14 Books Romance, intrigue, mystery, adventure

All suitable for young adults and seniors Reading level senior high school Each book is $10 Each book’s “story” and data follows this list 1. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding, ISBN 0192834975,1749 2. The Midwife of Venice by Roberta Rich, ISBN 9780385668279, 2011 3. Southern Cross by Patricia Cornwell, ISBN 0425172846, 1998 4. The Last Precinct by Patricia Cornwell, ISBN 0425180638, 2000 5. The Shakespeare Secret by J L Carrell, ISBN 9780751540352, 2007 6. Songs In Ordinary Times by M R Morris, ISBN 0140244824, 1995 7. Paradise County by Karen Robards , ISBN, 0671786466, 2000 8. A Royal Affair by Nora Roberts, ISBN, 97803732824159, 2016 9. Wicked Pleasures by Penny Vincenzi, ISBN 0553563742, 1992 10. Islands by A R Siddons, ISBN 0061032050, 2004 11. Whose Body? By Dorothy L Sayers, ISBN 9780525565116, 1923 12. The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier, ISBN 0330257064,1969 13. The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence, ISBN 0770422381, 1964 14. The Diviners by Margaret Laurence , ISBN 0770421768495, 1974 1. TOM JONES BY HENRY FIELDING Tom Jones is a baby found on the master’s doorstep. Tom is brought up with the master’s son who becomes Tom’s jealous enemy. Tom falls in love with the rich neighbour’s daughter, Sophia, who returns his love while the master and her father believe the son should marry Sophia. When the master feels Tom has disgraced the family he orders Tom out of the family. Tom’s difficulties increase until he is held unjustly for murder while Sophia flees from forced marriage. This book written in the 1740s provides translations and additional information on words, places and social ideas of unfamiliar or obsolete use so that it is easily understood. Fielding provides satirical interpretations of the social ideas which earns “funny” as another tribute to the book. Softcover, 821 pages, 12.9x19.5x4.5 cm, condition – very good; ISBN 0192834975; © 1996; times 1740s Price $10.00 2. THE MIDWIFE OF VENICE BY ROBERTA RICH Childless, Hannah Levi is a Jewish midwife in 1575 Venice where she was known for life saving birthing. Christian law demanded torture and death if she aided any Christian like the nobleman who begged her to save his pregnant wife and only heir offering the money she needed to save her husband, Isaac, who was captured in Malta and enslaved. Softcover, 329 pages; 4.4x20.9x2.1 cm; condition- very good condition; ISBN 9780385668279; © 2011; era 1574 Price $10.00 3. SOUTHERN CROSS BY PATRICIA CORNWELL Richmond, Virginia, is a city rich in Southern history, yet overrun by such modern-day problems as drug trafficking and escalating juvenile crime. Former Charlotte police chief Judy Hammer is brought in to clean up the police force—the most difficult assignment of her career. Now, in the face of overwhelming public scrutiny, she must navigate through local politics and prejudices to solve a brutal murder that springs straight from the rotting core of Richmond's heart… Softcover, 382 pages; 10.7x 17x2.5 cm, very good condition, ISBN 0425172846 © 1998, era labled Price $10.00 4, THE LAST PRECINCT BY PATRICIA CROSS Kay Scarpetta is under a Grand Jury investigation for murder. She knows she’s being framed and she no longer knows who she can trust… Physically and psychologically bruised by the killer, she leaves her home in the hands of the police team investigating the attack on her. She discovers a Grand Jury is investigating Scarpetta for murder. Kay knows she is being framed and she also knows she can trust no-one. When Scarpetta looks closely she believes that e accused is not the killer. She follows the forensic trail to the real killer she gradually realizes that someone has been spinning a web for years with the aim of entrapping her. Who is it, and why are they so desperate to be rid of her? Softcover, 468 pages, 10.5x17.2x3.4 cm, ISBN 0425180638, very good condition © 2000; era not labled Price $10.00 5 THE SHAKESPEARE SECRET BY J L CARRELL "A woman is left to die in a burning theatre. Another woman is drowned like Ophelia, skirts swirling in the water. A doctor has his throat slashed open on the steps of Washington's Capitol building. A deadly serial killer is on the loose, modelling his sickening murders on Shakespeare's plays. But why is he killing? And how can he be stopped? A