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Punishment
By Linden MacIntyre. 2014
Forced to retire early from his job as a corrections officer in Kingston Penitentiary, Tony Breau has limped back to…
the village where he grew up to lick his wounds, only to find that Dwayne Strickland, a young con he’d had dealings with in prison is back there too – and once again in trouble. Strickland has just been arrested following the suspicious death of a teenage girl, the granddaughter of Caddy Stewart, Tony’s first love. Tony is soon caught in a fierce emotional struggle between the outcast Strickland and the still alluring Caddy. And then another figure from Tony’s past, the forceful Neil Archie MacDonald – just retired in murky circumstances from the Boston police force – stokes the community’s anger and suspicion and an irresistible demand for punishment. Bestseller. 2014.Promises to keep
By Genevieve Graham. 2017
Summer 1755, Acadia. Amélie Belliveau lives with her family in Grande Pré, Nova Scotia. The community believes they can remain…
on neutral political ground, but when they refuse to pledge allegiance to the British in their war against the French, the army invades Grande Pré, claims the land, and rips the people from their homes. Amélie’s entire family, alongside the other Acadians, is exiled to ports unknown aboard dilapidated ships. Fortunately, Amélie has made a powerful ally. Having survived his own harrowing experience at the hands of the English, Corporal Connor MacDonnell is a reluctant participant in the British plan to expel the Acadians from their homeland. His sympathy for Amélie gradually evolves into a profound love, and he resolves to help her and her family in any way he can - even if it means treason. Bestseller. 2017.Principles to live by
By David Adams Richards. 2016
John Delano is a broken man, seemingly at the end of everything: the end of his legendary but controversial career…
as a police officer; the end of his sad and difficult marriage; the end of his years-long search for the truth of what happened to his missing son; the end of his fruitless quest for personal redemption; even, perhaps, the end of his life. Only one small thing keeps him going: his conviction that he has a final case to solve, centred around the disappearance years ago of a young boy placed in foster care in Saint John, New Brunswick. Bestseller. 2016.Pretty girls: a novel
By Karin Slaughter. 2015
More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia's teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not…
spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. Claire is the glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta millionaire. Lydia, a single mother, dates an ex-con and struggles to make ends meet. But neither has recovered from the horror and heartbreak of their shared loss -- a devastating wound that's cruelly ripped open when Claire's husband is killed. The disappearance of a teenage girl and the murder of a middle-aged man, almost a quarter-century apart: what could connect them? Forming a wary truce, the surviving sisters look to the past to find the truth, unearthing the secrets that destroyed their family all those years ago, and uncovering the possibility of redemption, and revenge, where they least expect it. Bestseller. 2015.Poseidon's arrow (Dirk Pitt adventures. #22.)
By Clive Cussler, Dirk Cussler. 2012
National Underwater and Marine Agency director Dirk Pitt and his team--including his oceanographer daughter Summer and marine engineer son Dirk,…
Jr.--are on a mission to stop the person responsible for a slew of missing ships and stealing plans for an attack submarine. Bestseller. 2012.Nirliit
By Juliana Léveillé-Trudel. 2015
Une jeune femme du Sud qui, comme les oies, fait souvent le voyage jusqu'à Salluit, parle à Eva, son amie…
du Nord disparue, dont le corps est dans l'eau du fjord et l'esprit, partout. Le Nord est dur et la missionnaire aventurière se demande comment on fait pour guérir son cœur. Elle s'active, s'occupe des enfants qui peuplent ses journées, donne une voix aux petites filles inuites et raconte aussi à Eva ce qu'il advient de son fils Elijah, parce qu'il y a forcément une continuité, une descendance, après la passion, puis la mort. 2015.La justicière: la finale des coupables : roman policier
