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The black madonna
By Doris May Lessing. 1964
The big bad wolf (Alex Cross series. #9.)
By James Patterson. 2003
Alex Cross's first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues perplexed. Across the country, men and women are…
kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappear completely. These people are not being taken for ransom. They are being bought and sold. It seems that a shadowy predator known only as "The Wolf" is the mass criminal behind this terrible trade, bringing a new reign of terror to organised crime. Some strong language. Sequel to "Four blind mice" (DC25663), followed by "London bridges" (DC28329). 2003. (Alex Cross Series ; 9)The big gold dream
By Chester B Himes. 1996
Pursuing two apparently unrelated murders, detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones are led into a squalid Harlem ghetto,…
where they confront the killer in an explosive showdown. Strong language and violence. 1996.The betrayers: a novel
By David Bezmozgis. 2014
When Baruch Kotler, a disgraced Israeli politician, refuses to back down from a contrary but principled stand regarding the West…
Bank settlements, his political opponents expose his affair with a mistress decades his junior. He and the fiery young Leora flee the scandal for Yalta, where he comes face to face with the former friend who denounced him to the KGB almost forty years earlier. In a mere twenty-four hours, Kotler must face the ultimate reckoning, both with those who have betrayed him and with those whom he has betrayed. Winner of the National Jewish Book Award. 2014.The beautiful things that heaven bears
By Dinaw Mengestu. 2007
In his store in a neighbourhood of Washington, D.C., Ethiopian immigrant Stepha Stephanos regularly meets with fellow Africans Ken the…
Kenyan and Joe from the Congo, discussing how their immigrant expectations measure up to the reality of life in America. Stephanos makes keen observations of American race and class tensions, seeing similarities to his hometown of Addis Ababa. When Judith, a white woman, and Naomi, her mixed-race daughter, move into the neighbourhood, Stephanos finds tentative prospects for friendship beyond his African compatriots. Some descriptions of violence. Some descriptions of sex. Some strong language. c2007.The apprentice's masterpiece: a story of medieval Spain
By Melanie Little. 2008
Fifteenth-century Spain is a richly multicultural society in which Jews, Muslims and Christians coexist, but under the zealous Christian Queen…
Isabella, the country abruptly becomes one of the most murderously intolerant places on Earth. The Benvenistes, a family of scribes, are attempting to eke out a living, but they have a secret - they are Conversos: Jews who converted to Christianity. Now, with neighbours and friends turned into spies, fear hangs in the air. The story is written in verse. For junior high readers and older. Some descriptions of violence. 2008.The autobiography of my mother: a novel
By Jamaica Kincaid. 2016
A deeply charged story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica. Xuela Claudette Richardson, the daughter of a…
Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half-African father, loses her mother the moment she is born and must find her way on her own. 2016.The bass saxophone
By Josef Skvorecky. 1980
Two portraits of people whose love is for the forbidden in a totalitarian regime: Emoke loves God and a boy…
loves jazz. Nominated for the 1984 CNIB talking book of the year award. c1980. Uniform title: Legenda Emöke.The angel of Zin
By Clifford Irving. 1984
The Gestapo sends Captain Paul Bach to investigate the murders of two prisoners and a Polish lieutenant at an SS…
camp. Bach begins to realize that he is a guilty party to the policy of extermination. Some strong language. 1984.The apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
By Mordecai Richler. 1959
The Auerbach will
By Stephen Birmingham. 1984
In "The Auerbach Will", ambitious young Essie Litsky defies a rigid upbringing by immigrant Russian Jewish parents to achieve wealth…
and success. But her children tear Essie and her husband Jack Auerbach's family apart in fights over their fortune, and Essie finds that money will not mend broken lives. 1984.Texaco: roman
By Patrick Chamoiseau. 1992
