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William Milligan, farm boy turned professional hockey player, participates in a players' strike and is traded to a hopeless expansion…
team where he plays hockey with a bunch of over-sexed weirdos and a cement-headed coach. Strong language. 1983, c1982.
Retired spy Charlie Henderson lives the good life in West Virginia amid lots of former colleagues. When his old buddy,…
Joshua Bennett, is nominated to head the CIA, Charlie thinks the confirmation will be easy. But after Bennett receives threats from a senator's aide, Henderson and his pals risk violence to ensure their friend's appointment. 1998.
It isn't easy, being a teenage pharoah. You're not allowed to carry money, everyone thinks you're responsible for making the…
sun rise and the corn grow, and, on top of everything else, the Great Pyramid has just exploded. And all you really wanted is the chance to do something for young people and inner cities. For senior high and older readers. 1989.
Cora Felton of Bakerhaven, Connecticut, is reluctantly co-hosting a charity crossword tournament when a local housewife is murdered. Cora, with…
the help of her niece, Sherry Carter, sleuths around town - but then more murders occur, including a contestant’s. Sequel to “Last Puzzle and Testament” (DC42021). Followed by “Puzzle in a pear tree”. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2002, c2001. (Puzzle Lady mystery ; 3)
Escaping from the wrath of her mother, Emma is taken in by her father, a rising star in pop music.…
With him, his new wife and band members, she feels protected and loved. But her world is shattered by a botched kidnapping. This event haunts her even now as an adult, when she risks love with a man who may not live up to appearances. Some descriptions of sex. 1997, c1990.
Cat, a half-human, half-alien teenage orphan, unknowingly possesses great psychic potential. When authorities discover this, they attempt to use Cat…
as a weapon against another Psion. Followed by "Catspaw" (DC08381). 1982.
The 18-year-old murder of an unidentified young woman has never been solved by the Santa Teresa County Sheriff's Department. Two…
of the original detectives, now elderly and ill, decide to try once more to identify the "Jane Doe" and discover who killed her. Kinsey Millhone agrees to help, little knowing that the old murder will touch on her own past and put her life in danger. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2003. (Kinsey Millhone mysteries ; 17)
During the ice melt that follows an Arctic winter, a wolf cub finds himself spinning out to sea on a…
sheet of ice. He awakes lost and alone to an unfamiliar smell: a polar bear. And while the polar bear is not the wolf’s mother, she takes him on her back to her den, where she feeds him, keeps him warm, and does everything a mother would do. Time passes, the cub grows into a wolf, and soon it’s time for him to venture out into the wide world alone. Years later, the now grown wolf comes upon a tiny lost polar bear cub–and the cycle begins again. Grades K-3. 2017.
The Black Widowers are self-styled intellectuals who meet monthly to puzzle over strange occurrences or solve hypothetical mysteries posed by…
their dinner guests. Often, the answer comes from their colourless waiter, Henry. 1990.
Entertaining memoir from the former host of television's "Tonight Show." Paar regales his "dear reader" with tales of interviews with…
Albert Schweitzer in the jungles of Gabon, games with the Kennedy clan in Hyannis Port, an evening of telly-watching with the royal family in London, and a variety of other adventures. Some strong language. 1983.
With its background of Jarrow on Tyneside demoralized by the Depression and enduring its share if the vicissitudes of war,…
this is the story of a family, spanning the years between 1930 and the present day. A family fragmented by the frustration, jealousy and bitterness of the mother, and pieced together again by the love and compassion of the daughter. 1972.
Forced to retire early from his job as a corrections officer in Kingston Penitentiary, Tony Breau has limped back to…
the village where he grew up to lick his wounds, only to find that Dwayne Strickland, a young con he’d had dealings with in prison is back there too – and once again in trouble. Strickland has just been arrested following the suspicious death of a teenage girl, the granddaughter of Caddy Stewart, Tony’s first love. Tony is soon caught in a fierce emotional struggle between the outcast Strickland and the still alluring Caddy. And then another figure from Tony’s past, the forceful Neil Archie MacDonald – just retired in murky circumstances from the Boston police force – stokes the community’s anger and suspicion and an irresistible demand for punishment. Bestseller. 2014.
A film crew arrives in town, and Mandy offers to look after some of the animal stars. But the most…
important animal, Charley the Labrador, suddenly disappears. Can Mandy and her friend James find the dog before something terrible happens? Grades 3-6. 1994.
When Hex Raitliffe's stepfather abandons Hex's mother, the middle-aged son returns home to care for her. Hex's mission of mercy…
soon goes awry as he loses control of his life through heavy drinking, in a desultory romance, and under the stress of caring for a parent who is paralyzed. Strong language and descriptions of sex. 1997.
Elliot, Clerk of the Quaker Meeting in Cambridge, Massachusetts, travels to Seattle to visit her old college roommate Reba Nichols.…
They stay at the home of Reba's dead parents, bordering on the old Hanford nuclear site. When Reba is murdered, Elizabeth teams up with a brash young doctor to solve the case. 1998. (The Elizabeth Elliot series ; 4)
This manual describes steps in obedience training for puppies and recommends beginning as early as eight weeks of age. The…
authors also discuss many other aspects of dog-owning, from choosing the right breed to "bonding" with your new pet. c1996.
Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we've read over our lives - our own personal libraries…
- make of us? What does the unravelling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us? These stories are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us; how they shock us, change us, challenge us, banish time while making us older, wiser and ageless all at once; how they coax us endlessly to unexpected blossom; how they remind us to pay attention to the world we make. 2015.
Iditarod racer Paulsen recalls his life on the trail and at home with his beloved team of dogs. Portrays his…
special relationship with the lead dog, Cookie, describing the births and rearing of her pups and the sadness of retirement for both man and dog. Junior and senior high readers. Companion to "Woodsong". 1996.