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The final unfinished voyage of Jack Aubrey (Aubrey-maturin Ser.)
By Patrick O'Brian. 2005
An incomplete, final installment of the Aubrey/Maturin seafaring adventure series features three printed chapters and a facsimile of the manuscript,…
which includes details about Jack Aubrey's post-promotion mission to the South Africa station and a duel between Stephen Maturin and an impertinent officer. Some strong language. 2005.The delicate storm (John Cardinal series. #2.)
By Giles Blunt. 2003
When the dismembered corpse of an American tourist turns up half-eaten by bears in the woods near Algonquin Bay, Detective…
John Cardinal is assigned to the case. Usually his small-town cases practically solve themselves, but not only does he not have a single lead this time, but both the RCMP and CSIS get involved. Then a well-respected woman is found frozen under a glaze of ice, and Cardinal realizes that the two very different murders might well be linked. Some strong language. Sequel to "Forty words for sorrow", followed by "Blackfly season". 2003.Specials (Uglies series ; #3)
By Scott Westerfeld. 2006
Fifteen-year-old Tally from "Pretties" (DC29400), her boyfriend Zane, and their boss Shay have been reconstructed into super-strong paramilitary "specials." When…
they are sent to capture rebels who want to return to an unaltered state of mind, part of Tally wants to resist her programming. Some descriptions of violence. For senior high readers. Followed by "Extras" (DC32654). 2006. (Uglies series ; 3)Sharpe's Trafalgar: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805 (Richard Sharpe ; #4)
By Bernard Cornwell. 2000
It is 1805 and Sharpe is on his way home to join the newly formed Green Jackets. His voyage home…
should be a period of rest, but his ship is riven with treachery and threatened by the Revenant, a French sea-raider that is terrorising British shipping in the Indian Ocean. Betrayed and defeated, Sharpe is imprisoned on the Ile de France, doomed to rot there until the war ends - until an unlikely ally secures his escape onto a British warship that is hunting the Revenant. Sequel to "Sharpe's fortress" (DC28409). 2000. (Richard Sharpe ; 4)Rendezvous with Rama (Rama ; #1)
By Arthur C Clarke. 1973
In the year 2130, a mysterious and apparently unoccupied alien spaceship, Rama, enters our solar system. The first product of…
an alien civilization to be encountered by humans, it reveals a world of technological marvels and an unparalleled artificial ecology. But what is its purpose? Followed by "Rama II" (DC15105). 1973. (Rama ; 1)Pretties (Tally Youngblood trilogy ; #2)
By Scott Westerfeld. 2005
Tally's transformation to perfect and popular including her totally hot boyfriend is everything she always wanted. But beneath the fun…
and freedom something is wrong, and now Tally has to fight for her life because what she knows has put her in danger with the authorities. For senior high readers. Some descriptions of sex and violence. Sequel to "Uglies" (DC28952); followed by "Specials" (DC28951). 2005.Poor Tom is cold (A detective Murdoch Mystery Ser. #Vol.3)
By Maureen Jennings. 2002
Constable Oliver Wicken dies in what appears to be a suicide. However, when new evidence is discovered, Detective William Murdoch…
is asked to investigate further. During the investigation, he begins to suspect that the suicide is not what it seems. 2002.In 1722, after arriving with her brother at the family's Jamaican plantation where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old…
Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure. Grades 5-8 and older readers. 2003.Piece of my heart (Inspector Alan Banks mystery. #16.)
