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Marin s'est fait voler son sandwich, celui du lundi au jambon-cheddar-laitue, son préféré! Quel malfaisant a pu commettre un acte aussi cruel? Le mardi, c'est le jour de son deuxième sandwich préféré: celui au thon que sa mère prépare avec sa fameuse mayonnaise et des tomates séchées. Pour ne pas mourir de faim, Marin décide de tendre un piège au voleur.

Traduit de l’anglais (Canada) par Lori Saint-Martin et Paul Gagné Moses Berger est encore enfant quand il entend pour la première fois parler de Solomon Gursky. Ce personnage mystérieux deviendra bientôt pour lui une obsession qui l’incitera à mener une vaste enquête aux quatre coins du monde.

"Phoebe belongs to Master Duncan and works in the plantation kitchen. She sees how the other slaves are treated -- the beatings and whippings, the disappearances. She hasn't seen her mother since Master Duncan sold her ten years ago. But Phoebe is trying to learn words and how to read and when she is asked to show the master's Canadian visitor, Doctor Bergman, where he can find warblers and chickadees she starts to see things differently. And Doctor Bergman has more in mind that just drawing the local birds.

In Tim's world, a cat can paint on the ceiling and a happy pig couple can wait months for the bus. A duck and a mouse love to go flying, in a plane, of course.

Blaise croyait qu'il avait laissé derrière lui la misère de son enfance. Que, malgré les stigmates de son passé, il deviendrait un artiste accompli. Mais, en l'an de grâce 1539, la Renaissance a beau étendre ses lumières sur l'Europe, elle éclaire difficilement ceux qui, comme lui, sont issus de la fange des ruelles.

Où l'on raconte l'histoire d'une jeune fille qui désire repousser les limites de l'expérience humaine, d'un hacker qui veut optimiser la circulation mondiale des bananes et des coussins, d'une employée de la GRC qui rêve d'en finir une bonne fois pour toutes avec la géographie, d'un septuagénaire qui perd un boulon, d'une acheteuse compulsive bipolaire, de six perruches et d'un chat intermittent, tous unis dans un jeu de société à l'échelle planétaire dont personne ne connaît les règles.

As the week opens, 50-something Hugh Argylle, owner of the Argylle Art Gallery, has a jarring fall from a ladder - a fall that leaves him with a fractured off-kilter vision of his own life and the lives of his friends, who are going through crises that leave them despairing, afraid, one half-step from going under emotionally or financially. Someone's going to have to fix all that, thinks Hugh - and it will probably be him.

Samuel Archibald’s stories come from over there: way, way over there.  They live in the woods, hunting for creatures that may or may not exist, and they sometimes go surging down the highway at reckless speeds.

In a drought-ridden Saskatchewan of the 1930s, self-possessed, enigmatic Elena finds herself living alone in the small village of Trevna. Her mother has been dead for many years, and her father, burdened by the hardships of drought, has disappeared, and the 18-year-old is an object of pity and charity in her community. But when a stranger shows up at a country dance, she needs only one look and one dance before jumping into his Lincoln Roadster, leaving the town and its shocked inhabitants behind.

From "The Robot Baby," in which we discover what happens when a robot feels emotion for the very first time, to "Heaven," about a grandfather who died for a few minutes when he was nine and visited the pearly gates, to "The Little Wolf-Boy of Northern Quebec," in which untamed children run wild through the streets of Paris, to "Dolls," in which a little girl's forgotten dolls tell their own stories of woe and neglect, we are immersed in utterly unique worlds.