New Books – January 2014
Issue 37
Articles for blind pickup service for braille and
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Braille
All titles are available for loan and sale unless otherwise stated.
Adult fiction
Allen, Louise. Scandal in the Regency Ballroom. Romance.
Mills & Boon Historical. Lady Miss Bree Mallory hopes no one in
Society will discover that she once drove the stage from London to
Newbury or that she returned unchaperoned with the rakishly
attractive Max Dysart, Earl of Penrith! Yet, while beautiful Bree has
no interest in marriage, Max's kisses are powerfully persuasive.
2013. 9v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24626703.
Also available in uncontracted braille. 10v. Order No: 24626705.
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Anderson, Caroline. The secret in his heart. Romance.
Mills & Boons Medical. For Dr. James Slater, fulfilling his vow to
look after his best friend's wife after he died in Afghanistan has
never been simple. Now Connie has asked him to help her have a
baby. He can't just father her child and then walk away; he wants
and loves her too much for that.
2013. 3v. Price: £3.49. Order No: 24570807.
Anderson, Kevin J and Brian Herbert. Hellhole awakening.
Science fiction.
Hellhole series; book 2. General Adolphus knows the Monarchy
crackdown is coming. Now he needs to pull together all the
resources of the Hellhole colony, the ever-expanding shadowXayan settlement, and his connections with the other Deep Zone
worlds.
2013. 9v. Price: £12.99. Order No: 24627103.
Anderson, Natalie. Blame it on the bikini. Romance
Mills & Boon riva. Mya Campbell, trying on a ridiculously tiny bikini
and texts her best friend the incriminating photo but she’s sent the
photo to her best friend’s brother, Brad. Seeing a new side of Mya
he makes seducing her his brand-new project!
2012. 3v. £3.99. Order No: 24626503.
Also available in uncontracted braille. 3v. Order No: 24626505.
Beukes, Lauren. The shining girls. Thriller.
Chicago 1931. Harper Curtis, a violent drifter, stumbles on a house
with a secret as shocking as his own twisted nature - it opens onto
other times. He uses it to stalk his carefully chosen 'shining girls'
through the decades. Chicago, 1992. Kirby Mazrachi, whose life
was shattered after a brutal attempt to murder her is still struggling
to find her attacker, her only ally is Dan, an ex-homicide reporter
who covered her case and now might be falling in love with her.
2013. 6v. Price: £12.99. Order No: 24557603.
Boyne, John. This house is haunted. Ghost story.
1867. Eliza Caine arrives in Norfolk to take up her position as
governess at Gaudlin Hall on a dark and chilling night. She is
greeted by the two children in her care, Isabella and Eustace.
There are no parents, no adults at all, and no one to represent her
mysterious employer.
2013. 4v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24626803.
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Bulawayo, NoViolet. We need new names. General fiction.
Man Booker Shortlist 2013. Darling is a young girl from a slum in
Zimbabwe called Paradise. Out of school because the teachers
have all emigrated, she spends her days running with her pack of
friends and stealing guavas. But everyone wants to go to the real
paradise in America or Britain.
2013. 4v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24608305.
Catton, Eleanor. The luminaries. Historical fiction.
Man Booker winner 2013. It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come
to make his fortune in the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he
stumbles across a tense gathering of men, who have met in secret
to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. Moody is soon drawn into
the mystery.
2013. 15v. Price: £18.99. Order No: 24608105.
Chadwick, Elizabeth. The summer queen. Historical fiction.
Eleanor of Aquitaine series; book 1. Eleanor has everything to look
forward to as the heiress to wealthy Aquitaine. But when her
beloved father dies suddenly, she is forced to marry the young
prince Louis of France. Catapulted to being crowned King and
Queen of France. Eleanor must face the complex and vivacious
French court.
2013. 9v. Price: £16.99. Order No: 24627203.
Colgan, Jenny. The loveliest chocolate shop in Paris. General
fiction.
When an accident changed everything, Anna was thrown back in
touch with her French teacher, Claire, who offered her the chance
of a lifetime - to work in Paris with her former sweetheart, Thierry,
a master chocolatier.
2013. 6v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24562003.
Connelly, Michael. The black box. Crime fiction.
Harry Bosch; book 18. When Harry Bosch finds the body of a
female journalist executed in an alley, he cannot accept that he will
never be able to bring her killer to justice. But then, 20 years later,
Harry finds himself working in the Open Unsolved Unit, and
suddenly the past comes back to haunt him.
2013. 6v. Price: £12.99. Order No: 24573403.
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Crace, Jim. Harvest. General fiction.
Man Booker Shortlist 2013. In a remote, unnamed English hamlet,
perhaps in the 17th Century, a trio of outsiders set up camp on the
outskirts. That same night the local manor house is set on fire.
Over the course of 7 days a chain of disastrous and shocking
events play out, narrated by labourer Walter Thirsk.
2013. 4v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24607805.
Flynn, Katie. A Christmas to remember. Family story.
A few days before Christmas, Tess Williams rushes into Albert
Payne's tobacconist shop, with two boys in hot pursuit saying she's
a thief. Albert chases the boys away and changes her life.
2013. 6v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24627303.
Also available in uncontracted braille. 8v. Order No: 24627305.
Gregory, Philippa. The white princess. Historical fiction.
The cousins' war series; book 5. Eldest daughter of Edward IV, the
young princess Elizabeth faces a conflict of loyalties between the
red rose and the white. Forced into marriage with Henry VII, she
must reconcile her slowly growing love for him with her loyalty to
the House of York.
2013. 8v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24627403.
Hill, Joe. NOS-4R2: 1938: a novel. Horror.
Summer. Massachusetts. An old Silver Wraith with a frightening
history. A story about one serial killer and his lingering, unfinished
business. Anyone could be next. We're going to Christmasland.
'NOS4R2' is an old-fashioned horror novel in the best sense.
2013. 11v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 24580903.
Hislop, Victoria. The thread. Historical fiction.
Thessaloniki, 1917. As Dimitri Komninos is born, a devastating fire
sweeps through the Greek city where Christians, Jews and
Muslims live side by side. Five years later, Katerina Sarafoglou's
home in Asia Minoris destroyed by the Turkish army. Losing her
mother in the chaos, she flees across the sea to an unknown
destination in Greece.
2012. 7v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24589903.
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Hornby, Gill. The hive. General fiction.
It's the start of another year at St Ambrose. But while the children
are in the classroom colouring in, their mothers are learning
sharper lessons on the other side of the school gates. Lessons in
friendship, betrayal, the laws of community, and the transience of
power.
2013. 6v. Price: £12.99. Order No: 24600903.
Iggulden, Conn. The blood of gods. Historical fiction.
Emperor series; book 5. Rome's great hero Julius Caesar has
been brutally murdered by his most trusted allies. While these selfappointed liberatores seek refuge in the senate, they have
underestimated one man: Caesar's adopted son Octavian, a man
whose name will echo through history as Augustus Caesar.
2013. 7v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24581203.
James, Peter. Dead man's time. Crime fiction.
DS Roy Grace; book 9. A robbery at a Brighton mansion leaves its
elderly occupant dying and millions taken in valuables. But there is
one item, of sentimental value, that her powerful family care about
above all else, and they are ready to take the law into their own
hands.
2013. 7v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24588803.
Kelly, Sheelagh. A different kind of love. Family story.
When Probyn's wife dies he is touched to find that in his hour of
need his sisters step in to care for the children. But Probyn's
attempt to keep his family together leads to their oppression and
abuse.
2003. 13v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24578203.
Krinard, Susan. Lord of the beasts. Romance.
Mills & Boon nocturne. Enchanted blood flows through vet Donal
Fleming's veins but Donal's attraction to Cordelia has unleashed
his most primal instincts. He must face the consequences of an
impossible choice - between human love and the powers that, to
him, are life itself.
2013. 7v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24573503.
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Lahiri, Jhumpa. The lowland. General fiction.
Man Booker Prize shortlisted, 2013. Udayan finds himself drawn to
the Naxalite movement, a rebellion waged to eradicate inequity
and poverty. The repercussions of his actions reverberate across
continents and seep through the generations that follow.
2013. 6v. Price: £5.99. Order No: 24607405.
L'Amour, Louis. Utah Blaine. Western.
Colonel Utah Blaine, held captive by the army of the revolution,
breaks out of jail and heads north. He finds new trouble struggling
at the end of a noose, and steps in just in time to save the life of a
Texas rancher. The executioners are the rancher's own men,
looking to steal his land.
2006. 3v. Price: £4.99. Order No: 24600603.
Lindsay, Jeff. Dexter is delicious. Crime fiction.
Dexter series; book 5. Everything's changing for our friendly
neighbourhood serial killer. As if getting married wasn't enough
Dex is now the proud father of a baby girl. And disconcertingly, he
actually seems to care.
2011. 7v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24600503.
McKenzie, Sophie. Close my eyes. Thriller.
It's been eight years since Gen Loxley lost her daughter, Beth.
Then a woman arrives on Gen's doorstep, saying the very thing
she longs to hear: that her daughter was not stillborn, but was
spirited away as a healthy child, and is out there, waiting to be
found.
2013. 6v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24601203.
Moyes, Jojo. Me before you. Romance.
Lou Clark knows lots of things but she doesn't know she's about to
lose her job or that knowing what's coming is what keeps her sane.
Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to
live. What Will doesn't know is that Lou is about to burst into his
world in a riot of colour.
2012. 7v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 23506503.
Myerson, Julie. The quickening. Horror.
Rachel and Dan expecting their first baby, go on honeymoon in
Antigua. As furniture shifts and objects fly around a waitress begs
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her to leave. But Dan seems to have his own reasons for wanting
to stay.
2013. 3v. Price: £9.99. Order No: 24572403.
Ozeki, Ruth. A tale for the time being. General fiction.
Man Booker Shortlist 2013. Ruth discovers a Hello Kitty lunchbox
washed up on the shore of her beach home. Within it lies a diary
that expresses the hopes and dreams of a young girl. With every
turn of the page, she is sucked deeper into an enchanting mystery.
2013. 7v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24608405.
Pearse, Lesley. Forgive me. Family fiction.
Cheltenham, 1991. Eva Patterson returns home from work to find
her mother, Flora, dead in the bath. Beside her is a note saying
only: 'Forgive Me'. In her will Flora left Eva an artist's studio in
London, she realises how little she knows about her mother's past.
2013. 7v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24572503.
Roberts, Nora. Bed of roses. Romance.
The bride quartet; book 2. Emmaline Grant has always loved
romance, so it's really no surprise that she has found her calling as
a wedding florist. Yet while men swarm around her, she still hasn't
found Mr Right.
2009. 5v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24591203.
Shaw, Rebecca. Village secrets: tales from Turnham Malpas.
Country life fiction.
Kate Pascoe is the new head teacher of the village school. She
arrives at Turnham Malpas with very different ideas to those of her
predecessor. In the end Kate finds a place she can call home and
then her obsessions are forgiven if not forgotten.
1999. 4v. Price: £5.99. Order No: 24578503.
Shriver, Lionel. Big Brother. General fiction.
When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at the airport, she
literally doesn't recognise him. Edison drives hers health-andfitness freak husband Fletcher insane who delivers his wife an
ultimatum - it's him or me. Pandora chooses her brother - who,
without her support in losing weight, will surely eat himself into an
early grave.
2013. 5v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24588703.
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Sparks, Nicholas. A walk to remember. Romance.
Landon Carter would never have dreamed of asking Jamie
Sullivan out, but a twist of fate throws them together. In the months
that follow they begin to fall in love. Then he discovers that Jamie
has a reason for not letting people close.
2013. 3v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24600403.
Thompson, E V. The bonds of Earth. Historical fiction.
In 1837 when rich deposits of copper ore are discovered, a huge
influx of miners flock to the area, bringing with them problems alien
to the countrymen. Goran, whose working life is divided between
two farms finds himself caught between two cultures.
2012. 4v. Price: £11.99. Order No: 24573703.
Toibin, Colm. The testament of Mary. General fiction.
Man Booker Shortlist 2013. For Mary, her son has been lost to the
world, and now, living in exile and in fear, she tries to piece
together the memories of the events that led to her son's brutal
death.
2012. 1v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24607505.
Townsend, Sue. The lost diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999-2001.
Humourous fiction.
Adrian Mole; book 7. Entering 'early middle age' Adrian Mole lives
alone with his two sons and a growing suspicion that life is passing
him by. Forced to move his family to the notorious Gaitskell Estate,
Adrian is soon doing battle once again with the fickle finger of fate.
2012. 3v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 24588303.
Also available in uncontracted braille. 4v. Order No: 24588305.
Vincenzi, Penny. An absolute scandal. General fiction.
It was one of the biggest financial scandals of the 1980s. It started
with just a few requests for money from various names, but then
the demands got bigger . Soon, thousands of people have found
their comfortable lives ruined, all because of their greed for more
money. How will Lucinda, Elizabeth and Flora cope?
2008. 17v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24577503.
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Adult non-fiction
Animals and nature
Bowen, James. The world according to Bob.
The sequel to the bestselling 'A Street Cat Named Bob' continues
the remarkable adventures of James and Bob.
2013. 3v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24591603.
Autobiography and biography
Connors, Jimmy. The outsider: my autobiography.
Jimmy Connors took the tennis world by storm . A working-class
kid from the wrong side of the tracks, he was prepared to battle for
every point, to shout and scream until he was heard, and he didn't
care whom he upset in doing so.
2013. 7v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 24629903.
Crace, John. Harry's games.
Who is Harry Redknapp? Football genius or football chancer?
Master tactician or practical joker? How is it that even when he
was facing court proceedings for tax evasion so many people were
still seriously tipping him to be the next England manager?
2013. 4v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24562103.
Dunn, Jane. Daphne Du Maurier and her sisters: the hidden
lives of Piffy, Bird and Bing.
The Du Mauriers - three beautiful, successful and rebellious
sisters, whose lives were bound in a family drama that inspired
Angela and Daphne's best novels.
2013. 8v. Price: £20.00. Order No: 23580803.
Harrington, Suzanne. The liberty tree: drunk to sober via love,
death, disintegration & freedom.
Suzanne Harris did all the things adults do long before she'd grown
up. She married, had babies, was homeless for a while - and
drank. Later freed from her demons she embraced life, while her
husband chose escape.
2013. 4v. Price: £12.99. Order No: 24627803.
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Johnson, Alan. This boy.
This is the story of two incredible women: Alan Johnson's mother,
Lily, who battled against poor health, poverty, domestic violence
and loneliness to try to ensure a better future for her children; and
his sister, Linda, who had to assume an enormous amount of
responsibility to protect her family.
2013. 4v. Price: £16.99. Order No: 24600803.
Monk, Ray. Inside the centre: the life of J. Robert
Oppenheimer.
Reveals the motivations and complexities of this brilliant and
divisive man. Oppenheimer had diverse interests and phenomenal
intellectual attributes, but also a complicated and fragile
personality.
2012. 20v. Price: £30.00. Order No: 23601403.
Muamba, Fabrice. Fabrice Muamba: I'm still standing.
Muamba was the Bolton Wanderers player who collapsed during a
televised FA Cup match against Tottenham Hotspur. Muamba's
heart stopped beating for 78 minutes. But amazingly he survived.
2012. 4v. Price: £12.99. Order No: 24591412.
Prentis, Evelyn. A nurse in action: my life as a nurse in the
Second World War.
Not only did the nurses have to cope with stray bombs and influxes
of patients from as far away Dunkirk, but there were also RAF men
stationed nearby - which caused considerable entertainment and
disappointment, and a good number of marriages.
2011. 4v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24578303.
Widdecombe, Ann. Strictly Ann: the autobiography.
These are the memoirs of a woman who joined the old
Conservative Party in 1964, was politically formed by the 70s and
saw Thatcherism in the 80s - then ministerial office and later the
Shadow Cabinet. It is also a book for people who struggle with
moral dilemmas even if they are not converts to Roman
Catholicism like Ann.
2013. 8v. Price: £20.00. Order No: 24581303.
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Health and fitness
Davis, Martha, Elizabeth Robbins Eshelman, and Matthew
McKay. The relaxation and stress reduction workbook.
