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With The Cookie Jar, Hannah Swensen has a mouthwatering monopoly on the bakery business of Lake Eden, Minnesota. But when…
a rival store opens, and one of the owners is found shot to death in the store, Hannah is determined to prove that she wasn't the only one who had an axe to grind with the Quinn sisters. Somebody wasn't fooled by the Georgia Peaches and their sweet-as-pie act--and now it's up to Hannah to track down whoever had the right ingredients to whip up a murder. Includes recipes. 2005.By Tiina Nunnally, Steven T Murray, Martin Andersen Nexø. 1991
Fifteen-year-old Pelle decides to leave the poverty of farm life for town. As his agrarian community is becoming industrialized, Pelle…
struggles to fit into the narrow social confines of his new life while working as a shoemaker's apprentice. Sequel to "Pelle the Conqueror: Volume 1, Childhood." 1991. Uniform title: Pelle Erobreren.By Rick Riordan. 2007
You can't tell by looking at me that my dad is Poseidon, God of the Sea. It's not easy being…
a half-blood these days. You mortals can't even see the monsters we have to fight all the time. So when a game of dodgeball turned into a death match against an ugly gang of cannibal giants, I couldn't exactly ask my gym teacher for help. Grades 5-8. Sequel to "Percy Jackson and the lightning thief" (DC36323), followed by "Percy Jackson and the Titan's curse". 2007, c2006. (Percy Jackson and the Olympians ; 2)By Rick Riordan. 2006
I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until I accidentally vaporized my maths…
teacher. That's when things started really going wrong. Now I spend my time fighting with swords, battling monsters with my friends, and generally trying to stay alive. Grades 5-8. 2006. (Percy Jackson & the Olympians ; 1)By Veronica Roth, Anne Delcourt. 2012
Tris Prior doit encore essayer de sauver ceux qu'elle aime ainsi qu'elle-même tout en luttant contre des questions de douleur…
et de pardon, d'identité et de loyauté, de politique et d'amour. Le jour de l'initiation de Tris aurait dû être marqué par la célébration et la victoire auprès de sa faction; au contraire, cette journée se termina par des horreurs indescriptibles. La guerre menace déclater alors que le conflit croît entre les factions aux idéologies différentes. Et en temps de guerre, les camps se forment, les secrets émergent et les choix se font de plus en plus irrévocables et d'autant plus puissants. Transformée par ses propres décisions, mais aussi rongée par la douleur et le remords, des découvertes radicales et des relations changeantes, Tris devra embrasser pleinement sa Divergence, même si elle n'a pas conscience de ce qu'elle pourrait perdre en suivant cette voie. Pour les lecteurs du collégial. 2012. Titre uniforme: Insurgent.By Fred Vargas. 2001
Pour avoir rossé un armateur responsable de la mort de deux marins, Joss Le Guern, capitaine du chalutier Le Vent…
de Norois, a connu la prison, puis le chômage avant d'échouer à Paris et de devenir "crieur", place Edgar Quinet. Trois fois par jour, Joss relève les messages, accompagnés de pièces ou de billets, que ses clients ont déposés dans sa boîte et, trois fois par jour, perché sur une estrade, il crie les nouvelles devant les habitués du quartier. Un jour, Joss découvre dans sa boîte une étrange missive qui se révèle inquiétante. Et comme ces messages bizarres continuent d'arriver, il va déployer tous ses efforts pour en détecter le sens caché. Un roman policier instructif et divertissant. 2001.By John Grisham, Patrick Berthon. 2003
Quoi de plus facile, apparemment, que de ne pas fêter Noël? C'est ce que décident de faire Luther et Nora:…
leur fille unique, Blair, est partie travailler au Pérou, et ils ne voient pas l'intérêt de fêter la fin de l'année en tête à tête. Alors, pourquoi ne pas dépenser ces $6,000 dollars dans une croisière de luxe au Caraïbes? Cependant, les voisins ne l'entendent pas de cette oreille. 2003. Titre uniforme: Skipping Christmas.By Humphrey Cobb. 2010
Familiar to many as the Stanley Kubrick film starring Kirk Douglas, Paths of Glory explores the perilous complications involved in…
what nations demand of their soldiers in wartime. Humphrey Cobb's protagonists are Frenchmen during the First World War whose nightmare in the trenches takes a new and terrible turn when they are ordered to assault a German position deemed all but invulnerable. When the attack fails, an inquiry into allegations of cowardice indicts a small handful of lower-ranked scapegoats whose trial exposes the farce of ordering ordinary men to risk their lives in an impossible cause. 2010.By Tom Clancy. 1987
When Jack Ryan foils an Ulster Liberation Army terrorist attack on the Prince of Wales and his family, his courageous…
