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Mi’kmaw Moons: The Seasons in Mi'kma'ki
Par Cathy LeBlanc, David Chapman. 2022
Greenwood: A Novel
Par Michael Christie. 2019
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEA CBC BOOKS "BEST CANADIAN FICTION" TITLE OF THE YEARNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the award-winning author…
of If I Fall, If I Die comes a propulsive, multigenerational family story, in which the unexpected legacies of a remote island off the coast of British Columbia will link the fates of five people over a hundred years. Cloud Atlas meets The Overstory in this ingenious nested-ring epic set against the devastation of the natural world.They come for the trees. It's 2038 and Jacinda (Jake) Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich-eco-tourists in one of the world's last remaining forests. It's 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, sprawled on his back after a workplace fall and facing the possibility of his own death. It's 1974 and Willow Greenwood is just out of jail for one of her environmental protests: attempts at atonement for the sins of her father's once vast and rapacious timber empire. It's 1934 and Everett Greenwood is a Depression-era drifter who saves an abandoned infant, only to find himself tangled up in the web of a crime, secrets, and betrayal that will cling to his family for decades. And throughout, there are trees: a steady, silent pulse thrumming beneath Christie's effortless sentences, working as a guiding metaphor for withering, weathering, and survival. Transporting, beautifully written, and brilliantly structured like the nested growth rings of a tree, Greenwood reveals the knot of lies, omissions, and half-truths that exists at the root of every family's origin story. It is a magnificent novel of greed, sacrifice, love, and the ties that bind--and the hopeful, impossible task of growing toward the light.Simon Sort of Says
Par Erin Bow. 2023
For fans of Kate DiCamillo and Jack Gantos, a hilarious, wrenching, hopeful novel about finding your friends, healing your heart,…
and speaking your truth.Simon O’Keeffe’s biggest claim to fame should be the time his dad accidentally gave a squirrel a holy sacrament. Or maybe the alpaca disaster that went viral on YouTube. But the story the whole world wants to tell about Simon is the one he’d do anything to forget: the story in which he’s the only kid in his class who survived a school shooting. Two years after the infamous event, twelve-year-old Simon and his family move to the National Quiet Zone—the only place in America where the internet is banned. Instead of talking about Simon, the astronomers who flock to the area are busy listening for signs of life in space. And when Simon makes a friend who’s determined to give the scientists what they’re looking for, he’ll finally have the chance to spin a new story for the world to tell. From award-winning author Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says is a breathtaking testament to the lasting echoes of trauma, the redemptive power of humor, and the courage it takes to move forward without forgetting the past.Weird Rules to Follow
Par Kim Spencer. 2022
The Skull (Canadian Edition): A Tyrolean Folktale
Par Jon Klassen. 2023
A Governor General's Literary Award FinalistA #1 New York Times bestseller!Caldecott Medalist and New York Times best-selling author-illustrator Jon Klassen…
delivers a deliciously macabre treat for folktale fans.Jon Klassen's signature wry humor takes a turn for the ghostly in this thrilling retelling of a traditional Tyrolean folktale. In a big abandoned house, on a barren hill, lives a skull. A brave girl named Otilla has escaped from terrible danger and run away, and when she finds herself lost in the dark forest, the lonely house beckons. Her host, the skull, is afraid of something too, something that comes every night. Can brave Otilla save them both? Steeped in shadows and threaded with subtle wit—with rich, monochromatic artwork and an illuminating author’s note—The Skull is as empowering as it is mysterious and foreboding.Alphabetical Diaries
Par Sheila Heti. 2024
Sheila Heti collected 500,000 words from a decade's worth of journals, put the sentences in a spreadsheet, and sorted them…
alphabetically. She cut and cut and was left with 60,000 words of brilliance and mayhem, joy and sorrow. These are her alphabetical diaries.Autumn Bird and the Runaway
Par Melanie Florence, Richard Scrimger. 2022
Two kids from different worlds form an unexpected friendship.Cody’s home life is a messy, too-often terrifying story of neglect and…
