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When an attack is made on Manhattan's electricity grid, it seems that terrorists must be responsible. While the FBI and…
CIA try to determine whether religious or environmental fundamentalists are behind the attacks, Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs race to decode the forensics in order to prevent the next assault on the grid. 2011.
Federica Campione adores her father. No matter that Ramon, a distinguished traveller and writer, spends months away from their home…
on the Chilean coast; as soon as he's back, his daughter has eyes for no one but him. As she grows to womanhood, Federica attempts to recapture that long-forgotten sense of security in the arms of the debonair Torquil Jensen. From the sanctuary of a seemingly perfect marriage, she embarks on a painful journey of self-discovery. 2007.
Set in Ireland in the early 1960s. Francie Brady is a schoolboy who must figure life out or himself as…
his mother is in and out of "the garage," and his father is always drunk. Francie is especially hard on the Nugents, particularly after Philip Nugent's mother says the Bradys are no better than pigs. And Francie can't forget a song his mother sang about a girl who commits suicide over a butcher boy. Strong language and some descriptions of violence. 1992.
Nafai and Lady Rasa, the leaders of the city-state of Basilica, seek to implement the will of the Oversoul to…
mount an expedition to long-lost Earth. But now the ambitious and brilliant General Moozh, using the fruits of a forbidden technology and disregarding the Oversoul, is preparing to conquer Basilica for his own purposes. Sequel to "The memory of Earth" (DC13294). Followed by "The ships of Earth" (DC13826). 1993. (Homecoming ; 2)
A young widow and reformed alcoholic, Maggie Elliott, is starting a new life when her half-sister and her niece are…
killed in two accidents. Maggie teams up with ex-cop Pat O'Brien to investigate the deaths. c1981.
Joss Lambert has always been a loner, constrained by a secret from his past, until he finds friendship and solace…
firstly with Guy Liddell, a friend from school, and then with Guy's family, who welcome him into their farmhouse home. Joss increasingly comes to depend upon the Liddells and treats Alvesdon Farm as the one place where he feels not only appreciated but also truly happy. The idyll cannot last. With war looming, Joss is forced to confront the past. He escapes through flying, becoming a fighter pilot in the RAF. But with the onset of war, even the Liddells's world is crumbling. As Joss is fighting for his life in the Battle of Britain, so he begins to fall madly in love with Stella - Guy's twin. 2004.
LAPD lieutenant Peter Decker investigates a commuter plane’s crash into an apartment building. Though the authorities suspect terrorism, the parents…
of flight attendant Roseanne Dresden insist that their daughter was murdered by her husband - and was never aboard the flight. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2007. (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus mystery)
A great Washington chef has been murdered and it's up to Chas Wheatley, the "Washington Examiner" restaurant critic, to solve…
the crime. She enlists the help of her daughter and detective/gourmand Homer Jones, who spends more time at the table than on the trail of the killer. 1997.
The book exhorts us to heed the voice inside us, calling us to discover and to live fully our true…
selves and our heart's desires - finding our own unique calling, not in the expectations of others and in the outside world, but deep within ourselves. 2003.
After the events in “Sword Song”, pagan Saxon warlord Uhtred leaves the service of Alfred the Great, intending to reclaim…
his ancestral home in Northumbria. But that goal is postponed when Alfred’s daughter appeals for help fighting off the Danes. Violence and some strong language. 2009.
Bertie rescues an orphaned white lion cub from the African veld. They become inseparable but then Bertie is sent to…
boarding school far away in England and the lion is sold to the circus. Bertie swears that one day they will see each other again. Grades 4-7. 1996.
In 17th century France, healer and midwife Madame Rivas falls under suspicion when her village is in the grip of…
a witch-hunt. Her daughter Rose realizes that she must face the fears and prejudices of her friends and neighbours. For Junior High readers and older. Some descriptions of violence. c1994.
Collection of compassionate short stories by an award-winning Canadian writer. Delves into the personalities of those who are considered "insane"…
by those of us who consider ourselves "normal." Gibson attempts to show that one person's so-called madness us another person's reality. Some strong language. 1976.
Wharton's incomplete novel was first published posthumously in 1938. This completed version is based on her extensive notes. In 1870s…
New York, nouveau riche Mrs. St. George fails to gain entry into high society for her daughters Nan and Virginia. Accompanied by their mother, a governess, and friends, the young ladies move to London to try their luck at finding suitors. The results are mixed. 1993.
The art world was a natural home to Alma Mahler-Werfel, songwriting daughter of Viennese landscape artist Emil Schindler. The author…
discusses Werfel's life as the wife of three men -- the composer Gustav Mahler, the architect Walter Gropius, and the novelist Franz Werfel -- and the mistress of many more. Keegan portrays Werfel as a talented woman against the cultural and political background of early twentieth-century Europe. 1991.
Adultery, illegitimacy, misogyny, revenge, murder, despair, bitterness, hatred, and death - usually not the terms associated with L.M. Montgomery. In…
this her last work, Montgomery brought these topics to the forefront, in stories featuring a grown up Anne and her family around the time of the First World War. 2009.
More than two centuries after Fletcher Christian led a mutiny against William Bligh on the transport vessel called Bounty, the…
true story has become obscured by legend. Author Alexander shatters the centuries-old myths, and shows how, in a desperate attempt to save one man from the gallows and another from ignominy, two powerful families came together to create the version of history we know today. 2003.
Set on the Northumbrian coast in the 1960s, this story takes place over one day, a period during which everyone…
involved discovers that the consequences of an innocent meeting between two young people are far more significant that the event itself. 1996.
Fourteen-year-old Marie Anne Lawson, youngest daughter of a prosperous Northumbrian family, had always run when she might have walked, and…
it was as she was running away from a sight she would rather not have witnessed that she stumbled and fell, injuring her ankle, to be discovered by a local man who, because of a disfigurement, was known thereabouts as 'the branded man'. 1996.