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By Stella Knightley. 2013
Sarah Thomson and Marco Donato's complicated love affair continues - their passion is a deep one but both have been…
badly hurt before and are wary of exposing their vulnerabilities to the other. Meanwhile, Sarah begins to research a new subject: In Nineteen-Thirties Germany, Katherine Hazleton escapes her stuffy finishing school and runs away to Berlin in pursuit of an unsuitable man. Alone and penniless when her boyfriend deserts her, she is forced to become a hostess at a cabaret bar. There she reinvents herself as Kitty Katkin. Writing her own songs to accompany her risque dance routines, Kitty is soon a sensation. She is in love with Berlin and her handsome musician lover, Otto. But Germany is about to change. Will Kitty and Sarah find the love they truly deserve? Sequel to "The girl behind the fan". 2013.By Stella Knightley. 2013
Hurt and confused by the sudden end of her strange love affair with Venetian millionaire Marco Donato, Sarah Thomson takes…
her bruised heart to Paris, where she tries to forget her yearning for Marco by throwing herself into a new project: a study of the life of notorious nineteenth-century courtesan, Augustine Levert. It is while she is in France that Sarah meets her ex-boyfriend Steven, who is hoping for reconciliation. Sequel to "The girl behind the mask”. Followed by "The girl behind the curtain". Includes sex. c2013.By Stella Knightley. 2013
Leaving the heartache of sexual betrayal behind her in London, historian Sarah Thomson intends to make the most of her…
research trip to Venice. But she soon finds her attention consumed by mysterious millionaire Marco Donato. Followed by "The girl behind the fan". Includes sex. c2013.By Sarah Hope-Walker. 2008
Jeffrey is little more than a stranger to Helen when he tells her to do things no other man has…
hinted at. A cultured, wealthy stranger who likes to play games of master and servant. In the secrecy of a London apartment, in the debauched opulence of a Parisian retreat, they become partners of perversity and shame. Emerging from the shadows of guilt, a resolutely virtuous young widow is transformed into a voracious wanton. Explicit descriptions of sex. 2008.By Louise Penny. 2010
On a cold November morning, a jogger runs through the woods in the peaceful Quebec village of Three Pines. On…
his run, he finds a dead man hanging from a tree. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is called to the crime scene. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. c2010.By Pam Rosenthal. 2008
London, 1829. Acclaimed romance writer Marina Wyatt, the widowed countess of Gorham, falls in love with the scholarly Jasper Hedges,…
an uncle of her young friend Sir Anthony Hedges. While indulging in their clandestine affair, Marina is blackmailed for past indiscretions. Some strong language, and explicit descriptions of sex. Rita Award. c2008.By Philip Roth. 2001
Sixtyish New York cultural critic David Kepesh is already struggling with his own mortality when a former favourite young lover,…
Cuban Consuela Castillo, returns in ill health to see him again. Explicit descriptions of sex and strong language. Bestseller. 2001.By Ian McEwan. 1981
For Mary and Colin, on holiday in a city where everything is strange to them and they are continually lost…
both physically and mentally, it is easy to close their eyes to the hidden danger lurking behind Robert's apparent friendliness. 1981.By Thomas William Simpson. 1998
Samantha Henderson's husband, Gunn, receives a mysterious job offer that includes a lot of perks, especially a house with a…
caretaker. Sam becomes involved with the servant, not realizing he's a threat to her family. Strong language, explicit descriptions of sex, and some descriptions of violence. 1998.By Richardo Keens-Douglas. 2004
Three magical tales retold for middle readers: enter the richly magical world of Tales from the Isle of Spice and…
visit a bottomless lake where an enchanted princess lives; try your luck against the sinister woman who walks in moonlight stalking souls; catch a glimpse of the mysterious boy with an angelic face whose scarred body hides beneath the waves. Grades 3-6. Winner of the 2005 Golden Oak Award. 2004.By Maureen Jennings. 2010
1873, Nova Scotia. A storm has wrecked a ship on the shores of a fishing village, and people work bravely…