Each chapter of this workbook follows a practical format, including
a history of the technique covered, symptom effectiveness,
examples, checklist, further reading and homework.
2008. 8v. Price: £16.99. Order No: 24082003.
History
Castor, Helen. She-wolves: the women who ruled England
before Elizabeth.
The stories of these women illustrate the paradox which the female
heirs to the Tudor throne had no choice but to negotiate. Man was
the head of woman; and the king was the head of all. How, then,
could a woman be king, how could royal power lie in female
hands?
2011. 9v. Price: £9.99. Order No: 23600903.
Music
Maconie, Stuart. The people's songs: the story of modern
Britain in 50 records.
The story of modern Britain via the records that sound tracked this
dramatic and kaleidoscopic period told chronologically over 50
chapters.
2013. 7v. Price: £20.00. Order No: 24580803.
Sport
Lloyd, David. The Ashes according to Bumble.
A new collection of yarns from his years at the crease and at the
microphone.
2013. 5v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 24604503.
True crime
O'Connor, Sean. Handsome brute: the story of a ladykiller.
Explores the killings of the charming, but deadly ex-RAF playboy
Neville Heath. Since the 1940s, Heath has generally been
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dismissed as a sadistic sex-killer and little else. But the story
behind the tabloid headlines reveals itself to be complex and
ambiguous.
2013. 7v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24562303.
Children and young adult fiction
Suggested reading age 5+
Potter, Beatrix. Beatrix Potter: the complete tales.
Classic/Short stories.
All 23 of Beatrix Potter's tales.
2012. 2v. Capitals. Single-sided. Double line spacing, 18v. Price:
£40.00. Order No: 23513805.
Also available in uncontracted braille. 20v. Order No: 23513803.
Suggested reading age 7+
Walliams, David. The boy in the dress. Funny story.
Dennis was different. Why was he different, you ask? Well, a small
clue might be in the title of this book!
2009. Capitals. Interline. Double line spacing, 4v. Price: £6.99.
Order No: 24593608.
Also available in uncontracted braille. 5v. Order No: 24593611.
Webb, Holly. The snow bear. Magical story.
As the snow begins to fall just days before Christmas, Grandad
helps Sara build an igloo in the garden, and Sara sculpts a small
polar bear to watch over it. What could be more exciting than
sleeping outside under the stars? But when Sara wakes up in the
middle of the night, she finds that the igloo is no longer in the
garden.
2012. Capitals. Interline. Double line spacing, 3v. Price: £7.99.
Order No: 23512411.
Also available in uncontracted braille. 3v. Price: £7.99. Order No:
23512402.
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Suggested reading age 9+
Kinney, Jeff. Dog days. Funny story.
Diary of a wimpy kid series; book 4. Greg's mom has a vision of
"family togetherness" that really doesn't sound a whole lot of fun.
But there's a brand-new addition to the Heffley family to contend
with and it looks like Greg might be outnumbered.
2011. 2v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24573903.
Kinney, Jeff. Cabin fever. Funny story.
Diary of a wimpy kid series; book 6. School property has been
damaged and Greg is the prime suspect. The authorities are
closing in, but then a surprise blizzard hits and the Heffley family is
trapped indoors. Could any punishment be worse than being stuck
inside with your family for the holidays?
2011. 2v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24620803.
Landy, Derek. The faceless ones. Fantasy.
Skulduggery Pleasant; book 3. You've seen it all before: some bad
guy wants to bring about the end of the world, and Skulduggery
and Valkyrie fight valiantly to stop it happening. A few people get
hurt, sure, but everything's all right in the end.
2009. Capitals, 6v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24570903.
Also available in uncontracted braille. 6v. Order No: 24570905.
Reeve, Philip. Goblins. Fantasy.
The squabbling goblins who live in the great towers of Clovenstone
spend their time fighting and looting. Only clever young Skarper
understands that dark magic created by a vanquished sorcerer is
rising again.
2012. Capitals, 5v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24593503.
Also available in uncontracted braille. 6v. Order No: 24593505.
Walliams, David. Ratburger. Funny story.
Zoe's stepmother Sheila is so lazy she gets Zoe to pick her nose
for her. The school bully Tina Trotts makes her life a misery and
now the evil Burt from Burt's Burgers is after her pet rat! And guess
what he wants to do with it?
2012. Capitals, 3v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24621203.
Also available in uncontracted braille. 3v. Order No: 24621205.
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Suggested reading age 11+
Atkinson, Eleanor. Greyfriars Bobby. Animal story.
This tells the story of the little Skye terrier who, for 14 years,
returned every night to the shepherd's grave in Greyfriars
Churchyard, Edinburgh, so dearly had he loved his master.
1996. 3v. Price: £4.99. Order No: 24625301.
Brahmachari, Sita. Jasmine skies. Family story.
14-year-old Mira Levenson travels to India to finally meet her
family and is quickly swept into a sweltering, chaotic world - full of
new sights, smells and deeply buried family secrets.
2012. Capitals, 6v. Price: £5.99. Order No: 23534403.
Also available in uncontracted braille. 8v. Order No: 23534405.
Suggested reading age 13+
Clare, Cassandra. Clockwork prince. Horror.
Infernal Devices; book 2. London, 1878. 16-year-old Tessa Gray's
priority should be finding her brother, not falling in love with two
boys. Tessa will need all her strength to save her brother and stay
alive as she learns about what really lurks on London's streets
after dark.
2011. 10v. Price: £9.99. Order No: 24627703.
Muchamore, Robert. People's republic. Thriller.
CHERUB 2; book 1. Twelve-year-old Ryan is CHERUB's newest
recruit. He's got his first mission: infiltrating the billion-dollar
Aramov criminal empire. But he's got no idea that this routine job
will lead him into an explosive adventure involving drug smugglers,
illegal immigrants and human trafficking.
2012. Capitals, 7v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 23504607.
Also available in uncontracted braille. 9v. Order No: 23504609.
Nix, Garth. Grim Tuesday. Fantasy.
The keys to the kingdom; book 2. Arthur Penhaligon didn't think he
would ever have to return to the strange house that nearly killed
him on Monday - the house that contains a fantastical and sinister
realm inside. But the next day brings new challenges - in the form
of an enemy named Grim Tuesday.
2004. Capitals, 5v. Price: £5.99. Order No: 24573803.
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Holm, Anne. I am David. Adventure.
After escaping from an east European concentration camp where
he has spent most of his life, a twelve-year-old boy struggles to
cope with a strange world as he flees northward to freedom in
Denmark.
2000. 3v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24627603.
Muchamore, Robert. Eagle Day. Adventure.
Henderson's boys series; book 2. Late Summer, 1940. Hitler has
conquered France. Now he intends to cross the Channel and
defeat Britain before winter arrives. A group of young refugees led
by British spy Charles Henderson faces a stark choice. To head
south into the safety of neutral Spain, or go north on a risky
mission to sabotage the German invasion plans.
2009. 6v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24573003.
Also available in uncontracted braille. 8v. Order No: 24573005.
Suggested reading age 15+
Sedgwick, Marcus. She is not invisible. Thriller.
Laureth Peak's father is a writer and for years he's been trying to
write a novel about the nature of coincidence. When he goes
missing in New York, Laureth decides to look for him. On impulse
she steals her mother's credit card and heads for the States, taking
her strange little brother Benjamin with her. Ahead lie challenges
and threats that would test any 16 year old. And Laureth Peak is
blind.
2013. Capitals, 3v. Price: £9.99. Order No: 24624002.
Children and young adult non-fiction
Suggested reading age 7+
Apte, Sunita. India. Travel.
True books: countries. Information about the religion, history, and
culture in India.
2009. 1v. Price: £4.99. Order No: 24580003.
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Kramer, Ann. Victorians. History.
Eyewitness. All aspects of the Victorian life including clothing,
medicine and eating habits. Discover amazing facts, such as
servants used to work 15-18 hours a day.
2008. Capitals. Interline. Double line spacing, 2v. Price: £7.99.
Order No: 24570603.
Also available in uncontracted braille. 3v. Order No: 24570605.
Malam, John. You wouldn't want to be a Victorian
schoolchild!: lessons you'd rather not learn. History.
Growing up in Britain in the 1880s wasn't easy. Readers will follow
the experiences of Victorian schoolchildren and will learn some top
tips on survival at school. Suddenly modern-day school won't
seem quite so bad!
2001. Capitals, 1v. Price: £4.99. Order No: 24580403.
Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 24580405.
Suggested reading age 9+
Macdonald, Fiona. Tudors. History.
Children in history. A look at historical periods through the
experiences of children of the era.
2012. Capitals, 1v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 24570703.
Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 24570705.
Purkis, Sallie. Tudor children: four true life stories. History.
Real lives. True-life experiences of four ordinary Tudor children are
presented as historical biographies.
2004. Capitals, 1v. Price: £10.99. Order No: 24593303.
Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 24593305.
Suggested reading age 15+
Contostavlos, Tulisa. Honest: my story so far. Autobiography.
Tulisa Contostavlos has three platinum N-Dubz albums, four
MOBO awards, a groundbreaking drama series, two
documentaries, a MIND award and an X Factor judge's win under
her belt. Not bad for a girl who's not yet 24. Contains strong
language.
2012. 4v. Price: £20.00. Order No: 23534103.
Also available in uncontracted braille. 5v. Order No: 23534105.
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Music
Braille music
ABRSM. Specimen aural tests: from 2011, Grades 1 - 3.
2010. 1v. Price: £1.51; £5.04; £13.00. Order No: 23430201.
ABRSM. Specimen aural tests: from 2011, Grade 8.
2010. 1v. Price: £1.13; £3.15; £10.00. Order No: 24547901.
ABRSM. Selected flute exam pieces 2014-2017, [flute part],
Grade 3.
2013. 1v. Price: £0.76; £1.90; £5.00. Order No: 23573901.
ABRSM. Selected flute exam pieces 2014-2017, [flute part],
Grade 4.
2013. 1v. Price: £0.76; £1.90; £5.00. Order No: 23574101.
ABRSM. Selected flute exam pieces 2014-2017, [flute part],
Grade 5.
2013. 1v. Price: £0.76; £1.90; £5.00. Order No: 23574301.
ABRSM. Selected flute exam pieces 2014-2017, [flute part],
Grade 6.
2013. 1v. Price: £0.76; £2.65; £6.50. Order No: 23578801.
ABRSM. Selected flute exam pieces 2014-2017, [flute part],
Grade 7.
2013. 1v. Price: £0.88; £2.65; £7.50. Order No: 23578501.
ABRSM. Selected flute exam pieces 2014-2017, [piano part],
Grade 2.
2013. 1v. Price: £0.76; £1.51; £4.00. Order No: 2357401.
ABRSM. Selected flute exam pieces 2014-2017, [piano part],
Grade 3.
2013. 1v. Price: £0.76; £1.90; £5.00. Order No: 23573801.
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ABRSM. Selected flute exam pieces 2014-2017, [piano part],
Grade 4.
2013. 1v. Price: £0.76; £1.51; £4.00. Order No: 23574401.
ABRSM. Selected flute exam pieces 2014-2017, [piano part],
Grade 5.
2013. 1v. Price: £0.76; £2.65; £6.50. Order No: 23574201.
ABRSM. Selected flute exam pieces 2014-2017, [piano part],
Grade 6.
2013. 1v. Price: £1.52; £3.80; £5.00. Order No: 23578701.
Bolton, Zoe. Big chart hits: 19 smash hits.
2012. 1v. Price: £1.26; £3.79; £11.00. Order No: 24548001.
Turner, Barrie Carson. Musicals: 20 show favourites.
2010. 1v. Price: £1.40; £4.43; £12.00. Order No: 24548101.
Turner, Barrie Carson. Pop favourites: duets, 16 top hits
arranged for piano.
2012. 1v. £1.40; £4.43; £12.00. Order No: 24548201.
Music tuition CDs
For UK loan only
Benziger, Quintus. The dream of Gerontius: [altos 1].
Benziger, Quintus. The dream of Gerontius: [altos 2].
Benziger, Quintus. The dream of Gerontius: [sopranos 1].
Benziger, Quintus. The dream of Gerontius: [sopranos 2].
Benziger, Quintus. Encores for choirs: [altos].
Benziger, Quintus. Encores for choirs: [sopranos].
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Guitar by ear
The following titles are all by Bill Brown.
Al otro lado del rio: a lesson in the style of Jorge Drexler.
Amazing grace: a lesson in the style of The Nitty Gritty Dirt
Band.
Apache: a lesson in the style of Jorgen Ingmann.
Better is one day: flat pick solo.
Brown sugar: a lesson in the style of ZZ Top.
Caprice No. 4.
Change the world: a lesson in the style of Eric Clapton.
Come morning: fingerstyle solo.
Cowboy song: a lesson in the style of Thin Lizzy.
Cowgirl in the sand: a lesson in the style of Neil Young.
Dahil sa iyo: guitar solo with backing tracks.
Dance with the guitar man: a lesson in the style of Duane
Eddy.
Don Quixote: a lesson in the style of Luis Villegas.
Europa: a lesson in the style of Santana.
First position scales 1.
First position scales 2.
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First position scales 3.
Have I told you lately that I love you: flat pick solo.
Here comes the sun: a lesson in the style of the Beatles.
Here I am to worship: flat pick solo with backing tracks.
Highway 61 revisited: a lesson in the style of Johnny Winter.
Hold on loosely: a lesson in the style of .38 Special.
I am a child: a lesson in the style of Neil Young.
I won't have to cross Jordan alone: neo classical solo.
If: a lesson in the style Bread.
James Bond theme: a lesson in the style of the Ventures.
Jessie's girl: a lesson in the style of Rick Springfield.
Jesus just left Chicago: a lesson in the style of ZZ Top.
Just a closer walk with thee: fingerstyle solo.
Let it ride: a lesson in the style of Bachman-Turner Overdrive.
Little drummer boy: fingerstyle solo.
Lodi: a lesson in the style of CCR.
Love song (solo intro): a lesson in the style of Tesla.
Malaguena: falmenco solo.
Mediterranean breeze: a lesson in the style of Nova Menco.
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Old man: a lesson in the style of Neil Young.
One last breath: a lesson in the style of Creed.
One night: a lesson in the style of Elvis Presley.
Opus 59: No. 1.
Palm muting: an essential technique.
Patience: a lesson in the style of Guns and Roses.
Peaceful easy feeling: a lesson in the style of The Eagles.
Peter Gunn: a lesson in the style of the Ventures.
Puff the magic dragon: a lesson in the style of Peter, Paul and
Mary.
Raunchy: a lesson in the style of the Ventures.
Soaring the Andes: a lesson in the style of Osacar Lopez.
Soaring the Andes: a lesson in the style of Osacar Lopez
[bass].
Study in Bm (Sor).
Supernatural: a lesson in the style of Sara Evans.
There is a fountain: neo classical solo.
Tis' so sweet to trust in Jesus: a lesson in the style of Pete
Huttlinger.
Uncloudy day: a lesson in the style of Willie Nelson.
Waltzing Matilda: a lesson in the style of the Irish Rovers.
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Wish you were here: a lesson in the style of Pink Floyd.
Who'll stop the rain: a lesson in the style of CCR.
Piano by ear
The following titles are all by Bill Brown.
Air for G string.
All in love is fair.
Bouree in G.
The chipmunk song: Christmas don't be late.
Dolores.
Gavotte.
Gymnopedie 1.
Gymnopedie 2.
Gymnopedie 3.
Harlem nocturne.
Linus and Lucy.
Siciliano.
Spirit of the Lord.
Tennessee Waltz in G: with Floyd Cramer licks.
That's all.
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You raise me up.
Giant print - 24 point
These titles are for UK loan only.
Adult fiction
Allen, Louise. Scandal in the Regency Ballroom. Romance.
Mills & Boon historical. Lady Miss Bree Mallory hopes no one in
Society will discover that she once drove the stage from London to
Newburyor that she returned unchaperoned with the rakishly
attractive Max Dysart, Earl of Penrith! Yet, while beautiful Bree has
no interest in marriage, Max's kisses are powerfully persuasive.
2013. 5v.
Anderson, Caroline. The secret in his heart. Romance.
