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BrailleAdult Fiction Arlidge, M. J. Pop goes the weasel. 2014. Crime fiction.Helen Grace series; book 2. The body of a middle-aged man is discovered in Southampton's red light district - horrifically mutilated, with his heart removed. The media call it Jack the Ripper in reverse; revenge against the men who lead sordid double lives visiting prostitutes. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25102905.Baxter, Lily. In love and war. 2014. Romance.August 1914. When the opportunity arises Elsie joins the foreign office, travelling to France as an undercover agent. And on the battlefields of Europe, she must find the courage to help save lives, each day hoping that one day she'll be reunited with the man she loves.6v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25102803.Binchy, Maeve. Circle of friends. 2000. Family Stories.Best friends since girlhood in the town of Knockglen, Benny and Eve discover a very different world in the excitements of University College, Dublin. With attractive and ambitious Nan and the good-looking charmer, Jack, they form an intimate circle of friends.11v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25204502Binchy, Maeve. Tara Road. 1998. General fiction.Ria Lynch lives in a big ramshackle house in Tara Road, Dublin, which is constantly filled with the family and friends on whom she depends. Marilyn Vine lives in a college town in Connecticut, New England, absorbed in her career, an independent and private woman. Unlikely friends. Yet a chance phone call brings them together and they decide to exchange homes for the summer, while they each sort out their problems. By the time they eventually meet, they find that their lives have altered for ever.12v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25204602.Booth, Stephen. Black dog. 2001. Crime fiction.Ben Cooper and Diane Fry series; book 1. When teenager Laura Vernon goes missing one long, hot summer in the Peak District, local police mount a full-scale search operation. As the investigation twists and turns, local DC Ben Cooper and new DI Diane Fry discover that no one is entirely innocent and pain and suffering can be the only outcome.7v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25101803.Cantero, Edgar. The supernatural enhancements. 2014. Horror.When A. inherits a beautiful but eerie estate set deep in the woods, he is both sceptical and curious. He never even knew he had a 'second uncle, twice removed' named Ambrose. Much less that the poor man committed suicide – under similar circumstances to many other strange and curious deaths. A. quickly realises that he has inherited a lifetime of secrets, and a curse.5v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 25102203.Christie, Agatha. A murder is announced. 1950. Classic crime.Miss Marple series; book 4. A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30pm." So runs the advertisement in that day's local paper. Miss Blacklock, the owner of Little Paddocks, is not unduly surprised when, towards the appointed hour, several of her neighbours find themselves drawn to call upon her...5v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 25206702.Coelho, Paulo. Adultery. 2014. General fiction.A meeting with a politician, and ex-boyfriend, reawakens a side of Linda that she - respectable wife, devoted mother and ambitious journalist - thought had disappeared. She embarks on a relationship that is addictive, dangerous and undeniably exciting. But the consequences are far-reaching.4v. Price: ?14.99. Order No: 25107903.Cole, Martina. The ladykiller. 1993. Crime fiction.George Markham has an obsession, one that erupts into an orgy of vicious sexual depravity. Patrick Kelly is the most feared man in London. His one soft spot is his daughter, Mandy. And when she falls victim to the sadistic rapist nicknamed the Grantley Ripper, Kelly wants revenge - with or without police help. 13v. Price: ?7.19. Order No: 25204802.Cox, Josephine. Let it shine. 2001. Family stories.Many years ago, Ada Williams did something that has tormented her ever since. Her greedy son, Peter, overhears a conversation and plans a terrible deed. In nearby Blackburn, happily married Sylvia Bolton lives with her family. No one, least of all Sylvia, can foresee the events about to unfold.5v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25205202.Dexter, Colin. The jewel that was ours. 1991. Crime fiction.Inspector Morse series; book 9. Chief Inspector Morse investigates the murder of an American tourist at Oxford's Randolph Hotel. The Wolvercote Tongue, due to be handed over to the Ashmolean Museum, is missing, and a corpse is found in the Cherwell. 5v. Price: ?7.19. Order No: 25198202.Fisher, Carrie. Postcards from the edge. 2011. General fiction.Suzanne is in the harrowing and hilarious throes of drug rehabilitation, trying to understand what happened to her life and how she managed to land in a 'drug hospital.' Postcards from the Edge is more than a book about stardom and drugs. It is a revealing look at the dangers – and delights - of all our addictions, from money and success to sex and insecurity.4v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25097103.Forsyth, Frederick. The fist of God. 1994. Thriller.Major Mike Martin, an SAS man who can pass for Arab, is sent to Kuwait to report on Iraqi strength and to help the resistance. What is revealed makes the allies delay their invasion for four days, while Martin undertakes his most dangerous assignment ever, to find and destroy the Fist of God.14v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25204702Franklin, Ariana. The assassin's prayer. 2011. Historical crime.Mistress of the art of death series; book 4. Adelia Aguilar is to accompany 10-year -old Princess Joanna on her thousand -mile journey to marry the King of Sicily. They must take with them the legendary sword Excalibur. And so Adelia sets sail with the golden princess and her lavish procession of nobles, musicians, servants, laundresses, grooms, luggage and treasure. But when members of the procession begin to die and it looks as though Adelia is to blame, there are dangerous accusations of witchcraft.6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25102303. Gifford, Elisabeth. Secrets of the sea house. 2014. General fiction.When Ruth and her husband move into a dilapidated old vicarage on a stunning island in the Outer Hebrides, they discover the remains of a baby buried beneath the house, its legs fused together into one limb - a mermaid child. When Ruth researches the history of the house, she uncovers the heart-breaking story of Reverend Alexander Ferguson, an amateur evolutionary scientist.5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25102503.Gregory, Philippa. The king's curse. 2014. Historical fiction.The cousins' war; book 6. The riveting story of Margaret Pole, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, and was one of the few surviving members of the Plantagenet dynasty after the Wars of the Roses. Plantagenet is now, at the end of the 15th century, the most dangerous name in England.10v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 25080703.Grisham, John. The rainmaker. 1995. Thriller.Desperate for money, and although not yet a member of the bar, Rudy Baylor takes on a case which turns out to be only the tip of the iceberg, and he finds himself up against a battery of million dollar lawyers who will do anything to stop him.11v. Price: ?6.39. Order No: 25206102Hore, Rachel, The glass painter's daughter. 2013. General fiction.Taking her sick father's place in his stained-glass shop, Fran and his craftsman Zac accept a beguiling commission – to restore a shattered glass picture of an exquisite angel belonging to a local church. As they reassemble the dazzling shards of coloured glass, they uncover an extraordinary love story from the Victorian past, sparked by the window's creation.7v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25101103.Howard, Elizabeth Jane. Confusion. 1993. Family stories.Cazalet Chronicles; book 3. This is the third book in the series following the fortunes of the Cazalet family, from the spring of 1942, through the dark, middle period of the war. 10v. Price: ?6.74. Order No: 25196902James, Peter. Want you dead. 2014. Crime fiction.DS Roy Grace series; book 10. When Red Westwood meets handsome, charming and rich Bryce Laurent through an online dating agency their love blossoms. But everything he has told Red about himself turns out to be a tissue of lies, and her infatuation with him gradually turns to terror. 7v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25102403.King, Stephen. The dark half. 1989. Horror.Thad Beaumont had written a number of best-selling thrillers under the pseudonym, George Stark, but now decides to kill him off. But George Stark doesn't want to die! Impossibly, terrifyingly, in an orgy of violence, he appears to have returned from the dead.10v. Price: ?7.19. Order No: 25206802.Koontz, Dean R. From the corner of his eye. 2000. Thriller.Bartholomew Lampion grows up a prodigy, blinded by surgery required to save him from a fast-spreading cancer, but he regains his sight at the age of thirteen and sets out to transform the lives of everyone around him.15v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25206002.McEwan, Ian. Atonement . 2001. General fiction.A story that begins with three young people in the garden of a country house on the hottest day of 1935, and ends with three profoundly changed lives. A depiction of love and war, class, childhood and England, that explores shame and forgiveness, atonement and the possibility of absolution.8v. Price: ?6.74. Order No: 25198802.McDermid, Val. The torment of others. 2004. Thriller.Tony Hill series; book 4. A prostitute is murdered in a particularly grotesque and stomach-churning way, a killing that matches in every detail a series of murders that took place a couple of years previously. A series of murders for which Derek Tyler was tried, convicted and sentenced. There has never been any doubt about his guilt. But now the ghost of his crimes has risen again.5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25198002.Mankell, Henning. An event in autumn. 2014. Crime fiction.Kurt Wallander series; book 11. Wallander uncovers the skeleton of a middle-aged woman in the garden of his new house. But when another discovery is made in the garden, Wallander is forced to delve further back into the area's past.2v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 25068903.Matthew, Christopher. The Amber Room. 1995. Adventure.In 1941 the Germans take the amber panels from Catherine Palace in Leningrad. They later disappear completely. When ex-army officer and journalist, Miles Maltby, joins a press trip to the Swiss Alps, an extraordinary story sets him off on a journey of high adventure. 8v. Price: ?12.00. Order No: 25206202Mezrich, Ben. Seven wonders. 2014. Thriller.When the reclusive mathematician Jeremy Grady goes missing, it's up to his estranged brother Jack to find out why. With the help of scientist Sloane Costa, they discover a conspiracy to hide a roadmap to the Garden of Eden - and the truth behind a mythological ancient culture.6v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 25066303.Morrall, Clare. After the bombing. 2014. General fiction.On the night of May 3rd, 1942, 15-year-old Alma Braithwaite and her fellow boarders at Goldwyn's school huddle in an air-raid shelter as bombs rain down on Exeter. 21 years on, Alma teaches music at her old school. A new student starts - the daughter of a man Alma hasn't seen since 1942, when he played a pivotal role in her life. 6v. Price: ?18.99. Order No: 25104103.Mosse, Kate. The taxidermist's daughter. 2014. Historical fiction.Sussex, 1912. In a churchyard, villagers gather on the night when the ghosts of those who will die in the coming year are thought to be seen. Standing alone is the taxidermist's daughter. At seventeen, Constantia Gifford lives with her father in a decaying house: it is all that is left of Gifford's once world-famous museum of taxidermy. The bell begins to toll and all eyes are fixed on the church. No one sees the gloved hand pick up a flint. As the last notes fade into the dark, a woman lies dead.5v. Price: 16.99. Order No: 25097203.Moyes, Jojo. The ship of brides. 2005. General fiction.Based on a true story. The year is 1946, in Sydney, Australia, four women join 650 other brides on an extraordinary voyage to England - aboard HMS Victoria, which carries not just arms and aircraft but a thousand naval officers and men. But the men and the brides will find their lives intertwined in ways the Navy could never have imagined. 6v. Price: ?3.85. Order No: 25206502.Neville, Stuart. Ratlines. 2013. Crime fiction.Ireland, 1963. As the Irish people prepare to welcome President Kennedy to the land of his ancestors, a German is murdered in a seaside guesthouse. He is the third foreign national to die within a few days, and Minister for Justice Charles Haughey is desperate to protect a shameful secret : the dead men were all former Nazis granted asylum by the Irish government . Albert Ryan, Directorate of Intelligence, is ordered to investigate the crimes. 6v. Price: 6.99. Order No: 25064503.North, Claire. The first fifteen lives of Harry August.2014. General fiction.Harry August is on his deathbed, again. Every time he dies, he is reborn in the same time and place, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before. This is the story of what he does next - what he did before - and how he tries to save a past he cannot change and a future he cannot allow.7v. Price: 7.99. Order No: 25066403O'Brian, Patrick. Clarissa Oakes. 1992. Sea Stories.Jack Aubrey series; book 15. Captain Jack Aubrey sails away from the hated Australian prison colonies in his favourite vessel the "Surprise", pondering on middle age and sexual frustration. He soon becomes aware that he is out of touch with the mood of his ship, and does not know that the "Surprise" has a stranger aboard who is potentially as dangerous as a light in the powder-magazine.6v. Price: ?7.19. Order No: 25206302Oswald, James. Dead men's bones. 2014. Crime fiction.Detective Inspector McLean series; book 4. MP Andrew Weatherly has killed his wife and two young daughters, before turning his gun on himself. The question on everyone's lips is why would this successful and wealthy man commit such a gruesome crime? The deeper he digs, the more McLean realizes he is being used in a game between shadowy factions from the world of power and privilege. 7v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25066503.Pratchett, Terry. Equal rites. 1987. Fantasy.Discworld series; book 3. A wizard calls on the blacksmith in a hurry. He is going to die in six minutes and wants to pass on his knowledge. He quickly whispers some spells over a baby lying in the cradle that the wizard assumes is the blacksmith's eighth son. Unfortunately he failed to check on the sex of the baby, and the world is destined to have its first female wizard.4v. Price: ?5.59. Order No: 25197902.Radcliffe, Robert. Upon dark waters. 2011. War.The son of a beautiful socialite and a British diplomat, Michael is brought up in Uruguay alongside his guardian's daughter Maria. When Michael returns from England in 1939, his steamer crosses paths with a German warship - an ominous sign of the conflict to come. And though Uruguay is neutral in the coming conflict, Michael is to be allowed no such luxury.7v. Price: 8.99. Order No: 25066703.Rankin, Ian. Dead souls. 1999. Crime fiction.Inspector Rebus series; book 10. An old schoolfriend's son has gone missing and Brian Mee would like 'Johnny' to do a little digging on the side to put his wife's mind at rest. The ghost of Jack Morton, friend and colleague, is riding Rebus's dreams, not always helping with his caseload.9v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25198702.Rollins, James. The sixth extinction. 2014. Thriller.Sigma Force 10; book 10. A remote military research station inUtah sends out a frantic distress call, ending with a chilling final command: Kill us all! Personnel from the neighbouring base rush in to discover everyone already dead - and not just the scientists, but every living thing for 50 square miles has been annihilated. The land is entirely sterile - and the blight is spreading. 7v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 25065903.Rule, Ann. Small sacrifices. 1988. Crime fiction.In the car that pulled up outside the Springfield Hospital, were Diane Downs and her three children. All had been shot, two children were very close to death, one child was already dead.Diane was slightly injured. She spoke of the stranger who had attacked them, but events led the investigating District Attorney to ask the question: could a mother shoot her own children?11v. Price: ?10.99. Order No: 25206602.Shemilt, Jane. Daughter. 2014. Crime fiction.Naomi has vanished, leaving her family broken and her mother Jenny desperately searching for answers. But the traces fifteen-year-old Naomi's left behind reveal a very different girl to the one Jenny thought she'd raised. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25097003.Smith, Wilbur. Desert God. 2014. Historical fiction.Egyptian series; book 5. The kingdom is not at peace. They have been fighting Southern Egypt’s constant and historic enemy, the Hyksos people in the north, since time began. To finally crush them, Pharaoh must turn to his most trusted friend, Taita,a freed eunuch slave.8v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 25104003.Thynne, Jane. Black roses. 2013. Thriller.Black Roses series; book 1. Berlin, 1933. Clara Vine, an attractive young Anglo-German actress, arrives in Berlin to find work at the famous Ufa studios. Through a chance meeting, she is drawn into a circle of Nazi wives. Then she meets Leo Quinn who is working for British intelligence and who sees Clara as the perfect recruit to spy on her new elite friends.8v. ?7.99. Order No: 25096603.Toon, Paige. Johnny be good. 2013. Chick lit.Celebrity PA to wild boy of rock Johnny Jefferson, Meg's glam new life in sun-drenched LA is a whirlwind of showbiz parties. Cool, calm Christian, in town to write his famous friend's biography, helps keep Meg's feet firmly on the ground. But with Johnny's piercing green eyes and a body Brad Pitt would kill for, how long will it be before she's swept right off them again?6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25142803.Weir, Alison. The marriage game. 2014. Historical fiction.The relationship between the young Elizabeth I and the dashing but married Lord Robert Dudley is the most extraordinary and controversial of royal love affairs and very nearly cost Elizabeth the crown.8v. ?18.99. Order No: 25095503. Wingfield, R.D. Hard Frost. 1995. Crime fiction.Jack Frost series; book 4. This case had been dumped on Frost as no other officers were available. And then another boy is reported missing and a ransom demand threatens his life.9v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25206902.Adult Non-FictionAutobiography and BiographyCrawford, Michael. Parcel arrived safely tied with string: my autobiography. 1999.In his autobiography, Crawford recalls his childhood, his early years in showbusiness and the friendships it led to. Stage shows like "The Phantom of the opera" and films such as "HelloDolly!" are all remembered, and he offers a wealth of professional and personal behind-the scenes anecdotes.8v. Price: ?8.99. Order no: 25205402.Glass, Cathy. Damaged: the heartbreaking true story of a forgotten child. 2007.Although Jodie is only eight years old, she is violent, aggressive and has already been through numerous foster families. Her last hope is Cathy Glass, an experienced foster carer, who was pressured into taking Jodie as a new placement. 5v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25101303.Jacobi, Derek. As luck would have it: my seven ages. 2013.Admired for his willingness to grapple with even the most dislikeable of characters, Derek Jacobi has worked continuously throughout his career. But it is his numerous Shakespearean roles that have gained him worldwide recognition. Funny, warm and honest, Jacobi brings us his insider's view on the world of acting.5v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 24988803Matusiak, John. Wolsey: the life of King Henry VIII's cardinal. 2014.This work looks at the real person in the cold light of his actions, and uncovers a man of contradictions and extremes whose meteoric rise was marked by an equally inexorable descent into desperation, as he attempted in vain to satisfy the tempestuous master whose ambition ultimately broke him.8v. Price: 20.00. Order No: 25096703.Tarrant, Chris. Dad's war: father, soldier, hero. 2014.Chris loved and admired his father but it was only after his death he realised that he hardly knew him at all. What happened to Basil during the war, and how he came to be awarded the Military Cross, remained a mystery to Chris and his family for nearly sixty years. In this emotional journey, Chris discovers that Basil was involved in some of WWII's most significant campaigns.5v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 24999102Food and DrinkMartin, James. Home comforts. 2014.James Martin champions local produce and loves growing his own, and this collection of recipes ranges from fancy dinners to impress friends, to those times when you just need to grab lunch for one in a hurry. Much-loved for his trademark wholesome, heartyBritish food, in this book James shows off a fresh, light and ultra-modern side, too. 3v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 25190203.PsychologyBrandreth, Gyles. The 7 secrets of happiness : an optimist's journey. 2013.What is happiness? Who gets to be happy? And how? These are the big questions the author aims to answer in this little book. 1v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25085403.TravelThubron, Colin. The lost heart of Asia. 1995.This book charts Colin Thubron's journey through the newly emergent countries of Central Asia. It is the story of his encounters with people, landscapes and past, looking for lost cities, mosques and tombs, as he searches into the regions fragmented identity and discovers the plight of the once-dominant Russians who remain.9v. Price: ?9.98. Order No: 25204402Braille books for loan onlyThese books were kindly donated by Guild of Church Braillists.BiographyHaskey, Alyn. All things for good. 1992.Born with cerebral palsy, Alyn Haskey spent the early years of his life fighting against severe disability, including a severe speech defect. Then Alyn became a Christian and his life began to change. Having previously made little progress in school, he went on to gain a university degree. In addition to his academic achievements, Alyn represented England and Great Britain in the Disabled Olympics. However, his first love was always his work for the Lord and he travelled widely to discuss and share his faith in Jesus.3v.Tomkins, Stephen. David Livingstone: the unexplored story.David Livingstone has gone down in history as a fearless explorer and missionary, hacking his way through the forests of Africa to bring light to the people and also to free them from slavery. But who was he, and what was he actually like? Fascinating new evidence about Livingstone’s life and his struggles has come to light in the letters and journals he left behind.7v.Welch, Robert. Kicking the black mamba. 2013.A vivid, haunting personal tragedy, but Welch explores its roots in generations of Irish lives scarred by shame and disgrace, and reflects on the lawless energies that may be unleashed now that the constraining institutions and rituals of church and magic have lost their hold on people's minds. It is a frightening confession of a man who fears his own complicity in his son's alcohol addiction. But it is also a love story, the story of 'a boy's love for his father, and a father's helpless love for his son.'6v.ReligionAshton, mark. On my way to heaven. 2010.Is it really possible to face the final stages of our earthly lives with confidence and without fear? Mark Ashton describes his own experience of imminent death from inoperable cancer. Real confidence, he explains, is found in the resurrection of Jesus Christ an event which, even though it happened 2,000 years ago, has profound implications for us today.1v.Dickson, John. If I were God I’d make myself clearer: searching for clarity in a world full of claims. 2001.Written from a Christian perspective, this book struggles honestly with a dilemma facing 'believers' and 'unbelievers' alike: With so many religions on offer, can one of them be considered true? Or are they different paths up the same spiritual mountain? And how can any one person sort their way through the maze of claims?2v.Gaukroger, Stephen. Living successfully in a dangerous world. 1999.This book is 16 studies in the first letter of Peter. Peter shows the basis of how to live a Christ-honouring life, showing that opposition is a test of the genuineness of faith, and that we shall be rewarded on "the Day when Christ is revealed".3v.Green, Michael. In search of spirituality: finding a way through the spiritual maze. 2007.How do we find a spirituality that satisfies? Michael Green sets out the key criteria: how to find a way through the spiritual maze, how to be confident our path is trustworthy, how to find the best spiritual guide, how to start the journey, how to grow in our spirituality, how to develop a spiritual worldview, and how spirituality can help in sufferings. Only Jesus, Green insists, offers a spirituality that can bear our weight through life and in the face of death.2v.Hopkins, Judy. Lucy’s rainbow. 2011.The spiritual and emotional journey of a mother of two young children, following the death of her husband. Lucy's Rainbow is the powerful, heart-wrenching story of a young family torn apart by cancer. In this inspiring personal account, Judy Hopkins penetrates the depths of human suffering, depicting for us as honestly as possible a grief which is finally beyond words.4v.Instone-Brewer, David. The Jesus Scandals: why he shocked his contemporaries (and still shocks today). 2012.Over the centuries, Jesus's teaching on ethical matters has often become muted and distorted. Here, David Instone-Brewer shows how Jesus offered revolutionary and luminous insights into knotty ethical dilemmas. 4v.Leonard, Christine. Is God for real?: Signposts and stories for people who wonder. 2011.Is God for Real? is the question many struggle with. So Chris Leonard spoke to people from all kinds of backgrounds and asked them to explain how their relationship with God works out in practice, during crises, but mainly in normal, everyday life. 4v.Saxton, Jo. High heels and holiness: the smart girls’ guide to living life well. 2012.Society determines women’s dreams and expectations, and dictates how they should feel about their image, relationships and career. So how do we do life - friendship, money, men and the rest - with wisdom and integrity? As Christian women, where is our place in today's culture? How do we embrace life and live it to the full? 5v.Vanier, Jean. The heart of l'Arche: a spirituality for every day. 2013.With simplicity and conviction, the author shows how a life shared with people who have intellectual disabilities calls us to selflessness and risk. The vulnerability that is so much a part of their lives reveals our own limits and forces us to ask questions that can lead to profound liberation.2v.SocietyLynch, Jonah. The scent of lemons: technology and relationships in the age of Facebook. 2012.Jonah Lynch considers if technology is stealing something essential from us in return for all its marvellous gifts. Every place is singular, and every person is unique, Lynch writes, and to re-learn this truth it might be necessary to do a little technological fasting. Not to eliminate our freedom, but to joyfully rediscover it.2v. Wilcock, Penelope, Learning to let go. 2010.Full of empathy and the wisdom of experience, in Learning to Let Go Penelope Wilcock guides us through the process - practical and emotional - of preparing for residential care, tackling the difficult questions which will be faced by elderly people, and their families. This book shows how an elderly person can be helped to retain their identity, and at the same time to "let go".4v.Suggested age range 9+Lee, Kathy, River Rapids. 2011Scripture Union. Maya thinks it would be quite fun for the River Mallen to flood its banks, but when that happens, it's disasterous for her and her mum. If being forced out of her home wasn't enough, getting caught up in a human trafficking ring threatens everything. Maya is kidnapped and, though she is released, she lives in fear that the kidnappers will come back to get her.3v.Children and young adult fictionSuggested reading age 5+Novak, B. J. The book with no pictures. 2014. You might think a book with no pictures seems boring and serious. Except, here's how books work. Everything written on the page has to be said by the person reading it aloud. Even if the words say 'blork' or 'bluurf'. Even if the words are a preposterous song about eating ants for breakfast, or just a list of astonishingly goofy sounds like 'blaggity blaggity' and 'glibbity globbity'.UEB. 1v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 25207905. Suggested age range 7+Kinney, Jeff. Hard luck. 2013. Diary of a wimpy kid; book 8. Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task. To change his fortunes, Greg decides to take a leap of faith and turn his decisions over to chance. Will a roll of the dice turn things around, or is Greg's life destined to be just another hard-luck story?UEB. 1v. Price: 12.99. Order No: 25098303.Laird, Elizabeth. The fastest boy in the world. 2014. Shortlisted for the Cilip Carnegie medal 2015.Eleven-year-old Solomon loves to run! The great athletes of the Ethiopian national team are his heroes and he dreams that one day he will be a gold -medal-winning athlete like them, inspite of his ragged shorts and bare feet. When his grandfather announces that he's going to take Solomon to Addis Ababa, Solomon cannot believe his ears. UEB. 4v. Price ?6.99. Order No: 25176505Also available in uncontracted UEB. 6v. Order No: 25176507Nadin, Joanna. Penny Dreadful is a record breaker. 2013. Penny Dreadful versus the Vampire, in which Penny is worried about growing up to be a clown and decides to embark on a career as a vampire hunter instead; Penny Dreadful Looks on the Bright Side, in which miserable Grandma Grimshaw comes to stay and Penny and her best friend Cosmo appeal to her softer side, and Penny Dreadful and the World Record, in which Penny attempts to get her name in the record books. UEB. 2v. Price: 4.99. Order No: 25069703.Norton, Mary. The Borrowers. 1952. The Borrowers ; book. At first the Borrowers lived under the floor behind the wainscot. Nobody ever saw them but everybody knew they were there because of the things which disappeared.3v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 25206402Reeve, Philip. Oliver and the seawigs. 2014.Along with his friends, a grumpy old albatross, a short-sighted mermaid, and a friendly island called Cliff, Oliver sets out to rescue his missing parents. UEB. 2v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25080203.Suggested age range 9+Gaiman, Neil. The sleeper and the spindle. 2014.On the eve of her wedding, a young queen sets out to rescue a princess from an enchantment. She casts aside her fine wedding clothes, takes her chain mail and her sword and follows her brave dwarf retainers into the tunnels under the mountain towards the sleeping kingdom. UEB. 1v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 25167903.McCaughrean, Geraldine. The middle of nowhere. 2013. When Comity’s mother dies, she turns to Fred, the Aboriginal yard boy, who becomes her only friend. But then Fred becomes the target of her father’s assistant and events spiral dangerously out of control.UEB. 4v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 25173603.Philip, Gillian. The lost children. 2014. Mysteries of Ravenstorm Island; book 1. When Molly and her little brother Jack visit their rich relatives on Ravenstorm Island, Molly feels immediately on edge. An elderly butler gives them bizarre warnings, eerie statues of children are dotted around the island, and - worse - she's expected to be friends with her moody cousin, Arthur. But things become much worse when Jack disappears - and no one else on the island remembers he ever existed! Molly and Arthur must work together to save Jack.UEB. 7v. Price; 5.99. Order No: 25096803.Pilkey, Dav. Captain Underpants and the tyrannical retaliation of the Turbo Toilet 2000. 2014.When the evil Turbo Toilet 2000 was defeated, George and Harold thought their toilet troubles were over. Unfortunately, their problems were only beginning. Join Captain Underpants for another epic showdown of Wedgie Power vs. Potty Power.UEB. 3v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 25017607Suggested age range 11+Muchamore, Robert. Lone wolf. 2014.CHERUB. Series 2; book 4. Fay has spent eighteen months locked up in a Secure Training Centre. Drug deals and rip-offs are the only things this teenager knows. 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Flute by earTake FiveMy heart will go onI dreamed a dreamPiano by earLate beginner levelA mighty fortress is our GodBlue VelvetCall me irresponsibleTeddy BearI’ll never fall in love againCherry Pink (and apple blossom white)DowntownMona LisaPeopleRoute 66Spanish EyesThe way we wereLate intermediate levelButterfly EtudeDivertimento by MozartSleeping Beauty Waltz by TchaikovskyA Little night music by MozartRomeo and Juliet love theme by TchaikovskySonata in A by MozartSonata in C by MozartMinute Waltz by ChopinRaindrop Prelude by ChopinGinat print – 24 pointAdult fictionAnderson, Kevin J. Hellhole. 2010. Science fiction.Only the most desperate would ever dare to make a new home on Hellhole, a planet ravaged by natural disasters. Its location on the wild frontiers of the Constellation, among the Deep Zone worlds, makes it the final refuge for those fleeing from the rule of Diadem Michella Duchenet - a tyrant with a sweet face, but a dark heart. 6v.Andrews, Lyn. The Sisters O'Donnell. 2008. Family stories.They were called the Sisters O'Donnell in County Tipperary. All with flaming red hair and tempers to match, they came to seek their fortunes in 1920s Liverpool full of ambition and hope. But Liverpool wasn't what they thought it would be. Work was impossible to find and their money was running out. 5v.Andrews, Lyn. Take these broken wings. 2000. Family stories.Thrown into the workhouse at the tender age of six, Hannah Peckham soon learns how hard the world is, but she emerges determined to make the most of what little life has given her. Naively she falls in love with a man she can never have. And rushes into the arms of hard-drinking Alfie Duggan. 4v.Andrews, Lynda M. The ties that bind. 1999. Family stories.Tessa O'Leary is the only daughter of a family of fatherless boys. Elizabeth Harrison is oppressed by her shopkeeper mother's snobbish expectations. This is the story of two young girls in the slumlands of war -wracked Liverpool, bound together by a friendship that surmounts disaster, poverty and heartbreak.4v.Archer, Jeffrey. Four warned. 2014. Quick reads.These four short stories from are packed full of twists and turns. Jeremy finds the best way to steal the perfect ring for his fiancée. Albert celebrates his 100th birthday. Richard plots the ideal way to murder his wife. As Diana, drives to have dinner with friends, she realises that a black van is following her.1v.Binchy, Maeve. Nights of rain and stars. 2005. Family stories.In a Greek taverna, high over the small village of Aghia Anna, four people meet for the first time. Along with Andreas, the old man who runs the taverna, they become close to each other after witnessing a tragedy when a pleasure steamer catches fire in the harbour. 3v.Bradshaw, Rita. Beyond the veil of tears. 2014. Family stories.As an only child, 15-year-old Angeline is heartbroken when her beloved parents are killed in a coaching accident and she is given into the care of her uncle. Angeline is easy prey for the handsome and ruthless Oswald Golding who is looking for a rich heiress to solve the money troubles his womanizing has caused. 4v.Cantero, Edgar. The supernatural enhancements. 2014. Horror.When A. inherits a beautiful but eerie estate set in the woods, he is both sceptical and curious. He never knew his 'second uncle’ named Ambrose, much less that the poor man committed suicide – under similar circumstances to many other strange deaths. A. quickly realises he has inherited a lifetime of secrets, and a curse.3v.Cartland, Barbara. Love finds the way. 2004. Romance.When John Chester returned to England after suddenly inheriting a Dukedom he knew his life had changed forever. But he didn't know just how much. Gina Wilton was like a breath of fresh air. But she was also everything John disapproved of in a young women, independent, assertive, always ready to contradict him. 2v.Chadwick, Elizabeth. The champion. 2006. Historical fiction.Alexander de Montroi arrives in Normandy in the spring of 1193, desperate to become one of the great knights who live by their jousting swords. Monday de Cerizay is smitten with the new hero until she finds herself pregnant and betrayed. Noticed by King John, she becomes his mistress in England. 6v.Chadwick, Elizabeth. The Marsh King's daughter. 2006. Historical fiction.There is great dissatisfaction with King John's rule. Among the rebellious nobles is young Nicholas de Caen. While fighting John's troops, he is captured, but during the trip back to be questioned, the treacherous marshes cause trouble and Nicholas and King John's treasure are both lost. 5v.Chadwick, Elizabeth. Shadows and strongholds. 2013. Historical fiction.Fulke FitzWarin book 1. Nine-year-old misfit Fulke FitzWarin leaves his family for the household of the Lord of Ludlow. Once there, he begins to learn the knightly arts which he desperately hopes will free him from the shadows of his past. Joscelin's daughter, Hawise, befriends Fulke when he most needs it. 7vChadwick, Elizabeth. Lords of the white castle. 2013. Historical fiction.Fulke FitzWarin book 2. A violent quarrel with the future King John destroys Fulke’s greatest ambition, to become Lord of the White Castle. Instead of accepting his fate Fulke rebels but the danger pursuing him reaches new heights as he begins a passionate love affair with Maude Walter the widow chosen by John himself.7v.Chamberlain, Diane. Reflection. 2014. Romance.Twenty years ago, a terrible tragedy shattered the Pennsylvania town of Reflection. The residents have never forgiven the woman they blamed Rachel Huber. After the incident, Rachel left the town and cut off all ties there. she receives the news that her estranged grandmother, Helen, is ill and needs her care, she returns. 5v.Christie, Agatha. Three blind mice and other stories. 2012. Classic crime. Short stories.The title story in this collection, Three Blind Mice, is an alternate version of Agatha Christie's play The Mousetrap. This collection contains whodunits, locked room mysteries, and perplexing puzzles from the Queen of Crime.2v.Christie, Agatha. The seven dials mystery. 2001. Classic crime.Superintendent Battle book 2. A healthy young man dies in his sleep, despite the ringing of eight separate alarm clocks. Gerry Wade had proved himself to be a champion sleeper; so the other house guests decided to play a practical joke on him. By morning one clock was missing and the prank had backfired.3v.Christie, Agatha. The murder on the links. 2011. Classic crime.Hercule Poirot book 2. An urgent appeal for help brings Hercule Poirot to France with unaccustomed haste, but he is too late - his client, a mysterious millionaire, has been brutally stabbed to death and his body flung carelessly into an open grave. The Belgian detective unravels the strange circumstances of this case. 2v.Christie, Agatha. Hercule Poirot's Christmas. 2001. Classic crime.Hercule Poirot book 19. Christmas Eve, the Lee family reunion is shattered by a crash of furniture, followed by a high -pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. Hercule Poirot, offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not of mourning but of mutual suspicion. 3v.Christie, Agatha. Cat among the pigeons. 2002. Classic crime.Hercule Poirot book 33. Unpleasant things are going on in an exclusive school for girls. Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion, while the rest of the school sleeps. There they stumble upon the body of the unpopular games mistress – shot through the heart. 3v.Christie, Agatha. The mirror crack'd from side to side. 2002. Classic crime.One minute, silly Heather Badcock had been gabbling on at her movie idol, the glamorous Marina Gregg. The next, she suffered a massive seizure. But for whom was the deadly poison really intended? Marina’s frozen expression suggested she had witnessed something horrific. 3v.Cox, Josephine. Outcast.1992. Romance.Emma Grady book 1. 1860, Thadius Grady realises he has put himself and his daughter Emma at the mercy of his sister and her husband, Caleb he has entrusted to them his entire fortune and the daughter he adores. With his dying breath he pleads to see his daughter one last time - but Caleb's heart is made of stone.3v.Cox, Josephine. Her father's sins.1992. Family stories.Queenie's story book 1. Queenie seemed born to suffer. Her mam died giving birth to her, her drunken father George Kenney ignored her unless he was cursing her, and only beloved Auntie Biddy provided an anchor for the little girl. After Auntie Biddy's death there was only Queenie to care for the home and to earn money. 3v.Cox, Josephine. The beachcomber. 2008. Romance.Tom Arnold has walked away from a prestigious job after his wife and children were killed when the car he was driving was forced off a cliff road by another motorist. Kathy Wilson similarly struggles with a sense of loss after a terrible argument with her mother brings home to her how unfulfilling her life of loneliness is.4v.Cox, Josephine. Journey's end. 2008. Family stories.Barney Davidson book 2. It has been over twenty years since Vicky Maitland set foot on English soil. Twenty years since she left Liverpool with her three children, bound for a new life in America, leaving her beloved husband Barney behind. But this long journey home is the hardest of all. She is here in search of the truth. 3v.Cumming, Charles. A foreign country. 2013. Thriller.Amelia Levene book 1. Six months before she is due to take up her position as the first female head of MI6, Amelia Levene vanishes without a trace. Disgraced ex-agent Thomas Kell is brought in from the cold with orders to find her quickly and quietly. The mission offers Kell a way back into this secret world.4v.Cussler, Clive. The bootlegger. 2014. Thriller.Isaac Bell book 8. It is 1920. Prohibition and bootlegging are in full swing. When Joseph Van Dorn is shot and nearly killed while in pursuit of a rum-running vessel, his friend and employee, Isaac Bell, swears to him that he will hunt down the lawbreakers. But Bell doesn't know what he is getting into. 4v.Deighton, Len. Mexico set. 2010. Thriller.Bernard Samson book 2. When they spotted Erich Stinnes in Mexico City, it was obvious that Bernard Samson was the right man to ‘enrol’ him. But Bernard risks being entangled in a lethal web of old loyalties and old betrayals. All he knows for sure is that he has to get Erich Stinnes for London. 4v.Deighton, Len. London match. 2010. Thriller.Bernard Samson book 3. Bernard Samson hoped they'd put Elvira Miller behind bars. She said she had been stupid, but it didn't cut any ice with Bernard. She was a KGB-trained agent and stupidity was no excuse. There was one troubling thing about Mrs Miller's confession - two codewords where there should have been one.5v.Deighton, Len. Spy hook. 2010. Thriller.Bernard Samson book 4. Working for the Department was like marriage is supposed to be, but the Department is really not like that and neither are many marriages, including that of Bernard Samson, cool and cynical field agent. Things have not gone well, old pals are not so friendly and colleagues are less confiding. 3v.Francis, Dick. Shattered. 2013. Thriller.Cheltenham Races, New Year's Eve. Gerard Logan witnesses the death of his close friend, jockey Martin Stukely, after a fall from his horse. In the aftermath, Gerard is left to pick up the pieces - including a mysterious unmarked videotape that Martin secretly left him. But before he gets to watch it, the videotape is stolen3v.Gardner, Lisa. Say goodbye. 2012. Thriller.Pierce Quincy book 6. Young women are disappearing. Girls no one will notice - prostitutes, runaways, high-risk teens. Eighteen-year-old Delilah Rose knows something but she'll only talk to one woman, FBI Special Agent Kimberley Quincy. With no bodies and no clues, Kimberley's options are limited. 4v.Gifford, Elisabeth. Secrets of the sea house. 2014. General fiction.Ruth and her husband move into a dilapidated old vicarage on a stunning island in the Outer Hebrides and set about turning the unloved house into a family home. Ruth's much-needed stability is threatened when they discover the remains of a baby buried beneath the house, its legs fused together into one limb. 3v.Hamilton, Ruth. A parallel life. 2010. Family stories.Eccentricity is the family byword for the Compton-Milnes. A marriage between Gus, a reclusive but brilliant professor, and Lisa, a promiscuous cosmetic surgery addict, has produced an O C D riddled genius named Ben, and his sister, Harriet, who has renounced her place at Oxford to stay and care for her brother. 3v.Hamilton, Ruth. A crooked mile. 2010. Family stories.In the shadow of the Althorpe mills, the Myrtle Street residents endure cramped and often verminous conditions. Joe Duffy, a Bolton tradesman, strives to lift his family out of the 'garden' streets. But as more children are born, Joe's wife Tess sinks deeper into the obsession that will be her undoing. 5v.Harry, Lilian. A promise to keep. 2004. Romance.Thursday book 2. When Thursday Tilford returns to Haslar Hospital after two years serving as a VAD in Egypt, she finds many changes. With the town packed with troops waiting to leave for the Normandy beaches, and Haslar on standby for the wounded, Thursday's thoughts go to the two men who are vying for her heart:4v.Herries, Anne. The rebel captain's royalist bride. 2014. Romance. Mills & Boon historical.Orphaned and without protection, Babette Harvey must suffer in silence when her uncle gives shelter to a band of Rebels - though her Royalist blood boils! But other dangerous passions must also be quieted - including those aroused by the handsome and commanding Rebel leader Captain James Colby. 2v.Heyer, Georgette. Bath tangle. 2004. Historical fiction.The Earl of Spenborough has always been noted for his eccentricity. Leaving Serena's fortune to the trusteeship of the Marquis of Rotherham -- a man whom Serena once jilted and who now has the power to give or withhold his consent to any marriage she might contemplate. 4v.Johnson, Milly. It's raining men. 2013. General fiction.Best friends May, Lara and Clare are desperate for some time away, but, when they arrive at their destination, it seems it is not the place they thought it was. Why is everyone so unfriendly and suspicious? Why does the landlord of their holiday rental seem so rude? And why are there so few women in the village?4v.Joyce, Rachel. The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry. 2012. General fiction.When Harold Fry nips out one morning to post a letter, leaving his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country to the other. He has no hiking boots or map, let alone a compass, waterproof or mobile phone. All he knows is that he must keep walking. To save someone else's life.3vKernick, Simon. Siege. 2012. Thriller.People are dead and lives hang in the balance as gunmen storm the Stanhope Hotel. They have given the government 5 hours to meet their demands before blowing up the building. The guests are all are united by one thing, fear for their lives, except one man who has information so dangerous it must be kept safe. 4v.Lee, Maureen. Flora and Grace. 2013. Family stories.It is spring 1944 when Flora's life changes forever. She is standing on a platform in the Swiss mountains, as a cattle train draws near. Inside she can hear human voices – groaning and pleading. But as the train picks up speed, a filthy bundle of rags is thrust through the slats and into her arms - 'Take him. His name is Simon.' 3v.Lewis, Susan. Never say goodbye. 2014. General fiction.Josie Clarke is a loving wife and mother. She and her husband Jeff don't have much but Josie will do anything to protect her family and keep them safe. Bel Monkton is a successful developer, living in a beautiful house by the sea, faced with uncertainty and heartbreak, they come to treasure their growing friendship.5v.Mackay, Malcolm. The night the rich men burned. 2014. Thriller.Two friends, Alex and Oliver, look for work and for escape from their lives spent growing up in Glasgow's most desperate fringes. Soon they will become involved in one of the city's darkest trades. But while one rises quickly up the ranks, the other will fall prey to the industry's addictive lifestyle and ever-spiralling debts.4v.Maitland, Karen. The vanishing witch. 2014. Historical fiction.The reign of Richard II is troubled, the poor are about to become poorer still and landowners are lining their pockets. But in a world where nothing can be taken at face value, who do you trust? When people start dying unnatural deaths and the peasants decide it's time to fight back, it's all too easy to spy witchcraft at every turn.6v.Mosse, Kate. The taxidermist's daughter. 2014. Historical fiction.Sussex, 1912. In a churchyard, villagers gather on the night when the ghosts of those who will die in the coming year are thought to be seen. Here superstitions hold sway. At seventeen, Constantia lives with her father in a decaying house: it is all that is left of the once world-famous museum of taxidermy. 4v.North, Freya. The way back home. 2014. Chick lit.Oriana has returned to the village she grew up in for the first time in years. As she finds herself increasingly drawn to Windward, the huge house that was the chaotic artists' community where she was born, it becomes clear that there is more to be untangled from the past than the present.4v.O'Brian, Patrick. Desolation island.1996. Sea stories. Jack Aubrey book 5. Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. On board is a beautiful and dangerous spy, and a treacherous disease which decimates the crew. 3v.O'Brian, Patrick. The fortune of war. 2007. Sea stories.Jack Aubrey book 6. Captain Jack Aubrey, RN, arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a despatch vessel. But the war of 1812 breaks out while they are en route.4v.O'Brian, Patrick. Hussein: an entertainment. 2000. Adventure.Hussein is a young mahout—or elephant handler—who falls in love with a beautiful and elusive girl, Sashiya, and arranges for another of her suitors to be murdered with a fakir's curse. All of this is set against an evocatively exotic India, full of bazaars, temples, and beautiful women.3v.Orczy, Emmuska. The Scarlet Pimpernel. 2015. Adventure.The Terror has begun. Paris, 1792. Each day scores of the French nobility feed the guillotine. They are trapped in the capital. There is no escape. But rumours whisper of a league of young English gentleman of unparalleled daring who are risking their lives to spirit aristocrats across the Channel.3v.Patterson, James. Invisible. 2014. Thriller.Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, Emmy has taken leave from her job as an FBI researcher. She finds a piece of evidence that can't be ignored. More murders are reported by the day - and they're all inexplicable. Could one person really be responsible for these unthinkable crimes?3v.Rendell, Ruth. The girl next door. 2014. Crime.Before the Second World War, a dark network of tunnels is discovered by a group of children. Seventy years on, the world has changed. Work on a new house called Warlock uncovers a grisly secret and a weary detective, more preoccupied with current crimes, must investigate a possible case of murder.3v.Sansom, Ian. The Norfolk mystery: with 29 places and 22 pictures. 2014. Historical crime.County Guides to Murder book 1. It is 1937 and disillusioned Spanish Civil War veteran Stephen Sefton is stony broke. So when he sees a mysterious advertisement for a job where ‘intelligence is essential’, he applies. Thus begins Sefton’s association with Professor Swanton Morley, an omnivorous intellect.3v.Sansom, Ian. Death in Devon. 2015. Historical crime.County Guides to Murder book 2. Swanton Morley, the People’s Professor, sets off for Devon to continue his history of England, The County Guides. But when the trio arrive they discover that a boy has died in mysterious circumstances. Was it an accident or was it – murder? 3v.Shaw, Rebecca. Village rumours. 2014. Country life fiction.Turnham Malpas book 18. While clearing out the rectory's loft, Reverend Harris makes an unsettling discovery and a dark secret is exposed that soon sets tongues wagging. Having received a letter from the sons she hasn't heard from in 15 years, local gossip Greta Jones is delighted despite her husband's misgivings. 3v.Simmons, Dan. The abominable. 2014. Thriller.June 1924. On the brutal North East Ridge of Everest, famous adventurers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine vanish into the snow-whipped night. Daredevil explorer Richard Deacon devises a plan to follow in the men's footsteps, accompanied only by two friends. Can they escape the same hideous fate?8v.Smith, Wilbur A. A falcon flies. 1981. Adventure. Ballantyne book 1. In search of the father they barely remember, Zouga and Dr Robyn Ballantyne board Mungo St. John's clipper for Africa. But long before then, Robyn knows that she will fall in love with Mungo, the lawless trader who will possess any woman he chooses.7vSmith, Wilbur A. Men of men. 1982. Adventure.Ballantyne book 2. Zouga Ballantyne's dream begins in the danger and drudgery of the diamond pits and ends on the rich grasslands of Matabeleland - but not before a king and a proud warrior nation have paid the price of history.7v.Smith, Wilbur A. The angels weep. 1998. Adventure.Ballantyne book 3. An adventurer and his missionary sister establish a legacy that will dominate part of a continent for decades to come, and a soldier meets his destiny in a battle that will forever scar two opposing races, in this novel set in southern Africa.7v.Smith, Wilbur A. The leopard hunts in darkness.1998. Adventure. Ballantyne book 4. Craig Mellow, acclaimed author but unhappy exile, seizes the chance to return to Zimbabwe when he is given a spying mission for the World Bank. Accompanied by a beautiful photographer, he finds himself caught up in a dangerous political web.6v.Stirling, Jessica. The wayward wife. 2013. Family stories.Susan has a new job as a producer's assistant at the BBC, and glamorous new friends, including one American war reporter who has made London his base and Susan his target. Stuck in London when the blitz begins, Susan's sister-in-law, Breda, faces up to the worst with a small son at home and a husband in the fire service.4vSteel, Danielle. Lightning.1996. Romance.Partner in one of New York's most prestigious law firms, Alexandra barely manages to juggle husband, career, and a three-year-old. Then lightning strikes – a routine medical check-up turns her world upside down when tests reveal shattering news. Her husband Sam, a Wall Street whiz-kid, is caught off guard by Alex's illness. 4v.Steel, Danielle. Power play. 2014. Romance.Would you sacrifice your family to have it all? Fiona Carson has proven herself as CEO of a multibillion -dollar high-tech company she reserves any personal time for her children. Marshall Weston basks in the fruits of his achievements. To maintain his position, he harbours secrets that could destroy his life at any moment. 3v.Stevens, Chevy. Never knowing. 2011. Thriller.At 34 Sara is happy. Sara has always wondered about her birth parents. After months of research, Sara locates her birth mother only to be met with horror and rejection. Then she finds the devastating truth: Her birth mother was the only victim ever to escape a killer who has been hunting women. 4v.Stockwin, Julian. Artemis. 2004. Sea stories.Kydd book 2. The second naval adventure following the life of Thomas Paine Kydd. Kydd sails into Portsmouth a hero, after a ferocious battle against the French. However he must return to Guildford on a family matter. But the sea beckons and Kydd manages to set off on his beloved Artemis for another adventure.4v.Stockwin, Julian. Quarterdeck. 2005. Sea stories.Kydd book 5. Kydd was promoted to acting lieutenant at the Battle of Camperdown in October 1797. Now he must sit an exam to confirm his rank. Kydd and his friend Nicholas set sail in HMS Tenacious for the North American station. Kydd comes to doubt he will ever match up to the high-born gentlemen officers3v.Tessaro, Kathleen. The perfume collector. 2013. General fiction.One letter will change Grace Munroe’s life: Our firm is handling the estate of the deceased Mrs Eva Dorsey and you are named as the chief beneficiary in her will. Grace has never heard of Eva Dorsey. So begins a journey which leads her through the streets of Paris and into the seductive world of perfumers and their muses. 4v.Trow, M. J. The adventures of Inspector Lestrade. 2013. Historical crime.Inspector Lestrade book 1. 1891 and London is reeling from the horror of the unsolved Ripper murders when Inspector Lestrade is sent to the Isle of Wight to investigate a strange corpse walled up in Shanklin Chine. This is the first of a series of brutal killings that make the race to avert the next death a personal battle. 3v.Trow, M. J. Dark entry. 2012. Historical crime.Kit Marlowe book 1. Cambridge, 1583. About to graduate from Corpus Christi, Marlowe spends his days studying and his nights carousing with old friends. But when one of them is discovered lying dead in his King's College room, mouth open in a silent scream, Marlowe refuses to accept the official verdict of suicide. 