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Testament à l'anglaise
By Jonathan Coe, Jean Pavans. 1995
Michael Owen, un jeune homme dépressif et agoraphobe, a été chargé par la vieille Tabitha Winshaw d'écrire la chronique de…
l'illustre famille Winshaw. Il va découvrir des vices et des méfaits d'une ampleur insoupçonnée. Par une nuit d'orage, alors que tous sont réunis au manoir de Winshaw Towers, la vérité éclatera. Descriptions régulières de violence et quelques descriptions de nature sexuelle. 1997, c1995. Titre uniforme: What a carve up!.Texaco: roman
By Patrick Chamoiseau. 1992
Ten green bottles: the true story of one family's journey from war-torn Austria to the ghettos of Shanghai
By Vivian Jeanette Kaplan. 2002
For a brief period between 1938 and 1941, roughly 20,000 Jews found refuge from the Nazis in the one place…
not requiring visas, police certificates or proofs of financial independence: Shanghai. In 1939, the author's family made a month-long, 7,000-mile journey to Shanghai, struggling with heat, disease, poverty, and fear. With the war's end came the shock of learning what became of family and friends left behind in Europe. Descriptions of violence. 2002.The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian
By Sherman Alexie. 2008
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where…
the only other Indian is the school mascot. Junior and Senior High. 2008.The amazing absorbing boy
By Rabindranath Maharaj. 2011
Samuel is just 17 when his mother dies and he must leave Trinidad to live with the Toronto father he…
has only heard of. Samuel is lonely, but he has his memories of superheroes - his mentors - to guide him, as he sets out to explore what Toronto has to offer. Some descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. Winner of the 2010 Trillium Award and the 2011 Toronto Book Award. 2010.Surtensions
By Olivier Norek. 2016
Cette soeur acceptera-t-elle le marché risqué qu'on lui propose pour faire évader son frère de la prison la plus dangereuse…
de France ? De quoi ce père sera-t-il capable pour sauver sa famille des quatre prédateurs qui ont fait irruption dans sa maison et qui comptent y rester ? Comment cinq criminels - un pédophile, un assassin, un ancien légionnaire serbe, un kidnappeur et un braqueur - se retrouvent-ils dans une même histoire et pourquoi Coste fonce-t-il dans ce nid de vipères, mettant en danger ceux qui comptent le plus pour lui ? Des âmes perdues, des meurtres par amour, des flics en anges déchus : la rédemption passe parfois par la vengeance. Prix Le Point du polar européen, 2016. 2016.Shaman (Le livre de poche ; #13371)
By Noah Gordon, Cécile Farkas. 1993
De 1839 à 1864 à l'orée de la guerre de Sécession, l'histoire mouvementée d'un jeune médecin écossais devenu l'ami d'une…
tribu indienne persécutée où il rencontrera la femme du titre. Livre comportant des passages de nature sexuelle et de la violence. Prix James Fenimore Cooper. 1995, c1993. Titre uniforme: Shaman.Sisters
By Stéphane Denis. 2001
Dans ce roman, centré sur les relations "contrastées" (jalousie, amour, etc.) de la célèbre Jackie Kennedy et de sa soeur…
Lee Radziwill, une Américaine plus toute jeune raconte sa vie et celle de sa soeur aînée, Jacks, peut-être moins douée et moins joliequ'elle mais dotée d'un charme irrésistible. Cette dernière épouse un futur président des États-Unis tandis qu'elle même se marie à un veil aristocrate européen. Une sourde rivalité opposera, durant toute leur vie, les deux soeurs, la cadette demeurant immanquablement dans l'ombre de l'aînée. L'auteur rend finalement hommage à la moins célèbre des deux soeurs en lui donnant la parole. Prix Interallié 2001.Suite française: roman
By Irène Némirovsky. 2004
Écrit dans le feu de l'Histoire, Suite française dépeint presque en direct l'Exode de juin 1940, qui brassa dans un…
désordre tragique des familles françaises de toute sorte, des plus huppées aux plus modestes. Roman bouleversant, intimiste, implacable, dévoilant avec une extraordinaire lucidité l'âme de chaque Français pendant l'Occupation (enrichi de notes et de la correspondance d'Irène Némirovsky), Suite française ressuscite d'une plume brillante et intuitive un pan à vif de notre mémoire. Prix Renaudot, 2004.Sonietchka: roman
By Ludmilla Oulitskaïa. 1996
"Mon Dieu, qu'ai-je fait pour mériter un tel bonheur" se dit une timide bibliothécaire, qu'un peintre renommé et plus âgé…
qu'elle remarque et épouse. Pauvreté, disgrâce, infidélités du mari: rien n'entame le bonheur mystérieux de la femme. Quand l'homme de sa vie mourra, elle vivra son chagrain puis rouvrira ses livres. Prix Médicis étranger 1996.Tangente vers l'est (Minimales)
By Maylis De Kerangal. 2012
A bord du Transsibérien, Aliocha, 20 ans, doit être conduit vers sa caserne d'affectation en Sibérie pour faire son service…
militaire. Alors qu'il tente d'échafauder un plan pour y échapper, il croise Hélène, une Française de 35 ans qui vient tout juste de quitter son amant Anton. Malgré les barrières de la langue, ils vont se comprendre et poursuivre ensemble le voyage. Prix Landerneau 2012. 2012.Swiss sonata
By Elspeth Cameron, Gwethalyn Graham. 1938
Set in a girls' boarding school in Switzerland in 1936. Combines penetrating insights into the behaviour of the girls with…
