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Savages
By Don Winslow, Freddy Michalski. 2012
Ben, docteur en botanique et marketing, Chon, mercenaire féru d'armes sophistiquées, et Ophelia, une bimbo à l'intelligence brillante, produisent de…
l'hydro, un cannabis cultivé hors sol, sans matières organiques. Ils vivent tranquilles de leur petit commerce jusqu'au jour où la reine du cartel de Baja veut racheter leur business. Porté à l'écran en 2012 par O. Stone.Midnight in Europe: a novel
By Alan Furst. 2014
The future of Spain is at stake. Germany and Italy have ensured that Republican forces are starved of weapons and…
a Franco victory now looks likely. Cristian Ferrar, a Spanish lawyer living in Paris, is a well-connected man. When Ferrar is approached by anti-Franco forces, he readily agrees to help smuggle arms into his homeland. Working with de Lyon - an enigmatic man of Slavic descent - Ferrar goes on a quest which will take him from libertine nightclubs in the City of Light to volatile bars by the docks in Gdansk, as Europe holds its breath. Bestseller. 2014.Double fudge brownie murder (Hannah Swensen mystery.)
By Joanne Fluke. 2015
Hannah Swensen is nervous about the upcoming trial for her involvement in a tragic accident. She's eager to clear her…
name once and for all, but her troubles only double when she finds the judge bludgeoned to death with his own gavel--and Hannah is the number one suspect. Now on trial in the court of public opinion, she sets out in search of the culprit and discovers that the judge made more than a few enemies during his career. With time running out, Hannah will have to whip up her most clever recipe yet to find a killer more elusive than the perfect brownie. Bestseller. 2015.After a lengthy case in India, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are on the steamer Thomas Carlyle, bound for Japan.…
Aboard the ship, intrigue stirs almost immediately. Holmes recognizes the famous clubman the Earl of Darley, whom he suspects of being an occasional blackmailer: not an unlikely career choice for a man richer in social connections than in pounds sterling. And then there's the lithe young Japanese woman who befriends Russell and quotes haiku. Haruki Sato agrees to tutor the couple in Japanese language and customs, but Russell can't shake the feeling that the young woman is not who she claims to be. Once in Japan, Russell's suspicions are confirmed in a most surprising way. Bestseller. 2015.Twelve days (John Wells novel.)
By Alex Berenson. 2015
When John Wells uncovers a plot to lure America into invading Iran, he and his CIA contacts race against time…
to prevent full-scale war in the face of a terrorist attack and suicide bombers. Bestseller. 2015.And the birds rained down
By Rhonda Mullins, Jocelyne Saucier. 2012
Tom and Charlie have decided to live out the remainder of their lives on their own terms, hidden away in…
a remote forest, their only connection to the outside world a couple of pot growers who deliver whatever they need that they can't eke out for themselves. But one summer two women arrive. Includes sex. Winner of the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie. Bestseller. Canada Reads 2015. 2012. Uniform title: Il pleuvait des oiseaux.Enlace-moi (Crossfire. #3.)
By Sylvia Day, Agathe Nabet. 2013
Parce qu'il me savait menacée, Gideon avait pris des risques insensés. Pour me protéger, il s'était chargé du pire fardeau.…
Son geste était la plus bouleversante des preuves d'amour, mais il nous séparait autant qu'il nous rapprochait. Prisonniers de nos secrets, nous étions plus que jamais prêts à défier le destin pour être ensemble. Je pressentais toutefois que ce passé qui nous avait déjà tellement meurtris pouvait, à tout instant, nous rattraper. Suite de «Regarde-Moi». c2013. Titre uniforme: Entwined with you.I've got you under my skin: A Novel (An Under Suspicion Novel #1)
By Mary Higgins Clark. 2014
Five years ago someone killed Dr. Greg Moran while he pushed his three-year-old son on a park swing. Now his…
widow Laurie begins production of a reality television show on the twenty-year-old murder of a socialite, not realizing the two terrifying, unsolved cases will soon merge. Bestseller. 2014.Save the date: A Novel
By Mary Kay Andrews. 2014
A Savannah florist is about to score the wedding of a lifetime - one that will solidify her career as…
the go-to girl for society nuptials. Ironically, Cara Kryzik doesn't believe in love, even though she creates beautiful flower arrangements to celebrate them. But when the bride goes missing and the wedding is in jeopardy, Cara must find the bride and figure out what she believes in. Who knows, maybe love really does exist outside of fairy tales after all. Bestseller. 2014.The collector
By Nora Roberts. 2014
When professional house-sitter Lila Emerson witnesses a murder/suicide from her current apartment-sitting job, life as she knows it takes a…
dramatic turn. Suddenly, the woman with no permanent ties finds herself almost wishing for one. Artist Ashton Archer knows his brother isn't capable of violence--against himself or others. He recruits Lila, the only eyewitness, to help him uncover what happened. Bestseller. 2014.Us conductors
By Sean Michaels. 2014
Based on the life of Russian scientist, inventor and spy Lev Termen, the story takes us from the glitz and…
