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By Lilian Jackson Braun. 1998
It's up to the philanthropic master sleuth and his clue-finding Siamese cats to unravel a mystery beginning when the art…
centre is broken into and an elderly woman dies in a suspicious fire. Bestseller. Sequel to “The cat who tailed a thief”, followed by “The cat who saw stars”. 1998.By Lilian Jackson Braun. 2000
The residents of Pickax are delighted that the old bombed-out Pickax Hotel is reopening with a whole new look. Everyone…
is thrown into a topspin when one of the hotel's first guests winds up a victim of murder. Qwilleran and his brilliant Siamese put their whisker-twitching, crime-solving talents to work to find a killer. Bestseller. Sequel to “The cat who saw stars“, followed by “The cat who smelled a rat“. 2000.By Irving Wallace. 1987
Sex therapist Arnold Freeberg can boast a cure rate of 100 percent with his new practice of employing trained substitute…
sex partners. But not everyone in his small southern California community is happy with his success. Includes sex. 1987.By Andrew M Greeley. 1981
Two boys from Chicago’s West Side grow up together to eventually become Catholic priests. Patrick, son of a sanitation worker,…
rises to become a Prince of the Church and Kevin, son of a wealthy lawyer, works as a parish priest. Episodes of parish embezzlement, Vatican politics, clerical duplicity and manipulation. Includes sex. c1981.By Michael Ondaatje. 2012
1950s. An eleven-year-old boy from Ceylon is sailing alone for England, and at mealtimes he is seated at the insignificant…
"cat's table" with two other boys and some strange fellow passengers, including a shadowy figure from the British Secret Service and a mysterious thief. The three boys rush from one wild adventure and startling discovery to another, experiencing the first stirrings of desire and spying on a notorious shackled prisoner. The secretive adult world is slowly revealed, and the prisoner's crime and fate will be a galvanizing mystery that will haunt and link them forever. Bestseller. 2012.By Rene Denfeld. 2017
"Where are you, Madison Culver? Flying with the angels, a silver speck on a wing? Are you dreaming, buried under…
snow? Or--is it possible--you are still alive?" Three years ago, Madison Culver disappeared when her family was choosing a Christmas tree in Oregon's Skookum National Forest. She would be eight-years-old now--if she has survived. Desperate to find their beloved daughter, certain someone took her, the Culvers turn to Naomi, a private investigator with an uncanny talent for locating the lost and missing. Known to the police and a select group of parents as "the Child Finder," Naomi is their last hope. Bestseller. 2017.By Lilian Jackson Braun. 1998
Qwilleran and his cats Koko and Yum Yum always retreat to his lake cottage in July. Just before they go…
this year, Qwilleran learns a young hiker has disappeared in that area. Then shortly after their arrival, Koko makes a discovery on the beach that keeps Qwilleran busy. Bestseller. Sequel to “The cat who sang for the birds”, followed by “The cat who robbed a bank”. 1998.By J. K. Rowling. 2012
In his early forties, councilman Barry Fairbrother dies unexpectedly of an aneurysm. The casual vacancy he leaves on the parish…
council has a huge effect on the remaining people in the town of Pagford. Bestseller. 2012.By Sharon Bala. 2018
When a rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody civil war reaches Vancouver's…
shores, the young father thinks he and his six-year-old son can finally start a new life. Instead, the group is thrown into a detention processing center, with government officials and news headlines speculating that among the "boat people" are members of a separatist militant organization responsible for countless suicide attacks--and that these terrorists now pose a threat to Canada's national security. As the refugees become subject to heavy interrogation, Mahindan begins to fear that a desperate act taken in Sri Lanka to fund their escape may now jeopardize his and his son's chance for asylum. Canada Reads 2018. Bestseller. 2018.By Lawrence Hill. 2007
Abducted as an 11-year-old child from her village in West Africa, Aminata Diallo is sent to live as a slave…
in South Carolina. Years later, she forges her way to freedom, serving the British in the Revolutionary War and registering her name in the historic "Book of Negroes", a record of freed Loyalist slaves who resettled in Nova Scotia, only to find that the haven they sought was steeped in an oppression all its own. Some descriptions of sex and violence. Winner of the 2008 OLA Evergreen Award. Winner of Canada Reads 2009. Also known as "Someone knows my name". Bestseller. 2007.By Emily Schultz. 2012
New York in under attack! Random but deadly attacks, all by women with light hair, have begun terrorizing the city's…
