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The fallen leaves
By Wilkie Collins. 1994
Banished from the Christian Community at Tadmor, Illinois after a scandalous liaison, Amelius Goldenheart is sent to England with a…
letter of introduction to John Farnaby of the City of London. Upon arrival he finds his reception somewhat unwelcoming, while Farnaby tolerates him, his wife seeks answers from every visitor about the disappearance of her child, while Regina, their niece who lives with them is kept away from him. Yet after a glimpse of Regina he finds himself captivated and longs to further his relationship with her. 1994.The feather and the stone
By Patricia Shaw, William Samples. 1992
An epic chronicle of modern Australia's turbulent birth. Sibell Delahunty takes a job as secretary companion to Charlotte Hamilton in…
the Northern Territory where the rigours of an isolated cattle station come as a tremendous shock. Her courage and endurance are to be tested to the utmost before she feels truly at home in her adopted country. 1992.The feast of July
By H. E Bates. 1954
The end of the nineteenth century finds young Bella Ford toiling up from the coast to find the lover who…
has betrayed her. "I'll find you and some day I'll kill you", she is thinking, but instead she finds a home and happiness with a family of shoemakers. Slowly the three sons restore her flickering faith in life. Then on the high-summer day of Fifty Feasts, the past comes crashing into the present in a climax of sudden and horrible tragedy. 1954.The fiend in human: a mystery
By John Gray. 2003
It's 1852 in London, and Edmund Whitty, dissipated tabloid correspondent, has just come up with the name Chokee Bill for…
the fiend who has been choking prostitutes with a white silk scarf. With the arrest of William Ryan for the crime, the city can breathe again, but Whitty discovers that the murders are continuing. While fighting off his creditors and his addictions, he endeavours to find the real Chokee Bill, greeted with hostility on all sides. Some strong language and descriptions of violence. 2003.The Fifteen Streets
By Catherine Cookson. 1952
Mary Ellen O'Brien had lived her married life in the area known as "The Fifteen Streets", and five children later…
she accepts that she'll never leave its grim and grinding reality. She knew life would be just as hard for her children, but for John and Katie, quick, bright, loving and wanting more than the Fifteen Streets could give them, life would be particularly brutal. 1952.The Fallon blood (The fallon Ser. #Bk. 1)
By Reagan O'Neal. 1995
Escaping brutal English overlords in the 1760s, Irishman Michael Fallon travels to Charleston, South Caroline and becomes an indentured servant.…
A dalliance with his employer's daughter leads to complications. As revolutionary war brews, Fallon must survive in a society which is turning to bloodshed. 1995.The feast of the goat
By Edith Grossman, Mario Vargas Llosa. 2001
Urania Cabral, returning to the Dominican Republic where her father is terminally ill, recalls her youth during the brutal dictatorship…
of Rafael Trujillo. Called "the Goat" for his depravity with women, Trujillo was the reason for her forty-year estrangement from her father. Strong language and descriptions of sex, explicit descriptions of violence. 2001. Uniform title: Fiesta del Chivo.The fencing master
By Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Margaret Jull Costa. 1998
Madrid, 1866. Don Jaime Astarloa is an honourable man of tradition who makes his living teaching fencing to wealthy students.…
But his life changes forever when a beautiful young lady enters his studio requesting advanced lessons. Don Jaime unwittingly becomes embroiled in political intrigue - and murder. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 1988. Uniform title: Maestro de esgrima.The Crowfield curse
By Pat Walsh. 2010
It's 1347 and fifteen-year-old Will, an orphan boy, lives at Crowfield Abbey. Sent into the forest to gather wood, he…
rescues instead, a creature from a trap - a hob, who shares with Will a terrible secret. Somewhere in the forest behind the abbey where he lives, is a grave. And buried deep in the snow is an angel. But how can an angel die? What has it to do with the monks of the Abbey? When two hooded strangers arrive at Crowfield asking questions about the angel's grave, Will is drawn into a world of dangerous Old Magic. Grades 4-7. 2010.The Condesa of M: A Novel
By George H Szanto. 2001
The tale of an eighteenth-century ranch-owning Mexican noblewoman who was feared and revered by many people. A woman of beauty,…