Mills and Boon medical romance. For Dr. James Slater, fulfilling his
vow to look after his best friend's wife after he died in Afghanistan
has never been simple. Now Connie has asked him to help her
have a baby. He can't just father her child and then walk away. He
wants and loves her too much for that.
2013. 2v.
Anderson, Kevin J. Hellhole awakening. Science fiction.
Hellhole series; book 2. General Adolphus knows the Monarchy
crackdown is coming. Now he needs to pull together all the
resources of the Hellhole colony, the ever-expanding shadowXayan settlement, and his connections with the other Deep Zone
worlds.
2013. 6v.
Anderson, Natalie. Blame it on the bikini. Romance.
Mills & Boon riva. Mya Campbell, trying on a ridiculously tiny bikini
and texts her best friend the incriminating photo but she’s sent the
photo to her best friend’s brother, Brad. Seeing a new side of Mya
he makes seducing her his brand-new project!
2012. 2v.
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Andrews, Lyn. Sunlight on the Mersey. Family story.
The Great War is over, and sisters Iris and Rose are adjusting to
life in their modest Liverpool home after their brother Charlie has
returned from the front. But when their mother sends Rose to the
beautiful Welsh village of Tregarron to recover from an illness she
discovers a new world of possibility at her feet.
2012. 3v.
Auel, Jean M. The land of painted caves: a novel. Fantasy.
Earth's children; book 6. Concludes the story of Ayla, her mate
Jondalar, and their little daughter, Jonayla. Ayla struggles to find a
balance between her duties as a new mother and her training to
become a Zelandoni - one of the Ninth Cave community's spiritual
leaders and healers.
2011. 11v.
Banks, Iain. The quarry. General fiction.
Kit doesn't know who his mother is. What he does know, however,
that his father, Guy, is dying of cancer. Guy gathers around him his
oldest friends - or at least the friends with the most to lose by his
death. As the friends reunite for Guy's last days, old jealousies,
affairs and lies come to light as Kit watches on.
2013. 4v.
Barclay, Linwood. The accident. Thriller.
Glen Barber isn't the only person in the small town of Milford with
things on his mind. The recession has been bad for his
construction business, especially after a mysterious fire destroys
one of his buildings. But everyone else in Milford seems to have
problems too, as the financial pressures begin to pinch.
2012. 5v.
Lauren. The shining girls. Thriller.
Chicago 1931. Harper Curtis, a violent drifter, stumbles on a house
with a secret as shocking as his own twisted nature - it opens onto
other times. He uses it to stalk his carefully chosen 'shining girls'
through the decades. Chicago, 1992. Kirby Mazrachi whose life
was shattered after a brutal attempt to murder her. Still struggling
to find her attacker, her only ally is Dan, an ex-homicide reporter
who covered her case and now might be falling in love with her.
2013. 4v.
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Bloome, Indigo. Destined to feel. Erotic fiction.
Psychologist Alexandra Blake has been awakened sexually by her
lover, Jeremy Quinn. Their erotic journey has seen Alexandra
explore her innermost sexual fantasies. Her world is plunged into
uncertainty when she is abducted. Her captors want to use her to
explore the darkest enigma of female sexuality and Alexandra is
powerless to escape - but does she even want to?
2012. 3v.
Bohjalian, Chris. Sandcastle girls. General fiction.
When Elizabeth Endicott, a young American woman travels on an
aid mission to Syria in 1915, little does she realise what atrocities
she will have to face. For Aleppo is the resting place for the
hundreds of thousands of Armenians who have been forced to
march out of Turkey and through the desert to Syria. It is there she
meets Armen.
2013. 3v.
Boyne, John. This house is haunted. Ghost story.
1867. Eliza Caine arrives in Norfolk to take up her position as
governess at Gaudlin Hall on a dark and chilling night. She is
greeted by the two children in her care, Isabella and Eustace.
There are no parents, no adults at all, and no one to represent her
mysterious employer.
2013. 3v.
Bulawayo, NoViolet. We need new names. General fiction.
Man Booker Shortlist 2013. Whenever foreigners visit Paradise
they always ask Darling and her friends to smile for the camera.
Here are some of the things Darling and her friends have to smile
about: stealing guavas, gifts from NGOs, singing Lady Gaga at the
tops of their voices. But they all want to go to the real paradise in
America or Britain.
2013. 2v.
Burrows, Annie. Never trust a rake. Romance.
Mills and Boons historical. Rumour has it that Earl of Deben is the
most notorious rake in London. But if Lord Deben expects
Henrietta Gibson to respond to the click of his fingers he can think
again.
2013. 3v.
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Catton, Eleanor. The luminaries. Historical fiction.
Man Booker winner 2013. It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come
to make his fortune in the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he
stumbles across a tense gathering of men, who have met in secret
to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. Moody is soon drawn into
the mystery.
2013. 9v.
Chabon, Michael. Telegraph Avenue. General fiction.
As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy and Nat are still
hanging in there, long-time friends, band mates and co-regents of
Brokeland Records. When ex-NFL quarterback Gibson Goode
announces plans to construct a megastore on Telegraph Avenue,
Nat and Archy fear the worst for their vulnerable little enterprise.
2013. 5v.
Chadwick, Elizabeth. The summer queen. Historical fiction.
Eleanor of Aquitaine series; book 1. Eleanor has everything to look
forward to as the heiress to wealthy Aquitaine. But when her
beloved father dies suddenly, she is forced to marry the young
prince Louis of France. Catapulted to being crowned King and
Queen of France. Eleanor must face the complex and vivacious
French court.
2013. 5v.
Chance, Rebecca. Bad angels. Chick lit.
Limehouse Wharf where celebrities who have had 'work' done can
hole up until they have healed. Staying there over the festive
period is Melody Down, an actress whose career is in tatters after
too much plastic surgery. But is a 'well-meaning' friend about to
sabotage all of Melody's Christmas wishes?
2012. 5v.
Chevalier, Tracy. The last runaway. Historical fiction.
When Quaker Honor Bright sails from Bristol with her sister, she is
fleeing heartache for a new life in America. But tragedy leaves her
alone and vulnerable, torn between two worlds and dependent on
the kindness of strangers, and life in 1850s Ohio is precarious and
unsentimental.
2013. 3v.
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Clancy, Tom and Greaney, Mark. Threat vector. Thriller.
Jack Ryan, Jr.; book 4. Jack Ryan has only just moved back into
the Oval Office when he is faced with a new international threat.
President Wei Zhen Lin and General Su Ke Qiang have declared
the South China Sea a protectorate and are planning an invasion
of Taiwan.
2012. 7v.
Colgan, Jenny. The loveliest chocolate shop in Paris. General
fiction.
When an accident changed everything, Anna was thrown back in
touch with her French teacher, Claire, who offered her the chance
of a lifetime - to work in Paris with her former sweetheart, Thierry,
a master chocolatier.
2013. 4v.
Cornwell, Patricia. The bone bed. Crime fiction.
Kay Scarpetta; book 20. First, a leading dinosaur hunter goes
missing from a dig in Canada: next, Kay Scarpetta receives a grisly
communication which leads her to believe that the disappearance
may be her next case. Kay must now rely solely on her own
instincts to catch a cunning enemy who seems impossible to
defeat.
2012. 4v.
Crace, Jim. Harvest. General fiction.
Man Booker Shortlist 2013. In a remote, unnamed English hamlet,
perhaps in the 17th Century, a trio of outsiders set up camp on the
outskirts. That same night the local manor house is set on fire.
Over the course of 7 days a chain of disastrous and shocking
events play out, narrated by labourer Walter Thirsk.
2013. 2v.
Crews, Caitlin. A devil in disguise. Romance.
Mills & Boon Modern. Ready to take her life back and walk away
from the devil currently disguised as her boss, Dru plucks up the
courage to say I quit! A resignation from the best PA Cayo Vila's
ever had is simply unacceptable. Dru’s heard all about his
legendary charm, but now that its turned on her she understands
exactly why it's so hard to say no to Cayo Vila!
2012. 2v.
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Cussler, Clive. Poseidon's arrow. Thriller.
Dirk Pitt; book 22. It is the greatest advance in American defence
technology in decades - an attack submarine capable of incredible
underwater speeds. But a key element of the prototype is missing,
and the man who developed it is dead. At the same time, ships
have started vanishing mid-ocean, the bodies of the crews usually
found burned to a crisp. What is going on?
2012. 4v.
Dickinson, Miranda. When I fall in love. Romance.
Elsie Maynard has a whole new life she never expected to have.
From inadvertently founding a choir like no other with former 80s
rock star Woody Jensen, to daring to date again, Elsie steps out
into an unknown future that could include gorgeous designer Olly
Hogarth, a man who seems intent on winning her heart.
2012. 4v.
Dunant, Sarah. Blood & beauty. Historical fiction.
When Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the papacy, he is defined
not just by his wealth or his love for his illegitimate children, but by
his blood: he is a Spanish Pope in a city run by Italians. If the
Borgias are to triumph, this charismatic politician with an appetite
for life, women and power must use papacy and family to succeed.
2013. 5v.
Egan, Jennifer. A visit from the goon squad. General fiction.
The lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and
record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young
woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover
each other's pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with
the secret lives of a host of other characters.
2011. 3v.
Evans, Harriet. Happily ever after. General fiction.
The story of Eleanor Bee, a shy, book-loving girl who vows to turn
herself into someone bright, shiny and confident, someone
sophisticated. Turns out that Elle doesn't know everything about
love. Or life. Or how to keep the ones we love safe.
2012. 4v.
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Flynn, Katie. A Christmas to remember. Family story.
A few days before Christmas, Tess Williams rushes into Albert
Payne's tobacconist shop, with two boys in hot pursuit saying she's
a thief. Albert chases the boys away, and changes her life.
2013. 4v.
Flynn, Vince. The last man. Thriller.
Mitch Rapp; book 13. The four dead guards didn't concern Mitch
Rapp as much as the absence of the man they'd been paid to
protect. Joe Rickman wasn't just another foot soldier. At first
glance it looks as if Rickman has been kidnapped, but Rapp knows
certain things about his old friend that cause him to wonder if
something more disturbing isn't afoot.
2013. 4v.
Fowles, John. The collector. Thriller.
Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies.
After a chance pools win he kidnaps art student Miranda and
keeps her in the cellar of the Sussex home he has bought with the
windfall, hoping their isolation will dissolve the class and taste
barriers which inhibit their love. She tries to understand but cannot
master her contempt for the anti-life he represents.
1963. 3v.
Gale, Patrick. A perfectly good man. General fiction.
When 20-year-old Lenny Barnes, paralysed in a rugby accident,
commits suicide in the presence of Barnaby Johnson, the muchloved priest of a West Cornwall parish, the tragedy's
reverberations open up the fault-lines between Barnaby and his
nearest and dearest.
2012. 4v.
Gillard, Linda. Star gazing. Romance.
Blind since birth, widowed in her twenties, now lonely in her forties,
Marianne's passionate nature finds solace and expression in
music, a love she finds she shares with Keir, a man she
encounters on her doorstep one winter's night. Can Marianne trust
her feelings for this reclusive stranger who wants to take a blind
woman to his island home on Skye, to 'show' her the stars?
2008. 3v.
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Graham, Winston. Warleggan: a novel of Cornwall, 1792-1793.
Family story.
Poldark; book 4. Ross's marriage to Demelza is threatened when
he plunges into a risky mining venture and starts a new liaison with
old flame Elizabeth, while Demelza retaliates by getting involved
with a Scottish soldier.
1953. 5v.
Graham, Winston. The four swans. Family story.
Poldark; book 6. Ross watches as four marriages are threatened,
including his own, though he had thought himself the most secure
of all.
1976. 6v.
Gregory, Philippa. The white princess. Historical fiction.
Cousins War; book 5. The beautiful eldest daughter of Edward IV,
the young princess Elizabeth faces a conflict of loyalties between
the red rose and the white. Forced into marriage with Henry VII,
she must reconcile her slowly growing love for him with her loyalty
to the House of York.
2013. 5v.
Hewson, David. The killing. Thriller.
Killing; book 1. Through the dark wood where the dead trees give
no shelter 19-year-old student Nanna Birk Larsen runs. Sarah
Lund is looking forward to her last day as a detective with the
Copenhagen Police department before moving to Sweden. But
everything changes when Nanna is found dead.
2012. 9v.
Hill, Joe. NOS-4R2: 1938: a novel. Horror.
Summer. Massachusetts. An old Silver Wraith with a frightening
history. A story about one serial killer and his lingering, unfinished
business. Anyone could be next. We're going to Christmasland.
2013. 7v.
Hislop, Victoria. The last dance and other stories. Short
stories.
In these stories, Victoria Hislop takes us through the streets of
Athens and into the tree-lined squares of Greek villages. She
brings vividly to life a host of unforgettable characters, from a
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lonesome priest to battling brothers, and from an unwanted
stranger to a groom troubled by music and memory.
2013. 1v.
Hosseini, Khaled. And the mountains echoed. General fiction.
A multi-generational family story revolving around brothers and
sisters, 'And the Mountains Echoed' explores the ways in which
they love, wound, betray, honour and sacrifice for each other.
2013. 5v.
Howey, Hugh. Wool. Science fiction.
Wool; book 1. In a ruined and hostile landscape, a community
exists in a giant underground silo. Inside, men and women live an
enclosed life full of rules and regulations, of secrets and lies. The
people who don't follow the rules are the dangerous ones. Their
punishment is simple and deadly. They are allowed outside.
2013. 5v.
Kane, Ben. Hannibal - fields of blood. Historical fiction.
Hannibal; book 2. Hannibal's campaign to defeat Rome continues.
With him is a young solider, Hanno. Facing Hanno is his former
friend, Quintus, whom Hanno met while in Roman captivity. A bitter
quarrel with his father leads Quintus to join the Roman infantry
under an assumed name. Among his legionaries, he finds that his
enemies are not just the Carthaginians, but men of his own side.
2013. 6v.
Kelly, Cathy. The house on Willow Street. General fiction.
Can four women lay their pasts to rest? Or do they need to look
back before they can begin to live for the future?
2012. 5v.
Kelly, Jim. The water clock. Crime fiction.
Philip Dryden; book 1. In the bleak, snowbound Cambridgeshire
Fens, a car is winched from the frozen River Lark in it is a man's
mutilated body. High on Ely Cathedral, a second body is
discovered, it has been there for more than thirty years. Philip
Dryden knows he's on to a great story when forensic evidence
links both victims to one terrifying event in 1966.
2003. 3v.
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Kelly, Sheelagh. A different kind of love. Family story.
When Probyn's wife dies he is touched to find that in his hour of
need his sisters step in to care for the children whom he finds it
impossible to care for. But Probyn's attempt to keep his family
together leads to their oppression and abuse.
2003. 9v.
Koomson, Dorothy. The Rose Petal Beach. General fiction.
Tamia Challey is horrified when her husband, Scott, is accused of
something terrible - but when she discovers who his accuser is,
everything goes into freefall. Backed into a corner and unsure what
to think, Tamia is forced to choose whom she instinctively believes.
2012. 5v.
Krinard, Susan. Lord of the beasts. Romance.
Mills & Boon nocturne. Enchanted blood flows through vet Donal
Fleming's veins but Donal's attraction to Cordelia has unleashed
his most primal instincts. He must face the consequences of an
impossible choice - between human love and the powers that, to
him, are life itself.
2013. 5v.
Lahiri, Jhumpa. The lowland. General fiction.
Man Booker Prize shortlisted, 2013. Udayan finds himself drawn to
the Naxalite movement, a rebellion waged to eradicate inequity
and poverty. The repercussions of his actions reverberate across
continents and seep through the generations that follow.
2013. 4v.
Lanyon, John R. Vanilla Ride. Thriller.
When Leonard is asked to rescue a teenage girl from a lowly drug
dealer, he gladly agrees and invites Hap along for the ride. Hap
and Leonard are arrested. Turns out, however, that the law needs
a favour and if Hap and Leonard can do the deed they'll be free.
There's one problem, the Dixie Mafia's new hired gun is the
legendary assassin Vanilla Ride.
2010. 3v.
Le Carre, John. A delicate truth. Thriller.
Gibraltar, 2008. A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is
being mounted. Its purpose: capture a jihadist arms-buyer.
