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After a lifetime as home-makers and wage earners, most older women end up poor and alone. This book looks at…
the causes and workings of the prejudice endured by women as they age. 1984.
After his 1847 court-martial, Colonel John Frémont, known as the Pathfinder, resigns from the army and embarks on an expedition…
to survey a proposed railway between St. Louis and San Francisco. Trapped in the Colorado mountains during winter, his team battles starvation and freezing temperatures. Explicit descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2011 Spur Award for Best Western Short Novel. c2010.
It is the day after Pearl Harbor, and the daughters of newspaper tycoon Keegan Hayes suffer the aftermath on three…
different continents: journalist Cameron Hayes in Moscow, searching for the half-brother she's never met; Jackie in California, dangerously aligning herself with the Japanese community; and Blair in Manila, desperately seeking the whereabouts of her estranged army officer husband even as she is caught up in the terror of war. The trauma each woman experiences threatens to further drive a wedge in the Hayes family. Sequel to “Written on the wind”, followed by “Toward the sunrise”. 2002.
Information about the eyes; sections on nutrition, herbal therapies, and homeopathic remedies. Discusses disorders of the eye and visual system,…
conventional treatments and self-treatments, eye care techniques, and refractive surgeries and vision therapies. c2011.
Tony Foster and the crew of "Darkest Night," a TV series about a vampire detective, find themselves facing another supernatural…
menace, a Demonic Convergence. Tony - with the help of vampire Henry Fitzroy and Leah, a stuntwoman who is the last surviving priestess of a sex demon, plus a tabloid reporter and a Canadian Mountie - must keep the key to the convergence alive to prevent a demonic invasion so large scale that it could be the finale - for the whole world. Some descriptions of sex, descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2006.
Tony Foster, a burgeoning wizard and production assistant on a television show, has to contend with filming haunted house scenes…
in a house that's actually haunted. When all the doors slam shut, he finds himself trapped with ghosts repeatedly reenacting their deaths, his painfully cynical and egotistical colleagues, and - worst of all - the boss's bratty daughters. Sequel to "Smoke and shadows" (DC27499). Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2005.
Tony Foster, saved from the streets by 450-year-old vampire Henry Fitzroy, is now a production assistant for the show Darkest…
Night, where he has just discovered the dead body of the guest star. Tony fears it has something to do with the strange shadows he has seen around the studio, and asks special-effects wizard Arra Pelindrake, who turns out to be a real wizard, for help. When Tony and Henry can't persuade Arra to face down the shadows, they must battle them before they gain a foothold in this world. Some descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. Followed by "Smoke and mirrors" (DC27498). 2004.
Returning to England after the war Gilbert Joseph is treated very differently now that he is no longer in an…
RAF uniform. Joined by his wife Hortense, he rekindles a friendship with Queenie who takes in Jamaican lodgers. Can their dreams of a better life in England overcome the prejudice they face? Descriptions of sex and strong language. Winner of the Orange Prize 2004 and Whitbread Novel Award winner 2004.
Crossing decades and continents, this is the story of the Massot family. Fabulously wealthy, internationally adored, the Massots own one…
of the last great aristocratic jewellery firms in Paris. But where is its owner Pierre, missing presumed dead for 15 years? And what will happen to his beautiful young widow Sophie? The answers lie rooted in the past and form part of the future in a way no-one could have guessed. Strong language. 2006.
It is Greenwich, Connecticut, in the early 1950's, and a set of twins is separated at birth by a desperate…
nurse. Nat Davenport goes home with his parents, a schoolteacher and an insurance salesman. But his twin brother is to begin his days as Fletcher Cartwright, son of a wealthy CEO and his wife. During the years that follow, the two brothers grow up unaware of each other's existence. Nat leaves college at the University of Connecticut to serve in Vietnam. Returning a war hero, he finishes school and goes on to become a successful bank executive. Meanwhile, Fletcher has graduated from Yale University and distinguished himself as a criminal defense lawyer and politician. As their lives unfold, both men are confronted with tragedy and betrayal, loss and hardship, all the time overcoming life's obstacles to become the men they are destined to be. 2003.
There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag Montefiore has…
unearthed the vast underpinning that sustained Stalin. Not only ministers such as Molotov or secret service chiefs such as Beria, but men and women whose loyalty he trusted only until the next purge. 2004.
Celia Lytton broke all the rules when she demanded a job in her husband Oliver's new publishing company. This was…
Edwardian England, when women of her class were expected to look lovely and bear children. With the help of her sister-in-law Celia proved she could do both. Now the company is flourishing, and a new generation of Lyttons is growing up to inherit it. But the future looks dark, as the glamour of the Twenties passes, the shadow of war lengthens and threatens the happiness and lives of the family. 2002.
Robbery, murder, incompetence and not enough parking spaces - just another day in the life of a big city's police…
department. Judy Hammer investigates as a virus crashes the police computer, freezing screens with a design of blue fish - the same one a gang called the Pikes claim is their symbol. Strong language. 1999.
Fifteen year old Zana Muhsen and her younger sister Nadia, born and raised in Birmingham, travelled to visit relatives in…
North Yemen for a holiday, to discover their father had sold them into marriage. They were helpless prisoners, forced to adapt to a primitive way of life, rape and frequent beatings. After eight years of misery and humiliation Zana escaped. This book tells of her experience and her fight to bring her sister home. 1994.
When bestselling author Carrie McClelland visits the windswept ruins of Slains Castle, she is enchanted by the stark and beautiful…
Scottish landscape. The area is strangely familiar to her but she puts aside her faint sense of unease to begin her new novel, using the castle as her setting, and one of her own ancestors, Sophia, as her heroine. 2008.
Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution and its impact on British politics, wild and beautiful, spoilt and wilful,…
Sovay finds that her cosseted life in rural England has not prepared her for life as a highway robber, for defending the honour of her family or for trying to save herself from corruption and evil. For junior high readers. 2008.
In a series of non-chronological memories, prompted by items David has collected over the years, we acquire an intimate portrait…
of his childhood; his long marriage to Eleanor, who suffers from debilitating depression; and the small triumphs and dissatisfactions of his career. The defining moment comes when, at age 22, David accidentally learns that he was adopted and sets out to find his biological mother. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2006.
Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer, and to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed.…
Then, the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily's feet are bound properly, they will be flawless. In nineteenth-century China, where a woman's eligibility is judged by the shape and size of her feet, this is extraordinary good luck. Lily, now, has the power to make a good marriage and change the fortunes of her family. To prepare for her new life, she must undergo the agonies of foot binding, learn nu shu, the famed secret women's writing, and make a very special friend, Snow Flower. But, a bitter reversal of fortune is about to change everything. 2006.
When her husband dies, Lu Si-yan's mother is encouraged to sell her young daughter into domestic service. Lu Si-yan is…
just eleven when sold by her Uncle. Nearly two years will pass before she can get back home to her mother and brother. Portrays the life of a young girl in China, a young girl whose life is said to be like 'spilled water' - a waste. Winner 2004 Smarties Book Prize Gold Award. Grades 3-6. 2004.
The official story of flight 353 is a lie. They say it was an accident. It was not. They say…
there were no survivors. There was - a scientist with a secret. A secret that will change the world. Descriptions of violence. 1997.