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Amos Hatcher, savvy private investigator of the art world, makes a leisurely visit to a friend about to break into…
the big time by auctioning five questionable Old Masters. A day later the friend is knifed to death, and Hatcher is on his way to Rome where he becomes involved with an eccentric killer. Sequel to "The Rembrandt panel". 1985. (Amos Hatcher ; 2)
When Catherine Gehrig, a museum conservator and clock expert, finds out that her very married lover of thirteen years has…
dropped dead, she has to keep her grief a secret. But with no outlet other than vodka, her sorrow is close to driving the hyper-rational Catherine mad. The only person who knew of their affair - her boss - tries to distract her by giving her a demanding project: the reconstruction of an elaborate nineteenth-century automaton. In its crate, Catherine finds a series of notebooks written by Henry Brandling, who, in 1854, commissioned the mechanical creature in an attempt to bring joy to his consumptive son. Henry's account brings Catherine unexpected comfort, but it is the automaton itself, in its beautiful, uncanny imitation of life, that links Henry's life to Catherine's, as both are confronted with the miracle and catastrophe of human invention, and the body's astonishing chemistry of love and feeling. 2013.
In 2021, infertility has spread like a plague, and no babies have been born for a quarter of a century…
anywhere in the inhabited world. The old are driven to despair and suicide, the young are beautiful, violent, and cruel, and the middle-aged try to sustain normality under the rule of the Warden of England. When Theo Faron, an Oxford historian, meets a women who is one of a group challenging the regime, he is drawn into unimaginable horrors. 1992.
After an evening spent working at the exclusive Colorado prep school her son attends, caterer Goldy Bear discovers the body…
of the class valedictorian. When other deaths follow and Goldy and her son are viciously harassed, she and her boyfriend, detective Tom Schulz, investigate. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. Sequel to “Dying for chocolate”, followed by “The last suppers”. 1993. (A Culinary mystery)
A physician explains the physical changes that occur in women prior to menopause during the period called "perimenopause." Details symptoms,…
body functions, and treatments--including medical and herbal--that are available and may help women make a comfortable transition to their next stage of life. 2000.
Samantha Henderson's husband, Gunn, receives a mysterious job offer that includes a lot of perks, especially a house with a…
caretaker. Sam becomes involved with the servant, not realizing he's a threat to her family. Strong language, explicit descriptions of sex, and some descriptions of violence. 1998.
Longden didn't mean to steal the neighbour's kitten, but when he saw the wet, shivering creature in the back yard,…
he felt sorry for it. Anyone would feel the same and it wouldn't make him a cat lover, would it? Still, Longden wasn't expecting this scrap of a kitten to become king of all he surveyed. c1991.
In the beginning was endless flatness. Then came the carpet, now home to many different tribes and people and there's…
a new story in the making. The story of Fray, sweeping a trail of destruction across the carpet; the story of power hungry mouls and of two Munrung brothers, setting out on an adventure to end all adventures when their village is flattened. It's a story that will come to a terrible end if someone doesn't do something about it. 1993.
Two boys from Chicago’s West Side grow up together to eventually become Catholic priests. Patrick, son of a sanitation worker,…
rises to become a Prince of the Church and Kevin, son of a wealthy lawyer, works as a parish priest. Episodes of parish embezzlement, Vatican politics, clerical duplicity and manipulation. Includes sex. c1981.
Toronto shopkeeper Lara McClintoch finds herself in County Kerry, Ireland, serving as moral support for her friend and employee Alex…
Stewart, who must attend the reading of an old friend's will. Eamon Byrne leaves each person a sealed clue to a mysterious treasure, based on lines from the Celtic "Song of Amairgen", a plot to force his family to mend the rifts between them. Although his family isn't interested, Lara is, but the treasure hunt turns lethal when members of the Byrne household are found dead. 2000.
An account of publishing-heir Hearst's childhood as the wealthy son of a California gold miner, his own family with five…
sons, life with his mistress Marion Davies, his acquisition of fabulous homes and artifacts, as well as his political views and use of power. c2000.
Drawing on anthropological, medical, historical, and literary sources, Germaine Greer passionately argues that "the change" need not be a dreaded…
tragedy, but rather, a spiritual liberation of women. Among her arguments, she questions estrogen replacement therapy, and goes on to propose a new "art" of aging through menopause. 1991.
Based on a series of lectures presented at Yale, a survey of China's influence on the West from 1253 to…
the 1980s. Citing diplomatic reports, letters, plays, films, poetry, and novels, Spence argues that the Western view of China has been shaped by the observations of outsiders rather than the words of the Chinese people themselves. 1998.
Researched and compiled by the staff of ABC News, this chronicle of the twentieth century charts changes in popular attitudes…
in the United States and describes key events in other countries as they affected the American worldview. Personal interviews and a series of story-filled essays provide a "coherent picture of a remarkable time." Bestseller. 1998.
In the small seaside resort in Dorset, Timothy's insinuations do great damage to all the adults and specially to two…
younger children on whom he has managed to exert his dreadful influence. Includes sex. 1976.
Eliza Keenan is the mother of two young sons, the owner of a flower studio that caters to the city's…
elite, and the loving wife of a deliciously rumpled math professor named Andrew. She's on the move from dawn until her boys are in bed, and after they're asleep she cleans her house. Her one complaint about her life is that the only time she has for herself is her twice-weekly swim in the local community centre pool. Then one morning into this life comes a tall, dark and lovely stranger, a young woman Eliza encounters at the pool and nicknames 'the Amazon.' The sight of this woman, naked in the change room, completely undoes Eliza, and soon the two of them are entangled in an affair that breaks all the rules, and threatens to capsize not only Eliza and her happy family, but her lover's world, too. 2017.
Events in Crotheny have taken a dark turn: the Briar King is waking and taking back the land and terrible…
creatures roam the countryside. Queen Murielle's hold on the crown fails as rival houses and a corrupted church conspire to topple her. Prophecies say that a Dare queen must rule when the Briar King fully awakens or the world will come to a bloody end, but Anne Dare, Murielle's youngest daughter and the true heir to the throne, is missing. Descriptions of violence. Sequel to "The Briar King" (DC26179). 2004. (The kingdoms of Thorn and Bone ; 2)
Jazz Jasper, American owner of a Kenyan safari company, sets out to solve a murder and protect an endangered species.…
She witnesses the gruesome death of investigative reporter Nick Hunter. Aided by Nick's widow, an animal-rights activist, and police detective Omondi, Jazz traces Nick's last moves, gradually discerning that whoever is behind his murder may also threaten the survival of the cheetah. Some descriptions of violence, and some descriptions of sex. Sequel to "Elephant's graveyard" (DC31008). c1994.