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When a body is found buried beneath the café which Tasha's parents used to own, the police investigation leads to…
her father. Tasha is sure that he didn't do it, but now she has to find out who the real killer is. Grades 5-8. c1997.
Jason Bourne is forced from retirement by a series of terrifying events, starting with a cat-and-mouse chase to the death.…
The Jackal, Bourne's supreme enemy, has returned. And so Medusa - the dreaded secret society, seeking clandestine power, is once more flexing its vicious tentacles. The scene is set for carnage galore. Some descriptions of violence. 1994.
The winner of the Whitbread Best First Novel 1990, this is the story of Karim Amir, "an Englishman born and…
bred - almost", who lives with his English mother and Indian father in the south London suburbs. 1990.
Many of the characters in this collection of stories are obsessed with the past. It's all too easy in Czechoslovakia…
for the Communist Party machine to erase a person from the records leaving only the files of the secret police as a hidden immortality. As one character says: "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting". Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. 1982.
Focusing on seven different habitats, this book is a comprehensive guide to the world's oceans. It explores the hidden depths…
of the oceans to reveal many fascinating facts. Some strong language. 2001.
An author of western fiction and history visits a remote Arizona town to research the disappearance of the original settlers…
almost a century before. He soon becomes involved in a ninety-year-old mystery and vendetta. Some descriptions of violence. c1966.
Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to…
a concentration camp. She befriends blond-haired Rudy Steiner, her neighbour obsessed with Jesse Owens. Together Liesel and Rudy steal books - from Nazi book burning piles, from the mayor's library, from the richer people of Molching. By 1943, the Allied bombs are falling, and the sirens begin to wail. For Junior and Senior High readers. Some strong language. 2007.
All over Brentford, electrical appliances were beginning to fail. Could it be that Brentford had been chosen as the first…
base in an alien onslaught on planet Earth? Sequel to "The antipope" (DC38161). 1992.
High school student Jacob Freisten thinks of himself as a loser, a wimp, a nobody, who's perfected the art of…
near invisibility. But his attempts to avoid notice at all costs are foiled when his English teacher, Mrs. Hilsak, gives him the chance to earn extra credit and pass English by working on the school play. He will control the fog machine. Maria Tresser, on whom he has an intense crush, has a starring role. Junior high and older. 1990.
Bernie Rhodenbarr, burglar and bookseller, is hired by an ex-lover of a famous, reclusive author to steal back letters now…
in the possession of a literary agent. The only problem is that the agent is dead when Bernie arrives, and he can't resist stealing some rubies as he flees. Some strong language and some violence. 1999.
"Both timelessly beautiful and unbelievably timely."'Chris Bohjalian, New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Flight Attendant. A captivating…
novel of family, fame, and religion that tells the story of the seventeen-year-old daughter of an evangelical preacher, star of the family's hit reality show, and the secret pregnancy that threatens to blow their entire world apart. Esther Ann Hicks, Essie is the youngest child on Six for Hicks, a reality television phenomenon. She's grown up in the spotlight, both idolized and despised for her family's fire-and-brimstone brand of faith. When Essie's mother, Celia, discovers that Essie is pregnant, she arranges an emergency meeting with the show's producers: Do they sneak Essie out of the country for an abortion? Do they pass the child off as Celia's? Or do they try to arrange a marriage and a ratings-blockbuster wedding? Meanwhile, Essie is quietly pairing herself up with Roarke Richards, a senior at her school with a secret of his own to protect. As the newly formed couple attempt to sell their fabricated love story to the media through exclusive interviews with an infamously conservative reporter named Liberty Bell, Essie finds she has questions of her own: What was the real reason for her older sister leaving home? Who can she trust with the truth about her family? And how much is she willing to sacrifice to win her own freedom? 2018.
Acclaimed editor and bestselling author Gardner Dozois presents an all-new anthology of original epic tales by a stellar cast of…
award-winning modern masters--many of them set in their authors' best-loved worlds. Join today's finest tellers of fantastic tales, including George R.R. Martin, K. J. Parker, Robin Hobb, Scott Lynch, Ken Liu, C.J. Cherryh, Daniel Abraham, Lavie Tidhar, Ellen Kushner, and more on action-packed journeys into the outer realms of dark enchantment and intrepid derring-do, featuring a stunning assortment of fearless swordsmen and warrior women who face down danger and death at every turn with courage, cunning, and cold steel. 2017.
A psychiatrist and her patients tell about their battles with this common condition, which compels patients to repeat actions such…
as hand-washing. Often ashamed, the afflicted examine the nature of their disorder and describe their treatment experiences. c1989.
Grieving Rosemary O'Neal is just emerging from isolation after the suicide of her lover when her oddball family and friends…
move in and complicate her recovery. Rosemary retreats into a backyard tent for privacy until a troubling turn of events brings her back into the family circle. Strong language. 1993.
Set in Britain during the Black Plague and in colonial America during the French and Indian War. At the centre…
of the story are Henry Harding, a quick-witted, fun-loving trader, his daughter, Fanny, and his dearest friend, Oliver Barebones, who excels at football. 1988.
Lincoln Rhyme is one of the world's foremost forensic criminologists. He is also a quadriplegic, paralyzed from the neck down.…
The cop who could once look at a crime scene and find the clues about a killer that no one else could see is now strapped in his bed and actually planning suicide, when he gets a call he can't ignore from his old partner on the force. Some descriptions of sex, strong language, and explicit descriptions of violence. Followed by “The coffin dancer”. 1998, c1997.
As the sole survivor of the 1997 auto accident that killed the Princess of Wales, Dodi Fayed, and their chauffeur,…
bodyguard Rees-Jones offers his account of the events leading up to the crash and its aftermath. He also discusses his own efforts to cope with injuries and unwelcome notoriety. Bestseller. 2000.
Big, brash Bumper Morgan is a veteran cop of the L.A.P.D. After twenty years on the beat--the underbelly world of…
pimps, pushers, winos, prostitutes, and killers--he is nearing retirement, and through it all he has kept a heart of gold under his badge of bronze. Includes sex and strong language. 1972.
A remarkable blend of thriller, farce and dramatic tragedy, "The book of evidence" is the first-person prison testimony of Freddie…
Montgomery - convicted for the ghastly and seemingly motiveless kidnap and murder of a young woman. Trying to make sense of the crime that destroys his life, Freddie's monologue is also an attempt to come to terms with forty years of aimless drifting and dissolution. Descriptions of violence. 1989.
A young American boy, befriended by Ripley, turns out to be the runaway heir to a food chainstore fortune. Protecting…
the boy, Ripley becomes involved in an adventure with a horrifying climax of disaster. Sequel to: "Ripley's game" (DC30705). Followed by "Ripley under water" (DC12087). 1980. (Ripley series ; 4)