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Tempête de feu (Une aventure de Derrick Storm)
By Richard Castle, Françoise Fauchet. 2014
Derrick Storm rentre de vacances quand soudain, à plus de 6 000 mètres d'altitude, son avion part en vrille. Heureusement,…
Storm est là pour sauver la situation et, in extremis, éviter le crash. Dans le même temps, sept autres avions subissent le même sort et s'écrasent, faisant des centaines de victimes. A chaque fois, les passagers sont des personnalités riches et puissantes. La CIA fait appel à Storm pour enquêter sur cette affaire qui devient encore plus terrifiante quand de nouveaux avions s'écrasent. Un terroriste aurait-il réussi à fabriquer une nouvelle arme ? De Monaco à l'Egypte et au Panama, Storm va avoir fort à faire pour sauver le monde. Encore une fois ! 2014. Titre uniforme: Wild storm.The best of enemies: race and redemption in the new South
By Osha Davidson. 2017
C. P. Ellis joined the KKK as a youth. Ann Atwater quit her job as a maid to fight for…
civil rights. They met on opposite sides of the school segregation issue, yet forged a friendship. 2017.The best man to die (Inspector Wexford mystery. #4.)
By Ruth Rendell. 1981
Jack Pertwee was getting married in the morning and the darts club gathered in the pub to give him a…
send off. Charlie Hatton drove his lorry eleven hours down from Leeds just to be there. Charlie was Jack's best friend and he would be his best man. When the two finally parted at the Kingston Bridge, Jack felt as though his life was just beginning. But for Charlie Hatton life was just about to end. Sequel to "Wolf to the slaughter", followed by "A guilty thing surprised". 1981, c1969. (Inspector Wexford mystery)The Avengers assemble: the junior novelization
By Thomas Macri. 2014
Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. are faced with a foe no single person can defeat. So Fury sets out to bring…
together Earth's mightiest heroes and form the Avengers! Join Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, the Hulk, Black Widow, and Hawkeye as they battle the Asgardian trickster known as Loki, who plans to unleash a dangerous and powerful force upon the Earth. If Loki succeeds, the world as we know it will change forever--for the worse. Can the Avengers work together and rescue mankind from this vile villain's cruel grip? Or will Loki disassemble this new team and become ruler of Earth? Grades 3-6. 2014. Uniform title: Marvel's The Avengers (Motion picture : 2012)The Aspern papers
By Henry James. 1986
Julianna and her niece are marking time in a villa in Venice. A literary editor obsessed with the work of…
a long-dead poet, Jeffrey Aspern, comes into their lives to try to ferret out his papers. 1986.The Amityville horror
By Jay Anson. 2006
In December 1975, the Lutz family moved into their new home on suburban Long Island. George and Kathleen Lutz knew…
that, one year earlier, Ronald DeFeo had murdered his family in the house, but the property and the price had been too good to pass up. Twenty-eight days later, the entire Lutz family flee the house in terror. 2006, c1978.The apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
By Mordecai Richler. 1959
The bad beginning (A series of unfortunate events ; #1)
By Lemony Snicket. 2001
The Baudelaire children, Violet, Klaus and baby Sunny, are exceedingly unlucky. Their parents had been killed, and they are forced…
to go and stay with Uncle Olaf. It soon turns out that Olaf has evil plans for the children. For grades 3-6. Followed by "The reptile room". 2001. (A series of unfortunate events ; 1)Tentation (Twilight. #2)
By Stephenie Meyer, Luc Rigoureau. 2009
Rejetée par celui qu'elle aime passionnément, Bella ne s'en relève pas. Fascinée par un vampire, comment pourra-t-elle retrouver goût à…
la pâle existence humaine? Bella n'a de goût pour rien, sinon le danger : alors, elle entend la voix d'Edward, et éprouve l'illusion de sa présence. Comme s'il ne l'avait pas abandonnée. Bella échappera-t-elle à cette obsession amoureuse qui la hante? Suite de «Fascination» (FD05312). Suivi par «Hésitation» (FD06120). Pour les lecteurs d'école secondaire. 2009. (La saga Twilight ; 2)Terms of endearment
By Larry McMurtry. 1990
Texas. Aurora Greenway, a captivating and demanding widow of forty-nine, nags her married daughter but devotes most of her time…
