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The hero's walk: a novel
Par Anita Rau Badami. 2000
Sripathi Rao lives in his crumbling ancestral home in India with his extended family. His daughter left years earlier to…
study in America and remained in Canada after marrying a Canadian man. Then Sripathi receives the news that his daughter and her husband have been killed and that his seven-year-old granddaughter must now come to live with him and the family in India. Canada Reads 2016. Bestseller. 2000.Stone cold (Camel Club. #3.)
Par David Baldacci. 2007
Ex-CIA agent Oliver Stone gathers Camel Club members to help con artist Annabelle Conroy escape an enemy. But Stone soon…
learns he, too, is on a hit list--comprised of those involved in a long-ago assassination. Bestseller. 2007.Southern cross (Andy Brazil Ser. #No. 2)
Par Patricia Daniels Cornwell. 1999
Robbery, murder, incompetence and not enough parking spaces - just another day in the life of a big city's police…
department. Judy Hammer investigates as a virus crashes the police computer, freezing screens with a design of blue fish - the same one a gang called the Pikes claim is their symbol. Strong language. 1999.Soul mountain
Par Xingjian Gao, Mabel Lee. 2000
A semi-autobiographical, philosophical novel by the Chinese Nobel laureate. The protagonist, in reprieve from death, wanders through the Chinese landscape…
in search of Lingshan (Soul Mountain), describing his interior and exterior quests. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. Bestseller. 2000. Uniform title: Ling shan.Once a princess (Cardinia's Royal Family Ser. #1)
Par Johanna Lindsey. 1991
As the king of Cardinia lay dying, he made his son Stefan, the crown prince, promise that he would find…
and marry Princess Tatiana Janacek, to whom the prince is engaged. Stefan travels to America and finds her performing as a dancer in a Mississippi tavern. Unaware of her birthright, Tatiana is infuriated by Stefan’s passion for her and vows never to yield to his desire. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. c1991.Next: a novel
Par Michael Crichton. 2006
Cancer survivor Frank Burnet and his daughter and grandson are targets of an unscrupulous drug company that wants to profit…
from their unique disease-fighting genes. Meanwhile other genetic-engineering experiments involving a boy/chimpanzee hybrid and a talking parrot have gone awry. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2006.Kingdom come: the final victory (Left behind series. #13.)
Par Tim F LaHaye, Jerry B Jenkins. 2007
With Lucifer securely locked away for a thousand years, the Lord Jesus Christ now reigns over a renewed earth. But…
despite the idyllic surroundings and Christ-friendly environment, a growing number of hedonistic youth join a band of rebels who reject Christ and long for Satan's return. Bestseller. Sequel to "Glorious appearing". 2007.Dreams of my Russian summers
Par Andreï Makine, Geoffrey Strachan. 1997
A Soviet youth imbibes his French grandmother's tales of Paris and the Soviet Revolution during his summer visits to her…
home on the steppes. His fascination with her and her stories transcends his Russian life and leads him eventually to France. Includes violence. Winner of top French literary awards: the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Medicis. c1997. Uniform title: Testament français.Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter. #3.)
Par J. K Rowling. 1999
Harry is relieved to be back at Hogwarts for his third year with his friends Ron and Hermione, even though…
he isn't completely safe. The escaped convict Sirius Black, a staunch supporter of Voldemort, is after Harry. Sequel to "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets." Prequel to "Harry Potter and the goblet of fire." Grades 4-7. Bestseller. 1999. (Harry Potter ; 3)Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter. #2.)
Par J. K Rowling. 1999
Despite a warning not to return to Hogwarts for his second year of wizardry studies, Harry shows up. But Harry…
is in danger from the opened Chamber of Secrets as well as from his would-be protector. Sequel to "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone". Followed by "Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban". Bestseller. Grades 4-7. 1999. (Harry Potter ; 2)Hour game: a novel (King and Maxwell series. #2.)
Par David Baldacci. 2004
Former Virginia secret service agents and now private detectives Michelle Maxwell and Sean King attempt to solve a burglary when…
they are solicited to investigate another case--a series of murders that strongly resemble other infamous crimes. Bestseller. 2004.Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone (Harry Potter. #1.)
