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In March 1814, Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho returns to England from several months' rigorous patrolling off the North American coast.…
The bitter and inconclusive war with the United States has not yet ended, but the news of Napoleon's defeat and abdication has stunned a navy and a nation bled by years of European conflict. Victory has been the impossible dream, and now, for Bolitho, a vision of the future and a more personal peace seems attainable. Sequel to "Cross of St. George" (DC19969), followed by "Second to none". 1998. (Richard Bolitho ; 25)
Times have changed on Cannery Row. The war has left it dustier and rustier than even Doc can remember. The…
Palace Flop-house remains the institution it was, and its boisterous inmates are only too pleased to welcome him back. Mack and the boys know that Doc dreads folks trying to help him through, which is how Mack finds himself planning the most elaborate campaign of his career. Sequel to "Cannery Row" (DC30824). 1992, c1954.
Liverpool 1926. Patsy Doyle is settling into her role as a live-in maid in the Tanner household, but her new…
job is not going as smoothly as she expected. Since Mr Tanner returned from the Great War, the Tanners' relationship has become increasingly strained. Caught between the warring spouses, Patsy becomes an unwilling confidante and a keeper of more secrets than she'd care to acknowledge. 2010.
Venetia Summers has been "buffered" from single-motherhood by boyfriend David, but when work takes him to Brazil, things begin to…
unravel. The children and dogs run wilder than ever. Her burgeoning fashion career provides a diversion, but when a moonlit walk takes an unexpected turn, she finds herself with a real dilemma on her hands. 2001.
The trail to the gold fields of California was full of dangers and disasters. Everyone knew that driving horses through…
Indian territory was suicide, but with the help of gold hungry prospectors and a pack of dogs, Brent had to get those horses through to California; and neither Oker Patzel nor Indian raiders were going to stop him ...1989.
When Commissario Brunetti is summoned in the middle of the night to the hospital bed of a pediatrician, he is…
confronted with more questions than answers. Three men burst into the doctor's apartment while the family was sleeping, attacked him, and took away his eighteen-month-old boy. What could have motivated an assault by the forces of the state that was so violent it has left the doctor mute? As Brunetti delves into the case, he begins to uncover a story of infertility, desperation, and illegal dealings. Sequel to "Through a glass, darkly", followed by "The girl of his dreams". 2007.
Gripping and authentic, this story tells of a hazardous mission by two British submarines to lure a Soviet battleship to…
its death. The terror and claustrophobia of war beneath the sea is dramatically drawn as the hunters chase their quarry beneath the polar ice. 1982.
After a lonely twenty-year marriage between Deanna and her French husband Marc cools, she retreats to her painting and their…
only child, Pilar. Then, by chance, Deanna meets a gallery owner named Ben, who takes an interest in her work. 1980.
Who will have the nervous breakdown? Will it be Clodagh who awaits her beautiful husband's homecoming, or Lisa, hard and…
brittle and recently demoted? Or perhaps it will be Ashling who is so normal that she is actually weird. Descriptions of sex. 2000.
Ann is waiting to be summoned to America by her fiancé Gerald when she meets William. He gives her a…
ring, his body, his love, just as he gave them to his ex-wife, his current wife and his mistresses. So how can Ann live with William? More to the point, how can she live without him? 1975.
Haing Ngor won an Academy Award for his performance as Dith Pran in the film "The Killing Fields" but his…
own story, of his experiences in Cambodia in the 1970s, is far more harrowing. He tells it simply, without embellishment; but his book is shocking - he even suggests that some readers may prefer to skip one chapter. It is a story of love, death and incredible courage; a battle against starvation, torture and ideological oppression. Descriptions of violence. 1988.
Lucy Szabo has a theory that diabetics were the original vampires hundreds of years ago and, as a diabetic, she…
counts herself as a modern vampire. Visiting an online chatrooom using the name "Sweetblood", Lucy starts to get involved with a guy called Draco who claims to be a real vampire. As she gets more involved, her life begins to unravel around her, and her ability to regulate her blood sugar worsens. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. Senior high readers. 2003.
Sixth-grader Xander is the school's best artist, but he's lousy at sports, and his tall, skinny frame and big feet…
have earned him hated nicknames. To please his father, Xander works on eliminating his awkwardness with the help of a new friend. Grades 5-8. 1999.
Fourteen-year-old Susannah and her widowed father have joined a Shaker frontier settlement, where children are kept separate from adults. Susannah…
finds her new life oppressive and befriends young Mary, whose outsider mother aims to remove her daughter from the community. Both girls hope for rescue. Grades 5-8. 1998.
Leigh and his best friend, Barry, find an abandoned dog on the beach and name him Strider. Both boys want…
to keep him, so they agree upon a unique joint custody agreement. Sequel to "Dear Mr. Henshaw". Grades 3-6. 1991.
In 1551, Prince Max of Austria married Princess Maria of Spain. One of their wedding presents was an Indian elephant.…
As the procession went from Spain to Vienna, the people came to watch the gigantic beast pass by. Grades K-3. c1986. Uniform title: Soliman der Elefant.
The story of a noblewoman of thirteenth-century France whose life is disrupted time and again and nearly destroyed by decades…
of religious wars. A talented poet seeking to make sense of her world, Sybille experiences the recurring injustice of princes, popes, husband, lovers, and even of the Divine, yet her spirit never breaks. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1983.