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New books Issue 65September 2018Your regular update of new titles available for loan and sale from RNIB.BrailleMusicGiant printTalking books Postal collectionsTo arrange a collection of books to return to the library, call Royal Mail and follow the selections as follows:Call 08457 950 950Press 1 for Business or registered charityPress 7 for anything else(including to set up a business collection including ad-hocCollections)Newer books!It’s much easier to keep up to date with new additions to our librarycollection if you access our website. Don’t wait for the next edition of New Books; choose your books from our up to the minute online catalogue at ContentsBrailleAdult fictionQuick ReadsAdult non-fictionAutobiographyFood and DrinkGeographyHistoryHobbies and GamesPolitics and GovernmentPopular ScienceTrue CrimeNewly Available for loan and saleAdult fictionAdult non-FictionAutobiographyFood and DrinkPopular ScienceChildren and young adult fiction0-4 Suggested Reading Age05+ Suggested Reading Age07+ Suggested Reading Age09+ Suggested Reading Age11+ Suggested Reading Age13+ Suggested Reading AgeGiant printAdult fictionAdult non-fictionFoodHealth and FitnessHistoryHobbies and GamesNatural HistoryPoetryPolitics and GovernmentPopular ScienceSelf HelpTravel and TourismChildren and young adult fiction09+ Suggested Reading Age11+ Suggested Reading Age13+ Suggested Reading AgeTalking BooksAdult fictionAdult non-fictionAutobiography and biographyGardeningHistoryPetsPoetryTravel and TourismWarfare and defenceA Selection Of Harper Collins TitlesAdult fictionAdult non-fictionAutobiography and biographyHistoryNatural HistoryPoetryPolitics and GovernmentChildren and young adult fiction05+ Suggested Reading Age07+ Suggested Reading Age 09+ Suggested Reading Age11+ Suggested Reading AgeTo borrow booksTo buy booksBrailleAdult fictionAciman, Andre?. Call Me By Your Name. 2017. Gay fiction.This is the story of a sudden and powerful love that blooms between 17 -year-old Elio and his father's house guest, Oliver. During a restless summer on the Italian Riviera grows a romance of six weeks' duration that marks them for a lifetime. The two verge toward the one thing both fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy.UEB. 4v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26038403Arikawa, Hiro. The Travelling Cat Chronicles. 2017. Animal stories.Nana the cat is on a road trip. He is not sure where he's going or why, but it means he gets to sit in the front seat of a silver van with his beloved owner, Satoru. Side by side they cruise around Japan through the changing seasons, visiting old friends. But what is the purpose of this road trip? When Nana finally works it out, his small heart will break.UEB. 4v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26038503Berriman, Amanda. Home. 2018. Literary fiction.Jesika is four and a half. She lives in a flat with her mother and baby brother Toby. She does not know that their landlord is threatening to evict them and that Toby's cough is going to get much worse. Or that Paige, her new best friend, has a secret that will explode their world.UEB. 6v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 26048303Berry, Ellen. The Bookshop On Rosemary Lane. 2016. Chick lit.Rosemary Lane: book 1. On Rosemary Lane, Della Cartwright plans to open a very special little bookshop. Her mother left her hundreds of cookbooks. Now Della wants to share their recipes with the world. But with her family convinced it's a hare-brained scheme, she starts to wonder if she's made a terrible decision. One thing's for sure: she's about to find out.UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26026403Chambers, Kimberley. Life Of Crime. 2018. Thriller.Dragged up on a council estate, Jason Rampling was determined to change his lot. Jason's a chancer, shameless with his good looks and his gift for earning a few quid. Life is easy when the money rolls in. Melissa thought she'd struck gold marrying Jason. After a stretch inside Jason wants to pull off just one last job. But this is a game that could cost them everything.UEB. 8v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 26077803Child, Lee. No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Short Stories. 2018. Thriller.This is a collection of Lee Child's short stories featuring Jack Reacher. Read together, these twelve stories shed new light on Reacher’s past, telling how he grew up and developed into the wandering avenger. UEB. 7v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26056703Christie, Agatha. A Caribbean Mystery. 2016. Classic crime.Miss Marple: book 9. As Jane Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever happened. Eventually, her interest was aroused by an old soldier's yarn about a strange coincidence. Infuriatingly, just as he was about to show her an astonishing photograph, the Major's attention wandered. He never did finished the story.UEB. 3v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26077303Cline, Ernest. Ready player One. 2012. Science fiction.In the year 2045, Wade Watts only really feels alive when he’s jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity spends their days. When the eccentric creator of the OASIS dies, he leaves behind a series of fiendish puzzles. Whoever is first to solve them will inherit his vast fortune and control of the OASIS itself. Then Wade cracks the first clue. Suddenly he’s beset by rivals who’ll kill to take this prize.UEB. 8v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26054103Egan, Jennifer. Manhattan Beach. 2017. Literary fiction.Anna Kerrigan, nearly 12 years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Anna observes some secret pact between her father and Dexter Styles. Years later her father has vanished and Anna chances to meet Styles again. Anna begins to understand the complexity of her father's life and the reasons he might have been murdered.UEB. 8v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 26058703Fortin, Sue. The Birthday Girl. 2017. Thriller.As birthday girl Joanne turns 40, her friends reluctantly join her for a weekend away in a cosy cottage in the woods. Joanne is planning to use her birthday weekend to reveal a secret that one of her friends is hiding. The party turns into a murder scene and one of the guests must be the killer. As secrets unravel, the rest of Joanne's friends must discover the murderer, before they are next on the killer's guest list.UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26020003Harper, Jane. The Dry. 2017. Crime.Aaron Falk: book 1. Amid the worst drought to ravage Australia in a century, it hasn't rained in small country town Kiewarra for two years. Tensions are high. Everyone thinks Luke Hadler committed suicide after slaughtering his wife and six-year-old son. As policeman Aaron Falk probes deeper into the killings secrets from the past are uncovered.UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26046103Harris, Sarah J. The Colour Of Bee Larkham's Murder. 2018. Humorous fiction.Jasper is not ordinary. Synaesthesia paints the sounds of his world in a kaleidoscope of colours that no one else can see. He's sure something has happened to his neighbour, Bee Larkham, but no-one else seems to be taking it as seriously as they should be. Jasper must uncover the truth about that night, including his own role in what happened.UEB. 6v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 26057203Hore, Rachel. The Silent Tide. 2013. General fiction.When Emily commissions an account of novelist Hugh Morton, she finds herself steering a path between Morton's widow who's determined to protect his secrets and the charming and ambitious Joel Richards. But someone is sending Emily messages about Hugh Morton's past and she discovers a buried story that has to be told.UEB. 8v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 24697405Lagercrantz, David. The Girl Who Takes An Eye For An Eye. 2017. Thriller.Millennium: book 5. Sentenced to two months in Flodberga women's prison for saving a young boy's life by any means necessary, Lisbeth Salander refuses to say anything in her own defence. She has more important things on her mind. Mikael Blomkvist makes the long trip to visit every week and receives a lead to follow for his pains. For Mikael, it looks to be an important expose for Millennium. For Lisbeth, it could unlock the facts of her childhood.UEB. 7v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 25962903Mansell, Jill. This Could Change Everything. 2018. Chick lit.If Essie hadn't written that letter, that only her best friend was meant to see, then she'd still be tucked up with Paul in his picture-perfect cottage. But if her true feelings hadn't accidentally taken the Internet by storm she never would have met Zillah and Conor and Lucas. And she'd never have found out just how much life there is to be lived.UEB. 6v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 26077903Marsons, Angela. Silent Scream. 