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By Katherine Hall Page. 1993
Faith Fairchild, former Manhattan caterer, is hired to feed the movie company that is filming a version of The Scarlet…
Letter in the scenic town of Aleford, Massachusetts. But the leading lady is poisoned and two supporting cast members are killed before Faith discovers who the culprit is. Some strong language. 1993.By Carol Plum-Ucci. 2000
Torey Adams, a high school junior with a perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of…
the class outcast. As he searches for answers, he analyzes his own behaviour and discovers secrets in the victim's family. Some strong language. For Senior High readers. Michael L. Printz Honor. c2000.By Katherine Hall Page. 2009
Caterer Faith Fairchild and her family are spending Christmas at their cottage on Sanpere Island, Maine. When Faith discovers a…
young woman's body in a holiday display and a neighbor finds a baby boy in the barn, Faith looks for a connection. 2009.By Katherine Hall Page. 2008
Caterer Faith Fairchild helps her friend Patsy Avery, a trustee of a local museum. Patsy suspects someone has replaced a…
valuable painting with a forgery. Although Faith has promised her husband to stop her amateur sleuthing, she discovers the body of a young woman at the gallery. 2008.By Katherine Hall Page. 2005
Caterer Faith Fairchild and her extended family gather at a ski resort in Vermont to celebrate her father-in-law's seventieth birthday.…
But after Faith finds the body of a local lawyer, the chef disappears, and another corpse turns up on the slopes, the clan starts bickering. Includes recipes. 2005.By Katherine Hall Page. 2004
Caterer and amateur sleuth Faith Fairchild moves to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where her minister husband will teach at Harvard Divinity School.…
Settling into their temporary home, Faith finds two things disturbing: her ex-boyfriend Richard Morgan's sudden reappearance and a 1946 diary in the attic. Includes recipes. 2004.By Agatha Christie. 1942
The Colonel and Mrs Bantry had always believed that finding "a body in the library" only happened in books, until…
it happened to them. Whose body was it? And why should it be found in the library of Gossington Hall? Miss Marple investigates. Sequel to "The regatta mystery, and other stories". Followed by "The moving finger" (DC32950). 1942. (Jane Marple murder mysteries ; 4)By Serge Patrice Thibodeau. 2006
Trêve de solitude; dans ces poèmes, seul veut dire seulement, seul signifie unique. Écrite à partir d'un vers de Paul…
Valéry, cette poésie est un mélange audacieux de motifs tels que l'anecdote et le tableau de genre, le paysage et l'escamot (pop-up), où l'usage de la forme fixe délimite la façon d'être de ce poète qui signe là son douzième recueil. Gagnant du Prix du Gouverneur général catégorie poésie, 2007. 2006.By Chrystine Brouillet. 2015
Quand Maud Graham est appelée à éclaircir le meurtre d'un homme trouvé gisant dans son sang, seul dans son appartement,…
elle ne peut se douter des motifs de ce crime. Qui pouvait bien en vouloir à ce point à cet homme sans histoire ? Avec ses coéquipiers McEwen, Joubert, Nguyen et Rouaix , la détective avance en plein brouillard jusqu'à ce que commence à se dessiner une toile complexe. La victime a été témoin d'une violence qu'on aurait voulu garder dissimulée à tout jamais. Et si l'enquête porte d'abord sur l'assassinat d'un homme, c'est sur la maltraitance subie par des femmes qu'on lèvera le voile en cours d'investigation. Alarmée par le danger qui menace ces femmes devenues des proies malgré elles, Graham se lance sur la trace de l'agresseur. Une poignante course contre la montre démarre. Suite de "Saccages", suivi de "Vrai ou faux". 2015.By Chrystine Brouillet. 2010
Après dix années d'absence, Gabrielle Leland revient vivre à Québec. Nouvelle vie, nouveaux défis? Quand arrive la première lettre anonyme,…
Gabrielle comprend que les démons de son passé reviennent la hanter. Elle sent que quelqu'un, tapi dans l'ombre, connaît son secret, la guette, la menace. Suite de "Promesses d'éternité", suivi de "Double disparition". 2010. (Une enquête de Maud Graham)By Chrystine Brouillet. 2010
Décidément, l'été sera chaud pour la détective Maud Graham qui doit élucider plusieurs meurtres. Un adolescent meurt après avoir été…
sauvagement agressé. Puis, un autre est trouvé mort dans un immeuble abandonné, probablement d'une overdose. Suite de "Sans pardon", suivi de "Promesses d’éternité" .2010.By Carola Dunn. 2017
1925. The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher--recent mother of twins--resumes her journalistic career by agreeing to write a piece about the…
Tower of London--the Bloody Tower--for an American magazine. Invited to observe the centuries-old ritual Ceremony of the Keys, she's spending the night (her first time away from her babies) since the complex is locked and guarded, and the high walls are surrounded by a disused moat. Having been given a tour of the Crown Jewels, interviewed and observed the Yeoman Warders, and met the Ravenmaster, Daisy has more than enough material for her article and decides to leave as early as possible the next morning. But when walking down the stairs, she almost trips over the dead body of one of the Yeoman Warders. Sequel to "Gunpowder plot", followed by "Black ship". 2017.By Margaret Atwood. 2000
