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Come home, my heart
Par Phyllis Campbell. 1988
Dr. Susan Perry, an obstetrician, becomes blind after a brain tumor is removed. Once rehabilitated, she moves to a poor,…
rural Virginia town. In her new career as a social worker, she becomes an integral part of the community and falls in love. 1988Moon over Manhattan: mystery and mayhem
Par Larry King. 2003
Wealthy teenager Allison Vandameer, daughter of a liberal television commentator in New York City, plots a fake elopement to blackmail…
dad into letting her attend film school. The plan goes awry when her dim-witted boyfriend, Goonie, gets confused. Further schemes involve Goonie, a doorman, a reporter, and other hustlers. Some strong language. 2003In the presence of the enemy (Inspector Lynley Ser.)
Par Elizabeth George. 1997
Newspaper editor Dennis Luxford receives a threatening note demanding that he publicly reveal he is the father of ten-year-old Charlotte…
Bowen, the kidnapped daughter of a member of parliament with whom Luxford had an affair years earlier. Scotland Yard inspector Thomas Lynley enters the case when a body is discovered. Strong language. Bestseller. 1996Fifteen love
Par Robert Corbet. 2003
Fifteen-year-olds Mia, a violist with family problems, and Will, a tennis player whose brother is paralyzed, gradually fall in love--both…
for the first time. They reveal feelings about each other, school, and friends while struggling to understand the opposite sex. For senior high readers. 2003Entre l'eau douce et la mer (Focus)
Par Louise Tremblay-D'Essiambre. 2006
"Ce livre est un peu le voyage de l'eau d'un lac paisible à l'océan infini. C'est aussi Catherine, la silencieuse,…
la douce épouse, la tendre mère, vivant dans l'ombre et rêvant d'absolu. Et Étienne qu'elle rencontrera lors d'un séjour à la mer. La mer... tumultueuse, entière, déterminée. Une histoire tissée d'émotions et de tendresse, un récit où beaucoup de femmes pourront se reconnaître. Un roman d'espérance et de métamorphose où l'on assiste au triomphe de l'amour." -- 4e de couvL'empreinte du renard: roman (Fayard noir)
Par Moussa Konaté. 2006
À Bamako, le célèbre commissaire Habib, vieux flic dont la sagesse et le flair sont quasi légendaires, est expédié au…
coeur du pays dogon pour élucider une série de morts bizarres, vraisemblablement des meurtres. Affaire d'autant plus délicate que les Dogons sont très attachés à leurs traditions et vivent pratiquement en marge des autorités officielles du Mali. En outre, ils sont connus et redoutés pour la puissance de leur magie. [...] Avec les Dogons, un peuple qui a fasciné Marcel Griaule, Michel Leiris ou Jean Rouch, Moussa Konaté, sans le trahir, nous fait toucher du doigt une partie des secrets inviolés de l'Afrique. Il donne ainsi au lecteur, en le divertissant, une belle leçon d'humanité. -- 4e de couvThe case of capital intrigue (The nancy Drew Files #Vol. 142)
Par Carolyn Keene. 1998
At the White House to help her friend George take photos of a solid gold statue of a hummingbird, Nancy…
is knocked out cold and the statue disappears. In the course of investigating what happened to this priceless treasure, she recklessly chases kidnappers around Washington, D.C. For grades 4-7. 1998The secret of Candlelight Inn (Nancy Drew #139)
Par Carolyn Keene. 2002
Nancy and her friends Bess and George visit an old country inn that is being turned into a training center…
for Seeing Eye dogs. Nancy's discovery of a hidden room filled with counterfeit money threatens her life. For grades 4-7The Chili Queen: A Novel
Par Sandra Dallas. 2002
On the train to Nalgitas, New Mexico, brothel owner Addie French meets Emma Roby, a mail-order bride. When Emma's prospective…
husband fails to show, Addie takes her in at her "boarding house"--The Chili Queen. There Emma meets Welcome, the African American cook, and Ned, an outlaw. Together, they devise a moneymaking scheme. Spur Award. 2002The mistletoe mystery (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #Vol. 169)
