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Four powerful women vie for total control of the Memphis hood, and they aren't about to let past loyalties get…
in their way. While Lucifer is hitting the streets to get her revenge for a deadly shooting, Essence is hitting the sheets - with her best friend's man. And Yolanda knows her path to power lies with her baby's hustler father, but Queen G Leshelle is dead set on keeping this game all to herself. 2012.
Joanna and Alec MacNeil’s efforts have returned Stonewycke to her grandparents, Maggie and Ian Duncan. Now, in the 1930s, Joanna’s…
daughter Allison is a free spirit who has thrown off the spiritual traditions of her family. She has also developed an unhealthy interest in Logan Macintyre - a stranger in town whose ulterior motive is unknown. Followed by "Shadows over Stonewycke". 2002.
Tessa McPhail has a bad habit—tagging—that lands her at New Directions, an alternative school in Montreal’s toughest neighborhood. The school…
is far from Tessa’s home and full of troubled kids. To make matters worse, half of every school day is devoted to boxing. The other students think boxing is cool. Not Tessa, who cannot handle violence of any kind. But when a neighbour starts a petition to have New Directions closed down, Tessa discovers something worth fighting for, both in and out of the ring. For junior and senior high readers. 2014.
Arriving in Dawson City, Yukon, journalist Jo Silver investigates the suicide of a local politician, a suicide that begins to…
look more and more like a murder. Before long, Jo becomes a suspect. Winner of the 2015 Unhanged Arthur Ellis Award for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel. 2016.
Hannah Swensen, amateur sleuth and boutique bake store proprietor extraordinaire, is judging a dessert contest when fellow judge Coach Boyd…
Watson is found dead, face down in a delicate confection no less. Includes recipes. 2007.
It's just after Labour Day and the city is kicking back into gear. All eyes are on the hotly contested…
election for Toronto's next mayor and crime is the big issue. Greene is no stranger to the worst of what the city has to offer, but even he is unprepared for what happens next when he stumbles upon a horrific homicide. c2013.
Outside a busy downtown Toronto doughnut shop on a snowy November evening, gunshots ring out and a young boy is…
critically hurt. Detective Ari Greene is soon on scene, investigating: how many shots were fired, by how many guns, seen by how many witnesses? With grieving parents and a city hungry for justice, the pressure is on to convict the man accused of this horrible crime. Against this tidal wave of indignation, defense counsel Nancy Parish finds herself defending her oldest and most difficult client, but does anyone know the whole story? Includes sex, strong language and violence. 2012.
Twelve-year-old Koby, who has lost a foot in an accident, sees a chance to prove her self-reliance to her parents…
when she tries to rescue two stranded pilot whales near her home in the Florida Keys. Grades 5-8. 1996.
North Carolina judge Deborah Knott helps detective Dwight Bryant investigate the murder of a Colleton County attorney’s promiscuous wife, who…
was found strangled in a room of a local motel. Meanwhile, a second killer, Hurricane Fran, is threatening the coast. Sequel to "Home fires", followed by "Uncommon clay". c2000.
Íso, a young Guatemalan woman working at a fertility clinic, becomes the secret lover of the resident American doctor, Eric…
Mann. But Dr. Mann decides to return to the US, and before Íso can tell Dr. Mann that she is pregnant, he is gone. After the birth of her daughter, the baby is taken from her. The director of the clinic informs Íso that her child is in America. Determined to reclaim her stolen daughter, Íso makes her way north through Mexico, eventually crossing illegally into a United States divided into military zones. Travelling without documentation, and with little money, Íso descends into a world full of danger. In a place of shifting boundaries, Íso must determine who she can trust and how much, aware that she might lose her daughter forever. 2016.
Born of an adulterous affair in London, England, Marcel grows up in the 1960s, haunted by memories of his bohemian…
mother, and desperate to know who his real parents are. When Marcel eventually uncovers the shattering truth, his entire world is rearranged. Now, as his fiftieth birthday approaches, Marcel is asked to take care of his friend’s eleven-year-old daughter, Iris, and prodded by her sharp-eyed company, he reflects on his own bittersweet childhood and the experiences that have shaped him. Includes sex, violence and strong language. 2012.
Nineteen science fiction and fantasy authors tackle the division between mental health and mental illness; how the interplay between our…
minds' quirks and the diverse societies and cultures we live in can set us apart, or must be concealed, or become unlikely strengths. 2016.
After 17 year-old Bridget Murphy gives birth and puts her baby up for adoption the doctors decide she is apathetic…
and needs to remain in the psychiatric ward of the children's hospital. There she meets five seriously disturbed teenagers and a number of wan children. When she is sent home for Christmas she must face her own family's many eccentricities. Some strong language. 1998.
Claire Delaney left her convent after eleven years as a nun. Now married with grown children, she explores the complicated…
territory of middle age. Some of the stories depict actual or emotional pilgrimages to the past, as when Claire honours an unexpected summons from her former Mother Superior, now dying and wishing to see her. In the final story, she agrees to go on a television talk show to explain why she became a nun and why she abandoned that life. Sequel to "The golden thread". 1994.
The author tells the story of the raid to destroy the docks at St Nazaire so as to deny a…
berth to the German battleship Tirpitz. He describes the strategic situation, outlines the plan, and gives some background on the primary individuals involved before providing a highly-detailed account of the raid itself. 1998.
When he was a boy, Edward Dawes saw his grandfather murdered. Now, after a chance meeting, Dawes knows the murderer…
is alive and nearby, and he won't rest until the killer pays for his crime. Some descriptions of sex, explicit strong language and violence. 2009.