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Shadow season: a novel
Par Tom Piccirilli. 2009
Ex-cop Finn was left blind by violence, but he can still see the body of his wife, Dani, and a…
crime scene that won't fade from his mind's eye. Now a professor, Finn learns that an isolated girls' prep school can be every bit as dangerous as city streets when he stumbles upon a local girl lying in a graveyard during a raging blizzard. Explicit strong language, explicit descriptions of sex, and explicit descriptions of violence. c2009.Seven up: A Stephanie Plum Novel (Stephanie Plum novel. #7.)
Par Janet Evanovich. 2001
Elderly mobster Eddie DeChooch slips through Trenton bail bondsman Stephanie Plum's fingers numerous times. As she searches the neighbourhood for…
him, she also becomes engaged to cop Joe Morelli, despite her attraction to fellow bounty hunter Ranger. Bestseller. 2000.S.E.C.R.E.T. shared: a novel (S.E.C.R.E.T. novel. #2.)
Par L. Marie Adeline. 2013
Still wounded from a recent heartbreak, Cassie Robichaud throws herself into service with S.E.C.R.E.T., the mysterious organization that changed her…
life last year by bringing her deepest fantasies to life, one step at a time. Now it’s Cassie’s turn to guide the group’s newest candidate, Dauphine Mason, recruiting men to execute a new set of fantasies. While it gets Cassie’s mind off Will, the man she truly loves, it also gives her the chance to help watch S.E.C.R.E.T. work its magic on someone new. Sequel to "S.E.C.R.E.T.". Bestseller. 2013.Saratoga Woods: roman
Par Elizabeth George, Alice Delarbre. 2013
La jeune Hannah Armstrong possède un étrange pouvoir. Elle entend les pensées des autres, leurs murmures , comme elle les…
qualifie. Un jour, elle comprend que son beau-père vient de commettre un meurtre. Pour la protéger, sa mère décide de l'envoyer sous une nouvelle identité sur l'île de Whidbey, au large de Seattle. Malheureusement, une fois sur place, rien ne se passe comme prévu pour celle qui se fait désormais appeler Becca King. Best-seller. 2013. Titre uniforme: The edge of nowhere.Revenge of the Vinyl Cafe
Par Stuart McLean. 2012
The world can be a perilous place. And the seemingly friendly world of Canada’s favourite fictional family is no different.…
Everyone is afraid of something: Dave, for example, is afraid of dolls, germs, and Mary Turlington. Sam, on the other hand, is afraid of bees, UFOs, and “mewpilated” cows. Morley’s fears—public nudity and drop-in visits—are slightly less peculiar. It’s hard to be brave in the face of sewer monsters, deformed fish heads, abandoned car wrecks, and ravenous bears, but in this collection of Vinyl Cafe stories, Dave and the gang pluck up the courage to deal with all kinds of danger, both real and imagined. Bestseller. 2012.Derrière la façade de mes yeux: récit
Par Marie-Claude Bernier. 2010
Laurence Saint-Germain a vingt-quatre ans. Elle travaille, habite un appartement en ville et a un amoureaux. Sa vie ressemble en…
tout point à celle des jeunes femmes de son âge. Enfin, presque, puisque Laurence est aveugle. Elle n'était encore qu'un petit être dans le ventre de sa mère, que déjà, elle était différente. Pour les lecteurs du collégial. 2010.Poles apart: a novel
Par Terry Fallis. 2015
Eve of Equality, a new feminist blog, becomes an overnight sensation when a popular talk show host stumbles upon it,…
tweets about it, and promotes it on her show. The anonymous blog is intelligent, thoughtful, and bold, brazenly taking on various injustices in the lives of women. But it’s the blogger Eve’s post about the controversial entrepreneur behind XY, a new chain of high-end strip clubs opening up across the country, that sets off a firestorm. In a matter of hours, the site crashes, its Twitter count jumps from a paltry 19 followers to nearly 250,000, and Eve is suddenly lauded as the new voice of modern feminism. But who is Eve? Not who you might think. Meet Everett Kane, aspiring writer and fervent feminist. Bestseller. 2015.La maison habitée: [roman] ((Voix narratives).)
