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From the notebooks of Melanin Sun
Par Jacqueline Woodson. 1995
For the most part, thirteen-year-old Melanin Sun is happy living with his single mother, hanging out with his friends, and…
dreaming about a girl. But when forced to come to terms with differences in sexual preferences and race, Melanin Sun turns to his journal, where he records thoughts he can't speak out loud. For junior and senior high readers. Coretta Scott King AwardStress
Par Loren Estleman. 1996
Companion to Edsel (BR 10156). It is New Year's Eve 1972 when a Detroit cop moonlighting at a posh party…
shoots and kills three intruders. On the case is officer Charlie Battle, who knows the department is protecting its own yet doggedly pursues the truth up to the startling courtroom climax. Strong language and descriptions of sexThe cat who tailed a thief
Par Lilian Braun. 1997
A rash of petty thievery, newcomers in Pickax, a wedding, and a couple of murders Down Below keep Qwilleran, who…
has bought a condo for the winter, and his cats, KoKo and Yum Yum, busy during the holiday season. Bestseller"G" is for gumshoe
Par Sue Grafton. 1990
Kinsey Millhone has just taken the job of locating Irene Gersh's mother, Agnes, who has not been heard from for…
six months. Then Kinsey learns there is a contract out on her own life. As she pursues Agnes, Kinsey works under the watchful and romantically interested eye of security expert Robert Dietz. Strong language. BestsellerForteresses et autres refuges (Collection III)
Par Rafaële Germain. 2023
Il y a les souvenirs dont elle a hérité, ces histoires qui lui ont été tellement racontées qu'elles ont fini…
par faire partie intégrante de sa mémoire. Il y a les images floues qu'elle garde de son enfance et les récits à partir desquels elle s'est construite. Il y a aussi les souhaits qu'elle porte, des projections dans le futur qui prennent racine dans son passé. À travers l'histoire des premières années de sa mère et celle de ses dernières semaines, en passant par le souvenir des petits chaperons de toutes les couleurs que son père a imaginés pour elle enfant, Rafaële Germain tente de trouver des réponses à la question : que veut-on garder de ce que le monde a déposé en nous?Under my skin: a Hannah Wolfe mystery
Par Sarah Dunant. 1995
London private investigator Hannah Wolfe is hired when someone begins sabotaging Castle Dean, a women's health spa. Hannah soon identifies…
the staff member who put maggots in the yogurt and pulled other pranks to ruin business. But whoever paid the saboteur has also targeted the spa owner's plastic-surgeon husband and is still at large. Some strong language, some violence, and some explicit descriptions of sexThe edge of the crazies
Par Jamie Harrison. 1995
Archaeologist Jules Clement has returned to his hometown of Blue Deer, Montana, at the edge of the Crazy Mountains, where…
he follows in his late father's footsteps as sheriff. He finally has a case of substance when someone shoots screenwriter George Blackwater through his office window. George survives, but when his bitter wife becomes a target, she is less fortunate, which eliminates her as Clement's main suspect. Strong language and violenceThe hound of the Baskervilles: another adventure of Sherlock Holmes
Par Arthur Doyle. 1994
The evil of Sir Hugo, master of the lonely Baskerville manor on the moors, began the curse of the Baskervilles…
in the seventeenth century. Now, generations later, the legendary hound howls and Sir Charles Baskerville dies. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson move in to solve the crime. Includes introduction by editor W.W. Robson and Doyle's chronologyBay of sorrows
Par Gaylord Dold. 1995
For Deputy Sheriff Tom Poole, life has become as suffocating as the acrid and thick air on the Texas Gulf…
coast. He is tired of corpses, but he knows that the old Vietnamese fisherman shot through the head was not a suicide, contrary to the bloated sheriff's decree. Even clashes between local and Vietnamese shrimpers don't account for what Poole begins to uncover. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sexSpare parts
Par Rick Hanson. 1994
Ex-cop turned sculptor Adam McCleet lives in fear of his sister Margot. Now Margot is demanding that Adam find the…
latest of her many husbands, orthodontist Phillip Stang, who went to Seattle for a convention but failed to check in with her. This is so uncharacteristic of the staid Phil that Adam reluctantly agrees to go to Seattle to play detective. Strong language, violence, and explicit descriptions of sexWhen death comes stealing
Par Valerie Wesley. 1994
Now a private detective, Tamara Hayle quit her job on the police force when her young son, Jamal, was harassed…
by cops just because he was black. Her ex-husband, DeWayne Curtis, has four other sons all by different women. When two of the sons die, DeWayne begs Tamara to find out if someone killed them. Strong language, some violence, and some descriptions of sexMissing Joseph
Par Elizabeth George. 1993
When the St. Jameses visit Lancashire, they are shocked to learn that an acquaintance, the vicar, has died of poisoning.…
