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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 couvSky: 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. 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. 2004The 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. 2004Al Capone does my shirts (Tales from Alcatraz #1)
Par Gennifer Choldenko. 2004
1935. Twelve-year-old Moose Flanagan moves to Alcatraz Island when his father takes a job at the maximum-security prison there. Moose…
struggles to make friends and cares for his older autistic sister while their mother applies for the girl's acceptance to a special school. Newbery honor winner. For grades 6-9. 2004Pitcairn's Island
Par Charles Nordhoff. 1934
South Pacific, 1790s-1800s. Fletcher Christian, his fellow H.M.S. Bounty mutineers, and their Polynesian wives flee Tahiti for Pitcairn's Island. Living…
undiscovered for eighteen years, they establish a primitive but thriving settlement until a bitter struggle for vengeance shatters the peace. Sequel to Men against the Sea (BR 15979). 1934The Egyptologist: a novel
Par Arthur Phillips. 2004
1922. Staking his reputation and fiancée's fortune, obsessive Egyptologist Ralph Trilipush excavates King Atum-hadu's tomb. Mystery and discovery unfold through…
Ralph's journal entries and the correspondences of Australian detective Harold Ferrell, who investigates Ralph's possible connection to a series of murders. Some descriptions of sex and some violence. 2004A certain truth (Trials Of Kit Shannon Ser. #Bk. 3)
Par James Scott Bell. 2004
Los Angeles, 1907. Criminal lawyer Kit Shannon Fox and her husband are returning from their delayed honeymoon when a murder…
occurs aboard their ship. Kit agrees to defend newly married Wanda Boswell, who is accused of killing her husband. But Kit begins to doubt Wanda's innocence. 2004In like Flynn (Molly Murphy Mysteries Ser.)
Par Rhys Bowen. 2005
In early-twentieth-century, typhoid-ridden New York, policeman Daniel Sullivan hires Molly Murphy to investigate the Sorensen sisters. Molly poses as an…
Irish relative at Senator Flynn's country estate where the siblings, who claim to be spiritualists, are trying to solve the kidnapping of Flynn's son. 2005Carnival at candlelight (A Stepping Stone Book(TM) #No. 5)
Par Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca. 2005
While on a mission to prove to Merlin that they can use magic wisely, Jack and Annie travel to seventeenth-century…
Venice, Italy, to save the city from disaster. For grades 2-4. 2005A factory of cunning
Par Philippa Stockley. 2005
1784. A French noblewoman-turned-madam arrives in London planning to find a husband and resume her craft. Calling herself Mrs. Fox,…
she infiltrates society and becomes the instrument of revenge against notorious aristocrat Earl Much, art collector and debaucher of young women. Some strong language. 2005Singularity sky
Par Charles Stross. 2003
An information plague called the Festival strikes the New Republic, an isolationist planetary colony banning technology. Contractor Martin Springfield and…
United Nations of Earth Security Council agent Rachel Mansour, both on covert missions, become unlikely allies as the colony prepares for war. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2003No shame, no fear
Par Ann Turnbull. 2004
England, 1662. After her father is jailed for his religious beliefs, fifteen-year-old Susanna Thorn, a poor Quaker girl, becomes an…
apprentice printer in order to provide for her family. Susanna meets and falls in love with William Heywood, an Anglican, despite his father's objections. For senior high readers. 2003The Castlemaine murders: a Phryne Fisher mystery (Phryne Fisher Ser.)
Par Kerry Greenwood. 2002
Australia. When Phryne Fisher, her two daughters, her younger sister, and her Chinese lover visit an amusement park, their day…
of fun is cut short: Phryne discovers a mummified corpse, complete with a bullet hole. As Phryne investigates she and her family receive death threats. 2002The Victory Club
Par Robin Lee Hatcher. 1996
Boise, Idaho; 1943. Four friends--Penelope, Lucy, Margo, and her daughter Dottie--face hardships while working at an airfield to help the…
war effort. Lucy prays for her pilot husband and Margo prays for her son. Meanwhile Dottie discovers that she's expecting an illegitimate child and hopes for God's forgiveness. 2005The tall stranger: A Novel
Par Louis L'Amour. 1957
Though Rock Bannon saves a wagon train of easterners from an Indian attack, they refuse to heed his advice and…
instead follow fast-talking Morton Harper, who secretly lusts for land and beautiful Sharon Crockett. When Mort's evil intentions come to light, it's once again up to Rock to help. 1957Reflex (Jumper #2)
Par Steven Gould. 2004
A mysterious organization kidnaps National Security Agency operative Davy Rice to use his teleportation powers. Davy's wife, Millie, searches frantically…
for him with her own newfound teleporting skills. Sequel to Jumper (DB 37465, BR 9548). Strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some violence. For senior high and older readers. 2004The interruption of everything: a novel
Par Terry McMillan. 2005
Bored African American forty-something Marilyn Grimes deals with a husband's midlife crisis, kids in college, a live-in mother-in-law, and her…
own mother showing signs of dementia. Marilyn, with the help and support of her friends, faces decisions about her future, including a possible pregnancy. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. Bestseller. 2005How green was my valley
Par Richard Llewellyn. 1997
Before leaving his childhood home, Huw Morgan reminisces about his youth in South Wales. He remembers when the coal mines…
still flourished and family members and friends fought, loved, laughed, and cried as they struggled to survive labor troubles and hard times in the valley. National Book Award. 1939