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The 8th confession (Women's murder club. #8.)
Par James Patterson, Maxine Paetro. 2009
The Women's Murder Club investigates the brutal death of street person Bagman Jesus. Meanwhile detective Lindsay Boxer reluctantly examines the…
high-profile case of young socialite couple Isa and Ethan Bailey, who mysteriously died in their sleep. 2009.Ten big ones: A Stephanie Plum Novel (Stephanie Plum novel. #10.)
Par Janet Evanovich. 2004
New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum and her sidekick, Lula, witness a convenience store robbery. Because Stephanie can identify the…
culprit, she is a hit-list target. Stephanie tracks a killer and suppresses her attraction to Ranger. Bestseller. 2004.Thanksgiving
Par Janet Evanovich. 2006
Williamsburg, Virginia. A chance encounter with a wayward pet rabbit introduces potter Megan Murphy to the animal’s owner, pediatrician Patrick…
Hunter. Megan and Patrick become unlikely guardians of an abandoned infant, and as Thanksgiving approaches, the pair contemplates making their makeshift family legitimate. Some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2006.Tattoo girl (Littératures)
Par Brooke Stevens, Anne Mornet. 2001
Une jeune fille tatouée des pieds à la tête est découverte sans connaissance et muette. Elle sera adoptée par une…
femme obèse issue d'un cirque. Commencera alors une course-poursuite car la jeune fille est en danger. Au-delà de l'anecdote, un roman grave. 2003, c2001. Titre uniforme: Tattoo girl.Séraphin Verre: roman
Par Christian Pernath. 2002
Un viel artisan français transmet à un orphelin autistique les techniques du métier de souffleur de verre. Un officier allemand…
remarque la qualité artistique du travail du jeune homme. Cadre: une région rurale du nord de la France (Picardie) avant, pendant et après (1921) la Première Guerre mondiale. Intérêt humain. Bon niveau psychologique et sociologique. 2002.Suite française: roman
Par Irène Némirovsky. 2004
Écrit dans le feu de l'Histoire, Suite française dépeint presque en direct l'Exode de juin 1940, qui brassa dans un…
désordre tragique des familles françaises de toute sorte, des plus huppées aux plus modestes. Roman bouleversant, intimiste, implacable, dévoilant avec une extraordinaire lucidité l'âme de chaque Français pendant l'Occupation (enrichi de notes et de la correspondance d'Irène Némirovsky), Suite française ressuscite d'une plume brillante et intuitive un pan à vif de notre mémoire. Prix Renaudot, 2004.Sweetland: a novel
Par Michael Crummey. 2015
For twelve generations, the inhabitants of this remote island in Newfoundland have lived and died together. Now they are facing…
resettlement, and each has been offered a generous compensation package to leave. But the money is offered with a proviso: everyone has to go; the government won't be responsible for one crazy coot who chooses to stay on alone. That coot is Moses Sweetland, who refuses to leave. But in the face of determined opposition from his family and friends, Sweetland is eventually swayed to sign on to the government's plan. Then a tragic accident prompts him to fake his own death and stay on the deserted island. As he manages a desperately diminishing food supply, and battles against the ravages of weather, Sweetland finds himself in the company of the vibrant ghosts of the former islanders, whose porch lights still seem to turn on at night. Bestseller. 2015.Tate: Tate (McKettricks of Texas. #1.)
Par Linda Lael Miller. 2010
All Tate McKettrick cares about is giving his twin daughters a normal life after he and his wife divorce. But…
can he make time to repair his own broken heart? Bestseller. Followed by "Garrett". 2010.Taggerung (Redwall Abbey. #14.)
Par Brian Jacques. 2003
A young otter, kidnapped in his infancy and raised as a warrior-thief by a band of vermin, leaves the tribe…
and goes off to seek adventures of his own. Grades 5-8. Sequel to "Lord Brocktree", followed by "Triss". Bestseller. 2003.Tangerine
Par Edward Bloor. 2001
Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer…
despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight. For junior high readers. 2001.Tea time for the traditionally built (No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency. #10.)
