Family Relationships Fiction

Moi (en changeant mes sacs d’épicerie de main, car je commençais à avoir mal aux paumes): P’pa.... Tu vas y retourner quand, chez le concessionnaire, pour choisir une autre auto? Moi (en roulant les épaules, vu la lourdeur des sacs): Papa! Je te parle! Mon père (en réagissant enfin): Oui, je t’entends! Mais je n’ai...je n’ai pas prévu y retourner. Pas pour le moment, en tout cas.

The recently orphaned Sisters Grimm find out from their Granny, who they thought was dead, that they're descendents of the legendary Brothers Grimm. Now they must take over the family responsibility of being fairy tale detectives in a town where fairy tales are real. Their first case: a giant is destroying the town and it may have something to do with a boy named Jack and a certain famous beanstalk.

National Book Award-winning author Pete Hautman crafts a powerful tale of one tormented boy’s troubled life in Invisible. Seventeen-year-old Doug Hanson is obsessed—with his best friend Andy, with pretty Melissa Haverman, and with his model railroad town. Doug also has terrible secrets from his past, and he isn’t taking the medication his psychiatrist prescribed....

When Edward Cullen and Bella Swan met in Twilight, an iconic love story was born. But until now, fans have heard only Bella's side of the story. At last, listeners can experience Edward's version in the long-awaited companion novel, Midnight Sun. This unforgettable tale as told through Edward's eyes takes on a new and decidedly dark twist. Meeting Bella is both the most unnerving and intriguing event he has experienced in all his years as a vampire.

Au retour des vacances des fêtes, un nouveau défi attend Émy-Lee et Nadeige. Ce défi qui les mettra en compétition fera appel à leur bravoure, à leur créativité et à leur sang-froid. Malheureusement, il pourrait bien avoir des conséquences désastreuses et les éloigner de leur objectif premier: être enfin réunies!

C’est parti pour une croisière dans les Caraïbes! Mais pas question pour Émy-Lee et Nadeige de traîner leurs mauvaises habitudes sur ce grand bateau. Rien de mieux qu’un pacte pour devenir la version 2.0 d’elles-mêmes. Toutefois, leur voyage est bien plus mouvementé que prévu! Elles comprendront assez vite qu’il n’est pas facile d’affronter ses peurs et de régler ses histoires de coeur.

The Deerslayer is the first of the Leatherstocking Tales of James Fenimore Cooper. Here we meet Natty Bumppo as a young man living in upstate New York in the early 1740s. The action begins as Bumppo, called "Deerslayer", and his friend Hurry Harry approach Lake Glimmerglass, or Oswego, where the trapper Thomas Hutter lives with his daughters, the beautiful Judith and the feeble-minded Hetty. Hutter's floating log fort is attacked by Iroquois Indians, and the two frontiersmen join in the fight.

Laz is a side-stepper: a teen with the incredible power to jump his consciousness to alternate versions of himself in parallel worlds. All his life, there was no mistake that a little side-stepping couldn’t fix. Until Laz wakes up one day in a cloning facility on a seemingly abandoned Earth. Laz finds himself surrounded by hundreds of other clones, all dead, and quickly realizes that he too must be a clone of his original self.

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?

After Tripoli declared war on the United States in 1801, Barbary pirates captured 300 U.S. sailors and marines. President Jefferson sent navy squadrons to the Mediterranean, but he also authorized a secret mission to overthrow the government of Tripoli. He chose an unlikely diplomat, William Eaton, to lead the mission, but before Eaton departed, Jefferson grew wary of the affair and withdrew his support.

It's been two years since the night that changed Ashley's life. Two years since she was raped by her brother's teammate. And a year since she sat in a court and watched as he was given a slap on the wrist sentence. But the years have done nothing to stop the pain. It's been two years of hell for Derek. His family is totally messed up, and he and his sister are barely speaking. He knows he handled it all wrong. Now at college, he has to come to terms with what happened, and the rape culture that he was inadvertently a part of that destroyed his sister's life.

Rien ne va plus pour Nadeige et Émy-Lee. À peine revenues de leur croisière dans les Caraïbes, celles-ci ont peine à se remettre de leurs émotions. Dévastée par sa rupture avec le beau Maxime-Alexandre, Émy-Lee poursuit tant bien que mal son année au collège. Non seulement elle a le coeur brisé, mais la distance qui la sépare de sa BFF lui rend cette épreuve quasiment impossible à surmonter.

Celebrate the 10th anniversary of Twilight. This special 10th anniversary edition includes the original novel as well as exclusive new bonus content. Listeners will relish experiencing the iconic love story of Bella and Edward again...or for the very first time.

Writing with the same descriptive flair that has won his novels so much praise, W. D. Wetherell tells the true story of his high-school-age son's winning soccer season. Soccer Dad is simultaneously the candid reflections of a devoted father and the enthusiastic observations of a diehard soccer fan. When Matt enters his senior year of high school, it is not without myriad parenting concerns on the part of his father, author W. D. Wetherell. What is his role in shaping his son's future? What will life be like when Matt is away at college? And what of Matt's soccer season?

Il n’est pas question pour Nadeige de se morfondre ! Le collège organise une sortie scolaire des plus amusantes, en ce début d’hiver : deux jours à Québec, où les jeunes pourront faire des tonnes d’activités ! Mais une fois sur place, Nadeige découvre un secret qu’elle aurait mille fois préféré ne pas savoir....

La semaine de relâche est enfin terminée. Mais les problèmes ne sont pas réglés pour autant.... Remise de sa petite commotion cérébrale, Émy tente par tous les moyens de comprendre la nature de sa relation avec Talbot. Les sentiments qu’elle éprouve pour lui sont de plus en plus forts...alors qu’il semble être passé à autre chose. Heureusement, l’arrivée d’un nouveau membre dans la famille lui change un peu les idées.

Chloe Kingston’s life is exactly how she needs it: safe and stable. Right up until her reliable, low-risk fiancé jilts her on their fairy-tale wedding day. As she works her way through the reception champagne - and wonders where she’s going to live - she stumbles into her brother Linc’s ex-best friend.

Several things about 14-year-old Georgia Nicolson's life are very wrong. Her bedroom smells like her little sister probably peed somewhere, but she can?t find where. Angus, her enormous cat, keeps terrorizing Mrs. Next Door's poodle. Dad's gone off to look for work in New Zealand. And one of her friends has rated Georgia's nose a zero on a scale from 1-10. But what's really driving her crazy is that Sex God Robbie doesn't give her the time of day.

Tristan has known that he and his family were going to be on the first mission to colonize Mars since he was 12 years old, and he has been training ever since. But knowing that he would be leaving for Mars with no plan to return didn't stop him from falling in love with Izzy. Now, at age 16, it's time to leave Earth, and he's forced to face what he must leave behind in exchange for an uncertain future. Then the news hits that another ship is already headed to colonize Mars, and the Neo-Luddite terrorist group begins threatening the Mars One project.

It's just a small story really, about, among other things, a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak's groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist: books.