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Rachel's holiday
Par Marian Keyes. 1998
Rachel Walsh's propensity for recreational drugs lands her in Dublin's answer to the Betty Ford Clinic. Whilst she is expecting…
to encounter wall to wall Jacuzzis, gymnasiums and rock stars, the reality proves to be otherwise, with group therapy in the company of middle-aged men the order of the day. She seeks redemption from Chris, a man with a past, who might be more trouble than he's worth. Some strong language. 1998.Queen of the cookbooks (Cherry Cola Book Club novel. #5.)
Par Ashton Lee. 2017
To celebrate the town's new library, librarian Maura Beth McShay and the Cherry Cola Book Club organizes a cooking contest…
to crown the "Queen of the Cookbooks." Sequel to "A Cherry Cola Christmas". 2017.Queen Camilla
Par Sue Townsend. 2006
For the past thirteen years, as England became an increasingly unhappy and fearful place, Prince Charles has been living quietly…
on a bleak council estate, The Flower Exclusion Zone, with his wife and love of his life, Camilla. He enjoys gardening and poultry keeping while Camilla spends her days doing as little as possible, alongside their fellow ASBO-subjected neighbours. But life is about to change, Charles refuses to follow his destiny unless his wife can be Queen - and public opinion suggests the people would rather have Jordan than Camilla on the throne. Sequel to "The Queen and I". 2006.Pulling princes (Calypso chronicles. #1.)
Par Tyne O'Connell. 2004
Hoping to become more popular at her elegant English boarding school, fifteen-year-old Californian Calypso Kelly invents a fake handsome boyfriend,…
until she realizes that her wit and skill at fencing may be enough to attract the attention of a real-life handsome prince. For junior or senior high readers. Followed by "Stealing princes" (DC32903). 2004. (The Calypso chronicles ; 1)Pussy: a novel
Par Howard Jacobson. 2017
The story of Prince Fracassus, heir presumptive to the Duchy of Origen, famed for its golden-gated skyscrapers and casinos, who…
passes his boyhood watching reality shows on TV, imagining himself to be the Roman Emperor Nero, and fantasizing about hookers. He is idle, boastful, thin-skinned and egotistic; has no manners, no curiosity, no knowledge, no idea and no words in which to express them. Could he, in that case, be the very leader to make the country great again? 2017.Puck is a four letter word
Par Frank Orr. 1982
William Milligan, farm boy turned professional hockey player, participates in a players' strike and is traded to a hopeless expansion…
team where he plays hockey with a bunch of over-sexed weirdos and a cement-headed coach. Strong language. 1983, c1982.Princess Cora and the crocodile
Par Laura Amy Schlitz. 2017
Princess Cora is sick of boring lessons. She's sick of running in circles around the dungeon gym. She's sick, sick,…
sick of taking three baths a day. And her parents won't let her have a dog. But when she writes to her fairy godmother for help, she doesn't expect that help to come in the form of a crocodile--a crocodile who does not behave properly. Grades K-3. 2017.Portuguese irregular verbs (Dr. Von Igelfeld. #1.)
Par Alexander McCall Smith. 2004
Von Igelfeld is the world's leading scholar on Portuguese irregular verbs, having written a majestic, nearly 1,200-page book on the…
subject. As one review says, "There is nothing more to be said on this subject. Nothing." But in other matters, von Igelfeld is not nearly so skilled. Whether haplessly playing tennis against an equally dreadful opponent, or committing his friends to swordfighting duels without their knowledge, von Igelfeld is somewhat naive in the ways of the world. Yet that does not stop him from having a go at life, and the results are always humorous. Followed by "The finer points of sausage dogs". 2004.Playing with matches
Par Suri Rosen. 2014
When 16-year-old Raina Resnick is expelled from her Manhattan private school, she’s sent to live with her strict aunt in…
Toronto - but Raina feels like she’s persona non grata no matter where she goes. Her sister, Leah, blames her for her broken engagement, and she’s a social pariah at her new school. In the tight-knit Jewish community, Raina finds she is good at one thing: matchmaking! As the anonymous "Match-Maven," Raina sets up hopeless singles desperate to find the One. But her double life soon has Raina barely staying awake in class. Can she find the perfect match for her sister and get back on her good side, or will her tanking grades mean a second expulsion? For senior high readers. 2014.Plugged (Daniel McEvoy. #1.)
