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This sequel to Rocket Boys continues the author's reminiscences with his senior year in high school in Coalwood, a West…
Virginia mining town, in 1959. Hickam describes misfortunes in the community, their repercussions within his family, and his teenage problems with girls. 2000.
A city planned to survive for two hundred years, now in year 241, suffers shortages - and a secret message-bearing…
box is missing. Independent-thinking twelve-year-olds Doon and Lina exchange obligatory jobs and make a discovery that could change their known world. Bestseller. Grades 5-8. 2003.
When Mr. and Mrs. Ransome return home from a night at the opera, they discover their flat has been burgled.…
Nothing is left - not even a roll of toilet paper. And then, just after the insurance company has settled their claim, they receive an interesting letter about their belongings. Some strong language. Bestseller. 1998.
Claire knows that she and her mother, Frances, share some psychic ability, but it isn't until they travel to her…
mother's childhood home, Ravensmere, that Claire realizes what this means for her future. Claire falls in love with Mark and would leave to be with him, but the ancient estate claims her as its guardian. For senior high and older readers. 1996.
Collection of fifty-five previously published stories written between 1940 and 1984. They demonstrate Malamud's development from narratives grounded in the…
real-life surroundings of his parents' Brooklyn grocery to tales of fantasy written later in life. Concludes with experimental pieces about Virginia Woolf and Alma, wife of composer Gustav Mahler. 1997. Uniform title: Short stories
The rain had turned to sleet when painter Judith Blake left the Centre Gallery in Baltimore and headed home and…
right into an auto accident that would leave her blind and end her career. Mark Leland, whom she holds responsible for the accident, wants to help her. But can she overcome the rage she feels toward him, and more importantly, the way she feels when he takes her into his arms? Some strong language and descriptions of sex. 1989.
Quadriplegic New York criminalist Lincoln Rhyme and detective Amelia Sachs search for a sadistic serial killer called the Watchmaker who…
leaves clocks beside his victims. Amelia is also involved in proving a businessman's suicide is actually a homicide and finds herself targeted for murder. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. Sequel to “The twelfth card“, followed by “The broken window“. 2006. (Lincoln Rhyme ; 7)
Taking the fire that destroyed the Fenice theatre in 1996 as his starting point, John Berendt creates a portrait of…
Venice and its extraordinary inhabitants. Beneath the exquisite facade of the world's most beautiful historic city, scandal, corruption and venality are rampant, and John Berendt is a master at seeking them out. It is the inhabitants of Venice who are the real stars of this story: Ezra Pound and his mistress, Olga; poet Mario Stefani; the Rat Man of Treviso; or Mario Moro self-styled carabiniere, fireman, soldier or airman, depending on the day of the week. 2006.
Major Harry Maxim, SAS-trained and still mourning the loss of his wife to a terrorist bomb, is asked to help…
Corporal Blagg, on the run from his battalion in Germany. 1982.
Ayla is adopted by a group of Neanderthals 25,000 years ago. At first she inspires surprise, then wariness and finally…
acceptance by the clan. Ayla is cared for by the medicine woman, but makes an enemy of the group's leader, who will do anything to destroy her. Descriptions of sex. Followed by "The Valley of horses" (DC29722). 1981. (Earth's children ; 1)
Suddenly a reigning and very influential Pope abdicates his office. Ill health is the official reason, but this conceals a…
story of great courage and conviction set against a world of insecurity threatened by possible nuclear war. Sequel to "The shoes of the Fisherman". 1981.
Two world-wide civilisations have been destroyed by the products of their own technology. In the third world, dominated by the…
Luddites, all machinery is banned, and Kieron, determined to build a flying machine, has to use it to avenge an attack on his community at Arundel. 1973.
When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge…
of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he probes, the evidence begins to point to conspiracies far stranger, and more deadly, than anything he could have imagined. Soon his work puts him and those he cares for in danger. Borlú must travel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own, across a border like no other. Strong language. 2010.
In this story of politics, greed and murder, a Dallas corporate lawyer could lose everything he holds dear. He has…
reluctantly agreed to defend a black, heroin-addicted prostitute, in a murder trial where the victim's father is a senator with presidential ambitions. Descriptions of violence. 2005.
Ten Chisholm has returned to the Texas brakes with a team of cowboys and ex-soldiers. He must round up wild…
longhorns, ward off angry Comanches, and survive outlaw attacks as he opens a new trail to Kansas. He also vows to marry Priscilla, the beautiful daughter of a New Orleans gambler who has promised her to a wealthy man she hates. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 1993.
Scott Warden is studying Thai beach culture and struggling to support his wife and daughter when a large monument appears…
in the jungle. The artifact is a chronolith commemorating the conquest of Thailand--20 years in the future. When Warden returns to the U.S., more chronoliths appear, to devastating effect. As the chronoliths approach America, Scott joins Hitch Paley and Sue Chopra in a race to find a way to change the future.
Li-Xia, the daughter of a young concubine to an old silk farmer in rural China, escapes her destiny of becoming…
a concubine by outwitting her father's orders to bind her feet and running away with an English sea captain. She takes her first steps towards fulfilling her mother's dream of becoming a scholar, but her final triumph must be left to her daughter. Explicit descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2009.
A series of travelogues trace the East Coast of the United States. The author combines a walking tour from Quoddy…
Head, Maine, southward to the Florida Keys; reflections on what the shoreline was and what it has become; impressions of places he has formed from the writings and paintings of others; an examination of problems; and a chronicle of what is being done to preserve the land, the sea, and the wildlife. 1993.