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New York, December 24. A stray bullet and Branka Svetidrva, who survived the snipers' gunfire in Sarajevo, is dead just days before she would have given birth. The father-to-be had never believed in love, until she had shown him the joys of a shared life. Grieving and contemplating the betrayal of hope that lurks beneath a city's glossy surface, he wanders the streets, until meeting a loving husband and wife, living by choice on the margins of society.They listen to his story and tell their own, while in the background the television news reports on astronaut Stanislas Konchenko, who has just disconnected himself from his spacecraft in a bold statement about humanity that has captured the world's attention. Marc Séguin is a master when working with events of enormous impact, and wonderfully empathetic in his revelations about the human heart.Hollywood is a tale full of fateful meetings and strange coincidences, and an exploration of those moments that stand against the hypocrisy of the American Dream, what many now consider an unattainable "made-in-Hollywood" ideal.

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Half Mohawk, half Caucasian, Marc Morris is a deeply bitter, disillusioned young man searching for purpose. He hunts and kills animals so he won't kill men, and yet he has faith-if only faith in the idea of faith, and he desperately wants to dedicate his life to something. Marc's story begins the day after his failed suicide attempt and traces back through the 10 years preceding the event, when he sets out on a road trip across North America to poach big game, find love in all the wrong places, and search for something to believe in.

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Truth or fiction? In A Fine Line Marc SÉguin revisits the boy, the adolescent, and the young man he once was - all three tormented by incessant worry, they now haunt the renowned painter, film director, and author he has become. His profound, striking reflections - shaped by deaths, confessions put to the test, a friendship destroyed, and memories of the beautiful Arielle - masterfully punctuate this story about a man who regrets not having loved enough… or perhaps having loved too late.

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In the Innu language, amun means 'gathering'. Under the direction of Michel Jean, the Innu writer and journalist, this collection brings together Indigenous authors from different backgrounds, First Nations, and generations. Their works of fiction sometimes reflect history and traditions, other times the reality of First Nations in Quebec and Canada. Offering the various perspectives of well-known creators, this book presents the theater of a gathering and the speaking out of people that are too rarely heard. Included are original texts by Joséphine Bacon, Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, Naomi Fontaine, Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau, Melissa Mollen Dupuis, Jean Sioui, Alyssa Jérôme, Maya Cousineau-Mollen, Louis-Karl Picard-Sioui, and Michel Jean.

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This modern-day crime/psychological thriller is set against a backdrop of intolerance and narrow-mindedness, ambiguous motives and suspicious alibis. Its sinuous plot and complex characters take the reader on a suspense-filled journey of discovery. Sara, born to a Muslim mother and a Jewish father, is a Canadian archaeology student who has moved to Jerusalem. She soon realises that Israel is a country where questions of faith and religion are inextricably mixed with politics and daily life—all too often creating deeply rooted frontiers and barriers in the souls of the people who live there.As she confronts the two seemingly opposing sides of her family's origins and wonders how she can she live and love in such a turbulent environment, Sara suddenly goes missing. Her father heads from Montreal to Jerusalem to find out what happened to her. There he joins her friends, professors, and the police officer charged with the investigation in an agonising waiting game and learns that there were parts of her life she hadn't shared with anyone.

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Caught up in a world of chaos, Nuovo Kahid struggles to remember the details of one fateful night before it’s all too late in this gripping political thriller. In a North American city in the near future, a great economic summit is getting under way, and Kahid is the journalist assigned to cover it. Meanwhile, Villanueva, a crumbling modern city rife with corruption, is falling into ruin as a meteor makes its way towards Earth.

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