Par J. K Rowling. 1997
On Harry Potter's eleventh birthday, he learns that he is more than an unwanted orphan. The Hogwarts School of Witchcraft…
and Wizardry recruits him because he has inherent magical abilities. As he purchases his school supplies--robes, wand, and messenger owl--Harry looks forward to attending his new boarding school. Grades 4-7. Bestseller. Followed by "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets". 1997. (Harry Potter ; 1)Hide & seek: a novel
Par James Patterson. 1996
Singer Maggie Bradford has fame, two children, and a new husband named Will who is an actor and former soccer…
star. But Maggie, who once killed an abusive husband, suspects Will of sexually abusing her daughter. She confronts him and soon is on trial for murder. Bestseller. 1996.Eleven on top (Stephanie Plum novel. #11.)
Par Janet Evanovich. 2005
New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum quits her job, tired of being mistreated. While trying her hand at various menial…
occupations, she receives threatening notes from a criminal who is supposed to be dead. Stephanie investigates with the help of former colleague Ranger. Bestseller. 2005.Desecration: Antichrist takes the throne (Left behind series. #9.)
Par Tim F LaHaye, Jerry B Jenkins. 2001
Nicolae Carpathia, now the total embodiment of evil, desecrates the temple in Jerusalem by entering and declaring himself God. The…
ninth book in the Left Behind series will carry the world to the brink of Armageddon. Bestseller. Sequel to "The mark", followed by "The remnant". 2001.Dragon (Dirk Pitt novel ; #10)
Par Clive Cussler. 1990
Dirk Pitt, whose most recent adventure was "Treasure", is back, this time battling a Japanese crime cartel. Pitt is searching…
the ocean bottom for a lost atomic bomb - a relic of World War II. Meanwhile, topside, the cartel, from its secret "Dragon Center," is smuggling atomic bombs into the United States. Can Pitt save the world from atomic destruction? Bestseller. Followed by "Sahara". 1990. (Dirk Pitt novel ; 10)Assassins: Assignment: Jerusalem, target: Antichrist (Left behind series. #6.)
Par Tim F LaHaye, Jerry B Jenkins. 2000
In the sixth book in the saga of those left behind, it is now thirty-eight months into the Tribulation. Giant…
horsemen ride the earth, scorching thousands with their fiery wrath. The believers in Christ continue to receive strength from their leader, but one of the faithful seeks to hasten events and is secretly planning the assassination of the Antichrist. Bestseller. Sequel to "Apollyon"; followed by "The indwelling". 2000.Cross bones (Temperance Brennan Ser. #No. 8)
Par Kathy Reichs. 2005
When an Orthodox Jew is found shot to death in Montreal, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is called in to figure…
out the puzzling damage to the corpse. Unexpectedly, a stranger slips her a photograph of a skeleton and assures her the picture is the key to the victim's death. Before she knows it, Tempe is involved in an international mystery as old as Jesus. 2005.Birdman (Jack Caffery mystery.)
Par Mo Hayder. 2000
The Met's crack murder squad is called when five bodies are found, all young women, all ritualistically murdered, dumped on…
wasteland near the Millennium Dome. Detective Inspector Jack Caffrey, young, driven, unshockable, finds himself facing hostility within the force and echoes of his past. Tortured by a death long ago that he might have prevented, he now works around the clock, knowing that this sadistic killer will strike again. 2000.Body double: a novel (Rizzoli And Isles Ser. #Bk. 4)
Par Tess Gerritsen. 2004
Pathologist Maura Isles - an adopted child who never knew the identity of her birth parents - is confronted by…
the corpse of a murdered woman who is apparently her identical twin. She launches an investigation, together with Detective Jane Rizzoli, into her sister's past, following the trail to a state correctional facility and a schizophrenic inmate who may be her mother. This leads to a remote cabin in Maine, a killer who has been murdering expectant mothers for decades, making periodic sweeps of the country, and the kidnapping of an affluent pregnant housewife who is kept buried in a crude coffin. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2004.