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2007., Hurtubise HMH Call No: FR Fic Dav Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Amours interdites Volume: tome IIISummary Note: Le printemps 1967 s'annonce et avec lui souffle un vent nouveau qui fera virevolter le destin de plusieurs des habitants de Saint-Jacques-de-la-Rive. L'heure est au bouleversement des mœurs et des valeurs. Ce que l'on nommera plus tard la Révolution tranquille s'est bel et bien installée, malgré les répliques acerbes du curé Savard, à qui Étienne Fournier et les autres membres de la fabrique répondront sur le même ton. Le maire, Côme Crevier, ne sera pas en reste, incarnant dorénavant l'autorité dans son village. Alors que tous les regards sont fixés sur Montréal et son exposition universelle, les jeunes adultes des familles Veilleux, Fournier, Hamel et Tremblay sont appelés à faire des choix. Bataille de coq, déception amoureuse, emplois prometteurs, grossesse honteuse, promesse de mariage, émancipation, perte d'enfant, tous sont emportés par le tourbillon de la vie. Nostalgiques devant tous ces changements, la génération de leurs parents se réfugie dans les souvenirs. Étrangement, la relation chaotique qu'entretiennent Bertrand Tremblay et d'André Veilleux leur rappelle celle, aussi houleuse, de leurs grands-pères Eugène et Ernest.
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c2001., Boréal Call No: FR Fic Lab v.2 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Gout du bonheur Volume: 2
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c2012., General, Brindle & Glass Call No: Fic Cam Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Anglophone Imogene Jackson grew up in an English suburb on the uneasy edge of a francophone world. At the age of nineteen she quit college to marry a shoemaker from the close-knit French village of Saint-Ange-du-Lac. For ten years she has lived with her husband, Thomas, above his family's historic shoe shop, immersed in village life. When Thomas dies in a car accident, she is shattered and her hard-won mastery of the French language deserts her. Isolated and grief-stricken, she retreats to her childhood home. There she discovers that a petty drug dealer she knows from the village has rented a ramshackle farmhouse, nicknamed the "Apple House," at the corner of her parents' street and befriended her easily influenced brother Petey. Her childhood obsession with the old house resurfaces and she finds herself confronting events from both her recent and more distant past as her two worlds collide. Set in 1970s Quebec and written with a gentle humour, The Apple House is an intimate portrait of life during a time of great change.
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2015., Adult, Biblioasis Call No: QWF Fic Arc Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "With its stories of innocent young girls and wild beasts, attempted murder and ritual mutilation, haunted houses and road trips to nowhere, Samuel Archibald?s Arvida, the portrait of a remote mining town in French Canada, reads like a Proust-obsessed Cormac McCarthy. A 25,000-copy Bestseller in French, it does for northern Quebec what Faulkner did for the south."--Publisher.
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2014., Adult, Flammarion Québec Call No: FR QWF Fic Pen Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Three Pines Volume: 8Summary Note: Caché au creux d'une forêt sauvage du Québec, le monastère Saint-Gilbert-entre-les-Loups n'admet aucun étranger. Vingt-quatre moines y vivent cloîtrés. Ils cultivent des légumes, élèvent des poules, fabriquent du chocolat et prient. Ironiquement, la communauté qui a fait vœu de silence est devenue mondialement célèbre pour ses chants grégoriens, dont l'effet est si puissant qu'on le nomme 'le beau mystère'. Cette harmonie est rompue par l'assassinat du chef de chœur et l'intrusion de l'inspecteur Armand Gamache et de son adjoint Jean-Guy Beauvoir. Les enquêteurs cherchent l'accroc dans ces vies consacrées à l'amour de Dieu, mais cette retraite forcée les place aussi face à leurs propres failles. Pour trouver le coupable, Gamache devra d'abord contempler le divin, l'humain, et la distance qui les sépare.
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2012., Minotaur Books Call No: QWF MYS Fic Pen Edition: 1st ed. Availability:2 of 2 At Your Library Series Title: Three Pines Volume: 8Summary Note: When a peaceful monastery in Québec is shattered by the murder of their renowned choir director, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Sûrete du Québec are challenged to find the killer in a cloistered community that has taken a vow of silence.
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2012., Macmillan Audio Call No: CD Fic Pen Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Three Pines Volume: 8Summary Note: When a peaceful monastery in Québec is shattered by the murder of their renowned choir director, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Sûrete du Québec are challenged to find the killer in a cloistered community that has taken a vow of silence.
![The beautiful mystery [CD]](/Library/images/~imageCT75388.JPG "The beautiful mystery [CD]")
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2019., Minotaur Books Call No: MYS Fic Pen Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Your Library Series Title: Three Pines Volume: 15Summary Note: It's Gamache's first day back as head of the homicide department, a job he temporarily shares with his previous second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir. Flood waters are rising across the province. In the middle of the turmoil a father approaches Gamache, pleading for help in finding his daughter. As crisis piles upon crisis, Gamache tries to hold off the encroaching chaos, and realizes the search for Vivienne Godin should be abandoned. But with a daughter of his own, he finds himself developing a profound, and perhaps unwise, empathy for her distraught father.
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2019., St. Martin's Publishing Group Edition: eBook ed. Connect to this eBook title Series Title: Three Pines Volume: 15Summary Note: It's Gamache's first day back as head of the homicide department, a job he temporarily shares with his previous second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir. Flood waters are rising across the province. In the middle of the turmoil a father approaches Gamache, pleading for help in finding his daughter. As crisis piles upon crisis, Gamache tries to hold off the encroaching chaos, and realizes the search for Vivienne Godin should be abandoned. But with a daughter of his own, he finds himself developing a profound, and perhaps unwise, empathy for her distraught father.
