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Shot in the dark (Lorimer Sports Stories Ser.)
By Janet M Whyte. 2015
Eighth-grader Micah is psyched to have made the BC junior goalball team -- even though he gets the news while…
dealing with a flare-up of his degenerative eye condition. What he's not happy about is his parents' decision to get him a guide dog, and the possibility of losing his independence. When Liam, a new, first-rate player, joins the goalball team, Micah's frustration with his vision spills onto the court. He is rude to Liam and starts a fight with another teammate, Sebastian, after practice. It's only with the help of Cam, his Orientation and Mobility Specialist, that Micah starts to get a handle on his aggression and trust people enough to communicate how he feels. But with the team's big junior tournament quickly approaching, Micah has to reconcile his differences with Liam and Sebastian so as to become a real team player and help his team win the championship. Grades 5-8. 2015.Shadow season: a novel
By Tom Piccirilli. 2009
Ex-cop Finn was left blind by violence, but he can still see the body of his wife, Dani, and a…
crime scene that won't fade from his mind's eye. Now a professor, Finn learns that an isolated girls' prep school can be every bit as dangerous as city streets when he stumbles upon a local girl lying in a graveyard during a raging blizzard. Explicit strong language, explicit descriptions of sex, and explicit descriptions of violence. c2009.Rip Van Winkle and the legend of Sleepy Hollow
By Washington Irving. 1993
Two stories from the Catskill Mountains: one featuring a man who sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world;…
and the other, a superstitious schoolmaster who encounters a headless horseman. 1993.Rhubarb
By Craig Silvey. 2004
A poignant and tender sort-of-love story about two damaged people tenuously connecting. Eleanor is blind and lives with her reclusive…
mother. Ewan is a cello player with agoraphobia. She is drawn to him through his music but cannot understand the difficulty he faces in forming a friendship. He does not understand her past nor the impact his music has on her. Amidst the heat of a Fremantle summer they stumble towards each other. 2004.Rebecca
By Daphne Du Maurier. 1992
Rebecca, the glamorous mistress of a great English estate, died eight months before Maxim de Winter brought a young and…
frightened second wife to live there. Mystery, intrigue, and violence eventually reveal the circumstances surrounding Rebecca's death. 1992.Rachel Ray (The World's classics)
By Anthony Trollope, P D Edwards. 1988
A love story set in and around a small town in the South Hams of Devonshire which, despite the idyllic…
surroundings, provides citizens as implacably factious as any of the author's social groups. The zest and intensity of their religious, political, commercial and class warfare make it a lively comedy. 1988.Quentin Durward (Oxford World's Classics)
By Susan Manning, Walter Scott. 1992
The young Scottish adventurer, Quentin Durward, embarks on a dangerous journey through the forest of the Ardennes, seeking a name,…
a partner and a position in the world. Meanwhile, the Machiavellian King Louis XI of France manoeuvres his realm out of the hands of the feudal barons, and into the centralised control that Scott believed to characterise the modern state. 1992.Molloy: a novel (The trilogy ; #1)
By Samuel Beckett, Patrick Bowles. 2003
Molloy is divided into two sections. In the first section, Molloy goes in search of his mother. In the second,…
he is pursued by Moran, a private detective. Spoken in the first person, the novel raises the questions of being and aloneness that marks so much of Bekckett's work. Molloy was written as a separate novel, but is often regarded as the first part of the Trilogy, followed by "Malone Dies" (DC30088) and "The Unnamable" (DC29767). 2003. (The Trilogy ; 1)Phineas redux (Palliser novels. #4.)
By Anthony Trollope. 1983
After the death of his Irish wife, Mary, in childbirth, Phineas Finn resumes his political career in the House of…
Commons in London, though with considerably less zest than previously. Over time, he remarries, survives an attempt on his life, and is acquitted of the murder of a rival politician, of which he had been falsely accused. Having gained wisdom and maturity, he leaves political life. First published in 1874. Sequel to "The Eustace diamonds" (DC14793). (The Palliser novels ; 4)Persuasion
By Jane Austen. 1818
Anne Elliot has been persuaded to break off her engagement, but meets Wentworth again after some time, and the story…
is concerned with the gradual revival of his passion for her. 1818.Père Goriot (Recorded Books classics library)
By Honoré De Balzac, A. J Krailsheimer. 2006
At the shabby boarding house in the rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève, petty Madame Vauquer and her tenants wonder at the plight of…
the aging resident Goriot. Once a well-heeled merchant, Goriot was - at first - afforded special treatment from the Madame. But now something is clearly amiss in his financial affairs, and his increasingly tawdry appearance makes him a subject of ridicule in the household. Some think he lost in the markets, others see him as a lecherous patron of prostitutes, but one thing is clear: his selflessness and complete devotion to his two daughters. 2006, c1835. Uniform title: Père Goriot.Pat of Silver Bush
By L. M Montgomery. 1988
Patricia Gardiner loves her home, Silver Bush, on Prince Edward Island. All her experiences -- a bout with scarlet fever,…
her first romance, her aunt's wedding and her mother's illness -- are shared with her friends, Bets Wilcox, Jingle Gordon, and the mysterious old Judy Plum. Grades 5-8. c1988, originally published 1933.Our village
By Mary Russell Mitford. 1986
Appearing first in "The Lady's Magazine" during the 1820s and 1830s, these gentle and shrewd portraits of the people and…
the way of life in an English country village of the time were written to support the author's aging parents. 1986.On the road (Penguin classics)
By Jack Kerouac. 2000
On the road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal…
Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. 2000, c1957.On the eve: a novel (Penguin classics)
By Gilbert Gardiner, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev. 1972
Of mice and men
By John Steinbeck. 1992
This is the story of itinerant farm workers George and Lennie, one of nimble wits and the other of huge…
physique, whose simple arrangement keeps them in work. However, even his best friend and mentor cannot save Lennie from his own worst enemy - his own strength. 1992.Not if I see you first
By Eric Lindstrom. 2015
Blind sixteen-year-old Parker Grant navigates friendships and romantic relationships, including a run-in with a boy who previously broke her heart,…
while coping with her father's recent death. For junior and senior high readers. 2015.Nostromo: a tale of the seaboard (Penguin classics)
By Joseph Conrad, Veronique Pauly. 2007
In the exotic South American republic of Costaguana, the San Tome silver mine provides opportunities for untold wealth and power.…
Yet amid the turbulence and brutality of Latin American politics, everyone associated with it - from the compromised English mine-owner Gould to the grasping businessman Holroyd, from the revolutionary Montero to the loyal and seemingly incorruptible worker Nostromo - becomes somehow irrevocably tainted. 2007, c1904.Nana
By George Holden, Émile Zola. 1972
My brilliant career (Virago modern classics)
By Miles Franklin. 1980
It is the 1890s. Sybylla, trapped in drudgery on her father's farm, loves the wild Australian outback and its way…
of life, but hates the bitter constraints which will always be her lot as a woman. She longs for beauty - to read, to think, to sing - but most of all to do great things, to have a "brilliant career" as a writer. 1980.