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Point of honour (Sarah Tolerance Ser. #No. 1)
Par Madeleine Robins. 2003
Young widow Sarah Tolerance invents a new role for herself: "investigate agent". Her stock-in-trade is composed of her wits, her…
discretion and her expertise in fencing. She will need all her skills when she is asked to reclaim an antique fan for Count Verseillon. She finds that nothing about this task is what it seems. 2003.
Poisoned legacy: the human cost of BP's rise to power
Par Mike Magner. 2011
Journalist chronicles British Petroleum's record of environmental disasters during the company's rise to power. Includes information on a Kansas town's…
health-related lawsuit, a 2005 refinery explosion in Texas, a 2006 oil spill in Alaska, and the 2010 offshore drilling disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. 2011.
Poison ivy
Par Amy Goldman Koss. 2006

Portrait of a monster: Joran van der Sloot, a murder in Peru, and the Natalee Holloway mystery
Par Cole Thompson, Lisa Beth Pulitzer. 2011
Profiles the suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba and the 2010 murder of twenty-one-year-old…
Stephany Flores in Peru. Details van der Sloot's time in Aruba, Thailand, and Peru, and his attempt to extort money from Holloway's mother. 2011.
Political will and personal belief: the decline and fall of Soviet communism
Par Paul Hollander. 1999
To examine the human factor in the failure of communism, the sociologist-author analyzed autobiographical writings and conducted fifty interviews in…
Russia, Slovenia, Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary with former Party functionaries and intellectuals, as well as dissidents. He focuses on twenty-two important political figures across different generations. 1999.
Portrait of a marriage
Par Nigel Nicolson. 1973

Poems, new & selected
Par Patrick Lane. 1978

Polio: an American story
Par David M Oshinsky. 2005
Account of the twentieth-century search for a polio vaccine and the rivalries that developed between competing medical researchers, notably Jonas…
Salk, Albert Sabin, and Hilary Koprowski. Traces the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis campaigns and the public health experiment involving Salk's vaccine. Evokes the widespread panic over the disease. Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for history. 2005.
Poor Miss Finch (Oxford world's classics)
Par Wilkie Collins, Catherine Peters. 2000
Wilkie Collin's intriguing story about a blind girl, Lucilla Finch, and the identical twins who both fall in love with…
her, has the exciting complications of his better known novels, but it also overturns conventional expectations. Using a background of myth and fairy-tale to expand the boundaries of nineteenth century realist fiction, Collins not only takes a blind person as his central character but also explores the idea of blindness and its implications. His sensitive presentation of the difficulties, disappointments, and occasional delights which follow the recovery of sight by someone blind since infancy is still one of the best accounts in fiction of a problem which continues to intrigue philosophers, psychologists, and the general public, as it has done since it was first discussed by Locke and Berkeley in the eighteenth century. 2000, c1872.
Pocahontas
Par Joseph Bruchac. 2003
Told from the viewpoints of Pocahontas and John Smith, describes their lives in the context of the encounter between the…
Powhatan Indians and the English colonists of seventeenth-century Jamestown, Virginia. Grades 5-8. Some descriptions of violence. 2003.
Pops: a life of Louis Armstrong
Par Terry Teachout. 2009
Louis Armstrong is considered one of the greatest jazz musicians of the twentieth century, a gifted and imaginative artist who…
also created collages and wrote an autobiography. Teachout's biography draws on hundreds of reels of recordings of backstage and after-hour conversations that Armstrong made throughout his career, newly uncovered material about Armstrong's early life, and Armstrong's own writings. Some strong language. c2009.
Point blank (Alex Rider adventure. #2)
Par Anthony Horowitz. 2001
Fourteen-year-old Alex Rider's espionage work for British MI6 takes him to the French Alps. On his mission there to investigate…
an exclusive boarding school for delinquent sons of wealthy parents, Alex discovers brainwashed clones and evil headmaster Dr. Grief. Some descriptions of violence. For junior high readers. Sequel to "Stormbreaker" (DC30553), followed by "Skeleton key" (DC29162). 2003, c2001. (Alex Rider adventure ; 2)
Porno (Trainspotting ; #2)
Par Irvine Welsh. 2008
Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson (first met in "Trainspotting") returns to his native Edinburgh. Having failed spectacularly as a hustler, pimp,…
husband, father and businessman, this time around he's a nascent film director, dreaming of directing and producing a pornographic film. Sequel to "Trainspotting" (DC30717). 2008.
Pompeii
Par Robert Harris. 2004
When the aqueduct that brings fresh water to thousands of people around the bay of Naples fails, Roman engineer Marius…
Primus heads to the slopes of Mount Vesuvius to investigate, only to come face to face with an impending catastrophe. Some strong language. 2004.
Plenty
Par Yotam Ottolenghi. 2010
This collection of vegetarian recipes is drawn from Yotam's column 'The New Vegetarian' for the Guardian's Weekend magazine, and features…
both brand-new recipes and dishes first devised for that column, with sections devoted to cooking greens, aubergines, brassicas, rice and cereals, pasta and couscous, pulses, roots, squashes, onions, fruit, mushrooms and tomatoes. 2010.
Political parties and ideologies in Canada: liberals, conservatives, socialists, nationalists (McGraw-Hill Ryerson series in Canadian politics)
Par Colin Campbell, William Christian. 1983

Portrait in sepia: a novel
Par Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers Peden. 2001
Eliza Sommers’s granddaughter, Aurora del Valle, continues the generational saga begun in “Daughter of Fortune”. Aurora recounts the scandal surrounding…
her birth in San Francisco’s Chinatown, her upbringing by paternal grandmother Paulina del Valle, her return to Chile, and her marriage to Diego Domínguez. Some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2001. Uniform title: Retrato en sepia.
Porch lights: a novel
Par Dorothea Benton Frank. 2012
Newly widowed Jackie McMullen and her ten-year-old son Charlie retreat to Sullivans Island, South Carolina, for the summer. They are…
welcomed by Jackie’s separated parents, her old friends, and new neighbor, Dr. Steven Plofker. But in the fall, Charlie refuses to return to New York. Bestseller. 2012.
Pleasure for pleasure (Essex sisters ; #4)
Par Eloisa James. 2006
Josie, the youngest Scottish Essex heiress, is mocked by her peers for her ample figure. When one of her mockers…
nearly rapes her, Josie fears she'll have to marry the lecherous young man. But then an unexpected knight in shining armour comes to her rescue. Explicit descriptions of sex. Sequel to "The taming of the duke". 2006. (Essex sisters ; 4)
Poems and sketches of E.B. White
Par E. B White. 1981
Collection of poems, essays, satires, and other occasional short pieces which display the author's characteristic wit, craft, and whim, most…
originally published in such magazines as the "New Yorker", "Harper's", and the "Atlantic". Several of the works have never been published before. 1981.