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The corner garden
By Lesley Krueger. 2003
Jessie Barfoot is 15, precocious, witty, and wounded, and has just moved to Toronto with her mother and new stepfather.…
She becomes curious about their cranky neighbour Martha, originally from the Netherlands, who is not only a superb gardener but someone who has been ferociously guarding a secret since she was Jessie's age. Once Jessie charms her way into the garden, Martha's past slowly becomes revealed, threatening both their futures. Strong language. 2003.Seventeen tomatoes: tales from Kashmir
By Jaspreet Singh. 2004
In a series of linked short stories, two Sikh boys, named Adi and Arjun, come of age in an Indian…
army camp in Kashmir. Each story builds upon a minor character from another story, creating a portrait of the border community. Some of the people the boys meet include a boatman's daughter, a captured officer, a celebrity cricket umpire, and Parachute Aunty. Some strong language. 2004.Southern cross (Andy Brazil Ser. #No. 2)
By Patricia Daniels Cornwell. 1999
Robbery, murder, incompetence and not enough parking spaces - just another day in the life of a big city's police…
department. Judy Hammer investigates as a virus crashes the police computer, freezing screens with a design of blue fish - the same one a gang called the Pikes claim is their symbol. Strong language. 1999.Sharpe's Trafalgar: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805 (Richard Sharpe ; #4)
By Bernard Cornwell. 2000
It is 1805 and Sharpe is on his way home to join the newly formed Green Jackets. His voyage home…
should be a period of rest, but his ship is riven with treachery and threatened by the Revenant, a French sea-raider that is terrorising British shipping in the Indian Ocean. Betrayed and defeated, Sharpe is imprisoned on the Ile de France, doomed to rot there until the war ends - until an unlikely ally secures his escape onto a British warship that is hunting the Revenant. Sequel to "Sharpe's fortress" (DC28409). 2000. (Richard Sharpe ; 4)Robbiestime
By Donald Percy Dickinson. 2000
It is 1958 in the tourist outpost of Wasagam, Saskatchewan. Robbie Hendershot, the eleven-year-old son of a World War II…
rear gunner and his British war bride, is embarking on a summer that will change his outlook on life forever. When his British granddad takes his mother and younger brother back to England, he is left behind to uncover the mysteries of family, religion, friendship and the price of war. Strong language, some descriptions of violence and sex. c2000.Hornet flight
By Ken Follett. 2002
It is June 1941 and Denmark is under German occupation. On the rocky coast, two brothers, Harald and Arne Olufsen,…
starkly different in nature, are straining against the rigid confines imposed by their austere, elderly parents and trying to find their own way in life. 2002.Fugitive pieces
By Anne Michaels. 1996
Jakob Beer, rescued during the Second World War and taken to refuge in Greece by Athos Roussos, follows Athos to…
Toronto, where he begins his career as a translator and poet. When he is sixty, Jakob meets Ben, a young professor, whose life is changed because of Jakob's writing and Ben's own legacies of the war. 1996.Five quarters of the orange
By Joanne Harris. 2001
De Niro's game
By Rawi Hage. 2006
Bassam and George, best friends, have been hardened by growing up during the Lebanese Civil War, and Bassam survives by…
dreaming of escaping to Rome. To be able to leave, Bassam gets George to skim money from the arcade where he works, but after joining the local Christian militia, George is a changed man. Though Bassam does eventually leave, he finds he cannot entirely escape Beirut; only in Paris does he discover the extent of his friend's treachery. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2006.Cross bones (Temperance Brennan Ser. #No. 8)
By Kathy Reichs. 2005
When an Orthodox Jew is found shot to death in Montreal, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is called in to figure…
out the puzzling damage to the corpse. Unexpectedly, a stranger slips her a photograph of a skeleton and assures her the picture is the key to the victim's death. Before she knows it, Tempe is involved in an international mystery as old as Jesus. 2005.Birdman (Jack Caffery mystery.)
