The Confabulist is a clever and suspenseful narrative that weaves together the rise and fall of world-famous Harry Houdini with the surprising story of Martin Strauss, an unknown man whose fate seems forever tied to the magician's in a...
Death
- Auteur:Galloway, StevenSommaire:
- Auteur:Lyons, CJSommaire:
High school senior Ella Cleary, whose synesthesia causes her to see colors with each interaction, must question everything she knows about her life when journalism student Alec investigates her parents' death.
- Auteur:Brammer, MikkiSommaire:
This program features a bonus conversation between the author and narrator. What's the point of giving someone a beautiful death if you can't give yourself a beautiful life? From the day she watched her kindergarten teacher...
- Auteur:House, SilasSommaire:
Easter is a devout Pentecostal, while Anneth is headstrong and restless. The two live in the heart of coal mining country, surrounded by the ghosts of their loved ones. One night, Easter meets El, the man that will become her husband....
- Auteur:Evans, Richard PaulSommaire:
This holiday season, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Noel Collection returns with another heartwarming story of secrets, heartbreak, forgiveness, and the true meaning of Christmas. On the night of her high school...
- Auteur:Berry, SteveSommaire:
Cotton Malone knows that his father died when his submarine sunk in the north Atlantic in 1971, but not much else. Using his government contacts to discover the details behind his father's demise, he learns that the sub was on a...
- Auteur:Fairbrother, AlisonSommaire:
Twentysomething Ellie thought she was her father's favorite child; she was sure he would leave her his most prized possession, a baseball with which they played catch, and which sat on his desk, as a kind of inspiration: her poet...
- Auteur:Haywood, SarahSommaire:
In this witty and heartfelt debut, one woman's unconventional journey to motherhood means learning to embrace the unexpected Even the prickliest cactus has its flower. For Susan Green, messy emotions don't fit into the...
- Auteur:Cormier, RobertSommaire:
Sixteen-year-old Barney has only fleeting memories about his past but, as a voluntary patient at the institute for experimental medicine, he knows he is different from the terminally ill patients surrounding him. His involvement with...
- Auteur:Brockmeier, KevinSommaire:
All residents of the City have recently died, and they will remain in the City only as long as someone still living on Earth remembers them. On Earth, however, the population has been devastated by terrible pandemic. Laura Byrd,...
- Auteur:Zusak, MarkusSommaire:
A young adult novel about how a young girl's love of books helps a community survive World War II and the Holocaust. It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical...
- Auteur:Connolly, JohnSommaire:
Mourning the loss of his mother, David finds comfort in the books she left behind. But soon the make-believe world of the books melds with David's reality, and the figments of his imagination become startlingly real. Suddenly, he finds...
- Auteur:Ozeki, RuthSommaire:
A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and learning to take charge of one's life, by the Booker Prize-finalist author of A Tale for the Time Being. Benny Oh is a fourteen year-old boy living in the Pacific Northwest...
- Auteur:Conwell, KentSommaire:
Nathan Cooper is an expert scout and tracker. Arriving home one afternoon, he is shocked to find his wife, niece and her betrothed violently murdered. Swearing revenge, Cooper sets off on a quest to track down the killers--and heaven...
- Auteur:Brady, AliSommaire:
Two best friends torn apart by a life-altering secret. They have one summer to set the record straight. When twelve-year-olds Kat Steiner and Blake O'Neill meet at Camp Chickawah, they have an instant connection. But everything...
- Auteur:Ellis, SarahSommaire:
Jessica knew that the family meeting Dad had called for that evening probably wouldn't be good news. Family meetings usually meant Mum talking a lot and then the whole family getting involved in some project that left everything in a...
- Auteur:Gendreau, Vickie, Wall, AimeeSommaire:
On June 6, 2012, Vickie Gendreau was diagnosed with a brain tumour. In between treatments, between hospital stays and her "room of her own," she wrote Testament, an autofictional novel in which she imagines her death and at the same...
- Auteur:Nix, GarthSommaire:
Bestselling novelist Garth Nix returns to the Old Kingdom for the never-before-told love story of Sabriel's parents, Tericel and Elinor, and the charter magic that brought them together-and threatened to tear them apart. A long-...
- Auteur:Simon, ScottSommaire:
Wonder meets Three Times Lucky in a story of empowerment as a young woman decides to help solve the mystery of multiple suspicious deaths in her group home. Sally Miyake can't read, but she learns lots of things, like bricks are...
- Auteur:Thayne, RaeAnneSommaire:
"[Thayne] engages the reader's heart and emotions, inspiring hope and the belief that miracles are possible."--Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling authorFrom the beloved bestselling author of Season of Wonder...