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February 2021Je suis le courant la vase
by Marie-Hélène Larochelle
Athletic Centre, Toronto. Under her coach's watchful eye, a swimmer struggles against the liquid element to improve her time and earn a spot in national competitions. The training sometimes continues outside the athletic center, in his apartment, where she must submit to rituals designed to free her from her resistance. Marie-Hélène Larochelle's novel recounts this relationship of power and desire. It tells of what one must sometimes embrace to reach the highest levels of athletic performance. Readers follow the athlete and her team as they train and compete, swimming and almost drowning with her in all kinds of waters. Je suis le courant la vase echoes the recent revelations that shook the sport world, and despite all the chlorine and salt that suffuse the text, the experience leaves a feeling of being dirty and bruised.
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September 2021La pierre au milieu d'eux tous
by Caroline Renédebon
In the garden of her Parisian home, the narrator discovers by chance a modest tombstone. Haunted by the deceased’s date of birth, which except for the year, is the same as her own, she becomes intimate with a discreet and disturbing presence that settles in her life. A century after Marie’s death, leaving Paris to settle in Quebec, the narrator feels more than ever the urgency to write in order to give back, fictitiously and with a moving respect, an existence to someone she knows nothing about. What to do with what is only a name but is nonetheless a life that ends in the middle of a war at the age of thirty-six? Alternating between excerpts from notebooks written since 2017 and a story set against a historical background, La pierre au milieu d’eux tous is the imagined delicate portrait of a woman who escapes the shackles of early 20th century conventions through imagination, dance and the secret relationship she builds with her daughter.
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August 2021Sur la route des grandes sagesses
by Jean Bédard
The story begins in Galilee, around the year 30. Jairus, a young rabbi, questions his own religion as well as the Greek materialism preached by his wife, both of which only breed hatred. This is the time when a strange carpenter from Nazareth offers to stop the violence with love and reconciliation. “Good for the children,” thinks Jairus, choosing Instead to take over his father’s business (trading in rare manuscripts on the Great Silk Road). Across the deserts, mountains and vastness of Persia, Kashmir and Tibet, Jairus and his daughter will face the usual cruelties of civilisations, and encounter priests of Zoroaster, Buddhist monks, Taoist sages... The beauty of the world and the wisdom of a few masters will transform them. When Jairus returns to Galilee thirty years later, he will no longer be insensitive to the actions of the famous carpenter who has turned the whole of Jerusalem upside down, the same one who once brought joy to his daughter when she was in the throes of despair. This story is based on a deep knowledge of history, customs, human nature and the main philosophies that still condition human existence. This novel, with well-crafted and engaging characters, offers unforgettable scenes where humour and love, depth and lightness give us hope. The author’s quest is expressed in simple, everyday, contemporary language. An ideal read for those who are not looking for life guides, but for an intimate metamorphosis that expands the heart.
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September 2021L'horizon des évènements
by Biz
Reprising the characters from his 2017 novel La chaleur des mammifères a few years later, Biz here casts a sociological look on academia, in the time of trigger warnings, snowflakes and cancel culture. With humour, he depicts the fear that grips those who are supposed to educate but who grovel to preserve what they have acquired, namely a job, and some power. The result is the portrait of a milieu that no longer knows what it stands for... Filled with references to brilliant writer of ill repute Louis-Ferdinand Céline, this tragicomedy raises the question of teaching at a time when everyone’s sensibilities mustn’t be offended and when ignorance is bliss, always preferable to knowledge that hurts.
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September 2021Plie la rivière
by Audrée Wilhelmy
With an ever powerful writing, carried away by the animal strength that takes her back to the raw world of Oss – where the uniqueness of her literary universe was revealed – Audrée Wilhelmy delivers a tale of full maturity whose erotic spell will bewitch readers. Noé, known as the Little One, leads this amoral story of male trinity – of father, son and bear – through her body, first as a child and then as a woman. A fetish character in Audrée Wilhelmy’s work, Noé, the untamable, the implacable, the insubordinate, meets young Emessie, a travelling candy salesman who criss-crosses the continent in his horse-drawn cart every year. This time, however, losing his virginity to Grumme – the obese shopkeeper – and magnetised by Noé, he’ll serenely overcome the fear of the secret beast within him: perhaps this totemic bear that the little girl will have first tamed by the animistic impulses that make her an initiatory character through whom others are fulfilled. This text, as delicate as amber, once again gives the measure of an immense writer.
