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Le plus petit sauveur du monde (Quai no 5)
Par Samuel Larochelle. 2022
Note de production : Cet ouvrage a été créé dans le cadre du Projet de description d’images littéraires d’eBOUND. L’auteur…
et l’illustrateur ont rédigé ou contribué aux descriptions des images, qui sont incluses dans le corps et la narration du texte. Florent, un garçon de dix ans, surprend une conversation entre ses mamans : devant l'état de la planète, elles se demandent si elles veulent avoir un deuxième enfant. À travers une série de mots impossibles à comprendre, il retient l’hésitation dans leurs voix, la peur dans leurs yeux, la main que l’une pose sur le ventre de l’autre, comme quand il n’arrive plus à s’endormir. Florent comprend qu’il y a trop d’humains sur Terre, qu’il ne faut plus faire d’enfants, qu’il aurait fallu arrêter bien avant et que lui-même est de trop. Ses mamans entendront-elles son cri silencieux?Come, Read With Me
Par Margriet Ruurs, Christine Wei. 2021
Production note: This title was created through eBOUND's Literary Image Description project. The author and illustrator wrote or consulted on…
the image descriptions, which are included in the body and narration of the text. In this picture book about stories and reading, contemporary children are whisked through an imaginary world while interacting with characters from classic fairy tales.Jamais trop tôt pour Arnaud
Par Liliane Boucher. 2024
Note de production : Cet ouvrage a été créé dans le cadre du Projet de description d’images littéraires d’eBOUND. L’auteur…
et l’illustrateur ont rédigé ou contribué aux descriptions des images, qui sont incluses dans le corps et la narration du texte. « Moi, c'est Arnaud, 7 ans et demi. Me poser des questions, c'est mon métier. Si tu savais comme j'ai du boulot. Il faut que je me lève tôt. Très tôt. Mes parents aimeraient bien, parfois, faire la grasse matinée. Mais impossible de m'arrêter quand ma tête déborde d'idées! »--Quatrième de couvertureOne Haunted House (Xist Children's Books)
Par Calee M. Lee, Maria Bullon. 2017
Preschool Halloween Counting Book One Haunted House is joined by Two Perfect Pumpkins, Three Winsome Witches, Four Baffled Bats and…
even more Halloween friends Perfect for toddlers through Kindergarteners, One Haunted House is a gentle introduction to the spooky side of Halloween, with lots of candy and good fun of course!Miracle Creek: A Novel
Par Angie Kim. 2019
Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First NovelA Time Best Mystery and Thriller Book of All Time The “gripping……
page-turner” (Time) hitting all the best of summer reading lists, Miracle Creek is perfect for book clubs and fans of Liane Moriarty and Celeste NgHow far will you go to protect your family? Will you keep their secrets? Ignore their lies? In a small town in Virginia, a group of people know each other because they’re part of a special treatment center, a hyperbaric chamber that may cure a range of conditions from infertility to autism. But then the chamber explodes, two people die, and it’s clear the explosion wasn’t an accident. A powerful showdown unfolds as the story moves across characters who are all maybe keeping secrets, hiding betrayals. Chapter by chapter, we shift alliances and gather evidence: Was it the careless mother of a patient? Was it the owners, hoping to cash in on a big insurance payment and send their daughter to college? Could it have been a protester, trying to prove the treatment isn’t safe?“A stunning debut about parents, children and the unwavering hope of a better life, even when all hope seems lost" (Washington Post), Miracle Creek uncovers the worst prejudice and best intentions, tense rivalries and the challenges of parenting a child with special needs. It’s “a quick-paced murder mystery that plumbs the power and perils of community” (O Magazine) as it carefully pieces together the tense atmosphere of a courtroom drama and the complexities of life as an immigrant family. Drawing on the author’s own experiences as a Korean-American, former trial lawyer, and mother of a “miracle submarine” patient, this is a novel steeped in suspense and igniting discussion. Recommended by Erin Morgenstern, Jean Kwok, Jennifer Weiner, Scott Turow, Laura Lippman, and more--Miracle Creek is a brave, moving debut from an unforgettable new voice.Powers of Attorney
Par Louis Auchincloss. 1900
Tales that take you behind the scenes of a powerful New York law firm, from the New York Times–bestselling author…