3v.Wark, Kirsty. The legacy of Elizabeth Pringle. 2014. General fiction.Seemingly on a whim, 95-year-old Elizabeth Pringle bequeaths Homelea, her beloved house, to a woman she has never met. As the young woman comes to take up Homelea she slowly unlocks the mysteries and heartbreaking secrets of Elizabeth Pringle's true legacy, in a multi -generational story of love and belonging.4v.Waters, Sarah. The paying guests. 2014. General fiction.There came the splash of water and the rub of heels as Mrs Barber stepped into the tub. This was what it meant to have paying guests: where the only thing between herself and a naked Mrs Barber was a few feet of kitchen and a thin scullery door. An image sprang into her head: that round flesh, crimsoning in the heat.7v.Weeks, Brent. The broken eye. 2014. Fantasy.Lightbringer series book 3. As the old gods awaken, the Chromeria is in a race to find its lost Prism, the only man who may be able to stop catastrophe, Gavin Guile. But Gavin is enslaved on a galley, and when he finally escapes, he finds himself in less than friendly hands without the ability to draft which has defined him.10v.Adult non-fictionAutobiographies and BiographiesBarbree, Jay. Neil Armstrong: a life of flight. 2014.Barbree is the only person whom Armstrong trusted to share close personal details about his inspiring life story. Working from his years of notes, and with the full cooperation of the Armstrong family, Barbree has written the definitive biography of America's most famous astronaut and one of our greatest modern heroes.4v.Benson, Richard. The valley: a hundred years in the life of a family. 2014.Following four generations of his mother's family, the Hollingworths, born between 1890 and 2000, Richard Benson depicts a community characterised not by the stereotype of doughty, unassuming labourers and housewives, but driven individuals relentless in the pursuit of their dreams. 6v.Byron, Tanya. The skeleton cupboard: the making of a clinical psychologist. 2014.Professor Tanya Byron's account of her final years of training as a clinical psychologist, when trainees find themselves in the toughest placements of their careers. Through the eyes of her naive and inexperienced younger self, Tanya shares the remarkable cases of key patients and their treatment. 3v.Campbell, John. Roy Jenkins: a well-rounded life. 2014.Roy Jenkins was probably the best Prime Minister Britain never had. But though he never reached 10 Downing Street, he left a more enduring mark on British society than most of those who did. His career spans the full half-century from Attlee to Tony Blair, and this is the story of an exceptionally well-filled and well-rounded life.16v.Daniels, Hope. Hackney child: a true tale of surviving poverty and the care system.2014.Aged nine, Hope Daniels walked into Stoke Newington Police Station with her little brothers and asked to be taken into care. Home life was intolerable: both of Hope's parents were alcoholics and her mum was a prostitute. This is Hope's story of survival and the lifeline given by professionals in the care system. 3v.Duckett, Terrie. Stolen voices: a sadistic step-father: two children violated: their battle for justice. 2014.Terrie and Paul’s step-father had been living with them for six months when the abuse began. Everyday Terrie was assaulted and abused; her rapes were photographed, filmed and shared. Paul was regularly taunted and mercilessly beaten. But despite the bruises and the scars, no one saw their pain.4v.Jacobi, Derek. As luck would have it: my seven ages. 2013.Derek Jacobi has worked continuously throughout his career, But it is his numerous Shakespearean roles that have gained him worldwide recognition. This book is, however, much more than a career record. Funny, warm and honest, Jacobi brings us his insider's view on the world of acting.3v.Knight, Michelle. Finding me: a decade of darkness, a life reclaimed.2014.Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For over a decade, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity, followed by Gina DeJesus in 2004. Their escape made headlines around the world. 2v.Matusiak, John. Wolsey: the life of King Henry VIII's cardinal.2014.This work explores the contrasting layers of Thomas Wolsey's life and career, and represents the first genuinely popular biography of the much-maligned cardinal to appear in over 30 years. Making no assumptions, it looks at the real person in the cold light of his actions, and uncovers a man of contradictions and extremes. 5v.Moore, Roger. Last man standing: tales from Tinseltown. 2014.In this collection of true stories from his stellar career, Roger lifts the lid on the movie business. It features outrageous tales from his own life as well as those told to him by a host of stars. Wonderfully entertaining and laugh-out-loud funny, this selection of tales from the world of the movies is vintage Moore at his very best.2v.Morse, Laila. Just a Mo. 2014.The reigning queen of Albert Square, Laila Morse shares her incredible story for the first time. When your everyday life is filled with violence, drugs and strife, you can't lose your head, you've just got to get on with it. But success isn't everything. Family is. Filled with bitter heartache, and hope , this is her amazing story.2v.Mulholland, Marni. Raw: homeless child, groomed girl, teenage prostitute. 2014.Marni thought she'd found a friend in her social worker, Matthew. But he groomed her from the moment she entered the children's home. A year later their 'relationship' crossed boundaries no child should know exist. Marni’s memoir reveals the full truth about grooming and its aftermath. Contains strong language, violence and scenes of a sexual nature.3v.Nolan, Bernie. Now and forever. 2013.Bernie Nolan was given the initial all-clear after a battle with breast cancer. Then in the summer of 2012 she found a lump just above her breast. Terrified, she made a hospital appointment, where she was given the devastating news that the cancer had returned. It had spread to her brain, lungs, liver and bones and was incurable. 3v.Sanghera, Sathnam. The boy with the topknot: a memoir of love, secrets and lies in Wolverhampton. 2009.For Sathnam Sanghera, growing up in Wolverhampton in the eighties was a confusing business. At the age of twenty-four, Sathnam made a discovery that changed everything he ever thought he knew about his family. He embarks on a journey into their past trying to make sense of a life lived among secrets.4v.Tarrant, Chris. Dad's war: father, soldier, hero. 2014.Chris and his father Basil were very close, but it was only after his death he realised that he hardly knew him. What happened to Basil during the war, and how he came to be awarded the Military Cross, remained a mystery nearly sixty years. Chris discovers that Basil was involved in some of WWII's most significant campaigns.3v.Trynka, Paul. Sympathy for the devil: the birth of the Rolling Stones and the death of Brian Jones. 2014.This is a story told from a totally new perspective and which lays bare the shocking ruthlessness, internal warfare and sexual competition within The Rolling Stones. As well as exploring Brian Jones' crucial role in the Stone's music, it also investigates his unravelling as seen by family, band-mates, lovers and enemies.4v.Weir, Alison. Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England. 2011.Alison Weir re-examines the life of Isabella of England, one of history’s most notorious and charismatic queens. Many myths and legends have been woven around Isabella’s story, but in this first full biography in more than 150 years, Alison Weir provides a new perspective.9v.White-Cooper, Ronald. Call the doctor: a country GP between the wars: tales of courage, hardship and hope. 2014.When Ronald White-Cooper arrived in Dartmouth in 1920 to set up as a GP he found himself facing some unique challenges. Over the years Ronald became a much-loved part of the community, often helping those who could not afford to pay him, and is remembered fondly to this day. 2v.Ziegler, Philip. Olivier. 2013.Hollywood superstar; Oscar-winning director; greatest stage actor of the 20th century: no one could challenge Laurence Olivier's range and power. With access to more than fifty hours of candid, unpublished interviews, Ziegler ensures Olivier's true character - at its most undisguised - shines through as never before.5v.HistoryBailey, Roderick. Target: Italy: the secret war againstMussolini, 1940-1943: the official history of SOE operations in fascist Italy. 2014.Drawing on long-classified documents, the official history of the war waged by Britain's Special Operations Executive on Benito Mussolini's Fascist Italy. Providing an account of SOE's efforts to strike at Italy, sever its alliance with Nazi Germany, uncovering a plot to assassinate Mussolini and plans to arm the Mafia. 7v.Feeney, Paul. A 1960s childhood: from Thunderbirds to Beatlemania. 2010.Life in the 1960s was a boom period, a time of changed attitudes and improved lifestyles. From James Bond to Sindy dolls and hopscotch in the street, life was very different. This has chapters on home and school life, games and hobbies, music and fashion, depicting the changing times after the frugal years of the fifties.2v.Grose, Peter. The greatest escape: how one French community saved thousands of lives from the Nazis. 2014.In the upper reaches of the Loire lies an isolated plateau and the secluded village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon. Their whole village was honoured with the extremely rare distinction of Righteous Among Nations by the people of Israel. How they earned this is one of the great modern stories of heroism and courage. 4v.ParanormalCooper, Diana. Venus: a diary of a puppy and her angel. 2014Meet Venus, the puppy with a big heart and loud bark. In this book, Venus tells in her own voice of the adventures, battles and joys of her puppyhood, and shares the wisdom that she receives from her angel. Venus is psychic, sensitive and ruthlessly honest. Her diary is rich with vivid characters, whose stories she shares.2v.Self helpBrandreth, Gyles. The 7 secrets of happiness: an optimist's journey. 2013.Gyles Brandreth presents the seven secrets of happiness. The secrets are simple rules, easy to remember, but challenging to achieve. What is happiness? Who gets to be happy? And how? These are the big questions the author aims to answer in this little book. This won't simply enhance your life: it will extend it.1v.SocietySasson, Jean P. Princess; more tears to cry. 2014.Sasson and Princess Sultana tell the world what it means to be a Saudi woman today. Through advances in education and with access to work, Saudi women are breaking through barriers. Despite changes in the law, women are still subjected to terrible suppression, abuse and crimes of violence. 4v.SportMeek, David. The United trinity: the remarkable story of Best, Law and Charlton. 2014.When George Best, made his United debut in the autumn of 1963, he was joining a club still recovering from the horrors of Munich. Among his team -mates were goal scorer supreme Denis Law and England midfielder Bobby Charlton. They would combine to help United to win two league titles and a long-awaited European Cup.3v.Children and young adult fictionSuggested reading age 0-4Child, Lauren. I really absolutely must have glasses. 2009.Charlie and Lola. Lola is going to the optician. She has decided that she absolutely MUST have glasses. Charlie says, “You’ll only get glasses if you really, really need them.” But Lola says, “I really DO need them, Charlie.”1v.Deacon, Alexis. Beegu. 2004.Beegu isn't supposed to be on Earth. She is lost. She is a friendly little creature, but the Earth People don't seem very welcoming at all. However, so far she has only met the 'big' ones. The little ones are a different matter.1v.Rau, Dana Meachen. The secret code. 1998Oscar can read a secret code. When Oscar opens his book, his friend Lucy sees the secret code. Lucy notices her book is different. Her book has text with black letters which she reads with her eyes. Oscar's book has bumps which he reads with his fingers! Oscar offers to teach Lucy the secret code - Braille. 1v.Suggested reading age 5+Barber, Antonia. The Mousehole cat. 1990.At the far end of England is a harbour so small that fisherman called it the Mousehole. Here lives a cat Mowzer and an old fisherman Tom. Then one year came a terrible winter. The blue-green sky turned grey and black. Tom decides to brave the Great Storm to go fishing and as Mowzer accompanies him she sings. 1v.Simon, Francesca. Horrid Henry's nightmare. 2013.Four hilarious new Horrid Henry stories - Horrid Henry's Mother's Day, probably not the day his mum looks forward to most in the year, Horrid Henry's Nightmare where Henry's chased by a ghost bunny with huge teeth, then The Return of the Demon Dinner Lady and last but not least Fluffy Struts Her Stuff.1v.Suggested reading age 7+Auerbach, Annie. Despicable me 2: the junior novel. 2013.Gru used to be one of the most villainous villains in the world. He and his army of Minions even stole the moon! But when he adopted Margo, Edith and Agnes, Gru became a dad. Instead of stealing landmarks, he makes pancakes, blows up unicorn balloons and dresses like a fairy princess!1v.Cowell, Cressida. How to be a pirate. 2010.How to train your dragon book 2. Hiccup's memoirs look back to when Hiccup was just an ordinary boy, finding it very hard to be a Hero. Can Hiccup find Grimbeard the Ghastly's treasure before Alvin the Treacherous gets his sneaky hands on it? And if Hiccup opens a box that says DO NOT OPEN, will he live to tell the tale?1v.Cowell, Cressida. How to speak dragonese. 2010.How to train your dragon book 3. Climbing on to a Roman Dragon Rustling ship in your first 'Boarding an Enemy Ship' lesson is bad enough. Then to discover that Alvin the Treacherous is also on board proves to Hiccup he couldn't have been more wrong, especially when he steals his copy of How to Speak Dragonese. 1v.Cowell, Cressida. How to cheat a dragon's curse. 2010.How to train your dragon book 4. Fishlegs has been struck with deadly Vorpentitis. The only cure is rare and almost impossible to find a potato. But where on Berk will Hiccup find such a thing? Hiccup will have to dodge Sharkworms, battle Doomfangs and outwit crazy Hooligans if he's going to be a Hero ... again.1v.Cowell, Cressida. How to twist a dragon's tale. 2010.How to train your dragon book 5. Someone has stolen the Fire stone. Now the volcano on Volcano Island has become active and the tremors are hatching the eggs of the Exterminator dragons! Can Hiccup stop the Volcano from erupting, and save the Tribes from being wiped out by the terrible Exterminators?2v.Cowell, Cressida. A hero's guide to deadly dragons. 2010.How to train your dragon book 6. Hiccup is lost in the Library Labyrinth and the Driller-Dragons and Madguts and Murderous are on the prowl. Hiccup's birthday is not going to be the quiet affair he might have hoped for. Contains a Dragonese Dictionary for those who'd like to dragon-whisper as well as the dragon-whisperer himself.2v.Cowell, Cressida. How to ride a dragon's storm. 2010.Fantasy. How to train your dragon book 7. Hiccup has three months, five days and six hours to discover America, get back to Berk, save his father, battle Polarserpents, and win the annual Inter-Tribal Friendly Swimming Race. Can he do it?2vCowell, Cressida. How to break a dragon's heart. 2010.How to train your dragon book 8. Hiccup must battle Berserks, dodge Scarers, complete the Impossible Task and save Fishlegs from being fed to the Beast! And all while being hunted down by an old enemy with a dark secret about the Lost Throne. What's a Hero to do?2v.Cowell, Cressida. How to seize a dragon's jewel. 2012.How to train your dragon book 10. The Dragon Rebellion has begun. Snotlout is the new Chief of the Hooligan Tribe. Stoick has been banished and given the Slavemark. But what can Hiccup do, now all alone and in exile, hunted by both humans and dragons? Can he find the Dragon Jewel, mankind's last and only hope? 2v.Cowell, Cressida. How to betray a dragon's hero. 2013.How to train your dragon book 11. High up in the treacherous mists of the Murderous Mountains, Hiccup and the Company of the Dragonmark are in hiding. The witch's Spydragons are guarding the shores of Tomorrow – but Hiccup is determined to become King of the Wilderwest. Is there a traitor in Hiccup's camp?2v.Inglis, Karen. The secret lake. 2011.When Stella and her younger brother, Tom, move to their new London home, they become mystified by the disappearances of Harry, their neighbour’s dog. Their quest to solve the riddle over the summer holidays leads to a boat buried under a grassy mound – and a tunnel that takes them to a secret lake. 1v.Morpurgo, Michael. Black Queen. 2000.The 'Black Queen' is what Billy calls his shadowy next-door neighbour. She always wears a black cloak and a wide -brimmed black hat. She lurks about her garden, alone except for her black cat. Scarily for Billy, the Black Queen befriends him and asks him to look after her cat while she's away. 1v.Morpurgo, Michael. Not bad for a bad lad. 2012.When a young boy gets a reputation for being naughty at school, he reacts by being the bad lad that everyone expects. Leaving school at 14, he becomes a thief & eventually ends up in prison. But Mr Alfie, the stable manager, decides to give the boy a chance, letting him look after the horses. How will things turn out?1v.Morpurgo, Michael. The dancing bear. 2002.High in the mountains, in a tiny village, an abandoned bear cub is adopted by a lonely orphan child. Soon they are inseparable, beloved by the whole village – safe, until the arrival of a glamorous film crew who need a dancing bear.1v.Pilkey, Dav. Captain Underpants and the perilous plot of Professor Poopypants: the fourth epic novel. 2001.Captain Underpants book 4. Professor Pippy P. Poopypants is a brilliant scientist, but his ridiculous name means no one takes his fantastic inventions seriously. And now he's on the rampage... He's armed with the fiendish Shrinky-Pig 2000 and he's prepared to use it! 1v.Pilkey, Dav. Captain Underpants and the wrath of the wicked wedgie woman: the fifth epic novel. 2001.Captain Underpants book 5. George and Harold are having a normal kind of week. Yesterday they found out they were going to flunk fourth grade. Today they've created an evil, super -powerful monster. She's mean. She's got a fake-fur Evil Baddie costume - and she's having a REALLY bad hair day. 1v.Pilkey, Dav. Captain Underpants and the big, bad battle of the Bionic Booger Boy: the sixth epic novel. 2003.Captain Underpants book 6. George and Harold are in a sticky situation. Their latest prank has snotty school braniac Melvin Sneedly seeing red, and he can't wait to get them back. But when Melvin tries to transform himself into a bionic -powered superboy, things get a little gloopy - and the Bionic Booger Boy is born! 1v.Pilkey, Dav. Captain Underpants and the big, bad battle of the Bionic Booger Boy. 2013.Captain Underpants book 7. Our heroes beat the Bionic Booger Boy, but they forgot about those rascally Robo-Boogers. Join George, Harold, Mr. Krupp, Melvin Sneedly, and Sulu the Bionic Hamster on an adventure that will take them into the deepest regions of outer space and back through time. 1v.Suggested reading age 9+Blyton, Enid. The secret of Spiggy Holes. 2009.Adventure. Secret book 2. While on holiday by the sea, Mike, Peggy, Nora and their friend Jake go exploring in the caves on the beach. They soon discover a secret passage that leads to the Old House on the cliff, where they find a kidnapped young prince is being held captive! The friends make a bold plan. 1v.Blyton, Enid. The secret mountain. 2009.Adventure. Secret book 3. The parents of Mike, Peggy and Nora are held captive in the Secret Mountain in Africa. Together with their friends Jack and Prince Paul, they run away to search for them. But can they find the mountain - and who are the strange and dangerous red-haired people living there?1v.Blyton, Enid. The secret of Killimooin. 2007.Adventure. Secret book 4. An exciting invitation to spend the summer in Baronia, home of Prince Paul , takes Mike, Peggy, Nora and Jack to a land of lakes, steep mountains and a wonderful secret forest, where they encounter a band of robbers. But can they discover the secret of the Killimooin Mountains?1v.Blyton, Enid. The secret of moon castle. 2009.Adventure. Secret book 5. When Mike, Nora, Peggy and Jack go on holiday with Prince Paul and stay at the remote Moon Castle, they are excited to discover its mysterious past. They soon find that weird things still happen there - paintings come alive, books fly off the shelves and abandoned tin mines light up a certain glow. 1v.Campbell-Johnston, Rachel. The child's elephant. 2013.When Bat, a young African herd-boy, stumbles upon an orphaned baby elephant, he takes her home and pledges to look after her. As Meya grows and learns, she becomes part of Bat's family, and is soon the joy of the entire village. But she can't stay with Bat for ever - she belongs to the wild. 2v.Kinney, Jeff. Hard luck. 2013.Diary of a wimpy kid book 8. Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task. To change his fortunes, Greg decides to take a leap of faith and turn his decisions over to chance. 1v.Morpurgo, Michael. The ghost of Grania O'Malley. 2007.Everyone knows the Big Hill is full of gold, and now the islanders are intent on cutting the top off it and making themselves rich. Jessie and Jake are determined to save the Big Hill but what can they do? A plan is needed, and fast. Could the ghost of Grania O'Malley, the pirate queen, be the answer? 1v.Morpurgo, Michael. Toro! Toro! 2002.Antonito, a young boy growing up in Andalucía, Spain, on a farm, rears a little black calf and they become firm friends. Later, when he learns of the horrors of the bull fight, he frees Paco, the black bull, and rides with him into the hills. There they witness the bombing of their village and Antonito cannot go back. 1v.Peirce, Lincoln. Big Nate: in a class by himself. 2010.Big Nate book 1. Big-head Nate Wright truly believes he is destined for greatness! On the way to school he accidentally body slams his head teacher, then, during his first lesson of the day, he manages to insult his least favourite teacher, Mrs. Godfrey (aka Godzilla). 2v.Peirce, Lincoln. Big Nate strikes again. 2010.Big Nate book 2. Big Nate has got his heart set on leading his sports team to victory. But it won't be easy. He's stuck with Gina, his all time enemy and really rubbish player. Worse yet they have to work together on the class special project which means Gina's allowed to call on Nate at home!2v.Peirce, Lincoln. Big Nate on a roll. 2011.Big Nate book 3. Big Nate's scout troop is fundraising and while door-to-door selling isn't really Nate's thing, there's nothing like a grand prize to get him motivated. Especially when the prize is an awesomely cool customised skateboard (and following an incident with a poodle and a bridge Nate is in need of a new set of wheels).2v.Peirce, Lincoln. Big Nate goes for broke. 2012.Big Nate book 4. When you’ve got a head the size of Big Nate’s then losing is not an option. But Nate’s school P.S. 38 gets beaten by arch-rivals Jefferson Middle School at EVERYTHING. So when their school springs a leak and they have to join forces with Jefferson for a while, Nate and his friends are mortified. 2v.Peirce, Lincoln. Big Nate flips out. 2013.Big Nate book 5. Big Nate is flipping out! Everyone knows N-A-T-E does NOT equal N-E-A-T! And when Nate's sloppiness gets out of hand, his best friend Francis gets in serious trouble. Can Nate clean up his act? Or will he flip out first?2v.Peirce, Lincoln. Big Nate in the zone. 2014.Big Nate book 6. Nate is not having the best luck. In fact, it couldn't get much worse! But that all changes when Chad lets Nate borrow his lucky, umm... foot. Can Nate beat his bad luck to end up in the zone?2v.Rundell, Katherine. Rooftoppers. 2013.Everyone thinks that Sophie is an orphan. True, there were no other recorded female survivors from the shipwreck which left baby Sophie floating in the English Channel in a cello case, but Sophie remembers seeing her mother wave for help. Her guardian tells her it is almost impossible that her mother is still alive. 1v.Stern, Sue. Rafi Brown and the Candy Floss Kid. 2013.Dyslexic Rafi Brown is a brilliant cartoonist. The mysterious Candy Floss Kid never goes to school. Together they bunk off to Manchester but their problems get worse and worse. Is this caused by Rafi’s Secrit Vodooo Cartooon Diary? Can this be some weird rebound voodoo? 1v.Townsend, John. Crash dive. 2012.Barney's wanted - but he doesn't know who is after him until he discovers a deadly terrorist plot. After a series of lucky escapes, he tries to strike back and get help but no-one will believe him. The only person who will listen is Laura, but can two teenagers outwit such a sinister terror attack?2v.Townsend, John Rowe. The secret message. 2013.In the attic of his house Sam finds a leather case that belonged to his great great grandfather, Freddy. The case contains a diary, as Sam begins to read it he is taken right back to just before the First World War when Freddy was a boy. Sam also finds a photograph and discovers that at his age, Freddy was his exact double. 1v.Wilson, Jacqueline. Glubbslyme. 2009.When Rebecca wades into the witch's pond after a row with her best friend Sarah, she meets a very unusual new friend - a huge, warty toad! And Glubbslyme is no ordinary toad. Hundreds of years old, he can talk and - best of all - he can work magic. Maybe, he can help Rebecca be best friends with Sarah again?1v.Suggested reading age 11+Crossan, Sarah. The weight of water. 2013.Armed with a suitcase and an old laundry bag filled with clothes, Kasienka and her mother head for England. The Weight of Water is a coming of age story; it also tackles the alienation experienced by many young immigrants. We meet and share the experiences of a remarkable girl who shows us how quiet courage prevails.1v. Doyle, Roddy. A greyhound of a girl. 2012.12 year old Mary's beloved grandmother is near the end of her life. Letting go is hard - until Granny's long-dead mammy appears. A Greyhound of a Girl is a funny and tender tale about four generations of an Irish family, and the special bonds between mothers and daughters.1v.St. John, Lauren. The one dollar horse. 2013.One Dollar Horse trilogy book 1. Casey Blue loves horses, but her dreams of becoming an event rider seem out of reach. One day she rescues a horse from the knacker's yard working hard to nurse the animal back to health. In time a sleek and thoroughbred emerges so Casey sets about finding out who her horse really is.3v.Suggested reading age 13+Berry, Julie. All the truth that's in me. 2013.Judith can't speak. Ever since the horrifying trauma that left her best friend dead and Judith without a tongue, she's been a pariah in her community; even her own mother can't look her in the eye. When her community is attacked, Judith is forced to choose: continue to live in silence or recover her voice. 2v.Cooper, Susan. Ghost hawk. 2013.In the winter of his 11th year, Little Hawk goes deep into the forest, where he must endure a three month test of solitude and survival, which will turn him into a man. But outside the woods, the world is changing. He is witness to a secret murder - will he now be witness to bloodshed between nations?2vFine, Anne. Blood family. 2013.Edward is four years old when he is locked away with his mother by her abusive, alcoholic partner. By the time an elderly neighbour spots his face peering through a crack in the boarded-up window and raises the alarm, he is seven. Sent to live with a kindly foster family, and then adopted, Edward struggles to adapt to normal life. Lake, Nick. In darkness. 2013.In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, a boy is trapped beneath the rubble of a ruined hospital, thirsty, terrified and alone. Shorty is a child of the slums, a teenage boy who has seen enough violence to last a lifetime, and who has been inexorably drawn into the world of the gangsters who rule Site Solèy.2v.Nadin, Joanna. The life of Riley. 2013.Rachel Riley book 2. My quest to find 'the one' starts right now! This year I will utterly not snog random posh boys with congenital acne but will save myself for long-haired creative type with musical potential i.e. Justin Statham. Though am not sure Justin has realised yet that I am 'the one' for him.2v.Nadin, Joanna. The meaning of life. 2013.Rachel Riley book 3. It is official. I am going out with rock god and part-time meat mincer Justin Statham. Am certain that he is THE ONE and will prove it by having excellent relationship on every level. Oh no. What if he wants me to do it? Have only just got to grips with art of snogging so will need to get help fast.2v.Nadin, Joanna. My (not so) simple life. 2013.Rachel Riley book 4. Rachel is making a plan with Scarlet to deal with post-break-up trauma. The plan is to stay away from all men and to remain true to friends, forsaking all others. Everything will be so much easier without the complications of love. It will be a completely simple life and Rachel is fully committed. 