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La reine oubliée: roman] / 1, Les enfants d'Alexandrie (La reine oubliée. #1.)
Par Françoise Chandernagor. 2011
" Des amours de lImperator et de la reine dEgypte étaient nés trois enfants : Séléné et Alexandre, des jumeaux…
fille et garçon, brun et blond, et le petit Ptolémée. Princes éphémères, qui grandissaient dans la pourpre et lencens du Quartier-Royal auprès de leur demi-frère, lenfant-pharaon né de César. Tous si jeunes encore, si fragiles, quand la tourmente sabattit sur eux. Quatre enfants au destin tragique. Séléné, lunique rescapée, noubliera jamais lanéantissement de son royaume, de sa dynastie, de ses dieux. Prisonnière en terre étrangère, elle vivra désormais pour venger ses frères et faire survivre dans le monde des vainqueurs la lignée des vaincus " -- 4e de couvUne scandaleuse affaire: roman (Littérature étrangère)
Par Anita Shreve. 2010
" Le lycée Avery, prestigieuse pension de Nouvelle-Angleterre, est sous le choc depuis la découverte d'un film. Sur cette vidéo,…
les ébats sexuels de quatre élèves : trois garçons, ivres, et une fille de quatorze ans. Telle la boîte de Pandore, la cassette, dont le contenu circule bientôt sur internet, va libérer les secrets d'une petite communauté apparemment sans histoire, entre mensonges, adultères, hypocrisies, jalousies, culpabilité... La machine à broyer médiatique est en marche, n'épargnant personne, ni les adultes, ni les élèves, jusqu'au drame..." -- 4e de couvReal U guide to saving and investing (Real U Guides Ser.)
Par Mike Kavanagh. 2004
Sky: a novel in three sets and an encore
Par Rod Townley. 2004
New York City, 1959. Fifteen-year-old Alec (Sky) Schuyler's passion is jazz. When his father objects to his playing the piano,…
Sky leaves home. He finds a mentor in a blind African American jazz musician and relies on support from friends. Some strong language. For junior and senior high readers. 2004Two classic works by English Puritan John Bunyan (1628-1688). In the allegorical tale Pilgrim's Progress, the protagonist, burdened by sin,…
leaves the City of Destruction to find Zion, the city of God. His journey embodies Christian teachings. In Grace Abounding, Bunyan recounts his conversion and spiritual growth. 2004Men against the sea
Par Charles Nordhoff. 2003
1789. Following the Mutiny on the Bounty (BR 8669), Captain Bligh and eighteen loyal men are set adrift in the…
South Pacific on a twenty-three-foot open launch. Alone on uncharted waters, the crew struggles to survive the 3,600-mile voyage to the Dutch colony of Timor in the East Indies. 1933Be more chill
Par Ned Vizzini. 2004
To become popular and attract the beautiful Christine, New Jersey high school nerd Jeremy swallows an illegal "squip" microchip. The…
device tells him how to act cool, but eventually Jeremy wants to be back in control. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. For senior high readers. 2004Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (Works In Translation Ser.)
Par H. C Andersen. 2004
Thirteen short fairy stories, translated in 2004 by Naomi Lewis, with a biography of the Danish author and introductory headnotes.…
Includes old favorites and the less familiar "The Flying Trunk" and "The Goblin at the Grocer's." For grades 4-7 and older readers. 1840Real U guide to bank accounts & credit cards (Real U Guides Ser.)
Par Ilyce R Glink. 2004
Information on opening checking and savings accounts, using a bank's services, obtaining a credit card, and managing credit. Explains debt,…
interest rates, and online banking. For senior high and older readers. 2004Beyond the stony mountains: nature in the American west from Lewis and Clark to today
Par Daniel B Botkin. 2004
Ecologist retraces the footsteps of early-nineteenth-century explorers Lewis and Clark and compares the natural history they documented to its condition…
in the early twenty-first century. Describes environmental changes including the damming of rivers and the disappearance of ecosystems and wildlife species. 2004The Greek way
Par Edith Hamilton. 1993
The author of Mythology (DB 20026) explores the accomplishments of Greek intellectual life in the fifth century B.C. Discusses customs,…
philosophy, religion, and art, referencing the era's noted writers--the poet Pindar; dramatists Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles; and historians Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon--with excerpts from classic works. 1930The portrait
Par Iain Pears. 2005
Small island near Brittany, early 1900s. When famous British art critic William Naysmith visits Scottish artist Henry MacAlpine to sit…
for a portrait, he becomes captive to the artist's diatribe. The artist indicts the critic's ruthless use of power and gradually reveals a plan of vengeance. Some descriptions of sex and some violence. 2005The teacher's funeral: a comedy in three parts
Par Richard Peck. 2004
Rural Indiana, 1904. After Miss Myrt Arbuckle, the mean old teacher, "hauled off and died" in August, fifteen-year-old Russell figures…
the one-room schoolhouse will close. His dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat-threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister fills the vacancy. For grades 6-9. 2004National Velvet
Par Enid Bagnold. 1953
Classic story of a girl and her horse. Fourteen-year-old Velvet Brown is determined to turn the unruly piebald horse she…
won in a raffle into a champion. But it will take more than just hard work and dedication to win the Grand National steeplechase. For grades 6-9. 1935100 words every high school freshman should know: the 100 words (100 Words)
Par American Heritage Dictionary Editors. 2004
Selected vocabulary organized from A to Z includes straightforward terms and typical items from textbooks for grades 7 and 8.…
Definitions are accompanied by example sentences from familiar authors. Includes a few exercises to build vocabulary. For junior and senior high readers. 2004Maine squeeze
Par Catherine Clark. 2004
The summer before Colleen goes to college, her parents travel to Europe while Colleen stays with her friends at their…
Maine island home. Although they try to obey house rules, Colleen breaks up with her boyfriend and rekindles a romance with Evan. For senior high readers. 2004Mark Wilson's greatest card tricks
Par Mark Wilson. 1993
Master illusionist's handbook for amateurs and beginners. Demonstrates more than sixty card-handling techniques and provides simple instructions for mind reading,…
Hindu and overhand shuffling, cuts, fans, and flourishes, and for forcing, throwing, and making cards disappear. 1975The gardener's bed-book: short and long pieces to be read in bed by those who love green growing things (Modern Library gardening series)
Par Richardson Little Wright. 2003
Essays by the longtime editor-in-chief of House & Garden magazine, meant to be read in short bits throughout the year.…
Arranged by month, the anthology offers advice on topics from orchard horticulture and growing plume poppies to travel, literature, architecture, and antique collecting. 2003 introduction by Dominique Browning. 1929Extreme weather: a guide & record book
Par Christopher C Burt. 2004
Meteorologist surveys the nature and history of extreme weather phenomena in the United States and abroad. Offers concise explanations of…
such climatic events as droughts, floods, thunderstorms, hail, tornadoes, hurricanes, and fog. Provides temperature and precipitation records for more than three hundred U.S. cities dating back to the 1800s. 2004The other woman
Par Jane Green. 2005
Motherless Ellie Black falls in love and happily marries Londoner Dan Cooper, embracing his close-knit family. But over time Dan's…
mother, Linda, tries to control every aspect of their lives--especially after they have a baby. Finally Ellie explodes. Some strong language. 2004