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RIGHTS CANADA | DROITS DU CANADA
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2018
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WELCOME BIENVENUE
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CONTENTS / SOMMAIRE
FICTION / ROMANS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
NON-FICTION / NON FICTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
CHILDREN’S / JEUNESSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
YOUNG ADULT / JEUNES ADULTES . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
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Bad Endings Accordéon
by Carleigh Baker by Kaie Kellough
Carleigh Baker likes to make light in the dark. The Ministry of Culture wants to control the flying
Whether plumbing family ties, the end of a canoe. Accordéon is the testimony of an anonymous
marriage, or death itself, she never lets go of witness. It is a satire in which fantasy and reality
the witty, the ironic, and perhaps most notably, are enmeshed, and the past, the present, and the
the awkward. Despite the title, the resolution future exist simultaneously. Finalist for the 2017
in these stories isn’t always tragic, but it’s often Amazon First Novel Award.
uncomfortable, unexpected, or just plain strange.
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BISAC: FIC048000, FIC019000
BISAC: FIC029000
Anvil Press ARP Books
Thema: FBA
2017 | English 2016 | English
ISBN: 9781772140767 ISBN: 9781894037839
C$18.00; 168 pgs. C$18.95; 168 pgs.
Somewhere a Long and Happy Everything Is Awful and You’re a
Life Probably Awaits You Terrible Person
by Jill Sexsmith by Daniel Zomparelli
Somewhere a Long and Happy Life Probably Awaits In these unconventional, interconnected stories,
You explores the peculiar places we look for gay men look for love in any way possible. From
validation, a purpose, a life we might recognize social media to finding someone within a dream,
as wholly our own. As her off-kilter heroes and the ways in which these characters search for joy
heroines struggle with relationships, Sexsmith becomes both limitless and overwhelming. With
deftly cuts through raw and intimate moments to wry abandon and a beguiling heart, Everything Is
show how strangely impervious to their desperate Awful is a deadpan, tragicomic exploration of love,
circumstances people can be. desire, and dysfunction in the 21st century.
ARP Books World rights excluding United States Arsenal Pulp Press World rights available
2016 | English BISAC: FIC029000, FIC019000, FIC016000 2017 | English BISAC: FIC029000, FIC011000
ISBN: 9781894037716 ISBN: 9781551526751 Thema: FBA
C$18.95; 160 pgs. C$15.95; 204 pgs.
Oracle Bone Spark of Light:
by Lydia Kwa Short Stories by Women Writers
This extraordinary magic-realist novel by Singapore-
of Odisha
born author Lydia Kwa employs and subverts Edited by Valerie Henitiuk and
traditional tropes of Chinese mythology to tell a tale Supriya Kar
with a wickedly modern sensibility. A subversive,
magic-realist novel set in seventh-century China Spark of Light is a diverse collection of short stories
featuring ghosts, powerful women, martial arts, by women writers from the Indian province of
and a transformative oracle bone that is coveted by Odisha. Originally written in Odia and dating from
forces both good and evil. the late nineteenth century to the present, these
stories offer a multiplicity of voices and capture the
World rights available predicament of characters who often live on the
Arsenal Pulp Press AU Press (Athabasca margins of society.
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University)
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ISBN: 9781551526997 2016 | English
C$19.95; 304 pgs. ISBN: 9781771991674 BISAC: FIC029000
C$27.95; 264 pgs. Thema: FYB
1979 Blue Field
by Ray Robertson by Elise Levine
Tom Buzby is 13 years old and lives in Chatham. Set Recalling the best of Mary Gaitskill and Lidia
in the year that real newspaper headlines told of Yuknavitch, this gripping, tense novel explores the
the rise of Reagan and North America’s hard turn to tangled lives of three driven risk-addicts—deeply
the right, 1979 is a novel of innocence not so much flawed people bound and propelled and ultimately
lost as smashed, and experience gained the hard unraveled by desire, loss, and guilt. The novel’s
way—the kind that brands memories forever and heightened sexual atmosphere and psychological
permanently changes lives. distress immerse the reader in a world of
unforgettable depth and darkness.
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Biblioasis Biblioasis
2018 | English 2017 | English
ISBN: 9781771960960 ISBN: 9781771961516
C$19.95; 276 pgs. C$19.95; 276 pgs.
