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From the moment of Leo's arrival strange things begin to happen in Battenbun. An eel that's never been known to…
visit before appears in a pond outside the village. The men slope off to see this Slinky Jane - or so they say - while the women decide how best to deal with the other slippery customers. 1975.
Trevor Barnett is the scion of an old tobacco family. He is 31 and will come into a $10 million…
trust fund when he turns 60 so long as he has been in continuous employment from graduation until his 60th birthday with the cigarette company his ancestor founded. His capacity for useful candour gets him promoted to a senior PR job at just the point where a maverick CEO tries to blackmail the US government and people by shutting down the entire tobacco industry Trevor, though, has a different agenda which is to bring common sense and humanity to the debate; he also wants to hang onto his personal wealth and get the woman he loves--which is harder than it sounds, since she is an anti-smoking advocacy lawyer. Strong language. 2003.
Another classic Michael Gilbert thriller, set within the legal profession. The mystery begins when the body of a client is…
found dead in a deed-box of the impeccable legal firm of Horniman, Birley and Crane. But why? And how was the Horniman system broken? A classic English murder mystery. 1983.
"Slow emergencies" describes an irresistible impulse, a powerful energy which, from childbirth to abandonment and departure, is nevertheless always a…
movement towards life. Huston writes beautifully here about the dance, the unfathomable workings of time, the joys and terrors of motherhood, the unspeakable solitude of art, the beauty and vulnerability of the human body, the power of natural cycles, and the enigmatic imprint of family destiny. 1996.
When farm boy Homer Pudding's explorer-uncle dies and leaves him a droopy dog with a mysterious coin hidden on its…
collar, it leads him to The City, where they meet Madame La Directeur, the conniving head of the Natural History Museum, who is trying to steal the coin and take Homer's place in a secret society of adventurers. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 4-7. 2010.
British army major Hal Treherne is dispatched to Cyprus in 1956, taking his wife Clara and their young twin girls.…
There, they fight separate, but equally maddening, battles - Clara as an army wife with babies in an increasingly dangerous land, and Hal on the front lines where, yearning for firefights, he is instead haunted by his lack of control when torture and rape occur at the hands of his own men. After Clara narrowly avoids death, Hal makes a split-second decision with powerful implications for their future. Descriptions of sex, explicit descriptions of violence. 2009.
To prove that the most dangerous pollution comes from commonplace items in our homes and workplaces, Smith and Lourie ingested…
and inhaled these items for one week. They expose the miscreant corporate giants who manufacture the toxins, the weak-kneed government officials who let it happen, and the effects on people across the globe; they also describe the extent to which we are poisoned, from the simple household dust that is polluting our blood to the toxins in our urine that are created by run-of-the-mill shampoos and toothpaste. c2009.
The collapse of Western colonial empires after the Second World War led to any number of vicious struggles for power,…
whose bloody consequences haunt us still. Acclaimed historian Michael Burleigh's analytic skills and eye for common themes underpins this powerful account of those struggles. 2013.
When Felix's plane crashes, he finds himself in a small remote village. The only thing he has salvaged from the…
plane is a polaroid camera with ten remaining pictures. Grades 4-7. 2004.
This was a book about Australian Vietnam Vets who get together after several years to discuss their shared horrors, failures,…
and medical problems. They decide to do something about it, as a unit. The rest is a story that makes you think about how far your frustrations with government inaction on a variety of issues might take you, and what your action would be. 2001.
"Smile please" was begun when the author was 86 years old, and left unfinished due to her death three years…
later. This book is a collection of autobiographical vignettes. As a novelist she speaks with originality of the plight of the disaffected, but self-aware; here she reveals the influences that shaped her life, and with perfect recall she returns to the tensions of her childhood on the island of Dominica and to the rebellious uncertainties of her later life in London and Paris. 1990.
The author's love of the sea, inspired by Conrad, led him to set off on a voyage that was to…
take him halfway round the world on small, local boats of every kind. 1981.
Fourteen-year-old Elvin, his two best friends, and other incoming male freshmen of a Christian high school spend three weeks at…
summer camp. The goal is to find an athletic slot for each boy. Unfortunately, as overweight Elvin sarcastically explains in letters to his mother, he's not the athletic type. Some strong language. For junior and senior high readers. 1996.
In a string of twelve short stories, the author visits the sometimes dark psyche of the teenage years, exploring the…
consequences of choices that are made. In "The Sky Blue Ball", a high-school girl is confronted by a haunting memory of childhood. In "Capricorn", a jealous teen lets her cousin go off alone with a dangerous person, aware of the terrifying possibilities. Some descriptions of sex and violence, and some strong language. Senior high readers and older. 2003.
Retired professor of botany, Andrew Basnett's Christmas is shattered when a bomb kills a neighbouring judge. Was it terrorists or…
a revengeful prisoner? Or does the guilt lie closer to home? Andrew Basnett finds out, but rather wishes he hadn't! 1990.
Someone starts a fire in a second-hand furniture store and the shady owner is killed. When inspector Charlie Salter investigates…
the murder, he enters the fascinating world of collectibles, from junk to priceless art. c1984.
When thirteen-year-old Jane Covington is sent to spend her summer vacation with her grandmother at Sky Lake, the last thing…
she expects to be doing is solving a seventy-year-old mystery. But that's exactly what she does when she becomes interested in a long ago fire. Jane finds a cry for help in the form of a letter tucked into an old library book and begins the search for more clues and information with a little help from her friend Corrie. Grades 5-8. 1999.
At age twelve, Knipfel's uncle told him he "better start learning braille," but it was years before he knew he…
had retinitis pigmentosa. Then a brain lesion began causing erratic behaviour. With humour and honesty, Knipfel recalls his reluctance to accept his condition and how he has coped. Strong language. 1999.
Why does Skippy, a student at Dublin's venerable Seabrook College, end up dead on the floor of the local doughnut…
shop? Could it have something to do with his friend Ruprecht Van Doren, who is determined to open a portal into a parallel universe using ten-dimensional string theory? Or Carl, the teenage drug dealer who is Skippy's rival in love? Strong language. 2010.