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Inquisitor Glokta, a cripple turned torturer, would like nothing better than to see Jezal come home in a box. Cutting…
treason out of the heart of the Union one confession at a time leaves little room for friendships - and his trail of corpses could lead him straight to the rotten heart of the government. Followed by "Before they are hanged". 2007.
In this sequel to "The red wyvern" centuries have passed since the Civil Wars. Now the evil sorceress Raena is…
plotting to destroy Rhodry Maelwaedd, her enemy through many lifetimes. As Rhodry struggles to save his land and loved ones, he is aided by his guardian dragon, Arzosah. 1999. (Deverry and the Westlands series. 3, Dragon mage cycle ; 2)
Henry Fawcett, a promising academic, was blinded in a shooting accident at the age of 25. This did not hinder…
him from consolidating his position at the confluence of so many streams of British culture and politics. 1989.
Interested in penning her memoirs, Ivy Beasley decides to take a creative writing course. But it's hard to find time…
to put pen to paper when this current chapter is so full of lies, jealousy and murder. Rumors are flying around the village of Barrington about Mrs. Winchen Blatch, a reclusive widow living alone in her old farmhouse. In the past few weeks, the widow claims she has been tormented by ghostly visitations, so she hires Ivy and her fellow investigators at Enquire Within to get to the bottom of the mystery. Ivy's new classes are very close to the widow's farmhouse, perfect for combining studying and snooping. 2014.
Based on the life of the Romantic poet Novalis. In late-eighteenth-century Germany, young Friedrich von Hardenberg falls in love with…
twelve-year-old Sophie von Kuhn. Although ignorant and unsophisticated, Sophie soon captures the hearts of the entire family. 1997, c1995.
The word "vegetarian" wasn't coined until the 1840s, but the vegetarian impulse has been deeply-seated in Western culture since the…
17th century - Francis Bacon and Thomas Bushell contended that a vegetarian diet provided a key not only to long life but also to spiritual perfection. Stuart follows its development through its Romantic proponents Shelley and Rousseau and on into the 19th century, when doctors proffered scientific evidence that human teeth and intestines were more similar to those of herbivores than of carnivores, to more recent history, which has seen the expansion of a correlative animal-rights movement. 2006.
New York in under attack! Random but deadly attacks, all by women with light hair, have begun terrorizing the city's…
inhabitants. As the days pass, it becomes clear that the attacks are symptoms of a strange contagion that is transforming blondes from all walks of life into rabid killers. Hazel flees the city and sets out to cross the border into Canada where she will find the one woman who might be able to help her in a world gone awry. c2012.
New York, 1841. When Mary Rogers, a pretty clerk at a tobacco shop, is found brutally murdered in the Hudson…
River, High Constable Hays is charged with the search for her killer. A respected lawman known for creating a new interrogation technique called the third degree, Hays is starting to feel the full weight of his position, caught between public outrage and political red tape. High on his list of suspects is the eccentric poet Edgar Allan Poe, who freely admits that he was in love with the "cigar girl." Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2007.
Arizona rancher Eugenia Potter discovers Native American pottery on her ranch and signs up for a hike at an archaeological…
camp specializing in ancient Indian culture. During the trek through the wilderness, two women are murdered and a teen tour bus disappears. Some violence. 1998. (A Eugenia Potter mystery)
Ranulf de Warbrooke is called the Black Lion because of his looks and demeanour. Yet Lady Lyonene, whose fiery spirit…
matches his, sees beneath the rough surface a man capable of being gentle. When vicious lies separate them, only Ranulf can save their marriage. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 1980.
Liz is awakened in the middle of the night by a mysterious voice softly calling her name. A blue light…
turns into a ghost in old-fashioned clothes, who appears for a moment and then fades through the wall. Liz tries to figure out who the ghost is, why she was calling her name, while unravelling some family secrets. Grades 3-6. 2005.
In this short, surreal twist on the classic Russian novel, a doctor travels to a distant village to save its…
citizens from an epidemic, but a metaphysical snowstorm gets in his way. 2015. Uniform title: Metelʹ.
The notice on the barn door said KEEP OUT - SECRET WORK GOING ON INSIDE, but still Junior Blossom's family…
hadn't tried to come in. He had just made the world's greatest invention and his family didn't even care. More adventures of the unusual American family with the uncanny ability of getting into scrapes - especially the oldest, Pap, and the youngest, Junior. Grades 4-7. 1987.
Junior had put the cage in exactly the place the coyotes loved. It would be just like the TV cartoons:…
in walks the animal, then WHAM! down comes the door, locking tight. Only when you're a Blossom, things don't turn out quite as you expect them. Very soon his trap is to bring him face to face with Mad Mary, the Vulture Lady. Grades 4-7. 1986.
When overwork caught up with Dr James Scotland, the young forensic pathologist took himself off for a month's sabbatical at…
the Melchester Choristers' School where his cousin was headmaster. But he finds little peace in the almost medievally tight community of the Cathedral Close, with the clash of Dean against Archdeacon, Archdeacon against Organist, Organist against Canon and then murder. 1983.
There's a giant on the loose - a homicidal giant attacking blameless citizens at random - or so one of…
its victims claims. But Lieutenant Tromp Kramer of the Trekkersburg Murder and Robbery Squad remains unimpressed. Yet one morning Bantu Detective Sergeant Mickey Zondi brings him news of a gruesome find. An England visitor to South Africa lies murdered, and his injuries point decisively to a gigantic killer possessed of hideous strength. The celebrated detective team of Afrikaner and Zulu soon faces a seemingly impenetrable problem. 1980.
Helen's brother is dying, and with two of his friends she waits for the end in her grandmother's crumbling old…
house. Her mother and grandmother, after years of strife have come to an uneasy peace. The six of them, from different generations and beliefs, are forced to come to terms with each other. 1999.
Space travel to a new colony is Carlos Mondragon's lifelong goal. After traveling illegally from Mexico and arriving at the…
launch site, Carlos stows away on the last starship of a special project. When the spacecraft lands on a frozen planet, the colonists find evidence that it is still inhabited. Carlos gradually proves himself an asset to the mission. 1997.