2v.Nadin, Joanna. Back to life. 2013.Rachel Riley book 5. Carpe diem i.e. seize the day! Which means utter experimenting as far as snogging is concerned. Am never going to find the ONE if just keep having accidental liaisons with Jack or ill -advised flirtations with Justin. The ONE is out there somewhere. Maybe even right under my nose. 2v.Nadin, Joanna. The facts of life. 2014.Rachel Riley book 6. Just when life's looking up for Rachel, just when she's finally found the ONE, the past, i.e. Justin, comes back to spoil it all. It's time to wake up and smell the coffee and stop viewing life through rose-tinted glasses. From now on, Rachel's only interested in the cold, hard facts of life.2v.Turnbull, Ann. Forged in the fire. 2006.London 1665-66. With the Plague raging and the scent of smoke upon the wind, Will and Susanna, separated by class and distance, struggle to re-unite. Will has become a Quaker and broken with his father. Leaving Susanna behind in Shropshire, he travels to London, swearing to send for her once he is settled2v.Sutcliffe, William. The wall: a modern fable. 2013.Joshua is 13. He lives with his mother and step-father in Amarias, an isolated town on top of a hill. At the edge of Amarias is a high wall, guarded by soldiers, which can only be crossed through a heavily fortified checkpoint. One day, Joshua stumbles across a tunnel which leads towards this forbidden territory.2v.Suggested reading age 15+Brooks, Kevin. The bunker diary. 2013.I can't believe I fell for it. It was still dark when I woke up this morning. As soon as my eyes opened I knew where I was. A low-ceilinged rectangular building made entirely of whitewashed concrete. There are six little rooms along the main corridor. There are no windows. No doors. The lift is the only way in or out. 2v.Clare, Cassandra. City of bones. 2007The mortal instruments book 1. 116-year-old Clary Fray is an ordinary teenager, who likes hanging out in Brooklyn with her friends. But everything changes the night she witnesses a murder, committed by a group of teens armed with medieval weaponry.4v.Clare, Cassandra. City of ashes. 2008.The mortal instruments book 2. With her mother in a coma and her father hell-bent on destroying the world, Clary is dragged deeper into New York’s terrifying underworld of werewolves, demons and the mysterious Shadowhunters. Discovering the truth about her past was only the beginning. 4v.Clare, Cassandra. City of glass. 2009.The mortal instruments book 3. With two of the Mortal Instruments now in Valentine's hands, the world of the Shadowhunters teeters on the brink of civil war. Jace and the Lightwoods are recalled to Idris, the Shadowhunters' remote home country, where a search has begun for the last of the Instruments, the Mortal Glass. 4v.Clare, Cassandra. City of fallen angels. 2011.The mortal instruments book 4. The Mortal War is over, and sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is back home in New York, excited about all the possibilities before her. She's training to become a Shadowhunter and - most importantly of all - she can finally call Jace her boyfriend. But nothing comes without a price. 3v.Clare, Cassandra. City of lost souls. 2012.The mortal instruments book 5. Jace is now a servant of evil, bound for all eternity to Sebastian. Only a small band of Shadowhunters believe he can be saved. To do this they must defy the Clave. And they must act without Clary. For Clary is playing a dangerous game utterly alone. 4v.Samuels, Diane. Kindertransport. 2009.Between 1938 and the outbreak of war, almost 10,000 children, most of them Jewish, were sent by their parents from Germany to Britain. This new edition of Diane Samuels award winning play contains several personal memoirs by children whose lives were saved by the Kindertransport.1v.Children and young adult non-fictionSuggested reading age 5+Maynard, Christopher. I wonder why planes have wings: and other questions about transport. 1993.Taking as its starting point a child's natural desire to understand the world, this is a series designed to entertain and to inform. This book focuses on transport, and each spread investigates a specific theme or topic, with answers to questions, plus additional snippets of information.1v.Schreiber, Anne. Volcanoes. 2008National Geographic readers. Level 2, reading independently. Learn all about volcanoes! This book will inform you on how volcanoes come to be created. Learn about the different types of volcanoes. Find out that the place with the most volcanic activity is not on Earth but on one of Jupiter's Moons! 1v.Suggested reading age 7+Oxlade, Chris. Volcanoes. 2009.100 facts.This series presents the world of volcanoes in detail. Discover why volcanoes erupt, read about some of the most extreme eruptions in history, and find out how volcanologists are able to predict future eruptions.1v.Suggested reading age 9+Robson, Pam. The First World War, 1914-1918. 2013.Here, readers can find out about the key events of the First World War, including how it started, which weapons were used, what life was like for soldiers and civilians, and how the war finally came to an end.1v.MusicBraille musicBritten, Benjamin. A ceremony of carols: op. 28. For mixed voices: for three treble voices, solo voices and harp or piano [soprano parts].Open score. 1 volume. Price: ?0.76; ?1.90; ?5.00. Order No: 24955101.Albinoni, Tomaso. Adagio in sol min. per archi e organo su due spunti tematici e su un basso numerato; composed by Remo Giazotto from two thematic drafts and a figured bass by Tomaso Albinoni.For organ.Bar over bar. 1volume. Price: ?0.76; ?1.26; ?2.50. Order No. 24825901.Streisand, Barbara. Evergreen: for voice and piano accompaniment.Open score and accompaniment with outline. 1 volume. Price: ?0.76; ?1.26; ?2. Order No: 24894801.Mendelssohn, Felix. Andante und Allegro assai vivace: op. 92: introduction [primo part].For piano duet.Bar over bar. 1 volume. Price: ?0.76; ?1.26; ?2.50. Order No: 24825801.Ibert, Jacques. Aria: 1927. For flute and piano [flute part].Single line. 1 volume. Price: ?0.76; ?1.26; ?2.50. Order No: 25109801.Chopin, Frederic. Piano Sonata in C minor: op. 4. Bar over bar. 2 volumes. Price: ?3.04; ?5.30; ?17.00. Order No: 22682401.Hywel, John. Suo-gan.An arrangement of a traditional Welsh lullaby.Bar over bar. 1 volume. Price: ?0.76; ?1.26; ?2.50. Order No: 25142301.Foster, Jane. The Living History Tune Book: Dance tunes and songs from the 12th-14th centuries. 2003. Book 1: Medieval.Suitable for all melody instruments.Single line. 1 volume. Price: ?1.02; ?2.65; ?8.50. Order No: 25105601.Music tuition CDsPerformed and taught by Bill Brown, the following audio tutorials are designed for people who cannot read music. Each piece is broken down into chunks which are then played and explained, building up to being able to play the piece as a whole. For UK loan only. Flute by earTake FiveMy heart will go onI dreamed a dreamPiano by earLate beginner levelA mighty fortress is our GodBlue VelvetCall me irresponsibleTeddy BearI’ll never fall in love againCherry Pink (and apple blossom white)DowntownMona LisaPeopleRoute 66Spanish EyesThe way we wereLate intermediate levelButterfly EtudeDivertimento by MozartSleeping Beauty Waltz by TchaikovskyA Little night music by MozartRomeo and Juliet love theme by TchaikovskySonata in A by MozartSonata in C by MozartMinute Waltz by ChopinRaindrop Prelude by ChopinGiant PrintAdult fictionAnderson, Kevin J. Hellhole. 2010. Science fiction.Only the most desperate would ever dare to make a new home on Hellhole, a planet ravaged by natural disasters. Its location on the wild frontiers of the Constellation, among the Deep Zone worlds, makes it the final refuge for those fleeing from the rule of Diadem Michella Duchenet - a tyrant with a sweet face, but a dark heart. 6v.Andrews, Lyn. The Sisters O'Donnell. 2008. Family stories.They were called the Sisters O'Donnell in County Tipperary. All with flaming red hair and tempers to match, they came to seek their fortunes in 1920s Liverpool full of ambition and hope. But Liverpool wasn't what they thought it would be. Work was impossible to find and their money was running out. 5v.Andrews, Lyn. Take these broken wings. 2000. Family stories.Thrown into the workhouse at the tender age of six, Hannah Peckham soon learns how hard the world is, but she emerges determined to make the most of what little life has given her. Naively she falls in love with a man she can never have. And rushes into the arms of hard-drinking Alfie Duggan. 4v.Andrews, Lynda M. The ties that bind. 1999. Family stories.Tessa O'Leary is the only daughter of a family of fatherless boys. Elizabeth Harrison is oppressed by her shopkeeper mother's snobbish expectations. This is the story of two young girls in the slumlands of war -wracked Liverpool, bound together by a friendship that surmounts disaster, poverty and heartbreak.4v.Archer, Jeffrey. Four warned. 2014. Quick reads.These four short stories from are packed full of twists and turns. Jeremy finds the best way to steal the perfect ring for his fiancée. Albert celebrates his 100th birthday. Richard plots the ideal way to murder his wife. As Diana, drives to have dinner with friends, she realises that a black van is following her.1v.Binchy, Maeve. Nights of rain and stars. 2005. Family stories.In a Greek taverna, high over the small village of Aghia Anna, four people meet for the first time. Along with Andreas, the old man who runs the taverna, they become close to each other after witnessing a tragedy when a pleasure steamer catches fire in the harbour. 3v.Bradshaw, Rita. Beyond the veil of tears. 2014. Family stories.As an only child, 15-year-old Angeline is heartbroken when her beloved parents are killed in a coaching accident and she is given into the care of her uncle. Angeline is easy prey for the handsome and ruthless Oswald Golding who is looking for a rich heiress to solve the money troubles his womanizing has caused. 4v.Cantero, Edgar. The supernatural enhancements. 2014. Horror.When A. inherits a beautiful but eerie estate set in the woods, he is both sceptical and curious. He never knew his 'second uncle’ named Ambrose, much less that the poor man committed suicide – under similar circumstances to many other strange deaths. A. quickly realises he has inherited a lifetime of secrets, and a curse.3v.Cartland, Barbara. Love finds the way. 2004. Romance.When John Chester returned to England after suddenly inheriting a Dukedom he knew his life had changed forever. But he didn't know just how much. Gina Wilton was like a breath of fresh air. But she was also everything John disapproved of in a young women, independent, assertive, always ready to contradict him. 2v.Chadwick, Elizabeth. The champion. 2006. Historical fiction.Alexander de Montroi arrives in Normandy in the spring of 1193, desperate to become one of the great knights who live by their jousting swords. Monday de Cerizay is smitten with the new hero until she finds herself pregnant and betrayed. Noticed by King John, she becomes his mistress in England. 6v.Chadwick, Elizabeth. The Marsh King's daughter. 2006. Historical fiction.There is great dissatisfaction with King John's rule. Among the rebellious nobles is young Nicholas de Caen. While fighting John's troops, he is captured, but during the trip back to be questioned, the treacherous marshes cause trouble and Nicholas and King John's treasure are both lost. 5v.Chadwick, Elizabeth. Shadows and strongholds. 2013. Historical fiction.Fulke FitzWarin book 1. Nine-year-old misfit Fulke FitzWarin leaves his family for the household of the Lord of Ludlow. Once there, he begins to learn the knightly arts which he desperately hopes will free him from the shadows of his past. Joscelin's daughter, Hawise, befriends Fulke when he most needs it. 7vChadwick, Elizabeth. Lords of the white castle. 2013. Historical fiction.Fulke FitzWarin book 2. A violent quarrel with the future King John destroys Fulke’s greatest ambition, to become Lord of the White Castle. Instead of accepting his fate Fulke rebels but the danger pursuing him reaches new heights as he begins a passionate love affair with Maude Walter the widow chosen by John himself.7v.Chamberlain, Diane. Reflection. 2014. Romance.Twenty years ago, a terrible tragedy shattered the Pennsylvania town of Reflection. The residents have never forgiven the woman they blamed Rachel Huber. After the incident, Rachel left the town and cut off all ties there. she receives the news that her estranged grandmother, Helen, is ill and needs her care, she returns. 5v.Christie, Agatha. Three blind mice and other stories. 2012. Classic crime. Short stories.The title story in this collection, Three Blind Mice, is an alternate version of Agatha Christie's play The Mousetrap. This collection contains whodunits, locked room mysteries, and perplexing puzzles from the Queen of Crime.2v.Christie, Agatha. The seven dials mystery. 2001. Classic crime.Superintendent Battle book 2. A healthy young man dies in his sleep, despite the ringing of eight separate alarm clocks. Gerry Wade had proved himself to be a champion sleeper; so the other house guests decided to play a practical joke on him. By morning one clock was missing and the prank had backfired.3v.Christie, Agatha. The murder on the links. 2011. Classic crime.Hercule Poirot book 2. An urgent appeal for help brings Hercule Poirot to France with unaccustomed haste, but he is too late - his client, a mysterious millionaire, has been brutally stabbed to death and his body flung carelessly into an open grave. The Belgian detective unravels the strange circumstances of this case. 2v.Christie, Agatha. Hercule Poirot's Christmas. 2001. Classic crime.Hercule Poirot book 19. Christmas Eve, the Lee family reunion is shattered by a crash of furniture, followed by a high -pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. Hercule Poirot, offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not of mourning but of mutual suspicion. 3v.Christie, Agatha. Cat among the pigeons. 2002. Classic crime.Hercule Poirot book 33. Unpleasant things are going on in an exclusive school for girls. Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion, while the rest of the school sleeps. There they stumble upon the body of the unpopular games mistress – shot through the heart. 3v.Christie, Agatha. The mirror crack'd from side to side. 2002. Classic crime.One minute, silly Heather Badcock had been gabbling on at her movie idol, the glamorous Marina Gregg. The next, she suffered a massive seizure. But for whom was the deadly poison really intended? Marina’s frozen expression suggested she had witnessed something horrific. 3v.Cox, Josephine. Outcast.1992. Romance.Emma Grady book 1. 1860, Thadius Grady realises he has put himself and his daughter Emma at the mercy of his sister and her husband, Caleb he has entrusted to them his entire fortune and the daughter he adores. With his dying breath he pleads to see his daughter one last time - but Caleb's heart is made of stone.3v.Cox, Josephine. Her father's sins.1992. Family stories.Queenie's story book 1. Queenie seemed born to suffer. Her mam died giving birth to her, her drunken father George Kenney ignored her unless he was cursing her, and only beloved Auntie Biddy provided an anchor for the little girl. After Auntie Biddy's death there was only Queenie to care for the home and to earn money. 3v.Cox, Josephine. The beachcomber. 2008. Romance.Tom Arnold has walked away from a prestigious job after his wife and children were killed when the car he was driving was forced off a cliff road by another motorist. Kathy Wilson similarly struggles with a sense of loss after a terrible argument with her mother brings home to her how unfulfilling her life of loneliness is.4v.Cox, Josephine. Journey's end. 2008. Family stories.Barney Davidson book 2. It has been over twenty years since Vicky Maitland set foot on English soil. Twenty years since she left Liverpool with her three children, bound for a new life in America, leaving her beloved husband Barney behind. But this long journey home is the hardest of all. She is here in search of the truth. 3v.Cumming, Charles. A foreign country. 2013. Thriller.Amelia Levene book 1. Six months before she is due to take up her position as the first female head of MI6, Amelia Levene vanishes without a trace. Disgraced ex-agent Thomas Kell is brought in from the cold with orders to find her quickly and quietly. The mission offers Kell a way back into this secret world.4v.Cussler, Clive. The bootlegger. 2014. Thriller.Isaac Bell book 8. It is 1920. Prohibition and bootlegging are in full swing. When Joseph Van Dorn is shot and nearly killed while in pursuit of a rum-running vessel, his friend and employee, Isaac Bell, swears to him that he will hunt down the lawbreakers. But Bell doesn't know what he is getting into. 4v.Deighton, Len. Mexico set. 2010. Thriller.Bernard Samson book 2. When they spotted Erich Stinnes in Mexico City, it was obvious that Bernard Samson was the right man to ‘enrol’ him. But Bernard risks being entangled in a lethal web of old loyalties and old betrayals. All he knows for sure is that he has to get Erich Stinnes for London. 4v.Deighton, Len. London match. 2010. Thriller.Bernard Samson book 3. Bernard Samson hoped they'd put Elvira Miller behind bars. She said she had been stupid, but it didn't cut any ice with Bernard. She was a KGB-trained agent and stupidity was no excuse. There was one troubling thing about Mrs Miller's confession - two codewords where there should have been one.5v.Deighton, Len. Spy hook. 2010. Thriller.Bernard Samson book 4. Working for the Department was like marriage is supposed to be, but the Department is really not like that and neither are many marriages, including that of Bernard Samson, cool and cynical field agent. Things have not gone well, old pals are not so friendly and colleagues are less confiding. 3v.Francis, Dick. Shattered. 2013. Thriller.Cheltenham Races, New Year's Eve. Gerard Logan witnesses the death of his close friend, jockey Martin Stukely, after a fall from his horse. In the aftermath, Gerard is left to pick up the pieces - including a mysterious unmarked videotape that Martin secretly left him. But before he gets to watch it, the videotape is stolen3v.Gardner, Lisa. Say goodbye. 2012. Thriller.Pierce Quincy book 6. Young women are disappearing. Girls no one will notice - prostitutes, runaways, high-risk teens. Eighteen-year-old Delilah Rose knows something but she'll only talk to one woman, FBI Special Agent Kimberley Quincy. With no bodies and no clues, Kimberley's options are limited. 4v.Gifford, Elisabeth. Secrets of the sea house. 2014. General fiction.Ruth and her husband move into a dilapidated old vicarage on a stunning island in the Outer Hebrides and set about turning the unloved house into a family home. Ruth's much-needed stability is threatened when they discover the remains of a baby buried beneath the house, its legs fused together into one limb. 3v.Hamilton, Ruth. A parallel life. 2010. Family stories.Eccentricity is the family byword for the Compton-Milnes. A marriage between Gus, a reclusive but brilliant professor, and Lisa, a promiscuous cosmetic surgery addict, has produced an O C D riddled genius named Ben, and his sister, Harriet, who has renounced her place at Oxford to stay and care for her brother. 3v.Hamilton, Ruth. A crooked mile. 2010. Family stories.In the shadow of the Althorpe mills, the Myrtle Street residents endure cramped and often verminous conditions. Joe Duffy, a Bolton tradesman, strives to lift his family out of the 'garden' streets. But as more children are born, Joe's wife Tess sinks deeper into the obsession that will be her undoing. 5v.Harry, Lilian. A promise to keep. 2004. Romance.Thursday book 2. When Thursday Tilford returns to Haslar Hospital after two years serving as a VAD in Egypt, she finds many changes. With the town packed with troops waiting to leave for the Normandy beaches, and Haslar on standby for the wounded, Thursday's thoughts go to the two men who are vying for her heart:4v.Herries, Anne. The rebel captain's royalist bride. 2014. Romance. Mills & Boon historical.Orphaned and without protection, Babette Harvey must suffer in silence when her uncle gives shelter to a band of Rebels - though her Royalist blood boils! But other dangerous passions must also be quieted - including those aroused by the handsome and commanding Rebel leader Captain James Colby. 2v.Heyer, Georgette. Bath tangle. 2004. Historical fiction.The Earl of Spenborough has always been noted for his eccentricity. Leaving Serena's fortune to the trusteeship of the Marquis of Rotherham -- a man whom Serena once jilted and who now has the power to give or withhold his consent to any marriage she might contemplate. 4v.Johnson, Milly. It's raining men. 2013. General fiction.Best friends May, Lara and Clare are desperate for some time away, but, when they arrive at their destination, it seems it is not the place they thought it was. Why is everyone so unfriendly and suspicious? Why does the landlord of their holiday rental seem so rude? And why are there so few women in the village?4v.Joyce, Rachel. The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry. 2012. General fiction.When Harold Fry nips out one morning to post a letter, leaving his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country to the other. He has no hiking boots or map, let alone a compass, waterproof or mobile phone. All he knows is that he must keep walking. To save someone else's life.3vKernick, Simon. Siege. 2012. Thriller.People are dead and lives hang in the balance as gunmen storm the Stanhope Hotel. They have given the government 5 hours to meet their demands before blowing up the building. The guests are all are united by one thing, fear for their lives, except one man who has information so dangerous it must be kept safe. 4v.Lee, Maureen. Flora and Grace. 2013. Family stories.It is spring 1944 when Flora's life changes forever. She is standing on a platform in the Swiss mountains, as a cattle train draws near. Inside she can hear human voices – groaning and pleading. But as the train picks up speed, a filthy bundle of rags is thrust through the slats and into her arms - 'Take him. His name is Simon.' 3v.Lewis, Susan. Never say goodbye. 2014. General fiction.Josie Clarke is a loving wife and mother. She and her husband Jeff don't have much but Josie will do anything to protect her family and keep them safe. Bel Monkton is a successful developer, living in a beautiful house by the sea, faced with uncertainty and heartbreak, they come to treasure their growing friendship.5v.Mackay, Malcolm. The night the rich men burned. 2014. Thriller.Two friends, Alex and Oliver, look for work and for escape from their lives spent growing up in Glasgow's most desperate fringes. Soon they will become involved in one of the city's darkest trades. But while one rises quickly up the ranks, the other will fall prey to the industry's addictive lifestyle and ever-spiralling debts.4v.Maitland, Karen. The vanishing witch. 2014. Historical fiction.The reign of Richard II is troubled, the poor are about to become poorer still and landowners are lining their pockets. But in a world where nothing can be taken at face value, who do you trust? When people start dying unnatural deaths and the peasants decide it's time to fight back, it's all too easy to spy witchcraft at every turn.6v.Mosse, Kate. The taxidermist's daughter. 2014. Historical fiction.Sussex, 1912. In a churchyard, villagers gather on the night when the ghosts of those who will die in the coming year are thought to be seen. Here superstitions hold sway. At seventeen, Constantia lives with her father in a decaying house: it is all that is left of the once world-famous museum of taxidermy. 4v.North, Freya. The way back home. 2014. Chick lit.Oriana has returned to the village she grew up in for the first time in years. As she finds herself increasingly drawn to Windward, the huge house that was the chaotic artists' community where she was born, it becomes clear that there is more to be untangled from the past than the present.4v.O'Brian, Patrick. Desolation island.1996. Sea stories. Jack Aubrey book 5. Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. On board is a beautiful and dangerous spy, and a treacherous disease which decimates the crew. 3v.O'Brian, Patrick. The fortune of war. 2007. Sea stories.Jack Aubrey book 6. Captain Jack Aubrey, RN, arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a despatch vessel. But the war of 1812 breaks out while they are en route.4v.O'Brian, Patrick. Hussein: an entertainment. 2000. Adventure.Hussein is a young mahout—or elephant handler—who falls in love with a beautiful and elusive girl, Sashiya, and arranges for another of her suitors to be murdered with a fakir's curse. All of this is set against an evocatively exotic India, full of bazaars, temples, and beautiful women.3v.Orczy, Emmuska. The Scarlet Pimpernel. 2015. Adventure.The Terror has begun. Paris, 1792. Each day scores of the French nobility feed the guillotine. They are trapped in the capital. There is no escape. But rumours whisper of a league of young English gentleman of unparalleled daring who are risking their lives to spirit aristocrats across the Channel.3v.Patterson, James. Invisible. 2014. Thriller.Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, Emmy has taken leave from her job as an FBI researcher. She finds a piece of evidence that can't be ignored. More murders are reported by the day - and they're all inexplicable. Could one person really be responsible for these unthinkable crimes?3v.Rendell, Ruth. The girl next door. 2014. Crime.Before the Second World War, a dark network of tunnels is discovered by a group of children. Seventy years on, the world has changed. Work on a new house called Warlock uncovers a grisly secret and a weary detective, more preoccupied with current crimes, must investigate a possible case of murder.3v.Sansom, Ian. The Norfolk mystery: with 29 places and 22 pictures. 2014. Historical crime.County Guides to Murder book 1. It is 1937 and disillusioned Spanish Civil War veteran Stephen Sefton is stony broke. So when he sees a mysterious advertisement for a job where ‘intelligence is essential’, he applies. Thus begins Sefton’s association with Professor Swanton Morley, an omnivorous intellect.3v.Sansom, Ian. Death in Devon. 2015. Historical crime.County Guides to Murder book 2. Swanton Morley, the People’s Professor, sets off for Devon to continue his history of England, The County Guides. But when the trio arrive they discover that a boy has died in mysterious circumstances. Was it an accident or was it – murder? 3v.Shaw, Rebecca. Village rumours. 2014. Country life fiction.Turnham Malpas book 18. While clearing out the rectory's loft, Reverend Harris makes an unsettling discovery and a dark secret is exposed that soon sets tongues wagging. Having received a letter from the sons she hasn't heard from in 15 years, local gossip Greta Jones is delighted despite her husband's misgivings. 3v.Simmons, Dan. The abominable. 2014. Thriller.June 1924. On the brutal North East Ridge of Everest, famous adventurers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine vanish into the snow-whipped night. Daredevil explorer Richard Deacon devises a plan to follow in the men's footsteps, accompanied only by two friends. Can they escape the same hideous fate?8v.Smith, Wilbur A. A falcon flies. 1981. Adventure. Ballantyne book 1. In search of the father they barely remember, Zouga and Dr Robyn Ballantyne board Mungo St. John's clipper for Africa. But long before then, Robyn knows that she will fall in love with Mungo, the lawless trader who will possess any woman he chooses.7vSmith, Wilbur A. Men of men. 1982. Adventure.Ballantyne book 2. Zouga Ballantyne's dream begins in the danger and drudgery of the diamond pits and ends on the rich grasslands of Matabeleland - but not before a king and a proud warrior nation have paid the price of history.7v.Smith, Wilbur A. The angels weep. 1998. Adventure.Ballantyne book 3. An adventurer and his missionary sister establish a legacy that will dominate part of a continent for decades to come, and a soldier meets his destiny in a battle that will forever scar two opposing races, in this novel set in southern Africa.7v.Smith, Wilbur A. The leopard hunts in darkness.1998. Adventure. Ballantyne book 4. Craig Mellow, acclaimed author but unhappy exile, seizes the chance to return to Zimbabwe when he is given a spying mission for the World Bank. Accompanied by a beautiful photographer, he finds himself caught up in a dangerous political web.6v.Stirling, Jessica. The wayward wife. 2013. Family stories.Susan has a new job as a producer's assistant at the BBC, and glamorous new friends, including one American war reporter who has made London his base and Susan his target. Stuck in London when the blitz begins, Susan's sister-in-law, Breda, faces up to the worst with a small son at home and a husband in the fire service.4vSteel, Danielle. Lightning.1996. Romance.Partner in one of New York's most prestigious law firms, Alexandra barely manages to juggle husband, career, and a three-year-old. Then lightning strikes – a routine medical check-up turns her world upside down when tests reveal shattering news. Her husband Sam, a Wall Street whiz-kid, is caught off guard by Alex's illness. 