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Stephen Whittaker has his whole life planned, but when he loses his true love - Alice - a gradual undetected…
spiral begins. When everything starts unraveling, who will Stephen turn to? 2005.
Dragon tamer Kiron has retreated to the hidden desert city of Sanctuary to elude the evil Magi who are draining…
the magic of others. As refugees from rival regions Alta and Tia pour in, Kiron and the dragon jousters prepare to battle the Magi. Sequel to "Alta". Some descriptions of sex and violence. Bestseller. 2005. (Dragon jousters ; 3)
Young women are disappearing. Girls no one will notice - prostitutes, runaways, high-risk teens. Eighteen-year-old Delilah Rose knows something about…
their disappearances but she'll only talk to one woman, FBI Special Agent Kimberley Quincy. With no bodies and no clues, Kimberley's options are limited. Yet she feels herself drawing ever closer to the culprit. She soon realises there's only one way to halt the bloody killings; she must become the prey. 2012.
When he is asked to become involved in a project to create a salmon river in the highlands of Yemen,…
fisheries scientist Dr Alfred Jones rejects the idea as absurd. But the proposal catches the eye of several senior British politicians. And so Fred finds himself forced to set aside his research and instead figure out how to fly ten thousand salmon to a desert country - and persuade them to swim there. 2007.
When the overseas manager of a shipping company commits suicide, Graham Lorimer is sent to tie up the loose ends…
and hush up any scandals. But from the moment he arrives in the Middle East, Lorimer discovers the dead man had some dangerous connections. Now these criminals have a new target - a highly important world leader. 1987.
This introduction to Saskatchewan and its people covers its residents, beginning with its original native residents and later European settlement,…
the government, economy, tourism, and the arts. Also included is a section of "Facts at a glance" which highlists information from the text, such as population statistics, important dates, and important people. Junior high and older. c1992.
Joe Savidge has revenge in his heart. But having been beaten to within an inch of his life following some…
dirty dealings in a lawless small town, he ends up in Pioche, Nevada, with little more than the shirt on his back - to say nothing of the tools required to make revenge a reality. Then he meets a woman who is down on her luck - just like him, but with a lucrative connection to a mysterious Frenchman. For Savidge, playing along means the opportunity to purchase guns and horses: necessities for a man hell-bent on retribution. 2010.
Nineteen year old Sam Bryson faces a conflict that will test his courage, character and faith. He had been given…
his first pistol on his thirteenth birthday and ordered by his grandpa to practise every day, except Sunday. Sam Bryson has no reason to fear any man nor any desire to kill, but he will soon discover that his life is threatened by others and that he must protect himself. 2007.
In 1982 the author went to El Salvador. She describes the situation from the government's standpoint since she was unable…
to spend time with the guerrillas. Even so, the picture of terrorism emerges with fear and political repression. 1983.
Recently orphaned, Josh Vardy is hitchhiking from Boston to Dallas to live with his aunt. After being beaten and robbed…
in the Appalachians, Josh is rescued by a community of ginseng gatherers who live without twentieth-century conveniences. Once in Melungeon territory, no one will help him leave. Grades 5-8. 1998.
Halloween night turns out to be especially frightening for seventh grader Sammy and two girlfriends when a skeleton rushes by…
them near a creepy house. The front door opens, revealing a fire. Sammy puts it out and finds a tied-up masked man. Now Sammy has a mystery to investigate. Grades 5-8. c1998.
40 short pieces written by contemporary travellers for the now defunct award-winning travel site Wanderlust. Writers include Simon Winchester in…
Romania; Isabel Allende in the Amazon; Pico Iyer in Bali; Carlos Fuentes in Zurich; Bill Barch in Italy; Sallie Tisdale in Japan and Po Branson in the Caribbean. 2000.
Boswell claims that in ancient and medieval times there were official ceremonies for couples of the same sex that were…
similar to the marriage ceremony. He analyzes the concepts and vocabulary of love and marriage in the context of different societies, from the Greco-Roman world to sixteenth-century Europe, and compares the rituals for conventional marriage with the ceremonies in the texts he has discovered. 1994.
In this Star Trek adventure Spock's father Sarek and Spock reconcile their differences as Amanda Grayson, Spock's mother, is dying.…
They team up to once again save the Federation in a battle that takes them to the heart of the Klingon Empire. 1994.
A member of the committee on renovating Liberty Harbor, Jenny Cain investigates the murder of the construction foreman to learn…
why the project is being sabotaged. Although her detective boyfriend is on the case, Jenny urgently seeks her own answers after a second sinister murder. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1985.
The passionate love affair and marriage of a starry-eyed American woman and a proud Arab are played out against the…
background of Saudi Arabia. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. 1984.
What a disaster! Suddenly Harvey's a chick magnet and Sabrina's out in the cold. Then, when she volunteers to take…
Jenny's place as Santa's elf, Santa and the presents disappear! It will take a miracle - or a teenage witch - to save this Christmas. But can Sabrina survive and keep her secret safe? Sequel to “Halloween havoc”, followed by “Ben there, done that”. Grades 4-7. 1998. (Sabrina the teenage witch ; 5)
A full-scale biography of naval administrator Samuel Pepys, who was well-known for being the friend of the famous and powerful.…
Covers his childhood and young adulthood, moving through the famous diary years and beyond, to the death of his wife and the setting up of a new household. Some descriptions of sex. 2002.
A noted naturalist describes a safari into Tanzania's Selous Game Reserve, one of the largest and most remote strongholds of…
wild animals left on earth. Mattiessen's portrait includes the human and social realities of the Selous as well as its natural magnificence. 1981.
Francesca is at the beginning of her second term in Year Eleven at an all boys' school that has just…
started accepting girls. She still misses her old friends, and, to make things worse, her mother has had a breakdown and can barely move from her bed. For junior or senior high readers. 2003.