Deux petits ours au milieu de la tornade
by Francine Allard
Language: French
Hull, Québec : Vents d'Ouest, 1999.
167 p. ; 19 cm.
ISBN: 2921603993 ; 9782921603997
Summary: Une mère monoparentale hérite d'un manoir à Rockstown. Elle décide de s'y installer avec son fils de 18 ans, Bertrand, qui est handicapé mental. Peu après leur arrivée, le garçon fait la connaissance de Bijou, une jeune voisine de son âge qui éprouve une déficience similaire à la sienne. Le père, un scientifique, fait des expériences secrètes dans la région. Il est aidé par un extraterrestre. Paul Simard, qui est veuf, rencontre donc Sylvia Chenette, la mère de Bertrand. Ils ont tôt fait d'éprouver l'un pour l'autre un sentiment identique à celui de leurs enfants. Lors d'essais de la fameuse machine à neutraliser les tornades, Bertrand et Bijou sont exposés à des ondes macrocinétiques. Sylvia a tôt fait de remarquer, de jour en jour, des progrès chez son fils et sa copine. Le docteur Appelbaüm constate les améliorations et Paul Simard en découvre l'origine. L'extraterrestre le prévient des dangers des expositions: le résultat est réversible et les scéances répétées limitent la vie à 5-6 ans. Le choix est douloureux. L'intervention d'un autre témoin vient compliquer le dilemme et, face aux exploitations possibles de son invention, Paul saborde l'appareil. Ils vivront ensemble, tous les quatre, le temps qu'ils auront à vivre. -- Un récit complexe dont la trame capricieuse, fait de plusieurs points, est tissée avec adresse sur un fond de science-fiction: insémination artificielle, famille monoparentale, déficients mentaux, responsabilité parentale, amour, choix de vie et de mort ... et à cela pourquoi pas un extraterrestre! Les sujets se juxtaposent sans heurt, ni répit. Les personnages sont attachants et bien campés. Un roman original, surprenant par sa densité et ses rebondissements.
Available: http://www.renaud-bray.com/Livres_Produit.aspx?id=15233&def=Deux+petits+ours+au+milieu+de+la+tornade%2CALLARD%2C+FRANCINE%2C9782921603997
Ida-Jane et Olivier : secrets de famille
by Francine Labrie
illus. by David Goldstyn
Language: French
Montréal, Québec : Bayard Canada, [2014] ©2014
72 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
ISBN: 9782895795728 ; 289579572X
Summary: Quand Ida-Jane arrive dans sa nouvelle classe, Olivier la trouve plutôt excentrique, surtout lorsqu’elle annonce qu’elle a deux papas. Lui, a deux mamans et s’est toujours bien gardé de le dire. Un travail d’équipe sur la reproduction des mammifères va obliger Oliver et Ida-Jane à travailler ensemble. Olivier va profiter de cet exposé pour provoquer le dialogue aves ses mères au sujet de sa conception. Il va aussi découvrir qu’il partage beaucoup de points communs avec Ida-Jane.
Available: http://www.bayardlivres.ca/Product.aspx?ids=7611215
Go ask your father : one man's obsession with finding himself, his origins, and the meaning of life through DNA testing
by Lennard J. Davis
Language: English
New York : Bantam Books, 2009.
227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780553805512 ; 0553805517
Summary: The author describes his search to find out the true identity of his father after being told that his uncle was his biological father through the process of artificial insemination.
Available: http://www.amazon.com/Go-Ask-Your-Father-Obsession/dp/0553805517
My life after now
by Jessica Verdi
Language: English
Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Fire, [2013]
287 pages ; 21 cm.
ISBN: 9781402277856 ; 1402277857
Summary: When she loses a leading role and her leading man to another girl, sixteen-year-old Lucy, a member of the high school drama club, does something completely out of character that has life-altering consequences.
Available: http://www.amazon.com/Life-After-Now-Jessica-Verdi/dp/1402277857
Dead ends
by Erin Jade Lange
Language: English
New York : Bloomsbury, 2013.
328 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 9781619630802 ; 161963080X
Summary: When Dane, a bully, refuses to hit Billy D because he has Down Syndrome, Billy takes that as a sign of friendship and enlists Dane's help in solving riddles left in an atlas by his missing father, sending the pair on a risky adventure.
Available: http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Ends-Erin-Jade-Lange/dp/161963080X
What lies within
by James Morris
Language: English
CreateSpace, 2015.
218 p. : cm.
ISBN: 1512283193 ; 9781512283198
Summary: Shelley Marano is an ordinary, unexceptional high school senior...until the day she receives a cryptic text message, and her world tilts sideways. Now she's in real danger, although she doesn't know who would want her dead, or why. As she starts to unravel the mystery, the truth about who she really is proves to be more frightening than she ever imagined. With the lives of her and her friends hanging in the balance, one thing is certain: Nothing will ever be the same.
Available: https://www.createspace.com/5509710
Double identity
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Language: English
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, ©2005.