4v.Steel, Danielle. Power play. 2014. Romance.Would you sacrifice your family to have it all? Fiona Carson has proven herself as CEO of a multibillion -dollar high-tech company she reserves any personal time for her children. Marshall Weston basks in the fruits of his achievements. To maintain his position, he harbours secrets that could destroy his life at any moment. 3v.Stevens, Chevy. Never knowing. 2011. Thriller.At 34 Sara is happy. Sara has always wondered about her birth parents. After months of research, Sara locates her birth mother only to be met with horror and rejection. Then she finds the devastating truth: Her birth mother was the only victim ever to escape a killer who has been hunting women. 4v.Stockwin, Julian. Artemis. 2004. Sea stories.Kydd book 2. The second naval adventure following the life of Thomas Paine Kydd. Kydd sails into Portsmouth a hero, after a ferocious battle against the French. However he must return to Guildford on a family matter. But the sea beckons and Kydd manages to set off on his beloved Artemis for another adventure.4v.Stockwin, Julian. Quarterdeck. 2005. Sea stories.Kydd book 5. Kydd was promoted to acting lieutenant at the Battle of Camperdown in October 1797. Now he must sit an exam to confirm his rank. Kydd and his friend Nicholas set sail in HMS Tenacious for the North American station. Kydd comes to doubt he will ever match up to the high-born gentlemen officers3v.Tessaro, Kathleen. The perfume collector. 2013. General fiction.One letter will change Grace Munroe’s life: Our firm is handling the estate of the deceased Mrs Eva Dorsey and you are named as the chief beneficiary in her will. Grace has never heard of Eva Dorsey. So begins a journey which leads her through the streets of Paris and into the seductive world of perfumers and their muses. 4v.Trow, M. J. The adventures of Inspector Lestrade. 2013. Historical crime.Inspector Lestrade book 1. 1891 and London is reeling from the horror of the unsolved Ripper murders when Inspector Lestrade is sent to the Isle of Wight to investigate a strange corpse walled up in Shanklin Chine. This is the first of a series of brutal killings that make the race to avert the next death a personal battle. 3v.Trow, M. J. Dark entry. 2012. Historical crime.Kit Marlowe book 1. Cambridge, 1583. About to graduate from Corpus Christi, Marlowe spends his days studying and his nights carousing with old friends. But when one of them is discovered lying dead in his King's College room, mouth open in a silent scream, Marlowe refuses to accept the official verdict of suicide. 3v.Wark, Kirsty. The legacy of Elizabeth Pringle. 2014. General fiction.Seemingly on a whim, 95-year-old Elizabeth Pringle bequeaths Homelea, her beloved house, to a woman she has never met. As the young woman comes to take up Homelea she slowly unlocks the mysteries and heartbreaking secrets of Elizabeth Pringle's true legacy, in a multi -generational story of love and belonging.4v.Waters, Sarah. The paying guests. 2014. General fiction.There came the splash of water and the rub of heels as Mrs Barber stepped into the tub. This was what it meant to have paying guests: where the only thing between herself and a naked Mrs Barber was a few feet of kitchen and a thin scullery door. An image sprang into her head: that round flesh, crimsoning in the heat.7v.Weeks, Brent. The broken eye. 2014. Fantasy.Lightbringer series book 3. As the old gods awaken, the Chromeria is in a race to find its lost Prism, the only man who may be able to stop catastrophe, Gavin Guile. But Gavin is enslaved on a galley, and when he finally escapes, he finds himself in less than friendly hands without the ability to draft which has defined him.10v.Adult non-fictionAutobiographies and BiographiesBarbree, Jay. Neil Armstrong: a life of flight. 2014.Barbree is the only person whom Armstrong trusted to share close personal details about his inspiring life story. Working from his years of notes, and with the full cooperation of the Armstrong family, Barbree has written the definitive biography of America's most famous astronaut and one of our greatest modern heroes.4v.Benson, Richard. The valley: a hundred years in the life of a family. 2014.Following four generations of his mother's family, the Hollingworths, born between 1890 and 2000, Richard Benson depicts a community characterised not by the stereotype of doughty, unassuming labourers and housewives, but driven individuals relentless in the pursuit of their dreams. 6v.Byron, Tanya. The skeleton cupboard: the making of a clinical psychologist. 2014.Professor Tanya Byron's account of her final years of training as a clinical psychologist, when trainees find themselves in the toughest placements of their careers. Through the eyes of her naive and inexperienced younger self, Tanya shares the remarkable cases of key patients and their treatment. 3v.Campbell, John. Roy Jenkins: a well-rounded life. 2014.Roy Jenkins was probably the best Prime Minister Britain never had. But though he never reached 10 Downing Street, he left a more enduring mark on British society than most of those who did. His career spans the full half-century from Attlee to Tony Blair, and this is the story of an exceptionally well-filled and well-rounded life.16v.Daniels, Hope. Hackney child: a true tale of surviving poverty and the care system.2014.Aged nine, Hope Daniels walked into Stoke Newington Police Station with her little brothers and asked to be taken into care. Home life was intolerable: both of Hope's parents were alcoholics and her mum was a prostitute. This is Hope's story of survival and the lifeline given by professionals in the care system. 3v.Duckett, Terrie. Stolen voices: a sadistic step-father: two children violated: their battle for justice. 2014.Terrie and Paul’s step-father had been living with them for six months when the abuse began. Everyday Terrie was assaulted and abused; her rapes were photographed, filmed and shared. Paul was regularly taunted and mercilessly beaten. But despite the bruises and the scars, no one saw their pain.4v.Jacobi, Derek. As luck would have it: my seven ages. 2013.Derek Jacobi has worked continuously throughout his career, But it is his numerous Shakespearean roles that have gained him worldwide recognition. This book is, however, much more than a career record. Funny, warm and honest, Jacobi brings us his insider's view on the world of acting.3v.Knight, Michelle. Finding me: a decade of darkness, a life reclaimed.2014.Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For over a decade, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity, followed by Gina DeJesus in 2004. Their escape made headlines around the world. 2v.Matusiak, John. Wolsey: the life of King Henry VIII's cardinal.2014.This work explores the contrasting layers of Thomas Wolsey's life and career, and represents the first genuinely popular biography of the much-maligned cardinal to appear in over 30 years. Making no assumptions, it looks at the real person in the cold light of his actions, and uncovers a man of contradictions and extremes. 5v.Moore, Roger. Last man standing: tales from Tinseltown. 2014.In this collection of true stories from his stellar career, Roger lifts the lid on the movie business. It features outrageous tales from his own life as well as those told to him by a host of stars. Wonderfully entertaining and laugh-out-loud funny, this selection of tales from the world of the movies is vintage Moore at his very best.2v.Morse, Laila. Just a Mo. 2014.The reigning queen of Albert Square, Laila Morse shares her incredible story for the first time. When your everyday life is filled with violence, drugs and strife, you can't lose your head, you've just got to get on with it. But success isn't everything. Family is. Filled with bitter heartache, and hope , this is her amazing story.2v.Mulholland, Marni. Raw: homeless child, groomed girl, teenage prostitute. 2014.Marni thought she'd found a friend in her social worker, Matthew. But he groomed her from the moment she entered the children's home. A year later their 'relationship' crossed boundaries no child should know exist. Marni’s memoir reveals the full truth about grooming and its aftermath. Contains strong language, violence and scenes of a sexual nature.3v.Nolan, Bernie. Now and forever. 2013.Bernie Nolan was given the initial all-clear after a battle with breast cancer. Then in the summer of 2012 she found a lump just above her breast. Terrified, she made a hospital appointment, where she was given the devastating news that the cancer had returned. It had spread to her brain, lungs, liver and bones and was incurable. 3v.Sanghera, Sathnam. The boy with the topknot: a memoir of love, secrets and lies in Wolverhampton. 2009.For Sathnam Sanghera, growing up in Wolverhampton in the eighties was a confusing business. At the age of twenty-four, Sathnam made a discovery that changed everything he ever thought he knew about his family. He embarks on a journey into their past trying to make sense of a life lived among secrets.4v.Tarrant, Chris. Dad's war: father, soldier, hero. 2014.Chris and his father Basil were very close, but it was only after his death he realised that he hardly knew him. What happened to Basil during the war, and how he came to be awarded the Military Cross, remained a mystery nearly sixty years. Chris discovers that Basil was involved in some of WWII's most significant campaigns.3v.Trynka, Paul. Sympathy for the devil: the birth of the Rolling Stones and the death of Brian Jones. 2014.This is a story told from a totally new perspective and which lays bare the shocking ruthlessness, internal warfare and sexual competition within The Rolling Stones. As well as exploring Brian Jones' crucial role in the Stone's music, it also investigates his unravelling as seen by family, band-mates, lovers and enemies.4v.Weir, Alison. Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England. 2011.Alison Weir re-examines the life of Isabella of England, one of history’s most notorious and charismatic queens. Many myths and legends have been woven around Isabella’s story, but in this first full biography in more than 150 years, Alison Weir provides a new perspective.9v.White-Cooper, Ronald. Call the doctor: a country GP between the wars: tales of courage, hardship and hope. 2014.When Ronald White-Cooper arrived in Dartmouth in 1920 to set up as a GP he found himself facing some unique challenges. Over the years Ronald became a much-loved part of the community, often helping those who could not afford to pay him, and is remembered fondly to this day. 2v.Ziegler, Philip. Olivier. 2013.Hollywood superstar; Oscar-winning director; greatest stage actor of the 20th century: no one could challenge Laurence Olivier's range and power. With access to more than fifty hours of candid, unpublished interviews, Ziegler ensures Olivier's true character - at its most undisguised - shines through as never before.5v.HistoryBailey, Roderick. Target: Italy: the secret war againstMussolini, 1940-1943: the official history of SOE operations in fascist Italy. 2014.Drawing on long-classified documents, the official history of the war waged by Britain's Special Operations Executive on Benito Mussolini's Fascist Italy. Providing an account of SOE's efforts to strike at Italy, sever its alliance with Nazi Germany, uncovering a plot to assassinate Mussolini and plans to arm the Mafia. 7v.Feeney, Paul. A 1960s childhood: from Thunderbirds to Beatlemania. 2010.Life in the 1960s was a boom period, a time of changed attitudes and improved lifestyles. From James Bond to Sindy dolls and hopscotch in the street, life was very different. This has chapters on home and school life, games and hobbies, music and fashion, depicting the changing times after the frugal years of the fifties.2v.Grose, Peter. The greatest escape: how one French community saved thousands of lives from the Nazis. 2014.In the upper reaches of the Loire lies an isolated plateau and the secluded village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon. Their whole village was honoured with the extremely rare distinction of Righteous Among Nations by the people of Israel. How they earned this is one of the great modern stories of heroism and courage. 4v.ParanormalCooper, Diana. Venus: a diary of a puppy and her angel. 2014Meet Venus, the puppy with a big heart and loud bark. In this book, Venus tells in her own voice of the adventures, battles and joys of her puppyhood, and shares the wisdom that she receives from her angel. Venus is psychic, sensitive and ruthlessly honest. Her diary is rich with vivid characters, whose stories she shares.2v.Self helpBrandreth, Gyles. The 7 secrets of happiness: an optimist's journey. 2013.Gyles Brandreth presents the seven secrets of happiness. The secrets are simple rules, easy to remember, but challenging to achieve. What is happiness? Who gets to be happy? And how? These are the big questions the author aims to answer in this little book. This won't simply enhance your life: it will extend it.1v.SocietySasson, Jean P. Princess; more tears to cry. 2014.Sasson and Princess Sultana tell the world what it means to be a Saudi woman today. Through advances in education and with access to work, Saudi women are breaking through barriers. Despite changes in the law, women are still subjected to terrible suppression, abuse and crimes of violence. 4v.SportMeek, David. The United trinity: the remarkable story of Best, Law and Charlton. 2014.When George Best, made his United debut in the autumn of 1963, he was joining a club still recovering from the horrors of Munich. Among his team -mates were goal scorer supreme Denis Law and England midfielder Bobby Charlton. They would combine to help United to win two league titles and a long-awaited European Cup.3v.Children and young adult fictionSuggested reading age 0-4Child, Lauren. I really absolutely must have glasses. 2009.Charlie and Lola. Lola is going to the optician. She has decided that she absolutely MUST have glasses. Charlie says, “You’ll only get glasses if you really, really need them.” But Lola says, “I really DO need them, Charlie.”1v.Deacon, Alexis. Beegu. 2004.Beegu isn't supposed to be on Earth. She is lost. She is a friendly little creature, but the Earth People don't seem very welcoming at all. However, so far she has only met the 'big' ones. The little ones are a different matter.1v.Rau, Dana Meachen. The secret code. 1998Oscar can read a secret code. When Oscar opens his book, his friend Lucy sees the secret code. Lucy notices her book is different. Her book has text with black letters which she reads with her eyes. Oscar's book has bumps which he reads with his fingers! Oscar offers to teach Lucy the secret code - Braille. 1v.Suggested reading age 5+Barber, Antonia. The Mousehole cat. 1990.At the far end of England is a harbour so small that fisherman called it the Mousehole. Here lives a cat Mowzer and an old fisherman Tom. Then one year came a terrible winter. The blue-green sky turned grey and black. Tom decides to brave the Great Storm to go fishing and as Mowzer accompanies him she sings. 1v.Simon, Francesca. Horrid Henry's nightmare. 2013.Four hilarious new Horrid Henry stories - Horrid Henry's Mother's Day, probably not the day his mum looks forward to most in the year, Horrid Henry's Nightmare where Henry's chased by a ghost bunny with huge teeth, then The Return of the Demon Dinner Lady and last but not least Fluffy Struts Her Stuff.1v.Suggested reading age 7+Auerbach, Annie. Despicable me 2: the junior novel. 2013.Gru used to be one of the most villainous villains in the world. He and his army of Minions even stole the moon! But when he adopted Margo, Edith and Agnes, Gru became a dad. Instead of stealing landmarks, he makes pancakes, blows up unicorn balloons and dresses like a fairy princess!1v.Cowell, Cressida. How to be a pirate. 2010.How to train your dragon book 2. Hiccup's memoirs look back to when Hiccup was just an ordinary boy, finding it very hard to be a Hero. Can Hiccup find Grimbeard the Ghastly's treasure before Alvin the Treacherous gets his sneaky hands on it? And if Hiccup opens a box that says DO NOT OPEN, will he live to tell the tale?1v.Cowell, Cressida. How to speak dragonese. 2010.How to train your dragon book 3. Climbing on to a Roman Dragon Rustling ship in your first 'Boarding an Enemy Ship' lesson is bad enough. Then to discover that Alvin the Treacherous is also on board proves to Hiccup he couldn't have been more wrong, especially when he steals his copy of How to Speak Dragonese. 1v.Cowell, Cressida. How to cheat a dragon's curse. 2010.How to train your dragon book 4. Fishlegs has been struck with deadly Vorpentitis. The only cure is rare and almost impossible to find a potato. But where on Berk will Hiccup find such a thing? Hiccup will have to dodge Sharkworms, battle Doomfangs and outwit crazy Hooligans if he's going to be a Hero ... again.1v.Cowell, Cressida. How to twist a dragon's tale. 2010.How to train your dragon book 5. Someone has stolen the Fire stone. Now the volcano on Volcano Island has become active and the tremors are hatching the eggs of the Exterminator dragons! Can Hiccup stop the Volcano from erupting, and save the Tribes from being wiped out by the terrible Exterminators?2v.Cowell, Cressida. A hero's guide to deadly dragons. 2010.How to train your dragon book 6. Hiccup is lost in the Library Labyrinth and the Driller-Dragons and Madguts and Murderous are on the prowl. Hiccup's birthday is not going to be the quiet affair he might have hoped for. Contains a Dragonese Dictionary for those who'd like to dragon-whisper as well as the dragon-whisperer himself.2v.Cowell, Cressida. How to ride a dragon's storm. 2010.Fantasy. How to train your dragon book 7. Hiccup has three months, five days and six hours to discover America, get back to Berk, save his father, battle Polarserpents, and win the annual Inter-Tribal Friendly Swimming Race. Can he do it?2vCowell, Cressida. How to break a dragon's heart. 2010.How to train your dragon book 8. Hiccup must battle Berserks, dodge Scarers, complete the Impossible Task and save Fishlegs from being fed to the Beast! And all while being hunted down by an old enemy with a dark secret about the Lost Throne. What's a Hero to do?2v.Cowell, Cressida. How to seize a dragon's jewel. 2012.How to train your dragon book 10. The Dragon Rebellion has begun. Snotlout is the new Chief of the Hooligan Tribe. Stoick has been banished and given the Slavemark. But what can Hiccup do, now all alone and in exile, hunted by both humans and dragons? Can he find the Dragon Jewel, mankind's last and only hope? 2v.Cowell, Cressida. How to betray a dragon's hero. 2013.How to train your dragon book 11. High up in the treacherous mists of the Murderous Mountains, Hiccup and the Company of the Dragonmark are in hiding. The witch's Spydragons are guarding the shores of Tomorrow – but Hiccup is determined to become King of the Wilderwest. Is there a traitor in Hiccup's camp?2v.Inglis, Karen. The secret lake. 2011.When Stella and her younger brother, Tom, move to their new London home, they become mystified by the disappearances of Harry, their neighbour’s dog. Their quest to solve the riddle over the summer holidays leads to a boat buried under a grassy mound – and a tunnel that takes them to a secret lake. 1v.Morpurgo, Michael. Black Queen. 2000.The 'Black Queen' is what Billy calls his shadowy next-door neighbour. She always wears a black cloak and a wide -brimmed black hat. She lurks about her garden, alone except for her black cat. Scarily for Billy, the Black Queen befriends him and asks him to look after her cat while she's away. 1v.Morpurgo, Michael. Not bad for a bad lad. 2012.When a young boy gets a reputation for being naughty at school, he reacts by being the bad lad that everyone expects. Leaving school at 14, he becomes a thief & eventually ends up in prison. But Mr Alfie, the stable manager, decides to give the boy a chance, letting him look after the horses. How will things turn out?1v.Morpurgo, Michael. The dancing bear. 2002.High in the mountains, in a tiny village, an abandoned bear cub is adopted by a lonely orphan child. Soon they are inseparable, beloved by the whole village – safe, until the arrival of a glamorous film crew who need a dancing bear.1v.Pilkey, Dav. Captain Underpants and the perilous plot of Professor Poopypants: the fourth epic novel. 2001.Captain Underpants book 4. Professor Pippy P. Poopypants is a brilliant scientist, but his ridiculous name means no one takes his fantastic inventions seriously. And now he's on the rampage... He's armed with the fiendish Shrinky-Pig 2000 and he's prepared to use it! 1v.Pilkey, Dav. Captain Underpants and the wrath of the wicked wedgie woman: the fifth epic novel. 2001.Captain Underpants book 5. George and Harold are having a normal kind of week. Yesterday they found out they were going to flunk fourth grade. Today they've created an evil, super -powerful monster. She's mean. She's got a fake-fur Evil Baddie costume - and she's having a REALLY bad hair day. 1v.Pilkey, Dav. Captain Underpants and the big, bad battle of the Bionic Booger Boy: the sixth epic novel. 2003.Captain Underpants book 6. George and Harold are in a sticky situation. Their latest prank has snotty school braniac Melvin Sneedly seeing red, and he can't wait to get them back. But when Melvin tries to transform himself into a bionic -powered superboy, things get a little gloopy - and the Bionic Booger Boy is born! 1v.Pilkey, Dav. Captain Underpants and the big, bad battle of the Bionic Booger Boy. 2013.Captain Underpants book 7. Our heroes beat the Bionic Booger Boy, but they forgot about those rascally Robo-Boogers. Join George, Harold, Mr. Krupp, Melvin Sneedly, and Sulu the Bionic Hamster on an adventure that will take them into the deepest regions of outer space and back through time. 1v.Suggested reading age 9+Blyton, Enid. The secret of Spiggy Holes. 2009.Adventure. Secret book 2. While on holiday by the sea, Mike, Peggy, Nora and their friend Jake go exploring in the caves on the beach. They soon discover a secret passage that leads to the Old House on the cliff, where they find a kidnapped young prince is being held captive! The friends make a bold plan. 1v.Blyton, Enid. The secret mountain. 2009.Adventure. Secret book 3. The parents of Mike, Peggy and Nora are held captive in the Secret Mountain in Africa. Together with their friends Jack and Prince Paul, they run away to search for them. But can they find the mountain - and who are the strange and dangerous red-haired people living there?1v.Blyton, Enid. The secret of Killimooin. 2007.Adventure. Secret book 4. An exciting invitation to spend the summer in Baronia, home of Prince Paul , takes Mike, Peggy, Nora and Jack to a land of lakes, steep mountains and a wonderful secret forest, where they encounter a band of robbers. But can they discover the secret of the Killimooin Mountains?1v.Blyton, Enid. The secret of moon castle. 2009.Adventure. Secret book 5. When Mike, Nora, Peggy and Jack go on holiday with Prince Paul and stay at the remote Moon Castle, they are excited to discover its mysterious past. They soon find that weird things still happen there - paintings come alive, books fly off the shelves and abandoned tin mines light up a certain glow. 1v.Campbell-Johnston, Rachel. The child's elephant. 2013.When Bat, a young African herd-boy, stumbles upon an orphaned baby elephant, he takes her home and pledges to look after her. As Meya grows and learns, she becomes part of Bat's family, and is soon the joy of the entire village. But she can't stay with Bat for ever - she belongs to the wild. 2v.Kinney, Jeff. Hard luck. 2013.Diary of a wimpy kid book 8. Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task. To change his fortunes, Greg decides to take a leap of faith and turn his decisions over to chance. 1v.Morpurgo, Michael. The ghost of Grania O'Malley. 2007.Everyone knows the Big Hill is full of gold, and now the islanders are intent on cutting the top off it and making themselves rich. Jessie and Jake are determined to save the Big Hill but what can they do? A plan is needed, and fast. Could the ghost of Grania O'Malley, the pirate queen, be the answer? 1v.Morpurgo, Michael. Toro! Toro! 2002.Antonito, a young boy growing up in Andalucía, Spain, on a farm, rears a little black calf and they become firm friends. Later, when he learns of the horrors of the bull fight, he frees Paco, the black bull, and rides with him into the hills. There they witness the bombing of their village and Antonito cannot go back. 1v.Peirce, Lincoln. Big Nate: in a class by himself. 2010.Big Nate book 1. Big-head Nate Wright truly believes he is destined for greatness! On the way to school he accidentally body slams his head teacher, then, during his first lesson of the day, he manages to insult his least favourite teacher, Mrs. Godfrey (aka Godzilla). 2v.Peirce, Lincoln. Big Nate strikes again. 2010.Big Nate book 2. Big Nate has got his heart set on leading his sports team to victory. But it won't be easy. He's stuck with Gina, his all time enemy and really rubbish player. Worse yet they have to work together on the class special project which means Gina's allowed to call on Nate at home!2v.Peirce, Lincoln. Big Nate on a roll. 2011.Big Nate book 3. Big Nate's scout troop is fundraising and while door-to-door selling isn't really Nate's thing, there's nothing like a grand prize to get him motivated. Especially when the prize is an awesomely cool customised skateboard (and following an incident with a poodle and a bridge Nate is in need of a new set of wheels).2v.Peirce, Lincoln. Big Nate goes for broke. 2012.Big Nate book 4. When you’ve got a head the size of Big Nate’s then losing is not an option. But Nate’s school P.S. 38 gets beaten by arch-rivals Jefferson Middle School at EVERYTHING. So when their school springs a leak and they have to join forces with Jefferson for a while, Nate and his friends are mortified. 2v.Peirce, Lincoln. Big Nate flips out. 2013.Big Nate book 5. Big Nate is flipping out! Everyone knows N-A-T-E does NOT equal N-E-A-T! And when Nate's sloppiness gets out of hand, his best friend Francis gets in serious trouble. Can Nate clean up his act? Or will he flip out first?2v.Peirce, Lincoln. Big Nate in the zone. 2014.Big Nate book 6. Nate is not having the best luck. In fact, it couldn't get much worse! But that all changes when Chad lets Nate borrow his lucky, umm... foot. Can Nate beat his bad luck to end up in the zone?2v.Rundell, Katherine. Rooftoppers. 2013.Everyone thinks that Sophie is an orphan. True, there were no other recorded female survivors from the shipwreck which left baby Sophie floating in the English Channel in a cello case, but Sophie remembers seeing her mother wave for help. Her guardian tells her it is almost impossible that her mother is still alive. 1v.Stern, Sue. Rafi Brown and the Candy Floss Kid. 2013.Dyslexic Rafi Brown is a brilliant cartoonist. The mysterious Candy Floss Kid never goes to school. Together they bunk off to Manchester but their problems get worse and worse. Is this caused by Rafi’s Secrit Vodooo Cartooon Diary? Can this be some weird rebound voodoo? 1v.Townsend, John. Crash dive. 2012.Barney's wanted - but he doesn't know who is after him until he discovers a deadly terrorist plot. After a series of lucky escapes, he tries to strike back and get help but no-one will believe him. The only person who will listen is Laura, but can two teenagers outwit such a sinister terror attack?2v.Townsend, John Rowe. The secret message. 2013.In the attic of his house Sam finds a leather case that belonged to his great great grandfather, Freddy. The case contains a diary, as Sam begins to read it he is taken right back to just before the First World War when Freddy was a boy. Sam also finds a photograph and discovers that at his age, Freddy was his exact double. 1v.Wilson, Jacqueline. Glubbslyme. 2009.When Rebecca wades into the witch's pond after a row with her best friend Sarah, she meets a very unusual new friend - a huge, warty toad! And Glubbslyme is no ordinary toad. Hundreds of years old, he can talk and - best of all - he can work magic. Maybe, he can help Rebecca be best friends with Sarah again?1v.Suggested reading age 11+Crossan, Sarah. The weight of water. 2013.Armed with a suitcase and an old laundry bag filled with clothes, Kasienka and her mother head for England. The Weight of Water is a coming of age story; it also tackles the alienation experienced by many young immigrants. We meet and share the experiences of a remarkable girl who shows us how quiet courage prevails.1v. Doyle, Roddy. A greyhound of a girl. 2012.12 year old Mary's beloved grandmother is near the end of her life. Letting go is hard - until Granny's long-dead mammy appears. A Greyhound of a Girl is a funny and tender tale about four generations of an Irish family, and the special bonds between mothers and daughters.1v.St. John, Lauren. The one dollar horse. 