Mikaël
Author
Publisher
ÉDitions De Mortagne
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Karl Larouche, un ex-hockeyeur de la ligue nationale, s'évade du pénitencier où il purgeait une peine de six ans pour homicide involontaire à l'endroit d'un ancien adversaire. Au même moment, Montréal accueille le septième match de la finale des séries éliminatoires sans savoir qu'un drame s'apprête à ébranler la ville. En effet, le gardien de but de l'équipe locale est retrouvé sans vie. Aussitôt, Larouche devient l'ennemi public numéro...
Author
Series
Publisher
ÉDitions De Mortagne
Pub. Date
2024
Language
Français
Description
DESTINATION : Fontaine de Jouvence, îles Bimini, archipel des Bahamas.
NATURE DU VOYAGE : Quête d'une source d'eau régénératrice.
NOMBRE DE VOYAGEURS : 2 Paméla vit le pire cauchemar de tout parent : son fils Éloi souffre d'un cancer au cerveau qu'aucun médecin n'est en mesure de traiter. Elle est prête à tout pour le guérir. Vraiment tout. Y compris le traîner au milieu de l'océan dans un lieu resté secret depuis des siècles et qui...
Author
Publisher
ÉDitions De Mortagne
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Français
Description
À Toronto pour couvrir la Coupe du monde de soccer masculin, la journaliste sportive Tarah Dalembert met le doigt sur une nouvelle potentiellement explosive... puis se volatilise sans donner signe de vie.
Son associé Gaétan Tanguay se rend dans la Ville-Reine pour la retrouver. Remontant le fil des indices qu'elle lui a laissés, il comprend qu'un des joueurs de l'équipe canadienne pourrait être lié à sa disparition, mais lequel exactement...
Author
Publisher
ÉDitions De Mortagne
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Français
Description
Samuel Cadieux, le joueur de tennis numéro un au classement mondial, décède en plein match aux Internationaux du Canada, à Montréal. S'agit-il d'un cas de « mort subite du sportif »? Pas pour Gaétan Tanguay, journaliste spécialisé en statistiques avancées. Contacté par un mystérieux informateur qui affirme détenir d'importantes révélations au sujet du joueur, il croit plutôt à un meurtre déguisé. Aidé par Tarah, une jeune femme...
Author
Publisher
Kampus Média
Pub. Date
2024
Language
Français
Description
La première biographie officielle d'un joueur légendaire
Considéré comme le meilleur buteur de l'histoire de la Ligue nationale de hockey, Mike Bossy a marqué son sport. À ce jour, le champion de 4 coupes Stanley au début des années 1980 est toujours le seul joueur à avoir compté 50 buts lors de 9 saisons de suite dans la LNH. Perfectionniste, il a toujours placé la barre très haut durant sa carrière professionnelle de dix ans. Toutefois,...
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
What does it mean to be Jewish? Three generations of the Rashevski family grapple with the question, after the death of Rose, the secular matriarch who believed that the tango would make all troubles disappear. The characters confront issues of relationships, family, religion, love, romance, and interfaith marriage.
7) The thud
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When Noel's mother has a stroke, his world is turned upside down. Especially when a man comes, who tells Noel that he can't stay in the only home he's ever known. He has to move from his apartment and his city to some kind of care facility, in a town he's never heard of. For the first time, Noel is on his own. Who can he trust? Who can he love?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"With his eponymous store on 125th Street in Harlem, Dapper Dan pioneered high-end streetwear in the early 1980s, remixing classic luxury-brand logos into his own flamboyant designs. But before reinventing fashion, he was a hungry boy with holes in his shoes, a teen who daringly gambled drug dealers out of their money, a young man in a prison cell who found nourishment in books, and, finally, a designer who broke barriers to outfit a whos-who of music,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Nicole Frank, after surviving a car accident, enlists the help of Boston police officer Sergeant Wyatt Foster to find a missing girl. Who is Nicky Frank, and what happened the night her car sailed off the road? Was it a random accident or something more sinister given the woman's lack of family and no close friends? The deeper Wyatt digs, the more concerned he becomes. Because it turns out, in the past few months, Nicky has suffered from more than...
10) Bootblack
Author
Publisher
NBM Graphic Novels
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"On the German front, in the spring of 1945: the war leaves only death and destruction in its wake. To escape the horror of the present, Al, an American soldier, the only survivor of his unit, immerses himself in the memories of his New York life. Son of German immigrants, born in the United States, he was not yet ten years old when, in one night, under the approving eyes of anti-immigrant Americans, he lost his parents and his home in a terrible...
