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In Rutland Place, a lost locket becomes the key to deadly secrets that lurk behind the opulent facade of one…
of London's most exclusive neighbourhoods. Sequel to "Resurrection row", followed by "Bluegate Fields". 2004.
California PI Kinsey Millhone is hired by Daisy Sullivan to investigate her mother's disappearance. Violet Sullivan never returned from a…
Fourth of July fireworks display thirty-four years ago when Daisy was six. Some descriptions of sex, violence and strong language. Bestseller. Sequel to "R is for ricochet" (DC26167). 2006. (Kinsey Millhone mysteries ; 19)
Diego fled the coca pits of the jungle and was taken in by the Ricardo family, coca farmers (cocaleros) who…
grow the plant that the native people of Bolivia have used for centuries as a tea and medicine. But coca can also be made into an illegal drug, cocaine, and now the Bolivian government has set out to destroy the country's coca crops. The Ricardos and thousands of other cocaleros organize a massive protest, while Diego, though loyal to his new friends, wants to return to his family. Sequel to "I am a taxi" (DC31106). Some descriptions of violence. Grades 5-8. 2007. (The cocalero novels ; 2)
Spunky, young Ruth Priggish is on the run from an 80-year-old suitor. Her only hope of eluding him is to…
seek help from an unwilling protector, U.S. Marshall Dylan McCall. c2002.
The author, herself an anthropologist, depicts Benedict's life as a pattern of personal searching. A student of Franz Boaz and…
the teacher of Margaret Mead, anthropologist Benedict is known especially for two classics, "Patterns of Culture" and "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword." 1983.
Son of a feared fighting man, Barnabas Sackett inherited his father's fiery temper, sense of justice and warrior skills. Declared…
an outlaw in his native England, Barnabas set his daring sights on the opportunities of the New World. The ruthless piracy of the open seas and the unknown dangers of the savage American wilderness lay before him. And so did the thrill of discovery and the chance to establish a bold new future if he survived. 1985. c1974. (Sacketts ; 1)
Sabrina's the new girl in town and she's already made enemies. Jenny wants to be friends, but Libby, the most…
popular girl in school has put the hex on Sabrina. And Libby's friends won't give her the time of day. Thank heavens for Harvey! He's really special and seems to think that Sabrina is too. It's almost enough to convince Sabrina that everything is OK, then her aunts tell her the terrible truth: she's a witch! Grades 5-8. 1997.
Forever shackled together by their alleged crimes, Sacco and Vanzetti were contrasting personalities, but both were militants who when arrested…
possessed guns and ammo. Watson quotes their trial record as he dramatizes questionable aspects of the proceeding, such as conflicting witnesses and a prejudicial judge. Still, Sacco and Vanzetti's alibis were not airtight, and questions remain about their knowledge of anarchist terrorism that run parallel to the doubtful justice of their convictions and executions. Some descriptions of violence. 2007.
A killer loose on the streets of Washington, D.C., has earned the nickname "The Priest," since he strangles his victims…
with a clerical scarf and leaves a note forgiving them of their sins. Psychiatrist Teresa Court offers to help find the killer and almost becomes a victim. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2000.
In the remote wastes of Greenland, a young scientist has unearthed a 50,000 year-old meteorite known as the Sacred Stone,…
which he soon discovers possesses potentially catastrophic radioactive power. The astounding find places him in the crossfire of two opposing terrorist groups who seek the stone for themselves. Caught between two militant factions bent on wholesale slaughter, Juan Cabrillo and his ship of high-tech mercenaries must fight to protect the scientist and the Sacred Stone - and prevent the outbreak of World War III. c2004.
A tale of the mid-eighteenth-century slave trade. In 1752, William Kemp has a cargo ship built to transport slaves from…
Africa to the West Indies. Shipboard life is terrifying. The ship is becalmed, the crew and slaves sicken and die, the ship's doctor leads a mutiny, and the remaining crew and slaves find shelter on the uninhabited coast of Florida. Some violence. Booker Prize 1992.
Sable Island, known as "the graveyard of the Atlantic" because of the 500 ships wrecked off its shores, has become…
better known in recent years as the home of wild horses. 1981.
A fictional biography of Sacajawea, the Shoshoni Indian girl who accompanied Lewis and Clark to the Pacific in the early…
nineteenth century. Traces the drama of her life from childhood to old age, and describes Indian lore and rituals and the primitive routines of daily survival. c1978.
In 1952 at the age of six, Mary Ward, the child of a poor farming family in Suffolk, has a…
revelation. She isn't Mary. She's a boy. An inexplicable mistake has been made and, somehow, it will have to be rectified. So begins Mary's heroic struggle to change gender, while around her others too fight to discover a place of meaning in a savage and confusing world. Includes strong language. 1993.
Jennifer Talldeer, also known as Kestrel-Hunts-Alone, is an Osage shaman-in-training as well as a private investigator in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She…
is looking into an accident at a construction site on which an Indian burial ground has been discovered. As she begins her probe, Jennifer suspects a conspiracy. She also questions why her grandfather has not made her a full shaman. Some strong language and some violence. 1994.
Painter Henri Toulouse-Lautrec and baker-turned-painter Lucien Lessard investigate the suspicious death of their friend Vincent van Gogh. Lessard and Toulouse-Lautrec…
are soon on the trail of the mysterious Colorman, who sold Van Gogh and others the sacred blue pigment, ultramarine. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2012.
A "pilgrim's progress is both an interior journey, a spiritual exercise, and a physical journey toward an actual site imbued…
with a divine character." Shrady describes the six routes he travelled in such countries as Bosnia, India, and the Holy Land that took him to sites encompassing Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, and Islamic traditions. 1999.
Wildlife photographer Will Rabjohns is attacked by a six-hundred-pound female bear and slips into a coma. While he's unconscious, long-buried…
memories from his childhood return, including the evil perpetrated by Jacob Steep and Rosa McGee. Will recovers to explore unresolved issues. Some descriptions of violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 1996.
Sabriel is the daughter of the Mage Abhorsen. Ever since she was a tiny child, she has lived outside the…
Wall of the Old Kingdom - far away from the uncontrolled power of Free Magic, and away from the Dead who won't stay dead. But now her father is missing and Sabriel is called upon to cross back into that world to find him. Leaving the safety of the school she has known as home, Sabriel embarks upon a quest fraught with supernatural dangers, with companions she is unsure of - for nothing is as it seems within the boundary of the Old Kingdom. Followed by "Lirael" (DC37123). For junior high readers. 2003. (Old Kingdom series ; 1)