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Syeira lives in Haysele, a land of horses and horse-sensitives. When the wild mare Arwin's tow colts are taken from…
her, Syeira decides to help Arwin rescue them, even if she must risk her life to do so. But their mission proves harder than they imagined. For junior high readers. 2002.
Ruth Grey provides a window into her life and her tragic family. Growing up in poverty, she lived in the…
shadow of her brother, a math prodigy, and her mother, who was coping with the death of her husband in World War II. Ruth is left to survive on her own meagre resources, with affection only from her Aunt Sid and, later, her troubled husband, Ruby. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1990, c1988.
Aleksandar Hemon’s lives begin in Sarajevo, a small city where a young boy’s life is consumed with street soccer, resentment…
of his younger sister, and trips abroad with his engineer-cum-beekeeper father. Here, a young man’s life is about poking at the pretensions of the city’s elders with American music, bad poetry, and slightly better journalism. And then, his life in Chicago: watching from afar as war breaks out in Sarajevo and the city comes under siege, no way to return home; his parents and sister fleeing Sarajevo, leaving behind all they had ever known; and Hemon himself starting a new life, his own family, in this new city. 2013.
Retired fireman Edmund Mueller's lonely life is haunted by melancholy memories of his runaway wife and estranged children. Mueller practices…
alchemy, hoping to restore his lost past. His psychiatrist daughter uncovers the secret of her father's obsession and realizes that her own life is also a futile quest for happiness. Strong language and descriptions of sex. 1996.
At the biggest party of the Frankfurt International Bookfair, a literary agent is found dead in his chair. Suspects abound,…
including editor Marsha Hillier, whose major author was a client of the dead agent. The situation becomes more complex when a British publisher, also connected to Marsha, is murdered. 1997.
Venice, 1590. Gabriella Mondini has received another letter from her physician father, ten years after he left her and her…
mother. Tired of feeling abandoned, Gabriella sets out to trace his movements through his old letters. Along the way, she learns about the art of medicine. 2012.
Simon Penn agrees to give his captivating colleague Frederika Vanderveen information from a guarded rare book in Princeton's Firestone Library…
if she will rent him a room so he can escape his live-in girlfriend. Meanwhile vampire Vincent DeVilbiss also needs an ancient manuscript and is planning to take advantage of Frederika's desire to conjure up her dead father's ghost. Strong language, violence, and some explicit descriptions of sex. Followed by "The blood of the covenant" (DC20503). 1993.
The gateways that connected the Faerie world to the Earthworld have been destroyed by the Enemy, and the only hope…
of restoring them lies with Dana. In a dream, her fairy mother tells Dana that she must find The Book of Dreams somewhere in Canada. Along the way, Dana gains the help of some new friends both from the Faerie world and from Earth. Some descriptions of sex. Sequel to "The Light-Bearer's Daughter." For junior high readers. 2003.
Will Flowers is living in a war zone, and the biggest explosions of all are coming from Estelle, his teenage…
sister. Dad's taken to acting as if he were in the army, Mum sneaks in and out through back windows and Muffy has stopped speaking. Inspired by his favourite author, Will decides to turn war reporter - and starts to record the daily skirmishes of the Flowers family. For senior high readers. 1993.
All these stories were written in the author's seventies. "Blind man's exercises", he calls them, but although increasing blindness has…
given his writings a deeper sadness, his way of conjuring with images is as potent as ever. 1979.
Abducted as an 11-year-old child from her village in West Africa, Aminata Diallo is sent to live as a slave…
in South Carolina. Years later, she forges her way to freedom, serving the British in the Revolutionary War and registering her name in the historic "Book of Negroes", a record of freed Loyalist slaves who resettled in Nova Scotia, only to find that the haven they sought was steeped in an oppression all its own. Some descriptions of sex and violence. Winner of the 2008 OLA Evergreen Award. Winner of Canada Reads 2009. Also known as "Someone knows my name". Bestseller. 2007.
Already reeling from a broken marriage, NYPD detective Dave Moser probes a brutal murder involving a crime family. As he…
presses the case, Moser runs afoul of the mob, the department, and a federal sting of city police corruption. Strong language and descriptions of violence. 1996.
Describes the archeological exploration begun in 1939 in Rome to unearth the lost remains of St. Peter. Details the excavations…
under St. Peter's Basilica, the uncovering of the tomb, and the historical and archeological evidence indicating that the discovered bones are those of St. Peter. 1982.
Faith Fairchild and her family are vacationing at their seaside Maine cabin when they become embroiled in a feud between…
developers and islanders. After a real estate agent is poisoned and a builder is murdered, Faith risks her own life to find the culprit. 2003.
Caterer Faith Fairchild agrees to teach cooking at the local boys boarding school to find out who's been anonymously harassing…
an African American student. The remains of a student are discovered in the ashes after the annual fall bonfire. Some strong language. 2002.
Faith Fairchild's next-door Maine neighbor, Pix, checks on the Fairchilds' island summer cottage and discovers wrapped in a valuable quilt…
the dead body of Mitchell Pierce, a handyman who dabbled in antiques. Sharing her friend Faith's inquisitive nature, Pix resolves to solve the murder. Includes recipes. Some strong language. 1995.
Henry IX, known as William, is the son of Anne Boleyn and now the leader of England, his regency period…
finally at an end. His newfound power, however, comes with the looming spectre of war with the other major powers of Europe, with strategic alliances that must be forged on both the battlefield and in the bedroom, and with a court, severed by religion, rife with plots to take over the throne. Sequel to "The Boleyn king", followed by "The Boleyn reckoning". 2013.
A spring night in a small town in Wisconsin. A call to police emergency from a distant lake house is…
cut short. A phone glitch or something more sinister? Off-duty deputy Brynn McKenzie leaves her family's dinner table and drives up to the deserted lake to find out. 2008.
This book chronicles the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in 1940s Ohio: Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola.…
Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled love and hatred engendered by her family's frailty and the world's cruelty. 1994.
The discovery of the corpse of an eleven-year-old girl sends shock waves through the small community of Black Mountain, a…
sleepy little town in North Carolina. Dr Kay Scarpetta, working on a similar case in Virginia, is called in to apply her forensic skills to this latest atrocity, but the apparent simplicity of the case proves something of a poisoned chalice. Contains violence. 1994.