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S'adapter: roman (Bleue)
By Clara Dupont-Monod. 2021
Dans les Cévennes, l'équilibre d'une famille est bouleversé par la naissance d'un enfant handicapé. Si l'aîné de la fratrie s'attache…
profondément à ce frère différent et fragile, la cadette se révolte et le rejette. Prix Landerneau des lecteurs 2021, prix Femina 2021, prix Goncourt des lycéens 2021.Wild ran the rivers: one family’s western odyssey (Five trails west. #1.)
By James D. Crownover. 2014
This is a story of pioneers, pirates and ponies, floods, earthquakes, a mysterious wilderness settlement, and how the second generation…
of a Cherokee family found a home on the upper reaches of the Little Red River. Barely sixteen, Ruth Harris is captured with her brother Jerry and held prisoner on Pirate Island. With help from the New Madrid earthquakes, they flee through trackless wilderness and Jerry comes of age during their sojourn at Flee’s Settlement. Winner of the 2015 Spur best western historical novel award. 2014.The perfect nanny: a novel
By Leïla Slimani. 2018
When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the…
perfect nanny for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite, devoted woman who sings to the children, cleans the family's chic apartment in Paris's upscale tenth arrondissement, stays late without complaint, and hosts enviable kiddie parties. But as the couple and the nanny become more dependent on one another, jealousy, resentment, and suspicions mount, shattering the idyllic tableau. Building tension with every page, "The Perfect Nanny" is a compulsive, riveting, bravely observed exploration of power, class, race, domesticity, and motherhood. Bestseller. 2018. Uniform title: Chanson douce.The hanging girl
By Eileen Cook. 2017
Skye Thorn has given tarot card readings for years, and now her "psychic visions" are helping the police find the…
town's missing golden girl. It's no challenge: her readings have always been faked, and she's involved in the kidnapping. It was supposed to be easy--no one would get hurt and she'd get the money she needs to start a new life. When the harmless prank turns dark, Skye realizes the people she's involved with are willing to kill to get what they want. Now she must discover their true identity-- before it's too late. For senior high readers. Winner of the 2018 John Spray Mystery Award. 2017.The Son of the House
By Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia. 2021
Pulsing with vitality and intense human drama, Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia’s debut is set against four decades of vibrant Nigeria and celebrates…
the resilience of women as they navigate and transform what remains a man’s world.Fin de mi-temps pour le soldat Billy Lynn: roman (Terres d'Amérique)
By Ben Fountain. 2013
" Un accrochage avec des insurgés irakiens, trois minutes quarante-trois de pure violence filmées par Fox News, désormais en boucle…
sur YouTube, et les huit survivants de la compagnie Bravo deviennent du jour au lendemain les enfants chéris de l'Amérique. Ils sont les stars de la Tournée de la Victoire, censée ranimer la flamme du soutien à la guerre, qui doit se clôturer par leur présence à la mi-temps du grand match de football de Thanksgiving à Dallas, aux côtés d'un célèbre groupe pop. Mais rien ne va se dérouler comme prévu. Perdu entre les richissimes propriétaires et les joueurs du club des Cowboys, les sponsors, un vieux producteur hollywoodien et une pulpeuse pom-pom girl évangéliste, Billy Lynn, dix-neuf ans et héros malgré lui, ne pense, comme ses frères d'armes, qu'à une seule chose : profiter au maximum de ses derniers jours de permission. Repartira-t-il pour l'Irak, laissant derrière lui ses illusions et son innocence ? Un livre ravageur sur le monde d'aujourd'hui : le Catch 22 de la guerre d'Irak. " --4e de couvL'enfant du jeudi: roman
By Alison Pick. 2012
" Mil neuf cent trente-neuf. En Tchécoslovaquie, Pavel et Anneliese Bauer, comme tant de familles bien nanties, jouissent du confort…
