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As Chandelle and Marvin Hutchins deal with growing financial and emotional pressures in their marriage, Cousin Dior comes to visit.…
Beautiful but irresponsible, Dior loves excitement and will use anyone - even Chandelle and Marvin - to get it. 2007.
To keep her Greenwich Village flat, former pop idol Heather Wells balances two jobs: working for her PI housemate Cooper…
Cartwright (her secret crush) and serving as an assistant college dorm director. When a female freshman dies suspiciously, Heather undertakes another vocation--spunky girl detective. 2016.
Baltimore in 1966 is a quiet, blue-collar town. But all that is about to change for one group of young…
men. Bobby drops out of law school during his final year. Neil heads for the war in Vietnam, but goes AWOL and comes home as an antiwar protester. Ben marries the Cadillac dealer's daughter and half-heartedly begins his new life as son-in-law to the boss. Turko and Eggy discover the decadence of the '60s, but struggle to adapt. 2003.
When Nick Stranahan - a 42-year-old private investigator with an unusual record of marital failure - murders a would-be assailant…
by skewering him with the razor-sharp bill of a stuffed marlin, he sets off a roller coaster ride of events that will drop-kick him into the deep slime of Miami's prosperous and sleazy plastic surgery industry. 1993.
Former pop star Heather Wells has settled nicely into her new life as assistant dorm director at New York College--a…
career that does not require her to drape her size-12 body in embarrassingly skimpy outfits. She can even cope (sort of) with her rocker ex-boyfriend's upcoming nuptials, which the press has dubbed the Celebrity Wedding of the Decade. But she's definitely having a hard time dealing with the situation in the dormitory kitchen--where a cheerleader has lost her head on the first day of the semester. Actually, her head is accounted for--it's her torso that's AWOL. Surrounded by hysterical students--with her ex-con father on her doorstep and her ex-love bombarding her with unwanted phone calls--Heather welcomes the opportunity to play detective, again. 2016.
When a vampire serial killer sends Anita Blake a grisly souvenir from Las Vegas, she has to warn Sin City's…
local authorities what they're really dealing with. Sequel to "Blood noir", followed by "Flirt". 2011, c2009.
Jake was devastated when, after a whirlwind romance with Natalie, she left to marry an old boyfriend. Six years later…
Jake sees an obituary for Natalie’s husband and attends the funeral. When Jake realizes the widow is not Natalie, his past begins to unravel. Includes violence and strong language. 2013.
Ever since Jem's sister Gracie ran away from home, Jem has wondered whether or not she is to blame. She…
said something to Gracie before her disappearance, and it's preying on her mind. But, one summer, a series of spooky coincidences makes Jem wonder if there's more to Gracie's disappearance than she thought. Grades 4-7. 2011.
These stories provide a glimpse of the physical and spiritual world of the Micmac people. Grades 5-8 and older readers.…
Taped with: How Raven freed the moon by Anne Cameron. This Northwest Coast myth tells how Raven, the trickster, freed the moon from the old fisherwoman's cedar chest. Grades 3-6. Taped with: Orca's song by Anne Cameron. This Indian myth tells how Orca, the killer whale, got its black-and-white colouring and its beautiful song. Grades 3-6. c1989.
On Lansdown Hill, near Bath, England, a battle between Roundheads and Cavaliers that took place over 350 years ago is…
annually reenacted. Two of the reenactors discover a skeleton that is female, headless, and only about twenty years old. One of them, a professor who played a Cavalier, is later found murdered. In the course of his investigation, Peter Diamond butts heads with the group of vigilantes who call themselves the Lansdown Society, discovering in the process that his boss Georgina is a member. Sequel to "The secret hangman", followed by "Stagestruck". 2009.
Sixteen Civil War widows respond to a land speculator's promises of prime homesteads in a booming community, when his true…
motive is to bring women to the fledging mostly male community of Plum Grove, Nebraska. When the women meet the men who are waiting for them, they'll need all the courage they can muster to survive these unwanted circumstances - especially when they begin to discover that none of them is exactly who she appears to be. 2010.
When an Edinburgh car showroom is torched, leaving a fortune in luxury sports cars destroyed and one badly charred body,…
Skinner finds himself on the same side as a man he's been trying to nail while they both search for the man's wife's killer. Sequel to “Skinner’s ordeal”, followed by “Skinner’s ghosts”. 2010.
A plane has been blown up in the Scottish skies, with the British and American defence secretaries amongst the victims.…
Chief Constable Bob Skinner finds himself with the greatest challenge of his career, as he tries to find the bombers. Includes strong language. Sequel to “Skinner’s round”, followed by “Skinner’s mission”. 2009.
A golfing tournament is being staged for the opening of an elite country club. However, the discovery of a body…
and a legendary witches' curse involves Assistant Chief Constable Skinner in a dramatic and unexpected investigation. Sequel to “Skinner’s trail”, followed by “Skinner’s ordeal”. 2009.
A man has been found knifed in a luxury villa. The victim had run a chain of launderettes, saunas and…
pubs throughout the city, but for some time the police suspected these to be the front for a drug distribution network. Includes strong language and sex. Sequel to "Skinner's festival". 2009.
Suffering the strain of a marriage on the rocks, the last thing Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner needs is for…
his private life to be plastered across the front pages of a sleazy tabloid. To make matters worse, when a woman, already linked to Skinner by tragedy, is found battered, raped and strangled, with her young son a kidnap victim, his search for the killer becomes a personal quest. When a second brutal crime, and new allegations about the detective himself, make simultaneous headlines, he finds himself at the centre of a deadly maze of conspiracy. Includes violence. Sequel to “Skinner’s mission”, followed by “Murmuring the judges”. 2001.
An explosion rocks Princes Street in the midst of the Edinburgh Festival. Responsibility is claimed by a group supposedly demanding…
political separation from Britain, but as atrocities escalate, Head of CID Bob Skinner realizes this is no gang of fanatics, but a highly professional team. Includes sex and strong language. Sequel to "Skinner's rules". 1994.
Teenage superspy Alex Rider travels from a reconnaissance mission at Wimbledon Tennis Championships to an investigation on Cayo Esqueleto, Cuba.…
He begins to make chilling links between several deaths, an illegal nuclear weapons deal and General Sarov's plans for the future of the world. Some strong language. Sequel to "Point blank" (DC26006), followed by "Eagle strike" (DC29161). For junior high readers. 2002. (Alex Rider adventure ; 3)
The trouble started when Guy Doniphan decided to move to Colorado and set up Square D ranch. His wife hated…
the new country from the start and her hatred was soon justified when she was brutally raped by some Indians and lost her unborn child. Then the Roan Creek cattle were driven onto Square D rangeland, presenting a challenge that had to be answered. Guy and his elder son Floyd tried to find a peaceful solution but Cashman, brought up in the wake of his mother's bitterness, had other ideas. 1996. (Black horse westerns)