Canadian Fiction

Waiting to die in a remote Canadian cannabis facility wasn't exactly how Jack Glasser expected to go out. Having survived a yearlong coma and a bizarre Neural Acceleration experiment, a quick and easy consulting job for GreenLeaf Cannabis seemed like a no-brainer. Now his only hope rests on his computer-like mind and his brother, Luke, a serial gambler whose main talent is burning through jet fuel and expensive bourbon.

On the eve of the new millennium, in a city in southern Japan that progress has forgotten, sixteen-year-old Anna Obata looks to the stars for solace. An outcast at school, and left to fend for herself and care for her increasingly senile grandfather at home, Anna copes with her loneliness by searching the night sky for answers. But everything changes the evening the Low Earth Orbit satellite (LEO for short) returns her gaze and sees her as no one else has before.

Dans le petit village de Bâton-sur-Glace, tout le monde aime le hockey. Surtout Ti-Guy La Puck! Le jeune garçon est tellement mordu de ce sport qu’il décide d’inviter les meilleurs joueurs de la planète à rejoindre son équipe. Mais leur arrivée va prendre une tournure tout à fait inattendue. Attention! La révolte des mascottes est sur le point de commencer!

Mãn has three mothers: the one who gives birth to her in wartime, the nun who plucks her from a vegetable garden, and her beloved Maman, who becomes a spy to survive. Seeking security for her grown daughter, Maman finds Mãn a husband - a lonely Vietnamese restaurateur who lives in Montreal. Thrown into a new world, Mãn discovers her natural talent as a chef. Gracefully she practices her art, with food as her medium. She and her husband seem to drift along, respectfully and dutifully. But when she encounters a married chef in Paris, everything changes in the instant of a fleeting touch....

Institutrice dans une humble école de rang de Saint-Tite, Émilie s'éprend d'un de ses élèves, Ovila Pronovost, à qui elle finit par unir sa vie, pour le meilleur et pour le pire.

Kiam-Kim is three years old when he arrives by ship at Gold Mountain with his father and his grandmother, Poh-Poh. From his earliest years, Kiam-Kim is deeply conscious of his responsibility to maintain the family's honor and to set an example for his younger siblings. However, his life is increasingly complicated by his burgeoning awareness of the world outside Vancouver's Chinatown.

Imagine a world in which the hopeless and vulnerable are forced to buy their freedom by working off their debt to society. Imagine a world divided into the privileged Mainland and the policed Gutter. In that world lives Elimina Dubois, one of only 100 children selected as a social experiment by the Mainland government to be taken from their mothers in the Gutter and raised in the land of opportunity. But when her Mainland mother dies when Elimina is just a teenager, Elimina finds herself alone, forced into an unfamiliar life of servitude, unsure of who she is and where she belongs.

Pressé par l'ennemi, Onyx adoube les Écuyers, les jugeant capables de se débrouiller seuls. Mais la perte du grand commandant de l'armée continue de démoraliser les Chevaliers. Déchiré par le chagrin, l'un d'eux quitte même leurs rangs. Malgré les bons soins dont l'entourent les araignées, Liam dépérit, comprenant qu'il ne reverra plus jamais sa famille et ses amis. Mais ces derniers ne l'ont pas oublié et feront tout en leur pouvoir pour lui venir en aide.

Percival Chen is the headmaster of the most respected English academy in 1960s Saigon, and he is well accustomed to bribing a forever-changing list of government officials in order to maintain the elite status of his school. Fiercely proud of his Chinese heritage, he is quick to spot the business opportunities rife in a divided country, though he also harbors a weakness for gambling haunts and the women who frequent them. He devotedly ignores all news of the fighting that swirls around him, but when his only son gets in trouble with the Vietnamese authorities, Percival faces the limits of his connections and wealth.

Alexandre Trudeau se questionne. Sa femme semble s'être lassée de lui; ses enfants le considèrent comme un primate d'une autre époque, bon qu'à payer les comptes; sa carrière de journaliste stagne et manque de piquant. Tel un passager resté sur le quai, il regarde défiler sa vie, les mains dans les poches. Comment en est-il arrivé là?