of The Partners. Ambition, jealousy, desire, hatred, deceit—they&’re all there inside the Wall Street law offices of Tower, Tilney & Webb, the setting for these interwoven stories set in the 1960s from Louis Auchincloss, who practiced law while also writing acclaimed and bestselling fiction. Senior partner Clitus Tilney is not about to let a detestable, hard-drinking partner make a mockery of all he&’s worked for. Harry Reilley is a clerk who pines for Tilney&’s daughter. Jake Platt is an associate willing to do whatever it takes to achieve his goals, including setting a rival up for failure. Rutherford Tower struggles with the fact that he owes his position with the firm to nepotism and not hard work. And then there&’s Mrs. Abercrombie, who&’s waiting for her sixty-fifth birthday, when she plans to retire—and get her revenge. These twelve linked stories capture the struggles, rivalries, victories, disappointments, and compromises in the day-to-day lives of lawyers, and a portrait of professional men and women in mid-century New York.Accidents of Providence: A Novel
Par Stacia Brown. 2012
&“A seventeenth-century heroine for our times&” could face death for her dangerous affair with an English revolutionary (O, The Oprah…
Magazine). London, 1649. King Charles has been beheaded for treason; Cromwell is in power; paranoia and self-righteousness rule; and glove maker Rachel Lockyer has been engaged in a secret affair with William Walwyn, a Leveler who advocates for independence and tolerance. But when Rachel&’s &“bastard&” infant is found hidden in the woods, Rachel is arrested. No one disputes that the young mother buried her beloved daughter. The question that has brought Rachel to trial for murder is: why? Now drawn into Rachel&’s circle is the married lover she is loathe to reveal; a fiercely compassionate mother who lost her own children to smallpox; a prosecutor hell-bent on making an example of Rachel; and the criminal investigator, increasingly reluctant to build his case against the condemned young woman—all of them brought to reckon for this one life. At once a remarkable love story and a breathtaking thriller based on true events, Accidents of Providence is &“heart-poundingly vivid [and] intellectually provocative . . . historical fiction at its best&” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). &“[A] delightfully seditious heroine . . . Proof that a historical novel can be educational and entertaining.&” —O, The Oprah Magazine &“Wonderfully detailed and keenly researched, it is a moving portrait of a courageous woman caught between a disastrous affair with a charismatic revolutionary and the draconian laws of the land that would put her to death because of it.&” —Kathleen Kent, author of The Traitor&’s WifeA Stranger in the Kingdom: A Novel
Par Howard Mosher. 2014
This novel of murder and its aftermath in a small Vermont town in the 1950s is &“reminiscent of To Kill…
a Mockingbird . . . Absorbing&” (The New York Times). In Kingdom County, Vermont, the town&’s new Presbyterian minister is a black man, an unsettling fact for some of the locals. When a French-Canadian woman takes refuge in his parsonage—and is subsequently murdered—suspicion immediately falls on the clergyman. While his thirteen-year-old son struggles in the shadow of the town&’s accusations, and his older son, a lawyer, fights to defend him, a father finds himself on trial more for who he is than for what he might have done. &“Set in northern Vermont in 1952, Mosher&’s tale of racism and murder is powerful, viscerally affecting and totally contemporary in its exposure of deep-seated prejudice and intolerance . . . [A] big, old-fashioned novel.&” —Publishers Weekly &“A real mystery in the best and truest sense.&”—Lee Smith, The New York Times Book Review A Winner of the New England Book AwardI'm Not Stiller
Par Max Frisch. 1994
The unabridged version of a haunting story of a man in prison. His wife, brother, and mistress recognize him and…
call him by his name, Anatol Ludwig Stiller. But he rejects them, repeatedly insisting that he’s not Stiller. Could he possibly be right-or is he deliberately trying to shake off his old identity and assume a new one? Translated by Michael Bullock. A Helen and Kurt Wolff BookSpeaking in Tongues: A Novel
Par Jeffery Deaver. 2002
From the New York Times bestselling author of Coffin Dancer and The Final Twist comes a gripping story about Two…