Par Eoin Colfer. 2011
When his girlfriend and several people close to him are murdered, Daniel McEvoy finds himself targeted by the New Jersey…
mafia, corrupt cops, and an eccentric neighbor, and searches for a hair-plug technician who may hold crucial answers. Followed by "Screwed". 2011.Poles apart: a novel
Par Terry Fallis. 2015
Eve of Equality, a new feminist blog, becomes an overnight sensation when a popular talk show host stumbles upon it,…
tweets about it, and promotes it on her show. The anonymous blog is intelligent, thoughtful, and bold, brazenly taking on various injustices in the lives of women. But it’s the blogger Eve’s post about the controversial entrepreneur behind XY, a new chain of high-end strip clubs opening up across the country, that sets off a firestorm. In a matter of hours, the site crashes, its Twitter count jumps from a paltry 19 followers to nearly 250,000, and Eve is suddenly lauded as the new voice of modern feminism. But who is Eve? Not who you might think. Meet Everett Kane, aspiring writer and fervent feminist. Bestseller. 2015.Pearls, girls and Monty Bodkin
Par P. G. Pelham Grenville Wodehouse. 1972
Our man Weston
Par Gordon Korman. 1982
Tom and Sidney Weston get summer jobs at the Pine Grove Resort. Sidney sees spies on every corner and Tom…
is determined to stop Sidney before his investigation costs them their jobs. Grades 5-8. c1982.On Turpentine Lane
Par Elinor Lipman. 2017
Living in her suburban hometown while her fiancé is off on a crowdfunded cross-country walk, Faith discovers mysterious artifacts in…
her home's attic that make her question a promising new relationship and everything she believes. 2017.Nuclear family: a tragicomic novel in letters
Par Susanna Fogel. 2017
Fourteen-year-old Georgia continues her diary in which she records her misadventures trying to reclaim the attention of seventeen-year-old Robbie, while…
coping with her friends, family, and dog-like cat Angus at the same time. Senior High. 2001.Oh no, gotta go!
Par Susan Middleton Elya. 2003
While out for a Sunday drive with her parents, a little girl suddenly remembers what she forgot to do before…
she left home. Text includes some Spanish words and phrases. Grades K-3. 2003.Numero zero: a novel
Par Umberto Eco, Richard Dixon. 2015
In 1992 Milan, Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can't resist to ghostwrite a book. His…
subject: a fledgling newspaper, which happens to be financed by a powerful media magnate. As Colonna gets to know the team, he learns the editor's paranoid theory that Mussolini's corpse was a body double and part of a wider Fascist plot. It's the scoop the newspaper desperately needs. The evidence? He's working on it. 2015. Uniform title: Numero zero.Number ten
Par Sue Townsend. 2002
Jack Spratt is a policeman on the door of number ten Downing Street. When the Prime Minister decides that the…
only way to get closer to the men and women on the street is to travel around the country incognito, he enlists Jack's help. Some strong language. 2002.Not being on a boat: a novel
Par Esmé Claire Keith, Robyn Read. 2011
Rutledge, an aging, divorced man, has treated himself to a top-notch cruise, but then a day trip to a Caribbean…
port ends in commotion and some people don’t make it back onto the ship. Rutledge, nonplussed, makes use of the vacant machines in the Fitness Room, but soon, crew members seem few and far between, and the menu in the Captain’s Mess significantly diminished. Rutledge gets the feeling that something is amiss. And that’s just unacceptable. Some descriptions of violence. c2011.