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New books Issue 45May 2015Your regular update of new titles available for loan and sale from RNIB.ContentsUsing New books To borrow booksCall RNIB on 0303 123 9999, email library@.uk or post your list to RNIB National Library Service, PO Box 173 Peterborough PE2 6WS.To buy books Call RNIB on 0303 123 9999 or email shop@.ukTo change or cancelTo change the format you receive or to cancel New books please contact RNIB on 0303 123 9999 or email library@.uk.New books is available in the following formats: DAISY CD, contracted braille, print, by email or by downloading from our website .uk/newbooksTo find books Search our catalogue online at .uk/librarycatalogueOr call our Reader Services Team on 01733 37 53 33 or email libraryinfo@.uk. You can find help with choosing books as well as details of other library services at .uk/libraryHave you visited RNIB’s new online shop? You’ll find all our useful products in one place, all at great prices. Visit .uk/shop. Why not sign up for our e-newsletter while you’re there to be the first to find out what’s new?Braille fictionAll titles are for loan and sale unless otherwise stated.Adult fiction Billingham, Mark. The dying hours. 2014. Crime fiction.Tom Thorne series; book 1. Tom Thorne is back in uniform. He 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. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25005703.Bloom, Tracy. No-one ever has sex on a Tuesday. 2014. Chick lit.Childhood sweethearts Matthew and Katy agree they must never see each other again following a school reunion. So all is forgotten - until eight months later when a shock meeting at an antenatal class forces them to confront the fact that Matthew could be the father of Katy's baby.4v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 24945103.Bolton, Sharon. Sacrifice. 2009. Thriller.Deep in the peat soil of her field, Tora Hamilton is shocked to find the perfectly preserved body of a young woman, a gaping hole in her chest where her heart has been brutally removed. Tora then uncovers disturbing links to an ancient Shetland legend. 7v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25005903Bradshaw, Rita. Beyond the veil of tears. 2014. Family stories.Naive and innocent, 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. On her wedding night, Angeline enters a nightmare from which there is no awakening. 7v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25107203.Buchan, Elizabeth. I can't begin to tell you. 2014. General fiction.British-born Kay Eberstern lives in Nazi-occupied Demark. Her husband Bror is desperate to preserve his family home, even if it means co-existing with the enemy. Lured by British Intelligence into the world of Resistance, her betrayal of Bror is complete as she puts her family in danger.8v. Price: ?14.99. Order No: 25005403Chadwick, Elizabeth. The love knot. 1999. Historical fiction.The year is 1140 and England is torn by the strife of civil war. After her village is raided, Catrin is rescued by Oliver Pascal and taken to Bristol Castle. There she meets Ethelreda, who offers to teach her the art of midwifery. But a midwife's life is fraught with dangers.8v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 24989903Chamberlain, Diane. Reflection. 2014. Romance.When Rachel receives the news that her estranged grandmother, Helen, is ill and needs her care, she returns home after twenty years away. But the town blames her for a past tragedy and amongst the hostility and gossip she is forced to seek out old allies and new passions.7v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25005203.Chambers, Kimberley. Payback. 2013. Thriller.The trap series; book 2. In the Butlers’ world, family counts; so when the truth about Vinny's cousin's death comes out, it rocks the Butlers to the core. Vinny's friends and family are turning against him. Then, the unimaginable happens - Vinny's little daughter Molly goes missing. 7v. Price: 12.99. Order No: 24759803.Carter, Chris. One by one. 2014. Crime fiction.Robert Hunter series; book 5. After an anonymous call, Detective Robert Hunter must watch as an unidentified victim is murdered live over the internet. During the next call the killer tells him he has upgraded his game into a live murder reality show, where anyone can cast the deciding vote.7v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25005803.Chadwick, Elizabeth. Shadows and strongholds. 2013. Historical fiction.Nine-year-old Fulke FitzWarin leaves his family for the household of Joscelin de Dinan, Lord of Ludlow. Joscelin's youngest daughter, Hawise, befriends Fulke when he most needs it. But as the years pass, an enemy to Ludlow forces them onto opposite sides of a cruel divide. 9v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 24989603.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. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order no: 25004305Cussler, Clive. The bootlegger. 2014. Thriller.Isaac Bell; book 8. It is 1920. When a witness to a shooting is executed in a manner peculiar to the Russian secret police, it becomes clear that these were no ordinary bootleggers. Bell is facing a team of Bolshevik assassins and saboteurs.5v. Price: ?13.99. Order No: 24945003.Galbraith, Robert. The silkworm. 2014. Crime fiction.Cormoran Strike series; book 2. When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published it would ruin lives.9v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 24945203.Harkness, Deborah E. The book of life. 2014. Fantasy.All souls trilogy; book 3. Diana and Matthew return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. But the real threat to their future is yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for the elusive manuscript Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on a terrifying urgency. 11v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 25005603.Hassel, Sven. Comrades of war. 2014. War.So severely wounded as to earn a respite from the dreaded Eastern Front, Sven, the Legionnaire and Tiny - having miraculously survived the freezing cattle-truck journey and the surgeons' butchery - find themselves safe behind the lines in a Hamburg hospital. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25004503.Herries, Anne. The rebel captain's royalist bride. 2014. Romance.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. 4v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: BR24907605 Kernick, Simon. Siege. 2012. Thriller.People are dead and many more lives hang in the balance as gunmen storm the Stanhope Hotel on Park Lane. 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. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25005303.Lawson, Mary. Road ends. 2014. General fiction.One winter’s day in 1966 Megan Cartwright sets out for London. But left behind, her family begins to unravel. Disturbing letters from home begin to arrive and torn between her independence and family ties, Megan must make an impossible choice.6v. Price: ?13.96. Order No: 25005503.Lewis, Susan. Never say goodbye. 2014. General fiction.How would you cope with the threat of losing someone you love? Josie's life couldn't be more different to Bel's. But three years ago, tragedy tore Bel's life in two. Now it's happening to Josie. And faced with uncertainty and heartbreak, they come to treasure their growing friendship.8v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 24943803.Lewis, Susan. No child of mine. 2013. General fiction.When the case of three-year-old Ottilie Wade comes to her attention, Alex Lake finds herself unable to detach from the child the way she should. She feels an overpowering need to make a real difference in little Ottilie's life, but no one is prepared to believe that Ottilie is in danger. 9v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25006003.Ley, Rosanna. Return to Mandalay. 2014. General fiction.When Eva's job as an antiques dealer suddenly requires a trip to Mandalay, her grandfather Lawrence finally breaks his silence about his wartime in Burma and asks her to return a mysterious artefact of his own to its rightful owner. But in Burma Eva’s mission proves complicated. 8v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25005103.McCaffrey, Anne. Red star rising. 1997. Fantasy.Dragonriders of Pern; book 4. For two hundred years there had been peace on Pern, but now the signs were ominous. Violent winter storms and erupting volcanoes heralded the coming of the second Pass of Thread.6v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 25003603.McDermott, Andy. Kingdom of darkness. 2014. Thriller.Nina Wilde and Eddie Chase; book 10. Nina Wilde and her husband Eddie Chase are warned about a planned raid on Alexander's newly-discovered tomb in Egypt. But before the man can explain more, he is assassinated by a wanted Nazi war criminal - who has barely aged in seventy years.8v. Price: ?19.99. Order No: 25010703.Mackay, Malcolm. The night the rich men burned. 2014. Thriller.Two friends, Alex Glass and Oliver Peterkinney become involved in one of Glasgow’s darkest and most dangerous trades. But while one rises quickly up the ranks, the other will fall prey to the industry's addictive lifestyle and ever-spiralling debts. 6v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 24999403.Maitland, Karen. The vanishing witch. 2014. Historical fiction.The reign of Richard II is troubled, and in a world where nothing can be taken at face value, who can you trust? And 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.10v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 24997803.Malpas, Jodi Ellen, This man. 2013. Erotic fiction.Jesse Ward - a devastatingly handsome, utterly confident, pleasure-seeking playboy who knows no boundaries. Ava doesn't want to be attracted to this man, and yet she can't control the overwhelming desire he stirs in her. Jesse wants her and is determined to have her.8v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 24928903.Norman, Charity. The son-in-law. 2014. General fiction.This is the story of Joseph, who killed his wife, Zoe. Of their three children who witnessed the event. Of Zoe's parents, Hannah and Frederick, who are bringing up the children and can't forgive Joseph. They slowly adjust to life without Zoe, until the day Joseph is released from prison.6v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 24929003.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. But 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.5v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 25107103.Patterson, James. Invisible. 2014. Thriller.Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, everyone thinks FBI Reseacher Emmy Dockery is crazy. That is, until Emmy finds a piece of evidence they can't afford to ignore. Could one person really be responsible for these unthinkable crimes?5v. Price: ?18.99. Order No: 24987303.Pelecanos, George P. The cut. 2012. Thriller.Spero Lucas; book 1. Spero Lucas has made name for himself as the kind of person who gets jobs done quietly and effectively, usually just on the right side of the law. A quick case for a criminal defence attorney leads him into the world of a high-profile marijuana dealer.4v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 24929703.Rendell, Ruth. The girl next door. 2014. Crime fiction.When the bones of two severed hands are discovered in a box, an investigation into a long-buried crime of passion begins. The grisly discovery leads a group of friends, who played together as children, to question their pasts.5v. Price: ?18.99. Order No: 24998703.Sanderson, Brandon. Words of radiance. 2014. Fantasy.The stormlight archive; book 2. Return to a planet swept by apocalyptic storms, a world tipping into war as aristocratic families move to control the shard blades and shard plates, ancient artefacts from a past civilization that can win wars. 22v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 24879403.Saintcrow, Lilith. The Ripper affair. 2014. Fantasy.Bannon and Clare; book 3. A shattering accident places Archibald Clare, mentath in the service of Britannia, in the care of Emma Bannon, sorceress Prime. Clare needs a measure of calm to repair his faculties of Logic and Reason. Without them, he is not his best. 5v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25010503.Shaw, Rebecca. Trouble in the village. 2000. General fiction.Turnham Malpas; book 8. When Willie Biggs, the Verger, retires, his successor Tom Nicholls appears to be just the man for the job until events in Tom's past return to haunt him and bring violence and danger to the peaceful village.5v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 24985803.Shaw, Rebecca. Village rumours. 2014. General fiction.Turnham Malpas; book 18. While clearing out the rectory's loft,Reverend Peter Harris makes an unsettling discovery and a dark secret is exposed that soon sets tongues wagging in the village. 4v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 24998603.Simmons, Dan. The abominable. 2014. Thriller.In June 1924 George Mallory vanishes on the slopes of Everest. Explorer Richard Deacon devises a plan to follow in his footsteps. But some dark creature is tracking them up the mountain. Soon they will discover what happened to Mallory's crew - but can they escape the same hideous fate?12v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 24929903.Steel, Danielle. Lightning. 1996. Romance.As a partner in one of New York's most prestigious law firms, Alexandra Parker barely manages to juggle husband, career, and three-year-old child. Then lightning strikes – a routine medical check-up turns her world upside down when tests reveal shattering news. 8v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 24998503.Steel, Danielle. Power play. 2014. Romance.Fiona Carson has proven herself as CEO of a multibillion-dollar high-tech company. Marshall Weston basks in the fruits of his achievements. To maintain his position, he harbours secrets that could destroy his life at any moment. Both must fight off those who are jealous of their success. 5v. Price: ?18.99. Order No: 24987403Stevens, Chevy. Never knowing. 2011. Thriller.At 34 Sara Gallagher is happy. Now she wants to find her birth parents. But Sara's mother rejects her - again - and her father turns out to be an infamous killer who's been slaying women every summer for over 30 years. And he's found out about Sara too.6v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 24930403.Stratmann, Linda. The poisonous seed. 2013. Crime Fiction.Frances Doughty; book 1. When a customer of William Doughty’s chemist shop dies of strychnine poisoning after drinking medicine he dispensed, William is blamed, and the family faces ruin. William’s daughter, nineteen year old Frances, determines to redeem her ailing father’s reputation. 6v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 24929103Tessaro, Kathleen. The perfume collector. 2013. General fiction.Eva Dorsey names Grace Chief Beneficiary in her will but Grace has never heard of Eva. An abandoned perfume shop on the Left Bank will lead her to unravel the heartbreaking story of her mysterious benefactor, a woman who bewitched high society in 1920s New York and Paris.6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 24998903.Titchmarsh, Alan. Bring me home. 2014. General fiction.Charlie Stuart welcomes his guests to the annual party. Friends and neighbours come together to toast the laird's happiness and prosperity. But Charlie sees the truth behind the fa?ade. The past, with its dark secrets of love, death, loyalty and betrayal, is about to catch up with him. 4v. Price: ?18.99. Order No: 25010603.Vyleta, Dan. The crooked maid. 2014. General fiction.Vienna, 1948. Anna Beer returns to the city she fled nine years earlier. Travelling on the same train from Switzerland is 18-year-old Robert Seidel, a schoolboy summoned home to his stepfather's sickbed and the secrets of his family's past. 7v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 24986803.Wecker, Helene. The golem and the djinni. 2014. Fantasy.Chava is a golem. When her master dies at sea on the voyage from Poland, she is unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives in New York in 1899. Ahmad, a djinni, is released accidentally by a tinsmith in a Lower Manhattan shop. 10v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 24940403.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. Meanwhile, the Color Prince's army continues its inexorable advance, having swallowed two of the seven satrapies, they now invade the Blood Forest. 16v. ?18.99. Order No:24986903Welsh, Irvine. The sex lives of Siamese twins. 