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Par Marc Aubin. 2015
Le cadavre lacéré d'un homme - lui-même récemment acquitté d'une accusation pour homicide lors d'un procès controversé - est retrouvé…
sur la plage d'une petite municipalité du Québec. Selon les indications d'une courte note insérée dans la paroi nasale de la dépouille, ce meurtre atroce serait l'oeuvre d'une femme motivée par un désir de vengeance. Les horribles assassinats ne tardent pas à se succéder. L'inspecteur Jacques Fournier, qui compte avec dépit les corps mutilés que la redoutable meurtrière laisse sur son passage, tente par tous les moyens d'élucider le mystère. Qui est la femme derrière ces actes de cruauté? 2015.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.Par Michael Crichton. 2010
La Jamaïque, en 1665, n'est pas un endroit de tout repos. Témoins, le capitaine Hunter et son équipe qui comprend…
une fine gâchette, un géant muet herculéen, un expert en explosifs: en somme, d'excellents pirates. Livre comportant des passages de nature sexuelle et de la violence. 2010. Titre uniforme: Pirate latitudes.Par C. C Humphreys. 2014
London, 1665. Five years after his restoration to the throne, Charles II leads his citizens by example, enjoying every excess.…
Londoners have slipped the shackles of puritanism and now flock to the cockpits, brothels and, especially, the theatres. But not everyone is swept up in the excitement. Some see this liberated age as the new Babylon, and murder victims pile up in the streets, making no distinction in class between a royalist member of parliament and a Cheapside whore. But they have a few things in common: the victims are found with gemstones in their mouths. Winner of the 2015 Arthur Ellis Best Crime Novel Award. Bestseller. c2014.Par John Sandford. 2008
At his wife’s request, detective Lucas Davenport agrees to look into the unsolved murder of her wealthy, widowed friend’s daughter…
Frances Austin, who was a Goth. Now other Goths are being murdered. But a series of unusual bank transactions causes confusion. Sequel to “Invisible prey”, followed by “Wicked prey”. Bestseller. 2008.Par Jodi Picoult. 2010
A woman wakes to find herself in a graveyard, hurt and bleeding, her memory wiped clean. She is rescued by…
a police officer, himself a newcomer to Los Angeles. She is taken by complete surprise when she is finally identified by Alex Rivers, Hollywood's biggest movie star - and her husband. Cassie is dazzled and bewildered by the fairytale in which she suddenly finds herself. But everything is not quite right, and there is something dark and disturbing behind this glamorous facade. It is only as her memory gradually returns that her picture perfect life comes crumbling down, and Cassie is faced with choices she never dreamed she would have to make. Bestseller. 2010.Par Sara Pennypacker. 2016
Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since Peter rescued him as a kit. One day, the unimaginable happens, Peter's…
dad enlists in the military and makes him return the fox to the wild. At his grandfather's house, three hundred miles away from home, Peter knows he isn't where he should be, with Pax. He strikes out on his own despite the encroaching war, spurred by love, loyalty, and grief, to be reunited with his fox. Meanwhile Pax, steadfastly waiting for his boy, embarks on adventures and discoveries of his own. Grades 4-7. Bestseller. 2016.Par Linwood Barclay. 2017
If you made a mistake that took someone's life, you'd remember it...wouldn't you? After a tragedy rocks the community of…
Promise Falls, Cal Weaver is asked to investigate the threats being made to the accused's family. He's heard all about it on the news: the young man who drank too much, stole a Porsche and killed a girl, and who claimed afterwards not to remember a single thing. The whole town is outraged that he got off lightly, but for reasons Cal can't explain, he accepts the job. Then Cal finds himself caught up in a vicious revenge plot, chasing someone set on delivering retribution. In Cal's experience, it's only ever a matter of time before threats turn into action. Bestseller. Sequel to "The twenty-three". 2017.Par Rachel Cusk. 2015
A novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during an…
oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinners and discourse. She goes swimming with an elderly Greek bachelor. The people she encounters speak, volubly, about themselves: their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face a great loss. Bestseller. 2015.Par Min Jin Lee. 2017
Following one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor…
yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja is saved when a young tubercular minister offers to marry and bring her to Japan. So begins a sweeping saga of an exceptional family in exile from its homeland and caught in the indifferent arc of history. Through desperate struggles and hard-won triumphs, its members are bound together by deep roots as they face enduring questions of faith, family, and identity. Bestseller. 2017.Par Robin Cook. 1987
When a deadly virus starts claiming victims in various large American cities, epidemiologist Marissa Blumenthal of Atlanta’s Centers for Disease…