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In the Cage Blood Fable
by Kevin Hardcastle by Oisín Curran
Daniel is one of the most feared cage fighters in In 1980, a utopian Buddhist community on the
Mixed Martial Arts, closing in on greatness until coast of Maine called New Pond is on the verge
an injury ruins his career. He and his wife, Sarah, of collapse. To distract his parents and himself
struggle to secure a better life for their daughter, from their collective troubles, an 11-year-old boy
but in this violent and unpredictable world of back- claims to remember his own life before birth. His
country criminals and county cops, Daniel sparks a purported memory is an epic tale about the search
conflict that can only be settled in blood. for a lost city refracted through the lens of the
adventure stories he loves.
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French World rights available
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2017 | English 2017 | English
ISBN: 9781771961479 ISBN: 9781771662949
C$19.95; 300 pgs. C$20.00; 256 pgs.
Rich and Poor One For the Rock
by Jacob Wren by Kevin Major
Who hasn’t, at one time or another, considered Sebastian Synard doesn’t want any more trouble
killing a billionaire? Rich and Poor is a novel of a man than he already has. But when he leads a group of
who washes dishes for a living and decides to kill a tourists along the cliffs of St. John’s harbour, one of
billionaire as a political act. It is literature as political them ends up dead. Not only is there a murderer
theory and theory as pure literary pleasure—a in his tour group, but the cop assigned to the case
spiralling, fast-paced parable of joyous, overly self- is sleeping with Sebastian’s ex-wife. The trail leads
aware, mischievous class warfare. deeper than expected, and Sebastian finds himself
on the edge.
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BookThug Breakwater Books
Thema: FB BISAC: FIC022000, FIC031010, FIC030000,
FIC048000, FIC050000
2016 | English 2018 | English
Thema: FF
ISBN: 9781771662383 ISBN: 9781550816877
C$20.00; 184 pgs. C$19.95; 208 pgs.
The End of Music The Greatest Hits of Wanda
by Jamie Fitzpatrick Jaynes
Herb Carter’s days as an aspiring rock star are
by Bridget Canning
over. His mother no longer remembers his name
Wanda Jaynes is about to lose her job amidst a
and seems trapped in the past. Jamie Fitzpatrick’s
mountain of bills, and she suspects her musician
second novel weaves in and out of time to
boyfriend might be romantically interested in his
effortlessly braid the stories of a son who’s left
friend Trish. But Wanda’s life changes radically
his dreams behind, and the mother who stopped
when a gunman enters the supermarket and opens
singing, in the wake of great tragedy, to care for her
fire. The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes is the highly
child.
anticipated debut novel by Bridget Canning.
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Breakwater Books Breakwater Books
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2017 | English 2017 | English
ISBN: 9781550816853 ISBN: 9781550816709
C$19.95; 276 pgs. C$19.95; 256 pgs.
Wild Rose Deer Life
by Sharon Butala by Ron Sexsmith
Wild Rose, an epic story of the West, now long gone, Deryn was not having a very good day and it was
charts Sophie’s journey from underloved child in about to get worse. He’d read stories of witches
religion-bound rural Québec, to headstrong young as a boy, never believing they were true. Until the
woman to exhausted homesteader to deserted accident. Deer Life tells the story of a kind-hearted
bride and mother to independent businesswoman boy from Hinthoven and his mother’s undying love.
finding her way in a hostile, if beautiful, landscape. Mostly, though, it’s about patience, friendship, and
Sophie’s West comes vividly alive in the pages of heroism where you least expect it.
Butala’s most unforgettable novel.
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Coteau Books Dundurn
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2015 | English 2017 | English
ISBN: 9781550506365 ISBN: 9781459738775
C$21.95; 416 pgs. C$16.99; 136 pgs.
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Full Curl: Undertow:
A Jenny Willson Mystery A B.C. Blues Crime Novel
by Dave Butler by R.M. Greenaway
Poachers and bureaucrats: park warden Jenny Second in the B.C. Blues Crime Novel series after
Willson considers them equally repulsive and Cold Girl, which was shortlisted for the 2017
worthy of the same fate. When she discovers Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel. This time a
animals disappearing from Canada’s mountain heartbreaking set of murders bring detectives Leith
parks, Willson finds herself racing down a trail lined and Dion back to the big city. The brutal murders of
with deceit, distraction, and murder and tempted a man, woman, and baby are just the beginning of a
to cross a line to a place from which she may never mystery that shakes Dion and Leith to the core.
return.
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BISAC: FIC022020, FIC022000
2017 | English BISAC: FIC022040, FIC022100 2017 | English Thema: FFP, FF
ISBN: 9781459739031 Thema: FFS, SVH ISBN: 9781459735583
C$14.99; 376 pgs. C$17.99; 440 pgs.
