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New books Issue 75July 2020Your regular update of new titles available for loan and sale from RNIB.BrailleTalking books Postal collectionsTo arrange a collection of books to return to the library, call Royal Mail and follow the selections as follows:Call 03457 950 950Press 1 for Business or registered charityPress 7 for anything else(including to set up a business collection including ad-hocCollections)Newer books!It’s much easier to keep up to date with new additions to our librarycollection if you access our website. Don’t wait for the next edition of New Books; choose your books from our up to the minute online catalogue at ContentsBrailleAdult fictionAdult non-fictionAutobiographyCountry Life and FarmingEnvironment and EcologyChildren and young adult fiction0-4 Suggested Reading Age07+ Suggested Reading Age09+ Suggested Reading Age11+ Suggested Reading Age13+ Suggested Reading Age15+ Suggested Reading AgeTalking BooksAdult fictionAdult non-fictionAutobiographyBiographyGeographyA Selection Of Harper Collins TitlesAdult fictionAdult non-fictionAutobiographyBiographyHealth and FitnessHistoryMusicNatural HistoryPolitics and GovernmentPsychologyTrue CrimeChildren and young adult fiction09+ Suggested Reading Age11+ Suggested Reading Age13+ Suggested Reading AgeTo borrow booksTo buy booksBrailleAdult fictionAhern, Cecelia. Postscript. 2019. Chick lit.PS, I love you: book 2. It's been seven years since Holly Kennedy's husband died and six years since she read his final letter, urging Holly to find the courage to forge a new life. But terminally ill people have started reaching out to Holly; they want to leave their own missives behind for loved ones. Holly will embark on a remarkable journey, one that will challenge her to ask whether embracing the future means betraying the past, and what it means to love someone forever.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26529703Archer, Jeffrey. False Impression. 2005. Thriller.An aristocratic old lady is brutally murdered in her country home the night before 9/11. A young woman in the North Tower has the courage and determination to take on both sides of the law and avenge the old lady's death. Anna Petrescu is missing, presumed dead, after 9/11 and she uses her new status to escape from America. It is only when she returns to New York that the mystery unfolds. Why are so many people willing to risk their own lives to own the Van Gogh Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear?UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26570603Balzac, Honore? de. Eugénie Grandet. 2004. Classic.Monsieur Grandet is a very rich man whose chief care is his gold. He runs his household with exacting miserly attention and his wife and daughter suffer a Spartan existence. On the evening of his daughter Eugénie's twenty third birthday his foppish nephew Charles suddenly arrives from Paris. Eugénie falls in love and her life is changed forever. Monsieur Grandet will not countenance his daughter's marriage to her penniless cousin. Eugénie's determination to follow her heart leads her into direct conflict with her father.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26485303Barclay, Linwood. Elevator Pitch. 2019. Thriller.It all begins on a Monday, when four people board an elevator in a Manhattan office tower. It plummets right to the bottom of the shaft. Then, on Tuesday, it happens again, in a different Manhattan skyscraper. A cold, calculated bid to terrorize the city is working. But what do these deadly acts of sabotage have to do with the fingerless body found on the High Line? It will be a race against time for detectives Jerry Borque and Lois Delgado to find the answers before a deadly Friday night showdown.UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26533003Bradford, Barbara Taylor. The Women In His Life. 1990. General fiction.Maximilian West is a filthy rich corporate raider and a man of power, glamour and charm. He is also riven with internal conflict and torn apart by personal doubts. Many women have loved Maxim. There is Anastasia, his first wife; Camilla, the beautiful English actress; Adriana, the competitive American career woman; and Blair, the mistress who schemes to become his wife. But only one woman holds the key that will unlock Maximilian’s secret and set his soul free.UEB. 11v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26507303Child, Lee. Blue Moon. 2019. Thriller.Jack Reacher: book 24. In a nameless city, two rival criminal gangs are competing for control. But they hadn’t counted on Jack Reacher arriving on their patch. Reacher is on a Greyhound bus, watching an elderly man sleeping in his seat, with a fat envelope of cash hanging out of his pocket. Another passenger is hoping to get rich quick. As the mugger makes his move, Reacher steps in. The old man is vulnerable, scared, and clearly in trouble. Will Reacher be in time to stop bad things happening? The odds are better with Reacher involved.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26495003Cole, Martina. No Mercy. 2018. Thriller.Diana Davis has been head of the family business since the death of her husband, an infamous bank robber. Her only son, Angus, is a natural born villain, but he needs to earn Diana's trust before she'll allow him into the business. Once he's proved he has the brains to run their clubs in Marbella, he is given what he's always wanted. It's the beginning of a reign of terror that knows no bounds. But as the next generation enters the business, Angus has to learn that even when it comes to family, he must show no mercy.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26501903Court, Dilly. The Christmas Wedding. 2019. Historical fiction.Village secrets: book 1. 1867. Daisy Marshall, secretly engaged to her master's son, finds herself jilted at the altar. Heartbroken, Daisy flees to the small village of Little Creek, nestled on the coast of Essex. She is warmly welcomed. Little Creek is poverty-stricken, suffering under a cruel Lord of the manor. Then cholera hits. Can Daisy save the village and find happiness in time for Christmas?UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26549503Court, Dilly. A Village Scandal. 2020. Historical fiction.Village secrets: book 2. April, 1869. It's spring in Little Creek and wedding bells are ringing. After their hasty marriage the Christmas before, Daisy Marshall is overjoyed to be finally marrying dashing Jay Fox properly, in front of the whole village. But then, on the evening of their wedding, Jay disappears. Daisy doesn't know if Jay is dead or alive, if she's his wife or his widow. Without her husband, she has no means of supporting herself or her household. But the secret of Jay's disappearance is more scandalous that she could have ever imagined.UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26567303Dickinson, Margaret. The Poppy Girls. 2018. Historical romance.Maitland trilogy: book 1. Thwarted in her desire to become a doctor like her brother, Robert, Pips Maitland rebels against her mother's wishes that she settle down and raise children. Then Robert brings home a friend from medical school, Giles Kendall, and it seems perhaps Pips might fall in love after all. But the year is 1914 and war breaks out. Pips is determined to be a nurse on the front line. Amidst the unending stream of injured being brought to their post, the love between Pips and Giles survives and blossoms.UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26504903Dickinson, Margaret. The Brooklands Girls. 2019. Family stories.Maitland trilogy: book 2. It is 1919 and the Maitland family are still coming to terms with the aftermath of the Great War. After her brave work as an ambulance driver and nurse close to the Front, Pips seeks excitement in the London parties and balls of the Roaring Twenties. But can Pips ever allow herself to love again? Her brother, Robert, returned injured and is battling demons of his own. It is Pips young niece, Daisy, on whom the family dotes, who brings them joy and hope for the future.UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26505103Donoghue, Emma. Akin. 2019. General fiction.A social worker calls Noah looking for a temporary home for Michael, Noah's 11-year-old great-nephew. Though Noah has never met the boy, he gets talked into taking him along on a trip to Nice, France. They argue about everything and the trip is looking like a disaster. But Michael's ease with tech and sharp eye help Noah unearth troubling details about their family's past. And both of them come to find they are more akin than they knew.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26494803Du Maurier, Daphne. The King's General. 2004. Historical fiction.Honor Harris is only eighteen when she first meets Richard Grenvile, proud, reckless and utterly captivating. But following a riding accident, Honor must reconcile herself to a life alone. As the English Civil war is waged across the country, Richard rises through the ranks of the army. He marries and makes enemies, while Honor remains true to him. Decades later, an undaunted Sir Richard, now a general serving King Charles I, finds her. They share their passion in the ruins of her family's great Cornish estate before being torn apart forever.UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26494903Evans, Harriet. The Garden Of Lost And Found. 2019. General fiction.Nightingale House, 1919. Liddy Horner discovers her husband, the world-famous artist Sir Edward Horner, burning his best-known painting 'The Garden of Lost and Found' days before his sudden death. When Edward and Liddy's great-granddaughter Juliet is sent the key to Nightingale House, she opens the door onto a forgotten world. The house holds its mysteries close but she is in search of answers. Something shattered this corner of paradise. But what?UEB. 9v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26504003Gayle, Mike. The Man I Think I Know. 2018. General fiction.When they graduated from one of the top public schools in England, Danny and James faced a glittering future. Years later, depressed and unemployed, Danny is facing an ultimatum from his girlfriend Maya: if he doesn't get out and get a job, she's leaving. An accident changed James's life. Now James is going into a respite home to give his parents a break from caring for him. The respite home, as it turns out, where Danny has just got a job. Their lives are about to change forever.