2016. Crime.Detective Kim Stone: book 1. Five figures gather round a shallow grave. An innocent life had been taken but their secrets would be buried. Years later, a headmistress is found brutally strangled, the first in a spate of gruesome murders which shock the Black Country. When human remains are discovered at a former children’s home, disturbing secrets are also unearthed. D.I. Kim Stone realises she’s on the hunt for a twisted individual whose killing spree spans decades.UEB. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26023403Morris, Heather. The Tattooist Of Auschwitz. 2018. General fiction.In 1942, Lale Sokolov arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival. Waiting in line to be tattooed, terrified and shaking, was a young girl. For Lale it was love at first sight. And he was determined not only to survive himself, but to ensure this woman, Gita, did, too.UEB. 4v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 26053703Moyes, Jojo. Still Me. 2018. Romance.Me before you: book 3. Lou Clark is living in New York. She is about to meet someone who's going to turn her whole life upside down. Josh will remind her so much of a man she used to know that it'll hurt. Lou won't know what to do next, but she knows that whatever she chooses is going to change everything.UEB. 8v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 26046003Neale, Kitty. Outcast Child. 2017. Family stories.It's the 1950s, in South London, and when Daisy loses her mother, she retreats into a world of silence. When her father remarries, the family home becomes unbearable at the mercy of cruel stepmother Vera. Luckily, Daisy can always count on her cousin Lizzie to bring sunshine to her life. But when shocking truths about Vera come to light, could it bring the possibility of a fresh start for Daisy after all?UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26056803Ng, Celeste. Little Fires Everywhere. 2018. Literary fiction.In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, Elena Richardson's guiding principal is playing by the rules. Mia Warren, an enigmatic artist and single mother, arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenage daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Mrs Richardson becomes determined to uncover Mia's past. But her obsession will come at devastating costs to her own family and Mia's.UEB. 6v. Price: ?14.99. Order No: 26032703Osborne, Bella. Escape To Willow Cottage. 2017. Chick lit.Beth is running away. With her young son Leo to protect, Willow Cottage is the lifeline she so desperately needs. Over the course of four seasons, Beth realises that broken hearts can be mended, and sometimes love can be right under your nose. UEB. 8v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26026103Paris, B. A. Bring Me Back. 2018. Thriller.12 years ago Finn's girlfriend disappeared. Finn told the police the truth about that night, just not quite the whole truth. Now Finn has moved on. But his past won't stay buried. As more and more questions are raised, his marriage becomes strained. Has his first love somehow come back to him after all this time? Or is the person who took her playing games with his mind?UEB. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26046203Pearse, Lesley. Dead To Me. 2017. Family stories.Spring 1935. On London's Hampstead Heath two girls meet by chance: well-mannered and smartly dressed Verity and dishevelled and grubby Ruby. The mismatched pair form an instant friendship strong enough to survive their parent's disapproval. They are firm friends until one day in 1938 when Ruby says the terrible words 'You're dead to me'. Can Verity and Ruby find a way back to each other before it's too late?UEB. 8v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26048203Price, Angharad. The Life Of Rebecca Jones. 2014. Literary fiction.In the early years of the last century, Rebecca is born into a rural community in the Maesglasau valley in Wales; but the changes brought about by modernity threaten the survival of her language, and her family's way of life. Rebecca's reflections on the century are delivered with a simple intimacy. Her evocation of the changing seasons and a life in tune with its surroundings is haunting.UEB. 2v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26077703Ryan, Jennifer. The Chilbury Ladies' Choir. 2018. Country life fiction.Kent, 1940. In the idyllic village of Chilbury hearts are breaking as sons and husbands leave to fight. And when the Vicar decides to close the choir until the men return, all seems lost. But with the arrival of the charismatic Miss Primrose Trent, the choir is reborn with the village women ready to sing. But for one villager, the choir is the perfect cover to destroy Chilbury’s new-found harmony.UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26037903Schmidt, Sarah. See What I Have Done. 2017. Literary fiction.This novel fictionalises the infamous murder of Andrew and Abby Borden in 1892. After a notorious trial younger daughter Lizzie Borden is found innocent. But there are others in the household with stories to tell: older sister Emma, Irish maid Bridget, the girls' Uncle John, and a boy who knows more than anyone realises.UEB. 5v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 26069103Steel, Danielle. Dangerous Games. 2017. Romance.After a personal tragedy, television correspondent Alix Philips allows only her mother and daughter, and her cameraman, Ben, to get close. Alix is sent to uncover the truth about a major political scandal in the White House involving the Vice-President. Alix now realizes that the time has come to play some very dangerous games. Those she loves are at risk.UEB. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26037803Quick readsBillingham, Mark. Cut Off. 2018.Louise loses her phone in a local café. After many hours of panic, Louise is relieved when someone gets in touch offering to return the phone. From then on she is impatient to get back to normal life. But when they meet on the beach, Louise realises you should be careful what you wish for.UEB double line spacing, single sided. 6v. Price: ?1.00. Order No: 26018603Also available in uncontracted braille. 8v. Order No: 26018605Cohen, Tammy. Clean Break. 2018.Marriage is complicated, especially for Kate. Her husband Jack has a temper on him, and has been an absent father for years. Kate knows it's time for a divorce. The trouble is, Jack refuses. And now that he has found out Kate has met another man, his jealous rages escalate. Can Kate rid herself of her jealous husband before it's too late?UEB double line spacing, single sided. 8v. Price: ?1.00. Order No: 26018803Also available in uncontracted braille. 9v. Order No: 26018805Khan, Vaseem. Inspector Chopra And The Million-dollar Motor Car. 2018.The Premier No.1 Garage is the place to go in Mumbai if you want a luxury car. Even Mumbai's biggest gangster shops there; he's just ordered a classic race car worth millions. But now the car is gone. Who stole it? Inspector Chopra has just days to find the culprit, and the missing car, before its gangster owner finds out and takes violent revenge.UEB double line spacing, single sided. 6v. Price: ?1.00. Order No: 26018703Also available in uncontracted braille. 8v. Order No: 26018705Adult non-fictionAutobiographyMcGregor, G. P. In And Out Of Class: Ventures In Education And Community. 2017.Gordon McGregor was led to a career in education, first serving as an Education Officer in the RAF, then moving on to Worcester College for Blind Boys. Later he taught in Uganda and Zambia before returning to the UK to work as a college principal. In and Out of Class is an informative look back at a unique career in education.UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26100602Food and DrinkCousins, Barbara. Easy, Tasty, Healthy: Delicious Everyday Recipes All Free From Gluten, Dairy, Sugar, Soya, Eggs & Yeast. 2016.This cookbook is packed full of up-to-the-minute recipes and sound advice on all the latest information on nutrition. The recipes are entirely free from: gluten, dairy, sugar, soya, eggs and yeast. The recipes are simple to prepare, using easy-to-obtain ingredients, and need the minimum amount of time and equipment.UEB. 5v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 26078402Watson, Lucy. Feed Me Vegan. 2017.Lucy Watson has you covered with tempting meals from breakfast to supper as well as sweet treats and snacks. Feed Me Vegan is full of tasty, satisfying vegan fare. Whether you're already a full-time vegan, considering making the switch or just trying to cut down on meats, fish and dairy, this book has new recipes to add to your repertoire.UEB. 2v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 26053603GeographyMarshall, Tim. Prisoners Of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need To Know About Global Politics. 2016.All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. To follow world events you need to understand people, ideas and movements but if you don't know geography, you'll never have the full picture. 'Prisoners of Geography' looks at the past, present and future to offer an essential guide to geopolitics, one of the major determining factors in world history.