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Donald Bright, conductor of the New York Symphony Chorus, discovers a long-lost Mozart mass, but the honour of conducting its…
world premiere goes to Andrew Barnes, a mediocre conductor of the Royal Symphony of London. The premiere is preceded by a number of death threats towards Barnes. Some strong language. 1989.
A robust historical novel of the Napoleonic era. Follows the fortunes, friendships and loves of seven ordinary soldiers in the…
Emperor's army from the victories on the battlefields of Europe to the retreat from Moscow and the ultimate defeat of Waterloo. [1975, c1973].
National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA) investigators Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala use their aquatic skills and keen minds to…
try to retrieve a mysterious object from an armored car on the sunken Andrea Doria. They face numerous adventures fraught with complications and impeded by political schemes. Bestseller. 1999.
Ritchie tries to escape his humdrum existence and is drawn to Joey, the young son of Louise, a waitress with…
whom he has a brief affair. He flees Chicago after Louise's tragic death, but cannot forget Joey. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1988.
This biography of the Russian composer draws extensively on sources previously unavailable to the English-speaking audience. The author relates Prokofiev's…
life to greater political and cultural currents, while trying to encourage greater appreciation of Prokofiev's music. 1987.
Seven lectures in which the famous Argentine writer shares his personal observations on poetry and on great poetic works such…
as "The Divine Comedy" and "The Thousand and One Nights." In the final essay he reminisces on his blindness and how blindness has served him and other blind poets. 1986.
Vampire hunter Anita Blake has managed to overcome everything she faces. But this time there's a monster that even she…
doesn't know how to fight. Sequel to "Crimson death", followed by "Club Vampyre". 2018.
Set in Scotland, the novel begins in the month of May as invitations are being written for a party in…
September, a moment which will be the turning point in the lives of a small group of people. Rosamunde Pilcher assembles a cast of characters linked by friendship, love or birth, telling their stories - some happy, some tragic - each unfolding as the seasons change and September comes. 1990.
Collection of pieces from Bushnell's "Sex and the City" column originally published in the New York Observer. Essays discuss the…
relationships of Bushnell and women friends, who have what she describes as "a never-ending series of freakish and horrifying experiences with men." Descriptions of sex and strong language. 2001. Uniform title: New York observer (New York, N.Y.)
Au XVIIe siècle, Hélène St-Onge doit, à treize ans, quitter la France et voyager jusqu'au Nouveau Monde avec sa soeur,…
une Fille du Roy. Mais celle-ci ne survit pas au voyage et Hélène se retrouve seule. La vie en Nouvelle-France est difficile; les hivers y sont rigoureux et les attaques iroquoises, fréquentes. Que lui réserve le destin? Pour les lecteurs d'école secondaire. 2003. (Cher journal)
Beginning with a simple comparison between the parent-child relationship in the affluent West and the villages in the Third World,…
the author leads the reader to ask some disturbing questions about our pre-conceived ideas of the nuclear family. Some descriptions of sex. 1984.
Ever since she moved to Sweet Briar, South Carolina, Yankee librarian Tori Sinclair has been the talk of the tiny…
town. But she's been so busy at work, winning over the sewing circle, and trying to forget her cheating ex that she hasn't even had time to baste together a pillow, let alone mind local gossip. When she finds the hometown sweetheart dead at her back door, Tori has to rely on her new sewing sisters to stitch together the truth and clear her name. Followed by "Death threads". 2009. (Southern Sewing Circle ; 1)
When her lover, Taylor Hayes, disappears without a trace, psychotherapist Christine Snow is at first unconcerned. But after a while,…
a disturbing clue sends Snow to Morocco. Her search reveals that Hayes is a different woman than Snow thought she knew. Descriptions of sex. c1996.
Stefan Vogel's domineering mother, a social climber in officially class-free East Germany, announces him as a budding poet, allowing him…
access to a collection of Western poetry from which he can crib. His deceptions and betrayals lead Stefan to America, where one day, a stranger at a Manhattan party throws a glass of wine in his face, leading Stefan to start a diary that finally brings his internal corrosion to the surface. Some descriptions of sex. 2005.
Account of the authors' journey along the south coast of Spain and Malta, crossing over to Tunisia, then moving on…
to Italy and Yugoslavia. Intersperses tales of unwitting smuggling, military arrests, a collision and a hurricane. 1981.
Sharon's comfortable existence as a novelist, wife and mother to twin daughters is shattered by a cancer diagnosis, and by…
her husband's affair with a graduate student. The only relief in sight is a new writing project - an engrossing serialized novel based on the story of the 19th-century actress Nelly Ternan, the young mistress of the aging Charles Dickens. Chronicling this infamous affair, Sharon is forced to examine with new eyes the secrets and struggles at the heart of domestic life, as she strives to mend her own marriage and heal her body. 2016.
When Samuel Godwin, a young and naive art tutor, accepts a job with the Farrow family at their majestic home,…
little does he expect to come across such a web of secrets and lies. His two tutees are as different as chalk and cheese - the beautiful younger sister Marianne, full of flightiness and nervous imagination, and Juliana, oddly sensible and controlled. Assisted by their elusive governess, Charlotte Agnew, Samuel begins to uncover slowly why Marianne is so emotionally fragile. But his discoveries lead to revenge and betrayal - and lives all around are turned upside down as life and death combat each other for supremacy. For senior high readers. 2006.
Bryant and May, the irascible detectives of London's Peculiar Crimes Unit, know that time is the key in solving the…
murders of various members of a wealthy aristocratic family. Investigations lead them into a world of class conflict, craftsmanship and the secret loyalties of big business. Bryant is at his rudest and May at his most exasperated. 2005. (A Bryant & May mystery)
Hidden in a small valley is Neath, a house that holds a dark secret. Living there is a psychic called…
Kline who is part of that dreadful secret. Together with the guardian of the house, they serve a force that threatens mankind. Sensing a terrible danger, they look to an outsider to protect them all. His name is Halloran and he will combat physical corruption, find love of a perverse nature and confront the darkness of his own soul. Descriptions of violence. 1987.