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Spotted Dick, s'il vous plait: an English restaurant in France
By Tom Higgins. 1995
Does moving to Lyon, France to open a restaurant sound romantic to you? This is about an English couple who…
did just that. Along the way they encountered disbelief from the French at their menu choices, and a difficult licensing bureaucracy. In the end they succeeded in creating a well-run eating establishment. 1995.Spain: the essential guide to customs & culture (Culture smart!)
By Marian Meaney, Belén Aguado Viguer. 2016
Provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in Spain, ensuring that you arrive aware of basic manners, common courtesies,…
and sensitive issues. This concise guide tells you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your Spanish hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships. 2016.Stolen sisters: the story of two missing girls, their families, and how Canada has failed indigenous women
By Emmanuelle Walter. 2015
Since 1980, 1,200 Canadian aboriginal women have been murdered or have gone missing. This alarming figure reveals a national tragedy…
and the systemic failure of law enforcement and of all levels of government to address the issue. Journalist Emmanuelle Walter spent two years investigating this crisis and has crafted a moving representative account of the disappearance of two young women, Maisy Odjick and Shannon Alexander, teenagers from western Quebec, who have been missing since September 2008. Via personal testimonies, interviews, press clippings and official documents, Walter pieces together the disappearance and loss of these two young lives, revealing these young women to us through the voices of family members and witnesses. 2015. Uniform title: Soeurs volées : enquête sur un féminicide au Canada.Storm of the century: An Original Screenplay
By Stephen King. 1999
Screenplay for a TV miniseries. General store owner Mike Anderson recounts what happened when a blizzard struck Little Tall Island,…
Maine, and Andre Linoge arrived for a horror-filled visit. Eighty-year-old Martha Clarendon was the first to see the stranger, and he killed her with his wolf-headed cane. Some violence. c1999. Uniform title: Storm of the century (Motion picture)Stonehenge: Neolithic man and the cosmos
By John David North. 1996
There have been many attempts to explain the purpose of Stonehenge. Using archaeological detail and a knowledge of the heavens…
as they were many millennia ago, the author establishes the function of the stones themselves and what can be known of the religion that caused them to be erected. 1996.Stealing from a deep place: travels in southeastern Europe
By Brian Hall. 1988
Slow boat through Pennine waters
By Frederick Doerflinger. 1971
Slow boat through England
By Frederick Doerflinger. 1970
Something cloudy, something clear
By Tennessee Williams. 1995
Autobiographical play set in 1940 dealing with Tennessee Williams' first love - a young Canadian draft dodger who was dying…
of a brain tumour. Descriptions of sex and some strong language. 1995, c1981.Special agent: my life on the front lines as a woman in the FBI
By Candice DeLong, Elisa Petrini. 2001
Memoir by a retired female agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation detailing her training, work environment, and cases. DeLong…
says her experience as a psychiatric nurse served her well in profiling suspects and during the Tylenol poisoning and Unabomber investigations. Some violence and some strong language. 2001.Spring jaunts: some walks, excursions & personal explorations of town, country & seashore
By Anthony Bailey. 1986
The author's jaunts take him round the Isle of Wight, along the Massachusetts to Maine coastline, into the bizarre and…
hilarious history of Nice's Promenade des Anglais, and down the Severn River. A world of friendly conversation, tranquil landscapes, antique churches and country pubs. 1986.Silver linings: travels around Northern Ireland
By Martin Fletcher. 2001
Martin Fletcher was initially sent to Northern Ireland as a reporter for The Times, but while reporting on the tortuous…
peace negotiations his wife was meeting the ordinary people. Although essentially a tour of the country, the real story is told in endless digressions, with the author hunting rats on an island in the middle of the Strangford Lough and participating in the ancient game of road-bowling, in which players compete to hurl iron balls along two or three miles of country lane. 2001.Silent witness: the Karla Brown murder case (Onyx Ser.)
By Don W Weber, Charles Bosworth. 1993
In 1978, twenty-two-year-old Karla Brown was raped and brutally murdered in the basement of her newly purchased Wood River, Illinois,…
home. Prosecuting attorney Weber and reporter Bosworth discuss the years-long investigation, the lack of evidence to tie the crime to either of the two main suspects, and the out-of-town experts who provided the instructions to finally crack the case. Bestseller 1994. 1993.Shrunk: crime and disorders of the mind (True cases series (Durvile Publications) #2)
By J. Thomas Dalby, Lorene Shyba. 2016
A collection of powerful chapters by eminent forensic psychologists and psychiatrists who write about mental health issues they face and…
what they are doing about it. The first book that delves deeply into the disturbed human psyche to help build a solution to the problem of understanding mental illness within the criminal justice system. 2016.Shakespeare: the seven major tragedies (The modern scholar)
By William Shakespeare, Harold Bloom. 2005
Shakespeare's words: a glossary and language companion
By David Crystal. 2002
A glossary including every word which presents the reader with difficulty. A scene-setting caption puts the quotation in its dramatic…
context and helps to clarify the meaning. The text also collates the way characters are named, the names of people and places they talk about, and the foreign languages that some of them use. Each play has a conventional plot synopsis and list of dramatis personae. 2002.Seraffyn's Mediterranean adventure
By Lin Pardey, Larry Pardey. 1981
Account of the authors' journey along the south coast of Spain and Malta, crossing over to Tunisia, then moving on…
to Italy and Yugoslavia. Intersperses tales of unwitting smuggling, military arrests, a collision and a hurricane. 1981.Sea to shining sea: people, travels, places
By Berton Roueché. 1985
The author presents 18 essays about his travels in the United States and Europe. The reader visits wheat-country Kansas, a…
isolated small-town New Mexican doctor, the last surviving Shakers of Mt. Lebanon, New York, as well as Switzerland, Italy, Belgium and France. Some strong language. 1985.Savage messiah: the untold story of Roch Thériault and his cult of horror
By Paul Kaihla, Ross Laver. 1993
Kaihla chronicles the abuse and terrors to which Rock Theriault, a self-proclaimed Moses, subjected the followers of his cult --…
two men, eight wives, and 26 children. Living in a commune, first in rural Quebec, then in Ontario's cottage country, Theriault's followers were submitted to acts of torture, even murder, while he retained the status of folk hero by the local media. Strong language, descriptions of sex, and extremely graphic descriptions of violence. 1993.Romeo and Juliet
By William Shakespeare. 1997
A romantic tragedy of two teenagers from rival families who fall in love. A sentence of exile and an impending…
arranged marriage force the two to flee. A friar suggests a ruse to accomplish their union, but miscommunication causes it to backfire. This is a fully dramatised unabridged version. For Senior High readers. Originally published in 1597. 1997.