2014. General fiction.When Lucy Brennan, a Miami Beach personal-fitness trainer, disarms a gunman chasing two frightened homeless men, Lucy becomes a media hero. The solitary eye-witness is the depressed and overweight Lena Sorensen, who becomes obsessed with Lucy and signs up as her client.7v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 24986703.Whitehouse, Lucie. Before we met. 2014. Thriller.A whirlwind romance followed by a picture-perfect marriage. However, one day Hannah Reilly’s husband fails to come home. Are the secrets that Mark has been keeping designed to protect him or protect her? And can you ever really know what happened before you met?5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25010303Young, Louisa. The heroes' welcome. 2014. General fiction.1919, and Britain is realising that it is no longer at war. Now, Nadine and Riley, Rose, and Peter and Julia, must try to regain a sense of normality. But long shadows cast by the war dim the potential joys of peacetime, and matters of the heart prove arduous and bewildering. 5v. ?12.99. Order No: 25010803Adult non-fictionBiographyBarbree, Jay. Neil Armstrong: a life of flight. 2014.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.7v. ?18.99. Order No: 24989403Benson, Richard. The valley: a hundred years in the life of a family. 2014.Benson follows four generations of his mother's family, born between 1890 and 2000. In its sweeping but deeply personal history of the working classes, 'The Valley' shows a century punctuated by social upheaval.9v. Price: ?25.00. Order No: 24990103.Campbell, John. Roy Jenkins: a well-rounded life. 2014.Roy Jenkins’ career spans the full half-century from Attlee to Tony Blair, during which he helped transform almost every area of national life and politics. 21v. Price: ?30.00. Order No: 24989503Daniels, Hope. Hackney child: a true tale of surviving poverty and the care system. 2014.At the age of nine, Hope Daniels walked into Stoke Newington Police Station with her little brothers and asked to be taken into care. This is Hope's gripping story of physical and emotional survival - and the lifeline given to her by the support of professionals working in the care system. 4v.Price: ?6.99. Order No: BR24988903Glass, 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: BR25101303.Grylls, Bear. Facing up: a remarkable journey to the summit of Mt Everest. 2001.Bear Grylls became one of the youngest Britons to reach the summit of Mount Everest, only two years after breaking his back in a parachuting accident. He overcame severe weather conditions, fatigue, dehydration and a last-minute illness to stand on top of the world's highest mountain. 5v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25004203.Lewis, Matt. Last man off: a true story of disaster and survival on the Antarctic seas. 2014.The waters of Antarctica, 1998. 23-year-old Matt Lewis has just started as an observer aboard a deep sea fishing boat. But a storm is brewing. With the captain missing, and the crew forced to abandon ship, Lewis leads the escape onto three life rafts, where the battle for survival begins. 4v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 24989103.Mahoney, Rosemary. For the benefit of those who see: dispatches from the world of the blind. 2014.Rosemary Mahoney tells the story of Braille without Borders, the first school for the blind in Tibet, and of Sabriye Tenberken, the remarkable blind woman who founded the school.5v. Price: ?19.99. Order No: 24940803Moore, Richard. Can I give him my eyes?: the inspiring story of a boy blinded in war who found freedom in forgiveness. 2009.Richard Moore was ten years old when he was shot by a British soldier. He describes the moment of grace that accompanied the realisation that he would never again see, where he accepted his fate instantly and without bitterness, and tells of wonderful childhood escapades.5v. Price: ?2.80, Order No: 24999303Nolan, Bernie. Now and forever. 2013.This book tells Bernie Nolan's heartbreaking story of her battleagainst incurable cancer.4v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 24930303O'Sullivan, Ronnie. Running: the autobiography. 2014.This book explains how running has helped Ronnie to fight his demons – his addictive personality, depression, his dad's murder conviction, the painful break-up with the mother of his children - and allowed him to win five World Snooker Championships. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 24930003.Venables, Terry. Born to manage: the autobiography. 2014.The definitive career autobiography of Terry Venables, one of the most successful England managers of recent years.7v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 25010203.Weir, Alison. Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England. 2011.Weir revisits the life of Isabella, Edward II's Queen. A pawn in 14th century European politics she was married to Edward at the age of 12 and so began a turbulent and eventful life.12v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 24987503.Yousafzai, Malala. I am Malala: the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban. 2013.'I am Malala' tells the inspiring story of a schoolgirl who was determined not to be intimidated by extremists, and faced the Taliban with immense courage. Malala speaks of her continuing campaign for every girl's right to an education.5v. Price: 18.99. Order No: 24760003.HistoryRodriguez, Deborah. The Kabul Beauty School: the art of friendship and freedom. 2014.Deborah Rodriguez arrived in Afghanistan in 2002 and opened the first beauty salon in Kabul that actually trained local women to become beauticians. All of these women bring their stories to the Kabul Beauty School, a place of perms, friendship and freedom.5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25003503.Tuchman, Barbara W. The guns of August: the classic bestselling account of the outbreak of the First World War. 2014.The Guns of August is the narrative history of the first month of World War I. It describes the strategies of the generals, the preparation and morale of the armies of the nations at war, and the everyday problems of the field commanders.13v. Price: ?10.99. Order No: 24987603ParanormalSartori, Penny. The wisdom of near-death experiences: how understanding NDE's can help us live more fully. 2014.This book considers a wide range of experiences of dying patients that Dr Sartori has encountered during her nursing career. 5v. Price: ?10.99. Order No: 24987103.PsychologyByron, Tanya. The skeleton cupboard: the making of a clinical psychologist. 2014.'The Skeleton Cupboard' is Professor Tanya Byron's account of her final years of training as a clinical psychologist. Through the eyes of her naive and inexperienced younger self, Tanya shares the remarkable cases of key patients and their treatment. 5v. Price: ?18.99. Order No: 24990003True crimeKnight, 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 more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. Her escape on 6 May 2013, made headlines around the world. 4v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 25101203.Children and young adult fictionSuggested reading age 0-4Cousins, Lucy. Peck peck peck. 2014.Little woodpecker has just learnt how to peck and - yippee! - what fun it is! Off he goes, on his first big pecking adventure, and he peck peck pecks his little heart out. 1v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25098103Davies, Benji. The storm whale. 2013.Noi and his father live in a house by the sea. Noi's father works hard as a fisherman, and Noi often has only their six cats for company. So when, one day, he finds a baby whale washed up on the beach after a storm, Noi is excited and takes it home to care for it. 1v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25097903Docherty, Helen. The Snatchabook. 2013.In every house, in every bed, a bedtime book was being read. But then, one night, all the animals' bedtime story books start disappearing. Is there a book thief? And who could it be? One brave little rabbit sets out to solve the mystery.1v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25097803Sparkes, Amy. Do not enter the monster zoo. 2013.What would you do if you received an invitation to run a zoo full of huge, scary monsters? The brave little boy in this story leaps at the chance, and although the monsters seem scary at first, he soon has them eating out of the palm of his hand. 1v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 25098203.Suggested reading age 9+Riddell, Chris. Goth Girl and the ghost of a mouse. 2013.Ada Goth is the only child of Lord Goth. One day William and Emily Cabbage come to stay at the house, and together with a ghostly mouse called Ishmael they and Ada begin to unravel a dastardly plot that Maltravers, the mysterious indoor gamekeeper, is hatching.UEB. 2v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 24986403.Riordan, Rick. Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods. 2014. Fantasy.Who could tell the original stories of the gods of Olympus better than a modern-day demigod? In this whirlwind tour of Greek mythology, Percy Jackson gives his personal take on the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece and reveals the truth about how they came to rule the world.UEB. 1v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 25017403.Suggested reading age 13+Green, Sally. Half bad. 2014.'Half Bad' is about one boy's struggle for survival in a hidden society of witches. You get sick if you stay indoors after dark. You hate white witches but love Annalise, who is one. You've been kept in a cage since you were 14. All you've got to do is escape and find the black witch who eats boys. UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 24928203Patterson, James. Nevermore. 2013.Maximum Ride; book 8. One last incredible explosive adventure with an astonishing ending that no-one could have seen coming.UEB. 6v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 24986103.Skuse, C. J. Dead romantic. 2013. Fantasy.Camille wants to find the perfect boy, with an athlete's body and a poet's brain. Enter Zoe, her brilliant but strange best friend, who takes biology homework to a whole new level. She can create Camille's dream boy, Frankenstein-stylee. But can she make him love her?UEB. 5v. Price: 7.99. Order No: 25080003.Suggested reading age 15+Haig, Matt. Echo boy. 2014. Science fiction.Daniel is an echo, an android- but he's not like the others. He feels a connection with Audrey; a feeling Daniel knows he was never designed to have, and cannot explain. And when Audrey is placed in terrible danger, he's determined to save her.7v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 24944403.Children and young adult non-fictionSuggested reading age 7+Hibbert, Clare. Stone Age to Iron Age. 2014.The first Britons were hunter-gatherers who came from mainland Europe to settle in England. They bought wooden spears, flint hand axes and animals with them and were a nomadic people. 'Stone Age to Iron Age' tells the story of how these people settled and began farming the land.UEB. 1v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 25134409Also available in uncontracted UEB. Order No: 25134405Moses, Brian. School report: very funny poems about school! 2014.Find out what goes on behind the staffroom door, join in at playtime, see what is in the mysterious lost -property box, go on the school trip, and discover what teachers do in their spare time - and that's just the beginning of the school adventure in this collection of poems.UEB. 2v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 25095405.Also available in uncontracted UEB. Order No: 25095403 Suggested reading age 11+Dahl, Roald. Boy: tales of childhood. 2008.'Boy' is the story of Roald Dahl's very own boyhood, including tales of sweet -shops and chocolate, mean old ladies and a great mouse plot – the inspiration for some of his most marvellous storybooks in the years to come. UEB. 3v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 22982204.UEB learner’s titlesArcher, Jeffrey. I will survive: from And thereby hangs a tale. 2010. UEB. Single-sided. Double-line spacing, 1v. Price: ?1.99. Order No: 24872605.Uncontracted UEB. 2v. Price: Order No: 24872603. Archer, Jeffrey. Stuck on you: from And thereby hangs a tale. 2010.UEB. Single-sided. Double-line spacing, 2v. Price: ?1.99. Order No: 24872705.Uncontracted UEB. 2v. Order No: 24872703. Archer, Jeffrey. High heels: from And thereby hangs a tale. 2010.UEB. Single-sided. Double-line spacing, 2v. Price: ?1.99. Order No: 24872405.Uncontracted UEB. 2v. Order No: 24872403. Archer, Jeffrey. Where there's a will: from And thereby hangs a tale. 2010.UEB. Single-sided. Double-line spacing, 2v. Price: ?1.99. Order No: 24872805.Uncontracted UEB. 2v. Order No: 24872803. Archer, Jeffrey. The Queen's birthday telegram: from And thereby hangs a tale. 2010.UEB. Single-sided. Double-line spacing, 1v. Price: ?1.99. Order No: 24872905.Uncontracted UEB. 1v. Order No: 24872903. Binchy, Maeve. The builders. Romance.Open door series. When Derek Doyle's shiny builder’s van arrives outside Number 12, Nan is secretly excited. When the handsome builder looks to Nan to help unravel the mystery of the previous residents' vanishing, a special friendship begins to flourish.2002. UEB. Single-sided. Double-line spacing, 4v. Price: ?3.99. Order No: 24843205.Uncontracted UEB. 5v. Order No: 24843203.Binchy, Maeve. Full house. Family stories.Quick reads. Dee loves her children very much, but now they are all grown up, shouldn't they leave home? When a crisis occurs, Dee decides things have to change for the whole family.2012. UEB. Single-sided. Double-line spacing, 8v. Price: ?1.99. Order No: 24844205.Uncontracted UEB. 9v. Order No: 24844203.Binchy, Maeve. The return journey: from The return journey and other stories. 2009.UEB uncontracted. Single-sided. Double-line spacing. 1v. Price: ?1.99. Order No: 24870003Binchy, Maeve. Miss Vogel's vacation: from The return journey and other stories. 2009.UEB uncontracted. Single-sided. Double-line spacing. 2v. Price: ?1.99. Order No: 24870303Binchy, Maeve. The sporting decision: from The return journey and other stories. 2009.UEB uncontracted. Single-sided. Double-line spacing. 1v. Price: ?1.99. Order No: 24869903Binchy, Maeve. The business trip: from The return journey and other stories. 2009.UEB uncontracted. Single-sided. Double-line spacing. 2v. Price: ?1.99. Order No: 24870403Binchy, Maeve. Excitement: from The return journey and other stories. 2009.UEB uncontracted. Single-sided. Double-line spacing. 2v. Price: ?1.99. Order No: 24870103Binchy, Maeve. Holiday weather: from The return journey and other stories. 2009.UEB uncontracted. Single-sided. Double-line spacing. 2v. Price: ?1.99. Order No: 24870203Buckland, Danny. We won the lottery!Quick reads. Since 1994, the UK's National Lottery has created 2,300 millionaires. For the first time five winners share the details of their shopping sprees and the highs and lows of their lives once they became millionaires.2010. UEB. Single-sided. Double-line spacing, 6v. Price: ?1.99. Order No: 24843505.Uncontracted UEB. 8v. Order No: 24843503. Cavendish, Lucy. Jack and Jill. Psychological fiction.Quick reads. Jill loves her little brother, Jack. She understands what he's thinking, which is just as well because Jack won't speak. With a local country boy Jill decides to find out what's going on and uncovers the appalling truth behind Jack's silence.2011. UEB. Single-sided. Double-line spacing, 7v. Price: ?1.99. Order No: 24844105.Uncontracted UEB. 8v. Order No: 24844103.Dragon's Den: your road to success. Quick reads. The Dragons' Den stars reveal their personal stories of success but also the failures they have overcome.2009. UEB. Single-sided. Double-line spacing, 6v. Price: ?1.99. Order No: 24843005. Grange, Amanda. Just deserts: from Loves me, loves me not.2009. UEB. Single-sided. Double-line spacing, 1v. Price: ?1.99. Order No: 24874105.Uncontracted UEB. 1v. Order No: 24874103.Hewson, Sherrie. The tannery. Family stories.Quick Reads. When Wilf finally comes home from the war he returns to a teenage daughter who has been forced to grow up too soon, and a wife who is destroyed by what she's become. The hatred, resentment and secrets simmer beneath the attempts to restore a normal life for them all.2009. UEB. Single-sided. Double-line spacing, 7v. Price: ?1.99. Order No: 24843905.Uncontracted UEB. 8v. Order No: 24843903.Hislop, Victoria.The pine tree: from The last dance and other stories. 2013.UEB. Single-sided. 