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The assault
By Harry Mulisch, Claire Nicolas White. 1985
In the last months of the German occupation of Holland, a Dutch collaborator is shot in the street where Anton…
Steenwijk's family lives. The body is moved to their doorstep and, in retribution, their house is destroyed by German troops, Anton's parents are taken away and his brother chased and killed. Why did someone move the body and cause the destruction of his family? 1985.The ash garden: a novel
By Dennis Bock. 2001
One of 25 Hiroshima Maidens relocated from post-war Japan to America for corrective plastic surgery, Emiko remains in the U.S.…
as a student, then as a filmmaker. Anton is a German scientist who worked on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, and who married a part-Jewish survivor and refugee. When they meet during the filming of Emiko's documentary, the reverberations caused by the explosion of the bomb are explored, and the true implications of their involvement in that moment are revealed. 2001.Tell him you're married: short stories
By Stanley Wm Rogal. 2002
A collection of linked short stories in which an un-named narrator witnesses the day-to-day events that make up relationships. In…
"Hardline," a father and his children don't get along. In "Friends," a group of people play a dangerous drinking game. Some strong language. Some descriptions of violence. 2002.The alley cat: a novel
By Yves Beauchemin. 1986
This novel, set in Montreal in the 1970s, recounts the struggle of Florent Boissonneault against the wicked and powerful Egon…
Ratablavasky who backs Florent's purchase of a restaurant and then steals it from him. 1986. Uniform title: Matou.The alphabet sisters
By Monica McInerney. 2004
Anna, Bett and Carrie Quinlan were childhood singing stars, The Alphabet Sisters. As adults they haven't spoken for years, ever…
since Bett's fiancé left her for another sister. Now Lola, their larger-than-life grandmother, summons them home for her 80th birthday extravaganza and a surprise announcement - she wants them to revive their singing careers and stage a musical she has written. Rehearsals get underway, and family secrets begin to be shared and revealed. But just as the rifts begin to close, The Alphabet Sisters face a test they never imagined. 2004.The all of it
By Jeannette Haien. 1986
Kevin and Enda escaped from their mad father and found refuge in a tiny Irish village where they lived as…
man and wife. Fifty years later, Kevin's death impels Enda to confess to Father Declan, a world-weary priest. 1986.The alchemist
By Paulo Coelho, Alan R Clarke. 1998
The story of an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a treasure. He journeys to the…
markets of Tangiers and into the Egyptian desert where a fateful encounter with the alchemist awaits him. This story teaches us about the wisdom of listening to our hearts, reading the omens along life's path and following our dreams. Bestseller. 1998. Uniform title: Alquimista.Territorial rights
By Muriel Spark. 1979
In this comedic-farce, Robert, escaping from a complicated affair, runs to Venice in the hope of simplifying his life. In…
Venice, he finds that nothing is the way it seems, even the pensione has a body buried in the garden. 1979.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.Tamarind mem: A Novel
By Anita Rau Badami. 1996
Kamini has recently moved to Canada from India, but a series of acrimonious telephone calls plunges her into her family's…
past. Through Kamini, we meet her mother, Saroja, and learn of Saroja's passage from youthful dreams of becoming a doctor to a bitter old age, her young life marred by an arranged marriage to a man twice her age. c1996.Talkative man: a novel
By R. K Narayan. 1986
The Talkative Man turns out to be a young man, struggling to establish himself as a journalist, when he first…
meets Dr Rann, a fair-haired Indian, dressed in a stylish three-piece suit. Rann has come to Malgudi, he says to work on a project for the UN. TM is impressed but is the charming Dr Rann all that he claims to be? TM becomes convinced he is sheltering a con man. The situation is delicate but drastic action must be taken if he is to save Malgudi's innocents. 1986.Tanamera: a novel of Singapore
By Noel Barber. 1981
In the rigid society of Singapore in the 1930s, wealthy John Dexter, heir to a financial empire, falls in love…
with Julie Soong, the daughter of the city's most powerful Chinese family. Their affair outlives separation and betrayal, forced marriages, and the turmoil of war. Some strong language. Descriptions of sex. 1981.Tai-Pan: a novel of Hong Kong (Asian saga ; #2)
By James Clavell. 1975
Set during the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong in the 1840s, the story tells of Dirk Struan's…
burning ambition to transform the barren island into the brightest jewel of the British Empire. The opium run was the surest way for him to achieve power and riches beyond his wildest dreams. 1975. (Asian saga ; 2)Swimming in the monsoon sea
By Shyam Selvadurai. 2005
Sri Lanka, 1980. There is mystery surrounding the death of Amrith's beloved mother and alcoholic father, and because of the…
circumstances of his parents' marriage, his extended family shuns him. So when his Canadian cousin Niresh turns up with his father, Amrith is anxious to make a connection. Eventually, he realizes his feelings for Niresh go beyond friendship. For senior high readers. Some descriptions of sex, violence and some strong language. 2005.Summer at Gaglow
By Esther Freud. 1998
Three young Belgard sisters in Germany witness the decline of their family's fortunes during World War I. In alternating chapters,…
a great-granddaughter struggles to understand the lives of the Belgards and their offspring as she awaits the birth of her first child in 1990s London. Some strong language. 1998.Surfacing (New Press Canadian classics)
By Margaret Atwood. 1972
An atmosphere of menace and mystery surrounds a young woman who returns with her lover and another couple to her…
childhood home, in search of her missing father and herself. Some strong language.Suzanne's diary for Nicholas
By James Patterson. 2001
Katie Wilkinson, a book editor in New York, believes she has found the perfect man when she meets poet Matt…
Harrison. They are having a wonderful time together. Then without warning he gives her a diary his wife had written for their son and disappears. Bestseller. 2001.Swan song: a novel
By T. J Binyon. 1984
Summer harvest
By Madge Swindells. 1983
Anna van Achtenburgh is disinherited because of her marriage to a poor wheat farmer in South Africa, and sets her…
mind to become rich again. Some strong language. Followed by "Song of the wind". 1983.Sunstroke
By Jesse Kellerman. 2006
Gloria Mendez is 36, single and hopelessly in love with her boss. So when he disappears whilst on holiday in…
Mexico, it's Gloria who leaps into action, tracing his final phone call to a hellish ghost town run by a sleazy cop. Distraught and restless, she travels to Mexico to try to make sense of his death. But what she discovers about the man she loved shocks her to the core. Descriptions of violence. 2006.