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The feast of July
Par H. E Bates. 1954
The end of the nineteenth century finds young Bella Ford toiling up from the coast to find the lover who…
has betrayed her. "I'll find you and some day I'll kill you", she is thinking, but instead she finds a home and happiness with a family of shoemakers. Slowly the three sons restore her flickering faith in life. Then on the high-summer day of Fifty Feasts, the past comes crashing into the present in a climax of sudden and horrible tragedy. 1954.The fashion committee: a novel of art, crime, and applied design
Par Susan Juby. 2017
Charlie Dean is a style-obsessed girl who eats, sleeps, and breathes fashion. John Thomas-Smith is a boy who forges metal…
sculptures in his garage and couldn't care less about clothes. But they share one thing in common: both are gunning for a scholarship to the private art high school that could make all their dreams come true. And whoever wins the fashion competition will win the scholarship. Told in the alternating voices of Charlie's and John's fashion journals which they're required to keep for the contest, this tale perfectly captures what it's like to have an artistic passion so fierce that nothing--not your dad's girlfriend's drug-addicted ex-boyfriend, a soul-crushing job at Salad Stop, or being charged with a teensy bit of kidnapping--can stand in your way. For senior high readers. 2017.The fan
Par Peter Abrahams. 1995
Gil Renard is excited about the Sox's chances this year, now that they've signed Bobby Rayburn. But the rest of…
Gil's life is falling apart. His ex-wife won't let him see their son anymore, and he's been laid off by the knife company his father founded. Reminiscing about his Little League glory days and becoming more and more obsessed with Bobby Rayburn, Gil loses touch with reality. Strong language, violence, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 1995.The feast of love
Par Charles Baxter. 2000
Bradley Smith helps his friend Charlie Baxter solve his book-writing woes by suggesting Charlie get Bradley's coffee shop customers to…
talk about their delights and distractions. Baxter weaves these stories into a series of vignettes covering many aspects of life. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2000.The fault in our stars
Par John Green. 2013
Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis, until a chance meeting with a boy…
at a cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life. For senior high readers. 2013.The far side of the world (Jack Aubrey ; #10)
Par Patrick O'Brian. 1997
It is the war of 1812 and Jack Aubrey and his tetchy, sardonic friend Stephen Maturin set sail across the…
South Atlantic to intercept a powerful American frigate outward bound from Boston to play havoc with the British whaling trade. It is a commission after Jack's own heart, and best of all he's given his much-loved ship "Surprise" - reprieved from the breaker's yard because of her exceptional sailing qualities. Sequel to "Treason's harbour" (DC31586). Followed by "The reverse of the medal" (DC31583). 1997. (Jack Aubrey ; 10)The elegance of the hedgehog
Par Muriel Barbery. 2009
Renée, the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building, maintains a carefully constructed persona as someone uncultivated but reliable; but…
beneath this facade lies the real Renée: passionate about culture and the arts, and more knowledgeable in many ways than her employers with their outwardly successful but emotionally void lives. Meanwhile, several floors up, twelve-year-old Paloma Josse is determined to avoid the pampered and vacuous future laid out for her, and decides to end her life on her thirteenth birthday. But unknown to them both, the sudden death of one of their privileged neighbours will dramatically alter their lives forever. 2009. Uniform title: Elegance du herisson.The Confessions of Nipper Mooney: a novel
Par Ed Kavanagh. 2001
On a beautiful morning out in the meadow, Nipper Mooney experiences both the phenomenon of lost time and the death…
of his father. Soon he is sent to All Angels, a rigid Catholic school where Nipper, a sensitive and inquisitive boy, only finds more questions. He survives this claustrophobic and often violent world by becoming a reader, a dreamer, and developing a scrappy toughness, as he journeys through the beauties and horrors of childhood. Some strong language. 2001.The dancer upstairs: A Novel
Par Nicholas Shakespeare. 1995
This novel explores one of the most astonishing stories in the whole history of twentieth-century terrorism. Colonel Rejas was the…
policeman charged with the task of capturing the Peruvian guerrilla leader Ezequiel, but having been dismissed he found the burden of silence and secrecy too heavy. On meeting Dyer, a foreign correspondent, he is moved to relate the tortuous progress of the manhunt for the first time. Descriptions of violence and strong language. 1995.The concrete blonde (Harry Bosch series. #3.)