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Victor decides there is only one way to get Joan out of his life forever, but he's about to get a nasty surprise.2014. UEB. Single-sided. Double-line spacing, 8v. Price: ?1.99. Order No: 24844405.Uncontracted UEB. 11v. Order No: 24844403.Kernick, Simon. Wrong time, wrong place. Thriller.Quick reads. You are hiking in the Scottish highlands with three friends when you come across a girl. She is half naked, has been badly beaten, and she can't speak English. She is clearly running away from someone. Do you stop to help her? 2013. UEB. Single-sided. Double-line spacing, 7v. Price: ?1.00. Order No: 24844505.Uncontracted UEB. 8v. Order No: 24844503. La Plante, Lynda. The little one. Ghost stories.Quick reads. Struggling journalist Barbara tricks her way into the home of former soap star Margaret Reynolds. Desperate for a scoop, she finds instead a terrified woman living alone in a creepy manor house. Margaret's haunting story of broken promises is slowly revealed, and Barbara is left with a chilling discovery.2012. UEB. Single-sided. Double-line spacing, 8v. Price: ?1.99. Order No: 24843405.Uncontracted UEB. 10v. Order No: 24843403. Lette, Kathy. Love is blind. Romance.Quick Reads. When Jane decides to move to the Australian outback in search of a husband, her sister Anthea thinks she's mad. But when Anthea follows her sister Down Under to try and save her, she ends up taking a walk on the wild side herself.2013. UEB. Single-sided. Double-line spacing, 8v. Price: ?1.00. Order No: 24843305.Uncontracted UEB. 9v. Order No: 24843303. King, Stephen. Graduation afternoon: from Just after sunset: stories. 2008.UEB contracted. Single-sided. Double-line spacing. 1v. Price: ?1.99. Order No: 24870505McCall Smith, Alexander. The cleverness of ladies. Crime fiction.Quick reads. Mma Ramotswe, owner of the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, keeps her wits about her as she looks into why the country's star goalkeeper isn't saving goals. 2012. Uncontracted UEB. Single-sided. Double-line spacing,9v. Price: ?1.99. Order No: 24844003. Mosse, Kate. The cave. General fiction.Quick Reads. March 1928. When his car crashes in France, Freddie stumbles down from the hills to a village nearby. There he meets Marie who is also mourning a lost generation. Her story of the fate of her family moves him deeply. But it will also lead him to the caves above the village - and to the heart of a shocking secret.2009. UEB. Single-sided. Double-line spacing, 6v. Price: ?1.99. Order No: 24843705.Uncontracted UEB. 7v. Order No: 24843703. Parks, Adele. Grating expectations: from Loves me, loves me not.2009. UEB. Single-sided. Double-line spacing, 1v. Price: ?1.99. Order No: 24874005.Uncontracted UEB. 1v. Order No: 24874003. Parsons, Tony. Beyond the Bounty. Historical fiction.Quick reads. What happened after the crew of the Bounty cast their sadistic captain adrift? Paradise turns out to have a darker side as the rebels' dreams turn to nightmares. 2012. UEB. Single-sided. Double-line spacing, 7v. Price: ?1.99. Order No: 24841209.Uncontracted UEB. 8v. Order No: 24841207. Robinson, Peter. The Eastvale ladies' poker circle: from The price of love. 2009. UEB. Single-sided. Double-line spacing, 4v. Price: ?1.99. Order No: 24873105.Uncontracted UEB. 5v. Price: ?1.99. Order No: 24873103. Robinson, Peter. The price of love: from The price of love.2009. UEB. Single-sided. Double-line spacing, 2v. Price: ?1.99. Order No: 24873005.Uncontracted UEB. 3v. Order No: 24873003. Tucker, Mike. The Silurian gift. 2013. Science fiction.Quick reads. The Doctor arrives at an old oil refinery near the South Pole, concerned by claims about a new form of energy. He soon discovers something terrifying is stalking the refinery. It brings death and destruction in its wake. UEB. Single-sided. 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Stabat Mater: op.58 [1st soprano part]. Open score. 1 volume. Price: ?0.76; ?1.51; ?4.00. Order No: 25105401.Jacob, Gordon. The Pied Piper: for flute and piccolo. Two unaccompanied pieces: The Spell (for flute); The march to the River Weser (for piccolo). Single line. 1 volume. Price: ?0.76; ?1.26; ?3.00. Order No: 24968101.Haydn, Joseph. Missa Cellensis: for soloists, SATB and orchestra [Bass part]. Open score. 1 volume. Price: ?0.76; ?1.51; ?4.00. Order No: 25001801.Ledbury, Oliver. Flute Salad. Seventeen varied pieces for solo flute ranging from easy to medium difficulty, all accompaniment-free.Single line. 1 volume. Price: ?0.76; ?1.26; ?3.00. Order No: 25087701.Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Veni Sancte Spiritus: motet in c major, K.47 [Soprano part]. Open score. 1 volume. Price: ?0.76; ?1.26; ?2.50. Order No: 24977101.Parry, C. Hubert H. Never weather-beaten sail [Soprano I part].Open score. 1 volume. Price: ?0.76; ?1.26; ?2.50. Order No: 24977201.Parry, C. Hubert H. 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Order No: 25027701.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. Piano by earLate beginner levelAlfie.Auld Land Syne.Battle hymn of the republic.Besame Mucho.Carol of the bells.Christmas time is here.Clair de lune.The Coventry Carol.Crying.Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer.Winter Wonderland.Early intermediate levelBorn to Lose.Bridal chorus.Silver Bells.White Christmas.Intermediate levelArabesque.As Time goes by.Battle hymn of the republic.For once in my life.For the good times.Havah Nagilah.Let it be me.My cherie amour.On the street where you live.Rose Garden.Three Little Words.Wonderful Tonight.You’ve got a friend.Late intermediate levelBeautiful.Stars Fell on Alabama.Guitar by earLevel 1All the small things: a lesson on the style of Blink 182.My Sweet Lord: a lesson on the style of George Harrison.Level 2As tears go by: a lesson on the style of the Rolling Stones.Feelin’ Bad Blues: a lesson on the style of Ry Cooder.Long train running: a lesson on the style of The Doobie Brothers.Fiesta: a lesson on the style of Ramon Bermudez.There’s a heartache following me: a lesson on the style of Pete Townshend.Level 2.5Dust My Broom: a lesson on the style of Johnny Winter.Moliendo Café: a lesson on the style of Peter Pupping.Bass guitar by earLevel 1Fiesta: a lesson on the style of Ramon Bermudez.Heartbreak Hotel: a less on the style of Elvis Presley.Save the last dance for me: a lesson on the style of The Drifters.Suavito: a lesson on the style of Malecon Social Club.Tequila Sunrise: a lesson on the style of The Eagles.Too Hot: a lesson on the style of Bill Perry.Level 1.5Sweet home Chicago: a lesson on the style of Luther Tucker.Level 2I’ll see you in my dreams: a lesson on the style of Django Reinhardt.Moliendo Café: a lesson on the style of Peter Pupping.Say What: a lesson on the style of Stevie Ray Vaughan.Dust my broom: a lesson on the style of Johnny Winter.The House is Rockin’: a lesson on the style of Stevie Ray Vaughan.Flute by earCanon in D.Dance of the Blessed Spirits.Memory.Pavane.You’ll never walk alone.The Lord’s Prayer.The Swan from Carnival of the Animals.Banjo by earLevel 2Eastbound and Down.Wild and Restless Foam .Mandolin by earLevel 1Basic chords. Giant print – 24 pointAdult fictionAbercrombie, Joe. Before they are hanged. 2008. Fantasy.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. 7v.Abercrombie, Joe. Last argument of kings. 2009. Fantasy.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. No-one believes that the shadow of war is falling across the very heart of the Union. The First of the Magi has a plan to save the world, as he always does. 9v.Beaton, M C. Death of a gossip. 2008. Crime.Hamish Macbeth book 1.When society widow Lady Jane Winters joins the local fishing class she wastes no time in ruffling feathers of those around her. Among the victims of her sharp tongue is Hamish Macbeth, yet not even he thinks someone would seriously want to silence her until her body is fished out of the river. 2v.Beaton, M. C. Death of an outsider. 2008. Crime.Hamish Macbeth book 3. The most hated man in the most dour town in Scotland is sleeping with the fishes, or, more accurately, has been dumped into a tank filled with crustaceans. All that remains of the victim are his bones. The whole affair quickly lands on the plate of Hamish Macbeth.2v.Beaton, M. C. Agatha Raisin and the walkers of Dembley. 2010. Crime.Agatha Raisin book 4. After time away, Agatha Raisin returns to her beloved Cotswold village and to her handsome neighbour. Agatha is soon distracted by a sensational murder. The victim, found in a field, is young hiker Jessica Tartinck, who spent her life enraging landowners by insisting on her right to roam.2v.Beaton, M. C. Agatha Raisin and the murderous marriage. 2010. Crime.Agatha Raisin book 5. The morning of Agatha's marriage to James Lacey dawns bright and clear. But her luck runs out in the church when Jimmy, the husband she had believed long dead, turns up large as life and twice as ugly. Agatha has a go at strangling him. James breaks off the engagement. 2v.Beaton, M. C.Agatha Raisin and the terrible tourist. 2010. Crime.Agatha Raisin book 6. Agatha Raisin leaves the sleepy Cotswold village of Carsely to pursue love - and finds a murderer. Spurned at the altar, she follows her fleeing fiancé James Lacey to Cyprus, where, instead of enjoying the honeymoon they'd planned, they witness the killing of an obnoxious tourist in a disco. 2v.Billingham, Mark. The dying hours. 2014. Crime.Tom Thorne book 11. Tom Thorne is back in uniform. He's no longer a detective, and he hates it. 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 and he is forced to look into it alone. 4v.Binchy, Maeve. Chestnut Street. 2014. Short stories.Here, the lives of the residents of Chestnut Street are revealed: Bucket Maguire, the window cleaner, who must do more than he bargained for to protect his son. Nessa Byrne, whose aunt comes to visit from America for six weeks every summer and turns the house - and Nessa's world – upside down. 4vBinchy, Maeve. Nights of rain and stars. 2005. Family stories.This is the story of one summer when Fiona, Thomas, Elsa and David all have to face the particular life crisis which first made them leave their homes and end up in Greece. With the help of Vonni, a middle-aged Irish woman who lives in the village they each find a solution – not necessarily the one they anticipated.3v.Bloom, Tracy. No-one ever has sex on a Tuesday. 2014. Chick lit.Childhood sweethearts Matthew and Katy agree they must never see each other again following a school reunion. So all is forgotten - until eight months later when a shock meeting at an antenatal class forces them to confront the fact that Matthew could be the father of Katy's baby. 3v.Bolton, Sharon. Sacrifice. 2009. Thriller.Moving to Shetland has been unsettling for Tora Hamilton - even before the gruesome discovery she makes one Sunday afternoon. Deep in the peat soil of her field she is shocked to find the perfectly preserved body of a young woman, a gaping hole in her chest where her heart has been brutally removed. 4v.Carter, Chris, One by one. 2014. Crime.Robert Hunter book 5. Forced to make a sickening choice, Hunter must 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.4v.Cartland, Barbara, The cross of love. 2004. Romance.Barbara Cartland pink collection book 1. When Rena's father dies she is forced out of the vicarage with nowhere to go and no money. She seeks help at the large wooden cross standing in the nearby grounds of The Grange. There in the earth she finds three golden coins, which she hands over to the new Earl of Lansdale. 2v.Cartland, Barbara, Love in the highlands. 2004. Romance.When the Balkan Prince Stanislaus demanded an English bride, Queen Victoria decided to send him Lady Lavina, whose family had a slight connection with royalty. Determined to avoid this fate, Lavina threw herself on the mercy of the Marquis of Elswick, a disagreeable man who had turned his back on the world. 2v.Chadwick, Elizabeth. The love knot. 1999. Historical novels.The year is 1140 and England is torn by the strife of civil war. After her village is raided, Catrin is rescued by Oliver Pascal and taken to Bristol Castle. There she meets Ethelreda, who offers to teach her the art of midwifery. But a midwife's life is fraught with dangers.6v.Chance, Rebecca. Killer queens. 2013. Chick lit.Every little girl grows up dreaming of marrying a prince, but what if the fairy tale turns into a right royal nightmare? Scheming kings, killer queens, evil princes, far-from innocent princesses, secret weddings, illicit affairs, death plots and lashings of steamy sex: just another day in the lives of the world's most powerful families. 5v.Christie, Agatha. The ABC murders. 2001. Crime.Hercule Poirot book 12. There’s a serial killer on the loose, as a calling card he leaves beside each victim the ABC Railway Guide open at the name of the town where the murder has taken place. There seems little chance of the murderer being caught – until he makes the crucial mistake of challenging Hercule Poirot. 3v.Christie, Agatha. Poirot's early cases. 2002. Crime. Short stories.Hercule Poirot book 38. Hercule Poirot delighted in telling people that he was probably the best detective in the world. So turning back the clock to trace eighteen of the cases which helped establish his professional reputation was always going to be a fascinating experience.3v.Christie, Agatha. They came to Baghdad. 2003. Thriller.Only one man has the proof that can confirm the nature of a fantastic secret weapon a British agent named Carmichael. Into this explosive situation appears Victoria Jones, a girl with a yearning for adventure who gets more than she bargains for when a wounded Carmichael dies in her arms in her hotel room. 3v.Christie, Agatha. 4.50 from Paddington. 2002. Classic crime.Miss Marple book 7. For an instant the two trains ran together, side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth was sure she witnessed a murder. As she stared helplessly out of her carriage window, a man had remorselessly tightened his grip around a woman's throat. The body crumpled. Then the other train drew away.3v.Cox, Josephine. Born to serve. 1994. Family stories.Jenny, a servant, suffers when her mistress, Claudia, seduces her sweetheart, Frank. Overcome with shame he leaves the household for a new life in Blackburn. When Claudia gives birth to Frank's baby girl she cruelly disowns the helpless infant and relies on Jenny to care for little Katie and love her as her own. 4v.Cox, Josephine. Lonely girl. 2015. Family stories.Rosie’s mother is a cruel woman and has Rosie’s loving father wrapped around her finger. Though he does his best to protect her, Rosie often bears the brunt of her mother’s rage. But Rosie must uncover the shocking truth behind her mother’s cruelty before she can hope for the love and happiness she deserves.3v.Cox, Josephine. Vagabonds. 1992. Historical novels.Emma Grady book 3. Twenty-two years ago Emma Grady was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to transportation to Australia where she lost her baby daughter. It is 1885 and she has returned to her home town of Blackburn. Still haunted by her past she starts to look for her estranged daughter Molly. 3v.Cussler, Clive. The Mayan secrets. 2013. Thriller.A Fargo adventure book 5. Sam and Remi Fargo are in Mexico when they come upon an astonishing discovery – the skeleton of a man clutching an ancient sealed pot, and within the pot, a Mayan book, containing astonishing information about the Mayans, their cities, and about mankind itself.3v.Daly, Paula. Just what kind of mother are you? 2014. Thriller.She's gone and it's your fault. You were supposed to be watching your best friend's daughter, and now she's missing. But you know that she's not just missing - she's been taken. Because Lucinda is the second girl to be abducted within a fortnight. And the first was found on a busy high street, naked and traumatised. 3v.Donoghue, Emma. Frog music. 2014. Historical novels.San Francisco, 1876: a stifling heat wave and smallpox epidemic have engulfed the city. Deep in the streets of Chinatown live three former stars of the Parisian circus. When an eccentric outsider joins their little circle, secrets unravel, changing everything and leaving one of them dead.5v.Fforde, Katie. The perfect match. 2014. Romance.Three years ago Bella Castle left her home town nursing a broken heart over Dominic Thane, the man she fell in love with but couldn't have. Now she's made a new life for herself in the country, working as an estate agent. Bella loves her job and she loves her boyfriend Nevil. She's over Dominic , isn't she?3v.Galbraith, Robert. The silkworm. 2014. Crime.Cormoran Strike book 2. When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. As Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realises. When he is found murdered in bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time. 6v.Griffiths, Elly. The outcast dead. 2014. Modern crime.Ruth Galloway book 6. Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway has excavated a body from the grounds of Norwich Castle. She believes the body may be that of Victorian murderess Jemima Green. Then a child goes missing. Could the abduction be linked to the long-dead Mother Hook? Ruth is pulled into the case. 3v.Harkness, Deborah E. The book of life. 2014. Fantasy.All souls trilogy book 3. After travelling through time, historian and witch Diana and vampire scientist Matthew return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. The real threat to their future is yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for the elusive manuscript Ashmole 782 takes on a terrifying urgency. 