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Coventry
By Helen Humphreys. 2008
On the evening of November 14, 1940, Harriet stands on the roof of the Coventry cathedral beneath a full moon.…
That night, the Germans come to unleash destruction, and for Harriet, Jeremy, the young man who shares her duties as a firewatcher, and his free-spirited mother, Maeve, the bombings will resonate for the rest of their lives. As Harriet and Jeremy make their way through the burning city in search of Maeve, cold dread brings to life both a grief and a love that Harriet thought she had put behind her forever. 2008.Bury me deep
By Megan E Abbott. 2009
Marion Seeley, a young woman abandoned in Phoenix by her doctor husband, makes friends at work with Louise, a vivacious…
nurse, and her roommate, Ginny, a tubercular blonde. Before long, the demure Marion is attending parties where Louise and Ginny supplement their income by entertaining the town's most powerful men. Marion then meets - and falls for - Joe Lanigan, a local rogue and politician, whose ties to all three women bring events to a dangerous collision. Inspired by the true story of Winnie Ruth Judd. Descriptions of sex, some descriptions of violence, and some strong language. c2009.Conversation in the cathedral: a novel
By Gregory Rabassa, Mario Vargas Llosa. 1975
A novel of political corruption that captures the decay and breakdown of city life under the rule of a military…
dictatorship. Through the doors of the "Cathedral," a bar and brothel in Lima, Peru, come escapees and ordinary citizens fleeing the violence. 1975. Uniform title: Conversación en la catedral.Castile for Isabella
By Jean Plaidy. 1960
The king of Castile is on his deathbed, and his second wife, Isabella, worries about the fate of her two…
children. The king's son by his first marriage, Henry, is heir to the throne, but Henry's marriage to Blanche of Aragon has produced no heirs. Isabella is preparing her young daughter, Isabella, to become queen. Then Henry divorces and takes a second wife who bears a child. Now there is uncertainty about the rightful heir. 1980, c1960.Cloud of Bone
By Bernice Morgan. 2007
During World War II, Newfoundlander Kyle Holloway deserts from the Royal Navy and hides in a cave below a church,…
starving, disoriented and tormented by his own act of betrayal. Over a century earlier, Shanawdithit, a Beothuk, became the last of her tribe, and is forced to endlessly repeat the story of her doomed people. And in 1998, Judith and Ian Muir are in Rwanda as part of a United Nations team when Ian is killed. Judith returns to England and the abandoned cottage where she grew up, where an unusual discovery takes her on a quest that will connect her to Shanawdithit and Kyle Holloway. Some descriptions of sex, violence, and some strong language. 2007.Brothers far from home: the World War I diary of Eliza Bates (Dear Canada)
By Jean Little. 2003
Eliza is a young girl from a large family, living in Uxbridge, Ontario in 1916. World War I is raging…
and two of her brothers are fighting in Europe. Her diary helps her cope with the many changes, some terrible, that take place over the next few years. Grades 4-7. 2003. (Dear Canada series)Bride of New France
By Suzanne Desrochers. 2011
1669. Orphan Laure Beausejour is sent across the Atlantic to New France as a Fille du roi. From the moment…
she arrives in Ville-Marie (Montreal), Laure is expected to marry and produce children with a French soldier who can himself barely survive the harsh conditions of his forest cabin. But Laure finds, through her clandestine relationship with Deskaheh, an allied Iroquois, a sense of the possibilities in this New World. Descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2011.Bring up the bodies
By Hilary Mantel. 2012
Beloved: a novel
By Toni Morrison. 1987
Related in kaleidoscopic fashion and set in rural Ohio during the period immediately following the Civil War, this chronicle of…
slavery and its aftermath traces the life of Sethe, a former slave. Sethe has a secret in her past so horrific that it has alienated the community, driven off her two sons, isolated her surviving daughter, and threatened her new, loving relationship with Paul D., also a former slave. Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. 1987.Biografi: a traveller's tale
By Lloyd Jones. 2008
A different type of travel book in which the narrator journeys around Albania on a quest for one Petar Shapallo,…
an erstwhile dentist whose life had been spent impersonating dictator Enver Hoxha. Descriptions of violence. c1993.Atonement
By Ian McEwan. 2001
A story that begins with three young people in the garden of a country house on the hottest day of…
1935, and ends with three profoundly changed lives. A depiction of love and war, class, childhood and England, which explores shame and forgiveness, atonement and the possibility of absolution. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Some strong language and descriptions of sex. 2001.Alias Grace
By Margaret Atwood. 1996
Grace Marks is serving a life sentence in the Kingston Penitentiary for her part in the murder of her employer…
