Pearl Serein is the most desired woman in town. Her lovers are the city's leading men. She breaks up marriages, and after she dumps her lovers, their careers go down the tubes. Celebrity gossip scribe Tommi Bonneau chronicles Pearl...
Death
- Author:Brooke, JohnSummary:
- Author:Raymond, Emily, Patterson, JamesSummary:
Sophia's kingdom is plunged into a nightmare when beasts and a great army march on her castle. The people will all perish unless Sophia can unlock an ancient secret.
- Author:MacLeod, Ian R.Summary:
"A man lies half-drowned on a Cornish beach at dawn in the furthest days of this century. The old woman discovers him, once a famous concert violinist, is close to death herself - or a new kind of life she can barely contemplate. Does...
- Author:Banville, JohnSummary:
The year is 1957, and the Catholic Church rules Ireland with an iron fist. Detective Inspector St. John Strafford is summoned to County Wexford to investigate the murder of a parish priest, found dead at the home of local artistocrats...
- Author:Hall, Sarah, Hobbs, PeterSummary:
“What else is there?” — Alice Munro, on why so much of her work deals with the twin themes of sex and death. The drive for life — for survival and reproduction — and the drive for death — for violence and self-destruction — are the two...
- Author:Coerr, EleanorSummary:
Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
- Author:Guay-Poliquin, ChristianSummary:
When the electricity inexplicably goes out nationwide, the mundanities of life gradually shift to the rigours of survival. In this post-apocalyptic setting, an unnamed mechanic jumps into his beat-up car and drives east, journeying 4,...
- Author:Bowler, TimSummary:
Knowing that he is dying, Jess's grandfather insists on returning to the river he had known as a boy to finish a special painting and fulfill a life-long dream.
- Author:Johnson, LeahSummary:
Three days. Two girls. One life-changing music festival. Toni is grieving the loss of her roadie father and needing to figure out where her life will go from here--and she's desperate to get back to loving music. Olivia is a...
- Author:Cotton, Ralph W.Summary:
Lawrence "Fast Larry" Shaw was the quickest gun alive until his beloved Rosa died. Turning to the bottle for solace, he takes a job helping a widow tend her ranch. But when the Barrows Brothers Gang tears a bloody trail across his path...
- Author:Walsch, Neale Donald, Saint-Germain, MichelSummary:
Inspirant, ce chef-d’œuvre de réconfort et de compassion explore les ultimes questions de l’existence et de la transcendance. L’expérience appelée « la mort » fascine l’humanité au plus haut point, suscitant à la fois de la frayeur et...
- Author:Okorafor, NnediSummary:
"She's the adopted daughter of the Angel of Death. Beware of her. Mind her. Death guards her like one of its own." The day Fatima forgot her name, Death paid a visit. From hereon in she would be known as Sankofa???a name...
- Author:Harrigan, StephenSummary:
Exiled to Texas with his grown daughter, sculptor Francis "Gil" Gilheaney is commissioned to create a statue for a man who recently lost his son in WWI. But as work on the statue progresses, secrets slowly reveal themselves and Gil's...
- Author:Lim, ElizabethSummary:
What if Mulan had to travel to the Underworld? When Captain Shang is mortally wounded by Shan Yu in battle, Mulan must travel to the Underworld, Diyu, in order to save him from certain death. But King Yama, the ruler of Diyu, is not...
- Author:Stevenson, RobinSummary:
It's 1963, and Jack's family is still reeling from the SIDS death of his baby sister. Adrift in his own life, Jack is convinced that setting a world record will bring his father back to his senses and his mother back to life. But world...
- Author:Blais, Marie-Claire, Spencer, NigelSummary:
With this astounding fourth novel in her ongoing series of contemporary masterpieces (These Festive Nights, Thunder and Light, Augustino and the Choir of Destruction, and Rebecca, Born in the Maelstrom), Marie-Claire Blais invites us...
- Author:Leon, DonnaSummary:
In the sixth book featuring Donna Leon's ever-charming and sympathetic protagonist, Commissario Guido Brunetti comes to the aid of a young nursing sister who has had five patients unexpectedly die and decides to leave her convent....
- Author:Langlois, JocelyneSummary:
Suicide ou meurtre? Jacinthe décède le jour de son 30e anniversaire. Son fiancé Jérôme, en état de choc, n'y comprend rien. Le Coroner a tranché : suicide. Jérôme refuse cette conclusion et convainc son meilleur ami Jean...
- Author:Zorn, ClaireSummary:
In this award-winning novel, Hannah's journey through bullying and grief shows just how long old wounds can take to heal Hannah's world is in pieces, and she doesn't need the school counselor to tell her she has deep-seated...
- Author:Coleman, BrittaSummary:
Mark Reynolds is an up-and-coming minister in an affluent Houston church and Amanda is the girl of his dreams. The outlook for his future is extremely bright until Amanda tells him that she is pregnant. The newlyweds are tormented with...