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The girl from Rawblood
Par Catriona Ward. 2017
1910. Eleven-year-old Iris Villarca lives with her father at Rawblood, a lonely house on Dartmoor. Iris and her father are…
the last of their name. The Villarcas always die young, bloodily, because of a congenital disease, which means she must be strictly isolated. But one sunlit autumn day, beside her mother's grave, she forces the truth from her father. The disease is a lie, to cover a darker secret - the Villarcas are haunted, through the generations, by her. She is white, skeletal, covered with scars. Her origins are a mystery but her purpose is clear. When a Villarca marries, when they love, when they have a child - she comes and death follows. 2017.The girl in the well is me
Par Karen Rivers. 2016
Kammie Summers has fallen into a well during a (fake) initiation into a popular club; now trapped in the dark,…
waiting to be rescued, Kammie thinks about the best and worst moments of her life so far in this unforgettable story about a bullied girl. Grades 4-7. 2016.The goldfinch: [a novel]
Par Donna Tartt. 2013
Aged 13, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise…
tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld. As he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle. Bestseller. Pulitzer Prize winner. 2013.The futures
Par Anna Pitoniak. 2017
Falling in love as Yale students and moving to New York City in 2008, hedge fund employee Evan is embroiled…
in a deal that risks everything he has worked for, while nonprofit employee Julia reconnects with someone from her past who represents a different kind of life. 2017.The games (Private series. #12.)
Par James Patterson, Mark T Sullivan. 2016
Also published as "Private Rio". Two years ago Jack Morgan - the head of the renowned worldwide investigation firm Private…
- was in charge of security for the World Cup in Bazil. During the championship final, the action nearly spilled from the field into the stands. Fortunately, Jack and his team averted disaster on football's biggest stage. Now he has returned to Rio to secure the Olympics. But before the torch is lit, the threats come fast and furious as Jack discovers that someone is trying to sabotage the games. A lethal plan put in motion during the World Cup is set to decimate Rio, and turn the Olympics from a worldwide celebration into a horrifying spectacle. Bestseller. 2016.The glass house: Third Book Of The Junction Chronicles (Junction chronicles. #3.)
Par David Rotenberg. 2014
Decker Roberts was born with a gift: he always knows when you’re telling the truth. Over time, however, that gift…
has become a burden. Struggling to find his way, Decker has retreated into isolation in Namibia. But a man like Decker can only live off the grid for so long before someone comes looking. When Decker’s estranged son, Seth, is kidnapped, it sets in motion a chain of events as unstoppable as it is mysterious. Yslan Hicks of the NSA desperately needs to find Seth and Decker, so he turns to Decker’s old friends for help. Soon they find themselves confronting an ancient conspiracy as they are inescapably drawn towards a conclusion that will change both themselves and the world around them. Sequel to "A murder of crows". 2014.The goddaughter's revenge (Rapid reads)
Par Melodie Campbell. 2013
When jewellery-store owner Gina Gallo and her boyfriend Pete take a week's vacation, she leaves the store in the hands…
of her cousin from New York. After all, cousin Carmine is a certified gemologist—but Carmine is also in the Mob. When Gina gets back, she discovers that her cousin has spent his time switching real gems for fakes in the jewellery of some of her best customers. With her reputation on the line, what's a Mob goddaughter to do? Sequel to "The goddaughter". 2013.The great bike rescue (Orca young readers.)