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Cornwall, 2011. A disgraced Special Forces soldier delivers a
message from the dead. Was Operation Wildlife the success it was
cracked up to be, or a tragedy that was covered up?
2008. 4v.
Lee, Maureen. After the war is over. Family story.
Liverpool, 1945. Three women, strong friends, return home from
the war trying to fit back into their old lives after they've been
demobbed. They've been thrown together by the war and shared
all sorts of good and bad times. Now their old lives seem dull in
comparison, but not for long.
2012. 4v.
Lupton, Rosamund. Afterwards. Thriller.
Black smoke stains a summer blue sky. A school is on fire. And
one mother, Grace, knows there is a girl still inside. It's her
daughter, Jenny. Grace does what any mother would do - runs to
find her. Afterwards, Grace must fight to save her family and find
the person who is intent on destroying them.
2011. 5v.
McCall Smith, Alexander. Trains and lovers. General fiction.
Four strangers meet on a journey from Edinburgh to London. Each
has a tale to tell how love has touched their lives in very different
ways.
2012. 2v.
McFarlane, Mhairi. You had me at hello. Romance.
What happens when the one that got away comes back? Ten
years after they said goodbye, Rachel bumps into Ben. But life has
moved on. Ben is married. Rachel is not. And slowly but surely,
Rachel feels the return of the broken heart she can't do anything to
mend.
2012. 4v.
McMurtry, Larry. Comanche moon. Western.
Lonesome Dove quartet; book 4. Comanche Moon continues the
adventures of Texas Rangers Woodrow Call and Gus McCrae as
they mature as men, now engaged in breaking Comanche
resistance on the great southern plains of Texas.
2007. 8v.
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Neale, Kitty. A broken family. General fiction.
Celia Frost has always thought herself a cut above the other
residents of Lark Rise. When her son, Thomas, starts seeing Amy,
a girl from the bottom of the Rise, Celia disapproves. When Celia's
husband leaves her and Thomas announces he is to marry Amy,
she is more than ever determined to split them up.
2012. 4v.
Nesbø, Jo. The devil's star. Crime fiction.
Harry Hole; book 5. A young woman is found murdered in her flat..
Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case with Tom Waaler - a
colleague Harry suspects of running an arms smuggling gang and
of murdering his partner.
2009. 5v.
Nesbø, Jo. Phantom. Crime fiction.
Harry Hole; book 9. The murder has been solved, but has justice
been done? Harry Hole is back in Oslo. He's been away for some
time, but his ghosts have a way of catching up with him. The case
that brings him back is already closed. There is no room for doubt:
the young junkie was shot dead by a fellow addict. The police don't
want him back.
2012. 5v.
O'Brien, Edna. The country girls. General fiction.
Country girls trilogy; book 1. The story of two Irish girls, Caithleen
Brady and Bridget Brennan, and their escape from a life filled with
countryside and convent to the allure and the crowds, lights and
noise of Dublin.
2007. 2v.
Obreht, Téa. The tiger's wife. General fiction.
Remembering stories her grandfather told her, Natalia becomes
convinced he spent his last days searching for 'the deathless man',
a vagabond who claimed to be immortal. As she struggles to
understand why her grandfather would go on such a farfetched
journey, she stumbles across a clue that leads her to the story of
the tiger's wife.
2011. 3v.
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Ozeki, Ruth L. A tale for the time being. General fiction.
Man Booker Prize 2013. Ruth discovers a Hello Kitty lunchbox
washed up on the shore of her beach home. Within it lies a diary
that expresses the hopes and dreams of a young girl. With every
turn of the page, she is sucked deeper into an enchanting mystery.
2013. 5v.
Palov, C M. The Templar's secret. Thriller.
A breathless ride all over the globe and to a dark secret at the very
heart of Christianity. A long lost gospel - the Evangelium Gaspar holds the truth about Jesus of Nazareth and whoever possesses it
will wield unlimited power.
2012. 4v.
Pavone, Chris. The expats. Thriller.
Kate Moore is an expat mum, newly transplanted from Washington
D.C. In Luxembourg, her days are filled with play dates and coffee
mornings. But Kate is also guarding a secret - one so momentous
it could destroy her neat little expat life.
2013. 4v.
Pearse, Lesley. Forgive me. General fiction.
Cheltenham, 1991. Eva Patterson returns home from work to find
her mother, Flora, dead in the bath. Beside her is a note saying
only: 'Forgive Me'. In her will Flora left Eva an artist's studio in
London, she realises how little she knows about her mother's past.
1991. 6v.
Quigley, Sarah. The conductor. General fiction.
June, 1941. When Nazi troops march on Leningrad. Shostakovich,
one of Russia's most famous composers, stays to defend his city.
At night he composes new work. Eventually forced to flee, he
leaves behind conductor Karl Eliasberg. When a finished score is
flown back over enemy lines, the starving orchestra are ordered to
regroup.
4v.
Reisz, Tiffany. The siren. Erotic fiction.
Nora Sutherlin thought she knew everything about being pushed to
your limits. But in a world where passion is pain, nothing is ever
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that simple. Now Nora must face up to the choices she has made,
and to the man she left behind.
2012. 4v.
Roberts, Nora. Whiskey Beach. Thriller.
Eli Landon seems to have the perfect life. But when his wife is
brutally murdered after confessing to an affair, Eli is named prime
suspect. After a year-long ordeal the case is dropped. Abandoned
by his friends, hounded by the media and a detective with a
grudge, Eli retreats to the small-town sanctuary of Whiskey Beach
and Bluff House, his beloved grandmother's home by the sea.
2013. 5v.
Sandford, John. Bad blood. Thriller.
Virgil flowers; book 4. Sheriff Lee Coakley is investigating the
murder of a farmer when the main suspect apparently commits
suicide. With the help of Virgil Flowers of the Minnesota Bureau of
Criminal Investigation, Coakley soon uncovers a conspiracy that
has bubbled away for generations.
2011. 3v.
Sandford, John. Winter prey. Crime fiction.
Lucas Davenport; book 5. The Iceman crept into the house on the
edge of the lake. He killed the father first. Then the mother and
child. And when his work was done, he set the house on fire.
Lucas Davenport had tracked killers in cities across America, but
the woods of rural Wisconsin are as dark and primal as evil itself.
2011. 4v.
Sandford, John. Storm prey. Thriller.
Lucas Davenport; book 20. A daring drugs raid on a Minneapolis
hospital takes place on the same day that Lucas Davenport's wife,
Weather, is due to perform an operation to separate conjoined
twins. Investigating the raid, Davenport concludes that it must have
been an inside job and, as a witness, Weather is now in grave
danger.
2011. 4v.
Scanlan, Patricia. With all my love. General fiction.
On a crystal clear Mediterranean day, Briony sits with her fouryear-old daughter, Katie, while she waits for her mother, Valerie, to
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join them. Briony has no idea that in a few moments time her
relationship with her mother will change irrevocably.
2013. 5v.
Shaw, Rebecca. Village secrets: tales from Turnham Malpas.
Country life fiction.
Tales from Turnham Malpas; book 5. Kate Pascoe is the new head
teacher of the village school. She arrives at Turnham Malpas with
very different ideas to those of her predecessor. In the end Kate
finds a place she can call home and then her obsessions are
forgiven if not forgotten.
1999. 3v.
Shriver, Lionel. Big brother. General fiction.
When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at the airport, she
literally doesn't recognise him. Edison drives hers health-andfitness freak husband Fletcher insane who delivers his wife an
ultimatum - it's him or me. Pandora chooses her brother - who,
without her support in losing weight, will surely eat himself into an
early grave.
2013. 4v.
Simsion, Graeme. The Rosie project. General fiction.
Meet Don Tillman. Don is getting married. He just doesn't know
who to yet. But he has designed a very detailed questionnaire to
help him find the perfect woman. One thing he already knows,
though, is that it's not Rosie. Absolutely, completely, definitely not.
2013. 3v.
Steel, Danielle. Until the end of time. General fiction.
Jenny and Bill are a married couple whose love is absolute.
Tragedy strikes cutting their lives and their happiness short. More
than 30 years later, Bob, a hardened New York City publisher, will
meet his match in Lillibet, a shy Amish girl who is a talented writer.
And there's the unshakeable sense that they've known each other
for a long time - possibly in another life.
2013. 3v.
Swan, Karen. The perfect present. General fiction.
Haunted by a past she can't escape, Laura Cunningham desires
nothing more than to keep her world small and precise - her quiet
relationship and growing jewellery business are all she needs to
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get by. Until the December day when Rob Blake walks into her
studio and commissions a necklace that will tell his wife Cat's life in
charms.
2012. 5v.
Tóibín, Colm. The testament of Mary. General fiction.
Man Booker Prize 2013. For Mary, her son has been lost to the
world, and now, living in exile and in fear, she tries to piece
together the memories of the events that led to her son's brutal
death.
2012. 1v.
Tolkien, Simon. Orders from Berlin. Thriller.
Detective Trave uncovers a sophisticated plot at the heart of MI6 to
assassinate Churchill and bring the Second World War to a
crashing end. France has fallen and the capital is being bombed
both day and night: it seems against all odds that Britain can
survive the onslaught.
2013. 4v.
Trigiani, Adriana. The shoemaker's wife. General fiction.
Ciro and Enza meet as teenagers in the Italian Alps, but then Ciro
catches the local priest in a scandal and is sent to America. Then
Enza is forced to flee to America with her father to secure their
future. Unbeknownst to one another, Ciro and Enza build fledgling
lives in New York until fate intervenes and reunites them. But it is
too late?
2012. 6v.
Adult non-fiction
Autobiography and biography
Earl, Rae. My fat, mad teenage diary.
It's 1989 and Rae is a fat, boy-mad 17-year-old, living in Stamford,
Lincolnshire with her mum and their deaf white cat in a council
house with a mint off-green bath suite and a larder Rae can't keep
away from. The real-life diary she kept during that year.
2007. 4v.
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Massie, Robert K. Catherine the Great: portrait of a woman.
Catherine was an obscure young German princess who travelled
to Russia at 14 and rose to become one of the most remarkable,
powerful and captivating women in history.
2012. 9v.
Military Wives. Wherever you are: the Military Wives: our true
stories of heartbreak, hope and love.
In December 2011, as the nation watched, the Military Wives'
single was named Christmas number one. A few weeks earlier
they had been just the wives and girlfriends of soldiers deployed to
Afghanistan.
2013. 4v.
Health and fitness
Virtue, Doreen. Crystal therapy: how to heal and empower
your life with crystal energy.
A pocket guide to the healing power of 88 crystals. Suitable for
beginners and focuses on crystals that are easily obtainable.
2005. 1v.
History
Bailey, Catherine. The secret rooms: a true gothic mystery.
In April 1940, the ninth Duke of Rutland died in mysterious
circumstances in one of the rooms of his family estate, Belvoir
Castle. 'The Secret Rooms' is the true story of family secrets and
one man's determination to keep the past hidden at any cost.
2012. 5v.
Flanders, Judith. The Victorian city: everyday life in Dickens'
London.
A recreation of Victorian London, whose raucous streets and
teeming denizens inspired and permeated the works of Charles
Dickens.
2012. 7v.
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Martin, Guy. How Britain worked.
How the industrial revolution helped make Britain great and shows
how the discoveries made in the late 18th-19th centuries are to
thank for the ease of our everyday lives.
2012. 2v.
Philosophy
Edmonds, David. Philosophy bites back.
An original tour through 2,500 years of Western thought, 27 of
today's leading philosophers each introduce and explore ideas
from history's greatest minds.
2012. 3v.
Psychology
Grosz, Stephen. The examined life.
In a series of short, vivid, dramatic stories, using psychoanalytic
insight, 'The Examined Life' uncovers the extraordinary hidden
feelings behind apparently ordinary behaviour.
2013. 2v.
Science
Jefferson, Peter. And now the shipping forecast: a tide of
history around our shores.
Peter Jefferson presented the Shipping Forecast for over 40 years.
He explains how it came about, who collects all the information
and what it's like to read this bulletin.
2011. 3v.
Warfare and Defence
Keegan, John. A history of warfare.
John Keegan examines every branch of warfare in its history,
psychology, genetics, logistics, archaeology, tactics and strategy.
2004. 6v.
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Children and young adult fiction
Suggested reading age 0- 4
Donaldson, Julia. The singing mermaid. Magical story.
A singing mermaid is tempted away from her home at Silversands
to join the circus. The audiences love her but the poor mermaid,
kept in a tank by the wicked circus owner Sam Sly, soon longs to
return to the freedom of the sea. Will she ever escape?
2013. 1v.
Ross, Mandy. Little Red Riding Hood. Myths and legends.
Ladybird's first favourite tales. Find out why grandmother has such
big teeth. Using rhythmic text to help build reading skills quirky,
humorous retellings of traditional children's tales.
2011. 1v.
Treahy, Iona. Jack and the beanstalk: based on a traditional
folk tale. Myths and legends.
Ladybird's first favourite tales. Jack's mother is very angry when he
swaps their only cow for some magic beans. But before Jack
knows it, he is off on a big adventure! Using rhythmic text to help
build reading skills the books in this series offer quirky, humorous
retellings of traditional children's tales.
1999. 1v.
Suggested reading age 5+
Oldfield, Jenny. Toby takes the plunge. Animal story.
Helen and Hannah are pleased when their very own Speckle
becomes a proud dad. But a trio of lively, loveable mongrel pups
brings unexpected problems - and chaos to the twins' Lakeland
home.
2001. 1v.
Wiesner, David. Tuesday. Funny story.
David Wiesner's visual story begins with the moon rising over a
peaceful marsh when suddenly the frogs on their lily pads levitate
straight up and away. A wonderful airborne adventure in colourful
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images.
1991. 1v.
Suggested reading age 7+
Chicken run: book of the film. Animal story.
A group of chickens attempt to break out of the battery farm before
they end up in Mrs Tweedy's chicken pie machine, but every
escape goes wrong. Rocky the flying rooster is the hero who saves
the day.
2000. 1v.
Dale, Jenny. Abandoned! Animal story.
Puppy patrol series. Toby the cocker spaniel has a problem - he
thinks he's human! Which is fine until his owner has to go into
hospital and Toby is put into King Street Kennels.
1997. 1v.
Dale, Jenny. Big Ben. Animal story.
Puppy patrol series. Ben is a boisterous Old English sheepdog
who is popular with everyone except the pampered poodle next
door. When the poodle disappears in the snow Ben is blamed and
it's up to Neil and Emily at the kennels to find Sheba before time
runs out.
1997. 1v.
Dale, Jenny. Teacher's pet. Animal story.
Puppy patrol series. Dotty the dalmatian fails all her tests at the
King Street Kennels' training school. Dotty's been thrown out of
dog schools all round the country. Can Neil turn Dotty into a star
pupil and get on his teacher's good side?
1997. 1v.
MacDonald, Alan. Fleas! Funny story.
Dirty Bertie series. Meet Dirty Bertie - a boy with nose-pickingly
disgusting habits. He's full to bursting with madcap plans and crazy
ideas, and if it's trouble you're after, look no further - Bertie's sure
to be up to his neck in it.
2006. 1v.
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MacDonald, Alan. Pants! Funny story.
Dirty Bertie series. Bertie faces the shame of losing a dare with
Know-All Nick and having to wear his pants to school, playing the
part of the dog in the local amateur dramatic society's production
of Oliver and taking Whiffer to Royston Rich's birthday party,
where Whiffer leaves a very unwelcome present...
2007. 1v.
MacDonald, Alan. Worms! Funny story.
Dirty Bertie series. Join Bertie as he tries to get out of a pink party,
fails to be polite for a whole day and makes a really rubbish entry
into the summer fair's flower arranging competition.
2006. 1v.
McKenzie, Sophie. Time train to the Blitz. Adventure.
A nail-biting adventure that whisks readers back in time to the daily
chaos and heroism of 1940s London during the blitz bombings.
2010. 1v.
Rees, Gwyneth. My super sister. Magical story.
Emma knows that having superpowers isn't easy, especially when
you have to keep them secret. But it's even harder when your little
sister can't help using them in the naughtiest of ways.
2013. 1v.
