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Actress Somers advocates controlling one's weight without deprivation by properly combining foods. Proposes lifestyle changes with a few simple rules,…
while still enjoying meals. Includes menus. Bestseller. 1997. Uniform title: Eat great, lose weight
Born and raised on idyllic Sullivan's Island, Susan Hayes navigated through her turbulent childhood with spunk and Southern sass. Years…
later, she's a conflicted woman and realizes that she must go back to her past before facing her uncertain future. Back to her childhood beachfront home, to a place haunted by secrets and betrayals... back home. c1999. (Lowcountry tale)
Amato traces the use of stuff--raw materials--in the development of products from prehistoric to modern times. He relates the evolution…
of the field of materials science to the human ability to manipulate smaller and smaller building blocks of matter. He theorizes that "smart" materials, under research in the 1990s, signal the beginning of a new technological era. c1997.
Elvira Preston dislikes the changes made to her life in a small Suffolk village by the First World War and…
longs for escape. She and her friend Clarry find a deserted house in the woods and make friends with a German prisoner working on the land. Grades 5-8. 1983.
Katie Wilkinson, a book editor in New York, believes she has found the perfect man when she meets poet Matt…
Harrison. They are having a wonderful time together. Then without warning he gives her a diary his wife had written for their son and disappears. Bestseller. 2001.
Think about your worst fears - being attacked by a wild animal, swept away by a killer storm, trapped in…
a wrecked car or a burning building. Here are 29 stories of real people who survived life-threatening situations. Each section includes Survival Tips that give readers essential information about what to do in dangerous circumstances. Some descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2004 Silver Birch Award. Grades 4-7. Bestseller 2005. 2003.
Lt. Commander Esmond Brooke, Captain of "HMS Serpent," arrives in relaxed and carefree Hong Kong during World War II and…
recognizes that an attack by Japan is inevitable. He and his men try to do the impossible in the face of an incompetent colonial administration. 1994.
Swan is the most successful supermodel in the world, svelte, sexy, twenty six and smart enough to know she doesn't…
want this life forever. So the search is on for a Swan girl to replace her and the girls on the Swan shortlist are about to embark on an exciting but gruelling journey. Tess, a beautiful, redheaded Londoner; Cassie, the privileged all-American blonde; Celestia, the grand-daughter of a Dior model and Amy, second generation Jamaican. Five girls, five dreams, a world of opportunity, but then a man steps forward with a fierce ambition of his own and Swan seems about to lose all she has fought for. 1994.
The crime spree should have ended when Lucas Davenport killed the female bank robber during the shoot-out. But it’s just…
beginning, because the woman’s husband isn’t about to let Lucas—or anyone he loves—escape retribution. Sequel to "Mind prey", followed by "Secret prey". 2012.
After Janie Newman's half sister Laurel steals her boyfriend, Jamie leaves New York for Seaside Cove, North Carolina. But the…
cosy cottage she booked turns out to be a rundown bungalow, and her drama queen mother, angst-ridden niece and newly dumped Laurel all follow her down. With a cottage this crowded, will she ever have a chance at finding love again? Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. c2011.
Caroline and J.P. spend the entire summer with their father and his new family. When they are asked to care…
for twin babies and coach a baseball team, the two children plot revenge. Sequel to "The one hundredth thing about Caroline." Grades 5-8. 1985.
Swanson relates her life as golden girl of silent films, her six marriages, and her affairs with movie stars. She…
describes with humour and candour the early days of motion pictures. 1980.
White, English, and orphaned at eight, Lilly grows up in Morocco as a Muslim, moves to Harar, Ethiopia, for five…
years and settles in London after political upheaval makes her vulnerable. She agonizes over the uprootings that famine, corruption, and political instability caused in Ethiopia in the 1970s and '80s. Also painful is not knowing whether Aziz, her Ethiopian lover, is alive or dead, putting Lilly in a 17-year limbo between grief and desperate hope. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2005.
Anthology of twenty-two pieces by American writers, each articulating a personal crisis. Selected from already published sources for their power…
to convey such emotional experiences as death, divorce, and suicidal depression. Authors include Jamaica Kincaid, Alan Shapiro, William Styron, and Isabel Allende. 1997.
A Japanese PI unsettles Mas Arai, a Hiroshima survivor, and the other elderly Japanese-American gardeners who hang out at Wishbone…
Tanaka's Lawnmower Shack in the seedy L.A. suburb of Altadena. The PI's disturbing questions concern Joji Haneda, reported dead in the atomic blast, but who was actually still alive in California in June 1999. A month later, Haneda is brutally murdered, and Mas must revisit his past in order to solve the crime. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2004.
During a traditional New Year's Eve dinner, Diane and Eric Morrison, Pascale and John Donnally and Anne and Robert Smith…
talk about their plans to rent a villa in southern France the following summer. When Robert suffers a sudden loss two weeks later, the others rally around, insisting he join them on the Riviera. But the villa they rented is not what they expected, and neither is the woman Robert brings along. 2002.
Teenager Wylie Jackson is allowed to go on his first cattle drive as an assistant cook. Due to a series…
of mishaps, Wylie steals a horse, becomes a vegetarian, and decides to learn doctoring. But with a reward for his return, Wylie cannot escape justice forever. Includes frontier recipes. Senior High. c1998.