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Silent victims (Det.Inspector Jane Tennison. #3.)
By Lynda La Plante. 2013
Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison expects hostility as she becomes the first female head of the vice squad in London’s…
Soho. Suddenly she is told how to handle the murder of a male prostitute, the newest case of her main assignment, Operation Contract. This is more than the hazing Tennison expected, and she is determined to discover why. Sequel to "A face in the crowd: Prime Suspect 2". 2013.Serpent's kiss (Beauchamp family. #2.)
By Melissa De la Cruz. 2012
Everything is going smoothly in North Hampton now that Joanna and her daughters, Ingrid and Freya, are allowed to perform…
magic again. But chaos erupts with the arrival of Freya's twin brother Freddie, who's finally escaped from Limbo. And Freddie's convinced that Freya's fiance Killian Gardiner is the one who landed him there in the first place. Sequel to “Witches of East End”. Followed by “Winds of Salem”. 2012.Shutter Island
By Dennis Lehane. 2003
In 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, are sent to Shutter Island to find a mass…
murderer who has escaped from Ashecliffe Hospital, a fortress-like federal institution for the criminally insane. As an intense hurricane bears relentlessly down on the island, the marshals are forced to piece together clues to a shocking puzzle hidden within Shutter Island, taking them on a dark, twisted journey, where paranoia assumes an air of cool rationality and the line between sanity and madness disappears. Some strong language. 2004, c2003.Shopgirl: A Novella
By Steve Martin. 2000
Artistic Mirabelle has an uninspiring job behind the glove counter at Neiman Marcus in Los Angeles, but what she really…
craves is love. Then smitten Seattle millionaire Ray Porter sends Mirabelle the gloves he purchased from her, beginning an unconventional relationship. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2000.Shake hands for ever (Inspector Wexford mystery. #9.)
By Ruth Rendell. 1975
Housewife Angela Hathall is found murdered in her home with no evidence of a break-in. Chief Inspector Wexford interviews beautiful…
Nancy Lake, the last person to see Angela alive. But what begins as a routine investigation becomes an obsession that threatens to destroy Wexford's career and marriage. Sequel to "Some lie and some die", followed by "A sleeping life". 1975. (Inspector Wexford mystery)Sex and the city
By Candace Bushnell. 1996
Collection of pieces from Bushnell's "Sex and the City" column originally published in the New York Observer. Essays discuss the…
relationships of Bushnell and women friends, who have what she describes as "a never-ending series of freakish and horrifying experiences with men." Descriptions of sex and strong language. 2001. Uniform title: New York observer (New York, N.Y.)Seven wonders of the industrial world
By Deborah Cadbury. 2004
Deborah Cadbury explores the history behind the epic monuments that spanned the industrial revolution from Brunel's extraordinary Great Eastern, the…
Titanic of its day that joined the two ends of the empire, to the Panama Canal, that linked the Atlantic and Pacific oceans half a century later. 2004.Scary stories: the complete 3-book audio collection
By Alvin Schwartz, George Irving. 2007
Ghoulish stories of ghosts and witches, startling "jump" stories, macabre songs, frightening legends, and modern-day horror stories. Tales of hauntings,…
walking corpses, dancing bones, vampires, monsters, and narrow escapes from death. Let the faint of heart beware! For grades 4-7 and older readers.Schindler's ark
By Thomas Keneally. 1982
In 1939, Oskar Schindler, a young, wealthy, enterprising German interested in drinking and women is a less-than-exemplary Catholic. In this…
"nonfiction novel," Keneally tells the story of his transformation into a man who, at great personal risk, saves hundreds of Jews from death during World War II. 1982 Man Booker Prize. Includes violence and strong language. 1982.Seeds of yesterday (Dollengager family ; #5)
By V. C Andrews. 1984
Cathy and Chris, haunted by the tragedies and sins of the past, return at last to Foxworth Hall, where they…
were hidden long ago. Despite every endeavour, they find that they are prisoners of a past they cannot escape and the past comes back to prey upon them once more. Sequel to "If there be thorns" (DC31442). 1984. (Dollengager family ; 5)Savages
