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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 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. 2001The life before her eyes
Par Laura Kasischke. 2002
When Diana is seventeen, a classmate confronts her and her girlfriend with a gun--and only Diana survives. At forty, she…
is still beautiful and has a husband and daughter of her own. But her repressed memories and survivor's guilt are beginning to haunt her. Some strong language. 2002The 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 Chili Queen: A Novel
Par Sandra Dallas. 2002
On the train to Nalgitas, New Mexico, brothel owner Addie French meets Emma Roby, a mail-order bride. When Emma's prospective…
husband fails to show, Addie takes her in at her "boarding house"--The Chili Queen. There Emma meets Welcome, the African American cook, and Ned, an outlaw. Together, they devise a moneymaking scheme. Spur Award. 2002The future homemakers of America
Par Laurie Graham. 2002
Five Americans and one English woman become friends in 1952 when the American women's husbands are stationed in England. Over…
the next forty years they keep in touch, supporting and comforting each other through relocations, marriages, divorces, births, and untimely deaths. Some strong language. 2002The 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 couvTigers at twilight
Par Mary Pope Osborne. 1999
Ghost 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. 1997From the heart of Covington
Par Joan A Medlicott. 2002
In this sequel to Gardens of Covington (RC 52824, BR 13718) Grace, Hannah, and Amelia continue their saga of retirement…
life in North Carolina. Hannah's daughter Laura moves in to recuperate from an accident, Grace copes with her newly diagnosed diabetes, and Amelia pursues her photography hobby. 2002Miss Julia throws a wedding
Par Ann B Ross. 2002
Widow Julia Springer of Abbotsville, North Carolina, insists on planning a wedding for attorney Binkie Enloe and her fiancé, deputy…
Coleman Bates. But Miss Julia really wants her friend Hazel Marie to get hitched to her live-in lover as a good example to Hazel's young son. 2002The ice limit
Par Douglas J Preston. 2000
Billionaire Palmer Lloyd wants to own the largest meteorite in the world. It's buried on a remote island in an…
icy region off the southern coast of Chile. To retrieve it, he hires the engineering firm of Eli Glinn and controversial scientist Sam McFarlane. Some violence and some strong language. 2000Un ciel de glace: roman
Par Mirko Bonné. 2008
"En 1914, Merce Blackboro, un jeune Gallois rustre et loyal, monte clandestinement à bord de L'Endurance. Le trois-mâts est prêt…
à partir pour la plus folle des aventures : mener en Antarctique, avec la bénédiction du roi George, Sir Ernest Shackleton et ses vingt-six membres d'équipage. Mais l'expédition tourne à l'odyssée. Le bateau, prisonnier des glaces en mer de Weddell, dérive. Obligés de débarquer sur la banquise, tous n'ont dès lors plus qu'un seul objectif : survivre. C'est cette aventure sans précédent, une aventure légendaire longue de 635 jours, que Mirko Bonné raconte par la voix de Merce Blackboro. Une histoire d'hommes exceptionnels dominée par la figure de Sir Shackleton, ce fin lettré fasciné par le pôle et épris d'impossible". -- 4e de couvMaybe once, maybe twice
Par Alison Rose Greenberg. 2023
You know that old saying "if we are still single when we're 35, we should get married?" Well, Maggie Vine…
made that vow with two different people at two very different stages of her life. And they both showed up. Maggie Vine's life is going extra-medium. At 35, she's pursuing her dreams of being a singer and being a mother—though neither are successfully panning out. So when Garrett Scholl—stifled hedge-fund manager by day but electrifying aspiring rock singer by night—comes to her 35th birthday party with the intention to kiss Maggie senseless, it feels like one piece might click into place. But he's engaged to someone else, and Maggie knows she won't fit into the cookie-cutter life he's building for himself. Enter Asher Reyes. Her first boyfriend from summer camp turned into heartthrob actor, he's lived a successful yet private life ever since he got famous. When a career-changing opportunity is presented to Maggie after her reconnection with Asher, it feels like everything—music, love, family—will fall into place. But her past won't let her move on without a fight. Filled with the romance and angst that defines the years you come to know yourself, Maybe Once, Maybe Twice is a novel of second chances and finding your own way that's perfect for fans of Josie Silver and Sophie CousensThe fall of light
Par Niall Williams. 2001
Saga of the Foley family in nineteenth-century Ireland. Francis and his four sons, their mother gone, flee from their tenant…
farm after Francis steals a telescope. When their father is presumed drowned, the four brothers eventually separate and find their own destinies at home and abroad. 2001The Big Burn
Par Jeanette Ingold. 2002
In the summer of 1910, drought in Idaho and Montana has led to forest fires. On August 20, three teens--homesteader…
Lizbeth, fire fighter Jarrett, and buffalo soldier Seth--are caught in a blaze and face the choice of fleeing or staying to confront the conflagration. For junior and senior high readers. 2002Until tomorrow
Par Robin Jones Gunn. 2000
Nineteen-year-old college student Christy Miller has been studying in Switzerland when her friends Katie and Todd join her for a…
vacation. Christy is jealous and unsure of her relationship with Todd--but puts her trust in God. For senior high and older readers. 2000