abuse. Cody himself is a smart kid, a survivor with a wicked sense of humour that helps him see past his circumstances and begin to try to get himself out.Autumn is, quite literally, on the other side of the tracks from him. Her home life is loving and secure, and she is “in” with the popular girls at school, even if she has a secret life as a glasses-wearing, self-professed comic book nerd at home. And even if the pressure to fit in at school requires hours of time spent making herself look “perfect.”Returning home from a movie one evening, Autumn comes across Cody, face down in the laneway behind her house. All Cody knows is that he can’t take another beating from his father like the one he just narrowly escaped. He can’t go home, but he doesn’t have anywhere else to go either. Autumn won’t turn her back on him, even if they never really were friends at school. She agrees to let him hide out in her dad’s art studio at night.Over the next couple of days of Autumn sneaking Cody food and bandages, his story comes out. And so does hers.Told in alternating narratives, Autumn Bird and the Runaway is a breathtaking collaboration by two of Canada’s finest writers of books for young readers. Infused with themes of identity, belonging and compassion, it’s a story that reminds us that we are all more than our circumstances, and we are all more connected than we think.A Secret Music
Par Susan Doherty Hannaford. 2015
Word Guild Award for Best Young Adult fiction 2016 Grace Irwin Award 2016 Literary Classics silver medal for Y/A fiction…
2016 Shortlisted for the Frank Hegyi Award-Ottawa Independent Writers Literary Classics silver medal for High school fiction 2017 Set in 1936 Montreal, A Secret Music is the story of Lawrence Nolan, a sensitive fifteen-year-old piano prodigy who grows up in the shadow of his mother’s mental illness. Forced to keep this shameful secret, he attempts to raise himself and his ten year old brother. He counteracts the deep ache and creeping mistrust caused by his mother’s emotional absence by escaping into the intense realm of Chopin and Schubert, the only language he understands. When his brother becomes ill, he is left with enormous responsibilities. At a piano competition in Montreal, Lawrence makes a climactic decision that puts his future on hold in order to salvage his family life. In A Secret Music, Susan Doherty Hannaford re-creates the Depression-Era world of Montreal and demonstrates how music can redeem a life.Lightning Lou
Par Lori Weber. 2016
When a team in an all-girls’ hockey league comes to recruit players, twelve-year-old Lou’s dreams seem to be coming true.…
But the dreams hinge on one thing: never letting on that Lou is a boy. But the road to stardom is not easy, as Lou discovers that the competition is fierce, and that he’s got a lot of work to do to match the skills of the league’s star player and his chief rival, Albertine Lapensée. All the while, he has to keep his secret, and wrestle with the moral dilemma of taking a place on the team away from a deserving girl. Loosely based on a true story, Lightning Lou is a riveting and thought-provoking story for middle-grade readers.Love, Ish
Par Karen Rivers. 2017
Mischa "Ish" Love knows she'll be one of the first settlers on Mars. She's applied to - and been rejected…
from - the Mars Now project forty-seven times, but the mission won't leave for ten years, and Ish hasn't given up hope. She also hasn't given up hope that Tig will be her best friend again. When Ish collapses on the first day of seventh grade, she gets a diagnosis that threatens all her future plans. As Ish fights cancer, she dreams in vivid detail about the Martian adventures she's always known she'd have - and makes unexpected discoveries about love, fate, and her place in the vast universe.A Bucket of Stars
Par Suri Rosen. 2023
A story of two kids trying to save the world they know and heal the families they have.It’s the summer…
of 2003 and thirteen-year-old astronomer Noah Cooper has just moved to Queensport, a small town with a vast amateur sky full of stars. There he meets Tara Dhillon, a lonely girl and aspiring filmmaker. When the two team up to produce an astronomy movie and enter a film contest, they discover a secret plan to turn their rural hamlet into a huge subdivision.Noah and Tara must use their unique skills to identify the culprits who plan on paving over the historic county — and try to save the infinite beauty of the stars. As if that’s not enough to have at stake, Noah needs to win the prize money to buy a new telescope for his unemployed father — an ex-astronomer who’s almost given up on the stars, as well as life on earth.Touching on themes of activism, environmental anxiety and mental health, A Bucket of Stars will have readers cheering for Noah, a boy whose head is in the stars, and Tara, a girl who lives in a world of digital images — and their special bond that just might mend the world around them.Asha and Baz Meet Mary Sherman Morgan (G - Reference,information And Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.)
