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A Palestine affair: A Novel
Par Jonathan Wilson. 2003
Jerusalem, 1924. English artist Bloomberg and his American wife, Joyce, a non-Jewish Zionist, arrive in British-ruled Palestine to begin a…
new life. After a murder in their garden Joyce has an affair with Robert Kirsch, the British policeman investigating the crime. Some explicit descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 2003The birth of Venus: a novel
Par Sarah Dunant. 2003
Renaissance Florence. Sixteen-year-old Alessandra Cecchi, the educated, artistic daughter of a wealthy merchant, is forced to marry an older man,…
who promises her freedom. Upon discovering his true intentions, she turns for love to an artist commissioned by her father. Some explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. Bestseller. 2003Still life with crows (Agent Pendergast Series #4)
Par Lincoln Child, Douglas J. Preston. 2003
FBI agent Pendergast, last seen in The Cabinet of Curiosities (DB 54730), is summoned to Medicine Creek, Kansas, a sleepy…
farm town plagued by a gruesome serial killer. Somehow the murders are connected to the community's outlaw past, and Pendergast has to discover how. Violence and some strong language. 2003L'homme qui voulait être heureux
Par Laurent Gounelle. 2008
"Imaginez... Vous êtes en vacances à Bali et, peu de temps avant votre retour, vous consultez un vieux guérisseur. Sans…
raison particulière, juste parce que sa grande réputation vous a donné envie de le rencontrer, au cas où... Son diagnostic est formel : vous êtes en bonne santé, mais vous n'êtes pas... heureux. Porteur d'une sagesse infinie, ce vieil homme semble vous connaître mieux que vous-même. L'éclairage très particulier qu'il apporte à votre vécu va vous entraîner dans l'aventure la plus captivante qui soit : celle de la découverte de soi. Les expériences dans lesquelles il vous conduit vont bouleverser votre vie, en vous donnant les clés d'une existence à la hauteur de vos rêves." -- 4e de couvCurious tides (The Drowned Gods Duology #1)
Par Pascale Lacelle. 2023
Ninth House meets A Deadly Education in this gorgeous dark academia fantasy following a teen mage who must unravel the…
truth behind the secret society that may have been involved in her classmates' deaths. Emory might be a student at the prestigious Aldryn College for Lunar Magics, but her healing abilities have always been mediocre at best—until a treacherous night in the Dovermere sea caves leaves a group of her classmates dead and her as the only survivor. Now Emory is plagued by strange, impossible powers that no healer should possess. Powers that would ruin her life if the wrong person were to discover them. To gain control of these new abilities, Emory enlists the help of the school's most reclusive student, Baz—a boy already well-versed in the deadly nature of darker magic, whose sister happened to be one of the drowned students and Emory's best friend. Determined to find the truth behind the drownings and the cult-like secret society she's convinced her classmates were involved in, Emory is faced with even more questions when the supposedly drowned students start washing ashore— alive —only for them each immediately to die horrible, magical deaths. And Emory is not the only one seeking answers. When her new magic captures the society's attention, she finds herself drawn into their world of privilege and power, all while wondering if the truth she's searching for might lead her right back to Dovermere...to face the fate she was never meant to escapeThe reluctant suitor
Par Kathleen E. Woodiwiss. 2003
Lady Adriana Sutton and Colton Wyndham were betrothed as children by their parents. Opposed to his father's plans, Colton left…
for the Napoleonic wars. He returned to find Adriana a charming and lovely young woman. His decision to marry her leads to some surprising discoveries. Some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2003A place for miss snow
Par Jennifer Moore. 2023
Miss Diana Snow is everything a British chaperone should be—she finds satisfaction in order and depends wholly upon the rules…