Par H. J Hutchins. 2013
The summer is off to a lousy start when Levi's bike is stolen from outside the corner store. But when…
his best friend Riley's locked bike is stolen the very next day, the boys are determined to get both bikes back. Upon discovering there have been a string of bike thefts in the area, the friends hatch several plans to find the culprit. There are so many potential suspects - Steve Morrow and his gang, the tattooed guy who sits at the bus stop, the owners of the secondhand bike store. There's also Emily Grimshaw, Levi's childhood nemesis, who keeps popping up and showing a peculiar interest in the thefts. Does she really want to help or is she involved somehow? Grades 2-4. 2013.The gargoyle at the gates (Lost gargoyle series. #3)
Par Philippa Dowding, Allister Thompson. 2012
Christopher has a problem. He has just moved to Toronto; he’s now in a new school and has no friends.…
But even worse, the park next door is creepy: voices whisper in the bushes, and something throws apples at his window and howls at the moon. But what? Gargoyles! Grades 3-6. 2012.The giant-slayer
Par Iain Lawrence. 2010
When her eight-year-old neighbour is stricken with polio in 1955, eleven-year-old Laurie discovers that there is power in her imagination…
as she weaves a story during her visits with him and other patients confined to iron lung machines. Grades 3-6. 2010.The gay place (Lone Star audio)
Par Billy Lee Brammer. 2006
Brammer, who served on Lyndon Johnson's staff, uses his knowledge as a political insider to show the good and the…
bad of politics. Three interlocking tales each feature a different protagonist - a state legislator, a junior senator, and the governor's press secretary - and illuminate the figure of Arthur "Goddam" Fenstemaker, a master politician and the governor of Texas. Considered a ruthless, exuberant politician, Fenstemaker works for the ultimate good of the people, even though he often employs questionable methods. 2006.The God file (Southern voices audio)
Par Frank Turner Hollon. 2003
Gabriel has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for a murder he did not commit. While jailed, he…
reads about a man who has been cured of cancer, supposedly proving God's existence. Gabriel is unimpressed. If God exists, why doesn't He make Himself known in a vile place like prison? With nothing but time on his hands, Gabriel begins filing away any and all evidence he can find that God might be real. 2003.The great alone
Par Kristin Hannah. 2018
Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move…
to Kaneq, Alaska. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him. Having been left a homestead by a buddy who died in the war, Ernt is secure in his beliefs, but never was a family less prepared for the reality of Alaska, the long, cold winters and isolation. Locals want to help out, especially classmate Matthew Walker, who likes everything about Leni. Yet the harsh conditions bring out the worst in Ernt, whose paranoia takes over their lives and exacerbates what Leni sees as the toxic relationship between her parents. Bestseller. 2018.The gods of guilt (Mickey Haller. #5.)
Par Michael Connelly. 2013
Defense attorney Mickey Haller learns that a former client - a prostitute he thought he had put on the straight…
and narrow path - had returned to her old life in L.A. when she was murdered. Haller blames himself for her death. Bestseller. 2013.The granite cliffs
Par Rosemary Aitken. 2007
Victoria Flower, motherless and nearing womanhood, is beginning to chafe against the restrictions of her life as the vicar's only…
daughter in a remote Cornish mining town. Her well-meaning father thinks he has found a suitable companion for her when he introduces a gentle, musical young curate into the parish. Sequel to "The silent shore". Followed by "The Fregenza girls". 2007. (Cornish sagas ; 6)The good physician
Par Kent Harrington. 2008
Mexico City. Dr. Collin Reeves has found a semi-comfortable niche performing occasional chores for the CIA, acting as a go…
to doctor for the U.S. embassy when American tourists need medical attention, and pursuing his avocation of painting. When CIA veterans Alex Law and Butch Nickels get wind of a possible terrorist bombing plot, they use any means to extract information that might prevent it. Reeves, pressed to keep alive suspects who are being tortured, faces both a moral dilemma and personal danger. Some strong language, some descriptions of violence, and some descriptions of sex. c2008.The game: Haunting Teen Fiction
Par Peter Carver, Teresa Toten. 2001
Dani Webster had played the Game with her sister Kelly for as long as she could remember - they had…
been on a quest to vanquish evil. But everything is hazy now as she recovers from substance abuse at a psychiatric hospital for 'teens with problems'. Dani must confront a deeper emotional trauma - one which she can neither explain nor recognize - to face her family's deep dysfunctions and eliminate the Game for her life forever. For senior high students. Some strong language. 2003.The good lie
Par D. F Bailey. 2007
How can a lie possibly be good? This question presses on Paul Wakefield following a kayaking accident on the ocean…
surrounding the city of Victoria. His wife and child are threatened by the repercussions that follow the accident, and Paul must decide how to confront the accusations facing him. Knowing the truth will destroy them all, he scrambles for the one thing certain to save a select few: the good lie. Some descriptions of sex, descriptions of violence, and strong language. 2007.The ginger man
Par J. P Donleavy. 1963
A bawdy comic novel centring on Sebastian Dangerfield, an ex-G.I. living in post-war Dublin with his wife and child, and…
who occasionally studies at Trinity College. The author uses his main character to express "the sheer ache of living". Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 1963.The ghost dancers
Par Gordon D Shirreffs. 1986
When a notorious band of Mexican outlaws hunt scalps for bounty and murder for fun, they encounter a new and…
powerful enemy. Major Alec Kershaw, a man of rawhide and steel, faces them with a steady gun and two strong allies -- Baishan, an Apache chief and warrior, and Anne Sinclair, fiancée of Kershaw's commanding officer and long-time rival. Some strong language and violence. 1986.