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The Aspern papers
Par Henry James. 1986
Julianna and her niece are marking time in a villa in Venice. A literary editor obsessed with the work of…
a long-dead poet, Jeffrey Aspern, comes into their lives to try to ferret out his papers. 1986.The Amityville horror
Par Jay Anson. 2006
In December 1975, the Lutz family moved into their new home on suburban Long Island. George and Kathleen Lutz knew…
that, one year earlier, Ronald DeFeo had murdered his family in the house, but the property and the price had been too good to pass up. Twenty-eight days later, the entire Lutz family flee the house in terror. 2006, c1978.The apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Par Mordecai Richler. 1959
The bad beginning (A series of unfortunate events ; #1)
Par Lemony Snicket. 2001
The Baudelaire children, Violet, Klaus and baby Sunny, are exceedingly unlucky. Their parents had been killed, and they are forced…
to go and stay with Uncle Olaf. It soon turns out that Olaf has evil plans for the children. For grades 3-6. Followed by "The reptile room". 2001. (A series of unfortunate events ; 1)Tentation (Twilight. #2)
Par Stephenie Meyer, Luc Rigoureau. 2009
Rejetée par celui qu'elle aime passionnément, Bella ne s'en relève pas. Fascinée par un vampire, comment pourra-t-elle retrouver goût à…
la pâle existence humaine? Bella n'a de goût pour rien, sinon le danger : alors, elle entend la voix d'Edward, et éprouve l'illusion de sa présence. Comme s'il ne l'avait pas abandonnée. Bella échappera-t-elle à cette obsession amoureuse qui la hante? Suite de «Fascination» (FD05312). Suivi par «Hésitation» (FD06120). Pour les lecteurs d'école secondaire. 2009. (La saga Twilight ; 2)Terms of endearment
Par Larry McMurtry. 1990
Texas. Aurora Greenway, a captivating and demanding widow of forty-nine, nags her married daughter but devotes most of her time…
to her married suitors - a stuffy retired general, a gallant yachtsman, and an affable redneck millionaire. 1990.Tenderness
Par Robert Cormier. 2008
A psychological thriller told from the points of view of a teenage serial killer and the runaway girl who falls…
in love with him. For junior and senior high readers. 2008.Tex
Par S. E Hinton. 1999
At 15, Tex is spirited as a wild mustang and good-natured as a pup. He and his 17-year-old brother Mason…
have been on their own since Pop left for the summer rodeo tour. Come October, the money has run out and still no Pop. None of this bothers Tex much - until Mason sells Tex's horse to pay the bills. After that things turn sour between the brothers. Tex is constantly getting into trouble, but he resents Mace acting like a parent. Friends like Johnny and his gorgeous sister Jamie help Tex forget his problems. But when it all comes to a head one day, the explosion that follows may cost Tex his life. Junior and Senior High. 1999.The alley cat: a novel
Par Yves Beauchemin. 1986
This novel, set in Montreal in the 1970s, recounts the struggle of Florent Boissonneault against the wicked and powerful Egon…
Ratablavasky who backs Florent's purchase of a restaurant and then steals it from him. 1986. Uniform title: Matou.The amateur: a novel
Par Robert Littell. 1981
The "amateur" is a CIA cryptologist whose true loves are his fiancée and his efforts to prove via cryptology who…
really wrote Shakespeare. When the first is brutally murdered by terrorists who take over an American consulate in Germany he uses the second to unravel the skein of cross and doublecross to the end, determined to seek out and kill the terrorists. 1981.The American (Penguin American library)
Par Henry James, William C Spengemann. 1981
In France, an American self-made millionaire, Christopher Newman, falls in love with aristocratic Claire de Bellegarde. Her family rejects his…
marriage proposal however, as they resent his brash American manner. Newman discovers a guilty secret about the Bellegardes' past and then has to decide whether to reveal it and thus gain his revenge. 1981.That eye, the sky
Par Tim Winton. 1986
Ort knows that the sky is watching. He knows what it means to watch. Things are terribly wrong. His father…
is withering away, his sister is consumed by hatred, his grandmother is all inside herself, and his mother, a flower-child of the 1960's, is brave but helpless. Then a strange man appears at their door. That Eye, The Sky is about love, about a boy's vision of the world beyond, about the blurry distinctions between the natural and the supernatural. 1986.The adventures of Captain Underpants: an epic novel (Captain Underpants Ser. #1)
Par Dav Pilkey. 1997
George and Harold sabotage the big football game and get into serious trouble with their principal, Mr. Krupp. To get…
out of it, they hypnotize him into thinking that he is the superhero Captain Underpants, which is lots of fun until Mr. Krupp begins to think he is Captain Underpants. He leads George and Harold to the lair of the nefarious Dr. Diaper, where they must defeat his evil robot henchmen and save the world. Followed by "Captain Underpants and the attack of the talking toilets" (DC22010). Grades 2-4.Temporary kings (Dance to the music of time. #11.)
Par Anthony Powell. 1973
Trapnel may be dead but his ghost hovers over an American academic's attempt to rake over the ashes of his…
affair with Pamela Widmerpool. Her husband, now a Labour peer, is caught up in a spy scandal as well as the death of a Marxist intellectual. Sequel to "Books do furnish a room". Followed by "Hearing secret harmonies". 1973.The acceptance world (Dance to the music of time. #3.)
Par Anthony Powell. 1955
Jenkins, the narrator, falls in love, and the novel climaxes with a dinner party in honour of an old Eton…
schoolmaster. Sequel to “A Buyer’s Market”. Followed by "At Lady Molly's". 1955.Tek net (Tek series. #9)
Par William Shatner. 1997
Soon after Sid Gomez' second wife calls him to say she's in trouble, she disappears. Sid and Jake Cardigan have…
two leads -- Sonny Hokori, one of the most infamous TekLords, and an enemy to Jake from way back, and Garret Devlin, a secretive industrialist long suspected of underworld connections, but who died four years ago. Some strong language. Sequel to "Tek kill". 1997.Tell no one: a novel
Par Harlan Coben. 2001
New York City paediatrician David Beck's wife and lifelong sweetheart, Elizabeth, was tragically murdered eight years ago by a serial…
killer. Or so he thought. But the young doctor suddenly begins receiving mysterious e-mails containing information only Elizabeth would know. Some violence and some strong language. Bestseller. 2001.The abyss: A Novel
Par Marguerite Yourcenar, Grace Frick. 1976
Freethinker Zeno of Bruges is a physician and philosopher. He is caught in the terroristic abyss between Protestants and Catholics,…
between mediaeval and modern thinking. Set during the Inquisition of the 16th century. c1976. Uniform title: Oeuvre au noir.Team of rivals: the political genius of Abraham Lincoln
Par Doris Kearns Goodwin. 2009
In this monumental multiple biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin studies Abraham Lincoln's mastery of men. She shows how…
he saved Civil War-torn America by appointing his fiercest rivals to key cabinet positions, making them help achieve his vision for peace. As well as a thrilling piece of narrative history, it's an inspiring study of one of the greatest leaders the world has ever seen. Bestseller. 2009.Testament of youth: an autobiographical study of the years 1900-1925
Par Vera Brittain. 1933
First published in 1933, and rediscovered forty-five years later, this is a record of the author's experiences during the World…
War I years. Brittain tells not only of her own prematurely shattered youth, but that of an entire generation of young men and women who devoted themselves to the war effort. c1933.