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C

Mc Carthy, Paul

Publié en 2010

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The acclaimed author of Remainder, which Zadie Smith hailed as “one of the great English novels of the past ten years,”gives us his most spectacularly inventive novel yet. Opening in England at the turn of the twentieth century, C is the story of a boy named Serge Carrefax, whose father spends his time experimenting with wireless communication while running a school for deaf children. Serge grows up amid the noise and silence with his brilliant but troubled older sister, Sophie: an intense sibling relationship that stays with him as he heads off into an equally troubled larger world. After a fling with a nurse at a Bohemian spa, Serge serves in World War I as a radio operator for reconnaissance planes. When his plane is shot down, Serge is taken to a German prison camp, from which he escapes. Back in London, he’s recruited for a mission to Cairo on behalf of the shadowy Empire Wireless Chain. All of which eventually carries Serge to a fitful — and perhaps fateful — climax at the bottom of an Egyptian tomb ... Only a writer like Tom McCarthy could pull off a story with this effortless historical breadth, psychological insight, and postmodern originality.

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Aïna fille des étoiles

Grenier, Christian

Publié en 1999

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" Nous la tenons ! " Ce soir de l'été 2222, Aïna part pour Utopia. Elle veut y retrouver ses parents qui l'ont abandonnée autrefois sur la Terre. A bord de sa navette, elle rencontre un drôle d'animal philosophe : Kaha, le Maki de Kaligari. Mais les cruels Dénébiens la traquent sans relâche... La première aventure d'Aïna, la fille des étoiles.

aventure littérature jeunesse jeunesse science-fiction philosophe animaux

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Elle s'appelait Marine

Delerm, Philippe

Publié en 1998

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Entre les soirées à la ferme des Sorno, la pêche, le vélo, ses visites à sa grand-mère au cimetière de Saint-Jean et le collège, la vie de Serge Delmas, élève en 5e, s'écoulait, paisible et sans histoires. Puis Marine est arrivée, juste avant les vacances de Pâques. La nouvelle habite au château du Bouscat et son père est peintre. À Labastide, il y a des commérages... On parle aussi beaucoup de la construction de la centrale. Un référendum est prévu mais les événements vont bientôt prendre un tour plus tragique. Serge prendra-t-il le parti de son amie?

illustrateur : Delerm, Martine / collection : Collection Folio junior. / 117 p.

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Le pays où l'on n'arrive jamais

Dhôtel, André

Publié en 1999 Gallimard

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Gaspard vit dans un village paisible où il travaille dans l'hôtel de sa tante. Un jour, il rencontre un enfant fugitif qui a abandonné son père adoptif pour retrouver Maman Jenny et le pays de son enfance. Le camarade de Gaspard va l'entraîner dans de surprenantes aventures.

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Je N'irai Pas en Classe de Neige !

Rouy, Maryse

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Depuis qu'il a changé d'école, Félix est le reject » de sa classe. Ses récréations tournent souvent au cauchemar, surtout quand Léonard le cafard » décide de s'en prendre à lui. Félix n'est heureux que lorsqu'il va au parc avec sa chienne. En jouant avec elle, Félix oublie les misères de la journée et trouve le courage de retourner à l'école le lendemain. Mais voilà ce fragile équilibre menacé, car Félix doit bientôt partir en classe de neige. Il sait que personne ne l'acceptera dans sa chambre et qu'aucun élève ne voudra s'asseoir à côté de lui dans l'autobus ni à la cafeteria. Comment pourrait-il tenir toute une semaine ? C’est alors qu’il décide de ne pas y aller. Mais quelle raison trouvera-t-il? Finalement, rien ne se déroulera comme prévu et Félix ne le regrettera pas!

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Ben est amoureux D'anna

Hartling, Peter

Publié en 1995 Bordas

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Cela fait six mois qu'Anna est arrivée en Allemagne. A l'école, personne ne l'aime... sauf Ben.

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Vampire Academy

Mead, Richelle

Publié en 2007

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Lissa Dragomir is a Moroi princess: a mortal vampire with a rare gift for harnessing the earth's magic. She must be protected at all times from Strigoi; the fiercest vampires—the ones who never die. The powerful blend of human and vampire blood that flows through Rose Hathaway, Lissa's best friend, makes her a dhampir. Rose is dedicated to a dangerous life of protecting Lissa from the Strigoi, who are hell-bent on making Lissa one of them. After two years of freedom, Rose and Lissa are caught and dragged back to St. Vladimir's Academy, a school for vampire royalty and their guardians-to-be, hidden in the deep forests of Montana. But inside the iron gates, life is even more fraught with danger... and the Strigoi are always close by. Rose and Lissa must navigate their dangerous world, confront the temptations of forbidden love, and never once let their guard down, lest the evil undead make Lissa one of them forever...

