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Santa Fe sixth-grader Vix is thrilled when new classmate Caitlin asks her to spend the summer with her on Martha's…
Vineyard. The summers go on for six years, during which Vix falls in love with Bru, an island resident. Now, years later, Caitlin calls to say she is marrying Bru. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 1998.
Anna van Achtenburgh is disinherited because of her marriage to a poor wheat farmer in South Africa, and sets her…
mind to become rich again. Some strong language. Followed by "Song of the wind". 1983.
When an island off the New England coast decides to secede, visiting writer Sam Jensen's hopes for solitude becomes impossible.…
A job with the local newspaper lands him right in the middle of the bedlam with TV crews, troops, ships, and politicians. Some strong language. 1979.
As Annie and Max Darling plan Christmas in South Carolina, murder intervenes. An aging film star announces she is leaving…
her fortune to a psychic foundation, and then her sister is killed. Annie's long-lost father is accused, and another murder occurs. Some strong language. c2000. (Death on Demand mysteries ; 12)
A team of specialists led by archeologist Ashley Carter is sent to explore a subterranean labyrinth full of breathtaking wonders…
- and terrors. Previous voyagers there have not returned, and mysteries and revelations occur that could change the world. There are also things that should not be disturbed - and a truth that could doom the expedition: they are not alone. Some descriptions of sex, strong language, and descriptions of violence. 1999.
Five years ago rival space pirate captains Val Blue and Dake Sureblood stole one incredible night together, but it ended…
with the assassination of Val's father and the condemnation of Dake's clan. Now every successful raid for Val is a boot heel ground into the burning memory of Dake Sureblood, who was ambushed and captured before he could clear his name. Dake finally returns from a hell like no other to expose the true killer of Val's father, but as the identity of their enemy becomes clear, the former lovers must put aside their mistrust and join forces to protect their clans - and their precious son. Some descriptions of violence and some descriptions of sex. c2010.
Theresa, twenty-five, is looking forward to Christmas. Her brother Jeff will be home on leave, and the entire family will…
be together, so why does Jeff have to bring his friend Brian? Christmas is for families. But Brian has no family, and, besides, Jeff wants him to meet Theresa. Brian might be just what she needs to overcome the feelings about her generously endowed figure that make her so unsure of herself. Some strong language and descriptions of sex. 2006, c1984.
When Kate McAllister's ex-husband is kidnapped, the only person she can trust is Jason Davalos. Although Jason hates her ex-husband,…
she knows he will help her for old times' sake. Some descriptions of sex. 1987. (Harlequin superomance ; 277)
Rumours of Rory Hammond's custody battle with his ex-wife is a reporter's dream. To Lucy Austin, though, it means remembering…
the summer she spent with Rory before he married his Palm Beach girlfriend. c1987. (Harlequin presents ; 1011)
The author builds a story around the famous "White Horse of Uffington" on the Berkshire Downs, based on a legend…
of the Iceni, an early Iron Age tribe who inhabited East Anglia. Grades 5-8. c1977.
Every summer has seemed the same for those lucky people who can pack up their goods and move to the…
coast. But this year there is a strange threat in the air, and a feeling of change hangs over the small community. 1980.
Gloria Mendez is 36, single and hopelessly in love with her boss. So when he disappears whilst on holiday in…
Mexico, it's Gloria who leaps into action, tracing his final phone call to a hellish ghost town run by a sleazy cop. Distraught and restless, she travels to Mexico to try to make sense of his death. But what she discovers about the man she loved shocks her to the core. Descriptions of violence. 2006.
Lessem explains that the "biggest" dinosaurs weighed the most. They were plant-eating dinosaurs,the sauropods. He details how dinosaur bones have…
been discovered and what scientists have learned from them. He concludes with a description of the Argentinosaurus, officially named in 1993, which may prove to be the biggest dinosaur ever. Grades 3-6. c1997.
Beth Newton is taking her family to Nantucket for their usual island summer, except this year is very unusual: absent…
is Arch, Beth's husband, and present (at Arch's invitation, before he died in a plane crash) is Marcus, the black 17-year-old son of a woman Arch had been defending against the death penalty. Tensions quickly build over son Garrett's resentment of Marcus' presence, while Beth finds that her first love, David, seems eager to rekindle old times. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2003.
Venturing to the desolation beyond the Enclaves, Gahzee and Lisa, accompanied by their coyote, walk the line between the Dreamtime…
and the Realtime in hopes of recovering a lost chip with information vital to their people and their magic heritage. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 1989.
In this medieval mystery, a couple journeys to a shrine to pray for fertility. En route they join a motley…
group of other pilgrims, some of whom suffer fatal mishaps. The wife and husband follow clues leading to an old wrong and a vengeful killer. Strong language, violence, and descriptions of sex. Sequel to "The wandering arm" (DC27543). Followed by "Cursed in the blood" (DC27900). 1996. (Catherine LeVendeur mystery ; 4)
The lives of three friends change in the summer of 1948 when, during their usual vacation at a lake, two…
other friends are killed in an auto accident. Thirty years later they gather again at the lake, but it is an unsettling reunion. There had been a cover-up and a vicious scandal after the car accident that haunt them still. "A Tom Doherty Associates book." 1997.
Irrepressible, red-haired, six-year-old Terrell, son of the harried manager of a Florida farm workers’ camp, continually plays hooky from school.…
He evades the truant officer, barters for cigarettes, and spends his day with an eccentric old man who teaches him about the swamp. The outbreak of World War II changes all their lives. 1968.
Unemployed banker Ellis, model Julia, and teacher Dorie--once childhood friends in Savannah, Georgia--rent a beach house in Nags Head, North…
Carolina, for a month. The women, now in their thirties, share hopes and disappointments and shelter a stranger on the run from her husband. 2011.