Webb, Holly. The chocolate dog. Animal story.
Amy and Laura aren't looking forward to the arrival of their new
brother or sister. But at least they still have their gorgeous dog
Choc - he always knows how to make them feel better.
2012. 1v.
Wilson, Jacqueline. The werepuppy. Animal story.
A werewolf video leaves Micky terrified of dogs. His mum decides
that the answer to his problem is to get Micky a puppy of his own.
To everyone's surprise - including Micky's - he chooses a
werepuppy. But Wolfie turns out to be a very special pet.
1993. 1v.
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Suggested reading age 9+
Hendry, Diana. The seeing. Thriller.
Nothing ever seems to happen in the quiet, respectable seaside
town of Norton. The war is over, and everyone's thrilled to be living
peacefully - everyone but 13-year-old Lizzie, who's so bored she
could scream. But when the wild and dangerous Natalie arrives,
Lizzie is drawn irresistibly to the new girl from the wrong side of the
tracks.
2013. 1v.
McCaughrean, Geraldine. Saint George and the dragon. Myths
and legends.
The traditional tale of the patron saint of England. The dragon lays
waste to the kingdom and finally the princess herself has to be
rescued by a knight, who fights and tames the dragon, passing into
legend as St George.
2000. 1v.
Mercer, Sienna. Switched. Funny story.
Olivia Abbott is a cheerleader - pretty clothes, pretty hair and pretty
perfect. Ivy Vega is black clothes, black eyeliner, pale skin. In fact
she seems the exact opposite of Olivia - or she would be if she
wasn't her twin! Meeting for the first time since being separated at
birth, Olivia is about to discover that her long lost sister may just
have some skeletons in her closet.
2009. 1v.
Nimmo, Jenny. Charlie Bone and the shadow of Badlock.
Fantasy.
Children of the red king; book 7. The enchanter Count Harken is
back and determined to stop Billy from discovering a life-changing
family secret. His incredible power reaches out from the dark,
magical land of Badlock, to wreak revenge on Charlie and his
friends.
2010. 2v.
Nimmo, Jenny. Charlie Bone and the Red Knight. Fantasy.
Children of the red king; book 8. The race to find the box
containing the secret regarding the Bloors' fortune has become
deadly and it looks like his only hope might be the mysterious Red
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Knight.
2010. 2v.
Patterson, James. Get me out of here! Funny story.
Middle school; book 2. Hi I'm Rafe and this is my latest tale of
middle school madness! I'm accepted into an amazing school
where all the kids are super-smart snobs. My first assignment is to
create drawings based on my awesome life experiences but I can't
think of one.
2013. 1v.
Patterson, James. My brother is a big, fat liar. Funny story.
Middle school; book 3. Georgia Khatchadorian plans to excel at
Hills Village Middle School in all the places her troublemaking
brother failed. But Rafe left a big mark at HVMS, and no one will
give Georgia a chance!
2013. 1v.
Suggested reading age 11+
Forrestal, Elaine. Someone like me. General fiction.
Tas is an ordinary kid, leading an ordinary life until Enya moves
into the farm next door. The violence of the world she thought she
had left behind catches up with her and changes Tas' life for ever.
1997. 1v.
Muchamore, Robert. Secret army. War story.
Henderson's boys; book 3. Britain, 1941. The government is
building a secret army of intelligence agents to work undercover.
Henderson's boys are part of that network: kids cut adrift by the
war, training for the fight of their lives.
2010. 2v.
Muchamore, Robert. Grey wolves. War story.
Henderson's boys; book 4. Spring, 1941. With the Royal Navy
losing the war at sea, six young agents must sneak into Nazioccupied Europe and sabotage a submarine base on France's
western coast.
2012. 2v.
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Muchamore, Robert. The prisoner. War story.
Henderson's boys; book 5. One of Henderson's best agents is
being held captive in Frankfurt. A set of forged record cards could
be his ticket to freedom, but might just as easily become his death
warrant. A vital mission awaits him in France - if he can find a way
to escape.
2012. 2v.
Suggested reading age 13+
Anderson, Laurie Halse. Forge. Historical fiction.
It is 1777. Isabel and Curzon have escaped New York and are
facing a life on the run. Isabel wants to find her sister, and Curzon
can't see how to help her. Curzon joins the American army, fighting
for independence against the British.
2011. 2v.
Caine, Rachel. Glass houses. Fantasy.
Morganville Vampires; book 1. College freshman Claire Danvers
has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation, where the
popular girls never let her forget just where she ranks in the
school's social scene: somewhere less than zero. When Claire
heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room
may not be much better.
2008. 2v.
Caine, Rachel. The dead girls' dance. Fantasy.
Morganville Vampires; book 2. Claire has her share of challenges.
Like being a genius in a school that favours beauty over brains,
homicidal girls in her dorm, and finding out that her college town is
overrun with the living dead.
2008. 2v.
Cast, P C. and Cast, Kristin. Hidden. Fantasy.
House of night; book 10. The latest title in the series which follows
16-year-old Zoey Redbird, who gets marked by a vampyre tracker
and begins to undergo the 'Change' into an actual vampyre.
1995. 2v.
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Durrant, Sabine. Cross your heart, Connie Pickles. General
fiction.
Connie Pickles; book 1. Connie used to be the only sensible
person in her world, but now her life is spiralling out of control. Her
mother refuses to fall for the right man, William is acting strangely
and Connie's own heart is in tatters. She sets out to solve the
mysteries of love, money and uncomfortable underwear.
2005. 2v.
Durrant, Sabine Ooh la la!, Connie Pickles. General fiction.
Connie Pickles; book 2. Connie Pickles is in Paris and she has big
plans. She will fall in love with someone other than William. She
will find her long lost grandparents. She will become très chic. But
sometimes even destiny doesn't go to plan.
2007. 1v.
McCullough, Carolyn. Once a witch. Fantasy.
Witch; book 1. Tamsin Greene comes from a long line of witches,
but her Talent (magic) has never arrived. Now 17, Tamsin attends
boarding school in Manhattan. After she's mistaken for her talented
sister, Tamsin agrees to find a lost family heirloom.
2009. 2v.
Terrell, Heather. Fallen angel. Fantasy.
Fallen angel; book 1. When Ellie Faneuil first sees Michael Chase,
she feels an instant connection. They soon learn that they share
powers that are otherworldly. Together they go in search of what
they are and find themselves centre stage in an ancient conflict.
But will they choose the same side?
2011. 2v.
Terrell, Heather. Eternity. Fantasy.
Fallen angel; book 2. As Ellie comes to grips with her destiny as
the Elect One, her relationship with Michael grows tense. When
she meets a mysterious buy named Rafe, things get even more
complicated.
2011. 2v.
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Suggested reading age 15+
Green, John. An abundance of Katherines. Humourous fiction.
Colin Singleton always falls for girls named Katherine, and he's
been dumped by all of them. Letting expectations go and allowing
love in are part of Colin's amusing quest to find his missing piece
and avenge dumpees everywhere.
2013. 2v.
Sedgwick, Marcus. She is not invisible. Thriller.
Laureth Peak's father is a writer and for years he's been trying to
write a novel about the nature of coincidence. When he goes
missing in New York, Laureth decides to look for him. On impulse
she steals her mother's credit card and heads for the States, taking
her strange little brother Benjamin with her. Ahead lie challenges
and threats that would test any 16 year old. And Laureth Peak is
blind.
2013. 2v.
Children and young adult non-fiction
Suggested reading age 5+
Chancellor, Deborah. Let's find out about - healthy eating.
Health and fitness.
Let's find out about series. The book looks at the different food
groups, why we need to eat a balanced diet, and why protein is
good for you.
2010. 1v.
Suggested reading age 7+
De la Bédoyère, Camilla. Rainforests. Science.
100 facts series. Discover what makes rainforest habitats so
special and find out why they are disappearing and how people
can help to conserve them.
2009. 1v.
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Kalman, Bobbie. Earth's coasts. Science.
Looking at earth series. Coasts can be sandy or rocky and have
landforms such as cliffs, sea stacks, caves, and arches. Coasts
can be next to open oceans or be sheltered in bays or coves.
2009. 1v.
Kalman, Bobbie. Earth's rivers. Science.
Looking at earth series. Why do people need rivers? What causes
rivers to flood? These are just a few of the questions answered
2009. 1v.
Kalman, Bobbie. The water cycle. Science.
Nature's changes series. Explains how different processes,
including evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and run-off,
work together to move water from the ground to the air and then
back down again.
2006. 1v.
Suggested reading age 9+
Butterfield, Moria. Elizabeth I. History.
Discover the Tudors series. Find out about Queen Elizabeth I and
Tudor life and times.
2013. 1v.
Butterfield, Moria. Everyday life. History.
Discover the Tudors series. What was everyday Tudor life really
like? What was it like to be rich or poor in Tudor times? How did
Tudor children learn to have fun?
2013. 1v.
Deary, Terry. Frightful First World War. History.
Horrible histories. The dire details of a war that affected almost
everyone - from peace-loving protesters to the suffering soldiers in
the muddy trenches.
2007. 1v.
Macdonald, Fiona. Ancient Rome. History.
100 facts series. Discover 100 facts about Ancient Rome.
2001. 1v.
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Stafford, Mark. Water. Science.
Go Facts Environmental Issues. About three-quarters of the Earth
is covered by water. Find out about its many uses, how it moves
around the world and why we need to conserve it.
2007. 1v.
Talking books
Adult fiction
Aldiss, Brian Wilson. Finches of Mars. Science fiction. TB
20542.
A group of colonists have problems in setting up a new society on
the Red Planet but new life will not prosper - the women on the
planet only ever give birth to stillborn children.
2013. Read by Hayward Morse. 6 hours 32 minutes. TB 20542.
Anderson, Caroline. The secret in his heart. Romance. TB
20598.
Mills and boon medical. For Dr. James Slater, fulfilling his vow to
look after his best friend's wife after he died in Afghanistan has
never been simple. Now Connie has asked him to help her have a
baby. He can't just father her child and then walk away; he wants
and loves her too much for that
2013. Read by Sally Burnett. 6 hours 42 minutes. TB 20598.
Archer, Jeffrey. Best kept secret. Family story. TB 20504.
Clifton Chronicles; book 3. 1945. The vote in the House of Lords
as to who should inherit the Barrington family fortune has ended in
a tie. Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington will find themselves in
opposition in more ways than they thought but it is Sebastian
Clifton, Harry and Emma's son, who ultimately influences his
uncle's fate.
2013. Read by Alex Jennings. 11 hours 17 minutes. TB 20504.
Beaton, M C. Death of a hussy. Crime fiction. TB 20295.
Hamish Macbeth series; book 5. Wealthy Maggie Baird is neither
kind nor generous. So when her car ignites with her in it, there are
five likely perpetrators. And finding who did it requires all Hamish
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Macbeth's extraordinary common sense and insight into human
nature.
2008. Read by Stephanie Beattie. 4 hours 51 minutes. TB 20295.
Bingham, Charlotte. To hear a nightingale. Family story. TB
20307.
Nightingale series; book 1. Cassie McGann's childhood is one of
misery and rejection. Fleeing to New York she falls in love with
handsome Irish racehorse trainer Tyrone Rosse. Then tragedy
strikes and Cassie must once again face rejection.
1989. Read by Penelope Freeman. 25 hours 25 minutes. TB
20307.
Boyne, John. This house is haunted. Ghost story. TB 20546.
1867. Eliza Caine arrives in Norfolk to take up her position as
governess at Gaudlin Hall on a dark and chilling night. At the hall
she is greeted by the two children in her care, Isabella and
Eustace. There are no parents, no adults at all. Eliza has an
overwhelming sense that something is very wrong.
2013. Read by Sally Burnett. 10 hours 45 minutes. TB 20546.
Brookmyre, Christopher. Bedlam. Science fiction. TB 20548.
Would it be your ultimate fantasy to enter the world of a video
game? A realm where you can fly space-ships, slay dragons, all of
it feels completely real but with no consequences. Or would it be
your worst nightmare? Stuck in an endless state of war and chaos
where the pain and fear feels real. This is 'Bedlam'.
2013. Read by David Monteath. 13 hours 28 minutes. TB 20548.
Bulawayo, NoViolet. We need new names. General fiction. TB
20797.
Man Booker Prize shortlisted, 2013. Darling is a young girl from a
slum in Zimbabwe called Paradise. Out of school because the
teachers have all emigrated, she spends her days running with her
pack of friends and stealing guavas. But everyone wants to go to
the real paradise in America or Britain.
2013. Read by Robin Miles. 9 hours. TB 20797.
Butcher, Jim. Grave peril. Fantasy. TB 20550.
The Dresden files series; book 3. In all of Harry's years of
supernatural sleuthing he has never faced anything like this: the
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spirit world's gone loco. All over Chicago ghosts are causing
trouble.
2011.Read by Peter Brooke. 14 hours 28 minutes. TB 20550.
Catton, Eleanor. The luminaries. TB 20798.
Man Booker Prize winner, 2013. It is 1866, and Walter Moody has
come to make his fortune in the New Zealand goldfields. On
arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of men, who have
met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. Moody is
soon drawn into the mystery.
2013. Read by Mark Meadows. 29 hours 19 minutes. TB 20798.
Chadwick, Elizabeth. The conquest. Historical fiction. TB
20354.
England 1066. Ailith, a young Saxon wife has her husband and
child taken from her as the conquering Normans advance. Her
grief slowly turns to love for a handsome Norman invader and she
bears him a daughter, but in the aftermath of the Battle of Hastings
Ailith discovers a betrayal she cannot forgive.
2006. Read by Karen Cass. 20 hours 33 minutes. TB 20354.
Clarke, Lucy. The sea sisters. General fiction. TB 20554.
One devastating night, Katie is told the news that her free-spirited
sister Mia is dead - and the police say it was suicide. With only the
entries of Mia's journal as her guide, Katie retraces the last few
months of her sister's life, and begins to uncover the mystery
surrounding her death.
2013. Read by Helen Cashin. 11 hours 31 minutes. TB 20554.
Cole, Martina. Hard girls. Crime fiction. TB 20199.
A prostitute's body is found lifeless, mutilated and brutally raped,
but it's only the first. DCI Annie Carr and Kate Burrows must dig
deep if they hope to catch a callous serial killer who knows no
limits.
2010. Read by Annie Aldington. 12 hours 43 minutes. TB 20199.
Court, Dilly. The best of daughters. Family story. TB 20589.
Despite her privileged upbringing, Daisy Lennox has always
longed to make something of her life. She is drawn to the
suffragette movement, but when her father faces ruin they are
forced to move to the country and Daisy's first duty is to her family.
2013. Read by Teresa Quigley. 10 hours 26 minutes. TB 20589.
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Crace, Jim. Harvest. General fiction. TB 20799.
Man Booker Prize shortlisted, 2013. In a remote, unnamed English
hamlet, perhaps in the 17th Century, a trio of outsiders set up
camp on the outskirts. That same night the local manor house is
set on fire. Over the course of 7 days a chain of disastrous and
shocking events play out, narrated by labourer Walter Thirsk.
2013. Read by Steve Hodson. 9 hours 23 minutes. TB 20799.
DeMille, Nelson. Mayday: a novel. Thriller. TB 20289.
A supersonic jet has to change its scheduled flight due to bad
weather. When it is hit by a missile, one of the passengers, John
Berry, has to take control of the plane and get the surviving
passengers to safety.
1997. Read by Jeff Harding. 14 hours 28 minutes. TB 20289.
Dibdin, Michael. End games. Crime fiction. TB 20163.
Aurelio Zen series; book 11. Aurelio Zen is posted to remote
Calabria, at the toe of the Italian boot. Beneath the surface of a
tight-knit, traditional community he discovers that violent forces are
at work. There has been a brutal murder and Zen is determined to
find a way to penetrate the code of silence and uncover the truth.
Contains strong language.
2008. Read by Michael Tudor Barnes. 11 hours 8 minutes. TB
20163.
Fforde, Jasper. First among sequels. Fantasy. TB 20360.
