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The famished road
Par 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 fencing master
Par Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Margaret Jull Costa. 1998
Madrid, 1866. Don Jaime Astarloa is an honourable man of tradition who makes his living teaching fencing to wealthy students.…
But his life changes forever when a beautiful young lady enters his studio requesting advanced lessons. Don Jaime unwittingly becomes embroiled in political intrigue - and murder. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 1988. Uniform title: Maestro de esgrima.The female of the species: tales of mystery and suspense
Par Joyce Carol Oates. 2005
From adulterers to murderers, the women portrayed here possess a killer combination of venom and vice. In "The Haunting," a…
mother reinvents herself after her husband's suspicious death. Mysterious late-night phone calls prompt an unhappy young wife to seek vengeance on her volatile mate in "So Help Me God." Explicit descriptions of sex and violence. Contains strong language. 2005.The fault in our stars
Par John Green. 2013
Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis, until a chance meeting with a boy…
at a cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life. For senior high readers. 2013.The fifth mountain (P. S. Series)
Par Paulo Coelho, Clifford E Landers. 1998
In the ninth century B.C., the Phoenician princess Jezebel orders the execution of all the Israelite prophets who refuse to…
obey her gods. Elijah seeks safety in the land of Zarephath, where he unexpectedly finds true love with a young widow. But this newfound rapture is to be cut short, and Elijah sees all of his hopes and dreams erased as he is swept into a whirlwind of events that threatens his very existence. c1998. Uniform title: Quinta montanha.The falls: a novel
Par 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 Fencepost chronicles
Par W. P Kinsella. 1986
Frank Fencepost, Silas Ermineskin and their assorted friends of the Hobbema Reserve in Alberta cause a riot on a nude…
beach in Vancouver, chat with the Queen in her bedroom and have other zany adventures. Followed by "Miss Hobbema pageant" (DC11676). Some strong language. 1986.The disturbed girl's dictionary
Par 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
Par 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 color of silence
Par Liane Shaw. 2013
Alex is seventeen years old and she feels her life has come to an end. After being involved in an…
accident that killed her best friend, she doesn’t see why anyone would want her around and she refuses to talk. Ordered by a judge to do community service, she must spend time at a hospital with a girl named Joanie, who has minimal control of her body and no speech. Junior and Senior High. c2013.The elegance of the hedgehog
Par Muriel Barbery. 2009
Renée, the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building, maintains a carefully constructed persona as someone uncultivated but reliable; but…
beneath this facade lies the real Renée: passionate about culture and the arts, and more knowledgeable in many ways than her employers with their outwardly successful but emotionally void lives. Meanwhile, several floors up, twelve-year-old Paloma Josse is determined to avoid the pampered and vacuous future laid out for her, and decides to end her life on her thirteenth birthday. But unknown to them both, the sudden death of one of their privileged neighbours will dramatically alter their lives forever. 2009. Uniform title: Elegance du herisson.The Condesa of M: A Novel
Par George H Szanto. 2001
The tale of an eighteenth-century ranch-owning Mexican noblewoman who was feared and revered by many people. A woman of beauty,…
intelligence, remarkable intuition, and an uncompromising sense of justice, her beloved husband dies unexpectedly during a session of passionate lovemaking. He comes back as an otherworldly presence to watch over her, give her practical advice and take note from his new vantage point of how those around his wife and three daughters conduct themselves. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2001.The Confessions of Nipper Mooney: a novel
Par Ed Kavanagh. 2001
On a beautiful morning out in the meadow, Nipper Mooney experiences both the phenomenon of lost time and the death…
of his father. Soon he is sent to All Angels, a rigid Catholic school where Nipper, a sensitive and inquisitive boy, only finds more questions. He survives this claustrophobic and often violent world by becoming a reader, a dreamer, and developing a scrappy toughness, as he journeys through the beauties and horrors of childhood. Some strong language. 2001.The deposition of Father McGreevy
Par 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
Par 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 dancer upstairs: A Novel
Par Nicholas Shakespeare. 1995
This novel explores one of the most astonishing stories in the whole history of twentieth-century terrorism. Colonel Rejas was the…
policeman charged with the task of capturing the Peruvian guerrilla leader Ezequiel, but having been dismissed he found the burden of silence and secrecy too heavy. On meeting Dyer, a foreign correspondent, he is moved to relate the tortuous progress of the manhunt for the first time. Descriptions of violence and strong language. 1995.The Clerkenwell tales
Par Peter Ackroyd. 2003
London 1399. Sister Clarice, a nun born below Clerkenwell convent, is predicting the death of King Richard II and the…
demise of the Church. Her visions can be dismissed as madness, until she accurately foretells a series of terrorist explosions. What is the role of the apocalyptic Predestined Men? And the clandestine Dominus? And what powers, ultimately, will prevail? 2003.The dolly holiday (Derryrose saga. #3)
Par 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)The equal sky
Par Stephen Reardon. 2007
1886. The winter floods bring to light the remains of a long-dead Icenian warrior. Henry Turner, the son of a…
farm bailiff, gifted with an intuitive understanding of their heavy work horses, feels he is unaccountably chosen for a mysterious purpose. Turning his back on the Cambridgeshire village and the future everyone assumes he has with Annie Lilley, Henry Turner is taken on as a groom by a former army officer with an estate in turbulent Ireland and a sinister past. While in the officer's London house, Henry befriends a Sioux Indian with similar gifts to his own. Together they seek to understand the mind of the Icenian warrior as he compels them to fulfil his purpose and, in doing so, discover their own destinies. For junior high and older readers. 2007.The corrections
Par Jonathan Franzen. 2002
This novel about the Lambert family brings an old-time America of industrialism and civic duty, of Cub Scouts, Christmas cookies…
and sexual inhibitions, into collision with the modern absurdities of brain science, home surveillance, hands-off parenting, and do-it-yourself mental healthcare. 2002.