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Smith and other events: stories of the Chilcotin
By Paul St. Pierre. 1983
Slander
By William Deverell. 1999
Fiery feminist trial lawyer Elizabeth Finnegan sets her sights on an arrogant Supreme Court judge, who has handed down a…
lenient sentence to a convicted rapist. When a woman comes to Finnegan claiming she was raped by the same judge, she jumps at the case. Her research looks damning, but is her client telling the truth? 1999.Skipping Christmas
By John Grisham. 2001
Tax accountant Luther Krank calculates that a Caribbean cruise will cost less than what he and his wife, Nora, spent…
celebrating the holidays last year. Since daughter Blair is in the Peace Corps, they plan to skip Christmas. Luther, however, doesn't anticipate the town's reaction. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2001.Sleeping murder (The agatha Christie Collection #Vol. 77)
By Agatha Christie. 1976
Newlywed New Zealander Gwenda Reed has just come to England where she will select a house while awaiting the arrival…
of her husband, Giles. She finds and buys the perfect house but experiences odd moments of déjà vu. Shaken, Gwenda decides to visit Giles's cousins in London. Their elderly, puzzle-loving aunt, Miss Marple, is on hand when a line in a play triggers a frightening memory for Gwenda -- seeing a dead woman lying in the newly purchased house. 1992, c1976.Simisola (Inspector Wexford mystery. #16.)
By Ruth Rendell. 1994
There are only eighteen black people living in Kingsmarkham. One is Wexford's new doctor, Raymond Akande. When the doctor's daughter,…
Melanie, goes missing, the Chief Inspector takes more than just a professional interest in the case. Against a background of rising unemployment and social change, Wexford is involved in a case which tests not only his powers of deduction, but his basic beliefs and prejudices. Sequel to "Kissing the gunner's daughter", followed by "Road rage". 1994.Shrill: notes from a loud woman
By Lindy West. 2016
Lindy West is ferociously witty and outspoken, tackling topics as varied as pop culture, social justice, and body image. Her…
empowering work has garnered a coast to coast audience that eagerly awaits her highly anticipated literary debut. 2016.Silent victims (Det.Inspector Jane Tennison. #3.)
By Lynda La Plante. 2013
Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison expects hostility as she becomes the first female head of the vice squad in London’s…
Soho. Suddenly she is told how to handle the murder of a male prostitute, the newest case of her main assignment, Operation Contract. This is more than the hazing Tennison expected, and she is determined to discover why. Sequel to "A face in the crowd: Prime Suspect 2". 2013.Serpent's kiss (Beauchamp family. #2.)
By Melissa De la Cruz. 2012
Everything is going smoothly in North Hampton now that Joanna and her daughters, Ingrid and Freya, are allowed to perform…
magic again. But chaos erupts with the arrival of Freya's twin brother Freddie, who's finally escaped from Limbo. And Freddie's convinced that Freya's fiance Killian Gardiner is the one who landed him there in the first place. Sequel to “Witches of East End”. Followed by “Winds of Salem”. 2012.Shutter Island
By Dennis Lehane. 2003
In 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, are sent to Shutter Island to find a mass…
murderer who has escaped from Ashecliffe Hospital, a fortress-like federal institution for the criminally insane. As an intense hurricane bears relentlessly down on the island, the marshals are forced to piece together clues to a shocking puzzle hidden within Shutter Island, taking them on a dark, twisted journey, where paranoia assumes an air of cool rationality and the line between sanity and madness disappears. Some strong language. 2004, c2003.Shopgirl: A Novella
By Steve Martin. 2000
Artistic Mirabelle has an uninspiring job behind the glove counter at Neiman Marcus in Los Angeles, but what she really…
craves is love. Then smitten Seattle millionaire Ray Porter sends Mirabelle the gloves he purchased from her, beginning an unconventional relationship. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2000.Shake hands for ever (Inspector Wexford mystery. #9.)