By Mo Hayder. 2000
The Met's crack murder squad is called when five bodies are found, all young women, all ritualistically murdered, dumped on…
wasteland near the Millennium Dome. Detective Inspector Jack Caffrey, young, driven, unshockable, finds himself facing hostility within the force and echoes of his past. Tortured by a death long ago that he might have prevented, he now works around the clock, knowing that this sadistic killer will strike again. 2000.Between mountains
By Maggie Helwig. 2004
Daniel, a cynical Canadian journalist and Lili, a conscientious Serbian-Albanian interpreter who grew up in Paris, meet again at the…
International Criminal Court in The Hague. Lili is sworn not to betray the confidences of the court while Daniel, as a journalist hungry for his next story, uses every means at his disposal to reveal the truth. They are drawn into a fragile relationship that could destroy everything they have both worked for. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex and violence. 2004.Body double: a novel (Rizzoli And Isles Ser. #Bk. 4)
By Tess Gerritsen. 2004
Pathologist Maura Isles - an adopted child who never knew the identity of her birth parents - is confronted by…
the corpse of a murdered woman who is apparently her identical twin. She launches an investigation, together with Detective Jane Rizzoli, into her sister's past, following the trail to a state correctional facility and a schizophrenic inmate who may be her mother. This leads to a remote cabin in Maine, a killer who has been murdering expectant mothers for decades, making periodic sweeps of the country, and the kidnapping of an affluent pregnant housewife who is kept buried in a crude coffin. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2004.Alchemy of fire
By Gillian Bradshaw. 2004
In seventh-century Constantinople, Anna, former concubine of the emperor's disgraced brother, Theodosius, lives with her daughter. Then handsome Syrian alchemist…
Kallinokos arrives in Constantinople, working on a secret weapon - unquenchable fire - that could save the city from the Arab fleet that might attack at any time. When he is arrested, Theodosia, Anna's daughter, tries to plead his case at court. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2004.A Sunday at the pool in Kigali
By Gil Courtemanche, Patricia Claxton. 2003
Bernard Valcourt, a Canadian journalist, begins a love affair with Gentille, a Hutu waitress in a Rwandan hotel. Civil war…
brings chaos, enveloping all who are at the hotel in unrest. Some strong language, explicit descriptions of sex and violence. 2003. Uniform title: Dimanche à la piscine à Kigali.'48
By James Herbert. 1996
In 1945, Hitler unleashes the Blood Death on Britain as a final act of vengeance. Only a tiny minority with…
a rare blood group survive the deadly disease. Amongst them is Hoke, an American pilot. Now, in '48, a slow-dying group of Fascist Blackshirts believe their only hope is a complete transfusion - and they're after his blood. Hoke and other survivors are pursued in a dramatic but deadly chase through London's streets. 1997.The sojourn
By Alan Cumyn. 2003
Ramsay Crome is a private with the 7th Canadian Pioneers who is posted in the front lines at Ypres. During…
a ten-day leave to London, he meets Margaret, his cousin and a fervent objector to the war. She helps to determine his fate in an unexpected way. Strong language, descriptions of sex and violence. 2003.The time in between
By David Bergen. 2005
Ava Boatman and her brother, Jon, have come to Vietnam in search of their missing father, Charles. A Vietnam vet…
with a terrible secret that has turned him into an emotionally distant loner, Charles has made a pilgrimage to a small Vietnamese village. As Ada and Jon try to find Charles, they also deal with their own fears, in completely different ways. Descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. Winner of the 2005 Scotiabank Giller Prize.Life support
By Tess Gerritsen. 1997
The man Dr. Toby Harper admits to Springer Hospital is delirious and in a critical condition from an apparent viral…
infection of the brain. When he disappears without trace, a second delirious patient dies in hospital care. As Toby's hunt intensifies, and an unexpected tragedy hits close to home, she discovers the unthinkable: an evil, deadly purpose behind a terrifying epidemic.The key to Rebecca
By Ken Follett. 1980
German spy Alex Wolff steals the British army's secret plans and sends them to Rommel. British major William Vandam picks…
up Wolff's elusive trail and seeks to destroy him. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1980.