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The complaints
By Ian Rankin. 2009
Nobody likes The Complaints - they're the cops who investigate other cops. Complaints and Conduct Department, to give them their…
full title, but known colloquially as 'The Dark Side', or simply 'The Complaints'. It's where Malcolm Fox works. He's just had a result, and should be feeling good about himself. But he's a man with problems of his own. He has an increasingly frail father in a care home and a sister who persists in an abusive relationship - something which Malcolm cannot seem to do anything about. But, in the midst of an aggressive Edinburgh winter, the reluctant Fox is given a new task. There's a cop called Jamie Breck, and he's dirty. The problem is, no one can prove it. 2009.The convent
By Panos Karnezis. 2010
The crumbling convent of Our Lady of Mercy stands alone in an uninhabited part of Spain, its six inhabitants devoted…
to God and cut off from the world. This all changes the day the Mother Superior discovers a suitcase with air-holes at the entrance. She is to find that the box and its contents are to have consequences beyond her imagining, and that even in her carefully protected sanctuary she is unable to keep the world, or her past, at bay. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2010.The darling
By Russell Banks. 2004
Hannah Musgrave, fifty-nine, former radical Weather Underground member, recounts life as a fugitive in 1980s Liberia. She recalls her chimpanzee…
sanctuary, her involvement with warlord Charles Taylor, her husband's beheading, and the defection of her sons as the country is devastated by internal strife. Some descriptions of sex, descriptions of violence, and some strong language. 2004.The conversations at Curlow Creek
By David Malouf. 1996
A convict, Carney, facing execution at dawn, and a lawman, Adair, sent to enforce the sentence, pass the night in…
conversation. Although set in Australia 170 years ago, the issues raised in their discussion are timeless ones of sin, freedom, and the meaning of life. Some descriptions of sex, some strong language, and some violence. 1996.Le krach de 1979
By Paul Erdman. 1977
The conformist: a novel
By Alberto Moravia, Angus Davidson. 1983
As a young boy Marcello feels a conflict between pleasure in violent acts - like killing lizards - and his…
desire to be "normal." His struggle continues into adulthood during the Mussolini era, until he receives an assignment that causes him to lose control. Basis for the 1970 film by Bernardo Bertolucci. Some violence. 1983, c1951. Uniform title: Conformista.The crossing (Point Ser.)
By Gary Paulsen. 2006
Manny is a fourteen-year-old homeless boy in the Mexican border town of Juarez. Always hungry and struggling to survive, he…
dreams of making the crossing to the U.S. Robert, an alcoholic American sergeant, is haunted by the memories of friends who died in Vietnam. When Manny tries to steal from Robert, they begin a strange relationship that leads to Robert's death and Manny's chance for survival. Some descriptions of violence. For high school and older readers. 2006.The day after tomorrow: a novel
By Allan Folsom. 1994
American surgeon Paul Osborn is sitting in a cafe when he spots the man who killed his father in 1966.…
Without thinking, he attacks the man. This sets in motion a chain of events involving seven decapitated bodies, a massive train wreck, and an international conspiracy. Set in Paris in 1994. Violence, strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. c1994.The dancer and the thief
By Antonio Skármeta, Katherine Silver. 2008
After the fall of Pinochet's dictatorship, the government releases certain nonviolent criminals to lower the prison populace. Returning home, thief…
Ángel seeks out notorious criminal Nicolás with plans for an ambitious heist, but Nic has vowed to live a law-abiding life while mending his relationship with his estranged wife and son. Nicolás' bankruptcy, Ángel's persistence, and the presence of the latter's dancer girlfriend, Victoria, draws these three characters fatefully together. Some strong language, some descriptions of violence and explicit descriptions of sex. c2008. Uniform title: Baile de la victoria.The crystal frontier: a novel in nine stories
By Carlos Fuentes, Alfred J Mac Adam. 1998
Nine stories by the award-winning Mexican author are tied together by the title reference to the border between Mexico and…
