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Le chant des esprits
Par Sarah Lark. 2014
" En 1852, Hélène et Gwyneira ont quitté l'Angleterre pour venir s'installer en Nouvelle-Zélande. Aujourd'hui, au crépuscule d'une vie mouvementée,…
les deux pionnières, toujours liées par une amitié indéfectible, s'inquiètent pour leurs petites-filles, Elaine et Kura, deux cousines que tout oppose. Belle mais capricieuse, Kura possède une voix magnifique. Portée par la perspective d'une carrière internationale, elle refuse d'assumer son rôle d'héritière de Kiward Station, le domaine familial, pour se consacrer au chant. Lorsque Kura rencontre William, le fiancé d'Elaine, ce dernier tombe aussitôt sous le charme de la jeune métisse. Dès lors, le drame couve... Deux femmes qui refusent de courber le dos et désirent assouvir leurs rêves, un puissant souffle romanesque... Ce roman confirme tout le talent d'une auteure découverte avec Le Pays du nuage blanc. "No escape: a Masey Baldridge/Luke Williamson mystery
Par James Brewer. 1998
1873. When a yellow fever epidemic strikes Memphis, Captain Luke Williamson is quarantined on his steamboat. The rest of the…
staff of the Big River Detective Agency, Masey Baldridge and Salina Tyner, are hired to find out who is murdering patients while panic spreads. Some violenceThe captain's bride
Par Lisa Bergren. 1998
Following their marriage in Norway in 1880, Elsa and Peder Ramstad sail to America, where Peder owns a shipyard in…
Maine. Others are along, including Karl, Peder's business partner, and Elsa's sister Tora. Problems abound, but perseverance, faith, and fidelity triumph in the end. Prequel to Deep Harbor (BR 13142). 1998Le pays au bout du fleuve: 1 (Le pays au bout du fleuve. #1.)
Par Sylvie Gobeil. 2007
"Un après-midi de l'été 1665, au port de La Rochelle, Jeanne attend le signal de l'embarquement. Discrètement, elle surveille ses…
quatre filles qui jouent près du navire. Jean Gobeil, son mari, déborde d'enthousiasme à l'idée du départ, une décision qu'il a prise et à laquelle Jeanne a consenti par amour. Tout quitter pour le pays du non-retour l'effraie. "Jean ne vous entraînerait pas dans une aventure insensée. Fais-lui confiance", lui a conseillé sa mère. Malgré la foi en son homme, rien n'a préparé la jeune femme de 24 ans à ces neuf semaines en mer avant d'atteindre la ville de Québec. Jeanne affronte le premier hiver en Nouvelle-France avec un courage teinté de nostalgie. La France lui manque. Partout, elle n'aperçoit que de la neige et de la forêt. "Comment résister?", se demande-t-elle. Jean la rassure. Ensemble, ils défrichent et cultivent leur lopin de terre à l'île d'Orléans. Deux autres filles et deux garçons viennent compléter la famille. Couple d'exception dans ce Québec du XVIIe siècle où mariage ne rime pas nécessairement avec amour, Jeanne confie à l'une de ses filles : "Jamais je n'ai laissé le travail prendre le dessus sur l'amour". Une vie chargée d'émotions que celle de Jeanne, la Poitevine! Une vie où l'amour qui l'unit à Jean triomphera. même au-delà de la mort." -- 4e de couvStacey McGill... matchmaker? (The baby-sitters Club Ser. #No. 124)
Par Ann Martin. 1998
Baby-Sitters Club member Stacey McGill takes a sitting job with a new client, Mr. John Brooke. Mr. Brooke is divorced,…
and Stacey decides he might make a perfect match for her divorced mother. But Mr. Brooke's two children have different ideas. Stacey soon finds herself in a matchmaking mess. For grades 3-6Le secret de l'automate: roman (Best-sellers)
Par Robert Löhr. 2006
"C'est un étrange spectacle qui se déroule en ce jour de mars 1770 dans une salle du château de Schönbrunn,…
en présence de l'impératrice d'Autriche Marie-Thérèse et de la fine fleur de l'aristocratie européenne. Face à face, un homme assis devant une table et un grand automate en costume turc. Entre eux, un jeu d'échecs... Et sous les yeux ébahis de l'assemblée, la machine vainc l'homme : échec et mat ! Les ovations sans fin montent vers le génial et séduisant inventeur Wolfgang von Kempelen. Nul ne devine que, dans les entrailles de l'automate intelligent, se cache un joueur prodige : Tibor le nain, génie des échecs, inconnu et misérable... Des geôles de Venise aux salons de Vienne, Kempelen le baron libre-penseur et Tibor le candide se découvrent et se déchirent, réunis malgré eux par un secret qui peu à peu les conduira l'un à la dépravation et au crime, l'autre à l'amour." -- 4e de couvThe interestings: A novel
Par Meg Wolitzer. 2023
Named a best book of the year by Entertainment Weekly , Time , and The Chicago Tribune , and named…
a notable book by The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post “Remarkable . . . With this book [Wolitzer] has surpassed herself.”— The New York Times Book Review "A victory . . . The Interestings secures Wolitzer's place among the best novelists of her generation. . . . She's every bit as literary as Franzen or Eugenides. But the very human moments in her work hit you harder than the big ideas. This isn't women's fiction. It's everyone's."