La chambre verte Marée montante
by Martine Desjardins by Charles Quimper
All houses have their secrets, but the Delorme Told by a man who loses his daughter while
family home has a darker one: the mummified swimming one summer, Marée montante is the story
remains of a woman buried alive with a brick of how he will find her again, on earth or thousands
crammed in her mouth. As for the treasure that of miles underwater. A little gem of a book, this sad
was safely buried there for years, it was doomed yet beautiful and enchanting story is a lesson in
the moment a spirited young woman came ringing finding happiness through loss, and an ode to the
the doorbell. pleasure of letting yourself be swept away by the
fond memories of a time gone by.
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World Spanish World rights excluding North America (English)
Éditions Alto Éditions Alto
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Thema: FBA, FT Thema: FBA, FXL
2016 | French 2017 | French
ISBN: 9782896941988 ISBN: 9782896943098
C$24.95; 256 pgs. C$15.95; 72 pgs.
Hubert, le restavèk Les petites tempêtes
de Gabriel Osson by Valérie Chevalier
Bien que le phénomène des « restavèks » (reste- Between storms, Raphaëlle has her share of love
avec) ait été officiellement aboli en 2003, des stories. Soon, art will become her career. Tiny
centaines de milliers d’enfants continuent d’être Storms is a surprising and tender road novel that
exploités et forcés à travailler dans des conditions brings us from Montreal all the way to Newburyport
sous-humaines, proches de l’esclavage, en Haïti. and Paris. / « Un “road-novel”, rempli de surprises
Gabriel Osson raconte l’histoire d’Hubert, l’un de et de tendresse, qui part de Montréal pour nous
ces restavèks. entrainer jusqu’à Newburyport et Paris. » —Les
Libraires.ca
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Éditions David Éditions Hurtubise
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Thema: FQ
2017 | Français 2017 | French
ISBN: 9782895975861 ISBN: 9782897239930
21,95 $ CA; 286 pgs. C$19.95; 214 pgs.
Vi Une longue canicule
by Kim Thúy d’Anne Villeneuve
Vi is the younger sister of three older brothers, « Un récit intimiste fait avec humanité. Le trait
the “little treasure” who finds herself caught up de la dessinatrice est simple, souple et précis.
in a privileged life and its turmoil. Leaving Saigon Anne Villeneuve maîtrise le mouvement et, dans
for Montreal, Vi witnesses the vastness of the des scènes minimalistes, parvient à créer des
ocean, the multiplicity of horizons, the sameness of expressions et des émotions qu’on garde en
sadness, the luxury of peace, the complexity of love, mémoire. » —Jean Siag, La Presse
the endlessness of possibilities, and the violence of
beauty. Tous droits disponibles
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Expression (Groupe Éditions Mécanique
Canada and Romania
Librex) générale
BISAC: FIC019000, FIC044000, TRV003060
2016 | French 2017 | Français
ISBN: 9782764811030 ISBN: 9782922827835
C$24.95; 144 pgs. 26,95 $ CA; 216 pgs.
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Andréanne Mars Révolution !
de Véronique-Marie Kaye de Vittorio Frigerio
La belle et sculpturale Andréanne Mars aime La révolution est une présence constante dans
regarder ses locataires faire l’amour à leur insu. l’histoire. Les 11 nouvelles de ce recueil en
Amorale et centrée sur elle-même, la jeune femme explorent la fascination, les implications, les
est malgré tout admirée par les gens qui gravitent grandeurs occasionnelles et les misères fréquentes,
autour de sa vie de façon variable. Mais il se en suivant les traces de révolutionnaires plus ou
pourrait que Chlotilde foute ses plans parfaits en moins authentiques, de rebelles avec ou sans cause
l’air. et de militants idéalistes à travers les époques et les
pays. L’humour fin de Révolution ! se double d’une
Tous droits disponibles sympathie pour une humanité aux prises avec des
aspirations contradictoires.
BISAC: FIC000000, FIC027020, FIC044000,
Éditions Prise de Éditions Prise de
PSY016000, SEL041040 Tous droits disponibles
parole parole
Théma: FXS, FRX, MKZD, JBFW
BISAC: FIC029000, HIS031000, FIC016000,
2017 | Français 2017 | Français
FIC037000
ISBN: 9782894237946 ISBN: 9782897440633
Théma: FYB
22,95 $ CA; 217 pgs. 20,95 $CA; 173 pgs.
