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An old map leads the former Chief of Homicide for the Sûreté du Québec Armand Gamache to places even he is afraid to go, and he finds four young cadets in the Sûreté academy, and a dead professor with a copy of the old map. One of the cadets Amelia Choquet a protégée of the murdered professor, guarded and angry. The focus of the investigation soon turns to Gamache himself and his mysterious relationship with Amelia, and his possible involvement...
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A young boy fond of telling outlandish tales disappears and the search for him sets off a series of events leading to a murder, a crime, a betrayal, and the involvement of a poet. Meanwhile, Chief Inspector Gamache is worried that his disbelief of the boy has played a part in what happens.
4) Still life
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In a small town in Quebec a woman supposedly loved by her community is found in the woods, murdered. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache looks for the small clues which will point him to the killer.
5) Ru
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An autobiographical novel chronicling the author's journey from Vietnam to Québec.
6) Glass houses
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Superintendent Gamache struggles with his conscience during the trial for a person accused of murder, and the role in which he played.
9) Tout est ori
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Il s'est assis là o se rendaient les vagues pour observer la danse singulière des particules. Elles avaient un comportement plus animal que minéral. Il était facile de leur prêter une volonté : déplier le plus loin possible, en longues traînées, leur chatoiement bizarre. Saisi par le phénomène, Goyette n'a pas reculé. Le fleuve lui est rentré dans les souliers, dans les pantalons, dans la raie. C'était froid, et de plus en plus magnifique.
Grâce...
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Tabou volume 58
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Ma mère est malade. À cause de sa dépression, elle dort sans arrêt. Ce n'est pas sa faute.
À part ma meilleure amie, personne ne le sait. Si mon école ou celle de mon petit frère et ma petite sœur s'en rendait compte, on pourrait être envoyés en famille d'accueil. Alors, je m'occupe d'eux le mieux possible.
Bien sûr, mon père est au courant. Mais il travaille sur la route et ne rentre que la fin de semaine. Ces jours-là, elle sort du...
16) A better man
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It's Gamache's first day back as head of the homicide department, a job he temporarily shares with his previous second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir. Flood waters are rising across the province. In the middle of the turmoil a father approaches Gamache, pleading for help in finding his daughter. As crisis piles upon crisis, Gamache tries to hold off the encroaching chaos, and realizes the search for Vivienne Godin should be abandoned. But with a daughter...
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When a peculiar letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an abandoned farmhouse, the former head of the Sûreté du Québec discovers that a complete stranger has named him one of the executors of her will. Still on suspension, and frankly curious, Gamache accepts and soon learns that the other two executors are Myrna Landers, the bookseller from Three Pines, and a young builder. None of them had ever met the elderly woman. When a body is found,...
20) Blue bear woman
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Blue Bear Woman or Ourse bleueis the first novel in Quebec written by an Indigenous woman. The story of a young Cree woman's search for her roots and identity, this is also the author's debut novel, originally published in 2007, and it will be her second book to be published in English. The novel has been described as a "texte de resistance", showing contemporary Indigenous life and the impact on the Cree of the building of the Eastmain dam in northern...
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