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Val Eliot, a young woman working on an English farm during the war, meets Mike, a U.S. Air Force pilot…
stationed nearby. When Val rescues a Border Collie named Peter Woodhouse, who is being mistreated by his owner, she realizes the dog would actually be safer with Mike. And so Peter Woodhouse finds a new home on the air force base, and Val finds herself falling in love. Peter Woodhouse becomes Dog First Class, a canine mascot on the base who boldly accompanies the officers on their missions, and Val becomes Mike's fiancée. But then a disaster jeopardizes the future of them all, and Peter Woodhouse brings Ubi, a German corporal, into their orbit, sparking a friendship that comes with great risk but carries with it the richest of rewards. 2018.
Mexico City. Dr. Collin Reeves has found a semi-comfortable niche performing occasional chores for the CIA, acting as a go…
to doctor for the U.S. embassy when American tourists need medical attention, and pursuing his avocation of painting. When CIA veterans Alex Law and Butch Nickels get wind of a possible terrorist bombing plot, they use any means to extract information that might prevent it. Reeves, pressed to keep alive suspects who are being tortured, faces both a moral dilemma and personal danger. Some strong language, some descriptions of violence, and some descriptions of sex. c2008.
How can a lie possibly be good? This question presses on Paul Wakefield following a kayaking accident on the ocean…
surrounding the city of Victoria. His wife and child are threatened by the repercussions that follow the accident, and Paul must decide how to confront the accusations facing him. Knowing the truth will destroy them all, he scrambles for the one thing certain to save a select few: the good lie. Some descriptions of sex, descriptions of violence, and strong language. 2007.
Victorian romance set in England in 1854. Treated as a poor relation rather than as an adopted daughter, Tabbie accidentally…
finds out about her true parents when she meets a wounded soldier while a nurse in the Crimean war. 1975, c1973.
France, 1916. Sophie Lefèvre treasures the portrait her husband painted of her before going off to war. So does the…
German commander who takes over Sophie’s hotel. Ninety years later the painting hangs in the home of London widow Liv Halston - and Sophie’s descendants want it back. 2012.
Stuart Cuno has decided to become good. Not believing in God, he invents his own methods, which include celibacy and…
the abandonment of a promising academic career. Interfering friends and relations question his sincerity, his sanity and his motives, but Stuart is determined to embark on a moral apprenticeship, which is to cause nothing but trouble and be both funny and at times, very moving. 1985.
Rajkumar, an orphaned Indian boat boy, is only eleven when he is stranded in Burma as the British invade in…
1885. His meeting with ten-year-old Dolly, one of the queen's attendants, in the Glass Palace is so memorable that it dominates his life. Some descriptions of sex. Winner of the 2002 CNIB Torgi Award. 2001.
Four women attempt to smuggle a fortune in jewels out of the Warsaw ghetto to Switzerland. Their eventual goal is…
to aid Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. This saga spans 40 years. 1986.
A tale of war and courage, set in World War II Malta, and the pivotal role played in the islands'…
defence by the small motor gunboats known as "The Glory Boys". Some descriptions of sex, violence and some strong language. 2006.
These eleven stories portray life behind convent walls as the life of Claire Delaney unfolds. Her development from an earnest…
novice to a nun and teacher explores the themes of friendship, loneliness, ambition, and personal faith. Followed by "Strange bodies on a stranger shore" (DC12944). 1989.
Twins Rahel and Estha grow up between vats of banana jam and heaps of peppercorns in the blind grandmother's factory.…
They try to fashion a childhood in the shade of the wreck that is their family their lonely, lovely mother, their beloved uncle, and their incumbent grand-aunt. They learn that things can change in a day and that lives can twist into new shapes. Winner of the 1997 Booker Prize. 1997.
In the early hours of the morning three Arab guerrillas make their way across northern France to Boulogne. Their mission…
is to assassinate a senior Israeli nuclear scientist, due to arrive in London in three days time. 1976.
The last time Johnny had been in Ethiopia was in 1942: his MI6 cover had been blown and he had…
been given 48 hours to get out of the country. Now, five years later, he is back, ostensibly an ace photographer but his past is still remembered; by his old employers as well as the Ethiopians. Deadly enemies hatch plots more subtle and lethal than anywhere else in Africa. 1984.
When fourteen-year-old Beth's entire family is killed in a car accident, she has to live with her aunt and uncle…
and spoiled cousin Terri in another state. Beth misses her family and friends terribly, but with help she learns to cope while never forgetting. For junior and senior high readers. 1999.
Based on the savage struggle in east Africa during World War I, and the real-life renegade German army commander Paul…
von Lettow. Stevenson's novel traces the circumstances that combined to create an explosive situation in the African continent. c1980.
In the final months of World War II in Europe Private Will Hope, an eighteen-year-old draftee, is rushed into battle…
as a replacement. Beginning in a gun crew, he is later absorbed into a mine platoon that doubles as a rifle platoon. From France to Austria, Hope learns how to be a combat soldier and, more importantly, how to be a survivor. Realistic battle scenes. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1985.
It is 1850, and the lives of the Ojibwe have returned to a familiar rhythm. The satisfying routines of Omakayas's…
days are interrupted by a surprise visit from a group of desperate and mysterious people. The chimookomanag, or white people, want Omakayas and her people to leave their island in Lake Superior and move farther west. Grades 4-7. Sequel to "The Birchbark House" (DC21985). c2005.
Fred Fairly, a serious young physics don at Cambridge, falls in love with Daisy, a nurse. Dilemmas arise: tradition versus…
modernity; passion versus reason; selflessness versus self-preservation. Includes strong language. 1990.