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" À travers une vingtaine de textes inédits ayant pour dénominateur commun " la table ", la journaliste Lysiane Gagnon…
partage ses observations et ses réflexions sur la cuisine, la restauration, les traditions, les habitudes et les modes alimentaires. Dans ce livre, l'auteure traite de l'évolution de la critique gastronomique au Québec et ailleurs, des nouvelles tendances en matière d'alimentation, que ce soit du bio, du " manger local " ou du " manger cru ", des rites du repas chinois, à la façon dont les Japonais découpent le thon qui servira aux sushis. Elle réfléchit à propos des petites luttes de pouvoir au sein des couples lors de la préparation des repas, aux excès des foodies démesurément obsédés par la bouffe, ainsi qu'au phénomène des chefs-vedettes. " -- 4e de couv.
"Le 18 novembre 1992, à la suite dune envolée depuis la Colombie digne dun scénario hollywoodien, lavion de Raymond Boulanger…
se pose sur une piste datterrissage de la région de la Haute-Mauricie. Larrestation du pilote et la saisie de son bimoteur une véritable bombe volante transportant pas moins de 4000 kilos de cocaïne et 45 barils dessence a marqué lhistoire criminelle du Canada. Bien plus quun pilote mercenaire pour les cartels de Medellin et de Cali, ce Québécois, aujourdhui en liberté provisoire après avoir passé le tiers de sa vie en prison, a connu une carrière aussi incroyable que tumultueuse. Ce livre lève le voile sur la vie jalonnée de dangers de ce téméraire Rimouskois. " -- 4e de couv.
Reconstitution minutieuse des années qui précédèrent la chute du tsarisme, les années Raspoutine. L'auteur, historien, a parcouru nombre de documents…
tenus longtemps secrets. Il tente, ici, de lever le mystère expliquant pourquoi ce faux moine a réussi à s'imposer auprès du tsar Nicolas II. c2000, 2001.
Andropov, chef du KGB, a décidé d’éliminer le pape. Igor Zaïtsev, obscur fonctionnaire des transmissions a des scrupules et décide…
de monnayer sa défection en avertissant les services occidentaux. CIA et SIS britannique vont collaborer pour réussir l’exfiltration du transfuge - un lièvre dans le jargon de la CIA. Se trouvant au Royaume-Uni, Ryan se voit donc à son corps défendant embarqué dans une mission sur le terrain. Quelques descriptions de violence et quelques passages où le langage est grossier. 2005, C2003.
Andropov, chef du KGB, a décidé d’éliminer le pape. Igor Zaïtsev, obscur fonctionnaire des transmissions a des scrupules et décide…
de monnayer sa défection en avertissant les services occidentaux. CIA et SIS britannique vont collaborer pour réussir l’exfiltration du transfuge - un lièvre dans le jargon de la CIA. Se trouvant au Royaume-Uni, Ryan se voit donc à son corps défendant embarqué dans une mission sur le terrain. Quelques descriptions de violence et quelques passages où le langage est grossier. 2005, c2003.
Retour du detective Arkady Renko que l'on a pu voir dans "Le parc Gorki". Dans le chaos de la Russie…
d'aujourd'hui, il affronte le puissant reseau du trafic et du crime venu de l'Est. 1994.
In Montreal, Alfredo struggles with his memories of being ordered to commit an atrocity by the Bolivian army. Despising his…
nation as an oppressive sham, he falls for a woman who has no nation--a Kurdish freedom-fighter trying to blast an independent Kurdistan into existence. As the net of intrigue closes in on his lover, Alfredo must finally face his past. 2017. Uniform title: Rojo, amarillo y verde.
Sarah was only eight when her mother died and she was sold into prostitution. When she is in her early…
twenties and working in a California brothel as "Angel," a devout Christian gentleman rescues her. But Sarah has trouble accepting God's redeeming love. Some descriptions of sex. 1997.
