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Lion Boy: 2], Les fugitifs (Wiz)
Par Zizou Corder. 2005
En route pour Venise avec six lions échappés d'un cirque, Charlie est à la recherche de ses parents, deux scientifiques…
qui ont été enlevés. Il espère les retrouver dans la cité des Doges, et les lions qu'il a délivrés sont prêts à l'aider. Cependant, eux aussi ont leur quête à mener : ils veulent rentrer chez eux, en Afrique... Embarqués dans l'Orient-Express, les fugitifs rencontrent le roi Boris de Bulgarie et son intendant. Le roi leur offre l'hospitalité dans son palais vénitien. Mais Charlie, traqué de toutes parts, peut-il faire confiance à ses nouveaux amis ? -- 4e de couvLion boy: 3], La poursuite (Wiz)
Par Zizou Corder. 2006
Charlie Ashanti retrouve enfin ses parents au Maroc. Mais son vieil ennemi, Maccomo, le dresseur de lions, a soif de…
vengeance. Et la diabolique Corporation poursuit toujours Charlie et les siens. Leur but : s'emparer du vaccin contre l'asthme mis au point par les Ashanti. Au détour d'une ruelle d'Essaouira, Charlie est kidnappé et embarqué de force à bord d'un navire vers une destination inconnue. Ses amis, très inquiets, engagent une course-poursuite : il faut le sauver au plus vite. Car pour l'instant, Charlie est seul contre Maccomo. Et la Corporation n'est pas très loin... -- 4e de couvNaked prey
Par John Sandford. 2003
Minneapolis cop Lucas Davenport takes a specially created state position to handle politically sensitive cases. Confronted with the apparent lynching…
of a black man and a white woman in a small rural community, Davenport discovers that the real motive behind the murders is not what it seems. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. 2003In pursuit of the proper sinner (Inspector Lynley Ser. #10.)
Par Elizabeth George. 1999
Inspector Thomas Lynley's search for clues to connect a suicide and several murders provides him with multiple suspects. Lynley's longtime…
partner Barbara Havers works extra hard in hopes of redeeming her reputation lost in Deception on His Mind (DB 44764). Some violence and some strong language. Bestseller. 1999The captain's wife: a novel
Par Douglas Kelley. 2001
In 1856, the captain of the clipper ship Neptune's Car falls ill at sea, leaving his pregnant young wife to…
command the vessel and its mutinous crew as they round treacherous Cape Horn. Kelley's novel is based on the true story of Joshua and Mary Patten. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2001Villa incognito
Par Tom Robbins. 2003
Extravagant tale of three Americans declared missing-in-action who have chosen to remain in an edenic Laotian village decades after the…
Vietnam War's end, trafficking in opium. The unruly cast of characters includes an alluring woman descended from Japanese folklore's libidinous, sake-swilling, badgerlike tanuki. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. Bestseller. 2003Playing for the ashes (Inspector Lynley Ser.)
Par Elizabeth George. 1994
Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers are assigned the murder case of cricket star Kenneth Fleming. Separated…
from his wife, Fleming was living with his doting former teacher, Miriam Whitelaw, and having an affair with Gabriella Patten. In a parallel story, Whitelaw's daughter, now dying of a debilitating disease, describes her own wild youth. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. BestsellerThe virgin blue: A Novel
Par Tracy Chevalier. 1997
American midwife Ella Turner moves to France with her husband and researches her French family origins. Tormented by strange dreams,…
she discovers a sixteenth-century ancestor, Isabelle Tournier, whose Huguenot beliefs led to tragedy and whose life seems somehow mysteriously linked to Ella's. Meanwhile, Ella has an affair providing complications. Some strong language. Bestseller. 1997In the presence of the enemy (Inspector Lynley Ser.)
