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The casual vacancy
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.The case for Christ: a journalist's personal investigation of the evidence for Jesus
By Lee Strobel. 1998
Retracing his own spiritual journey from atheism to faith, the author cross-examines a dozen experts with doctorates who are recognized…
authorities in their own fields. He challenges them with questions like: How reliable is the New Testament? Does evidence for Jesus exist outside the Bible? Is there any reason to believe the resurrection was an actual event? It's a riveting quest for the truth about history's most compelling figure. 1998.The Carrie diaries (Carrie Diaries #1)
By Candace Bushnell. 2010
Tells the story of Manhattan columnist Carrie Bradshaw's high school years, her relationships with her peers, and how she became…
a writer. Prequel to "Sex in the City". Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. For Senior High and older readers. c2010.The body
By Stephen King. 1984
The breadwinner (Breadwinner Ser. #1)
By Deborah Ellis. 2000
A story about loyalty, survival, families and friendship, set against the backdrop of an intolerable existence in war-torn Afghanistan. Eleven-year-old…
Parvana lives in Taliban-controlled Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan. Masquerading as a boy, Parvana goes to work in the streets so that her family can eat. Parvana becomes the breadwinner. Grades 5-8. 2000.The camomile lawn
By Mary Wesley. 1984
In August 1939 five cousins gather at their aunt's home in Cornwall for the summer holiday. For most of them…
it is the last summer of their youth. They are eager to lose their innocence and explore every experience. Includes sex. 1984.The butcher boy
By Pat McCabe. 1992
Set in Ireland in the early 1960s. Francie Brady is a schoolboy who must figure life out or himself as…
his mother is in and out of "the garage," and his father is always drunk. Francie is especially hard on the Nugents, particularly after Philip Nugent's mother says the Bradys are no better than pigs. And Francie can't forget a song his mother sang about a girl who commits suicide over a butcher boy. Strong language and some descriptions of violence. 1992.The Bourne ultimatum (Bourne Ser. #Bk. 3)
By Robert Ludlum. 1994
Jason Bourne is forced from retirement by a series of terrifying events, starting with a cat-and-mouse chase to the death.…
The Jackal, Bourne's supreme enemy, has returned. And so Medusa - the dreaded secret society, seeking clandestine power, is once more flexing its vicious tentacles. The scene is set for carnage galore. Some descriptions of violence. 1994.The book thief
By Markus Zusak. 2007
Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to…
a concentration camp. She befriends blond-haired Rudy Steiner, her neighbour obsessed with Jesse Owens. Together Liesel and Rudy steal books - from Nazi book burning piles, from the mayor's library, from the richer people of Molching. By 1943, the Allied bombs are falling, and the sirens begin to wail. For Junior and Senior High readers. Some strong language. 2007.The bone collector (Lincoln Rhyme novel. #1)
By Jeffery Deaver. 1997
Lincoln Rhyme is one of the world's foremost forensic criminologists. He is also a quadriplegic, paralyzed from the neck down.…
The cop who could once look at a crime scene and find the clues about a killer that no one else could see is now strapped in his bed and actually planning suicide, when he gets a call he can't ignore from his old partner on the force. Some descriptions of sex, strong language, and explicit descriptions of violence. Followed by “The coffin dancer”. 1998, c1997.The bookshop: A Novel
By Penelope Fitzgerald. 1978
A middle-aged widow, Florence Green, decides to open a bookstore in a five-hundred-year-old house in her small English town. She…
makes a noble start but is thwarted by Violet Gamart, who wants to convert "Old House" into an arts centre. 1997, c1978.The boy in the striped pyjamas
By John Boyne. 2006
Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted…
by his people. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no-one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas. Bruno's friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation. Grades 5-8 and older readers. 2006.The Bourne supremacy (Bourne ; #2)
By Robert Ludlum. 1986
Jason Bourne has announced his return. But who, now, is Bourne? Is he the quiet professor and loving husband, or…
is he the most deadly master of the killing arts the world has ever known? In a smoky disreputable cabaret in Kowloon, murder is swiftly and violently perpetrated and eleven letters are written in the dead man's blood. Sequel to "Bourn identity" (DC05315). 1986. (Bourne ; 2)The book of negroes
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.The boat (Sven Hassel War Classics)
By Lothar Günther Buchheim. 1999
This is the story of a German U-boat, her commander and crew, as they embark upon yet another hazardous patrol…
in the Battle of the Atlantic. Explicit descriptions of sex. Strong language. 1999. Uniform title: Das Boot.The bonfire of the vanities
By Tom Wolfe. 1988
The millionaire hero, Sherman McCoy, is ripe for humiliation and finds it in plenty at the police Central Booking Bureau…
in the Bronx. There, after a freak accident involving muggers, his Mercedes and his mistress, McCoy learns that prosecutors, politicians and press are lining up to devour him with shameless relish. Strong language and descriptions of sex. 1988.The body in the library (Jane Marple murder mysteries ; #4)
By Agatha Christie. 1942
The Colonel and Mrs Bantry had always believed that finding "a body in the library" only happened in books, until…
it happened to them. Whose body was it? And why should it be found in the library of Gossington Hall? Miss Marple investigates. Sequel to "The regatta mystery, and other stories". Followed by "The moving finger" (DC32950). 1942. (Jane Marple murder mysteries ; 4)The black moon: a novel of Cornwall, 1794-5 (Poldark series. #5.)
By Winston Graham. 1973
Continues the saga of Ross and Demelza Poldark, George and Elizabeth Warleggan, and the enmity between the two households. Sequel…
to "Warleggan" (DC05367). Followed by "Four swans". 1973. (The Poldark series ; 5)The big idea: how to make your entrepreneurial dreams come true, from the a-ha moment to your first million
By Catherine Whitney, Donny Deutsch. 2008
In this companion to his nightly CNBC television series, The Big Idea, former ad man Deutsch profiles entrepreneurs who have…
visited his show and the lessons he's learned from them. The author relishes stories of little people, mothers, students, retirees and former screw ups, who had only a good idea and built multimillion-dollar businesses without MBAs. Entrepreneurial success stories are complemented by practical advice and resources for building a business. c2008. Uniform title: Big idea with Donny Deutsch (Television program)The BFG
By Roald Dahl. 2006
Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie…
concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants. Grades 3-6. 2006.