Thursday Next series; book 5. Fourteen years after Thursday Next
pegged out at Superhoop '88, her Jurisfiction job has been
downgraded due to a potential conflict of interest, since her
previous adventures are now themselves in print. Thursday's time
is spent worrying about her teenage son Friday and tutoring new
recruits. This being fiction, however, jeopardy is never far away.
2007. Read by Beth Chalmers. 12 hours 27 minutes. TB 20360.
Fossum, Karin. In the darkness. Crime fiction. TB 20169.
Inspector Sejer series; book 1. Eva is walking by the river when a
body floats to the surface. The dead man has been missing for
months, and it doesn't take long for Sejer and his team to establish
that he was the victim of a very violent killer. But the trail has gone
cold.
2012. Read by David Rintoul. 8 hours 52 minutes. TB 20169.
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Francis, Felix. Bloodline. Thriller. TB 20462.
Mark commentates on a race in which his twin sister Clare, an
accomplished jockey, comes in third. Did she lose on purpose?
That night, Mark confronts Clare with his suspicions, but she
storms off. It's the last time Mark sees her alive.
2012. Read by Michael Maloney. 8 hours 23 minutes. TB 20462.
Gabaldon, Diana. Lord John and the private matter. Historical
fiction. TB 20556.
Lord John series; book 1. In 1757, Lord John Grey emerges from
his club, his mind in turmoil. Having just witnessed something
shocking, his efforts to avoid a scandal that might destroy his
family are interrupted by something still more urgent: the Crown
appoints him to investigate a murder of a comrade-in-arms.
2004. Read by Hugh Ross. 9 hours 28 minutes. TB 20556.
Garbera, Katherine. One more kiss. Romance. TB 20434.
Mills & Boon blaze. Since her divorce, cupcake queen Alysse
Dresden prefers baking to boys...until a phone order from a sexyvoiced stranger melts her insides like butter. But when she makes
the delivery, Alysse realises that the only man whose voice has
such an effect on her is her mysterious, gorgeous ex-husband.
Contain passages of a sexual nature.
2013. Read by Kelly Burke. 6 hours 8 minutes. TB 20434.
Grisham, John. The racketeer. Thriller. TB 20224.
Given the importance of what they do, the controversial decisions
to be made and the violent people sometimes confronted, it is
remarkable that in the history of the USA only four active federal
judges have been murdered. Judge Raymond Fogletree just
became number five.
2012. Read by Tommie Earl Jenkins. 11 hours 43 minutes. TB
20224.
Harris, Ali. The first last kiss. Romance. TB 20557.
The first time Molly kissed Ryan, she knew they'd be together
forever. Six years and thousands of kisses later Molly realises how
many of them she wasted because the future holds something
which neither of them could have ever predicted.
2013. Read by Olivia Mace. 17 hours 8 minutes. TB 20557.
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Harris, Charlaine. Dead to the world. Fantasy. TB 20225.
Sookie Stackhouse series; book 4. Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail
waitress with an unusual gift - she can read minds. She comes to
the rescue of a naked, amnesiac vampire - and ends up in the
middle of a war between witches, werewolves and vampires!
2009. Read by Caitlin Thorburn. 10 hours 16 minutes. TB 20225.
Hope, Maggie. A nurse's duty. Romance. TB 20364.
Following a disastrous marriage to a miner, Karen has devoted
herself to a nursing career. Rising to the challenge of caring for the
wounded soldiers returning from the Great War, she has resigned
herself to putting her vocation before romance.
2012. Read by Elizabeth Proud. 17 hours 7 minutes. TB 20364.
James, Peter. Dead tomorrow. Crime fiction. TB 20366.
DS Roy Grace series; book 5. The body of a teenager dredged
from the seabed off the coast of Sussex is found to be missing vital
organs. Soon two more young bodies are found. As
Superintendent Roy Grace investigates the recovered bodies, he
unearths the trail of a gang of child traffickers operating from
Eastern Europe.
2009. Read by Phillip Bretherton. 18 hours 2 minutes. TB 20366.
Jonker, Joan. The pride of Polly Perkins. Family story. TB
20424.
At the age of 14, happy-go-lucky Polly Perkins faces untold
sadness when her beloved father is diagnosed with tuberculosis,
and must stay in hospital indefinitely. Polly and her mother have to
learn to adapt to the harsh realities of Liverpool life.
2005. Read by Suzanne Goldberg. 11 hours 55 minutes. TB
20424.
Karon, Jan. At home in Mitford. Religious fiction. TB 20425.
Mitford series; book 1. It's easy to feel at home in Mitford, North
Carolina. Yet Father Tim, the Episcopal Priest, wants something
more. Enter a dog the size of a sofa that moves in. Add an
attractive neighbour, a lovable but unloved boy, a mystifying jewel
theft, and a secret that's sixty years old. Suddenly, Father Tim gets
more than he bargained for.
1996. Read by Stephanie Ellyne. 17 hours 3 minutes. TB 20425.
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Kent, Alexander. In the king's name. Sea story. TB 20371.
Adam Bolitho series; book 4. The year is 1819 and Captain Adam
Bolitho has been sent on an urgent but risky mission to make a
fast passage from Plymouth to Freetown, West Africa, with secret
orders for the senior officer stationed there.
2011. Read by Peter Wickham. 9 hours 37 minutes. TB 20371.
Koomson, Dorothy. The Rose Petal Beach. General fiction. TB
20321.
Tamia Challey is horrified when her husband, Scott, is accused of
something terrible - but when she discovers who his accuser is,
everything goes into freefall. Backed into a corner and unsure what
to think, Tamia is forced to choose whom she instinctively believes.
2012. Read by Clara Perkins, Adjoa Andoh and Amaka Okafor. 16
hours 14 minutes. TB 20321.
Lahiri, Jhumpa. The lowland. General fiction. TB 20800.
Man Booker Prize shortlisted, 2013. Udayan finds himself drawn to
the Naxalite movement, a rebellion waged to eradicate inequity
and poverty. The repercussions of his actions reverberate across
continents and seep through the generations that follow.
2013. Read by Chetan Pathak. 12 hours 43 minutes. TB 20800.
Le Carre, John. A delicate truth. Thriller. TB 20558.
Gibraltar, 2008. A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is
being mounted. Its purpose: capture a jihadist arms-buyer.
Cornwall, 2011. A disgraced Special Forces soldier delivers a
message from the dead. Was Operation Wildlife the success it was
cracked up to be, or a tragedy that was covered up? Contains
strong language.
2013. Read by Jeremy Clyde. 10 hours 32 minutes. TB 20558.
Littlewood, Alison. Path of needles. Horror. TB 20566.
A murderer is on the loose, but the gruesome way in which the
bodies are being posed has the police at a loss. Until, on a hunch,
Alice Hyland, an expert in fairytales is called in. And it is Alice who
finds the connection between the body of Chrissie Farrell and an
obscure Italian version of Snow White.
2013. Read by Sherry Baines. 12 hours. TB 20566.
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Long, John. Gunhawk. Western. TB 20606.
Jeff Rand, a feared and vengeful gunslinger since his family were
murdered, is persuaded by Jim Miller to give up his gunning and
join him in peaceful gold-mining. All goes well until one day Jeff
returns to camp to find Miller murdered and the gold stolen.
2009. Read by Jeff Harding. 6 hours 8 minutes. TB 20606.
McDermid, Val. The vanishing point. Thriller. TB 20383.
Stephanie Harker is travelling through security at O'Hare airport
with five-year-old Jimmy. In disbelief, Stephanie watches as a
uniformed agent leads her boy away - and she's stuck the other
side of the gates, hysterical with worry. The authorities, unaware of
Jimmy's existence, just see a woman behaving erratically. By the
time she can tell them what has happened, Jimmy is long gone.
2013. Read by Lisa Milne Henderson. 13 hours 50 minutes. TB
20383.
McMurtry, Larry. Comanche moon. Western. TB 20428.
Lonesome Dove quartet; book 4. Texas Rangers Woodrow Call
and Gus McCrae have matured as men and are now engaged in
breaking Comanche resistance on the great southern plains of
Texas.
2007. Read by Michael Fitzpatrick. 28 hours 22 minutes. TB
20428.
Macomber, Debbie. The inn at Rose Harbour. General fiction.
TB 20190.
Life has taken a sharp and unexpected turn for Jo Marie Barlow.
Following the death of her fiancé in Afghanistan she buys an inn in
Cedar Cove as the beginning of a new life.
2012. Read by Lorelei King. 9 hours 37 minutes. TB 20190.
Marillier, Juliet. Heir to Sevenwaters. Fantasy. TB 20423.
Sevenwaters saga: book 4. The Sevenwaters estate is one of the
last refuges of the Fair Folk of ancient story. Human and
Otherworld dwellers have existed there, side by side, sharing a
wary trust. When Lady Aisling of Sevenwaters finds herself
expecting another child, everything changes.
2009. Read by Lara Hutchinson. 17 hours 15 minutes. TB 20423.
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Mark, David John. Original skin. Crime fiction. TB 20561.
DS Aector McAvoy series; book 2. Simon and Suzie are two
pleasure seekers defined by their flamboyant tattoos. Peter
Tressider is a politician on the fast track to the top. DS Aector
McAvoy is a policeman with scars to his body and career. Each is
marked in their own way. And soon each will be branded by the
same sinister foe.
2013. Read by Andrew Cullum. 13 hours 29 minutes. TB 20561.
Maugham, W Somerset. Of human bondage. Classic fiction.
TB 20567.
The powerful, semi-autobiographical story of Philip Carey, born
with a club foot and orphaned at an early age, physically and
emotionally set apart from others. He has a voracious appetite for
adventure and knowledge but then falls obsessively in love and the
relationship changes his life forever.
1915. Read by Christopher Oxford. 28 hours 24 minutes. TB
20567.
Ozeki, Ruth L. A tale for the time being. General fiction. TB
20801.
Man Booker Prize shortlisted, 2013. Ruth discovers a Hello Kitty
lunchbox washed up on the shore of her beach home. Within it lies
a diary that expresses the hopes and dreams of a young girl. With
every turn of the page, she is sucked deeper into an enchanting
mystery.
2013. Read by Ruth L Ozeki. 15 hours 29 minutes. TB 20801.
Pavone, Chris. The expats. Thriller. TB 20318.
Kate Moore is an expat mum, newly transplanted from Washington
D C. In Luxembourg, her days are filled with play dates and coffee
mornings. But Kate is also guarding a secret - one so momentous
it could destroy her neat little expat life.
2013. Read by Laurel Lefkow. 12 hours 31 minutes. TB 20318.
Pope, Dudley. Ramage and the drum beat. Sea story. TB
20623.
Ramage series; book 2. The brave Lord Ramage ventures to the
new world where he becomes embroiled in a series of electrifying
sea battles and hazardous political shenanigans.
2010. Read by Bob Rollett. 10 hours 27 minutes. TB 26023.
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Purser, Ann. The hangman's row enquiry. Crime fiction. TB
20574.
Ivy Beasley series; book 1. Ivy Beasley, the beloved cantankerous
spinster from the Lois Meade mysteries, has teamed up with Gus,
a mysterious newcomer to the village and also her cousin.
Together they're determined to solve the murder of Gus's elderly
neighbour.
2010. Read by Anna Harwich. 10 hours 2 minutes. TB 20574.
Rhodes, Pam. Fisher of men. Religious fiction. TB 20578.
The Dunbridge chronicles; book 1. The Revd Neil Fisher arrives in
St Stephen's Dunbridge to take up his first curacy under the
formidable Revd Margaret Prowse. Shy, gauche, earnest, kind and
determined, he learns the ropes as he meets the many colourful
characters who form the congregation.
2013. Read by Kate Hambly. 6 hours 55 minutes. TB 20578.
Robertson, James. And the land lay still. General fiction. TB
20330.
It is the age of the bomb, the Cold War, Margaret Thatcher and
North Sea Oil. As nationalism becomes a credible force in
Scotland, a gay photographer, a feminist journalist, a war veteran
and a guilt-ridden Conservative MP find their private lives
entangled with the ideological conflicts of the times. Contains
violence and strong language.
2011. Read by Jonathan Hackett. 33 hours 25 minutes. TB 20330.
Robinson, Derek. A splendid little war. War story. TB 20389.
The war to end all wars, people said in 1918. Not for long. By
1919, White Russians were fighting Bolshevik Reds for control of
their country. So a volunteer R A F squadron, flying Sopwith
Camels, went there to duff up the Reds. Before it ended the
squadron wished that both sides would lose.
2013. Read by Andy Secombe. 14 hours 32 minutes. TB 20389.
Robinson, Peter. Strange affair. Crime fiction. TB 20579.
Inspector Banks series; book 15. When he receives a disturbing
call from his brother Roy, Inspector Banks heads off to London to
search him out. Meanwhile, DI Annie Cabbot is called to a murder.
A young woman has been found dead in her car - with Banks'
name and address written on a slip of paper in the back pocket of
her jeans.
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2005. Read by Bob Rollett. 12 hours 55 minutes. TB 20579.
Segal, Francesca. The innocents. General fiction. TB 20539.
Adam and Rachel, childhood sweethearts, are getting married at
last. A life of easy contentment waits, at the heart of the
community. But then Rachel's reckless American cousin returns to
the family fold.
2012. Read by Gloria Sanders. 10 hours 23 minutes. TB 20539.
Smith, Zadie. NW. General fiction. TB 20393.
Five identical blocks make up the Caldwell housing estate in North
West London. Caldwell kids Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan have
all moved on. Then one afternoon a stranger comes to Leah's
door, forcing her out of her isolation. Contains strong language.
2012. Read by Amaka Okafor. 10 hours 44 minutes. TB 20393.
Sparks, Nicholas. Safe haven. Romance. TB 20394.
When Katie appears in the small town of Southport, her sudden
arrival raises questions about her past. Despite her reservations,
Katie slowly begins to let down her guard but even as she starts to
fall in love, she struggles with the dark secret that still haunts her.
2012. Read by Helene Wilson. 11 hours 55 minutes. TB 20394.
Stirling, Jessica. The asking price. Family story. TB 20429.
Nicholson Quartet; book 2. Imprisoned in a bad marriage, Kirsty
maintains the situation for the sake of her son Bobby. Her husband
Craig is now a policeman and seeks solace in the arms of a
Glaswegian prostitute from the city's dark slums.
2000. Read by Sally Armstrong. 11 hours 4 minutes. TB 20429.
Toibin, Colm. The testament of Mary. General fiction. TB
20802.
Man Booker Prize shortlisted, 2013. For Mary, her son has been
lost to the world, and now, living in exile and in fear, she tries to
piece together the memories of the events that led to her son's
brutal death.
2012. Read by Sherry Baines. 3 hours 30 minutes. TB 20802.
Weaver, Pam. Better days will come. Family story. TB 20340.
Worthing, 1947. When Grace Roberts' eldest daughter Bonnie
runs away to London, she must take care of her younger daughter
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Rita. Grace's boss, Norris Finley, promises to help, but his help
comes at a price. Soon Rita flees home, and meets and marries
Emilio. But Emilio is guarding a deep secret. Can their bond bring
the family back together?
2012. Read by Anna Harwich. 13 hours 46 minutes. TB 20340.
Adult non-fiction
Animals and nature
Bowen, James. The world according to Bob. TB 20625.
The continuing remarkable adventures of James and the street cat
named Bob that gave James friendship, loyalty, trust - and
happiness.
2013. Read by Nick Gylaw. 5 hours 31 minutes. TB 20625.
Goulson, Dave. A sting in the tale. TB 20653.
Dave Goulson's ground-breaking research into the mysterious
ways of the bumblebee led him on a mission to protect our rarest
bees and to reintroduce it to its native land.
2013. Read by Peter Crerar. 9 hours 11 minutes. TB 20653.
Autobiography and biography
Bower, Tom. Sweet revenge. TB 20545.
A detailed insider's account of entertainment mogul Simon
Cowell's rise to meteoric fame and all of the controversial highs
and lows along the way as he settles scores with rivals.
2012. Read by Matt Addis. 18 hours 7 minutes. TB 20545.
Cole, Cheryl. Cheryl: my story. TB 20553.
Cheryl Cole has achieved massive success as a singer, style icon
and TV star, and has been involved in some of the most gripping
headlines of recent years.
