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The emperor's babe: a novel
Par Bernardine Evaristo. 2001
Through the bustling city of Londinium we follow Zuleika - feisty and precocious daughter of Sudanese immigrants made good. Married…
at the age of eleven to Felix, a rich Roman three times her age perpetually away on business, Zuleika drifts about his villa, bored, until one night several years later when Septimius Severus, the Roman Emperor, newly arrived in town, spots her at the theatre... The story is told through a fusion of poetry and fiction, history and myth. Descriptions of sex. 2001.The eleventh commandment: A Novel
Par Jeffrey Archer. 1998
Connor Fitzgerald has worked for the CIA for twenty-eight years, although his family thinks he works for Maryland Insurance. Now…
his boss, Helen Dexter, is out to destroy him. After Connor manages to eliminate a Colombian presidential candidate, he is sent to Russia--supposedly at the president's request--to assassinate a candidate there. But Connor is the one scheduled to die. 1998.The dog who came in from the cold (Corduroy Mansions novel. #2.)
Par Alexander McCall Smith. 2011
Alexander McCall Smith brings his peerless wit to this second entry featuring a motley collection of residents in London's Pimlico…
neighbourhood. Literary agent Barbara Ragg has agreed to represent a man writing a book about his experiences hanging out with the Abominable Snowman. Terence Moongrove's residence has become the target of New Age cosmologists. And pint-sized terrier Freddie de la Hay is being recruited by MI6 to infiltrate a Russian spy ring. 2011.The heavy bear
Par Tim Bowling. 2017
What happens when a respectable middle-aged father, teacher and writer decides one day to abandon his ordinary routine and embark…
on an unexpected journey toward an unknowable fate, following the ghost of Buster Keaton and a vision of a bear? The main character - a sort of contemporary version of Joyce's Leopold Bloom who just happens to be named Tim Bowling - spends an intense late-summer day in downtown Edmonton. Haunted by "the slender sadness" of the world, and unable to face his afternoon class, Tim Bowling finds himself pulled into an escapade revolving around an antique toy, a capuchin monkey and a young student our narrator likens to Pippi Longstocking. Accompanied by the shade of the silent-film star Buster Keaton, and the bear-shaped spirit of the American poet Delmore Schwartz, Bowling's Tim Bowling must confront a fundamental problem of our age: how to make and maintain human connections in a world that seems intent on destroying them? 2017.The heart specialist: a novel
Par Claire Rothman. 2009
Agnes is stripped of a regular childhood when her father is accused of a horrific crime and abandons the family.…
Never considered ladylike, she is drawn to the "wrong" things, such as microscopes, anatomy, and dissection, that lead to her finding her calling as a doctor. Yet despite a rapid rise to stardom in the medical community, she soon finds herself up against the same glass ceiling faced by women in her field. Inspired by the life of Doctor Maude Abbott. Some descriptions of sex. 2009.The hill
Par Karen Bass. 2016
Jared’s plane has crashed in the Alberta wilderness, and Kyle is first on the scene. When Jared insists on hiking…
up the highest hill in search of cell phone reception, Kyle hesitates; his Cree grandmother has always forbidden him to go near it. There’s no stopping Jared, though, so Kyle reluctantly follows. After a night spent on the hilltop - with no cell service - the teens discover something odd: the plane has disappeared. Nothing in the forest surrounding them seems right. In fact, things seem very wrong. And worst of all, something - a creature that should only exist in legend - is hunting them. For senior high readers. 2016.The heaviness of things that float
Par Jennifer Manuel. 2016
Depicts the lonely world of Bernadette, a woman who has spent the last forty years living alone on the periphery…
of a remote West Coast First Nations reserve, serving as a nurse for the community. Only weeks from retirement, Bernadette finds herself unsettled, with no immediate family of her own. And then a shocking announcement crackles over the VHF radio of the remote medical outpost: Chase Charlie, the young man that Bernadette loves like a son, is missing. Winner of the 2017 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. 2016.The honey farm: a novel
Par Harriet Alida Lye. 2018
The drought has discontented the bees. Soil dries into sand; honeycomb stiffens into wax. But Cynthia knows how to breathe…
life back into her farm: offer it as an artists' colony with free room, board, and "life experience" in exchange for backbreaking labor. Silvia, a wide-eyed graduate and would-be poet, and Ibrahim, a painter distracted by constant inspiration, are drawn to Cynthia's offer, and soon, to each other. But something lies beneath the surface. The Edenic farm is plagued by events that strike Silvia as ominous: taps run red, scalps itch with lice, frogs swarm the pond. One by one, the other residents leave. As summer tenses into autumn, Cynthia's shadowed past is revealed and Silvia becomes increasingly paralyzed by doubt. 2018.The happy marriage
Par Tahar Ben Jelloun. 2016
Tells the story of one couple--first from the husband's point of view, then from the wife's--just as legal reforms are…
about to change women's rights forever. The husband, a painter in Casablanca, has been paralyzed by a stroke at the very height of his career and becomes convinced that his marriage is the sole reason for his decline. Walled up within his illness and desperate to break free of a deeply destructive relationship, he finds escape in writing a secret book about his hellish marriage. When his wife finds it, she responds point by point with her own version of the facts, offering her own striking and incisive reinterpretation of their story. 2016. Uniform title: Bonheur conjugal.The Hart brand: a western story (Five Star First Edition Western Ser.)
