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Pitcairn's Island
Par Charles Nordhoff. 1934
South Pacific, 1790s-1800s. Fletcher Christian, his fellow H.M.S. Bounty mutineers, and their Polynesian wives flee Tahiti for Pitcairn's Island. Living…
undiscovered for eighteen years, they establish a primitive but thriving settlement until a bitter struggle for vengeance shatters the peace. Sequel to Men against the Sea (BR 15979). 1934Of human bondage (Modern Library)
Par W. Somerset Maugham. 1999
Semiautobiographical novel of obsessive love. Philip Carey, a sensitive, talented orphan with a club foot, comes to live with his…
vicar uncle. Philip studies art in Paris, returns to London to take up medicine, and begins a life-altering affair with Mildred, a waitress. 1999 introduction by Gore Vidal. 1915Singularity sky
Par Charles Stross. 2003
An information plague called the Festival strikes the New Republic, an isolationist planetary colony banning technology. Contractor Martin Springfield and…
United Nations of Earth Security Council agent Rachel Mansour, both on covert missions, become unlikely allies as the colony prepares for war. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2003The sea
Par John Banville. 2006
Middle-aged Irish widower Max Morden retreats to the seaside where he spent his boyhood summers to mourn the loss of…
his wife, Anna. While his grown daughter tries to console him, he confronts the past and his relationship with the wealthy Grace family. Strong language. Man Booker Prize. Bestseller. 2005The Kreutzer sonata and other stories (Penguin classics)
Par Leo Tolstoy, David McDuff. 1985
Four short stories by the nineteenth-century Russian author. In the title piece, a husband confesses to being so consumed by…
sexual jealousy that he feels compelled to murder his wife. The public outcry against the story published in 1890 caused Tolstoy to write the postface included here. 1985Reflex (Jumper #2)
Par Steven Gould. 2004
A mysterious organization kidnaps National Security Agency operative Davy Rice to use his teleportation powers. Davy's wife, Millie, searches frantically…
for him with her own newfound teleporting skills. Sequel to Jumper (DB 37465, BR 9548). Strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some violence. For senior high and older readers. 2004The interruption of everything: a novel
Par Terry McMillan. 2005
Bored African American forty-something Marilyn Grimes deals with a husband's midlife crisis, kids in college, a live-in mother-in-law, and her…
own mother showing signs of dementia. Marilyn, with the help and support of her friends, faces decisions about her future, including a possible pregnancy. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. Bestseller. 2005Gilead: A Novel
Par Marilynne Robinson. 2004
1950s. Dying seventy-six-year-old Gilead, Iowa, minister John Ames writes a parting letter to his young son. John reflects on the…
tensions between his pacifist father and militant abolitionist grandfather (both preachers), the death of his first wife and child, the gospel, a friend's transgressions, and life's eternal mystery. Pulitzer Prize. Bestseller. 2004Le coeur du monde: 1, Farlander
Par Col Buchanan. 2011
" Ash est un farlander, un homme du lointain venu d'une île où les hommes ont la peau noire. Il…
appartient à un ordre d'assassins d'élite, les Roshuns, dont l'arme est la vendetta : quiconque menace leurs clients devient leur cible. Nul ne s'y risque, car nul n'échappe aux Roshuns. Mais Ash est vieux et malade. Le temps est venu pour lui de prendre un apprenti. Il choisit Nico, un gamin de la cité de Bar-Khos, assiégée depuis dix ans, dernière à résister à un empire d'une atroce cruauté. Affamé, désespéré, Nico n'a pas d'autre choix que de suivre le vieil homme au monastère des Roshuns où il apprendra le meurtre, mais aussi l'amitié et l'amour Le jour où l'héritier de l'Empire égorge délibérément une jeune fille portant le sceau des Roshuns, l'ordre exige d'assassiner l'homme le mieux protégé du monde. Jusqu'ici, tous ont échoué. Ash se propose, il n'a plus rien à perdre. " -- 4e de couvLighthousekeeping
Par Jeanette Winterson. 2004
The young orphan girl Silver learns the value of stories while apprenticed to Pew, a blind lighthouse keeper at Cape…
Wrath, Scotland. Among Pew's tales are the deeds of the double-natured minister Babel Dark, aka Lux, who inspired Robert Louis Stevenson. Some explicit descriptions of sex and some violence. 2004Accidental happiness: a novel
Par Jean Reynolds Page. 2005
