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The garden club and the Kumquat campaign: a novel
Par Des Kennedy. 1996
Upshot Island, a small community off the west coast of Canada, has more than its share of eccentric residents. The…
members of the local garden club set out on a quest to save the rain forests of Kumquat Sound. Their adventures lead them into the deeper realms of mystery, death and love. 1996.The dispossessed
Par Ottilie Mulzet, Szilárd Borbély. 2016
The book depicts the poverty and cruelty experienced by a partly-Jewish family in a rural village in the late 1960s…
and early 1970s. In a tiny village in northeast Hungary, close to the Romanian border, a young, unnamed boy warily observes day-to-day life and chronicles his family's struggles to survive. Like most of the villagers, his family is desperately poor, but their situation is worse than most--they are ostracized because of his father's Jewish heritage and his mother's connections to the Kulaks, who once owned land and supported the fascist Horthy regime before it was toppled by Communists. With unflinching candor, the little boy's observations are related through a variety of narrative voices--crude diatribes from his alcoholic father, evocative and lyrical tales of the past from his grandparents, and his own simple yet potent prose. Together, these accounts reveal not only the history of his family but that of Hungary itself, through the physical and psychic traumas of two World Wars to the country's treatment of Jews, both past and present. 2016.The ecstasy conspiracy
Par Lesley Choyce. 1992
Richard de Mille's publisher demands a novel with a murder in it. When the publisher is murdered, Richard becomes the…
prime suspect. Drugged and imprisoned, he begins to question reality and his sanity. Strong language. 1992.The eagle's shadow (Other or No Series)
Par Nora Martin. 1997
Abandoned by her mother years ago, and with her emotionally distant father on military duty in occupied Japan in 1946,…
Clearice, twelve, comes to live with her Tlingit grandmother in Alaska. After what seems like a cold welcome, Clearice adopts an icy attitude toward everything around her. But her feelings change as she becomes friends with Mark and learns more about her Indian heritage. Grades 5-8. 1997.The diviners
Par Margaret Laurence. 1974
The troubled journey of a prairie novelist from the social cruelty of her village to a modicum of personal serenity…
and professional success. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. Winner of the 1974 Governor General's Award for Fiction.The dream of Scipio (Isis Cassettes Series)
Par Iain Pears. 2002
Set in Provence at three different critical moments of Western Civilization - the collapse of the Roman Empire in the…
fifth century, the Black Death in the fourteenth century, and World War II in the twentieth century - this novel follows the fortunes of three men: Manlius Hippomanes a Gallic aristocrat obsessed with the preservation of Roman civilisation, Oliver de Noyen a poet and Julian Bareuve an intellectual who joins the Vichy government. 2002.The diamond hunters
Par Wilbur A Smith. 1992
The Van der Byl diamond company, willed by its founder to his son Benedict, is a bequest of hatred, couched…
in terms to offer him the means to destroy his bitterest rival. "Destroy Johnny" is the old man's implacable message and so, consumed with envy for his own foster-brother, Benedict sets out in pursuit of this goal and Johnny is plunged into a maelstrom of greed, vengeance and murder. 1992.The dream carvers
Par Joan Clark. 1995
While on an expedition with his father to get lumber to take back to Greenland, Thrand is captured by the…
native Osweet, who have taken him to replace one of their own who was killed by a Greenlander. For junior and senior high readers. 1995.The dower house
Par Annabel Davis-Goff. 1998
In post-war Ireland, young Molly Hassard and her upper-class Anglo-English family live in genteel poverty. In order to change their…
fortunes, Molly and her cousin Sophie eventually relocate to England. But Molly misses the Irish traditions and longs to return to rekindle her secret love for a fellow countryman. 1998.The double
Par José Saramago, Margaret Jull Costa. 2004
History teacher Tertuliano wakes up find a video playing on his VCR, and one of the actors is the spitting…
