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The dig
By John Preston. 2008
In the long hot summer of 1939, Britain is preparing for war. But on a riverside farm in Suffolk there…
is excitement of another kind: Mrs Petty, the widowed farmer, has had her hunch proved correct that the strange mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As the dig proceeds against a background of mounting national anxiety, it becomes clear though that this is no ordinary find, and pretty soon the discovery leads to all kinds of jealousies and tensions. 2008.The Clerkenwell tales
By Peter Ackroyd. 2003
London 1399. Sister Clarice, a nun born below Clerkenwell convent, is predicting the death of King Richard II and the…
demise of the Church. Her visions can be dismissed as madness, until she accurately foretells a series of terrorist explosions. What is the role of the apocalyptic Predestined Men? And the clandestine Dominus? And what powers, ultimately, will prevail? 2003.The crimson petal and the white
By Michel Faber. 2010
Step into Victorian London and meet our heroine, Sugar - a young woman trying to drag herself up from the…
gutter any way she can - and the host of unforgettable characters that make up her world. Includes strong language and sex. 2010.The equal sky
By Stephen Reardon. 2007
1886. The winter floods bring to light the remains of a long-dead Icenian warrior. Henry Turner, the son of a…
farm bailiff, gifted with an intuitive understanding of their heavy work horses, feels he is unaccountably chosen for a mysterious purpose. Turning his back on the Cambridgeshire village and the future everyone assumes he has with Annie Lilley, Henry Turner is taken on as a groom by a former army officer with an estate in turbulent Ireland and a sinister past. While in the officer's London house, Henry befriends a Sioux Indian with similar gifts to his own. Together they seek to understand the mind of the Icenian warrior as he compels them to fulfil his purpose and, in doing so, discover their own destinies. For junior high and older readers. 2007.The factory voice
By Jeanette Lynes. 2009
Fort William, 1941. Something's gone wrong with the Mosquitos being built for the war effort - they keep crashing in…
flight tests, for no apparent reason. Is the problem with their design, or are they being sabotaged? Everyone's on high alert, and "The Factory Voice" newsletter keeps abreast of the details - or at least the rumours. Some strong language. c2009.The eye of the day
By Dennison Smith. 2014
When a brutal explosion in a summer-cottage town in Vermont brings together Amos, a disfigured handyman, and Aubrey, the cosseted…
son of a wealthy New England family, neither has any idea that this one event will shape them forever. As their lives touch again and again over the years, these two unlikely friends forge a bond that survives war and peace, love and loss. An evocation of friendship and a profound meditation on the compromises exacted by life. 2014.This story ranges from 1939 in the shadows of Nazi Europe to the present in the deceptive calm of a…
Toronto campus. Danny's story is the whole sorrowful history of East and West since the war. Winner of the 1984 Governor General's Award for Fiction. Strong language.The English lady
By William Harrington. 1982
Lady Nancy Brookeford becomes an intimate friend and confidant to Hitler and the leaders of the new Nazi party. She…
follows the Nazi movement until, in 1938, she meets and falls in love with a Jewish photographer. Some descriptions of sex. c1982.The falconer's knot
By Mary Hoffman. 2008
Silvano and Chiara are two teenagers with a difference. Silvano has been accused of a murder he did not commit.…
Chiara has been ousted from her family as a young woman with no marriage prospects. For these two very different reasons they are forced to seek refuge in a neighbouring convent and friary. And when they meet they are instantly aware that they are both outsiders, ill at ease with monastic life. Then a grisly murder occurs - followed by another, and then another. For Junior and Senior High readers. 2008.The faithful lovers (Bridges over time. #4)
By Valerie Anand. 1994
A Cornish shipwreck brings Parvati, a young Indian girl, into Ninian Whitmead's life. Her exoticism scandalizes the neighbourhood whilst her…
