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Burger's daughter Burger's daughter Nadine Gordimer Par une romancière sud-africaine de talent, une plongée dans l'enfer quotidien - violence et suspicion - du racisme. L'héroïne est la fille d'un médecin blanc, condamné à la prison à vie, pour avoir … OL118275W
Beyond the Divide Beyond the Divide Kathryn Lasky Meribah Simon can no longer live at home. The Amish community she has grown up in is suffocating her. The strict rules she has always followed feel like walls closing in around her. And to make matte… OL121862W
Heat Heat Michael Cadnum A teenaged diving champion must deal with the aftermath of a diving accident and her attorney father's remarriage and subsequent arrest for fraud. OL15012262W
But in the fall I'm leaving But in the fall I'm leaving Ann Rinaldi Brie's plan to leave her strict father and go live with her mother, who abandoned her as a baby, is changed when she discovers a horrible secret about her past. OL15270114W
Flirting with Pete Flirting with Pete Barbara Delinsky Psychologist Casey Ellis never met her father -- but that didn't stop her from following in his professional footsteps. Now he has died, and Casey is shocked to have inherited his elegant Boston town… OL166384W
The legacy of Cain The legacy of Cain Wilkie Collins At the request of a person who has claims on me that I must not disown, I consent to look back through a long interval of years and to describe events which took place within the walls of an English … OL176076W
A Dirty Job A Dirty Job Christopher Moore Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. He's what's known as a Beta Male: the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being carefu… OL1987159W
Abigail Takes the Wheel Abigail Takes the Wheel Avi When the first mate of the freight boat Neptune falls ill, it is up to Abigail, the captain's daughter, to steer the ship up the Hudson River from New Jersey to New York City. OL265934W
Once, two islands Once, two islands Dawn Garisch On an island in the southern Atlantic seas, a baby girl is born one dark winter’s day, while the spin-drift wind sings strange songs around the gullies and cliffs. But Gulai’s mother dies soon after … OL2883747W
Beach Music Beach Music Pat Conroy An American living in Rome with his daughter after his wife's suicide tracks a classmate who went underground as a Vietnam protester and never resurfaced. OL2908760W
The warrior The warrior Sharon Sala John Nightwalker is a strong, rugged Native American soldier who has seen many battles. While hunting down an old enemy, he crosses paths with Alicia Ponte. On the run from her fathera powerful arms … OL2909421W
Painter Painter Peter Catalanotto Although her father is busy working as an artist at home, he still finds time to spend with his daughter. OL38204W
The stone silenus The stone silenus Jane Yolen A year after her father, a poet who identified with fauns and satyrs, has been found dead in a motel swimming pool, a strange faun-boy appears to Melissa, seeming to be the reincarnation of her belov… OL441293W
A game of chance A game of chance Linda Howard On the trail of a vicious criminal, agent Chance Mackenzie found the perfect bait for his trap: Sunny Miller. So Chance made himself the only man she could trust--and then arranged for her long-missi… OL491710W
Disgrace Disgrace J. M. Coetzee At fifty-two, Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire, but lacking in passion. An affair with one of his students leaves him jobless, shunned by his friends, and ridiculed by his ex-wif… OL500451W
The wedding The wedding Elizabeth M. Rees In 1433, fourteen-year-old Giovanna Cenami falls in love with a mysterious stranger employed by Flemish painter Jan van Eyck, but when she defies her father, refuses to must marry a wealthy family fr… OL523769W
Open season(A Joe Pickett Novel #1) Open season(A Joe Pickett Novel #1) C. J. Box The first Joe Pickett novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box. Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town where nearly everyone hunts and the game warden—… OL5727266W
Interrupting chicken Interrupting chicken David Ezra Stein Little Red Chicken wants Papa to read her a bedtime story, but interrupts him almost as soon as he begins each tale. OL5818196W
Burning bones Burning bones Rick Hautala,Christopher Golden Two people burst into flames, burned alive in front of plenty of eyewitnesses with no obvious cause. Spontaneous human combustion is a bizarre phenomenon, but according to published accounts, it happ… OL790424W
Vanishing acts Vanishing acts Jodi Picoult Picoult's richly layered and suspenseful novel explores the power of love and memory . . . what happens when the past we have been running from catches up to us.'The compelling story weaves character… OL891942W
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