gripping, shocking page-turner, The Shakespeare Secret masterfully combines modern murder and startling true revelations from the life of Shakespeare." Softcover, pages 480; 12.55x19.8x3.4 cm; very good condition; ISBN 9780751540352; © 2007; era 2004 Price $ 10.00 6 SONGS IN ORDINARY TIME BY MARY MCGARRRY MORRIS It's the summer of 1960 in Atkinson, Vermont. Maria Fermoyle is a strong but vulnerable divorced woman whose loneliness and ambition for her children make her easy prey for dangerous con man Omar Duvall. Marie's children are Alice, seventeen involved with a young priest; Norm, sixteen hotheaded and idealistic; and Benny, twelve isolated and misunderstood, and so desperate for his mother's happiness that he hides the deadly truth he knows about Duvall. We also meet Sam Fermoyle, the children's alcoholic father; Sam's brother-in-law, who makes anonymous "love" calls from the bathroom of his failing appliance store; and the Klubock family, who in contrast to the Fermoyles live an orderly life in the house next door. Songs in Ordinary Time is a masterful epic of the everyday, illuminating the kaleidoscope of lives that tell the compelling story of this unforgettably family. Softcover, pages 740; 12.8x16.8x 3.5; cm good condition; ISBN 0140244824; © 1995; era 1960 Price $10.00 #7 PARADISE COUNTY BY KAREN ROBARDS Left bankrupt afterward her billionaire father’s sudden death, Alexandra Haywood returns to Shelby County, Kentucky—that bit of Southern splendor known as Paradise County—to sell the family’s magnificent horse farm. Part of her mission is to fire Joe Welch, the sexy, stubborn farm manager who worked hard for the Haywoods while raising his children. But Joe refuses to be fired, and he and Alex clash. They also fall for each other—hard. Just as their attraction flares, a shocking murder with ties to the past rocks the county—and cuts close to home when Joe’s teenage son, Eli, and Alex’s wild-spirited younger sister, Neely, vanish. Now, the evil that lurks beneath Paradise County raises its gruesome head—and Alex is targeted as the next victim. Softcover, pages 436; 15x17x2.7 cm, good condition; ISBN 0671786466; ©2000; era (?) Price $10 #8 A ROYAL AFFAIR BY NORA ROBERTS Princess Gabriella has escaped captivity, but she's lost her memory and her kidnappers are still at large. She needs a bodyguard, and brash American Reeve MacGee is the perfect man for the job. The handsome ex-cop can handle anything--except falling for the stunning, vulnerable woman in his care... COMMAND PERFORMANCE Years ago, Eve Hamilton had a fleeting schoolgirl crush on the powerful, reserved and compelling Prince Alexander--but he'd clearly disapproved of her. Now that she is finally reunited with Alex, he is fascinated by the beautiful, independent woman Eve has become. Suddenly, he wants to show her that he is everything she could ever want... Softcover, pages 505; 10.5x18.8x2.2 cm, very good condition, ISBN 9780373282159; © 2016; era (?) Price $10.00 #9 WICKED PLEASURES by PENNY VINCNZI it was a fairy tail marriage ... the beautiful American heiress to one of New York's most prestigious banking fortunes wed to a dashing British earl. But for Virginia Paeger and Alexander, Lord Caterham, the illusion of perfect masked a shattering reality. For nearly twenty years they hid the twisted life at the heart of their union, until the day their three children started to suspect the shocking truth. Now as the Caterham children begin to dig into the past, they’ll set into motion a chain of events that will threaten to expose two decades of scandalous secrets – the kind that can topple family fortunes, awaken dangerous passions, and bring all their privileged lives to the brink of ruin. Softcover, pages 662; 10.5x17.5x3.8 cm; good condition; ISBN 0553563742; © 1992; era 1956-1987 Price: $10.00 #10- ISLANDS BY A R SIDDONS, ISBN 0061032050, 2004 Anny Butler is a caretaker, a nurturer, first for her own brothers and sisters, and then as a director of an agency devoted to the welfare of children. What she has never had is a real family. That changes when she meets and marries Lewis Aiken, an exuberant surgeon fifteen years older than Anny. When they marry, she finds her family--not a traditional one, but a group of Charleston childhood friends who are inseparable, who are one another's surrogate family. They are called the Scrubs, and they