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The breathing method
Par Stephen King. 1984
It was a gentlemen's club, although no one paid any dues. The cost of membership was a tale well told,…
and this one paid for all. 1984. Uniform title: Different seasonsThe body-snatchers
Par Robert Louis Stevenson. 1981
In 1815 in Scotland, a young medical student, Doctor Fettes, is given the job of receiving fresh cadavers for his…
class. Since the matter is such a delicate business, Fettes is told to simply pay the transporters and not ask any questions. But when Fettes recognizes one of the bodies as a young woman he knows to have been alive and well the day before, he begins to wonder just how these poor souls are meeting their end. 1981. Uniform title: Short stories.The body
Par Stephen King. 1984
The broken hours
Par Jacqueline Baker. 2014
In the spring of 1936, horror writer H.P. Lovecraft is broke, living alone in a creaky old house and deathly…
ill. At the edge of a nervous breakdown, he hires a personal assistant, Arthor Crandle. Candle arrives at Lovecraft's home with no knowledge of the writer or his work, but is soon drawn into his distinctly eerie and unnerving world. c2014.The book of Stanley
Par Todd Babiak. 2007
Stanley Moss is a retired florist, stricken with cancer, and living quietly with his wife Frieda in Edmonton. One day,…
Stanley experiences a boom and a flash, and then discovers that he has the strength of ten men, can read minds and fulfill people's dreams - and his illness has vanished. He and his disciples start The Stan, a new religion, and invite the world to join, but when the world shows up, along with the international media and an angry long-dead spiritualist, things take an unexpected turn. Some descriptions of violence and sex. Some strong language. c2007.The cadence of grass
Par Thomas McGuane. 2002
This is the story of the Whitelaws, a family whose values are as far-flung as the territory they helped settle,…
and whose most recent generations have pioneered the landscape of dysfunction. A novel charged with the relentless and often contradictory claims of blood, money, history and love. 2002.The book of laughter and forgetting
Par Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim. 1982
Many of the characters in this collection of stories are obsessed with the past. It's all too easy in Czechoslovakia…
for the Communist Party machine to erase a person from the records leaving only the files of the secret police as a hidden immortality. As one character says: "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting". Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. 1982.The book of mercy
Par Kathleen Cambor. 1996
Retired fireman Edmund Mueller's lonely life is haunted by melancholy memories of his runaway wife and estranged children. Mueller practices…
alchemy, hoping to restore his lost past. His psychiatrist daughter uncovers the secret of her father's obsession and realizes that her own life is also a futile quest for happiness. Strong language and descriptions of sex. 1996.The book of common dread: A Novel Of The Infernal
Par Brent Monahan. 1993
Simon Penn agrees to give his captivating colleague Frederika Vanderveen information from a guarded rare book in Princeton's Firestone Library…
if she will rent him a room so he can escape his live-in girlfriend. Meanwhile vampire Vincent DeVilbiss also needs an ancient manuscript and is planning to take advantage of Frederika's desire to conjure up her dead father's ghost. Strong language, violence, and some explicit descriptions of sex. Followed by "The blood of the covenant" (DC20503). 1993.The blue girl
Par Charles De Lint. 2004
New at her high school, Imogene enlists the help of her introverted friend Maxine and the ghost of a boy…
who haunts the school, after receiving warnings through her dreams that soul-eaters are threatening her life. Some descriptions of violence and strong language. For senior high readers. 2006, c2004.The black chalice
Par Marie Jakober. 2000
A young knight, Karelian of Lys, returns from the Crusades to his home in 12th-century Germany, having witnessed enough to…
undermine his faith in God and himself. Though he craves peace, Karelian soon becomes the lover of a half-human witch queen and the enemy of a nobleman who claims to be a direct descendant of Jesus, and thus the destined king of Earth. Karelian must use all his combat skills, intelligence, and empathy to fight his way through the tangle of duty and passion in which he's caught. Some descriptions of sex, violence, and some strong language. 2000.The blessing way (Joe Leaphorn And Jim Chee Novel Ser.)