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26501703Gordon, Kat. An Unsuitable Woman. 2019. Literary fiction.Theo Miller is fourteen years old when he steps off the train into the simmering heat and uproar of 1920s Nairobi. He meets enchanting American heiress Sylvie de Cro and her charismatic, reckless companion, Freddie Hamilton. Behind their intoxicating allure lies a more powerful cocktail of lust, betrayal, deceit and violence that he cannot avoid. He must find a way back to his family before it is too late.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26485403Graham, Winston. The Stranger From The Sea. 2008. Historical fiction.Poldark: book 8. Cornwall 1810. The Poldark family awaits the return of Ross from his mission to Wellington's army in Portugal. But their ordered existence ends with Jeremy Poldark's dramatic rescue of the stranger from the sea. Stephen Carrington's arrival in the Poldark household changes all their lives. For Clowance and Jeremy in particular, the children of Ross and Demelza, Stephen's advent is the key to a world of love and danger.UEB. 8v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26538503Graham, Winston. The Miller's Dance. Historical fiction.Poldark: book 9. Cornwall 1812. The Poldark family finds the new year brings involvement in more than one unexpected venture. For Ross and Demelza there is some worrying news. And Clowance, newly returned from her London triumphs, finds that her entanglement with Stephen Carrington brings not only happiness but heartache. As the armies battle in Spain, and the political situation at home becomes daily more obscure, the Poldark and Warleggan families find themselves thrust into a turbulent new era.UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26569103Greene, Graham. The End Of The Affair. 2004. Classic.The love affair between Maurice Bendrix and Sarah flourishes in the turbulent times of the London Blitz. But it ends when Sarah suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. Two years later a chance meeting rekindles Maurice's love and jealousy. He hires a private detective to follow Sarah, and slowly his love for her turns into an obsession.UEB. 4v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26560603Grisham, John. The Guardians. 2019. Thriller.For 22 years Quincy Miller has sat on Death Row. He was convicted of killing Keith Russo, a lawyer in a small Florida town. Finally, an innocence lawyer and minister, Cullen Post, takes on his case. But there were powerful and ruthless people behind Russo's murder. They prefer that an innocent man goes to his death than one of them. There's one way to guarantee that. They killed one lawyer 22 years ago, and they'll kill another without a second thought.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26497203Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls. 1994. Classic.Hemingway's classic portrayal of the Spanish Civil War, seen through the eyes of an American fighting on the Republican side, captures the excitement and danger of war. High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. In the mountains he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco's rebels.UEB. 9v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26521403Higgins, Jack. Drink With The Devil. 2011. Thriller.Sean Dillon: book 5. Ten years ago, a fortune in gold bullion was stolen, only to disappear beneath the Irish Sea. Now it’s been found. Irish militant Michael Ryan wants to finance war in his homeland and enters into a sinister pact with the New York Mafia. To stop him, the British and American authorities call in Sean Dillon, once the most feared IRA enforcer, now working for British Intelligence. His mission is to retrieve the stolen British gold and stop Ryan by any means necessary.UEB. 4v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26566503Kent, Tony. Marked For Death. 2019. Thriller.London's legal establishment is shaken to its foundation by the grisly crucifixion of a retired Lord Chief Justice. Detective Chief Inspector Joelle Levy is tasked with finding his killer. With fifty years of potential enemies to choose from, only the identical murder of former solicitor Adam Blunt offers a ray of hope. What is it that connects these victims who met such a gruesome end?UEB. 8v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26489503Kidd, Jess. Things In Jars. 2019. Historical crime.London, 1863. Bridie Devine, the finest female detective of her age, takes on her toughest case yet. Six-year-old Christabel Berwick has been kidnapped. Christabel, an oddity of nature with pike teeth, who smells of the sea, draws people’s memories out of them. As Bridie fights to recover the stolen child she enters a world of fanatical anatomists, crooked surgeons and mercenary showmen. The public love a spectacle and Christabel may well prove the most remarkable spectacle London has ever seen.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26497103King, Stephen. The Institute. 2019. Horror.Deep in the woods of Maine, there is a facility where children with exceptional gifts, abducted from across the United States, are incarcerated. In the Institute they are subjected to a series of tests and procedures. Luke Ellis is 12 years old and super-smart. Luke wants to escape and teams up with a new, even younger recruit, Avery Dixon, whose ability to read minds is off the scale. While the Institute may want to harness their powers for covert ends, the combined intelligence of Luke and Avery is beyond anything those who run the experiments suspect.UEB. 10v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26533103Kinsella, Sophie. Shopaholic To The Rescue. 2015. Chick lit.Shopaholic: book 8. Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) is on a major rescue mission. Hollywood was full of surprises, and now she's on a road trip to Las Vegas to help her friends and family. She's determined to get to the bottom of why her dad has mysteriously disappeared, help her best friend Suze and even bond with Alicia Bitch Long-legs (maybe). As Becky discovers just how much her friends and family need help, she comes up with her biggest, boldest, most brilliant plan yet. So can she save the day just when they need her most?UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26490403Kinsella, Sophie. Christmas Shopaholic. 2019. Chick lit.Shopaholic: book 9. Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) adores Christmas but this year looks set to be different. Becky's parents have asked her if she'll host Christmas this year. Sister Jess is demanding a vegan turkey. Husband Luke is determined that he just wants aftershave again. And little Minnie is insisting on a very specific picnic hamper. Then there is the surprise appearance of an old boyfriend and his pushy new girlfriend, whose motives are far from clear.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26490603Lewis, Susan. One Minute Later. 2019. Thriller.With a high-flying job and a beautiful apartment, Vivienne Shager is living the dream. Then, on the afternoon of Vivi's twenty-seventh birthday, one catastrophic minute changes everything. Forced to move back to the small seaside town where she grew up, Vivi remembers the reasons she left. Shelley Raynor's family home, Deerwood Farm, has always been a special place until darkness strikes at its heart. When Vivi's and Shelley's worlds begin to entwine, it only takes a moment for the truth to unravel all of their lives.UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26489703Logan, T. M. The Holiday. 2019. Thriller.Four best friends and their families gather in a luxurious villa in Provence, dreamed up by Kate as a way to celebrate turning 40. Kate suspects that her husband is having an affair, and that the other woman is one of her best friends. But which one? As Kate closes in on the truth in the stifling Mediterranean heat, she realises too late that the stakes are far higher than she ever imagined. Someone in the villa is prepared to kill to keep their secret hidden.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26489803Macneal, Elizabeth. The Doll Factory. 2019. Historical fiction.London. 1850. The greatest spectacle the city has ever seen is being built in Hyde Park, and among the crowd watching two people meet. For Iris, an aspiring artist, it is an encounter forgotten seconds later. For Silas, a collector entranced by the strange and beautiful, that meeting marks a new beginning. When Iris is asked to model for pre-Raphaelite artist Louis Frost, she agrees on the condition that he will also teach her to paint. Suddenly her world begins to expand, to become a place of art and love. But Silas has only thought of one thing since their meeting, and his obsession is darkening.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26503603Mantel, Hilary. The Mirror And The Light. 2020. Historical fiction.Wolf Hall: book 3. England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. Thomas Cromwell, the blacksmith’s son from Putney, emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth. His formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, Jane Seymour. Rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion are testing Henry’s regime to breaking point. But Cromwell’s robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future.UEB. 18v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26558103Mina, Denise. Conviction. 2019. Thriller.Anna McDonald's own husband and her best friend are leaving together and they're taking Anna's two daughters with them. She distracts herself with a true-crime podcast. There's a sunken yacht in the Mediterranean and multiple murders. Then Anna realises she knew one of the victims in another life. She is convinced she knows what happened. Her past, so carefully hidden until now, will no longer stay silent. She throws herself into investigating the case.