Fiction for Adults
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Family stories (fiction)
BR74340, EB74340 Darkest hour by V. C. Andrews. 4
v. of braille. In this prequel to the Cutler series, Lillian Booth
spends her childhood tormented by her evil sister Emily. Lillian finds
solace in her invalid younger sister, her flighty mother, and her
friend Niles. But she cannot ignore what Emily has cruelly told her --
that she is actually the daughter of Emily's dead aunt, and that she
has brought bad luck to the family. Some strong language, some
violence, and explicit descriptions of sex. Followed by "Dawn".
Bestseller 1993. (Cutler family ; 1)
BR74018, EB74018 Lisey's story by Stephen King. 7
v. of braille. Maine. Lisey, the widow of prizewinning author Scott
Landon, hears her husband's voice while organizing his papers, caring
for her catatonic sister, and avoiding a stalker. Lisey enters Scott's
imaginary world of Boo'ya Moon and fights his demons as well as her
own. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. 2006.
BR73895, EB73895 Cease to blush by Billie
Livingston. 6 v. of braille. Vivian, an actress and model, shows up
late to the funeral of her mother, the famous feminist Josie Callwood,
whose ideals she has spent her life flouting. She then discovers that
Josie had a flaming sexual past more exotic than anything Vivian has
been able to pull off. She follows her mother's trail through the Vegas
where movie stars, singers, strippers, politicians and the mob mingled.
Descriptions of sex, some descriptions of violence, some strong
language. 2006.
General fiction
BR74349, EB74349 Charles the Bold: the dog years :
a novel by Yves Beauchemin ; translated by Wayne Grady. 5 v. of
braille. 1966. The rest of Montreal is excited by the new subway
system, but the birth of Charles Thibodeau is a big event for his
parents and their east-end Montreal working-class neighbours. Charles
endures the death of his mother, the October Crisis, being taken away
from his drunken, violent father and becoming part of the Fafard
family. His adventures in school, a part-time job and camp lead him to
fully earn his title, Charles the Bold. Followed by "Years of fire"
(BR74375). Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language.
2006. (Charles the Bold ; 1)
BR74577, EB74577 Fifth business by Robertson
Davies. 4 v. of braille. A tale of ambition, love and vengeance which
covers 60 years, three continents, and two wars. A man bearing a great
guilt gets caught up in events with disastrous, and sometimes comic,
results. Followed by "Manticore" (BR50279). 2005, c1970.
BR74359, EB74359 The memory keeper's daughter by
Kim Edwards. 5 v. of braille. Dr. David Henry is a man with a terrible
secret - he decided not to tell his wife that one of their twin babies
was born with Down's syndrome, and said instead that it died. Caroline,
the nurse who secretly adored him, was given the child to
institutionalize, but instead moved away to raise her. Covers
twenty-five years in the lives of the two families, and explores the
damage a single lie can do to all involved. c2005.
BR74549, EB74549 Orpheus lost by Janette Turner
Hospital. 4 v. of braille. Bewitched by the haunting violin she hears
in the subway, MIT mathematician Leela-May Moore falls in love at first
listen with mysterious musician Mishka Bartok. A series of terrorist
bombings which overlap disappearances by Mishka cause Leela to tail her
lover, only to be snatched off the street and interrogated by members
of a shadowy private security force. Their leader is Cobb Slaughter,
who has loved/loathed her since their blighted childhoods in South
Carolina. Is Cobb simply tormenting Leela, or could Mishka really be a
terrorist? Some descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. 2007.
BR74443, EB74443 The birthday party by Panos
Karnezis. 3 v. of braille. As dawn breaks on a small island late in the
summer of 1975, a tycoon wakes up to oversee the final preparations for
his daughter's birthday party. Finding out that she is pregnant, he
tries to persuade her to end the pregnancy, as his private doctor - and
oldest friend - is standing by to perform the procedure. Intersperses
the events that unfold during the day of the party with the tycoon's
rise to wealth and fame, from childhood in Asia Minor to old age, via
Buenos Aires, New York, London and Paris. Some descriptions of sex.
2007.
