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The book thief
By Markus Zusak. 2007
Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to…
a concentration camp. She befriends blond-haired Rudy Steiner, her neighbour obsessed with Jesse Owens. Together Liesel and Rudy steal books - from Nazi book burning piles, from the mayor's library, from the richer people of Molching. By 1943, the Allied bombs are falling, and the sirens begin to wail. For Junior and Senior High readers. Some strong language. 2007.The bone collector (Lincoln Rhyme novel. #1)
By Jeffery Deaver. 1997
Lincoln Rhyme is one of the world's foremost forensic criminologists. He is also a quadriplegic, paralyzed from the neck down.…
The cop who could once look at a crime scene and find the clues about a killer that no one else could see is now strapped in his bed and actually planning suicide, when he gets a call he can't ignore from his old partner on the force. Some descriptions of sex, strong language, and explicit descriptions of violence. Followed by “The coffin dancer”. 1998, c1997.The bookshop: A Novel
By Penelope Fitzgerald. 1978
A middle-aged widow, Florence Green, decides to open a bookstore in a five-hundred-year-old house in her small English town. She…
makes a noble start but is thwarted by Violet Gamart, who wants to convert "Old House" into an arts centre. 1997, c1978.The boy in the striped pyjamas
By John Boyne. 2006
Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted…
by his people. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no-one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas. Bruno's friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation. Grades 5-8 and older readers. 2006.The Bourne supremacy (Bourne ; #2)
By Robert Ludlum. 1986
Jason Bourne has announced his return. But who, now, is Bourne? Is he the quiet professor and loving husband, or…
is he the most deadly master of the killing arts the world has ever known? In a smoky disreputable cabaret in Kowloon, murder is swiftly and violently perpetrated and eleven letters are written in the dead man's blood. Sequel to "Bourn identity" (DC05315). 1986. (Bourne ; 2)The book of negroes
By Lawrence Hill. 2007
Abducted as an 11-year-old child from her village in West Africa, Aminata Diallo is sent to live as a slave…
in South Carolina. Years later, she forges her way to freedom, serving the British in the Revolutionary War and registering her name in the historic "Book of Negroes", a record of freed Loyalist slaves who resettled in Nova Scotia, only to find that the haven they sought was steeped in an oppression all its own. Some descriptions of sex and violence. Winner of the 2008 OLA Evergreen Award. Winner of Canada Reads 2009. Also known as "Someone knows my name". Bestseller. 2007.The boat (Sven Hassel War Classics)
By Lothar Günther Buchheim. 1999
This is the story of a German U-boat, her commander and crew, as they embark upon yet another hazardous patrol…
in the Battle of the Atlantic. Explicit descriptions of sex. Strong language. 1999. Uniform title: Das Boot.The bonfire of the vanities
By Tom Wolfe. 1988
The millionaire hero, Sherman McCoy, is ripe for humiliation and finds it in plenty at the police Central Booking Bureau…
in the Bronx. There, after a freak accident involving muggers, his Mercedes and his mistress, McCoy learns that prosecutors, politicians and press are lining up to devour him with shameless relish. Strong language and descriptions of sex. 1988.The body in the library (Jane Marple murder mysteries ; #4)
By Agatha Christie. 1942
The Colonel and Mrs Bantry had always believed that finding "a body in the library" only happened in books, until…
it happened to them. Whose body was it? And why should it be found in the library of Gossington Hall? Miss Marple investigates. Sequel to "The regatta mystery, and other stories". Followed by "The moving finger" (DC32950). 1942. (Jane Marple murder mysteries ; 4)Taqawan: roman (Collection Polygraphe)
By Éric Plamondon. 2017
Il avait démissionné, une jeune Mi'gmaq se trouvait sous sa protection, deux hommes étaient morts et une partie du Québec…
voulait qu'on en finisse une fois pour toutes avec les Indiens. Cette histoire commence en Gaspésie, le 11 juin 1981. Cette histoire commence il y a des millénaires, avant les Vikings, avant les Basques, avant Cartier. Cette histoire commence avec les Mi'gmaq. Pour eux, c'est la fin des terres, Gespeg. Pour d'autres, c'est le début d'un nouveau monde. Alors que trois cents policiers de la Sûreté du Québec débarquent sur la réserve de Restigouche pour saisir les filets des pêcheurs mi'gmaq, un agent de la faune change de camp, une adolescente affronte ceux qui ont humilié son père, un vieil ermite sort du bois, une jeune enseignante s'apprête à retourner dans son pays - pendant que le saumon devenu taqawan, au retour de son long périple en mer, remonte la rivière jusqu'au lieu de sa naissance. 2017.The black moon: a novel of Cornwall, 1794-5 (Poldark series. #5.)