glam of New York in the 1930s to the gulags and scientific camps of the Soviet Union. Termen is imprisoned on a ship going to the Soviet Union. He is writing a letter to Clara Rockmore, the finest theremin player in the world. From there we learn Termen's story: his early days as a scientist in Leningrad, and the acclaim he received as the inventor of the theremin, eventually coming to New York under the aegis of the Russian state. There he stays, teaching eager music students, making his name, and swiftly falling in love with Clara. But it isn't long until he has fallen in with Russian spooks, slipping through the shadows of a budding Cold War, with cold-blooded results. Termen returns to Russia, where he is imprisoned in a Siberian gulag and later brought to Moscow, tasked with eavesdropping on Stalin himself. Bestseller. Winner of the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize. 2014.The serpent of Venice: A Novel
By Christopher Moore. 2014
Pocket, from "Fool", has left England for Venice and becomes entangled in the plotting of conspirators Antonio, Brabantio, and Iago.…
With sidekick Drool and pet monkey Jeff, Pocket must navigate the dangerous waters of Italian treachery. Bestseller. 2014.Trust no one
By Jayne Ann Krentz. 2015
When Grace Elland finds her murdered boss's body, she comes to the attention of the police, a sexy new neighbour,…
and an apparent stalker who seems linked to both this crime and a violent event from Grace's past. Bestseller. 2015.Chestnut Street
By Maeve Binchy. 2014
Just round the corner from St Jarlath's Crescent is Chestnut Street. Here, the lives of the residents are revealed in…
a collection of stories: Bucket Maguire, the window cleaner, who must do more than he bargained for to protect his son. Nessa Byrne, whose aunt comes to visit from America for six weeks every summer and turns the house - and Nessa's world - upside down. Lilian, the generous girl with a big heart, and the fiancé not everyone approves of. And Melly, whose gossip about the neighbours leads to trouble in the form of the fortune teller, 'Madame Magic'. Bestseller. 2014.All my puny sorrows
By Miriam Toews. 2014
Elf and Yoli are sisters. While on the surface Elfrieda's life is enviable (she's a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, and…
happily married) and Yolandi's a mess (she's divorced and broke, with two teenagers growing up too quickly), they are fiercely close — raised in a Mennonite household and sharing the hardship of Elf's desire to end her life. After Elf's latest attempt, Yoli must quickly determine how to keep her family from falling apart, how to keep her own heart from breaking, and what it means to love someone who wants to die. Bestseller. Winner of the 2014 Roger’s Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. 2014.All the broken things: a novel
By Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer. 2014
Fourteen-year-old Bo, a boat person from Vietnam, lives in the Junction neighbourhood of Toronto with his mother, Thao, and his…
four-year-old sister, who was born severely disfigured from the effects of Agent Orange. Named Orange, she is the family secret; Thao keeps her hidden away, and when Bo's not at school or getting into fights on the street, he cares for her. One day a carnival worker and bear trainer, Gerry, sees Bo in a streetfight, and recruits him for the bear wrestling circuit, eventually giving him his own cub to train. This opens up a new world for Bo--but then Gerry's boss, Max, begins pursuing Thao with an eye on Orange for his travelling freak show. When Bo wakes up one night to find the house empty, he knows he and his cub, Bear, are truly alone. Bestseller. 2014.Medicine walk
By Richard Wagamese. 2014
Franklin Starlight is sixteen years old and has had the most fleeting of relationships with his real father, Eldon. The…
rare moments they've shared haunt and trouble Frank, but when he is called to visit his father, he answers it as a son's duty. He finds Eldon decimated after years of drinking, dying of liver failure in a small town flophouse. Eldon asks his son to take him into the mountains, so he may be buried in the traditional Ojibway manner. What ensues is a journey through the rugged and beautiful backcountry of the B.C. Interior, and a journey into the past, as the two men push forward to Eldon's end. Bestseller. Winner of the 2015 Evergreen Award. 2014.The troop
By Nick Cutter. 2014
Boy Scouts live by the motto "Be Prepared." However, nothing can prepare this group of young boys and their scoutmaster…
for what they encounter on a small, deserted island, as they settle down for a weekend of campfires, merit badges, and survival lessons. Everything changes when a haggard stranger in tattered clothing appears out of nowhere and collapses on the campers' doorstep. Before the night is through, this stranger will end up infecting one of the troop's own with a bioengineered horror that's straight out of their worst nightmares. Bestseller. Winner of the 2016 White Pine Fiction Honour Book Award. 2014.The ever after of Ashwin Rao
By Padma Viswanathan. 2014
Almost 20 years after the fatal bombing of an Air India flight from Vancouver, two suspects - finally - are…
on trial for the crime. Ashwin Rao, an Indian psychologist trained in Canada, comes back to do a "study of comparative grief," interviewing people who lost loved ones in the attack. What he neglects to mention is that he, too, had family members who died on the plane. Then, to his delight and fear, he becomes embroiled in the lives of one family caught in the undertow of the tragedy, and privy to their secrets. This surprising emotional connection sparks him to confront his own deep losses. Bestseller. 2014.The Martian: a novel
By Andy Weir. 2014
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll…
be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive--and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. But Mark isn't ready to give up yet. Bestseller. 2014.