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The golden mean
By Annabel Lyon. 2009
342 B.C. Aristotle is reluctant to set aside his own ambitions in order to tutor Alexander, the rebellious son of…
his boyhood friend Philip of Macedon. But the philosopher soon comes to realize that teaching this charming, surprising, sometimes horrifying teenager, heir to the Macedonian throne, forced onto the battlefield before his time, is a desperate necessity amid the ever more sinister intrigues of Philip's court. Some strong language, explicit descriptions of violence and explicit descriptions of sex. c2009.The garden (Scholastic Canada Hardcover Ser.)
By Carol Matas. 1997
After leading a group of Jewish refugees to Israel after World War II, sixteen-year-old Ruth joins the Haganah, the Jewish…
Army, and helps her people fight to keep the land granted to them by the United Nations. Grades 5-8. 1997.The heart specialist: a novel
By Claire Rothman. 2009
Agnes is stripped of a regular childhood when her father is accused of a horrific crime and abandons the family.…
Never considered ladylike, she is drawn to the "wrong" things, such as microscopes, anatomy, and dissection, that lead to her finding her calling as a doctor. Yet despite a rapid rise to stardom in the medical community, she soon finds herself up against the same glass ceiling faced by women in her field. Inspired by the life of Doctor Maude Abbott. Some descriptions of sex. 2009.The Horus road (Lords of the two lands. #3.)
By Pauline Gedge. 2000
By the middle of the Seventeenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, the country has been ruled by the foreign Setui, who…
only care to plunder it, for two hundred years. One family in Thebes, descendants of the last true Egyptian king, vow to overthrow the Setui. Ahmose, continuing the struggle that has claimed his father and brother, knows that he need a miracle to take the Setui capital and defeat his enemies. Sequel to "The oasis". 2000. (Lords of the two lands ; 3)The eagles' brood (A dream of eagles ; #3)
By Jack Whyte. 1994
The stories of those who would teach the boy Arthur are told. Uther Pendragon, the father whom Arthur would never…
know; Ambrose, the warrior saint who taught the boy to love and to fight; and Caius Merlyn Britannicus, the half-Roman, half-Celtic hero who was destined to become the greatest magician of all time. Sequel to "The singing sword" (DC12930). Followed by "The Saxon shore" (DC14607). c1994. (A dream of eagles ; 3)Shane (Degrassi ; #12)
By Susin Nielsen-Fernlund. 1989
After his girlfriend, Spike, becomes pregnant, 14-year-old Shane must prove to his parents that he is not irresponsible. But Shane's…
new sense of independence backfires, and before he knows it, he is in trouble again. For junior and senior high readers. (Degrassi Junior High). 1989.Spanish fly
By Will Ferguson. 2007
Jack McGreary is young man with more than his share of burdens to bear: his mom is dead, his dad…
is nuts, his girlfriend is apathetic and his hometown of Paradise Flats is one big, go-nowhere Depression dustbowl of despair and poverty. So when dapper grifters Virgil and Miss Rose blow into town - scamming the local yokels with sleight-of-hand tricks and other deceits - Jack sees them as his ticket out. But what begins as a thrilling escape from the tedium of small-town life soon morphs into something more sinister. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2007.Run, Madrina, run!
By Dorothy Wingrove. 1986
A middle-aged woman, suddenly in possession of considerable wealth, leaves her surly husband and safe Canadian home to search for…
her Salvadoran foster-child, Jonatan, about whom she has had premonitions of disaster. 1986.Radiance
By Shaena Lambert. 2007
Eighteen-year-old Hiroshima survivor Keiko arrives in America for plastic surgery, sponsored by The Hiroshima Project. Keiko is expected to be…
a media darling, selected for her scarred beauty and her talent for putting words to the horrors she has witnessed. When Keiko does not perform as scripted, the Project presses her host, Daisy Lawrence, into drawing out the girl's horrific story, but Daisy must fight to enter Keiko's sphere of intimacy, and is shocked by what she learns there. Some descriptions of sex, violence and some strong language. 2007.Ding, dong!: facéties littéraires : 77 clins d'oeil à Raymond Queneau (Graffiti ; #29)
By Robert Soulières. 2005
" J'aimerais ça lire quelque chose d'exactement pareil à ça genre style comme. C'était tellement bon ! " Combien de…
fois ai-je entendu cette phrase lorsque je signais des milliers de livres dans les Salons du livre de Paris, Moscou, New York, Singapour, Sorel ? Combien de fois ? Ah ! Que ne ferait pas un écrivain pour plaire à ses lecteurs ! Alors, voici enfin votre chance ! Elle est entre vos mains, saisissez-la (ainsi que le livre en même temps !). Grâce à ce bouquin, vous avez l'occasion inouïe et extraordinaire de lire la même histoire et ce, 77 fois plutôt qu'une ! Une chance qui ne se répétera pas de sitôt. Quel festin ! Ça sent déjà le chocolat ! Pour les lecteurs d'école secondaire. 2005." Pierre Landry nous guide d'un pas alerte sur cette voie royale connue sous le nom de Chemin du Roy,…
de Beaumont à Notre-Dame-du-Portage, tous les sens en éveil pour y débusquer farfadets, loups-garous, feux-follets et autres démons qui ont marqué l'imaginaire de la population de la Côte-du-Sud et parmi lesquels les troupes de Wolfe sont assurément les plus inquiétantes. Les textes colligés par Pierre Landry nous font réaliser à quel point l'histoire de la Côte-du-Sud est empreinte de vives douleurs comme d'une noble résilience. En témoigne cet épisode dramatique entre tous qui a vu ces Irlandais exsangues venir déverser leurs derniers espoirs dans les mouroirs de Grosse-Île... " -- 4e de couv.Order in chaos (Templar trilogy. #3.)
