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The girl behind the curtain (Hidden women. #3)
By Stella Knightley. 2013
Sarah Thomson and Marco Donato's complicated love affair continues - their passion is a deep one but both have been…
badly hurt before and are wary of exposing their vulnerabilities to the other. Meanwhile, Sarah begins to research a new subject: In Nineteen-Thirties Germany, Katherine Hazleton escapes her stuffy finishing school and runs away to Berlin in pursuit of an unsuitable man. Alone and penniless when her boyfriend deserts her, she is forced to become a hostess at a cabaret bar. There she reinvents herself as Kitty Katkin. Writing her own songs to accompany her risque dance routines, Kitty is soon a sensation. She is in love with Berlin and her handsome musician lover, Otto. But Germany is about to change. Will Kitty and Sarah find the love they truly deserve? Sequel to "The girl behind the fan". 2013.The girl behind the fan (Hidden women. #2.)
By Stella Knightley. 2013
Hurt and confused by the sudden end of her strange love affair with Venetian millionaire Marco Donato, Sarah Thomson takes…
her bruised heart to Paris, where she tries to forget her yearning for Marco by throwing herself into a new project: a study of the life of notorious nineteenth-century courtesan, Augustine Levert. It is while she is in France that Sarah meets her ex-boyfriend Steven, who is hoping for reconciliation. Sequel to "The girl behind the mask”. Followed by "The girl behind the curtain". Includes sex. c2013.The girl behind the mask (Hidden women. #1.)
By Stella Knightley. 2013
Leaving the heartache of sexual betrayal behind her in London, historian Sarah Thomson intends to make the most of her…
research trip to Venice. But she soon finds her attention consumed by mysterious millionaire Marco Donato. Followed by "The girl behind the fan". Includes sex. c2013.The gift of shame (Black Lace Ser.)
By Sarah Hope-Walker. 2008
Jeffrey is little more than a stranger to Helen when he tells her to do things no other man has…
hinted at. A cultured, wealthy stranger who likes to play games of master and servant. In the secrecy of a London apartment, in the debauched opulence of a Parisian retreat, they become partners of perversity and shame. Emerging from the shadows of guilt, a resolutely virtuous young widow is transformed into a voracious wanton. Explicit descriptions of sex. 2008.The Finn bequest
By Kim Cheshire. 1978
The Gunners: a novel
By Rebecca Kauffman. 2018
The edge of impropriety
By Pam Rosenthal. 2008
London, 1829. Acclaimed romance writer Marina Wyatt, the widowed countess of Gorham, falls in love with the scholarly Jasper Hedges,…
an uncle of her young friend Sir Anthony Hedges. While indulging in their clandestine affair, Marina is blackmailed for past indiscretions. Some strong language, and explicit descriptions of sex. Rita Award. c2008.The dying animal
By Philip Roth. 2001
Sixtyish New York cultural critic David Kepesh is already struggling with his own mortality when a former favourite young lover,…
Cuban Consuela Castillo, returns in ill health to see him again. Explicit descriptions of sex and strong language. Bestseller. 2001.The comfort of strangers
By Ian McEwan. 1981
For Mary and Colin, on holiday in a city where everything is strange to them and they are continually lost…
both physically and mentally, it is easy to close their eyes to the hidden danger lurking behind Robert's apparent friendliness. 1981.The caretaker
By Thomas William Simpson. 1998
Samantha Henderson's husband, Gunn, receives a mysterious job offer that includes a lot of perks, especially a house with a…
caretaker. Sam becomes involved with the servant, not realizing he's a threat to her family. Strong language, explicit descriptions of sex, and some descriptions of violence. 1998.Tangerine
By Edward Bloor. 2001
Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer…
despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight. For junior high readers. 2001.Take a good look
By Jacqueline Wilson. 2001
Mary may not be able to see properly, but she's determined to go to the sweet shop alone. Her adventure…
turns into a nightmare as she gets caught up in a robbery, and finds herself the victim of a desperate kidnap. Mary must use all her ingenuity and courage if she is to escape unharmed from her captors. Grades 3-6. 2001.Seeing red
By Lina Meruane, Megan McDowell. 2016
This autobiographical novel describes a young Chilean writer recently relocated to New York for doctoral work who suffers a stroke,…
leaving her blind and increasingly dependent on those closest to her. Fiction and autobiography intertwine in an intense, visceral, and caustic novel about the relation between the body, illness, science, and human relationships. Winner of the Sor Juana IneÌs de la Cruz Prize (Mexico), 2012, and of the Anna Seghers Prize (Germany), 2011. 2016. Uniform title: Sangre en el ojo.Sex in the city: London (Destination Erotica - London Ser.)
By Maxim Jakubowski. 2010
Still here
By Linda Grant. 2002
Alix Rebick is a survivor of the sexual revolution, but at forty-nine is resigned to spending the rest of her…
life alone. Returning to the bedside of her dying mother, Alix receives a final message that forces her to uncover family secrets that lie in pre-war Dresden. Joseph Shields, an American architect, is in a war - with Liverpool's underworld, with his wife back in Chicago who has left him and with memories of his time as a combat soldier. He is not interested in an affair with the woman who unlocks the city's secrets for him and is consumed with desire. Strong language. Descriptions of sex. 2002.Star gazing
By Linda Gillard. 2008
Blind since birth, widowed in her twenties, now lonely in her forties, Marianne's passionate nature finds solace and expression in…
music, a love she finds she shares with Keir, a man she encounters on her doorstep one winter's night. Can Marianne trust her feelings for this reclusive stranger who wants to take a blind woman to his island home on Skye, to 'show' her the stars? 2008.Someone wonderful
By Barbara Neil. 1995
This is a story of six people: Grace Teape, her orphaned niece, Lily, and young lover, sculptor Johnny Cochrane; Grace's…
brother, photographer Oliver Cary, his journalist wife Melissa and blind son, Sebastian. 1995.Spending: a utopian divertimento
By Mary Gordon. 1998
Monica Szabo is a moderately successful New York artist when she meets B, a wealthy commodities trader who volunteers to…
be her muse, and lover. Although Monica worries about being a kept woman, she uses B as her model and eventually becomes a celebrity. Suddenly B, however, loses his fortune. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. c1998.Soldier girls
By Yolanda Celbridge. 2001
Stripped of her uniform for sexual outrage, soldier-nurse Lise Gallard is forced to endure corporal punishment in the Foreign Legion…
women's prison. But she is spotted there by dominatrix Dr Crevasse, who engineers Lise's release for her own flagellant purposes. Can Lise hope to escape her cruel mistress? Or will she in turn learn to wield the cane? Contains very explicit sexual content, strong language and violence. 2001.Shot in the dark (Lorimer Sports Stories Ser.)
By Janet M Whyte. 2015
Eighth-grader Micah is psyched to have made the BC junior goalball team -- even though he gets the news while…
dealing with a flare-up of his degenerative eye condition. What he's not happy about is his parents' decision to get him a guide dog, and the possibility of losing his independence. When Liam, a new, first-rate player, joins the goalball team, Micah's frustration with his vision spills onto the court. He is rude to Liam and starts a fight with another teammate, Sebastian, after practice. It's only with the help of Cam, his Orientation and Mobility Specialist, that Micah starts to get a handle on his aggression and trust people enough to communicate how he feels. But with the team's big junior tournament quickly approaching, Micah has to reconcile his differences with Liam and Sebastian so as to become a real team player and help his team win the championship. Grades 5-8. 2015.