2012. Read by Gloria Sanders. 10 hours 38 minutes. TB 20553.
Cooper, Artemis. Patrick Leigh Fermor: an adventure. TB
20312.
Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero whose exploits in Crete are
legendary, and was widely acclaimed as the greatest travel writer
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of our times, notably for his books about his walk across pre-war
Europe.
2012. Read by Sherry Baines. 19 hours 21 minutes. TB 20312.
Essex, David. Over the moon: the autobiography. TB 20056.
Pop star and national treasure David Essex started life as David
Cook in a work house in the East End.
2012. Read by David Essex. 9 hours 54 minutes. TB 20056.
Hollis, Matthew. Now all roads lead to France: the last years of
Edward Thomas. TB 20363.
An account of the final five years of the beguiling and influential
poet, centred upon his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost
and his fatal decision to fight in the First World War.
2011. Read by Andrew Williams. 12 hours 41 minutes. TB 20363.
Ingrams, Richard. The life and adventures of William Cobbett.
TB 20560.
Cobbett, best known for 'Rural Rides', the classic account of early19th century Britain, was also one of England's greatest radicals,
being the foremost satirist and proponent of reform of the time.
2006. Read by Martin Reeve. 11 hours 14 minutes. TB 20560.
Kersten, Jason. Did I mention the free wine? Madness,
mayhem and the muse: on tour with Felix Dennis. TB 20532.
In 2010, journalist Jason Kersten accompanied Dennis on a
poetry-reading tour taking in 21 cities over three months. He
describes being on the road with Dennis and his entourage,
complete with a double-decker bus and a helicopter. Contains
strong language.
2013. Read by Ian Knauer. 8 hours 6 minutes. TB 20532.
Moore, Charles. Margaret Thatcher: the authorized biography.
TB 20573.
The first volume of a meticulously researched biography of the
longest serving Prime Minister of the 20th century and one of the
most influential political figures of the postwar era. This volume
ends with the Falklands Dinner in Downing Street in November
1982.
2013. Read by Keith Hill. 36 hours 34 minutes. TB 20573.
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Health and fitness
Pulsford, Dave. Dementia. TB 20387.
For friends and family of people with dementia, information on how
each stage of the journey will affect the person with the condition
and those around them and how best to get professional and
informal help.
2013. Read by Georgina Foss. 8 hours 49 minutes. TB 20387.
History
Caddick-Adams, Peter. Monte Cassino: ten armies in hell. TB
20552.
A clear and comprehensive account of the 5 month campaign to
capture the monastery of Monte Cassino during the Second World
War.
2013. Read by Jonathan Oliver. 14 hours 10 minutes. TB 20552.
Davies, Norman. Vanished kingdoms: the history of halfforgotten Europe. TB 20345.
Europe's past is littered with kingdoms, empires and republics
which no longer exist but which were some of the most important
entities of their day. Areas covered include the Visigoths in France
and Spain; Aragon in northern Spain; the area that is now Belarus
and Lithuania; and many others.
2012. Read by Chris Courtenay. 32 hours 22 minutes. TB 20345.
Law
Wacks, Raymond. Law: a very short introduction. TB 405010.
Very short introduction series. A clear, jargon-free account of
modern legal systems, explaining how the law works both in the
Western tradition and around the world.
2008. Read by female synthetic voice. 6 hours 21 minutes. TB
405010.
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Literature
Sartre, Jean Paul. What is literature? TB 405003.
Sartre the novelist and Sartre the philosopher combine to address
the phenomenon of literature, exploring why we read, and why we
write.
2001. Read by female synthetic voice. 10 hours 28 minutes. TB
405003.
Maconie, Stuart. The people's songs: the story of modern
Britain in 50 records. TB 405008.
The story of modern Britain via the records that sound tracked this
dramatic and kaleidoscopic period told chronologically over 50
chapters.
2013. Read by female synthetic voice. 12 hours 45 minutes. TB
405008.
Personal improvement
Cole, Brent. How to win friends and influence people in the
digital age. TB 20886.
The advent of social networking sites, the dominance of email, and
the ways in which the Internet has supplanted face-to-face
interactions have made Dale Carnegie's original precepts all the
more immediate and vital. This text re-imagines the original book
for the digital age.
2011. Read by Michael Fitzpatrick. 6 hours 21 minutes. TB 20886.
True crime
Nash, Tina. Out of the darkness. TB 20572.
Tina Nash, who was blinded by former partner Shane Jenkin in
April 2011, and who survived domestic violence on a shocking
scale, tells her full story. Contains violence.
2012. Read by Annie Aldington. 7 hours 30 minutes. TB 20572.
O'Connor, Sean. Handsome brute: the story of a ladykiller. TB
20570.
The killings of women by ex-RAF playboy Neville Heath were
notorious in the 1940's. He was generally dismissed as a sadistic
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sex-killer but the story behind the tabloid headlines reveals itself to
be complex and ambiguous.
2013. Read by Peter Noble. 14 hours 39 minutes. TB 20570.
Russell-Pavier, Nick. The great train robbery. TB 20390.
The story of four villains who tried to commit the 'perfect crime'. It
is also the story of ruthless policemen, determined to hunt the
robbers down and make sure nobody slipped through the net, not
even the innocent.
2012. Read by Martin Reeve. 15 hours 39 minutes. TB 20390.
Children and young adult fiction
Suggested reading age 7+
King-Smith, Dick. The adventurous snail: and The golden
goose. Adventure story. TB 20510.
When Siegfried the snail makes his way onto a plane, he flies to
America, where he finds a home in a sandwich box. In 'The Golden
Goose', Farmer Skint used to be a poor man, but now the golden
goose has brought him luck and happiness.
2011. Read by Andrew Sachs. 1 hour 47 minutes. TB 20510.
Stanton, Andy. Mr Gum and the power crystals. Funny story.
TB 20489.
Can it be true that there's an ancient curse on the town of Lamonic
Bibber? Mr Gum and his trusty sidekick Billy William the Third have
something to do with it. But Polly and Friday and the gingerbread
biscuit are determined to save the town.
2013. Read by Kate Winslet. 1 hour 31 minutes. TB 20489.
Suggested reading age 9+
Blyton, Enid. The sea of adventure. Adventure story. TB
20599.
Adventure series; book 4. Recovering from measles, the children
head for the coast of Scotland with Bill to recuperate. Bill soon
disappears from the scene, kidnapped by a couple of unknown
baddies. Our four heroes are left to fend for themselves.
1948. Read by Lucy Tregear. 5 hours 11 minutes. TB 20599.
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Dunbar, Fiona. Venus rocks. Mystery story. TB 19964.
When Kitty sees a ghost ship, she knows her spooky powers are
growing stronger. Plunged into a dark mystery from long ago, she
soon encounters Beth, a lost soul who drowned on board. Kitty
must uncover the secrets buried at the bottom of the sea.
2012. Read by Emma Weaver. 4 hours 24 minutes. TB 19964.
Knight, Richard John. The court painter's apprentice.
Historical fiction. TB 20461.
'Paint what you see, Johann; not what you think you see.' This is
the advice that Hugo, a master portrait painter, gives to his
protégée. Johann. But young Johann's talent for painting the truth
runs deeper than anyone can imagine.
2012. Read by Cornelius Garrett, 3 hours 15 minutes. TB 20461.
Wilson, Jacqueline. Twin trouble. Magical story. TB 19459.
New twins have arrived in the family and Connie is in despair - until
Nurse Meade arrives and gives her two tiny blue glass beads.
Then Connie twiddles with the beads, magical things begin to
happen.
2009. Read by Bernard Cribbins. 1 hour 2 minutes. TB 19459.
Suggested reading age 11+
Brahmachari, Sita. Jasmine skies. Mystery story. TB 20210.
14-year-old Mira Levenson travels to India to finally meet her
family and is quickly swept into a sweltering, chaotic world - full of
new sights, smells and deeply buried family secrets.
2012. Read by Tania Rodrigues. 8 hours 26 minutes. TB 20210.
Wilson, Jacqueline. The Diamond girls. Family story. TB
20615.
Dixie is the youngest of the Diamond family. She and her three
sisters could hardly be more different from each other. Now Mum's
expecting yet another baby and they have moved to a bigger place
- but it's rough, dilapidated and filthy and before they've even
unpacked the furniture, Mum goes into labour!
2004. Read by Anna Parker-Naples. 6 hours. TB 20615.
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Suggested reading age 13+
Ashton, Brodi. Everneath. Fantasy. TB 20103.
Everneath series; book 1. Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished,
sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath, where
immortals feed on the emotions of despairing humans. Now she's
returned to say her goodbyes, before being banished back to the
underworld - forever.
2012. Read by Katherine Fenton. 11 hours 35 minutes. TB 20103.
Collins, B. R. The broken road. Historical fiction. TB 20109.
Rufus is an apprentice in his father's goldsmith workshop in
Cologne in 1212. One day he hears Nick, an outwardly
unassuming boy, preach in the city centre. Nick's message and
words are mesmerising and Rufus is spellbound.
2012. Read by Mark Meadows. 10 hours 42 minutes. TB 20109.
Croggon, Alison. The crow. Fantasy. TB 20405.
Pellinor series; book 3. Hem is sent south to Turbansk for his own
safety. But soon the forces of the Dark overrun the great city and
Hem flees with his mentor Saliman, his white crow Irc, and a young
orphan girl Zelika, to join the resistance.
2006. Read by Sarah Whitehouse. 16 hours 34 minutes. TB
20405.
Dickinson, Matt. Mortal chaos: ground rush. Thriller. TB
20164.
When a butterfly startles a young rabbit, and the rabbit makes a
horse rear, it starts a chain of events that will change people's lives
- and end people's lives.
2012. Read by Joe Jameson. 4 hours 46 minutes. TB 20164.
Green, Caroline. Cracks. Adventure. TB 20412.
Cal Conway thinks it's his mind that's breaking when cracks start
appearing that no one else can see. He discovers that, far from
leading an ordinary life in a northern town in 2010 as he thought,
he has spent his whole life so far in a research facility, suspended
in a deliberately induced coma state.
2012. Read by Duncan Barrett. 5 hours 39 minutes. TB 20412.
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Lingard, Joan. Rags and riches. Family story. TB 20473.
Sam and Seb discover a coat with a silver lining - in fact it is lined
with a £1000. Money is always a problem in their family, whether it
is the lack of it or knowing what to do with it when you find it.
2011. Read by Eva Karpf. 3 hours 47 minutes. TB 20473.
Smith, L J. The struggle. Fantasy. TB 20427.
The vampire diaries; book 2. Elena knows she must make a choice
between her loyalty to her boyfriend, Stefan, and her secret
attraction to his evil brother, Damon. But Damon is determined to
lead Elena astray - and he'd rather kill Stefan than let him possess
her.
2007. Read by Regina Reagan. 5 hours 20 minutes. TB 20427.
Suggested reading age 15+
Crossan, Sarah. The weight of water. General fiction. TB
20634.
Armed with a suitcase and an old laundry bag filled with clothes,
Kasienka and her mother leave Poland and head for the UK to find
her father. Life is lonely for Kasienka. At home her mother's heart
is breaking and at school Kasienka finds it impossible to make new
friends.
2013. Read by Avita Jay. 2 hours 48 minutes. TB 20634.
Sedgwick, Marcus. She is not invisible. Thriller. TB 20862.
Laureth Peak's father is a writer and for years he's been trying to
write a novel about the nature of coincidence. When he goes
missing in New York, Laureth decides to look for him. On impulse
she steals her mother's credit card and heads for the States, taking
her strange little brother Benjamin with her. Ahead lie challenges
and threats that would test any 16 year old. And Laureth Peak is
blind.
2013. Read by Anna Cannings, 5 hours 57 minutes. TB 20862.
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Children and young adult non-fiction
Suggested reading age 9+
Rosen, Michael. Fantastic Mr Dahl. Biography. TB 20418.
How Roald Dahl got into writing, where he gets his ideas from and
what experiences made him the kind of writer he is.
2012. Read by David Thorpe, 3 hours 12 minutes. TB 20418.
Welsh language
Adult fiction
Ebenezer, Lyn. Noson yr heliwr. Thriller. TB 10335.
"Disgynnodd y llaw a ddaliai'r garreg ar ochr ei phen, a theimlodd
hithau ei hun yn disgyn. Ceisiodd sgrechian, ond dim ond crawc
sych a ddeuai rhwyng ei gwefusau." Fe fydd naws iasoer y nofel
wreiddiol hon yn gafael ynoch o'r dudalen gyntaf. Ceisiwch
fwynhau yr arswyd os gallwch chi.
1994. Read by Helen Granville. 5 hours 37 minutes. TB 10335.
Edwards, Sonia. Rhwng noson wen a phlygain. Short stories.
TB 11878.
Y dilyniant hwn o wyth stori fer yw'r chweched gyfrol o waith Sonia
Edwards oddi ar 1993. Y flwyddyn honnon cyhoeddwyd ei
chasgliad cyntaf o storiau byrion, Glas Ydi'r Nefoedd, ac yna
Gloynnod a enillodd wobr Llyfr y Flwyddyn 1996. Cyhoeddodd
hefyd ddwy nofel, Cysgu ar Eithin (1994), a Llen Dros yr Haul
(1997) yn ogystal a chasgliad o gerrid, Y Llais yn y Llun (1998). Yn
wreiddiol o Gemais, Mon, mae'r awdur bellach yn byw yn Llangefni
gyda'i gwr Gwyndaf aie mab Rhys ac yn athrawes Gymraeg yn
Ysgol Gyfun Y dref.
1999. Read by Bethan Gwilym. 2 hours 9 minutes. TB 11878.
Gill, B M. Llinyn rhy dynn. Crime fiction. TB 9057.
Mae Llinos Rees, nyrs radlon naw ar hugain oed wedi'i chamdrin
yn rhywiol a'i thagu i farwolaeth. Ymhlith Staff yr ysbyty y mae'r
llawfeddyg Owen Harris, a gafodd ysgariad oddi wrth ei wraig, ond
sydd bellach yn rhannu ei aelwyd a Ceri, ei ferch a channwyll ei
lygad. Yna mae Ceri hefyd yn gorff ar y comin, wedi'i lladd yn yr un
modd a Llinos. A oes patrwm yn ymffurfio?
1990. Read by Rhiannon Thomas. 7 hours 23 minutes. TB 9057.
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Jones, Thomas Llew. Dirgelwch yr ogof: nofel am smyglwyr.
Historical fiction. TB 11540.
Saif pentre bach Cwmtydu mewn hen gilfach ddofn a chreigiog ar
lan y môr yn Sir Aberteifi. Erbyn heddiw mae'n bentre bach digon
tawel a heddychlon, ond unwaith, bron ddwy ganrif yn ôl, fe fu'r
smyglwr enwog, Sion Cwilt, yn glanio llwythi o gontraband ar
draeth garw a charegog Cwmtydu.
1989. Read by William Paganuzzi. 5 hours 10 minutes. TB 11540.
Myrddin ap Dafydd. Hiwmor iwerddon. Humuorous fiction. TB
11720.
Yn y gyfrol hon cawn gasliad o hanesion ffraeth am yr Ynys
Werdd, ei phobl a'i phethau sy'n adlewyrchu apêl hiwmor unigryw
Iwcrddon atom ni'r Cymru.
1998. Read by R Alun Evans. 55 minutes. TB 11720.
Parri, Harri. Rhyfel pen llŷn. Short stories. TB 10003.
Dyma'r ochr ddigri i galedi dyddiau rhyfel - rhoi pin ym malŵn
biwrocratiaeth a'r cyfan wedi ei weu un ddoniol a chelfyd, ac mewn
Cymraeg cyhyrog, gan un sy'n feistr ar ddweud stori.
1992. Read by Telor H Iwan. 3 hours. TB 10003.
Parry, Geraint W. Creithiau. Historical fiction. TB 10377.
Fel y tynnai'r Ail Rydfel Byd i'w therfyn, a byddinoedd y Sofietiaid
yn dylifo i mewn Hwngari, gan yrru'r Natsïaid o'u blaenau
ymddiriedwyd I offeiriad ifanc, y Tad Marc Towler, y dasg fawr o
geisio diogelu rhai o geiriau mwyaf cysegredig yr Eglwys Gatholig
yn Hwngari. Wrth geisio cyflawni'r dasg honno, mae'n cwrdd âg
athrawes ifanc, Ann Zergov, a datblyga perthynas glos iawn
rhyngddynt wrth geisio diogelu'r creiriau.
