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Mystery at Chilkoot Pass (The American Girl Collection #Bk. 17)
Par Barbara A. Steiner. 2002
At the start of the Klondike gold rush in 1897, twelve-year-old Hetty travels to the Canadian mines with her family…
and their friends. But someone along the trail is stealing things from her family, and Hetty becomes determined to find the thief. For grades 4-7. 2002America fantastica: A novel
Par Tim O'Brien. 2023
"Tim O'Brien is the one American author whose works I look forward to the most. His new novel's ironic depiction…
of a post-Iraq war, mid-COVID, and mid-Trump world is piercing and razor-sharp." — HARUKI MURAKAMI An American Master returns: the author of The Things They Carried delivers his first new novel in two decades, a brilliant and rollicking odyssey, in which a bank robbery sparks "a satirical romp through a country plagued by deceit" (Kirkus, starred review) Named one of Fall 2023's most anticipated books: New York Times, Associated Press, Esquire, Kirkus, Goodreads, LitHub, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and more At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in Northern California. "How much is on hand, would you say?" he asked the teller. "I'll want it all." "You're robbing me?" He revealed a Temptation .38 Special. The teller, a diminutive redhead named Angie Bing, collected eighty-one thousand dollars. Boyd stuffed the cash into a paper grocery bag. "I'm sorry about this," he said, "but I'll have to ask you to take a ride with me." So begins the adventure of Boyd Halverson—star journalist turned notorious online disinformation troll turned JCPenney manager—and his irrepressible hostage, Angie Bing. Haunted by his past and weary of his present, Boyd has one goal before the authorities catch up with him: settle a score with the man who destroyed his life. By Monday the pair reach Mexico; by winter, they are in a lakefront mansion in Minnesota. On their trail are hitmen, jealous lovers, ex-cons, an heiress, a billionaire shipping tycoon, a three-tour veteran of Iraq, and the ghosts of Boyd's past. Everyone, it seems, except the police. In the tradition of Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain, America Fantastica delivers a biting, witty, and entertaining story about the causes and costs of outlandish fantasy, while also marking the triumphant return of an essential voice in American letters. And at the heart of the novel, amid a teeming cast of characters, readers will delight in the tug-of-war between two memorable and iconic human beings—the exuberant savior-of-souls Angie Bing and the penitent but compulsive liar Boyd Halverson. Just as Tim O'Brien's modern classic, The Things They Carried, so brilliantly reflected the unromantic truth of war, America Fantastica puts a mirror to a nation and a time that has become dangerously unmoored from truth and greedy for delusionNight of the bat
Par Paul Zindel. 2001
Teenage Jake flies to the Brazilian rain forest to join his father on an expedition to study bats. When a…
giant brain-eating bat menaces the project, Jake's worst nightmare seems to be coming true. For grades 6-9. 2001The stranger next door
Par Peg Kehret. 2002
Newcomer Alex is excited when another boy his age moves next door. But Rocky and his family are secretly in…
hiding. When several crimes occur, Alex, his cat, Pete, and Rocky join forces to solve them. For grades 4-7. 2002Poirot investiga (Hercule Poirot Mystery Ser. #3)
Par Agatha Christie. 1925
Eleven mystery stories solved by the ingenious Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. Includes "La Aventura de la Tumba Egipcia," "Tragedia en…
Marsdon Manor," "El Rapto del Primer Ministro," and "La Aventura del Noble Italiano." Spanish language. 1925Zach's lie
Par Roland Smith. 2001
Seventh-grader Zach's family is placed in a witness protection program after their pilot father is arrested for flying for a…
drug cartel. Zach adjusts and makes new friends in the Nevada mountains, until the family's identity is revealed and the drug dealers show up. For grades 6-9. 2001To have and to heist
Par Sara Desai. 2023
To exonerate her best friend, one woman must mastermind a jewelry heist during the wedding of the season in this…
hilarious romantic-comedy caper from the author of The Dating Plan . Simi Chopra is on a bad-luck streak. She’s lost yet another job, her student loan debt won’t stop growing, her basement apartment is a certifiable flood zone, and now her best friend has been accused of stealing a multimillion-dollar diamond necklace. To put it lightly, she’s desperate for a break—that’s right when Jack waltzes out of the bushes and into her life. Jack is just as charming as he is mysterious. When he offers to help her find the missing necklace and steal it back, Simi jumps at the chance to clear her friend’s name and collect the substantial reward. But every good heist needs a crew. All she needs to do is transform a ragtag group of strangers into an elite heist crew, infiltrate a high-society wedding and steal the necklace from a dangerous criminal before the happy couple say "I do." Meanwhile the bride is keeping secrets, a detective with a slow-burn smile keeps showing up at her door, and the ultimate robbery might not be the wedding con, but the way Jack is stealing her heartUne enquête à Murray Bay (QA roman)
Par Céline Beaudet. 2022
Pointe-au-Pic, 1er juillet 1910. La famille Brockwell débarque du St.Irénée, un luxueux navire. Alice, la matriarche désabusée, Edwin et Irene,…