de leur grande demeure où leur fils unique, Pepik, six ans, est lobjet de toutes les attentions. Mais à mesure que les rumeurs de la menace nazie, précédant les soldats de la Wehrmacht, atteignent leur coin des Sudètes, leur vie est retournée sens dessus dessous : peu importe que les Bauer ne se sentent pas juifs, leur existence est maintenant en danger. LEnfant du jeudi nous fait partager le quotidien de deux individus qui doivent renoncer à tout, même à lespoir, mais à qui on offre une chance ultime pour que leur enfant soit épargné. Alison Pick nous raconte ici, avec une sensibilité et une richesse de détails encore inégalés, une histoire damour et les choix difficiles que celui-ci nous impose. " -- 4e de couvLe jardin du mendiant: nouvelles (Terres d'Amérique)
By Michael Christie. 2012
" C'est une nouvelle tragiquement drôle qui ouvre le formidable recueil de Michael Christie, classé parmi les meilleurs livres de…
l'année 2011 au Canada et récompensé par le Vancouver Book Award. Une femme seule appelle désespérément les secours, amoureuse d'un infirmier rencontré un soir de blues. Pour le retrouver, elle devra faire preuve de beaucoup d'imagination... jusqu'à frôler la mort. Qu'il évoque un accro au crack dialoguant avec le fantôme d'Oppenheimer ou un vieil homme qui tente de renouer avec son petit-fils devenu SDF, Michael Christie ausculte le coeur et l'âme de Vancouver, ses solitudes anonymes et modernes, avec autant d'intelligence que d'humour. Un univers urbain qui nous ressemble étrangement. Subtilité du regard, inventivité de l'écriture : ces nouvelles - inspirées en partie de l'expérience de l'auteur dans le domaine social - abordent la société contemporaine sous un angle résolument inédit. Michael Christie s'impose d'emblée comme l'un des grands espoirs de la littérature canadienne. " -- 4e de couvA thousand texas longhorns
By Johnny D Boggs. 2020
Multiple award-winning author Johnny D. Boggs, one of the most respected and popular writers of Western fiction, brings to life…
the harsh reality of cattle drives in a powerful, trailblazing adventure inspired by the harrowing true story of the1866 cattle drive from Texas to Montana—and the legendary man who dared the impossible... The Civil War is over. The future of the American West is up for grabs. Any man crazy enough to lead a herd of Texas longhorns to the north stands to make a fortune—and make history. That man would be Nelson Story. A bold entrepreneur and miner, he knows a golden opportunity when he sees one. But it won't be easy. Cowboys and bandits have guns, farmers have sick livestock, and the Army's have their own reasons to stop the drive. Even worse, Story's top hand is an ornery Confederate veteran who used to be his enemy. But all that is nothing compared to the punishing weather, the deadly stampedes—and the bloodthirsty wrath of the Sioux... This is the incredible saga of a man named Story. A true legend of the Old West. And the ever-beating heart of the American Dream. Winner of the 2021 Spur best original mass market paperback award.Winter counts: A novel
By David Heska Wanbli Weiden. 2020
An addictive and groundbreaking debut thriller set on a Native American reservation and hailed by CJ Box as " a…
hell of a debut" "Winter Counts is both a propulsive crime novel and a wonderfully informative book." —Louise Erdrich Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that's hard to forget. But when heroin makes its way into the reservation and finds Virgil's own nephew, his vigilantism suddenly becomes personal. He enlists the help of his ex-girlfriend and sets out to learn where the drugs are coming from, and how to make them stop. They follow a lead to Denver and find that drug cartels are rapidly expanding and forming new and terrifying alliances. And back on the reservation, a new tribal council initiative raises uncomfortable questions about money and power. As Virgil starts to link the pieces together, he must face his own demons and reclaim his Native identity. He realizes that being a Native American in the twenty-first century comes at an incredible cost. Winter Counts is a tour-de-force of crime fiction, a bracingly honest look at a long-ignored part of American life, and a twisting, turning story that's as deeply rendered as it is thrilling. Winner of the 2021 Spur best western contemporary novel award and Best first novel award.The black flamingo
By Dean Atta. 2020
Michael is a mixed-race gay teen growing up in London. All his life, he's navigated what it means to be…
