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By Stieg Larsson, Reg Keeland. 2008
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger…
clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder - and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history. Violence, strong language, and explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. Followed by "The girl who played with fire" (DC37532). 2008. (Millennium trilogy ; 1)By Jeannette Walls. 2006
Reporter for MSNBC.com looks back on her unsettled life. Describes growing up in a dysfunctional family, which was always on…
the move. She recalls her father's dream of building a "glass castle," and relates how she and her siblings escaped to make lives of their own. Bestseller. 2006.By Stephen King. 1996
At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, killers await death, whilst their…
guards watch over them. Good or evil, innocent or guilty, none of them have ever seen the likes of brutal new prisoner John Coffey, seemingly a devil in human form. Strong language. 1998, c1996.By Stephen King. 1982
The story begins with the introduction of the gunslinger and his evil nemesis, "the man in black." The enemy is…
actually a sorcerer who creates many problems for the gunslinger as the gunslinger travels through time seeking vengeance for the death of his father and the dishonouring of his mother. Some strong language. 1989, c1982.By Michael Crichton. 1975
By Julia Donaldson. 1999
When Mouse takes a stroll through the woods, he meets a fox, an owl, and a snake who all want…
to eat him! So Mouse invents a gruffalo, a monster with "terrible tusks and terrible claws, terrible teeth, and terrible jaws." But will Mouse's frightful description be enough to scare off his foes? After all, there's no such thing as a gruffalo... is there? Grades K-3. 1999.In the 1960s, Lynn Povich was one of the lucky women, like Nora Ephron, Jane Bryant Quinn, Ellen Goodman, and…
Susan Brownmiller, to land a job at Newsweek, but it was a dead end - women researchers sometimes became reporters, rarely writers, and never editors. On March 16, 1970, the day Newsweek published a cover story on the fledgling feminist movement, forty-six Newsweek women charged the magazine with discrimination. It was the first female class action lawsuit - the first by women journalists - and it inspired other women in the media to quickly follow suit. Includes strong language. 2012.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.By Michael Connelly. 2011
Detective Harry Bosch and his partner David Chu have DNA evidence implicating a sex offender in a 1989 rape and…
murder--but the suspect was eight at the time. They also investigate the mysterious death of a councilman's son. Strong language, some violence, and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. Sequel to "Nine dragons", followed by "The black box". 2011.By Frederick Forsyth. 1974
A minute-by-minute account of a coup involving the takeover of Zangaro, an emergent African state. Cat Shannon, a tough, cool…
mercenary leader is up against Sir James Manson, a shrewd London money-manipulator. 1974.By José Saramago, Margaret Jull Costa. 2004
History teacher Tertuliano wakes up find a video playing on his VCR, and one of the actors is the spitting…
image of Tertuliano as he was five years ago. Tertuliano, divorced, lonely, and depressed, is susceptible to becoming obsessed, which he quickly becomes. He decides to track down the actor who is his double, with disturbing, even dire, consequences. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2004. Uniform title: Homem duplicado.By Howard Fast. 1988
By Stephen King. 1983
A school teacher awakens from a coma and realizes that he can see the future. His second sight becomes a…
horror rather than a blessing, especially when he meets an unsavoury politician. Some strong language. 1983.By Ben Sherwood. 2004
After surviving the car accident that claimed his brother's life, Charlie is graced with a gift: he can see, talk…
to, and even play catch with Sam's sprit. Into this magical world comes Tess, a woman in training to sail around the world. When fate steers her boat into a treacherous storm, it leads to a race against time, and a choice between holding on and letting go. Some descriptions of sex, some strong language. 2004.By Andrew Bromfield, Sergeĭ Lukʹi͡ìanenko, Vladimir Vassilyev. 2007
In a parallel reality to earth, human history has been shaped by a centuries-old conflict between the Dark Ones and…
the Light Ones, magical beings whose existence is kept hidden from humanity. Alisa Donnikova, a Dark One, loses her powers, and while recuperating she falls in love with Igor, who turns out to be a Light magician. The plot centres on the ramifications of their romance and the theft of Fafnir's Talon, a powerful artifact whose provenance is linked to the legendary Ring of the Nibelungs. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. Sequel to "Night watch" (DC29587). Followed by "Twilight watch" (DC30455). 2007, c1998. (Watch ; 2) Uniform title: Dnevnoĭ Dozor.By Lauren Weisberger. 2003
Andrea Sachs, a small-town girl fresh out of college, lands the job "a million girls would die for." Hired as…
the assistant to Miranda Priestly, the high-profile, fabulously successful editor of Runway magazine, Andrea finds herself in an office that shouts "Prada! Armani! Versace!" at every turn, a world populated by impossibly thin, heart-wrenchingly stylish women, and beautiful men clad in fine-ribbed turtlenecks and tight leather pants that show off their lifelong dedication to the gym. Some strong language. 2003.By David Grann. 2010
Each of the dozen stories in this collection reveals a hidden and often dangerous world, and pivots around the gravitational…
pull of obsession and the captivating personalities of those caught in its grip. There is the world's foremost expert on Sherlock Holmes who is found dead in mysterious circumstances; an arson sleuth trying to prove that a man about to be executed is innocent; and sandhogs racing to complete the brutally dangerous job of building New York City's water tunnels before the old system collapses. Throughout, Grann's hypnotic accounts display the power--and often the willful perversity--of the human spirit. 2010.By Gillian Cross. 1996
When the Hunter family are persuaded to move house, Dinah, Lloyd and Harvey realize that there is something very strange…
about the new village. And soon Dinah suspects that their old enemy, the Demon Headmaster, is back. This time, he has got control of a research laboratory, and he's planning to take over nature itself. But to do that, he needs Dinah - which puts her in terrible danger. Sequel to "The revenge of the Demon Headmaster", followed by "The Demon Headmaster takes over". Grades 3-6. 1996.By Gillian Cross. 1984
Something is horribly wrong at Dinah's new school - the children are strangely neat and well behaved. Why is this…
and why does Dinah find herself conforming? What is the secret of the Headmaster's control? Dinah is determined to unravel the mystery of the sinister Headmaster. Followed by "The Prime Minister's brain". Grades 3-6. 1984.By John Le Carré. 2001
After his young wife Tessa's murder in Kenya, British diplomat Justin Quayle investigates her death and the disappearance of her…
African colleague. He eventually discovers that Tessa had uncovered a scheme involving a multinational pharmaceutical company that unethically tests drugs on the local populace. Strong language. Bestseller. 2001.