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Secret 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. 2003The 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. 2001Revenge 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 couvSouvenirs d'autrefois: 1, 1916 (Souvenirs d'autrefois ; #1)
Par Rosette Laberge. 2015
" 1916. Une vieille fille pour s'occuper des parents; un fils qui aime un peu trop la bouteille; un autre,…
ordonné prêtre malgré lui; une mère qui en impose autant qu'elle peut... voilà un portrait partiel de la famille Pelletier. Entre l'installation de l'électricité au domicile et les nombreuses conséquences d'une guerre qui fait pourtant rage de l'autre côté de l'océan, son quotidien n'a rien d'ordinaire. D'un côté, Joseph tente de reprendre le contrôle de la maisonnée, de l'autre, sa femme Lucille s'attaque sans aucune retenue à quiconque veut lui mettre des bâtons dans les roues: le pouvoir est sa raison de vivre et elle est prête à tout pour le conserver. Bien que tous aient droit aux foudres de la matriarche à un moment ou à un autre, Gertrude est depuis toujours celle qui écope le plus. Elle doit se résigner à être exclue des préférés de sa mère, à l'inverse de Marcella ou Adjutor, à qui Lucille pardonne tout... "Les noces de soie (France de toujours et d'aujourd'hui.)
Par Jean-Paul Malaval. 2012
" Sur les monts du Vivarais, en Ardèche, depuis des générations, les Andromas élèvent dans leur ferme des cocons de…
mûrier pour produire de la soie. Seigneur en son domaine, Théodore Andromas ambitionne de voir son fils Silvius lui succéder, mais le jeune homme se prend à rêver des lumières de la ville quand il tombe amoureux de Roxane, la fille d'un riche soyeux lyonnais. Silvius prend pied sur les pentes de la Croix-Rousse parmi le petit monde besogneux des ouvriers de la soie et, pour conquérir Roxane, parvient à se faire une place dans le milieu très fermé des négociants. Entre la jeune femme, belle, capricieuse, et le fils de paysan plein d'ambition, la greffe peut-elle prendre ? " -- 4e de couvThe quilter's legacy: an Elm Creek Quilts novel
Par Jennifer Chiaverini. 2003
While preparing for her wedding to Andrew, Sylvia searches for her late mother Eleanor's heirloom quilts but discovers they were…
sold decades ago. Pursuing leads to find them, she learns more about Eleanor's past and events touching her, such as the sinking of the Titanic and the flu epidemic of 1918. 2003Cold pursuit
Par T. Jefferson Parker. 2003
San Diego detective Tommy McMichael investigates the murder of elderly Portuguese millionaire Pete Braga--even though McMichael's Irish family has had…
a longtime feud with the Bragas. As McMichael uncovers the old man's secrets, he falls in love with the main suspect. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2003Blood of my blood
Par Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Anne Blythe Meriwether. 2002
In this autobiographical first novel--unpublished until 2002--by the Pulitzer Prize winner for The Yearling (DB 33466), the author chronicles her…
growth as an artist. Includes portrayals of her sympathetic father; her cold, domineering mother; and some pioneer ancestors. 1928A place of hiding (Inspector Lynley Ser.)
Par Elizabeth George. 2003
Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley's colleague, forensic scientist Simon St. James, comes to the aid of his wife's American friend…
China River. China is accused of murdering millionaire Guy Brouard on the island of Guernsey after she and her half-brother deliver a package of blueprints to him there. Strong language and some violence. 2003In her shoes: a novel (Cannie Shapiro Ser. #Bk. 1)
Par Jennifer Weiner. 2002
Estranged sisters Maggie, who is dyslexic, and Rose Feller, an attorney, were left motherless as children and haven't seen their…
maternal grandmother, Ella Hirsch, in twenty years. Widowed Ella searches for her granddaughters, and the three attempt to become a family again. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2002