By Jack Whyte. 2009
Friday the 13th of October, 1307. King Philip of France arrests every Templar in the country, with a few escaping…
and smuggling the Temple Treasure away. In Scotland and training for a return to France, the Templars realize that they can never go back and that their Order is doomed. Their leader, St. Clair, decides to lead his men away in search of the fabled land that lies beyond the Western Ocean. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex, and explicit descriptions of violence. Sequel to "Standard of honor" (DC35723). c2009. (Templar trilogy ; 3)Once upon a time, long, long ago
By Henry Shykoff. 1999
A girl, Eevo, and her brother Sim live nearly 50,000 years ago in what is now the Middle East. When…
their parents go on a trip, they are cast out of their home cave by their tribe. Despite their young age and Sim's lameness, they learn to create fire, shape tools, tame wolves and survive. Nominated for the 2001 Silver Birch Award. Grades 4-7. Followed by "Just a Little Later With Eevo and Sim" (RC24291). 1999.Object of your love: stories
By Dorothy Speak. 1996
Exploring the nature of desire and betrayal, these stories describe the disappointments and reconciliation of women whose lives have been…
torn by the pain of adultery. Strong language, some descriptions of sex and some descriptions of violence. c1996.Élise Chapdelaine: une jeune femme à la belle époque : biographie romancée
By Marielle Denis. 1989
Élise Chapdelaine est née à Saint-Ours, sur le Richelieu, en 1878. Voici l'histoire de sa jeunesse : promenades à bicyclette,…
étés à la campagne, pique-niques sur le Mont-Royal, amours, c'est toute une époque qui revient à la vie, empreinte d'une telle douceur que l'on comprend pourquoi on l'a appelée la " Belle Époque ". 1989.Noble madness
By Maye Preston Hill. 1978
Écrivains contemporains du Québec: anthologie
By Lise Gauvin, Gaston Miron. 1998
Cette anthologie couvre trois décennies de littérature québécoise. Les auteurs visent à la diversité, à une répartition équilibrée entre les…
générations et les genres, les divers milieux, tendances et écritures. Pour chaque auteur, une notice bio-bibliographique d'un peu plus d'une page. 1998.Math curse
By Jon Scieszka. 1995
When math teacher Mrs. Fibonacci tells the class "you can think of almost everything as a math problem," one of…
her students feels as if she's received a math curse. Now she can't think about anything without turning it into math! Grades 2-4. 1995.Making light of tragedy
By Jessica Grant. 2004
In these short stories, characters often express their grief or heartbreak in unusual ways. In "Plow Man," a man channels…
his pain over the loss of his wife into a strange fixation with snow plows. In "My Husband's Jump", the wife of a famous ski jumper who inexplicably vanished in mid-air copes with her pain by finding God. Author Grant treats the disasters and mishaps that befall her characters not with ridicule but with a wry sense of humour and a considerable amount of sympathy. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2004.Les poèmes ne me font pas peur: récit poétique ((Boréal inter ; 66).)
By Laurent Theillet. 2015
Les poèmes ne me font pas peur est le récit atypique d'une adolescente mordue de poésie. Accessible et captivant, il…
brise d'un coup les idées préconçues que les adolescents peuvent se faire du genre poétique. Écrit dans une langue belle et imagée, ce récit fulgurant n'a rien de rébarbatif. Pour les lecteurs d’école secondaire. 2015.