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California restaurateur, Ellie, was raised by her wealthy grandmother after her parents died. She doesn't know about an older half-brother…
who was committed after he tried to kill their grandmother. It's lucky that Ellie's friend is an ex-cop, because her brother's out--and he's after Ellie. Strong language, violence, and some explicit descriptions of sex. c1998.
Tymmon, thirteen, flees the abductors of his father, the jester of Austerneve, and takes refuge in the Sombrous Forest. Frightened…
and longing for the knighthood that his lowly station denies him, he is befriended by Troff, a gargoyle. They make a living as street musicians in Montreff. When an elderly man reveals the identity of Tymmon's parents, he returns to Austerneve to rescue or avenge his father. Grades 4-7 and older. 1991.
Fifteen year old Bryan Troupe moves to Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island from Drumheller, Alberta and soon becomes involved in…
a bitter dispute between loggers and "tree-huggers". The dispute divides his family, affects his relationship with his girlfriend, and threatens an entire way of life. For junior and senior high readers. 1994.
At twenty-seven, nurse Emily Sturtevant has been a widow for four years. She deeply misses Rob, her husband, and converses…
regularly with his spirit. When injured Brad Colson moves in next door, Rob's ghost tells Emily to help her new neighbour and to try to find happiness. But the gruff, wealthy Colson is not an easy man to deal with. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 1992.
It was autumn, 1541. Following the uncovering of a plot against his throne in Yorkshire, King Henry VIII has set…
out on a spectacular Progress to the North to overawe his rebellious subjects. Accompanied by a thousand soldiers, the cream of the nobility, and his fifth wife Catherine Howard, the King is to attend an extravagant submission of the local gentry at York. Already in the city are lawyer Matthew Shardlake and his assistant Jack Barak. As well as assisting with legal work processing petitions to the King, Shardlake has reluctantly undertaken a special mission - to ensure the welfare of an important but dangerous conspirator being returned to London for interrogation. But the murder of a local glazier involves Shardlake in a deeper mystery, connected not only to the prisoner in York Castle but to the royal family itself. As the Great Progress arrives in the city, Shardlake and Barak stumble upon a cache of secret papers. 2007, c2006.
Saskia, who isn't sure where she came from but thinks she was born in a Web site, and Christiana Tree,…
who is writer Christy Riddell's shadow self, made up of personality traits he discarded at age seven, all live in the twenty-first century city of Newford. A strange crash occurs on the popular research site Wordwood, and everyone visiting the site at that moment disappears from in front of their screens. Christy and his comrades must then enter Newford's otherworld, in which Wordwood is physical, to rescue their friends and defeat the culpable virus. Some descriptions of violence. 2003.
Rhian Gray left her Sweyn's Eye home for Yorkshire to learn the skills of spinning and weaving. She also learnt…
to love Mansel Jack, the charismatic, ambitious mill owner who wanted to make her his mistress. Now she is back in Sweyn's Eye, a town torn apart by anxiety and uncertainty caused by the Great War. Amidst the anguish and the dedication of the women left behind she must decide where her own future lies, in the respectable marriage to her former sweetheart, or in the arms of Mansel Jack. Sequel to "Proud Mary". 1986.
Salonika, 1940. To the bustle of tavernas and the smell of hashish, a secret war is taking shape. In the…
backrooms of barbers, envelopes change hands, and in the Club de Salonique the air is thick with whispers. Costa Zannis is the city's dashing chief detective - a man with contacts high and low, in the Balkans and beyond. And as unknown ships and British 'travel writers' trickle through the port, he is a man very much in demand. Having helped defeat Italy in the highlands of Macedonia, Zannis returns to a city holding its breath. Mussolini's forces have retreated - for now - but German sights are fixed firmly on the region. And as the situation in Germany worsens, Zannis becomes involved in an audacious plot - smuggling Jews to Istanbul, through the back door of Europe. The British hear he can penetrate the continent's closed borders, and soon Zannis is embroiled in the resistance, and in a reckless love affair that could jeopardise everything. Strong language. 2010.
Willy and John Constable buy a house in Nantucket. They plan to launch John's career as an artist, but increasingly…
he becomes obsessed with a ghost whom only he can see. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1989.
It is 1940 and 18 year-old Susan longs to do her duty. Her secret ambition is to learn to fly.…
She meets Tony, a flying instructor, and friendship blossoms into love. Susan is forced to flee London and is taken in by a kindly innkeeper. She then receives news that Tony is missing in action. Will she realise her dreams of love and flying? 2011.
Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade, both thirteen, are fascinated by the carnival that comes to their small town. But after…
a series of frightening events, the boys realize there is something sinister about the show and its owner. 1962.
Having vowed revenge on the tribesmen who attacked her, K'os lives apart and develops into a cold and cunning old…
woman. Chakliux, a young man adopted by K'os as a handicapped infant, grows to become a respected storyteller and peacemaker, but must confront past offenses of his people and of his adopted mother. 1997. (The storyteller trilogy ; 1)
Angeline could read the first time she picked up a book and play the piano without lessons. But being smart…
means that the mean kids in school call her a freak, her teacher finds her troublesome, and even her own father doesn't know what to do with her. Angeline just wants the chance to be herself, but it's only when she makes friends with a boy the kids call "Goon" and the teacher they call "Mr. Bone" that she gets that chance. Grades 4-7. c1983.
Poet Ka returns to Turkey after years of exile in Germany. While trying to rekindle romance with a childhood friend…
he investigates the suicide of several religious "head-scarf" girls. Meanwhile a blizzard cuts off the town and a military coup occurs. Some descriptions of sex and some violence. Bestseller. 2002. Uniform title: Kar.
Hajime finds and loses Shimamoto, only to meet her again years later. He's now a businessman, husband and father. She…
tantalizes him and disrupts his equanimity while remaining mysteriously uncommunicative about details of her daily existence, until Hajime's longing for her becomes obsessive. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 1998.
This story tells of the life and adventures of Solo who, orphaned as a kitten, has a tremendous fight to…
survive within the community of feral cats to which he belongs. Destruction threatens the group and Solo realises he must find a new home for them all, and so the great trek starts. Grades 4-7. 1988.