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The Rosie effect
By Graeme Simsion. 2014
With the Wife Project complete, Don settles into a new job and married life in New York. But it's not…
long before certain events are taken out of his control and it's time to embark on a new project. As he tries to get to grips with the requirements of starting a family, his unusual research style gets him into trouble. To make matters worse, he has invited his closest friend to stay with them, but Gene is not exactly the best model for marital happiness. Sequel to "The Rosie project". Bestseller. 2014.The naked chef
By Jamie Oliver. 1999
The author applies his "strip it bare then make it work principle" to all his meals, from salads, to roasts,…
desserts to pastas - and has created a foolproof repertoire of simple and delicious recipes which combine bold flavours with fresh ingredients. 1999.Timeline
By Michael Crichton. 1999
In the twenty-first century, quantum technology for teleportation enables a group of historians to travel back to fourteenth-century France. Seeking…
a stranded colleague and trying to return within a tight time frame, they find survival in a feudal society more difficult than anticipated. Violence. Bestseller. 1999.The murder at the vicarage (Miss Marple Ser. #No. 1)
By Agatha Christie. 1980
Nigellissima: instant Italian inspiration
By Nigella Lawson. 2012
Italian food now plays a familiar role in our everyday eating but 'Nigellissima' goes beyond bolognese to bring to our…
table 120 inspired recipes, from the crustless meatzza to long fusilli with a no-cook Sicilian sauce. 2012.Shiloh season (The shiloh Quartet Ser.)
By Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. 1998
When mean and angry Judd, who has never known kindness, takes to drinking and mistreats his dogs, Marty discovers how…
deep a hurt can go and how long it takes to heal. Sequel to "Shiloh". Grades 4-7.Angela's ashes: a memoir
By Frank McCourt. 1996
Frank McCourt recollects his "miserable Irish Catholic childhood" in the squalor of Limerick. Absent any support from his glib, but…
shiftless, alcoholic father, the family suffered hunger, cruelty, disease, and the death of children. McCourt recounts his story without rancour. Strong language. Winner of the 1998 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. Pulitzer Prize Winner.Snow falling on cedars: A Novel
By David Guterson. 1995
Set on an island in Puget Sound after World War II. Carl Heine has drowned, and fellow fisherman Kabuo Miyamoto…
is accused of murder. Covering the trial is a local reporter who was the defendant's wife's first love. As the trial begins, the entire once-peaceful community is tense with suspicion and prejudice. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. PEN/Faulkner Award. 1995.The reader
By Bernhard Schlink, Carol Brown Janeway. 1997
As a teenager in Germany, Michael Berg meets an older woman who becomes his first lover. Frau Hanna Schmitz always…
has him read to her when he visits. She disappears one day, but he encounters her at a trial for Nazi prison guards years later when he is in law school. Shocked and dismayed, Michael can neither understand nor condemn Hanna, who, he learns, is illiterate. Some descriptions of sex. Uniform title: Vorleser.Larry's party
By Carol Shields. 1997
Larry Weller is like a lot of people. He has built a career, been twice married, has a son, and…
tries to understand his complex relationship with his parents. We follow Larry over the course of 20 years, through his trials and tribulations, culminating in one unforgettable party. Strong language and some descriptions of sex.Christ the Lord: out of Egypt : a novel
By Anne Rice. 2005
The shipping news
By Annie Proulx. 1994
The story centers around Quoyle, a lowly newspaper reporter. When his wife, Petal Bear, runs off with another man and…
gets killed, Quoyle's aunt convinces the distraught man to move with his two daughters to an abandoned family home in Newfoundland. Quoyle goes to work for a sleazy paper covering the shipping news and learns to fit right in. Strong language. 1994 Pulitzer Prize winner. 1994.Lifeline (Star Trek. Voyager. Starfleet Academy ; #1)
By David Cody Weiss, Bobbi J. G Weiss. 1997
Kathryn Janeway is a brilliant student, possibly destined for command, if only people would let her do things her own…
way. Starfleet Academy is forced to teach her the pre-eminent rule of teamwork. Grades 3-6. 1997.The mermaid chair
By Sue Monk Kidd. 2005
When fortyish Jesse Sullivan returns to Egret Island to reconnect with her failing mother, she doesn't expect to be overwhelmed…
with passion for a Benedictine monk. Jessie confronts her present confusion while she probes her mother's past. Some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2005.The secret life of bees
By Sue Monk Kidd. 2002
South Carolina, 1964. Fourteen-year-old Lily rescues her African American housekeeper - and substitute mother - Rosaleen, from the hospital, where…
she is recovering from a beating received while trying to register to vote. They flee to a safe place where Lily's battered late mother had also fled - a beekeeping operation run by three black sisters. Some strong language. 2002.A perfect life
By Danielle Steel. 2014
Blaise is a famous anchor on morning news and a legend in her field. In order to rise to the…
top, she had to place her blind daughter, Salima, in a boarding school. When tragedy hits, Salima is forced to move in with Blaise. They both have to contend with a new caretaker who has little patience for indulging Salima's handicap. Blaise can't deny that Salima seems to be improving under Simon's supervision, while his movie star looks and attempts at real friendship become difficult to ignore. 2014.Power play
By Danielle Steel. 2014
Would you sacrifice your family to have it all? Fiona Carson has proven herself as CEO of a multibillion-dollar high-tech…
company. Devoted single mother, world-class strategist, and tough negotiator, Fiona reserves any personal time for her children. Marshall Weston basks in the fruits of his achievements. To maintain his position, he harbours secrets that could destroy his life at any moment. Both must fight off those who are jealous of their success. Their lives as CEOs of major companies come at a high price. But just how high a price are they willing to pay? 2014.Twenties girl
By Sophie Kinsella. 2009
Lara has always had an overactive imagination. Now she wonders if she is losing her mind. Normal twenty-something girls just…
don't get visited by ghosts! But inexplicably, the spirit of Lara's great aunt Sadie - in the form of a bold, demanding Charleston-dancing girl - has appeared to make one last request: Lara must track down a missing necklace Sadie simply can't rest without. But Lara's got enough problems of her own. 2009.Rogue
By Danielle Steel. 2008
Maxine Williams, Manhattan child psychiatrist and mother of three, is divorced from billionaire Blake when she meets Dr. Charles West.…
Blake continues his hedonistic lifestyle--until he funds an orphanage in Morocco. But when Maxine decides to remarry, Blake realizes he wants his family back. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2008.A bend in the road
By Nicholas Sparks. 2001
New Bern, North Carolina. Deputy Sheriff Miles Ryan is still mourning the loss of his wife two years earlier in…
a hit-and-run accident. Sarah Andrews, his son's teacher, is coping with a nasty divorce. Miles and Sarah fall in love, but their future is shattered when a secret is uncovered. Some strong language. 2001.