BR74774 Where the heart is: a novel by Billie
Letts. 5 v. of braille. Novalee, 17 years old and 7 months pregnant,
has been abandoned at Wal-Mart with just $7.77 in change. Luckily she
is about to discover hidden treasures in this small southwest town; a
group of down-to-earth, deeply charming people willing to help a
homeless, jobless girl living secretly in a Wal-Mart store. 1995.
BR73897, EB73897 Consolation by Michael Redhill. 4
v. of braille. In a dual story, Jem Hallam, a British apothecary and
immigrant to 1850's Toronto, has formed a friendship with photographer
Samuel Ennis. A century and a half later, historian Davis Hollis has
uncovered clues leading to the earliest photographs of the city,
presumably taken by Ennis, which were in the strongbox of a ship that
sank in the harbour over a century before. Now his widower Marianne,
with the help of her daughter's fiancé, decides to honour her husband's
memory by finding them. Some descriptions of sex and some strong
language. c2006.
BR74446, EB74446 The housekeeper by Melanie
Wallace. 2 v. of braille. After her mother dies, 17-year-old Jamie
leaves home and heads toward an isolated valley where her family was
originally from. Her sudden presence in what is left of that dying town
sets off a bizarre chain of events that irrevocably changes her young
life. Descriptions of sex, explicit strong language and violence. 2006.
BR73892, EB73892 Before I wake by Robert J.
Wiersema. 4 v. of braille. Karen and Simon Barrett make the painful
decision to take their 3-year-old daughter Sherry, victim of a
hit-and-run driver, off life support, but when they do, she
spontaneously begins breathing on her own. Henry Denton, the driver who
struck Sherry, is haunted by the accident and attempts to take his own
life, only to be saved by an unexplained force. Sherry's nurse
discovers that the little girl has the power to heal, and when word of
her gift leaks, the sick begin lining up to be saved, and a mysterious
stranger sets his sights on vanquishing the believers - and the
Barretts. Some strong language and descriptions of violence. 2006.
Historical novels
BR74375, EB74375 The years of fire by Yves
Beauchemin ; translated by Wayne Grady. 3 v. of braille. Charles
Thibodeau's high school years are truly years of fire: he discovers
girls and politics. Fire also changes his life when his estranged
father threatens his stepfather's store with arson. Charles must begin
dealing drugs to pay him off, desperate to escape that life and fulfil
his dreams of becoming a writer. Sequel to "Charles the bold"
(BR74349). Descriptions of sex, some descriptions of violence and some
strong language. 2007. (Charles the Bold ; 2)
BR73753, EB73753 Vandal love by D.Y. Béchard. 3 v.
of braille. A family curse causes the Hervé children to be born as
either giants or runts. Book I follows giant Jude Hervé's career as a
boxer, his escape from that life with his daughter, and her eventual
decision to enter into a chaste marriage with an older man. In Book II,
runt François spends years searching for his missing father. In the
end, none of the Hervés can abandon their longing for a place where
they might find others like themselves. Some descriptions of sex and
violence. 2006.
BR73662, EB73662 Christ the Lord: out of Egypt : a
novel by Anne Rice. 3 v. of braille. Fictionalized story of Jesus's
childhood based on the gospels and New Testament research. Violence and
strong language. 2005.
Mysteries (fiction)
BR74044, EB74044 One good turn by Kate Atkinson. 5
v. of braille. After receiving an inheritance, British PI Jackson
Brodie, from "Case Histories", retires and moves to France. While
visiting his girlfriend in Edinburgh, Scotland, Brodie witnesses a
road-rage accident. Later, as the bystanders are menaced, he
investigates the incident. Some strong language, some descriptions of
sex and violence. 2006.
BR74032, EB74032 By the time you read this by Giles
Blunt. 4 v. of braille. Detective John Cardinal of remote Algonquin
Bay, Ontario is in mourning for his wife, an apparent suicide, when he
starts receiving hate-filled notes gloating over his loss. Believing
that his wife may have been murdered, he begins looking into who might
be behind it. Meanwhile, his partner Lise Delorme is trying to track
down the pedophile responsible for a cache of appalling photos
featuring a possibly local girl. Some descriptions of sex and violence,
some strong language. 2006.
BR73786, EB73786 The concrete blonde by Michael
Connelly. 5 v. of braille. Harry Bosch, maverick homicide detective, is
hauled into court, the chief defendant in a civil suit against the
LAPD. The plaintiffs are the family of "The Dollmaker", a notorious
serial killer whom Bosch shot during an arrest three years before.
