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2011., Baraka Books Call No: QWF Fic Fou Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Spring 1651: a young man from Paris lands in Trois-Rivières on the St. Lawrence River. Within weeks, the course of his life changes dramatically when Iroquois braves capture him. Pierre-Esprit Radisson, then only fifteen years old, begins a new life. Canoeing across rivers and lakes and portaging over mountains, Radissonœs captors take him to distant lands where first they torture him, then adopt him as a brother. In this first tome of the adventures of North Americaœs most famous coureur des bois, readers voyage into the heart of a continentœs history in an era of bravery and heroism. Newcomers from France and indigenous peoples meet, sometimes as friends and allies, sometimes as bitter enemies. Martin Fournier brings to bear his impassioned story-telling skills and historianœs rigour to produce a novel that is a thrilling read from start to finish.
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2022., Linda Leith Publishing Call No: QWF Fic Me´n Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Philippe is about to turn 40, having settled for a quiet family life and a house in the suburbs of Montreal. When old friend Robert Moranowitz unexpectedly turns up on his doorstep, old demons are reawakened and Philippe leaves everything behind to hunt down Hans Wolf and his band of neo-Nazis and white supremacists. But the road to redemption is a long one, and there's a fine line between justice and revenge for the two firebrands and partners in crime.
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2016., QC Fiction Call No: Fic Dup Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Nadia Comaneci's gold-medal performance at the Olympic Games in Montreal in 1976 is the starting point for a whole new generation. Eric Dupont watches the performance on TV, mesmerized. The son of a police officer (Henry VIII) and a professional cook--as he likes to remind us--he grows up in the depths of the Quebec countryside with a new address for almost every birthday and little but memories of his mother to hang on to. His parents have divorced, and the novel's narrator relates his childhood, comparing it to a family gymnastics performance worthy of Nadia herself. Life in the Court of Matane is unforgiving and we explore different facets of it (dreams of sovereignty, schoolyard bullying, imagined missions to Russia, poems by Baudelaire), each based around an encounter with a different animal, until the narrator befriends a great horned owl, summons up the courage to let go of the upper bar forever, and makes his glorious escape."--
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2021., Adult, Baraka Books Call No: NEW IND Bio S719w Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: It is 1963, Jean-Yves Soucy is 18 and looking for a summer job. He dreams of being a fire warden scanning the boreal forest from a fire tower. But to his dismay he is sent to an equipment depot somewhere between Val-d'Or and Chibougamau in Northern Quebec. His disappointment vanishes when he learns that the depot is located near a Cree community and that he will have two Cree guides, including a man named William Saganash, and his work will involve canoeing through the lakes and rivers of the region. On each encounter with the Crees, on each of the long trips across water or through the bush, Jean-Yves expects to see a new world but realizes he's meeting a different civilization, as different from his own as Chinese civilization. Yet he knows nothing about it. Nor does he understand the nature surrounding them as do his Cree guides, and friends. Jean-Yves Soucy wrote this story because Romeo Saganash, son of William, insisted: "You have to write that, Jean-Yves. About your relationship with my father and the others, how you saw the village. You got to see the end of an era." He unfortunately passed away before completing it. However, in his poignant Afterword, Romeo Saganash provides a finishing touch to this story of an unlikely meeting of two worlds.