1991. Read by William Paganuzzi. 5 hours 20 minutes. TB 10377.
Roberts, Lleucu. Teulu. Romance. TB 20460.
Triongl cariad tanbaid sydd wrth wraidd y nofel hon a leolwyd yn
ardal Aberaeron. Mae'r stori yn mynd âchi yn ôl mewn amser i
weld sut y dechreuodd perthynas Margaret a Dr John am y tro
cyntaf a sut y bu I Richard ddod ar eu traws. Dyma rai o
gymeriadau poblogaidd y ddrama Teulu ar S4C mewn nofel sy'n
addas i bawb.
2012. Read by Enid Hughes. 7 hours 18 minutes.TB 20460.
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Children and young adult fiction
Suggested reading age 11+
Elen, Ceri. Pentre Saith. Family story. TB 20444.
Cain yw'r prif gymeriad ac mae'r 'saith' yn y teitl yn cyfeirio at Saith
Rhyfeddod Naturiol y Byd a Saith Oes Galar. Arddull ffres, newydd
gan awdur ifanc.
2012. Read by Enid Hughes, 4 hours 6 minutes. TB 20444.
Books narrated by volunteers
Adult fiction
Bateman, Colin. Belfast Confidential. Crime fiction. TB 404979.
Dan Starkey; book 7. No sooner has Dan moved house, than his
best mate, Mouse, is brutally murdered - leaving him to catch a
killer, become editor of celebrity scandal magazine Belfast
Confidential and compile its much-coveted Power List edition.
2006. 11 hours 9 minutes. TB 404979.
Haworth, Sara. A simple vanishing trick. General fiction. TB
404995.
An elderly couple go missing from their caravan. As Lydia and Tim
try to find their parents, they are led back to the Hungary of the
1950s, to interwoven tales of deceit, desperation and revenge.
2012. 11 hours 6 minutes. TB 404995.
Larkin, Mary. For better, for worse. Family story. TB 405006.
Set in Belfast in 1946, this novel tells of Eileen Ross who is 17 and
pregnant. She rushes into marriage with Johnny Cleary, who
believes the child is his. But Eileen can't forget her first love, Billy,
the father of her child.
1997. 14 hours 43 minutes. TB 405006.
Moorcock, Michael. The eternal champion. Fantasy. TB
404984.
Eternal champion; book 1. In his lonely search for peace and
justice, all Erekose can trust to, in the end, are his own courage
and enduring passion. Across magical landscapes, fantastic worlds
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without end he strides defying destiny and lifting his brave sword
against the cruel, cold logic of the Multiverse.
1995. 26 hours 27 minutes. TB 404984.
Ramsden, Ruth. Blue murder at the Pink Parrot. Thriller. TB
405016.
JJ unwittingly finds herself at the centre of a murder mystery and a
blackmail plot. As the bodies start to pile up she has to find the
culprit before he or she finds her. Her task is made harder by her
inability to resist drink, drugs or kinky men.
2012. 10 hours 20 minutes. TB 405016.
Winterson, Jeanette. The daylight gate. Historical fiction. TB
405000.
Picture a beautiful lady - fine clothes, long red hair, astride a white
horse, followed by a falcon. She is riding through Pendle Woods.
It's the Daylight Gate - that spot of time when daylight turns into
night. And in the centre of the woods, watching and waiting, a
group of feral, desperate women are gathering.
2013. 3 hours 55 minutes. TB 405000.
Adult non-fiction
Autobiography and biography
Cheshire, Leonard. The hidden world. TB 405011.
Leonard Cheshire's own story about how he came to set up the
Leonard Cheshire Homes for the disabled around the world and
his struggles to ensure that disabled people regain the dignity
essential to achieve happiness.
1981. 4 hours 54 minutes. TB 405011.
Evans, Chris. Memoirs of a fruitcake: the wilderness years
2000-2010: (plus a bit before but it didn't sound as good). TB
405047.
In this second part of his autobiography, Chris's long held
childhood dreams of a job in radio lay in tatters. An endless drink
fuelled lifestyle began to take its toll. Bored and creatively
frustrated, the shooting star of British broadcasting had plunged
into a downward spiral so deep that escape seemed almost
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impossible. Until, that is, along came his salvation in the form of a
young singer called Billie Piper. Contains strong language.
2010. 8 hours 50 minutes. TB 405047.
Pidgley, Richard. Seriously Rich. TB 404980.
Richard spent his early years in a succession of foster and
children's homes. It wasn't long before Richard slid into the
criminal world, dabbling in the occult, alcohol abuse, sex and
drugs. Until he encounters God in the pages of a Gideon bible
whilst in his prison cell.
2010. 5 hours 30 minutes. TB 404980.
Rieu, Marjorie. Andre Rieu: my life, my music. TB 405030.
Andre Rieu is a violinist, conductor and international star. Born in
the Netherlands, in 1949 he grew up surrounded exclusively by
classical music, taking violin lessons at the age of five.
2008. 4 hours 36 minutes. TB 405030.
History
Corrigan, Gordon. Mud, blood and poppycock: Britain and the
First World War. TB 404993.
Gordon Corrigan, a regular officer of the Royal Gurkha Rifles and
now a noted military historian, re-examines the old myths of
incompetence and unnecessary slaughter that for fifty years have
coloured the popular view of the First World War.
2003. 24 hours 36 minutes. TB 404993.
Phillips, Jonathan. The Crusades, 1095-1197. TB 405022.
An introduction to the origins and development of the Crusades.
2002. 16 hours 16 minutes. TB 405022.
Redding, Tony. Flying for freedom: life and death in Bomber
Command. TB 404998.
An intimate and sensitive account of the human cost of Bomber
Command's war at the height of the bombing offensive against
Germany, and recalls some of the key aerial battles of World War
Two.
2005. 16 hours 49 minutes. TB 404998.
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Music
Clayton, Marie. John Lennon: unseen archives. TB 404992.
A comprehensive chronicle the life of the world's most famous popstar peace campaigner.
2003. 6 hours 19 minutes. TB 404992.
Pets
Sheldrake, Rupert. Dogs that know when their owners are
coming home and other unexplained powers of animals. TB
405020.
Sheldrake's surveys reveal that the majority of dog owners believe
that their pet is sometimes telepathic, and 46 percent say the dog
knows when a member of the family is coming home. He argues
that these powers are a normal part of our heritage.
1999. 18 hours 10 minutes. TB 405020.
Religion
Shepherd, J. Barrie. Diary of daily prayer. TB 405033.
Pastor and author J. Barrie Shepherd carries forward a rich
tradition of Christian prayer and devotion in this outstanding book.
Contains sixty-two theme-based prayers: thirty for morning, thirty
for evening, and one each for Sunday morning and Sunday
evening.
1978. 1 hour 49 minutes. TB 405033.
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Man Booker 2013
Bulawayo, NoViolet. We need new names. General fiction.
Read by Robin Miles.
Lasting 9 hours. Order no: 804822. Darling and her friends live in a
shanty called Paradise, which of course is no such thing. It isn't all
bad, though. There's mischief and adventure, games of Find bin
Laden, stealing guavas, singing Lady Gaga at the tops of their
voices. But they all want to go to the real paradise in America or
Britain. Order no: 804822.
Catton, Eleanor. The Luminaries. Historical fiction. Read by
Mark Meadows.
Lasting 29 hours 19 minutes. Order no: 804823. It is 1866, and
Walter Moody has come to make his fortune in the New Zealand
goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of
men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved
crimes. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery. On two CDs priced
£14.99. Order no: 804823.
Crace, Jim. Harvest. General fiction. Read by Steve Hodson.
Lasting 9 hours 23 minutes. Order no: 804824. A trio of outsiders
put up a make-shift camp in the woodland borders. Over the next 7
days, Walter sees the harvest blackened by smoke and fear, the
new arrivals cruelly punished, and his neighbours held captive on
suspicion of witchcraft. But something even darker is afoot. Order
no: 804824.
Lahiri, Jhumpa. The lowland. General fiction. Read by Chetan
Pathak.
Lasting 12 hours 43 minutes. Order no: 804825. From Subhash's
earliest memories, his brother was always there. In the streets of
Calcutta and in the ponds where they played for hours on end,
Udayan was always in his older brother's sight. But when the
communist movement approaches, the brother's paths take
different directions. Order no: 804825.
Ozeki, Ruth. A tale for the time being. General fiction. Read by
Ruth Ozeki.
Lasting 15 hours, 29 minutes. Order no: 804826. Ruth discovers a
lunchbox washed up on the shore of her beach home. Within it lies
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a diary that expresses the hopes and dreams of a young girl. She
suspects it might have arrived on debris from the 2011 tsunami.
With every turn of the page, she is sucked deeper into the mystery.
Order no: 804826.
Toibin, Colm. The testament of Mary. General fiction. Read by
Sherry Baines.
Lasting 3 hours 30 minutes. Order no: 804827. The story of a
cataclysmic event which led to overpowering grief. For Mary, her
son has been lost, and now she tries to piece together the
memories of the events that led to her son's brutal death. Order
no: 804827.
Adult fiction
Byatt, A.S. Oxford book of English short stories. Multiple
readers.
Lasting 22 hours 4 minutes. Order no: 802227. 37 stories selected
from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging from Dickens,
J.G. Ballard, and Ian McEwan to Saki, Waugh and Wodehouse.
They pack together comedy and tragedy, farce and delicacy,
elegance and the grotesque. Contains strong language. Order no:
802227.
Cole, Martina. The runaway. Thriller. Read by Annie Aldington.
Lasting 20 hours 24 minutes. Order no: 804244. Cathy Connor has
been running away all her life. So when she is sent to a remand
centre for hitting her drunken father, her only choice is to run away
and turns to prostitution. But Cathy finds that her past is never far
behind. Contains strong language and violence. Order no: 804244.
Green, Jane. The patchwork marriage. Chick lit. Read by Jane
Green.
Lasting 13 hours 31 minutes. Order no: 804140. When Andi
married Ethan she not only got the man she loves but also a
ready-made family in his two daughters. Unable to have children,
Andi saw this as a precious gift. If only it were that simple. Order
no: 804140.
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Meyer, Stephanie. The host: a novel. Science fiction. Read by
Stephanie Cannon.
Lasting 22 hours 21 minutes. Order no: 804401. The earth has
been invaded by a species that takes over the minds of their
human hosts while leaving their bodies intact. Wanderer, the
invading 'soul' who has been given Melanie's body, didn't expect
the former tenant to refuse to relinquish her mind. Order no:
804401.
Mosco, Maisie. Scattered seed. Family story. Read by Nina
Holloway.
Lasting 19 hours 32 minutes. Order no: 804853. Sandberg family;
book 2. With the narrow streets of Strangeways left far behind, the
children of Sarah and Abraham have never forgotten the poverty of
their childhood. But the prosperity that has come with 30 years in
their adopted country has brought other problems. Order no:
804853.
Parestsky, Sara. Indemnity only. Crime. Read by Lorelei King.
Lasting 7 hours 26 minutes. Order no: 804154. V.I. Warshawski;
book 1. V.I. Warshawski has been hired by the vice-president of
one of Chicago's biggest banks to find the girlfriend of his son.
However, what should have been a simple job has turned
gruesome. Someone is dead, lies have been told, and threats
have been made. Order no: 804154.
Reichs, Kathy. Bare bones. Crime. Read by Liza Ross.
Lasting 9 hours 57 minutes. Order no: 802101. Temperance
Brennan; book 6. First there's the newborn skeleton found in a
wood stove. Then a pilot and passenger are found burnt, covered
in a strange black substance. Most puzzling is a cache of bones.
All the pieces seem to lead back to an isolated farm. Can Dr
Brennan decipher the clues in time? Order no: 802101.
Summer, Cara. Two hot! Romance. Read by Laurence
Bouvard.
Lasting 6 hours 42 minutes. Order no: 800507. Mills and Boon
blaze. PhD student Zoe McNamara can figure anything out except her mind-numbing attraction to Jed Calhoun, a sexy,
secretive man. Then Zoe meets Ethan Blair, whose debonair style
and air of mystery could make him the next James Bond. Contains
sexual content. Order no: 800507.
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Adult non-fiction
Corrigan, Gordon. Mud, blood and poppycock: Britain and the
first World War. History. Read by volunteers.
Lasting 24 hours 36 minutes. Order no: 804915. Military historian,
Gordon Corrigan, re-examines the old myths of incompetence and
unnecessary slaughter that have coloured the view of the First
World War. Order no: 804915.
Taraborrelli, Randy, J. Elizabeth. Biography. Read by Craig
Pinder.
Lasting 20 hours. Order no: 804421. Elizabeth Taylor's journey
through the dark and often lonely world of a fame unparalleled in
the 1960s and 1970s, a time during which alcohol and drugs
played a major part in her life. Order no: 804421.
Smith, Delia. Delia’s how to cheat at cooking. Cookery. Read
by Charlotte Stevens.
Lasting 5 hours 29 minutes. Order no: 800918. Delia has sourced
a range of pre-prepared foods to help you short circuit cooking
times and techniques. These recipes will allow you to create
fabulous food without the faff. Order no: 800918.
Norwich, John Julius. The Popes: a history. Religion. Read by
Michael Jayston.
Lasting 21 hours 18 minutes. Order no: 804877. John Julius
Norwich traces the papal line down the centuries from St Peter
himself to Pope Benedict XVI. Containing lively investigations into
the anti-Semitism of Pius XII, the possible murder of John Paul I
and the phenomenon of the Polish John Paul II. Order no: 804877.
Children and young adult fiction
Canavan, Trudi. The high lord. Fantasy. Read by Emma
Powell.
Lasting 20 hours 33 minutes. Order No: 801674. The black
magician trilogy; book 3. In the city of Imardin, where magic means
power, a young girl finds herself at the centre of a plot that may
destroy the world. Sonea has learned much at the magicians' guild
but cannot forget what she witnessed in the High Lord's
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underground room. Suggested reading age 13+. Contains strong
language. Order No: 801674.
Sedgwick, Marcus K. She is not invisible. Thriller. Read by
Anna Cannings.
Lasting 5 hours 57 minutes. Order no: 804884. Laureth Peak's
father has been trying, and failing, to write a novel about
coincidence. He's supposed to be doing research in Austria, so
when his notebook shows up in New York, Laureth knows
something is wrong. On impulse she steals her mother's credit
card and heads for the States to try and find him. Suggested
reading age 15+. Order no: 804884.
Webb, Holly. The secret puppy. Animal story. Read by
Phyllida Nash.
Lasting 1 hour 26 minutes. Order no: 804132. Daisy arrives at the
farm campsite where her family are spending her summer holiday.
Soon she finds out the farm dog has just had puppies. Daisy can't
help falling in love with Barney, the smallest of the litter of German
Shepherd pups. Suggested reading age 5+. Order no: 804132.
Sale - DAISY gift box sets
The RNIB sale includes many DAISY books and box sets and you
can enjoy up to 25% off some titles. Box sets contain multiple titles
and have a designed cover, braille label clear plastic case houses
each set.
C.J. Sansom’s Shardlake box set – now £20.95, was
£27.95
Lasting 89 hours 23 minutes. Order no: 803371. With a country
divided between those faithful to the Catholic church and the loyal
followers of the newly formed Church of England, Matthew
Shardlake's skills as a Lawyer and criminal investigator are called
upon in this historical crime series set in 16th century Tudor
England. Contains five books on five CDs. Order no: 803371.
Len Deighton’s Game, Set and Match trilogy – now
£14.25, was £18.95
Lasting 38 hours 45 minutes. Order no: 803987. Bernard Samson
has spent five years behind a desk in London, when Brahms asks
him to help him get to the West. With him, he will bring evidence of
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a high ranking mole. Will Bernie succeed in his mission, before the
mole succeeds in its? A thrilling box set blending the complex
paranoia's and politics of Cold War Berlin. Contains three books on
three CDs. Order no: 803987.
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