— Entertainment Weekly (A) From Meg Wolitzer, the New York Times –bestselling author of The Female Persuasion, a novel that has been called "genius" ( The Chicago Tribune ), “wonderful” ( Vanity Fair ), "ambitious" ( San Francisco Chronicle ), and a “page-turner” ( Cosmopolitan ). The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. In The Interestings , Wolitzer follows these characters from the height of youth through middle age, as their talents, fortunes, and degrees of satisfaction diverge. The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not always enough to propel someone through life at age thirty; not everyone can sustain, in adulthood, what seemed so special in adolescence. Jules Jacobson, an aspiring comic actress, eventually resigns herself to a more practical occupation and lifestyle. Her friend Jonah, a gifted musician, stops playing the guitar and becomes an engineer. But Ethan and Ash, Jules’s now-married best friends, become shockingly successful—true to their initial artistic dreams, with the wealth and access that allow those dreams to keep expanding. The friendships endure and even prosper, but also underscore the differences in their fates, in what their talents have become and the shapes their lives have taken. Wide in scope, ambitious, and populated by complex characters who come together and apart in a changing New York City, The Interestings explores the meaning of talent; the nature of envy; the roles of class, art, money, and power; and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and a lifeOther voices, other rooms
Par Truman Capote. 1994
Twelve-year-old Joel Knox goes to live with his invalid father in a dilapidated Louisiana mansion. There the sensitive boy encounters…
a perverse stepmother, a pathetic uncle, and a tomboy who becomes his fast friend. 1948Legacy of silence
Par Belva Plain. 1998
When it becomes obvious that World War II is imminent, Caroline Hartzinger and her adopted older sister, Lore, flee from…
Berlin to Geneva. Walter, who plans to wed Caroline, goes with them. Life takes a dramatic turn and Caroline and Lore escape to America alone. But their time in Switzerland provides a legacy that affects several generations. BestsellerFaraway summer
Par Johanna Hurwitz. 1998
In 1910, orphaned Dossi, twelve, lives with her seamstress sister, Ruthi, in a New York tenement. Ruthi signs Dossi up…
for a Fresh Air Fund vacation on a Vermont farm. Dossi knows the family members are puzzled by her Jewish customs, but she can't understand why the daughter is so unfriendly to her. For grades 5-8Ship of the line
Par C. S Forester. 1938
May 1810. Horatio Hornblower is now in command of his first ship, the HMS Sutherland, but he has one major…
problem--the crew is short by about 250 men. He hires whoever are willing and has them trained well enough to stage five solo raids against the French army and navy along the coast of Spain. Sequel to Beat to Quarters (RC 46120, BR 11555)American dreams
Par John Jakes. 1998
Continues the Crown family saga begun in Homeland (BR 09462). Paul, twenty-nine, a well-known photographer, travels the world making news…
documentaries, some of which get him in trouble with the British government. His cousin Carl satisfies a passion for cars and flying, becoming a daring aviator, and cousin Fritzi becomes an actress in Hollywood. Some strong language. BestsellerHuman voices
Par Penelope Fitzgerald. 1980
BBC employees struggle to keep Broadcasting House in operation during the bombing of London in World War II. Young intern…
Annie Asra, two department directors, and those around them face daily questions of survival but also grapple with workplace dramas and personal crises. Based on Fitzgerald's own wartime experiencesMy Louisiana sky (Major And Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide To Ser.)
Par Kimberly Holt. 1998
Louisiana, 1950s. Twelve-year-old Tiger Ann Parker begins to feel embarrassed in front of the other kids about the "slowness" of…
her parents. Her grandmother is the one who keeps the family intact. After Granny dies, Tiger has a chance to move to the city with her sophisticated aunt, but she is reluctant to abandon the parents who love her. For grades 6-9Les tumultes du siècle: roman
Par Keith Oatley. 2000
Sarah on her own (American dreams)
Par Karen Coombs. 1996
Orphaned fourteen-year-old Sarah survives the 1620 trip from London to the New World, but her aunt does not. Her aunt's…
fiance, who sent for them, has also died. Not wanting to marry, become an indentured servant, or settle on the land she has been allotted, Sarah searches for a way home. Violence. For junior and senior high readersWings of fires
Par Charles Todd. 1998
Inspector Ian Rutledge from Scotland Yard is sent to Cornwall to investigate three recent deaths in a prominent family. He…
discovers one victim was a famous poet whose works involved the Great War. Although still suffering from shell shock, Rutledge discovers more ghastly murders in the family's past. Some violenceAs I lay dying: the corrected text (Vintage international)
Par William Faulkner. 1990
The Bundrens, poor whites in Mississippi, face numerous obstacles as they trek across the countryside to deliver their mother's body…
for burial in her home town. First published in 1930; this edition includes changes made by Noel Polk in 1985 based on the author's notesBeethoven in Paradise
Par Barbara O'Connor. 1997
Martin lives in the Paradise trailer park with his folks. His dream is to play a musical instrument, but his…
abusive father thinks music is stupid and insists Martin play baseball, instead. Some strong language. For grades 5-8Les larmes du diable (Littérature étrangère)
Par C. J Sansom. 2005
Une double enquête pour le héros de Dissolution, l'attachant et talentueux avocat bossu Matthew Shardlake, aux prises avec des alchimistes…
sans scrupules, des espions de tous bords et des meurtriers sanguinaires. Dans le Londres étouffant de l'été 1540, les esprits s'échauffent : la jeune Elizabeth Wentworth vient d'être reconnue coupable du meurtre de son cousin. Du fait de son étrange comportement, tous la croient habitée par le démon. Tous, sauf son oncle, et Matthew, bien décidé à découvrir la vérité. [...] -- 4e de couv