which promise to cure everything from unrequited love to ingrown toenails; it’s just a business she started after her husband’s untimely death put an end to their joint dream of a career on the stage.

When the beautiful and flirtatious Eleanor Wentworth is sent away from London in 1870 for her scandalous behaviour, she arrives, angry and rebellious, in Victoria, a town that falls far below her expectations of society. Soon, however, she is befriended by Celia Turner, the freethinking young wife of a conservative minister, and unlikely though it seems, they become lifelong friends. When Eleanor meets the fascinating judge Matthew Baillie Begbie, the first chief justice of BC, life in the colony suddenly becomes much more attractive.

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.

Hard Edge is about art, modern art and the age-old art of seduction and betrayal, set in Ontario, New York, and Paris. It tells the story of a young teacher and writer, Mark Trecroci, and his relationship with Lisa James, a serious and dedicated painter who tries to live her art without compromises.

From celebrated Toronto poet, Domenico Capilongo, comes a collection of powerful and humorous stories inspired by love: the love of family and tradition, the passion shared between two people when love is found, and the impact felt when it is misunderstood and lost. These stories travel the globe from Toronto to Vancouver, WWII Sicily, Rome, Japan, Thailand, and even the gardens of Paris. Capilongo succeeds in capturing the beat of relationships in their many stages of complicated development.

From accomplished writer Ken Sparling comes a spare verse novel about a girl and a boy and the life they're writing together. But the girl wants a story and the boy wants a poem, and the furniture in the house is stuck in the middle. Meditative and magical, a book as complicated as the ways we love, This Poem is a House is, in the end, about a girl's story sheltering a boy's poem, the way a house shelters the lives of the people who live in it.

Two novels, two young women at the frontiers of sex. Like a series of Penthouse letters penned by Kathy Acker, Lie With Me recounts a woman's sexual escapades, picking up random men in bars for a series of increasingly extreme encounters, hoping to understand love from the far side of sluttiness. In The Way of the Whore, Mira, an introverted Jewish girl obsessed with Jean Genet, allows herself to be seduced by the sex industry, determined to find meaning in her tormented relationships with cruel men. Tamara Faith Berger's first two novels have been languishing out of print.