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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 couvThe quilter's legacy: an Elm Creek Quilts novel
Par Jennifer Chiaverini. 2003
While preparing for her wedding to Andrew, Sylvia searches for her late mother Eleanor's heirloom quilts but discovers they were…
sold decades ago. Pursuing leads to find them, she learns more about Eleanor's past and events touching her, such as the sinking of the Titanic and the flu epidemic of 1918. 2003The 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. 2001Cold pursuit
Par T. Jefferson Parker. 2003
San Diego detective Tommy McMichael investigates the murder of elderly Portuguese millionaire Pete Braga--even though McMichael's Irish family has had…
a longtime feud with the Bragas. As McMichael uncovers the old man's secrets, he falls in love with the main suspect. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2003Blood of my blood
Par Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Anne Blythe Meriwether. 2002
In this autobiographical first novel--unpublished until 2002--by the Pulitzer Prize winner for The Yearling (DB 33466), the author chronicles her…
growth as an artist. Includes portrayals of her sympathetic father; her cold, domineering mother; and some pioneer ancestors. 1928A place of hiding (Inspector Lynley Ser.)
Par Elizabeth George. 2003
Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley's colleague, forensic scientist Simon St. James, comes to the aid of his wife's American friend…
China River. China is accused of murdering millionaire Guy Brouard on the island of Guernsey after she and her half-brother deliver a package of blueprints to him there. Strong language and some violence. 2003In her shoes: a novel (Cannie Shapiro Ser. #Bk. 1)
Par Jennifer Weiner. 2002
Estranged sisters Maggie, who is dyslexic, and Rose Feller, an attorney, were left motherless as children and haven't seen their…
maternal grandmother, Ella Hirsch, in twenty years. Widowed Ella searches for her granddaughters, and the three attempt to become a family again. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2002The 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. 1997Fifteen love
Par Robert Corbet. 2003
Fifteen-year-olds Mia, a violist with family problems, and Will, a tennis player whose brother is paralyzed, gradually fall in love--both…
for the first time. They reveal feelings about each other, school, and friends while struggling to understand the opposite sex. For senior high readers. 2003The 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. 1947Eat cake: a novel
Par Jeanne Ray. 2003
Beleaguered housewife Ruth Hopson is suddenly saddled with an unemployed husband, estranged parents who both need temporary refuge, and a…
sullen teenage daughter. Her solution is to bake. Includes recipes. Some strong language. 2003Alice, I think
Par Susan Juby. 2003
Humorous diary of fifteen-year-old misfit Alice, who is home-schooled by hippie parents in a rural Canadian town. On the advice…
of a new counselor she calls Death Lord Bob, she enrolls in high school and copes with finding friends, fitting in, and dating. Some strong language. For junior and senior high readers. 2003The enemy has a face
Par Gloria D Miklowitz. 2003
Middle schooler Netta Hofman and her family have temporarily moved to Los Angeles from Israel when her seventeen-year-old brother disappears.…
Netta becomes convinced that Arab terrorists are involved, even as she befriends a Palestinian boy at school. For junior and senior high readers. 2003A week in winter
Par Marcia Willett. 2002
Despite her family's objections, elderly widow Maudie Todhunter decides to sell Moorgate, her old English farmhouse. Prospective buyers include Rob…
Abbot, the home's renovator, and Melissa, a young woman hiding a tragic secret. For one glorious week, Moorgate enchants these strangers, who fall in love with the house and each other. 2001The book against God
Par James Wood. 2003
Thomas Bunting, supposedly working on his doctorate in philosophy, is actually writing a secret book asserting his atheism. After his…
minister father dies in northern England and his concert pianist wife leaves him because of his chronic lying, Bunting is forced to reexamine his life. 2003The 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 polygame solitaire: roman (Terres d'Amérique #Vol. 6149918)
Par Brady Udall. 2011
" Brady Udall raconte l'histoire exceptionnelle d'une famille non moins exceptionnelle. À quarante ans, le très mormon Golden Richards, quatre…
fois marié et père de vingt-huit enfants, est en pleine crise existentielle. Son entreprise de bâtiment bat de l'aile, son foyer est une poudrière minée par les rivalités et les menaces d'insurrection. Rongé par le chagrin depuis la mort de deux de ses enfants, il commence sérieusement à douter de ses qualités de père et de sa capacité à aimer. Golden Richards, tragiquement fidèle à ses idéaux, se sent seul. Mais dans le désert du Nevada, il va découvrir que l'amour est une mine inépuisable. Porté par une verve aussi féroce qu'originale, Le polygame solitaire nous parle avec humour du désir et de la perte, de la famille et de l'amour. " -- 4e de couvMiss Julia hits the road (Miss Julia Ser. #4.)
Par Ann B. Ross. 2003
When elderly widow Julia Springer learns that her housekeeper Lillian and other tenants are being evicted by slum landlord Clarence…
Gibbs, she organizes a fund-raising motorcycle race to save the neighborhood. Sequel to Miss Julia Throws a Wedding (DB 54718, BR 14243). 2003