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South Africa's Skinner's Drift was Eva van Rensburg's home. Years pass and the summer storms finally arrive. The violence that…
was buried beneath the parched earth begins to break through and looks set to shatter the lives of all who remain. And Eva knows she must flee the place she loves if she is to survive. 2005.
In 2007 James Maskalyk, a doctor newly recruited by Médecins Sans Frontières, set out for the contested border town of…
Abyei, Sudan. He spent his days treating malnourished children, coping with a measles epidemic and watching for war. Worn thin by the struggle to meet overwhelming needs with few resources, he returned home six months later more affected by the experience, the people, and the place than he had anticipated. Descriptions of sex, explicit strong language, and explicit descriptions of violence. c2009.
With an ailing infant, Michael’s family is sad hearted as they settle into their new home. In the ramshackle garage…
Michael discovers Skellig, a sickly, winged man. As the boy and his intellectual next-door friend, Mina, nurse Skellig back to health, the mysterious man introduces them to life’s magical side. Grades 5-8. Winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book Award. 1998.
Bail bondsman Stephanie Plum has an unpleasant assignment. A mobster is holding cousin Vinnie, her sleazy boss, for ransom because…
of gambling debts. To save the business, Stephanie, office manager Connie, and clerk Lula must rescue Vinnie and/or come up with the cash to free him. Bestseller. 2010.
When an attorney is horribly murdered on Edinburgh's Royal Mile, CID head Bob Skinner wonders if it is work-related. However,…
three subsequent murders suggest a serial killer instead. But then the attorney's lover (also an attorney) is murdered. The investigation sends Skinner into a world where his rules of fairness and honesty don't apply, and even he is forced to break them. Strong language, violence, and explicit descriptions of sex. Followed by “Skinner’s festival”. 1994.
"Sixty" is a report from the front, a dispatch from the Maginot Line that divides the middle-aged from the soon…
to be elderly. Ian began keeping a diary with a Facebook post on the morning of February 4, 2014, his sixtieth birthday. As well as keeping a running tally on how he survived the year, Ian explored what being sixty means physically, psychologically and intellectually. "What pleasures are gone forever? Which ones, if any, are left? What did Beethoven, or Schubert, or Jagger, or Henry Moore, or Lucien Freud do after they turned sixty?" And most importantly, "How much life can you live in the fourth quarter, not knowing when the game might end?" Bestseller. 2015.
From the turn of the century to our present urban follies, these stories follow the fortunes of the socially secure…
and powerful as they try to cope with the changes shaped by the momentous events and growing anxieties of recent decades. Taken together, the tales weave a larger pattern of human strengths and foibles that bemuses the mind and touches the heart. 1988.
Skiffy is on a new space mission. This time he is heading for the twin planets Clarke I and Clarke…
II which appear to be behaving in a very peculiar way. Thirty-eight days out from Earth things start going wrong on the ship and there is `something' out there that is very old and very uncuddly. Grades 4-7. 1982.
Dickens' first book, published when he was a twenty-four-year-old reporter at the House of Commons, contains a rich mixture of…
reportage, observation, fancy, and fiction centred on the great metropolis of London in the 19th century. 1995.
A 1956 plane collision over the Grand Canyon left 128 dead and a briefcase of diamonds missing. Decades later, after…
a Hopi man tries to pawn one of the gems, retired Navajo tribal policeman Joe Leaphorn assists Sergeant Jim Chee in tracking down the jewels. Some descriptions of violence. c2004.
A strange "great-uncle" takes charge of Molly after her parents disappear. She doesn't trust him and must rely on her…
dreams about an old Mohawk story for her safety--and maybe even for her life. Grades 5-8. 2001.
Down in Salt Lick, Texas, a lot of folks got sass. Debbie Sue Overstreet's got a bit more than most.…
After dropping her husband - the town's hot sheriff - she decides to open a beauty parlor. Though she's not getting rich, she does get the chance to hear all the tastiest gossip. So when she learns the meanest and nastiest local woman around has been killed, and there's a nice sum in store for whoever finds the killer, Debbie jumps on the trail like a jackrabbit in heat. Includes sex and strong language. 2007.
On September 3, 1939, the Prime Minister declared that Britain was at war with Nazi Germany. Thousands of young women,…
many of them barely out of school, were sent headlong into gruelling training regimes that would see them become wartime nurses. 'Sisters' features over 150 previously unpublished stories from the archives of the Royal College of Nursing. The vivid, poignant, and riveting stories capture these nurses' incredible bravery and touching friendships. 2013.
Frustrated by the traffic on narrow bridges? Stunned by the number of buttons on a remote control? Saddened by the…
lack of basic medical care in the developing world? Kluger makes the modern world comprehensible, analyzing social and technological systems to reveal that things that seem complicated can be preposterously simple; things that seem simple can be dizzyingly complex. c2008.
The author, who has won a Governor-General's Award for poetry, has written this work of fiction as a series of…
vignettes set aboard a Canadian transcontinental train. Her work spins together the somewhat diverse themes of love as a pursuit, detective fiction, and relationships between men and women. 1986.
Three weeks into their marriage, Ross and Iliana Alexander get into a car accident that leaves Iliana paralyzed. Ross struggles…
with his guilt while Iliana learns to live with her new condition, processes complicated by Ross's too-close relationship with his twin sister Bonnie and her young son. Two years later, trying to start anew, they are running a café when Bonnie arrives with her son, stirring up unresolved tensions. Some strong language. Descriptions of sex and some descriptions of violence. 2003.
At twenty-one Maya Angelou's life has a double focus - music and her son. Working in a record store at…
the start of this third volume of autobiography, she is on the edge of new worlds: marriage, show business and, in 1954, a triumphant tour of Europe and North Africa as a feature dancer with "Porgy and Bess". Sequel to “Gather together in my name”, followed by “The heart of a woman“. 1985.