2013.One Dollar Horse trilogy book 1. Casey Blue loves horses, but her dreams of becoming an event rider seem out of reach. One day she rescues a horse from the knacker's yard working hard to nurse the animal back to health. In time a sleek and thoroughbred emerges so Casey sets about finding out who her horse really is.3v.Suggested reading age 13+Berry, Julie. All the truth that's in me. 2013.Judith can't speak. Ever since the horrifying trauma that left her best friend dead and Judith without a tongue, she's been a pariah in her community; even her own mother can't look her in the eye. When her community is attacked, Judith is forced to choose: continue to live in silence or recover her voice. 2v.Cooper, Susan. Ghost hawk. 2013.In the winter of his 11th year, Little Hawk goes deep into the forest, where he must endure a three month test of solitude and survival, which will turn him into a man. But outside the woods, the world is changing. He is witness to a secret murder - will he now be witness to bloodshed between nations?2vFine, Anne. Blood family. 2013.Edward is four years old when he is locked away with his mother by her abusive, alcoholic partner. By the time an elderly neighbour spots his face peering through a crack in the boarded-up window and raises the alarm, he is seven. Sent to live with a kindly foster family, and then adopted, Edward struggles to adapt to normal life. Lake, Nick. In darkness. 2013.In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, a boy is trapped beneath the rubble of a ruined hospital, thirsty, terrified and alone. Shorty is a child of the slums, a teenage boy who has seen enough violence to last a lifetime, and who has been inexorably drawn into the world of the gangsters who rule Site Solèy.2v.Nadin, Joanna. The life of Riley. 2013.Rachel Riley book 2. My quest to find 'the one' starts right now! This year I will utterly not snog random posh boys with congenital acne but will save myself for long-haired creative type with musical potential i.e. Justin Statham. Though am not sure Justin has realised yet that I am 'the one' for him.2v.Nadin, Joanna. The meaning of life. 2013.Rachel Riley book 3. It is official. I am going out with rock god and part-time meat mincer Justin Statham. Am certain that he is THE ONE and will prove it by having excellent relationship on every level. Oh no. What if he wants me to do it? Have only just got to grips with art of snogging so will need to get help fast.2v.Nadin, Joanna. My (not so) simple life. 2013.Rachel Riley book 4. Rachel is making a plan with Scarlet to deal with post-break-up trauma. The plan is to stay away from all men and to remain true to friends, forsaking all others. Everything will be so much easier without the complications of love. It will be a completely simple life and Rachel is fully committed. 2v.Nadin, Joanna. Back to life. 2013.Rachel Riley book 5. Carpe diem i.e. seize the day! Which means utter experimenting as far as snogging is concerned. Am never going to find the ONE if just keep having accidental liaisons with Jack or ill -advised flirtations with Justin. The ONE is out there somewhere. Maybe even right under my nose. 2v.Nadin, Joanna. The facts of life. 2014.Rachel Riley book 6. Just when life's looking up for Rachel, just when she's finally found the ONE, the past, i.e. Justin, comes back to spoil it all. It's time to wake up and smell the coffee and stop viewing life through rose-tinted glasses. From now on, Rachel's only interested in the cold, hard facts of life.2v.Turnbull, Ann. Forged in the fire. 2006.London 1665-66. With the Plague raging and the scent of smoke upon the wind, Will and Susanna, separated by class and distance, struggle to re-unite. Will has become a Quaker and broken with his father. Leaving Susanna behind in Shropshire, he travels to London, swearing to send for her once he is settled2v.Sutcliffe, William. The wall: a modern fable. 2013.Joshua is 13. He lives with his mother and step-father in Amarias, an isolated town on top of a hill. At the edge of Amarias is a high wall, guarded by soldiers, which can only be crossed through a heavily fortified checkpoint. One day, Joshua stumbles across a tunnel which leads towards this forbidden territory.2v.Suggested reading age 15+Brooks, Kevin. The bunker diary. 2013.I can't believe I fell for it. It was still dark when I woke up this morning. As soon as my eyes opened I knew where I was. A low-ceilinged rectangular building made entirely of whitewashed concrete. There are six little rooms along the main corridor. There are no windows. No doors. The lift is the only way in or out. 2v.Clare, Cassandra. City of bones. 2007The mortal instruments book 1. 116-year-old Clary Fray is an ordinary teenager, who likes hanging out in Brooklyn with her friends. But everything changes the night she witnesses a murder, committed by a group of teens armed with medieval weaponry.4v.Clare, Cassandra. City of ashes. 2008.The mortal instruments book 2. With her mother in a coma and her father hell-bent on destroying the world, Clary is dragged deeper into New York’s terrifying underworld of werewolves, demons and the mysterious Shadowhunters. Discovering the truth about her past was only the beginning. 4v.Clare, Cassandra. City of glass. 2009.The mortal instruments book 3. With two of the Mortal Instruments now in Valentine's hands, the world of the Shadowhunters teeters on the brink of civil war. Jace and the Lightwoods are recalled to Idris, the Shadowhunters' remote home country, where a search has begun for the last of the Instruments, the Mortal Glass. 4v.Clare, Cassandra. City of fallen angels. 2011.The mortal instruments book 4. The Mortal War is over, and sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is back home in New York, excited about all the possibilities before her. She's training to become a Shadowhunter and - most importantly of all - she can finally call Jace her boyfriend. But nothing comes without a price. 3v.Clare, Cassandra. City of lost souls. 2012.The mortal instruments book 5. Jace is now a servant of evil, bound for all eternity to Sebastian. Only a small band of Shadowhunters believe he can be saved. To do this they must defy the Clave. And they must act without Clary. For Clary is playing a dangerous game utterly alone. 4v.Samuels, Diane. Kindertransport. 2009.Between 1938 and the outbreak of war, almost 10,000 children, most of them Jewish, were sent by their parents from Germany to Britain. This new edition of Diane Samuels award winning play contains several personal memoirs by children whose lives were saved by the Kindertransport.1v.Children and young adult non-fictionSuggested reading age 5+Maynard, Christopher. I wonder why planes have wings: and other questions about transport. 1993.Taking as its starting point a child's natural desire to understand the world, this is a series designed to entertain and to inform. This book focuses on transport, and each spread investigates a specific theme or topic, with answers to questions, plus additional snippets of information.1v.Schreiber, Anne. Volcanoes. 2008National Geographic readers. Level 2, reading independently. Learn all about volcanoes! This book will inform you on how volcanoes come to be created. Learn about the different types of volcanoes. Find out that the place with the most volcanic activity is not on Earth but on one of Jupiter's Moons! 1v.Suggested reading age 7+Oxlade, Chris. Volcanoes. 2009.100 facts.This series presents the world of volcanoes in detail. Discover why volcanoes erupt, read about some of the most extreme eruptions in history, and find out how volcanologists are able to predict future eruptions.1v.Suggested reading age 9+Robson, Pam. The First World War, 1914-1918. 2013.Here, readers can find out about the key events of the First World War, including how it started, which weapons were used, what life was like for soldiers and civilians, and how the war finally came to an end.1v.Talking BooksAdult fiction The time traveller's almanac: the ultimate treasury of time travel fiction - brought to you from the future; edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. 2013. Short stories. TB21346.The largest, most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled including beloved classics and contemporary examples of the travel genre.Read by Regina Reagan and various other narrators. 58 hours 51 minutes. TB21346.Aaronovitch, Ben. Rivers of London. 2011. Fantasy. TB21565.Peter Grant; book 1. My name is Peter Grant and until January I was just another probationary constable in the Metropolitan Police Service. Then one night, I tried to take a statement from a man who was already dead but disturbingly voluble, and that brought me to the attention of Inspector Nightingale, the last wizard in England. Now I'm a Detective Constable and a trainee wizard, the first apprentice in fifty years, and my world has become somewhat more complicated. Read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith. 9 hours 59 minutes. TB21565Abercrombie, Joe. Before they are hanged. 2008. Fantasy. TB21310.The first law; book 2. Bitter and merciless war is coming to the frozen north. To the east a small band of malefactors travel to the edge of the world to reclaim a device from history - a Seed, hidden for generations - with tremendous destructive potential. A device which could put an end to war - but only if it can be found, and only if its power can be controlled . . .Read by Andy Secombe. 27 hours 41 minutes. TB21310.Abercrombie, Joe. Last argument of kings. 2009. Fantasy. TB21311.The first law; book 3. The end may be coming. While the King of the Union lies on his deathbed, the peasants revolt and the nobles scramble to steal his crown. The First of the Magi has a plan to save the world, but there is no risk more terrible, after all, than to break the First Law.Read by Andy Secombe. 31 hours 57 minutes. TB21311.Ahern, Cecelia. The gift. 2009. General fiction. TB17644. Everyday Lou Suffern battled with the clock. He always had two places to be at the same time. On his way into work one early winter morning, Lou meets Gabe, a homeless man sitting outside the office building. After getting to know him he gets Gabe a job in the post room. But soon his very presence unsettles Lou - how does Gabe appear to be in two places at the same time? Read by Mark Meadows. 8 hours 20 minutes. TB17644.Arlidge, M J. Eeny meeny. 2014. Crime. TB21566.Helen Grace; book 1. The girl emerged from the woods. Traumatised and emaciated; close to death, but alive. Her story seemed too terrible to be true. But it was. Pairs of victims are being abducted, imprisoned then forced to make a terrible choice. Which would you sacrifice - your life or your conscience? For DI Helen Grace there is now an unseen killer to be hunted down.Read by Elizabeth Bower, Nigel Pilkington, Lucy Gaskell and Annie Aldington. 9 hours 4 minutes. TB21566.Austen, Jane. Northanger Abbey. 1817. Classic. TB21667. Catherine Morland leaves her sheltered, rural home to enter the busy, sophisticated world of Bath in the late 1790s. Read by Lucy Scott. 8 hours 34 minutes. TB21667.Barclay, Linwood. Bad move. 2005. Crime. TB21786.Zack Walker; book 1. Zack wouldn't blame you for thinking he's safety-obsessed. But just ask his wife, Sarah, or his teenage kids, Paul and Angie, who endure their share of lectures what he is like. After moving the family to a rural “crime-free” area, Zack realizes their two -faced developer sent a petty thief to fix their leaky shower. And during a walk by the creek, he stumbles across a dead body. Shockingly, Zack knows who the victim is - and who might want him dead.Read by Michael FitzPatrick. 10 hours 27 minutes. TB21786.Barclay, Linwood. Bad guys. 2006. Crime. TB21787.Zack Walker; book 2. Zack Walker is back, and much to his family's relief, the work-at-home science-fiction writer has left the house to take a job as a features writer for the city paper. While researching his first feature article, Zack stumbles upon a real-life crime scene, but what seems like an ordinary hit-and-run may actually be a homicide linked to a gang that's been burglarizing Crandall's high-end shops. Read by Michael FitzPatrick. 10 hours 16 minutes. TB21787.Barclay, Linwood. Lone wolf. 2006. Crime. TB21788.Zack Walker; book 3. Newspaper writer, family man, and reluctant hero Zack Walker has stumbled onto some dicey stories before, but nothing like what he's about to uncover when a mutilated corpse is found at his father's lakeside fishing camp. Then another body is discovered and a large supply of fertilizer goes missing, evoking memories of the Oklahoma City bombing. Read by Michael FitzPatrick. 11 hours. TB21788.Billingham, Mark. The dying hours. 2013. Crime. TB21563.Tom Thorne; book 11. It's been 25 years since Tom Thorne last went to work wearing the 'Queen's cloth' but now, having stepped out of line once too often, he's back in uniform. Still struggling to adjust, Thorne becomes convinced that a spate of suicides among the elderly in London is something more sinister. His concerns are dismissed by the Murder Squad he was once part of and he is forced to look into it alone.Read by Mark Billingham. 9 hours 16 minutes. TB21563.Bradford, Barbara Taylor. Breaking the rules. 2009. Romance. TB17129.Following a terrifying encounter in the quiet English countryside, a dark beauty flees to New York in search of a new life. Adopting the initial M as her name, she becomes the muse and star model to France's iconic top designer Jean-Louis Tremont. She meets and marries charming and handsome actor Larry Vaughan and finally believes she has put the demons of her past to bed. But a dark figure from her past is back and determined to shatter M's world forever.Read by Zoe-Ann Phillips. 16 hours 31 minutes. TB17129.Brookfield, Amanda. Relative love. 2004. Family stories. TB21527.Time is catching up with Pamela and John Harrison and troubles are brewing in the lives of their children. As the Harrisons gather for Christmas at their big country house their safe, tight world of festivity and tradition is threatened. Tragedy strikes of the most unforeseeable and devastating kind and they are torn apart. Harsh truths emerge about the past as well as the present.Read by Sherry Baines. 24 hours 26 minutes. TB21527.Brookfield, Amanda. The simple rules of love. 2006. Family stories.TB21541.The Harrisons are a large, extremely close family, but with the grandchildren fast becoming adults and elderly Pamela struggling to adapt to widowhood and the emptiness of Ashley House, the four children of the middle generation find themselves equally lost in a changing world. Read by Emma Powell. 22 hours 23 minutes. TB21541.Burley, W J. Wycliffe and the school bullies. 2006. Crime. TB21552.Wycliffe; book 7. Two very different young women have been murdered within the same week. One was a singer in a nightclub, the other was a nurse but both were strangled in their own homes in very similar attacks. The press are quick to assume there is a psychopath on the loose but Wycliffe suspects the truth may be somewhat more complex than that.Read by Terence Wilton. 7 hours. TB21552.Carter, Chris. One by one. 2014. Crime. TB21588.Robert Hunter; book 5. Detective Robert Hunter of the LAPD's Homicide Special Section receives an anonymous call asking him to go to a specific web address - a private broadcast. Hunter logs on and a show devised for his eyes only immediately begins and Hunter is forced to sit and watch as an unidentified victim is tortured and murdered live over the Internet. Then Hunter receives a new phone call and this time the killer has upgraded his game into a live murder reality show, where anyone can cast the deciding vote.Read by John Chancer. 14 hours 25 minutes. TB21588.Chamberlain, Diane. Reflection. 2014. Romance. TB21586.Twenty years ago, a terrible tragedy shattered the tranquillity of the small Pennsylvania Dutch town of Reflection. The residents of the village have never forgiven the one woman they blamed for what happened - Rachel Huber. After the incident, Rachel left the town and cut off all ties there. But when she receives the news that her estranged grandmother, Helen, is ill and needs her care, she returns to face hostility and gossip. Read by Laurel Lefkow. 12 hours 53 minutes. TB21586.Collier, Catrin. A silver lining. 2013. Family stories. TB21604.Pontypridd; book 3. Bethan Powell was married to her handsome doctor but tragedy strikes, and emotional necessity drives Bethan back to her home town of Pontypridd. Alma Moore's lover has gone to Italy with his bride, leaving Alma alone to face the unforgiving Welsh community. Charlie Rashenko, a Russian refugee haunted by his past, is the only man prepared to help them.Read by Di Langford. 13 hours 46 minutes. TB21604.Collier, Catrin. All that glitters. 2013. Family stories. TB21605.Pontypridd; book 4. In 1939, Haydn Powell returns to his native Pontypridd as a star for the summer season. It is his dream come true, but is soon soured when he finds his family divided. Haydn seeks consolation with the theatre crowd, but is also drawn to Jane, a young waif lodging with his family. But Haydn's childhood sweetheart, Jenny, is determined to win him back and her reckless pursuit of her own ends creates a dangerous tension in a town already braced for war.Read by Di Langford. 14 hours 40 minutes. TB21605.Collins, Jackie. Lucky. 2012. General fiction. TB21278.Lucky Santangelo; book 2. With the sensual grace of a panther, Lucky Santangelo prowled her Las Vegas casino, restless, ready, eager for action. That night began a dazzling odyssey, filled with dangerous passion and sun-drenched sex, sadistic vengeance and breathless suspense as Lucky fought for her father's honour, for ruthless triumph, for the wild card of a fabulous love. Contains passages of a sexual nature.Read by Stephanie Ellyne. 22 hours 41 minutes. TB21278.Collins, Jackie. Lady boss. 2012. General fiction. TB21279.Lucky Santangelo; book 3. Lucky Santangelo is seeking to purchase the only movie studio still not controlled by a powerful conglomerate - Panther Studios, owned by the retired, irascible, old Abe Panther. But Abe won't sell his beloved studio to Lucky until she proves she has the guts to make it in Hollywood. It's his idea that she disguise herself as a secretary and go in undercover to find out what's really going on Lucky uncovers a world of financial scheming, big-time betrayal, and bizarre sex. Contains passages of a sexual nature.Read by Stephanie Ellyne. 19 hours 32 minutes. TB21279.Crews, Caitlin. His for a price. 2014. Mills and Boon romance. TB21513.Greek tycoon Nicodemus Stathis has never been able to forget beautiful heiress Mattie Whitaker. Ten years of delicious tension later, Mattie’s once powerful family dynasty lies in ruins and only Nic can offer a solution - if Mattie marries him. Even so Mattie refuses but Nic's starts a slow, deliberate seduction.Read by Regina Reagan. 5 hours 48 minutes. TB21513.Delaney, Luke. The toy taker. 2014. Crime. TB21269. DI Sean Corrigan; book 3. DI Sean Corrigan and his team have been moved to New Scotland Yard and now four-year-old George Bridgeman has disappeared from leafy Hampstead. Sean, bogged down in admin and logistics, can see no clear path through the investigation. Another child vanishes. How long before abduction becomes murder?Read by Andrew Loudon. 14 hours 11 minutes. TB21269.Douglas, Donna. The Nightingale sisters. 2013. Historical fiction. TB21166. Nightingale girls; book 2. To the student nurses at The Nightingale hospital, the ward sisters are heartless and frightening, with impossibly high standards. But the sisters have troubles of their own too. As the nation mourns the death of King George V, it seems as if nothing is ever going to be the same again, especially for the women at the Nightingale.Read by Penelope Freeman. 13 hours 24 minutes. TB21166.Eliot, George. The mill on the Floss. 1860. Classic. TB21666.As the headstrong Maggie Tulliver grows into womanhood, the deep love which she has for her brother Tom turns into conflict, because she cannot reconcile his bourgeois standards with her own lively intelligence. Read by Maggie Mash. 25 hours 18 minutes. TB21666.Fergusson, Ben. The spring of Kasper Meier. 2014. General fiction. TB20847.It is 1946 and after a sustained bombing campaign, Berlin is a sea of rubble. Kasper Meier is trading on the black market to feed himself and his elderly father. When a young woman, Eva, arrives on his doorstep and asks him to track down a British pilot, Kasper is instinctively nervous. After he turns down her offer of payment, she threatens to blackmail him and Kasper is unwittingly drawn into an intrigue he could never have anticipated.Read by Leighton Pugh. 12 hours 2 minutes. TB20847.Filer, Nathan. The shock of the fall. 2014. General fiction. TB21284.I'll tell you what happened because it will be a good way to introduce my brother. His name's Simon. I think you're going to like him. I really do. But in a couple of pages he'll be dead. And he was never the same after that. This novel is narrated by Matthew Homes, a teenager suffering with mental illness in the wake of the sudden death of his brother Simon.Read by Tom Stanley. 6 hours 43 minutes. TB21284.French, Tana. The secret place. 2014. Crime. TB21649.Ryan and Maddox; book 5. Detective Stephen Moran hasn't seen Holly Mackey since she was a 9-year-old witness to the events of Faithful Place. Now she's 16 and she's shown up outside his squad room, with a photograph and a story. The previous year, Christopher Harper, from the neighbouring boys' school was found murdered on the grounds. And today, in the Secret Place – the school noticeboard where girls can pin up their secrets anonymously – Holly found his photograph with the words “I know who killed him” written on.Read by Gerry O'Brien. 18 hours 32 minutes. TB21649.George, Elizabeth. A place of hiding. 2009 Crime. TB21236.Inspector Lynley series; book 12. The sudden death of Guy Brouard, a generous patron and benefactor of the island, after his morning swim shocks the residents of Guernsey. When a young American woman is charged with the murder, her brother seeks help from her old friend, Deborah St James who travel to Guernsey to attempt to stop a miscarriage of justice. There they find a tangled web of deceit and betrayal, with its origins in wartime occupation. Read by Michael Tudor Barnes. 26 hours 6 minutes. TB21236.George, Elizabeth. Just one evil act. 2014. Crime. TB21299.Inspector Lynley series ; book 18. When Hadiyyah Upman disappears from London in the company of her mother, nothing can be done. But five months later, Hadiyyah is kidnapped from an open air market in Lucca, Italy, and this triggers an investigation in the full glare of the media spotlight. DI Thomas Lynley is assigned to handle a situation made delicate by racial issues, language difficulties, and the determination of an Italian magistrate to arrest and convict someone – anyone - for the crime.Read by Elizabeth George. 23 hours 54 minutes. TB21299.Grafton, Sue. V is for vengeance. 2012. Crime. TB21561.Kinsey Millhone mysteries; book 22. Private investigator Kinsey Millhone finds herself assisting to apprehend a shoplifter, Audrey Vance. When Audrey's body is found in a local suicide spot her fiancé is unable to believe she took her own life and hires Kinsey to investigate. It soon emerges that the shoplifter had become caught up in a much larger operation.Read by Liza Ross. 14 hours 54 minutes. TB21561.Gray, John MacLachlan. White stone day. 2008. Thriller. TB16517.Edmund Whitty; book 2. Victorian London. Journalist Edmund Whitty is investigating a quack psychic who has been murdered after revealing a scandal involving Whitty's late brother. Whitty's search for the truth takes him back to Oxford, where a brilliant and eccentric cleric who delights in playing croquet, telling children's stories and taking little girls' pictures, may or may not be involved with a murderous ring of child pornographers.Read by Jeff Bellamy. 13 hours 10 minutes. TB16517.Griffiths, Elly. Dying fall. 2013. Crime. TB21661.Ruth Galloway; book 5. Ruth's old friend Dan Golding thinks he has made a discovery that will change archaeology forever - but he needs Ruth's help. Dan is killed in a fire, leaving Ruth with one clue: the tomb of the Raven King. DCI Nelson is also rediscovering the past. He meets his friend Sandy Macleod, now at Blackpool CID, who tells him there are mysterious circumstances surrounding Dan's death.Read by Karen Cass. 9 hours 59 minutes. TB21661.Harry, Lilian. Celebrations in Burracombe. 2014. Country life fiction. TB21567.Burracombe village; book 9. It's the late 1950s and change is in the air. For the Napier family, up at the big house, the old ways are shifting. Hilary must discover if reaching out for a chance of happiness means breaking away from the life expected of her. Down the hill from the Napiers, villagers young and old are setting out on adventures - Stella and Felix begin married life, change comes to the village school and the Tozer family continue to find surprises in their midst.Read by Anne Dover. 11 hours 45 minutes. TB21567.Haymore, Jennifer. The scoundrel's seduction. 2014. Romance. TB21621.House of Trent; book 3. Undercover agent Sam Hawkins has devoted his life to protecting king and country. So when he receives orders to assassinate a ruthless traitor, he doesn't question his mission. But Sam didn't know his deed had a witness - the beautiful and mysterious betrayer's wife. Now he has no choice but to take her as his prisoner - one he can neither trust nor resist. Read by Adrian Lukis. 11 hours 27 minutes. TB21621.Hearne, Kevin. Shattered. 2014. Fantasy. TB21623.The iron druid chronicles; book 7. For nearly 2000 years, there was only one druid left walking the Earth - Atticus O'Sullivan, the iron druid. Now he's got company. Atticus's apprentice Granuaile is finally a full druid herself. What's more, Atticus has defrosted an archdruid long ago frozen in time, who now goes by the modern name Owen Kennedy. And Owen has some catching up to do.Read by Christopher Ragland. 11 hours 3 minutes. TB21623.Huxley, Aldous. Brave new world. 1932. Classic. TB21699.Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill -defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress.Read by Stephen Greif. 9 hours 22 minutes. TB21699.King, Catherine. Her mother's secret. 2014. Family stories. TB21619.Lettie Hargreaves wants more than her simple, uncomplicated life with her grandmother. She longs for excitement and love and she's determined to make something of herself. There's something about Lettie's mother that Ivy has kept hidden from her granddaughter, so when Lettie suggests going into service for the ailing Lady Laughton, Ivy knows she must do something to stop it.Read by Jacqueline King. 10 hours 36 minutes. TB21619.Kinsella, Sophie. Mini shopaholic. 2011. Romance. TB21285.Shopaholic; book 6. Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) thought motherhood would be a breeze and that having a daughter was a dream come true - a shopping friend for life! But it's trickier than she thought - two-year-old Minnie has a quite different approach to shopping. She can create havoc everywhere from Harrods to Harvey Nicks to her own christening.Read by Karina Fernandez. 13 hours 50 minutes. TB21285.Leather, Stephen. White lies. 2014. Thriller. TB21569.Spider Shepherd; book 11. Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line - for his friends and for his job with MI5. So when one of his former apprentices is kidnapped in the badlands of Pakistan, Shepherd doesn't hesitate to join a rescue mission. But when the rescue plan goes horribly wrong, Shepherd ends up in the hands of al-Qaeda terrorists who beat and torture him. Shepherd's MI5 controller Charlotte Button is determined to get her man out of harm's way, but to do that she's going to have to break all the rules.Read by Paul Thornley. 12 hours 8 minutes. TB21569.Leckie, Ann. Ancillary justice. 2014. Science fiction. TB21614.Imperial Radch; book 1. The Radch are conquerors to be feared - resist and they'll turn you into a 'corpse soldier' - one of an army of dead prisoners animated by a warship's AI mind. Whole planets are conquered by their own people. The colossal warship called the Justice of Toren has been destroyed - but one soldier has escaped the devastation and might just be enough to take revenge against those who destroyed her.Read by Adjoa Andoh. 12 hours 43 minutes. TB21614.Lewis, Susan. No child of mine. 2012. General fiction. TB21570.What if you knew a child was in danger - and no one believed you? Alex Lake's day job is all about helping people, especially children. When the case of three-year-old Ottilie Wade comes to her attention, Alex finds herself completely unable to detach from the child the way she should and no one else is prepared to believe that Ottilie is in danger. In the end, Alex makes a decision that has consequences for her, her family and Ottilie - consequences that no one, least of all Alex, could have foreseen.Read by Julia Franklin. 