inhabitants. As the days pass, it becomes clear that the attacks are symptoms of a strange contagion that is transforming blondes from all walks of life into rabid killers. Hazel flees the city and sets out to cross the border into Canada where she will find the one woman who might be able to help her in a world gone awry. c2012.By Daniel Silva. 2016
Art restorer, assassin, and spy Gabriel Allon finds himself poised to become the chief of Israel's secret intelligence service, but…
not before answering the French government's request to eliminate the person responsible for detonating a massive bomb in Paris. Sequel to "The English spy", followed by "House of spies". Bestseller. 2016.By James Patterson, David Ellis. 2017
Being a cop runs in Billy Harney's family. The son of Chicago's Chief of Detectives whose twin sister, Patty, also…
followed in their father's footsteps, there's nothing Billy won't give up for the job, including his life. Left for dead alongside his tempestuous former partner and a hard-charging assistant district attorney out for blood, Billy miraculously survives. But he remembers nothing about the events leading up to the shootout. Charged with double murder and desperate to clear his name, Billy retraces his steps to get to the bottom of what happened. When he discovers the existence of a little black book that everyone who's anyone in Chicago will stop at nothing to get their hands on, Billy suspects it contains the truth that will either set him free, or confirm his worst fears. Bestseller. 2017.By Joan Clark. 2015
Free-spirited Lily has always played the peacemaker between her fierce, doting sister, Laverne, and her own loving, garrulous husband, Hal,…
as they competed for her attention. The competition has only grown worse since the three of them moved into a large house in the town of Sussex, New Brunswick. On Lily’s 58th birthday, a steamy day in late June, Laverne feels she has bested Hal by winning her sister’s company for a gourmet lunch, but it becomes a bitter and short-lived victory when the day’s events take an unexpected and tragic turn. Bestseller. 2015.By Zoe Whittall. 2016
When George Woodbury, an affable teacher and beloved husband and father, is arrested for sexual assault at his school, his…
family is left to pick up the pieces. His wife, Joan, a trauma nurse, is unable to triage her emotional reactions, and vaults between rage and denial. Daughter Sadie, the consummate overachiever, finds herself paralyzed on her boyfriend’s couch with a bong, while a local author attempts to exploit her story. Their son, Andrew, a lawyer in New York, assists in his father’s defense while wrestling with the unhappy memories of his own teen years in high school. Unfolding over a one-year period, the novel focuses on the Woodbury family as they struggle to support George while privately grappling with the possibility of his guilt. Bestseller. 2016.By Nicholas Sparks. 2011
Oriental, North Carolina. As high school seniors from different sides of the tracks, Dawson and Amanda had a doomed romance.…
Twenty-five years later they return home when Tuck, an old man important to both of them, dies--and leaves behind a letter describing his own life's magical love. Bestseller. 2011.By Thomas King. 2014
Gabriel returns to Smoke River, the reserve where his mother grew up and to which she returned with Gabriel’s sister.…
The reserve is deserted after an environmental disaster killed the population, including Gabriel’s family, and the wildlife. Gabriel, a brilliant scientist working for DowSanto, created GreenSweep, and indirectly led to the crisis. Now he has come to see the damage and to kill himself in the sea. But as he prepares to let the water take him, he sees a young girl in the waves. Plunging in, he saves her, and soon is saving others. Who are these people with their long black hair and almond eyes who have fallen from the sky? Bestseller. Winner of the 2014 Governor General’s Award for Fiction. 2014.By Tess Gerritsen. 2010
Serial killer Warren Hoyt was captured a year ago but his crimes still haunt Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli. Now…
she faces a new killer, a hunter who preys on rich couples and copies an obscure element of Hoyt's crimes. And when Hoyt escapes from custody there are two hunters on the loose. Includes sex, violence and strong language. 2010.By James Patterson, Maxine Paetro. 2018
A series of shootings exposes San Francisco to an unpredictable killer, and a reluctant woman puts her trust in Sergeant…
Lindsay Boxer. The confidential informant's tip leads Lindsay to disturbing conclusions, including that something has gone horribly wrong inside the police department itself. Bestseller. Sequel to "16th seduction", followed by "The 18th abduction". 2018.By James Patterson, Andrew Bourelle. 2018