By Marc Aubin. 2015
Le cadavre lacéré d'un homme - lui-même récemment acquitté d'une accusation pour homicide lors d'un procès controversé - est retrouvé…
sur la plage d'une petite municipalité du Québec. Selon les indications d'une courte note insérée dans la paroi nasale de la dépouille, ce meurtre atroce serait l'oeuvre d'une femme motivée par un désir de vengeance. Les horribles assassinats ne tardent pas à se succéder. L'inspecteur Jacques Fournier, qui compte avec dépit les corps mutilés que la redoutable meurtrière laisse sur son passage, tente par tous les moyens d'élucider le mystère. Qui est la femme derrière ces actes de cruauté? 2015.Poles apart: a novel
By Terry Fallis. 2015
Eve of Equality, a new feminist blog, becomes an overnight sensation when a popular talk show host stumbles upon it,…
tweets about it, and promotes it on her show. The anonymous blog is intelligent, thoughtful, and bold, brazenly taking on various injustices in the lives of women. But it’s the blogger Eve’s post about the controversial entrepreneur behind XY, a new chain of high-end strip clubs opening up across the country, that sets off a firestorm. In a matter of hours, the site crashes, its Twitter count jumps from a paltry 19 followers to nearly 250,000, and Eve is suddenly lauded as the new voice of modern feminism. But who is Eve? Not who you might think. Meet Everett Kane, aspiring writer and fervent feminist. Bestseller. 2015.Pirates: roman (Best-sellers)
By Michael Crichton. 2010
La Jamaïque, en 1665, n'est pas un endroit de tout repos. Témoins, le capitaine Hunter et son équipe qui comprend…
une fine gâchette, un géant muet herculéen, un expert en explosifs: en somme, d'excellents pirates. Livre comportant des passages de nature sexuelle et de la violence. 2010. Titre uniforme: Pirate latitudes.Plague: murder has a new friend
By C. C Humphreys. 2014
London, 1665. Five years after his restoration to the throne, Charles II leads his citizens by example, enjoying every excess.…
Londoners have slipped the shackles of puritanism and now flock to the cockpits, brothels and, especially, the theatres. But not everyone is swept up in the excitement. Some see this liberated age as the new Babylon, and murder victims pile up in the streets, making no distinction in class between a royalist member of parliament and a Cheapside whore. But they have a few things in common: the victims are found with gemstones in their mouths. Winner of the 2015 Arthur Ellis Best Crime Novel Award. Bestseller. c2014.Phantom prey (Lucas Davenport series. #18.)
By John Sandford. 2008
At his wife’s request, detective Lucas Davenport agrees to look into the unsolved murder of her wealthy, widowed friend’s daughter…
Frances Austin, who was a Goth. Now other Goths are being murdered. But a series of unusual bank transactions causes confusion. Sequel to “Invisible prey”, followed by “Wicked prey”. Bestseller. 2008.Picture perfect
By Jodi Picoult. 2010
A woman wakes to find herself in a graveyard, hurt and bleeding, her memory wiped clean. She is rescued by…
a police officer, himself a newcomer to Los Angeles. She is taken by complete surprise when she is finally identified by Alex Rivers, Hollywood's biggest movie star - and her husband. Cassie is dazzled and bewildered by the fairytale in which she suddenly finds herself. But everything is not quite right, and there is something dark and disturbing behind this glamorous facade. It is only as her memory gradually returns that her picture perfect life comes crumbling down, and Cassie is faced with choices she never dreamed she would have to make. Bestseller. 2010.Pax
By Sara Pennypacker. 2016
Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since Peter rescued him as a kit. One day, the unimaginable happens, Peter's…
dad enlists in the military and makes him return the fox to the wild. At his grandfather's house, three hundred miles away from home, Peter knows he isn't where he should be, with Pax. He strikes out on his own despite the encroaching war, spurred by love, loyalty, and grief, to be reunited with his fox. Meanwhile Pax, steadfastly waiting for his boy, embarks on adventures and discoveries of his own. Grades 4-7. Bestseller. 2016.Parting shot (Promise Falls trilogy. #4.)