16 hours 56 minutes. TB21570.Lyman, John. Realm of evil. 2014. Thriller. TB21545.God's lions; book 4. Driven into hiding in the French Pyrenees by the advancing forces of a new, one world government, Cardinal Leopold Amodeo receives a mysterious radio message from an unknown source in Northern Europe inviting him to a secret meeting. Fearful of a trap, and with time running out as a web of evil spreads around the globe, he must decide if he should leave the safety of his friends in an ancient Cathar sanctuary to travel alone into the far reaches of the north to meet with a man who may hold the key to their salvation. Read by Jonathan Oliver. 11 hours 15 minutes. TB21545.Macgregor, Virginia. What Milo saw. 2014. General fiction. TB21624.Nine-year-old Milo Moon has retinitis pigmentosa: his eyes are slowly failing and he will eventually go blind. But for now he sees the world through a pin hole and notices things other people don't. When his beloved gran succumbs to dementia and moves into a nursing home, he soon realises there's something very wrong at the home. The grown-ups won't listen to him so with just Tripi, the nursing home's cook, and Hamlet, his pet pig, to help, Milo sets out on a mission to expose the nursing home and the sinister Nurse Thornhill.Read by Steve Hodson. 11 hours 27 minutes. TB21624.McDermott, Andy. Kingdom of darkness. 2014. Thriller. TB21653.Nina Wilde and Eddie Chase; book 10. 1943 - Occupied Greece. The SS unit are founding up Jews for the concentration camps. But beneath an isolated farmhouse, they find a hidden shrine to Alexander the Great and an urn filled with water possessing mysterious qualities. The Nazis take the treasure in the name of Hitler and disappear. Present Day - Los Angeles. Archaeologist Nina Wilde and her husband are sought out by a young man, desperate to warn her about a planned raid on Alexander's newly-discovered tomb in Egypt. But before he can explain more, he is assassinated by a wanted Nazi war criminal - who has barely aged in seventy years.Read by Andrew Cullum. 17 hours 18 minutes. TB21653.McNamara, Ali. From Notting Hill with four weddings... actually. 2014. Romance. TB21618. Actually; book 3. Movie addict Scarlett O'Brien is finally living the jet-setting life she's dreamed of - but it all hangs by a shiny, golden thread. When Scarlett meets paparazzi darling Gabriella Romero, life suddenly becomes even more extravagant and glamorous but as she begins to experience the other side to being rich and famous, it's not only Scarlett's perfect wedding that's put in jeopardy, but her whole world.Read by Finty Williams. 10 hours 58 minutes. TB21618.McPherson, Catriona. Dandy Gilver and the reek of red herrings. 2014. Crime. TB21644. Dandy Gilver; book 9. On the rain-drenched, wave-lashed, wind -battered Banffshire coast, herring drifters brave the storms to catch their silver darlings. It's nowhere for a child of gentle Northamptonshire to spend Christmas. But when odd things start to turn up in barrels of fish - with a strong whiff of murder most foul - that's exactly where Dandy Gilver finds herself. Read by Stephanie Beattie. 9 hours 28 minutes. TB21644.Mallory, Sarah. Lady beneath the veil. 2014. Mills and Boon historical romance. TB21344.When Gideon Albury lifts his new bride's veil he can't believe his eyes - this dark-haired dab of a girl isn't the blonde beauty he's been courting! Stunned, Gideon resolves to seek an annulment at the earliest opportunity, but to do so he must first make sure Dominique Rainault's virtue stays intact. But the marital bed beckons - and a stolen kiss could prove to be their undoing!Read by Karina Fernandez. 8 hours 4 minutes. TB21344.Milburne, Melanie. The Valquez bride. 2014. Mills and Boon romance. TB21514.Untouched Theodora Marlstone has always wanted the fairytale wedding a white dress and an adoring groom. Instead she’s walking up the aisle towards a marriage of convenience to outrageously attractive Argentinian Alejandro Valquez! Alejandro has never wanted a wife, but beneath the white silk lies a woman who exceeds his wildest imagination and its clear that this union will burn the very paper it’s written on! Read by Candida Gubbins. 5 hours 43 minutes. TB21514.Mitchell, David. The bone clocks. 2014. Science fiction. TB21531.One drowsy summer's day in 1984, teenage runaway Holly Sykes encounters a strange woman who offers a small kindness in exchange for 'asylum'. Decades will pass before Holly understands exactly what sort of asylum the woman was seeking. Following the twists and turns of Holly's life from a scarred adolescence in Gravesend to old age on Ireland's Atlantic coast just as Europe's oil supply dries up, Holly Sykes – daughter, sister, mother, guardian - is also an unwitting player in a murderous feud played out in the shadows and margins of our world. Read by Laurel Lefkow, Anna Bentinck, and various narrators. 24 hours 33 minutes. TB21531.Orwell, George. Nineteen eighty-four. 1949. Classic. TB21744.Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. Read by Gordon Griffin. 12 hours 17 minutes. TB21744.Parker, Victoria. The ultimate revenge. 2014. Mills and Boon romance. TB21518.Nicandro Santos, legendary diamond legacy heir, has one purpose: to infiltrate the ultra-prestigious Q Virtus gentlemen’s club to bring it and its leader Zeus down. What he doesn’t know is that Olympia Merisi, his enemy's daughter, is now in charge. She’ll stop at nothing to protect what’s hers. But as the battle lines between them blur, they're soon entering more sensual territory.Read by Victoria Grove. 6 hours 9 minutes. TB21518.Patterson, James. Private - no. 1 suspect. 2013. Thriller. TB21578.Private; book 4. Since former US Marine Jack Morgan started Private, it has become the world’s most successful detective agency. But when his former lover is found murdered in Jack’s bed, Jack is instantly the number one suspect. With his team stretched to breaking point and Jack fighting for his life, he finds himself strong-armed by the mob into recovering $30 million in stolen pharmaceuticals, and Jack realises he is facing his most powerful enemies ever.Read by Jeff Harding. 8 hours 10 minutes. TB21578.Penman, Sharon K. When Christ and his saints slept. 1995. Historical fiction. TB21511.Eleanor of Aquitaine; book 1. A novel which vividly brings to life a period of English history from the reign of Henry I , covering the civil war between Henry's daughter, Mathilda, and her cousin Stephen who usurped her throne, to the commencement of the reign of Henry II, Mathilda's son, the first Plantagenet king. Read by Charlotte Strevens. 40 hours 23 minutes. TB21511.Penman, Sharon K. Time and chance. 2003. Historical fiction. TB21536.Eleanor of Aquitaine; book 2. While Henry II redefined the role of medieval kingship, Eleanor gave birth to their children, founding a dynasty that would endure for 300 years. But not all was well and when Henry took lovely young Rosumund Clifford into his bed, little did he realise that in making an enemy of his proud, passionate queen he was making the gravest mistake of all. Read by Charlotte Strevens. 23 hours 52 minutes. TB21536.Pratchett, Terry. I shall wear midnight. 2010. Fantasy. TB21237.Discworld; book 38. It's not easy being a witch, and it's certainly not all whizzing about on broomsticks, but Tiffany Aching – teen witch - is doing her best. Until something evil wakes up, something that stirs up all the old stories about nasty old witches, so that just wearing a pointy hat suddenly seems a very bad idea. Worse still, this evil ghost from the past is hunting down one witch in particular. He's hunting for Tiffany. And he's found her.Read by Stephen Briggs. 9 hours 23 minutes. TB21237.Price, Angharad. The life of Rebecca Jones: a novel. 2014. General fiction. TB21654.In the early years of the last century, Rebecca is born into a rural community in the Maesglasau valley in Wales; but the changes brought about by modernity threaten the survival of her language, and her family's way of life. Rebecca's reflections on the century are delivered with haunting dignity and a simple intimacy, while her evocation of the changing seasons and a life that is so in tune with its surroundings is rich and poignant.Read by Sian Owen. 4 hours 15 minutes. TB21654.Priestley, J B. Benighted. 2013. General fiction. TB21476.Philip and Margaret Waverton and Roger Penderel are forced to take shelter one stormy night in the sinister house of the Femm somewhere in Wales. The benighted travellers drink, talk and play games to pass the time while the storm rages outside. But as the night progresses and tensions rise, dangerous and unexpected secrets emerge. Which is more deadly: the apocalyptic storm outside the house or the unknown horrors that await within? Read by James Parsons. 6 hours 28 minutes. TB21476.Pryor, Francis. The lifer's club. 2014. Crime. TB21525.Alan Cadbury is a professional archaeologist, a man who likes to unravel the mysteries and meaning of the past. Giving an archaeology course in the 90s he met Richard Lane, now a senior detective. DCI Lane enlist him to help on a difficult case, an honour killing perpetrated eight years ago. Oh yes, archaeology can be a very dirty business....Read by David Thorpe. 16 hours 33 minutes. TB21525.Sanderson, Brandon. The way of kings: part 1. 2011. Fantasy. TB21250.The stormlight archive; book 1. The entire world of Roshar is at war with itself - and has been for centuries since the Radiants turned against mankind. Kings strive to win more Shardblades, possession of which makes a man nearly invincible on the battlefield.Read by Alistair Maydon. 26 hours 44 minutes. TB21250.Sanderson, Brandon. The way of kings: part 2. 2011. Fantasy. TB21318.The stormlight archive; book 1. A war rages on the Shattered Plains where ten armies fight against a single foe. Kaladin has been reduced to slavery. Brightlord, Dalinar Kholin commands one of the armies but is troubled by visions of the Knights Radiant. Meanwhile across the ocean Shallan seeks the true cause of the war.Read by Alistair Maydon. 24 hours 10 minutes. TB21318.Salinger, J D. The catcher in the rye. 1951. Classic. TB21745.Holden Caulfield is a seventeen-year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Navigating his way through the challenges of growing up, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves. Read by John Chancer. 7 hours 50 minutes. TB21745.Schirach, Ferdinand von. The Collini case. 2014. Thriller. TB21259.A murder. A murderer. No motif. For 34 years Fabrizio Collini has worked diligently for Mercedes-Benz. He is a quiet and respectable person until the day he visits one of Berlin's most luxurious hotels and kills an innocent man. Young attorney Caspar Leinen takes the case. Getting a not-guilty verdict could make his name. Read by David Thorpe and James Peak. 4 hours 13 minutes. TB21259.Sebag Montefiore, Simon. One night in winter. 2014. General fiction. TB21338.Moscow 1945. As Stalin and his courtiers celebrate victory over Hitler, shots ring out. On a nearby bridge, a teenage boy and girl lie dead. But this is no ordinary tragedy and these are no ordinary teenagers, but the children of Russia's most important leaders who attend the most exclusive school in Moscow. Is it murder? A suicide pact? Or a conspiracy against the state? Contains strong language and violence.Read by Christopher Oxford. 15 hours 24 minutes. TB21338.Sheffield, Jack. Village teacher. 2011. Country life fiction. TB21576.Jack Sheffield; book 4. It's 1980: recession and unemployment have hit Britain, a royal wedding is on the way, and the whole country is wondering Who Shot JR? As Jack returns for his fourth year at Ragley-on-the Forest School, there's a definite chill in the air. Village schools are being closed down all over the place - will his be one of them?Read by Michael Tudor Barnes. 9 hours 59 minutes. TB21576.Sinclair, Kira. Testing the limits. 2014. Mills and Boon Blaze romance. TB21612.Social worker Quinn Keller sees the best in people - and the worst. When she rescues a prominent businessman's battered wife, Quinn is targeted by the woman's violent husband. She turns to the brother of her deceased fiancé to keep her safe - Ranger Jace Hyland. Quinn is the woman Jace has always wanted - and she's strictly hands-off. But keeping her safe means taking her to his small apartment and his bed. So for one unforgettable night, Jace will give in to the temptation he can no longer resist. Read by Laila Pyne. 6 hours 3 minutes. TB21612.Steinbeck, John. The grapes of wrath. 1939. Classic. TB21683.Shocking and controversial when it was first published, Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize-winning epic remains his undisputed masterpiece. It tells of the Joad family who travel West in search of the promised land, and find only broken dreams. Read by Michael Fitzpatrick. 22 hours 46 minutes. TB21683.Watson, Angus. Age of iron. 2014. Fantasy. TB21613.Iron age; book 1. Dug Sealskinner is a down-on-his-luck mercenary travelling south to join up with King Zadar's army. But he keeps rescuing the wrong people. First, Spring, a child he finds scavenging on the battlefield, and then Lowa, one of Zadar's most fearsome warriors, who's vowed revenge on the king for her sister's execution. All Dug has is his war hammer, one rescued child and one unpredictable, highly-trained warrior with a lust for revenge that's going to get them all killed.Read by Sean Barrett. 15 hours 18 minutes. TB21613.Wilde, James. The devil's army. 2013. Historical fiction. TB21780.Hereward; book 2. The Battle of Hastings has been lost. The iron fist of William the Bastard has begun to squeeze the life out of England. Villages are torched and men, women and children put to the sword as the Norman king attempts to impose his will. But there is one who stands in the way of the invader's savagery. He is called Hereward. Read by Andrew Cullum. 13 hours 5 minutes. TB21780.Wilde, James. End of days. 2014. Historical fiction. TB21781.Hereward; book 3. In their fortress on the Isle of Ely, the English have put their faith in the only man who might defeat the murderous invaders, Hereward. Plans have been set in motion for a bloody uprising that will sweep the Norman king off the throne once and for all. But Hereward is missing. Can he be found before William the Bastard begins his final, devastating assault that will truly be the end of days? Read by Andrew Cullum. 13 hours 10 minutes. TB21781.Wilson, Laura. The riot. 2013. Crime. TB21579.DI Ted Stratton; book 5. August 1958. London is hot and tired, and nowhere more so than Notting Hill, where DI Stratton has just been posted. Stratton's new manor is dirt poor and rife with racial tension between Teddy Boys and black immigrants. Notorious landlord Danny Perlmann, a Polish refugee, is making a fortune off the high rents he charges to immigrants – and prostitutes. When Perlmann's rent collector is murdered, Stratton is called to investigate. Read by Sean Barrett. 11 hours 9 minutes. TB21579.Wilton, Robert. Traitor's field; from the archives of the Comptrollerate-General for Scrutiny and Survey. 2013. Historical fiction.TB21350.It is 1648 and Britain is at war with itself. The Royalists are defeated but Parliament is in turmoil, its power weakened by internal discord. Royalism's last hope is Sir Mortimer Shay, a ruthless veteran of decades of intrigue who must rebuild a credible threat to Cromwell's rule, whatever the cost.Read by Steve Hodson. 21 hours 34 minutes. TB21350.Adult Non-fictionAnimals and natureFarthing, Pen. Wylie: the brave street dog who never gave up. 2014. TB21643.Wylie, a street dog born in the city of Kandahar, Afghanistan, was beaten and abused while being used as a bait dog. Close to death, he was rescued and attended to by soldiers and eventually handed over to animal welfare charity Vowzad and flown to Britain for a new life. Read by David Thorpe. 8 hours 20 minutes. TB21643.Graham-Jones, Oliver. Zoo tails. 2001. TB21797.Oliver Graham-Jones became veterinary officer of London Zoo in 1950. A pioneer of many of the techniques now used by vets around the world, he was instrumental in building the first animal hospital, and in moving London Zoo away from its Victorian past into the high-tech world of modern veterinary medicine. In Zoo Tails, he tells us about some of the animals he cared for, situations he faced, what it felt like when he was faced with an escaped bear or an injured elephant. Read by Bob Rollett. 4 hours 26 minutes. TB21797.Autobiography and biographyBooth, Louise. When Fraser met Billy. 2014. TB21264.Fraser was a two-year-old autistic child with a multitude of problems when he first met Billy at the cat protection shelter. Billy purred, laid his paws across Fraser and they have been inseparable ever since. Slowly but surely Billy has transformed Fraser's life. Their profound bond has immeasurably improved their lives and the family's, and brought them lots of hilarious and touching moments along the way.Read by Julie Stark. 7 hours 17 minutes. TB21264.Johnson, Martyn. What's tha up to? Memories of a Yorkshire bobby. 2012. TB21626.No two days were ever the same for bobby on the beat PC Johnson. Whether he was chasing unlikely coal thieves, tracking down peacocks gone AWOL or investigating mysterious flying saucers over Sheffield, he faced every new challenge with a smile and a healthy dose of his copper's common sense. Read by Martyn Johnson. 6 hours 51 minutes. TB21626.Johnson, Martyn. What's tha up to nah? 2012. TB21627.PC Martyn Johnson is back on the beat with more hilarious and heart-warming stories from the golden age of policing. With his nose for trouble and a knack for mischief, there's no such thing as a quiet shift for the friendly Yorkshire bobby, from drunken dogs and runaway horses to high-speed chases after Burglar Bill. Read by Martyn Johnson. 6 hours 37 minutes. TB21627.Johnson, Paul. Mozart: a life. 2014. TB21637. Liszt once said that Mozart composed more bars than a trained copyist could write in a lifetime. His output of composition and his gift and skill with instruments was wondrous - no sooner had the clarinet been invented and introduced than Mozart began playing and composing for it.Read by Benedick Blythe. 5 hours 40 minutes. TB21637.Leith, Prue. Relish. 2012. TB21600. Born in South Africa, the daughter of a well-known actress, Prue Leith came to London in the early 1960s and became a very successful restaurateur, writer and columnist. She also had a secret affair with the married man who was to be her husband for another twenty-five years. She writes movingly of the anguish for both families; of her longing for children; the birth of her son, Daniel, and the adoption of her daughter, Li-Da. Read by Helen Bourne. 16 hours. TB21600.Prentis, Evelyn. A nurse and mother: my life as a post-war nurse. 2012. TB21764.At the end of the Second World War, as husbands came back to Civvy Street, their wives had the luxury of staying at home with the children. For a short while at least. Soon Evelyn realised she had to find work to make ends meet, and to her astonishment she was offered part-time hours at her old hospital.Read by Anna Harwich. 7 hours 46 minutes. TB21764.Sacks, Oliver W. Uncle Tungsten: memories of a chemical boyhood. 2012. TB21609.Oliver Sacks turns his trained analytical eye on a startling new subject - himself. The world authority in his field, this book is an insight into the mind and background of one of the finest and most accessible scientists today. Read by Steve Hodson. 13 hours 41 minutes. TB21609.Wainwright, Robert. Sheila: the Australian ingénue who bewitched British society. 2014. TB21771.Born on an Australian sheep station, Sheila Chisholm wedded earls and barons, befriended literary figures and movie stars, and died a Russian princess. Her clandestine affair with young Bertie, the future George VI, caused ruptures at Buckingham Palace, with King George offering his son the title Duke of York in exchange for never hearing of Sheila again. Read by Richard Burnip. 11 hours 44 minutes. TB21771.Wharton, James. Out in the army: my life as a gay soldier. 2013. TB21349.The amazing career journey of James Wharton as he becomes a man, enlists in the Army, joins the elite Blues and Royals and learns to deal with his sexuality in a sometimes hostile environment, prior to coming to terms with it and, in turn, helping the army itself come to terms with homosexuality. Read by Robert Nairne. 10 hours 49 minutes. TB21349.White-Cooper, Ronald. Call the doctor: a country GP between the wars: tales of courage, hardship and hope. 2014. TB21591.Ronald White-Cooper may have worked as a doctor in London's slums and tended to badly wounded men on the Western Front, but when he arrived in Dartmouth in 1920 to set up as a GP he found himself facing some unique challenges. Over the years he became a much-loved part of the community, often helping those who could not afford to pay him.Read by David Graham and Charlotte Strevens. 7 hours 43 minutes. TB21591.Wight, Jim. The real James Herriot: the authorized biography. 2000. TB21610.Written by his son, this new biography draws on family archives and previously unpublished material of the life of the vet-author who died in 1995. Read by Steve Hodson.16 hours 33 minutes. TB21610.Food and DrinkKing, Si. The Hairy Dieters: good eating. 2014. TB21647.The Hairy Bikers, Si King and Dave Myers, share delicious low-calorie recipes and easy-to-follow advice. This book contains over eighty fabulous family-focused recipes and advice on how to lose weight and keep it off.Read by Mark Elstob. 4 hours 38 minutes. TB21647.HistoryBenson, Richard. The valley: a hundred years in the life of a family. 2014. TB21628.The Dearne Valley lies at the heart of the South Yorkshire coalfield. In 1945 that coalfield had sixty-seven pits; today only two survive. Following four generations of his mother's family, Benson depicts a community characterised not by the stereotype of doughty, unassuming labourers and housewives, but driven individuals relentless in the pursuit of their dreams. Read by Sean Baker. 19 hours 37 minutes. TB21628.Lewis, Damien. Churchill's secret warriors: the explosive true story of the special forces desperadoes of WWII. 2014. TB21662.In the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, Winston Churchill knew that Britain had to strike back hard. So Britain's wartime leader called for the lightning development of a completely new kind of warfare, recruiting a band of eccentric free-thinking warriors to become the first 'deniable' secret operatives to strike behind enemy lines, offering these volunteers nothing but the potential for glory and all-but-certain death. Read by Jonathan Oliver. 11 hours 50 minutes. TB21662.Paine, Lincoln P. The sea and civilization: a maritime history of the world. 2014. TB21315.A sweeping and illuminating examination of how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, and how goods, languages, religions and entire cultures spread across and along the world's waterways.Read by Chris Courtney. 32 hours 55 minutes. TB21315.Tombs, Robert. The English and their history. 2014. TB21638.A fresh, up-to-date account of the long history of an island and its peoples; of its conquerors, kings and queens; of the social, the political and the cultural; of the mythological and the legendary, and of the extraordinarily true. Read by Leighton Pugh. 47 hours 34 minutes. TB21638.MusicTrynka, Paul. Sympathy for the devil: the birth of the Rolling Stones and the death of Brian Jones. 2014. TB21765.Drawing on over one hundred interviews with key principles including Keith Richards, Andrew Oldham and Marianne Faithful, this is a story told from a totally new perspective and which lays bare the shocking ruthlessness, internal warfare and sexual competition within The Rolling Stones. Contains strong language. Read by Leighton Pugh. 11 hours 52 minutes. TB21765.ParanormalSartori, Penny. The wisdom of near-death experiences: how understanding NDE's can help us live more fully. 2014. TB21534.The consideration of a wide range of experiences of dying patients that Dr Sartori has encountered during her nursing career. Read by Melissa Berry. 9 hours 37 minutes. TB21534.PoetryBerry, Liz. Black Country. 2014. TB21792. Liz Berry takes us home: to Wrens Nest, Gosty Hill, Bilston; to the summer where she first learned to talk; to the woods where the secrets are hidden. But her poems also transport us into other, different worlds of the poet's imagination: the memories and magic of childhood to the dawning of adulthood and the dark, sweet mysteries of love and sexuality. Read by Maya Sondhi. 1 hour 7 minutes. TB21792.PoliticsHurd, Douglas. Disraeli, or, The two lives. 2014. TB21556.A superb politician, orator, writer and wit, Disraeli was the most gifted parliamentarian of his time, who rose to become Prime Minister - twice. Yet he had never intended to be a politician: his early life was led in pursuit of pleasure as he struggled to find an occupation that would best suit his energy, keen intelligence, wit and insatiable appetite for public attention. Read by Steve Hodson. 13 hours 52 minutes. TB21556.SportBoycott, Geoff. The corridor of certainty. 2014. TB21642. After a period of his life when a court case and then throat cancer threatened first his career and then his life, Geoffrey Boycott re-emerged as an apparently changed man - but how true had the caricatured image of him as an archetypal Yorkshireman ever really been? Boycott reveals many other interests and friendships beyond cricket, includes a moving chapter on Brian Clough and a surprising section on feng shui. Read by Geoff Lesley. 8 hours 4 minutes. TB21642.Calvin, Mike. The nowhere men. 2013. TB21387.Football scouts are everywhere yet nowhere, faceless and nameless, despite making informed decisions worth millions. Michael Calvin opens up their hidden world, examining the disconnected lifestyles, petty betrayals and unconsidered professionalism of men who spend long, lonely hours on the road.Read by Alan Orme. 10 hours 17 minutes. TB21387.TransportDeary, Terry. Dangerous days on the Victorian railways: a history of the terrors and the torments, the dirt, diseases and deaths suffered by our ancestors. 2014. TB21450.Often recognised as having revolutionised travel and industrial Britain, Victorian railways were perilous and caused thousands of deaths and injuries through disease as well as disaster. Here the victims of the Victorian railways are remembered and given names, lives and families. Contains strong language.Read by Kris Dyer. 7 hours 39 minutes. TB21450.Holland, Julian. Exploring Britain's lost railways. 2013. TB21441.Follow the routes of over 50 long-closed railways across some of our most beautiful countryside and discover the lost railways of Britain. The historical background is given along with details of the route today and clear directions for the walker and cyclist.Read by Robin Houston. 8 hours 3 minutes. TB21441.Porter, Richard. Top Gear epic failures: 50 great motoring cock-ups. 2014. TB21477.The automotive industry is responsible for some of the most beautiful designs ever to grace the face of the planet. But it's had its fair share of bad days at the office too, such as Mitsubishi unveiling their new 'Starion' after mishearing calls from head office in Japan to call it the 'Stallion'. The time has come to name and shame.Read by Alan Thorpe. 2 hours 5 minutes. TB21477.Warfare and Defence Ballantyne, Iain. Hunter killers: the dramatic untold story of the Royal Navy's most secret service. 2014. TB21632.A hunter killer is a submarine designed to pursue and attack enemy submarines and surface ships using torpedoes. four daring British submarine captains who risked their lives to keep the rest of us safe, their exploits consigned to the shadows until now. Their experiences encompass the span of the Cold War, from voyages in World War II-era submarines under Arctic ice to nuclear-powered espionage missions in Soviet-dominated seas. Read by Jonathan Oliver. 21 hours 33 minutes. TB21632.Corrigan, Gordon. A great and glorious adventure: a military history of the Hundred Years War. 2014. TB21790.The Hundred Years War was fought between 1337 and 1453 over English claims to both the throne of France by right of inheritance. But despite great victories at Crecy, Poitiers and Agincourt, the English could never hope to secure their claims in perpetuity. At its end, however, the English had become English, as opposed to Anglo-French, and France too had set out on the road to nationhood.Read by Peter Crerar. 11 hours 25 minutes. TB21790.Lambert, Andrew D. The challenge: America, Britain and the war of 1812. 2013. TB21526.In the summer of 1812 Britain stood alone, fighting for her very survival against a vast European Empire. Only the Royal Navy stood between Napoleon's legions and ultimate victory. In that dark hour America saw its chance to challenge British dominance: her troops invaded Canada and American frigates attacked British merchant shipping, the lifeblood of British defence. Read by John Cartwright. 17 hours 14 minutes. TB21526.Fermor, Patrick Leigh. Abducting a general: the Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete. 2014. TB21645.One of the greatest feats in Patrick Leigh Fermor's remarkable life was the kidnapping of General Kreipe, the German commander in Crete, on 26 April 1944. He and Captain Billy Moss hatched a daring plan to abduct the general, while ensuring that no reprisals were taken against the Cretan population. Read by Chris Courteney. 