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Crazy for you
Par Jennifer Crusie. 1999
Art teacher Quinn is bored, but her live-in boyfriend Bill, the high school coach, is happy and wants to marry.…
After Quinn adopts a stray dog against Bill's wishes, she moves out, buys a house, and tries to seduce her ex-brother-in-law. Bill, however, can't let go. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sexTessa: roman (Bibliothèque étrangère)
Par Margaret Kennedy. 2006
La fragile Tessa, quinze ans à peine, aime en secret le compositeur Lewis Dodd, un élève de son père Albert…
Sanger, musicien anglais de génie. Mais Lewis ne voit en elle que la petite fille qu'il a toujours connue. Sur un coup de tête, il épouse la belle, riche et impérieuse Florence, pour s'apercevoir très vite que son mariage est un échec. Il réalise alors que la seule à vraiment le comprendre, la seule dont il ne peut se passer, c'est la jeune Tessa... Publié en Angleterre en 1924 sous le titre La nymphe au coeur fidèle, ce roman a très vite connu un énorme succès. Traduit dans le monde entier, il a inspiré trois films à Hollywood et Jean Giraudoux l'a adapté au théâtre sous le nom de Tessa. -- 4e de couvMoving as one
Par Elizabeth Rees. 1998
Pennsylvania high school junior Sophy Bartlett realizes her plans to be a ballerina are in jeopardy when the Ballet Academy…
has to close for financial reasons. But she also hates the alternative: Carlos Vargas's suggestion that the institution should merge with the ballroom dance school he attends. For junior and senior high readersThe interestings: A novel
Par Meg Wolitzer. 2023
Named a best book of the year by Entertainment Weekly , Time , and The Chicago Tribune , and named…
a notable book by The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post “Remarkable . . . With this book [Wolitzer] has surpassed herself.”— The New York Times Book Review "A victory . . . The Interestings secures Wolitzer's place among the best novelists of her generation. . . . She's every bit as literary as Franzen or Eugenides. But the very human moments in her work hit you harder than the big ideas. This isn't women's fiction. It's everyone's."— Entertainment Weekly (A) From Meg Wolitzer, the New York Times –bestselling author of The Female Persuasion, a novel that has been called "genius" ( The Chicago Tribune ), “wonderful” ( Vanity Fair ), "ambitious" ( San Francisco Chronicle ), and a “page-turner” ( Cosmopolitan ). The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. In The Interestings , Wolitzer follows these characters from the height of youth through middle age, as their talents, fortunes, and degrees of satisfaction diverge. The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not always enough to propel someone through life at age thirty; not everyone can sustain, in adulthood, what seemed so special in adolescence. Jules Jacobson, an aspiring comic actress, eventually resigns herself to a more practical occupation and lifestyle. Her friend Jonah, a gifted musician, stops playing the guitar and becomes an engineer. But Ethan and Ash, Jules’s now-married best friends, become shockingly successful—true to their initial artistic dreams, with the wealth and access that allow those dreams to keep expanding. The friendships endure and even prosper, but also underscore the differences in their fates, in what their talents have become and the shapes their lives have taken. Wide in scope, ambitious, and populated by complex characters who come together and apart in a changing New York City, The Interestings explores the meaning of talent; the nature of envy; the roles of class, art, money, and power; and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and a lifeOther voices, other rooms
Par Truman Capote. 1994
Twelve-year-old Joel Knox goes to live with his invalid father in a dilapidated Louisiana mansion. There the sensitive boy encounters…
a perverse stepmother, a pathetic uncle, and a tomboy who becomes his fast friend. 1948Legacy of silence
Par Belva Plain. 1998
When it becomes obvious that World War II is imminent, Caroline Hartzinger and her adopted older sister, Lore, flee from…
Berlin to Geneva. Walter, who plans to wed Caroline, goes with them. Life takes a dramatic turn and Caroline and Lore escape to America alone. But their time in Switzerland provides a legacy that affects several generations. BestsellerThe age of innocence
Par Edith Wharton. 1996
A novel of manners set in New York society in the 1870s, an age of convention, propriety, and tribal solidarity.…
Newland Archer is torn between his attraction to Countess Olenska, a femme fatale, and his security in a bland, but proper, marriage to her cousin May. Pulitzer Prize. 1920Honor's pledge
