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After the generational ship Jacob's Ladder reaches its final destination--a habitable planet called the Grail--its passengers realize others beat them…
there. The Jacobites clash with the established human settlers, giving rise to deceptions and manipulations between the groups. Sequel to Chill (DB 71883). Some violence and some strong language. 2011
In seventeenth-century Peru, St. Martin de Porres was torn from his body after death. His bones were pillaged as relics,…
and his spirit was said to inhabit those bones. Four centuries later, nineteen-year old Ham is set adrift from his hometown of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. Hidden beneath his clothes, he wears his only valued possession: a pendant handed down from his foster mother, Miss Pearl. There's something about the pendant that has always gripped him, and the curiosity of it has grown into a kind of comfort. When Ham finally embarks on a fraught journey back home, he seeks the answer to a question he cannot face: Is Miss Pearl still alive? Ham travels from Atlanta to rural Alabama, and from one young woman to another, as he evades the devastation of what awaits him in New Orleans. Catching sight of a freedom he's never known, he must reclaim his body and mind from the spirit who watches over him, guides him, and seizes possession of him
A lecturer from Madrid--who is never named--joins the faculty at Oxford for two years. With no real duties, he pursues…
an affair with married British colleague Clare Bayes. Their romantic intrigues unfold amid the gossip, politics, and eccentricities of academia. Translated from Spanish. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 1992
Pennsylvania, 2028. While preparing for her daughter Caroline's nuptials, Sarah McClure reflects on the success of the Elm Creek quilters…
and their business enterprise. She also reminisces about the women of the past who endured hardships and triumphs while creating their own quilts. 2011
1980. Sixty-year-old Marshall Stone, a widower and retired pilot, journeys to France to retrace the trail he took after his…
B-17 bomber crashed in 1944. Marshall searches for the woman--who was only a schoolgirl then--who led him to safety, and comes to terms with his past. Some strong language. 2011
London. Retired divorcé Tony Webster is bequeathed a journal that belonged to his schoolmate Adrian, who committed suicide forty years…
ago. Tony reflects on the past, which included a bitter parting from his first lover Veronica, who next dated Adrian. Some strong language. Man Booker Prize. Bestseller. 2011
Derbyshire, England; 1803. Fitzwilliam Darcy and his wife Elizabeth (née Bennet), who have been married six years and have two…
sons, are relaxing on the night before their annual autumn ball. Elizabeth's wayward sister Lydia arrives unexpectedly, declaring that her husband Wickham has been murdered on Darcy's estate. Bestseller. 2011
Professeure d'université impliquée sans passion dans des colloques d'histoire contemporaine, Laure est mariée et mère de deux filles, dont Véra,…
l'aînée, qui organise des mouvements d'insurrection lycéens. Un jour, elle fait la rencontre de Clément, un homme de 50 ans qui s'ennuie dans la finance et se morfond dans un monde où la masculinité n'a plus sa place.
Algérie, fin des années 1950. Naja élève seule ses trois filles car Saïd, son époux, travaille dans les usines Renault…
de Boulogne-Billancourt. Elles le rejoignent et s'installent dans une HLM. Naja tombe enceinte. Le couple propose à Kader, le frère de Saïd, marié à une Française d'adopter l'enfant. Naja accouche de faux jumeaux et décide finalement de garder le plus fragile des garçons.
Eighteen short stories featuring Joan and Richard Maple, from their 1956 marriage and early life together in "Snowing in Greenwich…
Village" through their divorce and ultimate reunion in "Grandparenting." Some strong language. 2009
1957. Pearl's nineteen-year-old daughter Joy, from Shanghai Girls (DB 69160), leaves L.A. for China to seek her biological father and…
join the revolutionary struggle. As Joy begins to realize the harsh reality of the regime's policies, Pearl arrives to bring her home. Some violence. Bestseller. 2011
Gold digger India finally snares billionaire husband Marcus. Unable to conceive, the couple hires Princeton senior Jules to donate eggs…
and married mother Annie to carry the baby. But Marcus's daughter Bettina vows to expose India's past and drive her away. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2011
London, 1945. The forty-odd women of the May of Teck Club, a ladies' boarding house, work menial jobs and look…
for husbands in an austere post-war economy. By the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (DB 69464). 1963
An Agfa box camera plays an important role in this fictionalized autobiography by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Eight siblings record…
memories of their childhood and growing up with their father, a peripheral figure preoccupied with writing books. Originally published in German in 2008. 2010
Romania. A group of young people move to the city, hoping to improve their prospects. But the oppression of the…
totalitarian state is pervasive and betrayal is rife. Translated from German. Includes Müller's 2009 Nobel lecture. 1996
Manhattan, 1938. Young secretaries Katey Kontent and her roommate Eve Ross meet banker Tinker Grey while enjoying the nightlife. Eve…
takes up with Tinker, while Katey works her way into the upper echelons of society and earns a job with a publisher. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2011
Satire about an alternate London under a totalitarian regime overseen by the omnipresent Big Brother. Winston Smith, a Ministry of…
Truth bureaucrat, attempts an intellectual rebellion against the Party while he pursues an illicit romance. His actions lead to his imprisonment, torture, and reeducation by the Thought Police. 1949
Toby O'Dare, from Angel Time (DB 70569), is summoned to fifteenth-century Rome by the angel Malchiah to answer the prayer…
of Jewish physician Vitale de Leone, solve a crime of poisoning, and uncover the truth about a haunting by an angry spirit. 2010
A British hunter penetrates the compound of a foreign dictator. He has the leader in his sights, gun ready, when…
security closes in on him. After escaping a tortuous imprisonment, the hunter returns to England, pursued by his former captors. Includes 2007 introduction by Victoria Nelson. Some violence. 1939
Thirty-six-year-old widower Aaron Woolcott frequently sees the ghost of his wife Dorothy, who was killed in an accident that nearly…
destroyed their house. Aaron, who is physically handicapped, moves in with his overbearing sister and learns to say goodbye to the past and open himself up to happiness. Bestseller. 2012