By Don Winslow, Freddy Michalski. 2012
Ben, docteur en botanique et marketing, Chon, mercenaire féru d'armes sophistiquées, et Ophelia, une bimbo à l'intelligence brillante, produisent de…
l'hydro, un cannabis cultivé hors sol, sans matières organiques. Ils vivent tranquilles de leur petit commerce jusqu'au jour où la reine du cartel de Baja veut racheter leur business. Porté à l'écran en 2012 par O. Stone.Saving capitalism: for the many, not the few
By Robert B Reich. 2015
Reich outlines how the American economic system is failing, with increasing income inequality and a shrinking middle class, and reveals…
how a market designed for broad prosperity can reverse the trend toward diminished opportunity. Bestseller. 2015.Salmon fishing in the Yemen
By Paul Torday. 2007
When he is asked to become involved in a project to create a salmon river in the highlands of Yemen,…
fisheries scientist Dr Alfred Jones rejects the idea as absurd. But the proposal catches the eye of several senior British politicians. And so Fred finds himself forced to set aside his research and instead figure out how to fly ten thousand salmon to a desert country - and persuade them to swim there. 2007.Santa's little helper: Sabrina the teenage witch (Sabrina the teenage witch ; #5)
By Cathy East Dubowski. 1998
What a disaster! Suddenly Harvey's a chick magnet and Sabrina's out in the cold. Then, when she volunteers to take…
Jenny's place as Santa's elf, Santa and the presents disappear! It will take a miracle - or a teenage witch - to save this Christmas. But can Sabrina survive and keep her secret safe? Sequel to “Halloween havoc”, followed by “Ben there, done that”. Grades 4-7. 1998. (Sabrina the teenage witch ; 5)Sarah's key
By Tatiana De Rosnay. 2008
Paris, 2002. American journalist Julia Jarmond covers the sixtieth anniversary of the deportation of Jewish families to Auschwitz. When Julia…
discovers that her French in-laws' home was acquired from dispossessed Jews, she resolves to find out what happened to the former occupants - of whom only one, young Sarah, survived. 2008.Romeo and Juliet
By William Shakespeare. 1997
A romantic tragedy of two teenagers from rival families who fall in love. A sentence of exile and an impending…
arranged marriage force the two to flee. A friar suggests a ruse to accomplish their union, but miscommunication causes it to backfire. This is a fully dramatised unabridged version. For Senior High readers. Originally published in 1597. 1997.Rock
By Alain Gagnon. 1988
Rock, c'est l'histoire touchante d'un jeune en mal d'amour, de liberté et de bonheur. Un adolescent tantôt manipulé par les…
adultes, tantôt aidé, et qui finira par trouver sa place sur le bateau de la vie. Descriptions régulières de violence et de nature sexuelle. Beaucoup de langage grossier. 1988.Réjanne: roman
By Dominique Drouin, Anne Boyer. 2018
D'après la série télé écrite par Anne Boyer et Michel d'Astous. Réjanne s'est toujours sentie redevable envers Haïti, le pays…
qui lui a donné Geoffroy, son fils adoptif. Après un voyage d'un mois à Jacmel, ce sentiment vibre encore plus fort en elle. Elle décide de mettre sur pied une fondation dans le but de reconstruire l'orphelinat qui a été détruit par le tremblement de terre, en 2010. Dans son initiative, elle croisera sur sa route Raymonde, la mère biologique de Geoffroy, qu'elle invitera au Québec dans un élan de générosité. L'intégration de cette femme au sein du clan Carpentier fera vivre à Réjanne une gamme d'émotions aussi intenses que contradictoires. Jusqu'où ira-t-elle pour payer ce qu'elle estime être son dû? 2018.Room
By Emma Donoghue, Virginie Buhl. 2011
Sur le point de fêter ses cinq ans, Jack a les préoccupations des petits garçons de son âge. Ou presque.…
Il ne pense qu’à jouer et à essayer de comprendre le monde qui l’entoure, comptant sur sa mère pour répondre à toutes ses questions. Cette mère occupe dans sa vie une place immense, d’autant plus qu’il habite seule avec elle dans une pièce unique, depuis sa naissance. Quelques passages où le langage est grossier, quelques descriptions de nature sexuelle et quelques descriptions de violence. 2011. Titre uniforme: Room.Rum and razors (Murder, She Wrote Ser.)
By Donald Bain, Jessica Fetcher. 1995
When a dead body is found in a beautiful lagoon, Jessica Fletcher has to face the fact that dark secrets…
may lie at the heart of her friends Walter and Laurie's dreams. She must delve into the past to reveal the truth and save an innocent man. 1995.