Par Caroline Fernandez. 2022
A CCBC Best Books for Kids and Teens pick!Asha and Baz have a paper rocket to launch! Whoever builds the…
rocket that travels the farthest will get to meet astronaut Chris Hadfield. The only problem is Asha and Baz don’t know how to power their rocket. Stuck and unsure, the kids brainstorm by drawing a rocket in the sand using a stick. But this is a very unusual stick. In fact, it’s a magic stick! And it transports them back in time to meet a person who might be able to help them with their rocket problem: scientist Mary Sherman Morgan.Sinuhé, el egipcio (El egipto De Los Far Ser. #Vol. 161)
Par Mika Waltari. 1998
Una de las novelas más célebres del siglo XX. Sinuhé, el egipcio nos introduce en el fascinante y lejano mundo…
del Egipto de los faraones. En el ocaso de su vida, el protagonista de este relato confiesa: «Porque yo, Sinuhé, soy un hombre y como tal he vivido en todos los que han existido antes que yo, y viviré en todos los que existan después de mí. Viviré en las risas y en las lágrimas de los hombres, en su bondad y su maldad, en su debilidad y su fuerza.»Sinuhé, el egipcio nos introduce en el fascinante y lejano mundo del Egipto de los faraones, los reinos sirios, la Babilonia decadente, la Creta anterior a la Hélade... es decir, todo el mundo conocido catorce siglos antes de Cristo. Sobre este mapa dibuja Sinuhé la línea errante de sus viajes; y aunque la vida no sea generosa con él, en su corazón vive inextinguible la confianza en la bondad de los hombres. Reseña:«Una novela que yo solía devorar una y otra vez mientras los demás estudiaban sus lecciones.»Terenci MoixLa guerra del fin del mundo
Par Mario Vargas Llosa. 2000
La primera gran novela histórica de Mario Vargas Llosa: un libro fundamental de la narrativa en español del siglo XX…
«Esta novela me hizo vivir una de las aventuras literarias más ricas y exaltantes».Mario Vargas Llosa «El hombre era alto y tan flaco que parecía siempre de perfil. Su piel era oscura, sus huesos prominentes y sus ojos ardían con fuego perpetuo».A finales del siglo XIX, en las tierras paupérrimas del noreste de Brasil, el chispazo de las arengas del Consejero, personaje mesiánico y enigmático, prenderá la insurrección de los desheredados. En circunstancias extremas como aquéllas, la consecución de la dignidad vital sólo puede venir de la exaltación religiosa y del quebranto radical de las reglas que rigen el mundo de los poderosos. Así, grupos de miserables acuden a la llamada de la revolución de Canudos, la ciudad donde se asienta una comunidad de personajes que difícilmente desaparecerán de la imaginación del lector. Frente a todos ellos, una trama político-militar se articula para detener con toda su fuerza el movimiento que amenaza con expandirse. Publicada originalmente en 1981, La guerra del fin del mundo es la primera gran novela histórica de Mario Vargas Llosa, un libro fundamental de la narrativa en español del siglo XX sobre el que el propio autor ha declarado: «Si yo tuviera que escoger una entre todas las novelas que he publicado, probablemente elegiría ésta, porque la considero el proyecto más ambicioso que me he planteado». La crítica ha dicho:«La escritura de Mario Vargas Llosa ha dado forma a nuestra imagen de Sudamérica y tiene su propio capítulo en la historia de la literatura contemporánea. En sus primeros años, fue un renovador de la novela, hoy, un poeta épico».Per Wastberg, presidente del Comité Nobel «Bienvenido sea [...] el gran recreador de la novela realista, queleemos con el mismo entusiasmo con el que otros leen los excesos imaginativos —bienvenidos también ellos— del realismo mágico».J. A. Masoliver Ródenas, La Vanguardia«Sus libros contienen la más compleja, apasionada y persuasiva visión de la novela y del oficio de novelista de la que tengo noticia; también contienen el mejor estímulo que un novelista puede encontrar para escribir, un estímulo solo inferior al que contienen las propias novelas de Vargas Llosa».Javier Cercas, El PaísRojo amanecer en Lepanto
