Bernard Dansereau has always been preoccupied by the physical nature of happiness. He was only five years old when he first attempted to get to the heart - or the head - of the matter, first by asking questions, later by dissecting brains, both animal and human, as he searched for the special cells he was sure would be found in the cognitive organ of the blissful. With humour and irony and a great deal of tenderness, Francis Gravel describes Bernard's quest, which is set against the background of the early years of St. Jean de Dieu, a Montreal psychiatric hospital. In doing so, he also pays affectionate tribute to the courageous work of a tiny, indomitable nun, Sister Therese-de-Jesus, the real-life founder of the hospital.

Felicity's Fool

Literature & Fiction

François Gravel

Genre Fiction

Cormorant Books

They had been told it was a new era. Everything was permitted. Some of them believed it. 
Jean-Francois Kelly lives in a suburb of Montreal. For him it all began on November 22, 1963, when a bullet shattered the skull of John F. Kennedy. Jean-Francois was in grade seven. That event would become the starting point for an adventure, the adventure of a revolutionary youth, that would last for nearly twenty years, permanently marking the lives of Jean Francois and his comrades, Jacques and Pierre-Paul. Engaged in a fight to the finish that would change the face of the world and particularly that of Quebec, they soon will have to make the kinds of drastic choices that turn up when love gets mixed up with ideology.

Ostend

La Note de Passage

BIB QUEBECOISE

Voyage en Amnésie

Virginie Egger

Children's Books

Les 400 coups

Les pouvoirs de Super Hakim 01

Humor

Éditions FouLire

Un festin pour les chiens

Teen & Young Adult

La courte Échelle, collection noire

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