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The authors contend that the United States is one of the world's most religious countries, with ninety-five percent of the…
population believing in God. Americans, however, view religion as another commodity and shop for a church that fulfills them spiritually regardless of its doctrine. Offers predictions on the future of religion. c1998.
Artistic Mirabelle has an uninspiring job behind the glove counter at Neiman Marcus in Los Angeles, but what she really…
craves is love. Then smitten Seattle millionaire Ray Porter sends Mirabelle the gloves he purchased from her, beginning an unconventional relationship. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2000.
At the end of the Second World War, a survivor of Auschwitz, her husband and most of her family dead,…
makes her way home to Hungary. After giving birth to another man's child, her husband returns home, forcing her to make a choice that will cloud her life, and her daughter's, forever. The author is the daughter who grew up with the consequences of that decision, and who was raised on family stories that were both a burden and a gift. Their inescapable message of lost love and lost lives create a resentful divide between mother and daughter, until they finally lead to acceptance and reconciliation. Some descriptions of sex, and descriptions of violence. 2003.
Thirty-year old Kit Mason has been blind for six years and she still hasn't accepted what has happened to her.…
Not only is her career as a songwriter/guitarist stalled, but her personal life is the pits. When one of her friends is brutally murdered, Kit and her other friends investigate. Some strong language. 2002.
When journalist Kevin Burns gets a call from former schoolmate Carl Greene, he's surprised. They weren't that close at school…
and the temperature cooled even more when Carl married Kevin's girl, Lucy. Carl, a scientist, sounds anxious and afraid. They arrange to meet at a baseball game in Denver but Carl never makes it. Someone kills him first. Soon after, Lucy surprises a masked figure prowling Carl's study. Whatever her husband was working on, a lot of people want to get their hands on it. Some are clearly prepared to kill for it, though not the prowler who, it turns out, is a woman with quite a different agenda. 2002.
1885. Marshal Kade McKettrick must marry and produce an heir in order to inherit the Triple M Ranch. He falls…
inexplicably in love with Mandy Sperrin, although she is impersonating a nun so she can hide from her outlaw stepfather. Some strong language. 2003.
The story features Frank Calder, a former soldier and hostage negotiator, who is hired to intercede in the kidnapping of…
the great-granddaughter of wealthy businessman Pat Carson and deliver the ransom to the kidnappers. As events unfold, Calder discovers that money is not the only reason for the kidnapping. 1999.
A documentary biography of the great twentieth-century Russian composer. Presents reminiscences of some seventy contemporaries arranged chronologically and supplemented with…
research. Focuses on the social and political circumstances behind the creation and performance of Shostakovich's works. Recounts the Stalinist purges of 1936 and 1948, when artists were censured and arrested. 1994.
Abused and neglected as a child, Macy grows up to be a high-school dropout, then a thief, a kidnapper, and…
a serial murderer while still in his teens. Misfit Danny, crippled by scoliosis and orphaned at a young age, suffers cruel taunting from his peers but grows into a brilliant, gentle, and compassionate, though lonely, teen. He loves Leah, the most beautiful girl in school, and it is she who unwittingly brings the two young men to the story's fateful climax. Some descriptions of violence. For senior high readers. 2003.
Shocking account of six months on the men's professional tennis tour, by a tennis-playing author who deeply cares about sport.…
His outlook quickly changes when he encounters fixed matches, prize splitting, dumped matches, drugs, and conflicts of interest. Strong language. 1983.
Shoebag, the cockroach son of Drainboard and Under the Toaster, awakens one morning to find that he is now a…
boy! Adopted by the Biddles (in whose kitchen he has always lived) and renamed Stuart Bagg, poor Shoebag confronts the unknown worlds of humanity and school. Although he bands together with other social outcasts at school and becomes close to his human sister, he longs to return to roachdom and his roach family. Grades 4-7. 1990.
Account of a family that lived on a Mississippi River showboat in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Traces the…
fortunes of Captain Hawks's daughter Magnolia, who marries a gambler and leaves the troupe, and her daughter Kim, who becomes a singer on the New York stage. First published in 1926; updated introduction by Miles Kreuger. 1994, c1926.
Once on the fast track to success, Helen Hawthorne is now going nowhere fast. She traded in her chic life…
for a shabby one. And now she's on the run, jumping from city to city and dead-end job to dead-end job, trying to stay one step ahead of her past. After two weeks as the new salesclerk at Juliana's, Fort Lauderdale's ultra-exclusive clothing boutique, Helen still feels out of fashion. And since the only crime likely to be committed around here is being old--or worse, looking old--Helen figures she's safe. Until she discovers the manager has been embezzling money and selling designer drugs along with the designer clothes. Add murder to the mix, and Helen's dead-end job is downright deadly. Followed by "Murder between the covers". 2003.
In 1972, in DeClare, Oklahoma, 10-month-old Nicky Jack Harjo disappears when his single mother is murdered. Thirty years later Mark…
Albright, Californian veterinarian to the stars, having just learned he was adopted, arrives in DeClare looking for an explanation from the mother who gave him away. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2004.
Becky and Luke have returned from their honeymoon and Luke is furious; two truckloads of souvenirs have arrived and the…
bills are outrageous. Luke insists she go on a budget. And her best friend has found a new best friend. She's thrilled to discover she has a long-lost sister - until she meets Jessica, who hates shopping! Sequel to "Shopaholic ties the knot", followed by "Shopaholic and baby". c2004.
CPA-with-an-attitude Whitney "Pink" Pearl has just blown the whistle on the accounting scam of the decade. And in true scapegoat…
fashion, she's lost her job and reputation and has moved back home to work for her mother. But trouble follows, because Pink's not taking back her accusations, no matter how many death threats, abduction attempts, or steamy kisses from lawyers of questionable ethics she receives. Descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. 2005.
Ten years ago, Martin Vail's defence kept murderer Aaron Stampler out of prison and sent him to a mental institution.…
But when new crimes remind the attorney of the earlier case, Vail, now a prosecutor, recruits his former opponent, Jane Venable, to determine if Stampler is involved. Sequel to "Primal fear" (DC12345). Strong language, violence, and descriptions of sex. 1995.
The year:1912. The place: East Africa. The action: ivory-poaching deep in the German-occupied delta of the steaming Rufiji river. Flynn,…
elephant-hunter and hounder of Germans, likes to enjoy the spoils of his sport without too much effort - and the arrival of rich young Sebastian Oldsmith is a windfall he cannot resist. Sebastian is rapidly plunged into not merely an ivory-hunt, but a murderous game of hide-and-seek with Flynn's enemy, the gross German Commissioner, Herman Fleischer. Descriptions of violence. 1968.
From the early days as ruffian teens riding the skiffle wave in the port town of Liverpool to presiding over…
the rise (and fall) of a global entertainment empire, Norman details the history of the Beatles, became one of the most famous bands in the world. 1981.