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A consortium of German developers arrives at Otter Lake Reserve with an offer: they want to improve the local economy…
with the creation of "OjibwayWorld", a Native theme park. Designed to attract European tourists, it instead causes personal and political divisions within the local community, as well as hilarity. 2007.
Sylvia Marshall has been raised by her parents in an unconventional but happy manner. Upon starting school, she and her…
sister Judith begin to learn of the injustices of the world. Longing to belong, Sylvia eventually realizes that she cannot give up her morals in order to conform to society. 1997.
In three novellas, the author reveals the potential for darkness that lurks behind even the most perfect-seeming veneer. In "No…
Fun," a middle-class family in present-day Vancouver is thrown into turmoil when their teenage son is charged in connection with the beating of a disabled man. In "The Goldberg Metronome," a young couple discovers an antique metronome taped up and hidden under a sink in their new apartment. And in "The Best Thing for You", set in wartime 1940s Vancouver, a housewife in her twenties plots and carries out her husband's murder with sang-froid, with the help of her lover, a young grocery-store clerk. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2004.
A portrait of three periods in the history of the Beothuk, from the spirit quest of the legendary leader Anin…
in the early ninth century, to the defense of their territory against European explorers and conquerors in the early days of colonization, to the tragic end of the Beothuk as English settlers capture and destroy the tribe. Uniform title: Saga des Béothuks.
Jonathan is a surgeon returning from a liaison with his mistress, Abi, and Georgia is an actress going to an…
audition along with her agent Linda. Toby and Barney are on their way to a stag party, Mary is going to the airport to meet her first love, farmer William watches the drama unfold across the hill, and Emma is also a surgeon. One heartbeat in time, and all their lives will be totally transformed. Descriptions of sex and violence and strong language. 2009.
Oliver Russell is the governor of a small southern state, with plans to make it to the White House. Leslie…
Stewart is a beautiful ambitious woman who learns that for some men, power is the strongest aphrodisiac. After an initial attraction, these two people end up on a collision course where things go dangerously wrong. 1997.
It was not the British or the French but rather a few Germans and Turks who thrust the Islamic world…
into World War I. Germany exploited Ottoman pan-Islamism in order to destroy the British Empire, while the Young Turks harnessed themselves to German military might to fight Turkey's hereditary enemy, Russia. McMeekin weaves events such as Turkey's entry into the war, Gallipoli, the Armenian massacres, the Arab revolt, and the Russian Revolution with German efforts to complete the Berlin-Baghdad railway, the weapon designed to win the war and assure German hegemony over the Middle East. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex and some descriptions of violence. Bestseller. c2010.
Twenty-six writers explore their reactions to a variety of experiences. Stephen King describes the trauma of being hit by a…
van and his recovery process; Reynolds Price explains his religious beliefs for his godchild; and Anne Fadiman expresses her feelings about postal service and e-mail. 2001.
Oriental, North Carolina. As high school seniors from different sides of the tracks, Dawson and Amanda had a doomed romance.…
Twenty-five years later they return home when Tuck, an old man important to both of them, dies--and leaves behind a letter describing his own life's magical love. Bestseller. 2011.
Anthology of mysteries written by award-winning women authors such as Sue Grafton, Sara Paretsky, Mary Higgins Clark, and Elizabeth George.…
In "One Hit Wonder" by Gabrielle Kraft, a washed-up musician gets another chance; in "Extenuating Circumstances" by Joyce Carol Oates, a mother justifies her horrific crime. Gives brief introductions about each author. Some violence and some strong language. 1997.
These 20 American and Canadian stories include "Rosa", in which an elderly Jewish woman's life in Miami reflects aspects of…
her people's history, and "Artificial moonlight", about friendship and the passage of time. 1984.
Twelve science fiction short stories, starting with a 1939 saga of an engineered escape from a wrecked spaceship running out…
of air in the asteroid belt, and ending with a 1972 detective story on robot psychology. 1974.
Matt Reed was twice as handsome and self-assured as he had been ten years before, and for the second time…
in her life, Kayla found family members pressuring her, saying he was the best man for her. Kayla didn't like this, but did Matt share her opinion? Only by trying would she know for sure. 1995.
Investigator Milan Jacovich repays a favour by investigating the case of a college student, Jason Crowell, who is accused of…
rape. Jacovich finds plenty of sexism and drugs on campus but suspects that Jason is being set up; the kid doesn't even like girls. Some strong language and some violence. 1999.
Fanny, raised in working-class Lancashire, and Lorna, only child of a wretched couple from a posh suburb, meet at school.…
The women grow apart, but when Fanny suffers a breakdown, she re-enters Lorna's life. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1984.