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The baby project
Par Sarah Ellis. 1986
Eleven-year-old Jessica and her family are not prepared for the changes a new baby makes in their lives. Then tragedy…
strikes and the family must find new strengths. Grades 4-7. 1986.The angel of Zin
Par Clifford Irving. 1984
The Gestapo sends Captain Paul Bach to investigate the murders of two prisoners and a Polish lieutenant at an SS…
camp. Bach begins to realize that he is a guilty party to the policy of extermination. Some strong language. 1984.The autumn of the patriarch
Par Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa. 1976
The Nobel Prize-winning author presents a many-layered, surrealistic, and subtly humorous description of the barbarism, squalor, and corruption surrounding the…
rule of a Latin American dictator. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. 1977. Uniform title: Otoño del patriarca.The angels weep (Ballantyne novels ; #3)
Par Wilbur A Smith. 1982
An exciting story of action, adventure and romance. Set in Rhodesia the novel's characters, both black and white, play out…
their parts in a turmoil of action during which the seeds of hatred and future tragedy are sown. Sequel to "Men of men" (DC29828). Followed by "The leopard hunts in darkness" (DC10169). 1982. (Ballantyne novels ; 3)The assault
Par Harry Mulisch, Claire Nicolas White. 1985
In the last months of the German occupation of Holland, a Dutch collaborator is shot in the street where Anton…
Steenwijk's family lives. The body is moved to their doorstep and, in retribution, their house is destroyed by German troops, Anton's parents are taken away and his brother chased and killed. Why did someone move the body and cause the destruction of his family? 1985.The ash garden: a novel
Par Dennis Bock. 2001
One of 25 Hiroshima Maidens relocated from post-war Japan to America for corrective plastic surgery, Emiko remains in the U.S.…
as a student, then as a filmmaker. Anton is a German scientist who worked on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, and who married a part-Jewish survivor and refugee. When they meet during the filming of Emiko's documentary, the reverberations caused by the explosion of the bomb are explored, and the true implications of their involvement in that moment are revealed. 2001.Terrasse à Rome
Par Pascal Quignard. 2000
Au 17e siècle, un fiancé jaloux défigure l'amant de sa belle, un graveur, en lui jetant au visage de l'eau-forte.…
S'ensuit, en 47 "gravures", une histoire grave faite de non-dits et de clairs-obscurs propres à envouter le lecteur. Prix de l'Académie française, 2000.Testament à l'anglaise
Par Jonathan Coe, Jean Pavans. 1995
Michael Owen, un jeune homme dépressif et agoraphobe, a été chargé par la vieille Tabitha Winshaw d'écrire la chronique de…
l'illustre famille Winshaw. Il va découvrir des vices et des méfaits d'une ampleur insoupçonnée. Par une nuit d'orage, alors que tous sont réunis au manoir de Winshaw Towers, la vérité éclatera. Descriptions régulières de violence et quelques descriptions de nature sexuelle. 1997, c1995. Titre uniforme: What a carve up!.Tell him you're married: short stories
Par Stanley Wm Rogal. 2002
A collection of linked short stories in which an un-named narrator witnesses the day-to-day events that make up relationships. In…
"Hardline," a father and his children don't get along. In "Friends," a group of people play a dangerous drinking game. Some strong language. Some descriptions of violence. 2002.Tears in the grass: a novel
Par Lynda A Archer. 2016
At ninety years of age, Elinor, a Saskatchewan Cree artist, inveterate roll-your-own smoker, and talker to rivers and stuffed bison,…
sets out to find something that was stolen almost a lifetime ago. With what little time she has left, she is determined to find the child taken from her after she, only a child herself, was raped at a residential school. It is 1968, and a harsh winter and harsher attitudes await Elinor, her daughter, and her granddaughter as they set out on an odyssey to right past wrongs, enduring a present that tests their spirit and chips away at their aboriginal heritage. 2016.The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian
Par Sherman Alexie. 2008
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where…
the only other Indian is the school mascot. Junior and Senior High. 2008.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 alphabet sisters
Par Monica McInerney. 2004
Anna, Bett and Carrie Quinlan were childhood singing stars, The Alphabet Sisters. As adults they haven't spoken for years, ever…
since Bett's fiancé left her for another sister. Now Lola, their larger-than-life grandmother, summons them home for her 80th birthday extravaganza and a surprise announcement - she wants them to revive their singing careers and stage a musical she has written. Rehearsals get underway, and family secrets begin to be shared and revealed. But just as the rifts begin to close, The Alphabet Sisters face a test they never imagined. 2004.The all of it
Par Jeannette Haien. 1986
Kevin and Enda escaped from their mad father and found refuge in a tiny Irish village where they lived as…
man and wife. Fifty years later, Kevin's death impels Enda to confess to Father Declan, a world-weary priest. 1986.The alchemist
Par Paulo Coelho, Alan R Clarke. 1998
The story of an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a treasure. He journeys to the…
markets of Tangiers and into the Egyptian desert where a fateful encounter with the alchemist awaits him. This story teaches us about the wisdom of listening to our hearts, reading the omens along life's path and following our dreams. Bestseller. 1998. Uniform title: Alquimista.Tempting fate
Par Laurie Alberts. 1987
Leaving a trail of menial jobs behind her, Allie Heller arrives in an Alaskan fishing village. She falls in love…
with Sonny who is bent on self-destruction. A tragic accident forces her to choose whether she herself will survive. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1987.Territorial rights
Par Muriel Spark. 1979
In this comedic-farce, Robert, escaping from a complicated affair, runs to Venice in the hope of simplifying his life. In…
Venice, he finds that nothing is the way it seems, even the pensione has a body buried in the garden. 1979.Seul dans le noir
Par Paul Auster. 2009
Un veuf septuagénaire insomniaque s'invente une histoire angoissante qui ne doit se terminer que par sa propre mort. Beaucoup de…
langage grossier, quelques descriptions de nature sexuelle, et descriptions explicites de violence. 2009. Titre uniforme: Man in the dark.Serpentine: [nouvelles] (L'ombre de Bragelonne)
Par Mélanie Fazi. 2008
Une aire d'autoroute qui devient un refuge à la nuit tombée. Une ligne de métro où l'on fait d'étranges rencontres.…
Un restaurant grec dont la patronne se nomme Circé. Une maison italienne où deux enfants croisent un esprit familier. Tels sont les décors du quotidien où prennent racine ces dix histoires. 2008.Sur le bord de la rivière Piedra, je me suis assise et j'ai pleuré
Par Paulo Coelho, Jean Orecchioni. 1995
Deux amis d'enfance espagnols, un garçon et une fille, se retrouvent à l'âge adulte. Le héros, devenu séminariste, hésite entre…
l'amour de Dieu et celui de la femme. Cadre principal: un village médiéval des Pyrénées où se trouve un monastère. 1995.