7v.Harry, Lilian. Moonlight & lovesongs. 1998. Family stories.April Grove book 4. As the Second World War enters its final year, the spirit of the close-knit community in April Grove, refuses to die. Teenager Carol becomes obsessed by the need to find her son. Ambitious, Diane leaves the factory for a career in the WAAFs but discovers she is up against far more than she bargained for. 5v.Harry, Lilian. A girl called Thursday. Family stories.Thursday book 1. By the time Thursday celebrated her twenty-first birthday, Britain was at war with Germany. Determined to help the war effort, Thursday volunteers as a Red Cross voluntary aid detachment nurse, and begins her service at Haslar Hospital. This is a wartime tale of love and loss, hope and courage.5v.Hassel, Sven. Comrades of war. 2014. War.So severely wounded as to earn a respite from the dreaded Eastern Front, Sven and Tiny - having miraculously survived the freezing cattle-truck journey and the surgeons' butchery - find themselves safe behind the lines in a Hamburg hospital. Sven's novel is based on his own experiences in the German Army.5v.Jewell, Lisa. The house we grew up in. 2013. General fiction.Easter weekend a tragedy strikes the Bird family, so devastating that it begins to tear them apart. The children become adults and begin to develop their own separate lives. Something has happened that will call them home, back to the house they grew up in - and to what really happened that Easter weekend. 4v.Kane, Ben. Spartacus: Rebellion. 2013. Historical novels.Spartacus book 2. Continuing the epic story of Spartacus, the gladiator slave general who held Rome to ransom through two years, this is a novel about one of the most extraordinary turning points in history, in which one remarkable man found immortality and became a legend.5v.King, Stephen. Christine. 2011. Horror.Christine, blood-red, fat and finned, was 20. Her promise lay all in her past. Greedy and big, a '58 Plymouth Fury, she was broken down but not finished. She was Arnie's obsession; Christine was eating into his mind, borrowing into his unconscious. There was still power in her - a frightening power that leaked like sump oil. 7v.King, Stephen. IT. 2011. Horror.It was the children who saw - and felt - what made Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, it lurked, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each one's deepest dread. Sometimes it reaches up, seizing, tearing, killing. 16v.Lane, Harriet. Alys, always. 2012. General fiction.Frances is a thirty-something lowly sub-editor, but her colourless existence is disrupted one evening when she happens upon the aftermath of a car crash and hears the last words of the driver, Alys Kyte. When Alys's family makes contact to find closure she is given a tantalising glimpse into a world of privilege and possibility.2v.Lawrence, Mark. Prince of Thorns. 2012. Fantasy.Broken empire book 1. From being a privileged royal child, raised by a loving mother, Jorg Ancrath has become the Prince of Thorns, a charming, immoral boy leading a grim band of outlaws in a series of raids and atrocities. The world is in chaos: violence is rife, nightmares everywhere. 3v.Lawrence, Mark. King of Thorns. 2013. Fantasy. Broken empire book 2. The land burns with the fires of a hundred battles as lords and petty kings fight for the Broken Empire. A six nation army, twenty thousand strong, marches toward Jorg's gates, led by a champion beloved of the people. Every decent man prays this shining hero will unite the empire and heal its wounds. 5v.Lawson, Mary. Road ends. 2014. General fiction.Twenty-one-year-old Megan has never been outside Struan, Ontario, a town of deep woods and forbidding winters. Leaving everything behind, she sets out for London. In her absence, her family begins to unravel. Torn between her independence and family ties, she must make an impossible choice.3v.Leonard, Elmore. The complete Western stories of Elmore Leonard. 2007. Western. Short stories.This is a collection of over five decades' worth of stories that werefirst published in magazines in the 1950s and 1960s. Set mainly in Arizona in the 1880s, these stories capture the Spanish influence, and the stand-offs and shoot-outs between Apache Indians and the US cavalry at that time.6v.Lewis, Susan. No child of mine. 2013. General fiction.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. 6v.Ley, Rosanna. Return to Mandalay. 2014. General fiction.As Eva arrives in Burma her mission to return a mysterious artefact soon proves dangerously complicated, and the treasure she is guarding becomes the centre of a scandal that will have far-reaching consequences. Caught between loyalty and integrity, Eva is determined to find the truth about her grandfather's past. 5v.McCaffrey, Anne. Restoree. 1970 Science fiction.Sara is walking in Central Park, when she is suddenly overcome by the smell of dead sea creatures, blackness and memories of excruciating pain, severed bodies and dismembered limbs. When she awakes she finds that she is no longer in her own body. She has become a Restoree.3v.McDermott, Andy. Kingdom of darkness. 2014. Thriller.Nina Wilde and Eddie Chase book 10. 1943 - Occupied Greece. The SS unit's mission was simple: round up Jews for the concentration camps. But beneath an isolated farmhouse, they find a far greater bounty - a hidden shrine to Alexander the Great and an urn filled with water possessing mysterious qualities. 5v.Malpas, Jodi Ellen. This man. 2013. Erotic fiction.Young interior designer Ava has no idea what awaits her at the Manor. A consultation with a stodgy country gent seems likely, but what Ava finds instead is Jesse Ward - a devastatingly handsome, utterly confident, pleasure-seeking playboy who knows no boundaries. He wants her and is determined to have her.5v.May, Peter. The blackhouse. 2011. Crime.Lewis trilogy book 1. A brutal killing takes place on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland: a land of harsh beauty and inhabitants of deep-rooted faith. Detective Inspector Fin Macleod is sent from Edinburgh to investigate. For Lewis-born Macleod, the case represents a journey both home and into his past. 4v.May, Peter. The Lewis man. 2012. Crime.Lewis trilogy book 2. A body is recovered from a peat bog on the Isle of Lewis. The male corpse is initially believed by its finders to be over 2000 years old, until they spot the Elvis tattoo on his right arm. The body is not evidence of an ancient ritual killing, but of a murder committed during the latter half of the 20th century.4v.May, Peter. The chess men. 2013. Crime.Lewis trilogy book 3. Fin Macleod, now head of security on a privately owned Lewis estate, is charged with investigating a spate of illegal game-hunting taking place on the island. This mission reunites him with Whistler Macaskill - a local poacher, Fin's teenage intimate, and possessor of a long-buried secret. 4v.May, Peter. Entry Island. 2014. Crime.Travelling as part of an investigation team, Detective Sime Mackenzie’s destination lies in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Only two kilometres wide and three long, Entry Island is home to a population of around 130: the wealthiest of which has just been discovered murdered.4v.Mills, Mark. The long shadow. 2014. Thriller.Ben, a screenwriter, is divorced, with a young son to care for. So when he's invited up to Stoneham Park to meet someone who wants to bankroll his latest script, he jumps at the chance. Victor Sheldon is a hedge fund billionaire yet when Ben meets him he's bemused, for Victor is none other than old school friend Daniel. 4v.Montefiore, Santa. The summer house. 2013. General fiction.Antoinette's world has fallen apart: her husband, the man she has loved for as long as she can remember, has died tragically in an accident. He was her rock, the man she turned to for love and support, the man she knew better than she knew herself. Or at least so she thought. 5v.Moyes, Jojo. The one plus one. 2014. Romance.Your life sucks, your husband has done a vanishing act, your stepson is being bullied and your daughter has a once in a lifetime opportunity - you can't afford to pay for. Imagine you found and kept some money that didn't belong to you, knowing it would pay for your daughter's happiness. How do you cope with the shame? 4v.Norman, Charity. The son-in-law.2014.General fiction.Joseph Scott has served his term. He's lost almost everything: his career as a teacher, his wife. All he has left is three children he is not allowed near. Joseph killed his wife Zoe. Zoe's parents, are bringing up the children and can't forgive or understand. They slowly adjust to life without Zoe, until the day Joseph is released. 4v.Patterson, James. First love. 2014. Romance.Axi Moore studies hard, stays out of the spotlight, and doesn't tell anyone how all she really wants is to run away from it all. The only person she can tell is her best friend, Robinson - who she also happens to be madly in love with. 2v.Pelecanos, George P. The double. 2013. Crime.Spero Lucas book 2. The second novel featuring Spero Lucas, a young Iraq vet working as a PI in Washington DC but with a sideline in finding lost items - the kind of items the owners can't go to the police about. This time Spero is trying to find a painting belonging to a sexy young woman. 3v.Pratchett, Terry. Raising steam. 2013. Fantasy.Discworld book 40. It’s all change for Moist von Lipwig, swindler, conman, and head of the Royal Bank and Post Office. A steaming, clanging new invention, is drawing astonished crowds. Moist does not enjoy hard work. What he does enjoy is being alive, which may not be a perk of running the new railway. 4v.Priestley, JB. Benighted. 2013. General fiction.Benighted tells the story of Philip Waverton, Margaret Waverton and Roger Penderel, who are forced to take shelter one stormy night in the sinister house of the Femm somewhere in Wales. Which is more deadly: the apocalyptic storm outside the house or the unknown horrors that await within?2v.Renault, Mary. The charioteer: a novel. 2013. General fiction.After enduring an injury at Dunkirk during World War II, Laurie Odell is sent to a rural veterans' hospital in England to convalesce. There he befriends the young, bright Andrew, a conscientious objector serving as an orderly. Soon their friendship blooms into a discreet, chaste romance.5v.Roberts, Nora. Black Hills. 2010. Thriller.Lil Chance fell in love with Cooper Sullivan pretty much the first time she saw him. Each year, with Coop's annual summer visit, their friendship deepens - but then abruptly ends. Now they must work together to unearth a killer of twisted and unnatural instincts who has singled them out as prey.5v.Saintcrow, Lilith. The Ripper affair. 2014. Fantasy.Bannon and Clare; book 3. A shattering accident places Archibald Clare, mentath in the service of Britannia, in the care of Emma Bannon, sorceress Prime. Clare needs a measure of calm to repair his faculties of Logic and Reason. Without them, he is not his best. 3v.Sanderson, Brandon. The way of kings: part 2. 2011. Fantasy.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 thebattlefield.7v.Sebag Montefiore, Simon. One night in winter. 2014. General fiction.If your children were forced to testify against you, what terrible secrets would they reveal? 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.5v.Shaw, Rebecca. Trouble in the village. 2000. General fiction.Turnham Malpas book 8. When Willie Biggs, the Verger, retires, his successor Tom Nicholls appears to be just the man for the job until events in Tom's past return to haunt him and bring violence and danger to the peaceful village.3v.Titchmarsh, Alan. Bring me home. 2014. General fiction.Charlie Stuart, owner of a Scottish castle and disappointed father of grown-up children, took in the full irony of his guest's comment at a house party. Charlie had to grow up quickly, but along with his inheritance and discovery of the love of his life come complications that involve espionage, deceit and a mysterious death.3v.Vyleta, Dan. The crooked maid. 2014. General fiction.Vienna, 1948. Anna Beer returns to the city she fled nine years earlier after discovering her husband's infidelity. She has come back to find him and, perhaps, to forgive him. Travelling on the same train from Switzerland is 18-year-old Robert Seidel, a schoolboy summoned home to his stepfather's sickbed. 5v.Wecker, Helene. The golem and the djinni. 2014. Fantasy.Chava is a golem, made of clay, brought to life by a disgraced rabbi. When her master dies on a voyage from Poland, she is unmoored and adrift in New York in 1899. Ahmad is a djinni, a being of fire. Trapped in an old copper flask by a wizard centuries ago, he is released by a tinsmith in a Lower Manhattan shop. 6v.Weeks, Brent. The Black Prism. 2013. Fantasy.Lightbringer series book 1.Gavin Guile is the Prism, the most powerful man in the world. But Prisms never last, and he knows how long he has left, five years to achieve five impossible goals. When he discovers he has a son, he must decide how much he's willing to pay to protect a secret that could tear his world apart.7v.Weeks, Brent. The blinding knife. 2013 Fantasy.The lightbringer series book 2. Gavin Guile is dying. As he loses control of his magic, all magic is running wild, threatening to destroy the Seven Satrapies. The old gods are being reborn. The only salvation may be the brother whose freedom and life Gavin stole 16 years ago.9v.Welsh, Irvine. The sex lives of Siamese twins. 2014. General fiction.When Lucy Brennan, a Miami Beach personal-fitness trainer, disarms a gunman she is a media hero. The eyewitness is the depressed and overweight Lena, who becomes obsessed and signs up as her client. When the two women find they can't stop thinking about the sex lives of Siamese twins, the problems start.4v.Whitehouse, Lucie. Before we met. 2014. Thriller.A whirlwind romance followed by a picture-perfect marriage, Hannah seizes her chance at happiness. However, one day her husband fails to come home. The more questions she asks, the fewer answers she finds. But are the secrets that Mark has been keeping designed to protect him or protect her? 3v.Winspear, Jacqueline. Leaving everything most loved. 2014. Crime.Maisie Dobbs book 10. The year is 1933. Maisie Dobbs is contacted by an Indian gentleman who has come to England in the hopes of finding out who killed his sister two months ago. Scotland Yard failed to make any arrest in the case, and there is reason to believe they failed to conduct a thorough investigation. 4v.Young, Louisa. The heroes' welcome. 2014. General fiction.1919, and Britain is realising that it is no longer at war. Now, Nadine and Riley, Rose, and Peter and Julia, must try to regain a sense of normality. But long shadows cast by the war dim the potential joys of peacetime, and matters of the heart prove arduous and bewildering. 3v.Adult non-fictionAutobiographies and biographiesBeacom, Brian. The real Mrs. Brown: the Brendan O'Carroll story. 2014.Brendan O'Carroll performs to tens of thousands of people a night in stadiums across the country. But he has had to battle hard for success. This is the magical story of how a loveable Irishman with a wig and a wit as caustic as acid surprised everyone by becoming one of the best -loved comedians in the world.3v.Grylls, Bear. Facing up: a remarkable journey to the summit of Mt Everest. 2001.At the age of twenty-three, Bear Grylls became one of the youngest Britons to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Only two years after breaking his back in a freefall parachuting accident, Bear Grylls overcame severe weather, fatigue, dehydration and a last-minute illness to stand on top of the world's highest mountain. 3v.Lewis, Matt, Last man off: a true story of disaster and survival on the Antarctic seas. 2014.Antarctica, June 1998. Twenty-three-year-old Matt has just started his dream job. An observer aboard a deep sea fishing boat, he is amazed by glistening icebergs and killer whales. As the crew haul in their lines for the day, the waves seem bigger than usual. A storm is brewing. What follows is a story of human courage, folly and tragedy.3v.Mackenzie, Tom H. The last foundling. 2014.A deeply moving memoir from one of the last children to be taken in by the Foundling Hospital, London. It stands as a testament to the love that ultimately led a family back together.3v.Macintyre, Ben. A spy among friends: Kim Philby and the great betrayal. 2014.Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent, traitor and enigma, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians. Newly released MI5 files and previously unseen family papers unlocks what is perhaps the last great secret of the Cold War.5v.Martin, Guy. Guy Martin: my autobiography. 2014.In his own words, this is Guy Martin's full story - from the boy who learned to prep bikes with his dad, to the spirited team mechanic, paying his way by collecting glasses, to the young racer at the start of his first race and the buzz he's been chasing ever since.3v.Nolan, Coleen. No regrets. 