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Des cailloux dans le ventre: roman (La cosmopolite)
Par Jon Bauer. 2012
" Des cailloux dans le ventre est l'histoire d'un petit garçon de huit ans et de l'adulte instable qu'il est…
devenu. Au cours de son enfance, ses parents choisissent d'être une famille d'accueil en dépit du violent sentiment de jalousie que cela provoque en lui. Cette jalousie prend des proportions dramatiques quand l'enfant doit faire de la place à Robert, un jeune garçon auquel sa mère s'attache particulièrement. La relation qui naît entre eux va déclencher un événement qui transformera l'existence de la famille entière. Et particulièrement celle de Robert. À l'âge de vingt-huit ans, et après une longue absence, le fils vient rendre visite à sa mère. Il ne lui a rien pardonné. Mais cette femme, malade, a maintenant besoin de lui et comment pourrait-il ne pas profiter de la situation ? Des cailloux dans le ventre décrit les dégâts que s'infligent parents et enfants, comme pour nous rappeler que la famille est l'endroit dont il faut partir pour se trouver. Mais l'écrivain sait révéler les situations cocasses de nos existences et décrire la métamorphose d'un être qui se défait progressivement du poids de son enfance. " -- 4e de couvLa dernière semaine de mai: roman
Par Christian Tétreault. 2012
" La plus belle semaine de l'année, c'est la dernière semaine du mois de mai. Sept jours pour tomber amoureux…
ou se faire aimer ; se venger ou s'excuser ; retrouver ou oublier. Cent soixante-huit heures pour transformer l'existence de trois amis, des femmes qui partagent leur vie par amour ou par habitude, et de celles qui se grefferont à eux par accident. " -- 4e de couv10th grade: a novel
Par Joseph Weisberg. 2003
High school sophomore Jeremiah Reskin keeps a journal detailing his adventures in his New Jersey hometown and family life with…
his parents and two sisters. Jeremiah reminisces about the girls he falls for, his soccer team, and his jaunts with the guys. Strong language. For senior high readers. Alex Award. 2002Lost
Par Joy Fielding. 2003
Toronto divorcée Cindy Carver's twenty-one-year-old daughter, Julia, fails to return home after an audition with a famous Hollywood director. Cindy…
suspects all her acquaintances in the disappearance--even her ex-husband. She feels remorse that she never really connected with her self-absorbed firstborn. Some strong language. 2003The romantic: a novel
Par Barbara Gowdy. 2003
Abandoned at ten by her mother in the 1960s, Louise Kirk became infatuated with neighbor boy Abel. When Abel dies…
on her twenty-sixth birthday, Louise's fragmented memories reveal their tender childhood romance, years of separations and reunions, and the unfulfilled passion that haunts her. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2003Hell at the breech: A Novel
Par Tom Franklin. 2003
Alabama, 1890s. Fifteen-year-old Mack Burke keeps it a secret when he accidently shoots storekeeper and aspiring politician Arch Bedsole. The…
unsolved murder spurs Bedsole's cousin with his vigilantes to seek their own justice--targeting innocent and guilty alike in a year of terror. Violence, some explicit descriptions of sex, and some strong language. 2003The farther you run
Par Davida Hurwin. 2003
Eighteen-year-old Samantha has a hard time adjusting to life without her friend, Juliana, who died of cancer in A Time…
for Dancing (BR 10714). But Samantha meets Mona in summer school. They graduate, get jobs, boyfriends, and an apartment, and Samantha learns to cope. Strong language. For senior high readers. 2003The amateur marriage: a novel
Par Anne Tyler. 2004
Baltimore residents Michael Anton and Pauline Barclay fall in love at first sight at the start of World War II…
and marry impulsively. Remaining completely incompatible despite increasing prosperity, they spend the next five decades making themselves, and their three children, miserable. Bestseller. 2004Mr. Paradise: a novel
Par Elmore Leonard. 2004
Model Kelly has accompanied roommate Chloe on her job as escort to elderly Mr. Paradiso when two gunmen kill Chloe…
and her client. Wanting Paradiso's fortune, the crooks coerce Kelly into impersonating Chloe. While a Detroit investigating detective falls for "Chloe," she tries to dodge the murderers. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. 2004Zigzag
Par Ellen Wittlinger. 2003
When her boyfriend deserts her for the summer seventeen-year-old Robin drives from Iowa to California with her widowed aunt and…
two nasty younger cousins. The grieving family fights along the way, but Robin helps console them and also begins to become more independent. Some strong language. For senior high readers. 2003Reunion
Par Alan P Lightman. 2003
