In a future where genetic engineering has cured humanity of all diseases and defects but has also produced a virus that kills all females by age twenty and all males by the age twenty-five, teenaged Rhine escapes her forced marriage and...
Orphans
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Auteur:DeStefano, LaurenSommaire: -
Auteur:Sicard, Louis-PierSommaire:Felix, pensionnaire de 16 ans, peine à comprendre ce qui lui arrive lorsque l’Abyssal, ce navire sous-marin qui est venu le chercher mystérieusement au cours de la nuit de même que 9 autres orphelins, émerge à la surface après plus d’...
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Auteur:Strowbridge, Nellie P.Sommaire:Clarissa, eleven, has been orphaned by a disease that has kept her far from home for as long as she can remember. Despite the many inmates in Dr. Grenfell’s Children’s Home on Newfoundland’s northern tip, she lives a lonely life. She...
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Auteur:Jones, Diana WynneSommaire:After his grandfather dies, Andrew Hope inherits a house and surrounding land in an English village, but things become very complicated when young orphan Aidan shows up and suddenly a host of variously magical townsfolk and interlopers...
- Auteur:Montgomery, L. M.Sommaire:
Emily Starr is orphaned after her father dies and is sent to live with her snobbish Aunt Elizabeth at New Moon Farms. It is not long before she starts to make new friends, and slowly grows to love her new family and the amazing New Moon...
- Auteur:Montgomery, L M.Sommaire:
Emily leaves New Moon Farm to live with her stern Aunt Ruth so she can go to school in Shrewsbury, but she finds it hard to feel at home in her new surroundings
- Auteur:Thúy, KimSommaire:
"Em, c'est le fifil qui relie les ouvriers des plantations de caoutchouc et les femmes des salons de manucure aux orphelins de l'opération Babylift, qui a évacué des enfants de Saigon en 1975. Em, c'est celle qui aime."
- Auteur:Thúy, KimSommaire:
In the midst of war, an ordinary miracle : an abandoned baby tenderly cared for by a young boy living on the streets of Saigon. The boy is Louis, the child of a long-gone American soldier. Louis calls the baby em Hồng, em meaning...
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Auteur:Alcott, Louisa MaySommaire:Little Rose Campbell is just getting used to living with her six aunts and seven cousins when her “progressive” uncle steps in and demands that she get out of the house and into the sunshine. Rose grows fond of her new family and the...
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Auteur:Doyle, BrianSommaire:Winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award In his first year in high school, Hubbo O'Driscoll is torn between his poor but fun friends and the shallow but rich kids. In this novel based on Great Expectations,...
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Auteur:Jones, Diana WynneSommaire:Although an orphan, Earwig has always enjoyed living at St. Morwald's, where she manages to make everyone do her bidding, but when she is taken in by a foster parents who are actually a witch and a demon, she has a hard time trying to...
- Auteur:HOROWITZ, AnthonySommaire:
Reluctant MI6 agent, Alex Rider, is relaxing in France with his friend and her family. He is just trying to be a typical teenager when a chance encounter with an assassin launches him into danger. He must investigate a pop star whose...
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Auteur:Horowitz, AnthonySommaire:After a chance encounter with assassin Yassen Gregorovich in the South of France, teenage spy Alex Rider investigates international pop star and philanthropist Damian Cray whose new video game venture hides sinister motives involving...
- Auteur:Wendig, ChuckSommaire:
Molly has come home for her inheritance, and if her brother Dustin won't welcome her into the family business, then she'll take her half in cash. There's just one problem: the family business is a mortuary for monsters....
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Auteur:Stead, Robert J.C., Querengesser, Neil, Horton, JeanSommaire:Dry Water tells the story of Donald Strand, from the time of his arrival as a ten-year-old orphan at his relatives’ Manitoba farm in 1890 to his apogee as a successful farmer. It recounts the crises he faces during a troubled marriage...
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Auteur:Willett, EdwardSommaire:Ariane and Wally must reforge the sword of Excalibur to defeat Merlin: but doing so may unleash something neither of them is strong enough to handle.
In the climactic fifth book of The Shards of Excalibur series, Ariane, Wally,...
- Auteur:Ondaatje, MichaelSommaire:
California, 1970s. A man who lost his wife in childbirth is raising his two daughters, Anna and Claire, and tending his farm with the help of a young man, Coop, who he has more or less adopted. When the older Anna and Coop fall into a...
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Auteur:Auerbach, AnnieSommaire:Gru is a wannabe master villain who plans to steal the moon. Unfortunately for Gru, another villain named Vector wants to steal his glory. Gru adopts three orphaned girls to become secret weapons in his plot to one-up Vector. But the...
- Auteur:Kingsolver, BarbaraSommaire:
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION A New York Times "Ten Best Books of the Year" An Oprah's Book Club Selection An Instant New York Times Bestseller An Instant Wall Street Journal...
- Auteur:Kingsolver, BarbaraSommaire:
WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE • WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION • A New York Times "Ten Best Books of 2022" • An Oprah's Book Club Selection • An Instant New York Times Bestseller • An Instant Wall Street...
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