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The end of east
By Jen Sookfong Lee. 2007
Sammy Chan was sure she'd escaped her family obligations when she fled Vancouver six years ago, but with her sister's…
upcoming marriage, her turn has come to care for their aging mother. Sammy finds herself cobbling together a makeshift family history and delving into stories that began in 1913, when her grandfather, Seid Quan, then eighteen years old, first stepped on Canadian soil. Descriptions of sex, some strong language, and some descriptions of violence. c2007.The eye of the storm
By Patrick White. 1973
The eye of the forest (Children of the lamp ; #5)
By Philip Kerr. 2009
When a collection of Incan artifacts goes missing, the Blue Djinn of Babylon dispatches twins John and Philippa Gaunt and…
their Uncle Nimrod to recover them. Along the way, John and Philippa encounter their friend Dybbuk, who was drained of his djinn powers but is determined to get them back. He's headed to an ancient Incan Empire where he believes he can regain his power, and will stop at nothing - even if it means opening a cursed portal, disturbing the enchanted kingdom of the Incas, and destroying the world. Can the twins stop their friend before it's too late? Grades 5-8. Sequel to "The day of the Djinn warriors", followed by "Five fakirs of Faizabad". 2009. (Children of the lamp ; 5)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 ersatz elevator (Series of unfortunate events. #6.)
By Lemony Snicket. 2001
The woeful saga of the Baudelaire orphans continues as evil Count Olaf discovers their whereabouts at Esmé Squalor's seventy-one bedroom…
penthouse and concocts a new plan for stealing their family fortune. For grades 4-7. Bestseller. 2001.The escape artist
By Diane Chamberlain. 1997
After Susanna put her husband through law school and became pregnant, he left her to marry another attorney. When the…
court awards custody of their now eleven-month-old son to her ex-husband, Susanna leaves her new love and flees with the child. Some strong language, some violence, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 1997.The empty house
By Rosamunde Pilcher. 1973
Virginia Keile secretly dreams of having a second chance to love the tall, dark Cornish farmer she foolishly lost 27…
years ago. Her life since has taught her harsh lessons about marriage and children, but now she is back in Cornwall with her children, to try and fill an empty house with love. 1973.The conjoined
By Jen Sookfong Lee. 2016
One morning, social worker Jessica Campbell sorts through her mother’s belongings after her recent funeral. In the basement, she makes…
a shocking discovery - two dead girls curled into the bottom of her mother’s chest freezers. She remembers a pair of foster children who lived with the family in 1988 - Casey and Jamie Cheng - troubled, beautiful, and wild teenaged sisters from Vancouver’s Chinatown. After six weeks, they disappeared; social workers, police officers, and Jessica herself assumed they had run away. As Jessica learns more about Casey, Jamie, and their troubled immigrant Chinese parents, she also unearths dark stories about Donna, whom she had always thought of as the perfect mother. The complicated truths she uncovers force her to take stock of own life. 2016.The distant hours
By Kate Morton. 2010
Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a long-lost letter arrives one Sunday afternoon with the…
return address of Milderhurst Castle, Kent, printed on its envelope, Edie begins to suspect that her mother's emotional distance masks an old secret. Evacuated from London as a thirteen-year-old girl, Edie's mother is chosen by the mysterious Juniper Blythe, and taken to live at Milderhurst Castle with the Blythe family: Juniper, her twin sisters and their father, Raymond, author of the 1918 children's classic The True History of the Mud Man. In the grand and glorious Milderhurst Castle, a new world opens up for Edie's mother. She discovers the joys of books and fantasy and writing, but also, ultimately, the dangers. Fifty years later, as Edie chases the answers to her mother's riddle, she, too, is drawn to Milderhurst Castle and the eccentric Sisters Blythe. 2010.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.The Clayborne brides: One Pink Rose; One White Rose; One Red Rose (Large Print Bks.)
