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By Gustav Meyrink. 1986
Roman initiatique (1927) dont le personnage principal est le célèbre magicien anglais du temps d'Elisabeth, John Dee. Pittoresque et équivoque,…
le récit demeure fulgurant et nous replonge dans les dédales ésotériques de la Renaissance. 1994, c1986. Titre uniforme: Der Engel von westlichen Fenster.By Maurice Denuzière. 2009
Paris au printemps 1875, en pleine IIIe République, deux jeunes hommes, le pianiste Tristan Dionys et le juriste Maximilien Leroy…
font connaissance. Leurs pères, l'un versaillais, l'autre communard, sont morts sous la Commune. Ils deviennent amis, puis forment un trio fantasque avec Cléa une jeune réfugiée alsacienne.By Guillaume Prévost. 2014
Alma, comme beaucoup d'adolescentes, déteste les récits de guerre. Un jour, elle rencontre un ancien soldat de 14-18, Bakary Sakoro.…
Né au Mali, il s'est engagé à dix-sept ans. Autour du cou, il porte Force noire, le talisman de son grand-père. Mais la magie peut-elle le sauver de la folie des hommes ? Versé dans les bataillons d'Afrique, Bakary fait partie des sacrifiés, promis aux missions suicides et à l'enfer des tranchées. Seuls l'amitié de trois tirailleurs et l'amour de la belle Jeanne vont lui permettre de survivre. Mais Jeanne est blanche, et son père général... Peu à peu, Aima se passionne pour ce destin hors du commun. Jusqu'à découvrir qu'un lien secret l'unit au vieil homme. Pour les lecteurs du collégial. 2014.By Karen Bass. 2013
After a childhood cut short by war and the harsh strictures of Nazi Germany, sixteen-year-old Wilm is finally tasting freedom.…
In spite of the scars World War II has left on his hometown, Leipzig, and in spite of the oppressive new Soviet regime, Wilm is finding his own voice. It's dangerous, of course, to be sneaking out at night to leave messages on police buildings. But it's exciting, too, and Wilm feels justified, considering his family's suffering. Until one mission goes too far, and Wilm finds he's endangered the very people he most wants to protect. CLA’s 2014 Young Adult Book of the Year Award. For senior high readers. 2013.By Sarah Waters. 2002
Set in a den of thieves in 1860's London, this novel focuses on Susan, a pickpocket, who is persuaded by…
her cohorts to pose as a lady's maid and infiltrate the household of Maud, a young heiress in possession of a large inheritance. Strong language. 2002.By Don Gillmor. 2009
A multi-generational journey through millennia and across a continent, telling the stories, myths, and legends of those who came and…
settled, or came and went, leaving a legacy behind. The result celebrates the great and evolving character and spirit of Canada. Inspired by the true story of David Thompson, the Hudson's Bay-employed mapmaker who was the first to map the nation. Strong language. 2009.By Peter Carey. 1997
Set in London in 1837, this is the thrilling story of mesmerism and possession, of dangerous bargains and illicit love.…
Jack Maggs, raised and deported as a criminal, has returned from Australia. What does he want and why is he so interested in the comings and goings in Great Queen Street? And why is Tobias Oates, celebrated author, amateur hypnotist and fellow-burglar, interested in Jack. Strong language. 1997.By Stephens Gerard Malone. 2008
1932. Michael Renner is en route from Halifax to Berlin to oversee the affairs of his ailing grandmother. He ends…
up staying after her death, marrying and having a son, Billy, while leading a double life, hiding his beloved 'sexually deviant' Jan from the Nazis. Michael is given a chance to escape by an old friend, but finds he cannot abandon Jan and Billy. Descriptions of sex, strong language and explicit descriptions of violence. 2008.By Dodie Smith. 1949
Aspiring author Cassandra Mortmain, seventeen, tells how she, her sister Rose (nearly twenty-one), their eccentric author-father, and their stepmother, Topaz,…
survive life in a crumbling fifteenth-century English castle. When Simon and Neil Cotton inherit the estate, both Cassandra and Rose plot marriages, amid hilarious confusion. For Junior and Senior High Readers. 1949.By Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch. 2008
Teenagers Kevork and his betrothed Marta are the lucky ones - they've managed so far to survive the Armenian genocide…
in Turkey, both disguised as Muslims. But Marta is still in Turkey, pregnant with another man's child, and Kevork is living as an Arab in Syria. Kevork yearns to get back into Turkey and search for Marta, but with the war raging and the genocide still in progress, the journey will be impossibly dangerous. Descriptions of violence and strong language. For junior and senior high readers. 2008.By James A Michener. 1959