South Carolina. Since her husband Ben unexpectedly died three months ago, thirty-three-year-old Gina Melrose has been living aboard their sailboat.…
When Reese, Ben's ex-wife, and her seven-year-old daughter Angel, who might be Ben's child, arrive on the boat, Gina confronts the possibility that Ben betrayed her. Strong language. 2005The plot against America: A Novel
Par Philip Roth. 2004
In this alternative history, a young man--called Philip Roth--recounts his Jewish family's fears and humiliations when aviation hero Charles Lindbergh…
is victorious in the 1940 presidential election. The New Jersey Roths struggle as America, caught up in anti-Semitic fervor, descends into fascism. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2004The empress of the last days: A Novel
Par Jane Stevenson. 2003
This sequel to The Shadow King (BR 15553) moves forward to the twentieth century. Oxford don Michael Foxwist is shown…
seventeenth-century documents that lead him to believe a young black scientist in Barbados may have descended from Elizabeth of Bohemia and Pelagius and be the true queen of England. 2003About love and other stories (Oxford world's classics)
Par Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. 2004
Seventeen short stories by the nineteenth-century Russian writer. In the title piece a lonely bachelor tells a sad tale of…
undeclared love and the toll it exacts. The collection includes "The Lady with the Little Dog" (1899), "Gusev" (1890), and "Rothschild's Violin" (1894). Translation by Rosamund Bartlett. 2004Stormchaser (The edge Chronicles Ser. #Bk. 2)
Par Paul Stewart. 1999
Twig joins the crew of his father's sky pirate ship, Stormchaser. They embark on a dangerous mission to collect the…
powerful stormphrax, a substance that purifies water and also prevents the city of Sanctaphrax from floating away. Sequel to Beyond the Deepwoods (BR 15878). For grades 6-9. 1999Blackbird House: A Novel
Par Alice Hoffman. 2004
Twelve interconnected stories spanning two hundred years about the inhabitants of a Cape Cod farmhouse. Sailor John Hadley builds the…
home for his family before he perishes at sea. Successive generations face fear, love, and the forces of nature. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2004Essential stories (Modern Library Classics Ser.)
Par V. S Pritchett. 1997
Jeremy Treglown, a biographer of Pritchett (1900-1997), assembles sixteen of Pritchett's short stories that exhibit his legendary skills. "A Serious…
Question" explores a failing, childless marriage. "The Lion's Den" is autobiographical and "Our Oldest Friend" is an examination of what it means to be rejected. 2005Un garçon maladroit: roman
Par Marc-Alain Wolf. 2012
" Est-ce bien ce même garçon qui, seul devant son ordinateur, se transforme en maître doeuvre insoupçonné de stratégies destinées…
à mettre fin à la pauvreté et à la faim dans le monde, à la guerre voire même à la mort ? " -- 4e de couvCeci n'est pas une histoire de dragons: roman
Par Mathieu Handfield. 2010
" Napoléon Macdougall, accablé par un inconfort constant dû à sa grandeur hors norme, inspire malgré lui un nain riche…
et gueulard par son fantasme dagrandir le monde. Sensuivent la métamorphose cauchemardesque d'une ville, une dépression collective, de mystérieuses disparitions, une histoire damour assombrie par un as de la baignade, des travaux forcés dans une caverne, des poursuites automobiles psychanalytiques et, surtout, un torrent dégoïsme, de désespoir et de jurons... " -- 4e de couvLe jardin du docteur Des Oeillets: roman
Par Denis Monette. 2011
" Narcisse Des Oeillets, jeune médecin de quartier, épouse en 1929 Marguerite Fougère, à cause d'une idée folle surgie lors…
de leur rencontre : ensemencer un jardin où les fleurs seraient identifiées aux prénoms de leurs enfants à venir. Ainsi se succèdent Rose, Iris, Violette et Jasmin. Déséquilibré, plus horticulteur que médecin, le docteur Des Oeillets élève ses quatre enfants dans une discipline sévère. A l'âge adulte, ces derniers, tour à tour, se rebellent. Rose, handicapée, a maille à partir avec ce père dérangé. Iris, au contraire, le manipule au pointd'en devenir sa fleur préférée. Violette le déteste et le défie carrément. Jasmin finit par lui échapper en perpétuant, non sans difficulté, le nom si précieux qu'il porte. Car le docteur Des Oeillets, dans sa démence, a fait jurer à ses filles de ne jamais se marier - et donc perdre leur nom -, sous peine d'être déshéritées. De là, une intrigue peu banale se tisse au rythme de chapitres débordant d'incidents. " -- 4e de couv