Iris Chase is a lonely old woman who reflects on her life and on that of her long-deceased sister, Laura.…
Laura's novel, The Blind Assassin, won a cult following in the pre-war years with its sexual frankness, science fiction segments, and story-within-a-story technique. Spanning over decades, through war, turmoil and loss, the interconnected narratives spin a tale of devotion and deceit. Some strong language. 2000 Man Booker Prize. c2000.By Ann Purser. 2014
Interested in penning her memoirs, Ivy Beasley decides to take a creative writing course. But it's hard to find time…
to put pen to paper when this current chapter is so full of lies, jealousy and murder. Rumors are flying around the village of Barrington about Mrs. Winchen Blatch, a reclusive widow living alone in her old farmhouse. In the past few weeks, the widow claims she has been tormented by ghostly visitations, so she hires Ivy and her fellow investigators at Enquire Within to get to the bottom of the mystery. Ivy's new classes are very close to the widow's farmhouse, perfect for combining studying and snooping. 2014.By Patricia Daniels Cornwell. 2005
Le docteur Kay Scarpetta s'est installée en Floride. Elle a quitté la médecine légale institutionnelle pour l'expertise privée. Pourtant, elle…
va devoir revenir dans cette ville de Richmond qui lui a tourné le dos cinq ans plus tôt. Sur place, des surprises désagréables l'attendent. La démolition de ses anciens bureaux est presque achevée ; le médecin-légiste expert qui lui a succédé est un parfait incompétent ; son ancien assistant en chef est plongé dans des problèmes personnels qu'il refuse d'aborder. Privée de l'assistance de Wesley et de sa nièce Lucy, Scarpetta doit se résoudre à élucider les causes du décès d'une adolescente de quatorze ans. Elle doit démêler l'écheveau des pistes, traquer des signes suspects afin de révéler une vérité qu'elle ne parviendra peut-être pas à tolérer. 2005. Titre uniforme: Trace.By Chrystine Brouillet. 2000
Un roman policier, médical et hospitalier dans lequel on retrouve la détective Maud Graham. L'oeuvre aborde les problèmes reliés au…
syndrome de Munchausen par procuration (des gens, pour diverses raisons, inventent des maladies à leur enfant). Pour les lecteurs d'école secondaire. Suite de "Les fiancées de l'enfer", suivi de "Indésirables". 2000.By François X Côté. 2006
Le narrateur, qui est devenu homme tronc à cinq ans, suite à une rencontre malencontreuse avec une souffleuse, tente de…
trouver à travers l'écriture un exutoire à ses rêves. Prix Robert-Cliche 2006.By Patrick Dearen. 2014
Will Brite is a Slash Five cowboy working in the Middle Concho region of Texas in the winter of 1884…
when a blizzard descends upon him - the likes of which he has never seen. Trapped under his horse and entangled in a barbed wire fence, Will finds an unexpected (and unwelcome) saviour in the form of Zeke Boles, a former slave on the run from a bloody, guilt-filled past. In Zeke's dark features Will sees a reflection of the haunting memories he has been trying to escape for so long, but he reluctantly offers him shelter for the night at the Slash Five camp. Little does he know that their lives will be inexorably linked in the spring of '85 through what will be one of the most brutal roundups of the nineteenth century. Winner of the 2015 Spur Best Western Traditional Novel Award. 2015, c2014.By Andrée Poulin, Brigitte Waisberg. 2016
On his fifth birthday, Thomas’s mother left, and he hasn’t seen her since. The last thing he remembers is her…
making a delicious dish of poutine for his birthday, into which she stuck five green candles for him to blow out. On the day of this twelfth birthday, Thomas comes up with the idea of setting a Guinness world record for the biggest poutine in the world. Maybe then, his mother will come back and his emotionally distant father will pay attention to him. As he puts together all the pieces of his “Phenomenal Poutine Project,” Thomas not only learns why his mother disappeared, but he also comes to realize that Elie, the one person whose help he rejected, turns out to be his most devoted friend. Grades 5-8. Winner of the 2017 Silver Birch Express Award. 2016. Uniform title: La plus grosse poutine du monde.By Mariatu Kamara, Susan McClelland. 2008
Sierra Leone. At the age of 12, Mariatu Kamara was raped by a family friend, then captured by rebels who…
cut off her hands. Despite her wounds, Kamara walked out of the bush and sought help, ending up in an amputee camp, where she gave birth to a son who died of malnutrition. When foreign journalists interviewed Kamara in the camp, her story garnered international interest and assistance, which eventually brought her to Toronto. Her autobiography testifies to Kamara's horrific trauma, but with the aim of fostering hope and reconciliation. Winner of the 2011 Red Maple Non-Fiction Award. For junior high and older readers. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some descriptions of violence. c2008.