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Fascinated with islands, the author traveled worldwide, visiting small, unique islands. He surveys islands that have inspired famous stories like…
South Pacific and Robinson Crusoe, islands with utopian societies, private islands, prison islands and others. It is filled with unique characters, exotic locales and colourful anecdotes. 2001.
The Sandberg and Moritz families live in England in the late 1930s. The two Jewish families, who have long shared…
a close bond, must now face a world war and modern forces that threaten to sunder some of their children from family and faith. Sequel to "Almonds and raisins". c1980.
In 1939, Oskar Schindler, a young, wealthy, enterprising German interested in drinking and women is a less-than-exemplary Catholic. In this…
"nonfiction novel," Keneally tells the story of his transformation into a man who, at great personal risk, saves hundreds of Jews from death during World War II. 1982 Man Booker Prize. Includes violence and strong language. 1982.
Scarlett returns to Tara after Melanie's funeral, but then makes her way to Ireland where she attempts to bring Rhett…
Butler back into her life. Sequel to "Gone with the wind". 1991.
Forty-year-old Laura Thornby meets Claud, a struggling 23-year-old writer. She is overcome with an irresistible desire to interfere and manipulate…
him -- all for his own protection. However, Laura may have to play second fiddle to a character in Claud's novel. Strong language and descriptions of sex.
Joe Lunn is now in his sixties and about to retire from the Civil Service. Tom, plump and wealthy, arrives…
from New York intent - again - on mischievous interference. Sequel to "Scenes from metropolitan life". Followed by "Scenes from death and life." 1983.
Eight years have passed and Joe Lunn is now a civil servant in London. He still sees his old friends:…
Robert is his immediate boss at the ministry and Myrtle travels up frequently to visit him. Sequel to "Scenes from married life". 1982.
When Eileen O'Casey read "Juno and the Paycock" in 1926, she was so overwhelmed by its tragi-comedy that she returned…
to England to meet its author. That meeting was the beginning of a 37-year love affair that endured celebrity and sorrow, through happy and hard-up days until O'Casey's death in 1964. Eileen's portrait compliments the bitter passion of the plays and offers a further dimension to O'Casey's own autobiographies. 1971.
Unsentimental and humorous autobiography by the BBC's disability affairs correspondent, the second blind son born to sighted parents. The text…
covers Peter White's childhood, his experiences at special schools, the shock of `real life' - of the problems of coping with seemingly ordinary, everyday living away from home or a special school, his career with the BBC, marriage and parenthood, his love of sport, his occasional rage at the attitudes of `normal' people, and his sometimes volatile relationship with his father. 1999.
Captain Alan Lewrie sets sail aboard HMS Proteus for the West Indies, where General Toussaint L'Ouverture leads a slave rebellion…
in France's Saint Domingue colony. Lewrie patrols for privateers, French warships, and anything suspicious. Sequel to "King's Captain". Strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some violence. 2002. (Alan Lewrie naval adventure series ; 10)
Boston attorney Brady Coyne investigates the apparent death of a friend's teenage son. But there is no body, and the…
local police seem agitated. Then the friend himself disappears after giving Coyne a sealed envelope holding disturbing photographs. Strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some violence. 2000.
Set in 1919, the walking-wounded survivors of WW1 crowd the English landscape, and among them is Inspector Ian Rutledge, who…
has been damaged by shell-shock. His latest case does not help his fragile state of mind as it involves another veteran accused of killing a woman thought to be his wife. 1999.
Detective Marti MacAlister of the Lincoln Prairie, Illinois, police department, investigates the murder of a young woman found alongside Lake…
Michigan. A homeless man is also missing from the area. While working, Marti is unaware that an intruder is entering her house regularly and stalking her family. Some strong language. 1998.
Multimillion-dollar yachts compete in a sailing race that lasts eight months and takes them from the United States to South…
Africa, Australia and Argentina. The competitors battle each other, their shipmates, the weather, and the sea. Strong language. c1987.
Why does cancer strike Sylvia Bryan at a time when her mission work in Nicaragua is bearing such fruit and…
is beset by such needs? Through all the questions and upheaval there is one deep desire: that God will use her illness and that she will glorify Him through it. 2003.
The first English translation of correspondence by this twentieth-century modernist German composer, musician, teacher, and organizer of contemporary music concerts.…
Fleeing Nazi Germany, where his work was banned as "decadent," Hindemith emigrated to the United States, where he taught at Yale. Much of the correspondence comes from this period in exile before his eventual return to Europe as part of the postwar rebuilding effort. 1995. Uniform title: Correspondence.
"Season of Light" begins in 1788, in the heady days just before the French revolution, when Paris is fizzing with…
new ideas about liberty and equality. Asa Ardleigh, the impressionable 19-year-old daughter of a country squire, has traveled to the city with her older sister, Philippa, and Philippa's new husband. In Paris, they are introduced to the literary salon of Madame de Genlis. It is in this salon that Asa meets, and falls in love with, a dashing intellectual and idealist, Didier Paulin. 2011.
Dan McKnight, Megan's boss, insisted that she pretended to be his lover! He wanted to convince a young girl with…
an obsessive crush on him that he was in love with someone else. He'd chosen Megan, his secretary, to act as that "someone else"... But after sharing a room and a bed, Dan and Megan suddenly became overwhelmingly attracted to each other! In fact they were so convincing as lovers they'd even made mad, passionate love. The problem was their pretence was supposed to stop the moment they were back at work. Includes descriptions of sex. 2000.
Set in the same city described in "Blindness" (DC19644), a legal revolution occurs when 70% of voters cast blank ballots…
in a national election. The president declares a state of siege, but even though soldiers cordon off the city, nothing affects the citizens' maddening cheerfulness. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. c2006. Uniform title: Ensaio sobre a lucidez.