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26038303HistoryFrankopan, Peter. The Silk Roads: A New History Of The World. 2016.For centuries, fame and fortune were to be found in the west, in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in search of riches and adventure. Sweeping right across Central Asia and deep into China and India, a region that once took centre stage is again rising to dominate global politics, commerce and culture. The Silk Roads is an exploration of the forces that have driven the rise and fall of empires.UEB. 16v. Price: ?10.99. Order No: 25788503Green, M. R. London: A Travel Guide Through Time. 2016.Let time traveller Dr Matthew Green be your guide to six extraordinary periods in London's history - the ages of Shakespeare, medieval city life, plague, coffee houses, the reign of Victoria and the Blitz. You'll meet pornographers and traitors, actors and apothecaries, the mad, bad and dangerous to know, who will show you the thrilling history of London.UEB. 10v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26048603McCarten, Anthony. Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought Us Back From The Brink. 2017.May, 1940. Britain is at war, European democracies are falling rapidly and the public are unaware of this dangerous new world. Just days after his unlikely succession to Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, faces this horror. It is this fascinating period that Anthony McCarten captures in this deeply researched, gripping day-by-day narrative.UEB. 5v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26053403Hobbies and GamesThe Complete Book Of Card Games. 2010.Crammed with over 90 card games for all ages, this comprehensive guide offers a range of games for one, two, three, four, five or more players. It includes all the classics such as Bridge, Brag, Poker, Rummy and Cribbage with all their variations, along with lesser known games such as Red Dog, Beleaguered Castle and Quinto.UEB. 5v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 25998203Politics and GovernmentOrwell, George. The Lion And The Unicorn: Socialism And The English Genius. 2018.'The Lion and the Unicorn' was written in London during the worst period of the blitz. It is vintage Orwell, a dynamic outline of his belief in socialism, patriotism and an English revolution. This is Orwell's fullest political statement, with moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for political change.UEB. 2v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26038003Popular SciencePeake, Tim. Ask An Astronaut. 2017.How does it feel to orbit the Earth ten times faster than a speeding bullet? What's it like to eat, sleep and go to the toilet in space? 'Ask an Astronaut' is Tim's personal guide to life in space, based on his historic Principia mission, and the thousands of questions he has been asked since his return to Earth.UEB. 4v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 26050203True CrimeGlenny, Misha. McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime. 2018'McMafia' is a journey through the new world of international organised crime, from gunrunners in Ukraine to money launderers in Dubai, by way of drug syndicates in Canada and cyber criminals in Brazil. Misha Glenny speaks to countless gangsters, policemen and victims of organised crime. The author explores the ferocious consumer demands for drugs, trafficked women, illegal labour and arms across five continents.UEB. 10v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26016003Newly available titles for loan and saleAdult fictionAstbury, Margaret. The Seal. 2002. Horror.Kate Mallory comes across a mysterious foreign banknote and a drawing of an ancient talisman in a local churchyard. Richard Torrey is haunted by a young woman. Together, Kate and Richard decide to investigate a possible connection between these random events. They find themselves embroiled in an attempt to create war in the Middle East, large-scale currency counterfeiting, and devil worship.SEB. 5v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26070202Carter, Rosemary. Walk Into Tomorrow. 1986. Mills and Boon romance.After her traumatic experience with Lance, Cathy desperately needed to get away from people in general and from men in particular. So the opportunity to buy a teahouse in a remote area of the Rockies seemed the answer to a prayer. Anxious to begin her new life, she persuaded a helicopter pilot to land her near this lonely outpost. But when she arrived there was a man in her cabin.SEB. 3v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26072202Francis, Dick. To The Hilt. 1996. Thriller.Alexander Kinloch, artist, is enjoying his solitary life on a remote Scottish mountain. One day, however, his peace is violently shattered when he returns home to find a group of strangers waiting for him. After a scuffle, he is left for dead with only the wind and the words "Where is it?" ringing in his ears. And the days that follow are more dangerous than he could ever have imagined.SEB. 7v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26071702Grenville, Kate. The Secret River. 2006. Historical fiction.London, 1806. William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mistake for which he and his family are made to pay dearly. His sentence: to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. Soon Thornhill, a man no better or worse than most, has to make the most difficult decision of his life.SEB. 5v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26070302Grisham, John. The Street Lawyer. 1998. Thriller.Michael was a rising star at Drake & Sweeney, a D.C. firm with 800 lawyers, until a violent encounter with a homeless man stopped him cold. Michael survived, his assailant did not. Who was this man? Michael learns he was a mentally ill veteran who'd been in and out of shelters for years. Then he found a dirty secret which involved Drake & Sweeney.SEB. 6v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26070502Pratchett, Terry. Wyrd Sisters. 1988. Fantasy.Discworld: book 6. In this story about a land in peril, Granny Weatherwax discovers that meddling in royal politics is a lot more difficult than certain playwrights would have you believe. Apart from the three witches, the host of diverse characters include an evil duke, the ghost of a murdered king, strolling players and dim soldiers.SEB. 5v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26072402Smith, Zadie. White Teeth. 2000. Literary fiction.Meet the Joneses, the Iqbals and the Chalfens. Three families all English to varying degrees and involved in each other's lives in every conceivable way - personally, politically, historically, genetically. Different colours, different religions and different sides of the unforgotten colonial fence, they have one thing in common: a small borough of North London where extremism of all kinds is the order of the day and the dilemmas of previous generations are obsessively played out in the present.SEB. 11v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26085402Tolkien, J.R.R.. The Silmarillion. 1977. Fantasy.Prequel to The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The Silmarrilli were three perfect jewels, fashioned by F?anor, most gifted of the Elves. When the first Dark Lord, Morgoth, stole the jewels for his own ends, F?anore and his kindred took up arms and waged a long and terrible war to recover them. This is the story of their rebellion against the gods and the history of the First Age of Middle-earth.SEB. 10v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26085602Tremain, Rose. Restoration. 1989. Historical fiction.When Robert Merivel is taken from his studies to serve at the court of Charles II, he revels in the excesses, thinking himself in paradise. Then he falls in love with the king's mistress and is exiled. He finds refuge in a Quaker Bedlam and, while working with the insane, tries to cure his own "madness", effecting a personal "restoration".SEB. 7v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26086102Adult non-fictionAutobiographyFettel, Constantine. The Night Before Me. 1978.At the age of twenty-two, while serving in the 1st Battalion Royal Yugoslav Guards, Constantine Fettel had caustic soda thrown into his face by a jealous girlfriend. It not only destroyed his sight but horribly mutilated and disfigured his features. Refusing to accept the prognosis of permanent blindness, he later underwent a series of unsuccessful operations. He was only sustained by the love of his wife and children.SEB. 9v. Price: ?10.99. Order No: 26071502Hancock, Sheila. The Two Of Us: My Life With John Thaw. 2004.When John Thaw, star of The Sweeney and Inspector Morse, died from cancer in 2002, a nation lost one of its iconic actors, and Sheila Hancock lost a beloved husband. Their relationship was a sometimes turbulent, always passionate one. In this double biography she chronicles their love, weathering overwork and the pressures of celebrity, drink, and cancer.SEB. 4v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26071102Hull, John M. Touching The