La Bête à sa mère/ Mama’s Boy Léo:
by David Goudreault On n’a pas toujours 2 vies
Written with gritty humour in the form of a
d’Hélène Lucas
confession, Mama’s Boy recounts the family drama
L’histoire de Léo, c’est le destin poignant d’un
of a young man who sets out in search of his
enfant infiniment attachant et doté d’une résilience
mother after a childhood spent shuffling from one
hors du commun. C’est un rendez-vous manqué
foster home to another. A bizarre character with a
entre une mère et son fils, mais c’est aussi une très
skewed view of the world, he leads the reader on
grande histoire d’amour.
a quest that is both tender and violent. His search
takes an unexpected turn.
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and French (France, Belgium, and Switzerland)
Éditions Stanké Éditions Sylvain
(Groupe Librex) Harvey
BISAC: FIC019000, FIC025000, FIC048000
2015 | French 2012 | Français
ISBN: 9782760411708 ISBN: 9782923794181
C$22.95; 232 pgs. 29,95 $ CA; 326 pgs.
Autopsie d’une femme plate L’étrange odeur du safran
by Marie-Renée Lavoie by Miléna Babin
This is the story of 48 year-old Diane Delaunais, Nil, a young woman with a rebellious spirit, doesn’t
whose husband leaves her days before their know what life awaits her as she heads to Le Bic
25th wedding anniversary for “someone else”— with her tamed fox named Lavender. Always
someone younger, of course. A run-of-the-mill more troubled than what they appear to be, a few
story? Certainly not when it’s written with Marie- characters will cross her path, beginning with Jacob,
Renée Lavoie’s acute sense of observation and a HIV-positive restaurant owner involved in saffron
characteristic energy, topped off with a dose of trafficking. This red gold is fascinating and highly
humour and tenderness. priced on the market, and Jacob needs funds for his
treatment...
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BISAC: FIC000000
Thema: FB BISAC: FIC000000
2017 | French 2017 | French
Thema: FB
ISBN: 9782897720544 ISBN: 9782897720797
C$24.95; 248 pgs. C$21.95; 200 pgs.
Toi aussi, mon fils Chocolate Cherry Chai:
by Jonathan Pedneault A Novel
The action is set between 1989 and 2041, from
by Taslim Burkowicz
Paris to conflict zones of Africa and Middle-East,
Young, free-spirited Maya Mubeen leaves behind
then Montreal and Martinique, where we follow
the pressures of family, marriage, and tradition
Matisse, who tries to understand why his father,
for a life of experience and adventure, proving to
Antoine, a war reporter, disappeared from the
herself and her mother that she is anything but a
face of the earth years before. / Un premier roman
typical Indian girl. This story binds together themes
haletant, qui s’articule autour des relations père-
of familial pressures, the immigrant experience,
enfant et nous entraîne de Paris aux zones de
motherhood, love, and loss into a poetic narrative.
conflit d’Afrique et du Moyen-Orient, en passant par
Montréal et la Martinique.
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Éditions XYZ Fernwood
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2017 | French Thema: FXB
BISAC: FIC000000
ISBN: 9782897720858 2017 | English
Thema: FS
C$24.95; 280 pgs. ISBN: 9781552669624
C$21.00; 300 pgs.
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Under Her Skin: Escape from Syria
A Novel by Samya Kallub and Jackie Roche
by Stephen Law Escape from Syria is a fictionalized account that
calls on real-life circumstances and true tales of
After her home is ransacked, her friend is attacked,
refugee families to serve as a microcosm of the
and her white father suddenly reappears, Shaz
Syrian uprising and the war and refugee crisis that
is compelled to explore the racial divides in her
followed. The story spans six years in the lives of
life and in the city around her. In a narrative that
Walid, his wife, Dalia, and their two children. It is a
explores racism, family dysfunction, and the
story that has been replayed thousands of times by
experiences of refugees, Under Her Skin paints the
other families.
canvas of our landscape, making us aware of who
we are.
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Fernwood World rights excluding Canada Firefly Books
Publishing
BISAC: FIC000000 2017 | English
2017 | English Thema: FXS ISBN: 9781770859821
ISBN: 9781552668474 C$19.95; 96 pgs.
C$21.00; 224 pgs.
Rosie O’Dell The True Confessions of a Badly
by Bill Rowe Misunderstood Dog
Rosie O’Dell is a creature of beauty, brilliance . . .
by Bill Rowe
and unspeakable secrets. When she was young,
This is the heartwarming and hilarious memoir
terrible crimes had been committed against her.
of Durf, a yellow Lab who thinks he is the boss of
Tom Sharpe becomes Rosie O’Dell’s high school
two cats. Durf often dreams of performing heroic
sweetheart, and in revenge for the transgressions
feats to prove to his family that he truly is the
against her, the two young lovers commit their own
top dog in these parts. His faithful companions,
crime of passion together, which ultimately rips
a blue Persian male cat and a female tabby, can’t
them apart.
possibly understand what it’s like to be destined for
greatness like Durf.
