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The Club Dumas
By Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Sonia Soto. 1996
The authentication of a handwritten chapter of Dumas's The Three Musketeers embroils rare-book hunter Lucas Corso in a literary intrigue.…
The chapter's owner is found hanged, but was the death suicide or homicide? The beautiful widow has her own interest in rare books. Corso goes from Madrid to Paris to figure it out. 1996. Uniform title: Club Dumas.Tale of two cities
By Charles Dickens. 2005
A story of the French Revolution set in London and Paris. Sydney Carton sacrifices his life on the guillotine for…
the happiness of Lucie Manette, the French girl he loves. 2005, c1859.The boys in the boat: nine Americans and their epic quest for gold at the 1936 Olympics
By Daniel Brown. 2013
Traces the story of an American rowing team from the University of Washington that defeated elite rivals at Hitler's 1936…
Berlin Olympics, sharing the experiences of their enigmatic coach, a visionary boat builder, and a homeless teen rower. Bestseller. 2013.The carpetbaggers
By Harold Robbins. 1961
Jonas Cord coveted his father's fame, fortune, even his young, beautiful wife. When his father died, Jonas swore to possess…
them all. But Rina Marlow was the celebrated screen goddess no man could master. She consumed her lovers on the fiery rack of her burning desires. Rina and Jonas took Hollywood, the airplane industry, America itself by storm. They brawled, lusted, and carved out an empire, blazoned in banner headlines and their enemies' blood--only to learn that money and power, revenge and renown were not enough. The higher they soared, the more their ambition demanded, and the darker and deadlier their fiery passions grew. 2007, c1961.The children of men
By P. D James. 1992
In 2021, infertility has spread like a plague, and no babies have been born for a quarter of a century…
anywhere in the inhabited world. The old are driven to despair and suicide, the young are beautiful, violent, and cruel, and the middle-aged try to sustain normality under the rule of the Warden of England. When Theo Faron, an Oxford historian, meets a women who is one of a group challenging the regime, he is drawn into unimaginable horrors. 1992.The century
By Peter Jennings, Todd Brewster. 1998
Researched and compiled by the staff of ABC News, this chronicle of the twentieth century charts changes in popular attitudes…
in the United States and describes key events in other countries as they affected the American worldview. Personal interviews and a series of story-filled essays provide a "coherent picture of a remarkable time." Bestseller. 1998.The casual vacancy
By J. K. Rowling. 2012
In his early forties, councilman Barry Fairbrother dies unexpectedly of an aneurysm. The casual vacancy he leaves on the parish…
council has a huge effect on the remaining people in the town of Pagford. Bestseller. 2012.The case for Christ: a journalist's personal investigation of the evidence for Jesus
By Lee Strobel. 1998
Retracing his own spiritual journey from atheism to faith, the author cross-examines a dozen experts with doctorates who are recognized…
authorities in their own fields. He challenges them with questions like: How reliable is the New Testament? Does evidence for Jesus exist outside the Bible? Is there any reason to believe the resurrection was an actual event? It's a riveting quest for the truth about history's most compelling figure. 1998.The Carrie diaries (Carrie Diaries #1)
By Candace Bushnell. 2010
Tells the story of Manhattan columnist Carrie Bradshaw's high school years, her relationships with her peers, and how she became…
a writer. Prequel to "Sex in the City". Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. For Senior High and older readers. c2010.The body
By Stephen King. 1984
The breadwinner (Breadwinner Ser. #1)
By Deborah Ellis. 2000
A story about loyalty, survival, families and friendship, set against the backdrop of an intolerable existence in war-torn Afghanistan. Eleven-year-old…
Parvana lives in Taliban-controlled Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan. Masquerading as a boy, Parvana goes to work in the streets so that her family can eat. Parvana becomes the breadwinner. Grades 5-8. 2000.The camomile lawn
By Mary Wesley. 1984
In August 1939 five cousins gather at their aunt's home in Cornwall for the summer holiday. For most of them…
it is the last summer of their youth. They are eager to lose their innocence and explore every experience. Includes sex. 1984.The book of Stanley
By Todd Babiak. 2007
Stanley Moss is a retired florist, stricken with cancer, and living quietly with his wife Frieda in Edmonton. One day,…
Stanley experiences a boom and a flash, and then discovers that he has the strength of ten men, can read minds and fulfill people's dreams - and his illness has vanished. He and his disciples start The Stan, a new religion, and invite the world to join, but when the world shows up, along with the international media and an angry long-dead spiritualist, things take an unexpected turn. Some descriptions of violence and sex. Some strong language. c2007.The butcher boy
By Pat McCabe. 1992
Set in Ireland in the early 1960s. Francie Brady is a schoolboy who must figure life out or himself as…
his mother is in and out of "the garage," and his father is always drunk. Francie is especially hard on the Nugents, particularly after Philip Nugent's mother says the Bradys are no better than pigs. And Francie can't forget a song his mother sang about a girl who commits suicide over a butcher boy. Strong language and some descriptions of violence. 1992.The Bourne ultimatum (Bourne Ser. #Bk. 3)
By Robert Ludlum. 1994
Jason Bourne is forced from retirement by a series of terrifying events, starting with a cat-and-mouse chase to the death.…
The Jackal, Bourne's supreme enemy, has returned. And so Medusa - the dreaded secret society, seeking clandestine power, is once more flexing its vicious tentacles. The scene is set for carnage galore. Some descriptions of violence. 1994.The book thief
By Markus Zusak. 2007
Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to…
a concentration camp. She befriends blond-haired Rudy Steiner, her neighbour obsessed with Jesse Owens. Together Liesel and Rudy steal books - from Nazi book burning piles, from the mayor's library, from the richer people of Molching. By 1943, the Allied bombs are falling, and the sirens begin to wail. For Junior and Senior High readers. Some strong language. 2007.The bone collector (Lincoln Rhyme novel. #1)
By Jeffery Deaver. 1997
Lincoln Rhyme is one of the world's foremost forensic criminologists. He is also a quadriplegic, paralyzed from the neck down.…
The cop who could once look at a crime scene and find the clues about a killer that no one else could see is now strapped in his bed and actually planning suicide, when he gets a call he can't ignore from his old partner on the force. Some descriptions of sex, strong language, and explicit descriptions of violence. Followed by “The coffin dancer”. 1998, c1997.The bookshop: A Novel
By Penelope Fitzgerald. 1978
A middle-aged widow, Florence Green, decides to open a bookstore in a five-hundred-year-old house in her small English town. She…
makes a noble start but is thwarted by Violet Gamart, who wants to convert "Old House" into an arts centre. 1997, c1978.The boy in the striped pyjamas
By John Boyne. 2006
Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted…
by his people. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no-one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas. Bruno's friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation. Grades 5-8 and older readers. 2006.The Bourne supremacy (Bourne ; #2)
By Robert Ludlum. 1986
Jason Bourne has announced his return. But who, now, is Bourne? Is he the quiet professor and loving husband, or…
is he the most deadly master of the killing arts the world has ever known? In a smoky disreputable cabaret in Kowloon, murder is swiftly and violently perpetrated and eleven letters are written in the dead man's blood. Sequel to "Bourn identity" (DC05315). 1986. (Bourne ; 2)