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1975. Sixteen-year-old Jocelyn grapples with ambivalent boyfriend Benny and the frightening disappearance of Gabe, whom she's known from early childhood.…
Both Benny and Gabe seem to be influenced in some dark way by the local Roman Catholic priest, Father Warren, the link between the three of them. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. For senior high readers. 2005.
Fifteen-year-old Tally from "Pretties" (DC29400), her boyfriend Zane, and their boss Shay have been reconstructed into super-strong paramilitary "specials." When…
they are sent to capture rebels who want to return to an unaltered state of mind, part of Tally wants to resist her programming. Some descriptions of violence. For senior high readers. Followed by "Extras" (DC32654). 2006. (Uglies series ; 3)
British biographer Rebecca Bennett, following a miscarriage and romantic breakup, is hired to write the life story of elderly dame…
Tilda Franklin--a popular social activist. Rebecca falls for Tilda's grandson. Their relationship is threatened when she uncovers many family secrets--including a murder. 1999.
In 1959 Jenny Jaffe, a Jewish high school senior, falls in love with ex-con Will McDonald. When Jenny becomes pregnant,…
they decide to elope, but Will never shows up. Thirty-five years later, their daughter, who had been put up for adoption, reunites them. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. c1998.
Detective Peter Decker's outspoken, Ivy League-educated daughter Cindy joins the LAPD, but has trouble fitting in with the blue-collar work…
force. During a rash of serial carjackings, Cindy realizes she is being stalked and suspects the danger comes from within the department. Bestseller. 2000.
The author tells the story of Phat Mohm, an 11-year-old Cambodian refugee adopted by Sheehy. She describes the process that…
the two undertook to accommodate their different lives and backgrounds. Descriptions of violence. c1986.
A charismatic psychiatrist cleverly manipulates teenager Megan McCall and her divorced parents, kidnapping Megan and hiding her in an abandoned…
mental hospital. Her disappearance brings her parents together, but the doctor continues to wreak vengeance on her father. Strong language and some violence. 2000.
Monica Szabo is a moderately successful New York artist when she meets B, a wealthy commodities trader who volunteers to…
be her muse, and lover. Although Monica worries about being a kept woman, she uses B as her model and eventually becomes a celebrity. Suddenly B, however, loses his fortune. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. c1998.
Recounts covert operations by American special forces codenamed the Studies and Operations Group in the Vietnam War. The SOG rescued…
downed pilots, sabotaged targeted installations, and sapped enemy troop strength. The author depicts the valour and sacrifices of these secret warriors. Descriptions of violence. c1997.
When Darius, a mild-mannered professor of French literature, is abandoned by the colourful Emma, he begins by staying optimistic and…
copes by means of dalliances with other women. But gradually his sleepless nights increase, and he turns increasingly to violence, irrational behaviour - and worse. Strong language, some descriptions of sex and violence. 2001.
Cleo, a Canadian on holiday in New Orleans, is sitting alone on a French Quarter wharf late one November night…
when a woman clad in full evening dress takes a running leap off the wharf into the river. When the woman, whom Cleo has assumed was dead by suicide, reappears a few nights later on the late evening news, Cleo is determined to find her. Both women make some startling self-discoveries and even find romance when Cleo finds the mysterious woman at last. 2002.
The Sputnik Diner is a smoky grill in the heart of Nanticoke, where the regulars navigate their way through lies…
and sexual betrayals, stalled dreams and longing. The linked stories follow the lives of an immigrant family from Wales, a waitress, the cook and the gruff French-Canadian owner, as they struggle to find their place in the ragged, darkly absurd world of tobacco-belt Ontario. Some strong language. Some descriptions of violence. Some descriptions of sex. 2001.
Michael Manley, three-term prime minister of Jamaica, had stood at the heart of a decade of radical social reform in…
the 70s. From the vantage point of her father's bedside during his last six months of life, Rachel Manley searches the shadows that he cast on her as a child and as a woman. She explores how the enduring bonds that held them were tested time and again, not only by the ordinary conflicts of family life but by the heavy demands of the political arena and by a succession of five marriages. 2000.
Bonnie Sherr Klein recounts her catastrophic stroke, the friends and family who rallied round, the health care system that both…
helped and hindered, and her road back to a full and active life. 1997.
Rogue cop Tony Tulio bucks police corruption and the Chicago mob as he stalks the Collector, a contract killer of…
unwilling organ donors. When Tulio vies with a rich art gallery owner for the favours of a sexy district attorney, he makes a startling break in the case. Strong language and some violence. 1994.
James Laxer travels to different regions in the U.S. in an effort to examine the social and political issues, trends…
and conflicts that shape the current American society. He observes the IMF protests in Washington, D.C., tracks the campaign of presidential candidate George W. Bush, visits an abortion clinic in Seattle, and enrols in a firearms training course in Springfield, Massachusetts. Some strong language; some descriptions of violence; graphic descriptions of an abortion procedure. 2000.
A collection of fifteen short stories pushing the limits of storytelling and testing the boundaries of fiction. In "Standing on…
Richards," a man stands on a street corner beside women who are selling their bodies, attempting to seduce people so that he can sell his mind. In "Old Bottles," a woman thinks her neighbour is crazy because he replaces a hedge with a fence of old bottles. In a story entitled only "A Short Story," the writer challenges the conventions of storytelling, asking questions to the reader directly. Some descriptions of sex and violence, and some strong language. 2004.