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The captive (In search of lost time ; #5)
Par Marcel Proust. 1923
In this fifth part of the autobiographical novel, "Remembrance of things past", Albertine is living with the narrator who is…
tortured by the suspicion and jealousy of her relations with other women. Sequel to "Cities of the plain" (DC31600). Followed by "Sweet cheat gone" (DC30887). 1923. (In search of lost time ; 5)The Carradyne touch
Par Anne McCaffrey. 1988
A saga of Ireland and the Irish, full of characters and, not least, horses. Cornanagh, the Carradyne family estate, is…
flourishing, and, under the sternly knowledgeable eye of her father, Michael, 13 year old Catriona is growing in stature as a rider. Behind the easy life an emotional abyss is to open however, as her mother slips over the edge into a shadowy world of fanaticism and madness. 1988.The breakwater house
Par Lazer Lederhendler, Pascale Quiviger. 2010
Paris. Two girls, Lucie and Claire, are born five days apart and become inseparable. One night, Lucie's mother Aurore starts…
telling what becomes a ten-year long family story to the girls, and when the girls turn 15, Aurore tells the final tale and disappears. Several years later, Lucie gives birth to a little girl, Odyssée, and she and Claire take turns telling stories to the child. But one day something unspeakable happens. Some descriptions of sex. c2010. Uniform title: Maison des temps rompus.The bull is not killed
Par Sarah Dearing. 1998
Luis da Silva spends the spring of 1974 on the beaches of his native Portugal pondering the country's political situation.…
Suddenly, as in a dream, a young Gypsy woman walks out of the sea and into Luis' life. She brings excitement to Luis in a way that he has not known before. c1998.The book of secrets: a novel
Par M. G Vassanji. 1994
In 1988 Dar es Salaam, retired schoolteacher Pius Fernandez finds the diary of a colonial official in British East Africa,…
which was lost on the eve of World War I. As Pius explores the mystery of the diary, he traces its story and the lives of its actors into his own life. Winner of the 1994 Dorothy Giller Prize. c1994.The brightest star in the sky
Par Marian Keyes. 2009
At 66, Star Street in Dublin, someone is watching over the lives of the people living in its flats. But…
no one is aware of it yet. One of them is ready to take the plunge and fall in love; another is torn between two very different lovers. For some, secrets they want to stay buried will come to light and for others, the unveiling of those secrets will have tragic consequences. Fate is on its way to Star Street, bringing with it love and tragedy, friendship and heartbreak, and the power to change their lives in the most unexpected of ways. 2009.The body in the fjord
Par Katherine Hall Page. 1997
Pix Miller leaves her job with Faith Fairchild's catering company to travel to Norway with her mother, Ursula Rowe. The…
two want to investigate a friend's sudden disappearance. They join a mountain tour sponsored by the missing girl's former employer. While observing possible suspects, Pix uncovers a plot to smuggle Viking silver out of the country. Some violence. 1997.The butterfly box
Par Santa Montefiore. 2007
Federica Campione adores her father. No matter that Ramon, a distinguished traveller and writer, spends months away from their home…
on the Chilean coast; as soon as he's back, his daughter has eyes for no one but him. As she grows to womanhood, Federica attempts to recapture that long-forgotten sense of security in the arms of the debonair Torquil Jensen. From the sanctuary of a seemingly perfect marriage, she embarks on a painful journey of self-discovery. 2007.The butterfly lion
Par Michael Morpurgo. 1996
Bertie rescues an orphaned white lion cub from the African veld. They become inseparable but then Bertie is sent to…
boarding school far away in England and the lion is sold to the circus. Bertie swears that one day they will see each other again. Grades 4-7. 1996.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 broken shore
Par Peter Temple. 2007
Detective Joe Cashin has returned to his hometown to run its one-man police station while his wounds heal and the…
nightmares fade from his last case. His quiet life is interrupted by a brutal attack on Charles Bourgoyne, a prominent community member. Suspicion falls on three young men from the local Aboriginal community but Cashin's not so sure, as the case unfolds amid simmering corruption and prejudice. Strong language and descriptions of sex and violence. 2007.The broken record technique
Par Lee Henderson. 2002
A collection of stories hinged on the deep human thirst for contact, for emotional reciprocity amid fracture and disconnect. In…
one story, a man goes through five possible versions of a day to find the right ending; in another, pubescent boys in sumo wrestler costumes sweat it out in a suburban backyard. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2002.The bronze horseman
Par Paullina Simons. 2000
Set in Leningrad in 1941 against Hitler's invasion of Russia, this story tells of the impossible love between a Russian…
girl, Tatiana, and a young officer named Alexander. It is a love that could tear Tatiana's family apart and it carries a secret that could mean death for anyone who hears it. Followed by "The bridge to Holy Cross" (DC33402). 2000.The bridge to Holy Cross
Par Paullina Simons. 2003
This novel resumes the tale of Tatiana and Alexander as pregnant eighteen year old Tatiana leaves Russia thinking Alexander is…
dead. She begins her new life in wartime New York City where she finds work, friends and a life beyond her dreams. Alexander, an American trapped in Russia, has been arrested by Stalin's secret police as a traitor and a spy. Will the fate that once pulled them together so forcefully reunite them again? Sequel to "The Bronze Horseman" (DC33084). 2003.The book of sand (Modern Classics Ser.)
Par Jorge Luis Borges, Alastair Reid, Norman Thomas Di Giovanni. 1979
All these stories were written in the author's seventies. "Blind man's exercises", he calls them, but although increasing blindness has…
given his writings a deeper sadness, his way of conjuring with images is as potent as ever. 1979.The boat (Sven Hassel War Classics)
Par Lothar Günther Buchheim. 1999
This is the story of a German U-boat, her commander and crew, as they embark upon yet another hazardous patrol…
in the Battle of the Atlantic. Explicit descriptions of sex. Strong language. 1999. Uniform title: Das Boot.The body in the library (Jane Marple murder mysteries ; #4)
Par Agatha Christie. 1942
The Colonel and Mrs Bantry had always believed that finding "a body in the library" only happened in books, until…
it happened to them. Whose body was it? And why should it be found in the library of Gossington Hall? Miss Marple investigates. Sequel to "The regatta mystery, and other stories". Followed by "The moving finger" (DC32950). 1942. (Jane Marple murder mysteries ; 4)Tarquimpol
Par Serge Lamothe. 2007
Sur les traces de Kafka dans le château d'un occultiste, situé à Tarquimpol, en Lorraine. La question de savoir si…
on peut "aimer plusieurs personnes à la fois sans avoir à mentir" est au centre de cette quête "amoureuse littéraire". Une oeuvre assez digressive, d'une certaine virtuosité mais (trop?) lestée de considérations philosophiques ou littéraires. Quelques descriptions de nature sexuelle. 2007.Sur le toit des maisons: roman
Par Pierre Gobeil. 1998