7 hours 49 minutes. TB21645.Olusoga, David. The world's war. 2014. TB21611.A unique account of the millions of colonial troops who fought in the First World War, and why they were later air-brushed out of history. Every major battle fought on the Western Front, from the First Battle of Ypres to the Second Battle of the Marne, was fought by Allied armies that were multi-racial and multi -ethnic. Yet from the moment the guns fell silent the role of non-white soldiers was forgotten and airbrushed out by later historians. Read by Damien Lynch. 16 hours 19 minutes. TB21611.Children and young adult fictionSuggested reading age 5+Booth, Anne. Lucy's secret reindeer. 2014. TB21639.Lucy has a big secret ... Santa's left her a little reindeer in the garden shed! But Starlight is poorly, and Santa won't be able to deliver any presents if he's not well in time. Can Lucy make Starlight better and save Christmas?Read by Lisa Milne Henderson. 1 hour 21 minutes. TB21639.Owen, Laura. Wonderfully Winnie! 2015. TB21748.Winnie the Witch is nothing short of wonderful! Here are twelve more stories about her. Read by Karina Fernandez. 1 hour 44 minutes. TB21748.Suggested reading age 7+Ardagh, Philip. The Grunts all at sea. 2014. TB21691.The Grunts; book 2. Mr Grunt's a man with a mission. He has to get a Person of Great Importance (or POGI) to someone called Mrs Bayliss by the twenty-fifth. Alive and well. And he can't tell anyone more than that, not even his lovely wife, Mrs Grunt, because there will be people trying to snatch the POGI and so the POGI must be transported in secret. It's an exciting adventure, but what interests Mr Grunt most are the silver coins he's been promised at the end of it. Read by David Graham. 4 hours 30 minutes. TB21691.Carpenter, Humphrey. Mr Majeika and the music teacher. 1987. TB21687.The sudden arrival of a new music teacher throws St Barty's School into confusion. Mysterious smells start coming from the staffroom and creepy -crawlies appear out of nowhere. The new arrival is, of course, Wilhelmina Worlock, a wicked witch with some nasty tricks. It's up to Mr Majeika to try to outwit her. Read by Greg Wagland. 1 hour 8 minutes. TB21687.Carpenter, Humphrey. Mr Majeika joins the circus. 2006. TB21685.Mr Majeika creates some magical mayhem at the circus. But then he goes missing and Class Three don't know where to find him. Wicked Wilhelmina Worlock isn't far away and she soon has lions, crocodiles and acrobats running everywhere. Mr Majeika had better come back soon.Read by Greg Wagland. 1 hour 16 minutes. TB21685.Carpenter, Humphrey. Mr Majeika and the lost spell book. 2003. TB21686.When the wizard-teacher defies the headmaster and uses magic to make Halloween more fun he is sacked. Wilhelmina Warlock is at the bottom of the trouble and must be defeated to rescue the children from boredom and Mr Majeika from his attempts at doing other jobs.Read by Greg Wagland. 1hour 10 minutes. TB21686.Cope, Andrew. Spy Dog: Storm chaser. 2015. TB21732.Spy Dog; book 11. An unusual storm cloud has been hovering over Brickfield town and Lara knows that something isn't quite right about it - it smells, sort of chickeny. The people of Brickfield are becoming strangely grumpy so Lara, Spy Dog extraordinaire, must investigate. If the town doesn't see sunshine soon the consequences could be dogastrophic!Read by Mark Elstob. 2 hours 24 minutes. TB21732.Fine, Anne. Under a silver moon. 2012. TB21751.In a hot, faraway land, two baby boys are born under the same silver moon: Haroun, the son of the sultan, and Akil, the son of the gardener. As children they play together until one day Haroun has to learn princely ways. But when he suffers pains that no doctor can cure, can Akil help him find a magic key to good health?Read by Louise Jameson. 26 minutes. TB21751.Frost, Adam. Stop! There's a snake in your suitcase! 2014. TB21573.Zoo story; book 1. The Nightingale family live on a barge on the canal near London Zoo, and Mum is a vet. When Tom and Sophie find a bag of snakes dumped at the gates of the zoo, a great and exciting adventure begins. Soon they are finding out about the trade in illegal animals and learning how to care for these wonderful creatures. Read by Daniel Philpott. 1 hour 42 minutes. TB21573.Murphy, Jill. The worst witch and the wishing star. 2014. TB21747.Worst witch; book 7. When Mildred makes a wish on a shooting star, she never dreams that it will come true so quickly. But it also spells trouble. Mildred's wish-come -true is a small dog but she has to keep him a secret from her friends, and especially from the formidable Miss Hardbroom. It's a disaster waiting to happen! Read by Rachel Atkins. 2 hours 6 minutes. TB21747.Nadin, Joanna. Penny Dreadful is a record breaker. 2013. TB21607.Three humorous short stories in one book: Penny Dreadful versus the Vampire; Penny Dreadful Looks on the Bright Side and Penny Dreadful and the World Record.Read by Beth Chalmers. 55 minutes. TB21607.Rix, Megan. The hero pup. 2014. TB21749.Patch is a yellow Labrador puppy in need of a home this Christmas. Eleven-year-old Joe is dreading the holidays - his first Christmas without Dad. It will never be the same again. But then Mum tells Joe about the Helper Dog Training programme. Can Joe adopt Patch for six months, give him a home and teach him to become a Helper Dog? But what about when it comes to saying goodbye?Read by Laura Murray. 4 hours 24 minutes. TB21749.Strong, Jeremy. The hundred-mile-an-hour dog. 2007. TB21680.The Hundred-mile-an-hour dog; book 1. Streaker is no ordinary dog. She is a rocket on four legs with a woof attached. Can Trevor train her by the end of the holidays or will he lose his bet with horrible Charlie Smugg?Read by Pip Brignall. 1 hour 51 minutes. TB21680.Strong, Jeremy. Kidnapped! The hundred-mile-an-hour dog's sizzling summer. 2014. TB21681.The hundred-mile-an-hour dog; book 5. Streaker is on holiday and she's made a new friend - which means double trouble! But they're not the only ones causing chaos on the campsite. Someone's up to no good and only Streaker can sniff them out. Can she stop the criminals before the French police catch up with her?Read by Lizzie Hopley. 1hour 59 minutes. TB21681.Suggested reading age 9+Angus, Sam. Captain. 2014. TB21587.It's 1915 and British troops are about to sail to Gallipoli. Billy is the youngest soldier in his platoon and is teased for not being old enough to drink or shave. The truth is, at 15 he's not old enough to be a soldier either, and he's terrified of the war he's about to fight. Then he meets Captain, a refugee boy, and his donkey, Hey-ho. Together they teach Billy what it means to be brave, loyal and fearless, and above all what it means to be a friend.Read by Tom Stanley. 6 hours 4 minutes. TB21587.Bawden, Nina. Carrie's war. 2014. TB21692.Evacuated from London to Wales during the Second World War, Carrie and her brother are sent to live with the very strict Mr Evans. But in trying to heal the breach between Mr Evans and his sister, Carrie does the worst thing she ever did in her life. Read by Di Langford. 4 hours 42 minutes. TB21692.Cain, Cate. The jade boy. 2013. TB21629.12-year-old Jem Green works as a kitchen boy in the London household of a powerful duke. He doesn't know who his father is and his life consists of never-ending drudgery. But when the sinister Count Cazalon pays a visit to the duke, Jem's world is turned upside down. The Count is planning something terrible - and Jem appears to be central to the wicked scheme.Read by Louise Jameson. 9 hours 46 minutes. TB21629.Cole, Stephen. World War Moo. 2008. TB21730.Cows in action; book 5. The CIA are going to war. The time shed has been blown up in the Blitz, so McMoo must parachute behind enemy lines in search of a captured scientist who can help repair it. The agents have to work together to take on the enemy in an air battle and makesure that the course of history runs smoooothly.Read by Greg Wagland. 1 hour 59 minutes. TB21730.Cole, Stephen. The Victorian moo-ders. 2010. TB21731.Cows in Action; book 9. Sent back to Victorian England, the CIA are investigating a series of strange moo-ders that seem to have been committed by a ghostly cow of doom who leaves a mysterious black calling card for each of his victims. But what have the FBI got to do with these murders and who will be next?Read by Greg Wagland. 2 hours 4 minutes. TB21731.Cottrell Boyce, Frank. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the race against time. 2013. TB21733.Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; book 2. 'We need to get as far from the T-Rex as possible'. It was a sentence Dad had never expected to say – and something the Tootings never expected to hear. But then they never expected Chitty to get stuck reversing through time until she came to rest at the feet of a very hungry dinosaur. Can Chitty get them out of trouble before they become T-rex takeaway?Read by Mark Elstob. 4 hours 16 minutes. TB21733.Fine, Anne. Blue moon day. 2014. TB21752.Everyone thinks they know what it's like, going to school. But have you ever wondered what life must be like at a boarding school? A school for young offenders? A school for the blind? With her trademark humour, insight, sensitivity and razor-sharp wit, Anne Fine explores these different worlds in a short story collection that will fascinate young readers.Read by Tom Stanley. 4 hours 19 minutes. TB21752.Golding, Julia. Young knights of the Round Table. 2013. TB21746.Young Knights; book 1. Snatched from their cradles by faerie thieves, Rick, Roxy, and Tiago have been brainwashed to hate humans and trained in the art of magical warfare. When Avalon is attacked by an unseen enemy, the Fey send them to Earth to investigate a rumour that the Round Table is being re-formed. But they soon discover that the truth is much, much worse.Read by Kris Dyer. 9 hours 4 minutes. TB21746.Haddon, Mark. Agent Z meets the masked crusader. 2015. TB21754.Agent Z; book 1. When Agent Z appears on the scene, Ben's razor-sharp brain is needed for the most mysterious missions and some serious strategies - and suddenly life on earth becomes rather interesting. Read by Brian Fenton. 3 hours 54 minutes. TB21754.Hare, Lucinda. Dragon lords rising. 2012. TB21459.The Dragonsdome chronicles; book 3. A gnome, a girl and a dwarf fly north on an injured battledragon in the depth of winter to search for the missing Commander of the Stealth Dragon Services. The race to find the only man who can unmask the traitor at the heart of the realm is on!Read by Carolyn Bonnyman. 10 hours 41 minutes. TB21459.Ibbotson, Toby. Mountwood School for Ghosts. 2014. TB21700.Fredegonda, Goneril, and Drusilla are Great Hagges, much more important and much rarer than regular old hags. They think that ghosts these days are decidedly lacking - they need to learn a thing or two about being scary. And what better way to teach them than to set up their very own school for ghosts?Read by Emma Powell. 7 hours 2 minutes. TB21700.Marshall, Jill. Jane Blonde spies trouble. 2006. TB21755.Jane Blonde; book 2. The kitty-knapping of her spy-cat, Trouble, launches Jane Blonde into another incredible investigation! A group of crazed scientists believe they have discovered the secret to a cat’s nine lives – but they need Trouble for their experiments. All the clues lead Janey down a manhole – defeating the enemy is going to be a wet and stinky business! Read by Anna Parker-Naples. 4 hours 49 minutes. TB21755.Moss, Fletcher. The poison boy. 2013. TB21743.Poison boy Dalton Fly, a lowly food taster to the rich, has a lucky escape after drinking laced wine. But his mate is less fortunate, and Dalton wants answers. Who murdered his friend and what were they were really after? With the help of aristocratic girl, Scarlet Dropmore, whose life he unwittingly saved, he sets out to rescue his city from the poisoners within. Read by Brian Fenton. 9 hours 42 minutes. TB21743.Pichon, Liz. Extra special treats (... not). 2014. TB21641.Tom Gates; book 7. It's book week in Oakfield school and everyone is very excited. Mr Keen says there's an excellent prize on offer for best costumes worn on book day. Delia's not much help (as usual) at making costumes and the Fossils get carried away with the dressing up box. Marcus decides that he is a super hero and can't understand why 'Super Marcus' isn't the best name.Read by Ryan Watson. 2 hours 19 minutes. TB21641.Reeve, Philip. Goblin quest. 2014. TB21712.Goblins; book 3. The heroes continue their adventures outside the walls of Clovenstone Castle. Having seen off the thieving dwarves the goblins are now on a bold quest to solve the mysteries that seem to surround them but powerful dark forces must be vanquished and monstrous creatures fought. Read by Richard Derrington. 8 hours. TB21712.Ryan, Chris. Desert pursuit. 2003. TB21763.Alpha Force; book 3. Alpha Force are a unique group of five individuals, each with special skills, each ready to go anywhere in the world to help others in need. Undercover, they head for the Sahara Desert, resolved to gather evidence of young landmine victims. But they are catapulted into a desperate race across the desert when they discover a terrible evil - a gang of child -slavers operating in the area.Read by Brian Fenton. 6 hours 14 minutes. TB21763.Wilson, Jacqueline. The longest whale song. 2011. TB21347.When her mum ends up in a coma after having a new baby, Ella is left coping with her well-meaning but shambolic stepdad - and a tiny newborn brother. Her main distraction from all her worries is her school project about whales. Ella is fascinated by the idea of whale song, when they call out to each other to attract a mate.Read by Rachael Louise Miller. 7 hours 50 minutes. TB21347.Winkler, Henry. Hank Zipzer, the world's greatest underachiever and the crazy classroom cascade. 2012. TB21677.The world's greatest underachiever series. According to ten-year-old Hank Zipzer, there are many reasons why he shouldn't have to do homework: every pen he owns has run out of ink; his thoughts are controlled by alien beings; he's allergic to lined paper - or could it just be that Hank has dyslexia and doesn't want to look stupid?Read by Russell Bentley. 2 hours 36 minutes. TB21677.Suggested reading age 11+Alcott, Louisa May. Little women. 1997. TB21804.An abridged version for younger readers. The classic tale of four sisters experiencing both hardship and adventure in Civil War New England. Grown-up Meg, tomboyish Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy, the four March sisters couldn't be more different. But with their father away at war, and their mother working to support the family, they have to rely on one another. Read by Danielle Farrow. 2 hours 34 minutes. TB21804.Bowler, Tim. Night runner. 2014. TB21533.Zinny's life is falling apart. Shadowy figures are following him. His parents are keeping secrets but he can't figure out why. Then his mum ends up in hospital, his dad disappears, and Zinny has to do whatever he can to save his family. Even if it means helping the very men he's been running from. As the clock ticks, Zinny knows it's only a matter of time before someone ends up dead - and it could be him. Read by Tom Stanley. 4 hours 54 minutes. TB21533.Suggested reading age 13+Austen, Jane. Pride and prejudice. 1997. TB21802.An abridged version for younger readers. Elizabeth Bennet's early determination to dislike Mr Darcy, who is quite the most handsome and eligible bachelor, is a misjudgement only matched in folly by Darcy's arrogant pride. Their first impressions give way to truer feelings in a comedy profoundly concerned with happiness and how it might be achieved.Read by Danielle Farrow. 2 hours 34 minutes. TB21802.David, Keren. Salvage. 2014. TB21742.Before she was adopted by a loving family, Cass Montgomery was Cass Jones. Her memories of her birth family disappeared with her name. But when her adopted family starts to break down, a way out comes in the form of a message from her lost brother, Aidan. She couldn’t really remember his face or anything about him but having Aidan back in her life is both everything she needs and nothing she expected. Who is this boy who calls himself her brother? And why is he so haunted?Read by Chetan Pathak and Gemma Lawrence. 8 hours 28 minutes. TB21742.Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe. 1997. TB21805.An abridged version for younger readers. Robinson Crusoe, set ashore on an island after a terrible storm at sea, is forced to make do with only a knife, some tobacco, and a pipe. He learns how to build a canoe, make bread, and endure endless solitude. That is, until twenty-four years later, when he confronts another human being. Read by James Bryce. 2 hours 28 minutes. TB21805.Ducie, Joe. The Rig. 2013. TB21741.15-year-old Will Drake has made a career of breaking out from high -security prisons. His talents have landed him at the Rig, a specialist juvenile holding facility in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. No one can escape from the Rig. Drake quickly realises that all is not as it seems there. The Warden is obsessed with the mysterious Crystal-X - a blue, glowing substance that appears to give superpowers to the teens exposed to it. Drake, Tristan and Irene are banking on a bid for freedom - but can they survive long enough to make it?Read by David Monteath. 8 hours 8 minutes. TB21741.Hammond, Sarah. The night sky in my head. 2012. TB21723.Since the accident, Mikey Baxter isn't like other 14-year-old boys. The world sees him as damaged, but Mikey has a remarkable gift - the ability to go backwards in time and witness things that hide in the shadows. Now he must uncover the terrifying truth behind his dad's disappearance before the past starts to repeat itself. Read by Pip Brignall. 8 hours 59 minutes. TB21723.Hinton, S E. The Outsiders. 2003. TB21286.The Socs's idea of having a good time is beating up Greasers like Ponyboy, the rough, tough, long-haired kids from the other side of town. Ponyboy knows what to expect and knows he can count on his friends - until the night someone goes too far.Read by Christopher Ragland. 5 hours 21 minutes. TB21286.McKenzie, Sophie. Split second. 2014. TB21705.Bound together by the devastating consequences of a terrorist attack on a London market, teenagers Charlotte (Charlie) and Nat appear at first to have much in common. But, as Charlie gets closer to Nat and his family, she begins to wonder if perhaps he knows more about the attack than he has let on.Read by Gloria Sanders and Philip Elstob. 8 hours 39 minutes. TB21705.Powell, Laura. Burn mark. 2012. TB21709. Burn mark; book 1. Glory is from a family of witches. She is desperate to develop the 'Fae' and become a witch herself. Lucas is the son of the chief prosecutor of the inquisition and his privileged life is very different to the world of witches that he lives alongside. And then one day both Glory and Lucas develop the Fae, in one stroke they are bound together.Read by Juliette Burton. 12 hours 42 minutes. TB21709.Rai, Bali. Web of darkness. 2014. TB21710. When the incredibly attractive Benedict befriends Lily online, she is thrilled. She finds herself opening up to him, telling him things she wouldn't tell anybody else. And she needs someone to confide in more than ever before as a spate of apparent suicides rocks her school - and her group of friends. But is Benedict the kind, charming person that he seemed to be initially? Lily soon realises that now, with half our lives spent online, you can be found - even if you try to hide.Read by Esme Sears. 9 hours 2 minutes. TB21710.Stevenson, Robert Louis. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. 1996. TB21760.An abridged version for younger readers. Sinister rumours fill the streets. The police are looking for a small, evil-looking man called Edward Hyde. He was last seen entering the house of the respected doctor Henry Jekyll. But why is Dr Jekyll not answering the door?Read by James Bryce. 2 hours 56 minutes. TB21760.Suggested reading age 15+Becker, Tom. While the others sleep. 2013. TB21695.Alfie Mandeville doesn't know why he's sent to Scarbrook House, a sanatorium where the children of Victorian Britain's upper class are hidden away. The only thing wrong with him is that he cannot sleep. But Alfie soon begins to doubt his own sanity when disturbing things start to happen at Scarbrook. Read by Alex McConnell. 6 hours 29 minutes. TB21695.Don, Lari. Mind blind. 2014. TB21717.Ciaran Bain is a criminal with a special talent: he can read minds. But his skill comes at a price. Lucy Shaw wants justice for her dead sister. Killed for a secret Ciaran's family wants burried, his sister's blood is on his hands. Only together can the unlikely allies uncover that deadly secret. They can run, but where can they hide if they are never safe, even in their own minds?Read by Cameron Mowat and Kirsty Eila McIntyre. 7 hours 26 minutes. TB21717.Earle, Phil. Heroic. 2013. TB21602.Jammy and Sonny McGann are brothers, but that's where the similarities end. One is calm when the other is angry; one has a plan while the other lives purely in the moment. When Jammy returns from Afghanistan a very different man to the one who left, it's Sonny who is left to hold things together. But just how far will he go to save the brother who always put him first?Read by Brian Fenton and David Thorpe. 7 hours 46 minutes. TB21602.Children and young adult non-fiction.Suggested reading age 7+Bradman, Tony. Spartacus: the story of the rebellious Thracian gladiator. History. 2010. TB21679.A thrilling look at the life of a key figure in history. Spartacus was a rebel at heart. He fought back against the Roman system of slavery, and inspired thousands of other slaves to join him and rebel. Read by Jonathan Oliver. 1 hour 26 minutes. TB21679.Books narrated by volunteersAdult fictionCussler, Clive. The striker. 2014. Thriller. TB405319.Isaac Bell book 6.It is 1902, and Isaac Bell is investigating sabotage in a West Virginia coal mine. But when he stops a runaway train, saving countless lives, Bell discovers that it is part of a conspiracy to frame striking miners. Bell must prevent them starting a war which could bring the nation to its knees.8 hours 36 minutes. TB405319.Grimes, Martha. The Five Bells and Bladebone. 1988. Crime. TB405312.Richard Jury book 9. When Melrose Plant finds the very dead body of faithless, greedy Simon Lean, there's no shortage of suspects to hand. Richard Jury's enquiries stir up a hornet's nest of suspicion and mutual distrust in the sleepy surroundings of Watermeadows, the stately home where Simon met his end.9 hours 48minutes. TB405312.McNab, Claire. Death club. 2001. Crime. TB405315.Carol Ashton book 13. When a murderer tees off at the world's most prestigious women's golf tournament, Australian top cop Carol Ashton becomes an unwilling player in a much deadlier game. The fairway becomes a killing field and someone sets out to even the score.12 hours 21 minutes. TB405315.McNab, Claire. Accidental murder. 2002. Crime. Gay fiction. TB405314.Carol Ashton book 14. When people with no obvious connections to each other are dying in what appear to be legitimate accidents nothing seems amiss. As Carol begins an investigation of the completely unrelated deaths, she realizes this could be the toughest case of her career and perhaps, one impossible to solve.7 hours 17 minutes. TB405314.Tolkien, J. R. R. Sauron defeated: the end of the third age (the history of the Lord of the Rings part IV) the Notion Club papers, and the drowning of Anadun?e. 1993. Fantasy.TB405317.The history of Middle-Earth book 9.The final part of The History of The Lord of the Rings, an account of the writing of the Book of the Century which contains many additional scenes and includes the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety. 29 hours 13 minutes. TB405317.Autobiography and biographyPhillips, Bryn. A police dog handler's story. 1999. TB405324.Bryn Phillips gives an account of his upbringing in Wales before and during the war, followed by details of his boxing career. At the age of 27 Bryn joined the police force. He records his progress from Bobby on the Beat, training as a dog hand horse handler, to his promotion to Chief Inspector and Head of Dog Training. 6 hours 32 minutes TB405324.HealthMoncrieff, Joanna. The myth of the chemical cure: a critique of psychiatric drug treatment. 2009. TB405276.Joanna Moncrieff overturns the idea that psychiatric drugs work by correcting chemical imbalance and analyses the professional, commercial and political vested interests that have shaped this view. She provides a comprehensive critique of research on drugs including antidepressants, antipsychotics and mood stabilizers.13 hours 57 minutes. TB405276.HistoryThe war in the air, 1939-1945: an anthology of personal experience. 2007. TB405313.Freedom's battle book 2. All the great dramas of the air war are here, described by the men in the British and Commonwealth Air Forces who did the fighting. We join them in the days of the fall of France; the Battle of Britain; the agony of Bomber Command; the high seas, Malta, the desert battles and in the struggle with Japan.17 hours 3 minutes. TB405313.Sykes, Bryan. Blood of the Isles: exploring the genetic roots of our tribal history. 2007. TB405325.Bryan Sykes, the world's first genetic archaeologist, takes us on a journey around the family tree of Britain and Ireland, to reveal how our tribal history still colours the country today. It reveals the nature of our genetic make-up as never before and what this says about our attitudes to ourselves, each other, and to our past.14 hours 5 minutes. TB405325.LanguageCrystal, David. Investigating English style. 1969. TB405263.For the scholar, the teacher, the student and the general reader, but especially for English-speaking students of language and linguistics in institutions where English is the language of instruction, or advanced specialist students of English in universities where English is taught as a foreign language.12 hours 21 minutes. TB405263.LiteratureStevenson, Randall. Modernist fiction. 1998. TB405318.In this revised edition Stevenson has expanded, re -emphasised and amended his work to make it even more relevant to today's student studying the Modernist period in literature. The book covers a wide range of modernist novelists and novels, and also provides an invaluable guide to key developments in the genre. 16 hours 30 minutes. TB405318.PhilosophyTsunetomo, Yamamoto. Hagakure: the book of the Samurai. 2000. TB405326.Hagakure ("In the Shadow of Leaves"') is a manual for the samurai class, consisting of a series of short anecdotes and reflections that give both insight and instruction in the philosophy and code of behaviour that foster the true spirit of Bushido - the Way of the Warrior. 5 hours 45 minutes. TB405326.ReligionKeating, Thomas. Fruits and gifts of the Spirit. 2007. TB405322.Thomas Keating has spent over fifty years in devotion to the spiritual life. The results of this creative activity are summarized in this book. The spiritual journey teaches us: first to believe in the Divine Indwelling within us, secondly to recognize that this energy is benign healing and thirdly to enjoy it's gradual unfolding.2 hours 54 minutes. TB405322.Packer, J. I. Concise Theology: Guide to Historic Christian Beliefs. 1993. TB405270.This book sets out the permanent essentials of Christianity, viewed as both a belief system and a way of life. Packer's summary covers nearly one hundred subjects, from a Reformed perspective. The four main sections present God revealed as Creator, Redeemer, Lord of grace, and Lord of destiny.6 hours 5 minutes. TB405270.Wieland, Robert J. The revelation of things to come: a verse by verse study and explanation of the prophetic book of Revelation. 1998. TB405316.7 hours 8 minutes. TB405316.Self helpBrueton, Diana. Dancing with cancer and how I learnt a few new steps. 2014. TB405274.Diana had never been ill and on diagnosis she stepped into a parallel world of waiting rooms, treatments, friends and family who supported – or fled - as life became both exquisitely precious and terrible. A human drama, a ride on the rollercoaster of hope and despair, a journey through meditation and creativity. 7 hours 52 minutes. TB405274.Heyse-Moore, Louis. Speaking of dying: a practical guide to using counselling skills in palliative care. 2009. TB405320.Speaking of Dying is a practical guide to using counselling skills for all clinical disciplines working in palliative care, whether in a hospice, hospital or at home. Complete with a clear explanation of both counselling and medical terminology, this hands-on guide will be a companion to anyone working in palliative care.8 hours 3 minutes. TB405320.Karle, H.W.A. Hypnotherapy: a practical handbook. 2010. TB405321.Understanding how hypnotic suggestions produce physical effects, will guide what is attempted in hypnotherapy. This new edition includes a summary account of the most cogent discoveries of the last two decades, and references to some of the most important knowledge acquired in psycho-neuro-endocrino -immunology.12 hours 55 minutes. TB405321. ................
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