image of Tertuliano as he was five years ago. Tertuliano, divorced, lonely, and depressed, is susceptible to becoming obsessed, which he quickly becomes. He decides to track down the actor who is his double, with disturbing, even dire, consequences. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2004. Uniform title: Homem duplicado.The deportees and other stories
Par Roddy Doyle. 2007
Short stories, each taking a new slant on the immigrant experience in Ireland. In "Guess Who's Coming to the Dinner",…
a father who prides himself on his open-mindedness is forced to confront his feelings when one of his daughters brings home a black fella. In "57 per cent Irish" Ray Brady tries to devise a test of Irishness by measuring reactions to Robbie Keane's goal against Germany in the 2002 World Cup, Riverdance and "Danny Boy". In "Deportees", Jimmy Rabbitte, the man who formed The Commitments, decides it's time to find a new band, and this time no White Irish need apply. Some descriptions of sex and violence, and strong language. 2007.The death and life of Charlie St. Cloud: a novel
Par Ben Sherwood. 2004
After surviving the car accident that claimed his brother's life, Charlie is graced with a gift: he can see, talk…
to, and even play catch with Sam's sprit. Into this magical world comes Tess, a woman in training to sail around the world. When fate steers her boat into a treacherous storm, it leads to a race against time, and a choice between holding on and letting go. Some descriptions of sex, some strong language. 2004.The death of Vishnu
Par Manil Suri. 2001
Lowly servant Vishnu lies dying on the landing that has been his space in a Bombay apartment building, drifting through…
memories and thoughts of immortality. Meanwhile the everyday dramas of the residents swirl around him: wives' squabbles, religious misunderstandings, and an ill-conceived elopement. Bestseller. 2001.The dead of the night (Tomorrow series. #2.)
Par John Marsden. 1994
Six determined Australian teenagers try to find their missing friends while continuing to resist the enemies who have invaded their…
country. For junior high and older reader. Sequel to "Tomorrow, when the war began" (DC28219). Followed by "The third day, the frost" (DC28218). 1995, c1994. (Tomorrow series ; 2)The devil and Miss Prym: A Novel Of Temptation
Par Nick Caistor, Amanda Hopkinson, Paulo Coelho. 2006
A stranger arrives in the village of Viscos with the devil, eleven gold bars, and a proposition. He offers to…
give the townspeople the fortune if they commit murder. Young Chantal Prym and others struggle with the moral dilemma. Bestseller. 2006, c2000.The Copenhagen connection
Par Elizabeth Peters. 1982
The color of blood (M&S paperbacks)
Par Brian Moore. 1987
In an Eastern European country, Cardinal Stephen Bem maintains a perilous balance between a totalitarian regime and a fanatical minority…
of church leaders. Short-listed for the 1987 Booker Prize. Strong language. Bestseller 1987. c1987.The convent
Par Panos Karnezis. 2010
The crumbling convent of Our Lady of Mercy stands alone in an uninhabited part of Spain, its six inhabitants devoted…
to God and cut off from the world. This all changes the day the Mother Superior discovers a suitcase with air-holes at the entrance. She is to find that the box and its contents are to have consequences beyond her imagining, and that even in her carefully protected sanctuary she is unable to keep the world, or her past, at bay. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2010.The darling
Par Russell Banks. 2004
Hannah Musgrave, fifty-nine, former radical Weather Underground member, recounts life as a fugitive in 1980s Liberia. She recalls her chimpanzee…
sanctuary, her involvement with warlord Charles Taylor, her husband's beheading, and the defection of her sons as the country is devastated by internal strife. Some descriptions of sex, descriptions of violence, and some strong language. 2004.The conversations at Curlow Creek
Par David Malouf. 1996
A convict, Carney, facing execution at dawn, and a lawman, Adair, sent to enforce the sentence, pass the night in…
conversation. Although set in Australia 170 years ago, the issues raised in their discussion are timeless ones of sin, freedom, and the meaning of life. Some descriptions of sex, some strong language, and some violence. 1996.