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While on an expedition with his father to get lumber to take back to Greenland, Thrand is captured by the…
native Osweet, who have taken him to replace one of their own who was killed by a Greenlander. For junior and senior high readers. 1995.
A minute-by-minute account of a coup involving the takeover of Zangaro, an emergent African state. Cat Shannon, a tough, cool…
mercenary leader is up against Sir James Manson, a shrewd London money-manipulator. 1974.
Set in the hills of New Hampshire, this novel focuses on 50-year-old mill foreman Howard Elman, who rages at the…
unfairness of his life when the mill closes to relocate down south. Strong language. 1979.
Anne Greves, a motherless 16-year-old student, meets a Cambodian refugee, Serey, in late-1970s Montreal. Serey's family got him out of…
Pol Pot's Cambodia, although he is waiting to be able to return and find them; Anne's father, a successful engineer of prosthetics, does not approve of Anne's exotic, older boyfriend. When, as her father predicted, Serey leaves her, disappearing for 11 years, Anne journeys to Phnom Penh to find him. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2009.
With the Cold War over Harry Oakham, experienced spy, is out of a job, bitter at what the service has…
done to him after a lifetime of danger, and at the erosion of his personal life. Contacting colleagues, enemies, killers and moles, he builds up a syndicate of ruthless professionals for hire to anyone who can pay, but he hasn't reckoned with Rosa, a bright new Foreign Office talent, reeling from a broken marriage and seconded to check on an old spy. Neither wants their future changed, or emotional complications, but after they meet things begin to go wrong for Harry, the syndicate, and most of all for Rosa. Strong language, violence and descriptions of sex. 1992.
An aged prophetess at Delphi in ancient Greece looks back over her life as the voice of the god Apollo.…
She has spent sixty years at the mercy of god and priest, and has watched the decay of Delphi's fortunes. Her reflections on the mysteries of the oracle are matched by her feminine insight into the human frailties of the High Priest, whose intrigues against Rome only bring about disaster. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1995.
Robert St. Onge, a young Parisian novelist, and Solange, a beautiful woman with whom he falls in love, are transported…
in time from the 1920s to the volatile time of the 1968 Paris riots. 1985.
In 1666, a ten-month drought had turned London into a tinderbox, and when the spark ignited, there was no stopping…
it. Gales, dry timber and the riverside warehouses full of flammable goods ensured that five days later city was in ruins. This is the human story of that "dreadful judgement". Includes strong language. 2002.
Former district attorney Luke Garrison returns to Santa Barbara to defend a man accused of murdering media mogul Doug Lancaster's…
fourteen-year-old daughter. The girl disappeared during a slumber party the year before. The defendant claims he is being framed. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex and violence. 1998.
Through brisk, clear diary entries, LaToya Hunter chronicles her life during seventh grade, her first year in junior high. Though…
she excels in school, she finds it boring and frustrating. During the year Latoya experiences the birth of her nephew, her brother's wedding, a new interest in boys, clashes with her mother, new-found faith in God, a neighborhood murder, and a visit with relatives in Jamaica. Grades 6-9. 1992.
Victimized by callous owners, Asinus, a stubborn donkey, plots escape and enjoys fleeting victories until he is sold to a…
guileless carpenter, Joseph of Nazareth. Bewildered by Joseph's goodness, Asinus becomes the protector of the vulnerable couple. c1984.
A chronicle of milestones in the ongoing fight for disability rights in the United States; includes the 1940 establishment of…
the National Federation of the Blind and the passing of both the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Grades 4-7. c1996.
Six years after her husband, Dylan, disappears with their three-year-old daughter, Melanie, child psychiatrist Laura McCaffrey is summoned by the…
police. They have found Dylan and two others brutally murdered. The three had been holding Melanie prisoner and conducting cruel behaviour modification research on her. Melanie is in a trance, terrified of the door to December and the thing that lurks behind it. Strong language and descriptions of violence. Bestseller. 1994, c1985.
Pursued by their own herd and by human enemies, two young dragons embark on a dangerous journey. Ember and Brand…
must fly over mountains, desert and sea to save the life of a young boy - and the future of the Dragon Lords. Grades 3-6. 2005.
Few can compete with Natasha Smith when it comes to entertaining, but her childhood rival, Sophie Winston, certainly tries. Natasha…
may have stolen the spotlight - and Sophie's husband - but Sophie is determined to rob her of the prize for the Stupendous Stuffing Shakedown. But then Sophie stumbles across a corpse, and when the police find her name and photo inside the victim's car, Sophie will have to solve the murder - or she'll be serving up prison grub. Some descriptions of violence. 2008.
Sukhanov showed talent early, with daring controversial artwork, but he opted for prestige and comfort, becoming critic rather than creator…
as editor of Russia's leading art magazine. Suddenly in 1985, at the age of 56, Sukhanov's life unravels and he loses everything he holds dear - job, son, daughter, possibly wife - but through the pain, in a series of dream sequences in which he confronts his past, he gains truth about his father's life and death, and about decisions made between art and love. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2005.
Follows six young people as they roam Europe in the late 1960s: Joe, a idealistic draft-dodger; Cato, a black militant;…
Gretchen, a Boston folksinger; Yigal, a serious Israeli; Monica, the drug addict daughter of a British ex-colonial; and Britta, the sexually dead Scandinavian beauty. 1971.
Examines the concepts of secular nationalism and modernity as conceived by Arab intellectuals of Beirut, Baghdad, Damascus, and Cairo. Provides…
insights into the Middle East from Arabic sources: fiction, poetry, memoirs, and political commentaries. c1998.