Books with title The Go-Between

Sarah Jain is a family doctor in a hockey-crazy town. She hates hockey. She hasn’t gone anywhere near a rink in years, until her friend, the team doctor, calls in a favour. Mike Wallace is the starting goalie for the Clarington Quakes, the local professional hockey team. He’s not about to let an injury slow him down or a rookie doctor call the shots.Sarah and Mike don’t respect each other’s jobs. When they have to work together, sparks fly and ice melts. Can they play a game they both can win? Love on the ice doesn’t always go smoothly.

On his sailing trip, Leo the little wanderer arrives at a rocky bay and disembarks on a deserted pier. It belongs to two towns that are feuding furiously with one another.The angry mayors won't allow the traveler inside their stone walls. But luckily for Leo, between the two towns lies a piece of land that nobody owns. It is just big enough for his neat little cabin and garden, where many flowers bloom and the beautiful sounds of his violin fill the air.On warm nights, people climb onto the walls together to admire the view and listen to the music and the sea."Would it be better, after all, to tear down the walls that separate us?" the townsfolk begin to wonder.

Outwardly a novel about life in a country-house in whose grounds there is to be a pageant, Between the Acts is also a striking evocation of English experience in the months leading up to the Second World War. Through dialogue, humour and the passionate musings of the characters, Virginia Woolf explores how a community is formed (and scattered) over time. The pageant, a series of scenes from English history, and the private dramas that go on between the acts, are closely interlinked. Through the figure of Miss La Trobe, and author of the pageant, Virginia Woolf questions imperialist assumptions and, at the same time, re-creates the elusive role of the artist.

When Hollywood It Boy, Reid Alexander, arrives on location to shoot his next movie, his goals are the same as always: film another blockbuster hit, and enjoy his celebrity status to the fullest while doing so. His costar is a virtual unknown with whom he had blazing hot chemistry during her auditions. The universe is lining up nicely to grant whatever he wants, as usual, until he's confronted with unexpected obstacles on location - like a bitter ex-girlfriend and a rival for the first girl to spark his genuine interest in years.Emma Pierce just got her big break after more than a decade of filming commercials for grape juice, department stores and tampons, and more recently, bit parts in made-for-TV movies. Nailing the lead role in a wide-release film sent her agent, father and stepmother into raptures, and should have done the same for her. The Problem? Emma is experiencing a building desire to be normal, and starring in a silly, modernized adaptation of one of her favorite novels - opposite the very hot Reid Alexander - isn't going to advance that aspiration.Indie actor Graham Douglas isn't overly picky when it comes to film roles. If it pays, he'll do it. Besides, his friend Brooke Cameron snatched up the role of the bitchy hot girl and could use his help as a buffer, because her ex is the star. Graham has no problem keeping a handle on the situation, until he finds himself attracted to Reid's costar, Emma, the girl Reid is pursuing full-throttle with his standard arsenal of charm, good looks and arrogance.

Sixteen-year-old Heather Lucas is the freak girl who got hit by lightning, and she has a scar on her palm to prove it. Since then, everything has gotten weird. Her mother left them, which makes no sense. Her Dad thinks she's a liar, because she won't explain why she keeps running away.The thing is, she can't explain it. She just disappears and then reappears miles away, with the scar on her palm tingling. In between, she drifts in a sparkling blue void outside of time and space, where indistinct forms of people float by, lost in the blue. Is she going crazy? Odd things are even happening at school. Why would the new boy, Alex, be interested in her? He shows her a paper he's written about a place called Alanar. The make-believe city from Mom's old bedtime stories? What does he know about her mother? Heather is determined to find out, especially after she sees the scar on his palm, identical to her own.

“Miss Phelps has again challenged attention by a story of the unseen. ‘The Gates Between’ is not written to solace the bereaved, but rather to impress on busy, eager, self-centered people the terrible folly of the materialistic, selfish life they are living; to electrify them with a sight of the remorse they are preparing for when they shall see as they are seen; and to recall to men’s minds the supreme duty and joy of tenderness and unselfishness in word and act…The book cannot fail to be widely read both in England and America, and it is one that cannot be laid down without having awakened deep and serious thoughts in the mind of the reader.” -Pall Mall Gazette “It is not a common ‘ghost’ story, or a tale of the supernatural told merely to excite interest; but an exceedingly interesting narrative of the inevitable, giving the possible experience and remedial discipline of a hard and selfish nature in the life after death.” -The Dial, Volume 8, May, 1887 “Powerfully conceived….The story is that of a physician, who, dying instantaneously by unforeseen accident, finds himself in the world whose existence he has hitherto contemptuously doubted; and of his effort and difficulties in adapting himself to an environment wholly in conflict with his earthly habits of thought…Remarkable for originality, earnestness, and delicacy of thought. The questions it will raise in the mind of the reader will not cease with the closing of its pages…No physician worthy of his calling can read without emotion.” -The New England Medical Gazette, Volume 22, January, 1887 “Handled with consummate tact, dignity and power…The border land between life and death; the passage of the human soul into the unknown country; its impressions on leaving the earthly tenement and its experiences thereafter. Such speculations in narrative form unavoidably approach the danger line of maudlin and lachrymose sentimentality. Attempted by other writers, they have frequently cross it with a result offensive to good taste and to that soul-reserve which well-balanced people desire to protect against intrusion, but in the delicate and sure hand of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, dictated by a spirit both natural and refined and dominated by a serene faith, no such mistake was possible…Her books dealing with this alluring subject never transgressed the unwritten law; never offended or belittled the dignity of the human soul, but wove together the seen and the unseen, the real and the mystical, man and his other self in a fascinating, convincing and satisfying story, the reading of which brought hope, peace and comfort to many thousands.” -The Bellman, Volume 10, January, 1911

A multigenerational commune in a walled state, the Colony has been a fixture in the small Pacific Northwest town for over a hundred years. When Sammy O'Doul impulsively trespasses, he watches a strange ritual, where an old woman is dug up alive from the forest. Before he can escape, he's surprised by a strangely simple old man who tells him all is not as it appears. Gradually Sammy uncovers surprising secrets that challenge not only his impressions of the Colony but of himself.