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Tout ça pour quoi
Par Lionel Shriver. 2012
" [...] Shep a un rêve depuis toujours : tout quitter pour sinstaller en Afrique. Il a trouvé son paradis…
sur lîle de Pemba, dans larchipel de Zanzibar. Personne dans son entourage ne le prend au sérieux, jusquau jour où il revend sa boîte à un de ses employés devenu riche grâce à un héritage. Avec cet argent, il achète trois billets pour son épouse, son fils et lui. Et quils le suivent ou pas, Shep partira. Mais Glynis, sa femme, met un terme à ce doux projet : elle est atteinte dun cancer. Dès lors, Shep doit travailler dans son ancienne entreprisesous les ordres de son ex-employé qui se fait un plaisir de sans cesse le rabaisser. Pourtant, Shep tient bon ; pour sa femme. Sans boulot, pas de mutuelle, alors il saccroche. Sauf que ça ne suffit pas : il faut rajouter, emprunter encore pour chaque nouvelle chimiothérapie. Ce nest pas une histoire larmoyante, ce serait mal connaître Lionel Shriver. Et ne vous attendez pas à ce que la femme de son héros reste digne dans la maladie : Glynis nest pas très sympathique. Shep est un idéaliste, mais cest surtout une bonne poire qui, en effet, na pas sa place dans un pays tel que les Etats-Unis. Et puis il y a lautre famille, Carol et Jackson avec leur fille Flicka atteinte dune maladie dégénérative. Cette dernière est la seule avec qui Glynis réussit à sentendre car elles sont aussi cyniques lune que lautre. Jackson est le meilleur ami de Shep. Il passe son temps à élaborer des titres de livre sur la société qui les manipule. Mais, derrière ses grandes théories, Jackson est atteint dun mal beaucoup plus terre à terre Face à la maladie et la mort, largent prend toujours le dessus. Conclusion navrante, cest vrai, mais il reste toujours une sortie de secours : Pemba." -- 4e de couvDes 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. 2003Just Jane: a daughter of England caught in the struggle of the American Revolution (Great Episodes)
Par William Lavender. 2002
Fourteen-year-old orphan Lady Jane Prentice arrives in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1776 from England to live with her uncle's family.…
Over the next six years the colonies rebel against the crown, and Jane finds her loyalties divided between countries--and between suitors. For grades 6-9. 2002Twelve-year-old Australian Cedar misses her brother who ran away from boarding school and her mother who works all the time.…
But she copes by roaming the neighborhood, romping with her dog, and learning acrobatics from a new neighbor whose parents are in a circus. For grades 5-8. 2002June in winter
Par Patricia Anne Phillips. 2003
At the hospital where African American real estate broker Tracey Woods learns her husband, Donald, died in an auto accident,…
a stranger informs her that Donald was having an affair. Grief becomes anger as Tracey moves on with her life, helped by her family and another chance at love. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 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. 2003Liars and saints: a novel
Par Maile Meloy. 2003
This story follows three generations of the Catholic Santerre family from WWII to 2000. The family is driven by jealousy…
and love; an unspoken tradition of deceit is passed from generation to generation. When tragedy shatters their precarious domestic lives, it takes astonishing courage and compassion to bring them back together. Descriptions of sex and strong languageSkeleton Key (Alex Rider #3)
Par Anthony Horowitz. 2003
Reluctant teenage spy Alex Rider foils a Chinese plot to upset the Wimbledon tennis championships. He is loaned to the…
CIA and sent to a Cuban island. There he must find out what a former psychopathic Russian general is planning to do with a nuclear bomb. For grades 6-9. 2002It only looks easy
Par Pamela Curtis Swallow. 2003
On the first day of seventh grade Kat takes someone else's bicycle to visit her dog at the animal hospital.…
When the bike is stolen Kat's reputation at school is ruined, especially when more bicycles disappear. She also learns responsibility and compassion during her struggles. For grades 4-7. 2003The dream bearer
Par Walter Dean Myers. 2003
Twelve-year-old David seeks refuge in his Harlem neighborhood park from his mentally unstable father and unruly teenage brother. David and…
his best friend, Loren, meet elderly eccentric, Moses Littlejohn, who becomes their mentor with stories about his visions. For grades 5-8. 2003Secret father
Par James Carroll. 2003
Germany, 1961. Three American teenagers--Michael, Rick, and Kit--venture into East Berlin, where they are detained by the secret police. Michael's…
father and Rick's German mother rush to rescue them. But Rick has information that will endanger everyone. Some explicit descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 2003Say when
Par Elizabeth Berg. 2003
Frank Griffin's wife, Ellen, informs him one morning that she has fallen in love with another man--and wants a divorce.…
Numbed by the revelation but unwilling to leave his eight-year-old daughter, Griffin refuses to move out, creating an awkward living situation rectified only when he reevaluates life and love. 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 deep and other stories
Par Mary Swan. 2003
Canadian writer's evocative collection of fourteen short stories of time and emotion, love and loss. Includes O. Henry Prize-winning "The…
Deep" about twin sisters who volunteer to tend soldiers in France at the close of World War I, and other stories, many of them rooted in history. 2003Jackie's wild Seattle
Par Will Hobbs. 2003
Fourteen-year-old Shannon and her little brother, Cody, who is still coping with witnessing the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on…
New York City, spend the summer helping their uncle Neal at a wildlife rescue center in Washington state. For grades 5-8. 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. 2004