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The Hitler diaries
Par Richard Hugo. 1983
The honourable schoolboy
Par John Le Carré. 1977
The homecoming (Suffolk Trilogy ; #2)
Par Norah Lofts. 1975
A story of fifteenth century rural England. tale unfolds the new adventures of Sir Godfrey Tallboys and the two women…
who love him. His wife, Sybilla, welcoming him home after six long years, learns she must now share their home with the exotic young creature, Tana, who has saved Godfrey's life. It does not take a second glance to see that Tana is about to bear a child. What Sybilla does not know is that the child is Godfrey's. Sequel to: "Knight's Acre" (DC31546). Followed by "The lonely furrow" (DC31547). 1975. (Suffolk trilogy ; 2)The heart does not bend: a novel
Par Makeda Silvera. 2002
When Maria Galloway dies, she leaves everything to her spoiled, wayward grandson, Vittorio. Her only granddaughter, Molly, whom she raised…
from infancy, is left to confront the unyielding bitterness Maria harboured against her. As Molly begins to trace the complex interrelationships in her loving but divided family, she recalls her idyllic childhood, spent in her grandmother's sky-blue house in Jamaica. 2002.The hatbox letters
Par Beth Powning. 2004
Fifty-two year-old Kate is about to face her second winter since the untimely death of her husband. Her children are…
all grown up and have moved away, leaving her alone in her New Brunswick home. When Kate's sister gives her a collection of hatboxes containing letters from her grandparents' home, she begins to dream of her childhood. But as she reads the letters, she learns a tragic truth about her family's past. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2004.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.The hiring fair
Par Jessica Stirling. 1978
Here is the second part of the saga of the Stalkers, a family determined to survive. In the town of…
Blacklaw, the mine-owner Houston Lamont squeezes the last ounce of profit from his pitmen, until the coalfields erupt in violent and bloody riots. With her father and two brothers dead Mirrin, the restless fire-brand of the family, takes to the road. Sequel to "The spoiled earth" (DC36013), followed by "Dark pasture". 1978.The hidden target
Par Helen MacInnes. 1980
Robert Renwick of NATO'S undercover counterterrorist organization is reunited briefly in Amsterdam with Nina O'Connell, whom he has not seen…
for years. Before they can become reacquainted, Nina is off on an expense-free tour with a group of students who, Renwick suspects, are not what they seem. Nina, the daughter of a U.S. government official, becomes the pawn of the tourists' leader, a veteran terrorist. Some strong language. Bestseller. 1980.The hippopotamus marsh (Lords of the two lands. #1.)
Par Pauline Gedge. 1999
The "Two Lands" of upper and lower Egypt have been under the rule of the Hyksos, invaders from Asia Minor,…
for 200 years. They have exiled and humiliated the Tao family, hereditary kings and queens of Egypt, until they are finally pushed into rebellion. However, after several generations of Hyksos rule, it is often difficult to discern where true loyalty and wisdom lie. Followed by "The oasis" (DC30419). 2000, c1999. (Lords of the two lands ; 1)The haymeadow
Par Gary Paulsen. 1992
Fourteen-year-old John Barron must take 6,000 sheep up to the summer pasture where he's to care for them by himself…
for three months. Although he is not sure he can handle the job, John feels he has no choice: his father must remain in town, and the hired man must tend the rest of the ranch. John's father made the trip at age fifteen, and his great-grandfather claimed their vast spread when he was only eighteen. For junior, senior and older readers. 1992.The Harmony Arms
Par Ronald Koertge. 1992
Fifteen-year-old Gabriel is continually embarrassed by his teacher/writer father, but when he goes to live with him in Los Angeles…
in an apartment complex full of unusual characters, Gabriel gains new insights into himself and his father. For junior and senior high readers. c1992.The heist: a novel (Gabriel Allon. #14.)
Par Daniel Silva. 2014
Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon learns his friend, art dealer Julian Isherwood, has stumbled upon a murder scene…
in Lake Como and is being held as a suspect. To save him, Gabriel must find the real killer and the most famous missing painting in the world. Bestseller. Sequel to "The English girl", followed by "The English spy". 2014.The goat lady's daughter
Par Rosella M Leslie. 2006
In an isolated cabin on the Sunshine Coast, two eccentric sisters find themselves taking in an abandoned baby. Gentle Florrie…
welcomes baby Jen, but wily Mag finds it much harder to accept Jen into her life. Jen grows up torn between the rural lifestyle she loves and her quest for acceptance from her classmates in the nearby town of Sechelt. 2006.The good body: a novel
Par Bill Gaston. 2000
Bob Loose Bonaduce is a hockey player who never quite made it to the big time. Now he's decided to…
retire and return to his home province of New Brunswick. Once there, he lies his way into graduate school and attempts to get close to the son he abandoned twenty years earlier. At the same time he has to deal with the fact that he is stricken with multiple sclerosis and may eventually lose control over the body that has taken him so far in life. Some strong language.The green chamber
Par David Homel, Martine Desjardins, Fred A Reed. 2018
Louis-Dollard Delorme, his miserly wife Estelle, and his three spinster sisters revere money so much that they have converted their…
residence's "green chamber" into a place of worship and have elevated domestic penny-pinching to an art form. As for the family's heir, Vincent, they intend for him to make a highly profitable marriage - a reasonable prospect, until the day when the house opens its doors to Penny Sterling, a young woman whose means equal only her curiosity. 2018. Uniform title: Chambre verte.The half brother: A Novel
Par Kenneth Steven, Lars Saabye Christensen. 2004
Barnum, an award-winning screenwriter, relates the lives of four generations of his Norwegian family. On May 8, 1945, his mother…
Vera, hoping to celebrate the end of World War II with her mother and grandmother, is brutally raped by an unknown assailant. From that crime is born a boy named Fred, a misfit who later becomes a boxer. Barnum, born several years later, and Fred form a bizarre but special relationship. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex and violence. Original Norwegian edition published in 2001. 2004. Uniform title: Halvbroren.The green road
Par Anne Enright. 2015
Ardeevin, County Clare, Ireland. 1980. When her oldest brother Dan announces he will enter the priesthood, young Hanna watches her…
mother howl in agony and retreat to her room. In the years that follow, the Madigan children leave one by one. When Christmas Day reunites the children under one roof, each confronts the terrible weight of family ties and the journey that brought them home. 2015.The great pretender (Griot audio)
Par Millenia Black. 2006
For six years, Reginald Brooks--slick Disney marketing VP--has pulled off the perfect scam. He has juggled two families without the…
other one finding out. He stays two weeks in Miami with his wife and two young adult daughters and the next two weeks in Orlando with his trophy mistress and their young daughter. But when the charade unravels, it's clear there's been a lot more pretending than anyone realized. Soon wide-ranging consequences begin to take their toll. 2006.The great laundry adventure
Par Margie Rutledge. 1999
To solve their overflowing laundry crisis, the Lawrence family buys large baskets, from a mysterious shop, to put it all…
in. But are the baskets the end of their problems or just the beginning? Abigail, Jacob and Ernest love magic, so they decide to cast themselves into adventure after adventure as the baskets become gateways to other eras. Grades 3-6. 1999.The Halliday girls
Par Pamela Oldfield. 1991
Life for the Halliday girls seems full of promise, but disaster comes when their father faces financial ruin. With their…
brother abroad in the army Eve, drawn towards a man she can never marry, takes control. Vi faces unrequited love, and Maude takes the ultimate risk and marries. Against a colourful background of horseracing in England and France at the turn of the century, the girls struggle against jealousy, betrayal, despair and death. 1991.