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Sixteen-year-old Susannah Simon is a mediator who can see and speak with ghosts. As a bridge between the living and…
the dead, she gets called on to help troubled ghosts take care of unfinished business. Soon after she and her mother move from New York City to sunny California, Suze meets the sexiest boy she's ever seen. But there are two problems: he's a ghost, and he's haunting her room. Followed by "Ninth Key". Junior and Senior High. 2005.
"Scribbling the Cat" chronicles Fuller's journey through Africa's war-torn history with a battle-scarred veteran of the Rhodesian war. What emerges…
is a gripping portrait of men who struggle every day with the sins they cannot forget. 2004.
Senator Ashley Butler fervidly opposes any legislation supporting biotechnology and strives to outlaw cloning. His adversary, Dr. Daniel Lowell, has…
almost perfected an innovative stem cell procedure that reverses the effects of several critical diseases. When Senator Butler learns that he has Parkinson's Disease, he puts his political beliefs aside and makes Lowell a surprising offer: he will become Lowell's guinea pig. But when the powerful new technology is unleashed in Butler's brain, the results are devastating. Bestseller. 2003.
When her guardian's will commands that Lady Catriona Hennessy and Richard Cynster will marry within a week, a battle of…
wits ensues between the independent young lady and the arrogant rake with a scandalous reputation. Sequel to "Rake's vow", followed by "Rogue's proposal". 2002.
Covert operative turned marine biologist Doc Ford spends a working holiday on luxurious Guava Key. When Ford foils a would-be…
kidnapping, he becomes the target of a drug lord. Ford encounters political intrigue and a Bahamian woman claiming to be his sister. 2001.
Twelve-year-old Mokes is torn between obeying his father, the police chief in the small town of Kailua, Hawaii, and being…
with his friends who plan to go see a fight between an island boy and a sailor. Grades 4-7. 1998.
Katie Gillian and her mom, Eve, an investigative reporter, have moved to the small town of Kluney, Texas, so Eve…
can write a novel and escape the trouble they have had since Eve wrote a series of articles about toxic waste dumps. But trouble seems to follow Katie and her mom. They discover there is a toxic waste dump in Kluney, and two murders take place. Is there a connection? Junior and Senior High. 2001.
Now Judd, Vicki, Lionel, and Ryan are facing the decision of whether or not to accept Christ and his forgiveness.…
Lionel, confronting the possibility that his Uncle André may try to kill himself, rushes to Chicago to save him. Sequel to "The Vanishings"; followed by "Through the Flames". Grades 5-8. 2001.
Emily 'Mickey' Hahn was a legendary New Yorker journalist whose vivid writing played a crucial role in opening Western eyes…
to the realities of life in China. At the height of the Depression, Hahn arrived in Shanghai after a disappointing affair, and became absorbed into the social swirl of the expats drawn to pre-war China, among them Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Harold Acton, and gangster Morris 'Two-Gun' Cohen. But when she meets Zau Sinmay, a Chinese poet, she discovers the real Shanghai through his eyes: the city of rich colonials, triple agents, opium-smokers, displaced Chinese peasants, and increasingly desperate White Russian and Jewish refugees. Danger lurks on the horizon, though, as the brutal Japanese occupation destroys the seductive world of pre-war Shanghai, paving the way for Mao Tse-tung's Communists' rise to power. 2016.
As the First World War rages in continental Europe, two New York heiresses, Sydney and Brooke Sinclair, are due to…
set sail for England. Brooke is engaged to marry impoverished aristocrat Edward Thorpe-Tracey, the future Lord Northbrook, while Sydney is drawn to the burgeoning suffragette movement. As international tempers flare, the German embassy releases a warning that any ships making the Atlantic crossing are at risk. Meanwhile, in London, Isabel Nelson, a young woman grateful to have escaped her blemished reputation in Oxford, has found employment at the British Admiralty in the mysterious Room 40. It isn’t long before her skills in codes and cyphers are called on, and she learns a devastating truth. 2017.
