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Rubicon paints a vivid portrait of the Republic at the climax of its greatness which would herald the catastrophe of…
its fall. It is a story of incomparable drama. This was the century of Julius Caesar, the gambler whose addiction to glory led him to the banks of the Rubicon, and beyond; of Cicero, whose defence of freedom would make him a byword for eloquence; of Spartacus, the slave who dared to challenge a superpower; of Cleopatra, the queen who did the same. This text brings to life this strange and unsettling civilization, with its extremes of ambition and self-sacrifice, bloodshed and desire. 2004.
Ex-Miami policewoman turned mystery writer Hannah Keller discovers coded clues to her parents' murder inside one of her books. She…
soon uncovers the truth - that she's a decoy in an FBI hunt for a serial killer - and her fragile son's life is in danger. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller 2000.
As the Second World War begins, Rowan is diagnosed as schizophrenic and sent away to a hospital where the latest…
treatments are available. But the treatments are experimental still - and nobody predicts the effect they will have on Rowan. For junior high readers. 2009.
High school senior Travis Cody feels responsible for his football team's one loss of the season. But he has a…
chance to redeem himself in the big championship game. On the day of the playoff, Travis finds the confidence to overcome his fears and look forward to the future. For junior and senior high and older readers. c1997.
Born in Stalin's Russia, Rudolf Nureyev was ballet's first pop icon. His achievements and conquests became legendary: he rose out…
of Tatar peasant poverty to become the Kirov's thrilling maverick star; slept with his beloved mentor's wife; defected to the West in 1961; sparked Rudimania across the globe and much more. 2008.
Attorney Marta Richter has argued persuasively on behalf of her client, Elliot Steere, who is charged with murdering a homeless…
man. But as they wait for the verdict, arrogant millionaire Steere lets it slip that it wasn't self-defence after all. Knowing she is risking her life, Richter attempts to gather last-minute proof that Steere is guilty. Strong language and violence. c1997.
The author describes her introduction to the English countryside, as well as to the village "characters" she and her husband…
meet on their quest to find a country home of their own. 1982.
Solicitor Rosa Epton has vowed never to work with Malcolm Palfrey again, yet here she was, helping him defend a…
young couple charged with malicious damage. He was elusive as she prepared the case, culminating in his non appearance on the day of the trial. Then Palfrey was discovered on a park bench with a bullet in his brain and a revolver beside him. Was it suicide or murder? 1990.
Exploring their new country home, Clare and Richard suddenly find themselves seventy years in the past, a visit that changes…
the course of many lives, including their own. Grades 5-8. 1975.
In this version of Beauty and the Beast, Beauty can make things grow, especially roses. Her talents and gifts help…
her father and sisters survive bankruptcy, and help her to love the Beast. Ultimately Beauty must decide if she should restore the Beast to his human form. For junior and senior high readers. 1997. Uniform title: Beauty and the beast.
After Aggie's mother loses her job, she and her four children head for some wilderness land she has inherited. The…
family becomes stranded in a forest possessed by the evil Count Beckwids. Grades 4-7. 1985.
Nostalgic biography by the daughter of the movie star. The son of a silk merchant, Colman dabbled in amateur theatricals…
before seeing action in World War I. His career as an actor was launched in films with his appearance opposite Lillian Gish in 1923. 1975.
Set in mid-nineteenth-century Victorian England in the mining town of Wigan, this story involves Jonathan Blair, an American explorer. Blair…
agrees to help coal baron Bishop Hannay find his daughter's fiance, who disappeared on the same day that an explosion in one of Hannay's coal mines killed seventy-six people. Winner of the 1998 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1996.
On his wedding night in 1898, Griffith Smolders, unnerved by the conjugal duties that await him, jumps out the window…
and flees into the night, leaving behind his bride. When the immodest and beautiful Avice realizes she has been abandoned, she swears she will exact a suitably nasty revenge. 2002.
Tom Allen travels with his family and alone, from Halifax to the interior of British Columbia, riding everything from a…
two-car dayliner held together with duct tape to a luxury rail cruiser through the Rockies that is packed with wealthy tourists. Along the way, he meets honeymooners and abandoned spouses, ordinary folk and deranged passengers, and veteran railwaymen who sustain pride in their work despite the massive cuts to their industry. Allen weaves his own memories of railroad travel with a family narrative past and present, all the while conjuring the drama, the disappointments, and the magic of Canada's railway history. 2001.
Former Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson explores the immigrant experience through the people who have helped transform Canada, including an Ismaili doctor,…
a Doukhobor farmer, a Holocaust survivor, and a Vietnam War deserter. What drove them to become the kind of people they have become? What would have happened to them if Canada had not taken them in? What have they added to our national life as we go forward in the twenty-first century? 2011.
A series of disasters threaten to ruin Sally and Fred Carpenter's holiday on the Norfolk Broads, until they meet up…
with a boating fraternity and a young girl named Rosie. The husband and wife decide to help Rosie to a better life. 2000.
Orphaned Polly Anna was sent to the workhouse when her mother died. Helped by her best friend, Jonty, she ran…
away with the fairground folk and eventually became a Romany girl. 1998.
Rooney was the only unmarried one in the dustbin gang. He had worked as a dustman for fifteen of his…
thirty five years and his mates all agreed he was too canny to be caught, already having avoided four widows and two spinsters in ten years. Rooney liked life to follow a pattern; that and his independence were what made him tick. However, when he moved into Ma Howlett's place all that went out of the window and life became more complicated than he had ever imagined. 1993.