By Winston Graham. 1973
Continues the saga of Ross and Demelza Poldark, George and Elizabeth Warleggan, and the enmity between the two households. Sequel…
to "Warleggan" (DC05367). Followed by "Four swans". 1973. (The Poldark series ; 5)The Big Wander
By Will Hobbs. 1997
As he searches for his uncle through the rugged Southwest canyon country, fourteen-year-old Clay becomes involved with a group of…
Navajo Indians who are trying to save some of the last wild mustangs. Junior High. 1997.The big idea: how to make your entrepreneurial dreams come true, from the a-ha moment to your first million
By Catherine Whitney, Donny Deutsch. 2008
In this companion to his nightly CNBC television series, The Big Idea, former ad man Deutsch profiles entrepreneurs who have…
visited his show and the lessons he's learned from them. The author relishes stories of little people, mothers, students, retirees and former screw ups, who had only a good idea and built multimillion-dollar businesses without MBAs. Entrepreneurial success stories are complemented by practical advice and resources for building a business. c2008. Uniform title: Big idea with Donny Deutsch (Television program)The BFG
By Roald Dahl. 2006
Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie…
concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants. Grades 3-6. 2006.Tempête de feu (Une aventure de Derrick Storm)
By Richard Castle, Françoise Fauchet. 2014
Derrick Storm rentre de vacances quand soudain, à plus de 6 000 mètres d'altitude, son avion part en vrille. Heureusement,…
Storm est là pour sauver la situation et, in extremis, éviter le crash. Dans le même temps, sept autres avions subissent le même sort et s'écrasent, faisant des centaines de victimes. A chaque fois, les passagers sont des personnalités riches et puissantes. La CIA fait appel à Storm pour enquêter sur cette affaire qui devient encore plus terrifiante quand de nouveaux avions s'écrasent. Un terroriste aurait-il réussi à fabriquer une nouvelle arme ? De Monaco à l'Egypte et au Panama, Storm va avoir fort à faire pour sauver le monde. Encore une fois ! 2014. Titre uniforme: Wild storm.The best of enemies: race and redemption in the new South
By Osha Davidson. 2017
C. P. Ellis joined the KKK as a youth. Ann Atwater quit her job as a maid to fight for…
civil rights. They met on opposite sides of the school segregation issue, yet forged a friendship. 2017.The best man to die (Inspector Wexford mystery. #4.)
By Ruth Rendell. 1981
Jack Pertwee was getting married in the morning and the darts club gathered in the pub to give him a…
send off. Charlie Hatton drove his lorry eleven hours down from Leeds just to be there. Charlie was Jack's best friend and he would be his best man. When the two finally parted at the Kingston Bridge, Jack felt as though his life was just beginning. But for Charlie Hatton life was just about to end. Sequel to "Wolf to the slaughter", followed by "A guilty thing surprised". 1981, c1969. (Inspector Wexford mystery)The Avengers assemble: the junior novelization
By Thomas Macri. 2014
Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. are faced with a foe no single person can defeat. So Fury sets out to bring…
together Earth's mightiest heroes and form the Avengers! Join Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, the Hulk, Black Widow, and Hawkeye as they battle the Asgardian trickster known as Loki, who plans to unleash a dangerous and powerful force upon the Earth. If Loki succeeds, the world as we know it will change forever--for the worse. Can the Avengers work together and rescue mankind from this vile villain's cruel grip? Or will Loki disassemble this new team and become ruler of Earth? Grades 3-6. 2014. Uniform title: Marvel's The Avengers (Motion picture : 2012)The Aspern papers
By Henry James. 1986
Julianna and her niece are marking time in a villa in Venice. A literary editor obsessed with the work of…
a long-dead poet, Jeffrey Aspern, comes into their lives to try to ferret out his papers. 1986.The back of the turtle
By Thomas King. 2014
Gabriel returns to Smoke River, the reserve where his mother grew up and to which she returned with Gabriel’s sister.…
The reserve is deserted after an environmental disaster killed the population, including Gabriel’s family, and the wildlife. Gabriel, a brilliant scientist working for DowSanto, created GreenSweep, and indirectly led to the crisis. Now he has come to see the damage and to kill himself in the sea. But as he prepares to let the water take him, he sees a young girl in the waves. Plunging in, he saves her, and soon is saving others. Who are these people with their long black hair and almond eyes who have fallen from the sky? Bestseller. Winner of the 2014 Governor General’s Award for Fiction. 2014.