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Summoned from China, Alain Roig returns to his Catalan hometown to prevent an impending marriage between his cold, ascetic cousin…
Xavier and Madeleine, a quiet, beautiful village girl. As Alain seeks to understand his cousin's motivations for wooing the unhappy Madeleine, he is slowly drawn into Xavier's dark crisis of faith. Some descriptions of violence. 2006, c1953.
An extremely successful author named Kloster and an unnamed, up-and-coming writer have one thing in common - they've both employed…
a typist named Luciana. Now Luciana claims Kloster is killing off her family, and she desperately needs help. 2009.
With his father, a fugitive, falsely accused of multiple murders and the real serial killer stalking the wretched streets of…
Urbs Umida, Pin Carpue, a young undertaker's assistant, investigates and soon discovers that all of the victims may have attended the performance of a stage magician who claims to be able to raise corpses and make the dead speak. Grades 5-8. 2008.
Brutally efficient judge Isaac C. Parker is determined to rid Arkansas and the Indian Territory of all manner of criminals.…
But his quest for justice and liberal use of the gallows earn him just as many friends as enemies and take a toll on every aspect of his life. 2009.
Fearing expulsion and parental disapproval after lighting a shirt on fire at his school, Brent goes home, soaks his bathrobe…
with gasoline, steps into his shower, and strikes a match. Suffering horrific burns, Brent faces a long, painful recovery - both mentally and physically. Junior and Senior High. 2008.
In this course, Howard University professor John K. Young takes audiences through the microscope on a journey of discovery into…
the world of cells and tissues, where a complex scheme of activity is taking place all the time, literally just beneath the surface. 2007.
Journalist Rodney Barker was passing through Farmington, New Mexico, in 1974 when he got swept up in a protest. Navajos…
were angry with the light sentence given to three white teenagers who tortured and killed three of their tribesmen. Years later, Barker retraces the events surrounding the murders and describes how the Navajo people exacted their own kind of justice. Includes strong language and violence. c1992.
Mourning the loss of his mother, David finds comfort in the books she left behind. But soon the make-believe world…
of the books melds with David's reality, and the figments of his imagination become startlingly real. Suddenly, he finds himself in a brutal land populated by trolls, harpies, and werewolf-like creatures. His only hope is to find the king, whose Book of Lost Things could show David the way home. Junior and Senior high. 2006.
Will is forced to overcome his fear of Wargals, the foot soldiers of rebel warlord Morgarath, as Araluen's army prepares…
to battle Morgarath's forces. Sequel to “The Ruins of Gorlan”. Followed by "The Icebound Land". For Grades 5-8. 2006.
Traveling to Idaho at the invitation of a wealthy horse owner, Cliff discovers a stunning collection of first-edition children's classics.…
The books are valued in the millions, which would be excellent news for their owner - if he hadn't suddenly been murdered. Considering the worth of the books, it's no secret why someone would kill to get near them. But to find out who that someone is, Cliff must pound a trail through the world of horseracing. Sequel to "The sign of the book". 2006.
The fate of a small California town rests on the outcome of one baseball game, and Tom Gallagher hopes to…
lead his team to victory with the secrets of the now disgraced player, Dante Del Gato. Sequel to "The desperado who stole baseball". Grades 5-8. 2003.
The fiery Lady Talia resides in a castle of great strategic importance. With his eye on the castle, King Stephen…
wants Lady Talia tamed. He assigns Lord Alex de Monteneau to protect the maiden and make certain she is properly married off. Lady Talia has beaten back would-be husbands before, and the last thing Lord Alex counts on is becoming a suitor himself. But he could never anticipate just how quickly he would fall for his charge. 2003.
Medieval England. Seventeen-year-old apprentice Edmund is forced to join the Crusades as a squire to Sir Nigel, a knight. Edmund…
endures storms at sea, travel through foreign lands, and exposure to fighting and bloodshed for his king, Richard Lionheart. Includes violence. Junior High. 2003.
Two young mothers meet in 1975, while their children play in a park. Deborah lends Toby a memoir of the…
1920s trolley strike, which she reads and forgets. But years later, her encounter with the book’s now elderly central figure helps Toby come to terms with Deborah’s death. 2003.
In the eighteenth century sixteen-year-old John Spencer sails from England in his schooner, the Dragon, to the Caribbean, where he…
and the crew encounter pirates, fierce storms, fever, and a strange man who some fear may be cursed. Grades 5-8. Sequel to "The smugglers". 2002.
Doc Swift - half Cherokee, half Irish, part medical doctor, past healer - seeks the supernatural creature who guards the…
treasures and wisdom of his tribal ancestors. But first he needs to find the German settler named Gruber who had reportedly encountered the beast deep in the lands of Comancheria. 2001.
Greenwich Village bookseller Bernie Rhodenbarr is trying to make an honest living. But when the landlord raises his rent, what's…
left for a refined burglar to do? His first night on the job leads him to a pile of cash, a dead body, and a frameup--where Bernie is accused of stealing a million-dollar baseball card collection. 1999.
For Bernie Rhodenbarr a simple job leads to bigger things, after he is asked to appraise a library collection. He…
manages to make off with a cache of rare stamps, but is soon caught up in a scheme involving a stolen painting. 1999.