Catalogues (PDF)
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Into the River's MouthFrançois Racine
Ancient traditions meet European ambition in this spellbinding tale of first contact and survival.
In the heart of the boreal forest, Cherououny learns to hunt following ancestral traditions, while thousands of kilometers away, Étienne Brûlé leaves behind a bleak countryside to embark for the New World. On the banks of the Saint Lawrence, their destinies intertwine as the first French settlement rises and the future of their peoples is redrawn.
A captivating epic adventure borrowing elements from fantasy and magical realism, Into the River's Mouth tells the story of a crossroads of worlds. Between deadly plots, gnawing hunger, and disease, who will survive the first winter? -
A Feminist EducationFabien Ménar
The 1970s never looked this wild: a tender and laugh-out-loud tale of feminist ideals in a dysfunctional home.
Deafening drinking parties where his father sings with his bare bottom exposed, Homeric shouting matches where his uncle throws a Christmas tree out the window, terrifying fasts that would make the most austere anchorite shudder—such is little Fabien's family life, who nevertheless maintains his innocence and dreams of extraterrestrials.
But when his mother decides to instill a feminist education in him, his worldview is transformed and lands him in absurd situations, especially since he fully intends to spread his knowledge to his schoolmates.
A funny and tender portrait of an entire era, the 1970s, of a family in chaos, and above all of a mother who lacks the basics of motherhood. -
Rogue WavesHélène Rompré
From the trenches of WWI to the wreckage of her heart: one woman's fierce journey back to herself.
A history teacher and mother of twin girls, Hélène's life is upended the day her partner leaves her by text message, just hours after signing papers to expand their house. For four years, she believed in this intellectual who promised marriage and played stepfather to her daughters. Like those rogue waves that surge without warning in calm seas, the breakup strikes her with unexpected violence. A specialist in World War I, Hélène constantly draws parallels between battlefields and her love life.
From this pain emerges a cathartic narrative in which Hélène revisits her rural childhood, her toxic relationship, and her quest for identity between city and nature, motherhood and literary ambitions. Through a kayaking road trip along the St. Lawrence River, she rebuilds her autonomy and reclaims her writer's voice. Blending testimonies from Holocaust survivors, reflections on war, and biting humor, Rogue Waves is a powerful exploration of female resilience and a hymn to reclaimed freedom. -
The Disappearance of Rose SinclairCéline Beaudet
Two investigators, one missing girl, and a society on the brink of change.
Montreal, May 1912. Private detective Édouard Lavergne receives a delicate case: Rose Sinclair, a brilliant nineteen-year-old student, has disappeared along with her best friend Euphémie Murray. The Sinclair family, from the upper bourgeoisie, demands discretion. Édouard discovers that Rose, far from being docile, is involved in the suffragist movement and studies landscape architecture. Her intimate journals reveal disturbing secrets.
Both detective novel and social fresco, this narrative plunges into a Montreal torn between tradition and modernity. Through remarkable female characters—Marguerite the journalist, Jeanne seeking emancipation, Martha the activist nurse—the novel explores the struggles for social justice and individual freedom in a patriarchal society where women's aspirations clash with rigid conventions.