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The Forsyte saga: Volume 1 : The man of property ; In Chancery ; To let (Forsyte chronicles #1)
By John Galsworthy. 2001
The Forsyte Saga traces the changing fortunes of the wealthy Forsyte dynasty through fifty years of material triumph and emotional…
disaster. This first volume begins as the nineteenth century is drawing to a close, and the upper middle classes, with their property and propriety, are becoming a dying section of society. The Forsytes are blind to this fact, clinging to their conventions and 'brilliant respectability'. As dignified Soames Forsyte struggles to uphold the old moral code in the face of the social revolution resulting from the Great War, his wife Irene's extraordinary beauty causes even more disruption. The bitter feud between them will come to split the Forsyte family for two generations. 2001, c1921.The firemaker
By Peter May. 1999
Margaret Campbell is a forensic pathologist from Chicago. Li Yan is a Beijing detective with a horribly burned corpse on…
his hands. She has a broken life behind her and a lonely life ahead. He has survived decades of violent change by marrying himself to his career. Neither of them is ready for the consequences of asking the wrong questions. 1999.The folks that live on the hill: a novel
By Kingsley Amis. 1990
Mild-mannered Harry Caldecote, a retired librarian, is determined to protect his time and privacy, but his sense of responsibility for…
an assortment of extended family members and friends leads to a life of adventure. Some strong language. 1990.The fixer upper
By Mary Kay Andrews. 2009
After her boss is caught in a political scandal, fledgling Washington lobbyist Dempsey Jo Killebrew is left broke, unemployed, and…
homeless. Out of options, she reluctantly accepts her father's offer to help turn Birdsong - the fading Victorian mansion he recently inherited in Guthrie, Georgia - into a real estate cash cow. But Birdsong turns out to be a mouldering Pepto-bismol-pink dump with duct-taped windows, a driveway full of junk, and a grumpy distant relation who's claiming squatter's rights. Stuck in a tiny town where everyone seems to know her business, Dempsey grits her teeth and rolls up her sleeves, and begins her journey back to the last place she ever expected: home. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2009.The first stone
By Don Aker. 2003
Reef is an embittered young offender, hardly able to contain his anger at the world over the death of his…
grandmother, the only person who had shown him any love. Seventeen-year-old Leeza is mourning the death of her older sister. A stone hurled in rage shatters both their lives and throws them together in the most unexpected way - and offers them a chance at healing. Followed by "The fifth rule" (DC41432). For junior and senior high readers. Descriptions of violence, explicit strong language. 2003.The final cut
By Michael Dobbs. 1995
Francis Urquhart, in power as Prime Minister for a record length of time, is not ready to retire, but the…
country appears to be growing tired of him. If new blood is what the public want, blood is what he will give them, as he takes his battle to survive to the international stage. Sequel to "To play the king." 1995.The Figgs
By Ali Bryan. 2018
Meet the Figgs. June, the family's matriarch, looks forward to a quiet retirement--if only she can get her three adult…
children to finally, finally, move out of the house. But her dreams are shattered when her son Derek unexpectedly becomes a single father. Now there's a newborn baby at home, and Derek's older siblings are showing no sign of going anywhere either. In the midst of the chaos, June's husband, Randy, has a shocking revelation--he has another son, who was given up for adoption. With family life flying fast and furious around her, June finds herself thinking about her own adoptive parents. Where did she come from? Does Randy's adopted son experience the same longing she's always felt? Will her new grandson be traumatized without his mother? And why in the world are all the kids still at home, anyway? 2018.The featherbed: a novel
By John Miller. 2002
When Anna and Sadie discover the diaries of their mother, Rebecca, after her death, they learn that her life was…
far more complex than either of them knew. She was a garment worker in early-1900s New York, the reluctant wife in an arranged marriage to an ailing and abusive husband, and the improbable friend of a pregnant prostitute. The diaries also point to a family secret and questions about Sadie's parentage. Some strong language. 2002.The fat woman next door is pregnant: a novel
By Michel Tremblay. 1981
It is May 2, 1942 in Montreal. All the women on Rue Fabre are pregnant; the fat woman next door…
is pregnant with the author himself. Tremblay has created the period in which many of the well-known characters in his plays were born. Prequel to "The first quarter of the moon" (DC15399). Canada Reads 2009. 1981. Uniform title: La grosse femme d'à côté est enceinte.The fall of a sparrow: a novel
