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The herring seller's apprentice
By L. C Tyler. 2007
Ethelred Tressider is a crime writer with problems - his latest novel is going nowhere, mid-life crisis is looming, and…
he's burdened by literary agent Elsie Thirkettle, who claims to enjoy neither the company of writers nor literature of any sort. Then his ex-wife Geraldine vanishes, and when the disappearance becomes a murder enquiry, the police decide that Geraldine has been the victim of a local serial killer. Elsie bullies Ethelred into embarking upon his own investigation, but as their enquiries proceed, she begins to suspect that her client's own alibi is not as solid as he claims. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2007.The gruffalo
By Julia Donaldson. 1999
When Mouse takes a stroll through the woods, he meets a fox, an owl, and a snake who all want…
to eat him! So Mouse invents a gruffalo, a monster with "terrible tusks and terrible claws, terrible teeth, and terrible jaws." But will Mouse's frightful description be enough to scare off his foes? After all, there's no such thing as a gruffalo... is there? Grades K-3. 1999.The gum thief
By Douglas Coupland. 2007
Roger Thorpe is a dejected, hard-drinking, divorced father and the oldest employee at Staples. A frustrated novelist to boot, Roger…
considers himself lost, continually haunted by dreams of missed opportunities and a long ago car accident that claimed four friends. His younger, disgruntled Goth co-worker, Bethany Twain, discovers Roger's diary one day, and lays down a supreme challenge for them both - to write diary entries to each other, while neither is allowed to acknowledge the other around the store. Some strong language. 2007.The curse of the bologna sandwich (Melvin Beederman, superhero.)
By Greg Trine. 2006
Melvin Beederman's a pretty good superhero, even though it always takes him five or six tries to get launched and…
flying. His weakness (every superhero has one) is bologna, which makes it hard to go into a deli. Still, Melvin, with the help of his friend Candace, manages to keep the city of Los Angeles free of nasty villains like the evil McNasty brothers - once he's airborne (crash!) Grades 2-4. 2006. (Melvin Beederman ; 1)The best of times
By Penny Vincenzi. 2009
Jonathan is a surgeon returning from a liaison with his mistress, Abi, and Georgia is an actress going to an…
audition along with her agent Linda. Toby and Barney are on their way to a stag party, Mary is going to the airport to meet her first love, farmer William watches the drama unfold across the hill, and Emma is also a surgeon. One heartbeat in time, and all their lives will be totally transformed. Descriptions of sex and violence and strong language. 2009.The best of me
By Nicholas Sparks. 2011
Oriental, North Carolina. As high school seniors from different sides of the tracks, Dawson and Amanda had a doomed romance.…
Twenty-five years later they return home when Tuck, an old man important to both of them, dies--and leaves behind a letter describing his own life's magical love. Bestseller. 2011.The battle for Duncragglin
By Andrew H Vanderwal. 2009
Twelve-year-old Alex, whose parents disappeared on a trip to Scotland many years ago, is spending the summer there. He and…
three newfound friends want to discover the secret of a sealed cave along the coast. The secret is far more powerful than anything they could have imagined, as they're catapulted back to the late 13th century to find the Scottish rebel William Wallace fighting a guerrilla-style war against the British. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. Grades 5-8. c2009.Sweet memories
By LaVyrle Spencer. 1984
Theresa, twenty-five, is looking forward to Christmas. Her brother Jeff will be home on leave, and the entire family will…
be together, so why does Jeff have to bring his friend Brian? Christmas is for families. But Brian has no family, and, besides, Jeff wants him to meet Theresa. Brian might be just what she needs to overcome the feelings about her generously endowed figure that make her so unsure of herself. Some strong language and descriptions of sex. 2006, c1984.Seeing red
By Anne Louise MacDonald. 2009
Frankie Uccello seems like just another average, normal fourteen-year-old boy, until he discovers that he can dream the future, especially…
when something bad is about to happen. But seeing the future is only cool in movies and TV; in real life, not only does everyone think you're a whacko, but the future doesn't look good. And then Maura-Lee starts hanging around: she can read minds, and she seems to be reading his. For junior high readers. 2009.Stalin versus me: Volume Ix Of The Bandy Papers (Bandy papers. #9.)