Their allegation? That Bosch killed the wrong man - an accusation which
becomes horribly plausible when a new body is found to carry all the
hallmarks of a Dollmaker slaying. To clear his name, Bosch must prove
that a copycat killer is at work. Strong language and some violence.
2006, c1994.
BR74037, EB74037 Disco for the departed by Colin
Cotterill. 3 v. of braille. Laos, 1977. Dr. Siri Paiboun, a 73-year-old
coroner who has recently discovered his shaman ancestry, and his
assistant Nurse Dtui are sent to remote Vieng Xai, where a
cement-entombed corpse has turned up at the Laotian president's
compound. They also meet Dr. Santiago, a surgeon on loan from Cuba, who
uncovers crucial information about the victim's identity. As they close
in on the killer, Paiboun and company must deal with soul-transfer, a
marriage proposal, ancient rituals, frenetic dancing, racism, more
murders - and Paiboun's nightly disco music that only he can hear. Some
strong language. 2006.
BR73783, EB73783 Before the frost: a Kurt and Linda
Wallander novel by Henning Mankell ; translated from the Swedish by
Ebba Segerberg. 4 v. of braille. Ystad police make an horrific
discovery: a severed head, and hands locked together as if in prayer.
Linda Wallander arrives at the station and becomes involved in the
case. In the process she shows the hallmarks of her father - the
flaring temper, the maverick approach - when confronting a group of
extremists bent on punishing the world's sinners. Some descriptions of
violence. 2004. (Linda Wallander ; 1)
BR74401, EB74401 The good husband of Zebra Drive by
Alexander McCall Smith. 3 v. of braille. Precious Ramotswe's husband,
J.L.B. Matekoni plans to do something special for their adopted
daughter, but when his plans hit some snags he's happy to be married to
resourceful and understanding Precious. 2007.
BR73744, EB73744 Dead money: a Rick Redman mystery
by Grant McCrea. 5 v. of braille. When lawyer Rick Redman's boss puts
him on the Jules Fitzgibbon case, Rick suspects he's being set up - the
murder victim was found dead after an argument with a young man with an
unhealthy fondness for sharp implements. But Jules' father is an
important client, so Rick turns to someone he can trust for help -
Dorita, a leggy dame with a sharp wit. Meanwhile, with Rick's wife
slowly drinking herself to death, Rick escapes to his bar, where he
meets Jake, who asks him to join a high-stakes poker game. But like
everything else in Rick's complicated life, there's more to Jake than
meets the eye. Some descriptions of sex, some violence, strong
language. 2006.
BR74432, EB74432 The female of the species: tales
of mystery and suspense by Joyce Carol Oates. 3 v. of braille. From
adulterers to murderers, the women portrayed here possess a killer
combination of venom and vice. In "The Haunting," a mother reinvents
herself after her husband's suspicious death. Mysterious late-night
phone calls prompt an unhappy young wife to seek vengeance on her
volatile mate in "So Help Me God." Explicit descriptions of sex and
violence. Contains strong language. 2005.
BR74548, EB74548 Not in the flesh by Ruth Rendell.
4 v. of braille. A man and his dog unearth something in a wood - a
human hand, part of a body that has lain buried for ten years or so,
wrapped in a purple cotton shroud. The post mortem cannot reveal the
precise cause of death, and the only clue is a crack in one of the dead
man's ribs. Then, about twenty yards away from the woodland burial
site, in the cellar of a disused cottage, another body is discovered.
Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2007.
Suspense (fiction)
BR73568, EB73568 Night fall: a novel by Nelson
DeMille. 5 v. of braille. Five years after the horrific crash of Flight
800 over Long Island, John Corey is caught up in the now-closed case by
his FBI lawyer wife, Kate, who believes the government's findings of
mechanical failure are wrong. When Corey's investigations show
anomalies, the FBI send him and his wife away, but John is not put off
- he has ten days' leave on his return. Ten days in which to avoid the
FBI and to find that elusive video tape taken by two adulterous lovers
on the beach which may - or may not - show a sea-to-air missile racing
up to hit the plane. Violence and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller.
2004.
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