to rescue the crew - but many die. When young Will Murdoch and the local priest examine the bodies, they discover gold and diamonds. They suspect that the shipwreck was not responsible for all the deaths. Some descriptions of violence. A high-interest, low-vocabulary book. 2010.By Maxim Jakubowski. 2010
By Eric Walters. 2009
Slacker Edward fakes a learning disability to gain a special-education designation in school. But instead of lowering his parents' expectations,…
Edward ends up working harder than ever. A high-interest, low-vocabulary book. Grades 5-8. 2009.By Linda Grant. 2002
Alix Rebick is a survivor of the sexual revolution, but at forty-nine is resigned to spending the rest of her…
life alone. Returning to the bedside of her dying mother, Alix receives a final message that forces her to uncover family secrets that lie in pre-war Dresden. Joseph Shields, an American architect, is in a war - with Liverpool's underworld, with his wife back in Chicago who has left him and with memories of his time as a combat soldier. He is not interested in an affair with the woman who unlocks the city's secrets for him and is consumed with desire. Strong language. Descriptions of sex. 2002.By Mary Gordon. 1998
Monica Szabo is a moderately successful New York artist when she meets B, a wealthy commodities trader who volunteers to…
be her muse, and lover. Although Monica worries about being a kept woman, she uses B as her model and eventually becomes a celebrity. Suddenly B, however, loses his fortune. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. c1998.By Yolanda Celbridge. 2001
Stripped of her uniform for sexual outrage, soldier-nurse Lise Gallard is forced to endure corporal punishment in the Foreign Legion…
women's prison. But she is spotted there by dominatrix Dr Crevasse, who engineers Lise's release for her own flagellant purposes. Can Lise hope to escape her cruel mistress? Or will she in turn learn to wield the cane? Contains very explicit sexual content, strong language and violence. 2001.By L. Marie Adeline. 2014
The only thing that Cassie Robichaud has ever really wanted is Will Foret, the love of her life. But when…
Will discovers that Cassie is part of S.E.C.R.E.T., an underground group devoted to helping women experience their deepest fantasies, Will breaks it off. Heartbroken, Cassie dries her tears and devotes herself to helping the latest S.E.C.R.E.T. recruit, Solange Faraday. Cassie also reignites her relationship with bad-boy Jesse, even if he can never love her as deeply as Will did. The final book in the trilogy. Sequel to "S.E.C.R.E.T shared". 2014.By L. Marie Adeline. 2013
Still wounded from a recent heartbreak, Cassie Robichaud throws herself into service with S.E.C.R.E.T., the mysterious organization that changed her…
life last year by bringing her deepest fantasies to life, one step at a time. Now it’s Cassie’s turn to guide the group’s newest candidate, Dauphine Mason, recruiting men to execute a new set of fantasies. While it gets Cassie’s mind off Will, the man she truly loves, it also gives her the chance to help watch S.E.C.R.E.T. work its magic on someone new. Sequel to "S.E.C.R.E.T.". Bestseller. 2013.By L. Marie Adeline. 2013
Cassie Robichaud's life is filled with regret and loneliness after the death of her husband. She waits tables at the…
rundown Café Rose in New Orleans, and every night she heads home to her solitary one-bedroom apartment. But when she discovers a notebook left behind by a mysterious woman at the café, Cassie's world is forever changed. The notebook's stunningly explicit confessions shock and fascinate Cassie, and eventually lead her to S∙E∙C∙R∙E∙T, an underground society dedicated to helping women realize their wildest, most lurid fantasies. Includes sex and strong language. 2013.By Sylvia Day, Agathe Nabet. 2013
Gideon Cross était l'incarnation de l'homme idéal. Mais je n'étais pas dupe, moi qui savais désormais quels tourments dissimulait cette…
perfection. De son passé, j'ignorais presque tout et son entêtement à le garder secret me blessait. Tout ce que j'imaginais attisait ma jalousie et sapait la confiance qu'il exigeait de moi. Être ensemble était parfois douloureux. Ne pas l'être était pire. Attirant et dangereux, il me consumait dans un abîme de plaisirs charnels. J'étais son obsession. Lui, l'objet de tous mes désirs. Serions-nous unis par la destinée ? Suite de "Dévoile-moi", suivi de "Enlace-moi". Best-seller. 2013. Titre uniforme: Reflected in you.