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1984

Orwell, George

Publié en 2013

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Roman

Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmarish vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life—the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language—and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written.

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Le Loup en slip se les gèle méchamment. Tome 2

Lupano, Wilfrid

Dargaud

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Bande dessinée

Le loup en slip est de retour et pourrait bien redevenir le méchant de l'histoire L'hiver arrive, il neige, il fait froid… Grognon, le loup répète sans cesse qu''on se les gèle' ! Mais que peut-il donc bien se geler, lui qui est toujours en slip ? Les habitants de la forêt vont vite devoir le découvrir s'ils ne veulent pas que leur compagnon redevienne le grand méchant loup qui les terrorisait autrefois !

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The Final Judgement

North Patterson, Richard

Publié en 1998

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A young man is brutally murdered. His distraught girlfriend is the prime suspect. Her aunt, Caroline Masters, about to take up a top job in the US Court of Appeals, decides to defend the young woman in the murder trial. But this will be Caroline's first contact with her family in almost twenty years, and as she prepares the case and goes through the trial, long forgotten secrets re-surface, putting Caroline against not only the police and prosecution, but also against her father (a retired judge), her sister and the memory of her young self when she, too, lost a boyfriend in suspicious circumstances. The Final Judgement is a powerful, poignant, page-turning legal thriller that confirms Richard North Patterson as among the very best writers in the bookselling area.

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The Snowman

Nesbø, Jo

Publié en 2011

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One night, after the first snowfall of the year, a boy named Jonas wakes up and discovers that his mother has disappeared. Only one trace of her remains: a pink scarf, his Christmas gift to her, now worn by the snowman that inexplicably appeared in their yard earlier that day. Inspector Harry Hole suspects a link between the missing woman and a suspicious letter he’s received. The case deepens when a pattern emerges: over the past decade, eleven women have vanished—all on the day of the first snow. But this is a killer who makes his own rules . . . and he’ll break his pattern just to keep the game interesting, as he draws Harry ever closer into his twisted web. With brilliantly realized characters and hair-raising suspense, international bestselling author Jo Nesbø presents his most chilling case yet—one that will test Harry Hole to the very limits of his sanity.

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The Other Side of Truth

Naidoo Beberly

Publié en 2002 Puffin Books

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After the murder of their mother, twelve-year-old Sade and her younger brother are smuggled out of Nigeria by their journalist father to escape the corrupt military government and growing violence. They are sent to their uncle in London, but when they arrive, he is missing and they are abandoned, passed between foster homes. Their father escapes to England to find them -- but he will be sent back to Nigeria unless Sade can find a way to tell the world what happened to her family. A Silver Medal winner of England's Smarties Book Prize, Beverly Naidoo's new novel explores the issues of family, exile, and freedom wtih eloquence and stunning realism.

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Home by tony morrison

Morrison, Toni

Publié en 2012

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America's most celebrated novelist, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison extends her profound take on our history with this twentieth-century tale of redemption: a taut and tortured story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war. Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing veteran of the Korean War who, after traumatic experiences on the front lines, finds himself back in racist America with more than just physical scars. His home may seem alien to him, but he is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from and that he's hated all his life. As Frank revisits his memories from childhood and the war that have left him questioning his sense of self, he discovers a profound courage he had thought he could never possess again. A deeply moving novel about an apparently defeated man finding his manhood - and his home

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Sea of Lost Love

Montefiore, Santa

Publié en 2008

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From the author of The Gypsy Madonna and The Last Voyage of the Valentina, a breathless novel that sweeps its heroine from the Cornish coast to the rugged beauty of Puglia Italy, where she discovers a shocking truth about her family and the way to save her ancestral home. Celestria Montague always spends her summers at Pendrift Hall, the rambling, shabby mansion adorned with wisteria and clematis that has been home to the Montague family for generations. It is 1958, and the family is celebrating her father's fiftieth birthday at a lavish ball. The celebratory night ends in death and tragedy, however, and young Celestria learns that the family may lose Pendrift Hall. Her grandfather urges Celestria to play detective, to solve the mysteries surrounding the night's events, and to save the ancient mansion if at all possible. Her quest takes her to Italy's rugged and beautiful Puglia, and into the dark, cool cloisters of the Convento di Santa Maria del Mare. Here Celestria meets an enigmatic stranger and confronts unwelcome truths about her family—and herself. Sea of Lost Love is Santa Montefiore at her very best—sensitive, sensual, and complex.

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The Death of Jayson Porter

Adoff, Jaime

Publié en 2008

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Sixteen-year-old Jayson Porter wants to believe things will get better. But the harsh realities of his life never seem to change. Living in the inland-Florida projects with his abusive mother, he tries unsuccessfully to fit in at his predominately white school, while struggling to maintain even a thread of a relationship with his drug-addicted father. As the pressure mounts, there's only one thing Jayson feels he has control over the choice of whether to live or die. In this powerful, gripping novel, Coretta Scott King Award winning author Jaime Adoff explores the harsh reality of a teenager's life, giving hope even in the bleakest of hours.

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A Horse Called Mystery

Reynolds, Marjorie

Publié en 1972

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Owlie wanted a bicycle but he bought a lame horse he didn't even know how to ride. It didn't make any sense at all. But Owlie just knew that he wanted Mystery. In a summer of surprises, Owlie learns a lot about horses and people--including the strange visitor on the island. And in the end, Owlie and Mystery teach the whole town an important lesson. Marjorie Reynolds has written a lively story for pre-teen-age readers about the growing up one boy does in a summer.

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The Green Angels by Nicky Millard

Millard, Nicky

Publié en 1985

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A tiny, beautiful, carved wooden bird; an abandoned waste lot; a gang of rowdy kids; a mysterious skeleton; an antique carving; the birth of a beautiful park; all these things come together to change Jenny Murnroe's life and turn a bleak-looking summer into one long, exciting adventure.

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Inspecteur Catastrophe

Fresse, Gilles

Publié en 1999 Rageot

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Roman

Benjamin, amateur de bandes dessinées, se trouve un soir dans la peau d'un détective à côté de son héros préféré l'inspecteur Harry Bambel.

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Pat of Silver Bush

Montgomery, L.m

Publié en 1988

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Patricia Gardiner loved Silver Bush more than anything else in the world. She was born and raised in the beautiful old-fashioned house on Prince Edward Island, "where things always seemed the same" and good things never changed. But things do change at Silver Bush—from her first day at school to the arrival of her new baby sister, from her aunt's joyous wedding to her own first romance. Through it all, Pat shares her experiences with her beloved friends and discovers the one thing that truly never changes: the beauty and peace she will always find at Silver Bush—the house that remembers her whole life.

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