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Selected Stories

Munro, Alice

Publié en 1997

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Spanning almost thirty years and settings that range from big cities to small towns and farmsteads of rural Canada, this magnificent collection brings together twenty-eight stories by a writer of unparalleled wit, generosity, and emotional power. In her Selected Stories, Alice Munro makes lives that seem small unfold until they are revealed to be as spacious as prairies and locates the moments of love and betrayal, desire and forgiveness, that change those lives forever. To read these stories--about a traveling salesman and his children on an impromptu journey; an abandoned woman choosing between seduction and solitude--is to succumb to the spell of a writer who enchants her readers utterly even as she restores them to their truest selves. Walker brothers cowboy -- Dance of the happy shades -- Postcard -- Images -- Something I've been meaning to tell you -- The Ottawa Valley -- Material -- Royal beatings -- Wild swans -- The beggar maid -- Simon's luck -- Chaddeleys and Flemings -- Dulse -- The turkey season -- Labor Day dinner -- The moons of Jupiter -- The progress of love -- Lichen -- Miles City, Montana -- White dump -- Fits -- Friend of my youth -- Meneseteung -- Differently -- Carried away -- The Albanian virgin -- A wilderness station -- Vandals.

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Boogie-woogie

Moynihan, Danny

Publié en 2002

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Like The Player's hilariously poker-faced dissection of Hollywood, Boogie-Woogie's lurid quick cuts uncover of the tenderest portions of the '90's New York art world's underbelly Elaine Yoon, a tattooed, pierced, Chinese-Californian lesbian, obsessively seduces straight women, and films video shorts of her sexual conquests. Jo Richards, an intellectually challenged installation artist grappling with the idea of peripheral vision, knows the whereabouts of Mondrian's last painting. Art Spindle, a cravat-wearing, reptilian art dealer, desperately wants to sell the Mondrian, when he isn't sleeping with Jean Maclestone, collector and art-hag, the vain wife of stuttering über-collector Bob Maclestone. This cast of characters dance through incestuous working relationships, run-ins with incompetent gallery owners, and the lure of manipulative art dealers. Danny Moynihan's deliciously satirical sexual deviants, attention seekers, and would-be murderers ring true in this sophisticated, sharply observed, darkly humorous novel.

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Breaking Dawn (the Twilight Saga #4)

Meyer, Stephenie

Publié en 2008

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"Don't be afraid," I murmured. "We belong together." I was abruptly overwhelmed by the truth of my own words. This moment was so perfect, so right, there was no way to doubt it. His arms wrapped around me, holding me against him.... It felt like every nerve ending in my body was a live wire. "Forever," he agreed. WHEN YOU LOVED THE ONE WHO WAS KILLING YOU, IT LEFT YOU NO OPTIONS. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved? TO BE IRREVOCABLY IN LOVE WITH A VAMPIRE is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife have led her to the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or to pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fates of two tribes hangs. NOW THAT BELLA HAS MADE HER DECISION, a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating, and unfathomable, consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella's life - first discovered in Twilight, then scattered and torn in New Moon and Eclipse - seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed... forever? THE ASTONISHING, BREATHLESSLY anticipated conclusion to the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic that has entranced millions

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Eclipse (the Twilight Saga #3)

Meyer, Stephenie

Publié en 2007

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"BELLA?" Edward's soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, just like he had in the parking lot, and kissed me again. This kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine - like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob - knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which? READERS CAPTIVATED BY Twilight AND New Moon will eagerly devour Eclipse, the much-anticipated third book in Stephenie Meyer's riveting vampire love saga

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Four Blind Mice

Patterson, James

Publié en 2003

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Detective Alex Cross is on his way to resign from the Washington, D.C., Police Force when his partner shows up at his door with a case he can't refuse. One of John Sampson's oldest friends, from their days in Vietnam, has been arrested for murder. Worse yet, he is subject to the iron hand of the United States Army. The evidence against him is strong enough to send him to the gas chamber but Sampson is certain his friend has been framed. Drawing on their years of street training and an almost telepathic mutual trust, Cross and Sampson go deep behind military lines to confront the most terrifying-and deadly-killers they have ever encountered. On his visits home, Alex must confront another, more harrowing mystery: what's the matter with Nana Mama?

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