of decorum as she negotiates the isle of Greece with her young charge. But Miss Snow's prim and proper exterior masks a disquieting past: orphaned and alone in the world, she has only her stiff upper lip to rely upon. When a brief encounter with a handsome stranger challenges her rules of propriety, Diana is unwittingly drawn into an adventure that will turn her ordered world upside down. Alexandros Metaxas is a Greek spy working to recruit individuals to the cause of revolution. His mission seems to be going perfectly until he encounters Diana Snow, a captivating—if slightly cold—beauty. When their paths cross again, the ill-fated reunion threatens all Alex has been fighting for. But more importantly, it places Diana's life in jeopardy. There is only one way to save her: they must put themselves at the mercy of the most powerful pirate family in the Mediterranean. Soon, Diana is plunged into a fantastic world of gypsy curses, blood feuds, and unexpected romance. But when a bitter vendetta places her in mortal danger, will she have the courage to fight for life and love?Awake and dreaming (Guests of War Trilogy, The)
Par Kit Pearson. 1996
Theo, who lives in near poverty with her irresponsible waitress mother in Vancouver, escapes into books and fantasies about the…
perfect family. Just as things get really bad, Theo receives magical help from a ghost and, for a while, becomes part of just such a family. For grades 4-7Les Winchester: 1, Lincoln
Par Audrée Nicoll. 2022
Sur le bateau qui le conduit à New York, il rencontre Isabella FitzRoy. L'énigmatique présence de cette lady à bord…
du Victory attise la curiosité de l'homme et le séduit. Le besoin de la protéger des multiples dangers se trouvant sur la route du fort Edward devient alors sa prioritéSurvivras-tu à la nuit de l'horreur (Survivras-tu?)
Par Mathieu Fortin. 2022
La nuit de l'horreur, une activité d'immersion extrême dans l'univers de la terreur. Cristina ne voulait pas y aller. Pourtant,…
elle y est. Ceux qui ressortiront de la forêt avant le lever du soleil se sépareront une intéressante somme d'argent. C'est sa seule motivation : amasser assez d'argent pour payer le traitement expérimental de sa mère. Pour ça, elle devra s'assurer de réussir... tout en faisant échouer le plus de joueurs possibles. Mais quand les scénarios déraillent et que du véritable sang commence à couler, c'est plutôt sa survie qui est en jeuThe reformatory: A novel
Par Tananarive Due. 2023
A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he's sent to a segregated…
reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead. Gracetown, Florida June 1950 Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie's journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory. Robbie has a talent for seeing ghosts, or haints. But what was once a comfort to him after the loss of his mother has become a window to the truth of what happens at the reformatory. Boys forced to work to remediate their so-called crimes have gone missing, but the haints Robbie sees hint at worse things. Through his friends Redbone and Blue, Robbie is learning not just the rules but how to survive. Meanwhile, Gloria is rallying every family member and connection in Florida to find a way to get Robbie out before it's too late. The Reformatory is a haunting work of historical fiction written as only American Book Award–winning author Tananarive Due could, by piecing together the life of the relative her family never spoke of and bringing his tragedy and those of so many others at the infamous Dozier School for Boys to the light in this riveting novelPeggy Sue et les fantômes: 7], La révolte des dragons
Par Serge Brussolo. 2005
"Une malédiction pèse sur les habitants de Zantora. Pour ne pas être transformés en monstres, ils doivent chaque jour avaler…
une potion fabriquée avec des larmes de dragon. Il faut donc recueillir les pleurs de l'animal et ne jamais les laisser tarir... Pas si simple ! Peggy Sue, Sebastian et le chien bleu, appelés à la rescousse, ne vont pas tarder à s'en rendre compte..." -- 4e de couvLe destin de la pierre: 1, Le secret de l'alchimiste
Par John Ward. 2003
Mettant en vedette un duo d'adolescents, cette saga fantastique s'annonce comme un savoureux cocktail de péripéties effrayantes, de mystère et…