2014.Coleen's life since her first memoir has been splashed across the tabloids – her sensational departure from 'Loose Women', the difficulties in her marriage, the feud between the Nolan sisters, and the tragic death of her sister Bernie. Coleen reveals the truth behind the headlines, sharing her fears and hopes for the future.3v.Northup, Solomon. 12 years a slave: a true story. 2014.Born a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, DC in 1841. He spent the next 12 years as a slave on a Louisiana plantation, during this time he was frequently abused and often afraid for his life. Northup's account also provides meticulous first-hand recordings of slave life.3v.Short, Philip. Mitterrand: a study in ambiguity. 2013.Francois Mitterrand was a man of exceptional gifts and flaws who, during his 14 years as President, strove to drag his tradition-bound and change-averse country into modern world. As a statesman and a human being, he was the incarnation of the mercurial, contrarian France which Britain and America find so frustrating. 10v.Venables, Terry. Born to manage: the autobiography. 2014.After a playing career that spanned more than 15 years, and took in golden spells in the sixties with Chelsea and Spurs, it was inevitable that Terry Venables would move into management. Venables is widely viewed as one of football's great tacticians and is the most successful English manager of recent years.4v.Yousafzai, Malala. I am Malala: the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban. 2013.'I am Malala' tells the inspiring story of a schoolgirl who was determined not to be intimidated by extremists, and faced the Taliban with immense courage. Malala speaks of her continuing campaign for every girl's right to an education, shining a light into the lives of those children who cannot attend school.3v.Health Marsh, Henry. Do no harm: stories of life, death and brain surgery. 2014.In this powerful, gripping and brutally honest account, one of the country's top neurosurgeons reveals what it is to play god in the face of the life-and-death situations he encounters daily. Henry Marsh gives a rare insight into the intense drama of the operating theatre, the chaos and confusion of a modern hospital. 3v.HistoryRodriguez, Deborah. The Kabul Beauty School: the art of friendship and freedom. 2014.Deborah Rodriguez arrived in Afghanistan in 2002 and opened the first beauty salon in Kabul that actually trained local women to become beauticians. All of these women have a story to tell, and all of them bring their stories to the Kabul Beauty School, a place of perms, friendship and freedom.3v.Worth, Jennifer. Farewell to the East End. 2009.This final book in Jennifer Worth's memories of her time as a midwife in London's East end brings her story full circle. As always there are heartbreaking stories such as the family devastated by tuberculosis and a ship's woman who 'serviced' the entire crew, as well as plenty of humour and warmth. 4v.ParanormalSartori, Penny. The wisdom of near-death experiences: how understanding NDE's can help us live more fully. 2014.The results of Dr Sartori’s hospital research and that of others could not find a physiological or psychological explanation for these experiences and they can no longer be ignored or explained away. The crucial point of this book is that NDEs occur and have very real, often dramatic, life-changing after effects.4v.PoetryDante Alighieri. The divine comedy. 2013.'The Divine Comedy' describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and encounter with his dead love, Beatrice; and, finally, his arrival in Heaven.6v.Warfare and defenceTuchman, Barbara W. The guns of August: the classic bestselling account of the outbreak of the First World War. 2014.The Guns of August is the narrative history of the first month of World War I. It describes the strategies of the generals, the preparation and morale of the armies of the nations at war, and the everyday problems of the field commanders.9v.Children and young adult fictionSuggested reading age 7+Paws and whiskers: animal tales from Jacqueline Wilson, Michael Morpurgo, Enid Blyton and more! 2014.This special anthology features the very best stories about cats and dogs from the world of children's literature, chosen by author and Battersea Cats and Dogs Home patron Jacqueline Wilson. The book includes a new story by Jacqueline herself, 'Leonie's Pet Cat', as well as extracts from treasured classics. 3v.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. When his grandfather announces that he's going to take Solomon to Addis Ababa, Solomon realizes that the Ethiopian running team will be doing a victory parade through the city that day.1v.Suggested reading age 9+McCaughrean, Geraldine. The middle of nowhere. 2013. Shortlisted for the Cilip Carnegie Medal 2015.As Stationmaster of the Kinkindele Station, Herbert takes great pride in his job but Comity dreams of a different life where her mother is alive and she has her own horse and a new piano. That is, until the new station assistant arrives and brings Comity and her father sharply back down to earth.2v.Suggested reading age 11+Crossan, Sarah. Apple and Rain. 2014.Shortlisted for the Cilip Carnegie Medal 2015.When Apple's mother returns after eleven years of absence, Apple feels whole again. She will have an answer to her burning question - why did you go? But just like the stormy Christmas Eve when she left, her mother's homecoming is bitter sweet, and Apple wonders who is really looking after whom. 3v. Suggested reading age 13+Conaghan, Brian. When Mr Dog bites. 2014. Contains strong language.Shortlisted for the Cilip Carnegie Medal 2015.Dylan has Tourette's, life is a constant battle to keep the bad stuff in - the swearing, the tics, the howling dog that escapes whenever he gets stressed. Then at a routine visit to the hospital Dylan discovers that he's going to die next March, so he grants himself three parting wishes: three 'cool things to do before I cack it'.3v.Gardner, Sally. Tinder. 2013. Shortlisted for the Cilip Carnegie Medal 2015.Otto Hundebiss is tired of war, but when he defies Death he walks a dangerous path. A half beast half man gives him shoes and dice which will lead him deep into a web of dark magic and mystery. He learns the powers of the tinderbox and the wolves whose master he becomes. 2v.Green, Sally. Half bad. 2014.One boy's struggle for survival in a hidden society of witches. You can't read, can't write, but you heal fast, you get sick if you stay indoors after dark. You hate white witches but love Annalise, who is one. You've been kept in a cage since you were 14. All you've got to do is escape and find the black witch who eats boys . 3v.Hardinge, Frances. Cuckoo song. 2014. Shortlisted for the Cilip Carnegie Medal 2015.When Triss wakes up after an accident, she knows that something is very wrong. She is insatiably hungry; her sister seems scared of her and her parents whisper behind closed doors. She discovers that what happened to her is more strange and terrible than she could have imagined, and that she is quite literally not herself.4v.Landman, Tanya. Buffalo soldier. 2014. Shortlisted for the Cilip Carnegie Medal 2015.At the end of the American Civil War, Charley - a young African-American slave - is ostensibly freed. But then her adopted mother is raped and lynched at the hands of a mob and Charley is left alone. In a terrifyingly lawless land, where the colour of a person's skin can bring violent death, Charley disguises herself as a man and joins the army. 3v.Ness, Patrick. More than this. 2013. Shortlisted for the Cilip Carnegie Medal 2015.A boy called Seth drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments, losing his life as the pounding sea claims him. But then he wakes. How is that possible? And where is this place? It looks like the suburban English town where he lived as a child, before an unthinkable tragedy happened and his family moved to America. 2v.Talking books Adult fictionAlder, Mark. Son of the morning. 2014. Fantasy. TB 21557.Banners of blood; book 1. As the Hundred Years War rages and Edward III and Philip of Valois prepare to fight to the death, angels and demons stalk the earth. Read by Leighton Pugh. 29 hours 5 minutes. TB 21557.Barstow, Stan. The right true end. 1976. General fiction. TB 21445.The Vic Brown trilogy; book 3. As a divorced man, Vic has made it on his own terms in London. A prize job, a flash car, and as much sex as he can handle. Ten years ago, with Donna, he knew he had something real, so that when she comes back into his life, he is scared to death he'll mess up his chances the second time around.Read by Mark Elstob. 6 hours 53 minutes. TB 21445.Brand, Max. Bad man's gulch. 2012. Western. TB 21165.Three short western stories in one: The Adopted Son; Billy Angel, Trouble Lover; and Bad Man's Gulch.Read by Jeff Harding. 8 hours. TB 21165.Burley, W J. Wycliffe and the pea-green boat. 2007. Crime. TB 21553.Wycliffe; book 6. When Cedric Tremain is charged with murdering his father by booby-trapping his fishing boat, all the locals are agreed that he is an unlikely murderer. The case against him is strong – he has the motive, the opportunity and know-how, but Chief Superintendent Wycliffe has a strong sense that something about the case just doesn't fit.Read by Terry Wilton. 6 hours 49 minutes. TB 21553.Burnet, Graeme Macrae. The disappearance of Adele Bedeau. 2014. Thriller. TB 21716.Manfred Baumann is a loner. Socially awkward and ill at ease, he spends his evenings surreptitiously observing Adele Bedeau, the sullen but alluring waitress at his local bistro. Then one day she vanishes into thin air. When Georges Gorski, a detective haunted by his failure to solve one of his first murder cases, is called in to investigate the girl's disappearance, Manfred's repressed world is shaken to its core and he is forced to confront the dark secrets of his past.Read by James Bryce. 9 hours 46 minutes. TB 21716.Carriger, Gail. Soulless. 2010. Fantasy. TB 21307.The parasol protectorate; book 1. Alexia Tarabotti is labouring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette. Where to go from there? Read by Olivia Mace. 8 hours 50 minutes. TB 21307.Collins, Jackie. Chances. 2012. General fiction. TB 21277.Lucky Santangelo; book 1. Gino Santangelo - a boy from the New York slums - carves himself out a crime empire that takes him all the way to the top. His daughter, Lucky, proves herself to be as deadly as her father. Sensual and provocative, she is too much like him not to make a bid for his empire. Contains strong language and passages of a sexual nature. Read by Stephanie Ellyne. 27 hours 7 minutes. TB 21277.Court, Dilly. A loving family. 2014. Family story. TB 21330.Stella Barry is forced into service as a kitchen maid when her father dies at sea and the family find themselves living hand-to-mouth. Leaving her mother and younger brother and sister in the slums of London's docklands, Stella goes to a big country house outside London. A year later, having not seen them in all that time, Stella walks to London with a cake for her mother for mothering Sunday. But she discovers the family has disappeared. Read by Annie Aldington. 11 hours 37 minutes. TB 21330.Cussler, Clive. Devil's gate. 2012. Thriller. TB 21560. NUMA files; book 9. A Japanese cargo ship cruises the eastern Atlantic near the Azores when it bursts into flames. Racing to help, Kurt Austin and the NUMA team are beaten to the scene by heavily armed pirates. But when the ruthless gang's own boat explodes as they're making their escape, the men from NUMA are suddenly plunged from a disaster into a mystery. Read by Jeff Harding. 12 hours 50 minutes. TB 21560.Cussler, Clive. Dragon. 2005. Thriller. TB 21510.Dirk Pitt; book 10. Buried off the coast of Japan, lies one of the greatest drowned secrets of World War Two - a crashed B-29 Bomber that was carrying a third atomic bomb to Japan in 1945. A small group of Japanese nationalist fanatics, set out to neutralise and blackmail the USA - with nuclear weapons planted strategically in the country's major cities.Read by Jeff Harding. 18 hours 6 minutes. TB 21510.Drake, John. Skull and bones. 2011. Adventure. TB 21508.John Silver; book 3. When infamous 'gentleman of fortune' Captain Flint is captured by the Royal Navy and condemned to hang for mutiny and piracy, it seems that the secret location of his buried treasure will die with him. Meanwhile, aboard Flint's former vessel The Walrus, Long John Silver seeks one final prize before retiring from privateering. Read by Richard Derrington. 14 hours 11 minutes. TB 21508.Fitzgerald, F. Scott The great Gatsby. 1993. Classic fiction. TB 21669.Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s, to encounter Nick's cousin Daisy, her brash but wealthy husband Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby and the mystery that surrounds him. Read by Peter Brooke. 6 hours 27 minutes. TB 21669.Follett, Ken. The key to Rebecca. 2012. Thriller. TB 21288.Set in North Africa in the summer of 1942, during Rommel's campaign against the British, this is the story of a master spy who treks across the Sahara to enter the plot-ridden streets of wartime Cairo - and of the British officer sworn to destroy him. Read by Paul Herzberg. 13 hours 37 minutes. TB 21288.George, Elizabeth. Believing the lie. 2012. Crime. TB 21298.Inspector Lynley series; book 17. Detective Inspector Lynley is approached by business magnate Bernard Fairclough for a confidential review - not a formal investigation - of the circumstances of his nephew's demise. The coroner's verdict is accidental death. He heads to the Lake District and uncovers layers of deceit and betrayal that expose the lies at the heart of the Cumbrian community.Read by Tim Bentinck. 22 hours 9 minutes. TB 21298.Hart, Ellen. Taken by the wind. 2013. Thriller. TB 21382.PI and restaurateur Jane Lawless must track down two missing teenagers. Although Eric and Andrew have been trying to keep up a semblance of normal life, they know their thirteen-year-old son Jack has been having a tough time of it since they separated. They've been concerned, but now they're terrified - Jack has run away from home with his cousin and not been seen for more than twenty-four hours.Read by Christy Meyer. 9 hours 5 minutes. TB 21382.Herries, Anne. The rebel captain's royalist bride. 2014. Mills and Boon historical romance. TB 21395.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. Read by Cally Lawrence. 7 hours 9 minutes. TB 21395.Hewitt, Kate. Commanded by the sheikh. 2014. Mills and Boon romance. TB 21516.To protect his throne, Sheikh Aziz al Bakir needs someone trustworthy to temporarily impersonate his missing fiancée. So the legendary Lothario of Europe demands that his housekeeper, Olivia Ellis, fulfil the role! Despite reluctance, Olivia soon finds herself playing Queen in public and lover in his bed!Read by Lucy Tregear. 5 hours 13 minutes. TB 21516.Jardine, Quintin. Lethal Intent. 2005. Crime. TB 21235.Skinner; book 15. Gangsters have infiltrated Edinburgh. MI5 are on their case and, unknown to Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner, have set up a drug-dealing sting to flush them out. The resulting mayhem throws everyone into confusion until they realise the gangsters are preparing a hit on one of the Royal family. Meanwhile someone is trying to wreak revenge on the police force. Are the crimes linked?Read by James Bryce. 12 hours 52 minutes. TB 21235.Kendrick, Sharon. His to command: The Housekeeper. 2013. Mills and Boon romance. TB 21396.Three modern romances in one: The Prince’s chambermaid by Sharon Kendrick; The billionaire’s housekeeper mistress by Emma Darcy; The Tuscan tycoon’s pregnant housekeeper by Christina Hollis.Read by Karina Fernandez, Sarah Kants and Veejay Kaur. 16 hours 8 minutes. TB 21396.Kendrick, Sharon. The housekeeper's awakening. 2014. Mill and Boon romance. TB 21520.Recovering from a terrible car accident, world-renowned playboy Luis Martinez is bored, grumpy and frustrated. He demands that his sweet, innocent housekeeper massage him back to health! Carly Conner is whisked away to his villa in the south of France but, how long will she be able to deny the temptation he poses, especially when he makes a second, shocking proposition?Read by Sherry Baines. 5 hours 43 minutes. TB 21520.Kernick, Simon. Siege. 2012. Thriller. TB 21568.People are dead and many more lives hang in the balance as gunmen storm the Lanchester Hotel on Park Lane. They have given the government five hours to meet their demands before blowing up the building. The guests are all are united by one thing: fear for their lives. All except one man who has information so dangerous it must be kept safe - even if this means sacrificing the lives of innocent bystanders. Read by Paul Thornley. 