Stan et Charmaine ont été touchés de plein fouet par la crise économique qui consume les États-Unis. Tous deux survivent grâce aux maigres pourboires que gagne Charmaine dans un bar sordide et se voient contraints de loger dans leur voiture... Aussi, lorsqu'ils découvrent à la télévision une publicité pour une ville qui leur promet un toit au-dessus de leur tête, ils signent sans réfléchir : ils n'ont plus rien à perdre. À Consilience, chacun a un travail, avec la satisfaction d'œuvrer pour la communauté, et une maison. Un mois sur deux.

Die stolze, familiäre Kanadierin Emily Myers, die für Lebkuchen sterben würde, trifft auf den New Yorker Eishockeyprofi Rod Bennett, der für eine gute Party alles geben würde. Wäre sie ein bisschen weniger stur und er kein derartig überzeugter Womanizer, würden die beiden perfekt zueinanderpassen. So verbindet sie nicht mehr als ein heißer Flirt in den eisigen Weiten Kanadas.

Red York has seen it all: the Maple Leafs’ 45 consecutive Stanley Cups, Toronto’s designation as a United Nations World Heritage Site, the emergence of the Toronto Telegram as the nation’s greatest newspaper. Now, in response to at least two readers’ requests, and with the aid of a ghostwriter whose name he can’t ever remember, the award-winning columnist has penned a definitive history of the city of Toronto in the back half of the 20th century.

In 1842, Catriona, unwilling to be left behind by husband Dougal McDonnell, disguises herself as a boy to work for the Hudson’s Bay Company. Within a few days of landing at York Factory on Hudson’s Bay, Cat is assigned to work at the trading post, but Dougal is ordered west to Fort Vancouver and the Pacific Northwest – abandoning Cat. Rugged terrain and thousands of miles separate them. How will Cat survive alone? Will she and Dougal be reunited? In Rivers of Stone, Cat undertakes a formidable journey during the fur trade era across Canada and the Oregon territory in her quest to find...

This collection is bursting with Twain’s legendary wit. The speeches focus on a great number of issues ranging from cigars and tobacco to ladies, politics, courage, health and Russian stutterers... the topics are endlessly diverse, profound and entertaining! Twain was in great demand as a featured speaker, performing solo humorous talks, similar to what would later become stand-up comedy. His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers.

D’abord : ceci est une mutinerie. Et si notre mutinerie doit réussir, il faut que je nomme bien les choses, sans détour. Sans ça, tu ne dérogeras pas à tes certitudes. Alors voilà: je suis trans. Comme dans transgression. J’ai cassé les genres, je me suis soustraite aux codes.

These poems pause for the spectacle - cloning technologies, super-slo-mo photography, narcotic cab rides - to describe a system of tripwires, pitfalls, and decoys that the notion of daily viewership entails. These poems are paeans to our facility for duplicity and self-deception, in which the act of living is like a movie we're not in.

Une photographe du Herald Tribune part réaliser un reportage sur la région du Témiscamingue, dont les forêts ont été ravagées par de gigantesques incendies au début du XXe siècle. Elle y trouve une communauté de marginaux fantasques et solitaires, dont Tom et Charlie, deux vieillards qui ont survécu à l'incendie et vivent en ermites au fond des bois. D'abord méfiants puis déterminés à aider la photographe dans son enquête, les deux hommes voient leur quotidien chamboulé.

An unforgettable tour de force in the voice of an ordinary-extraordinary woman who has simply had enough. Through the character of Bina, who is writing out her story on the backs of discarded envelopes, Anakana Schofield filters a complex moral universe filled with humour and sadness, love and rage, and the consolations, obligations and mysteries of lifelong friendship. A work of great power, skill, and transformative empathy from a unique and astonishing writer, whose previous book, Martin John, was shortlisted for the Giller Prize.

Born into a magical Cree world in snowy Northern Manitoba, Champion and Ooneemeetoo Okimasis are all too soon torn from their family and thrust into the hostile world of a Catholic residential school. Their language is forbidden, their names are changed to Jeremiah and Gabriel, and both boys are abused by priests. As young men, estranged from their own people and alienated from the culture imposed upon them, the Okimasis brothers fight to survive. Wherever they go, the Fur Queen - a wily, shape-shifting trickster - watches over them with a protective eye.