affection for him transforms his life. However, Ninian and Parvati have not long been married when the English Civil War becomes a reality in their remote district. As the Puritans gain control Parvati's foreign ways become suspect and Ninian must fight for his wife's life. Contains explicit descriptions of sex. 1994.The enchantress of Florence
By Salman Rushdie. 2008
Mogor, a blond European who speaks seven languages, arrives at the Indian court of Akbar the Great proclaiming himself England's…
ambassador. The charlatan entertains the emperor with tales of a lost princess. Strong language, some explicit descriptions of sex, and some violence. Bestseller. 2008.The eye in the door (World War I trilogy ; #2)
By Pat Barker. 1994
As Britain faces defeat by Germany, pacifists and homosexuals are scapegoated as potential traitors. It is unfortunate for Lieutenant Billy…
Prior, a bisexual who has a split personality, that when he is released from Craiglockhart War Hospital, he is assigned to British Intelligence. Once again he needs the help of Dr. Rivers. Sequel to "Regeneration". Followed by "Ghost road" (DC18056). Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 1994. (World War I trilogy ; 2)The faithful servants
By Margery Sharp. 1975
The end of the hunt
By Thomas Flanagan. 1994
Flanagan continues his story of Ireland through the lives of four people: Frank Lacy, a soldier; Patrick Prentice, a barrister;…
Janice Nugent, an Irish Catholic; and Christopher Blake, a historian, a supporter of Michael Collins, and Janice's lover -- all of whom are part of the struggle for "home rule." Strong language, violence, and some descriptions of sex. Sequel to "The tenants of time". 1994.The exiles (Australians. #1.)
By William Stuart Long. 1979
Fifteen-year-old Jenny is falsely accused of theft and sent on a convict ship to Australia. She survives among hardened criminals…
and becomes Queen of the Convicts. Some strong language. Followed by "The Settlers". c1979. (The Australians ; 1)The examination
By Malcolm J Bosse. 1994
Set in China during the Ming Dynasty, this story follows two brothers on their arduous journey from Chengdu to Beijing.…
Older brother Chen, the gifted scholar, is on his way to take the palace examination, accompanied by Hong, his loyal and brave younger brother. Along the way, they encounter a host of obstacles -- pirates, floods, famine -- and each brother carries a secret message. Some violence. Junior and senior high. 1994.The eternal spring of Mr. Ito
By Sheila Garrigue. 1985
During her evacuation to Canada, teenager Sara befriends Mr. Ito and his family. When the Ito family is sent to…
an internment camp following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Sara realizes the cruelties of war. For junior and senior high readers. c1985.The emperor of lies
By Sarah Death, Steve Sem-Sandberg. 2011
In February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second-largest Jewish ghetto in the Polish city of Lódz. Its…
chosen leader: Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, a sixty-three-year-old Jewish businessman and orphanage director - and the elusive, authoritarian power sustaining the ghetto’s very existence. Chronicles the tale of Rumkowski's monarchical rule over a quarter-million Jews for the next four years. Driven by ambition, he sought to transform the ghetto into a productive industrial complex and strove to make it - and himself - indispensable to the Nazi regime. Was Rumkowski a ruthless opportunist, an accessory to the Nazi regime driven by a lust for power? Or was he a pragmatic strategist who managed to save Jewish lives through his collaboration policies? 2011. Uniform title: De fattiga i Łódź.The courtesan: a novel
By Alexandra Gambrill Curry. 2015
A novel inspired by the life of Qing dynasty courtesan Sai Jinhua follows the experiences of an orphan, whose world…
transforms when she becomes an emissary's concubine during the late-nineteenth-century clashes between China and imperialist Europe. 2015.The Debba
By Avner Mandelman. 2010
1977. David Starkman returns from self-imposed exile in Canada to his native Israel after learning of the murder of his…
war hero father, Isser. Isser's will includes an unusual provision - that within 45 days, a controversial play he'd written, 'The Debba', be staged. David, who once belonged to an elite Israeli army unit, decides to fulfill his father's request, while searching for clues to solve the murder. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2011 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Crime Novel. 2010.