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Par Carlos Fuentes. 2007
"À l'instar d'Alejandro de la Guardia, cerné par la folie de ses deux vieilles tantes, tous les personnages de ce…
recueil sont plongés dans un univers inquiétant, peuplé de dangers visibles ou invisibles. Carlos Fuentes s'amuse à faire peur au lecteur. En jouant avec les codes issus de la tradition littéraire du conte gothique et fantastique, il nous offre un livre riche et haut en couleur, où tout le talent du grand romancier mexicain éclate dans un genre inhabituel." -- 4e de couvA time to cherish
Par Robin Jones Gunn. 1993
Seventeen-year-old Christy Miller is happy now that Todd has made a commitment to her. Then best friend Katie gets involved…
with the wrong boy, and pal Doug becomes more withdrawn. Christy asks God to set things straight. For junior and senior high readers. 1993The restaurant at the end of the universe
Par Douglas Adams. 1980
Earthman Arthur Dent and his motley companions continue traveling around the galaxy. They encounter an odd assortment of aliens, attend…
a thirty-megaton rock concert, and wind up at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe where the floor show is doomsday. Sequel to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (BR 14438). 1980I promise
Par Robin Jones Gunn. 2001
College students Christy Miller and Todd Spencer become engaged. When family and friends offer conflicting advice on the upcoming wedding,…
Christy starts having doubts--but trusts that God will provide. Sequel to As You Wish (BR 14444). For senior high and older readers. 2001A promise is forever
Par Robin Jones Gunn. 1994
Eighteen-year-old college student Christy Miller travels to England on a missionary trip with her church youth group. When she is…
sent on to Spain, Christy is reunited with her former boyfriend Todd, and they realize that they are still in love. For junior and senior high readers. 1994Shadow of dreams
Par Eva Marie Everson. 2001
Katie returns to her mother's house in Georgia twenty-five years after she ran away to New York City. She leaves…
behind her husband, Ben Webster, and troubles with an escort service operating in their hotel chain. Katie's faith in God is restored even in the face of danger. 2001Esther's gift: a Mitford Christmas story
Par Jan Karon. 2002
Christmas Eve. Esther Bolick bakes special orange marmalade cakes for gifts but wonders what they really cost. When her husband…
calculates forty-three dollars per cake, Esther decides to shorten her list. But the words of a Christmas song change her mind. Includes recipe. Bestseller. 2002The salmon of doubt: hitchhiking the galaxy one last time
Par Douglas Adams. 2002
Editor Peter Guzzardi pieces together what may have been the third Dirk Gently novel by the late author of The…
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (BR 14438). Includes Adams's letters, writings, and ruminations on numerous diverse subjects, including the Beatles, Monty Python, and a young, two-headed Zaphod. 2002Icebones
Par Stephen Baxter. 2002
When Silverhair's daughter, Icebones, awakens from a thousand year sleep, she finds the world changed and the Fireheads gone. Now…
the mammoths must once again survive on their own. It is up to Icebones, and her accumulated knowledge of their history, to lead them. Sequel to Longtusk (BR 14632). 2001Angel of mercy
Par Tracie Peterson. 2002
Los Angeles, 1904. Lawyer Kit Shannon reluctantly agrees to defend policeman Edward Hanratty on a murder charge. Kit also seeks…
divine help when her true love, Ted Fox, hasn't returned to the city and her aunt visits spiritualists. Sequel to Angels Flight (BR 14635). 2002Darkening skies
Par Jerry B Jenkins. 2001
Judd and Lionel entrust their safety to a boy whose father is in the Global Community in this continuation from…
Terror in the Stadium (BR 14603). Other members of the Young Trib Force have their own fears for survival to deal with. For grades 5-8. 2001The showdown
Par Jerry B Jenkins. 2001
Fire from Heaven
Par Jerry B Jenkins. 2001
The Young Trib Force faces the next prophetic judgments in this sequel to Battling the Commander (BR 14601). A huge…
meteor forces John to make a life-threatening decision on the Global Community ship Peacekeeper One. For grades 5-8. 2001Longtusk
Par Stephen Baxter. 2001
As a twelve-year-old renegade calf in his own clan, Longtusk senses his destiny to become a hero. Setting out on…
his own, he is captured by the Fireheads. Yet even in captivity Longtusk gathers the knowledge that will help him escape and return to his old clan. Sequel to Silverhair (BR 14631). 1999Summon the shadows
Par Eva Marie Everson. 2002
In this sequel to Shadow of Dreams (BR 14527), Katie Webster returns to New York City from her mother's home…
in Georgia. Her husband, Ben, is missing and presumed dead--but Katie has faith in God that he's alive. When someone starts sending her expensive presents, she hopes that it's Ben. 2002City of Angels
Par Tracie Peterson. 2001
Los Angeles, 1903. Orphan Kit Shannon, with a New York law certificate, arrives in California to live with her wealthy…
great aunt Freddy. As criminal lawyer Earl Rogers's apprentice, Kit relies on her religious belief and successfully exposes a killer in her first trial. Prequel to Angels Flight (BR 14635). 2001Silverhair
Par Stephen Baxter. 1999
The mammoths have survived many springs, but their numbers are dwindling. Only one family remains, and Silverhair, soon to become…
a mother, looks to the future. But first, the mammoths must face the two-legged menace Silverhair calls the Lost. Prequel to Longtusk (BR 14632). 1999Have space suit-- will travel
Par Robert A Heinlein. 1958
High school senior Kip Russell longs to go to the moon but is kidnapped by space pirates. He meets other…
prisoners on a flying saucer--an eleven-year-old girl named Peewee and a strange creature they call the Mother Thing. For junior and senior high readers. 1958" Nourri de légendes irlandaises, Connor O'Dwyer a le don de communiquer avec les oiseaux de proie. Fier héritier de…
la grande Sorcha, il exerce la fauconnerie pour le plus grand plaisir des visiteurs du comté de Mayo. Avec sa sœur, Branna, ses amis d'enfance et sa cousine, Iona, il forme un cercle scellé par les pouvoirs ancestraux dont ils sont les dépositaires. Meara Quinn en fait partie ; elle est presque une sœur et Connor la croise chaque jour dans la forêt où elle guide les touristes à cheval. Comment se fait-il alors qu'il ait ignoré si longtemps ses yeux de Gitane et son corps de déesse et que le danger les lui révèle soudain en les jetant dans les bras l'un de lautre ? " -- 4e de couvLe diable, l'astronome et la naine rouge
Par Claude Bertout. 2009
Réunissez une prostituée russe adepte de la chansonnette, un nain membre de la prestigieuse et non moins mystérieuse Confrérie des…
nains chasseurs de têtes, un ado friand d'étoiles, une poétesse un brin neurasthénique, un astronome bien placé dans la course à la découverte de traces de vie sur les planètes extrasolaires, une jeune orpheline rebelle, un magnat machiavélique porté sur la téléportation quantique et un DRH à l'esprit aussi borné que ses costumes sont bien taillés. Plantez un décor propice à l'aventure : les terrasses de l'observatoire de Paris, les montagnes dénudées de la Cordillère des Andes, un monastère arménien, une mine d'uranium... Faites vivre à tout ce petit monde des péripéties rocambolesques - au sens noble du terme - au fil d'une intrigue détonante [...]. -- 4e de couv