Rock. 1990.John Hull was born in Australia in 1935. He has struggled with ill-health and visual problems for much of his life, becoming blind in 1983. He has a family, a responsible post (Professor of Religious Education at Birmingham), and leads an active life. He reflects on his experiences and attitudes since "I began to take up my residence in another world".SEB. 4v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26071802Taylor, David. Zoo Vet: The World Of A Wildlife Vet. 1976.David Taylor is one of a rare breed: a veterinarian who specializes exclusively in the treatment of wild animals. Clocking over 200,000 miles of travel each year to zoos, circuses, and marine lands, he takes the reader with him on the world's most exotic "grand rounds."SEB. 3v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26072502Food and DrinkMcKeith, Gillian. You Are What You Eat. 2004.In the primetime Channel 4 television series "You are what you eat", Dr Gillian McKeith works closely with eight ordinary people (dubbed Britain's worst eaters) to give them a diet makeover. As they get on the path to health their bodies and their lives turn around in amazing ways. In the book, Dr Gillian brings together the advice and the real-life stories to create a diet makeover for all.SEB. 3v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26072602Popular ScienceDawkins, Richard. Unweaving The Rainbow: Science, Delusion And The Appetite For Wonder. 1998.Keats accused Newton of destroying the poetry of the rainbow by explaining the origin of its colours. Dawkins argues that Keats could not have been more mistaken, and shows how an understanding of science enhances our wonder at the world around us. The book's complementary strand is be a polemic against anti-science movements of all types.SEB. 8v. Price: ?10.99. Order No: 26072002Children and young adult fiction0-4 Suggested Reading AgeCarr, Matt. Superbat. 2017.Pat the bat decides to be something special, a SUPERBAT! But all his bat friends have amazing hearing. All of them can fly. And all bats can find their way in the dark. Pat is starting to think that he will never stand out. Then a family of mice see him for what he really is, a hero.UEB double line spacing, single sided. 1v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26032303Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 26032305Dieckmann, Sandra. Leaf. 2017.When a polar bear arrives unexpectedly in the woods, the animals fear and avoid him, suspecting him to be dangerous. Then one day, they watch as the polar bear attempts to fly over the water with wings made of colourful leaves. He is just trying to go home. Maybe he needs some help?UEB double line spacing, single sided. 1v. Price: ?11.99. Order No: 26031703Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 26031705Greig, Louise. The Night Box. 2017.Max has a key and a box of midnight blue. When he turns the key in the lock, WHOOSH! Day slips inside as night sweeps out. Darkness tumbles into the air. It dances and whirls around the room. It goes under the bed, under the chair, everywhere! 'The Night Box' is about the magical nature of night-time.UEB double line spacing, single sided. 1v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26032103Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 26032105Philip, Simon. I Really Want The Cake!. 2017.There's a smell I can't ignore. It's wafting through the kitchen door. It's time for me to find out more. I think it might be cake. How do you resist the most amazing cake ever? Especially when your mum has left a note saying you must not eat the cake?UEB double line spacing, single sided. 1v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26031603Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 26031605Starling, Robert. Fergal Is Fuming!. 2018.A dragon with a short temper is not a good combination, as Fergal's family and friends soon find out. He burns the dinner (literally), reduces the football goal to ashes and cannot play a nice, quiet board game. It is only when Fergal notices other animals have clever tricks to calm down that he begins to win back his friends.UEB double line spacing, single sided. 1v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26032403Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 26032405Todd-Stanton, Joe. The Secret Of Black Rock. 2017.Erin loves to lie on the jetty, looking for the weirdest fish in the sea. And she knows the best ones must be further out, where her mum won't let her go. Out there in the deepest sea lies the Black Rock: a huge, dark and spiky mass that is said to destroy any boats that come near it. Can Erin uncover the truth behind this mysterious legend?UEB double line spacing, single sided. 1v. Price: ?11.99. Order No: 26032603Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 2603260505+ Suggested Reading AgePankhurst, Kate. Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World. 2016.Discover fascinating facts about some of the most amazing women who changed the world. Fly through the sky with the incredible explorer Amelia Earhart, read all about the wonderful adventures of Mary Seacole and many more inspiring women.UEB double line spacing, single sided. 2v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26037003Also available in uncontracted braille. 3v. Order No: 26037005Ardagh, Philip. Barking Up The Wrong Tree. 2018.Stick & Fetch investigate: book 1. Sally loves nothing more than investigating a good mystery with her shaggy canine companion Fetch. But they always gets the wrong end of the stick. The hapless pair dash from one crime scene to another on their bicycle, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake. Yet they remain blissfully unaware!UEB double line spacing, single sided. 3v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26080103Also available in uncontracted braille. 3v. Order No: 26080105Butchart, Pamela. Super Dog!. 2017.Wigglesbottom Primary: book 4. This is a collection of three school stories. Is that a superhero dog on the school roof? Yes! Is the lunchtime mashed potato really, really weird? Yes! Does Susie Keys own an alien egg? Yes! So what are Class 2R going to do about it all? Have a lot of fun!UEB double line spacing. 1v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 26068603Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 26068605Hart, Caryl. The Beast Of Bramble Woods. 2017.Invincibles: book 3. Nell and Freddie have the best time camping. They eat all the marshmallows and play tricks on Nell's big brother and his nerdy friends. But the Beast of Bramble Woods wants to join in the fun too!UEB double line spacing. 1v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 26068803Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 26068805Webb, Holly. Holly Webb's Kitten Tales. 2014.In 'Sky the Unwanted Kitten' Lucy’s parents surprise her with a beautiful kitten called Sky, in the hope that it will help her to settle into their new home. In 'Ginger the Stray Kitten' the tiny stray kitten on the farm is terrified when the land is sold to developers and the builders start work. In 'Misty the Abandoned Kitten' Amy secretly cares for a stray kitten.UEB uncontracted braille. 3v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 2607910207+ Suggested Reading AgeLeonard, Dion. Finding Gobi (Younger Readers Edition): The True Story Of One Little Dog's Big Journey. 2017.Dion Leonard was competing in a gruelling 155-mile race through the Gobi Desert when a scruffy stray pup started running alongside him. She kept pace with him for eighty miles, but then his new friend went missing in a sprawling city of three million people. Would Dion ever find the little dog who had won his heart?UEB double line spacing. 6v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 26050603Also available in uncontracted braille. 7v. Order No: 26050605Bass, Guy. Noah Scape Can't Stop Repeating Himself. 2018.Noah Scape loves dinosaurs and spaghetti with tomato sauce. But Noah doesn't always get what he wants. When school doesn't revolve around dinosaur facts and lunch isn't always his favourite, enough is enough! It's time for him to decide on exactly what he needs; a world full of Noahs!UEB double line spacing. 1v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 26069003Also available in uncontracted braille. 2v. Order No: 26069005Bishop, James. Iguana Boy Saves The World With A Triple Cheese Pizza. 2018.Dylan's superpower is that he can talk to Iguanas. When supervillain Celina Shufflebottom kidnaps all the superheroes in London, Dylan must work out how to use his new team of chatty iguanas to save the day. Can he make Iguana Boy cool?UEB double line spacing. 4v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26080003Also available in uncontracted braille. 6v. Order No: 26080005Butler, Steven. The Nothing To See Here Hotel. 2018.At The Nothing to See Here Hotel, Frankie and his family rush into action to get ready for the imminent arrival of the goblin prince Grogbah. But it soon becomes obvious that the Banister family are going to have their work cut out with the demanding prince and his never-ending entourage, especially when it turns out the little prince is hiding a secret.UEB double line spacing. 