de magie noire. L'histoire débute à Florence pendant un festival consacré à Dante. Jake, l'Écossais rencontre une jeune Suissesse, Hélène. Celle-ci ignore qu'au même moment, son escroc de père tente de vendre à gros prix un tableau de famille intitulé Le secret de l'alchimiste. Chargés d'aller récupérer cette toile à Venise, les nouveaux amis sont pris en chasse par un méchant nécromancien, Aurélien Pounce, convaincu que l'oeuvre recèle le secret de la "pierre philosophale" qui transforme le plomb en or. Premier d'une trilogie, ce récit captivant, bien construit, mêle habilement aventures et merveilleux. Les héros de 14 et 15 ans sont débrouillards, courageux et font preuve de solidarité. Ensemble, ils forment une solide équipe. [SDMThe secret life of violet grant (The Schuler Sisters Novels #1)
Par Beatriz Williams. 2023
“Williams conjures up another substantive beach read steeped in history and familial intrigue.... Readers will love wallowing in the twists…
and turns of this irresistibly luxurious tale.” — Booklist Passion, redemption, and a battered suitcase full of secrets: the New York Times-bestselling author of A Hundred Summers returns with another engrossing tale. Manhattan, 1964. Vivian Schuyler, newly graduated from Bryn Mawr College, has recently defied the privilege of her storied old Fifth Avenue family to do the unthinkable for a budding Kennedy-era socialite: break into the Madison Avenue world of razor-stylish Metropolitan magazine. But when she receives a bulky overseas parcel in the mail, the unexpected contents draw her inexorably back into her family’s past, and the hushed-over crime passionnel of an aunt she never knew, whose existence has been wiped from the record of history. Berlin, 1914. Violet Schuyler Grant endures her marriage to the philandering and decades-older scientist Dr. Walter Grant for one reason: for all his faults, he provides the necessary support to her liminal position as a young American female physicist in prewar Germany. The arrival of Dr. Grant’s magnetic former student at the beginning of Europe’s fateful summer interrupts this delicate détente. Lionel Richardson, a captain in the British Army, challenges Violet to escape her husband’s perverse hold, and as the world edges into war and Lionel’s shocking true motives become evident, Violet is tempted to take the ultimate step to set herself free and seek a life of her own conviction with a man whose cause is as audacious as her own. As the iridescent and fractured Vivian digs deeper into her aunt’s past and the mystery of her ultimate fate, Violet’s story of determination and desire unfolds, shedding light on the darkness of her years abroad . . . and teaching Vivian to reach forward with grace for the ambitious future––and the love––she wants mostNever wager with a wallflower: A novel (The Merriwell Sisters #3)
Par Virginia Heath. 2023
Never Wager with a Wallflower is the third and final delightful installment in the Merriwell Sister's Regency rom-com series. Miss…
Venus Merriwell has been waiting for her prince to come since the tender age of fourteen. She wants a man who is selfless, academic like her, and free from all the wretched vices her gambler father enjoyed far too much before he left the Merriwell sisters practically destitute. Unfortunately, after a slew of romantic disappointments, there is still no sign of that prince at twenty-three and the only one true love of her life is the bursting-at-the-seams orphanage in Covent Garden that she works tirelessly for. An orphanage that desperately needs to expand into the empty building next door. For Galahad Sinclair, gambling isn’t just his life, it’s in his blood. He grew up and learned the trade at his grandfather’s knee in a tavern on the far away banks of the Hudson in New York. But when fate took all that away and dragged him across the sea to London, it made sense to set up shop here. He’s spent five years making a success out of his gaming hell in the sleazy docks of the East End. Enough that he can finally afford to buy the pleasure palace of his dreams—and where better than in the capital’s sinful heart, Covent Garden? The only fly in his ointment is the perfect building he’s just bought to put it in also happens to be right next door to the orphanage run by his cousin’s wife’s youngest sister. A pious, disapproving and unsettling siren he has avoided like the plague since she flattened him five years ago… While Venus and Galahad lock horns over practically everything, and while her malevolent orphans do their darndest to sabotage his lifelong dream, can either of them take the ultimate gamble—and learn to love thy neighbor?The porcelain maker: A novel