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2012 | English 2015 | English BISAC: FIC016000, FIC045000
ISBN: 9781771170208 ISBN: 9781771174411
C$24.00; 399 pgs. C$19.95; 224 pgs.
Wilful Desire: Death of a Princess
Heart’s Ease, Book 5 by India Desjardins
by Victoria Barbour The new novel by the author of the million-copy
bestseller, The Diary of Aurélie Laflamme! While on
Will Walsh is a terrific sailor. And a terrible ex. Just
holiday with her lover, Sarah, a publicist in her early
ask Mae Mercer, the woman he left behind when
30s, is dumbfounded when her lover suddenly
a too-good-to-refuse promotion to the elite ranks
announces that he’s leaving her. Disillusioned, she
of the Navy came on the eve of their wedding.
decides to put love behind her and throw herself
Will might be a force of nature when he’s hunting
into her work. Seven years later, still single, Sarah
down pirates and drug dealers, but that’s nothing
continues to choose professional success over the
compared to the way he capsizes Mae’s world when
possibility of romantic failure. But can she really
he returns home to Heart’s Ease.
lock up her heart and throw away the key forever?
Flanker Press World rights excluding English-language digital Groupe Homme
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2017 | English BISAC: FIC027020 2017 | French
ISBN: 9781771176217 ISBN: 9782761947992
C$16.95; 277 pgs. C$24.95; 296 pgs.
The Soul-Seeker Cadillac Road
by Steve Laflamme by Kristin Andrychuk
They call him the Soul-Seeker. Each of the women Cadillac Road is the story of Sharon Desjardins,
he kills is found with her face slashed. Xavier from her earliest childhood memories of
Martel, of the Major Crimes Unit, will spare no leaving Northern Québec and a violent father to
effort to put an end to a killer’s bloody cycle. As a adventures in Buffalo and Crystal Beach with her
child, Martel tasted raw violence when his father mother and younger sister, Gloria, to dreams of
shoved a revolver into his mouth. Since then, he escaping claustrophobic poverty in shabby Grenville
has been subject to episodes of taste synesthesia, by going to Toronto and marrying a wealthy lawyer
a rare neurological condition in which any powerful whom she doesn’t love.
emotion imprints itself on his tongue and palate.
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The New Vine Through the Sad Wood Our
by Robert Marrone Corpses Will Hang
In post-WWII Italy, Passero, having lost his parents,
by Ava Farmehri
kidnaps an orphaned girl and offers her up in
At 20, Sheyda Porrouya’s life is almost over. Born
exchange for his own freedom. His actions create
in Iran on the day the mullahs declare the birth
a connection culminating in an adulterous affair
of the Islamic Republic, she witnesses the purging
in 1960s Toronto—and an illegitimate son named
of all things Western and un-Islamic. Accused of
Ethan, an artist who inherits Passero’s family
killing her mother, Sheyda is sentenced to death.
vineyard.
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Waiting for Stalin to Die Egoman
by Irene Guilford de Serge Marquis
Fleeing Stalin’s advance into Lithuania, shaken Egoman est bien plus qu’un personnage de super-
by communism and war, four refugees end up in héros imaginé par Charlot. Bien davantage que le
Toronto in 1949. Trying to resume normal lives, dialogue vivant entre une mère monoparentale
longing for their country’s freedom, they wait et son fils. C’est un roman plein de poésie et de
to go home. “This is a novel that contains a rare profondeur, un récit touchant, bouleversant et
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Il était une voix Une simple histoire d’amour,
de Marie Gray tome 1
Mondialement connue pour ses Histoires à faire
de Louise Tremblay d’Essiambre
rougir, vendues à un million d’exemplaires,
Le premier tome d’une toute nouvelle série mettant
auteure de la série Baiser, Marie Gray délaisse un
en scène des personnages plus grands que nature
peu l’univers érotique et plonge dans celui de la
dans un petit village de la Mauricie, dans les années
résilience, du choc des générations, de l’ambition,
1920.
des regrets, des sacrifices, du temps qui fuit et . . .
de la musique !
