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Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in…
a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual; and Sophie, a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic. Stingo is drawn into the heart of their passionate and destructive relationship as witness, confidant and supplicant. Ultimately, he arrives at the dark core of Sophie's past: her memories of pre-war Poland, the concentration camp and - the essence of her terrible secret - her choice. 2004, c1979.
A semi-autobiographical, philosophical novel by the Chinese Nobel laureate. The protagonist, in reprieve from death, wanders through the Chinese landscape…
in search of Lingshan (Soul Mountain), describing his interior and exterior quests. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. Bestseller. 2000. Uniform title: Ling shan.
Samantha longs for a settled home and friends, but her widowed mother, Elizabeth, is always moving--searching for new places and…
novel things to try. When Elizabeth suddenly decides to return to her father's ranch in Colorado, it seems Sam's dream of stability is about to come true. Sam has never met her grandfather and finds him grouchy, but they become close, and Sam discovers what really matters most. Grades 5-8. c1993.
Brooklyn, 1947. Eleven-year-old Irish Catholic Michael Devlin and Rabbi Judah Hirsh, a refugee from Prague, become friends. Michael teaches the…
rabbi about America and baseball, and Judah teaches the boy Yiddish phrases. When religious prejudice sweeps the community, Michael faces a difficult choice between his neighbours and his principles. Some strong language. 1997.
Mac knows he's the best goalie on the Cougar's team and he is critical of his teammates. When caricatures begin…
to appear in the school paper mocking him, Mac is determined to uncover the anonymous cartoonist. Grades 4-7. c1998.
Diana Scott is killed and dumped into someone else's grave. Elderly Miss Adams is attacked by the killer as a…
potential witness, but survives. Chief of Police Judd Springfield resorts to a daring plan to solve the cases. 1984.
High-school senior Regina Afton has been what she believes is an important part of the most popular girls' clique during…
middle and high school. But when she's nearly raped by her best friend's boyfriend and she tells, she pays for it by being victimized in a hate campaign. Only her deceased psychiatrist's teenaged son seems to really care, and when she tries to take revenge on his behalf after her former friends bully him as well, things spins out of control. Explicit descriptions of sex and violence, explicit strong language. For senior high readers. 2009.
New York attorney and perennial "good girl" Rachel celebrates her thirtieth birthday by sleeping with her childhood friend Darcy's fiancé…
Dex. Rachel discovers that Dex, a classmate from their law school days, really loves her but is afraid to end his engagement. Some strong language. 2004.
In 1953 President Eisenhower receives alarming reports of Joseph Stalin's deteriorating mental health and of a heightened risk of war.…
Ike authorizes the CIA to kill Stalin, and two agents are dropped in Moscow. When the plot goes awry, the agents come under threat from both sides and find an unlikely ally. Violence, strong language, and descriptions of sex. 1996.
The biography of an era - from the eve of the First World War and the rise of Hitler to…
the fall of the Berlin Wall - that illuminates our current world, with its cults of celebrity and the crisis of the authentic. An examination of legitimacy and truth, fakery and pretence. 2012.
At the age of thirty-four, Gerald Shea discovered that he had been partially deaf since childhood, yet somehow managed to…
navigate his way through Andover, Yale, and Columbia Law School, and to establish an international legal career. Shea had compensated for his deafness through sheer determination and an amazing ability to translate the melody of vowels. His experience gives fascinating new insight into the nature and significance of language, the meaning of deafness, the fierce controversy between advocates of signing and of oral education, and the longing for full communication that unites us all. 2013.
The story of Edith Lavery, the attractive only child of a comfortably-off accountant, who earns a living answering the telephone…
in a Chelsea estate agents. Attending Royal Ascot, she meets Charles Broughton, who as Earl Broughton and heir to the Marquess of Uckfield, is a gossip-column favourite. He proposes, she accepts - but here is the crux of the story - is she really in love with Charles or with his title and all that goes with it? Descriptions of sex. 2004.
Azaro the spirit child is a reluctant traveller in the realities of this world. In this story of love and…
transformation, his adventures begin with the disruption of his family, when, under the pressure of poverty and myth, his mother goes off to follow the legendary Madame Koto. An obsession for a beautiful beggar girl ensnares his father into forbidden visions. Sequel to “The Famished Road”. 1993.
This edition provides comprehensive notes on the poems and an approaches section offering commentary and activities on key themes and…
techniques, such as Blake's political beliefs and the role of imagery within his poetry. The poems were originally written in 1789 and 1794. 1990.
Bruised, comatose, and left for dead in a gully, Liir is shattered in spirit as well as in form. But…
he is tended at the Cloister of Saint Glinda by the silent novice called Candle, who wills him back to life with her musical gifts. What dark force left Liir in this condition? Is he really Elphaba's son? He has her broom and her cape -- but what of her powers? Can he find his supposed half-sister, Nor, last seen in the forbidding prison, Southstairs? Can he fulfill the last wishes of a dying princess? In an Oz that, since the Wizard's departure, is under new and dangerous management, can Liir keep his head down long enough to grow up? Sequel to "Wicked". For senior high and older readers. 2005. (Wicked years ; 2)
This sequel to “Daughter of the Forest” continues the saga of Sorcha, whose courage and love broke the magic spell…
that turned her six brothers into swans. Now Sorcha’s daughter Liadan embarks on a journey to fulfill the destiny of the Sevenwaters clan. Includes sex and violence. 2002.
Successful lawyer Matthew Hope is hired by a beautiful blonde to gain her release from a Florida psychiatric facility, where…
she is being treated for paranoid schizophrenia. Meanwhile, Hopes friend in the police department, Detective Bloom, is looking for the murderer of another blonde, found floating in the river. Is there a connection? Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1985. (Matthew Hope ; 5)
Herbert, his daughter Alice, his third wife and her two adult children all seem ordinary enough, but as our acquaintance…
with them increases we realise that there is something in disguise about each of them. 1969.
It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge. A seasoned veteran of the…
service, 007 is sent to single-handedly stop a civil war in the small West African nation of Zanzarim. Aided by a beautiful accomplice and hindered by the local militia, he undergoes a scarring experience which compels him to ignore M's orders in pursuit of his own brand of justice. Bond's renegade action leads him to Washington, D.C., where he discovers a web of geopolitical intrigue and witnesses fresh horrors. Even if Bond succeeds in exacting his revenge, a man with two faces will come to stalk his every waking moment. 2013.
Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for…
enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: she is having the affair, and he is still in love with her. When Beard's professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself for Beard to extricate himself from his marital mess, reinvigorate his career and save the world from environmental disaster. 2010.