By Peter Robinson. 2006
As he launches a probe into the killing of a freelance music journalist, Detective Inspector Alan Banks finds his investigation…
journeying back in time more than thirty years and into the heart of the mystery surrounding a decades-old crime. 2006.Night watch
By Kevin Armstrong. 2002
Short stories set in the Pacific islands, detailing the shift between sea and land, indigenous cultures and the Western seafaring…
world. Each story unveils protagonists who err in their search for self and home. "The cane field" uncovers the myriad ways a mother's love can be destroyed by political and cultural clashes; "The woman of his choice" depicts Faero, a young Waro Indian caught between the world he knows and the woman he desires. Some strong language. 2002.Lost city: a novel from the Numa files (Kurt Austin adventure #No. 5)
By Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos. 2004
Kurt Austin leads the National Underwater and Marine Agency Special Assignments Team in investigating a series of strange occurrences, beginning…
with bizarre seaweed growth. Now scientists harvesting a life-prolonging enzyme are dying in an Atlantic Ocean area known as the Lost City. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. Bestseller. 2004.Let loose the dogs: a mystery
By Maureen Jennings. 2003
In 1890's Toronto, Detective Murdoch learns that his beloved sister, who long ago fled to a convent to evade their…
drunken and abusive father, is on her deathbed. At the same time, the father he has pushed out of his life, Harry, is convicted of murder, and he calls on his estranged son to prove his innocence. Some strong language and descriptions of sex and violence. 2003.Consider Phlebas (The Culture. #1.)
By Iain Banks. 1991
War rages across the galaxy. Billions have died and billions more are doomed. Deep within a fabled labyrinth lies a…
fugitive Mind, sought by both the Culture and the Idirans. Followed by "The player of games". 1991. (The Culture ; 1)Dead water zone
By Kenneth Oppel. 1992
This futuristic novel follows a boy's search for his missing brother into the Dead Water Zone, where a micro-organism designed…
to destroy pollution mutates into something far more dangerous. Junior high and older. 1992.Hominids
By Robert J Sawyer. 2002
During a quantum-computing experiment, Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist from a parallel world, accidentally pierces the barrier between our worlds…
and is transferred to our universe, finding himself a stranger in a strange land. Meanwhile, Ponter's partner, Adikor Huld, is left with a messy lab, a missing person, and an accusation of murder. Some descriptions of violence. 2002.Fossil hunter (The quintaglio Trilogy #Bk. 2)
By Robert J Sawyer. 1993
According to the Sacred Scrolls, the first intelligent saurians emerged from the eighth and final egg of God. But Toroca,…
son of Afsan the Far-Seer and a geologist searching for rare metals needed to take his species to other stars, discovers an artifact which may reveal the true origin of the saurian race. Some descriptions of violence. Sequel to "Far-Seer". Followed by "Foreigner" (DC12737). c1993.End in tears (Inspector Wexford mystery. #20.)
By Ruth Rendell. 2005
The local media accuse Chief Inspector Wexford and his partner Mike Burden of being too old-fashioned, but the two policemen…
succeed in tying together the murder of a teenage girl with another killing. Now, Wexford worries about his daughter, a pregnant single mother. Sequel to "The babes in the wood", followed by "Not in the flesh". 2005.Desolation island (Jack Aubrey ; #5)
By Patrick O'Brian. 1978
Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon, Stephen Maturin, sail the…
Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy - and a treacherous disease which decimates the crew. Sequel to "Mauritius command" . Followed by "The fortune of war" .1998. (Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels ; 5)Beholder's eye (DAW book collectors. book MC #1)
By Julie E Czerneda. 1998
Esen is one of six survivors of an alien race that can assume any form, useful in a universe where…
anyone perceived as different is destroyed. On her first assignment, she must seek help from a human when she falls into an unexpected trap. Together they battle the Enemy of the Web, bringer of death to all forms of life. Some violence. 1998.Aftershock: Skinner's World Is Shaken To The Core... (Bob Skinner. #18)
By Quintin Jardine. 2008
Still reeling from the tragic death of their much-loved colleague, Skinner's men are about to discover that a disturbed serial…
killer is still at large and very close to home. It's the second week of July Trades Holiday in Edinburgh and things seem very quiet. Until, that is, DCC Bob Skinner and his men get a call informing them that the body of a young woman has been found on a golf course. The way she has been laid out is uncannily familiar. The body has been 'composed', just like the bodies of three other young women in a previous case. Sequel to "Death's door", followed by "Fatal last words". 2008.