Title search results
Showing 101 - 120 of 50498 items
The city man
By Howard Akler. 2005
1934. With Toronto stalled in the Great Depression, Mona Kantor makes a living as a pickpocket, while reporter Eli Morenz…
struggles to wring news stories out of the subdued city. When a chance photo drives Eli into the Jewish underworld that Mona inhabits, he finds he's stumbled onto the story of his life. Some descriptions of sex and strong language. 2005.The comedian (Brave & brilliant ; #6)
By Clem Martini. 2018
Titus Maccius Plautus' career is on the decline. Once famous for bringing Greek comedies to the Roman world, now he…
struggles to stage a single play. Unlucky with money and unlucky in love, Plautus faces the world with wry dignity. This could be the performance that returns fortune and reputation, or the one that ends it all. Engaging, thoughtful, and funny, "The Comedian" dives into the rough and tumble world of arts in its infancy. Martini draws on his experience to bring to life the signs and sounds of a world where playwrights suffered and succeeded - but mostly suffered. 2018.The crossing
By Cormac McCarthy. 2016
Billy and Boyd Parham are two boys living in New Mexico on the cusp of unimaginable events in the years…
before the Second World War. First comes a trespassing Indian and the dream of wolves running wild among cattle. Billy traps a she-wolf, intending to restore it to the mountains of New Mexico. But when he returns, he finds everything he left behind utterly transformed. 2016.The duchess: a novel
By Danielle Steel. 2017
Angélique Latham has grown up at magnificent Belgrave Castle under the loving tutelage of her father, the Duke of Westerfield,…
after the death of her aristocratic French mother. But when he dies, her half-brothers brutally turn her out. Angélique has a keen mind, remarkable beauty, and an envelope of money her father pressed upon her. She makes her way to Paris, where she rescues a young woman fleeing an abusive madam--and suddenly sees a possibility: Open an elegant house of pleasure that will protect its women and serve only the best clients. With her upper-class breeding, her impeccable style, and her father's bequest, Angélique creates Le Boudoir, soon a sensational establishment where powerful men, secret desires, and beautiful, sophisticated women come together. But living on the edge of scandal, can she ever make a life of her own--or regain her rightful place in the world? Bestseller. 2017.The day of atonement: a novel
By David Liss. 2014
Returning to mid-eighteenth-century Lisbon to avenge the death of his father, Sebastian Foxx, the protégé of bounty hunter Benjamin Weaver,…
stealthily collects funds and identifies friends and allies among Inquisition spies. 2014.The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike. #1.)
By Robert Galbraith. 2014
Written under a pseudonym by J.K. Rowling, this gripping, elegant mystery is steeped in the atmosphere of London. A war…
veteran wounded both physically and psychologically, Cormoran Strike's life is in disarray but the case he is working on gives him a lifeline, despite coming at a personal cost. Followed by "The silkworm". Bestseller. 2014.The colonel's dream (Griot audio)
By Charles W Chesnutt. 2005
When former Confederate officer Colonel French returns to his North Carolina hometown after building his fortune in the North, he…
is a new man. He intends to create better economic conditions for those who have only known hardship. But there is a new social order in the South that stands in his way. The very men who used to look upon Colonel French with awe now berate him and his idealism - and they are determined to make him fail. 2005.The emigrants (Emigrant novels ; #1)
By Vilhelm Moberg, Gustaf Lannestock, Roger McKnight. 1995
Emigrants Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson, their three children and eleven others are fleeing poverty, religious persecution and social oppression…
in Smaland, Sweden. For ten long weeks the emigrants suffer cramped, filthy quarters of the sailing vessel finally arriving in New York. Followed by "Unto a good land" (DC36567). 1995. (Emigrant novels ; 1) Uniform title: Utvandrarna.The emigrants (New Directions paperbook)
By Michael Hulse, Winfried Georg Sebald. 1996