Par Tony Hillerman. 1970
A casual summer outing to investigate rumours of sorcery leads Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, and anthropologist Bergen McKee,…
to a series of inexplicably grisly murders. Leaphorn uses his uncanny powers of deduction and knowledge of Navajo ways to solve the crimes. c1989, 1970.The blondes
Par Emily Schultz. 2012
New York in under attack! Random but deadly attacks, all by women with light hair, have begun terrorizing the city's…
inhabitants. As the days pass, it becomes clear that the attacks are symptoms of a strange contagion that is transforming blondes from all walks of life into rabid killers. Hazel flees the city and sets out to cross the border into Canada where she will find the one woman who might be able to help her in a world gone awry. c2012.The blue ghost
Par Marion Dane Bauer. 2005
Liz is awakened in the middle of the night by a mysterious voice softly calling her name. A blue light…
turns into a ghost in old-fashioned clothes, who appears for a moment and then fades through the wall. Liz tries to figure out who the ghost is, why she was calling her name, while unravelling some family secrets. Grades 3-6. 2005.The blood of the covenant: a novel of the vampiric
Par Brent Monahan. 1995
Princeton University librarians Simon Penn and Frederika Vanderveen steal the ancient Scrolls of Ahriman that are sought by both the…
vampire world and the Vatican. Pursued by vampires, they try to unravel the scrolls' prophecy before time runs out. Sequel to "The book of common dread" (DC12675). Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. 1995.The blue castle
Par L. M Montgomery. 1980
To be 29 and unmarried is the ultimate in shame and misery in the small Canadian town where Valancy has…
grown up, and for years she has taken refuge in her imaginary 'blue castle'. Now she must face reality; a letter has turned her life upside down. It's time to leave home and seek freedom. 1980.Sexe et dépendances
Par Stephen McCauley, Françoise Jaouën. 2006
William Collins, agent immobilier gay, adepte de rencontres par Internet, veut tourner le dos à cette habitude et fait voeu…
de chasteté - ce qu'il n'arrivera pas à respecter l'espace d'un seul jour. Faiblesse qu'il arrive à justifier dans un contexte post-11 septembre de traumatisme de fin du monde. Tiraillé entre l'envie de " faire le bien " et la tentation de faire tout ce qui lui permet de " se sentir bien ", entre le renoncement et l'hédonisme - il va louvoyer entre les extrêmes, tout en étudiant le comportement de ceux qui l'entourent. Dans ce roman plus caustique encore que ses précédents, l'univers de Stephen McCauley est toujours aussi insolite et ses personnages plus originaux et attachants que jamais. 2006. Titre uniforme: Alternatives to sex.The black bonspiel of Willie MacCrimmon
Par W. O Mitchell. 1993
Like any good Scot, Willie MacCrimmon loves to curl. He and his rink are so accomplished that they have attracted…
the attention of the Devil, himself a keen curler. In fact, the Devil wants Willie on his team. He'll make sure that Willie wins the Brier -- if Willie will curl for the Devil in the Celestial Brier. Some strong language. 1993.The better world of Reginald Perrin
Par David Nobbs. 1990
Setting up a commune strictly for the middle-class and middle-aged, Reggie's therapy centre nurtures its clients, encouraging them to find…
the love and goodness that lurks deep inside. Reggie has gathered together the unlikeliest of staff to help him and with a team like this how can the indomitable, unconventional RIP ever fail in his last bid to create a Better World? 1990.The birds, and other stories
Par Daphne Du Maurier. 1992
The birds revolt against mankind; the climber on Mount Verita discovers the awesome cost of giving your all to the…
mountains; a malformed apple tree bears an uncanny resemblance to a neglected wife; amusing herself with the little photographer has far reaching consequences for the Marquise; love promised by a glowing stranger becomes a darker intimacy; family jealousies take an unexpectedly violent form; in these six stories, the weak, the dispossessed and the exploited wreak their revenge on a complacent world. 1992.