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Dancing in the light: a novel
Par Anita Stansfield. 2006
As trials come thick and fast, Wade finds himself facing devastating loss and a desperate loneliness greater than he ever…
could have imagined. Thankfully he has a large and loving family, without whose support he could not survive. Ultimately, however, Wade's greatest source of strength comes through his faith and reliance on the Savior's unconditional and atoning love.Un safari tout confort (10-18. Grands détectives)
Par Alexander McCall Smith. 2011
La célèbre détective Mma Ramotswe n'a aucun répit lors de son expédition au delta d'Okavango puisqu'elle est chargée de résoudre…
à la fois une histoire de complots, une histoire de coeur et un accident avant de parvenir à son safari avec Mma Makutsi.Un bisou coquelicot
Par Marie-France Comeau. 2022
Aly spends Remembrance Day with her great-grandfather. The latter is all dressed up, beret on his head and medals lined…
up on his veteran's chest. Cling, clang, cling... One medal at a time, Aly discovers what her grandfather experienced in Normandy, the origin and meaning of the poppy and the importance of this day.Le premier qui meurt à la fin (R)
Par Adam Silvera. 2022
Death-Cast est un service qui peut prédire la mort des individus inscrits dans sa base de données. Atteint d'une malformation…
cardiaque, Orion Pagan s'est inscrit pour ne pas être pris au dépourvu. Valentino Prince a fait le même choix à la suite de l'accident de sa soeur jumelle. Les deux hommes se rencontrent à Times Square et tombent amoureux mais l'un d'eux reçoit le funeste appel.A stone for Danny Fisher
Par Harold Robbins. 1951
Chronicles the life of Danny Fisher from his eighth birthday through his Bar Mitzvah, his marriage, his loss of a…
child, and his attempts to survive the cutthroat underworld of New York City in the 1930s and 1940s while holding on to his dream of a happy, peaceful home and family. Some strong language, some violence, and some descriptions of sexRed sky at night
Par James Hall. 1997
As private detective Thorn is investigating the mysterious slaughter of eleven captive dolphins, he is assaulted and left paralyzed from…
the waist down. Though beset with pain and anguish, Thorn must match wits with a doctor who is driven by a diabolical obsession. Strong language, violence, and descriptions of sexWhere you are
Par George Constable. 1997
Lake Stevenson has just inherited a house from his late Aunt Ilsa, but her will stipulates that Lake live in…
the house with her springer spaniel, Randall, until the dog dies. Wanting to sell the house, Lake begins thinking of ways to get Randall out of the pictureSecret lives
Par Caroline Macdonald. 1995
Australian Ian Ganty, fourteen, lives with his grandmother because his parents died. When she leaves town for a few days,…
Ian's life spirals out of control. First, his new older friend Gideon steals a car, and then Ian becomes a suspect in two other crimes. He tries to break free of Gideon, but can't escape his partner's overpowering influence. Some strong language. For junior and senior high readersThe year of the frog: a novel (Pegasus Prize for Literature)
Par Martin S̈imec̈ka. 1993
Milan is a young Czechoslovakian intellectual who is prevented from attending college by communist authorities because of his father's dissident…
activities. Forced to work, he takes a series of menial jobs and turns to his two great passions: long-distance running and his soon-to-be wife, Tania. 1992 winner of the Pegasus Prize for LiteratureAn independent woman
Par Howard Fast. 1997
Barbara Lavette, matriarch of a diverse California family, writes columns for her ex-husband's newspaper. After being robbed in her home,…
Barbara refuses to prosecute her assailant, believing him a victim of society, and instead tries to rehabilitate him. Shortly after, while planning a family wedding, Barbara unexpectedly falls in love with the minister, Philip Carter. Sequel to The Immigrant's Daughter (BR 09164)Suttree
Par Cormac McCarthy. 1979
After serving time in the workhouse, young Suttree chooses a ramshackle houseboat on the Tennessee River instead of his family's…
conventional lifestyle. Drifting through the seamy side of Knoxville in the early 1950s, he encounters whores, petty thieves, and derelicts, but remains emotionally detached from his surroundings. Strong language, some violence, and some descriptions of sexParrot in the oven: mi vida : a novel
Par Victor Martinez. 1996
A Chicano boy comes of age and is inducted into a gang in a hardscrabble California desert town. As his…
dysfunctional family suffers one setback after another, he struggles to overcome poverty and prejudice and grow up a respected person. Violence. For junior and senior high readersJackie by Josie
Par Caroline Preston. 1997
Josie should be writing her dissertation on an obscure poet, but when a celebrity biographer offers her a summer job…
researching Jackie Onassis, Josie surprises herself by accepting. This means staying in New England with her mother and toddler son, while her husband moves to Berkeley with their female friend. Some strong language and some descriptions of sexBlood Lake and other stories
Par James Krusoe. 1997
A collection of eight darkly humorous short stories each revealing a bizarre twist on ordinary events. The title tale opens…
with two men fishing in a leaky boat on a lake of actual blood, so that occasionally they need to dip their lures in anticoagulant. Some violence and some descriptions of sex. BestsellerSecond skin: a Nicholas Linnear novel
Par Eric Lustbader. 1995
In this sequel to Floating City (RC 39345, BR 9818), Mafia boss Mick Leonforte schemes to take over the Japanese…
underworld from an old friend of Nicholas Linnear. Linnear's own livelihood and personal safety are also threatened as he moves to thwart the mob. Strong language, violence, and descriptions of sexThe price of land in Shelby: a novel
Par Laurie Alberts. 1996
The Chartrain family of Shelby, Vermont, live on crazy hope. Over a thirty-year span, each of the five siblings born…
to Lowell and Anne Chartrain grow, change, and survive into adulthood, although often at great emotional cost. Strong language, violence, and explicit descriptions of sexRange of motion
Par Elizabeth Berg. 1995
After her beloved husband is hit by a piece of ice that falls from a rooftop, Lainey must learn to…
cope with the uncertainty of his comatose state. Helping her is her neighbor, who is going through a crisis of her own, and the spirit of the woman who lived in Lainey's house in the 1940sMurder at the National Gallery
Par Margaret Truman. 1996
Luther Mason, curator at the National Gallery for more than twenty years, is finally getting the Caravaggio exhibit he has…
dreamed of. But Luther also has other visions--he plans to keep one of the original paintings and substitute a forgery. Some violence. BestsellerLove and houses: a novel
Par Marti Leimbach. 1997
Novelist Meg Howe is seven months pregnant when her husband's chronic fear of commitment prompts him to move out, leaving…
her with mortgages on an apartment and the house they are remodeling. Meg's former boyfriend, an extremely successful author, reenters her life when he buys the building in which she lives. Some strong languageWilkes: his life and crimes
Par Winston Schoonover. 1981
As reported by his law partner Schoonover, Wilkes is more colorful than most of his New York clients. The two…
attorneys are jailed in contempt of court and participate in a jailhouse riot. Wilkes's cases involve him in a rigged TV game show, in defending a pimp from his own prostitutes, and even in obstructing his own election to a judgeship. Strong language