actions not only win him the admiration of an entire nation, they also rouse the enmity and hatred of that nation's most dangerous men. Now a ULA target himself, Ryan plunges into the murky world of counter-intelligence, where he uncovers connections between the ULA and an international underground network that place him at the forefront of the deadly battle against international terrorism, and pitch him into the most desperate struggle of his life. Descriptions of violence. 1987.By Alexander Irvine. 2018
Ten years after the Battle of the Breach, the PPDC calls upon the best and brightest to rise up and…
become the next generation of heroes when the Kaiju threat returns. 2018.By Jeff Abbott. 2005
Young documentary filmmaker Evan Casher returns home to Austin at his mother’s request. He finds her murdered--and the killers still…
in the house. Another armed stranger rescues Evan and provides startling information about his parents that discredits everything Evan thought he knew about his life. Violence and strong language. 2005.By John Green. 2013
Quentin has always loved Margo Roth Spiegelman, for Margo (and her adventures) are the stuff of legend at their high…
school. So when she one day climbs through his window and summons him on an all-night road trip of revenge, he cannot help but follow. But the next day Margo doesn't come to school and a week later she is still missing. Q soon learns that there are clues in her disappearance - and they are for him. But as he gets deeper into the mystery - culminating in another awesome road trip across America - he becomes less sure of who and what he is looking for. For senior high readers. 2013.By Robert Drewe. 1991
Ned Kelley's reputation as an outlaw is growing. To the masses he's a folk hero, but to the Establishment he's…
the most wanted man in the British Empire - by Royal decree the only person that everyone is permitted to kill. When the authorities bring in an army of police to catch him, Ned plans a showdown at Glenrowan, an event that will cement his status as the revolutionary hero of the Australian underclass. 1998, c1991.By Robin Cook. 1987
When a deadly virus starts claiming victims in various large American cities, epidemiologist Marissa Blumenthal of Atlanta’s Centers for Disease…
Control is assigned the task of tracking its causes and origins. Conventional research reveals no clear answers, but Marissa’s extracurricular investigations lead to the uncovering of a heinous plot by a physicians’ political action committee. Some strong language. Bestseller 1987.By Steven D Levitt, Stephen J Dubner, Anatole Muchnik. 2006
Quel lien entre la législation de l'avortement et la baisse de la criminalité aux États-Unis ? Quelles sont les vraies…
motivations des agents immobiliers ? Pourquoi les revendeurs de drogue vivent-ils plus longtemps chez leur mère ? L'économie, vue sous cet angle, incongru en apparence, mais qui est celui de la plus sérieuse rationalité des agents, des comportements, des causes et effets, traite de sujets peu conventionnels. Elle a reçu un nom : freakonomics, ou " économie saugrenue ". Elle jette une lumière de biais sur le désordre des événements ; elle met à nu des a priori à prétention de scientificité irréfutable ; elle transforme notre regard sur le monde globalisé, qui nous apparaît, pour finir, moins impénétrable et incompréhensible. 2006. Titre uniforme: Freakonomics.By Jeffrey Archer. 1981
Wladek et William son nés le même jour en 1906. Wladek se trouve dans les forêts polonaises et William est…
le fils d'un banquier américain. À l'exception de leur commune date de naissance, tout, absolument tout sépare ces deux "jumeaux". Descriptions de sexe et langage grossier. 1981.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.By Virginia Woolf. 1992
The central character is explored in changing times, and even gender. We see Orlando as a dashing young man at…
the courts of Elizabeth I and Charles II, as a young woman in the London of Addison and Pope, taking tea with Dr. Johnson, and driving down Regent Street in 1928. Originally published in 1928, 1992.By Lee Child. 2005
A lone gunman creates pandemonium when he shoots into a crowd of people in an Indiana plaza. Surprisingly he leaves…
a perfect trail of evidence and within hours is arrested. His only words to the police are, 'You got the wrong guy, get Jack Reacher for me'. What could possibly connect this psychopath and the wandering dropout cop? Sequel to "The enemy", followed by "The hard way". 2005. (Jack Reacher novel ; 9)By Pauline Cadieux. 1979
Le 22 novembre 1897, Cordelia revient de chez son père où elle a passé la nuit. Affreuse découverte; son mari…
gît dans son lit; assassiné. Elle ne se doute pas que bientôt, à Sainte-Scholastique, la rumeur publique l'accusera du meurtre. 1979.