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The Russian composer looks back over his life, recalling such musicians, artists and writers as Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Glazunov, Meyerhold and…
Anna Akhmatova. His meeting with Stalin was momentous. However, he reserved his deepest scorn for visiting Western liberals like Bernard Shaw who refused to recognise the truth about Stalin's tyranny. 1981.
Scout Ritland travels to Parrish Island in the South Pacific to construct the Coral Reef resort. While attending the grand…
opening celebration, he is kidnapped by the alluring Chantal duPont. She wants Scout to build a bridge for her native village. But is that all she wants? Explicit descriptions of sex. 1993, c1989.
As a young boy Jordan was expelled from his family's secretive polygamous Mormon sect. Now his father has been found…
shot dead and one of his many wives - Jordan's mother - is accused of the crime. Over a century earlier, Ann Eliza Young, nineteenth wife of the second Prophet of the Mormon Church, battles for her freedom from her powerful husband, to lead a crusade to end polygamy in the United States. 2009.
May 1912. One month after the sinking of the Titanic, twelve-year-old survivor Dorothy Wilton is expelled from school when she…
strikes another student. Dorothy's teacher encourages her to write about her experiences, hoping it will help her come to terms with them. Her diary describes the ship, a new friend Dorothy makes, and the intriguing people they observe, as well as a secret Dorothy is too traumatized to acknowledge - a secret about her own actions on that fatal night, which may have had deadly consequences. Grades 5-8. 2011. (Dear Canada)
From the New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes a heartfelt novel about the bonds of…
family and the power of second chances. When Kate Bowman temporarily moves to her grandmother's Missouri farm with her husband and baby son, she learns that the lessons that most enrich our lives often come unexpectedly. The family has given Kate the job of convincing Grandma Rose, who's become increasingly stubborn and forgetful, to move off her beloved land and into a nursing home. But Kate knows such a change would break her grandmother's heart. Just when Kate despairs of finding answers, she discovers her grandma's journal. A beautiful handmade notebook, it is full of stories that celebrate the importance of family, friendship, and faith. Stories that make Kate see her life, and her grandmother, in a completely new way... 2018.
Victoria-Margaret is the crown princess of the empire, a direct descendent of Victoria I, the queen who changed the course…
of history. The imperial tradition of genetically arranged matchmaking will soon guide Margaret into a politically advantageous marriage. But before she does her duty, she'll have one summer of freedom and privacy in a far corner of empire. Posing as a commoner in Toronto, she meets Helena Marcus, daughter of one of the empire's greatest placement geneticists, and August Callaghan, the heir to a powerful shipping firm currently besieged by American pirates. In a summer of high-society debutante balls, politically charged tea parties, and romantic country dances, Margaret, Helena, and August discover they share an extraordinary bond and maybe a one-in-a-million chance to have what they want and to change the world in the process. For junior and senior high readers. 2017.
John and Rose Anthem create a financial empire which they intend to leave to their sons. Then Cole disappears during…
the Civil War and Billy is kidnapped by the Mexican bandit, Valero. Sequel to "Texas anthem". c1986.
After being betrayed and left for dead in Mexico by his pal, Vin Cotter, Johnny Anthem escapes slavery in the…
silver mines and returns home to claim his girl. The hitch is that Vin has married her. Followed by "Texas born." 1986.
The memory of Josh Bennett's passionate kiss the night before her wedding to his good friend James Lambert has haunted…
Megan, especially since James's death three years ago. Now Josh - handsome, wealthy, and powerful - wants to fulfil the potential of that kiss, but Megan needs to be convinced of his sincerity. Descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 1998, c1993.
Terry Fox was a typical Canadian kid who liked to play basketball and soccer, but whose 'ordinary' life was changed…
suddenly at age 18 when his leg was amputated because of cancer. This biography covers the life of Terry Fox and his reasons for running across Canada. Traces his progress from the run's beginning on April 12, 1980 in St. John's until its premature conclusion in Thunder Bay on September 1, 1980. Grades 2-4. 2005.
The place names of Texas are landmarks of American history: Fort Worth, Laredo, the Alamo and, in this century, Dallas,…
Austin and Houston. A task force of prominent Texans gathers to prepare a history of their state. From this simple beginning the author combines fact and fiction to write the story of four Texan families, from the early 16th century blend of colonial piety and profit to the dynasties of the oil and cattle barons of today. 1985. If you request this book on CD it will be on 2 or more CDs. You must play the first CD to the end before playing the next CD.
Trapnel may be dead but his ghost hovers over an American academic's attempt to rake over the ashes of his…
affair with Pamela Widmerpool. Her husband, now a Labour peer, is caught up in a spy scandal as well as the death of a Marxist intellectual. Sequel to "Books do furnish a room". Followed by "Hearing secret harmonies". 1973.
Jenkins, the narrator, falls in love, and the novel climaxes with a dinner party in honour of an old Eton…
schoolmaster. Sequel to “A Buyer’s Market”. Followed by "At Lady Molly's". 1955.
Madeline, Avery, and Nikki are strangers to each other, but they have one thing in common: they each discover their…
life savings have vanished, along with their trusted financial manager, leaving them nothing but co-ownership of a ramshackle beachfront house. Throwing their lots in together, they take on the challenge of restoring the historic property. But just as they begin to reinvent themselves and discover the power of friendship, secrets threaten to tear down their trust and destroy their lives a second time. Some strong language. c2011.
Fictionalized account of the artist author's struggle to learn how to read as a child. Finally a fifth-grade teacher, Mr.…
Falker, comes to her rescue and gives her special lessons. Grades 2-4. 1998.
Pig is writing a thank-you note to his grandma when his friend Rabbit comes over to play. Eager to get…
in on the action, Rabbit writes one of his own . . . and another . . . and another . . . until his flurry of thank-you notes has Pig in a tizzy. Pig just wants to finish writing his note in peace! Fortunately, Rabbit’s last thank-you note reminds Pig how lucky he is to have Rabbit as a friend. Grades K-3. 2014.
Soon after Sid Gomez' second wife calls him to say she's in trouble, she disappears. Sid and Jake Cardigan have…
two leads -- Sonny Hokori, one of the most infamous TekLords, and an enemy to Jake from way back, and Garret Devlin, a secretive industrialist long suspected of underworld connections, but who died four years ago. Some strong language. Sequel to "Tek kill". 1997.
Gossip from the 30-year files of the radio and cable TV interviewer. Includes anecdotes of such celebrities as evangelist Jimmy…
Swaggart, author Jimmy Breslin and author Judith Krantz. Some strong language. Bestseller 1988.
Leaving a trail of menial jobs behind her, Allie Heller arrives in an Alaskan fishing village. She falls in love…
with Sonny who is bent on self-destruction. A tragic accident forces her to choose whether she herself will survive. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1987.
The 59-Second Employee is an employee's response to formula management, an antidote to the quick-fix corporation. It speaks volumes about…
cooperation in management and brings more control to those at the bottom of the corporate ladder. c1984.