and his mistress in 1843. She claims that she cannot remember anything about the murders, so Dr. Simon Jordan, an expert in the new field of mental illness, is engaged to review her case. He listens to the account of her life, slowly bringing her closer to the day of the murders. The story she tells grows more and more alarming and baffling as Jordan tries to reveal the hidden layers of her memory. Winner of the 1996 Giller Prize. 1996.Against a darkening sky
By Lauren B Davis. 2015
In 7th-century England, Wilona, the lone survivor of a plague that has wiped out her people, makes her way across…
the moors to a new life in the village of Ad Gefrin, where she is apprenticed to Touilt, a revered healer and seeress. She blossoms under Touilt's tutelage and will one day take her place, but as an outsider, she is viewed with suspicion by all except Margawn, a warrior in the lord's hall. When the king proclaims a conversion to the new Christian religion, Ad Gefrin becomes a dangerous place for Wilona and Touilt. Their very lives are at risk as the villagers embrace the new faith and turn against the old ways, even as Wilona's relationship with Margawn grows. Wilona's fate becomes intertwined with that of Egan, a monk sent to Ad Gefrin as part of the Christian mission; both will see their faith and their loyalties tested. 2015.Alchemy of fire
By Gillian Bradshaw. 2004
In seventh-century Constantinople, Anna, former concubine of the emperor's disgraced brother, Theodosius, lives with her daughter. Then handsome Syrian alchemist…
Kallinokos arrives in Constantinople, working on a secret weapon - unquenchable fire - that could save the city from the Arab fleet that might attack at any time. When he is arrested, Theodosia, Anna's daughter, tries to plead his case at court. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2004.A natural history
By Keith Oatley. 1998
In mid-nineteenth-century England, Dr. John Leggate is searching for a cure for cholera before the next outbreak occurs. The arrival…
of Marian Brooks, a talented pianist and writer, and their subsequent marriage, affects Leggate and his work as another cholera epidemic approaches. Some descriptions of sex. 1998.A measure of light: A Novel
By Beth Powning. 2015
Mary Dyer is a seventeenth-century Puritan who flees persecution in England, only to find the colony of Massachusetts Bay as…
dangerous as the country she left behind. Though she is the wife of a successful merchant and mother to their children, she becomes stigmatized following a birth gone terribly wrong and is reviled as a friend to the infamous heretic Anne Hutchinson. Mary tries to accept New England's harsh realities, but is outraged by the cold-hearted Puritan magistrates. Mary becomes one of America's first Quakers. As both outcast and privileged citizen, caught between the callings of faith and the ambitions of her husband, she comes to the realization that she must follow her convictions in order to bring an end to the brutal repression of the Quakers in Massachusetts, for whom death by hanging is the ultimate punishment. Bestseller. 2015.A conspiracy of paper: a novel
By David Liss. 2001
London, 1719. Benjamin Weaver is a Jewish ex-boxer who makes his living tracking down felons and debtors for aristocratic clients.…
He lives estranged from his society and family, until he is asked to investigate the death of a client's father, which leads him to his own father's death. Eventually, Weaver uncovers a violent cabal of financiers whose actions lead to a stock market crash. Some violence. 2000.A bone of contention (Matthew Bartholomew chronicle. #3.)
By Susanna Gregory. 1997
Cambridge, 1392. Matthew Bartholomew, physician to Michaelhouse College, is called to examine some mysterious bones found in the King's Ditch.…
Next day he is called to the Ditch again: a student has been found dead there. Meanwhile, there is unrest in the town, and the strange disappearance of Dominica, former lover of the dead student and daughter of Waterstone, the well-known Principal of a Cambridge student hostel. Are these events connected? c1997.Vices of my blood: a Murdoch mystery (Detective Murdoch mystery #6)
By Maureen Jennings. 2010
The Reverend Charles Howard, a married Presbyterian minister in Toronto's east end, was popular with the congregation that elected him,…
especially with the ladies, and most particularly with Miss Sarah Dignam. Respected in the community, Howard, as Visitor for the House of Industry, sat in judgment on the poor, assessing their applications for the workhouse. But now Howard is dead, stabbed and brutally beaten by someone he invited into his office. Strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some descriptions of violence. 2010, c2006. (Detective Murdoch mystery)The temptations of Big Bear (New Canadian library)
By Rudy Henry Wiebe, Robert Kroetsch. 1973
In 1876, Big Bear, a Plains Cree, refused to let the government push his people off their land and onto…
a reserve. While courageous, his stand brought starvation to his followers and tore apart the Cree community and eventually his own family. A fictional account of Big Bear's struggle and the culture and history of the Cree Indians. Winner of the 1973 Governor General's Award.