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By Helen Humphreys. 2007
In its long history, the River Thames has frozen solid forty times. These stories are based on events that actually…
took place each time the river froze between 1142 and 1895. From Queen Matilda trying to escape her besieged castle in a snowstorm and lovers meeting on the frozen river in the plague years, to a simple farmer persuading his oxen the ice is safe and Queen Bess discovering the rare privacy afforded by the ice-covered Thames, the moments are fleeting but transformative for the characters. 2007.It should have been the night that launched a new pop idol. Tamar Valparaiso was set to launch her debut…
album, Bandersnatch, on a luxury yacht. But halfway through her performance, masked men dragged Tamar off the stage and took off, while the partygoers looked on helplessly. Violence and strong language. 2004.By David Adams Richards. 2006
Postwar New Brunswick. Mary Jameson, the widow of a lumber magnate, hopes to stymie the prophecy she receives from a…
fortune-teller - that her oldest son will be powerful and her younger son will bring glory upon the family, but they will be the end of the family. When Will, the brash older brother, suffers a fatal logging accident, and Owen, the intellectual younger son, returns a wounded hero from WWII, it seems the prophecy may come true. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. 2006.By John Irving. 2001
Television journalist and addicted womanizer Patrick Wallingford loses his left hand to circus lions in India, on camera. But it…
is a trip to Japan that changes his life--that and having a hand-transplant with visitation rights for the donor's widow. Explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. Bestseller. 2001.By Alexander McCall Smith. 2003
Gaborone, Botswana. A wealthy woman hires Precious Ramotswe, head of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, to investigate the sincerity…
of several potential husbands. Precious resolves not only her client's quandary but also her own fiancé's reluctance to marry. Sequel to "The Kalahari typing school for men" (DC29230). Bestseller. 2003. (Precious Ramotswe ; 5). (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series)By John Fowles. 1969
By Jeffrey Archer. 1997
Richard Armstrong and Keith Townsend seemed to have little in common. One was the son of an illiterate peasant, from…
the most backward corner of Europe, ravaged by a bitter war. The other was raised in a mansion on the far side of the world. But they were both prepared to risk everything to control the biggest newspaper empire in the world. Only one of them could win... 1997.By Chigozie Obioma. 2015
Told from the point of view of 9-year-old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, the book is the Cain and…
Abel-esque story of an unforgettable childhood in 1990s Nigeria. When their father has to travel to a distant city for work, the brothers take advantage of his extended absence to skip school and go fishing. At the forbidden nearby river they encounter a madman, who predicts that one of the brothers will kill another. What happens next is an almost mythic event whose impact - both tragic and redemptive - will transcend the lives and imaginations of both its characters and its readers. 2015.By Michel Tremblay. 1994
Marcel and his cousin experience the mystical arrival of summer on the final day of exams at Ecole Saint-Stanislas. While…
Marcel is in the class for "slow learners," his cousin is part of the "gifted" program. It is only towards the end of exams that Marcel's cousin recognizes Marcel's own special type of genius. Sequel to "The fat woman next door is pregnant." 1994. Uniform title: Premier quartier de la lune.By Robert Hough. 2001
By Lucilla Andrews. 1995
Rose Standing, a nurse, knows what it's like to work for an exacting supervisor, to be too busy to eat…
or even be tired. Even so, she still tries to have time for romance. There are the usual overtures from medical students, but then the real thing occurs - a timorous, frustrated love that Rose comes to feel for the senior member of the surgical staff. 1995.By Alice Thomas Ellis. 1989
Lili's father was Egyptian and her mother English, and she could assume either nationality as the whim took her. This…
was confusing - for her, more than anyone else. She never really knew where she wanted to be. Sequel to "The skeleton in the cupboard". 1989. (Summerhouse trilogy ; 3)By Owen Burke. 1979
Nell marries Malcolm Gresham and merges her shipping fleet with his. Nell is happy until she learns that Malcolm is…
still keeping his mistress, Poppy. Some strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. 1979.By Angela Johnson. 2003
Sixteen-year-old Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father. After tragedy strikes, he must care for his…
adored baby daughter, Feather, by himself. Despite mistakes, Bobby's courage and love enable him to carry on with the aid of supportive adults and friends. Strong language. For senior high readers. 2003.By Elizabeth Cadell. 1975
Ten-year-old Tory leaves her straightlaced great aunts and their mansion to attend boarding school in England. Her father selects a…
golfing acquaintance to accompany her on the train, and she discovers he has stolen a valuable statuette. 1975.By Raphael Carter. 1996
In twenty-third-century Russia, the world is linked by virtual reality. The Internet is used as an instrument of thought control.…
Maya is a human camera, a reporter that transmits her feelings and thoughts as well as the news. She investigates an old atrocity and finds herself fighting the censors. For senior high and older readers. c1996.By Anne Enright. 2011
In Terenure, a pleasant suburb of Dublin, in the winter of 2009, it has snowed. Gina Moynihan, girl about town,…
recalls the trail of lust and happenstance that brought her to fall for 'the love of her life', Sean Vallely. As the city outside comes to a halt, Gina remembers the days of their affair in one hotel room or another: long afternoons made blank by bliss and denial. Now, as the silent streets and the stillness and vertigo of the falling snow make the day luminous and full of possibility, Gina waits the arrival on her doorstep of Sean's fragile, twelve-year-old daughter, Evie - the complication, and gravity, of this second life. Includes strong language. 2011.By Daniel Defoe, David Blewett. 1989
Born in Newgate prison and abandoned, Moll's drive to find a secure place in society propels her through incest, adultery,…
bigamy, prostitution and a career as a thief before she is apprehended and returned to Newgate. Moll is an embodiment of the virtues and vices of her eighteenth-century contemporaries. 1722, 1989. Uniform title: Fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll FlandersBy Peter May. 1999
Margaret Campbell is a forensic pathologist from Chicago. Li Yan is a Beijing detective with a horribly burned corpse on…
his hands. She has a broken life behind her and a lonely life ahead. He has survived decades of violent change by marrying himself to his career. Neither of them is ready for the consequences of asking the wrong questions. 1999.By Alice Hoffman. 2005
Growing up the daughter of an Amazon queen who shuns her, Rain rebels against the ways of her tribe through…
her sister-like relationship with Io, and her feelings for a boy from a tribe of wanderers. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2005.