Par Carolyn Keene. 2002
During the pre-Christmas shopping season, someone is stealing dresses from Albemarle's, a department store where Bess works. When Bess's friend,…
Ali Marie, is accused, Bess asks Nancy Drew to find the real thief. For grades 4-7. 2002The wild cat crime (The nancy Drew Files #Vol. 141)
Par Carolyn Keene. 1998
While working with a television news team, Nancy covers the birth of four baby cougars at the zoo. When the…
cubs are stolen, Nancy sets out to rescue them and finds herself in danger too. American Action Fund. For grades 4-7. 1998Suddenly you
Par Lisa Kleypas. 2001
London, 1836. To end her never-loved spinster status, novelist Amanda Briars hires a male prostitute for one night of fantasy…
on her thirtieth birthday. She is appalled to again encounter Jack--aka John Devlin, a notorious publisher--at a dinner party. He then makes her an offer she can't refuse. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2001L'empire des loups: roman
Par Jean-Christophe Grangé. 2003
Une femme qui ne reconnaît plus son mari, haut fonctionnaire de la justice; un policier qui enquête sur trois jeunes…
femmes retrouvées horriblement mutilées dans le quartier du Sentier, à Paris: deux récits parallèles dont la collision plongera le lecteur dans le milieu mal connu des immigrants turcs clandestins exploités par l'industrie textile. Un suspense efficace et dur, dans la lignée des Rivières pourpresA suitable vengeance
Par Elizabeth George. 1991
In this prequel to A Great Deliverance (BR 07624), Scotland Yard detective Thomas Lynley and forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James…
are both in love with Deborah Cotter. When the three visit Lynley's mother's estate in Cornwall, the men bury their differences to solve two murders. Some violence and some strong language. 1991Compromising positions
Par Susan Isaacs. 1979
When a lecherous Long Island dentist is murdered in his office, his last patient, Marilyn Tuccio, is suspected. Judith Singer,…
a wisecracking housewife and Marilyn's neighbor, cannot resist playing detective. She also finds police lieutenant Nelson Sharpe more appealing than her stodgy husband. Some explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. 1978A game called chaos (Hardy Boys Ser. #160)
Par Franklin W Dixon. 2002
Frank and Joe need to locate a missing computer game designer, Steven Royal, and the final version of his Chaos…
series game. An e-mail provides a riddle clue that leads the Hardy boys into a scary tracking adventure. American Action Fund. For grades 4-7. 2000The enemy has a face
Par Gloria D Miklowitz. 2003
Middle schooler Netta Hofman and her family have temporarily moved to Los Angeles from Israel when her seventeen-year-old brother disappears.…
Netta becomes convinced that Arab terrorists are involved, even as she befriends a Palestinian boy at school. For junior and senior high readers. 2003Hide-and-sneak (The hardy Boys Ser. #Vol. 174)
Par Franklin W Dixon. 2002
The Hardy brothers join their friend Chet as actors in an action film where they use their motorboat in high-speed…
chase scenes. But danger lurks in a drifting yacht and a mysterious figure that haunts the marina. For grades 4-7. 2002A week in winter
Par Marcia Willett. 2002
Despite her family's objections, elderly widow Maudie Todhunter decides to sell Moorgate, her old English farmhouse. Prospective buyers include Rob…
Abbot, the home's renovator, and Melissa, a young woman hiding a tragic secret. For one glorious week, Moorgate enchants these strangers, who fall in love with the house and each other. 2001Reflecting the sky: A Novel
Par S. J Rozan. 2002
Private investigator Lydia Chin and her partner, Bill Smith, are hired by a New York City Chinatown elder to travel…
to Hong Kong to deliver an old friend's ashes, a letter to the dead man's brother, and a keepsake to his grandson. They find the apartment ransacked and the youngster kidnapped. 2001