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The good physician
By Kent Harrington. 2008
Mexico City. Dr. Collin Reeves has found a semi-comfortable niche performing occasional chores for the CIA, acting as a go…
to doctor for the U.S. embassy when American tourists need medical attention, and pursuing his avocation of painting. When CIA veterans Alex Law and Butch Nickels get wind of a possible terrorist bombing plot, they use any means to extract information that might prevent it. Reeves, pressed to keep alive suspects who are being tortured, faces both a moral dilemma and personal danger. Some strong language, some descriptions of violence, and some descriptions of sex. c2008.The Debba
By Avner Mandelman. 2010
1977. David Starkman returns from self-imposed exile in Canada to his native Israel after learning of the murder of his…
war hero father, Isser. Isser's will includes an unusual provision - that within 45 days, a controversial play he'd written, 'The Debba', be staged. David, who once belonged to an elite Israeli army unit, decides to fulfill his father's request, while searching for clues to solve the murder. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2011 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Crime Novel. 2010.The girl who kicked the hornets' nest (Millennium trilogy ; #3)
By Stieg Larsson, Reg Keeland. 2009
Salander is plotting her revenge - against the man who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that…
very nearly destroyed her life. But it is not going to be a straightforward campaign. After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in Intensive Care, and is set to face trial for three murders and one attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must not only prove her innocence, but identify and denounce the corrupt politicians that have allowed the vulnerable to become victims of abuse and violence. Violence, strong language, and explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. Sequel to "The girl who played with fire" (DC37532). 2009. (Millennium trilogy ; 3)The Gryphon project
By Carrie Mac. 2009
In the future, the Chrysalis Corporation can bring people back to life, called a "recon", when they fall victim to…
an early death. Due to a premature birth and a drowning accident at the age of six, teenager Phoenix has already been brought back to life twice, leaving her with only one more recon and a jaded perspective on life, death, and the people around her. When Phoenix's beloved brother Gryphon has a suspicious accident and may not be reconned, she races to solve the mystery of Gryphon's death and save his life. For junior and senior high readers. Some strong language. c2009.The deportees and other stories
By Roddy Doyle. 2007
Short stories, each taking a new slant on the immigrant experience in Ireland. In "Guess Who's Coming to the Dinner",…
a father who prides himself on his open-mindedness is forced to confront his feelings when one of his daughters brings home a black fella. In "57 per cent Irish" Ray Brady tries to devise a test of Irishness by measuring reactions to Robbie Keane's goal against Germany in the 2002 World Cup, Riverdance and "Danny Boy". In "Deportees", Jimmy Rabbitte, the man who formed The Commitments, decides it's time to find a new band, and this time no White Irish need apply. Some descriptions of sex and violence, and strong language. 2007.The convent
By Panos Karnezis. 2010
The crumbling convent of Our Lady of Mercy stands alone in an uninhabited part of Spain, its six inhabitants devoted…
to God and cut off from the world. This all changes the day the Mother Superior discovers a suitcase with air-holes at the entrance. She is to find that the box and its contents are to have consequences beyond her imagining, and that even in her carefully protected sanctuary she is unable to keep the world, or her past, at bay. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2010.The dancer and the thief
By Antonio Skármeta, Katherine Silver. 2008
After the fall of Pinochet's dictatorship, the government releases certain nonviolent criminals to lower the prison populace. Returning home, thief…
Ángel seeks out notorious criminal Nicolás with plans for an ambitious heist, but Nic has vowed to live a law-abiding life while mending his relationship with his estranged wife and son. Nicolás' bankruptcy, Ángel's persistence, and the presence of the latter's dancer girlfriend, Victoria, draws these three characters fatefully together. Some strong language, some descriptions of violence and explicit descriptions of sex. c2008. Uniform title: Baile de la victoria.The cellist of Sarajevo
By Steven Galloway. 2008
Sarajevo, 1992. A cellist plays Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor as a memorial on each of twenty-two days following a…
mortar attack that kills twenty-two citizens who are standing in a bread line. The music deeply affects a sniper, a father, and an older man. Inspired by historic events. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. Winner of the 2009 Evergreen Award. 2008.The chalk circle man (Commissaire Adamsberg series.)
