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The brothers Ashkenazi
Par Israel Joshua Singer. 1980
Social novel tells of the life of the Jews in Poland from the 1880s through the Russian Revolution to the…
rise of independent Poland. The story describes the influx of German weavers from Silesia and Saxony, the rise of the weaving industry, and its final collapse. Of the two Ashkenzai brothers, Jewish textile merchants, Max is the brilliant student and Jacob the pleasure lover. 1980. Uniform title: Brider Ashkenazi.The book of ifs and buts: stories (Vintage tales)
Par Rabindranath Maharaj. 2002
Nine stories that mainly deal with the experiences of ethnically Indian Trinidadian men who have immigrated to Canada. In "Swami…
Pankaj", a Trinidadian master farmer, who wishes nothing more than to retire to the Himalayas and become a mystic, leads a strange second life as a Brampton taxi driver. "The House in Lengua Village" concerns a schoolteacher who returns home, only to unexpectedly officiate at his father's funeral. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2002.The butcher boy
Par Pat McCabe. 1992
Set in Ireland in the early 1960s. Francie Brady is a schoolboy who must figure life out or himself as…
his mother is in and out of "the garage," and his father is always drunk. Francie is especially hard on the Nugents, particularly after Philip Nugent's mother says the Bradys are no better than pigs. And Francie can't forget a song his mother sang about a girl who commits suicide over a butcher boy. Strong language and some descriptions of violence. 1992.The Bourne ultimatum (Bourne Ser. #Bk. 3)
Par Robert Ludlum. 1994
Jason Bourne is forced from retirement by a series of terrifying events, starting with a cat-and-mouse chase to the death.…
The Jackal, Bourne's supreme enemy, has returned. And so Medusa - the dreaded secret society, seeking clandestine power, is once more flexing its vicious tentacles. The scene is set for carnage galore. Some descriptions of violence. 1994.The book thief
Par Markus Zusak. 2007
Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to…
a concentration camp. She befriends blond-haired Rudy Steiner, her neighbour obsessed with Jesse Owens. Together Liesel and Rudy steal books - from Nazi book burning piles, from the mayor's library, from the richer people of Molching. By 1943, the Allied bombs are falling, and the sirens begin to wail. For Junior and Senior High readers. Some strong language. 2007.The bone collector (Lincoln Rhyme novel. #1)
Par Jeffery Deaver. 1997
Lincoln Rhyme is one of the world's foremost forensic criminologists. He is also a quadriplegic, paralyzed from the neck down.…
The cop who could once look at a crime scene and find the clues about a killer that no one else could see is now strapped in his bed and actually planning suicide, when he gets a call he can't ignore from his old partner on the force. Some descriptions of sex, strong language, and explicit descriptions of violence. Followed by “The coffin dancer”. 1998, c1997.The bookshop: A Novel
Par Penelope Fitzgerald. 1978
A middle-aged widow, Florence Green, decides to open a bookstore in a five-hundred-year-old house in her small English town. She…
makes a noble start but is thwarted by Violet Gamart, who wants to convert "Old House" into an arts centre. 1997, c1978.The boy in the striped pyjamas
Par John Boyne. 2006
Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted…
by his people. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no-one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas. Bruno's friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation. Grades 5-8 and older readers. 2006.The Bourne supremacy (Bourne ; #2)
Par Robert Ludlum. 1986
Jason Bourne has announced his return. But who, now, is Bourne? Is he the quiet professor and loving husband, or…
is he the most deadly master of the killing arts the world has ever known? In a smoky disreputable cabaret in Kowloon, murder is swiftly and violently perpetrated and eleven letters are written in the dead man's blood. Sequel to "Bourn identity" (DC05315). 1986. (Bourne ; 2)The book of lights
Par Chaim Potok. 1981
Portrays the life and inner conflicts of Gershon Loran, a young Jewish rabbi. While serving as a chaplain during the…
Korean War, he must reconcile his deep-rooted beliefs in Judaism with the struggle between light and darkness in a land where Judaism has never existed. 1981.The book of negroes
Par Lawrence Hill. 2007
Abducted as an 11-year-old child from her village in West Africa, Aminata Diallo is sent to live as a slave…
in South Carolina. Years later, she forges her way to freedom, serving the British in the Revolutionary War and registering her name in the historic "Book of Negroes", a record of freed Loyalist slaves who resettled in Nova Scotia, only to find that the haven they sought was steeped in an oppression all its own. Some descriptions of sex and violence. Winner of the 2008 OLA Evergreen Award. Winner of Canada Reads 2009. Also known as "Someone knows my name". Bestseller. 2007.The bluest eye (Picador Bks.)
Par Toni Morrison. 1994
This book chronicles the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in 1940s Ohio: Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola.…
Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled love and hatred engendered by her family's frailty and the world's cruelty. 1994.The boat (Sven Hassel War Classics)
Par Lothar Günther Buchheim. 1999
This is the story of a German U-boat, her commander and crew, as they embark upon yet another hazardous patrol…
in the Battle of the Atlantic. Explicit descriptions of sex. Strong language. 1999. Uniform title: Das Boot.The bonfire of the vanities
Par Tom Wolfe. 1988
The millionaire hero, Sherman McCoy, is ripe for humiliation and finds it in plenty at the police Central Booking Bureau…
in the Bronx. There, after a freak accident involving muggers, his Mercedes and his mistress, McCoy learns that prosecutors, politicians and press are lining up to devour him with shameless relish. Strong language and descriptions of sex. 1988.The body in the library (Jane Marple murder mysteries ; #4)
Par Agatha Christie. 1942
The Colonel and Mrs Bantry had always believed that finding "a body in the library" only happened in books, until…
it happened to them. Whose body was it? And why should it be found in the library of Gossington Hall? Miss Marple investigates. Sequel to "The regatta mystery, and other stories". Followed by "The moving finger" (DC32950). 1942. (Jane Marple murder mysteries ; 4)The black madonna
Par Doris May Lessing. 1964
The black moon: a novel of Cornwall, 1794-5 (Poldark series. #5.)
Par Winston Graham. 1973
Continues the saga of Ross and Demelza Poldark, George and Elizabeth Warleggan, and the enmity between the two households. Sequel…
to "Warleggan" (DC05367). Followed by "Four swans". 1973. (The Poldark series ; 5)The big bad wolf (Alex Cross series. #9.)
Par James Patterson. 2003
Alex Cross's first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues perplexed. Across the country, men and women are…
kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappear completely. These people are not being taken for ransom. They are being bought and sold. It seems that a shadowy predator known only as "The Wolf" is the mass criminal behind this terrible trade, bringing a new reign of terror to organised crime. Some strong language. Sequel to "Four blind mice" (DC25663), followed by "London bridges" (DC28329). 2003. (Alex Cross Series ; 9)The big gold dream
Par Chester B Himes. 1996
Pursuing two apparently unrelated murders, detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones are led into a squalid Harlem ghetto,…
where they confront the killer in an explosive showdown. Strong language and violence. 1996.The betrayers: a novel
Par David Bezmozgis. 2014
When Baruch Kotler, a disgraced Israeli politician, refuses to back down from a contrary but principled stand regarding the West…
Bank settlements, his political opponents expose his affair with a mistress decades his junior. He and the fiery young Leora flee the scandal for Yalta, where he comes face to face with the former friend who denounced him to the KGB almost forty years earlier. In a mere twenty-four hours, Kotler must face the ultimate reckoning, both with those who have betrayed him and with those whom he has betrayed. Winner of the National Jewish Book Award. 2014.