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The chicken dance
Par Jacques Couvillon. 2008
When eleven-year-old Don Schmidt wins a chicken-judging contest in his small town of Horse Island, Louisiana and goes from outcast…
to instant celebrity, even his neglectful mother occasionally takes notice of him and eventually he discovers some shocking family secrets. Junior and Senior High. 2008.The Cardturner
Par Louis Sachar. 2010
Seventeen-year-old Alton turns cards for his wealthy uncle Lester, a champion bridge player who lost his vision to diabetes. Alton…
becomes intrigued by his eccentric relative, the game of bridge, and a mysterious girl. Junior and Senior High. 2010.The Chains
Par Gerald Green. 1980
Portrays three generations of the Chains, a Jewish Brooklyn family, from 1919 to 1960. A passionate, streetwise story that begins…
with the founding father of the dynasty, "Crazy Jake" Chain. Strong language. 1980.The cherished ones
Par Laura Conway. 1974
This is a fictional account of the lives of the six daughters of George III, the "mad king" of England.…
Trapped by fear of disapproval from their father, the young princesses resort to living like nuns, or to secret love affairs. Though cherished and protected, their lives were sad and frustrated. 1974.The children's book
Par A. S Byatt. 2009
Olive Wellwood, a famous writer, writes for each of her children a separate private book, bound in different colours and…
placed on a shelf. In their rambling house near Romney Marsh the children play in a story-book world, but their lives, and those of their rich cousins, children of a city stockbroker, and their friends, the son and daughter of a curator at the new Victoria and Albert Museum, are already inscribed with mystery. 2009.The charmed circle
Par Catherine Gaskin. 1988
The three daughters of an acclaimed actor and a famous pianist are part of the charmed circle, a small group…
of people who appear to have everything - talent, fame, beauty, money and power. Even the tragedies which strike their lives seem to bring compensating loves and joys - until the final blow, the shadow of which none of them would ever escape. 1988.The Carradyne touch
Par Anne McCaffrey. 1988
A saga of Ireland and the Irish, full of characters and, not least, horses. Cornanagh, the Carradyne family estate, is…
flourishing, and, under the sternly knowledgeable eye of her father, Michael, 13 year old Catriona is growing in stature as a rider. Behind the easy life an emotional abyss is to open however, as her mother slips over the edge into a shadowy world of fanaticism and madness. 1988.The cartoonist (Puffin Bks.)
Par Betsy Cromer Byars. 1981
The attic is Alfie's refuge when his not very satisfactory life gets too much for him. There he can draw…
the cartoons that are the centre of his existence, a secret world more precious than the one around him, even his friendship with Tree - so called, logically, because he looks like one. When his mother tries to take over the attic, Alfie barricades himself in, determined to sit it out. The solution to his problems is not one he expects. Grades 4-7. 1981.The Catalans
Par Patrick O'Brian. 2006
Summoned from China, Alain Roig returns to his Catalan hometown to prevent an impending marriage between his cold, ascetic cousin…
Xavier and Madeleine, a quiet, beautiful village girl. As Alain seeks to understand his cousin's motivations for wooing the unhappy Madeleine, he is slowly drawn into Xavier's dark crisis of faith. Some descriptions of violence. 2006, c1953.The boys of San Joaquin
Par D. J Smith. 2006
In a small California town in 1951, twelve-year-old Paolo, his brother, and his deaf cousin Billy get caught up in…
a search for money missing from the church collection, leading them to complicated discoveries about themselves, other family members, and townspeople they thought they knew. Grades 5-8. 2005.The boys in the trees
Par Mary Swan. 2008
William Heath leaves his native England with his young family, eventually landing in Emden, Canada. But just as the family…
is feeling settled, William is accused in the local paper of embezzlement, and as the scandal peaks, William kills his family. He's sentenced to death, and the novel is taken over by a cross-section of locals - a teacher, a doctor, a boy curious about the facts of the crime - who share their thoughts about the Heaths. c2008.The Brooklyn follies
