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10th grade: a novel
Par Joseph Weisberg. 2003
High school sophomore Jeremiah Reskin keeps a journal detailing his adventures in his New Jersey hometown and family life with…
his parents and two sisters. Jeremiah reminisces about the girls he falls for, his soccer team, and his jaunts with the guys. Strong language. For senior high readers. Alex Award. 2002Lost
Par Joy Fielding. 2003
Toronto divorcée Cindy Carver's twenty-one-year-old daughter, Julia, fails to return home after an audition with a famous Hollywood director. Cindy…
suspects all her acquaintances in the disappearance--even her ex-husband. She feels remorse that she never really connected with her self-absorbed firstborn. Some strong language. 2003June in winter
Par Patricia Anne Phillips. 2003
At the hospital where African American real estate broker Tracey Woods learns her husband, Donald, died in an auto accident,…
a stranger informs her that Donald was having an affair. Grief becomes anger as Tracey moves on with her life, helped by her family and another chance at love. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2003Liars and saints: a novel
Par Maile Meloy. 2003
This story follows three generations of the Catholic Santerre family from WWII to 2000. The family is driven by jealousy…
and love; an unspoken tradition of deceit is passed from generation to generation. When tragedy shatters their precarious domestic lives, it takes astonishing courage and compassion to bring them back together. Descriptions of sex and strong languageLucca
Par Jens Christian Grøndahl. 2002
Thirty-two-year-old actress Lucca Montale loses her sight in a near-fatal car accident. Over time she becomes close to her recently…
divorced doctor, Robert. The two fall in love while reliving tense family relationships and troubled romances in the past. Some explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. 1998Secret father
Par James Carroll. 2003
Germany, 1961. Three American teenagers--Michael, Rick, and Kit--venture into East Berlin, where they are detained by the secret police. Michael's…
father and Rick's German mother rush to rescue them. But Rick has information that will endanger everyone. Some explicit descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 2003Say when
Par Elizabeth Berg. 2003
Frank Griffin's wife, Ellen, informs him one morning that she has fallen in love with another man--and wants a divorce.…
Numbed by the revelation but unwilling to leave his eight-year-old daughter, Griffin refuses to move out, creating an awkward living situation rectified only when he reevaluates life and love. Some strong language. 2003The deep and other stories
Par Mary Swan. 2003
Canadian writer's evocative collection of fourteen short stories of time and emotion, love and loss. Includes O. Henry Prize-winning "The…
Deep" about twin sisters who volunteer to tend soldiers in France at the close of World War I, and other stories, many of them rooted in history. 2003The farther you run
Par Davida Hurwin. 2003
Eighteen-year-old Samantha has a hard time adjusting to life without her friend, Juliana, who died of cancer in A Time…
for Dancing (BR 10714). But Samantha meets Mona in summer school. They graduate, get jobs, boyfriends, and an apartment, and Samantha learns to cope. Strong language. For senior high readers. 2003The amateur marriage: a novel
Par Anne Tyler. 2004
Baltimore residents Michael Anton and Pauline Barclay fall in love at first sight at the start of World War II…
and marry impulsively. Remaining completely incompatible despite increasing prosperity, they spend the next five decades making themselves, and their three children, miserable. Bestseller. 2004Christmas, present
Par Jacquelyn Mitchard. 2003
Elliott Banner and his wife, Laura, are driving home after celebrating their fourteenth wedding anniversary on December 23 when Laura…
experiences a painful headache. At the hospital, they learn Laura suffered a brain aneurysm and has only hours to live. Their family gathers around her bedside for a last Christmas Eve together. 2003Zigzag
Par Ellen Wittlinger. 2003
When her boyfriend deserts her for the summer seventeen-year-old Robin drives from Iowa to California with her widowed aunt and…
two nasty younger cousins. The grieving family fights along the way, but Robin helps console them and also begins to become more independent. Some strong language. For senior high readers. 2003Phantom waltz
Par Catherine Anderson. 2001
Rancher Ryan Kendrick of Oregon falls in love with paraplegic Bethany Coulter. Bethany was injured during a barrel-racing contest eight…
years ago and resists romance. But Ryan puts aside all of her obstacles and continues pursuing her. Sequel to Baby Love (DB 50821). Explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2001The birth of Venus: a novel
Par Sarah Dunant. 2003
Renaissance Florence. Sixteen-year-old Alessandra Cecchi, the educated, artistic daughter of a wealthy merchant, is forced to marry an older man,…
who promises her freedom. Upon discovering his true intentions, she turns for love to an artist commissioned by her father. Some explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. Bestseller. 2003Saul and Patsy
Par Charles Baxter. 2003
Newlyweds Saul Bernstein and his wife, Patsy, settle in a Michigan town where Saul works as a high school teacher.…
While Patsy is distracted by motherhood, Saul struggles with chronic disappointment and a student's ill-fated obsession. Descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 2003Mahalia
Par Joanne Horniman. 2003
Australian teens Matt and Emmy drop out of school and have a baby girl, Mahalia. After five months Emmy is…
overwhelmed and leaves Matt, a musician, struggling as a single father. He and Mahalia forge a life together. Then Emmy returns. Some strong language. For senior high readers. 2001The rescuer
Par Dee Henderson. 2003
Following The Healer (BR 14407) paramedic Stephen O'Malley leaves his job due to burnout, grief from losing his sister, and…
loss of faith. But when his blind friend, Meghan, is threatened by a gang of jewel thieves he rescues her and rediscovers his roots. 2003Revenge of the middle-aged woman
Par Elizabeth Buchan. 2002
After twenty-five years of domestic bliss, Rose Lloyd loses both her husband and her job at a London newspaper to…
her young assistant. Devastated, Rose reexamines life, motherhood, and love as she fights to move on with her unexpected independence. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2002Shifting Calder wind
Par Janet Dailey. 2003
Texas. When Chase Calder regains consciousness, he has amnesia but is sure someone tried to kill him. Chase and his…
rescuer, Laredo Smith, decide to let everyone except his daughter-in-law, Jessy, think he is dead while they search for the shooter. Sequel to Green Calder Grass (RC 54999, BR 14312). Some strong language. 2003Ce pays de rêve: roman historique] / 2, La déchirure (Ce pays de rêve. #2.)
Par Michel Langlois. 2012
" En 1670, à l'âge de 20 ans, Marcellin Perré, le fils d'Arnaud, se retrouve en France pour apprendre le…
même métier que son père, charpentier de moulin. Mais un vieil oncle change ses plans en le forçant à travailler comme clerc à son étude de notaire du Havre. Bientôt, il reçoit une lettre d'un père jésuite qui l'invite à revenir en Nouvelle-France pour remplir le rôle de notaire dans une seigneurie située non loin de Québec. A l'insu de son oncle, Marcellin quitte le Havre et traverse l'océan, avec dans ses maigres bagages son livre fétiche, Les Fables de La Fontaine. " -- 4e de couv