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Par Jean Morris. 1983
Thomas is a fifteen year old traveller, a professional guide to the old trade routes across Asia. He is asked…
to go further east than any traveller has been, in search of the legendary kingdom of Prester John. Thomas agrees on one condition - that he may have a donkey to go with him. But Ears is no ordinary donkey. Grades 5-8. 1983.Par Sandra Dallas. 1997
A woman finds the diary of her grandmother, Mattie Spenser, an American pioneer. In 1865 Mattie marries in Iowa and…
heads off to the Colorado prairie. She grows from a simple farm girl into a woman complicated by the harsh life in a sod house, the birth and death of children, and the faithlessness of her beloved husband. 1997.Par Sarah Patterson. 1976
The discovery of an old diary evokes for Kate the memory of that summer when Johnny was an airforce gunner.…
They shared the limbo days between dangerous missions and found enduring love. 1976.Par Tim Gautreaux. 2004
Randolph Aldridge travels to a snake-infested Cypress mill in Louisiana to find his brother Byron, a troubled veteran of World…
War I. Once there, Randolph finds that By is a shell of his former self - and that the murderous cartel controlling the mill's casino won't give them any peace. 2004.Par Cathy Marie Buchanan. 2009
1915. Seventeen-year-old Bess Heath has led a sheltered existence as the youngest daughter of the director of the Niagara Power…
Company. After graduation day at her boarding school, she arrives home to find that her father has lost his job, her mother is reduced to taking in sewing from the society ladies she once entertained, and Isabel, her vivacious older sister, is a shadow of her former self. Then Bess meets Tom Cole by chance on a trolley platform. She finds herself inexplicably drawn to him - against her family's strong objections. He is not from their world - rough-hewn and fearless, he lives off what the river provides, and he has an uncanny ability to predict the whims of the falls. His daring river rescues render him a local hero and cast him as a threat to the power companies that seek to harness the power of the falls for themselves. As their lives become more fully entwined, Bess is forced to make a painful choice between what she wants and what is best for her family and her future. 2009.Par Merilyn Simonds. 1996
In the early 1900s, an unlikely relationship begins between a prisoner in the Kingston Penitentiary and a young girl who…
lives near the prison. They can never meet, but they hide letters for each other near the quarry where the prisoner works during the day. Winner of the 1997 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1996.Par Régine Deforges. 1988
As World War II escalates, Léa copes with the deaths of friends, including Camille, and the ruin of the family's…
vineyards. Yet she continues working for the Resistance, joins the Red Cross, and travels to Berlin, returning to Paris on the eve of liberation. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. Sequel to "Léa" (DC19861). 1988. Uniform title: Diable en rit encore.Par Sharan Newman. 2004
France, A.D. 1140. Countess Alys, victim of a brutal beating, is cared for by Catherine LeVendeur at a convent. The…
convent inherits land upon Alys' death, which her husband claims they stole and which the local monastery wants. Catherine and her new husband search for information on the bequest, and soon stumble on another mystery: the discovery of a headless corpse that may ignite the anti-Semitism that is running high during this Easter season. Some descriptions of violence. Sequel to "Death comes as epiphany". Followed by "The wandering arm" (DC27543). 2004. (Catherine LeVendeur mystery ; 2)Par Liz Carlyle. 2005
By day, Sidonie Saint-Godard is a respectable young widow, but at night she becomes the Black Angel, robbing wealthy men…
who mistreat women. Sidonie, aware of the plight of unwed mothers, believes she can right society's wrongs. Her successful run falters when she targets the marquess of Devellyn, the notorious Devil of Duke Street. Some descriptions of violence and descriptions of sex. 2005.Par Dorothy Hoobler, Thomas Hoobler. 2001
Set in eighteenth-century Japan. Someone is setting fires and killing geishas, and Samurai Judge Ooka needs an inside observer. He…
sends his adopted son, Seikei, under cover into a teahouse. Sequel to "The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn". Followed by "In darkness, death" (DC27555). Grades 5-8. 2001. (Judge Ooka series ; 2)Par Leon Garfield. 1986
When Barnacle - so called on account of his amazing powers of holding on, falls down the wrong chimney into…
the midst of what is clearly a conspiracy, he is terrified and runs. In his panic, he grabs a locket from the table and soon has the relentless Inspector Creaker on his trail. Melodrama set in Victorian London. Grades 5-8. 1986.Par Hans Keilson, Ivo Jarosy. 1962
An unnamed young man grows up in Germany during the ascendance of National Socialism in the 1920s and 1930s. He…
becomes obsessed with--and horrified by--the movement's leader as civil liberties are curtailed and the young man is increasingly ostracized. Originally published in German. 1962. Uniform title: Tod des Widersachers.Par Cecelia Holland. 1974
As Hun, Goth and Roman battle in the fifth century, Dietric, young son of a German chief, forms a perilous…
friendship with Tacs, an ordinary Hun soldier. Includes strong language. 1974.Par Julian Symons. 1982
Is Bernard Ross really a suitable husband for Dolly Detling, daughter of Tory Sir Arthur? Why is the name of…
a murdered painter found in Bernard's pocket? Behind the smooth surface of Victorian snobbery there is something sinister about the Detling family. 1982.Par Roddy Doyle. 2010
Henry Smart, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawls into the Utah desert to die, only…
to be discovered by John Ford, who's there shooting his latest Western. Ford decides to use Henry by turning his story - a boy volunteer at the GPO in 1916, a hitman for Michael Collins - into a film. Ten years later and back in Ireland, Henry is caught in a bomb blast and becomes a poster boy for the Provos, but finds that he will have other uses too, when the peace process begins in deadly secrecy. Sequel to "Oh, play that thing" (DC26405). Explicit strong language, some descriptions of violence, and some descriptions of sex. c2010. (The last roundup ; 3)Par Pamela Paige Porter. 2005
1965. After Emaline, 11, is crippled in a tractor accident, Daddy kills her beloved dog, Prince, and walks away from…
their Saskatchewan farm. Mom takes in Angus from the local mental hospital to help with the farm work, but the neighbours jeer and complain about the crazy man. Emaline sees Angus' kindness and strength, but it is only when he performs the ultimate act of heroism that others in the town finally recognize his worth as a human being. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 2007 Golden Oak Award. Winner of the 2005 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature. 2005.Par Ernest Raymond. 1958
Par Rebecca Brandewyne. 2006
Rose Windermere's family returns to England from India in 1835 after close friends are murdered. Fifteen years later Rose receives…
a cryptic message and discovers she's being stalked by businessman Raj Khanna. They fall in love while investigating the past and uncover a plot to assassinate Queen Victoria. Some descriptions of violence. 2006.Par Richard Woodman. 1985
Commander Drinkwater is dispatched in haste to replace the captain of HMS "Melusine", who has been shot in a duel.…
"Melusine" sails as escort to the whaling fleet from Hull on its annual expedition to the Greenland Sea. During the whale hunt the loss of one of the vessels sets off a train of misfortune, disaster, death and treachery in this remote sea. Sequel to "The bomb vessel" (DC29184). 1985.Par Lindsey Davis. 1997
The full sweep of Roman history in the turbulent period from AD 31 to AD 69 is the background for…
this compelling love story. It is told from the viewpoint of Antonia Caenis, first a slave, then a scribe and mistress to Emperor Vespasian. 1997.