Par Paul Auster. 2006
Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, retired, estranged from his only daughter, the former life insurance salesman…
seeks only solitude and anonymity. Then Glass encounters his long-lost nephew, Tom Wood and Tom's boss Harry Brightman. Through Tom and Harry, Nathan's world gradually broadens to include a new circle of acquaintances, not to mention a stray relative or two, and leads him to a reckoning with his past. Explicit descriptions of sex. 2006.The Cape Ann
Par Faith Sullivan. 1988
Young Lark and her mother dream of a cottage with large bedrooms and two bathrooms, if only Lark's father will…
not drink and gamble away the money. A touching recollection of life in a small Minnesota town during the Depression. Some strong language. 1988.The camomile lawn
Par Mary Wesley. 1984
In August 1939 five cousins gather at their aunt's home in Cornwall for the summer holiday. For most of them…
it is the last summer of their youth. They are eager to lose their innocence and explore every experience. Includes sex. 1984.The book of Stanley
Par Todd Babiak. 2007
Stanley Moss is a retired florist, stricken with cancer, and living quietly with his wife Frieda in Edmonton. One day,…
Stanley experiences a boom and a flash, and then discovers that he has the strength of ten men, can read minds and fulfill people's dreams - and his illness has vanished. He and his disciples start The Stan, a new religion, and invite the world to join, but when the world shows up, along with the international media and an angry long-dead spiritualist, things take an unexpected turn. Some descriptions of violence and sex. Some strong language. c2007.The breached wall (Wheels of fortune ; #3)
Par Anita Burgh. 2007
Spring 1915. Far away in France, the Great War was not over by Christmas as was confidently predicted. It shows…
no sign of ending, and the peaceful calm of Cresswell Manor in Devon has been shattered. It is now a convalescent home for soldiers from the Front. The old social order is crumbling as surely as time begins to breach the walls of the ancient manor house. Sequel to "The heart's citadel". 2007. (Wheels of fortune ; 3)The breakdown lane
Par Jacquelyn Mitchard. 2006
In her weekly newspaper advice column, Julieanne doles out her wisdom to clueless strangers. Her own life is shattered when…
her husband goes on 'sabbatical' from their marriage. She must cope with her three children and being diagnosed with a serious illness. With the help of family and friends she works her way to a new definition of family. 2006.The broken bough (Hallam Family ; #1)
Par Nicola Thorne. 2001
In the early 1900s pretty Cathy Read is widowed when her husband, Bill, is killed in an accident and soon…
life is a struggle. She has three young children to feed and clothe: Verity, Addie and Peg, so when Cathy's eldest sister offers to adopt Verity, she reluctantly agrees. Despite a new marriage to an old friend of Bill's, Cathy's hardships only increase with the addition of two more children and, eventually, the outbreak of war in 1914. During the war, Verity becomes a nursing sister, Addie a teacher, and Peg considers embarking on a career as a journalist. By the time of the Armistice, each member of the family finds her life radically changed by a world with strange new values. 2001. (Hallam Family ; 1)The cadence of grass
Par Thomas McGuane. 2002
This is the story of the Whitelaws, a family whose values are as far-flung as the territory they helped settle,…
and whose most recent generations have pioneered the landscape of dysfunction. A novel charged with the relentless and often contradictory claims of blood, money, history and love. 2002.The butterfly box
Par Santa Montefiore. 2007
Federica Campione adores her father. No matter that Ramon, a distinguished traveller and writer, spends months away from their home…
on the Chilean coast; as soon as he's back, his daughter has eyes for no one but him. As she grows to womanhood, Federica attempts to recapture that long-forgotten sense of security in the arms of the debonair Torquil Jensen. From the sanctuary of a seemingly perfect marriage, she embarks on a painful journey of self-discovery. 2007.