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Liminal Once More with Feeling
by Jordan Tannahill by Méira Cook
From award-winning playwright and filmmaker In the tradition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
Jordan Tannahill comes a masterful and moving Olive Kitteridge comes Once More with Feeling, an
novel in the tradition of Ben Lerner’s Leaving the exquisitely crafted, beautifully written, and wholly
Atocha Station and Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person delightful novel about the place we call home and
Be. Liminal is a riotous and moving portrait of a the people we call our community, told through
young man in uncertain times, a generation caught intersecting moments and interconnected lives.
in suspended animation, and a son’s enduring love
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Amah and the Silk-Winged No Fury Like That
Pigeons by Lisa de Nikolits
by Jocelyn Cullity No Fury Like That is a literary thriller about life and
death—and the power of second chances. What
Lucknow in 1856 is the most opulent city in India. If
is your moral compass? Julia Redner has to die in
the English take over, the royal family and centuries
order to find her answer to this question. But is she
of rich, cosmopolitan culture will disappear. Amah,
really dead or is she being given the opportunity to
personal bodyguard to the King, wants to make
rethink her life while solving an intricate puzzle of
sure this doesn’t happen. Ex-Queen, Hazrat Mahal,
murders? And she does not miss the opportunity to
has the money to fortify against the English. When
exact righteous revenge!
the women decide to take on the English colonists,
what will be the price of their loyalty?
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The Street of Butterflies La femme aux cartes postales
by Mehri Yalfani de Claude Paiement et Jean-Paul Eid
The Street of Butterflies features Iranian women La femme aux cartes postales est un récit à clés dans
dealing with displacement, cultural change, and lequel les histoires croisées de Rose, en 1957, et
their struggles to survive and adapt as immigrants de Victor, en 2002, résonnent l’une en l’autre pour
in North America. These stories provide a glimpse délier les énigmes du passé. Le travail historique
of life in post-revolutionary Iran, where the new remarquable des créateurs plonge le lecteur au
regime that replaced the old one continues the cœur d’une époque effervescente, en proie aux
suppression and prosecution of political activists. changements imminents.
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À la recherche de New Babylon Le poids de la neige
by Dominique Scali by Christian Guay-Poliquin
In this gripping western that vividly portrays Two men find themselves together in the sun
America’s Far West during the 1800s, Reverend lounge of a formerly grand but now abandoned
Aaron, Charles Teasdale, Russian Bill and Pearl house. Their agreement is that the old man
Guthrie search the desert in pursuit of an will nurse the younger man back to recovery in
impossible ideal, leaving behind the footprints of exchange for firewood, food and, most of all, a
their destinies. In a world where nothing lasts, “it is place in the convoy that will depart for the town
not a question of escaping death, but of choosing in the following spring. As the snow grows ever
your arena.” deeper around them, each day brings with it its
own assortment of challenges.
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C$27.95; 462 pgs. C$25.95; 312 pgs.
Strangers Among Us: Where the Stars Rise:
Tales of the Underdogs and Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy
Outcasts by various authors
by various authors Follow 23 science fiction and fantasy authors on
their journeys through Asia and beyond. These are
A 2016 Foreword INDIES Finalist and a 2017 Aurora
stories about love, revenge, and choices; stories
Awards Finalist. “The writers of these stories
that challenge ideas about race, belonging, and
address such varied subjects as agoraphobia,
politics; stories about where we come from and
depression, schizophrenia, autism, anxiety, and
where we’re going. Each protagonist struggles
addiction … readers who have mental illnesses may
between ghostly pasts and the uncertain future.
find themselves somewhere in these pages and as
Each tries to find a voice in history.
a result may no longer feel so alone or isolated.” —
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Johnny L’Habitude des bêtes
de Catherine Eve Groleau de Lise Tremblay
Dans ce premier roman, Catherine Eve Groleau Lise Tremblay nous donne un roman d’une grande
rend de façon magistrale ces éternels marginaux force, dans lequel tout ce qui nous apparaît comme
évoluant dans le clair-obscur de la petite criminalité une fin irrémédiable, une apocalypse, n’est au fond
et de la lointaine banlieue. Ce n’est que grâce à sa que la vaste respiration de la nature, du monde.