men of words, one who seeks only peace—the other, violence. Tate Collier, once one of the country's finest trial lawyers, is trying to forget his past. Now a divorced gentleman farmer, land developer, and community advocate in rural Virginia, he's regrouping from some disastrous mistakes in the realms of love and the law. But controversy—and danger—seem to have an unerring hold on Tate. Even as he struggles to rebuild his life, his alter ego is plotting his demise. Aaron Matthews, a brilliant psychologist, has turned his talents away from curing patients to far deadlier goals. He's targeted Tate, Tate's ex-wife, Bett, and their estranged daughter, Megan, for unspeakable revenge. Matthews, ruthless and hell-bent, will destroy anything that inhibits his plans. When their daughter disappears, Tate and Bett reunite in a desperate, heart-pounding attempt to find her and to stop Matthews, a psychopath whose gift of a glib tongue and talent for coercion are as dangerous as knives and guns. Featuring an urgent race against the clock, gripping details of psychological manipulation, and the brilliant twists and turns that are trademark Deaver, Speaking in Tongues delivers the suspense punch that has made this author a bestseller. It will leave you speechless.Street Legal: The Betrayal
Par William Deverell. 2004
A Toronto lawyer defends a hit man as the Midnight Strangler stalks the city in a legal thriller based on…
the author&’s popular CBC drama Street Legal. Toronto, 1980. Three ambitious young lawyers are out to make a name for themselves with their own practice. Chuck Tchobanian and Leon Robinovitch are testing the boundaries of free speech with a pair of controversial cases. Carrie Barr, fresh from her success defending a drifter charged as the notorious Midnight Strangler, takes the most dangerous case of all: a suave hit man who proves to be far more dangerous—and alluring—than she imagined. Soon Carrie finds herself drawn into a web of terror as a rogue police operation, a ruthless drug lord, and a series of brutal murders threaten to tear the fledgling firm apart. Meanwhile, the Midnight Strangler is still at large . . . and may have chosen Carrie as his next victim. Novelist and criminal lawyer William Deverell won the Dashiell Hammett Prize and two Arthur Ellis Awards for his gritty legal thrillers. Street Legal: The Betrayal is based on Deverell&’s long-running Canadian crime drama Street Legal, which was revived with a new cast in 2019.Gary's Blooming Business: Decimals (Math Matters)
Par Katie Sharp. 2023
Discover Math Matters! With 15 million books sold worldwide, this award-winning series of easy-to-read books will help young readers ages…
5–8 approach math with enthusiasm. Great for fans of MathStart or Step into Reading Math.Gary wants a new soccer ball but doesn&’t have enough money. With the help of his mom and her garden, he hatches a business idea to sell her flowers in the neighborhood. The catch? He has to help his mom buy supplies and pay for her labor of growing the flowers. Dollars and cents add up quickly as Gary&’s mom shows him how to calculate his business costs! As Gary quickly learns, counting change becomes a challenge when one wrong decimal can change $1 into $10! (Math topic: decimals)With engaging stories that connect math to kids&’ everyday lives, each book in the Teachers&’ Choice Award–winning Math Matters series focuses on a single concept and reinforces math vocabulary and skills. Bonus activities in the back of each book feature math and reading comprehension questions, and even more free activities online add to the fun!How to Build a Diamond: Angles (Math Matters)
Par Michelle Parsons. 2023
Discover Math Matters! With 15 million books sold worldwide, this award-winning series of easy-to-read books will help young readers ages…
5–8 approach math with enthusiasm. Great for fans of MathStart or Step into Reading Math.What&’s summer without baseball? Lindsey, Arun, and Ladi are done with little league for the season, but the itch to play is still fresh in their minds. Maybe they can create their own baseball field—but where to start? Diamonds, squares, pentagons, right angles! What are they? With the help of the kindly Mr. Riley, the kids learn the precise angles and measurements to create their own field. (Math topic: angles)With engaging stories that connect math to kids&’ everyday lives, each book in the Teachers&’ Choice Award–winning Math Matters series focuses on a single concept and reinforces math vocabulary and skills. Bonus activities in the back of each book feature math and reading comprehension questions, and even more free activities online add to the fun!Shopping Spree Showdown: Rounding (Math Matters)
Par Katie Sharp. 2023
Discover Math Matters! With 15 million books sold worldwide, this award-winning series of easy-to-read books will help young readers ages…