4v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26068703Also available in uncontracted braille. 5v. Order No: 26068705Clarke, Jane. Egg-speriments!. 2017.Al's awesome science: book 1. Al's wacky experiments have the most unexpected and messy consequences in this new science-based adventure series. Al is experimenting to invent a time machine which would also be really useful to get him out of trouble. As a young scientist who never gives up Al is surprised to find out that his 'egg-speriments' can lead to very sticky situations.UEB double line spacing. 2v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26047303Also available in uncontracted braille. 2v. Order No: 26047305Harris, Neil Patrick. The Magic Misfits. 2017.Magic misfits: book 1. When street magician Carter runs away from his conman uncle, he finds himself in danger from dastardly carnival ringleader, B.B. Bosso. A chance encounter with the mysterious Mr Dante Vernon leads Carter to a magic shop, where he teams up with five other like-minded kids and the Magic Misfits are born. Can the gang use their magical talents to save the day and stop B.B. stealing a priceless diamond?UEB double line spacing. 7v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 26011903Also available in uncontracted braille. 10v. Order No: 26011905King, Zach. My Magical Life. 2017.My magical life: book 1. Eleven-year-old Zach has magical powers, just like everyone in his family, but he's having trouble harnessing his abilities. Everyone at secondary school is wondering how Zach does his tricks. Head mean girl Trisha is plotting to bring him down. Zach's got his work cut out if he's going to survive year 7 and keep his dreams of becoming a master magician intact.UEB double line spacing. 5v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26050703Also available in uncontracted braille. 6v. Order No: 26050705Lacey, Josh. The Dragonsitter Detective. 2017.Dragonsitter: book 8. It had sounded so easy: Edward, Emily and their mum were going to look after Uncle Morton's dragon for a week while he went on holiday. But soon their fridge is empty, their curtains are blazing, and the postman is fleeing down the garden path.UEB double line spacing. 1v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26047403Also available in uncontracted braille. 2v. Order No: 26047405Lowe, Dave. My Hamster Is A Genius. 2018.Stinky and Jinks: book 1. Meet nine-year-old Benjamin Jinks and his grumpy hamster, Jasper Stinkybottom. Benjamin is a very normal boy who hates maths. Stinky is a genius hamster, who likes carrots. Together they are an unstoppable team! But can they overcome the evil scheming of Ben's maths teacher, Beardy McCreedy?UEB double line spacing. 2v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 26068903Also available in uncontracted braille. 2v. Order No: 26068905Simmons, Jo. I Swapped My Brother On The Internet! 2018.Everyone has dreamed of being able to get rid of their brother or sister at one time or another but for Jonny, the dream is about to become a reality with ! What could be better than someone awesome to replace Ted, Jonny's obnoxious older brother? But finding the perfect brother isn't easy. Suddenly old Ted isn't looking so bad. But can Jonny ever get him back?UEB double line spacing. 6v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 26068003Also available in uncontracted braille. 7v. Order No: 26068005Smith, Alex T. Mr. Penguin And The Lost Treasure. 2017.Mr Penguin: book 1. Mr Penguin, adventurer and penguin, and Colin, a spider, are called in to find the missing treasure somewhere in the Museum of Extraordinary Objects. The quest finds them solving secret codes, fighting ferocious beasts, eating fish finger sandwiches and travelling deep below the museum to a lost jungle.UEB double line spacing. 3v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26079703Also available in uncontracted braille. 3v. Order No: 2607970509+ Suggested Reading AgeBethell, Zillah. The Extraordinary Colours Of Auden Dare. 2017.Auden Dare has an unusual perspective on life: he cannot see in colour. Auden and his friend Vivi Rookmini discover an engimatic and ingenious robot, who calls himself Paragon. Together they go on an adventure to find out just what exactly Paragon is. The answer could change the future of the world forever.UEB. 6v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26056503Carroll, Emma. Sky Chasers. 2018.A encounter with Pierre, dangling from the sky in Paris, changes pickpocket Magpie's life forever. His family, the Montgolfiers, are desperate to be first to discover the secret of flight. Pierre and Magpie are soon caught up in a world of adventure and spies in a race to be the first to fly a hot air balloon, in front of King Louis and Marie Antoinette. UEB. 4v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26056103Cross, Gillian. Total Control. 2017.The demon headmaster: book 7. Something strange is going on at Lizzie's school. Suddenly everyone's brilliant at something. Where have these amazing skills come from? And why can't they talk about them? It's as though the pupils have no power over their own actions. Could this be something to do with the mysterious new headmaster?UEB. 3v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26050503Duggan, Helena. A Place Called Perfect. 2017.Violet hates living in Perfect. Why does everyone have to wear special glasses to stop them going blind? What are the strange noises in the night and why is Mum acting so weird? Then Dad disappears and Violet is determined to uncover the truth with the help of the mysterious Boy. But returning normality to Perfect is a battle they never imagined.UEB. 6v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26026603Durrant, S. E. Running On Empty. 2018.AJ's grandfather has always been the one to keep his unusual family together, so when he dies things start to unravel at the edges. AJ is worried about his parents but they don't really seem to notice. In order to deal with his grief and to keep his anxiety at bay, AJ does what he and his grandfather did best: running. Round and round the Olympic Park, aiming for the nationals, running to escape, AJ only seems to be heading ever closer to disaster.UEB. 3v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26055903Edge, Christopher. The Infinite Lives Of Maisie Day. 2018.It's Maisie's birthday and she can't wait to open her presents. She's hoping for the things she needs to build her own nuclear reactor. But she wakes to an empty house and outside the front door is nothing but a terrifying, all-consuming blackness. Trapped in an ever-shifting reality, Maisie will have to use the laws of the universe and the love of her family to survive. UEB. 2v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26061003Evans, Maz. Who Let The Gods Out?. 2017.Who let the gods out?: book 1. A shooting star crashes to Earth and changes Elliot's life forever. The star is Virgo, a young Zodiac goddess on a mission. When the pair accidentally unleash the wicked death daemon Thanatos, they turn to the old Olympian gods for help. But after centuries of cushy retirement on Earth, are Zeus and his crew up to the task?UEB. 6v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26026903Howarth, Lesley. Weather Eye. 1995.Telly Craven is a Weather Eye, part of a club that shares information by computer about climatic conditions around the world. And, as 1999 ends, weird thing are happening: floods, earthquakes, force ten gales. It's during such a storm that Telly has a Near Death Experience, leaving her with strange psychic powers. Now she is "the" Weather Eye with a clear, if daunting, purpose.SEB. 4v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26072302James, Greg. Kid Normal. 2017.Kid Normal: book 1. Murph Cooper has a problem. His new school is top secret, and super weird. His classmates can all fly or control the weather or conjure tiny horses from thin air. But Murph hasn't got an extraordinary skill. And there are revolting supervillains lurking nearby, their minds abuzz with evil plans. It's time for Kid Normal to become a hero!UEB. 5v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26028303Kemp, Gene. The Turbulent Term Of Tyke Tiler. 1977.Tyke Tiler is very fond of practical jokes. Tyke is also fond of Danny Price, who is not too bright and depends a lot on his friends. Together Tyke and Danny add up to double trouble, especially during their last term at Cricklepitt Combined School.SEB. 2v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26070702L'Engle, Madeleine. A Wrinkle In Time. 2014.A strange visitor comes to the Murray house and beckons Meg, her little brother Charles Wallace and their friend Calvin on an adventure that will threaten their lives and our universe. Meg's father had been experimenting with time-travel when he suddenly disappeared. Will Meg, Charles and Calvin outwit the forces of evil as they search through space for her father?UEB. 4v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26054903Also available in uncontracted braille. 