the first-time author’s insights into the dark clouds of war and hatred gathering over all of Europe at the time. Winner of the 1938 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction. Originally published in 1938, c2005.Sweetland: a novel
By Michael Crummey. 2015
For twelve generations, the inhabitants of this remote island in Newfoundland have lived and died together. Now they are facing…
resettlement, and each has been offered a generous compensation package to leave. But the money is offered with a proviso: everyone has to go; the government won't be responsible for one crazy coot who chooses to stay on alone. That coot is Moses Sweetland, who refuses to leave. But in the face of determined opposition from his family and friends, Sweetland is eventually swayed to sign on to the government's plan. Then a tragic accident prompts him to fake his own death and stay on the deserted island. As he manages a desperately diminishing food supply, and battles against the ravages of weather, Sweetland finds himself in the company of the vibrant ghosts of the former islanders, whose porch lights still seem to turn on at night. Bestseller. 2015.Tales from the Isle of Spice: a collection of new Caribbean folk tales
By Richardo Keens-Douglas. 2004
Three magical tales retold for middle readers: enter the richly magical world of Tales from the Isle of Spice and…
visit a bottomless lake where an enchanted princess lives; try your luck against the sinister woman who walks in moonlight stalking souls; catch a glimpse of the mysterious boy with an angelic face whose scarred body hides beneath the waves. Grades 3-6. Winner of the 2005 Golden Oak Award. 2004.Taos lightning
By Johnny Boggs. 2018
Fifteen-year-old Evan Kendrick has traveled from New Mexico Territory to Galveston with his father, who will be competing in a…
horse race that's offering a 3,000 prize to the winner. But a terrible accident seriously injures his drunken father, forcing Evan to saddle up instead. Winner of the 2019 Spur best western juvenile fiction award. 2018.Take a chance on me (Christiansen family series. #1.)
By Susan May Warren. 2013
A romance buds when attorney Ivy Madison bids on widower Darek Christiansen at a charity auction, but she soon realizes…
that a man with whom she crafted a plea bargain three years earlier was the man responsible for Darek's wife's death. Followed by "It had to be you". 2013.Take the lead: A Dance Off Novel (Dance off. #1.)
By Alexis Daria. 2017
Gina Morales wants to win. It's her fifth season on The Dance Off, a top-rated network TV celebrity dance competition,…
and she's never even made it to the finals. When she meets her latest partner, she sees her chance. He's handsome, rippling with muscles, and he stars on the popular Alaskan wilderness reality show Living Wild. With his sexy physique and name recognition, she thinks he's her ticket to the finals--until she realizes they're being set up. Stone Nielson hates Los Angeles, he hates reality TV, and he hates that fact that he had to join the cast of the The Dance Off because of family obligations. He can't wait to get back to Alaska, but he also can't deny his growing attraction to his bubbly Puerto Rican dance partner. Neither of them are looking for romantic entanglements, and Stone can't risk revealing his secrets, but as they heat up the dance floor, it's only a matter of time until he feels an overwhelming urge to take the lead. Followed by "Dance with me". Winner of the 2018 RITA Award for Best First Book. 2017.Subject to change
By Karen Nesbitt. 2017
Declan's life in small-town Quebec is defined by his parents' divorce, his older brother's delinquency and his own lackluster performance…
at school, which lands him with a tutor he calls Little Miss Perfect. He likes his job at the local ice rink, and he has a couple of good buddies, but his father's five-year absence is a constant source of pain and anger. When he finds out the truth about his parents' divorce, he is forced to reconsider everything he has believed about his family and himself. For senior high readers. Winner of the 2017 QWF Prize for Children’s Literature. 2017.Summer's end
By Joel A Sutherland. 2017
As his final year of high school crawls to an end, Jacob receives a postcard with a picture of Tokyo's…
skyline on the front. On its flipside are two simple words: "I'm sorry." Although it's unsigned, Jacob immediately knows who sent it. There's no doubt it's from his best friend, Ichiro, who abruptly moved to Japan with his mother before they started high school. Jacob couldn't blame them for packing up and moving. He wished he could've done the same. The summer vacation before high school should have been filled with fun and relaxation, but instead it was plagued by tragedy. What follows is Jacob's account of that terrifying summer. For junior and senior high readers. Winner of the 2018 Red Maple Fiction Honour Book Award. 2017.Stumbling in the bloom
By John Pass. 2005
A celebration of the enticements and entanglements of wilderness, along with poems about a wry excursion to the chiropractor, a…
fanciful flight from a student driver's parallel parking practice, and a moving Canadian journey towards and away from the "ground zero" of the 9/11 tragedy. 2006 Governor General's Award winner for Poetry. 2005.