By Sian Reynolds, Fred Vargas. 2009
When chalk circles start appearing overnight on the pavements of Paris, the press and psychiatrists have a field day, but…
Police Commissioner Adamsberg insists on being kept informed of new circles and the increasingly bizarre objects which they contain: empty beer cans, four trombones, a badge proclaiming "I Love Elvis," a doll's head. Adamsberg senses the cruelty that lies behind these seemingly random occurrences, and soon a circle with decidedly less banal contents is discovered: the body of a woman with her throat savagely cut. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language, explicit descriptions of violence. 2009, c1996. (The Commissaire Adamsberg series) Uniform title: L'homme aux cercles bleus.The birthday party
By Panos Karnezis. 2007
As dawn breaks on a small island late in the summer of 1975, a tycoon wakes up to oversee the…
final preparations for his daughter's birthday party. Finding out that she is pregnant, he tries to persuade her to end the pregnancy, as his private doctor - and oldest friend - is standing by to perform the procedure. Intersperses the events that unfold during the day of the party with the tycoon's rise to wealth and fame, from childhood in Asia Minor to old age, via Buenos Aires, New York, London and Paris. Some descriptions of sex. 2007.The best of times
By Penny Vincenzi. 2009
Jonathan is a surgeon returning from a liaison with his mistress, Abi, and Georgia is an actress going to an…
audition along with her agent Linda. Toby and Barney are on their way to a stag party, Mary is going to the airport to meet her first love, farmer William watches the drama unfold across the hill, and Emma is also a surgeon. One heartbeat in time, and all their lives will be totally transformed. Descriptions of sex and violence and strong language. 2009.Summertime: scenes from provincial life
By J. M Coetzee. 2009
A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on…
the years from 1972-1977 when Coetzee, in his thirties, is sharing a run-down cottage in the suburbs of Cape Town with his widowed father. This, the biographer senses, is the period when he was 'finding his feet as a writer'. Never having met Coetzee, he embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to him. "Summertime" completes the trilogy of fictionalised memoir begun with "Boyhood" and "Youth" (DC26083). 2009.Seeing
By José Saramago, Margaret Jull Costa. 2006
Set in the same city described in "Blindness" (DC19644), a legal revolution occurs when 70% of voters cast blank ballots…
in a national election. The president declares a state of siege, but even though soldiers cordon off the city, nothing affects the citizens' maddening cheerfulness. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. c2006. Uniform title: Ensaio sobre a lucidez.Sanctuary line
By Jane Urquhart. 2010
Set in the present day on a farm at the shores of Lake Erie, Urquhart weaves elements from the nineteenth-century…
past, in Ireland and Ontario, into a gradually unfolding contemporary story of events in the lives of the members of one family. There are ancestral lighthouse-keepers, seasonal Mexican workers; the tragedy of a young woman's death during a tour of duty in Afghanistan; three very different but equally powerful love stories. Some descriptions of sex. c2010.Red wolf (World of crime)
By Liza Marklund, Neil Smith. 2003
When a journalist is murdered in the Swedish town of Lulea, crime reporter Annika Bengtzon suspects that the killing is…
linked to an attack against an air base in the late sixties. Ignoring her boss, Annika continues her investigation, which is soon followed by a series of shocking murders. She quickly finds herself drawn into a spiral of terrorism and violence centred around a small communist group called The Beasts. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex and some descriptions of violence. 2010, c2003. Uniform title: Den röda vargen.Back (Orca soundings)
By Norah McClintock. 2009
Jojo's back, released from jail, and people are tense and afraid all over again. And if his friends come back…
too, they have a way of making it hard on people who decide to press charges against Jojo. Most people just wish Jojo would go away and never come back, but there are people who have hate in their hearts. Those people wish something bad would happen to Jojo, something really bad - and Ardell Withrow is one of those people. For junior high readers. 2009.Before I wake
By Robert J Wiersema. 2006
Karen and Simon Barrett make the painful decision to take their 3-year-old daughter Sherry, victim of a hit-and-run driver, off…
life support, but when they do, she spontaneously begins breathing on her own. Henry Denton, the driver who struck Sherry, is haunted by the accident and attempts to take his own life, only to be saved by an unexplained force. Sherry's nurse discovers that the little girl has the power to heal, and when word of her gift leaks, the sick begin lining up to be saved, and a mysterious stranger sets his sights on vanquishing the believers - and the Barretts. Some strong language and descriptions of violence. 2006.Breaking Lorca
By Giles Blunt. 2009
In 1980s El Salvador, a young woman is detained in a government torture squad's head-quarters, suspected of supporting guerrilla forces.…
A new recruit, Victor Peña, is assigned to assist in her interrogation, but before they learn so much as her name - Lorca - the squad relentlessly break her, body and soul. Years later, this terrifying journey into human cruelty and courage still haunts the tormentor as dramatically as it does his victim. Explicit descriptions of violence, strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2009.Beijing coma
By Flora Drew, Jian Ma. 2008
Dai Wei, a molecular biology Ph.D. student at Beijing University, is just waking from a coma he suffered as the…
result of a bullet to the head at Tiananmen Square in 1989. He is apparently unconscious, but actually aware of his surroundings, reflecting on his childhood and student life and the oppressive Chinese regime. c2008.The years of fire (Charles the Bold ; #2)
By Yves Beauchemin, Wayne Grady. 2007
Charles Thibodeau's high school years are truly years of fire: he discovers girls and politics. Fire also changes his life…
when his estranged father threatens his stepfather's store with arson. Charles must begin dealing drugs to pay him off, desperate to escape that life and fulfil his dreams of becoming a writer. Sequel to "Charles the bold" (DC29961). Descriptions of sex, some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2007. (Charles the Bold ; 2) Uniform title: Saut dans le vide.