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By Gaston Leroux, Frank Milani, Paulette Collet. 1959
Avec l'art de l'intrique parfaitement nouee et l'inspiration diabolique qui ont fait le succès de Gaston Leroux, le perce de…
Rouletabille, le Fantome de l'Opera nous entraine dans une extraordinaire aventure qui nous tient en haleine de la première à la dernière ligne. Roman porte à la scène et au cinéma. 1959, c1910.By James Patterson. 2000
When terrorists target Wall Street, federal agent Arch Carroll joins SEC chief of enforcement Caitlin Dillon to determine who is…
behind the mayhem. But their investigation endangers the motherless Carroll children. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 1986By Sarah Cain. 2017
Recently widowed young Philadelphia journalist Danny Ryan gets an unexpected request from former high school acquaintance Greg Moss. Greg has…
been getting odd biblical texts and--worried that they were linked to the deaths of others in their class--he asks Danny to investigate. Then Greg, too, is killed. Violence and strong language. 2017By Brianna DuMont. 2018
Profiles of twelve troublemakers from history, including Robert Fortune, a Scottish gardener who worked for the tea-loving British government. His…
mission: to steal tea seeds from China. For grades 5-8. 2018By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Elizabeth Gaskell, Angus Easson. 2008
Transplanted from the "civilized" South of England, Margaret Hale enters a grim new world in industrial Milton-Northern. The cultural shock…
leaves her reeling, but for her growing attraction to mill owner John Thornton. Friendship with the daughter of a union leader awakens her activism. 1855By Jessica Stirling, St. Martin`s Press. 2001
Widow Lizzie Conway strives to get her girls--Polly, Babs, and Rosie--out of the Glasgow slums and begins a flirtation with…
rent collector Bernard Peabody. However, the girls fall in love with wayward men. Polly's romance with Dominic Manone leads to questionable choices. Some violence and some strong language. 1998By Jessica Stirling, St. Martin`s Press. 2005
War affects the Conway sisters in different ways. While working at the Ministry of Labour, Babs meets an American photographer…
who may be more than he purports. Rosie's marriage is on the rocks. Polly becomes entangled in intrigues. Violence, strong language, and descriptions of sex. 2003By Val McDermid, St. Martin`s Press. 2003
After the horrifying events of The Wire in the Blood (DB xxxxx), Tony Hill has left profiling work for academia.…
Two years later, Carol Jordan calls for advice on an unexpected undercover assignment. Her dangerous case is soon complicated by a stalking serial killer. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2002By Mara Rockliff, Hadley Hooper. 2016
By Agnes Smedley. 1987
Marie Rogers grows up in rural America, torn between helping her family financially and furthering her own education. She eventually…
travels to San Francisco and then on to Asia, involved with the Socialist Party. Includes foreword by Alice Walker and afterword by Nancy Hoffman. Some violence and some strong language. 1929By Anita Diamant. 2014
Diná, la única hija de Lía y Jacob en el libro de Génesis, emerge de la saga bíblica para contar…
su historia y la de las mujeres a su alrededor. Publicado originalmente en 1997. Algunas descripciones de violencia y de índole sexualBy Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin, Liu Zhenyun. 2015
Liu Yuejin, a worksite cook and a thief, has his pack with money stolen. While searching for it, he discovers…
another bag which contains a USB card detailing corruption of high officials and putting him in danger. Translated from the original 2007 Chinese edition. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2015By Matt Reeck, Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi, Aftab Ahmad, Mushtāq Aḥmad Yūsufī. 2015
Basharat Ali Farooqi's life is one of misadventure, even as he schemes for a better life. He relocates with his…
family to Pakistan during the Partition and tries to settle in, but he longs for the childhood home he remembers. Translated from the Urdu edition. Some strong language. 1990By Philip Roughton, Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir. 2012
Following Last Rituals (DB 80360), books two through five, written between 2006 and 2009, in the series featuring Icelandic attorney/sleuth…
Thóra Gudmundsdóttir. In Someone to Watch over Me, a young man with Down Syndrome is accused of burning down his assisted-living facility. Originally published in Icelandic. Strong language and some violence. 2013By Sharon Bolton, S. J. Bolton. 2008
Digging in the Shetland Islands peat, newcomer obstetrician Tora Hamilton unearths the body of a woman who had recently given…
birth and whose heart was removed. Tora becomes obsessed with investigating, even when the police, her colleagues, and eventually even her husband--a local--warn her against it. Violence and strong language. 2008By Sharon Bolton, S. J. Bolton. 2010
Disfigured by a childhood accident, wildlife veterinarian Clara Benning generally prefers the company of animals to people. When a local…
man dies following a supposed snakebite, however, Clara's expertise is needed. As additional shocking snake incidents occur, it becomes clear that a human is involved. Violence and some strong language. 2009By Sharon Bolton, S. J. Bolton. 2011
Something isn't quite right in the small moors town of Heptonclough, particularly the mysterious accidental deaths of three toddlers over…
the last ten years. Troubles begin for ten-year-old newcomer Tom and his family when Tom sees a mysterious child lurking around the nearby churchyard. Violence and some strong language. 2010By Becky Masterman, St. Martin`s Press. 2015
After her brother's wife dies, former FBI agent Brigid Quinn fulfills her promise to take in her odd seventeen-year-old niece…
so she can get residency for college in Tucson. Meanwhile, Brigid's investigation of the death of a teen is slowed down by her own troubling symptoms. Violence and strong language. 2014By Brian Freeman, St. Martin`s Press. 2011
Grand Rapids, Minnesota. A baby is kidnapped and a woman is murdered on the same night. The police believe the…
killing is connected to the earlier disappearance of three other women. Detectives Jonathan Stride and Maggie Bei investigate both crimes. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2010By George Hendrick, Willene Hendrick. 2000
Two short stories about slave mutinies on the high seas: Frederick Douglass's 1853 "The Heroic Slave" and Herman Melville's 1855…
"Benito Cereno." Includes excerpts from A Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the 1817 memoir of Amasa Delano--the real-life captain in Melville's tale. Some violence. 2000