5v. Order No: 26054905Laird, Elizabeth. Welcome To Nowhere. 2017.12-year-old Omar and his brothers and sisters were born and raised in Bosra, Syria. When war breaks out, Omar and his family have no choice but to flee their home with only what they can carry. Then they have to try to escape their homeland altogether. But where do you go when you can't go home?UEB. 6v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26037203Larwood, Kieran. The Legend Of Podkin One-Ear. 2017.Five realms: book 1. When a travelling bard arrives at Thornwood Warren on Midwinter night, he is warmly welcomed. In return for food and lodging, he settles down to tell the tale of Podkin One-Ear. Soon the rabbits are enthralled to hear the story of how one lost little rabbit overcame the cruellest enemy imaginable, and became the greatest warrior their land has ever known.UEB. 4v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26028203Larwood, Kieran. The Peculiars. 2018.The Peculiars are a band of misfits, trapped in a nightly Victorian sideshow. There's Wolfgirl, Sheba; Sister Moon, who can move at the speed of light; and Monkey Boy, ace climber and human stink bomb. But during the day, in a world of childsnatchers, grave robbers and dastardly doctors, they solve the mysteries no one else cares about, including why London's poorest children are being snatched from the banks of the Thames.UEB. 5v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26056603Leonard, M. G. Battle Of The Beetles. 2018.Battle of the Beetles: book 3. Arch-villainess Lucretia Cutter has a secret Biome hidden in the Amazon rainforest: can Darkus and his friends, human and beetle alike, find it before it's too late? If they can't stop Lucretia, she will release her hoard of giant Frankenstein beetles, and the planet will never be the same again.UEB. 5v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26053303Lester, Cas. Do You Speak Chocolate?. 2017.Nadima, a new girl at school recently arrived from Syria, doesn't speak any English. Jaz offers her a chocolate bar and they are soon firm friends. But when Nadima’s troubled past comes to light, Jas’s misguided efforts to help her friend put a strain on their friendship. Can Jaz find a way to put things right between them?UEB. 4v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 26056303Thompson, Lisa. The Goldfish Boy. 2017.12-year-old Matthew is trapped in his bedroom by crippling OCD, spending most of his time staring out of his window as the inhabitants of Chestnut Close go about their business. Until the day he is the last person to see his next door neighbour's toddler, Teddy, before he goes missing. Matthew must turn detective and unravel the mystery of Teddy's disappearance.UEB. 5v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26028103Townsend, Jessica. The Trials Of Morrigan Crow. 2018.Nevermoor: book 1. Morrigan Crow is cursed, destined to die on her eleventh birthday. But, as the clock strikes midnight, she's whisked away by a remarkable man called Jupiter North and taken to the secret city of Nevermoor. There she's invited to join the Wundrous Society. Mystery, magic and protection are hers, if only she can pass four impossible trials, using an exceptional talent. Which she doesn't have.UEB. 8v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26027903Welford, Ross. The 1,000-year-old Boy. 2018.Alfie Monk is like any other nearly teenage boy, except he's 1,000 years old and can remember the last Viking invasion of England. No one believes him. When everything Alfie knows and loves is destroyed in a fire, he embarks on a mission to find friendship, acceptance, and a different way to live. It will mean finding a way to make sure he will eventually die.UEB. 6v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 2605040311+ Suggested Reading AgeFountain, Ele. Boy 87. 2018.Shif is just an ordinary boy who likes chess, maths and racing his best friend home from school. But one day, soldiers with guns come to his door and he knows that he is no longer safe. Shif is forced to leave his mother and little sister, and embark on a dangerous journey; crossing by land and sea. Boy 87 is a tale of one boy's struggle for survival.UEB. 3v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26060903Hardinge, Frances. A Face Like Glass. 2013.In the underground city of Caverna the world's most skilled craftsmen toil in the darkness to create delicacies. But the people of Caverna have faces as blank as untouched snow. Into this dark and distrustful world comes Neverfell, a little girl with no memory of her past and a face so terrifying she must wear a mask.UEB. 11v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25986603Johnson, Mitch. Kick. 2017.Budi's going to play for the greatest team on earth, instead of sweating over each stitch he sews, each football boot he makes. But one unlucky kick brings Budi's world crashing down. Now he owes the Dragon, the most dangerous man in Jakarta. Soon it isn't only Budi's dreams at stake, but his life.UEB. 4v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 2607950313+ Suggested Reading AgeBarter, Catherine. Troublemakers. 2017.Fifteen-year-old Alena never really knew her political activist mother, who died when she was a baby. She has grown up with her older half -brother Danny and his boyfriend Nick in the east end of London. Now the area is threatened by a bomber who has been leaving explosive devices in supermarkets. As her family life implodes, and the threat to Londoners mounts, Alena starts getting into trouble. Then she does something truly rebellious.UEB. 7v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26022703Broadway, Alice. Ink. 2017.Ink trilogy: book 1. Every action, every deed, every significant moment is tattooed on your skin for ever. When Leora's father dies, she is determined to see her father remembered forever. She knows he deserves to have all his tattoos removed and made into a Skin Book to stand as a record of his good life. But when she discovers that his ink has been edited and his book is incomplete, she wonders whether she ever knew him at all.UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26023103Murphy, Emily Bain. The Disappearances. 2017.Every seven years something disappears in the remote town of Sterling: people's reflections, the stars in the sky, the ability to dream. Aila realises that her mother may be to blame for the curse. But some mysteries are buried very deep and some secrets want to stay hidden. One young woman's desire to uncover the truth may not be enough to save Sterling from the past.UEB. 8v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26023003Suvada, Emily. This Mortal Coil. 2017.Mortal coil: book 1. When a lone soldier, Cole, arrives with news of Lachlan Agatta's death, all hope seems lost for Catarina. Her father was the world's leading geneticist, and humanity's best hope of beating a devastating virus. Then, hidden beneath Cole's genehacked enhancements she finds a message of hope: Lachlan created a vaccine. Only she can find and decrypt it, if she can unravel the clues he left for her.UEB. 9v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26022903Giant PrintAdult fictionAciman, Andre?. Call Me By Your Name. 2017. Gay fiction.This is the story of a sudden and powerful love that blooms between 17-year-old Elio and his father's house guest, Oliver. During a restless summer on the Italian Riviera grows a romance of six weeks' duration that marks them for a lifetime. The two verge toward the one thing both fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy.3v.Arikawa, Hiro. The Travelling Cat Chronicles. 2017. Literary fiction.Nana the cat is on a road trip. He is not sure where he's going or why, but it means he gets to sit in the front seat of a silver van with his beloved owner, Satoru. Side by side they cruise around Japan through the changing seasons, visiting old friends. But what is the purpose of this road trip? When Nana finally works it out, his small heart will break.2v.Berriman, Amanda. Home. 2018. Literary fiction.Jesika is four and a half. She lives in a flat with her mother and baby brother Toby. She does not know that their landlord is threatening to evict them and that Toby's cough is going to get much worse. Or that Paige, her new best friend, has a secret that will explode their world.4v.Chambers, Kimberley. Life Of Crime. 2018. Thriller.Dragged up on a council estate, Jason Rampling was determined to change his lot. Jason's a chancer, shameless with his good looks and his gift for earning a few quid. Life is easy when the money rolls in. Melissa thought she'd struck gold marrying Jason. After a stretch inside Jason wants to pull off just one last job. But this is a game that could cost them everything.5v.Child, Lee. The Midnight Line. 2018. Thriller.Jack Reacher: book 22. Jack Reacher takes an aimless stroll past a pawn shop in a small Midwestern town. In the window he sees a West Point class ring from 2005. Reacher tracks the ring back to its owner, step by step, down a criminal trail leading west. All he wants is to find the woman. If she's OK, he'll walk away. But if she's not?4v.Child, Lee. No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Short Stories. 