Renascence: July 2005

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

The war against Voldemort is not going well; even Muggle governments are noticing. Ron scans the obituary pages of the Daily Prophet, looking for familiar names. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses. And yet . . . As in all wars, life goes on. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate--and lose a few eyebrows in the process. The Weasley twins expand their business. Teenagers flirt and fight and fall in love. Classes are never straightforward, though Harry receives some extraordinary help from the mysterious Half-Blood Prince. So it's the home front that takes center stage in the multilayered sixth installment of the story of Harry Potter. Here at Hogwarts, Harry will search for the full and complex story of the boy who became Lord Voldemort--and thereby find what may be his only vulnerability.

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Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code

After being held prisoner for years, Artemis Fowl's father has finally come home. He is a new man-an honest man, must to Artemis's horror. He makes his son promise to give up his life of crime, and Artemis has to go along with it. Bit not until he has completed one last scheme.

Artemis has constructed a super-computer from stolen fairy technology. Called the "C Cube," it will render all existing human technology obsolete. He arranges a meeting with a powerful Chicago businessman, Jon Spiro, to broker a deal for the C Cube. But Spiro springs a trap-he steals the C Cube and mortally injures Butler. Artemis knows his only hope of saving his loyal bodyguard is to employ fairy magic; so once again he must contact his old rival, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police.

It is going to take a miracle to save Butler, and Artemis's luck may have just run out...

Part of the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer.

The Golden Compass

Lyra Belacqua is content to run wild among the scholars of Jordan College, with her daemon familiar always by her side. But the arrival of her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, draws her to the heart of a terrible stuggle-a struggle born of Gobblers and stolen children, witch clans and armored bears. And as she hurtles toward danger in the cold far North, young Lyra never suspects the shocking truth: she alone is destined to win, or to lose, this more-than-mortal battle.

Philip Pullman's award-winning The Golden Compass is a masterwork of storytelling and suspense, critically acclaimed and hailed as a modern fantasy classic.

Le Diable au corps

"Raymond Radiguet partage avec Arthur Rimbaud le terrible privilÃ©ge d'Ãªtre un phÃ©nomÃ¨ne des lettres franÃ§aises." -Jean Cocteau

Un dimanche d'avril 1917, FranÃ§ois, seize ans, fait la connaissance de Marthe, dix-huit ans, qui est dÃ©jÃ fiancÃ©e Ã Jacques, soldat combattant sur le front. Une idylle s'Ã©bauche entre les deux jeunes gens et lorsque Marthe, qui s'est mariÃ©e au cours d'une permission de Jacques, habite seule l'appartement conjugal, ils deviennent amants et commettent mille imprudences. Marthe s'aperÃ§oit alors qu'elle est enceinte. C'est en enfant que va se conduire FranÃ§ois dans une aventure d'homme.