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Attempts to provide a description of the physiological processes involved in certain emotions and activities. Topics include fear and anger,…
sexual desire, conception and pregnancy, pain and illness, stress and worry. 1984.
Faith Fairchild, former Manhattan caterer, is hired to feed the movie company that is filming a version of The Scarlet…
Letter in the scenic town of Aleford, Massachusetts. But the leading lady is poisoned and two supporting cast members are killed before Faith discovers who the culprit is. Some strong language. 1993.
While on a treasure hunt, using clues from a patchwork quilt, Faith Fairchild and her son stumble over the body…
of a local resident. Suddenly Faith, New York City gourmet caterer turned New England minister's wife, is drawn back into the game of sleuthing. Sequel to "Body in the belfry". c1991.
A man armed with an explosive device storms a studio where KiddieFame, a controversial children’s talent show, is being filmed,…
and demands an interview with disgraced journalist Thom Pegg. Outside, Eve, a former Olympian, and Rabbit, a street artist, meet and join forces to look for Eve’s missing brother. Pegg listens to the hostage taker’s story and begins to realize the terrible, violent truth about what he has planned, as chaos reigns in the street, and Rabbit’s secret art installation is finally activated. Explicit descriptions of violence and explicit strong language. 2011.
This is the story of a German U-boat, her commander and crew, as they embark upon yet another hazardous patrol…
in the Battle of the Atlantic. Explicit descriptions of sex. Strong language. 1999. Uniform title: Das Boot.
The millionaire hero, Sherman McCoy, is ripe for humiliation and finds it in plenty at the police Central Booking Bureau…
in the Bronx. There, after a freak accident involving muggers, his Mercedes and his mistress, McCoy learns that prosecutors, politicians and press are lining up to devour him with shameless relish. Strong language and descriptions of sex. 1988.
Torey Adams, a high school junior with a perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of…
the class outcast. As he searches for answers, he analyzes his own behaviour and discovers secrets in the victim's family. Some strong language. For Senior High readers. Michael L. Printz Honor. c2000.
New at her high school, Imogene enlists the help of her introverted friend Maxine and the ghost of a boy…
who haunts the school, after receiving warnings through her dreams that soul-eaters are threatening her life. Some descriptions of violence and strong language. For senior high readers. 2006, c2004.
Inspector Ghote finds himself cast in the role of the Great Detective when Surinder Mehta M.C. expressly requests that the…
Bombay detective be sent up to Ooty, the famous hill station, to solve the murder of the billiard marker in their most historic club. A daunting enough assignment without the luck of having Surinder as his tireless Dr Watson - the greatest hindrance in his career to date. Sequel to “Under a monsoon cloud”, followed by “Dead on time”. 1987.
Penn Cage's father, Dr. Tom Cage, stands accused of murder and each effort to defend him unearths new, shocking secrets.…
At issue is the murder of Tom's former nurse, Viola Turner. The district attorney is quick to point the finger at Tom, citing his decades-old relationship with Viola. When Tom is taken into custody, Penn must explore the dangerous territory of Tom and Viola's shared history, set squarely in the most harrowing years of civil-rights-era Mississippi. Sequel to "Natchez burning"; followed by "Mississippi blood". 2015.
Caterer Faith Fairchild and her family are spending Christmas at their cottage on Sanpere Island, Maine. When Faith discovers a…
young woman's body in a holiday display and a neighbor finds a baby boy in the barn, Faith looks for a connection. 2009.
Caterer Faith Fairchild helps her friend Patsy Avery, a trustee of a local museum. Patsy suspects someone has replaced a…
valuable painting with a forgery. Although Faith has promised her husband to stop her amateur sleuthing, she discovers the body of a young woman at the gallery. 2008.
Caterer Faith Fairchild and her extended family gather at a ski resort in Vermont to celebrate her father-in-law's seventieth birthday.…
But after Faith finds the body of a local lawyer, the chef disappears, and another corpse turns up on the slopes, the clan starts bickering. Includes recipes. 2005.
Caterer and amateur sleuth Faith Fairchild moves to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where her minister husband will teach at Harvard Divinity School.…
Settling into their temporary home, Faith finds two things disturbing: her ex-boyfriend Richard Morgan's sudden reappearance and a 1946 diary in the attic. Includes recipes. 2004.
The year is 1539 and the court of Henry VIII is increasingly fearful at the moods of the ageing sick…
king. With only a baby in the cradle for an heir, Henry has to take another wife. The stories of three young women, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard, and Jane Boleyn are told against the backdrop of the most volatile court in Europe. 2006.
The Colonel and Mrs Bantry had always believed that finding "a body in the library" only happened in books, until…
it happened to them. Whose body was it? And why should it be found in the library of Gossington Hall? Miss Marple investigates. Sequel to "The regatta mystery, and other stories". Followed by "The moving finger" (DC32950). 1942. (Jane Marple murder mysteries ; 4)
Sur les traces de Kafka dans le château d'un occultiste, situé à Tarquimpol, en Lorraine. La question de savoir si…
on peut "aimer plusieurs personnes à la fois sans avoir à mentir" est au centre de cette quête "amoureuse littéraire". Une oeuvre assez digressive, d'une certaine virtuosité mais (trop?) lestée de considérations philosophiques ou littéraires. Quelques descriptions de nature sexuelle. 2007.
Bonjour! Je m’appelle Shipshaw et je suis un chaton de gouttière. Un jour, une gentille dame m’a amené chez elle.…
Quel bonheur! Sauf que dans la maison, il y a la chatte Shawinigan et elle est jalouse. Années 1-3. 2005. (Shawinigan et Shipshaw ; 1)
C'est dans un roman de Françoise Sagan emprunté à la bibliothèque que Catherine trouve un marque-page bien particulier : le…
nom d'un homme - Jean-Philippe - et son numéro de téléphone, suivis de l'invitation Appelle quand tu veux . Célibataire mais aussi anéantie par sa dernière relation amoureuse, Catherine se lance dans un projet que son amie Margaux situe à mi-chemin entre le plus fou des désespoirs et le plus admirable des espoirs . Appeler ce Jean-Philippe. L'histoire d'une rencontre improbable, d'un chat nommé Luc, d'une collection de miroirs, d'une Bénédicte aux cheveux roux, d'une impératrice russe et d'une profonde aversion pour les chemises à manches courtes. 2017.