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26493503Morgenstern, Erin. The Starless Sea. 2019. Fantasy.Zachary Rawlins stumbles across a strange book hidden in his university library. Determined to solve the puzzle of the book, Zachary follows the clues he finds on the cover: a bee, a key and a sword. They guide him to a bibliophile masquerade ball and to a dangerous secret club. Finally, Zachary reaches a magical doorway created by the fierce and mysterious Mirabel. This door leads to a subterranean labyrinth filled with stories, hidden far beneath the surface of the earth.UEB. 9v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26490003Murray, Annie. Mother And Child. 2019. Family stories.Jo and Ian's marriage is hanging by a thread. Their only child, Paul, died in an accident that should never have happened. Jo catches a glimpse of a young boy in a magazine who resembles Paul. Reading the article, she learns of a tragedy in India. It moves her so deeply she is inspired to embark on a trip where she will learn about unimaginable pain and suffering.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26490203O'Leary, Beth. The Flatshare. 2019. Chick lit.Tiffy Moore needs a cheap flat, and fast. Leon Twomey works nights and needs cash. So Leon occupies the one-bed flat while Tiffy's at work in the day, and she has the run of the place the rest of the time. But with obsessive ex-boyfriends, demanding clients at work, wrongly imprisoned brothers and the fact that they still haven't met yet, they're about to discover that if you want the perfect home you need to throw the rule book out the window.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26503503Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-four. 2000. Classic.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. It is a world which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty, Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia. He soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal.UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26499903Patchett, Ann. The Dutch House. 2019. Literary fiction.Danny Conroy grows up in the Dutch House, a lavish mansion. Though his father is distant and his mother is absent, Danny has his beloved sister Maeve. The siblings grow and change as life plays out under the watchful eyes of the house's former owners, in the frames of their oil paintings. Then one day their father brings Andrea home. Though they cannot know it, her arrival to the Dutch House sows the seed of the defining loss of Danny and Maeve's lives.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26503303Rayner, Claire. Paddington Green. 1985. Historical fiction.Performers: book 3. In the early years of Queen Victoria's reign Abel Lackland's children are grown up. Two of his sons have followed their father into medicine. The other, Jonah, now married to Lilith's daughter, has achieved his dream of a career on the stage. However, the reality of being an actor is harsher than he ever imagined. It is a daily struggle to provide for his wife and children. Suddenly something comes into their lives that drives a wedge between them.UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26500003Rendell, Ruth. No More Dying Then. 2009. Crime.Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery: book 6. On a stormy February afternoon, Stella Rivers disappeared and was never seen again. All that remained was the cold fear and awful dread that touched everyone in Kingsmarkham. Just months later, five-year-old John Lawrence vanishes. Then the horrifying, threatening letters of a madman begin. Suddenly Wexford is fighting against time to find the missing boy, before he meets the same fate as Stella.UEB. 4v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26560403Robinson, Peter. Many Rivers To Cross. 2019. Crime.Inspector Banks: book 26. In Eastvale, a young Middle Eastern boy is found dead. His body had been stuffed into a wheelbarrow on the East Side Estate. Detective Superintendent Banks and his team know they must tread carefully to solve this sensitive case. Then, in a decayed area of Eastvale scheduled for redevelopment, a heroin addict is found dead. Was this just another tragic overdose or something darker?UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26504703Salinger, J. D. The Catcher In The Rye. 2010. Classic.The Catcher in the Rye is told by native New Yorker Holden Caulfield, an ancient child of sixteen. He has just been kicked out of his fourth school. In this classic coming-of-age story Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society. And he analyzes the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, and his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection.UEB. 4v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26487903Seymour, Gerald. Harry's Game. 2015. Spy stories.A British cabinet minister is gunned down on a London street by an IRA assassin. The killer gone to ground in Belfast. Ill prepared and poorly briefed, undercover agent Harry Brown is sent into the heart of enemy territory to infiltrate the terrorists. For Harry Brown, alone in a city of strangers, where an intruder is the subject of immediate gossip and rumour, one false move is enough to leave him fatally isolated.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26538803Steel, Danielle. Country. 2015. Romance.Stephanie Adam's husband passes away suddenly. After years of an unhappy marriage, and with three kids grown, she begins to think about what might come next for her. Stephanie finds herself on the road to Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon and new adventures. A friendly stranger turns out to be country music megastar Chase Taylor, and he is only too happy to sweep Stephanie up on his travels. Should she return to her empty house, or take a risk with someone new?UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26503203Stirling, Jessica. The Deep Well At Noon. 1999. Family stories.Holly Beckman: book 1. When Holly Beckman inherits a quarter share of James Aspinall's antiques shop, his dissolute son David and snobbish daughter Andrea are outraged. But the girl from the back streets of Lambeth is gifted and determined and aided by her grandfather. Holly defies her father's drunken rages, her brother's criminal plans and David Aspinall's seductive charms. But she has one weakness. Christopher Deems, a handsome poet scarred by the Great War, drives Holly to a fateful decision between love and ambition. She cannot know that tragedy waits down each shadowed path.UEB. 12v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26566103Taylor, C. L. Sleep. 2019. Thriller.Suffering from insomnia and night terrors, all Anna wants is to be able to sleep. But memories of that terrible night and guilt are making it impossible. To escape her past, Anna takes a job at a hotel on the remote Scottish island of Rum. When seven guests join her, what started as a retreat from the world turns into a deadly nightmare. Each of the guests have a secret, but one of them is lying about who they are and why they're on the island. There's a murderer staying in the Bay View hotel. And they've set their sights on Anna.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26489403Thomas, Jo. My Lemon Grove Summer. 2019. Chick lit.A beautiful hilltop town in Sicily is looking for new residents. Zelda and her best friend Lennie are looking for a fresh start there. But there is a shadow hanging over Citta d'Ora, which means not everyone is pleased to see their arrival. But a friendship with restauranteur Luca could be about to unlock the possibilities that lie in the local lemon groves. And there's a wedding on the horizon that might be just what the town needs to turn it around.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26501403AutobiographyHarding, Michael P. Chest Pain. 2019.In late 2018, Michael Harding was admitted to hospital, suffering from an acute heart attack. He looks at the months before the heart attack when he kept the signs of failing health from his beloved and instead retreated into solitude. And he takes us with him through the months after a stent had been inserted in his heart, where he travels the roads of Donegal in a camper van in a journey back to the beloved, and to himself. Chest Pain is a memoir about togetherness and what it means to be alive.UEB. 4v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26493203Patel, Amit. Kika & Me: How One Extraordinary Guide Dog Changed My World. 2020.A rare condition caused trauma doctor Amit Patel to lose his sight within thirty-six hours. Totally dependent on others and terrified of stepping outside with a white cane after a horrifying assault, Amit hits rock bottom. With the support of his wife Seema he slowly begins to adapt to his new situation. Then guide dog Kika changes his world. From the challenges of travelling when blind to becoming a parent for the first time, this is the story of Amit's sight-loss journey.UEB. 4v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26549103Toksvig, Sandi. Between The Stops. 2019.This is Sandi Toksvig's autobiography. It's part memoir, part diary, part travelogue and history, all from the top of a double-decker as Sandi muses on the many delights on the Number 12 route. From London facts including where to find the blue plaque for Una Marson, to discovering the best Spanish coffee under Southwark's railway arches; from a brief history of lady gangsters at Elephant and Castle to memories of climbing Mount Sinai, this is a humorous and moving trip through memories.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26493303Wiesel, Elie. Night. 2008.Night trilogy: book 1. Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is his account of that atrocity: the ever-increasing horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a world that stripped him of humanity, dignity and faith. Describing in simple terms the tragic murder of a people from a survivor’s perspective, Night is among the most personal, intimate and poignant of all accounts of the Holocaust.UEB. 2v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26502503Country Life and FarmingMackintosh, Clare. A Cotswold Family Life. 2019.For 8 years, Clare Mackintosh wrote for 'Cotswold Life' about the ups and downs of life with a young family in the countryside. In this memoir she brings together all of those stories, and more, for the first time. From keeping chickens to getting the WI drunk, longing for an Aga to dealing with nits, Clare opens the door to family life with warmth and humour and heart.UEB. 4v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26492803Tree, Isabella. Wilding: The Return Of Nature To An English Farm. 2018.Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was economically unsustainable, Isabella Tree and her husband Charlie Burrell decided to step back and let nature take over. Thanks to the introduction of free-roaming cattle, ponies, pigs and deer, the 3,500 acre project has seen extraordinary increases in wildlife numbers and diversity in little over a decade. This is the story of how the Burrells’ degraded agricultural land has become a functioning ecosystem again, heaving with life.UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26497403Environment and EcologyHigginbotham, Adam. Midnight In Chernobyl. 2019.April 25, 1986 in Chernobyl was the world's worst nuclear disaster. The story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. This harrowing account brings the disaster to life through the eyes of the men and women who witnessed it first-hand. The author draws upon recently declassified archives and hundreds of hours of interviews conducted over the course of more than ten years.UEB. 8v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26482603Children and young adult fiction0-4 Suggested Reading AgeDonaldson, Julia. Tabby McTat. 2009.Fred the busker and his cat, Tabby McTat, are purr-fectly happy, singing together all day long. But when Fred gives chase to a thief, the two are separated. Will they ever find each other again?UEB double line spacing, single sided. 1v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26488003Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 2648800507+ Suggested Reading AgeFletcher, Tom. The Christmasaurus And The Winter Witch. 2019.Christmasaurus: book 2. A year ago William Trundle had an incredible adventure with the most extraordinary dinosaur: the Christmasaurus. William is swept back to the North Pole and meets the icy, mysterious and magical Winter Witch. The witch's power to control time allows Santa to travel all around the world on Christmas Eve. When William learns that the fate of Christmas hangs in the balance, he and the Christmasaurus must risk everything to save it.UEB double line spacing. 9v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26484103Also available in uncontracted braille. 12v. Order No: 2648410509+ Suggested Reading AgeBalding, Clare. The Racehorse Who Disappeared. 2017.Charlie Bass: book 2. Life is slowly getting back to normal for Charlie Bass after her reluctant racehorse, Noble Warrior, won the Derby and saved her family from financial ruin. But drama soon returns to Folly Farm when thieves break into the farmyard in the dead of night and kidnap Noble Warrior! With the police baffled and no trace of the prizewinning thoroughbred to be found, Charlie launches her own investigation.UEB. 3v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26505603Blyton, Enid. In The Fifth At Malory Towers. 2016.Malory Towers: book 5. Darrell and her friends move up into the fifth form and life at Malory Towers becomes more exciting than ever. Darrell is made captain of games and her form is asked to put on the Christmas entertainment. It is a wonderful challenge to such a gifted bunch of girls, but also, as Darrell finds, real hard work.UEB. 4v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26558903Also available in uncontracted braille. 4v. Order No: 26558905Cassidy, Cathy. Love From Lexie. 2017.Lost and found: book 1. Ever since Lexie's mum vanished, her world hasn't stopped spinning. A new home, a new school, even a new family. Lexie never gives up hope that her mum will come back and writes her letters every day to tell her all about her new life. There's the new group of misfits she calls friends, the talent for music she never knew she had and the gorgeous boy with blue eyes and secrets to hide. But her letters remain unanswered. Lexie's about to learn that sometimes you need to get lost in order to be found.UEB. 5v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26504303Cassidy, Cathy. Sami's Silver Lining. 2018.Lost and found: book 2. Forced to flee his home in Syria for safety in England, Sami attempts to begin a new life but struggles to overcome the pain of the past. Memories of the long and dangerous journey across icy waters are never far away. Can his new friends in the Lost and Found band and a blossoming romance with the girl of his dreams melt his frozen heart?UEB. 4v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26504403Deary, Terry. An Unlikely Spy. 2019.World War II has begun. Brigit has been evacuated to Wales from her home near the aeroplane factories of Coventry. But when it's revealed that her father is German, Brigit runs away to join her mother in a very special training camp. Churchill is building a secret army of spies and saboteurs known as the Special Operations Executive. Brigit and her mother soon find themselves on the front line in Nazi-occupied France. No-one will suspect Brigit is a spy, will they?UEB. 4v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26484303Deary, Terry. The Silver Hand. 2018. It's 1918 and the Great War is entering its final phase. In northern France, young Aimee has just found out that her mother is part of a spy network working with the British. She reluctantly befriends Marius, a German boy who has been left behind by his countrymen. Aimee must help Marius get back behind German lines, while evading a traitor she has helped to discover.UEB. 4v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26484403Gleitzman, Morris. Now. 2010.Felix and Zelda: book 3. Felix is a grandfather. He has achieved much in his life and is widely admired. He has mostly buried the painful memories of his childhood, but they resurface when his granddaughter Zelda comes to stay with him. Together they face a cataclysmic event that brings the possibility of destruction. Armed only with their love, together Felix and Zelda achieve salvation from the past.UEB. 3v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26444503Also available in uncontracted braille. 4v. Order No: 26444505Kinney, Jeff. The Getaway. 2017.Diary of a wimpy kid: book 12. With the cold weather and the stress of the approaching holiday season, the Heffleys decide to escape to a tropical island resort for some much-needed rest and relaxation. But Greg Heffley and his family soon discover that paradise isn't everything it's cracked up to be. Sun poisoning, stomach troubles, and venomous critters all threaten to ruin their vacation. Can their trip be saved or will this island getaway end in disaster?UEB. 2v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26480703Kinney, Jeff. Wrecking Ball. 2019.Diary of a wimpy kid: book 14. Big changes are in store for Greg Heffley and his family. They are making home improvements. But with unwelcome critters, toxic mould and the walls coming down, soon Greg discovers renovations aren't all they are cracked up to be. When the dust finally settles, will the Heffleys be able to stay or will they need to get out of town?UEB. 2v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26482303Littler, Jamie. Frostheart. 2019.There is a tiny stronghold cut off from the rest of the world by monsters that lurk beneath the Snow Sea. There, a little boy called Ash waits for the return of his parents. A brave rescue attempt reveals Ash has amazing magical powers. He's whisked aboard the Frostheart, a sleigh packed full of daring explorers who could use his help. But can they help him find his family?UEB. 5v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26484703McCombie, Karen. Angels In Training. 2014.Angels next door: book 2. Riley's life has changed a lot since she discovered her new neighbours, the three Angelos sisters, are a little bit magical. They know things that no-one else does, and that's why she thinks they can help her find out about mum. But just as she's about to get some answers, mysterious events start happening at school. As things get stranger, Riley begins to suspect that they're the only ones who can work out what or who is behind them.UEB. 3v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26497503McCombie, Karen. Angels Like Me. 2015.Angels next door: book 3. Riley's best friends, the Angelo sisters, are special. The sisters are sparkly, strange and full of secrets. Life at home is tricky for Riley Roberts. She misses her mum and wants to learn more about her. But Dad is as secretive as ever. She hopes the sisters can work their magic and help her find out the truth. But Riley is about to discover something more magical than she could have imagined. It is something that could bring her closer to her mum and answer her questions at last.UEB. 3v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 2649790311+ Suggested Reading AgeSchaap, Annet. Lampie And The Children Of The Sea. 2019.Every evening Lampie the lighthouse keeper's daughter must light a lantern to warn ships away from the rocks. But one stormy night the lantern goes out and a ship is wrecked. In disgrace, Lampie is sent to work as a maid at the Admiral's Black House. Soon Lampie is drawn into a fairytale adventure in a world of mermaids and pirates. She must fight with all her might for friendship, freedom and the right to be different.UEB. 5v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26531903Vick, Christopher. Girl. Boy. Sea. 2019.A British boy narrowly survives the sinking of his yacht in a huge storm off the coast of Morocco. After days alone at sea in a tiny rowing boat Bill rescues a girl clinging for her life to a barrel. Aya, from the nomadic Berber tribe, was escaping to Europe when her migrant ship was destroyed in the same storm. Through endless days they drift, weakened by fear and hunger. Aya tells Bill about The Arabian Nights, and Shahrazad, who told 1001 stories to save her life.UEB. 4v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 2653220313+ Suggested Reading AgeAtta, Dean. The Black Flamingo. 