10 hours 14 minutes. TB 21568.Kinghorn, Judith. The last summer. 2012. Historical fiction. TB 21376.It is 1914, the beginning of a blissful, golden summer. When Clarissa meets Tom Cuthbert, home from university and staying with his mother, the housekeeper at Deyning Park, she is dazzled. Ambitious, clever, his sights set on a career in law, Tom is an acute observer, and a man who knows what he wants. For now, that is Clarissa. But the world - and all that they know - is rocked irrevocably by a war that changes their lives forever. Read by Veronika Hyks. 15 hours 24 minutes. TB 21376.Laski, Marghanita. Little boy lost. 1949. Classic fiction. TB 21640.Hilary Wainwright, poet and intellectual, is enduring a grim wartime Christmas at his mother's house when a Frenchman, Pierre, turns up to give him news of the small son that he had to leave in occupied France. After the war, Hilary returns to a blasted and impoverished France in order to trace the child. Pierre thinks he may have found him. Is the child really Hilary's? And, after five years of having kept the child's possible existence a secret, does Hilary want him?Read by Andrew Cullum. 6 hours 52 minutes. TB 21640.Leather, Stephen. True colours. 2013. Thriller. TB 21424.Spider Shepherd; book 10. When a set of Russian oligarchs are assassinated in London, the Russian expat community become anxious. One man appeals to the British government for protection and MI5 assigns Spider Shepherd to the case. But he soon discovers that the killings aren't political - they're personal, and the assassin is much nearer than anyone could conceive.Read by Paul Thornley. 14 hours 44 minutes. TB 21424.Lee, Rachel. Defending the eyewitness. 2014. Mills and Boon romance. TB 21272.Conrad County romantic suspense series. The note wasn't exactly a threat but to Corey Donahue, who witnessed her mother’s murder as a child, it felt menacing. She showed the note to her lodger, Austin Mendez. Six years undercover had caused Austin to shut everyone out, until he met Corey. The vulnerability she hid made him yearn to break down the walls around her heart. With a killer closing in, two souls were discovering the trust they'd lost, and much more, in each other’s arms. Read by Rachel Lee. 7 hours 26 minutes. TB 21272.Lyman, John. Secret chapel. 2011. Thriller. TB 21542.God's lions; book 1. Summoned to Rome by an old friend, a Jesuit scholar finds himself using a code discovered in the Bible to unearth an ancient, hidden chapel in the catacombs under the city. When a rogue force of Vatican security officials are alerted to his discovery, the priest flees to the Holy Land with a clue... a clue that will lead him and a team of Israeli Christians to a much larger secret in the middle of the barren Negev Desert. Read by Jonathan Oliver. 14 hours 23 minutes. TB 21542.Lyman, John. House of Acerbi. 2012. Thriller. TB 21543. God's lions; book 2. Returning to Rome from a forced sabbatical, a newly appointed Jesuit cardinal discovers a dark force that has ruled a single family for over seven hundred years has been unleashed against the world. With the clock ticking, he joins with a dedicated group of Israeli and Spanish scientists who are thrust into an end-game scenario as they race across the globe in an effort to stop the greatest threat mankind has ever faced, only to discover that they may already be too late. Read by Jonathan Oliver. 16 hours 27 minutes. TB 21543.Lyman, John. The dark ruin. 2013. Thriller. TB 21544. God's lions; book 3. Forty years after a mysterious billionaire disappears, he suddenly resurfaces with a dark secret that shocks the world. In this enthralling third novel in the "God's Lions" series, Cardinal Leopold Amodeo is once again teamed with a group of scientists and archaeologists who are led to the inescapable conclusion that a very real evil has arrived in the world.Read by Jonathan Oliver. 18 hours 4 minutes. TB 21544.Martin, George R R. A dance with dragons. 2012. Fantasy. TB 21260.A song of ice and fire; book 5. Daenerys Targaryens has brought the young dragons in her care to their terrifying maturity. Now the war-torn landscape of the Seven Kingdoms is threatened by destruction as vast as in the violent past. On all sides bitter conflicts are re-igniting, played out by a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchanger, nobles and slaves. The tides of destiny will inevitably lead to the greatest dance of all.Read by Roy Dotrice. 48 hours 53 minutes. TB 21260Monroe, Lucy. An heiress for his empire. 2014. Mills and Boon romance. TB 21515. Innocent debutante Madison Archer has hit the headlines for a scandal not of her making. Now, marriage to the unscrupulous Viktor Beck is the only way to save what is left of her reputation. There is intense attraction between them but Viktor is in for a shock - his wild socialite is still a virgin!Read by Laurence Bouvard. 5 hours 18 minutes. TB 21515. Mills, Mark. The long shadow. 2013. Thriller. TB 21168.Ben Makepeace, a screenwriter, is invited to meet Victor Sheldon, a hedge fund billionaire who wants to bankroll his latest script. Yet when Ben meets him he's bemused, for Victor is none other than old schoolfriend, Daniel, last seen some 25 years ago. Ben finds himself caught up in a vicious endgame with roots buried deep in the past of his childhood.Read by Peter Kenny. 10 hours 3 minutes. TB 21168.Morris, Barbara. One missed step. 2013. General fiction. TB 21506.Isle of Skye, 1993. At seventeen, Kate Wilder is sure of only two things: that life will never be the same without her mother and that she has no interest in communicating with her Canadian father, David. But Fiona Wilder had made plans for Kate and her sister Hazel to travel to the Vancouver Island home after her death and both girls gradually settle into life there. However, it becomes apparent that the old house has a story concealed amidst its dated rooms and David Wilder must fight to keep the sisters’ relationship intact. Read by Sally Armstrong. 14 hours 4 minutes. TB 21506.Mortimer, Carole. Tall, dark and gorgeous. 2013. Mills and Boon romance. TB 21317.Three books in one: To Marry McKenzie; To Marry McCloud and To Marry McAllister. They are all eligible, elusive and about-to-be engaged? Read by Madeleine Brolly. 15 hours 47 minutes. TB 21317.Nicholls, David. Us. 2014. General fiction. TB 21530.Douglas Petersen understands his wife's need to 'rediscover herself' now that their son is leaving home. He just thought they'd be doing their rediscovering together. So when Connie announces that she will be leaving, too, he resolves to make their last family holiday the trip of a lifetime: one that will draw the three of them closer, and win the respect of his son. One that will make Connie fall in love with him all over again. Read by Justin Salinger. 12 hours 44 minutes. TB 21530.Pearse, Lesley. Survivor. 2014. General fiction. TB 21246.Belle; book 3. Mariette Carrera is a defiant, strong -willed and selfish eighteen-year-old. Her doting parents, Belle and Etienne, fear for her reputation so, with the world on the brink of war, Mari leaves home on the SS Rimutaka, bound for her aunt and uncle's house in London. Mari loves her new life and earns her own money as a typist until it is all snatched away by the war. Read by Nicolette McKenzie. 16 hours 59 minutes. TB 21246.Penman, Sharon K. Lionheart. 2013. Historical fiction. TB 21249.Lionheart; book 1. In this gripping narrative of passion, intrigue, battle and deceit, Penman reveals a true and complex Richard I - a man remarkable for his power and intelligence, his keen grasp of warfare and his concern for the safety of his men, who followed him against all odds.Read by Andrew Cullum. 30 hours 54 minutes. TB 21249.Phinn, Gervase. Trouble at the little village school. 2013. Country life fiction. TB 21164.Barton-in-the-Dale; book 2. Elisabeth Devine rocked the boat when she took over as head teacher of the primary school in Barton-in-the-Dale. Now after winning over the wary locals, she can settle into her new role. But now the school is to be merged with its rival.Read by Gervase Phinn. 10 hours 50 minutes. TB 21164.Phinn, Gervase. The school inspector calls. 2014. Country life fiction. TB 21433.Barton-in-the-Dale; book 3. Summer has arrived in Barton-in-the -Dale and as a new term begins at the little primary school, it's not just the warm weather that's getting people hot under the collar. Meetings with the teachers from Urebank School to discuss the merger are producing more than a few fireworks, a disruptive new pupil arrives and a surprising staff love affair is exposed. Read by Gervase Phinn. 12 hours 24 minutes. TB 21433.Roberts, Gareth R. Whatever happened to Billy Parks? 2014. General fiction. TB 21356.October 17th 1973: all England had to do was beat Poland to qualify for the World Cup. They didn't. Left on the bench that night was West Ham's Billy Parks: beautiful, gifted and totally flawed. Fast-forward forty years, Billy's life is a testament to wasted talent, his liver failing. What if he could be given a second chance? What if he could go back in time and win the game for England? Contains strong language. Read by Daniel York. 7 hours 15 minutes. TB 21356.Roe, Paula. The pregnancy plot. 2014. Mills and Boon romance. TB 21519.After one mind-blowing night Matthew Cooper never expected to see AJ Reynolds again. But they meet again unexpectedly at a wedding and Matt is confident of a repeat performance. AJ refuses to succumb to Matt’s charms – he’s an extra complication she doesn’t need right now. Yet he can help her get the one thing she wants if she’s willing to admit that one night wasn’t enough!Read by Nicolette McKenzie. 6 hours 31 minutes. TB 21519.Saunders, John. A colt for the kid. 2009. Western. TB 21521.Johnnie Callum was a half-grown boy when Donovan's riders stamped his parents' homestead flat and sent him running terrified into the night. He ran far and fast over the trackless range that was Donovan's empire and fetched up in the hands of Josh Manders, a brutal sheepherder. Read by Peter Brooke. 5 hours 16 minutes. TB 21521.Shaw, Rebecca. Village matters: tales from Turnham Malpas. Country life fiction. 1999. TB 21580.Turnham Malpas; book 3. Jimbo's daughter is knocked down by the unpopular barman, and before the shock of that has past a bitter dispute springs up over the houses Sir Ralph wants to build.Read by Helen Dickens. 8 hours 9 minutes. TB 21580.Shaw, Rebecca. Village rumours. 2014. Country life fiction. TB 21608.Turnham Malpas; book 18. While clearing out the rectory's loft, Reverend Peter Harris makes an unsettling discovery and a dark secret is exposed that soon sets tongues wagging in the village. Read by Helen Dickens. 8 hours 45 minutes. TB 21608.Taylor, Marsali. A handful of ash. 2014. Crime. TB 21540.Cass Lynch; book 3. Liveaboard skipper and amateur sleuth Cass Lynch is busy at marine college in Scalloway, until one night she finds an acquaintance dead in a doorway, whose hand is smeared with peat ash. Rumours spread of a strange ritual linked to the witches once burned in Shetland's ancient capital, of horned figures abroad in the night, and townsfolk behaving strangely. At first Cass dismisses these as mere superstition, until there's a second murder, and she begins to wonder if the devil really does walk in Scalloway.Read by Trish Mullin. 12 hours 40 minutes. TB 21540.York, Rebecca. Diagnosis - attraction; Relentless; Rebecca York and HelenKay Dimon. 2014. Mills and Boon romance. TB 21345.Two stories in the Mills and Boon Intrigue series.Read by Daniela Acitelli. 12 hours 20 minutes. TB 21345.Adult non-fictionAutobiography and biography Rodgers, Nile. Le freak: an upside down story of family, disco and destiny. 2012. TB 21529.Nile Rodgers is a founding member of the band Chic and one of the world's most successful music producers. He wrote 'We are Family' for Sister Sledge and 'I'm Coming Out' for Diana Ross, and produced two of the most popular albums of all time - Madonna's 'Like a Virgin' and David Bowie's 'Let's Dance'. Here he tells his story.Read by Ian Knauer. 10 hours 27 minutes. TB 21529.Food and drinkHenry, Diana. A change of appetite: where healthy meets delicious. 2014. TB 21384.Here are the dishes that Diana Henry created when she started to crave a different kind of diet - less meat and heavy food, more vegetable, fish and grain-based dishes - often inspired by the food of the Middle East and Far East, but also drawing on cuisines from Georgia to Scandinavia.Read by Jayne Constantinis. 12 hours 50 minutes. TB 21384.HistoryGrose, Peter. The greatest escape: how one French community saved thousands of lives from the Nazis. 2014. TB 21585.Right through the Second World War the community of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon saved the lives of 5000 men, women and children from the Nazi occupiers and their Vichy stooges. Of those saved approximately 3,500 were of Jewish descent. Read by Richard Burnip. 11 hours 31 minutes. TB 21585.Higgins, Charlotte. Under another sky: journeys in Roman Britain. 2014. TB 21335.An exploration of what the idea of 'Roman Britain' has meant to those who came after Britain's 400-year stint as province of Rome, through history and now. Charlotte Higgins set out to discover the remains of Roman Britain for herself, sometimes on foot, sometimes in a VW campervan.Read by Monica Kendall. 10 hours 51 minutes. TB 21335.Turner, Alwyn W. A classless society: Britain in the 1990s. 2014. TB 21366.Opening with a war in the Gulf and ending with the September 11 attacks, this book goes in search of the decade in which modern Britain came of age. Read by John Banks. 25 hours 57 minutes. TB 21366.Politics and governmentConroy, Paul. Under the wire: Marie Colvin's last assignment. 2013. TB 20898.An account of the tragic death of Marie Colvin and a war photographer's harrowing and daring escape from Homs, one of the most dangerous cities on earth.Read by Gavin Crymble. 11 hours 58 minutes. TB 20898.Warfare and defenceBungay, Stephen. The most dangerous enemy: a history of the Battle of Britain. 2009. TB 21546.An assessment of the battle and its heroes, the development of technologies, planes and their armament. It looks beyond the mythology, to explore all the tragedy and comedy; the brutality and compassion of war.Read by Stephen Bungay. 24 hours 25 minutes. TB 21546.David, Saul. 100 days to victory: how the Great War was fought and won. 2013. TB 21438.The people and events of the war are brought dramatically to life from young Adolf Hitler's reaction to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, through a Zeppelin raid on Scarborough, the tragic dramas of Gallipoli and the battlefields of the Western Front to the individual bravery of the first Indian VC.Read by Richard Burnip. 19 hours 40 minutes. TB 21438.Hastings, Max. All hell let loose: the world at war, 1939-45. 2012. TB 21257.The seminal narrative history of the Second World War from one of our finest historians. A book which depicts what the war was like to live through - whether you were a starving child in Leningrad, a soldier in North Africa, or a civilian in Dresden. Read by Chris Courtenay. 36 hours. TB 21257.Suvorov, Viktor. The chief culprit: Stalin's grand design to start World War II. 2008. TB 21528.This work reveals how Stalin conspired with German leaders to bypass the Versailles Treaty which forbade German rearmament. Stalin emerges as a diabolical genius consumed by visions of a worldwide Communist revolution at any cost, the leader who wooed Hitler and Germany in his own effort to conquer the world.Read by Steve Hodson. 21 hours 31 minutes. TB 21528.Children and young adult fictionSuggested reading age 0-4Ahlberg, Allan. The mighty slide. 1989. TB 21689.A collection of five story poems, from the title poem, where no end of fun is had on a giant slide made of snow, to the antics of the mysterious Captain Jim who performs all sorts of heroic deeds. Read by Kris Dyer. 1 hour 26 minutes. TB 21689.Docherty, Helen. The Snatchabook. 2013. TB 21659.In every house, in every bed, a bedtime book was being read. But then, one night, all the animals' bedtime story books start disappearing. Is there a book thief? And who could it be? One brave little rabbit sets out to solve the mystery. Read by Emma Powell. 7 minutes. TB 21659.Thompson, Emma. The spectacular tale of Peter Rabbit. 