Ex-policewoman Helen Bradley leaves Oregon for the coast of Washington state to finish writing a travel guide. There she learns…
that the author of an earlier edition has been murdered, maybe because of what she discovered during her research. Soon Helen is working with the Coast Guard, investigating a fisherman's death. Some violence. c1997. (Helen Bradley mysteries ; 2)
Dan Fortune is hired to find the would-be assassin of 88-year-old Rosa Gruenfeld, a lifelong Communist living in a seedy…
New York hotel. He learns of Rosa's tangled family history: a son who hates her, two rich brothers, three former husbands and a granddaughter who performs at benefits for a convicted killer. 1988.
Amber is new to Pride. As the new manager of the Golden Oar, she has big plans for helping make…
it one of the finest restaurants along the Oregon coast. But when she moved into town, she hadn't counted on running into--and almost killing--the most gorgeous man she'd ever laid eyes on. Sequel to "Lasting pride", followed by "My sweet valentine". 2018.
Sales at Fairy Tale Cupcakes are below zero, so owners Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura jump at the chance to…
sell cupcakes at the annual Juniper Pass Rodeo. But when star bull-rider Ty Stokes is found face down in the hay, the ladies realize they'll have to save more than their business from a vengeful murderer. 2017.
When Russian president Maxim Krupin discovers that he has inoperable brain cancer, he's determined to cling to power. His first…
task is to kill or imprison any of his countrymen who can threaten him. Soon, though, his illness becomes serious enough to require a more dramatic diversion--war with the West. Upon learning of Krupin's condition, CIA director Irene Kennedy understands that the US is facing an opponent who has nothing to lose. The only way to avoid a confrontation that could leave millions dead is to send Mitch Rapp to Russia under impossibly dangerous orders. With the Kremlin's entire security apparatus hunting him, he must find and kill a man many have deemed the most powerful in the world. Success means averting a war that could consume all of Europe. But if his mission is discovered, Rapp will plunge Russia and America into a conflict that neither will survive. Bestseller. 2018.
At the Convent of Sweet Mercy young girls are raised to be killers. But even the mistresses of sword and…
shadow don’t truly understand what they have purchased when Nona Grey is brought to their halls as a bloodstained child of eight, falsely accused of murder: guilty of worse. Stolen from the shadow of the noose, Nona is sought by powerful enemies, and for good reason. Despite the security and isolation of the convent her secret and violent past will find her out. Beneath a dying sun that shines upon a crumbling empire, Nona Grey must come to terms with her demons and learn to become a deadly assassin if she is to survive. 2017.
The land outside of the Old City was supposed to be green, lush, hopeful. A place where Alice could finally…
rest, no longer the plaything of the Rabbit, the pawn of Cheshire, or the prey of the Jabberwocky. But the verdant fields are nothing but ash--and hope is nowhere to be found. Still, Alice and Hatcher are on a mission to find his daughter, a quest they will not forsake even as it takes them deep into the clutches of the mad White Queen and her goblin or into the realm of the twisted and cruel Black King. The pieces are set and the game has already begun. Each move brings Alice closer to her destiny. But to win, she will need to harness her newfound abilities and ally herself with someone even more powerful--the mysterious and vengeful Red Queen. Sequel to "Alice". 2016.
Jonah was able to save all of time from collapsing but in doing so gained a twin brother, Jordan, who…
must learn what has happened and do his own part to save time - and his parents. Sequel to "Revealed". For junior and senior high readers. 2015.
A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young…
tax attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the Kremlin's corruption. Bestseller. 2015.
In the dark of night during a raging storm, a criminal is on the loose in the Arizona badlands. His…
name is Wilson Orez. Half-Apache and a former cavalry scout, Orez is skilled with weapons, seasoned in the desert, and trained to keep a cool head while death lurks all around him. Or when it springs from his own hands. Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack knows the only way to stop Orez is to kill him. But the madman has robbed a stagecoach, driven away its horses, and brutally pistol-whipped one of its passengers, leaving four unfortunate souls stranded in a desert on the verge of flooding. Now Sam must lead them to safety before he can continue his hunt for Orez, if he doesn't drown first. 2015.
One summer in Lake Eden, Minnesota, Hannah Swensen attends the grand opening of a newly refurbished hotel, where her famous…
red velvet cupcakes will be served in the new Red Velvet lounge. But when a party guest falls from the hotel roof, festivities come to a screeching halt--and Hannah becomes the surprising target of a murder investigation. Includes recipes. 2013.