2019.A boy comes to terms with his identity as a mixed-race gay teen. Later on at university he finds his wings as a drag artist, The Black Flamingo. This is a bold story told in verse about the power of embracing your uniqueness. Big hearted and dizzyingly flamboyant, this is a book about self-discovery and embracing the real you. The Black Flamingo is suffused with optimism, positivity and love.UEB. 3v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26526703Sedgwick, Marcus. Voyages In The Underworld Of Orpheus Black. 2019.WWII London. Harry Black wakes in hospital to learn that his brother Ellis has almost certainly been killed by a V2 rocket falling during a German air raid. But Harry is in a state of wounded delirium. Harry's mind begins to blur the distinctions between the reality of the war-torn city, the fiction of his unpublished sci-fi novel and the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Driven by visions of Ellis still alive, Harry discharges himself from hospital and begins a search for his brother that will lead him deep into the city's Underworld.UEB. 3v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 2653170315+ Suggested Reading AgeRibay, Randy. Patron Saints Of Nothing. 2019.When Jay Reguero hears of his cousin Jun's death, everything changes. Although years have passed since they were last in contact, the stories about Jun just don't fit with the boy Jay knew. Hoping to uncover the truth, Jay travels to Jun's home in the Philippines. The shocking realities of life there lead to even more questions. Can Jay find the answers he seeks?UEB. 5v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26531203Talking BooksAdult FictionBroussard, Ella. Searching For Venus. 1998. Erotic fiction. TB24963.Louise is in the final year of her art history degree, for her dissertation she intends to track down a lost painting - the Venus of Collioure. Confident of the painting's whereabouts she travels to France and so begins a summer of erotic Frenchmen. Contains sex scenes and swear words.Read by Antonia Whillans. 8 hours 2 minutes. TB24963.Cole, Daniel. Endgame. 2019. Thriller. TB24982.Fawkes and Baxter: book 3. When retired police officer Finlay Shaw is found dead in a locked room, everyone thinks it's suicide. But disgraced detective William 'Wolf' Fawkes isn't so sure. With his former partner Detective Emily Baxter and private detective Edmunds, Wolf's team begin to dig into Shaw's early days on the beat. Was Shaw as innocent as he seemed, or is there more to his past than he let on? Read by Andrew Wincott. 10 hours 20 minutes. TB24982.Colgan, Jenny T. In The Blood. 2017. Science fiction. TB24998.Doctor Who. All over the world, people are venting their fury at one another on social media. Even Donna has found that her friend Hettie has unfriended her. And now internet trolls are dying... This is unkindness as a plague. From the streets of London to the web cafes of South Korea and the deepest darkest forests of Rio, can the Doctor and Donna find the cause of this unhappiness before it's too late?Read by David Monteath. 6 hours 39 minutes. TB24998.Ferrante, Elena. Those Who Leave And Those Who Stay. 2014. Literary fiction. TB25044.Neapolitan: book 3. Elena and Lila have become women. Lila married at 16 has a young son; she has left her husband and now works as a labourer. Elena has left the neighbourhood, earned her degree, and published a successful novel. They are afloat on the great sea of opportunities that opened up during the 1970s. Yet they are still very much bound to see each other by a strong, unbreakable bond.Contains swear words.Read by Madeleine Brolly. 14 hours 55 minutes. TB25044.Jacobs, Anna. Spinners Lake. 2015. TB25001.Gibson family: book 5. It is 1860 in Bilsden, the Lancashire mill town, and Frederick is dying. But first he makes secret plans to smooth the future path for his beloved wife Annie. Her sister, Joanie, is fed up with everything until a dashing new admirer crosses her path. But a spurned suitor is determined that Joanie will be his, whatever the cost. And he is not the only one who wants to harm the Gibson family. Read by Sherry Baines. 16 hours 27 minutes. TB25001.Jenkins, Robin. The Cone-gatherers. 2012. General fiction. TB24770.In the shadow of war Calum and Neil work to gather pine cones in the grounds of a Scottish estate. When Calum releases two rabbits from a snare, he comes face to face with Duror, the gamekeeper. In retaliation Duror lays a trap for the cone-gatherers. Neil prophesises that forces of evil will encroach upon their lives. It is a prophesy that comes true when Duror commits an act so brutal it destroys all sense of humanity. Read by Joe Johnson. 8 hours 24 minutes. TB24770.Riley, Lucinda. The Moon Sister. 2019. Family stories. TB24893.Seven sisters: book 5. After the death of her father an elusive billionaire who adopted his six daughters from around the globe - Tiggy moves to the remote wilds of Scotland. There she takes a job caring for animals on the isolated Kinnaird estate. Chilly, an ancient gipsy tells her that not only does she possess a sixth sense, but it was foretold that he would be the one to send her back home to Granada in Spain.Read by Imogen Wilde. 19 hours 55 minutes. TB24893.Riley, Lucinda. The Sun Sister. 2019. Family stories. TB25009.Seven sisters: book 6. Electra D’Aplièse is one of the world’s top models. She is beautiful, rich and famous. She has been rocked by the death of her father, Pa Salt, the elusive billionaire who adopted his six daughters from across the globe. Struggling to cope, she turns to alcohol and drugs. As those around her fear for her health, Electra receives a letter from a complete stranger who claims to be her grandmother. This is Electra's story, sweeping from Manhattan to the wide-open plains of Africa. Read by Weruche Opia, Sophie Roberts. 26 hours 17 minutes. TB25009.Thompson, E. V. Tomorrow Is For Ever. 2011. Family stories. TB24976.Alan Carter was only married to Dora for a week before being called up to serve in the war. 18 months later, convalescing from a shoulder wound, he discovers his wife has almost forgotten him - and fallen in love with an American soldier. Devastated he leaves London for Cornwall – where he meets Vicky. Read by Annette Holland. 12 hours 46 minutes. TB24976.Weeks, Lee. Frozen Grave. 2014. Crime. TB24978.DC Ebony Willis: book 3. The first body is found in a warehouse in London's East End. Then a woman burns to death in her own home. She was alone but all signs point to murder. Two seemingly separate victims, but D I Dan Carter and Detective Constable Ebony Willis are convinced they were killed by the same person. And when a third body is found, the detectives start to suspect a serial killer is on the loose. Read by Annie Aldington. 10 hours 14 minutes. TB24978.Adult Non-fictionAutobiographyGann, Ernest Kellogg. Fate Is The Hunter. 2011. TB24966.'Fate is the Hunter' is an account of some of the more memorable experiences Ernest K. Gann had in the air. He's flown in both peace and war and come close to death many times. Here he reveals the characters he's known and the dramas he's experienced, portraying fate (or death) as a hunter constantly in pursuit of pilots. This is a fascinating account of both the history of aviation and one man's life in the air.Read by William Roberts. 15 hours 14 minutes. TB24966.BiographySkloot, Rebecca. The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks. 2011.TB24975.Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells – taken without her knowledge – became a multimillion-dollar industry and one of the most important tools in medicine. Yet Henrietta's family did not learn of her 'immortality' until more than twenty years after her death, with devastating consequences. Read by Laurel Lefkow. 11 hours 53 minutes. TB24975.GeographyCrane, Nicholas. The Making Of The British Landscape: From The Ice Age To The Present. 2017. TB25042.Over the course of 12,000 years of human occupation, the British landscape has been transformed from a European peninsula of glacier and tundra to an island of cities and exquisite countryside. We discover the ancient relationship between people and place and the deep-rooted tensions between town and countryside. From henge to high-rise and hamlet to metropolis, this is a book about change and adaptation.Read by Philip Bretherton. 22 hours 14 minutes. TB25042.A Selection Of Harper Collins TitlesAdult FictionArcher, Sarah. How To Build A Boyfriend From Scratch. 2020. Romance. TB705331.Meet Kelly. A brilliant but socially awkward robotics engineer seeking a wedding date. Meet Ethan. Intelligent, gorgeous, not technically human. With her sister's wedding looming and everyone in the world on her case about being perpetually single, Kelly decides to take her love life into her own hands and use her genius skills to create Ethan. Only, when you've found (well, made) your perfect man, how do you kiss him goodbye?Read by Karen Cass. 9 hours 16 minutes. TB705331.Christie, Agatha. Accident. 2020. Classic crime. Short stories. TB705425.A retired police inspector recognizes a woman in his village whom he once suspected of murdering her husband. He is determined that her new husband won't suffer the same fate.Read by Hugh Fraser. 21 minutes. TB705425.Christie, Agatha. Philomel Cottage. 2020. Classic crime. Short stories. TB705335.Recently swept off her feet, after a week of courting, the newly married Alix is a woman obsessed by a reoccurring dream of her new husband's murder. Each time she can see the murderer clearly and it is the mild mannered man she had almost married wreaking his revenge. But what is worse is that at the end of the dream she thanks the murderer. Read by Hugh Fraser. 50 minutes. TB705335.Cook, Lorna. The Forbidden Promise. 2020. Historical romance. TB705329.Scotland, 1940 the night of Constance's 21st birthday, when she's the only person to see a Spitfire crash into the loch. She rescues the pilot and vows to keep him hidden. 2020 Kate arrives to turn Invermoray into a luxury B&B, only to find that the estate is more troubled than she'd imagined. But when Kate discovers the house has a dark history, with Constance's name struck from its records, she knows she can't leave. Read by Eilidh Beaton. 