France-Marie Watkins Book order (chronological)

A teen plunges into a downward spiral of addiction in this classic cautionary tale. January 24th After you've had it, there isn't even life without drugs.... It started when she was served a soft drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and loving family to the mean streets of an unforgiving city. It was a journey that would rob her of her innocence, her youth -- and ultimately her life. Read her diary. Enter her world. You will never forget her. For thirty-five years, the acclaimed, bestselling first-person account of a teenage girl's harrowing decent into the nightmarish world of drugs has left an indelible mark on generations of teen readers. As powerful -- and as timely -- today as ever, Go Ask Alice remains the definitive book on the horrors of addiction.

En 1863, La Nouvelle-Orléans est aux mains des Nordistes. Alaina, l'ardente beauté sudiste, vient y chercher refuge après le massacre de sa famille. Ses dix-sept ans lui permettent de se faire passer pour un jeune garçon et c'est sous les traits de « Al » qu'elle est sauvée par un médecin yankee, Cole Latimer. Bien que tout la porte à le haïr, elle se sent troublée... Quant à lui, il ne voit en elle qu'un gamin frondeur. Puis une nuit, il a la révélation d'une créature de rêve, d'une inconnue, dont le corps est seulement vêtu de mystère... Cependant la guerre et les intrigues d'une rivale vont séparer Cole et Alaina. D'un mot elle pourrait faire le bonheur de cet homme qu'elle aime mais c'est un Yankee, un ennemi, et son orgueil s'y refuse. Pourtant, Cole Latimer cherche toujours celle qui, au cours d'une nuit de passion, lui a révélé l'amour.

From the world’s most famous science fiction writer, a poignant and vivid story of doomsday and beyond.

Set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong in the 1840s, Tai-Pan is the story of Dirk Struan, the ruler - the Tai-Pan - of the most powerful trading company in the Far East. He is also a pirate, an opium smuggler, and a master manipulator of men. This is the story of his fight to establish himself and his dynasty as the undisputed masters of the Orient.