Greek-Cypriot and Jamaican, but never quite feeling Greek or Black enough. As he gets older, Michael's coming out is only the start of learning who he is and where he fits in. When he discovers the Drag Society, he finally finds where he belongs, and the Black Flamingo is bornL'homme de Kiev (Rivages-Poche #834)
By Bernard Malamud. 2015
Russie, début du XXe siècle. Yakov Bok, menuisier juif accusé du meurtre rituel d'un enfant, est arrêté et emprisonné pendant…
plusieurs années avant que s'ouvre le procès qui l'innocentera. Prix Pulitzer de fiction 1966.Rêves de gloire (La dentelle du cygne)
By Roland C. Wagner. 2011
A Alger, l'obsession d'un collectionneur de disques pour une pièce rare des années 1960 le conduit à soulever un coin…
du voile qui dissimule les mystères de la guerre d'Algérie et de ses prolongements. Prix Utopiales européen 2011, Grand prix de l'imaginaire 2012 (Etonnants voyageurs).Megabat / (Megabat #1)
By Anna Humphrey. 2018
Daniel Misumi has just moved to a new house. It's big and old and far away from his friends and…
his life before. AND it's haunted ... or is it? Megabat was just napping on a papaya one day when he was stuffed in a box and shipped halfway across the world. Now he's living in an old house far from home, feeling sorry for himself and accidentally scaring the people who live there. Daniel realizes it's not a ghost in his new house. It's a bat. And he can talk. And he's actually kind of cute. Megabat realizes that not every human wants to whack him with a broom. This one shares his smooshfruit. Add some buttermelon, juice boxes, a light saber and a common enemy and you've got a new friendship in the making! Winner of the 2020 Silver Birch Express Award. Grades 3-6. 2018.The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane (Black Hollow Lane #1)
By Julia Nobel. 2019
The first in an exciting new series, this suspenseful debut brings readers on a journey filled with secrets, mystery, and…
unforgettable characters.With a dad who disappeared years ago and a mother who's a bit too busy to parent, Emmy is shipped off to Wellsworth, a prestigious boarding school in England, where she's sure she won't fit in.But then she finds a box of mysterious medallions in the attic of her home—medallions that belonged to her father. Her father who may have gone to Wellsworth.When she arrives at school, she finds the strange symbols from the medallions etched into walls and books, which leads Emmy and her new friends, Jack and Lola, to Wellsworth's secret society: The Order of Black Hollow Lane. Emmy can't help but think that the society had something to do with her dad's disappearance, and that there may be more than just dark secrets in thehalls of Wellsworth... Winner of the 2020 Silver Birch Fiction Award.Five wives: A Novel
By Joan Thomas. 2019
1956. A small group of evangelical Christian missionaries and their families journeyed to the rainforest in Ecuador intending to convert…
the Waorani, a people who had never had contact with the outside world. Calling it Operation Auca, the group spent several days dropping gifts from an aircraft, and then the five men in the party rashly entered the "intangible zone." They were all killed, leaving their wives and children to fend for themselves. A fictionalized account of the real-life women who were left behind, and their struggles - with grief, with doubt, and with each other - as they continued to pursue their evangelical mission in the face of the explosion of fame that followed their husbands' deaths. Winner of the 2019 Governor General’s Award for Fiction. Bestseller. 2019.De synthèse
By Karoline Georges. 2017
L'une s'immobilise devant les fenêtres de sa maison en banlieue avec le poids de la mort au creux du ventre;…
l'autre cherche à traverser l'écran pour se transformer en image grâce à son avatar numérique, en quête d'absolu. L'une a donné naissance à l'autre, qui tente maintenant de renaître à travers un corps virtuel, loin de la morosité du nid familial. Récit d'une lumineuse lucidité propre à ouvrir les consciences et à faire vibrer les âmes, De synthèse met en lumière l'aboutissement d'une relation filiale du point de vue d'une femme-image renouant avec sa famille au moment où sa mère entre en phase terminale, au terme d'une longue période de dégénérescence. C'est une histoire de corps, de disparition, de reflets, de composition et de décomposition. C'est l'histoire d'une image à parfaire, par-delà le désastre de la chair. Prix du Gouverneur général, section romans et nouvelles, 2018. 2017.Ferdinand F., 81 ans, chenille: roman / (Graffiti + #116)