intelligence, remarkable intuition, and an uncompromising sense of justice, her beloved husband dies unexpectedly during a session of passionate lovemaking. He comes back as an otherworldly presence to watch over her, give her practical advice and take note from his new vantage point of how those around his wife and three daughters conduct themselves. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2001.The dig
By John Preston. 2008
In the long hot summer of 1939, Britain is preparing for war. But on a riverside farm in Suffolk there…
is excitement of another kind: Mrs Petty, the widowed farmer, has had her hunch proved correct that the strange mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As the dig proceeds against a background of mounting national anxiety, it becomes clear though that this is no ordinary find, and pretty soon the discovery leads to all kinds of jealousies and tensions. 2008.The Clerkenwell tales
By Peter Ackroyd. 2003
London 1399. Sister Clarice, a nun born below Clerkenwell convent, is predicting the death of King Richard II and the…
demise of the Church. Her visions can be dismissed as madness, until she accurately foretells a series of terrorist explosions. What is the role of the apocalyptic Predestined Men? And the clandestine Dominus? And what powers, ultimately, will prevail? 2003.The crimson petal and the white
By Michel Faber. 2010
Step into Victorian London and meet our heroine, Sugar - a young woman trying to drag herself up from the…
gutter any way she can - and the host of unforgettable characters that make up her world. Includes strong language and sex. 2010.The equal sky
By Stephen Reardon. 2007
1886. The winter floods bring to light the remains of a long-dead Icenian warrior. Henry Turner, the son of a…
farm bailiff, gifted with an intuitive understanding of their heavy work horses, feels he is unaccountably chosen for a mysterious purpose. Turning his back on the Cambridgeshire village and the future everyone assumes he has with Annie Lilley, Henry Turner is taken on as a groom by a former army officer with an estate in turbulent Ireland and a sinister past. While in the officer's London house, Henry befriends a Sioux Indian with similar gifts to his own. Together they seek to understand the mind of the Icenian warrior as he compels them to fulfil his purpose and, in doing so, discover their own destinies. For junior high and older readers. 2007.The factory voice
By Jeanette Lynes. 2009
Fort William, 1941. Something's gone wrong with the Mosquitos being built for the war effort - they keep crashing in…
flight tests, for no apparent reason. Is the problem with their design, or are they being sabotaged? Everyone's on high alert, and "The Factory Voice" newsletter keeps abreast of the details - or at least the rumours. Some strong language. c2009.The eye of the day
By Dennison Smith. 2014
When a brutal explosion in a summer-cottage town in Vermont brings together Amos, a disfigured handyman, and Aubrey, the cosseted…
son of a wealthy New England family, neither has any idea that this one event will shape them forever. As their lives touch again and again over the years, these two unlikely friends forge a bond that survives war and peace, love and loss. An evocation of friendship and a profound meditation on the compromises exacted by life. 2014.This story ranges from 1939 in the shadows of Nazi Europe to the present in the deceptive calm of a…
Toronto campus. Danny's story is the whole sorrowful history of East and West since the war. Winner of the 1984 Governor General's Award for Fiction. Strong language.The English lady
By William Harrington. 1982
Lady Nancy Brookeford becomes an intimate friend and confidant to Hitler and the leaders of the new Nazi party. She…
follows the Nazi movement until, in 1938, she meets and falls in love with a Jewish photographer. Some descriptions of sex. c1982.The falconer's knot
By Mary Hoffman. 2008
Silvano and Chiara are two teenagers with a difference. Silvano has been accused of a murder he did not commit.…
Chiara has been ousted from her family as a young woman with no marriage prospects. For these two very different reasons they are forced to seek refuge in a neighbouring convent and friary. And when they meet they are instantly aware that they are both outsiders, ill at ease with monastic life. Then a grisly murder occurs - followed by another, and then another. For Junior and Senior High readers. 2008.The faithful lovers (Bridges over time. #4)
By Valerie Anand. 1994
A Cornish shipwreck brings Parvati, a young Indian girl, into Ninian Whitmead's life. Her exoticism scandalizes the neighbourhood whilst her…
affection for him transforms his life. However, Ninian and Parvati have not long been married when the English Civil War becomes a reality in their remote district. As the Puritans gain control Parvati's foreign ways become suspect and Ninian must fight for his wife's life. Contains explicit descriptions of sex. 1994.