Par Sarah Freethy. 2023
An epic story of love, betrayal, and art that spans decades, through the horrors of World War II to 21st…
century America, inspired by an actual porcelain factory in Dachau. Two lovers caught at the crossroads of history. A daughter's search for the truth. Germany, 1929. At a festive gathering of young bohemians in Weimar, two young artists, Max, a skilled Jewish architect, and Bettina, a celebrated avant-garde painter, are drawn to each other and begin a whirlwind romance. Their respective talents transport them to the dazzling lights of Berlin, but this bright beginning is quickly dimmed by the rising threat of Nazism. Max is arrested and sent to the concentration camp at Dachau where only his talent at making exquisite porcelain figures stands between him and seemingly certain death. Desperate to save her lover, Bettina risks everything to rescue him and escape Germany. America, 1993. Clara, Bettina's daughter, embarks on a journey to trace her roots and determine the identity of her father, a secret her mother has kept from her for reasons she's never understood. Clara's quest to piece together the puzzle of her origins transports us back in time to the darkness of Nazi Germany, where life is lived on a razor's edge and deception and death lurk around every corner. Survival depends on strength, loyalty, and knowing true friend from hidden foe. And as Clara digs further, she begins to question why her mother was so determined to leave the truth of her harrowing past behind... The Porcelain Maker is a powerful novel of enduring love and courage in the face of appalling brutality as a daughter seeks to unlock the mystery of her past. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's PressThe halloween tree
Par Ray Bradbury, Joseph Mugnaini. 1972
On Halloween night, eight boys arrange to meet their friend, Pipkin, at the haunted house outside of town. Before the…
others reach him, though, Pipkin is grabbed by a dark Something. For grades 4-7Alexander (Les Winchester #3)
Par Audrée Nicoll. 2022
Angleterre, 1758 - Après un séjour de six mois à Paris, Alexander Winchester prend le chemin de retour vers chez…
lui, à Badminton House. En route, il est attaqué et perd conscience. C'est dans les bras de Cassidy Hill, une mystérieuse gipsy, qu'il retrouve ses esprits... mais pas sa mémoire. Malgré son amnésie, Alexander est indéniablement attiré par les charmes de cette femme énigmatique. Il sera prêt à tout pour la libérer des griffes de l'homme le plus puissant de Maidstone qui la tient sous son joug... même à aller à l'encontre des conventions, s'il le fautPolyphagie: roman (Hurlantes fictions)
Par Véronique Drouin. 2023
Romane, une étudiante à la très réputée école culinaire Guillot, sort prendre un pot avec ses amis dans un club…
branché. La soirée se termine par un black-out complet. La jeune femme se réveille seule dans un lieu désaffecté, nue et couverte de sang. À ses côtés, une main sectionnée et un téléphone inconnu. C'est ainsi que débutera une lente descente aux enfers pour celle qui cherchera à comprendre non seulement ce qui s'est produit cette nuit-là, mais quel est ce mal qui la ronge et la métamorphoseKnowing you (Pictures of the Heart #3)
Par Tracie Peterson. 2023
Could a captivating art exhibit hold the key to truth—and love? Budding artist May Parker is captivated by the Japanese…
exhibits at the AlaskaYukon-Pacific Exposition and longs to know more about her mother's heritage—which her mother refuses to speak of because of the heartache she left behind in Japan. Wanting to experience more of the exhibits, May works as a Camera Girl but her curiosity leads her into danger when a suit of samurai armor becomes the target of an elusive art forger. After ten years apart, May is reunited with her childhood friend Lee Munro, a police detective assigned to keep a watchful eye on the exposition. Their friendship immediately begins to blossom with hints of something more, but when they become entangled in a dangerous heist involving the samurai armor and their love is threatened, can they overcome the odds against them?