Control is assigned the task of tracking its causes and origins. Conventional research reveals no clear answers, but Marissa’s extracurricular investigations lead to the uncovering of a heinous plot by a physicians’ political action committee. Some strong language. Bestseller 1987.Par Arlette Cousture. 1998
Une romancière pour la jeunesse se lie d'amitié avec un aveugle et se retrouve obsédée par un ami de ce…
dernier. Cet ami qui vient de mourir était un homme effacé et plutôt solitaire auquel on ne connaissait qu'une passion: la photographie des chiens et des bâtisses. Pour les lecteurs d'école secondaire. 1998.Par Elizabeth Lowell. 2002
Passing through Echo Basin, wanderer Whip Moran is attracted to Shannon Conner. Shannon lives in a remote cabin with bounty…
hunter Silent John. What Whip and the townsfolk don’t know is that Silent John is Shannon’s great-uncle, not her husband, and he has been gone for many seasons. Shannon is running out of supplies but resists taking help from men who want sex in return. 2002.Par Jeffrey Archer. 2011
The epic tale of Harry Clifton's life begins in 1920, with the words "I was told that my father was…
killed in the war." A dock worker in Bristol, Harry never knew his father, but he learns about life on the docks from his uncle, who expects Harry to join him at the shipyard once he's left school. But then an unexpected gift wins him a scholarship to an exclusive boys' school, and his life will never be the same again. As he enters into adulthood, Harry finally learns how his father really died, but the awful truth only leads him to question, was he even his father? Is he the son of Arthur Clifton, a stevedore who spent his whole life on the docks, or the firstborn son of a scion of West Country society, whose family owns a shipping line? This introductory novel in Archer's ambitious series The Clifton Chronicles includes a cast of colorful characters and takes us from the ravages of the Great War to the outbreak of the Second World War, when Harry must decide whether to take up a place at Oxford or join the navy and go to war with Hitler's Germany. From the docks of working-class England to the bustling streets of 1940 New York City, Only Time Will Tell takes readers on a journey through to future volumes, which will bring to life one hundred years of recent history to reveal a family story that neither the reader nor Harry Clifton himself could ever have imagined. Followed by "The sins of the father". Bestseller. 2011.Par Ian Rankin, Freddy Michalski. 2015
L'inspecteur Rebus a réintégré la brigade criminelle, au grade de sergent. Malcom Fox enquête sur une affaire de bavure policière…
vieille de 30 ans avec Rebus en ligne de mire. Ses collègues de Summerhall et lui s'appelaient les Saints de la bible d'ombre et s'étaient jurés loyauté. Rebus n'est peut être pas un policier véreux mais il est possible qu'il détienne des informations sur cette affaire. Best-seller. 2015. Titre uniforme: Saints of the Shadow Bible.Par Candace Bushnell. 2008
Social-climbing and famous tenants have trouble co-existing in a coveted Greenwich Village art-deco apartment building. As novelist Philip Oakland begins…
an affair with his new research assistant, famed actress and his former lover Schiffer Diamond returns home. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2008.Par Terry Fallis. 2017
Few people know the real Alex MacAskill. Most of the world sees a painfully and chronically shy software engineer in…
his mid-20s, soft-spoken, a bit of a loner--and that's just the way Alex wants it. Because no matter how many years have passed, the incident known only as "Gabriel" in the MacAskill family is something that still haunts him. But when his mother, one of the only people in the world who Alex felt comfortable as himself around, dies after a long illness, he suddenly has no choice but to face the very thing that he's been avoiding since that night in high school. Alex finds himself trying to piece together the mystery of his identity, and on a search for parts of his family he never knew existed--a search that takes him from Ottawa to London to Moscow, encountering along the way echoes of the Cold War, painful memories from his past, and even the 1972 Russian hockey team--a search that ultimately helps Alex discover himself. Bestseller. 2017.Par Linda Lael Miller. 2016
Offering a troubled boy a job on the ranch he shares with his younger siblings, Wyoming businessman Slater Carson falls…
for the youth's beautiful guardian, Grace, a resort manager whose busy life is threatened by dangers from her past. Bestseller. 2016.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.Par Gilly Macmillan. 2017
Best friends Noah Sadler and Abdi Mahad have always been inseparable. But when Noah is found floating unconscious in Bristol's…
Feeder Canal, Abdi can't--or won't--tell anyone what happened. Just back from a mandatory leave following his last case, Detective Jim Clemo is now assigned to look into this unfortunate accident. But tragedy strikes and what looked like the simple case of a prank gone wrong soon ignites into a public battle. Bestseller. 2017.