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August 2021Symbiose
by Normand Chaurette
In the therapeutic world of Symbiosis, a workshop for personal growth that is still being developed, a dozen test subjects in their early thirties are brought together. During these experiments, physical aggression is encouraged in order to overcome the contradictory forces that coexist within each person. Based on the premise that each person is his or her own worst enemy, this form of art therapy promotes supervised partnerships between the trainees, aiming to explore their positive strengths in order to achieve recognition of their self-destructive instincts and reconciliation with themselves. However, this programme is compromised by the death of Michael Ropa, one of the participants, who is found brutally murdered on the workshop premises. Through a detective story in which the main characters are suspected of murder, this novel tells the story of two brothers, Alex and Jay-Rémi, who were separated as teenagers and who meet again around the memory of a mysteriously suppressed childhood. Through the eyes of Alex, a visual artist trapped in the violence that runs through his work, Symbiose depicts the distorted relationships that unite members of a struggling generation in their quest for light and salvation.
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August 2021Léonore
by Linda Amyot
Shaken by a heartbreaking tragedy, Léonore’s family is trying to look forward and get back to normal life. In her difficult transition from elementary to high school, the young girl can count on her grandmother, who tries to make up for the absence of her parents and bring a little joy to the home. When her teacher asks the students in her class to recount the story of their year, wounds are reopened. The façade everyone displays sometimes hides painful stories. What will Leonore tell? Each new book by Linda Amyot conveys the same beauty and enchantment. From this novel rise strong teenage characters that life puts to the test.
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August 2021De son oeil
by Maryse Pagé
Anju, a lonely and introverted teenager, speaks inwardly to Noah, the most popular student in his school, whom he considers his ideal: Noah is handsome, brilliant, a leader, athletic, ambitious, and empathetic. He is person Anju admires, to whom he tries to get closer, someone he would like to resemble. To the point of becoming one with him. Anju offers Noah remedial maths in exchange for basketball lessons. He monitors his social media posts and hooks up with Megan, who resists to this more-than-perfect being. A student trip to New York offers him the perfect opportunity to spy his idol and his devoted fans even more. His plan seems to work: Noah gradually takes him under his wing and introduces him to rap. However, a disturbing event puts a stop to his almost obsessive voyeurism and opens his eyes to the lure of appearances...
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March 2021Trash anxieuse
by Sarah Lalonde
Struggling with an unlimited quota of fear, the novel’s main character is constantly bombarded by her thoughts. Her mother travels to Italy with her new flame. Her father cries in the shower. The planet’s carbon footprint is at an all-time high. Her friends have told her off. She must deal with eco-anxiety, eviction, influencers, social media, the moral contradictions of our time. Fortunately, she can rely on Régis, her homeless friend, and the singleparent waitress at the local snack bar, on Orion. But most of all, she can count on life-saving writing and acts of rebellion; on the happiness spreading all around, and on the future that’s just around the corner. Fluctuating between bitterness and tenderness, harshness and sensitivity, demands and indulgence, mixing caustic dialogues, sitcom scripts and poetry in a fragmented narrative, Sarah Lalonde’s voice both hurts and consoles.
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January 2020Dire l'autre
Appropriation culturelle, voix autochtones et liberté d'expression
by Ethel Groffier
In the summer of 2018, Quebec experienced a brutal introduction to the notion of cultural appropriation when one of its most famous playwrights, Robert Lepage, had two of his productions cancelled in the face of protests from activists who criticized him for representing their reality without their consent and for featuring very few members of their community. In an accessible, clear and nuanced essay, Groffier sets out to explain the origins, overarching concepts and implications of the cultural appropriation debate. Groffier uses the experience of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples as an example, and argues that they are still struggling to find ways to tell their own stories. The questions she poses, however, go beyond this specific case: Who has the right to represent others and their reality without distorting its meaning and usurping its legitimacy? And, above all, who decides? In Dire l’autre [Voicing the Other], Ethel Groffier does not take a position, but suggests that any agreement on cultural appropriation with Aboriginal people must involve a renewed dialogue based on reconciliation.
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September 2021L'après-vie de George Cartwright
by John Steffler
George Cartwright : gentleman, aventurier, soldat et chasseur. Mort, aussi, dans son Angleterre natale, le 19 mai 1819, jour que son esprit errant revit sans cesse depuis cent soixante-dix ans, avec pour seule compagnie son faucon et son cheval. Observant le monde poursuivre sa course, Cartwright se remémore sa vie. De sa première affectation militaire en Inde à son passage dans l’armée prussienne, en passant par son commerce et son entreprise de pêche dans les terres vierges du Labrador, son récit emmène le lecteur dans un voyage époustouflant à travers ses succès et ses déceptions. En revivant sa première traversée vers le Labrador, ses plans ambitieux pour favoriser le commerce avec les Inuits et son installation sur place, Cartwright comprend peu à peu pourquoi il reste confiné dans sa solitude. Malgré la noblesse de ses intentions, après la fin désastreuse de sa relation avec l’Inuite Caubvick et son peuple, Cartwright perd un à un tous ceux qui lui importaient. Après cent soixante-dix ans passés à revivre la même journée, il touche enfin à la sérénité dans la conclusion surprenante et mystifiante de ce roman étonnant.