Par Geneviève Lévesque. 2014
" Une jeune femme aveugle hérite de la maison de son oncle et replonge malgré elle dans une enfance peuplée…
de personnages inquiétants, qu'on ne sait réels ou imaginaires, et où les souvenirs-choc se matérialisent. Avec La maison habitée, un premier roman vivant et original dans lequel le cauchemar, le rêve et la réalité s'entrecroisent, Geneviève Lévesque nous entraîne dans un monde troublant, presque surréaliste. " -- 4e de couv.Once a princess (Cardinia's Royal Family Ser. #1)
Par Johanna Lindsey. 1991
As the king of Cardinia lay dying, he made his son Stefan, the crown prince, promise that he would find…
and marry Princess Tatiana Janacek, to whom the prince is engaged. Stefan travels to America and finds her performing as a dancer in a Mississippi tavern. Unaware of her birthright, Tatiana is infuriated by Stefan’s passion for her and vows never to yield to his desire. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. c1991.Nostalgia
Par M. G Vassanji. 2016
In the future, all traces of a person's past are erased and new fictions are implanted, except that cracks emerge,…
and reminders of discarded lives seep through. Those afflicted suffer from Leaked Memory Syndrome, or Nostalgia. Doctor Frank Sina specializes in sealing these memory leaks, and as he treats Presley Smith, Frank finds clues that suggest Presley's past may be located in war-torn Maskinia, an isolated territory to the south. Frank's suspicions are only intensified when the Department of Internal Security describe Presley as one of their own, meaning his new life was one they created for him, and they want him back. As Frank tries to save Presley from both internal and external threats, cracks emerge in his own fiction, and the thoughts that sneak through suggest a connection with the mysterious Presley that goes well beyond a doctor and his patient. Canada Reads 2017. Bestseller. 2016.Next: a novel
Par Michael Crichton. 2006
Cancer survivor Frank Burnet and his daughter and grandson are targets of an unscrupulous drug company that wants to profit…
from their unique disease-fighting genes. Meanwhile other genetic-engineering experiments involving a boy/chimpanzee hybrid and a talking parrot have gone awry. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2006.Moonlight on the avenue of faith
Par Gina Barkhordar Nahai. 1999
Five-year-old Lili watches her mother, Roxanna the Angel, grow wings and fly away. Lili recounts her thirteen-year search, as well…
as that of her aunt, Miriam the Moon, recalling how they escape from the Jewish ghetto in Tehran, learn Roxanna’s story, and eventually reshape their lives in America. Descriptions of violence, some strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2000, c1999.Minds of winter
Par Ed O'Loughlin. 2016
In a journey shrouded in mystery and intrigue, Sir John Franklin's 1845 campaign in search of the Northwest Passage ended…
in tragedy. All 129 men were lost to the ice, and nothing from the expedition was retrieved, including two rare and valuable Greenwich chronometers. When one of the chronometers appears a century and a half later in London, in pristine condition and crudely disguised as a Victorian carriage clock, new questions arise about what really happened on that expedition--and the fates of the men involved. When Nelson Nilsson, an aimless drifter from Alberta, finds himself in Canada's Northern Territories in search of his brother, he meets Fay Morgan by chance. Fay has just arrived from London, hoping to find answers to her burning questions about her past. When they discover that their questions about their pasts and present are inextricably linked, the two will become unlikely partners as they unravel a mystery that traverses continents and centuries. Bestseller. 2016.Medicine walk
Par 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.Little sister
Par Barbara Gowdy. 2017
