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In this final volume of The Forsyte Saga Galsworthy writes about the lives and loves of the Cherrell family, cousins…
of the Forsytes. For centuries, the Cherrell sons have left their home of Condaford Grange to serve the state as soldiers, clergymen and administrators, but the 1930s bring uncertainty in a world of rapidly altering morals and unemployment. 2001.The Forsyte saga: Volume 2 : The white monkey; The silver spoon; Swan song (Forsyte chronicles #2)
Par John Galsworthy. 2001
In the second part of the trilogy of love, power, money and family feuding, a new generation has arrived to…
divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions. Set in the years following the First World War, the story moves to Soames Forsyte's daughter Fleur. She is now married to Michael Mont, but when her old love Jon returns after seven years, desire is rekindled and loyalties begin to divide. Still insulated from reality by their wealth and class, the Forsytes try to resist but cannot ignore the threat of change and 'the stealthy march of passion'. 2001.The Forsyte saga: Volume 1 : The man of property ; In Chancery ; To let (Forsyte chronicles #1)
Par John Galsworthy. 2001
The Forsyte Saga traces the changing fortunes of the wealthy Forsyte dynasty through fifty years of material triumph and emotional…
disaster. This first volume begins as the nineteenth century is drawing to a close, and the upper middle classes, with their property and propriety, are becoming a dying section of society. The Forsytes are blind to this fact, clinging to their conventions and 'brilliant respectability'. As dignified Soames Forsyte struggles to uphold the old moral code in the face of the social revolution resulting from the Great War, his wife Irene's extraordinary beauty causes even more disruption. The bitter feud between them will come to split the Forsyte family for two generations. 2001, c1921.The fire within (The last Dragon Chronicles Ser. #1)
Par Chris D'Lacey. 2005
When college student David Rain rents a room in an unusual boardinghouse full of clay dragons, he has no idea…
that they, along with some lively squirrels, will help jumpstart his writing career. Grades 5-8. 2005, c2001.The fireman: [a novel]
Par Joe Hill. 2016
When a bizarre virulent plague breaks out in the world's major cities, causing victims to spontaneously combust, a dedicated nurse…
resolves to survive until her baby is born, and receives protection from a mysterious infected man who uses his fire symptoms to help others. Bestseller. 2016.The fixer upper
Par Mary Kay Andrews. 2009
After her boss is caught in a political scandal, fledgling Washington lobbyist Dempsey Jo Killebrew is left broke, unemployed, and…
homeless. Out of options, she reluctantly accepts her father's offer to help turn Birdsong - the fading Victorian mansion he recently inherited in Guthrie, Georgia - into a real estate cash cow. But Birdsong turns out to be a mouldering Pepto-bismol-pink dump with duct-taped windows, a driveway full of junk, and a grumpy distant relation who's claiming squatter's rights. Stuck in a tiny town where everyone seems to know her business, Dempsey grits her teeth and rolls up her sleeves, and begins her journey back to the last place she ever expected: home. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2009.The Figgs
Par Ali Bryan. 2018
Meet the Figgs. June, the family's matriarch, looks forward to a quiet retirement--if only she can get her three adult…
children to finally, finally, move out of the house. But her dreams are shattered when her son Derek unexpectedly becomes a single father. Now there's a newborn baby at home, and Derek's older siblings are showing no sign of going anywhere either. In the midst of the chaos, June's husband, Randy, has a shocking revelation--he has another son, who was given up for adoption. With family life flying fast and furious around her, June finds herself thinking about her own adoptive parents. Where did she come from? Does Randy's adopted son experience the same longing she's always felt? Will her new grandson be traumatized without his mother? And why in the world are all the kids still at home, anyway? 2018.The feast of All Souls
Par Simon Bestwick. 2016
Alice Collier moves back to the suburb of Crawbeck, on a hill outside the English city of Manchester, following the…
end of her marriage and loss of her daughter. Her new house looks ordinary, but sometimes, the world outside the windows isn’t the one you expect to see. John Revell, an old flame of Alice’s, reluctantly comes to her aid when the house begins to reveal its secrets. The hill on which it sits is a place of legends – of Old Harry, the Beast of Crawbeck, of the Virgin of the Height and of the mysterious Red Man – and home to the secrets of the shadowy Arodias Thorne. And now Alice and John are all that stand between him and rest of our world. 2016.The featherbed: a novel
Par John Miller. 2002
When Anna and Sadie discover the diaries of their mother, Rebecca, after her death, they learn that her life was…
far more complex than either of them knew. She was a garment worker in early-1900s New York, the reluctant wife in an arranged marriage to an ailing and abusive husband, and the improbable friend of a pregnant prostitute. The diaries also point to a family secret and questions about Sadie's parentage. Some strong language. 2002.The Fetch
Par Laura Whitcomb. 2009
After 350 years as a Fetch, or death escort, Calder breaks his vows and enters the body of Rasputin, whose…
spirit causes rebellion in the Land of Lost Souls while Calder struggles to convey Ana and Alexis, orphaned in the Russian Revolution, to Heaven. Junior and Senior High. 2009.The fat woman next door is pregnant: a novel
Par Michel Tremblay. 1981
It is May 2, 1942 in Montreal. All the women on Rue Fabre are pregnant; the fat woman next door…
is pregnant with the author himself. Tremblay has created the period in which many of the well-known characters in his plays were born. Prequel to "The first quarter of the moon" (DC15399). Canada Reads 2009. 1981. Uniform title: La grosse femme d'à côté est enceinte.The fifth elephant (Discworld. #24.)
Par Terry Pratchett. 1999
Sam Vimes is a man on the run and if he cannot make it through the forest to civilization there…
is going to be a terrible war. But there are monsters on his trail. They are bright, they are fast, they are werewolves - and they are catching up. Sequel to "Carpe jugulum" (DC30610). 1999. (Discworld ; 24).The fall of a sparrow: a novel
Par Robert Hellenga. 1998
A terrorist bomb planted in an Italian railway station in 1980 kills American student Cookie Woodhull. Sara, the middle daughter,…
and Woody, the college-professor father, recount the long-term repercussions, including the family's separation. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1998.The fen tiger
Par Catherine Cookson. 1994
Rosamund Morley was the mainstay of her family, living a life of poverty deep in the wild fen country with…
her sister and alcoholic father. She it was who ran for help the night her father set his bed alight after a drinking bout, a night that would change the course of her life for, fleeing through the woods, she met Michael Bradshaw, whom she called the "fen tiger". When she knew more of Michael's past and what made him live in isolation, her first feelings of dislike turned to compassion and then to something deeper. 1994.The Fifteen Streets
Par Catherine Cookson. 1952
Mary Ellen O'Brien had lived her married life in the area known as "The Fifteen Streets", and five children later…
she accepts that she'll never leave its grim and grinding reality. She knew life would be just as hard for her children, but for John and Katie, quick, bright, loving and wanting more than the Fifteen Streets could give them, life would be particularly brutal. 1952.The fall (CHERUB ; #7)
Par Robert Muchamore. 2007
When an MI5 operation goes disastrously wrong, James Adams needs all of his skills to get out of Russia alive.…
Meanwhile, his sister Lauren is on her first solo mission, trying to uncover a brutal human trafficking operation. And when James does get home, he finds that his nightmare is just beginning! For Junior High readers. Sequel to "Man vs beast" (DC38144). Followed by "Mad dogs". 2007. (CHERUB ; 7)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 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 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.