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Drama written in 1945 about a southern family with pretensions to gentility. Centres around the crippled daughter, Laura, who lives…
in a dream world so full of illusions that she becomes like the pieces in her own glass collection - too fragile to move from the shelf. 1972, c1945.
John Amherst, clever, idealistic and poor, is assistant manager of a cotton mill and has the makings of a working-class…
leader. He meets a young nurse, Justine, a woman who shares his aims and dreams. But Amherst is fatally distracted when he encounters a widow of great wealth: Bessy is charming and beautiful - and the new owner of the mill. 1984.
In this final volume of The Forsyte Saga Galsworthy writes about the lives and loves of the Cherrell family, cousins…
of the Forsytes. For centuries, the Cherrell sons have left their home of Condaford Grange to serve the state as soldiers, clergymen and administrators, but the 1930s bring uncertainty in a world of rapidly altering morals and unemployment. 2001.
In the second part of the trilogy of love, power, money and family feuding, a new generation has arrived to…
divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions. Set in the years following the First World War, the story moves to Soames Forsyte's daughter Fleur. She is now married to Michael Mont, but when her old love Jon returns after seven years, desire is rekindled and loyalties begin to divide. Still insulated from reality by their wealth and class, the Forsytes try to resist but cannot ignore the threat of change and 'the stealthy march of passion'. 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.
Lucy Angkatell invites Hercule Poirot to lunch. To tease the great detective, her guests stage a mock murder beside the…
swimming pool. Unfortunately, the victim plays the scene for real. As his blood drips into the water, John Christow gasps one final word: 'Henrietta'. In the confusion, a gun sinks to the bottom of the pool. 1955.
After they discover a golden pine cone near their home in British Columbia, 11-year old Bren and his 9-year old…
sister Lucy embark with their dog Ooshka on a search to find the rightful owner of the pine cone. Their journey is threatened by the dangerous Lake Snake, the evil Ice Witch, and the giant Nasookin, who all want the pine cone, too. Grades 4-7. 1994.
Collection of macabre tales by the first master of supernatural terror who wrote during the early 1900s. Lovecraft created this…
new form of literature which is neither fantasy nor science fiction, but that combines elements of both.
While on holiday Fitzwilliam and Elizabeth Darcy investigate the murder of a woman whose body was found at the base…
of Lyme's famous sea wall as well as the prospect that Fitzwilliam's naval-lieutenant cousin may have also been murdered. 2012.
This deluxe volume brings all Beatrix Potter's 23 Peter Rabbit tales and verses together in one book. The texts are…
complete and unabridged. The stories are arranged in the order in which they were first published. Each story stands alone but several are linked together by events and characters. Grades P-2. 1997.
While in Westlake Hospital, Katie DeMaio sees a woman's body being carried to a car in the middle of the…
night. The next day the woman is found dead and declared a suicide. 1980.
As treasurer of WinterFest, Lee McKinney Woodyard is getting tired of the egos, arguments, and last-minute mix-ups, especially when the…
guest juror of the art show shows up drunk. Things get even worse when Lee's husband discovers that the visiting dignitary has been murdered. A mystery set in the luscious if deadly world of chocolate. Some descriptions of violence. 2008.
In her rare free time, newlywed Lee McKinney Woodyard works on TenHuis Chocolade's newest offerings, chocolate jewels. But soon the…
town of Warner Pier has its very own jewel heist, and then a body is found in the lake. Lee can't help but wonder if the crimes are related. Maybe if she digs up some dirt, she'll hit the mother lode. 2007. (Chocoholic mysteries ; 7)
Bride-to-be Lee McKinney is trying to avoid trouble with her future mother-in-law and her own mother, who doesn't even want…
to be at the wedding if it takes place in Warner Pier, her hometown. When Lee asks her Aunt Nettie at the chocolate shop for advice, she learns that years earlier, her mother fled on what would have been her own wedding day - hours before her fiancé was found dead. Now Lee must untangle a mystery older than she is. Some descriptions of violence and some descriptions of sex. c2006.
Chocolate-shop manager Lee McKinney has had enough of party planner Julie Singletree's cutesy e-mails, but then somebody actually kills the…
woman, putting everyone on her mailing list on edge. As their connections to the murder emerge, so do more attacks. Lee realizes that if she doesn't want to be permanently deleted, it's up to her to solve the case. c2005.
Hollywood comes to Michigan when a film producer decides to turn a local author's romance novel into a blockbuster. Although…
the movie mogul's chocolate labrador is charming, Lee McKinney thinks the producer's talk is a bunch of sweet nothings - and she grows even more suspicious when she stumbles upon a dead body. 2004. (Chocoholic mysteries ; 4)
For the Fourth of July, Lee McKinney and her aunt debut their latest confections - chocolate frogs - at TenHuis…
Chocolade. The first customer to buy a croaker is the town crank. But when he later disappears and police suspect foul play, it's a chocolate clue that leads Lee to the killer. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. 2003.
Lee McKinney and her Aunt Nettie, small-town chocolatiers, are about to unwittingly step into some big-time crime. But a curious…
Lee won't rest until their chocolate shop - not to mention their lives - are out of danger. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2002.
Looking for a fresh start, divorcée Lee McKinney moves back to Michigan to work for her aunt's chocolate business, and…
finds that her new job offers plenty of murderous treats to chew on. When a high-profile defense lawyer dies after eating a cat-shaped chocolate laced with cyanide, it's up to Lee to find out who tampered with the recipe, before she and her aunt end up behind not-so-chocolate bars. 2002. (Chocoholic mysteries ; 1)