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After eight years together, Lenore's boyfriend leaves her and moves to Florida. For the next year, Lenore writes letters to…
John, which remain unanswered. The letters recount Lenore's latest adventures, such as babysitting two lapdogs, and befriending feminists, firemen, and amateur theatre performers. The excuses Lenore makes for John's behaviour soon subside. 1995.
The year is 1836 and English clergyman William Yate sets sail from London, bound for New Zealand. Caught up in…
a shipboard love affair, he is utterly transformed. During the four-month sea voyage the passengers and crew are drawn into Yate's life. On landfall at Sydney their world changes and Yate finds his life and reputation threatened. The novel is based on a true story. Descriptions of sex. 2003.
Jessica Gilchrist has worked at Tolworthys' large department store since she left school, so it is quite a shock to…
find out one day that it is to be taken over by a large company run by the Shale family. Her first meeting with Roland Shale is inauspicious, for she comes into work one morning and finds him rifling through her desk. 1984.
When a successful blackmailer includes a traitor, a bigamist, a blackmarketeer, and a murderer among his weekend guests, he clearly…
means to combine business with pleasure. A Miss Silver mystery. 1949.
A gambling vagabond named Speedy arrives in the town of Durfee to find some easy money and instead finds friends…
and a girl named Mary. But can a rolling stone ever stay in one place? Some descriptions of violence. 1995. Originally published in 1931.
Immediately following her sister's funeral, Janice Whitmore leaves her home of five years to escape her evil brother-in-law. Found unconscious…
in a snowstorm, she is nursed back to health by Dr. Howard Sterling. But Janice will have to evade her nemesis three more times before she finds happiness. High school and older readers. 1943.
Presents interviews with handicapped or physically "different" people. They tell of their experiences in childhood, school, social and work life,…
religious faith, and what they would like to share with society. 1984.
Life of the celebrated magician and escape artist. Born in Budapest in 1874, Houdini came to America in 1878. After…
his debut in a backyard circus, age nine, he developed ever more complicated tricks, entertaining the world with escapes from handcuffs, packing cases, and straitjackets. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2000.
Australian Williams continues the story of her battle with what she terms an information-processing problem. After giving up her alternate…
personalities, Williams once more confronts the Big Black Nothingness that they had shielded her from. While trying to remember to breathe and eat, she also has to deal with publishing her first book. Strong language. Sequel to "Nobody nowhere" (DC12339). 1994.
Autobiographical play set in 1940 dealing with Tennessee Williams' first love - a young Canadian draft dodger who was dying…
of a brain tumour. Descriptions of sex and some strong language. 1995, c1981.
Four problem children were put in Torey Hayden's class because no one else knew what to do with them. Together,…
with the help of a remarkable teacher who cared too much to ever give up, they became almost a family, able to give each other the love and understanding they had found nowhere else. 1999.
The journal of eight months in the life of a 19-year-old British officer during 1917. Vaughan's description of the Battle…
of Ypres tells of costly struggles for pillboxes, brief friendships that developed between enemies, and the wounded drowning in shell holes. 1980.
This 1972 sequel to Green's "Horse Tradin'" offers more of the same type of anecdotal stories about raising and selling…
horses. Green was a veterinarian in Texas, and he came across a number of colourful characters - some four-legged - throughout his career. Some descriptions of violence. 2000, c1972.
Jessie's younger brother, H.J., would like to help her become a veterinarian. When he tries to save a leopard that…
escaped from the zoo, his courage and determination pay off in an opportunity for Jessie to pursue her dream. Grades 5-8 and older. Sequel to "Red Dirt Jessie." 1996.
Three professionals in rehabilitation medicine and psychology describe the trauma of spinal cord injury; what to expect during the therapeutic…
process; and how to meet the psychological, medical, and social challenges of living with the disability. Patients' stories are used to illustrate each aspect. Includes sex. 2000.