5–8 approach math with enthusiasm. Great for fans of MathStart or Step into Reading Math.Charlie is eager to participate in Shopping Spree Showdown, her favorite TV game show. With the help of her grandma, she has the chance to enter. With five short minutes and $100 to spend on game-show goodies, she has to choose what to buy—but if she goes over $100, she&’s out! Charlie uses her newfound skills in rounding to speedily track her budget. And when the clock runs out, it&’s time for victory dinner with grandma—courtesy of Charlie&’s winnings!With engaging stories that connect math to kids&’ everyday lives, each book in the Teachers&’ Choice Award–winning Math Matters series focuses on a single concept and reinforces math vocabulary and skills. Bonus activities in the back of each book feature math and reading comprehension questions, and even more free activities online add to the fun!Created by a teacher, Bob Books have been helping children learn to read for more than forty years! This phonics-based…
set introduces long vowels and helps developing readers gently take the final step toward reading chapter books. Now in a sturdy hardcover!The silly stories in Bob Books Long Vowels focus on long vowels, but also provide plenty of practice with silent e, longer words, and word endings such as -ed and -ing. The longer stories build reading endurance and expand the vocabulary of maturing readers. This set prepares kids to graduate to chapter books!In this collection you'll find:8 hilarious, easy-to-read books: 16-24 pages each, 52-129 unique words per bookA parent guide with tips for helping your child learn to readEach book includes:Repetition of words and sounds, which helps children decode the textLonger sentences and stories than previous sets ("She ran as fast as she could.")A list of new long vowel combinations introduced in that bookFriendly, simple illustrations that add fun and do not distract from the wordsGuided Reading Levels: G, H, I | Lexile Measure: 110L - 560L | Bob Books Level: Stage 3Ages: 4-6 | Grade Levels: Kindergarten, First GradeBob Books' phonics-based method aligns with the body of research known as the Science of Reading, which proves that systematic phonics instruction is crucial to children's reading success. With simple phonics, playful stories, and silly illustrations, Bob Books keep young readers' confidence high, leading to continued success and a love of reading. Your child will soon join the millions of happy kids who say, "I read the whole book!"®Bob Books - Animal Stories | Phonics, Ages 4 and up, Kindergarten (Bob Books)
Par Lynn Kertell. 2019
Created by a teacher, Bob Books have been helping children learn to read for more than forty years! This set…
of phonics-based, easy-to-read stories features silly animal characters -- perfect for kids in kindergarten and first grade.Bob Books Animal Stories are full of fun animal characters, from a pig who is a picky eater to a rabbit who loves to dress up! These charming books engage young readers while they practice their reading skills. Each story uses one-syllable words with consistent short vowels, which keeps text decodable and builds kids' confidence. Longer animal names and sight words sprinkled throughout add just the right amount of challenge.Inside this collection you'll find:12 small, hilarious, easy-to-read books: 12 pages each, 18-28 unique words per storyA parent guide with tips for helping your child learn to readEach story includes:Decodable text: Mostly three- and four-letter words with short vowels that can be sounded out (eggs, mop, slug)Simple sentences (Pig has buns and jam.)Limited sight words (saw, car, mouse)Friendly, simple illustrations that add fun and do not distract from the wordsGuided Reading Levels: C, D, E, F | Lexile® Measure: 60L - 270L | Bob Books Level: Stage 2Ages: 4-6 | Grade Levels: Kindergarten, First GradeBob Books' phonics-based method aligns with the body of research known as the Science of Reading, which proves that systematic phonics instruction is crucial to children's reading success. With simple phonics, playful stories, and silly illustrations, Bob Books keep young readers' confidence high, leading to continued success and a love of reading. Your child will soon join the millions of happy kids who say, "I read the whole book!"®Bob Books - Sight Words First Grade | Phonics, Ages 4 and up, Kindergarten (Bob Books)
Par Lynn Kertell. 2010
Created by a teacher, Bob Books have been helping children learn to read for more than forty years! Introduce developing…