By Donald Lamont Jack. 2005
As 1944 draws to a close, Bandy bobs through the ranks, dodging assassins, women, persecuting pilots, and a parcel of…
ladies' undergarments. He wonders about boozing pal Philby of the SIS, and Stalin, who can't really be out to get Bandy, just because he happens to know that a certain Soviet leader was once a Tsarist agent provocateur. From Normandy to Brussels to Yalta to Moscow, Bandy's career path is as labyrinthine as ever, strewn with bottles, battles, and brass-hat blood-pressure. Sequel to "Hitler versus me". Some descriptions of sex and violence and some strong language. 2005. (The Bandy papers ; 9)Snow job
By William Deverell. 2009
Arthur Beauchamp has followed his wife, the leader and first elected member of the Green Party, to Ottawa. But he…
hates everything there: the cold, the politics, and his place in his wife's shadow. So when a delegation of government officials from Bhashyistan is blown sky high and the shares of a Calgary-based oil company promptly drop like a stone, Arthur is only too happy to jump to the defence of the missing suspected assassin. Some descriptions of sex and violence and some strong language. 2009.Songs of the humpback whale: a novel in five voices
By Jodi Picoult. 1992
Each character tells his or her side of the story about Jane leaving her husband, Oliver, in San Diego, and…
taking along their teenaged daughter, Rebecca. Driving east toward Jane's brother Joley's place, Jane and Rebecca follow directions that Joley posts along the way. Later Sam enters the picture, and Oliver uses his oceanographic research skills to track his family down. Some strong language and descriptions of sex and violence. 1992.Sacrée famille: roman
By Catherine Barret, David Safier. 2012
Emma a sacrifié sa carrière à sa famille, chose qu'elle regrette. Sa librairie périclite, sa fille a honte d'elle, son…
fils vit reclus et son mari est constamment fatigué. Lorsqu'un ancien collègue lui propose d'accueillir Stephenie Meyer, Emma y voit l'occasion de relancer son commerce. Mais le soir de la rencontre une vieille dame jette un sort à toute sa famille. Livre comportant du langage grossier, de la violence et des passages de nature sexuelle. 2012. Titre uniforme: Happy family.Plus folles que ça, tu meurs: roman
By Denise Bombardier. 2017
Sex and the city chez les sexas. Elles sont femmes, amies, carriéristes, célibataires et, à l'aube de la soixantaine, partagent…
la même angoisse : celle de vieillir et de perdre féminité et pouvoir de séduction. À chacune ses parades pour y faire face... Dans ce roman truculent, tendre et drôle, où les héroïnes parlent de sexe sans tabous et avec une franchise réjouissante, Denise Bombardier montre une nouvelle fois qu'elle sait toucher le coeur des femmes. 2017.Les Plouffe
By Roger Lemelin. 1973
En 1938, à Québec, vit la famille Plouffe, colorée, drôle, contrastée : Théophile, le père, typographe et ancien champion cycliste,…
la soixantaine; Joséphine, bonne mère, mais autoritaire et qui ne badine pas avec la religion; Napoléon, plombier et timide avec les femmes; Ovide, ouvrier dans la chaussure mais qui ne rêve que d'opéra; Guillaume; Cécile... c1973.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.Les Weird
By Nicolas Dickner, Andrew Kaufman. 2014
" Quelle famille, aussi tricotée serré soit-elle, ne compte pas quelques mailles à l'envers ? Les Weird ne font pas…
exception. Leur grand-mère Annie, sorte de marraine de conte de fées tordu, le sait : c'est elle qui leur a attribué à la naissance des dons qui ont finalement gâché leurs vies. Des malédons, en somme : Richard, l'aîné, est à l'abri du danger, Lucy ne peut s'égarer, Angie pardonne tout Alors qu'Annie devine qu'elle va mourir, le vingt avril à dix-neuf heures trente-neuf très exactement, elle confie à Angie la mission de rassembler les Weird afin que les malédons puissent être levés. Débute dès lors une course folle pour réunir le clan éparpillé, du Manitoba jusquau Palace-roulathèque-disco Magie mauve du royaume dUpliffta. Linimitable Andrew Kaufman signe une saga familiale nouveau genre, variation pétulante et pleine de malice sur un thème universel : au fond, quelle famille n'est pas un peu Weird ? " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Born weird.Oscar et la dame rose
By Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt. 2002
Douze lettres adressées à Dieu par un petit garçon malade de douze ans et qu'une dame visite à l'hôpital. On…
peut imaginer cette dame rose sous la figure de Danielle Darrieux, qui a d'ailleurs tenu son rôle sous forme de monologue au théâtre. Troisième volet de la Trilogie de l'invisible. 2002.One fine cowboy
By Joanne Kennedy. 2010
Nate Shawcross is perfectly content to spend his days training wild horses. But when beautiful graduate student Charlie Banks unexpectedly…
shows up for a seminar on horse communication, sparks fly. Nate needs to stay focused if he's going to save his ranch from foreclosure, but he can't help being distracted by the brainy and sexy Charlie. Descriptions of sex, some strong language. 2010.Numéro zéro: [roman]
By Umberto Eco. 2015
En 1992, à Milan, un groupe de journalistes, cinq hommes et une jeune femme, sont embauchés pour créer un nouveau…
quotidien qu'on leur promet dédié à la recherche de la vérité, mais qui se révèle un pur instrument de calomnie et de chantage. Ils fouillent dans le passé pour mettre en page leur "numéro zéro", et c'est le présent qui leur saute au visage... L'ombre de Mussolini, donné pour mort, domine tous les événements italiens depuis 1945 : est-ce là le délire d'un journaliste d'investigation paranoïaque ? Mais alors, pourquoi le retrouve-t-on assassiné un beau matin ? Attentats, tentatives de coup d'État, empoisonnements, complots, stratégie de la manipulation, de la désinformation et de la tension : quand tout est vrai, où est le faux ? 2015.