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Ma vie rouge Kubrick J’irai danser sur la tombe de
de Simon Roy Senghor
« Malgré la panoplie de bouquins publiés
de Blaise Ndala
chaque année, rares sont ceux qui ont une
« Avec cette fiction historique, Blaise Ndala fait acte
portée aussi grande tant émotionnellement
de mémoire en présentant un nouvel éclairage sur
qu’intellectuellement que Ma vie rouge Kubrick.
le règne, de plus de trois décennies, de Mobutu
Malgré la violence, la haine, le rouge Kubrick, Roy a
Sese Seko au Congo. » —Les Libraires.ca
su écrire sincèrement, à cœur ouvert, un livre d’une
étrange force, d’une beauté crue. » —Elizabeth
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La coureuse des vents Le figuier sur le toit
de Louenas Hassani de Marguerite Andersen
Un livre essentiel qui rappelle que vivre ensemble, « Le livre se caractérise par la richesse d’observation
dans la paix, est une valeur fondamentale à et la profondeur de la réflexion sur la condition
rechercher. humaine et sur la responsabilité individuelle face
aux grands remuements historiques. Un livre à la
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My True and Complete What Is Going to Happen Next
Adventures as a Wannabe by Karen Hofmann
Voyageur Karen Hofmann’s empathetic and cathartic novel,
by Phyllis Rudin What Is Going to Happen Next, pieces together the
lives of five members of the Lund family following
Benjie Gabai serves out his days as caretaker of their enforced dispersal after the father’s death and
The Bay’s poky in-store fur trade museum, dusting the mother’s hospitalization in the remote West
and polishing the artifacts that fuel his imagination. Coast community of Butterfly Lake.
When he learns his museum is about to be closed
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The Clothesline Swing À l’abri des hommes et des choses
by Ahmad Danny Ramadan by Stéphanie Boulay
The Clothesline Swing is a journey through the “Her unique voice, deconstructed phrasing and
troublesome aftermath of the Arab Spring. A metaphors as gentle as caresses have taken
former Syrian refugee himself, Ramadan unveils Stéphanie Boulay’s imagination by storm.” —Le
an enthralling tale of courage that weaves through Huffington Post Québec. “Stéphanie Boulay has
the mountains of Syria, the valleys of Lebanon, the found a style that suits her, striking the right
encircling seas of Turkey, the heat of Egypt, and, tone, candid, coloured, clear and very close to the
finally, the hope of a new home in Canada. emotions.” —Le Journal de Québec
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2017 | English
ISBN: 9780889713321 2016 | French
C$21.95; 288 pgs. ISBN: 9782764431894
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Le dernier qui sort éteint la Le Potager
lumière by Marilyne Fortin
by Simon Boulerice Since the spread of a deadly virus around the world,
Caroline sees her universe changing every week.
This is a very nice gift for young readers. The book
Between two anxiety attacks, she must care for
is tender, funny, human and brimming with love—
her two young sons as best she can. The residents
in short, a novel in the image of its creator. Simon
of her neighbourhood decide to come together to
Boulerice serves up another gem, a tribute once
tend a vegetable garden, but the most mundane
again to children’s literature from Québec.
things now take on dramatic undertones.
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ISBN: 9782764432167 ISBN: 9782764433508
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Les Empocheurs Routes secondaires
by Yves Beauchemin by Andrée A. Michaud
“Beauchemin is a popular modern-day Dostoyevsky, Who is Heather Thorne, this young woman with
using wit to land some hard-hitting jabs.” —Le amnesia who no longer knows if she really exists
Figaro Magazine. “If Yves Beauchemin’s talent is or if she is just the twin of an unknown woman
deeply rooted in the history and culture of Québec, she met one day in October? And who is Andrée
he has proven that authentic national literature has A. Michaud, this writer who wonders if she has
universal appeal.” —Le Monde usurped the place of a dead woman and if her real
name is Heather, Heather Thorne?
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ISBN: 9782764430880 ISBN: 9782764432273
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The Traitors of Camp 133 Brilliant
by Wayne Arthurson by Denise Roig
Captain Mueller is dead. Hanged, apparently, Brilliant is a collection of short stories set in Abu
by his own hand. But ex-police officer and war Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, a
hero Sergeant August Neumann doesn’t think it’s polyglot city where cultures collide and converge,
quite so simple. How could it be, with blackshirts, where money—and sometimes justice—is no
legionnaires, and communist sympathizers vying object, where in less than two generations towers
for control of the camp? Now Sergeant Neumann have replaced tents. In these dozen-plus stories,
must navigate these treacherous cliques to find the a mixed grill of characters navigate this land of
truth. sudden plenty.
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The Spanish Boy Celui qui reste
by C.S. Reardon de Jonathan Brassard
Grief cannot abide a mystery. In 1937, the Clareys « Pour ce deuxième ouvrage, Jonathan joue d’une
are a close and loving family—until their lives are habile mise en abîme pour explorer les possibilités
transformed the night Edie, their wilful daughter et les limites du récit à travers l’écriture. L’auteur se
and sister, vanishes, leaving no clue as to what met littéralement en scène et se commet en tant
happened to her. The lingering questions of her qu’écrivain au service de l’histoire à raconter. » —
disappearance will ricochet through the succeeding Les Libraires.ca
generations of Clareys.