12 hours 54 minutes. TB705329.Coverdale, Jane. The Jasmine Wife. 2019. Historical romance. TB705362.Sara’s future as the wife of a British official in India seems assured, until a chance meeting with the gorgeous and powerful Ravi Sabran. Under the heat of the Indian sun, the veneer of polite society wears off and soon Sara realises that nothing is as it appears to be, especially her husband Charles. But in the beautiful jasmine gardens of the palace, Sara follows a forbidden path - away from her bullying husband. Read by Stephanie Beattie. 11 hours 2 minutes. TB705362.Deaver, Jeffery. Captivated. 2020. Thriller. TB705333.Colter Shaw is a career `reward-seeker', making his living travelling the country and locating missing persons. So when a woman disappears, he quickly takes the case. As he investigates, he suspects that she was fleeing a bad marriage, and he follows her trail to a secret retreat in Indiana. As events take one surprising turn after another, Shaw begins to wonder if there's more to this mysterious woman than meets the eye.Read by Kaleo Griffith. 1 hour 22 minutes. TB705333.Deaver, Jeffery. The Goodbye Man. 2020. Thriller. TB705433.Colter Shaw: book 2. In pursuit of two fugitives unique investigator Colter Shaw witnesses a shocking suicide. This leads him to the Foundation - a cult that promises to transform people's lives. But is there more to it than meets the eye? Shaw goes undercover to expose the Foundation's real purpose. Before long he meets the charismatic leader Master Eli, a man who commands terrifying loyalty from his followers. Read by Kaleo Griffith. 11 hours 28 minutes. TB705433.Ferguson, Catherine. The Secrets Of Ivy Garden. 2020. Family stories. TB705324.When Holly breaks up with her boyfriend, she’s at a loss as to what to do next. But things go from bad to worse when her grandmother Ivy dies – and Holly is left in charge of sorting out Ivy’s house and garden. As she sorts through her grandmother’s belongings and makes her way through the wilderness outside, Holly soon finds that there is more to Ivy than meets the eye, and uncovers a family secret that changes everything…Read by Kristin Atherton. 11 hours 16 minutes. TB705324.Finlay, Linda. The Girl With The Amber Comb. 2020. Family stories. TB705328.Eliza lives with her beloved Grandparents in a waterlogged Somerset cottage surrounded by willow beds where she ekes out a living making laundry baskets and eel traps. When fate brings handsome, wealthy Theo to her workshop she is instantly attracted Only things don't go to plan and naive Eliza finds herself in Lavender House where she is expected to care for gentlemen in a way she never imagined. Read by Charlie Sanderson. 9 hours 48 minutes. TB705328.Finlay, Mick. Arrowood And The Thames Corpses. 2020. Historical crime. TB705356.Arrowood: book 3. London, 1896. William Arrowood, Victorian London's less salubrious private detective, is paid a visit by Captain Moon, the owner of a pleasure steamer. He complains that someone has been damaging his boat, putting his business in jeopardy. Arrowood and his sidekick Barnett suspect professional jealousy, but when a shocking discovery is pulled from the river, it seems like foul play is afoot. Read by Malk Williams. 11 hours 9 minutes. TB705356.Hambly, Barbara. The Time Of The Dark. 2020. Fantasy. TB705416.Darwath Trilogy: book 1. As a student of medieval history, Gil knows the horrors of life in the Middle Ages. But another kind of darkness has begun to stalk her dreams: she sees forces of evil assaulting a beleaguered kingdom. Gil dismisses the dreams until a wizard appears in her apartment. He has crossed into her dimension, passing through the fraying fabric of the universe, to ask for her help. Read by Kirsten Atherton. 11 hours 55 minutes. TB705416.Holten, Noelle. Dead Wrong. 2020. Crime. TB705325.Maggie Jamieson: book 2. Three missing women running out of time. They were abducted years ago. Notorious serial killer Bill Raven admitted to killing them and was sentenced to life. The case was closed. But now one of them has been found, dismembered and dumped in a bin bag in town. Forensics reveal that she died just two days ago, when Raven was behind bars, so Maggie has a second killer to find. Read by Rachael Beresford. 9 hours 5 minutes. TB705325.Kagawa, Julie. Night Of The Dragon. 2020. Fantasy. TB705348.Shadow of the Fox: book 3. Kitsune shapeshifter Yumeko has given up the final piece of the Scroll of a Thousand Prayers, to save everyone she loves from imminent death. Now she and her companions must journey to the wild sea cliffs of Iwagoto in a last-chance effort to stop the Master of Demons from calling upon the Great Kami dragon and making the wish that will plunge the empire into destruction and darkness. Read by Joy Osmanski, Brian Nishii and Emily Woo Zeller. 13 hours 19 minutes. TB705348.Kane, P L. Her Last Secret. 2020. Thriller. TB705334.When Jake learns of his daughter's death, he is determined to find out what happened. But Jake hasn't seen Jordan for over three years and there was a lot he didn't know about his daughter. But when Jake makes a shocking discovery, he is convinced that there is more to her murder than they are being told. Grief stricken and full of regret, he is desperate to protect his daughter's memory - to understand her final hours. Read by Ethan Kelly. 9 hours 1 minute. TB705334.Kepler, Lars. Lazarus. 2020. Crime. TB705327.Detective Inspector Joona Linna: book 7. Sweden's most notorious serial killer, Jurek Walter was shot and killed years ago. But now someone is leaving a trail of broken bodies across Sweden and the clues all point to Walter. Joona is convinced his worst nightmare is becoming a reality: the man who tore apart his family has returned to finish the job. He doesn't just kill you. He buries your loved ones alive. Read by Saul Reichlin. 16 hours 30 minutes. TB705327.Lawrence, Mark. The Girl And The Stars. 2020. Fantasy. TB705414.Book of the Ice: book 1. East of the Black Rock, out on the ice, lies a hole down which broken children are thrown. On the vastness of the ice there is no room for individuals and Yaz is different. Torn from her family, from the boy she thought she would spend her life with, Yaz has to carve a new path for herself in a world whose existence she never suspected. Only when it's darkest can you see the stars.Read by Helen Duff. 18 hours 31 minutes. TB705414.McFarlane, Mhairi. If I Never Met You. 2020. Romance. TB705326.When Laurie is dumped by her partner of eighteen years, she's blindsided. Not only does she feel humiliated, they still have to work together. So when she gets stuck in the lift with handsome colleague Jamie, they hatch a plan to stage the perfect romance. Revenge will be sweet. But this fauxmance is about to get complicated. You can't break your heart in a fake relationship - can you?Read by Sara Novak. 11 hours 16 minutes. TB705326.McKenna, Claire. Monstrous Heart. 2020. Fantasy. TB705350.Arden arrives in the salt-swept port of Vigil with a job to do. Tasked with using the magic in her blood to keep the lighthouse burning, she needs to prove herself worthy of her family name and her ancestors' profession. But the coastline Arden must keep alight - battered by a sea teeming with colossal, ancient beasts - is far from the cultured, urban world she knows. It is a place of secrets, rumours and tight-lipped expectations of a woman's place. Contains sex scenes.Read by Elaine Caxton. 13 hours 58 minutes. TB705350.McLaughlin, Cressida. The Cornish Cream Tea Summer. 2020. Romance. TB705434.Cornish Cream Tea Bus: book 2. Charlie has a new helper on her bus, her free-spirited cousin Delilah. When the Director of a new TV series filming along the coast tells Delilah that the bus would be the perfect addition to their onsite catering, she takes him a bit too literally. Charlie and Delilah find themselves caught up in the filming of a period drama and it isn't long before Delilah finds herself drawn to the male lead. Read by Bea Holland. 11 hours 27 minutes. TB705434.Moorcroft, Sue. Summer On A Sunny Island. 2020. Romance. TB705409.When Rosa splits up from her partner Marcus, her Mum Dory suggests a summer in Malta. Not one to sit back and watch her daughter unhappy, Dory introduces Rosa to Zach, in the hope that romance will bloom. But Rosa's determined not to be swayed by a handsome man - she's in Malta to work, after all. Zach is a magnet for trouble. Neither Rosa or Zach are ready for love - but does fate have other ideas?Read by Lesley Harcourt. 10 hours 34 minutes. TB705409.Morgan, Sarah. Family For Beginners. 2020. Chick lit. TB705359.When Flora falls in love with Jack, she's suddenly handling a very cranky teenager and living in the shadow of Jack's perfect wife, Becca. Every summer, Becca and Jack would holiday with Becca's oldest friends and Jack wants to continue the tradition. The more Flora tries to impress everyone, the more things go horribly wrong. But as the summer unfolds, Flora learns that families come in all shapes and sizes.Read by Katherine Fenton. 13 hours 10 minutes. TB705359.Nelson Spielman, Lori. One Italian Summer. 2020. Romance. TB705408.For generations, no second-born daughter in the Fontana family has married. Lucy desperately wants to find love, but for her cousin Emilia, their family curse is a blessing in disguise. But then their Great Aunt Poppy declares she'll reunite with her long-lost love on her eightieth birthday - and break the curse once and for all. And so the three women embark on a journey to Tuscany to fulfil Poppy's last wish. Read by Carlotta Brentan and Kathleen Garrett. 13 hours 14 minutes. TB705408.Patrick, Phaedra. The Secrets Of Sunshine. 2020. Romance. TB705432.Only his daughter Poppy knows that behind his prickly exterior, Mitchell is deeply lonely. Then one hot summer's day Mitchell rescues a woman who falls from the bridge. He's surprised to feel a connection to her, but then she disappears. Desperate to find the woman, Mitchell teams up with her spirited sister Liza to see if she's left any clues behind. There's just one - a secret message on the padlock she left on love story bridge.Read by Matthew Lloyd Davies. 8 hours 2 minutes. TB705432.Rees, Celia. Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook. 2020. Spy stories. TB705435.Sent to Germany in the chaotic aftermath of World War II, Edith is getting the chance to do her bit. Under the guise of her innocent cover story, Edith has been recruited to root out Nazis who are trying to escape prosecution. Secretly, she is sending coding messages back to the UK, hidden inside recipes, after all, who would expect notes on sauerkraut to contain the clues that would crack a criminal network? Read by Stephanie Racine. 18 hours 50 minutes. TB705435.Reynolds, Celia. Finding Henry Applebee. 2020. General fiction. TB705405.Eighty-five-year-old Henry Applebee has had a pretty good life. But one regret has haunted him for the last sixty-five years. So, one December morning, he boards a train from London to Edinburgh. His goal: to find the woman who disappeared from his life decades earlier. Also bound for Edinburgh is troubled teen, Ariel. And when the two strangers collide, what began as one journey will catapult them both into a new world.Read by Leighton Pugh. 11 hours 17 minutes. TB705405.Russell, Kate Elizabeth. My Dark Vanessa. 2020. General fiction. TB705337.Vanessa was fifteen years old when she first had sex with her English teacher. She is now thirty-two and in the storm of allegations against powerful men in 2017, the teacher, Jacob Strane, has just been accused of sexual abuse by another former student. Forced to rethink her past, Vanessa has to redefine the great love story of her life, her great sexual awakening, as rape. She might be a victim, and just one of many.Read by Grace Gummer. 15 hours 33 minutes. TB705337.Sharp, Cathy. An Orphan's Promise. 2020. Family stories. TB705413.Halfpenny Orphans: book 6. Alone after their mother ends up in hospital, Charlie has promised his little sister Maisie he'll never let her feel frightened again. That promise is hard to keep when Maisie falls ill. Hope comes in the shape of Susan and the other nurses at the local hospital. The only way to keep Charlie and Maisie out of the orphanage is to find them a good foster home. Read by Antonia Beamish. 9 hours 54 minutes. TB705413.Shriver, Lionel. The Motion Of The Body Through Space. 2020. General fiction. TB705415.Serenata has run, swum, and cycled. But now that she's hit 60, all that activity has destroyed her knees. As she contemplates surgery her sedentary husband Remington, recently redundant, discovers exercise. He burgeons into an unbearable narcissist. Ignoring all his other obligations in the service of extreme sport, he engages a saucy, taunting personal trainer named Bambi, who treats his wife with contempt. Read by Laurence Bouvard. 12 hours 12 minutes. TB705415.Stoneley, Zara. The First Date. 2020. Romance. TB705412.Clueless dater Rosie has found herself in a boyfriend-drought. So when she finally swipes right on a guy who seems interested, she can't wait to meet up in person. Until she's left standing alone. In a bar. Stood up. Enter Noah. Confident, funny. And a serial first dater. Offering to give Rosie a crash course in seduction, this could be just what she needs. Until her matchmaker turns out to be the best date she's ever had.Read by Rose Robinson. 9 hours 16 minutes. TB705412.Sunderland, Hannah. Very Nearly Normal. 2020. Romance. TB705423.`Effie' has always felt like she's swimming against the tide. Everyone around her has life sorted, but Effie's living with her parents and crying into a wine bottle at night. The only thing she loves is her job at a bookshop, where she can lose herself in other people's stories. But then she meets Theo, who knows only too well that life isn't something to take for granted. Because Theo has a life-changing secret. Read by Faye Marsay. 10 hours 31 minutes. TB705423.Taylor, Andrew. The Last Protector. 2020. Historical crime. TB705357.James Marwood: book 4. No one wants a return to the bloody days of the Civil War. But Cromwell's son, Richard, has slipped back into England. The consequences could be catastrophic. Marwood, is tasked with uncovering Cromwell's motives. But his assignment is complicated by his friend Cat. Marwood and Cat know they are putting themselves in danger. When they find themselves on a top secret mission in the Palace of Whitehall, they realize they are risking their lives. Read by Leighton Pugh. 12 hours 14 minutes. TB705357.Thayne, RaeAnne. The Sea Glass Cottage. 2020. Mills and Boon romance. TB705365.Olivia’s long work days are unfulfilling and so are things with her on-off boyfriend. When her mother has an accident and needs help recuperating and looking after Olivia’s orphaned niece, Olivia heads home to Sea Glass Cottage on the beautiful Californian coast. There Olivia is surrounded by her family and friends, including her best friend’s brother, and local fire chief, Cooper Vance. Read by Vanessa Johansson. 10 hours 12 minutes. TB705365.Thomas, Terry Lynn. House Of Lies. 2020. Historical crime. TB705421.Cat Carlisle: book 3. While World War Two rages, Cat runs a women's refuge to protect beaten wives. But when one of the women is found dead in the woods behind the house, Cat's world shatters. Was the killer a violent husband seeking revenge? Or is something more dangerous at play? Because Cat and her fiancé Thomas have a secret: they're hiding a precious golden chalice from the plundering Nazis until the war is over. Read by Jan Cramer. 7 hours 30 minutes. TB705421.Three Kings. 2020. Fantasy. Science fiction. TB705436.Wild Cards. Queen Margaret now lies on her death bed. Summoning the joker ace, Alan Turing, she urges him to seek the true heir: Elizabeth's lost son. Margaret dies and her elder son Henry becomes king and at once declares he wants to make England an 'Anglo-Saxon country' and suggests jokers be sent 'to the moon'. Dangerous tensions begin to tear the country apart. Featuring authors Mary Anne Mohanraj, Peter Newman, Peadar OGuiln, Melinda M. Snodgrass and Caroline Spector.Read by Peter Noble. 12 hours 57 minutes. TB705436.Walter, B. P. Hold Your Breath. 2020. Thriller. TB705430.Kitty has always known that her family aren't like others. But when her father uproots them to a remote cottage in the woods, she realises that her parents are keeping secrets - secrets that could unravel everything. Years later, Kitty starts to question what really happened out in the forest. When the police revisit a suspicious death, she must examine her most painful memories - and this time, there's nowhere to hide.Read by Katy Sobey. 9 hours 41 minutes. TB705430.Weaver, Pam. Goodnight Sweetheart. 2020. Family stories. TB705422.When Frankie's mother dies, she is sent to live with her Aunt Bet in Worthing. Life on their farm is happy. But when World War Two breaks out, Frankie must help her country by signing up to the women's branch of the British Army. Soon, she meets Romare, an American doctor who has come to the UK after facing terrible racism at home. But trouble is stirring in Britain too, and it falls to Frankie to try to protect him. Read by Jaimi Barbakoff. 9 hours 55 minutes. TB705422Adult Non-fictionAutobiography Alexander, Eileen. Love In The Blitz: The Greatest Lost Love Letters Of The Second World War. 2020. TB705407.In summer 1939, Eileen had recently graduated from Cambridge. Her well-connected Jewish family had moved from Egypt to England. Going from Cambridge to London she was involved in a car accident that turned a friendship into love. The driver was Gershon, the son of Jewish parents from Liverpool. Her first letter to him, written from the hospital, sparked a correspondence that would last the length of the war. Read by Sian Clifford, Stephanie Racine and Oswyn Murray. 21 hours TB705407.Buxton, Adam. Ramble Book. 2020. TB705419.Ramble Book is about parenthood, boarding school trauma, arguing with your partner, bad parties, confrontations on trains, friendship, wanting to fit in, growing up in the 80s, dead dads, teenage sexual anxiety , failed artistic endeavours, being a David Bowie fan; and how everything you read, watch and listen to as a child forms a part of the adult you become. And it's about a short, hairy, frequently confused man called Adam.Read by Adam Buxton. 10 hours 50 minutes. TB705419.Thomas, Dave. Dave Thomas. 2020. TB705346.Former England international Dave Thomas is the first top level footballer to be registered blind and awarded a guide dog. Dave describes coping with a catalogue of obstacles that began with a defining moment, the withdrawal of his driving licence. Dave's positive approach to life, as he negotiates everyday tasks with the help of his Labrador guide dog, Hannah, makes for an inspirational read.Read by Bob Rollett. 5 hours 18 minutes. TB705346.Biography Bate, Jonathan. Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed The World. 2020. TB705351.Wordsworth changed forever the way we think about childhood, the sense of the self, our connection to the natural environment, and the purpose of poetry. He was born in the Lake District, walked into the French Revolution, had a love affair and an illegitimate child, before witnessing horrific violence in Paris. He shaped the ideas of thinkers, writers and activists in both Britain and the United States.Read by Jonathan Keeble. 16 hours 2 minutes. TB705351.Health and fitnessHartwig, Dallas. The 4 Season Solution: The Groundbreaking New Plan For Feeling Better, Living Well And Powering Down Our Always-on Lives. 2020. TB705330.In The 4 Season Solution, Hartwig reveals the four keys of health - sleep, eat, move, connect – and explains how we can reconcile the needs of our ancient bodies with the demands and complications of modern life. By making small but meaningful changes to each health key over the course of the year, listeners will reclaim their health, regain their energy and let go of excess weight.Read by Dallas Hartwig. 6 hours 34 minutes. TB705330.Raubenheimer, David. Eat Like The Animals: What Nature Teaches Us About Healthy Eating. 2020. TB705332.Appetite communicates the body's nutritional needs to the brain and eating in accordance with your body's demands should ensure optimal health, but the modern fast food world wreaks havoc on this system. In several landmark studies, Raubenheimer proves that appetite can be hacked - we can eat for optimal health, for increased fertility or for a longer lifespan. Understanding the science of the appetite offers tremendous power in shaping our bodies and controlling our lives.Read by Paul Panting. 