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March 2021Parole tenue
Les nuits d'un confinements - Mars-Avril 2020
by Wajdi Mouawad
Between Monday 16 in March (Day 1) and Monday 20 in April 2020 (Day 35), Wajdi Mouawad held twenty-five chronicles on the website of Le théâtre de La Colline that were widely followed and occasionally taken up by other European theatres. These texts, written in one go in the evening and at night and then recorded in the morning, are gathered in the present collection. Confined like millions of us within the four walls of his house in Nogent-sur-Marne, Wajdi Mouawad undertakes an odyssean dazzling interior journey from his own microcosm — home schooling, his Japanese maple tree, house cleaning, his disconcerted cat, pacing in the alley ; the subjects are varied — to the cyclopean eye of the Big Bang where dead stars shine. He takes us to Peter Handke's office and his father's retirement home, to the banks of the St. Lawrence River, to Montreal, to Greece, to Greenland, to the Lebanon of his childhood. Through Kafka and Star Wars, via French phonetics and the Apollonian temple of Delphi, he waltzes the madness brought on by the pandemic on the razor's edge, sharing the same dream as the members of the human tribe, making the sleeping brutality of the everyday roar. In so doing, he grinds away the darkness and manages to find bright solace at the end of a long tunnel. His incomparable writing traces the map of a fantastic territory, the beasts of a new mythology, the singular letters of a new Wajdian alphabet. Wajdi Mouawad writes at night. His plays, novels and essays all go through some form of darkness, some opacity, a fog, that dissipates as the words take shape. In the nights of this confinement, which has become the confinement of his nights, in the depths of the abyss explored, beyond the dazzling darkness, the writing of these chronicles has allowed him — has allowed us, by listening to them — to cure some of the blindness which has struck us.
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October 2016Le boulevard
by Jean-François Sénéchal
Chris has the body of a young man and the mind of a child. On the day of his eighteenth birthday his mother leaves their home, forcing him to cope with life on his own. At first overwhelmed by despair, he manages to regain his strength and to support himself working as the caretaker of the building he lives in. In order to ease his sorrow and loneliness, he talks to his absent mother, telling her of his everyday life – his walks along the suburban boulevard, his visits to the flea market, his emotional disappointments, his sometimes incredible adventures… Seemingly helpless, the endearing innocent and kind character who shows unusual strength and maturity befriends people, sparking a relationship of mutual support. The generous community with a working-class background will become the family that Chris has missed all his life. With Le boulevard (The Boulevard), Jean‐François Sénéchal tells a story that’s in turns funny, touching and deeply moving, a lesson in hope and resilience, written in a simple and singular language of harrowing beauty.
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2015Le nénuphar et l'araignée
by Claire Legendre
You’re scared of spiders, afraid of heights, illness, and the opinion of others. You’re terrified to be betrayed or abandoned, and you’re petrified to the idea that the little gypsy fortune-teller’s predictions may come true. So you stop smoking, you shun insects and medical confidences; you avoid the stage, the airplanes, you don’t fall in love and you don’t lean over balconies. You never take your driving test and you begin reading novels from the last page, like you’d wear a chastity belt. You think you’re ready, that you’ll never be caught off guard, and that nothing can happen to you. Until they discover a butterfly in your chest and you can feel its fluttering wings. Then you simply can’t pretend to ignore it. Le nénuphar et l’araignée is an autobiographical story about fear that explores the symptoms, the sources, and the origins of anxiety, from the most intimate to the most ordinary.
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Popular scienceOctober 2024Cosmix. From the Big Bang to Mankind
Du Big Bang à l'Homme
by Laurent SCHAFER
A graphic novel which recounts your story, that of a cosmic survivor. Because you were there, just after the big bang, in a less ordered state. And today, reading these lines is something extraordinary: you are made up of the same basic particles as a wheelbarrow or a pebble. So how come you’re alive? Visit the stellar factories which create your atoms and plunge into the heart of your DNA. On the way, you’ll discover how life then conscience emerged from the chaos and how the laws of quantum mechanics have shaped our universe.