218 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 0689873743 ; 9780689873744
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Bethany's parents have always been overprotective, but when they suddenly drop out of sight with no explanation, leaving her with an aunt she never knew existed, Bethany uncovers shocking secrets that make her question everything she thought she knew about herself and her family.
Available: http://www.amazon.com/Double-Identity-Margaret-Peterson-Haddix/dp/0689873794
Lucy : a novel
by Laurence Gonzales
Language: English
New York : Alfred A Knopf, 2010.
307 p. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9780307272607 ; 0307272605
Summary: Jenny Lowe, a primatologist studying chimpanzees, is running for her life with the child of a murdered fellow scientist after a civil war explodes. Jenny grabbing the notebooks of the primatologist who's been killed. She brings the girl to Chicago to await the discovery of her relatives. The girl is fifteen and lovely, her name is Lucy. Realizing that the child has no living relatives, Jenny begins to care for her as her own. When she reads the notebooks written by Lucy's father, she discovers that the adorable, lovely, magical Lucy is the result of an experiment. She is part human, part ape, a hybrid human being.
Available: http://www.amazon.com/Lucy-Laurence-Gonzales/dp/0307473902
Tomorrow
by Graham Swift
Language: English
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
255 pages ; 20 cm.
ISBN: 0307266907 ; 9780307266903
Summary: On a midsummer's night, Paula lies awake, her husband of twenty-five years asleep beside her and her teenage children in nearby rooms, anticipating the coming of the next day, when a revelation will redefine all their lives.
Available: http://www.amazon.com/Tomorrow-Vintage-International-Graham-Swift/dp/0307386430
Inside the palisade
by K. C. Maguire
Language: English
[Place of publication not identified] : Lodestone Books, 2015.
173 p. : cm.
ISBN: 1782797157 ; 9781782797159
Summary: Omega has grown up surrounded by women – literally. Inside the palisade, women fall in love, marry and raise daughters, relying on an artificial insemination process known as the Procedure. But something goes horribly wrong. One day, Omega comes face to face with a mythical monster – a man – within the society’s walls. Men had been eradicated long ago to protect women from the threat of violence. But this boy is not what Omega has been led to believe. And he needs her help. She soon finds herself embroiled in a manhunt headed by a vigilante Protector, Commander Theta. When she falls into Theta’s clutches, Omega realizes that there’s more to the banishment of men, and to her own past, than she’s ever known. Ultimately, she is forced to make a choice between betraying the lost boy and betraying her society, a decision complicated by the realization that she has more in common with him than she cares to admit, and the fact that she is developing feelings for him.
Available: http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Palisade-K-C-Maguire/dp/1782797157
Saving Montgomery Sole
by Mariko Tamaki
Language: English
New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2016.
240 p. ; cm.
ISBN: 9781626722712 ; 1626722714
Summary: An outcast teen girl explores the mysteries of friendship, family, faith, and phenomena, including the greatest mystery of all--herself.
Available: http://www.amazon.com/Saving-Montgomery-Sole-Mariko-Tamaki/dp/1626722714
After the woods
by Kim Savage
Language: English
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
296 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 9780374300555 ; 0374300550
Summary: On the eve of the year anniversary of the Shiverton Abduction, two former best friends grapple with the consequences of that event.
Available: http://www.amazon.com/After-Woods-Kim-Savage/dp/0374300550
Specimen : stories
by Irina Kovalyova
Language: English
Toronto, ON : House of Anansi Press, 2015.
295 pages ; 21 cm.
ISBN: 9781770898172 1770898174
Summary: Inspired by a wide range influences — including early-twentieth century Russian avant-gardists, British science fiction and dystopian novels, as well as contemporary Canadian and American novelists — Specimen is a highly original collection of stories that explore the place where physical reality collides with our spiritual and emotional lives. In “Mamochka,” nominated for the 2012 Journey Prize, an archivist at the Institute for Physics in Minsk, must come to terms with her daughter’s marriage to a Chinese man in Vancouver. In “Peptide P,” scientists study a disease of the heart that seems to affect children after they eat hotdogs. In “Side Effects,” a woman’s personality is altered by botox injections. In “Specimen” a teenage girl discovers that she was conceived using a sperm donor. In “The Big One,” a woman and her daughter find themselves trapped in the rubble of an underground parking garage after an earthquake. In “The Blood Keeper,” a novella, a young academic travels to North Korea to work on her dissertation and embarks on a dangerous affair.
Available: http://www.amazon.com/Specimen-Irina-Kovalyova/dp/1770898174
The edge of forever
by Melissa E. Hurst
Language: English
New York : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc., [2015].
258 pages ; 23 cm.
ISBN: 9781632204240 ; 163220424X
Summary: In 2146, seventeen-year-old Bridger, one of a small group of people born with the ability to travel to the past, investigates why his by-the-book father traveled to 2013 to break the most important rule of time travel--to prevent someone's murder.
Available: http://www.amazon.com/The-Edge-Forever-Melissa-Hurst/dp/163220424X
Subject headings:
- Time travel -- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Mystery and detective stories.