Charles, a professor, attends his thirtieth college reunion where he encounters a vision of his twenty-two-year-old self. Overwhelmed by memories…
of his idyllic love for a ballerina, Charles relives a series of tragic events that would forever change his life. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2003Shooting monarchs
Par John Halliday. 2003
Macy, a sociopathic killer abused as a child, forces sixteen-year-old Leah Hoffman into his car trunk but waits to murder…
her. Leah is saved by Danny Driscoll, a classmate with an untreated spinal condition who secretly loves her. The rescue ends in tragedy for Danny. Some violence. For senior high readers. 2003Friction: a novel
Par E. R Frank. 2003
When Stacy, a new eighth-grade girl, starts spreading nasty rumors about classmate Alexandra and her favorite teacher, Simon, the class…
doesn't know what to think. But when Stacy accuses Simon of molesting her, Alex visits her house and discovers the truth. Some strong language. For junior and senior high readers. 2003Dreams of rescue: a novel
Par Laura Cunningham. 2003
After being attacked by her husband, actress Juliana Smythe escapes to her isolated mountain home--built for an heiress's 1899 wedding--and…
prepares to sue him. While Juliana relives her marital horrors, she is terrorized by a stalker and survives only by unraveling the mystery of the Victorian bride's death. Some violence. 2003Our Lady of the Forest
Par David Guterson. 2003
A sickly sixteen-year-old runaway living in a Washington state rain forest sees visions of the Virgin Mary. As the news…
spreads Ann Holmes becomes a disciple of sorts while young priest Father Collins, unemployed logger Tom Cross and his paralyzed son, and others seek redemption. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2003Revenge of the middle-aged woman
Par Elizabeth Buchan. 2002
After twenty-five years of domestic bliss, Rose Lloyd loses both her husband and her job at a London newspaper to…
her young assistant. Devastated, Rose reexamines life, motherhood, and love as she fights to move on with her unexpected independence. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2002Les chroniques de Saint-Placide-de-Ramsay: Suivi De Fonts Baptismaux: Roman (Fayard noir)
Par François Barcelo. 2007
"[...] Les deux courts romans réunis sous le titre de Chroniques de Saint-Placide-de-Ramsay illustrent le talent de Barcelo : une…
imagination débridée y fait des siennes, n'épargnant rien, ni la religion, ni les politiciens, ni la police". -- 4e de couvLe tableau de Pilate
Par Craig Smith. 2012
" Kate Kenyon, riche et jeune veuve d'un aristocrate anglais, ne vit que pour l'amour du risque. Avec l'aide de…
son complice, elle se consacre au vol d'oeuvres d'art inestimables, de préférence chez des particuliers très bien gardés. Ses nouvelles ambitions se portent sur Sir Julian Corbeau, criminel international (et probable chef de l'ordre des Templiers moderne) terré en Suisse pour échapper à une demande d'extradition. Or ce qu'elle est venue chercher au péril de sa vie dépasse l'entendement : un portrait de Jésus de Nazareth dans ses derniers instants. Commandé par Pilate, il serait l'unique représentation du Christ et posséderait de mystérieux pouvoirs. Mais au lieu d'y gagner la vie éternelle, ce vol pourrait bien signifier son arrêt de mort. Car alors que d'autres réseaux se lancent à la poursuite du précieux tableau, les cadavres s'accumulent dans le sillage de Kate, jusqu'à ce que la vengeance de Sir Julian Corbeau et le mystère des Templiers la rattrapent. Après deux mille ans de secrets et de convoitises, l'icône miraculeuse sera-t-elle enfin révélée au monde ? " -- 4e de couvLearned By Heart: A Novel
Par Emma Donoghue. 2023
A heartbreakingly gorgeous novel based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply and dangerously in love…
at boarding school in nineteenth century York, from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister’s five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant, troublesome tomboy, who meet at the Manor School for Young Ladies in York in 1805 when they are both fourteen.Emotionally intense, psychologically compelling and deeply researched, Learned by Heart is an extraordinary work of fiction by one of the world’s greatest storytellers. Full of passion and heartbreak, the tangled lives of Anne Lister and Eliza Raine form a love story for the ages.Whispers and lies
Par Joy Fielding. 1991
Nurse Terry Painter lives a quiet life in Delray, Florida. She rents out her backyard cottage to Alison Simms and…
becomes friends with her. Soon, however, Terry begins to suspect that Alison and her just arrived "brother" are trying to trap her in a web of whispers and lies. 2002