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-- Two hundred six bones.2009., Scribner Call No: MYS Fic Rei Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Chicago forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is accused of mishandling the autopsy and the case of a missing heiress from Montreal--an investigation that becomes more complicated when two more bodies of elderly women are found in Montreal and Tempe faces the very real possibility that a colleague has sabotaged work in the lab.
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2019., Invisible Publishing Call No: QWF Fic Sur Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Grand in scope, spare in execution, and lush in language, 26 Knots is a fable-like tale of love, obsession, and everything in between. Araceli loves Adrien. Adrien loves Pénélope. Pénélope marries Gabriel, who is tormented by the search for the father he never knew. Set in Montreal, but spiralling out across Canada, Bindu Suresh’s debut novel deftly reveals the devastating consequences of betrayal and commitment, of grief and hope."--.
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Ã2016., Livres DC Books Call No: QWF Fic Hen Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Everything seems broken in Suzanna Ricci's life. Only 42, her marriage to Len has disintegrated. Her relationship to their teenage boys, Robin and Logan, is in need of repair. Now her mother, 'that martial soul, ' wants her to restore the family home in Acqua Sacra, damaged by earthquake. And she doesn't care how many trips from Montreal to their vivid Italian patria of Abruzzo her daughter has to make. At least when Len, a dodgy accountant, encourages her to take a job with a Montreal law firm headed by a man named Robert Bliss, Suzanna feels hopeful of being freer of her ex. Until she realizes the crazy cost of disentangling herself, and not just from him or his 'associates.' Old World skepticism kicks at New World concerns in Acqua Sacra, Keith Henderson's brisk new novel about private deception and public corruption. His cast includes an honest architect, a gutsy office clerk, the modern-day witch of a drained lake, and at least one (reformed) dirt-digging lawyer. But what is Suzanna to do when the mob and their extralegal cross-border political shenanigans invade her life? While Montreal's underworld seems as full of venomous snakes and mean dogs as the Abruzzo mountains, Roman history, Italian mafiosi, dutiful Canadians, and migrant African workers collide, headlong and bizarrely comedic. At the centre of the crash, stunned and sheep-like, lies Suzanna. Henderson, the author ofThe Roof Walkers, again delivers an entertaining and perceptive story in Acqua Sacra about the nature of personal responsibility, this time in an age of multinational delinquency. If Suzanna survives the wreckage, it'll be by honouring the true meaning of 'family' in any global village."--
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2019., Esplanade Books Call No: QWF Fic Nic Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Montreal is in the grips of a summer heatwave, when searing temperatures have a way of making residents cast aside their better judgement. A young twenty-something works the night shift at a call centre, her only company is the disembodied voices of the customers who call in to complain. She spends her night off drinking with her friend Louis at "their" bar, while her successful boyfriend sleeps. His career allows her the pleasures of his spacious, modern condo, a new existence. She likes feeling undefined, still up for grabs, even as the middle-class trappings of her relationship threaten to shape her. In the stifling humidity of such surroundings, her life is turned upside down when she grows obsessed with Mia, a beautiful woman she meets one night at the bar. Then there's the woman who's gone missing, whose face is constantly on screens across the city. How can she stern the drift away from her relationship, she worries, when her former lover, who was both violent and magnetic, is always in her thoughts? all these orbits are set to collide, as the heatwave shows no sign of breaking and emotions reach record highs. .
![Aphelia : a novel \](/Library/images/~imageCT100349.JPG "Aphelia : a novel \")
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-- Autour d'elle2018., Talonbooks Call No: QWF Fic Bie Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Heartily sincere, human, and compassionate, Around Her is a multifaceted novel that explores, through the words and reflections of a large community of characters, the bonds that unite us, and love in all of its manifestations the love that one finds, that one loses, destroys, desires, or recovers. In the mid-1990s, a sixteen-year-old girl, secretive and vulnerable, gives birth to a healthy boy in the anonymity of a Montreal hospital. She gives him up for adoption a parting that will affect, perhaps even govern and determine, all successive stages of her adult life. Around Her traces twenty years of the lives of Florence Gaudreault and her estranged son Adrien through the prism of twenty characters who have crossed their paths and who, each in turn and with their own unique voice, tell their story. Patiently assembling disparate points of view, those of the young, the old, the families, the couples, or the lonely souls, this novel, replete with emotive twists and turns, probes the failures and hopes of a whole segment of society, revealing the proximity of past traumas. Around Her is a highly emotional book, written with stylistic virtuosity, and populated with a complex kaleidoscope of voices. Author Sophie Bienvenu has a tangible gift for portraying real-life, contrasting characters, and revealing their idiosyncratic and evolving streams of consciousness. Around Her is Bienvenu's fiction at its best, rigorously authentic, wholeheartedly humane, and delightfully vulnerable."--.
