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A casual summer outing to investigate rumours of sorcery leads Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, and anthropologist Bergen McKee,…
to a series of inexplicably grisly murders. Leaphorn uses his uncanny powers of deduction and knowledge of Navajo ways to solve the crimes. c1989, 1970.
Gamble recounts actual events behind the legends of World War II fighters in marine squadron 214. Describes exaggerations among the…
images portrayed in a popular television series and even in "Pappy" Boyington's autobiography. Presents a roster of pilots and a chronology of VMF-214 operations. c1998.
Le Sélect, serving hamburger platters to student misfits, transvestites, hookers and queens from Montreal's Boulevard Saint-Laurent. Hanging out with a…
theatre company in her off hours, Céline, a midget, experiences a world where it is not only possible but even desirable to pretend. Her diary describes her trials and tribulations, expectations and disappointments, as she reveals her own dramatic story, if only to herself. Some strong language. 2006. Uniform title: Cahier noir.
Sarah loved David Hetherington despite the social gulf between them, but marriage meant more than exchanging one way of life…
for another. Mary Hetherington was a mother who dominated her menfolk, and took against Sarah who brought life and laughter into her dustless world. Sarah, for her part, found that even the best people had their quarrels, and secrets they were anxious to hide. 1991.
1980. Many citizens of Banff, Alberta, valued living in a place where wildlife grazed on the front lawn, but none…
were expecting bear attacks that summer. During the massive hunt that followed, Banff was portrayed as a town under siege by a killer bear, and the tourists stayed away. The pressure was on to find and destroy the Whiskey Creek mauler, but he evaded park wardens and struck again - and again. When the fight was over, the hard lessons learned led to changes that would save the lives of both bears and people in the coming years. Some descriptions of violence, some strong language. 2008.
Iris Chase is a lonely old woman who reflects on her life and on that of her long-deceased sister, Laura.…
Laura's novel, The Blind Assassin, won a cult following in the pre-war years with its sexual frankness, science fiction segments, and story-within-a-story technique. Spanning over decades, through war, turmoil and loss, the interconnected narratives spin a tale of devotion and deceit. Some strong language. 2000 Man Booker Prize. c2000.
What has happened to Robert? He's told his friend Tom a wild story of surviving danger and death in an…
underground cavern. Tom doesn't believe it - but he still gets caught up in Robert's desperate search for a girl called Lorn. Robert says that she saved his life - and if they don't find her before winter, she will die. For junior and senior high readers. Sequel to "The dark ground" (DC33236). Followed by "The nightmare game". 2005. (The lost trilogy ; 2)
Piracy died with the skull and crossbones: the world's navies have made the sea safe. Think again. Not so safe…
for the Sunning, caught in a nightmare on the China seas, nor for passengers on the Morro Castle, sunk in flames off the New Jersey coast with the loss of 134 lives. Nor for the Khalis III, found abandoned in the Bahamas, a corpse floating in the wreckage, the deck splattered with blood. This book shows that piracy is very much alive. 1994.
James Parrett resents his musician parents' focused lifestyle and constant performing. While visiting London, he discovers a time portal that…
takes him to the year 1600, where he joins a group that sings and performs for Queen Elizabeth. James, now nicknamed the "Black Canary," discovers his love for music, but is also forced to decide whether he will remain in his new life or return to his home and family. Grades 5-8. 2005.
In the year 2016 virologists Peter Maryk and Stephen Pearse race against time to stop the spread of an organism…
that has wiped out the town of Plainville, Massachusetts. One resident, Melanie Weir, is immune, as is Maryk. But a carrier is deliberately spreading the virus, killing plants, animals, and insects, as well as humans. Some descriptions of violence. c1998.
Brief biographies of eight detective writers from the "Black Mask" magazine era (1922-1943). Includes such writers as Dashiel Hammett, Raymond…
Chandler, and Erle Stanley Gardner. Some strong language. 1985. Uniform title: Black mask.
When Commander Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard goes to visit an old friend, he learns that his friend has died…
and the body cremated. While there, a number of other deaths occur, leading Dagliesh to suspect foul play. 1975.
Author Derek Lundy, bearing in mind that the name "Lundy" is synonymous with traitor in Ulster, delves into the lives…
of ancestors Robert Lundy, Protestant governor of Derry in 1688, William Steel Dickson, a Protestant preacher of the early 19th century who advocated resisting the English, and Billy Lundy, born in 1890 and the embodiment of what the Ulster Protestants became - a tribe united in their hostility to Catholics and to the prospect of an independent Ireland. 2006.
When millionaire Jason Wilding returns to his hometown of Abernathy, Kentucky, he arranges under false pretenses to stay in Amy…
Thompkins's house. Before long he is surprised to realize that he loves Amy and her infant son, but she flees when she learns his true identity. Some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 1998.
Two adults, both in their forties, both parents, both Americans living in England, meet in a train compartment. Dolores is…
a writer, researching a new book; Victor is an executive, posted to his company's London office for a year. They have nothing in common, except that they have fallen instantly in love, and share the knowledge that their time together will mark each forever. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1980.
The Old West collides with the new in this story of family and territorial ties, set on a Montana ranch…
in the 1970s. Discharged from the army after an accident, Jackson returns to his home where his father and grandfather cling to their individualistic ways. His plans to return to the rodeo circuit and his girlfriend change when she finds someone else. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 1986.
The 1970s. After a bloody struggle, Bangladesh is an independent nation. But thousands are pouring into Dhaka from all over…
the country, looking for food and shelter. Amongst them is Nur Hussain, an uneducated young man from a remote village, who is only good at mimicking a famous speech of the prime minister's. He turns up at journalist Khaleque Biswas's doorstep, who has the idea of turning Nur into a fake Sheikh Mujib. With the blessings of the political establishment, he starts cashing in on the nationalist fervour of the city's poorest. But even as the money rolls in, the tension between the two men increases and reaches a violent climax when Nur refuses to stick to the script. 2013.
When Bridget Gether has a chance encounter with one of her neighbours it causes her to reconsider her future and…
call off her impending marriage to Lawrence. Now she finds herself in the middle of a storm caused by Lawrence and his overpowering family - the family that took her in when she was orphaned during the war. Now they are determined to protect their own interests, no matter what the cost. 1998.
A controversial book which contends that evolution by natural selection - as originally outlined by Darwin - is the only…
answer to the biggest question of all: why do we exist? 1986.