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May 2020Niemals ohne sie
Roman
by Jocelyne Saucier, Sonja Finck, Frank Weigand
Die Cardinals sind keine gewöhnliche Familie. Sie haben den Schneid und die Wildheit von Helden, sie haben Angst vor nichts und niemandem. Und sie sind ganze dreiundzwanzig. Als der Vater in der stillgelegten Mine eines kanadischen Dorfes Zink entdeckt, rechnet der Clan fest mit einem Anteil am Gewinn – und dem Ende eines kargen Daseins. Aber beides wird den Cardinals verwehrt, und so schmieden sie einen explosiven Plan, der, wenn schon nicht die Mine, so wenigstens die Ehre der Familie retten soll. Doch der Befreiungsschlag scheitert und zwingt die Geschwister zu einem Pakt des Schweigens, der zu einer Zerreißprobe für die ganze Familie wird. »Saucier gelingt es, dem Leser erst ein freches, freies Leben vorzugaukeln und ihn dann schrittweise in dessen finsteres Herz zu führen – ein grandioser Höllenritt.«, schreibt die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. In Niemals ohne sie schafft Jocelyne Saucier eine Welt, die aller Rauheit zum Trotz den Glauben an ein selbstbestimmtes, freies und gemeinschaftliches Leben feiert. So belebend und gewagt wie eine Utopie.
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September 2020Was dir bleibt
Roman
by Jocelyne Saucier
Ohne Ankündigung besteigt die 76-jährige Gladys den Northlander-Zug und verschwindet spurlos aus ihrem kanadischen Dorf. Über Tausende von Kilometern und in Dutzenden Zügen reist sie durch die Weiten Nordkanadas, kehrt zurück an die Orte ihrer Kindheit und spricht auf ihrem Weg mit unzähligen Menschen. Doch was genau führt sie im Schilde, was hat sie dazu bewogen, ihr gut eingerichtetes Leben aufzugeben – und vor allem: Aus welchem Grund hat sie ihre hilfsbedürftige Tochter Lisana zurückgelassen? Was dir bleibt ist ein Roman von unbändiger Lebenskraft – die bewegende Geschichte einer rätselhaften Reise, die durch die Wälder Kanadas führt und tief unter die Haut geht.
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October 2011Laizität und Gewissensfreiheit
by Jocelyn Maclure, Charles Taylor, Eva Buddeberg, Robin Celikates
Der Kopftuchstreit in Deutschland und Frankreich, der Mord an Theo van Gogh in den Niederlanden, der Karikaturenstreit in Dänemark: die politische Dimension religiöser Haltungen ist in den letzten Jahren allgegenwärtig. Der Philosoph Charles Taylor gilt als einer der besten Kenner der modernen Religionsgeschichte und als Experte in Sachen Multikulturalismus. Zusammen mit seinem kanadischen Kollegen Jocelyn Maclure versucht er, eine Antwort auf die Frage zu finden, wie sich eine politische Gemeinschaft gegenüber religiösen Mehrheiten und Minderheiten verhalten sollte. Im Zentrum der Untersuchung steht die Frage der religiösen Neutralität des Staates, die in der Moderne unter dem Begriff des Laizismus diskutiert wird. Mit ihr ist das Problem der individuellen Religions- und Gewissensfreiheit aufs engste verbunden. Taylor und Maclure zeigen eindrucksvoll, daß alleine eine »liberal-pluralistische Politik«, die Religion nicht prinzipiell aus der öffentlichen Sphäre ausschließt, unter den Bedingungen heutiger multikultureller Gesellschaften geeignet ist, ein friedliches Zusammenleben und das fundamentale Recht der freien Religionsausübung und Gewissensfreiheit zu gewährleisten.
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2017Rethinking the South English Legendaries
by Anke Bernau, Heather Blurton, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
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FictionSeptember 2017A Vision of Battlements
by Anthony Burgess
by Andrew Biswell, Paul Wake
A Vision of Battlements is the first novel by the writer and composer Anthony Burgess, who was born in Manchester in 1917. Set in Gibraltar during the Second World War, the book follows the fortunes of Richard Ennis, an army sergeant and incipient composer who dreams of composing great music and building a new cultural world after the end of the war. Following the example of his literary hero, James Joyce, Burgess takes the structure of his book from Virgil's Aeneid. The result is, like Joyce's Ulysses, a comic rewriting of a classical epic, whose critique of the Army and the postwar settlement is sharp and assured. The Irwell Edition is the first publication of Burgess's forgotten masterpiece since 1965. This new edition includes an introduction and notes by Andrew Biswell, author of a prize-winning biography of Anthony Burgess.