Par Alexander McCall Smith. 2009
Mr. Leungo Molofololo, proprietor of a local soccer team, believes a saboteur is to blame for a recent losing streak.…
He hires Precious Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency to investigate the players. Meanwhile Mma Ramotswe tries to salvage her trusty, but ailing, little van. Bestseller. 2009.Summer of discovery
Par Eric Wilson. 1984
Frightened, over-protected and confined to a wheelchair, Ian is away from home for the first time when he goes to…
camp. But Ian becomes part of the gang when they come across abandoned buildings haunted by ghosts. Grades 5-8. c1984.Seeing red
Par Lina Meruane, Megan McDowell. 2016
This autobiographical novel describes a young Chilean writer recently relocated to New York for doctoral work who suffers a stroke,…
leaving her blind and increasingly dependent on those closest to her. Fiction and autobiography intertwine in an intense, visceral, and caustic novel about the relation between the body, illness, science, and human relationships. Winner of the Sor Juana IneÌs de la Cruz Prize (Mexico), 2012, and of the Anna Seghers Prize (Germany), 2011. 2016. Uniform title: Sangre en el ojo.Sleeping in the ground: an Inspector Banks novel (Inspector Alan Banks mystery. #24.)
Par Peter Robinson. 2017
After a massacre outside a picturesque Yorkshire church, Detective Superintendent Alan Banks and his team must unravel a baffling mystery,…
and corner a killer hiding in plain sight. Bestseller. Winner of the 2018 Arthur Ellis Best Crime Novel Award. 2017.Secrets of the tulip sisters
Par Susan Mallery. 2017
Kelly Murphy's life as a tulip farmer is pretty routine. But everything changes one sun-washed summer with two dramatic homecomings:…
Griffith Burnett--Tulpen Crossing's prodigal son, who's set his sights on Kelly--and Olivia, her beautiful, wayward, and, as far as Kelly is concerned, unwelcome sister. Tempted by Griffith, annoyed by Olivia, Kelly is overwhelmed by the secrets that were so easy to keep when she was alone. Bestseller. 2017.Spymaster: a thriller (Scot Harvath. #17.)
Par Brad Thor. 2018
Across Europe, a secret organization has begun attacking diplomats. Back in the United States, a foreign ally demands the identity…
of a highly placed covert asset. In the balance hang the ingredients for all-out war. With his mentor out of the game, counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath must take on the role he has spent his career avoiding. But, as with everything else he does, he intends to rewrite the rules-all of them. In Spymaster, Scot Harvath is more cunning, more dangerous, and deadlier than ever before. Bestseller. 2018.Stranded
Par Ben Mikaelsen. 1996
Twelve-year-old Koby, who has lost a foot in an accident, sees a chance to prove her self-reliance to her parents…
when she tries to rescue two stranded pilot whales near her home in the Florida Keys. Grades 5-8. 1996.Street of riches
Par Gabrielle Roy. 1993
The eighteen stories in this book centre upon the bittersweet experiences of a young girl growing up in the francophone…
community of St. Boniface, Manitoba. In the persona of her narrator Christine, Roy transfigures the incidents and characters of her own childhood, reflecting upon her youthful awakening to the beauty and the sorrow of life. 1957 Governor General's Award winner. 1957. Uniform title: Rue Deschambault.Strange weather: four short novels
Par Joe Hill. 2017
"Snapshot" is the disturbing story of a Silicon Valley adolescent who finds himself threatened by "The Phoenician," a tattooed thug…
who possesses a Polaroid Instant Camera that erases memories, snap by snap. A young man takes to the skies to experience his first parachute jump, and winds up a castaway on an impossibly solid cloud, a Prospero’s island of roiling vapour that seems animated by a mind of its own in "Aloft." Short horror stories that deftly expose the darkness that lies just beneath the surface of everyday life. Bestseller. 2017. Uniform title: Novels.Someone to love (Westcott novel. #1.)
Par Mary Balogh. 2016
Anna Snow grew up in an orphanage in Bath, knowing nothing of the family she came from. Now she discovers…
that the late Earl of Riverdale was her father and that she has inherited his fortune. She is also overjoyed to learn she has siblings. However, they want nothing to do with her or her attempts to share her new wealth. But the new earl's guardian is interested in Anna. Avery Archer, Duke of Netherby, keeps others at a distance. Yet something prompts him to aid Anna in her transition from orphan to lady. As London society and Anna's newfound relatives threaten to overwhelm her, Avery steps in to rescue her and finds himself vulnerable to feelings and desires he has hidden so well for so long. Followed by "Someone to hold". Bestseller. 2016.