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Seventy-four-year-old Jules Lacour--a maître at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist, widower, veteran of the war in Algeria, and child of the Holocaust--must find a balance between his strong obligations to the past and the attractions and beauties of life and love in the present.

Rae, young, unmarried, and far from home, awaits the birth of her first child. Lila, a fortune-teller with no interest in the future, lost her own daughter many years earlier. When these two women meet in California. it's earthquake weather--the time when unexpected things happen.

A retired literary agent revisits his journals from a trip he took to his mother's birthplace some years before. His memories reveal that he has been less of a mere spectator through life than he had thought.

An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of young factory workers have disappeared.

When Dr. Leo Liebenstein's wife disappears, she leaves behind a single clue: a woman who looks, talks, and behaves almost exactly like her. While everyone else is fooled by this imposter, Leo searches for his real wife.

Barlowe, an African American in his forties, rents a ramshackle house in Atlanta's old Fourth Ward. When a white couple buys and renovates the house next door, fear and suspicion build as the neighborhood begins to change. 

Walter Davis is young, handsome, intelligent, dynamic and personable. The product of a bi-racial marriage but abandoned by his father as a young child, he prides himself on three things: his drive to succeed, his fine clothes and never having been late for anything in his life. Walter is also homeless. The medical expenses that came with his mother's brief and unsuccessful battle against cancer have left him destitute.

Set in Montreal, New Tab spans a year in the life of a twenty-six year old videogame designer as he attempts to reset his life, in the process chronicling with humor disillusion, boredom, self-destruction, Facebook chats, Concordia University, bilingualism, good parties, bad parties, a backyard cinema, social anxiety and running a possibly illegal DIY venue. Written in a simple yet bold and astonishing style, New Tab is a profoundly intimate tale of self-reinvention and ambiguous relationships. A sharp, funny, modern novel from one of the most unique new writers in Canada.

This story with its shocking expose of social evils, holds a forceful message for both sexes. Its strange mixture of power, tension and torment mark it as a human story that will thrill and grip all readers. Down in the depths of the city, washed by the murky waters of the dock-yards lies Skidrow, a dark den of intrigue and mystery, whose crumbling structures harbour the outcasts of the city.--From the 1950 edition Hugh Garner's second novel, Waste No Tears hit drug store and train station spinner racks in July of 1950-then disappeared, never to see print again… until now.

« Les gens sont bien plus caves qu’à plaindre. Il ne leur vient même pas un début de soupçon qu’ils se font bourrer. Un bon jour, il va bien falloir que quelqu’un fasse quelque chose ! […] La vie me fait des misères, tout le temps. Je ne demande pas grand-chose. La paix, un peu d’affection, la chance de laisser le monde tranquille. Pourquoi des tuiles à tout bout de champ ? Chaque fois que je sors la tête de l’eau, quelqu’un me renfonce, m’empêche de m’emplir les poumons et lancer un cri. J’avale, je tousse, je m’étouffe... Au Mazarin, j’étais peinard.