Par Johnny D Boggs. 2006
New Mexico Territory, 1896. Fourteen-year-old Caleb Hart is packed off on a train from St. Louis to his uncle's ranch…
in New Mexico, where he learns that he "rides for the brand," "real cowboys don't wear denim," and rustlers are a plague. Intrigue, kidnapping, and action abound when Pat Garrett, lawyer Captain Fountain, manhunter Kim Harrigan and rustler Mary Magdalene Holliday are added to the mix. 2006.The healing time of hickeys
Par Karen Rivers. 2003
Sixteen-year-old Haley is in her last year of high school, and she likes to think she's just a normal girl,…
plagued with all the normal teenage problems. But then disaster strikes: she comes down with the chickenpox and no one will speak to her. Worse still, her hippie dad is in trouble with the law. Junior and senior high readers. 2003.The heart is an involuntary muscle
Par David Homel, Fred A Reed, Monique Proulx. 2003
Florence doesn't like writers, books, dogs, alcohol, old people, pleasure, or love, only her partner Zeno - though she'd never…
admit it. The two of them run an Internet business that puts lesser known writers and artists back in the limelight. Zeno sends Florence to find his favourite author, the mysterious Pierre Laliberté, in this novel of literature and the people who create it. Strong language. Canada Reads 2004. 2002, 2003. Uniform title: Cœur est un muscle involontaire.The hour of bad decisions
Par Russell Wangersky. 2006
A short fiction collection of characters, caught in a variety of human circumstances, making some outstandingly bad decisions. A labourer…
enjoys new-found popularity among his co-workers after losing several fingers in a work accident, and in the face of returning invisibility, makes a desperate decision; a man on an ill-conceived vacation decides to stay in a hot tub all day and all night, rather than face his disintegrating family. Some descriptions of violence. Some descriptions of sex. Some strong language. 2006.The heaven shop
Par Deborah Ellis. 2004
Binti and her siblings are orphaned when their father dies of AIDS. Split up and sent to relatives all over…
Malawi, they suffer increasing hardship. But Binti is not about to give up; she will look outside herself and find a new way to be special. For junior and senior high readers. 2004.The heartbreak messenger
Par Alexander P Vance. 2015
Quentin is the Heartbreak Messenger--someone who, for a fee, will deliver a breakup message to the soon-to-be ex. His business…
is surprisingly successful, but as he interacts with his clients, message recipients, and his best friend Abigail, he wonders if his own heart can remain intact. Grades 4-7. 2015.The hopeless life of Charlie Summers
Par Paul Torday. 2010
Hector Chetwode-Talbot, Eck to his friends, has left the army and is slightly at a loss as to what to…
do next, when he is approached by an old army pal, Bilbo Mountwilliam. Bilbo runs an investment fund company and business is booming. Bilbo persuades Eck to join the company as a 'greeter' for moneyed clients. Soon Eck is able to buy himself a luxury sports car and decadent flat. It is on a golfing trip to France that Eck first meets Charlie Summers, a fly-by-night entrepreneur whose latest scheme is to import Japanese dog food into the UK. 2010.The horn of a lamb
Par Robert Sedlack. 2004
After Fred Pickle sustained a severe brain injury, he moved in with his Uncle Jack. Fred creates the perfect neighbourhood…
skating rink every year and the local NHL team means more to him than to the average fan. When the team's owner decides to move the team to the U.S., Fred contemplates an act of vengeance. Some strong language, and some descriptions of sex and violence. 2004.The Hottentot Room
Par Christopher Hope. 1987
A group of South African exiles congregate at the Hottentot Room, a London club owned by Frau Katie, a Jewish…
refugee from Nazi Germany. Frau Katie is dying and her daughter has plans for the club which terrify the members. A satire which draws parallels between Nazi Germany and contemporary South Africa. 1987.The house in Amalfi
Par Elizabeth Adler. 2005
Lamour Harrington decides to leave her Chicago home and career behind to return to the Italy of her childhood. Nico…
Pirata, the heir to the Castello Pirata, sweeps her off her feet. But why does his father Lorenzo hate a woman he only ever knew as an innocent child? As Lorenzo plots to make Lamour leave Amalfi forever, long-hidden secrets come to dangerous life again. 2005.The hours (Picador Modern Classics Ser.)
Par Michael Cunningham. 1998
The spirit of Virginia Woolf permeates the lives of several American readers as evidenced in this trio of tales about…
the author Woolf, a New Yorker planning a party to honour a writer, and a young mother reading Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. Some strong language. Bestseller. Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. 1998.