Maximo gets the surprise of his life when his wealthy, 80 year old wife dumps him for a younger car salesman. Forced out of his mansion, he must now move in with his estranged sister Sara and her nerdy but adorable son Hugo. Anxious to return to the lap of luxury, Maximo hatches ...
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"A hungry little bear is trapped inside a dumpster. His distraught mama bear can't fish him out. Thankfully, a boy and his mother, camping nearby, come to the rescue. Although everyone in this story is scared, they are able to act with courage and compassion--showing readers that...
"Une jeune mère hantée par son passé aspire à une chance de rédemption dans cette histoire déchirante mais pleine d'espoir de Colleen Hoover. Après avoir passé cinq ans en prison à la suite d'une erreur tragique, Kenna Rowan retourne dans la ville du drame qui a détruit...
Simon the rabbit does not want to go to his first day of school, but by the time his mother comes to take him home, he is having such a good time that he does not want to leave.
"Heather Hays finally has everything she's worked for-- she's a principal dancer at New York Ballet, has the best friend a girl could ask for, and is engaged to her forever crush, fellow principal Jack Andersen. They've been dubbed "American ballet royalty" ... but when Heather's...
"Maisy Merritt has vowed she'll never marry a mountain man. Even though she loves the Colorado Rockies and the wild creatures she helps, she hates the way her pa's mountain man ways took him away from his family and caused her ma to die of loneliness. Maisy's ready to start a nor...
If you were to meet Réjean you might find it impossible to separate the real world from that produced by his fertile imagination. He is, you see, a professional author of biographies and as such he's used to embellishing the truth. For him it's very easy. Recently single again, ...
Hoping to distance himself from the fallout of a libel conviction, journalist Mikael Blomkvist retreats to a remote island in Sweden's far north where the unsolved murder of a young girl still haunts her industrialist uncle forty years later. Ensconced in a cottage on the island ...
When the Dalai Lama was forced to go into exile in 1959, he could take only a few items with him. Among these cherished belongings was his copy of Tsong-kha-pa's classic text The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment. This text distills all the essential point...
Quand Ombre, un chauve-souriceau de la tribu des Ailes d'Argent, ne résiste pas à la tentation de voir le soleil se lever, sa vie bascule.
Escape with us to the glamour and grace of Paris, 1960. Step into the studio, watch the dancers warm up, and hear the piano start to play a new show is taking shape that will be fit for the gods. One of the first choreographers to bring the 'American style' to Europe, the legenda...
Susanna Wilkins will do anything to make her father's final dream come true, including trek along the path Lewis and Clark explored into the untamed wilds of the Rocky Mountains. Every mile is more crucial now that lung cancer is stealing Pa's last days faster than she can come t...
Max is in trouble, SOS trouble, he's a prisoner in the middle of nowhere. His journal is the conclusive evidence that the next two weeks at summer camp are going to be absolutely miserable... or not! His parents signed him up to give him some "independence," but all it's given hi...
"Narrated by a man held for an unknown crime in a Montreal prison, this "affecting and nostalgic novel of lost happiness" (Agence-France Presse) was the winner of the Prix Goncourt. When the novel starts, Paul Hansen is incarcerated in a large and insalubrious prison on the outsk...
Being four years old means life is full of little challenge, and sometimes BIG ones too! Caillou meets these challenges eagerly; exploring his world, discovering new things, and often leaning from his mistakes. As Caillou overcomes life's obstacles and makes healthy choices, chil...
In an effort to find her missing grandfather, Emeline enters the forest of Edgewood where she discovers not only that the stories of the fabled Wood King and his mythical court are true, but that her Pa's life is in danger and only she can save him--along with a handsome and broo...
Jeff Blaine has been raised in Plainsville by his Aunt Beulah and Uncle Wirt from a baby, after his mother died in childbirth and his father Nate blew out of town. Twelve years later Nate returns, looking for a rest and a reconciliation with the son he never knew. But Nate's a ga...
Lucien, who is thirteen-years-old, knows that real trouble begins at the school doors, and only gets worse after that. There is always a teacher to keep you awake and glued to your chair for two hours. And there is no one to help him here. Not Basilio, his good friend who prefers...