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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 couvA wanted man
Par Nancy J Parra. 2002
Feisty librarian Brianna McGraw needs a thousand dollars to buy the freedom of her little brother and other orphans who…
were "adopted" by unscrupulous Nevada miners. To get the money, Brianna sets out to collect the bounty offered for capturing fugitive Trey Morgan. She captures his heart instead. 2002The 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 outlaw and the lady
Par Lorraine Heath. 2001
Fortune, Texas; 1891. Outlaw Lee Raven and his gang kidnap a bank robbery witness and realize later that beautiful Angela…
Bainbridge is blind. At Raven's Mexican home the two fall in love before the Texas Rangers arrive. Explicit descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 2001The fruit of stone
Par Mark Spragg. 2002
Late-twentieth-century Wyoming. McEban has been in love with his best friend's wife all his life. Gretchen loved McEban first but…
married Bennett. Now two decades later she leaves them both for another man, and McEban and Bennett set out together to find her. Some violence and 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 heart remembers
Par June Masters Bacher. 1990
Oregon Territory, nineteenth century. After ten years in prison Julius Doogan returns to Lordsburg, and Yolanda fears he will jeopardize…
her marriage to Maynard Killjoy. She relies on her faith in God and the strength of her best friend, Rachel, as she and Maynard face several crises. Sequel to My Heart's Desire (BR 14935). 1990Lynching at Broken Butte ; Sunblade
Par Lewis B Patten. 1995
Traveling to pick up a prisoner, U.S. Marshal August Cragg overnights at Broken Butte, where someone tries to kill him,…
and Cragg intends to find out who. In Sunblade, in the 1870s a greedy rancher, who has more enemies than friends, winds up dead. Some violence and some strong language. 1952Fifteen stories set in California during the 1850s Gold Rush. Archetypal characters--gold-fevered pioneers, gamblers, preachers, drunkards, cattle-robbers, and iron-willed women--experience…
twists of fortune and the realities of frontier life. Reuben H. Margolin introduces the collection, which spans the career of this author, poet, and literary critic. 1997The 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. 2002From this time forth
Par June Masters Bacher. 1991
Oregon Territory, nineteenth century. In this sequel to The Heart Remembers (BR14936), Yolanda's sister Callie has fallen in love with…
teacher Bonaparte Bixby. Unfortunately Bixby has his own reasons for being in Lordsburg. Yolanda and her best friend, Rachel, unite with the town women to deal with Bixby and other unsavory arrivals. 1991The two-shoot gun
Par Donald Hamilton. 1960
When Easterner Alexander Burdick arrives in Santa Clara, New Mexico Territory, to open a photography business, he carries a double-barreled,…
breech-loading shotgun in his wagon and soon finds himself involved in a local feud. Some strong language. 1960My heart's desire
Par June Masters Bacher. 1986
Covered-wagon era, the westward push to Oregon. In this sequel to Seasons of Love (BR 10473), Yolanda's wedding day dawns…
bright, but is shattered when Blue Bucket Mine explodes, claiming the life of her new husband and of Rachel's husband, Cole. As both women struggle to understand God's will, new men enter their lives. 1986Over on the dry side
Par Louis L'Amour. 1975
Owen Chantry arrives at his brother Clive's ranch to find him murdered and two squatters occupying his cabin. The unlikely…
trio--and a beautiful stranger--soon find themselves in a deadly feud with Clive's killers, the Mowatt gang, who return in search of Clive's rumored buried treasure. Precedes Borden Chantry (BR 13829). 1975Le 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. 1997