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The empty room
Par Lauren B Davis. 2013
A raw and powerful portrayal of the chaos and pain of alcoholism. Colleen Kerrigan wakes up sick and bruised, with…
no clear memory of the night before. It's Monday morning, and she is late for work again. A near-empty bottle is close by – here is Colleen's only friend, and her worst enemy. 2013.This story ranges from 1939 in the shadows of Nazi Europe to the present in the deceptive calm of a…
Toronto campus. Danny's story is the whole sorrowful history of East and West since the war. Winner of the 1984 Governor General's Award for Fiction. Strong language.The end of the world as we know it
Par Lesley Choyce. 2007
16-year-old Carson hates the world, stuck in a private school for kids who have repeatedly flunked out everywhere else. Then…
Carson meets Christine, who has been abandoned by her parents and struggles to get by living in a trailer. Confronted by her sadness, Carson starts to care for her, and once focused on someone other than himself, begins to notice what's going on around him. Some descriptions of sex. For senior high readers. 2007.The English lady
Par William Harrington. 1982
Lady Nancy Brookeford becomes an intimate friend and confidant to Hitler and the leaders of the new Nazi party. She…
follows the Nazi movement until, in 1938, she meets and falls in love with a Jewish photographer. Some descriptions of sex. c1982.The face of the waters: a novel (The first born of Egypt. #2)
Par Simon Raven. 1985
Fielding Gray and Jeremy Morrison are returning home from their tour of the Peloponnese. In Venice they meet up again…
with Piero, a male ex-whore. Back at the family home in Wiltshire life is more tranquil with Marius back to school via a generous "donation" from his father. But these placid waters are disturbed by the arrival of Piero. Includes sex and strong language. 1985.The face-changers: a novel (Jane Whitefield #4)
Par Thomas Perry. 1998
Jane used to help people in trouble start over with new identities. Her new husband, Carey, convinced her to stop,…
but now he needs her help. His mentor, a surgeon, is being falsely accused of murder and believes he will be killed. Meanwhile, someone is posing as Jane - and the impostor isn't out to help anybody. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 1998.The end of east
Par Jen Sookfong Lee. 2007
Sammy Chan was sure she'd escaped her family obligations when she fled Vancouver six years ago, but with her sister's…
upcoming marriage, her turn has come to care for their aging mother. Sammy finds herself cobbling together a makeshift family history and delving into stories that began in 1913, when her grandfather, Seid Quan, then eighteen years old, first stepped on Canadian soil. Descriptions of sex, some strong language, and some descriptions of violence. c2007.The eye of the storm
Par Patrick White. 1973
The eye in the door (World War I trilogy ; #2)
Par Pat Barker. 1994
As Britain faces defeat by Germany, pacifists and homosexuals are scapegoated as potential traitors. It is unfortunate for Lieutenant Billy…
Prior, a bisexual who has a split personality, that when he is released from Craiglockhart War Hospital, he is assigned to British Intelligence. Once again he needs the help of Dr. Rivers. Sequel to "Regeneration". Followed by "Ghost road" (DC18056). Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 1994. (World War I trilogy ; 2)The eye of the forest (Children of the lamp ; #5)
Par Philip Kerr. 2009
When a collection of Incan artifacts goes missing, the Blue Djinn of Babylon dispatches twins John and Philippa Gaunt and…
their Uncle Nimrod to recover them. Along the way, John and Philippa encounter their friend Dybbuk, who was drained of his djinn powers but is determined to get them back. He's headed to an ancient Incan Empire where he believes he can regain his power, and will stop at nothing - even if it means opening a cursed portal, disturbing the enchanted kingdom of the Incas, and destroying the world. Can the twins stop their friend before it's too late? Grades 5-8. Sequel to "The day of the Djinn warriors", followed by "Five fakirs of Faizabad". 2009. (Children of the lamp ; 5)The face of Jalanath
Par Ronald Hardy. 1973
The face of trespass
Par Ruth Rendell. 1974
The Eyre affair (Thursday Next. #1.)
Par Jasper Fforde. 2001
There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where dodos are regenerated in home-cloning kits, the Crimean War is still…
being fought, and everyone is disappointed by the ending of "Jane Eyre". Literary detective Thursday Next is pursuing the world's most evil man, who has kidnapped Jane Eyre in a display of literary vandalism. She must also assist her time-travelling father, marry the man she loves and discover the truth about bananas. Some strong language, Followed by "Lost in a good book" (DC30166). 2001. (Thursday Next ; 1)The eye (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
Par Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov. 1992
Set in Berlin in the 1920s, the story follows the narrator in his distressful, flurried pursuit of the real identity…
of a man called Smurov who, like the narrator himself, puts in a regular appearance among a circle of acquaintances. Each person he meets reflects a different Smurov, whose character seems to change. Do these reflections illumine or obscure the real identity of the man? The puzzle leads through a "hell of mirrors" to the final chilling dénouement. 1992.The extinction club
Par Jeffrey Moore. 2010
Nile Nightingale is startled by a pickup barrelling down the lane, which comes to a stop beside a church cemetery.…
Nile had hoped for some peace when he fled the addictions, exhaustions, and legal problems of home by heading north, illegally, into Quebec's Laurentian Mountains. Instead he finds that the driver has dumped the bloodied but breathing body of a teenage girl, and against his better judgement, Nile resolves to treat her wounds and find those who left her for dead. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex, and explicit descriptions of violence. c2010.The expensive halo
Par Josephine Tey. 1931
The end of the alphabet
Par C. S Richardson. 2007
Given less than a month to live, Ambrose Zephyr, alphabet-obsessed since childhood, decides to live out his last days traveling…
around the globe from A to Z. Ambrose and his wife begin in Amsterdam, and continue on to Berlin, Chartres, and the Great Pyramids. After Istanbul, the course of their journey takes an unplanned turn when Ambrose seeks out the destination most fittingly called home. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2007.The ever after of Ashwin Rao
Par Padma Viswanathan. 2014
Almost 20 years after the fatal bombing of an Air India flight from Vancouver, two suspects - finally - are…
on trial for the crime. Ashwin Rao, an Indian psychologist trained in Canada, comes back to do a "study of comparative grief," interviewing people who lost loved ones in the attack. What he neglects to mention is that he, too, had family members who died on the plane. Then, to his delight and fear, he becomes embroiled in the lives of one family caught in the undertow of the tragedy, and privy to their secrets. This surprising emotional connection sparks him to confront his own deep losses. Bestseller. 2014.The escape artist
Par Diane Chamberlain. 1997
After Susanna put her husband through law school and became pregnant, he left her to marry another attorney. When the…
court awards custody of their now eleven-month-old son to her ex-husband, Susanna leaves her new love and flees with the child. Some strong language, some violence, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 1997.The dhow house: A Novel
Par Jean McNeil. 2017
When Rebecca Laurelson is forced to leave her post as a trauma surgeon in an east African field hospital, she…
arrives at her aunt's house on the Indian Ocean and is taken into the heart of a family she has never met before. It's a world of all-night beach parties and constant cocktail receptions, and within its languorous embrace her attraction for her much younger cousin grows. But the gilded lives of her aunt Julia's family and their fellow white Africans on the coast are under threat - Islamist terror attacks are on the rise and Rebecca knows more about this violence than she is prepared to reveal. Will she be able to save her newfound family from the violence that encroaches on their seductive lives? Or, amidst growing unrest, will the true reason for her hasty exit from her posting be unmasked? 2017.