Par Elizabeth George. 1997
Newspaper editor Dennis Luxford receives a threatening note demanding that he publicly reveal he is the father of ten-year-old Charlotte…
Bowen, the kidnapped daughter of a member of parliament with whom Luxford had an affair years earlier. Scotland Yard inspector Thomas Lynley enters the case when a body is discovered. Strong language. Bestseller. 1996The big sky: a novel
Par A. B Guthrie. 2002
1830s. Seventeen-year-old Boone Caudill leaves Kentucky and heads west after trying to kill his strict father. Traveling the Missouri River…
to the Rockies, Boone joins other mountain men, takes a native wife, and becomes as harsh as the wilderness. Foreword by Wallace Stegner. Some violence and some strong language. 1947The year of the hangman
Par Gary L Blackwood. 2002
Unruly fifteen-year-old Creighton Brown, banished from England in 1777, goes to live with his uncle in the American colonies, then…
nearly defeated by British forces. Abducted by patriot rebels en route to Florida, Creighton is taken to New Orleans, where he soon has to choose sides. For junior and senior high readers. 2002Le cavalier du Baïkal: roman (Romans, Nouvelles, Recits (domaine Francais) Ser. #Vol. 6062400)
Par Bernard Clavel. 2000
Avec ce talent de conteur qui lui est propre, Clavel nous entraîne sur les traces de Sadko, ce cavalier du…
Baïkal, aux temps où Jules César menait la guerre des GaulesLe chalutier
Par Fabrice Paulus. 2004
"Pour échapper à l'enfer familial, un adolescent passionné de lecture embarque clandestinement sur un chalutier. Son projet : partir en…
Afrique sur les traces d'Arthur Rimbaud. Mais, contre toute attente, le bateau prend la direction de l'Irlande... Bientôt découvert, le jeune homme n'a d'autre choix que de partager les tâches de l'équipage. Au fil des jours, il se lie d'amitié avec un marin d'origine éthiopienne qui lui confie alors un secret de taille : des manuscrits inédits du poète seraient en sa possession... Variation sur le double thème de la révolte adolescente et de l'apparence des êtres, ce récit tour à tour âpre, poignant et tendre, constitue, en outre, une façon originale de fêter le 150e anniversaire de la naissance d'Arthur Rimbaud." -- 4e de couvDivine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel
Par Rebecca Wells. 1996
At forty, Sidda Walker is a famous theater director whose life spirals downward after a New York Times interview implies…
that her mother, Vivi, was a child abuser. Vivi disowns Sidda, but the Ya-Yas, Vivi's longtime friends, intervene. Sequel to Little Altars Everywhere (BR 14278). Strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 1996In this mountain
Par Jan Karon. 2002
Father Tim Kavanagh and his wife, Cynthia, return to Mitford and renew old friendships. Father Tim, however, struggles with retirement…
and aging while Cynthia achieves success as a children's writer. Father Tim's failure to control his diabetes leads to near-tragedy. Sequel to A Common Life (RC 52101, BR 13422). Bestseller. 2002Tigers at twilight
Par Mary Pope Osborne. 1999
Knocked out by my nunga-nungas: further, further confessions of Georgia Nicolson
Par Louise Rennison. 2002
Georgia continues her journal entries following On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God (RC 52090,…
BR 13560). Her parents drag her on a vacation to Scotland. Then back home she sees two boys at the same time. For senior high readers. Bestseller. 2001Ghost town at sundown
Par Mary Pope Osborne. 1997
When Jack and Annie explore the Wild West to solve another riddle, cowboy Slim Cooley mistakes them for horse thieves.…
They ride horses and face mustang rustlers and a ghost before leaving. For grades 2-4. 1997The emperor of Ocean Park
Par Stephen L Carter. 2002
African American law professor Talcott Garland is drawn into a political conspiracy after his father--a disgraced former Supreme Court nominee--dies…
suddenly. Apparently the judge left clues leading to evidence of crimes by former colleagues in high places and wants his son to exact revenge. Some violence and some strong language. Bestseller. 20021st to die
Par James Patterson. 2001
A serial killer of newlyweds prompts an investigation by Lindsay Boxer, a San Francisco homicide detective recently diagnosed with a…
potentially fatal blood disease. She recruits a medical examiner, a journalist, and a district attorney (all women) to help find the murderer. Violence, some descriptions of sex, and some strong language. Bestseller. 2001