2018. Thriller.This is a collection of Lee Child's short stories featuring Jack Reacher. Read together, these twelve stories shed new light on Reacher’s past, telling how he grew up and developed into the wandering avenger. 5v.Christie, Agatha. A Caribbean Mystery. 2016. Classic crime.Miss Marple: book 9. As Jane Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever happened. Eventually, her interest was aroused by an old soldier's yarn about a strange coincidence. Infuriatingly, just as he was about to show her an astonishing photograph, the Major's attention wandered. He never did finish the story.2v.Cline, Ernest. Ready Player One. 2012. Science fiction.In the year 2045, Wade Watts only really feels alive when he’s jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity spends their days. When the eccentric creator of the OASIS dies, he leaves behind a series of fiendish puzzles. Whoever is first to solve them will inherit his vast fortune and control of the OASIS itself. Then Wade cracks the first clue. Suddenly he’s beset by rivals who’ll kill to take this prize.5v.Clinton, Bill. The President Is Missing. 2018. Thriller.Enemies are planning an attack of unprecedented scale on America. Uncertainty and fear grip Washington. There are whispers of cyberterror and espionage and a traitor in the cabinet. The President himself becomes a suspect, and then goes missing.4v.Craig, Charmaine. Miss Burma. 2018. Literary fiction.After attending school in Calcutta, Benny settles in Rangoon, then part of the British Empire, and falls in love with Khin, a woman who is part of a long-persecuted ethnic minority group, the Karen. World War II comes to Southeast Asia, and Benny and Khin must go into hiding in the eastern part of the country during the Japanese Occupation, beginning a journey that will lead them to change the country's history.4v.Cookson, Catherine. Tilly Trotter. 2006. Family stories.Tilly Trotter: book 1. This is the first novel in a trilogy set during the reign of Queen Victoria. Beautiful Tilly Trotter loves farmer Simon Bentwood but he is betrothed to another. Then a spurned suitor takes a terrible revenge. Idle gossip brands her a witch. A betrayal forces her into the cruel drudgery of the local mine. But Tilly refuses to let her spirit be broken.5v.Cookson, Catherine. Tilly Trotter Wed. 2007. Family stories.Tilly Trotter: book 2. For 12 years, Tilly Trotter had devotedly served Mark Sopwith as nurse and mistress, a wife in all but name. Now he was dead. Mark's daughter casts her out of the manor. A villager's vicious attack leaves Tilly's baby son, Willy, half blind. Tilly knows that it's time to leave her native Tyneside. A new love seems to offer an escape and so she follows her heart to America, sure that this will be the beginning of a better life.5v.Cookson, Catherine. Tilly Trotter Widowed. 2006. Family stories.Tilly Trotter: book 3. Tilly Trotter had married Matthew Sopwith and sailed with him for Texas and a new life. Less than three years later she returns home, a young widow convinced that she will never love another man. At 35, she is white-haired, but as spirited and as magnetic to men as ever. Tilly finds that life still has a great deal in store for her, good and ill alike.4v.Cookson, Catherine. The Cinder Path. 2004. Historical romance.The cinder path from the Northumberland farmhouse symbolised defeat for Charlie Macfell. People saw him as a born loser. At the root of it were boyhood humiliations by his brutal father. Then an opportunity emerged for him to display his inner strengths and integrity to those who thought him of no account.3v.Deaver, Jeffery. The Steel Kiss. 2017. Thriller.Lincoln Rhyme: book 12. Every piece of technology can be a murder weapon. When an escalator gives way mid-chase, Amelia Sachs is forced to let a killer escape as she helps the man trapped in the depths. Now Sachs and forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme must investigate if the collapse was a freak accident or whether they are facing a murderer who knows exactly how fatal machines can be.5v.De Waal, Kit. The Trick To Time. 2018. Literary fiction.Birmingham, 1972. Mona is a young Irish girl in a big city. She meets William, a charming Irish boy. They embark upon a dizzying love affair, a whirlwind marriage, an unexpected pregnancy, before a sudden tragedy tears them apart. Decades later, Mona pieces together the memories of the years that separate them. But can she ever learn to love again?3v.Egan, Jennifer. Manhattan Beach. 2017. Literary fiction.Anna Kerrigan, nearly 12 years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Anna observes some secret pact between her father and Dexter Styles. Years later her father has vanished and Anna chances to meet Styles again. Anna begins to understand the complexity of her father's life and the reasons he might have been murdered.5v.Fraser, George MacDonald. Flashman And The Dragon: From The Flashman papers, 1860. 2006. Adventure.Flashman: book 8. In China, in 1860, a lot of people mistakenly put their trust in Flashman: the English vicar's daughter with her cargo of opium; Lord Elgin in search of an intelligence chief; the Emperor's ravishing concubine, seeking a champion in her struggles for power; and Szu-Zhan, the female bandit colossus, as practised in the arts of love as in the arts of war. They were not to know that behind his Victoria Cross, Harry Flashman was a base coward and a charlatan.5v.Gowar, Imogen Hermes. The Mermaid And Mrs Hancock. 2018. Historical fiction.1785. The merchant Jonah Hancock learns one of his captains has sold Jonah's ship for what appears to be a mermaid. Its arrival takes Jonah through the doors of high society. At an opulent party, he makes the acquaintance of Angelica Neal, a courtesan of great accomplishment. This meeting will steer both their lives onto a dangerous new course. What will be the cost of their ambitions?5v.Greengrass, Jessie. Sight. 2018. Literary fiction.In Sight a woman recounts her progress to motherhood, while remembering the death of her own mother, and the childhood summers she spent with her psychoanalyst grandmother. Woven among these personal recollections are significant events in medical history: the discovery of the X-ray; Sigmund Freud's development of psychoanalysis; and John Hunter's attempts to set surgery on a scientific footing.2v.Harper, Jane. The Dry. 2017. Crime.Aaron Falk: book 1. Amid the worst drought to ravage Australia in a century, it hasn't rained in small country town Kiewarra for two years. Tensions are high. Everyone thinks Luke Hadler committed suicide after slaughtering his wife and six-year-old son. As policeman Aaron Falk probes deeper into the killings secrets from the past are uncovered.4v.Kandasamy, Meena. When I Hit You: or, A Portrait Of The Writer As A Young Wife. 2017. General fiction.Seduced by politics and poetry, the unnamed narrator falls in love with a university professor and agrees to be his wife. What for her is a contract of love is for him a contract of ownership. He sets about reducing her to his idealised version of a kept woman, bullying her out of her life as an academic and writer. She attempts to push back, a resistance he resolves to break with violence and rape.2v.Mansell, Jill. This Could Change Everything. 2018. Chick lit.If Essie hadn't written that letter, that only her best friend was meant to see, then she'd still be tucked up with Paul in his picture-perfect cottage. But if her true feelings hadn't accidentally taken the Internet by storm she never would have met Zillah and Conor and Lucas. And she'd never have found out just how much life there is to be lived.4v.Marshall, Laura. Friend Request. 2018. Thriller.Friend request: book 1. Louise Williams receives a message from someone left long in the past. Maria Weston wants to be friends on Facebook . Maria has been missing for over 25 years. She was last seen the night of a school leavers' party, and the world believes her to be dead. Trying to piece together exactly what happened that night, Louise discovers there's much she didn't know.4v.Matthews, Jason. Red Sparrow. 2018. Spy stories.Dominika Egorova & Nathaniel Nash: book 1. Dominika Egorov, former prima ballerina, is sucked into the heart of Putin's Russia. American Nate Nash, idealistic and ambitious, handles a double agent, codenamed MARBLE, considered one of CIA's biggest assets. Will Dominika be able to unmask MARBLE? Or will her mission to uncover the mole see her faith in Russia destroyed?6v.Morris, Heather. The Tattooist Of Auschwitz . 2018. General fiction.In 1942, Lale Sokolov arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival. Waiting in line to be tattooed, terrified and shaking, was a young girl. For Lale it was love at first sight. And he was determined not only to survive himself, but to ensure this woman, Gita, did, too.2v.Moyes, Jojo. Still Me. 2018. Romance.Me before you: book 3. Lou Clark is living in New York. She is about to meet someone who's going to turn her whole life upside down. Josh will remind her so much of a man she used to know that it'll hurt. Lou won't know what to do next, but she knows that whatever she chooses is going to change everything.5v.Neale, Kitty. Outcast Child. 