Par Kristen Heitzmann. 1998
Seventeen-year-old Abigail Martin falls in love with southerner Montgomery Farrel, who has moved to Colorado after the Civil War. He…
returns her love but is committed by oath to another. Abigail trusts in God to find a solution. Some violence. For senior high and older readers. 1998Don't die, my love
Par Lurlene McDaniel. 1995
High school juniors Julie and Luke have known each other for years and are in love. Luke is the star…
football player and Julie's father is his coach. Julie is waiting to see where Luke gets a football scholarship so she can apply to the same school. Then Luke is diagnosed with cancer. For junior and senior high readersStands a Calder man
Par Janet Dailey. 1983
Montana, 1909. With the passing of the Enlarged Homestead Act, newcomers threaten the old way of ranching. Webb Calder resists…
the immigrants fencing in the range. Then he falls in love with one of their wives. Sequel to This Calder Range (BR 13464). Explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. Bestseller. 1983As I lay dying: the corrected text (Vintage international)
Par William Faulkner. 1990
The Bundrens, poor whites in Mississippi, face numerous obstacles as they trek across the countryside to deliver their mother's body…
for burial in her home town. First published in 1930; this edition includes changes made by Noel Polk in 1985 based on the author's notesMarry me: a romance
Par John Updike. 1999
Lighthearted novel of well-to-do suburbia and adultery in the 1960s. Jerry and Sally are in love, though married to others.…
Jerry's nice wife, Ruth, is having an affair with Sally's quirky husband, Richard. Strong languageThree women
Par Marge Piercy. 1999
Successful attorney Suzanne Blume's contented, solitary life is disrupted when her troubled older daughter loses another job and returns home.…
Then, as Suzanne warily pursues an in-person meeting with an online friend, her political-activist mother suffers a crippling stroke and moves in. Explicit descriptions of sex and strong language. 1999The lucky gourd shop: a novel
Par Joanna Scott. 2000
Three adopted Korean-American teenagers are curious about their roots. What they do not know is that their birth mother had…
been a foundling raised in a Seoul coffeeshop. After the death of their father, the children's grandmother saved them from starvation by taking them to an orphanage. 2000Necessary roughness
Par Marie Lee. 1996
Korean-American teenager Chan Kim and his twin sister, Young, work hard to be assimilated into their new high school after…
their father moves the family from L.A. to rural Minnesota. Chan switches from soccer to football to gain acceptance, but then tragedy strikes the family. For junior and senior high readersLa vie comme une image: roman (Romanichels)
Par Jocelyne Saucier. 1996
Un papa fugueur dans une famille modèle. Comment s'en tirent la mère (devenue incontinente) et la fille adolescente (aux rêves…
meurtriers) après trois années d'attente et d'illusions? (cf. p. 60). Un premier roman à la fois intense et sobre, riche en non-dit, comme le signale R. Martel. L'histoire d'une absence cruellement ressentie mais occultée par le souci de n'en rien dire. [SDMI'll be seeing you
Par Lurlene McDaniel. 1996
Carley Mattea is in the hospital yet again when Kyle Westin is admitted. Kyle has been temporarily blinded by a…
chemistry experiment gone awry, so he cannot tell that Carley's face has been disfigured by cancer. Kyle falls in love with the Carley he knows, but she is determined that he will never see her after he recovers. For senior high and older readersLove me tomorrow
Par Rosanne Bittner. 1998
1850. When her wealthy husband Edward decides to leave Pittsburgh for the west, young Maggie McCahan has no choice but…
to accompany him. Maggie and their guide, Rafe Morrisey, are immediately attracted to each other. The hardships they endure only increase their love. Some violence and some explicit descriptions of sexLook homeward, angel: a story of the buried life
Par Thomas Wolfe. 1929
In this largely autobiographical novel, Wolfe describes Eugene Gant, who longs to escape his drab existence with his alcoholic father…
and neurotic mother in a provincial North Carolina town. Finally, through his fascination with literature and ideas, Eugene escapes to the university and later to Harvard. Some strong languageAnnie's rainbow
Par Fern Michaels. 1999
Annie Clark finds a cache from a bank robbery and keeps it to help her family and start a business.…
After becoming wealthy and falling in love, Annie anonymously repays the money. But years later a determined insurance investigator and a paroled bank robber remain suspicious. Some strong language