By Robert Hellenga. 1998
A terrorist bomb planted in an Italian railway station in 1980 kills American student Cookie Woodhull. Sara, the middle daughter,…
and Woody, the college-professor father, recount the long-term repercussions, including the family's separation. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1998.The fen tiger
By Catherine Cookson. 1994
Rosamund Morley was the mainstay of her family, living a life of poverty deep in the wild fen country with…
her sister and alcoholic father. She it was who ran for help the night her father set his bed alight after a drinking bout, a night that would change the course of her life for, fleeing through the woods, she met Michael Bradshaw, whom she called the "fen tiger". When she knew more of Michael's past and what made him live in isolation, her first feelings of dislike turned to compassion and then to something deeper. 1994.The Fifteen Streets
By Catherine Cookson. 1952
Mary Ellen O'Brien had lived her married life in the area known as "The Fifteen Streets", and five children later…
she accepts that she'll never leave its grim and grinding reality. She knew life would be just as hard for her children, but for John and Katie, quick, bright, loving and wanting more than the Fifteen Streets could give them, life would be particularly brutal. 1952.The fall (CHERUB ; #7)
By Robert Muchamore. 2007
When an MI5 operation goes disastrously wrong, James Adams needs all of his skills to get out of Russia alive.…
Meanwhile, his sister Lauren is on her first solo mission, trying to uncover a brutal human trafficking operation. And when James does get home, he finds that his nightmare is just beginning! For Junior High readers. Sequel to "Man vs beast" (DC38144). Followed by "Mad dogs". 2007. (CHERUB ; 7)The famished road
By Ben Okri. 1991
Azaro, a spirit child who has promised to return from the world of the living, is reluctantly born again and…
again. Wanting to experience life, he breaks his pact and is tormented by his fellow spirits. 1991 Booker Prize winner. Prequel to "Songs of enchantment". 1991.The falls: a novel
By Joyce Carol Oates. 2004
Ariah is widowed on the first day of her honeymoon in Niagara Falls. Local lawyer Dirk Burnaby falls in love…
with Ariah and marries her. But when he later takes on the Love Canal lawsuit he becomes estranged from his family. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. 2004.The disturbed girl's dictionary
By NoNieqa Ramos. 2018
Fifteen-year-old Macy, officially labeled "disturbed" by her school, records her impressions of her rough neighborhood and home life as she…
tries to rescue her brother from Child Protective Services, win back her overachieving best friend after a fight, and figure out whether to tell her incarcerated father about her mother's cheating. For junior and senior high readers. 2018.The cuckoo's child
By Margaret Thompson. 2014
In her forties, Livvy Alvarsson hopes to be a bone marrow donor for her much-loved younger brother, Stephen. Instead, she…
discovers she has no idea who she is. This is the second great loss she has suffered, for eleven years earlier her four-year-old son, Daniel, disappeared. Armed with a few clues from wartime England, she embarks on a search for her birth family. As Livvy confides her story to her dying brother, she reveals not only an identity enriched by experience, but also the transcendent importance of family and love. 2014.The deposition of Father McGreevy
By Brian O'Doherty. 1999
After hearing a story in a pub in the 1950s about a defrocked priest, dead women, and an Irish village…
abandoned in 1940, William Maginn travels to Kerry. By luck more than skill, he obtains the written statement - presented here - of Father McGreevy concerning those events. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. Booker Prize finalist. 1999.The courtship gift
By Julie Parsons. 1999
Upon finding her husband dead in their study, Anna Neale probes into his untimely death out of fear of foul…
play. Crippled by the discovery of debts, fraud, and infidelities, she finds herself defenceless and vulnerable. But this is just what Matthew has always wanted. He is watching and waiting, and when he is ready, he will bring her his courtship gift. 1999.The dolly holiday (Derryrose saga. #3)
By Anne Dunlop. 1993
Helen has gotten herself a job as assistant to an assistant in the Wild West Theme Park, a tourist fantasy…
attraction boasting Hey Ho Silver, the Lone Ranger and three Red Indians. She is determined to dress for career advancement. But despite Helen's noble intention to claw and grovel her way to the top, her abnormally high interest in members of the opposite sex and her infatuation with her best friend's bridegroom distract her. Sequel to "A soft touch" (DC39796). 1993. (Derryrose saga ; 3)