Showing results by narrator "Jean Brassard" in All Categories

Pendant qu'au Québec l'Église de la Réconciliation Universelle recrute secrètement des personnalités influentes, à Ottawa, un nouveau parti politique, l'Alliance progressiste-libérale et démocratique, veut prendre le pouvoir afin de maintenir l'unité du pays et de garantir la sécurité du territoire. Or, la campagne électorale québécoise est marquée par une violence ethnique et linguistique sans précédent, ce qui fait craindre le pire à la population et fournit de l'eau au moulin de l'APLD.

Weaving together three unique voices, My October is a masterful tale of a modern family torn apart by the power of language and the weight of history. Spare and insightful, Claire Holden Rothman's new novel explores the fascinating and sometimes shocking consequences of words left unsaid.

Un bain. Du sang. Un cadavre qui baigne dans le sang… Beaucoup de sang. Beaucoup trop pour une seule personne. D’où vient tout ce sang? Où sont les autres corps? Pourquoi le bain est-il exposé dans une vitrine? Au cours de son enquête, l’inspecteur Henri Dufaux croisera notamment des trafiquants d’êtres humains, un mafieux pianiste et philosophe, un ministre adepte de galipettes thaïlandaises, une psychanalyste gentiment sarcastique et un producteur porno qui veut sauver l’Occident....

À la controversée époque de l'Union nationale de Maurice Duplessis, le petit Armand, cinq ans, est placé avec sa sœur chez des étrangers sur une ferme à Saint-Augustin de Mirabel. Bien qu'il fut, et restera toujours, un petit garçon de la ville, il a la chance de vivre avec des gens aimants, qui n'avaient pour but que de faire un beau geste et de se créer une famille bien à eux.

Born into a famous family of artists, Pierre Matisse grew up immersed in the artistic life of Paris and the French Riviera, spending time with some of the most famous artists of the 20th century, including Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí. The man he knew as his grandfather, legendary artist Henri Matisse, gave him his first painting lesson and a strong desire to become a great artist in his own right.

Abounding in secluded, atmospheric parks, artists' studios, cafes, restaurants, and streets little changed since the 1800s, Paris exudes romance. The art and architecture, the cityscape, riverbanks, and the unparalleled quality of daily life are part of the equation. But the city's allure derives equally from hidden sources: querulous inhabitants, a bizarre culture of heroic negativity, and a rich historical past supplying enigmas, pleasures, and challenges.

At the age of nine Julien Grenier witnessed the brutal murder of his grandfather. Now, at forty-five, he continues to be plagued by horrific nightmares of that tragic event. Julien has recreated himself, building emotional walls that even his young wife cannot penetrate. Julien is a good man with a heart of gold, enabling his wife, Rachael, to turn a blind eye to his tightly-kept secrets. But after a home invasion assault leaves Rachael emotionally unstable and destroys their care-free and content world, they relocate to a safer environment with the hope of a fresh start.

Two hundred and fifty years ago, French Jesuits erected a mission deep in the uncharted Canadian wilderness, till they were brutally murdered by a band of renegade Iroquois.Or so the legends say. Today Ste-Claire College stands near the legendary massacre site, the mission's memory now more folklore than fact. Then Ste-Claire professor Karl Desbiens, who's soon to be a Jesuit priest himself, sets off to locate the mission ruins along with a group of eager college students. But after ten days of searching, they find nothing...until an old world evil is uncovered.

The first title in this Forgotten Realms series of stand-alone adventures. The Alabaster Staff is the first title in a Forgotten Realms series focusing specifically on the iconic character class of the rogue. Each novel in the series will be a stand-alone adventure, but the overall setting for all of the titles will be the Old Empires, an area of the Forgotten Realms world never before explored in the novels.

He told stories...he told even more lies. He told people what they wanted to hear...he told himself he wasn't doing anything wrong. He told the mysterious stranger from Shou Lung that he'd help him.... He told the most dangerous man in Altumbel that he would deliver a fortune in gems.... He should have kept his mouth shut. A series that brings to life the people who survive on the fringes and in the shadows of the Forgotten Realms world - The Rogues.

Amid the political turmoil of the French Revolution, another revolution is taking place, an ambitious project to remeasure the Paris meridian, thus determining the precise distance from the North Pole to the equator in order to calculate a new base unit of length - the meter - establishing a rational system of measurement based on nature that will unite all people of all nations for all time.

Born on Christmas, Louis Lamontagne, the family’s patriarch, is a larger-than-life Lothario and raconteur who inherits his mother’s teal eyes and his father’s brutish good looks and whose charms travel beyond Quebec, across the state of New York where he wins at county fairs as a larger-than-life strongman, and even in Europe, where he is deployed for the US Army during World War II. We meet his daughter, Madeleine, who opens a successful chain of diners using the recipes from her grandmother, the original American Fiancée....

Chute Libre est le premier volet de la célèbre série de David Freed mettant en scène Cordell Logan, un pilote sardonique aux économies qui s’amenuisent et au passé mystérieux. Basé dans la ville ensoleillée de Rancho Bonita en Californie, Cordell Logan est instructeur de vol et...

She wanted out. She wanted a new life. She wanted a trophy worthy of a master thief. She wanted to find the source of the treasured crimson gold. She wanted to face an undead emperor on his home ground and live to tell the tale. Careful what you wish for. The Crimson Gold is the third title in this ongoing Forgotten Realms series focusing specifically on the shadowed life of the iconic character class of the rogue. Each novel in the series is a stand-alone adventure, allowing readers an easy entry point into the Forgotten Realms world.

In the beautiful and dangerous landscape of Lake Geneva, in the shadow of the Swiss Alps, renowned writer Marceau Miller is found dead. In the wake of the tragedy, his wife, Sarah, discovers a manuscript he’s left behind, entitled The Story of Marceau Miller. With the support of close friends, Sarah struggles to hold herself together while caring for her two children and coping with the mounting questions surrounding her famous husband’s death. Was it an accident or part of some darker game?