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En ces bois profonds L’ordre du méchoui
de François Lévesque de Lionel Noël
« François Lévesque livre ici une histoire troublante « Un roman d’apprentissage à saveur historique,
aux personnages bien campés. Son souffle, à inspiré des grands classiques du genre. Nous
la fois haletant et patient, déploie les phrases assistons, à travers les yeux de Sans Loi, à plusieurs
telles des vaguelettes venant du large, inlassables grands événements du XXe siècle. Une aventure
mais pressées d’atteindre le lecteur. » —Yannick à suivre jusqu’au bout, mettant en vedette une
Marcoux, Le Devoir diaspora de personnages et de lieux qui donne
l’eau à la bouche. » —Les Libraires.ca
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Panik The Museum of Possibilities
de Geneviève Drolet by Barbara Sibbald
« Genviève Drolet possède une voix. Une voix In The Museum of Possibilities, the future is limited
avec laquelle elle parvient à rendre vivant, dans only by the imagination—and the choices that we
un mélange convaincant d’âpreté et de tendresse, make. These quirky short stories focus on pivotal
l’univers cru et sans concession du Grand Nord. » moments of intense longing—for love, fame,
—Christian Desmeules, Le Devoir revenge, and perhaps most of all, connection in a
disaffected world.
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Armin’s Shorts Annie Muktuk and Other Stories
by Armin Wiebe by Norma Dunning
Armin’s Shorts features tales from the familiarly “I woke up with Moses Henry’s boot holding open
fictitious Mennonite community of Gutenthal, my jaw and my right eye was looking into his gun
reimagined origin stories from the Tlįcho of the barrel. I heard the slow words, ‘Take. It. Back.’ I
subarctic, and flights of pure fantasy set in modern know one thing about Moses Henry; he means
day Winnipeg. Armin Wiebe presents a veritable business when he means business. I took it back
smorgasbord of short stories that cover the gamut and for the last eight months I have not uttered
of human experience. Annie Muktuk’s name.”
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The Left-Handed Dinner Party Lissa:
and Other Stories A Story about Medical Promise,
by Myrl Coulter Friendship, and Revolution
In The Left-Handed Dinner Party and Other Stories,
by Sherine Hamdy and Coleman
everyone is missing something or someone; every Nye, illustrated by Sarula Bao and
family is riven by secrets and absences. Coulter’s Caroline Brewer
narratives portray relationships, loss, and what
we learn in the aftermath of death. With style Lissa is the powerful story of two young women
and sweep that hint at Lynn Coady and Alice – one dealing with kidney failure and organ
Munro, Myrl Coulter is a strong, fresh voice in transplantation in Egypt, and the other with breast
contemporary Canadian fiction. cancer genetics and prevention in the US. It is the
first book in a new series that combines scholarly
University of Alberta World rights available University of insights with visual storytelling to foster greater
Press Toronto Press understanding of global politics and inequalities.
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Mostarghia Pivot
by Maya Ombasic by Marie-Eve Cotton
The young narrator, her little brother and their A harsh, hilarious, and hearthbreaking debut novel
parents are living in Mostar when the bombs begin by a practising psychiatrist. In the psychiatric wing
falling on Tito’s Yugoslavia. They have to leave. The of Montreal’s Holy Mother Mary Hospital, Pivot,
family embarks on a journey that will last for years, a.k.a. Hadrien Jalbert, is waiting for the end of the
taking them through gypsy wagons, a refugee umpteenth incarceration engineered by the dark
camp, to Switzerland and, eventually, Canada. forces of “the System” that’s been persecuting him
Along the way, the narrator grows up and educates for years.
herself, carrying on a lively conversation with her
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fellowship à Montréal program in Montréal
Chaque année, en novembre, à l’occasion Each year in November, during the Salon du livre
du Salon du livre de Montréal, Québec Édition de Montréal, Québec Édition welcomes 10 foreign
reçoit 10 éditeurs étrangers, pour six jours d’activités publishers for six days of activities and meetings
et de rencontres dans une ambiance conviviale. in a friendly atmosphere. For the 2018 edition,
Pour l’édition 2018, l’appel de candidature sera the call for applications will be launched in January.
lancé en janvier. Date limite pour postuler : 1er juin 2018 Application deadline: June 1st, 2018
Visitez : quebecedition.qc.ca/fellowship Go to: quebecedition.qc.ca/fellowship
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