Four stories in one, combining fiction and history in a panoramic view of the migrations to and development of Hawaii.…
One story traces the eleventh-century settlers from Polynesia; another follows a group of American missionaries; and the other two stories trace the migration of Chinese and Japanese settlers. Some strong language, descriptions of sex, and some violence. 1982, c1959.By Bernard Cornwell. 2003
France, 1347. English archer Thomas of Hookton is sent to Gascony to capture a fortress, apprehend his cousin Guy Vexille,…
and, if possible, find the Grail. Thomas falls in love with Genevieve, a heretic sentenced to burn, and becomes a fugitive by sparing her life. Sequel to "Vagabond". Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2003. (Grail quest ; 3)By Carol Matas. 2002
Isobel's family is coming to Canada to find their fortunes, but misfortunes seem to follow their every step. The settlers…
endure many hardships on their way to their Red River Valley settlement, and they soon find themselves caught in the fur-trading rivalry between the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company. Will they survive the harsh climate and the threats against the settlers? Grades 4-7. 2002.By Douglas H Glover. 2003
The chronicles of the ordeals and adventures of a young French woman. She was marooned on the desolate Isle of…
Demons during Jacques Cartier's ill-fated third and last attempt to colonize Canada. Based on a true story. Winner of the 2003 Governor General's Award for Fiction. 2003.By Ken Follett. 2010
This novel follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle…
for votes for women. It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and to two orphaned Russian brothers, whose plans to emigrate to America fall foul of war, conscription and revolution. Followed by "Winter of the World". Includes strong language and sex. 2010. (Century trilogy ; 1)By Karleen Bradford, Martine Faubert. 2010
Virginie, 1863. Julia May Jackson, une jeune esclave de onze ans, collige secrètement dans son journal les étapes de leur…
évasion d'une plantation de Virginie. Rapidement saisie par les grands dangers qui les menacent en tout temps lors de leurs déplacements nocturnes et tandis que la guerre de Sécession occupe les troupes armées, l'adolescente se rattache à cet espoir d'une terre promise. Mais le chemin qui les mène d'abord au Grand Marais lugubre (Great Dismal Swamp), puis à la forteresse Monroe, pour ensuite les faire traverser à pied la Pennsylvanie et l'État de New York où ils emprunteront la rivière Hudson jusqu'au lac Ontario, est long et ardu. Années 4-7. Livre comportant de la violence. 2010. Titre uniforme: A desperate road to freedom.By Julius Lester. 2005
In a heavy rain in 1859, it is The Weeping Time - the largest Georgia slave auction ever held. Hundreds…
of families, marriages, and lovers were torn apart as slave owner and plantation master Pierce Butler sold hundreds of slaves to pay off his gambling debts. Slaves, owners, abolitionists, and children of slave and slave-master families tell their stories. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 5-8. 2005.By Madeleine Thien. 2016
The author takes us inside two talented families of musicians in China and the lives of two entwined generations -…
those who weathered Mao's Cultural Revolution in the mid-twentieth century; and their children, who became the 1989 Tiananmen Square protesters during one of the most important political moments of the past century. Bestseller. Winner of the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Winner of the 2016 Governor General’s Award for Fiction. 2016.By Helen Humphreys. 2008
On the evening of November 14, 1940, Harriet stands on the roof of the Coventry cathedral beneath a full moon.…
That night, the Germans come to unleash destruction, and for Harriet, Jeremy, the young man who shares her duties as a firewatcher, and his free-spirited mother, Maeve, the bombings will resonate for the rest of their lives. As Harriet and Jeremy make their way through the burning city in search of Maeve, cold dread brings to life both a grief and a love that Harriet thought she had put behind her forever. 2008.By Megan E Abbott. 2009
Marion Seeley, a young woman abandoned in Phoenix by her doctor husband, makes friends at work with Louise, a vivacious…
nurse, and her roommate, Ginny, a tubercular blonde. Before long, the demure Marion is attending parties where Louise and Ginny supplement their income by entertaining the town's most powerful men. Marion then meets - and falls for - Joe Lanigan, a local rogue and politician, whose ties to all three women bring events to a dangerous collision. Inspired by the true story of Winnie Ruth Judd. Descriptions of sex, some descriptions of violence, and some strong language. c2009.