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September 2024Strategor. All you Need to Know About Strategy, from Start-ups to Multinationals
La référence en stratégie, de la start-up à la multinationale
by JOÃO ALBINO-PIMENTEL, RODOLPHE DURAND, PIERRE DUSSAUGE, LAURENCE LEHMANN-ORTEGA
For the past thirty-five years, the success of this work, a true strategy bible, a leader in France and in many French speaking countries, and now translated into English for the first time, has never waned. This latest edition has been revamped by a small team of professors, with a dual purpose in mind: Firstly, to deliver a concise and cohesive textbook suitable for Master’s and MBA students in both university and business school settings, as well as for consultants and company executives, whether in active roles or undergoing training. This textbook serves as a practical handbook for addressing case studies in both academic and real-world contexts. Secondly, our aim is to establish a comprehensive ‘strategy encyclopedia’, facilitating a thorough exploration and critical analysis of the various approaches, theories, and concepts that underpin strategic thought and practice. This English adaptation of the 9th French edition offers recent examples from all industries. It focuses on the current changes in the business environment, particularly those of digital strategies, artificial intelligence, innovation, leadership, globalization/de-globalization, as well as corporate social responsibility.
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September 2024Atlas of Crises and Conflicts
by PASCAL BONIFACE, HUBERT VÉDRINE
Crises and conflicts continue to multiply and to make the headlines. But the day-to-day rhythm of news doesn’t always allow us to situate it in the long term, to understand its historical roots, to grasp the strategic issues at stake and to envisage future scenarios. Associating detailed text and visually enriched maps, the authors decipher the complexity of the world and the crises and conflicts that are shaking the planet and its people: the China/United States crisis, the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, the revival of Russia...
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May 2024Why? An Illustrated Guide to Helping Parents Answer the Important Questions Asked by Kids Aged 8 to 11
Pour les enfants de 8 à 11 ans - Petites leçons de psychologie
by CAROLINE GOLDMAN
What is love? How powerful are words? Why do we all have different personalities? Is criticizing bad? What do school grades tell us about our intelligence and our future? Why some brothers and sisters do not get on with each other? Does money make us happy? How should we feel about women’s role in the world? In war? Most parents are at a loss when it comes to discussing complex concepts with their children. Introducing children to these discoveries would nevertheless make them aware of their feelings, give them confidence in themselves, and help them to imagine the paths to their own development. This handy, illustrated little book, will provide parents with simple, scientifically accepted answers to the questions their children between the ages of 8 and 11 ask. It will allow them to open a dialogue with their children and to address issues that are sometimes complex for kids of this age. This book will comprise of 4 volumes. Why? An Illustrated Guide to Helping Parents Answer the Important Questions Asked by Kids Aged 4 to 7 Forthcoming in April 2025: Why? An Illustrated Guide to Helping Parents Answer the Important Questions Asked by Kids Aged 12 to 15 Forthcoming in April 2026: Why? An Illustrated Guide to Helping Parents Answer the Important Questions Asked by Kids Aged 16 to 18
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May 2024Magellan on the Beach. Discover the Exploration of the Earth from a Deckchair
A la découverte de la Terre dans un transat
by CHARLES FRANKEL
Formed 4.5 million years ago, the Earth is the only celestial object, as far as we know, to harbour life and which makes it exceptional just like its discovery by the Portuguese navigator, Fernand Magellan. He was the first person who planned to circumnavigate the Earth but met his downfall in the Cebu Islands, present day Philippines. The journey was completed by surviving members of the expedition. Now sit back in your deckchair and follow in the footsteps of Magellan to discover the Earth from every angle: from the Equator to the polar ice caps, from mountain tops to the sea floor, to the centre of the Earth and its molten iron core.
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June 2023Schema Therapy and Memory Reconsolidation for Transformational Change
Transformer les modèles prédictifs avec la reconsolidation de la mémoire
by PIERRE COUSINEAU, SOPHIE CÔTÉ
Schema therapy offers psychotherapists a model for clearly and coherently conceptualizing human complexity in a transparent, accessible form. It is a remarkable map for finding one’s way through the dense forest of human experience. Schemas, the pivotal concept of this therapy, are emotional memories built up through our life experiences. They largely determine our view of the world and, consequently, the way we react and adapt to it. Schema therapy focuses on certain early schemas that have become maladaptive. It has always done so with openness, integrating techniques from a variety of psychotherapeutic orientations. This book presents schemas in their predictive function, and looks at the possibility of updating these predictions, based on advances in neuroscience that clarify the conditions necessary for therapeutic reconsolidation of memory. It opens the door to a real transformation of schemas.