By Mario Brassard. 2018
Ayant toujours eu peur de tout, Ferdinand F. n'a jamais véritablement pris de risque dans sa vie, voyant les jours…
se succéder sans histoire jusqu'à ses 81 ans. S'il était reconnu, enfant, pour son magnifique sourire, le voilà un vieillard solitaire qui n'a pas profité des chances qui lui ont été offertes tout au long de son existence. En effet, même s'il se faisait approcher par Georges Foisy, fils de diplomate, il n'a jamais voulu se lier d'amitié avec ce dernier parce qu'il était jaloux de lui, particulièrement lorsqu'il a constaté que Frangin, son copain imaginaire, s'était mis à jouer avec son pire ennemi. Changeant d'école, il termine ses études avant de s'enrôler dans l'armée lors de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, mais feint toutes sortes de maladies afin d'éviter d'être envoyé au front. Ses talents indéniables en batterie lui auraient également permis de joindre les Beatles si sa mère parlait anglais, il aurait pu se marier à une bibliothécaire décomplexée s'il n'avait pas fait de mauvais rêves et il aurait pu visiter les villes dominées par les gratte-ciel s'il n'avait pas aussi peur de l'avion. Tout change cependant en 2005 quand un vieil ennemi le contacte afin de sauver l'être le plus cher à ses yeux. Pour les lecteurs d'école secondaire. Prix du Gouverneur général, section littérature jeunesse, texte, 2018. 2018.Sealskin
By Tyler. Keevil. 2018
A collection of short stories set in Vancouver, in and around the port, about working men grappling with masculinity and…
responsibility. Includes the title story, winner of the 2014 Journey Prize. 2018.Sadie
By Courtney Summers. 2018
A New York Times bestseller! An Edgar Award Winner! A Booklist Top 10 YA Book for Adult Readers. One of…
the Best YA Novels of 2018 by Publishers Weekly. One of B&N Teen Blog's Best YA Books of 2018. Bustle's Best Young Adult Books of 2018. Good Morning America's Best Books of 2018. In NPR's Guide to 2018's Greatest Reads. In Paste's 30 Best Young Adult Novels of 2018. Nominated for YALSA's 2019 Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers. 4 Starred Reviews from Kirkus, School Library Journal, Booklist, Publishers Weekly! "Sadie: a novel for readers of any age, and a character as indelible as a scar. Flat-out dazzling."—A. J. Finn, #1New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window" Sadie is an electrifying, high-stakes road trip. Clear your schedule. You're not going anywhere until you've reached the end." —Stephanie Perkins,New York Times bestselling author of There's Someone Inside Your House and Anna and the French Kiss" A haunting, gut-wrenching, and relentlessly compelling read." —Veronica Roth, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Carve the Mark and the Divergent series. A missing girl on a journey of revenge. A Serial—like podcast following the clues she's left behind. And an ending you won't be able to stop talking about. Sadie hasn't had an easy life. Growing up on her own, she's been raising her sister Mattie in an isolated small town, trying her best to provide a normal life and keep their heads above water.But when Mattie is found dead, Sadie's entire world crumbles. After a somewhat botched police investigation, Sadie is determined to bring her sister's killer to justice and hits the road following a few meager clues to find him.When West McCray—a radio personality working on a segment about small, forgotten towns in America—overhears Sadie's story at a local gas station, he becomes obsessed with finding the missing girl. He starts his own podcast as he tracks Sadie's journey, trying to figure out what happened, hoping to find her before it's too late.Courtney Summers has written the breakout book of her career.Sadie is propulsive and harrowing and will keep you riveted until the last page. Winner of the 2020 White Pine Fiction Award.