2014. TB 21672.It was high summer and a travelling fun fair had come to the village. Peter Rabbit and Benjamin were forbidden to attend. But even the best-behaved rabbit can't keep away from a fun fair; and Peter is far from being the best -behaved rabbit. Read by Phyllida Law. 15 minutes. TB 21672.Willis, Jeanne. The rascally cake. 2009. TB 21674.The ghastly Mr Skumskins O'Parsley's favourite dishes include wormcast butties, squashed tadpoles on toast and bogey burgers. O'Parsley decides one day to bake an extra special cake, with more revolting ingredients than you can possibly imagine. However, when the cake decides to eat HIM, he realises it is time to mend his ways. Read by Kris Dyer. 9 minutes. TB 21674.Suggested reading age 5+Ahlberg, Allan. Kicking a ball. 2014. TB 21690.A wonderful rhyming story to read aloud. Every parent can immediately relate to the quiet joy felt by a boy simply kicking a ball, and how there is nothing else quite like it. Read by Kris Dyer. 8 minutes. TB 21690.Child, Lauren. What planet are you from? 2009. TB 21729.Clarice Bean; book 7. The feisty Clarice Bean is back tackling 'the environment' in her own inimitable fashion. From trees and planets and holes in the sky, to litter bugs and eco warriors, Clarice Bean has something to say. Read by Lisa Milne Henderson. 16 minutes. TB 21729.Hedderwick, Mairi. Katie Morag's island stories. 2010. TB 21724.Containing the first four Katie Morag stories.Read by Caroline Guthrie. 24 minutes. TB 21724.Hedderwick, Mairi. More Katie Morag island stories. 2010. TB 21725.Whether she is getting excited about the new pier, trying to cheer up Grannie Island in time for Granma Mainland's big day, singing naughty songs at the Grand Concert or solving riddles to get back in everyone's good books, Katie Morag is always up to something.Read by Caroline Guthrie. 35 minutes. TB 21725.Kerr, Judith. The Judith Kerr treasury. 2014. TB 21701.Five of Judith Kerr's bestselling stories in one collection, including 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea', 'Mog the Forgetful Cat', One Night in the Zoo, The Other Goose and When Willy Went to the Wedding. Read by Lisa Milne Henderson. 32 minutes. TB 21701.Rayner, Shoo. Viking Vik and the longship. 2009. TB 21707.The longships have gone to sea, leaving Viking Vik behind. Wulf wants to sail after them, but a storm is coming and something strange is swimming towards them. Could it be the legendary Sea Serpent?Read by Brian Fenton. 15 minutes. TB 21707.Rayner, Shoo. Viking Vik and the secret shield. 2009. TB 21708. Viking Vik's grandmother tells him a story that leads him into a real adventure. Is Vik brave enough to enter the Underground Kingdom and claim the prize that waits for him in the darkness?Read by Brian Fenton.17 minutes. TB 21708.Rodgers, Frank. Pirate penguins. 2006. TB 21750.Paisley, Posso, Kelty and Spott are pirate penguins. And they're hungry. But there's nothing to eat - all the fish have disappeared from the sea! Could the gang of scary, sharp-toothed cats have anything to do with it? It's time for Paisley to come up with a cunning plan.Read by James Parsons. 18 minutes. TB 21750Whelan, Gloria. Queen Victoria's bathing machine. 2015. TB 21673.Poor Queen Victoria! She loves to swim, but can't quite figure out how to get to the water without her devoted subjects glimpsing her swimming suit. (Because, of course, such a sight would compromise her regal dignity.) Fortunately for the water-loving monarch, it's Prince Albert to the rescue with an invention fit for a queen! Read by Phyllida Law. 15 minutes. TB 21673.Suggested reading age 7+Bradman, Tony. Hercules the hero. 2008. TB 21678.Hercules was famous throughout Greece for his strength and courage, which made the Goddess Hera cross. Why should a human enjoy such fame and success? She wants to see him suffer. So she makes him the servant of cruel King Eurystheus, who sets him a few small tasks to carry out. Read by John Cormack. 19 minutes. TB 21678.Bradman, Tony. William Tell and the apple for freedom. 2005. TB 21753.William Tell is the best shot in Switzerland. One day, the local governor demands that he prove his skill with a crossbow or be punished. William must hit an apple at a hundred paces... and the apple will be resting on his young son's head!Read by Thomas Eyre. 23 minutes. TB 21753.Bradman, Tony. Gulliver in Lilliput. 2011. TB 21727.Gulliver loves to travel. When he is swept overboard from a ship, and finds himself tied up in a land populated by tiny people, he realises some adventures aren't quite as much fun as they should be. Can Gulliver escape the clutches of the tiny Lilliputians?Read by Thomas Eyre. 21 minutes. TB 21727.Bradman, Tony. Jason and the voyage to the edge of the world. 2004. TB 21688.To win back his father's kingdom, Jason must find the fabled Golden Fleece. Many have attempted the perilous journey across Greece in search of it and never returned. But Jason and his band of Argonauts set sail determined to succeed.Read by Richard Derrington. 21 minutes. TB 21688.Brown, Jeff. Stanley in space. 2003. TB 21696.Flat Stanley. The American President chooses Stanley and his family to become the first humans aboard a new top-secret spaceship. They follow a message from the planet Tyrra and save its inhabitants from starvation, relocating their city to the White House tennis court until it's safe to go home.Read by Christopher Ragland. 59 minutes. TB 21696.McCaughrean, Geraldine. Saint George and the dragon. 2000. TB 21704.The dragon lays waste to the kingdom and finally the princess herself has to be rescued by a knight, who fights and tames the dragon, passing into legend as St George. Read by Lisa Milne Henderson. 17 minutes. TB 21704.Laird, Elizabeth. The fastest boy in the world. 2014. TB 21757.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 winning medals like them, in spite of his ragged shorts and bare feet. When his grandfather announces that he's going to take Solomon to Addis Ababa, Solomon is overjoyed when he realizes that the Ethiopian running team will be doing a victory parade through the city that day.Read by Damian Lynch. 2 hours 40 minutes. TB 21757.McCaughrean, Geraldine. The Odyssey. 1997. TB 21703.The story of Odysseus' return to Ithica from the Trojan war, where he encounters Athene, Poseidon, the Cyclops and others before he is reunited with his faithful wife, Penelope.Read by Damian Lynch. 2 hours 27 minutes. TB 21703.Matthews, Andrew. Antony and Cleopatra. 2003. TB 21734.Shakespeare stories. A wonderful retelling of Shakespeare's thrilling tale of love torn apart by history. With notes on the main themes within the story and a background to the Globe theatre.Read by James Parsons. 27 minutes. TB 21734.Matthews, Andrew. Hamlet. 2003. TB 21738.Shakespeare stories. Murder most foul... An action-packed retelling of Shakespeare's dark tale of revenge and murder. With notes on the main themes within the story and a background to the Globe theatre.Read by James Parsons. 27 minutes. TB 21738.Matthews, Andrew. Julius Caesar. 2010. TB 21735.Shakespeare stories. Rome's greatest general, Julius Caesar, returns to the city celebrating a glorious victory. But among the cheering crowds a group of conspirators are determined to prevent Caesar becoming king. With notes on the main themes within the story and a background to the Globe theatre.Read by James Parsons. 26 minutes. TB 21735.Matthews, Andrew. Macbeth. 2003. TB 21736. Shakespeare stories. Out, damned spot! A brilliant retelling of this classic tale of witches, murder and madness. With notes on the main themes within the story and a background to the Globe theatre.Read by James Parsons. 30 minutes. TB 21736.Matthews, Andrew. A midsummer night's dream. 2003.TB 21737.Shakespeare stories. The course of true love never did run smooth. A magical retelling of Hermia, Helen, Demetrius and Lysander's classic story - and of the impish fairy Puck, who meddles in their tangled web of love with hilarious consequences. With notes on the main themes within the story and a background to the Globe theatre.Read by James Parsons. 31 minutes. TB 21737.Matthews, Andrew. Romeo and Juliet. 2003. TB 21739.Shakespeare stories. But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun... A beautiful retelling of Shakespeare's most famous love story. With notes on the main themes within the story and a background to the Globe theatre.Read by James Parsons. 27 minutes. TB 21739.Matthews, Andrew. The tempest. 2003. TB 21740.Shakespeare stories. A charming retelling of this magical tale of power and justice. With notes on the main themes within the story and a background to the Globe theatre.Read by James Parsons. 26 minutes. TB 21740.Pennypacker, Sara. Flat Stanley: the big mountain adventure. 2011. TB 21698.Flat Stanley. The whole Lambchop family is off to see Mount Rushmore. But when Flat Stanley and his brother, Arthur, team up with a scrappy cowgirl named Calamity Jasper, their vacation turns into the Wild West experience of a lifetime. Read by Christopher Ragland. 39 minutes. TB 21698.Stanton, Andy. Mr Gum and the secret hideout. 2014. TB 21684.Mr Gum; book 8. Talking parrots in the rooftops? A giant cactus on the high street? Mosquitoes so nasty that even their own friends don't like them? Something's gone terribly wrong in Lamonic Bibber and Mr Gum is nowhere to be found. Polly and Friday are facing their biggest challenge yet. Read by John Cormack. 1 hour 55 minutes. TB 21684.Strong, Jeremy. Romans on the rampage. 2015. TB 21682.Marcus is a Roman boy who is crazy about chariot racing. He loves to practise in his own homemade chariot (pulled by the family goat) and dreams of riding in the Circus Maximus himself one day. But when Marcus's hero, the brilliant charioteer Scorpus, goes missing on the day of the big race, Marcus finds his wish coming true sooner than he'd imagined!Read by John Cormack. 2 hours 14 minutes. TB 21682.Suggested reading age 9+Beasley, Andrew. The feast of ravens. 2013. TB 21694.The battles of Ben Kingdom; book 2. The year is 1892. The Legion have unleashed an ancient darkness on London, leaving crime and chaos in its wake. From their rooftop base, The Watchers fight to restore order - looking to Ben Kingdom for hope. But unbeknown to them, Ben is harbouring a deadly secret that could put them all in danger. Read by Andy Secombe. 7 hours 25 minutes. TB 21694.Brent-Dyer, Elinor Mary. Jo of the Chalet School. 2011. TB 21594. Chalet School series; book 2. The Chalet School now boasts over 30 pupils. The autumn term sees adventures of all kinds - a flood that threatens the school and the dramatic rescue of an unwanted St Bernard puppy. Finally Joey, Robin and Madge spend a delightful Christmas at Innsbruck.Read by Karen Cass. 8 hours 54 minutes. TB 21594.Cassidy, Cathy. Sweet honey. 2014. TB 21584.Chocolate box girls; book 5. Honey is going to live with her dad in Australia. Determined to make a fresh start, she couldn't be further away from the tough times at Tanglewood. But all alone on the other side of the world, Honey's past is about to catch up with her.Read by Juliette Burton. 7 hours 1 minute. TB 21584.Kessler, Liz. Has anyone seen Jessica Jenkins? 2014. TB 21598.Jessica Jenkins has always thought she was a perfectly ordinary girl, until the day that part of her arm vanishes in the middle of a geography lesson! Does this mean she's a superhero? And, when her friends are threatened, can Jessica use her superpower to help?Read by Rebecca Cooper. 5 hours 11 minutes. TB 21598.Lean, Sarah. Jack Pepper. 2014. TB 21490.Someone special will never be forgotten. When Ruby and Sid read a poster about a missing dog called Jack Pepper they remember an adventure they had, and a little dog they once met. Could the two possibly be connected?Read by Beth Chalmers. 45 minutes. TB 21490.Lee, Julia. The mysterious misadventures of Clemency Wrigglesworth. 2013. TB 21595.Newly-orphaned Clemency is entirely alone, until she's taken in by the Marvels. But where are her family? Why is she set to work as a scullery maid in the very house she travelled from India to live in? Who will save her?Read by Gloria Sanders. 7 hours 12 minutes. TB 21595.Palmer, Tom. Dead ball. 2010. TB 21548.Football detective; book 2. Russian billionaire Dmitri Tupolev and a mystery Englishman agree to fix an important match in Russia's favour by intimidating the England goalie, Alex Finn. But Alex goes against their wishes. His punishment is an 'accidental' car crash and now he's out of the return game in Russia. Read by Daniel York. 4 hours. TB 21548.Palmer, Tom. Off side. 2010. TB 21547.Football detective; book 3. Danny is furious when City is sold to an anonymous foreign buyer. But when Danny discovers Adam, a kid from Ghana, dumped by his agent who'd promised him a place as a junior at City, and lost in a foreign country he knows nothing about, Danny realizes there are worse ways of being alone.Read by Daniel York. 4 hours 2 minutes. TB 21547.Palmer, Tom. Killer pass. 2010. TB 21549.Football detective; book 4. In recent months, there has been a spate of burglaries at the houses of players from Danny's favourite football club, City FC. Danny wants to know who's behind it all for if he doesn't, he might just become the biggest suspect of them all.Read by Daniel York. 3 hours 6 minutes. TB 21549.Palmer, Tom. Own goal. 2011. TB 21550.Football detective; book 5. Danny loves supporting his local team, City FC. So when everyone starts supporting the Italian team Forza FC, Danny is angry and decides to investigate the sudden popularity of the new team - starting with Forza's billionaire owner - and that's when the danger really kicks off. Read by Daniel York. 5 hours 34 minutes. TB 21550.Pichon, Liz. A tiny bit lucky. 2014. TB 21478.Tom Gates; book 6. Me, Derek and Norman need some SERIOUS band practice for the ROCKWEKLY BANDBATTLE AUDITION. But I'm not panicking because we have LOADS of time... (I think?).Read by Ryan Watson. 2 hours 34 minutes. TB 21478.Pilkey, Dav. Captain Underpants and the tyrannical retaliation of the Turbo Toilet 2000. 2014. TB 21658.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. Read by Christopher Ragland. 1 hour 41 minutes. TB 21658.Reeve, Philip. Goblins vs dwarves. 2013. TB 21711.Goblins; book 2. The reawakening of ancient sorcery is bringing new creatures to the world of Clovenstone. A network of tunnels is sneaking into the heart of goblin territory. Skarper and his friends try to halt this underground invasion, but the dwarves - ruthless, cunning and covered in mole-droppings - are a dangerous enemy. Read by Richard Derrington. 8 hours 22 minutes. TB 21711.St. John, Lauren. Kidnap in the Caribbean. 2012. TB 21575.Laura Marlin mystery; book 2. Laura cannot contain her excitement when she wins a trip to the Caribbean for herself and her uncle, Calvin Redfern, especially when Tariq, and Skye, accidentally find themselves on board too. But when they dock at Antigua, they discover that Calvin has vanished, and Laura and Tariq are about to be kidnapped by the fearsome Straight A gang.Read by Ceri Gifford. 5 hours 6 minutes. TB 21575.St. John, Lauren. Kentucky thriller. 2013. TB 21574.Laura Marlin mystery; book 3. Laura Marlin's two greatest loves in life are detective novels and animals, so she is ecstatic when her uncle agrees to let her keep a horse after they rescue it from an overturned horsebox. But first they have to find its former owner. A visit to Newmarket leads Laura to the Kentucky Derby in the US and into the world of race -fixing. Read by Ceri Gifford. 4 hours 6 minutes. TB 21574.Sparkes, Ali. Dowsing the dead. 2007. TB 21507.Shapeshifter; book 4. All is not well in the spirit world - strange messages are coming through and Dax, Gideon, Lisa and Mia must once again join forces. Could the messages be coming from Luke and Catherine, Gideon's dead brother and sister? Perhaps they're even still alive? In which case, they have to rescue Luke from Catherine's evil clutches - but is Dax really a match for her?Read by Brian Fenton. 7 hours 37 minutes. TB 21507.Sparkes, Ali. Stirring the storm. 2008. TB 21535.Shapeshifter; book 5. Dax and his friends are moved to the country in a bid to keep their identities a secret, but are the special forces who are transporting them their allies, or are the Children of Limitless Ability being used as pawns in a much bigger scheme? Once again it is Dax who's at the centre of things - it's him they want most of all.Read by Brian Fenton. 8 hours 28 minutes. TB 21535.Suggested reading age 11+St. John, Lauren. The one dollar horse. 2013. TB 21633.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 before working hard to nurse the animal back to health. In time a sleek and highly strung thoroughbred emerges from the bag of bones she rescued, so Casey sets about finding out who her horse really is. Read by Emma Carter. 7 hours 41 minutes. TB 21633.St. John, Lauren. Race the wind. 2013. TB 21634.One dollar horse trilogy; book 2. When Casey Blue's victory at the Badminton Horse Trials earns her and Storm an invitation to the prestigious Kentucky Three Day Event, it is a dream come true. But that dream is about to turn into a nightmare. Her father is arrested for a crime Casey is convinced he didn't commit, she finds herself the victim of a vicious blackmailer and Storm is behaving like the wild horse he once was. Read by Emma Carter. 5 hours 11 minutes. TB 21634.Suggested reading age 13+Buckle, J A. Half my Facebook friends are ferrets. 