Rose is a sensible woman, thirty-four years old. Together with her widowed mother, Fiona, she runs a small repertory cinema…
in a big city. Fiona is in the early stages of dementia and is beginning to make painful references to Rose’s sister, Ava, who died young in an accident. Rose begins to lose consciousness and has vivid, realistic dreams - not only about being someplace else, but also of living someone else’s life. Is Rose merely dreaming? Or is she, in fact, inside the body of another woman? Disturbed and entranced, she tries to find out what is happening to her. A tale of one woman’s determination to help a woman she has never met, and to come to terms with a death for which she has always felt responsible. Bestseller. 2017.La jeune fille au piano: [dans l'univers de La Saline]
Par Louise Lacoursière. 2015
Montréal, 1894. Anne Alarie, seize ans, débarque dans la métropole afin d'entamer des études en musique à l'Institut Nazareth. Aveugle…
depuis l'enfance, la fille du ramancheur de Saint-Léon-le-Grand se retrouve loin du cocon familial, et son arrivée dans ce nouvel environnement ne se fera pas sans heurt ; la vie au pensionnat, l'enseignement des religieuses, les amitiés féminines et les premiers émois amoureux baliseront ce passage vers l'âge adulte et la métamorphoseront. Nul besoin d'avoir lu La Saline pour savourer La Jeune Fille au piano. Toutefois, les lecteurs de cette trilogie seront heureux de retrouver l'univers de cette saga puisque Louise Lacoursière reprend le fil de son histoire en développant des personnages secondaires forts qui croiseront Anne Alarie dans des moments riches en rebondissements. 2015.Look: [roman]
Par Romain Villet. 2014
" Lucien est pianiste de jazz. Il est aveugle. Un soir, il rencontre Sophie, une architecte qui plane dans l'air…
du temps. Avec elle, sortant de sa nuit presque noire, guidé par cette main rassurante dans les tourbillons colorés de la société de l'image, il entrevoit bientôt un avenir. Mais, un jour, Sophie ressent le besoin de voyager. Voir du pays? Lucien résiste, lui le détracteur du tourisme de masse, du fun et des charters, lui le casanier qui ne voyage d'ordinaire que par la musique ou les mots. Il accepte pourtant de la suivre pour un trek au Maroc... " -- 4e de couv.La porte d'en face ((Les Premiers romans).)
Par Ester Rota Gasperoni. 2002
Gianni est intrigué par le nouveau voisin ainsi que par son chien. Grand-mère dit qu'il est aveugle mais Gianni a…
l'impression qu'il voit. Peu à peu, il apprend des choses sur cet homme qui parle anglais, joue du piano et cache un gros secret. Années 3-6. 2002.Inferno
Par Dan Brown. 2013
C'est l'une des plus grandioses ouvres de la littérature italienne, 'L'Enfer de Dante', qui est le fil conducteur de cette…
nouvelle aventure. En Italie, plongé dans une atmosphère aussi opaque que mystérieuse, Robert Langdon, professeur de symbologie à Harvard va devoir affronter un adversaire diabolique sorti des limbes de l'Enfer et déchiffrer l'énigme la plus complexe de sa carrière. Elle le fait plonger dans un monde où l'art et la science de pointe tissent un écheveau qui exige de sa part toute son érudition et son courage pour le démêler. S'inspirant du poème épique de Dante, Langdon se lance dans une course contre la montre pour trouver des réponses et découvrir en traversant les Cercles de l'Enfer ceux qui détiennent la vérité. avant que le monde ne soit irrévocablement changé. 2013.Cinquante nuances plus sombres: roman (Fifty shades. #2)
Par E. L James, Aurélie Tronchet. 2013
Après avoir accepté un nouvel arrangement avec Christian Grey, Anastasia est confrontée aux tourments de la jalousie tandis que celui-ci…
tente de vaincre ses démons intérieurs. Livre comportant des passages de nature sexuelle, de la violence, et du langage grossier. Suite de « Cinquante nuances de Grey », suivi de « Cinquante nuances plus claires ». 2013. Titre uniforme: Fifty shades darker.