7 hours 35 minutes. TB705332.History Freeman, Hadley. House Of Glass: The Story And Secrets Of A Twentieth-century Jewish Family. 2020. TB705320.When Hadley found a shoebox filled with her grandmother's belongings, it started a quest to find out their significance. The search takes Hadley from Picasso's archives in Paris to a secret room in a farmhouse in Auvergne to Long Island and to Auschwitz. Hadley brings to life the full story of her grandmother, Sala, and her three siblings, each of them made extraordinary bids for survival during the Second World War.Read by Hadley Freeman. 10 hours 14 minutes. TB705320.Hubbard, Ben. MBS: The Rise To Power Of Mohammed Bin Salman. 2020. TB705336.The story of how Saudi Arabia's secretive and mercurial new ruler rose to power. Based on years of reporting and hundreds of covert interviews, MBS provides new insights into Saudi Arabia's military intervention in Yemen, the detention of the Lebanese prime minister, the arrest of hundreds of princes and businessmen, and the brutal murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi state officials with links to MBS. Read by Robert Petkoff. 11 hours 49 minutes. TB705336.MusicBrown, Craig. One Two Three Four: The Beatles In Time. 2020. TB705447.The Beatles occupy a position unique in popular culture. They have entered people's minds in a way that did not occur before and has not occurred since. Their influence extended beyond the realm of music to fashion, politics, class, religion and ethics. This book presents a unique, examination of this phenomenon - part biography, part anthropology, part memoir, by turns humorous and serious, elegiac and speculative.Read by Mark McGann, Kate Robbins and Craig Brown. 20 hours 21 minutes. TB705447.Natural historyFort, Tom. Casting Shadows: Fish And Fishing In Britain. 2020. TB705411.Peer into the secret world of the freshwater fish and explore the evolution of the art and industry of fishing in Britain's rivers and streams. From cunning Neolithic traps, intricate Roman nets and querulous Victorian societies to the evolution of angling and eventual gentrification of river access, this history ends with a call to protect the underwater world from the horrors of industrial fishing and farming. Read by Paul Hilliar. 9 hours 36 minutes. TB705411.Politics and governmentBelton, Catherine. Putin's People: How The KGB Took Back Russia And Then Took On The West. 2020. TB705429.Former Moscow correspondent and investigative journalist Belton tells the untold story of the rise of Putin and the small group of KGB men surrounding him. It is a revelatory expose of the KGB's renaissance - a story that began with the Soviet collapse when operatives were able to siphon billions of dollars out of Russia. A terrifying account of how hopes for the new Russia went astray, with stark consequences.Read by Dugald Bruce-Lockhart. 16 hours 49 minutes. TB705429.Fall, Kate. The Gatekeeper. 2020. TB705321.Kate Fall was one of David Cameron's closest advisors. Fall takes us through the Cameron project, from its inception to coalition, reshuffles, political scandals, two general elections and three referendums. She speaks frankly and honestly about the Conservatives' key players, their project to modernise the party, how the coalition worked (and how it didn't). Shedding light on the world behind the public facade of politics. Read by Sophie Aldred. 11 hours 18 minutes. TB705321.PsychologyStuart-Smith, Sue. The Well Gardened Mind: Rediscovering Nature In The Modern World. 2020. TB705438.Investigates the effects of nature on our health and wellbeing. From the science of the brain's own `gardener cells', to the beauty of flowers and the grounding effects of working with nature's rhythms, Stuart-Smith provides a new perspective on the power of gardening. She argues that our increasingly urbanised and technology-dependent lifestyles make it more important than ever to rediscover a relationship with the earth.Read by Sue Stuart-Smith. 11 hours 31minutes. TB705438.True crimeVaughan, Liam. Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, A Global Manhunt And The Most Mysterious Market Crash In History. 2020. TB705420.The story of a trading prodigy who amassed $70 million from his childhood bedroom-until the US government accused him of helping trigger an unprecedented market collapse. A real-life financial thriller, Flash Crash uncovers the remarkable, behind-the-scenes narrative of a mystifying market crash, a globe-spanning investigation into international fraud, and the man at the centre of them both.Read by Liam Vaughan. 7 hours 47 minutes. TB705420.Children’s and young adult9+ Suggested Reading AgeAdepitan, Ade. Cyborg Cat And The Night Spider. 2019. TB24945.Ade loves playing football and he's amazing in goal, despite the metal caliper he has to wear on his leg, his friends nickname him the Cyborg Cat. But when the Parsons Road Gang stumble upon some unusual graffiti it starts to have a weird effect on Ade. The art is drawing him into another dimension, where he really is Cyborg Cat! But after seeing the Night Spider's art, Ade starts to feel weak and things begin to go wrong. Read by Ade Adepitan. 3 hours 9 minutes. TB24945.Townsend, Jessica. Nevermoor: The Trials Of Morrigan Crow. 2017. TB24959.Nevermoor: book 1. Morrigan Crow is cursed, destined to die on her eleventh birthday. But, as the clock strikes midnight, she's whisked away by a remarkable man called Jupiter North and taken to the secret city of Nevermoor. There she's invited to join the Wundrous Society. Mystery, magic and protection are hers - if only she can pass.Read by Gemma Whelan. 10 hours 57 minutes. TB24959.Trueit, Trudi Strain. The Nebula Secret. 2019. TB24868.Explorer Academy: book 1. Cruz joins 20 talented kids to train at the Explorer Academy to become the next generation of great explorers. As soon as Cruz arrives he discovers his family's mysterious past with the Academy threatens his future. His mother had also attended the Academy before a tragic lab accident took her life. A near-fatal incident and a cryptic warning confirms his mother's death was no accident. Read by Ramon De Ocampo. 6 hours 17 minutes. TB24868.Zinck, Valija A Tangle Of Magic. 2019. TB24871.Penelope lives with her mother – her father died years ago. She has always been different from other children: for example, her hair has been grey since she was born. But one day, Penelope wakes up with sparkling red hair and her mother confesses the truth: her father is not only still alive, he's a wizard. Penelope has inherited his powers and embarks on a journey to find him.Read by Sarah Ovens. 4 hours 23 minutes. TB24871.11+ Suggested Reading AgeMitchell, Tom. That Time I Got Kidnapped. 2020. TB705353.When fourteen-year-old Jacob misses his connecting flight in Chicago, he tries to complete his journey to LA by Greyhound bus. But on board he meets American teenager Jennifer, who is carrying a mysterious package and being chased by an enigmatic pursuer known only as `the Cowboy' and she needs a partner in crime. The unlikely pair soon find themselves on the road-trip of a lifetime.Read by Jot Davies. 6 hours 42 minutes. TB705353.Skinner, Nicola. Storm. 2020. TB705355.Frankie has always had a temper. She was born on a BEACH, in a STORM. What Frances was not prepared for was dying in a freak natural disaster that wiped out her whole town. Waking up 100 years later, Frances finds a whole load of new things to be angry about. And that's before the visitors start turning up, treating her home like it's a tourist attraction. Which it is. Read by Olivia Dowd. 7 hours 45 minutes. TB705355.Vick, Christopher. Girl. Boy. Sea. 2020. TB25051.A British boy survives the sinking of his yacht in a storm off the coast of Morocco. After days at sea in a rowing boat Bill rescues a girl clinging to a barrel. Aya, from the Berber tribe, was escaping to Europe when her migrant ship was destroyed in the same storm. Through endless days they drift, weakened by fear and hunger. Aya tells Bill about The Arabian Nights, and Shahrazad, who told 1001 stories to save herself.Read by Isaac Rouse. 6 hours 26 minutes. TB25051.13+ Suggested Reading AgeCass, Kiera. The Betrothed. 2020. TB705431.When King Jameson declares his love for Lady Hollis Brite, Hollis is thrilled. After all, she's grown up vying for the king's attention alongside other daughters of the nobility. But Hollis soon realizes that becoming queen may not be the happily ever after she thought it would be. When she meets a commoner with the power to see right into her heart, she finds that the future she really wants is one that she never imagined.Read by Jasika Nicole. 8 hours 18 minutes. TB705431.James, Lauren. The Quiet At The End Of The World. 2019. TB24870.Lowrie and Shen are the youngest people on the planet after a virus caused global infertility. Closeted in London and doted upon by a small, ageing community, the pair spend their days looking for treasure - until a secret is uncovered that threatens humanity's entire existence. Now Lowrie and Shen face an impossible choice: in the quiet at the end of the world, they must decide what to sacrifice to save the whole human race.Read by Camilla Rockley. 9 hours 5 minutes. TB24870.Sedgwick, Marcus. Voyages In The Underworld Of Orpheus Black. 2020. TB705375.WWII London. Harry wakes in hospital to learn that his brother Ellis has almost certainly been killed by a V2 rocket falling during an air raid. But Harry is in a state of wounded delirium. Harry's mind begins to blur the distinctions between the reality of the war-torn city, the fiction of his unpublished sci-fi novel and the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Harry discharges himself from hospital and begins a search for his brother.Read by Bob Rollett. 4 hours 31 minutes. TB705375.To borrow booksCall RNIB on 0303 123 9999or email library@.ukTo buy booksCall RNIB on 0303 123 9999or online at .uk/shop? RNIB July 2020RNIB registered charity number 1156629 (England and Wales),SC044876 (Scotland) and 1173 (Isle of Man) ................
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