By Linwood Barclay. 2017
If you made a mistake that took someone's life, you'd remember it...wouldn't you? After a tragedy rocks the community of…
Promise Falls, Cal Weaver is asked to investigate the threats being made to the accused's family. He's heard all about it on the news: the young man who drank too much, stole a Porsche and killed a girl, and who claimed afterwards not to remember a single thing. The whole town is outraged that he got off lightly, but for reasons Cal can't explain, he accepts the job. Then Cal finds himself caught up in a vicious revenge plot, chasing someone set on delivering retribution. In Cal's experience, it's only ever a matter of time before threats turn into action. Bestseller. Sequel to "The twenty-three". 2017.Outline: a novel
By Rachel Cusk. 2015
A novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during an…
oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinners and discourse. She goes swimming with an elderly Greek bachelor. The people she encounters speak, volubly, about themselves: their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face a great loss. Bestseller. 2015.Pachinko
By Min Jin Lee. 2017
Following one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor…
yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja is saved when a young tubercular minister offers to marry and bring her to Japan. So begins a sweeping saga of an exceptional family in exile from its homeland and caught in the indifferent arc of history. Through desperate struggles and hard-won triumphs, its members are bound together by deep roots as they face enduring questions of faith, family, and identity. Bestseller. 2017.Outbreak
By Robin Cook. 1987
When a deadly virus starts claiming victims in various large American cities, epidemiologist Marissa Blumenthal of Atlanta’s Centers for Disease…
Control is assigned the task of tracking its causes and origins. Conventional research reveals no clear answers, but Marissa’s extracurricular investigations lead to the uncovering of a heinous plot by a physicians’ political action committee. Some strong language. Bestseller 1987.Only love (Only. #4.)
By Elizabeth Lowell. 2002
Passing through Echo Basin, wanderer Whip Moran is attracted to Shannon Conner. Shannon lives in a remote cabin with bounty…
hunter Silent John. What Whip and the townsfolk don’t know is that Silent John is Shannon’s great-uncle, not her husband, and he has been gone for many seasons. Shannon is running out of supplies but resists taking help from men who want sex in return. 2002.Only time will tell (Clifton chronicles. #1.)
By Jeffrey Archer. 2011
The epic tale of Harry Clifton's life begins in 1920, with the words "I was told that my father was…
killed in the war." A dock worker in Bristol, Harry never knew his father, but he learns about life on the docks from his uncle, who expects Harry to join him at the shipyard once he's left school. But then an unexpected gift wins him a scholarship to an exclusive boys' school, and his life will never be the same again. As he enters into adulthood, Harry finally learns how his father really died, but the awful truth only leads him to question, was he even his father? Is he the son of Arthur Clifton, a stevedore who spent his whole life on the docks, or the firstborn son of a scion of West Country society, whose family owns a shipping line? This introductory novel in Archer's ambitious series The Clifton Chronicles includes a cast of colorful characters and takes us from the ravages of the Great War to the outbreak of the Second World War, when Harry must decide whether to take up a place at Oxford or join the navy and go to war with Hitler's Germany. From the docks of working-class England to the bustling streets of 1940 New York City, Only Time Will Tell takes readers on a journey through to future volumes, which will bring to life one hundred years of recent history to reveal a family story that neither the reader nor Harry Clifton himself could ever have imagined. Followed by "The sins of the father". Bestseller. 2011.On ne réveille pas un chien endormi
By Ian Rankin, Freddy Michalski. 2015
L'inspecteur Rebus a réintégré la brigade criminelle, au grade de sergent. Malcom Fox enquête sur une affaire de bavure policière…
vieille de 30 ans avec Rebus en ligne de mire. Ses collègues de Summerhall et lui s'appelaient les Saints de la bible d'ombre et s'étaient jurés loyauté. Rebus n'est peut être pas un policier véreux mais il est possible qu'il détienne des informations sur cette affaire. Best-seller. 2015. Titre uniforme: Saints of the Shadow Bible.