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By Zorn, Alicec2011., Adult, NeWest Press Call No: QWF Fic Zor Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Joelle is about to lose her husband Marc, who has become obsessed with Ketia, a young Haitian woman. Ketia lies to her family to conceal her liaison with Marc. Joelle's friend Diane does not realize that her boyfriend Nazim has never told his Muslim family in Morocco about her. Then Nazim gets a letter that threatens his secret. Alice Zorn leads readers into the lives of a diverse cast of characters struggling with conflicting cultural values and the demands of intimacy. Set against the busy urban mosaic of Montreal, Arrhythmia is a study of betrayal: the large betrayals we commit against our loved ones, and the smaller ones we commit against ourselves."--Back cover.
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c2015., General, Minotaur Books Call No: MYS Fic Bea Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Martine LeDuc is the director of PR for the mayor's office in Montreal. When four women are found brutally murdered and shockingly posed on park benches throughout the city over several months, Martine's boss fears a PR disaster for the still busy tourist season, and Martine is now also tasked with acting as liaison between the mayor and the police department"--Publisher.
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By Crocker, Eva2023., Adult, Anansi Call No: NEW QWF Fic Cro Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Back in the Land of the Living brings us a year in the life of Marcy, a young queer woman who moves to Montreal in the fall of 2019 after making a mess of her life in St. John's. Alone in a big city on the brink of lockdown, Marcy finds herself working an assortment of odd and sometimes dangerous, sometimes ethically questionable jobs, and swept up in a tumultuous romance with a charismatic but controlling woman. As friends, loyalties, and philosophies collide, Marcy tries to carve out a future amidst the intertwined crises of late capitalism, the climate apocalypse, and the Covid-19 pandemic. With all the candour, wit, and bracing wisdom that have won her accolades and awards across Canada, Eva Crocker gives us a sexy, unforgettable story about love and longing in a time of chaos.
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2021., Uncle Ralph's Publishing Empire Call No: NEW MYS Fic Cha Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Thirty years after fighting crime and corruption in the 1980s, Dale Hunter and Frank the Fixer are now drawn into more current criminal activities as they try to rescue a niece kidnapped into sex trafficking and online pornography by Russian gangsters in Boston. Dale and Frank follow a treacherous trail into the dangerous and violent international sex trade that also exposes Frank’s tragic family history in Africa and more violent threats closer to home in Montreal. It starts with a phone call to Frank the Fixer and leads us through a complicated network of gangsters and Mafia families in their murderous competition for the lucrative business of sex trafficking and online pornography. A secretive Montreal Mafia figure is assassinated and deals are made to extricate the innocent young victims from competing interests. Tough tactics and insider knowledge are required, but more violence and murders cannot be avoided.
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2021., Baraka Books of Montreal Call No: MYS Fic Kin Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Annie Linton, Detective Bellechasse Mystery Novel Volume: 2Summary Note: Michaela (Mickie) Bédard works at the Stevens, Bédard Investment Bank, a bank founded by her great grandfather. She is working on an Initial Public Offering for a technology company. Walking home one evening she suffers a severe asthma attack and heads to Montreal’s Gursky Memorial Hospital. Triaged by Annie Linton, she is kept in the hospital overnight. During her stay, an unknown assailant attacks Mickie in her room. When a murder victim is discovered at the Gursky, Detective Sergeant Gilles Bellechasse is called upon to investigate. The investigation leads Gilles to New York and to a network of shady characters operating in New York and in Montreal who are trying to steal the deal from Mickie. The investigation is further complicated by three more murders. King brilliantly combines the best elements of a cozy with a gritty police procedural in a novel full of twists and unexpected turns. Annie’s clever insights are critical in solving the crimes. Banking on Life is the second Annie Linton, Gilles Bellechasse mystery novel. Recovering bookseller Montrealer Richard King once again reveals his keen sense of metropolitan life in Montreal and New York City.
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2013., General, Dundurn Press Limited Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: At the International Classical Guitar Competition in Montreal, top-flight musicians fly in from all over the world to compete in a gruelling week. A career can be made or lost here, and the slightest mishap--a lapse of memory, a shaking right hand, a broken fingernail--can ruin years of preparation. More than a decade ago Toby made the finals in a similar competition but suffered a breakdown and is only now venturing back into the fray. Middle-aged Lucy is tired of playing bar mitzvahs and weddings and is determined to perform the recital of her life. Trace is a kayaking teenager from the West Coast who seems careless in her talent. Judges and contestants alike battle and scheme to achieve what they most desire here. There is much more than pretty music being performed on this stage.
