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By Alana Wilcox, Beth Follett. 2001
"Tell It Slant" channels the lesbian couple of Djuna Barnes' "Nightwood", resetting their charged romance from 1920's Paris to contemporary…
Montreal's Plateau district. Nora Flood, indigent in body and soul, searches for love through a confused adolescence in Vancouver and a lonely stint in Toronto, before settling in Montreal. There, she meets Robin, a lover whose passionate nature teaches Nora that she must make a life for herself in the midst of uncertainty. Strong language and descriptions of sex. 2001.By Shyam Selvadurai. 2005
Sri Lanka, 1980. There is mystery surrounding the death of Amrith's beloved mother and alcoholic father, and because of the…
circumstances of his parents' marriage, his extended family shuns him. So when his Canadian cousin Niresh turns up with his father, Amrith is anxious to make a connection. Eventually, he realizes his feelings for Niresh go beyond friendship. For senior high readers. Some descriptions of sex, violence and some strong language. 2005.By Ellen Wittlinger. 2004
A combination of e-mails, instant messages, postcards, and 'old-fashioned' pen-and-paper letters tell the story of Chloe, of Massachusetts, and Julian,…
from Florida, who meet during a visit to the college each plans to attend. Back home, they cope with how to treat current or potential love interests, best friends, parents, and sisters who have their own baggage. For senior high readers. 2004.By W. E. B. Griffin. 2004
Seeking answers after an airplane hijacking in Angola, the U.S. president sends to Africa special forces major Charley Castillo, currently…
executive assistant to the secretary of homeland security. Castillo makes allies and enemies while uncovering the attackers' diabolical intentions. Strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some violence. Bestseller. 2004.By Andrew O'Hagan. 2006
When an English priest, David Anderton, takes over a small Scottish parish, not everyone is ready to accept him. He…
does make friends with two local youths, Mark and Lisa, but the town seems to grow darker each night as he clashes with a world and a language that he barely understands. Fate comes calling, and before the summer is out David's quiet life is the focus of public hysteria. Some strong language and descriptions of sex. 2006.By Ian Adams. 1999
A fictionalized account of the interrogation of John Watkins, a former Canadian ambassador to Moscow, in 1964. As a result…
of the cold war he was taken to a hotel room in Montreal to be debriefed by the RCMP upon his return to Canada. Three days later he was dead. Now Adams presents a fictionalized account of the last days of his life, and of the possible cause of his death. c1999.By Jane Rule. 1989
Four women sense that love has failed them. As they try to put their lives in order, they come to…
value their friendship with each other. Set in an island community off the British Columbia coast. Some strong language. Winner of the 1991 CNIB Torgi Award. 1989.By John Le Carré. 2003
Unassuming Bavarian tour guide Ted Mundy is actually a retired British double agent. After September 11, 2001, old friend and…
former colleague Sasha contacts him with a new mission: to stop an impending war in Iraq and become very rich in the process. Strong language and some descriptions of sex and violence. Bestseller. 2003.By David Bergen. 2005
Ava Boatman and her brother, Jon, have come to Vietnam in search of their missing father, Charles. A Vietnam vet…
with a terrible secret that has turned him into an emotionally distant loner, Charles has made a pilgrimage to a small Vietnamese village. As Ada and Jon try to find Charles, they also deal with their own fears, in completely different ways. Descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. Winner of the 2005 Scotiabank Giller Prize.By Fern Michaels. 2004
Self-sufficient FBI agent Quinn Star left the bureau after a thwarted affair with her boss. When the same man asks…
her to return and guard the first lady, Quinn uncovers a plot to undermine the president. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2004.By Annie Proulx. 2005
Two young men - a ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy - meet in the summer of 1963, and unexpectedly forge…
a lifelong connection, one whose complications, joys and tragedies provide a testament to the endurance and power of love. 1997.By Ronald Frame. 1999
By Jeffrey Archer. 1993
Scott Bradley is sent by the CIA to discover why a beautiful young Mossad agent has been dropped into the…
Jordanian Embassy in Paris. Unexpectedly, Bradley begins to unravel an extraordinary plot by Saddam Hussein: with the connivance of one of the American President's Special Assistants, Saddam is planning a revenge so diabolical that the United States will have to retaliate. 1993.By Ellen Hart. 1998
When Jane Lawless takes a new tenant into her house, she has no idea what lies ahead. Jane and Cordelia…
are drawn deeper into the Beauman's lives, and discover a fundamentally damaged and dysfunctional family with a trail of death in their wake.By Ken Follett. 1980
German spy Alex Wolff steals the British army's secret plans and sends them to Rommel. British major William Vandam picks…
up Wolff's elusive trail and seeks to destroy him. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1980.By John Banville. 1997
Victor Maskell almost got away with it. Intelligent, respected, even knighted, Maskell must re-examine his values when his lifetime of…
treachery as a double agent becomes public knowledge. Through writing his memoirs, Maskell sorts through all the lies he has created, and lived, to find out who he really is and if his life has been worth living. 1997.By Edmund White. 1997
Starting in the late 1960s and coming up to the present day, this novel is as much about the Jamesian…
dilemma of the American in Europe as it is about love and loss. At its heart is the tale of a writer and his struggle to survive as he and his friends hammer out a new gay aesthetic, support themselves through odd jobs and fight for recognition.By Shauna Singh Baldwin. 2004
A story of love and espionage, cultural tension and displacement, inspired by the life of Noor Inayat Khan - code…
name "Madeleine" - who worked against the Occupation after the Nazi invasion of France. The novel opens in 1943; Noor traces the events that led to her capture, and exploring the consequences of her love for a Jewish man. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language, descriptions of violence. 2004.By Armistead Maupin. 2000
Gabriel Noone is a late-night radio story teller who receives endless manuscripts. When "The Blacking Factory", the story of a…
child abused and sold for sex by his parents, arrives, he is intrigued. Noone develops a close relationship with the boy, but begins to sense that the story is not true. 2000.By Andrew McNab. 2000
An ex-SAS officer now working for British Intelligence finds himself to be a disposable pawn in a deadly game of…
cat-and-mouse between the superpowers. Being a deniable operative, he is in deadly danger, but he needs the money.