2014. TB 21728.Fifteen-year-old Josh fantasises about becoming a death metal guitarist complete with tattoos, piercings and hoards of adoring fans. But it's not easy when his super-strict mum won't let him grow his hair! Josh’s diary contains all Josh's hopes, dreams and frustrations but what he doesn’t know is that his mother also kept a diary, back about the time he was born, and a secret in there holds the key to Josh's life becoming a whole lot more metal. Read by David Thorpe. 4 hours 59 minutes. TB 21728.Farrant, Natasha. Flora in love. 2014. TB 21631.The diaries of Bluebell Gadsby; book 2. As much as Bluebell wants a normal life she knows that, with her family, it’s asking the impossible: Mum is behaving strangely, Dad is 'liberating' the pets and her sister Flora has fallen deeply and desperately in love. Will anyone notice that Blue is having problems of her own?Read by Charlotte Worthing. 5 hours 7 minutes. TB 21631.Hardinge, Frances. Cuckoo song. 2014. TB 21758.Shortlisted for the Cilip Carnegie Medal, 2015. When Triss wakes up after an accident, she knows that something is very wrong. She is insatiably hungry; her sister seems scared of her and her parents whisper behind closed doors. Soon Triss discovers that what happened to her is more strange and terrible than she could ever have imagined, and that she is quite literally not herself. Read by Sherry Baines. 14 hours 25 minutes. TB 21758. Lake, Nick. Hostage three. 2014. TB 21258.It's a once-in-a-lifetime thing: a girl on a yacht with her super-rich banker father; a chance for the family to heal after a turbulent time; the peaceful sea and the warm sun. But a nightmare is about to explode as a group of Somali pirates seize the boat and its human cargo - and the family becomes a commodity in a highly-sophisticated transaction.Read by Anna Lukis. 8 hours 53 minutes. TB 21258.Landman, Tanya, Buffalo soldier. 2014. TB 21756.Shortlisted for the Cilip Carnegie Medal, 2015. At the end of the American Civil War, Charley - a young African-American slave - is ostensibly freed. In a terrifyingly lawless land, where the colour of a person's skin can bring violent death, Charley disguises herself as a man and joins the army. Soon, she's sent to the prairies to fight a whole new war against the 'savage Indians'. Trapped in a world of injustice and inequality, it's only when Charley is posted to Apache territory that she begins to learn what it is to be truly free.Read by Laurel Lefkow. 8 hours 6 minutes. TB 21756.Sedgwick, Marcus. The ghosts of heaven. 2014. TB 21636.The spiral has existed as long as time has existed. It's there when a girl walks through the forest and there centuries later with Anna, who they call a witch. There where a mad poet watches the waves and knows the horrors they hide, and far into the future as Keir Bowman realises his destiny. And so their journeys begin. Read by John Cormack. 9 hours 36 minutes. TB 21636.Zephaniah, Benjamin. Terror kid. 2014. TB 21652.Rico is angry and frustrated at the injustices he sees happening at home and around the world. He wants to do something – but what? When he is approached by Speech, a mysterious man who shares his hacktivist interests, Rico is given the perfect opportunity to speak out about injustice. After all, what harm can a peaceful cyber protest do?Read by James Parsons. 3 hours 18 minutes. TB 21652.Children and young adult non-fictionSuggested reading age 7+Moses, Brian. School report: very funny poems about school! 2014. TB 21606.Find out what goes on behind the staffroom door, join in at playtime, see what is in the mysterious lost-property box, go on the school trip, and discover what teachers do in their spare time - and that's just the beginning of the school adventure in this collection of poems.Read by Philip Bretherton. 58 minutes. TB 21606.Suggested reading age 13+Dawson, James This book is gay. 2014. TB 21651.An uncensored look at sexual orientation and gender identity. This frank, funny, fully inclusive book explores everything anyone who ever dared to wonder wants to know – from sex to politics, how to pull, stereotypes, how to come-out and more. Contains passages of a sexual nature. Read by Greg Wagland. 6 hours 31 minutes. TB 21651.Books narrated by volunteersAdult fictionCussler, Clive. The storm. 2013. Thriller. TB 405275.NUMA files book 10. In the middle of the Indian Ocean, a NUMA research vessel is taking water samples at sunset, when a crew member spots a sheen of black oil ahead of them. But it is not oil. A swarm of black particles suddenly attacks the ship, killing everyone aboard, while the ship itself goes up in flames. 10 hours 45 minutes. TB 405275.Hamilton, Patrick. Twenty thousand streets under the sky: a London trilogy. 2004. General fiction. TB 405302.Written in the 1930s this trilogy comprises The midnight bell, The siege of pleasure and The plains of cement. This is a world of twenty thousand streets full of cruelty and kindness, comedy and pathos, wasted dreams and lost desires.17 hours 20 minutes. TB 405302.Thornber, M S. Silent links. 2014. General fiction. TB 405303.Romantic, obsessive and unrequited passions are just a few of the aspects explored through the characters using the park over one day. Like the roots of the Sycamore, lives unfold through connected links and strands. Stories of hope, despair and ambition unfold as the clock moves on relentlessly from sunrise to sunset.5 hours 33 minutes. TB 405303.Adult non-fictionAutobiographies and biographiesGoodman, Jordan. Paul Robeson: a watched man. 2013. TB 405301.From the 1930s to the 1960s, the African American singer was the voice of the people, both on stage and as a political activist who refused to be silenced. Jordan Goodman tells the story of Robeson during the tumultuous Cold War when the US government became so worried by his impact abroad that it tried to silence him. 16 hours 8 minutes. TB 405301.Henderson, Tam. Warrior: a true story of bravery and betrayal in the Iraq War. 2008. TB 405266.Warrior is the powerful true story of a British soldier's heroism during the Iraq War that reveals how he was ruthlessly sacrificed by the Establishment. But Tam fought back and embarked upon the biggest battle of his life - against the Ministry of Defence and international arms companies.6 hours 45 minutes. TB 405266.Ludovic, Margarita. Another time, another place. 2012. TB 405269.An account of an idyllic childhood. Told in the first person against the milieu of show business and family idiosyncrasies. If only things were so straightforward. Instead, this recount is juxtaposed against the backdrop of the Second World War, bringing into question a sense of identity, belonging and loyalties. 6 hours 53 minutes. TB 405269.Vardy, Joan. A green hill far away. 2013. TB 405304.Joan was blind at birth, only able to see light and shade and bright colours and absolute contrasts. The stories inside this book are in Joan's own words, sometimes using her strong Midland's dialect and, if some things are confusing to you, Dear Reader, then think how Joan had to muddle through and manage. 12 hours 33 minutes. TB 405304.CraftStratford, Sue. Mini Christmas knits - Twenty to make. 2011. TB 405279.This title offers novelty knitting that is not only fun to do, but helps you create cute, funny and beautiful mini kits for Christmas, to give as gifts or to decorate your home. Here are twenty mini knits: there are stockings, a snowman, a Christmas tree egg cosy, angels, mini mittens, French hens, turtle doves and more.2 hours 18 minutes. TB 405279.FoodFitzGibbon, Theodora, Traditional Scottish cookery. 1980. TB 405295.Gathering together some of the finest traditional Scottish recipes, this book includes favourites such as cock-a-leekie soup and Finnan haddie and kippers, as well as the more sophisticated meat and game dishes that are a legacy of the Auld Alliance with France.9 hours 34 minutes. TB 405295.HealthStein, Maxwell. Vinegar: nature's secret weapon. 2005.TB 405296.There are some foods that are more than mere nourishment. Vinegar is one such liquid, whose healing powers have been well documented. This book contains a number of recipes involving vinegar, as well as listing its surprising other uses. There is also a section on honey and garlic.5 hours 9 minutes. TB 405296.HistoryDudgeon, Piers. Our Glasgow: memories of life in disappearing Britain. 2009. TB 405292.Piers Dudgeon has listened to dozens of people who remember Glasgow as it was, and who have lived through its many changes. They talk of childhood and education, of work and entertainment, of family, community values, health, politics, religion and music.12 hours 8 minutes. TB 405292.Hutchison, James. Weavers, miners and the open book: a history of Kilsyth. 1986. TB 405299.This traces the story of Kilsyth and its people from Roman Times to the present day. The title is based on the coat of arms of the burgh which features a weaver's shuttle, a miner's lamp, an open Bible and crossed swords each of which illustrates an important facet of the economic, social and religious life of the community. 12 hours 58 minutes. TB 405299.Lomax, S C. The home front: Sheffield in the First World War. 2014. TB 405268.This work provides an account of the experiences of the people of Sheffield during the Great War. It looks at the run up to war and Sheffield's reaction to its outbreak; the war fever which led to thousands of Sheffield's men answering their country's call; the efforts of those who could not fight and Sheffield's industry.9 hours 59 minutes. TB 405268.Posset Pieces. Portishead at war. 2011. TB 405277.Personal memories of the people of Portishead and the villages of Gordano during the Second World War.4 hours 26 minutes. TB 405277.Stiff, Peter. Warfare by other means: South Africa in the 1980s and 1990s. 2001. TB 405297.This history of South Africa's covert military operations during the final years of apartheid is a wide-ranging and explosive book. It deals with a swathe of assassinations, and of destruction and mayhem committed both at home and abroad.50 hours 35 minutes. TB 405297.PsychologyGolding, Kim S. Nurturing attachments: supporting children who are fostered or adopted. 2008. TB 405290.Golding combines the experience and wisdom of parents and carers with that of professionals to provide support and guidance for foster and adoptive parents looking after children with insecure attachment relationships.10 hours 48 minutes. TB 405290.Jeffers, Susan. Embracing uncertainty: achieving peace of mind as we face the unknown. 2003. TB 405257.Jeffers emphasises that an unknown future doesn't prevent a rich and abundant life, and shows how by enjoying life's unpredictability we transform ourselves from a position of fear to one filled with excitement and potential. Susan convinces us, above all, that life is exhilarating because of, not in spite of, uncertainty.6 hours 51 minutes. TB 405257.Sanders, Pete. First steps in counselling: a students' companion for introductory courses. 2011. TB 405278.This offers a basic introduction to counselling courses through to certificate level. Its fourth edition is an update in the fast-changing world of counselling and helping. This book is for anyone beginning their exploration of helping using counselling skills. 13 hours 53 hours minutes. TB 405278.PoetryBerry, Liz. Black Country. 2014. TB 405300.A parade of riotous characters abound: the Bone Orchard Wench and the Lady Rotcatcher. 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.1 hour 22 minutes. TB 405300.Watermarks: stories and poems inspired by the River Tay: an anthology. 2014. TB 405298.Bringing history vividly to life, the stories range from the time of thecrannogs in Loch Tay 2500 years ago to the present day. Wade’s Bridge at Aberfeldy, built in 1733, features before the collection jumps forward to the mid-1800s, a time when the river was a hub of activity. 6 hours 19 minutes. TB 405298.ReligionMahaney, C J. Living the cross centered life. 2006. TB 405258.Blending material from The Cross-Centered Life and Christ Our Mediator with new insights, Living the Cross Centered Life is packed with powerful truth to grip your heart, clear your mind, and invigorate your soul. Get ready to behold a breathtaking view of what God intends to accomplish in and through you every day.5 hours. TB 405258.Richards, Courtney. I am what you say I am. 2012. TB 405259.Our mind is one of our greatest assets and in order to do well in life, we must first think well. As we change our thinking we can live a fulfilled and vibrant life en route to achieving our purpose. I Am What You Say I Am looks at strategies to live a divinely inspired purpose driven life. The picture you're painting is based on your thinking, so paint your own masterpiece!6 hours 21 minutes TB 405259.Self-helpWilliam, Mark. The mindful way through depression: freeing yourself from chronic unhappiness. 2007. TB 405280.Four uniquely qualified experts explain why our attempts to think our way out of a bad mood or just snap out of it lead us deeper into the downward spiral. Through lessons drawn from both Eastern meditative traditions and cognitive therapy, they demonstrate how to sidestep the mental habits that lead to despair.12 hours 48 hours minutes. TB 405280.SportAttaway, Pete. Nottingham Forest on this day: history, facts and figures from every day of the year. 2011. TB 405273.This chronicles in a diary format the club's turbulent history from those first days of gentlemen hoofing "the leather" about on the Forest Recreation Ground, through the glorious years of Brian Clough and Peter Taylor, right up to the present day. 7 hours 47 minutes. TB 405273.Children and young adult fictionSuggested reading age 9+McCaughrean, Geraldine. The middle of nowhere. 2013. TB 405308.Shortlisted for the Cilip Carnegie Medal 2015.As Stationmaster of the Kinkindele Station, Herbert takes great pride in his job but Comity dreams of a different life where her mother is alive and she has her own horse and a new piano. That is, until the new station assistant arrives and brings Comity and her father sharply back down to earth.Read by female synthetic voice. 6 hours 11 minutes. TB 405308.Needham, Violet, The black riders. 1939. TB 405293.Stormy Petrel book 1. The hero of this book is 11-year-old Dick, an orphan who befriends a mysterious man who is part of a political uprising against the current governor. Dick passes on messages, risking his life, while constantly displaying his loyalty, his fortitude and his steadfast refusal to betray his friends.7 hours 27 minutes. TB 405293.Suggested reading age 11+Crossan, Sarah. Apple and Rain. 2014.TB 405306.Shortlisted for the Cilip Carnegie Medal 2015.When Apple's mother returns after eleven years of absence, Apple feels whole again. She will have an answer to her burning question - why did you go? But just like the stormy Christmas Eve when she left, her mother's homecoming is bitter sweet, and Apple wonders who is really looking after whom. Read by female synthetic voice. 6 hours 20 minutes. TB 405306.Suggested reading age 13+Conaghan, Brian. When Mr Dog bites. 2014. TB 405311.Contains strong language. Shortlisted for the Cilip Carnegie Medal 2015. Dylan has Tourette's, life is a constant battle to keep the bad stuff in - the swearing, the tics, the howling dog that escapes whenever he gets stressed. Then at a routine visit to the hospital Dylan discovers that he's going to die next March, so he grants himself three parting wishes: three 'cool things to do before I cack it'.Read by female synthetic voice. 7 hours 55 minutes. TB 405311.Gardner, Sally. Tinder. 2013. TB 405310.Shortlisted for the Cilip Carnegie Medal 2015.Otto Hundebiss is tired of war, but when he defies Death he walks a dangerous path. A half-beast half-man gives him shoes and dice which will lead him deep into a web of dark magic and mystery. He learns the powers of the tinderbox and the wolves whose master he becomes. Read by female synthetic voice. 4 hours 5 minutes. TB 405310.DAISY books for saleCrime and thrillers box set (five books), various authors. Order no. 805457. Price ?24.99.Adult fiction/crimeThis DAISY box set contains five gripping novels: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn: a “nerve-fraying” thrillerBefore I Go To Sleep by S J Watson: an “exceptional” debut novelThe Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith: “utterly compelling”The Life by Martina Cole: “gritty and gripping”Natural Causes by James Oswald: “The new Ian Rankin”Total recording time: 68 hours 52 minutes.DAISY made to orderThese DAISY made to order titles are packaged in a clear DVD case and are priced ?9.99 each.Join Michael Palin as he takes us on an adventure with this collection of titles that accompanied his successful TV travel series:Around the World in 80 Days: Order no. 800261 (7 hours 38 minutes)Pole to Pole: Order no. 800258 (10 hours 00 minutes)Full Circle: Order no. 800260 (12 hours 00 minutes)Sahara: Order no. 800259 (9 hours 52 minutes)Himalaya: Order no. 800257 (11 hours 26 minutes)New Europe: Order no. 800705 (11 hours 35 minutes) ................
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