Par Luis Zueco. 2011
La primera novela histórica del autor de El castillo, ambientada en la trepidante época de la batalla de Lepanto. Año…
1560. Alejandro Farnesio, príncipe de Parma, marcha a estudiar a la universidad de Alcalá de Henares, donde coincide con el príncipe Carlos, heredero a la corona de España, y don Juan de Austria, reconocido como hermano por Felipe II. Es una mala época para España, amenazada por musulmanes rebeldes en Granada, herejes en Flandes e Inglaterra y, sobre todo, la lucha contra los turcos por el control del Mediterráneo. Un tiempo apasionante que desemboca en la batalla de Lepanto, donde se dice que se derramó tanta sangre, que el mar se tiñó de rojo. La crítica ha dicho...«Una novela amena y de lectura increíblemente sencilla. Muy recomendable.»HislibrisThe Last of Her Kind
Par Sigrid Nunez. 2006
The paths of two women from different walks of life intersect amid counterculture of the 1960s in this haunting and…
provocative novel from the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend It is Columbia University, 1968. Ann Drayton and Georgette George meet as roommates on the first night. Ann is rich and radical; Georgette is leery and introverted, a child of the very poverty and strife her new friend finds so noble. The two are drawn together by their differences; two years later, after a violent fight, they part ways. When, in 1976, Ann is convicted of killing a New York cop, Georgette comes back to their shared history in search of an explanation. She finds a riddle of a life, shaped by influences more sinister and complex than any of the writ-large sixties movements. She realises, too, how much their early encounter has determined her own path and why, after all this time, as she tells us, 'I have never stopped thinking about her'.'A brilliant, dazzling, daring novel' Boston Globe'A subtle and profoundly moving novel about friendship, romantic idealism and shame' O, The Oprah Magazine'An unflinching examination of justice, race and political idealism that brings to mind Philip Roth's American Pastoral and the tenacious intelligence of Nadine Gordimer' New York TimesThe Governess: The unknown childhood of the most famous woman who ever lived
Par Wendy Holden. 2020
Before there was Elizabeth, there was Lilibet...'A hugely entertaining, emotionally satisfying story of love and loyalty' DAILY MAIL'A poignant, fictional…
reimagining of a woman condemned by history, with plenty of modern-day echoes' MAIL ON SUNDAY___________She Came From Nothing . . . and Raised a QueenThe drama of the Abdication, the glamour of the Coronation, the trauma of World War II – Marion Crawford, affectionately known as Crawfie, stood by the side of the royal family through it all.In 1933, a progressive young teacher became governess to the little Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret. Determined to give her pupils a fun and normal childhood, she took them on buses, swimming at public baths and Christmas shopping at Woolworths.For seventeen years she served at the heart of the royal family. But her devotion and loyalty counted for nothing when a perceived betrayal brought everything crashing down.This sweeping, sumptuous novel brings her long-buried story to life and shines a completely new and captivating light into the world's most famous family.