Operated by the same bureaucracy that was expanding health care opportunities for most Canadians, the 'Indian Hospitals' were underfunded, understaffed,…
overcrowded, and rife with coercion and medical experimentation. Established to keep the Aboriginal tuberculosis population isolated, they became a means of ensuring that other Canadians need not share access to modern hospitals with Aboriginal patients. Tracing the history of the system from its fragmentary origins to its gradual collapse, Maureen K. Lux describes the arbitrary and contradictory policies that governed the 'Indian Hospitals, ' the experiences of patients and staff, and the vital grassroots activism that pressed the federal government to acknowledge its treaty obligations. A disturbing look at the dark side of the liberal welfare state, "Separate Beds" reveals a history of racism and negligence in health care for Canada's First Nations that should never be forgotten. 2016.
"Schism" harkens back to the early years of the Skolian Empire, back to the beginning of the war between Skolia…
and the Euban Traders. Twenty-three years have passed since the fateful vote in the Skolian Assembly that Roca missed in "Skyfall". It created the first open hostility between Eube and Skolia, which has only deepened in the ensuing years. Now Eube senses an opportunity, for strife has riven the first family of the Skolian Empire. Sauscony, the daughter of Roca and Eldrinson, is ready to seek her fortune as an officer-in-training in the Skolian military. When her father forbids her to undertake such a dangerous path, a rupture develops as Soz chooses duty over family. Eube hopes to make this divide permanent, leaving the Empire ripe for conquest. And they're willing to kill anyone to make it happen. Sequel to "Skyfall", followed by "The final key"/"The Triad part 2". 2017.
The memoirs of the legendary guitarist and cofounder of seminal British band The Smiths recalls his childhood in working-class Manchester,…
his early collaborations with Stephen Morrissey, the ideological differences that triggered his departure and his influential solo career. 2016.
Special Agent Daniel Vartanian is drawn back into the dark past of his dead brother, Simon, a ruthless serial killer,…
when a series of recent murders is linked to a collection of photographs that Simon owned. Sequel to "Die for me", followed by "Kill for me". 2008.
Based on oral histories, diaries, correspondence, post-war testimony from both American and Japanese participants, Evan Thomas provides an almost cinematically…
suspenseful account not only of the great culminating sea battle and the Pacific naval war, but of the contrasting cultures pitted against each other. The book focuses on four naval commanders, two American, two Japanese, whose lives collided at the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944--a clash involving more ships (almost 300), more men (nearly 200,000) and covering a larger area (more than 100 thousand square miles, roughly the size of the British Isles) than any naval battle in recorded history. 2006.
When D.C. lawyer Hannah McCrae heads home for her brother's wedding, she's dragging a lot of baggage along with her…
and she doesn't mean suitcases. Betrayed personally, and humiliated professionally, the last thing she wants is a new man. That's fine with square-jawed, rugged contractor Calder Blue. He and Hannah may be wildly attracted to one another, but all he wants is to build the town's hotly contested new yacht club and mend a centuries-old family feud. Yet thanks to resentments old and new, day after day the pair wind up tangled in each other's business and maybe soon in each other's arms. Followed by "Snowflake Bay". 2015.
Enigmatic Marine Shane Schofield, call-sign 'Scarecrow' is one of 15 top warriors being hunted for bounty. Plunged into a headlong…
race around the world, he is pursued by a fearsome collection of international bounty hunters - including the 'Black Knight', a notoriously ruthless man who seems intent on eliminating only Schofield. Schofield fights for survival, at the same time unveiling a vast international conspiracy and the terrible reason why he cannot be allowed to live. 2004.
At first, the shooting death of the company chairman seems like an unfortunate hunting accident -- until Lucas investigates the…
other four executives in the hunting party. Sequel to “Sudden prey”, followed by “Certain prey”. 1998.