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Scorpia (Les aventures d'Alex Rider. #5.)
By Anthony Horowitz, Annick Le Goyat. 2004
Alors qu'il participe à un voyage scolaire à Venise, Alex se lance à la recherche de Scorpia, qui doit lui…
permettre de connaître son destin... Il découvre qu'il s'agit d'une gigantesque organisation criminelle avec, à sa tête, Julia Rothman, qui affirme avoir connu le père d'Alex. Pour les lecteurs d’école secondaire. Suite de "Jeu de tueur", suivi de "Arkange". 2004.Seeing red
By Lina Meruane, Megan McDowell. 2016
This autobiographical novel describes a young Chilean writer recently relocated to New York for doctoral work who suffers a stroke,…
leaving her blind and increasingly dependent on those closest to her. Fiction and autobiography intertwine in an intense, visceral, and caustic novel about the relation between the body, illness, science, and human relationships. Winner of the Sor Juana IneÌs de la Cruz Prize (Mexico), 2012, and of the Anna Seghers Prize (Germany), 2011. 2016. Uniform title: Sangre en el ojo.Siege 13: Stories
By Tamas Dobozy. 2012
In December of 1944, the Red Army entered Budapest to begin one of the bloodiest sieges of the Second World…
War. By February, the siege was over, but its effects were to be felt for decades afterward. This collection of thirteen linked stories is about this terrible time in history, and of the legacy of silence, haunting, and trauma that shadows the survivors. Includes violence and strong language. 2012.Solo
By Rana Dasgupta. 2010
Ulrich is a reclusive one hundred year-old man from Bulgaria, wondering if he has any wisdom to leave to the…
world before he dies. He embarks on an epic armchair journey through the twists and turns of his country's turbulent century - and through his own lifetime of lost love and failed chemistry - and finds his way to an astonishing epiphany of redemption and enlightenment. Descriptions of sex and violence, explicit strong language. 2009.Sleeping in the ground: an Inspector Banks novel (Inspector Alan Banks mystery. #24.)
By Peter Robinson. 2017
After a massacre outside a picturesque Yorkshire church, Detective Superintendent Alan Banks and his team must unravel a baffling mystery,…
and corner a killer hiding in plain sight. Bestseller. Winner of the 2018 Arthur Ellis Best Crime Novel Award. 2017.Spymaster: a thriller (Scot Harvath. #17.)
By Brad Thor. 2018
Across Europe, a secret organization has begun attacking diplomats. Back in the United States, a foreign ally demands the identity…
of a highly placed covert asset. In the balance hang the ingredients for all-out war. With his mentor out of the game, counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath must take on the role he has spent his career avoiding. But, as with everything else he does, he intends to rewrite the rules-all of them. In Spymaster, Scot Harvath is more cunning, more dangerous, and deadlier than ever before. Bestseller. 2018.Strange things done
By Elle Wild. 2016
Arriving in Dawson City, Yukon, journalist Jo Silver investigates the suicide of a local politician, a suicide that begins to…
look more and more like a murder. Before long, Jo becomes a suspect. Winner of the 2015 Unhanged Arthur Ellis Award for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel. 2016.Stranger in Thunder Basin
By John D Nesbitt. 2009
When he was a boy, Edward Dawes saw his grandfather murdered. Now, after a chance meeting, Dawes knows the murderer…
is alive and nearby, and he won't rest until the killer pays for his crime. Some descriptions of sex, explicit strong language and violence. 2009.Street of riches
By Gabrielle Roy. 1993
The eighteen stories in this book centre upon the bittersweet experiences of a young girl growing up in the francophone…
community of St. Boniface, Manitoba. In the persona of her narrator Christine, Roy transfigures the incidents and characters of her own childhood, reflecting upon her youthful awakening to the beauty and the sorrow of life. 1957 Governor General's Award winner. 1957. Uniform title: Rue Deschambault.Stormbreaker (Alex Rider adventure. #1.)