Temptation: the aftermath
By Victoria Murray. 2018
Since they were five years old, Jasmine Cox, Larson Bush and Kyla Blake had a bond that could not be…
broken. They shared secrets, marked milestones, and held each other up through life's adversities. It was a friendship that they both thought would last forever. But when Jasmine's jealousy led her to seduce Kyla's husband, Dr. Jefferson Blake, that bond was severed and their friendship was damaged forever. Now, twenty years later, a major tragedy brings the two together when Jefferson, in New York for a medical convention, is shot in an attempted robbery. It's the love that Jasmine once had for Kyla that sends her rushing to the hospital to be by her friend's side. Kyla, despondent and distraught, just wants answers, and when a mysterious woman appears, it's Jasmine who believes that woman may hold the key to what happened to Jefferson. Sequel to "Temptation". 2018.Tears of Mehndi
By Raminder Sidhu. 2012
Through the perspectives of several women whose lives intertwine over a generation, Sidhu exposes the shrouded violence within Canada's Punjabi…
community. Sidhu's characters are women caught between two cultures, struggling to understand the traditions they are obliged to follow while still embracing and often welcoming the fundamentally different values of the West. Includes sex, violence, and strong language. 2012.Testimony
By Felicia Mason. 2002
For eighteen years Roger McKenzie has led a gospel singing group, The Triumphant Voices of Praise. But The Voices have…
failed to win commercial or critical success. When Roger's leadership is questioned, personal problems threaten to tear the group's close bond apart. 2002.That time I loved you: A Novel
By Carrianne Leung. 2018
The suburbs of the 1970s promised to be heaven on earth—new houses, new status, happiness guaranteed. But in a Scarborough…
subdivision populated by newcomers from all over the world, a series of sudden catastrophic events reveals that not everyone’s dreams come true. Moving from house to house, Carrianne Leung explores the inner lives behind the tidy front gardens and picture-perfect windows, always returning to June, an irrepressible adolescent Chinese-Canadian coming of age in this shifting world. Through June and her neighbours, Leung depicts the fine line where childhood meets the realities of adult life, and examines, with insight and sharp prose, how difficult it is to be true to ourselves at any age. 2018.Thank you, Jackie Robinson
By Barbara Cohen. 1974
Tell it to the trees
By Anita Rau Badami. 2011
One freezing winter morning, the dead body of Anu Krishnan is found in the Dharma family’s backyard. Anu was renting…
the Dharma’s ‘back-house’ as a quiet writing retreat and had become friends with Vikram Dharma’s quiet second wife, Suman. But her arrival changed the balance of the household, as Varsha, Vikram’s daughter, deeply affected by her mother’s death and desperate to keep her new family together, becomes increasingly suspicious of Anu’s relationship with her stepmother. Some strong language. 2011.Sur le rivage
By Rafael Chirbes, Denise Laroutis. 2015
Sur le rivage démarre comme un thriller : Ahmed trouve deux cadavres et s'enfuit pour éviter les ennuis. Venu du…
Maroc en quête d'un emploi, il est condamné à la débrouille depuis que les chantiers tournent au ralenti. Car à Olba, la crise fait toutes sortes de victimes. Esteban, menuisier en faillite, ose à peine avouer sa déroute. Il passe ses journées avec son vieux père qui glisse lentement vers la démence. Francisco ne quitte pas le bar du coin. Il se croit philosophe, alors qu'il tue le temps. Sur la scène du roman résonnent les voix d'un pays. D'un personnage à l'autre, d'une génération à l'autre, se dessinent l'Espagne d'aujourd'hui et, au-delà, une Europe crépusculaire, ravagée par le doute ou tentée par l'extrémisme. 2015. Titre uniforme: En la orilla.Sommeil
By Haruki Murakami, Corinne Atlan. 2010
Une femme, la trentaine. Elle est mariée, a un enfant. Le matin, elle fait les courses et prépare les repas.…
L'après-midi, elle va nager à la piscine. Elle vit sa vie comme un robot. Mais la nuit, quand tout le monde dort, la femme se verse un verre de cognac, mange un peu de chocolat, lit et relit Anna Karénine. La nuit, cette femme redécouvre le plaisir. Dix-sept nuits sans sommeil. 2010.