all, in some way, have the common cord of family. Instantly upon meeting them at the old beach house on Sullivan's Island, which they co-own, Anny knows that she has found home and family. They vow that, when the time comes, they will find a place where they can live together by the sea. Bad things begin to happen--a hurricane, a fire, deaths--but still the remaining Scrubs cling together. They are watched over and bolstered by Camilla Curry, the heart and core of their group, always the healer. Anny herself allows Camilla to enfold and to care for her. It is the first time she has felt this kind of love and support. Softcover, 465; 10.5x17.1x10.6 cm; condition – very good; ISBN 0061032050; © 1994; era 1970’s (?) Price $10.00 #11 WHOSE BODY? BY DOROTHY L SAYERS, ISBN 9780525565116, 1923 The first book to feature amateur detective, Lord Peter Wimsey. “A famous London financier vanishes from his bedroom, leaving no trace. Across town, a corpse is found in an architect's bathtub, wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez. The body is not that of the missing financier, so--whose body is it? When Lord Peter Wimsey is asked by his mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, to help clear her architect of suspicion, he eagerly obliges. With the assistance of his valet, Bunter, a skilled amateur photographer, he quickly becomes convinced that the two cases are linked, despite the skepticism of the police. But what begins as an amusing puzzle takes on darker overtones, as Lord Peter wrestles with intrusive memories of his traumatic service in the trenches of World War I--and as his own life is endangered by the murderer he is about to unmask.” Softcover; 197 pages; condition – excellent; ISBN 9780525565116; © 1923; era early 1900’s. #12 THE HOUSE ON THE STRAND BY DAPHNE DU MAURIER, ISBN 0330257064, Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as a guinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in his scientific research. When Dick samples Magnus's potion, he finds himself doing the impossible: traveling through time while staying in place, thrown all the way back into Medieval Cornwall. The concoction wear off after several hours, but its effects are intoxicating and Dick cannot resist his newfound powers. As his journeys increase, Dick begins to resent the days he must spend in the modern world, longing ever more fervently to get back into his world of centuries before, … Softcover, pages 288; 17x18x1.7 cm; very good condition; ISBN 0330257064; ©1969; times 1960s back to 1300s Price $10.00 #13 THE STONE ANGEL BY MARGARET LAURENCE THE STONE ANGEL is the portrait of a proud, energetic and impulsive woman - Hagar Shipley - as seen through her own eyes at the age of ninety. Her reflections on her past form a vividly-etched chronicle of a girlhood shaped and dominated by her father; of a breakaway marriage to a virile but negligent farmer; of her complex ties to two sons - the conventional Marvin, and the flamboyant, adored John, whom she eventually destroys. Hagar in widowhood is still fiercely responsible, still armored by her steely humor, still isolated by her life-long habits of pride and self-reliance. But she does not remain untouched. In Hagar's ultimate self-confrontation, her final reckoning of the wages of love, Margaret Laurence has created one of contemporary literature's most stunning images of a woman's fate. Softcover, 275 pages; 10.7x17.4x2.1 cm; good condition with written notes and markings still intact and legible; ISBN 0770422381; © 1963; era 1930s Price $10.00 #14 THE DIVINERS BY MARGARET LAURENCE , ISBN 0770421768495, 1974 For Morag Gunn, growing up in a small Canadian prairie town is a toughening process – making her a fighter, a romantic, able to survive childhood in a world that wanted no part of her, a failed marriage, a heartbreaking affair. But in time, the solitude that had once been forced upon her becomes a precious right – a woman’s own special way of being, a life strengthened by dignity and the ability to give and receive love, a timer to live exactly as she wants. Softcover, pages 465; 10.4x17.4x2.5 cm; condition good with written notes and markings still intact and legible; ISBN 0770421768495; © 174; era first half of 1900s. Price: $10.00 Please provide telephone number with reply Toronto address, Finch Ave and Yonge St near Finch Subway Station.