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The Golden Needles, Michael McDowell
After translating the six volumes of the Blackwater series, the Quebec publisher Alto continues to publish the work of the American writer who died more than 20 years ago. This title, with its magnificent cover, takes us to late 19th century New York, where a wealthy family dares to attack a series of criminals in order to rid the city of its corruption.
The golden needles
Old
544 pages
Postcards from Beyond the World, Stanley Péan
Following on from Crépusculaires, published last year, Stanley Péan publishes this new collection of short stories, this time inspired by the works of illustrator Jean-Michel Girard. These 35 stories and color illustrations touch on the fantastic, between suspense and intimate stories in which music and especially jazz are never far away.
Postcards from beyond the world
Hands free
270 pages
Cold War, Jacques Côté
This autofiction tells the thriller author’s trip to the countries of Eastern Europe in 1983. His alter ego, fascinated by the Cold War, Polish culture and Solidarity, traveled to Poland with the intention of writing a series of articles and meeting the co-founder of the movement, Lech Wałęsa, coming out of prison. After he was arrested and questioned and monitored for the rest of his stay, he tells of his adventure, which reads like a psychological thriller.
Cold War
In total
160 pages
Book of Wings, Tawhida Tanya Evanson
Montreal poet and multidisciplinary artist Tawhida Tanya Evanson has self-translated her first novel, now published in French, after being shortlisted by Canada Reads in 2022, winning the 2022 New Contribution Prize at the Métropolis Bleu Festival and being selected among the Books of the year by Quill & Quire. He takes us on the trail of an artist who will find the way to healing on a long journey.
Book of Wings
Leaf seller
238 pages
Mathilde Brabant, Isabelle Doré
Theater and television woman Isabelle Doré’s first novel, originally published in 2011, “Mathilde Brabant” has just been republished. We discover the unique journey of a woman suffering from dwarfism in 1950s Montreal.
Mathilde Brabant
Full moon
248 pages
The Power of Love, Jenna Ortega
The young actress, known, among other things, for her interpretation of the character of Wednesday in the series of the same name on Netflix, delivers her most intimate thoughts and reflections in this autobiographical collection, full of inspirational quotes as well as personal stories about her childhood as a “Latina” in Hollywood. An inspiring testimony from a Generation Z icon.
The power of love
Michel Lafon
240 pages