Par Michael Connelly. 1994
Harry Bosch, maverick homicide detective, is hauled into court, the chief defendant in a civil suit against the LAPD. The…
plaintiffs are the family of "The Dollmaker", a notorious serial killer whom Bosch shot during an arrest three years before. Their allegation? That Bosch killed the wrong man - an accusation which becomes horribly plausible when a new body is found to carry all the hallmarks of a Dollmaker slaying. To clear his name, Bosch must prove that a copycat killer is at work. But can he? Sequel to "The black ice", followed by "The last coyote". 1994.The diving-bell and the butterfly: A Memoir Of Life In Death
Par Jean-Dominique Bauby. 1997
The Double: a St. Petersburg poem (Hesperus Classics Ser.)
Par Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Hugh Aplin. 2004
Golyadkin, a civil servant, comes home from work after a particularly frustrating day to see another man - his double…
- slipping into his room in front of him. With a mixture of anxiety, interest, and aversion, he makes the acquaintance of his other self. However, after attaining Golyadkin's friendship and learning his secrets, the double ultimately turns into a formidable enemy. 2004, c1846.The end of the world as we know it
Par Lesley Choyce. 2007
16-year-old Carson hates the world, stuck in a private school for kids who have repeatedly flunked out everywhere else. Then…
Carson meets Christine, who has been abandoned by her parents and struggles to get by living in a trailer. Confronted by her sadness, Carson starts to care for her, and once focused on someone other than himself, begins to notice what's going on around him. Some descriptions of sex. For senior high readers. 2007.The enchanted April (Virago modern classics)
Par Elizabeth Von Arnim. 1986
The eye of the storm
Par Patrick White. 1973
The end of the affair
Par Graham Greene. 2003
London, 1939. Author Maurice Bendrix has a long-running love affair with Sarah Miles, the wife of a civil servant, which…
ends abruptly. Years later Bendrix explores the emotions that still torment him and ponders Sarah's commitment to a God he cannot fathom. 2003, c1979.The Danish girl: a novel
Par David Ebershoff. 2010
The dilettantes: a novel
Par Michael Hingston. 2013
The Peak: a university student newspaper with a hard-hitting mix of inflammatory editorials, hastily thrown-together comics and reviews, and a…
news section run the only way self-taught journalists know how--sloppily. Alex and Tracy are two of The Peak's editors, staring down graduation and struggling to keep the paper relevant to an increasingly indifferent student body. But trouble looms large when a big-money free daily comes to the west-coast campus, threatening to swallow what remains of their readership whole. It'll take the scoop of a lifetime to save their beloved campus rag. An exposé about the mysterious filmed-on-campus viral video? Some good old-fashioned libel? Or what about that fallen Hollywood star, the one who's just announced he's returning to Simon Fraser University to finish his degree? 2013.The Eliot girls
Par Krista Bridge. 2013
Audrey has always wanted to attend George Eliot Academy, the private school where her mother has taught for a decade.…
But when she is accepted, she finds that the school is filled with bullying and intolerance. Her mother, Ruth, meanwhile, navigates the politics in the teachers' lounge while fighting the frustrations of adulthood and its fading opportunities. c2013.The education of Mr. Whippoorwill: a country boyhood
Par David Zieroth. 2002
The tales that come with growing up on a prairie farm, and then leaving it for the big city, are…
recounted. Included are such happenings as a calf getting hit by lightning, a bag of squirming kittens, and the aftershocks of war passed down through the generations. For junior high readers. 2002.