By Julie Garwood. 1997
Travis Clayborne escorts young Bostonian Emily Finnegan to Montana where she'll meet Travis' brothers, Douglas and Adam, and discover what…
awaits her as a mail-order bride. But perhaps her destiny is not exactly as she imagined. Made up of the novellas One pink rose, One white rose and One red rose. Sequel to "For the roses" (DC23594.) 1997.The confession (The heritage of Lancaster County ; #2)
By Beverly Lewis. 1997
Katie, now Katherine Mayfield, searches for her birth mother. The journey takes her to the Finger Lakes region of New…
York and into a world of compassion and greed, mercy and betrayal. Meanwhile Katie's first love, Daniel, wants to rekindle their relationship. Sequel to "The Shunning" (DC36967), followed by "The reckoning" (DC36966). 1997. (The Heritage of Lancaster County ; 2)The dictator: a novel
By David Layton. 2017
Aaron, unhappy in middle age, must deal with the reverberations of the financial crisis, his increasingly alienated teenaged daughter and…
the sudden care of his father, Karl, a man he hardly knows, who is descending into Alzheimer’s. Karl is a man who has survived by reinventing himself many times over. Blustering, arrogant, he is convinced that the world is intentionally trying to confuse him, not least his good-for-nothing son. Not like his other son, the one he left behind. If only Karl could remember his name, and where he is, Karl would go and find him. 2017.The education of Mr. Whippoorwill: a country boyhood
By David Zieroth. 2002
The tales that come with growing up on a prairie farm, and then leaving it for the big city, are…
recounted. Included are such happenings as a calf getting hit by lightning, a bag of squirming kittens, and the aftershocks of war passed down through the generations. For junior high readers. 2002.The crooked heart of mercy
By Billie Livingston. 2016
Maggie is alone. Again. With bills to pay and her husband in a psych ward, she must return to work.…
But who would hire her in the state she's in? Her brother, Francis, is an unlikely priest with a drinking problem and little interest in celibacy. When Maggie takes him in, he knows he may be down to his last chance. And his best shot at healing might lie in helping Maggie and her husband reconnect. 2016.The double life of Liliane: a novel
By Lily Tuck. 2016
As the child of a German movie producer father who lives in Italy and a beautiful, artistically talented mother who…
resides in New York, Liliane's life is divided between those two very different worlds. A shy and observant only child with a vivid imagination, Liliane uncovers the stories of family members as diverse as Moses Mendelssohn, Mary Queen of Scots and an early Mexican adventurer, and pieces together their vivid histories, through both World Wars and across continents. 2016.The crossover
By Kwame Alexander. 2014
Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court, as their father…
ignores his declining health. For junior and senior high readers. Winner of the 2015 Newbery Medal. 2014.The doubter's almanac: a novel
By Ethan Canin. 2016
Milo Andret, the genius who solved the Malosz Conjecture and won the Fields Medal for mathematics, had an unusual, even…
eerie mind from birth, but not until he moves to Berkeley in the 1970s to pursue a ph. D. does he realize the extent of his singular talents. From the drug-soaked enclaves of beatnik California to the verdant lawns of Princeton University, from turbo-charged Wall Street to the quiet woods of Michigan, his reputation as one of the century's most brilliant thinkers forms the backbone of a sweeping, epic story about family, love, passion, and Milo's fraught relationship with his son. Bestseller. 2016.The drowning season
By Alice Hoffman. 2014
The matriarch of a Long Island clan with a stubbornly suicidal son and a defiant, restless granddaughter, Esther has hired…
a Russian landscaper to watch over the family as well as the grounds of their secluded waterfront estate. But he has been watching Esther, too. And his love for her is growing wild enough to uproot them all. 2014.The emperor of Ocean Park
By Stephen L Carter. 2002
Judge Oliver Garland has just died - or was he murdered? His son, Tal, left with Oliver's cryptic last words,…
must unravel his father's life in order to solve the puzzle of his death. Unaccustomed to being a man of action, Tal must risk his career, his marriage, and even his life to follow the clues. 2002.