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Identifies the role our hormones play in the different sexual stages, exploring the age-old concept of chemistry between the sexes…
and how hormones can determine the course of human relationships. Functions as both an encyclopedia of our attachment-related hormones, telling us exactly what they are and exactly what modern science thinks they do, and a guide to what we can do to get them to keep functioning the way we want them to. Descriptions of sex and some strong language. 1996.
Mark Cullen uses a month-by-month calendar to help the reader plan their garden throughout the year. He explains how to…
take advantage of Canada's climate to extend the growing season beyond the traditional boundaries of spring and summer. He also provides tips for projects that the gardener can work on during the winter months to prepare for the spring plant. 1995.
For all those who are dying to learn the fate of Will and Lyra, hoping for the return of Iorek…
Byrnison, longing to know the truth about Dust, and waiting to face the ultimate clash of opposing powers, this book has the answers. Sequel to "The subtle knife" (DC14951). For junior high readers. c2000, 2001. (His dark materials ; 3)
The year 1883 takes a new generation of Kents from San Francisco's Barbary Coast to Newport and New York City,…
while Eleanor, Carter, and Will Kent face the challenge of immigrant Americans. Sequel to "The Lawless" (DC03717). Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1980. (Kent family chronicles ; 8)
Twelve-year-old Amy Chin feels like an unwanted stepdaughter when her mother begins working as an amah (Chinese nanny) for Stephanie,…
a wealthy motherless girl. Amy even has to miss ballet classes to babysit her four younger siblings. But Amy's feelings change when her mom brings Stephanie home for a week. Grades 5-8. 1999.
Georgia "Peachy" Archer always thought she was happy with her choices in life: quitting college, marrying young, raising two boys…
in the same small town where she grew up. Her sister Beth chose differently: a fancy New York apartment, making lots of money and being on her own. And on a visit home one weekend, Beth upends everything Peachy thought she knew about being happy. Explicit descriptions of sex and strong language. 2008.
Damon Alexakis had looks, wealth and power. All he needed was a suitable wife. Kate McKee was the perfect choice,…
though she was stunned by his proposal. Wanting to share his life but not his bed, Kate decided to invent a mystery lover to delay the inevitable. 1995.
When Judge Rachel Cutler's father dies under suspicious circumstances, he leaves his daughter tantalizing clues to a decades-old secret: the…
Amber Room, an exquisite treasure that was supposedly appropriated by the Nazis when they invaded the Soviet Union. Rachel (with her ex-husband, Paul) heads off to Europe to find out why her father died and to search for his killer. Descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. 2004, c2003.
It is the winter of 1664, and Will Godwin chances upon a mother cat and her three kittens. Taking pity…
on them, he takes them to his master's apothecary shop. And there, in the laboratory, unfolds an extraordinary tale of sorcery, disease, villainy and murder. For junior high readers. Followed by "The oaken throne". 1991. (Deptford histories ; 1)
It is summer 1915 and a rich New York widow, Mrs Jarvis, and her daughter, Clemency, are travelling to England.…
The girl is to marry the dashing Lord Hugo Hazzard and she has brought her personal maid, Hetty Brown, to look after her. The two girls are alike in appearance and in fact, Hetty is her employer's half-sister and has many times 'stood in' for Clemency as a game. But the ship is the 'Lusitania' and the game becomes reality. 1980.
A corrupt judge in a mob murder case, a disillusioned pastor, hungry for power, a cynical reporter sniffing for a…
scandal, and a gambling addict whose secret tape threatens the lives of everyone who hears it. These characters are woven into a thriller set in a gleaming, suburban megachurch, a big-city newspaper struggling for survival, and the shadowy corridors of political intrigue. 2011.
Samuel is just 17 when his mother dies and he must leave Trinidad to live with the Toronto father he…
has only heard of. Samuel is lonely, but he has his memories of superheroes - his mentors - to guide him, as he sets out to explore what Toronto has to offer. Some descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. Winner of the 2010 Trillium Award and the 2011 Toronto Book Award. 2010.
The "amateur" is a CIA cryptologist whose true loves are his fiancée and his efforts to prove via cryptology who…
really wrote Shakespeare. When the first is brutally murdered by terrorists who take over an American consulate in Germany he uses the second to unravel the skein of cross and doublecross to the end, determined to seek out and kill the terrorists. 1981.
Internationally known child psychologist Rita Rogers grew up in Romania, the daughter of a prominent Jewish family. Her idyllic childhood…
came to an abrupt end with the arrival of Nazi troops. 1988.
Viscount Berkeley leaves England to investigate claims on the family title and to satisfy his fascination with democracy and all…
things American. In the United States, he takes advantage of an opportunity to hide his identity and meets the claimant, Colonel Mulberry Sellers. Based on the author's unsuccessful 1887 play. 1892. 1996.
Anna, Bett and Carrie Quinlan were childhood singing stars, The Alphabet Sisters. As adults they haven't spoken for years, ever…
since Bett's fiancé left her for another sister. Now Lola, their larger-than-life grandmother, summons them home for her 80th birthday extravaganza and a surprise announcement - she wants them to revive their singing careers and stage a musical she has written. Rehearsals get underway, and family secrets begin to be shared and revealed. But just as the rifts begin to close, The Alphabet Sisters face a test they never imagined. 2004.
In France, an American self-made millionaire, Christopher Newman, falls in love with aristocratic Claire de Bellegarde. Her family rejects his…
marriage proposal however, as they resent his brash American manner. Newman discovers a guilty secret about the Bellegardes' past and then has to decide whether to reveal it and thus gain his revenge. 1981.
Spanning three generations, this story is about a mismatched marriage and its consequences. Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect…
couple - young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment she walked into his mother's grocery store in Baltimore, he was smitten, and in the heat of World War II fervour, they marry in haste. 2004.