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The tenderness of wolves
Par Stef Penney. 2007
Canadian wilderness, 1860s. The day her adopted seventeen-year-old son Francis disappears, Mrs. Ross discovers her neighbor's murdered corpse. The community…
suspects Francis of the crime. Mrs. Ross leaves her husband and sets out with half-Indian William Parker to find the teen. Some violence. Costa Book of the Year. 2006The Hindi-Bindi Club: A Novel
Par Monica Pradhan. 2007
Three first-generation American women struggle to reconcile traditional Indian ways with Western life. As divorced doctor Kiran considers an arranged…
marriage, artist Rani loses her passion, and married Preity confronts past heartache, they draw upon the strength and wisdom of their mothers, affectionately dubbed the Hindi-Bindi Club. Includes recipes. 2007Darcy & Elizabeth: nights and days at Pemberley : Pride and prejudice continues
Par Linda Berdoll. 2006
Derbyshire, England; 1815. Following Fitzwilliam Darcy's successful rescue of his sister in France in Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife (BR…
17461), Darcy returns home to his wife Elizabeth and newborn twins. The return of Darcy's nemesis George Wickham mars his contentment. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2006The dowry: a novel of Ireland
Par Walter Keady. 2006
Ireland, 1946. Kieran McDermott considers moving to England to earn money to buy his father's farm and marry Brideen Conway.…
Meanwhile, Brideen conspires to trade dowries among her eager-to-wed friends. Father Donovan, who secretly loves Brideen, has his own schemes. Some explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2006Light a penny candle
Par Maeve Binchy. 1983
From the time in 1940 when shy, ten-year-old Elizabeth White is evacuated from wartime London and plunged into a large…
and contentious family in the Irish village of Kilgarret, she and Aisling O'Connor are destined to be the best of friends. This novel follows their lives together and apart over the decades. 1983Coal black horse: A Novel
Par Robert Olmstead. 2007
1863. Fourteen-year-old Robey Childs is sent by his clairvoyant mother to find his father, who is fighting in the Civil…
War. Robey, riding a stallion, encounters refugees, runaway slaves, deserters, and battle scavengers. At Gettysburg Robey finds his dying father and rescues an abused girl. Violence and strong language. 2007The remarkable life and times of Eliza Rose
Par Mary Hooper. 2006
London, 1670. Homeless fifteen-year-old Eliza is arrested for stealing food. Bailed out by bawdy-house owner Ma Gwyn, Eliza is helped…
by Ma's daughter Nell, who becomes the mistress of King Charles. Eliza's fortune improves, and she eventually finds her birth mother. For senior high and older readers. 2006Leonardo's horse
Par Jean Fritz, Hudson Talbott. 2001
The story behind the American Horse at the Frederik Meijer Gardens. An artistic idea envisioned but never finished by Leonardo…
da Vinci, the horse was subsequently completed by a pair of American artists in 1999. One bronzed statue remains in Milan, Italy, and the other resides in Grand Rapids. A 2002 Michigan Notable book. For grades 3-6. 2001. Award winnerBorn for adventure
Par Kathleen Karr. 2007
1887. Sixteen-year-old Tom Ormsby joins African explorer Henry Morton Stanley's expedition to rescue Emin Pasha, who was kidnapped in the…
Congo. Tom enters a jungle world filled with wonders and perils--slavers, warring tribes, and colonial masters--and leaves a different young man. For junior and senior high readers. 2007The madonnas of Leningrad: A Novel
Par Debra Dean. 2006
Decades after surviving World War II in the basement of the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad, Marina--now in Seattle--no longer experiences…
the present. Marina's mind retreats to 1941, when only the love of her future husband and memorizing the paintings kept her alive. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2006Fallen angels
Par Walter Dean Myers. 1988
Ritchie Perry, a black youth from Harlem, enlists in the army. He is sent to Vietnam where he struggles to…
survive racist officers, pitched battles, guerrilla raids, and multiple wounds. Violence and strong language. For senior high and older readers. 1988The mayor of Casterbridge: the life and death of a man of character (Penguin classics)
Par Thomas Hardy. 2003
Michael Henchard, an English farm worker, gets drunk at a country fair and sells his wife and child to a…
sailor for five guineas. His wife and daughter reappear eighteen years later, after Henchard has become the wealthy and respected mayor of Casterbridge. 1886The spies of Warsaw: a novel
Par Alan Furst. 2008
Warsaw, 1937. Colonel Jean-Franúois Mercier, French military attaché to Poland, spends his time socializing and recruiting spies. Mercier alerts his…
superiors to the threat of Nazi invasion but is ignored. Meanwhile he falls in love and rescues an agent. Some explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. Bestseller. 2008The chaos king
Par Laura Ruby. 2007
In this sequel to The Wall and the Wing (BR 16650), newfound fame and fortune have estranged friends Bug and…
Gurl--now called Georgie. But Georgie and Bug join forces again when a punk, vampires, and a giant sloth attack them in a future New York City. For grades 5-8. 2007Before Green Gables
Par Budge Wilson. 2008
This prequel to Anne of Green Gables (RC 56114, BR 10098) portrays Anne's childhood before her eleventh birthday. Anne's parents…
died in an epidemic when she was a baby, leading her to have many adventures at foster homes, orphanages, and school. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2008Ravel: a novel
Par Jean Echenoz. 2007
At the height of his career, fifty-two-year-old French composer Maurice Ravel, an eccentric dandy, disembarks in New York after crossing…
the Atlantic on the France in 1927. He tours the United States, composing works and meeting musical greats including Gershwin and Bartók before returning to France to write Bolero. 2005Imposture
Par Benjamin Markovits. 2007
Eliza Esmond mistakes Lord Byron's former private physician for the poet himself and the young doctor, John Polidori, does not…
enlighten her. Believing that her dreams have come true, she eagerly accepts his attentions. 2007These boots weren't made for walking: a novel
Par Melody Carlson. 2007
Right after she splurges on a pair of Valentino boots, Cassidy Cantrell is downsized from her Seattle marketing job, dumped…
by her boyfriend for someone in their Christian singles club, and scammed by a neighbor. Retreating to Black Bear, her mountain hometown, Cassidy begins to build a new life. 2007Afterlands: a novel
Par Steven Heighton. 2005
When members of the Polaris expedition become stranded on an ice floe off the coast of Greenland in 1872, Lieutenant…
Tyson takes charge. Initially well supplied, the crew waits for the ship's return and then, for any ship. Morale suffers and discipline erodes as chances for survival dwindle. 2005Dream when you're feeling blue: a novel
Par Elizabeth Berg. 2007
Chicago, 1940s. Kitty and Louise Heaney see their boyfriends off to fight in World War II, while their younger sister…
Tish has fun dancing and flirting at USO events. Letters to and from loved ones reveal events at home and on the battlefront. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2007