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Dans ce recueil de nouvelles - où l'on verra Dieu lui-même dialoguer avec Adam - c'est tout l'univers de Béatrix…
Beck qui s'impose. Les êtres qu'elle y {recense}, les circonstances ou les époques qu'elle y réinvente, s'offrent, à chaque page, comme autant de prétextes poétiques dont les lecteurs de {l'Enfant chat} et de {la Prunelle des yeux} retrouveront les grâces si singulières. Univers fantastique ? Fables troublantes ? Tout, ici, provoque l'enchantement, et souligne que, dans le regard de Béatrix Beck, la réalité n'est souvent qu'un tissu de songes.
Sanny Tabor, une adolescente, est atteinte d'une grave malformation cardiaque. Surprotégée par sa mère, elle juge son existence triste et…
morne jusqu'à l'arrivée de Kira, une nouvelle élève. Pendant les vacances, elles décident de suivre la tournée de Crystal, un groupe composé de garçons de leur collège. Un lien se tisse entre Sanny et Greg, le bassiste, mais la maladie rattrape la jeune fille. Pour les lecteurs d’école secondaire. 2016. Titre uniforme: Stolperherz.
La fille d'un grand importateur de fourrure canadien fait appel à son ex-fiancé pour éclaircir le mystère entourant la disparition…
de son père. Celui-ci sera retrouvé mort dans sa voiture par la police américaine qui conclura à un suicide. Mais s'agit-il vraiment d'un suicide? Robert Thorne devra poursuivre son enquête jusqu'en Russie pour le savoir. 1986. Titre uniforme: The red fox.
With her cowardly step father for company, Shy South journeys into the lawless Far Country, reckoning with the Ghosts and…
being forced into an alliance with the infamous soldier of fortune Nicomo Cosca, with one purpose in mind: to get her family back. 2013.
When New York's richest gather at the Pierre's Cotillion Room to raise money for those less fortunate, a fatal blast…
rocks the room, stirring up horrifying memories of 9/11. Is the explosion an act of terrorism--or a homicide? Bestseller. Sequel to "NYPD Red 4". 2018.
Violet Jacobs is fearless. At least, that's what the cowboys she snatches from under the hooves of bucking horses think.…
Outside the ring, she's got plenty of worries rattling her bones: her young son, her mess of a love life, and lately, her family's struggling rodeo. When she takes business into her own hands and hires on a hotshot bullfighter, she expects to start a ruckus. She never expected Joe Cassidy. Joe came to Texas to escape a life spiraling out of control. He never planned on sticking around, and he certainly never expected to call this dry and dusty backwater home. But Violet is everything he never knew he was missing, and the deeper he's pulled into her beautiful mess of a family, the more he realizes this fierce rodeo girl may be offering him the one thing he never could find on his own. Contains mature themes. Followed by "Tangled in Texas". 2016.
Before Josh and Jordan Bell were streaking up and down the court, their father was learning his own moves. In…
this prequel to Newbery Medal winner 'The Crossover', Chuck Bell takes center stage, as readers get a glimpse of his childhood and how he became the jazz music worshiping, basketball star his sons look up to. A novel in verse with all the impact and rhythm readers have come to expect from Kwame Alexander, 'Rebound' will go back in time to visit the childhood of Chuck "Da Man" Bell during one pivotal summer, when young Charlie is sent to stay with his grandparents and where he discovers basketball and learns more about his family's past. Grades 5-8. 2018.
When writer Rebecca Barry and her husband moved to upstate New York to start their family, they wanted to be…
surrounded by natural beauty but close to a small urban centre, doing work they loved, and have plenty of time to spend with their kids. But living their dreams turned out not to be so simple: the lovely old house they bought had lots of character but also needed lots of repairs, they struggled to stay afloat financially, their children refused to sleep or play quietly, and the novel Rebecca had dreamed of writing simply wouldn’t come to her. Blends heartwarming, funny, authentically told stories about the messiness of family life, a fearless examination of the anxieties of creative work, and sharp-eyed observations of the pressures that all women face. 2015.
After Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese, twelve-year-old Tomi and her Japanese-American family are split up and forced to…
leave their California home, to live in internment camps in New Mexico and Colorado. Grades 4-7. 2015.
In Chicago, a young man jumps from his thirtieth-story hotel room; along the Missouri river, a hunter and his son…
stumble upon a lake whose surface is littered with snow geese, all of them dead; and in southern Alabama, Ryder Creed and his search-and-rescue dog Grace find the body of a young woman who went missing in the Conecuh National Forest--and it appears she filled her pockets with rocks and walked into the river. Before long Ryder Creed and FBI profiler Maggie O'Dell will discover the ominous connection among these mysterious deaths. What they find may be the most prolific killer the United States has ever known. 2016.
Marine archaeologist Charlotte Bennett, while maid of honour in her cousin Samantha's wedding, gains perspective on her life as a…
nomad who's given up on romance altogether. An encounter with roguish wedding guest Greg Rawlings leaves her unsettled, so Charlotte, acting on impulse, offers to house-sit at Red Clover Inn while Sam and Justin are away on their honeymoon. The inn isn't open to the public yet and Charlotte will have time to plan her next project. But then Greg shows up at the inn. The Diplomatic Security Service agent also wants to clear his head before his next assignment. The last thing he expects is to find himself falling for Charlotte. As the attraction between them flares, each of them must decide if they can put love first before it's too late. Sequel to "The spring at Moss Hill". 2017.
Coventry Dakin is forced to flee her life as a wife and mother after she accidentally murders her neighbour. Ending…
up alone on the streets of London, Coventry encounters motley characters who perfectly encapsulate the zeitgeist of 1980s England. 2012.
President Obama's former Green Jobs czar discusses his time in government and sets forth his own manifesto for restoring the…
American Dream on behalf of all working Americans, with proposals for creating jobs and equal economic opportunity. 2012.
Marie Charles' party-girl days come to a screeching halt with a DWI arrest and a totaled Jaguar. Sentenced to 500…
hours of community service at a local women's shelter, her only bright spot is a fellow volunteer, TV star Devon Harris. But Devon wants nothing to do with Marie and her selfish ways - until her work at the shelter has her turning over a new leaf. 2012.
"All you need to do is - pretend to love me." The task should be easy for Laura Parker -…
after all, Gabriel Santos is outrageously good-looking, it's for one night only and he is offering her a million dollars. 2013.
Memoirs of a northern trader turned civil servant. Mr. Hunt came to Canada in 1928 with the Hudson's Bay Company…
and travelled all over the North. He describes how the region evolved over time and bemoans the attempts to apply the southern values to northern situations. 1983.
On a routine patrol, RCMP Staff Sergeant Frank Boychuk discovers a body frozen in the Arctic for over two hundred…
years, as well as evidence that a Russian explorer discovered the Canadian Arctic long before other explorers. His discovery sets off a chain of events that leads to a confrontation in the Arctic Archipelago between the Soviet Union, Canada, and the United States. Some strong language. 1989.
Boxer, ship's waiter, factory-hand, beekeeper - John "Red" Doran has crowded a wealth of experience into his life. He recalls…
the "togetherness and happiness" of his childhood, the "adrenalin and fire" of his boxing days through to the darkness of the troubles when he survived a murder attempt. 1996.
The battalion in which Bowlby served was renowned throughout the Eighth army, but luck deserted it after the North African…
campaign. Stripped of its hard core of regulars it was sent as heavy infantry to Italy, instead of the specialised role for which it had been trained, and lost its first and second battles. Bowlby describes exactly how men behave when the heat is on, and his account of life in an infantry platoon in Italy 1944. 1989.