Fiction

  • Fishtailing

    Creator

    Phillips, Wendy

    Abstract

    When Natalie moves to a new high school she befriends 3 unwitting victims into her spider-web of manipulations, lies and deceit. Through the poetry and assignments of an English class we glimpse the world of the 4 teens.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Non spécifié
  • De poussière et de vent

    Creator

    Gareau, Laurier

    Abstract

    Les Éditions de la nouvelle plume publient le premier roman d’un dramaturge accompli et fier passeur de l’histoire des francophones de la Saskatchewan. Ce premier roman joint ses deux passions, soit l’histoire de la colonisation de l’Ouest et les intrigues de personnages hors de l’ordinaire. Ce om

    Non spécifié
  • One-dog canoe

    Creator

    Casanova, Mary

    Abstract

    A girl and her dog set out in their canoe one morning, only to be insistently joined by a series of animals, large and small.

    Audience
    Primary
    Non spécifié
  • The pale king

    Creator

    Wallace, David Foster

    Pietsch, Michael

    Abstract

    The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity and dignity the work still has.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [New York]

    Hachette Book Group

    Non spécifié
  • The inner circle

    Creator

    Meltzer, Brad

    Abstract

    When Clementine Kaye, Beecher White's first childhood crush, shows up at the National Archives asking for his help, Beecher tries to impress her by showing her the secret vault of the President of the United States. After they accidentally happen upon a priceless artifact, Beecher and Clementine find themselves suddenly entangled in a web of deception, conspiracy, and murder.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [New York]

    Hachette Book Group

    Non spécifié
  • The ice limit

    Creator

    Preston, Douglas J.

    Child, Lincoln

    Abstract

    The largest known meteorite has been discovered, entombed on a frigid, desolate island off the southern tip of Chile. New York billionaire Palmer Lloyd is determined to have it for his museum--but from the first approach to the meteorite, people begin to die.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [New York]

    Hachette Book Group

    Non spécifié
  • The forgotten

    Creator

    Baldacci, David

    Abstract

    John Puller's Aunt Betsy has been found dead in her Florida apartment, drowned in her backyard pool. The local police have ruled the death an accident, but Puller isn't so sure. Before she died, Betsy mailed a letter to Puller's father, telling him she was afraid, but wouldn't say what exactly she was frightened of. Puller decides to head down south to personally investigate his aunt's death, and what he finds there convinces him without a doubt that this was no accident.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [New York]

    Hachette Book Group

    Non spécifié
  • Little & Lion

    Creator

    Colbert, Brandy

    Abstract

    When Suzette comes home to Los Angeles from her boarding school in New England, she isn't sure if she'll ever want to go back. But as she settles into her old life, she finds herself falling for someone new … the same girl her stepbrother Lionel is in love with. When Lionel's bipolar disorder spirals out of control, Suzette is forced to confront her past mistakes and find a way to help him before he hurts himself--or worse.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    [New York]

    Hachette Book Group

    Non spécifié
  • If the duke demands

    Creator

    Harrington, Anna

    Abstract

    Sebastian Carlisle, Duke of Trent, must find a proper woman to marry. But he finds himself falling for Miranda Hodgkins, his free-spirited neighbor, who is in love with his brother.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [New York]

    Hachette Book Group

    Non spécifié
  • The Kid

    Creator

    Hansen, Ron

    Abstract

    Ron Hansen brings listeners back into the late 1800s and into Billy the Kid's boyhood as a ranch hand trying to wrest a fortune from an unforgiving landscape. We are with Billy in every gunfight and horse theft, and through his grand death in a hail of bullets in 1881.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Ashland, Oregon]

    Blackstone Publishing

    Non spécifié