the United States. Fuentes explores the cultural and economic differences between the Hispanics and the Anglos where they intermingle geographically. Some descriptions of sex, some strong language and some descriptions of violence. 1998, c1995. Uniform title: Frontera de cristal.The crocodile bird
By Ruth Rendell. 1993
When her mother, Eve, tells Liza she must leave their remote home, the gatehouse of a country mansion, Liza is…
terrified. Although 17, she has never been on a bus or a train or played with a child of her own age. She has almost no knowledge of the world her mother describes as evil and destructive. Their strange, enclosed life together is over because Eve has killed a man and he is not the first. Liza is cast adrift but is not alone. She keeps her love affair secret from her mother, and from her lover she learns about the world and about herself. 1993.The cities of the plain (In search of lost time ; #4)
By Marcel Proust. 1922
The Chronoliths
By Robert Charles Wilson. 2001
Scott Warden is studying Thai beach culture and struggling to support his wife and daughter when a large monument appears…
in the jungle. The artifact is a chronolith commemorating the conquest of Thailand--20 years in the future. When Warden returns to the U.S., more chronoliths appear, to devastating effect. As the chronoliths approach America, Scott joins Hitch Paley and Sue Chopra in a race to find a way to change the future.The cloning of Joanna May
By Fay Weldon. 1989
Joanna May is sixty and divorced when she discovers that her ex-husband, 30 years ago, had produced four clones of…
her. When the five meet, they find that their powers are multiplied and the guilt diminished. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1989.The Captain and the enemy
By Graham Greene. 1988
This evocative novel centers on a young boy growing up in odd and touching circumstances and on his relationships with…
various unusual and poignant people. Victor Baxter inhabits a world populated by the devil, schoolteachers and Amalekites. The captain wins Victor and removes him to a much less certain world, where identities change to suit the needs of the moment. In this book, Graham Greene portrays a young mind learning to distinguish 'the captain from the enemy', as Victor develops into a young man well able to exist in and to manipulate this shadowy new environment. 1988.The book of beasts: a novel
By Bernice Friesen. 2007
1965. James, a half-English, half-Irish boy, is taken on a visit home to Ireland by his mother. She soon decides…
to leave her husband and stay there, and although James is initially traumatized, he eventually becomes close to his uncle and his grandmother. His grandmother decides that James should become a priest, and he studies to do so, only to lose his faith as he enters adulthood. Through it all, James is deeply embittered at his father's apparent abandonment. Explicit descriptions of sex. Strong language. Some descriptions of violence. c2007.The Carpathians
By Janet Frame. 1988
Mattina Brecon, a wealthy New Yorker, spends a few months in the small New Zealand city of Puamahara. Mixing the…
mundane with the surreal, the story details the lives of the people on Kowhai Street where Mattina lives. 1988.The castle: a new translation, based on the restored text
By Franz Kafka. 1954
An allegory of man's struggle against an illogical bureaucracy. A land surveyor, known only as K, is constantly frustrated in…
his attempts to gain entrance into a mysterious castle, which is administered by an extraordinarily complicated and inaccessible bureaucratic hierarchy. 1969, c1926. Uniform title: Das Schloss.The children's book
By A. S Byatt. 2009
Olive Wellwood, a famous writer, writes for each of her children a separate private book, bound in different colours and…
placed on a shelf. In their rambling house near Romney Marsh the children play in a story-book world, but their lives, and those of their rich cousins, children of a city stockbroker, and their friends, the son and daughter of a curator at the new Victoria and Albert Museum, are already inscribed with mystery. 2009.The cheetah chase
By Karin McQuillan. 1994
Jazz Jasper, American owner of a Kenyan safari company, sets out to solve a murder and protect an endangered species.…
She witnesses the gruesome death of investigative reporter Nick Hunter. Aided by Nick's widow, an animal-rights activist, and police detective Omondi, Jazz traces Nick's last moves, gradually discerning that whoever is behind his murder may also threaten the survival of the cheetah. Some descriptions of violence, and some descriptions of sex. Sequel to "Elephant's graveyard" (DC31008). c1994.