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I am a Platypus and nothing else
by Jocelyne Ouellette
Pom is a young platypus who has a hard time making friends. He has a duckbill, he spawns, he has feathers and a beaver like tail. Everyone is laughing at him because of the appearance of his species. The kind platypus tries not to be the target of that mockery.
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Mélasse de fantaisie
by Francis Ouellette
Rue Poupart, Centre-Sud, December 1976. A newborn slips from the inexperienced arms of his mother and tumbles down the stairs of the apartment building. At the moment that the skull should have cracked, time stands still and simultaneously stretches out: Francis sees his whole life and sets about relating it. Guided by Frigo, a well-known local bum, the author roams the nooks and cellars of his memory and a neighbourhood infected by the gangrenous rot of the dearly departed Faubourg à m’lasse, as the working-class area was once called. An at times hilarious and troubling epic, Fancy Molasses is a constellation of (real) characters who are larger than life, such as Ti-Crisse, Josette’s girlfriend, Lil’ Mike the disgraced saxophonist and Raymonde, the undisputed champion of Rock-A-Thon. And while the neighbourhood’s exotic wildlife fascinates, it’s also menacing. Left to his own devices, Francis will try to embrace and escape life as best he can. Anyways, as he says. Somewhere between The Life Before Us, the psychomagic of Alejandro Jodorowski and the opulent cinema of André Forcier, Fancy Molasses is a gargantuan tale stuffed with bits of unforgettable bravery.
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2017Basculer dans l'enfer
by Jocelyne Mallet-Parent
Two young people from two good families, Élise and Tarik, are at the heart of an attack on the Montréal subway. Far away, another teenager, Jamil, finds himself caught in the net of Islamic jihad. Crafting this story as a thriller, Jocelyne Mallet-Parent makes us think about what compels young people to join such a cause, risk their lives, and cause their families distress. To learn more about this publisher, click here: http://bit.ly/2nQ46js
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June 2021And Miles To Go Before I Sleep
by Jocelyne Saucier trans. Rhonda Mullins
After And The Birds Rained Down, a stunning meditation on aging and freedom (with more than 3,000 Goodreads ratings), Jocelyne Saucier is back with this unsettling story about a woman’s disappearance. Gladys might look old and frail, but she is determined to finish her life on her own terms. And so, one September morning, she leaves Swastika, her home of the past fifty years, and hops on the Northlander train, eager to put thousands of miles of northern Quebec between her and the improbably named village, and leaving behind her perennially tormented daughter, Lisana. Our mysterious narrator, who is documenting these disappearing northern trains, is on a quest to uncover the truth of Gladys’s voyage, tracking down fellow passengers and train employees to learn what happened to Gladys and her daughter, and why.
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2017Les héros de ma classe
Vol 1 : La folle envie de Jérémie
by Jocelyn Boisvert Illustrated by Phillippe Germain
In this new twist on the role-playing book, the reader becomes the hero of the class. Award-winning author Jocelyn Boisvert created 24 characters, 24 students from the class of Madame Anne. Each novel follows a new student through a completely funny story … and only the reader can decide his or her fate! With 12 books already published and four more to come in 2020, Boisvert just established himself as the new sensation in role-playing books.To learn more about this publisher, click here: http://bit.ly/2ZeYCwK
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FictionAnd the Birds Rained Down
by Jocelyne Saucier
July 29, 1916. In the woods of Northern Ontario, the flames are rising. Soon, this will be known as the Great Fire of Matheson, one of many forest fires that ravaged the province in the beginning of the 20th century. On that day, the young Boychuck will narrowly escape death, forever scarred by the sight of his homeland in ashes. Many decades later, a photographer takes interest in the survivors of those Great Fires. She will come to know some of them, venerable old hermits living deep in the woods, still prizing their freedom. Other tormented souls will come into this story of survival and dignity, a shining demonstration that love, hope and the desire to be free do not wither with age.