By Anthony Horowitz. 2000
When his guardian dies in suspicious circumstances, Alex Rider goes from schoolboy to superspy within days as his world is…
turned upside down. Forcibly recruited into MI6, Alex has to take part in gruelling SAS training. Then, armed with his own special set of secret gadgets, he's off on his first mission. For Junior High readers. Followed by "Point blank" (DC26006). 2000. (Alex Rider adventure ; 1)Strangers in company
By Jane Aiken Hodge. 1973
Strawberry girl
By Lois Lenski. 1995
Ten-year-old Birdie Boyer and her family have just moved to the Florida backwoods and are struggling to make a living…
by raising strawberries. Making the new farm prosper is not easy, with the heat, droughts, and cold snaps to get through. Perhaps the most worrisome thing for the Boyers is the rowdy family on the adjoining farm, who are ready and waiting to start a feud. Grades 4-7. 1995.Solar bones: a novel
By Mike McCormack. 2017
It is All Souls Day, and the spirit of Marcus Conway sits at his kitchen table and remembers. In flowing,…
relentless prose, Conway recalls his life in rural Ireland: as a boy and man, father, husband, citizen. His ruminations move from childhood memories of his father's deftness with machines to his own work as a civil engineer, from transformations in the local economy to the tidal wave of global financial collapse. Conway's thoughts go still further, outward to the vast systems of time and history that hold us all. He stares down through the "vortex of his being," surveying all the linked circumstances that combined to bring him into this single moment, and he makes us feel, if only for an instant, all the terror and gratitude that existence inspires. Winner of the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award. 2017.Stone soup: an old tale
By Marcia Brown. 1947
When three hungry soldiers in a strange land ask some villagers for food, they are told there is none. So…
the soldiers decide to show the townspeople how to make soup from water and three round stones. Grades K-3. Caldecott Honor Book. 1947.Still (3-day Bks.)
By B. P Nichol. 1983
Consists of two strands of text: the spare dialogue of a couple exploring their broken relationship and the lyrical evocation…
of a perfect landscape and a perfect house. Strong language. Winner of the 1982 Pulp Press Annual Three-day Novel-writing Contest. 1983.Stitches
By Glen Huser. 2003
When Travis transfers to a new school, he becomes a big target for his old nemesis Shon and his thug…
friends. Maybe it's because Travis lives in a trailer park with his gentle aunt, his uncle Miserable Mike, and lots of little cousins while his country-and-western singer mother is on the road. Or maybe it's because he loves to sew, wants to be a professional puppeteer, and his best friend is a girl, Chantelle, who comes from an even stranger family than he does. Some strong language. For junior high readers. Winner of the 2003 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature. 2003.Stephen Coonts's deep black (Deep Black. #1)
By Stephen Coonts, Jim DeFelice. 2004
When the National Security Agency intercepts and decodes an obscure email message indicating a severe threat to the US, the…
American President considers his options. What if the same technology that made the interception possible could be used as an offensive weapon? Armed with satellites, ships, planes, and an array of sophisticated hardware, the NSA proves as competent at covert action as it is at spying. Success leads to a permanent NSA Group that acts directly for the NSA Director. Followed by "Deep black: biowar". 2004.So wild a dream (Rendezvous. #1.)
By Winfred Blevins. 2010
Escaping his life in 1820's Pennsylvania, young Sam Morgan joins the crew of a riverboat. Mixing with an eclectic group…
of scoundrels and misfits, Sam finds adventure at every turn on the American frontier. Followed by "Beauty for ashes". Spur Award. 2010.Soul mountain: [Ling shan]
By Mabel Lee, Xingjian Gao. 2002
Snakehead (Alex Rider adventure. #7.)
By Anthony Horowitz. 2008
Alone in Sydney, Alex Rider is recruited by the Australian government to infiltrate an organized people-smuggling ring: the criminal underworld…
of Snakeheads. Working undercover as a refugee he moves to Bangkok, where he meets someone he can trust - a fellow agent and true friend: or is there any such thing in the poisonous world of espionage? Sequel to "Ark angel" (DC35952). For junior high readers. 2008. (Alex Rider adventure ; 7)