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-- Bone & breadc2013., General, Anansi Call No: QWF Fic Naw Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Beena and Sadhana are sisters who share a bond that could only have been shaped by the most unusual of childhoods--and by shared tragedy. Orphaned as teenagers, they have grown up under the exasperated watch of their Sikh uncle, who runs a bagel shop in Montreal's Hasidic community of Mile End. Together, they try to make sense of the rich, confusing brew of values, rituals, and beliefs that form their inheritance. Yet as they grow towards adulthood, their paths begin to diverge. Beena catches the attention of one of the "bagel boys" and finds herself pregnant at sixteen, while Sadhana drives herself to perfectionism and anorexia.
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c2012., Adult, Scribner Call No: MYS Fic Rei Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Temperance Brennan mysteries Volume: 15Summary Note: Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan examines the bodies of three babies while Detective Ryan investigates their mother in a case with ties to the high-stakes world of diamond mining.
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1973., Adult, Macmillan of Canada Call No: Fic Ber Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: First published in 1973, The Book of Eve has become a classic. When Eva Carroll walks out on her husband of 40 years, it is an unplanned, completely spontaneous gesture. Yet Eva feels neither guilt nor remorse. Instead, she feels rejuvenated and blissfully free. As she builds a new life for herself in a boarding house on the “wrong” side of Montreal, she finds happiness and independence – and, when she least expects it, love.
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-- CRAZY.[2007]., Adult, Genius Products Call No: DVD Fic CRAZY Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: One of five brothers, Zachary begins life on a charmed note: born in Montreal on Christmas, he almost dies but miraculously pulls through. His hard-working father seems to favor him. That is until his dad detects there's something a little queer about the boy. Indeed, Zac shows even more queer signs come adolescence, aping David Bowie's glam looks and sexually experimenting with a boy from the neighborhood. Ultimately, dad's conservative, macho values force Zac to repress his sexuality, which develops into a destructive rage.
![C.R.A.Z.Y [DVD] (2007) Directed by Jean-Marc Vallee.](/Library/images/~imageCT72983.JPG "C.R.A.Z.Y [DVD] (2007) Directed by Jean-Marc Vallee.")
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2013., Laskin Publishing Call No: QWF Fic Gri Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Montreal in the 1970s. The Vietnam War is still sparking controversy. The second tide of feminism still washes in on women as Daisy, a flaxen-haired cocker spaniel, recounts in touching, albeit humorous, detail, the story of her life as it intersects with her humans. Through Daisy, we meet Harry and Monique, their three children, and significant others, and experience all of the turmoil swirling around them, to which she is the all-seeing witness. This inadvertently makes her the repository of family secrets and unspoken intimacies to which she is privy. She is also the parallel intelligence commenting on the plight and predicaments of her owners, not to mention her own life journey. Daisy's non-human perspective in a human world, so colourfully expressed in her dreams, touches on the new consciousness emerging in all parts of the planet -- humans and their relationship to their primal selves and to the natural world in all of its manifestations. Music and singing also find their way into this novel, singing being older than speech itself, the universal tongue used by birds and frogs and crickets, the sensuous activity that rolls body, mind and spirit into one.
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c2014., General, House of Anansi Press Call No: QWF Fic Sil Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Inspired by the real life medical struggles of the author, this stunning debut collection opens with a gripping portrait of chronic illness in a series of linked stories about a woman in her mid-thirties, who is trapped in her elegantly accoutered Montreal townhouse - and in her own mind and body. As she struggles with her health, amongst an increasingly indifferent husband and volatile mother, she encounters unimaginable depths of loneliness and realizes that, even after she recovers, her life will never be the same. As the collection progresses, it picks up the threads of other people's lives that have also been abruptly upended -- through death, divorce, illness and estrangements -- leaving them shocked and disoriented as they try to navigate their lives in new directions. A Montreal cookbook author remembers her stepmother's exquisite taste in dinner parties, and her failed marriage - both of which she seemed to inherit. An abandoned wife catches her glamorous author friend stealing from an old, billionaire widower. A woman loses her daughter to suicide while her architect husband, in the grips of Alzheimer's years later, sits on a subway platform day after day, drawing hearts for all the young women he sees. Silcoff's stories are sophisticated, detailed, and infused with humour, intelligence and touching emotional insights into the human condition."--Back cover.
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1999., Adult, HarperCollins Call No: Fic Far Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Émile Cinq-Mars Volume: 1Summary Note: "The torture murder of a college student draws eccentric, brilliant Detective Emile Cinq-Mars into a deadly confrontation with the Russian mafia, CIA infiltrators, motorcycle gangs, and corruption within his own police department."--NoveList.