The Emigrants is composed of four long narratives which at first appear to be the straightforward accounts of the lives…
of several Jewish exiles in England, Austria, and America. The narrator literally follows their footsteps, but gradually, Sebald's prose, which combines documentary description with almost hallucinatory fiction, exerts a new magic, and the four stories merge into one. 1996. Uniform title: Ausgewanderten.The Elephant Man
By Frederick Drimmer. 1985
The elusive flame
By Kathleen E Woodiwiss. 1998
Cerynise Kendall, born in Charleston but raised in England, is suddenly orphaned and penniless. Hoping to return to Charleston, Cerynise…
heads for London's wharfs. She finds childhood friend Beau Birmingham, who offers to take her aboard his ship if she marries him. Sequel to "The Flame and the Flower". Some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 1998.The emperor's bones
By Adam Williams. 2005
Catherine Cabot arrives in China, trying to uncover the truth of her past. Against an uneasy political background, a love…
triangle develops between Catherine and Edmund and George Airton. As the Japanese mass themselves on the borders, waiting for an excuse to invade, Catherine unwittingly becomes the perfect tool to settle the scores of two men who will stop at nothing to wreak their revenge. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some descriptions of violence. c2005.The emperor's babe: a novel
By Bernardine Evaristo. 2001
Through the bustling city of Londinium we follow Zuleika - feisty and precocious daughter of Sudanese immigrants made good. Married…
at the age of eleven to Felix, a rich Roman three times her age perpetually away on business, Zuleika drifts about his villa, bored, until one night several years later when Septimius Severus, the Roman Emperor, newly arrived in town, spots her at the theatre... The story is told through a fusion of poetry and fiction, history and myth. Descriptions of sex. 2001.The heart specialist: a novel
By Claire Rothman. 2009
Agnes is stripped of a regular childhood when her father is accused of a horrific crime and abandons the family.…
Never considered ladylike, she is drawn to the "wrong" things, such as microscopes, anatomy, and dissection, that lead to her finding her calling as a doctor. Yet despite a rapid rise to stardom in the medical community, she soon finds herself up against the same glass ceiling faced by women in her field. Inspired by the life of Doctor Maude Abbott. Some descriptions of sex. 2009.The hiring fair
By Elizabeth O'Hara. 1994
The hour of the donkey
By Anthony Price. 1980
During the Battle of Dunkirk, two young officers are stranded behind enemy lines. The officers, an inarticulate ex-draper and a…
resourceful ex-schoolmaster, witness a secret meeting which could determine the fate of the war. 1980.The house by the churchyard
By Sheridan Le Fanu, Paul M Chapman. 2007
Set in the village of Chapelizod, near Dublin, in the 1760s the story opens with the accidental disinterment of an…
old skull in the churchyard, and an eerie late-night funeral. This discovery relates to murders, both recent and historical, whose repercussions disrupt the complacent pace of village affairs and change the lives of many of its notable characters forever. 2007.The Hart brand: a western story (Five Star First Edition Western Ser.)
By Johnny D Boggs. 2006
New Mexico Territory, 1896. Fourteen-year-old Caleb Hart is packed off on a train from St. Louis to his uncle's ranch…
in New Mexico, where he learns that he "rides for the brand," "real cowboys don't wear denim," and rustlers are a plague. Intrigue, kidnapping, and action abound when Pat Garrett, lawyer Captain Fountain, manhunter Kim Harrigan and rustler Mary Magdalene Holliday are added to the mix. 2006.The haunting of Falcon House
By Eugene Yelchin. 2016
In 1891, twelve-year-old Lev Lvov travels to Saint Petersburg, Russia, to assume his duties as Prince, but must first use…
his special gift to rid the House of Lions of a ghost. Grades 4-7. 2016.The hours count: a novel
By Jillian Cantor. 2015
A tale based on the story of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, the only Americans put to death for espionage during…
the Cold War, traces the experiences of their friend and neighbour, who takes in the couple's young sons when they are arrested by the FBI in 1950. 2015.