They are also disturbed because the constable handling the case is having an affair with Juliet Spence, the herbalist responsible for the "accidental" poisoning. But, since the vicar was trying to help Juliet with her troubled thirteen-year-old daughter, would she kill him? Strong language and explicit descriptions of sexApril and the Dragon Lady
Par Lensey Namioka. 1994
When April Chen is a junior in a Seattle high school, she begins dating Steve even though she knows her…
grandmother won't approve of a white boyfriend. Grandma's Chinese ways are tiresome, especially when she dotes on April's brother and widowed father and expects April to serve them all. When April's father decides to remarry and April begins to make plans for college, Grandma plots to stop them. For junior and senior high readersThe eye in the door
Par Pat Barker. 1994
London, 1918. As Britain faces defeat by Germany, pacifists and homosexuals are scapegoated as potential traitors. It is unfortunate for…
Lieutenant Billy Prior, a bisexual who has a split personality, that when he is released from Craiglockhart War Hospital, he is assigned to British Intelligence. Once again he needs the help of Dr. Rivers. Sequel to Regeneration (BR 10543). Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sexMurder at the God's gate: a Lord Meren mystery
Par Lynda Robinson. 1995
The young pharaoh Tutankhamun is beset by problems: a crumbling empire, invaders at the gates, and unrest within his court.…
Pharaoh's adviser, Lord Meren, suspects a conspiracy and uses ingenious investigative methods to uncover a plot that threatens the Egyptian empire. Sequel to Murder in the Place of Anubis (BR 10186)The valley of fear
Par Arthur Doyle. 1994
Sherlock Holmes grapples with the criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty to solve a foul murder that takes place in a Sussex…
manor house. The investigation uncovers an earlier and grimmer history of lawlessness and wholesale slaughter in a mining valley in the United States. Includes Doyle's chronology and an introduction by editor Owen Dudley EdwardsManila time
Par Jack Trolley. 1995
In this sequel to Balboa Firefly (BR 10531), detective sergeant Donahoo can't understand why a local crime boss is trying…
to bribe him. What Donahoo doesn't know is that his dead partner had been blackmailing the criminal and hinting that Donahoo was involved. Strong language, violence, and descriptions of sexOxford exit
Par Veronica Stallwood. 1994
Novelist Kate Ivory is asked to help identify who is stealing books from the Oxford Bodleian Library and deleting their…
records from the computer database. Posing as a cataloger, Kate investigates the handful of people with the necessary computer access. She also looks for a link to the recent murder of a library trainee. Meanwhile, a friend of Kate's is getting odd essays from a student in the creative writing class she teaches. Some violenceAna turns
Par Lisa Gornick. 2023
Nine years have passed since Ana Koehl had sex with her pot-addicted anesthesiologist husband; seven since she began an affair…
with a gonzo journalist. She's gratified by her work as a book doula but burdened by her belief that she need always be on call. Her elderly mother's birthday greeting is an inflation-adjusted calculation of the cost of raising Ana in a mice-infested house, her brother has hijacked the will of their recently deceased starchitect father, her adult child is changing rapidly before her eyes, and her best friend advocates for the truth in lies. Gazing out at the dark moat of Central Park from behind her desk, Ana sees that she can no longer postpone making peace with her past or confronting her present. Narrated by Ana and the key figures in her life—her husband, her brother, and her lover's wife, to name a few—Ana Turns spirals through issues from capital punishment to the dynamiting of the Bamiyan Buddhas, culminating in a watershed dinner party, with Ana's family members' true colors on full display. By day's end, the bounds of her own collaboration and forgiveness illuminated, Ana turns towards a vision of what she wants next in this blink of a lifeEnchanted hill
Par Emily Murphy. 2023
The year is 1930, and Cora McCavanagh is posing as a maid at Hollywood magnate Truman Byrd's legendary estate. She's…
closing in on the damning evidence she needs for a high-profile client. An aspiring PI, Cora was trained by her father, a former prison guard at the notorious Pelican Island, where she grew up surrounded by hardened criminals. And that's why she recognizes Jack Yates as soon as he walks through the door. The last time she saw him was on an ill-fated night that changed the course of her life and still haunts her more than a decade later. Cora never expected to see Jack again—and now a single misstep could cause both their secret identities to come crashing down. They strike a tentative truce to help each other during a week of parties overflowing with champagne and caviar. But there are puzzles hidden in every corner of Truman Byrd's labyrinthine estate, and if Cora is to finally learn the truth about Jack Yates, she must unravel a sinister history that the rich and powerful will do anything to keep concealed. Filled with intrigue and Old Hollywood glamour, Enchanted Hill is an unforgettable, sweepingly romantic novel set in a world you won't want to leave