National Network for Equitable Library Service

Voici un extrait de la lettre que Caroline, Roxanne et Laurie ont reçue d'un notaire: ...Vous êtes conviée à venir passer six mois au manoir de votre oncle. Conscient qu'une telle demande risque de bouleverser votre vie, ce dernier vous offre une somme de deux-cent-cinquante mille dollars en guise de dédommagement, dont un acompte de cinquante mille. Dans le cas où vous décideriez de ne pas répondre à son invitation, vous pourrez conserver cette avance.

The De Boer family are tobacco growers, working on terraces in the Veneto region of northern Italy. Life is hard, and the father, Augusto, occasionally supplements their income by smuggling tobacco across the border into Austria. Sometimes he takes his daughter Jole with him, and father and daughter journey together on the perilous route over the mountains. But Augusto mysteriously never returns from one of these trips, and Jole, driven to provide for her family, inherits her father's smuggling route.

Prince Conn will never be king. And that's just fine with him. He's ninth in line for the pirate throne and is quite happy to sail the skies in his airship with his crew of cheery misfits, plundering as they go. But one by one his siblings are being murdered, in tragic fires, violent cannon attacks or mysterious poisonings. Soon all fingers are pointing toward Conn as the mastermind. To prove his innocence, Conn must make his way to Skull Island, navigating his airship through a gauntlet of villains, explosions and betrayals.

At eighteen, Olivia Daniels left Haven behind and never looked back. Doggedly climbing the corporate ladder, she's finally nearing the top when her father dies-leaving her part-owner of the run-down airport that was his first love. It's a complication she intends to wrap up quickly-buying out her co-owner and selling the land. Good thing her childhood best friends are with her for moral support-because one look at her new partner is proof that her tidy plan has hit turbulence.

When the Council suddenly starts assigning Liv Beaufont dangerous cases, she's automatically suspicious. Do they want her dead? However, she isn't deterred when they assign her a case that no one would dare to go near. Even though Clark is worried for her, she won't back down. Liv is determined to prove that she's a capable and strong Warrior. She's uncertain about is what's hiding in the library. Decoding the ancient language of the Founders will take time.

From the New York Times bestselling author and master of "bone-chilling suspense" (People) comes another page-turning look inside one family's past as buried secrets threaten to come to light. Gifted musician Clemency Thompson is playing for tourists on the streets of southern France when she receives an urgent text message. Her childhood friend, Lucy, is demanding her immediate return to London. It's happening, says the message. The baby is back. Libby Jones was only six months old when she became an orphan.

"'Do you think it's possible to ever see the past as it actually was'' I asked my sister. We were sitting in her car, parked in front of the Dutch House in the broad daylight of early summer." At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves.

Bleak House follows the fortunes and relationships of three characters whose fates are tied to the obscure inheritance case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, which is tied up in endless litigation. While many deserving and undeserving claim the inheritance, it is ironically being devoured in legal costs.

In 2029, the United States is engaged in a bloodless world war. Overnight, the "almighty dollar" plummets in value. The Mandibles have been counting on a sizable fortune, but once the inheritance turns to ash, each family member must contend with disappointment and the challenge of sheer survival.

Jean Lindsay was always the object of ridicule, until news of her unexpected inheritance spread and someone wants her dead! With the marquess nearby to save her pretty neck, Jean finds herself smitten. And her hero can't help but find his head and heart turned askew.