![A better man [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT100766.JPG "A better man [eBook]")
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2019., Adult, Second Story Press Call No: QWF MYS Fic Lam Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Russell and Leduc Mysteries. Volume: 1Summary Note: In a little village north of Montreal, a reclusive old woman is found strangled and frozen outside her home. Roméo LeBlanc, the enigmatic Chief Inspector for Homicide, is one day away from his first vacation in years, and reluctantly answers the call on the case. Roméo suspects a local biker gang is involved in what appears to be a robbery gone awry--or was the old woman a victim of a violent hate crime?
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2014., General, ECW Press Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Montreal 1970. The "Vampire Killer" has murdered three women and a fourth is missing. Eddie Dougherty finds himself almost alone hunting the serial killer and decides to take matters into his own hands to catch the killer before he strikes again.
![Black rock [eBook] : an Eddie Dougherty mystery](/Library/images/~imageCT76687.JPG "Black rock [eBook] : an Eddie Dougherty mystery")
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By Wicher, E. K2021., EKWicherBooks Call No: QWF Fic Wic Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1927, they drowned the River Noire in the Province of Quebec by building a dam. To do so, the government expropriated land, forcing the farmers in the valley to higher ground. The same year, Irish republicans ambushed Michael Collins on a country road in County Cork, Ireland, and shot him dead. This story carries the rumor of his assassination across the Atlantic to the Irish community in Canada, bringing with it the seeds of violence and rebellion. In this suspenseful fiction, Quebec has realized its republican dreams, but has lost territory as America becomes greater still.
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2019., Adult, Linda Leith Publishing Call No: QWF MYS Fic Cou Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "When financier Paul Carignan is hit by a stray bullet and killed in Beaufort, Quebec, the town leaders seem reluctant to investigate. Running out of patience, his teenage sons, Jack and Noah, take justice into their own hands -- and kidnap the locals they suspect are responsible. Things soon erupt and the boys find themselves besieged in their house with their captives. In the middle is their mother, Catherine, not sure which side to take. For Tom 'Brooder' Doran, Beaufort's Deputy Chief of Police, the investigation has just gotten very complicated. One thing's for sure, this sleepy town is in for a fiery shakeup."--From goodreads.com.
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2023., Adult, Simon & Schuster Canada Call No: MYS Fic Rei Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Temperance Brennan series. Volume: 22Summary Note: Called in to examine what is left of a person thought to have been struck by lightning, Tempe traces an unusual tattoo to its source and is soon embroiled in a much larger case. Young men--tourists--have been disappearing on the islands of Turks and Caicos. Seven years earlier, the first victim was found in a strange location with his left hand hacked off; subsequently, two other visitors vanished without a trace. But, recently, tantalizing leads have emerged and only Tempe can unravel them. Maddeningly, the victims seem to have nothing in common--other than the odd places where their bodies turn up, and the fact that none seems likely to have been involved in criminal activity. Do these attacks have something to do with the islands' seething culture of gang violence? Tempe isn't so sure. Disturbingly, she discovers evidence that what's at stake may actually have global significance. It isn't long before the sound of a ticking clock grows menacingly loud. Then Tempe herself becomes a target.
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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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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.
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2022., Adult, Book*hug Press Call No: QWF Fic Ana Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A story of identity, connection and forgiveness, A Convergence of Solitudes shares the lives of two families across Partition of India, Operation Babylift in Vietnam, and two referendums in Quebec. Sunil and Hima, teenage lovers, bravely defy taboos in pre-Partition India to come together as their country divides in two. They move across the world to Montreal and raise a family, but Sunil shows symptoms of schizophrenia, shattering their newfound peace. As a teenager, their daughter Rani becomes obsessed with Quebecois supergroup Sensibiliť--and, in particular, the band's charismatic, nationalistic frontman, Serge Giglio--whose music connects Rani to the province's struggle for cultural freedom. A chance encounter leads Rani to babysit M̌lanie, Serge's adopted daughter from Vietnam, bringing her fleetingly within his inner circle. Years later, Rani, now a college guidance counselor, discovers that M̌lanie has booked an appointment to discuss her future at the school. Unmoved by her father's staunch patriotism and her British mother's bourgeois ways, M̌lanie is struggling with deep uncertainty about her identity and belonging. As the two women's lives become more and more intertwined, Rani's fascination with M̌lanie's father's music becomes a strange shadow amidst their friendship.
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2016., Ekstasis Editions Call No: Fic O'Me Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: They were itinerants of a sort, exiles in their own country They had reached crossroads, where no one would hear the voice of the other·A married couple from Quebec, one a francophone, the other an anglophone, find themselves on the road, estranged and displaced from their work-environment in the city. Venturing from one place to another, they encounter a long series of different people of different cultures, all divided from each other, in a land that is supposed to be united. Imprisoned in themselves, these many characters linger in their mundane spheres, only to bring on tragedy or else perpetuate inconsequence. In this world a man and a woman seek a lost unity which often beckons them to the edge of a river and a sea that seem to hold the answer to their proliferating doubts and anxietiesJohn OœMeara has professed himself in his many publications a Shakespearean and a neo-Romantic, but he has always been secretly fascinated by the modern debacle· as he has termed it, as if it held a revelation all its own. He is the author of a memoir entitled Defending Her Son. A short autobiographical sequel to this memoir, which serves as a background to the background of the present Sketches and Stories, is scheduled to appear shortly.