By Ruth Rendell. 1975
Housewife Angela Hathall is found murdered in her home with no evidence of a break-in. Chief Inspector Wexford interviews beautiful…
Nancy Lake, the last person to see Angela alive. But what begins as a routine investigation becomes an obsession that threatens to destroy Wexford's career and marriage. Sequel to "Some lie and some die", followed by "A sleeping life". 1975. (Inspector Wexford mystery)Sex and the city
By Candace Bushnell. 1996
Collection of pieces from Bushnell's "Sex and the City" column originally published in the New York Observer. Essays discuss the…
relationships of Bushnell and women friends, who have what she describes as "a never-ending series of freakish and horrifying experiences with men." Descriptions of sex and strong language. 2001. Uniform title: New York observer (New York, N.Y.)Seven wonders of the industrial world
By Deborah Cadbury. 2004
Deborah Cadbury explores the history behind the epic monuments that spanned the industrial revolution from Brunel's extraordinary Great Eastern, the…
Titanic of its day that joined the two ends of the empire, to the Panama Canal, that linked the Atlantic and Pacific oceans half a century later. 2004.Scary stories: the complete 3-book audio collection
By Alvin Schwartz, George Irving. 2007
Ghoulish stories of ghosts and witches, startling "jump" stories, macabre songs, frightening legends, and modern-day horror stories. Tales of hauntings,…
walking corpses, dancing bones, vampires, monsters, and narrow escapes from death. Let the faint of heart beware! For grades 4-7 and older readers.Schindler's ark
By Thomas Keneally. 1982
In 1939, Oskar Schindler, a young, wealthy, enterprising German interested in drinking and women is a less-than-exemplary Catholic. In this…
"nonfiction novel," Keneally tells the story of his transformation into a man who, at great personal risk, saves hundreds of Jews from death during World War II. 1982 Man Booker Prize. Includes violence and strong language. 1982.Seeds of yesterday (Dollengager family ; #5)
By V. C Andrews. 1984
Cathy and Chris, haunted by the tragedies and sins of the past, return at last to Foxworth Hall, where they…
were hidden long ago. Despite every endeavour, they find that they are prisoners of a past they cannot escape and the past comes back to prey upon them once more. Sequel to "If there be thorns" (DC31442). 1984. (Dollengager family ; 5)Savages
By Don Winslow, Freddy Michalski. 2012
Ben, docteur en botanique et marketing, Chon, mercenaire féru d'armes sophistiquées, et Ophelia, une bimbo à l'intelligence brillante, produisent de…
l'hydro, un cannabis cultivé hors sol, sans matières organiques. Ils vivent tranquilles de leur petit commerce jusqu'au jour où la reine du cartel de Baja veut racheter leur business. Porté à l'écran en 2012 par O. Stone.Saving capitalism: for the many, not the few
By Robert B Reich. 2015
Reich outlines how the American economic system is failing, with increasing income inequality and a shrinking middle class, and reveals…
how a market designed for broad prosperity can reverse the trend toward diminished opportunity. Bestseller. 2015.Salmon fishing in the Yemen
By Paul Torday. 2007
When he is asked to become involved in a project to create a salmon river in the highlands of Yemen,…
fisheries scientist Dr Alfred Jones rejects the idea as absurd. But the proposal catches the eye of several senior British politicians. And so Fred finds himself forced to set aside his research and instead figure out how to fly ten thousand salmon to a desert country - and persuade them to swim there. 2007.Santa's little helper: Sabrina the teenage witch (Sabrina the teenage witch ; #5)
By Cathy East Dubowski. 1998
What a disaster! Suddenly Harvey's a chick magnet and Sabrina's out in the cold. Then, when she volunteers to take…
Jenny's place as Santa's elf, Santa and the presents disappear! It will take a miracle - or a teenage witch - to save this Christmas. But can Sabrina survive and keep her secret safe? Sequel to “Halloween havoc”, followed by “Ben there, done that”. Grades 4-7. 1998. (Sabrina the teenage witch ; 5)