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The equal sky
By Stephen Reardon. 2007
1886. The winter floods bring to light the remains of a long-dead Icenian warrior. Henry Turner, the son of a…
farm bailiff, gifted with an intuitive understanding of their heavy work horses, feels he is unaccountably chosen for a mysterious purpose. Turning his back on the Cambridgeshire village and the future everyone assumes he has with Annie Lilley, Henry Turner is taken on as a groom by a former army officer with an estate in turbulent Ireland and a sinister past. While in the officer's London house, Henry befriends a Sioux Indian with similar gifts to his own. Together they seek to understand the mind of the Icenian warrior as he compels them to fulfil his purpose and, in doing so, discover their own destinies. For junior high and older readers. 2007.The factory voice
By Jeanette Lynes. 2009
Fort William, 1941. Something's gone wrong with the Mosquitos being built for the war effort - they keep crashing in…
flight tests, for no apparent reason. Is the problem with their design, or are they being sabotaged? Everyone's on high alert, and "The Factory Voice" newsletter keeps abreast of the details - or at least the rumours. Some strong language. c2009.The executioner's song
By Norman Mailer. 2018
This Pulitzer Prize-winning classic tells of Gary Gilmore who, after being convicted for murder, insisted on being executed. He fought…
a system seemingly intent on keeping him alive long after it had sentenced him to death. His fight for the right to die is what made him famous. 2018.The exotic music of the belly dancer
By Brian Sweany. 2013
Hank Fitzpatrick stumbles through and beyond adolescence in the late 1980s. Hypersexual, drunk, stoned, occasionally Catholic, accidentally well-intentioned - Hank…
doesn't know it yet, but his life is about to implode in spectacular fashion. Senior High. 2013.The empty room
By Lauren B Davis. 2013
A raw and powerful portrayal of the chaos and pain of alcoholism. Colleen Kerrigan wakes up sick and bruised, with…
no clear memory of the night before. It's Monday morning, and she is late for work again. A near-empty bottle is close by – here is Colleen's only friend, and her worst enemy. 2013.This story ranges from 1939 in the shadows of Nazi Europe to the present in the deceptive calm of a…
Toronto campus. Danny's story is the whole sorrowful history of East and West since the war. Winner of the 1984 Governor General's Award for Fiction. Strong language.The end of the world as we know it
By Lesley Choyce. 2007
16-year-old Carson hates the world, stuck in a private school for kids who have repeatedly flunked out everywhere else. Then…
Carson meets Christine, who has been abandoned by her parents and struggles to get by living in a trailer. Confronted by her sadness, Carson starts to care for her, and once focused on someone other than himself, begins to notice what's going on around him. Some descriptions of sex. For senior high readers. 2007.The English lady
By William Harrington. 1982
Lady Nancy Brookeford becomes an intimate friend and confidant to Hitler and the leaders of the new Nazi party. She…
follows the Nazi movement until, in 1938, she meets and falls in love with a Jewish photographer. Some descriptions of sex. c1982.The face of the waters: a novel (The first born of Egypt. #2)
By Simon Raven. 1985
Fielding Gray and Jeremy Morrison are returning home from their tour of the Peloponnese. In Venice they meet up again…
with Piero, a male ex-whore. Back at the family home in Wiltshire life is more tranquil with Marius back to school via a generous "donation" from his father. But these placid waters are disturbed by the arrival of Piero. Includes sex and strong language. 1985.The face-changers: a novel (Jane Whitefield #4)
By Thomas Perry. 1998
Jane used to help people in trouble start over with new identities. Her new husband, Carey, convinced her to stop,…
but now he needs her help. His mentor, a surgeon, is being falsely accused of murder and believes he will be killed. Meanwhile, someone is posing as Jane - and the impostor isn't out to help anybody. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 1998.The end of east
By Jen Sookfong Lee. 2007
Sammy Chan was sure she'd escaped her family obligations when she fled Vancouver six years ago, but with her sister's…
upcoming marriage, her turn has come to care for their aging mother. Sammy finds herself cobbling together a makeshift family history and delving into stories that began in 1913, when her grandfather, Seid Quan, then eighteen years old, first stepped on Canadian soil. Descriptions of sex, some strong language, and some descriptions of violence. c2007.The eye of the storm
By Patrick White. 1973
The eye in the door (World War I trilogy ; #2)
By Pat Barker. 1994
As Britain faces defeat by Germany, pacifists and homosexuals are scapegoated as potential traitors. It is unfortunate for Lieutenant Billy…
Prior, a bisexual who has a split personality, that when he is released from Craiglockhart War Hospital, he is assigned to British Intelligence. Once again he needs the help of Dr. Rivers. Sequel to "Regeneration". Followed by "Ghost road" (DC18056). Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 1994. (World War I trilogy ; 2)The eye of the forest (Children of the lamp ; #5)
By Philip Kerr. 2009
When a collection of Incan artifacts goes missing, the Blue Djinn of Babylon dispatches twins John and Philippa Gaunt and…
their Uncle Nimrod to recover them. Along the way, John and Philippa encounter their friend Dybbuk, who was drained of his djinn powers but is determined to get them back. He's headed to an ancient Incan Empire where he believes he can regain his power, and will stop at nothing - even if it means opening a cursed portal, disturbing the enchanted kingdom of the Incas, and destroying the world. Can the twins stop their friend before it's too late? Grades 5-8. Sequel to "The day of the Djinn warriors", followed by "Five fakirs of Faizabad". 2009. (Children of the lamp ; 5)The face of Jalanath
By Ronald Hardy. 1973
The face of trespass
By Ruth Rendell. 1974
The Eyre affair (Thursday Next. #1.)
By Jasper Fforde. 2001
There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where dodos are regenerated in home-cloning kits, the Crimean War is still…
being fought, and everyone is disappointed by the ending of "Jane Eyre". Literary detective Thursday Next is pursuing the world's most evil man, who has kidnapped Jane Eyre in a display of literary vandalism. She must also assist her time-travelling father, marry the man she loves and discover the truth about bananas. Some strong language, Followed by "Lost in a good book" (DC30166). 2001. (Thursday Next ; 1)The eye (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
By Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov. 1992
Set in Berlin in the 1920s, the story follows the narrator in his distressful, flurried pursuit of the real identity…
of a man called Smurov who, like the narrator himself, puts in a regular appearance among a circle of acquaintances. Each person he meets reflects a different Smurov, whose character seems to change. Do these reflections illumine or obscure the real identity of the man? The puzzle leads through a "hell of mirrors" to the final chilling dénouement. 1992.The extinction club
By Jeffrey Moore. 2010
Nile Nightingale is startled by a pickup barrelling down the lane, which comes to a stop beside a church cemetery.…
Nile had hoped for some peace when he fled the addictions, exhaustions, and legal problems of home by heading north, illegally, into Quebec's Laurentian Mountains. Instead he finds that the driver has dumped the bloodied but breathing body of a teenage girl, and against his better judgement, Nile resolves to treat her wounds and find those who left her for dead. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex, and explicit descriptions of violence. c2010.The expensive halo
By Josephine Tey. 1931