to her married suitors - a stuffy retired general, a gallant yachtsman, and an affable redneck millionaire. 1990.Tenderness
By Robert Cormier. 2008
A psychological thriller told from the points of view of a teenage serial killer and the runaway girl who falls…
in love with him. For junior and senior high readers. 2008.Tex
By S. E Hinton. 1999
At 15, Tex is spirited as a wild mustang and good-natured as a pup. He and his 17-year-old brother Mason…
have been on their own since Pop left for the summer rodeo tour. Come October, the money has run out and still no Pop. None of this bothers Tex much - until Mason sells Tex's horse to pay the bills. After that things turn sour between the brothers. Tex is constantly getting into trouble, but he resents Mace acting like a parent. Friends like Johnny and his gorgeous sister Jamie help Tex forget his problems. But when it all comes to a head one day, the explosion that follows may cost Tex his life. Junior and Senior High. 1999.The amateur: a novel
By Robert Littell. 1981
The "amateur" is a CIA cryptologist whose true loves are his fiancée and his efforts to prove via cryptology who…
really wrote Shakespeare. When the first is brutally murdered by terrorists who take over an American consulate in Germany he uses the second to unravel the skein of cross and doublecross to the end, determined to seek out and kill the terrorists. 1981.The American (Penguin American library)
By Henry James, William C Spengemann. 1981
In France, an American self-made millionaire, Christopher Newman, falls in love with aristocratic Claire de Bellegarde. Her family rejects his…
marriage proposal however, as they resent his brash American manner. Newman discovers a guilty secret about the Bellegardes' past and then has to decide whether to reveal it and thus gain his revenge. 1981.That eye, the sky
By Tim Winton. 1986
Ort knows that the sky is watching. He knows what it means to watch. Things are terribly wrong. His father…
is withering away, his sister is consumed by hatred, his grandmother is all inside herself, and his mother, a flower-child of the 1960's, is brave but helpless. Then a strange man appears at their door. That Eye, The Sky is about love, about a boy's vision of the world beyond, about the blurry distinctions between the natural and the supernatural. 1986.The adventures of Captain Underpants: an epic novel (Captain Underpants Ser. #1)
By Dav Pilkey. 1997
George and Harold sabotage the big football game and get into serious trouble with their principal, Mr. Krupp. To get…
out of it, they hypnotize him into thinking that he is the superhero Captain Underpants, which is lots of fun until Mr. Krupp begins to think he is Captain Underpants. He leads George and Harold to the lair of the nefarious Dr. Diaper, where they must defeat his evil robot henchmen and save the world. Followed by "Captain Underpants and the attack of the talking toilets" (DC22010). Grades 2-4.Temporary kings (Dance to the music of time. #11.)
By Anthony Powell. 1973
Trapnel may be dead but his ghost hovers over an American academic's attempt to rake over the ashes of his…
affair with Pamela Widmerpool. Her husband, now a Labour peer, is caught up in a spy scandal as well as the death of a Marxist intellectual. Sequel to "Books do furnish a room". Followed by "Hearing secret harmonies". 1973.The acceptance world (Dance to the music of time. #3.)
By Anthony Powell. 1955
Jenkins, the narrator, falls in love, and the novel climaxes with a dinner party in honour of an old Eton…
schoolmaster. Sequel to “A Buyer’s Market”. Followed by "At Lady Molly's". 1955.Tek net (Tek series. #9)
By William Shatner. 1997
Soon after Sid Gomez' second wife calls him to say she's in trouble, she disappears. Sid and Jake Cardigan have…
two leads -- Sonny Hokori, one of the most infamous TekLords, and an enemy to Jake from way back, and Garret Devlin, a secretive industrialist long suspected of underworld connections, but who died four years ago. Some strong language. Sequel to "Tek kill". 1997.Tell no one: a novel
By Harlan Coben. 2001
New York City paediatrician David Beck's wife and lifelong sweetheart, Elizabeth, was tragically murdered eight years ago by a serial…
killer. Or so he thought. But the young doctor suddenly begins receiving mysterious e-mails containing information only Elizabeth would know. Some violence and some strong language. Bestseller. 2001.