les aînés craignant tout changement qui pourrait menacer leurs privilèges et leurs mœurs dissipées, et Elizabeth, la benjamine suffragiste : les revoici enfin à Murray Bay, l'oasis qui n'existe que pour les happy fewThe bike tour mystery (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #Vol. 168)
Par Carolyn Keene. 2002
Nancy Drew and her girlfriends Bess and George travel to Ireland for a bike tour that includes teens from other…
countries. Once there they realize that the group is in danger from an unknown assailant. For grades 4-7. 2002The secret of Shadow Ranch (Nancy Drew)
Par Carolyn Keene. 1931
Riddle of the prairie bride (The American Girl Collection #Bk. 12)
Par Kathryn Reiss, Paul Bachem, Laszlo Kubinyi. 2001
In 1878, twelve-year-old Ida Kate and her widowed father welcome a mail-order bride and her baby to their Kansas homestead.…
But Ida Kate soon suspects that the bride is not the same woman with whom Papa had corresponded. For grades 5-8. 2001No escape: a Masey Baldridge/Luke Williamson mystery
Par James Brewer. 1998
1873. When a yellow fever epidemic strikes Memphis, Captain Luke Williamson is quarantined on his steamboat. The rest of the…
staff of the Big River Detective Agency, Masey Baldridge and Salina Tyner, are hired to find out who is murdering patients while panic spreads. Some violenceFury: a novel
Par G. M Ford. 2001
Disgraced reporter Frank Corso is working for a Seattle tabloid when he investigates a witness recanting her testimony in a…
serial murder case. To stop the condemned man's execution, Frank and his new assistant, hard-boiled photographer Meg Dougherty, fight to get the police files reopened. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2001Plus fort que Sherlock Holmes: nouvelles (L'aube poche. Les populaires)
Par Mark Twain. 2006
"Ce court recueil de nouvelles policières fait figure de "chef-d'oeuvre inconnu" dans l'oeuvre de Mark Twain. L'auteur s'y joue avec…
maestria des règles du genre en les moquant, en dépoussiérant les codes en vigueur dans l'ancien monde - celui que Sherlock Holmes incarne à merveille! Et il se donne autant de prétextes pour afficher la fraîcheur, la force et la jeunesse du Nouveau Monde, le sien, et le lieu de cette aventure réelle." -- 4e de couvLe dernier assassin (Belfond noir)
Par Barry Eisler. 2008
"Depuis qu'il a découvert l'existence de son fils, John Rain ne songe plus qu'à une chose : le retrouver. Prêt…
à tout quitter - ses activités de tueur à gages, mais aussi Delilah, la sublime espionne du Mossad devenue sa maîtresse -, il s'envole pour Manhattan. Dans l'espoir que Midori, la mère de son enfant, une pianiste de jazz qu'il a passionnément aimée, lui pardonne le meurtre qui les avait séparés... Mais comment approcher la jeune femme sans la mettre en danger face à ceux qui n'ont jamais cessé de le traquer ? Rain n'a qu'une option : reprendre du service. Quitte à déclarer la guerre au plus puissant clan de yakusas sur le sol américain... Entre politiciens véreux, petites frappes sadiques et femmes dangereusement fatales, de complots déjoués en trahisons insoupçonnées, le sang froid de Rain va être mis à rude épreuve..." -- 4e de couvThe Bohemian murders: a Fremont Jones mystery
Par Dianne Day. 1997
In 1907, Fremont Jones follows the man she loves to Carmel. But Michael now calls himself "Misha" and seems quite…
changed. When confused Fremont takes a temporary job as a lighthouse keeper, she spots a dead woman floating in Monterey Bay and becomes obsessed with identifying her. Some strong language, some violence, and some descriptions of sexLe pic du diable: roman (Seuil policiers)
Par Deon Meyer. 2007
"Pour l'ancien combattant de la lutte anti-apartheid Thobela Mpayipheli, retrouver l'Afrique du Sud après toutes ces années passées à se…
battre en Europe et dans dautres pays africains na pas été facile. Chômage, misère et perte de la femme qui lui avait redonné le goût de vivre, telles ont été les dures réalités auxquelles il a dû faire face. Au moins lui restait-il le fils quil avait adopté et quil élevait avec un amour et une fierté sans faille. Hélas pour lui, cela aussi lui est enlevé dès le début du roman. Douleur immense, colère, puis désir de vengeance chez quelquun qui sait se battre et tuer (il a été formé à ça par les services de la Stasi), Thobela se lance alors dans une croisade sans merci contre les individus, noirs et blancs, qui torturent et assassinent des milliers denfants dans un pays où lignorance, lillettrisme et de terrifiantes croyances tribales font encore dinnombrables ravages : beaucoup de gens croient sincèrement quen violant un nourrisson ou un enfant en bas âge, on peut guérir du sida. À ces assassins, Thobela Mpayipheli va opposer sa loi. -- 4e de couvLa toile de l'araignée (Les Portes de la nuit)
Par William Irish. 1980
Pour les connaisseurs et les amateurs de suspense, un recueil de six nouvelles inédites en français de la meilleure période…
(1937-38) de cet Edgar Poe du XXe siècle. Comprend également une nouvelle posthume de 1971 ainsi qu'une préface et une postface qui font exactement le point sur le destin de cet écrivain méconnu. Qui lira ce volume cherchera les autres, c'est garanti. [SDMLa vengeance d'un père
Par Pan Bouyoucas. 1997
Une famille grecque dont la fille a été sauvagement agressée voit son destin lié à celui du détective québécois chargé…
de l'enquête. Cadre: les milieux ethniques montréalais. Un bon suspense. [SDMThe curse of the black cat
Par Carolyn Keene. 2001