___________'Brilliantly researched . . . I was completely absorbed and transported' ADELE PARKS, author of Just My Luck'Compelling characters and a wonderful blend of historical accuracy and real narrative drive . . . a heart-breaking study of loyalty and love' SALLY MORRIS, Daily Mail'[A] beautifully researched and captivating novel . . . Wendy Holden's tender and intimate portrait of Lilibet, the future Queen Elizabeth II, is masterly' RACHEL HORE'I adored this wonderful book. What a great story Wendy Holden has told' JILLY COOPER'A great book for escaping into . . . I loved this!' KATIE FFORDE'Sensitive, funny and fascinating – this masterful novel gives the reader fly-on-the-wall privileges into the early life of the Queen' FREYA NORTH'A brilliantly imagined and poignant novel . . . of sacrifice, deep affection, strained loyalties and divided English society in the post-Downton Abbey era' ELIZABETH BUCHAN'An intimate view of the royal family at a time of great uncertainty and change . . . Marion Crawford's dedication to her charges, as well as her passion for education and reform, shines through the pages' CHANEL CLEETON'Wendy Holden absolutely delivers in this perfect blend of story and history . . . Lovers of The Crown series on Netflix will adore this!' SUSAN MEISSNER'I loved, loved, LOVED this book and if it isn't adapted for the screen, I’ll eat my crown!' ERICA JAMES'A beautifully woven and exquisitely detailed story' HEATHER MORRIS, author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzThe Forgotten Sister (The shaw Family In Liverpool Ser.)
Par Judy Summers. 2021
'I thoroughly enjoyed this book ... The characters are well drawn and believable' Lyn Andrews 'Fascinating insights into Victorian Liverpool…
and a heart-warming story make for an inspiring read' Mollie Walton Abandoned and alone, can she find new hope? Liverpool, 1848. Meg Shaw is the middle child of eight siblings, not quite old enough to bring in a wage to help her struggling family, but not young enough to be a babe to be cared for.When the family realise they can't feed all the children, Meg makes a choice. She volunteers to go to the workhouse for one season, and she'll take her little sister, Rosie, with her. As long as they are together, they can make it through.But the moment they enter the workhouse, Meg and Rosie are separated. Abandoned and alone, Meg is determined to make it through, and soon finds herself surrounded by a new family of vulnerable girls in need of protection and love.Meg does all she can for her new sisters, but when a season passes and no one comes for her or Rosie, can she find a way to keep them all safe?The Duchess: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Governess
Par Wendy Holden. 2021
'Enthralling' – Daily Mail 'Fizzing with gossip, intrigue and wit' – Mail on Sunday If you love The Crown, you…
will love this fictional look inside the life of Wallis Simpson... ___________Love can change the course of history... Arriving in 1928, Wallis was a divorced, penniless, middle-aged foreigner with average looks and no connections. Yet, just eight years later, a king renounced his throne for her.How did a woman from nowhere capture the heart of the world's most glamorous bachelor? Wendy Holden tells the amazing story... ___________What readers are saying about The Duchess: ????? 'A great read, fabulous story line and such a different perspective. Massive fun'????? 'A powerful read. Perhaps we all got Wallis Simpson wrong'????? 'Superb and powerful writing! I loved it'????? 'A great read and I'd highly recommend to anyone who wants a less stilted piece of history'????? 'A fascinating tale, well told'????? 'An amazing, fictionalised retelling of the story of Edward and Mrs Simpson'Learned By Heart: A Novel
Par Emma Donoghue. 2023
A heartbreakingly gorgeous novel based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply and dangerously in love…
at boarding school in nineteenth century York, from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister’s five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant, troublesome tomboy, who meet at the Manor School for Young Ladies in York in 1805 when they are both fourteen.Emotionally intense, psychologically compelling and deeply researched, Learned by Heart is an extraordinary work of fiction by one of the world’s greatest storytellers. Full of passion and heartbreak, the tangled lives of Anne Lister and Eliza Raine form a love story for the ages.