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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.