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Le bâton d'Euclide: le roman de la Bibliothèque d'Alexandrie
By Jean-Pierre Luminet. 2002
En 642, les troupes du général Amrou investissent Alexandrie. Elles doivent brûler le million de livres que recèle la célèbre…
Bibliothèque. Car, à Médine, le calife Omar leur a donné l'ordre d'éliminer tout ce qui va à l'encontre de l'Islam. (...) Le général Amrou obéira-t-il à Omar? Les Arabes ont-ils vraiment brûlé la Bibliothèque? Ou bien n'a-t-elle été victime, au fil des siècles, que de la folie des hommes? En racontant le destin exceptionnel de ces grands esprits de l'Antiquité, Jean-Pierre Luminet alterne l'épopée, la nouvelle et le conte philosophique, dissimulant son érudition sous l'humour et la poésie. -- 4e de couvOutcast of Redwall (Redwall)
By Brian Jacques. 1996
Orphan badger Sunflash the Mace undergoes many ordeals before claiming his heritage as badger lord of Salamandastron. Aided by the…
faithful kestrel Skarlath, Sunflash battles evil ferret warlord Swartt Sixclaw. Swartt's outcast son, Veil, who was lovingly raised at Redwall, finds his loyalties divided. For grades 5-8. 1995Ella in Europe: an American dog's international adventures
By Michael Konik. 2005
The author recounts rewarding his favorite companion, Ella, a mixed Lab, for her devotion and work as a therapy dog…
with a summertime tour of Europe. He chronicles their adventures with Belgian friend Sandrine in dog-friendly restaurants, hotels, and trains and their special encounters with other dog lovers. 2005High plains tango: a novel
By Robert James Waller. 2005
Carlisle McMillan, carpenter son of photographer Robert Kincaid from The Bridges of Madison County (RC 35861, BR 9823), settles in…
Salamander, South Dakota. There McMillan renovates his home and falls in love with Susanna Benteen--while he resists the local government's seizure of his land to build a highway. Strong language, some explicit descriptions of sex, and some violence. 2005Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Longstocking Ser.)
By Astrid Lindgren. 1950
The widow of the south
By Robert Hicks. 2005
1864. Carrie McGavock's Tennessee plantation becomes a Confederate hospital. Caring for wounded sergeant Zachariah Cashwell rejuvenates Carrie, who is mourning…
her children's deaths. Decades later, before 1,500 graves can be plowed for farmland, Carrie has the soldiers reburied in her backyard--then Zachariah returns. Some strong language. 2005The green lantern: a romance of Stalinist Russia
By Jerome Charyn. 2004
Moscow, 1930s. Apprentice Ivan Azerbaijan is cast as Shakespeare's King Lear opposite his beloved, actress Valentina Michaelson, who plays Cordelia.…
He enters a web of paranoia, brutality, and shifting alliances when his performances draw Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's attention. Some descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 2004Out of season
By Robert Bausch. 2005
Sheriff David Caldwell arrives at the aging resort town of Columbia Beach to establish a satellite office. He's also meeting…
his twenty-year-old son, who was released after serving time for killing his little brother. Meanwhile a young woman and the town bully provide complications. Strong language and some violence. 2005Haven
By Don D'Ammassa. 2004
Recuperating from a nervous disorder on the planet Meadow, Wes Avery discovers a corpse that subsequently disappears. When local authorities…
seem intent on concealing the truth, Wes and artificial intelligence programmer Dona Tharmody attempt to identify the body. They discover possible ties between the murder and a secretive politician. 2004The Greenstone grail
By Amanda Hemingway. 2004
In the small English village of Thornyhill, gifted twelve-year-old Nathan Ward realizes he is special when pieces of his dreams…
become reality, including a legendary greenish stone chalice. When the grail is stolen, Nathan sets out to uncover how it came into his world--and why. 2004Traces the life of twenty-one-year-old Romanian Attila Ambrus, who in 1988 sneaked into post-Communist Hungary and joined a professional ice…
hockey team. Details seven years he spent robbing banks, romancing women, and boozing. Describes the Budapest detective on his trail--who had learned crime solving from American TV. Strong language. 2004Shine on me: the biography of an African American woman, born blind
By D. Dexter Vizinau. 2004
The son of Margaret Vizinau, an African American woman born blind in Arkansas in 1927, describes growing up in San…
Francisco in the 1950s and 1960s. Relates how his single mother, a devout Christian, supported her sons by singing and playing the piano in church. Strong language. 2003Break, blow, burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three Of The World's Best Poems
By Camille Paglia. 2005
Concise interpretive commentaries on forty-three of the world's best poems. Ranges from well-known works by Shakespeare, Donne, Wordsworth, Shelley, Dickinson,…
and Yeats to more modern pieces by Langston Hughes, Theodore Roethke, Sylvia Plath, Wanda Coleman, and Joni Mitchell. 2005Ty's tricks: Home Repair Secrets Plus Cheap And Easy Projects To Transform Any Room
By Ty Pennington. 2003
The carpenter on The Learning Channel's "Trading Spaces" presents cheap and easy projects to transform any room. Using his "champagne…
house on a beer budget" home as an example, Pennington discusses flooring, lighting, and painting and offers other repair tips. 2003And they all sang: adventures of an eclectic disc jockey
By Studs Terkel. 2005
Pulitzer Prize-winning author offers more than forty interviews of musicians from his post-World War II Chicago radio talk show "The…
Wax Museum." Includes the insights of Marian Anderson, Ravi Shankar, Aaron Copland, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Mahalia Jackson, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and others. 2005Help, it's broken!: a fix-it bible for the repair-impaired
By Arianne Cohen. 2005
Basic home repair and maintenance guide providing step-by-step solutions for hundreds of common interior problems such as squeaky floors, broken…
windows, damaged tile and drywall, blown fuses, noisy fans, malfunctioning appliances, clogged drains, and leaky faucets. Includes safety and money-saving tips and advice on consulting a professional. 2005The razor's edge (Vintage International)
By W. Somerset Maugham. 1972
Twenty-year-old WWI aviator Larry Darrell leaves Chicago and heads to Paris seeking truth and meaning. In Larry's prolonged absence, his…
fiancée, Isabel, marries wealthy broker Gray Maturin. Ruined by the depression years later, Isabel and her family relocate to Paris, where she and Larry reassess life and love. 1943Her Majesty's spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the birth of modern espionage
By Stephen Budiansky. 2005
Biography of the Puritan secretary of the Privy Council, who oversaw espionage for British monarch Elizabeth I. Describes ways Walsingham…
perfected techniques to operate secretly against Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Catholic countries of France and Spain. Explains his use of code breaking and secret agents. Violence. 2005Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's revealing look at teenagers who have succumbed to--and are recovering from--adolescent pressures. Focuses on Massachusetts's Academy at…
Swift River, an exclusive therapeutic boarding school where students undergo an intensive program combining rigorous courses, wilderness survival, and group therapy. Profiles four successful teens. Some strong language. 2005Million dollar dilemma
By Judy Baer. 2005
Minneapolis, Minnesota. Twenty-eight-year-old preacher's daughter Cassia Carr inadvertently participates in an office lottery pool and wins twenty million dollars. When…
Cassia decides to donate her ill-gotten wealth, her neighbor Adam Cavanaugh, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and lapsed Christian, tries to convince her to contribute the money to impoverished Africans. 2005