11) Giant
Author
Publisher
NBM
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"New York, early 1930s. A mysterious, laconic Irish colossus known as 'Giant' sweats blood, along with his fellow immigrants, to build the skyscrapers of Rockefeller Center. For a while, he has not received a reply to the typewritten letters he continues to send, as well as money, to the other side of the ocean, to Mary Ann, the wife of one of his colleagues who died accidentally. Giant, who seems to be afraid of nothing, still has not found the courage...
12) Derailed
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Charles is a financially successful Chicago advertising director with a sick daughter and a slightly troubled marriage. Charles has a chance encounter with Lucinda, a lovely and quick-witted financial advisor who is also stuck in marital rut. Their chemistry is instant, but their eventual one-night-stand is interrupted by a mugger, who is out to milk Charles for every dollar he's got.
13) The rite
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Inspired by true events, this supernatural thriller follows a seminary student sent to study exorcism at the Vatican in spite of his own doubts about the controversial practice and even his own faith. Only when sent to apprentice with legendary Father Lucas, who has performed thousand of exorcisms, does his armor of skepticism begin to fall. Drawn into a troubling case that transcends even Father Lucas's skill, the young seminarian glimpses a phenomenon...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When you are racing 435 miles through the jungles and mountains of South America, the last thing you need is a stray dog tagging along. But that's exactly what happened to Mikael Lindnord, captain of a Swedish adventure racing team, when he threw a scruffy but dignified mongrel a meatball one afternoon. When they left the next day, the dog followed. Try as they might, they couldn't lose him - and soon Mikael realised that he didn't want to. Crossing...
Author
Publisher
Mikael Gernigon
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Français
Description
Le problème quand on se prend pour dieu, c'est qu'il y en a qui peuvent le croire.
L'image actuelle, qu'ont les hommes de dieu, allah ou autres, est qu'ils en font un prédateur de l'âme.
Pourquoi ne pas considérer notre temps sur Terre, comme une raison suffisante de Danser, Chanter, Crier, Créer, Chercher, Rêver, ouvrir son cœur, et surtout pas d'imposer un comportement comme condition nécessaire à un éventuel paradis.
...16) Smoke
Author
Language
English
Description
Book Four in the Lydia Strong Series
In the final installment of her Lydia Strong series, bestselling author Lisa Unger, writing as Lisa Miscione, brings us her most shocking and emotionally wrenching case yet. An NYPD detective visits Lydia and her husband, P.I. Jeffrey Mark, to inform them that Lily, one of Lydia’s former writing students, has been missing for more than two weeks. Before she disappeared, Lily had tried to get in touch...
In the final installment of her Lydia Strong series, bestselling author Lisa Unger, writing as Lisa Miscione, brings us her most shocking and emotionally wrenching case yet. An NYPD detective visits Lydia and her husband, P.I. Jeffrey Mark, to inform them that Lily, one of Lydia’s former writing students, has been missing for more than two weeks. Before she disappeared, Lily had tried to get in touch...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
After years spent working in the restaurant industry, specialising in wine and spirits, friends Karl Sjostrom and Mikael Nypelius decided to launch 'Cider for the People'. Fascinated by the growing trend in natural wines, Karl and Mikael began to produce their own cider and pet-nat (natural sparkling wines made with minimal intervention and without added sugar) using 100% hand-picked fruit from the farms and villages outside Malmo, Sweden. Their aim...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Dive deep into the world of swimming with open water swimmer and coach Mikael Rosén as he explores the sport through eight different perspectives. With topics ranging from the vigorous mental and physical demands of the sport to gender and race politics, no reader will be left treading water. Rosén also provides a look into the lives of professional swimmers such as Michael Phelps and Sarah Sjöström, sharing insights into what makes these greats...
19) Personal effects
Author
Language
English
Description
Matt has been sleepwalking through life while seeking answers about his brother T.J.'s death in Iraq, but after discovering that he may not have known his brother as well as he thought he did, Matt is able to stand up to his father, honor T.J.'s memory, and take charge of his own life.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Jackie is a recently divorced woman with two children who is about to turn forty. Her best friend hooks her up with a trip to the Islands for a little vacation getaway. Finding herself alone, she decides to have a scorching romance with a sexy younger man. Her children, friends, ex-husband and her common sense tell her something completely different from what her heart is saying. But, Jackie realizes that at 40, her life is just beginning.