Claire: 3074 books

Funny, feisty and all-too-true, A Not Quite Perfect Family by Claire Sandy is for anyone who loves their family so much they’d just like a weekend away from them. Fern Carlile has a lot on her plate. It’s a good thing she loves her big, imperfectly perfect family, because she’s the one...

**Some tasks that stray outside the bounds of the law require a pirate’s help.  But when you deal with a pirate, be ready to give up anything… ** Captain Jack, pirate (although he prefers “privateer”), is having a quiet drink in the local tavern on shore leave.  But when the most...

It’s the spring of 1963. The young Quebec author Marie-Claire Blais, bursting with energy and talent, has just won a coveted Guggenheim fellowship. She chooses Cambridge, Massachusetts, as the place where she will begin her writer’s apprenticeship with her mentor, Edmund Wilson. American Notebooks...

Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award: Translation. Shortlisted for the Cole Foundation Prize for Translation. In Mai at the Predators' Ball, Marie-Claire Blais, literary legend and four-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, offers a mesmerizing and unforgettable...

What anxiety grips Petites Cendres as he runs towards the sea in the sunshine on a warm tropical morning? Shouldn’t he be reassured by the thought that he now lives at the Acacia Gardens, a comfortable home where all find care, understanding, and healing? How can Fleur, the young musical prodigy,...

Daniel, a middle-aged novelist and loving father alienated from one of his sons and unsure how to care for his daughter, is on his way to an international conference of writers. The gathering is to be held in the forest above a mountain village of a strangely dreamlike nature. In the twilight of the...

Here is a legend of a Magic Dragon. He had great powers and shared them with the people of Ancient Japan. One of the powers of the Dragon was to contribute to the procreation of gifted children. Furious and very jealous of his powers, the emperor who reigned at the time ordered that he be imprisoned...

Contraints de quitter l’Ukraine en 1914, c’est vers une terre de liberté que croyaient voguer la jeune Alyona Loveneck, une violoniste prodige, et son frère Vitaly. Mais à leur arrivée au Canada, la guerre est déclarée et ils se retrouvent parmi les familles des prisonniers au camp de Spirit...

La rose interdite, Terri Brisbin Ecosse, 1356. Se soumettre à l’arrogant Rurik Erengisl qui prétend l’escorter jusqu’en Ecosse pour la ramener à son père ? Lady Margriet y répugne. Dans son état, comment pourrait-elle accepter, sans que cela entache l’honneur de sa famille ? Seulement,...

You’ve finished the first draft of your novel. Now to make it shine. This book will show you how by focusing first on the structural aspects of a great book and then getting down to the nitty gritty of copy editing and proofreading. Not sure if the beginning will hook the reader? Think...

Katrijn van der Caab, freed slave and wigmaker’s apprentice, travels with her eccentric employer from Cape Town to Vogelzang, a remote farm where a hairless girl needs their services. The year is 1794, it is the age of enlightenment, and on Vogelzang the master is conducting strange experiments...

Julie Rafferty’s life-long dream is within her grasp. But just as the toy company she founded verges on becoming a multi-million-dollar enterprise, her husband abandons their marriage. Trevor had no choice but to walk away from Julie. How else could he show his wife that the business was...

Adolescence, sport et succès, comment tout gérer ?Au centre de l’attention du public et des médias, le champion est désormais investi d’une fonction qui dépasse largement le champ sportif ; icône moderne, il véhicule une image de réussite sociale, particulièrement forte chez les jeunes....

Teenage Felicia smacks her rival across the face with the loudest of slaps. Her victim, a girl twice Felicia’s height and weight, helplessly staggers back, completely stunned by Felicia’s brazen move. “That’s what happens to anybody who disses me!” taunts Felicia. Felicia stands...