readers to key sight words with this fun, phonics-based set of easy-to-read stories.Sight words, also known as high-frequency words, are common words that appear again and again in children's reading materials, and learning them is essential for reading fluency. Kids learn to easily recognize 30 of these words in Bob Books Sight Words - First Grade. Each simple story introduces three new sight words commonly taught in first grade. Words in this set are more complicated than in Bob Books Sight Words - Kindergarten, but consistent short vowels, repetition, and simple, supportive pictures keep the text decodable and gently advance young readers' skills.In this collection you'll find:10 small, hilarious, easy-to-read books: 12 pages each, 14-40 unique words per bookA parent guide with tips for helping your child learn to readEach story includes:30 new sight words: 3 new words per bookDecodable text: Mostly three- to five-letter words with short vowels that can be sounded out (bug, soft, sled)Simple sentences (Plums are in a tree.)Friendly, simple illustrations that add fun and do not distract from the wordsGuided Reading Levels: C, D | Lexile Measure: 30L - 390L | Bob Books Level: Stage 2Ages: 4-6 | Grade Levels: Kindergarten, First GradeBob Books' phonics-based method aligns with the body of research known as the Science of Reading, which proves that systematic phonics instruction is crucial to children's reading success. With simple phonics, playful stories, and silly illustrations, Bob Books keep young readers' confidence high, leading to continued success and a love of reading. Your child will soon join the millions of happy kids who say, "I read the whole book!"®The Gods of Guilt (A Lincoln Lawyer Novel #5)
Par Michael Connelly. 2013
INSPIRATION FOR THE ORIGINAL SERIES THE LINCOLN LAWYER – THE #1 TV SHOW ON NETFLIXDefense attorney Mickey Haller is forced…
to bend the law until it breaks when he is hired to defend a man accused of killing a prostitute in this novel of courtroom suspense, the "best one yet" (The Washington Post). Mickey Haller gets the text, "Call me ASAP - 187," and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Murder cases have the highest stakes and the biggest paydays, and they always mean Haller has to be at the top of his game. When Mickey learns that the victim was his own former client, a prostitute he thought he had rescued and put on the straight and narrow path, he knows he is on the hook for this one. He soon finds out that she was back in LA and back in the life. Far from saving her, Mickey may have been the one who put her in danger. Haunted by the ghosts of his past, Mickey must work tirelessly and bring all his skill to bear on a case that could mean his ultimate redemption or proof of his ultimate guilt. The Gods of Guilt shows once again why "Michael Connelly excels, easily surpassing John Grisham in the building of courtroom suspense" (Los Angeles Times).My Bubble My Space
Par Nathan Winstanley. 2023
Personal space is a very important social skill for children to learn. This book aims to help children to better…
understand the idea and importance of space, and to give parents/caregivers, teachers and therapists a way of defining those space boundaries. Through stories like My Bubble My Space, children will learn body and spatial awareness and begin to understand and respect the needs and rights of others. This book was designed to help children develop stronger social and emotional connections building positive, trusting friendships feeling safe within their environment.Betrayal: A Robin Lockwood Novel (Robin Lockwood #7)
Par Phillip Margolin. 2023
In Phillip Margolin's Betrayal, attorney Robin Lockwood finds herself defending her old nemesis in a multiple murder case with too…
many suspects, where success might cost her own life.Robin Lockwood is now a prominent defense attorney in Portland, Oregon but a decade ago, she was a ranked and rising MMA fighter. Her career came to a quick end when she was knocked out and concussed in the first round by Mandy Kerrigan, a much more talented fighter.Now the situation couldn't be more different, with Kerrigan on her last legs, her career nearly over, arrested for the quadruple murder of the entire Finch family...and Kerrigan's only possible friend is the attorney she beat so many years ago. For Robin, it's no simple case: Margaret Finch was a lawyer working for vicious Russian mobsters, and was in the cross-hairs of both the mobsters and the widower of a woman a client killed; her husband Nathan Finch was deeply in debt to a bookie who threatened his life; her son Ryan was the one who sold Kerrigan illegal performance enhancing drugs and was beaten severely by her when Kerrigan failed her drug test. To complicate matters further, the DA that Robin is facing is the man she's just started dating, the first person she's begun seeing seriously after her husband was killed.In a case where the stakes are high and the truth is elusive, where each new fact twists the case in a new direction, there is seemingly no way to win or direction to turn that will leave Robin Lockwood unscathed.