2017. Family stories.It's the 1950s, in South London, and when Daisy loses her mother, she retreats into a world of silence. When her father remarries, the family home becomes unbearable at the mercy of cruel stepmother Vera. Luckily, Daisy can always count on her cousin Lizzie to bring sunshine to her life. But when shocking truths about Vera come to light, could it bring the possibility of a fresh start for Daisy after all?4v.Ng, Celeste. Little Fires Everywhere. 2018. Literary fiction.In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, Elena Richardson's guiding principal is playing by the rules. Mia Warren, an enigmatic artist and single mother, arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenage daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Mrs. Richardson becomes determined to uncover Mia's past. But her obsession will come at devastating costs to her own family and Mia's.4v.Osborne, Bella. Escape To Willow Cottage. 2017. Chick lit.Willow Cottage. Beth is running away. With her young son Leo to protect, Willow Cottage is the lifeline she so desperately needs. Over the course of four seasons, Beth realises that broken hearts can be mended, and sometimes love can be right under your nose. 'Escape to Willow Cottage' was originally published as a four-part serial. This is the complete story.5v.Paris, B. A. Bring Me Back. 2018. Thriller.12 years ago Finn's girlfriend disappeared. Finn told the police the truth about that night, just not quite the whole truth. Now Finn has moved on. But his past won't stay buried. As more and more questions are raised, his marriage becomes strained. Has his first love somehow come back to him after all this time? Or is the person who took her playing games with his mind?3v.Pearse, Lesley. Dead To Me. 2017. Family stories.Spring 1935. On London's Hampstead Heath two girls meet by chance: well-mannered and smartly dressed Verity and dishevelled and grubby Ruby. The mismatched pair form an instant friendship strong enough to survive their parent's disapproval. They are firm friends until one day in 1938 when Ruby says the terrible words 'You're dead to me'. Can Verity and Ruby find a way back to each other before it's too late?5v.Price, Angharad. The Life Of Rebecca Jones. 2014. Literary fiction.In the early years of the last century, Rebecca is born into a rural community in the Maesglasau valley in Wales; but the changes brought about by modernity threaten the survival of her language, and her family's way of life. Rebecca's reflections on the century are delivered with a simple intimacy. Her evocation of the changing seasons and a life in tune with its surroundings is haunting.1v.Ryan, Jennifer. The Chilbury Ladies' Choir. 2018. Country life fiction.Kent, 1940. In the idyllic village of Chilbury hearts are breaking as sons and husbands leave to fight. And when the Vicar decides to close the choir until the men return, all seems lost. But with the arrival of the charismatic Miss Primrose Trent, the choir is reborn with the village omen ready to sing. But for one villager, the choir is the perfect cover to destroy Chilbury’s new-found harmony.4v.Schmidt, Sarah. See What I Have Done. 2017. Literary fiction.This novel fictionalises the infamous murder of Andrew and Abby Borden in 1892. After a notorious trial younger daughter Lizzie Borden is found innocent. But there are others in the household with stories to tell: older sister Emma, Irish maid Bridget, the girls' Uncle John, and a boy who knows more than anyone realises.3v.Steel, Danielle. Against All Odds. 2018. Family stories.Kate Madison's stylish second-hand clothing shop has been a big success in New York, supporting her and her 4 kids since her husband's untimely death. Now her children have grown up and are ready to forge lives of their own. They all choose to play against the odds, much to their mother's dismay.3v.Steel, Danielle. Dangerous Games. 2017. Thriller.After a personal tragedy, television correspondent Alix Philips allows only her mother and daughter, and her cameraman, Ben, to get close. Alix is sent to uncover the truth about a major political scandal in the White House involving the Vice-President. Alix now realizes that the time has come to play some very dangerous games. Those she loves are at risk.3v.Ward, Jesmyn. Sing, Unburied, Sing. 2017. Literary fiction.Jojo is thirteen years old and trying to understand what it means to be a man. His black mother, Leonie, wants to be a better mother, but can't put her children above her drug use. When the children's white father is released from prison, Leonie and her kids and her friend drive north to the State Penitentiary in Mississippi. At the prison is the ghost of a dead inmate who carries all of the ugly history of the South with him.3v.Adult non-fictionFood and DrinkWatson, Lucy. Feed Me Vegan. 2017.Vegan Lucy Watson has you covered with tempting meals from breakfast to supper as well as sweet treats and snacks. Feed Me Vegan is full of tasty, satisfying vegan fare. Whether you're already a full-time vegan, considering making the switch or just trying to cut down on meats, fish and dairy, this book has new recipes to add to your repertoire.2v.Health and FitnessKay, Adam. This Is Going To Hurt: Secret Diaries Of A Junior Doctor. 2017.Adam Kay was a junior doctor from 2004 until 2010, before a devastating experience on a ward caused him to reconsider his future. He kept a diary throughout his training, and 'This Is Going to Hurt' intersperses tales from the front line of the NHS with reflections on the current crisis. The result is a first-hand account of life as a junior doctor in all its joy, pain, sacrifice and maddening bureaucracy, and a love letter to those who might at any moment be holding our lives in their hands.2v.Walker, Matthew P. Why We Sleep: The New Science Of Sleep And Dreams. 2018.Sleep is one of the most important aspects of our life, health and longevity and yet it is increasingly neglected in twenty-first-century society. In this book, Matthew Walker charts 20 years of cutting-edge research, looking at creatures from across the animal kingdom to find the answers that will transform our appreciation of sleep and reverse our neglect.4v.Mitchell, Wendy. Somebody I Used To Know. 2018.When Wendy Mitchell was diagnosed with dementia at the age of 58, she had to say goodbye to the woman she once was. In this memoir, Wendy grapples with questions most of us have never had to consider. What do you value when loss of memory reframes what you have, how you have lived and what you stand to lose? What happens when you can no longer recognise your own daughters, or sometimes even yourself?3v.HistoryGreen, M. R. London: A Travel Guide Through Time. 2016.Let time traveller Dr Matthew Green be your guide to six extraordinary periods in London's history - the ages of Shakespeare, medieval city life, plague, coffee houses, the reign of Victoria and the Blitz. You'll meet pornographers and traitors, actors and apothecaries, the mad, bad and dangerous to know, who will show you the thrilling history of London.6v.McCarten, Anthony. Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought Us Back From The Brink. 2017.May, 1940. Britain is at war, European democracies are falling rapidly and the public are unaware of this dangerous new world. Just days after his unlikely succession to Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, faces this horror. It is this fascinating period that Anthony McCarten captures in this deeply researched, gripping day-by-day narrative.3v.Hobbies and GamesThe Complete Book Of Card Games. 2010.Crammed with over 90 card games for all ages, this comprehensive guide offers a range of games for one, two, three, four, five or more players. It includes all the classics such as Bridge, Brag, Poker, Rummy and Cribbage with all their variations, along with lesser known games such as Red Dog, Beleaguered Castle and Quinto. With easy-to-follow explanations for each game including their origins, rules and tactics3v.Natural HistoryDilger, Mike. Nightingales In November: A Year In The Lives Of Twelve British Birds. 2017.Have you ever wondered what 'our' birds get up to when they're not pinching our peanuts, pilfering our pyracantha berries or nesting under the eaves of our homes? 'The One Show's' natural history star, Mike Dilger, tells us the answers. This almanac tells the very different personal and annual stories of 12 well-known birds we deign to call 'British'.5v.PoetryAyres, Pam. With These Hands: A Collection Of Work. 2008.This is a collection of poems and short autobiographical pieces. Pam Ayres recalls the hand-knitted swimming costumes of her childhood holiday in Dorset, and the great steaming suet puddings and dripping sandwiches on the family dinner table. We travel from her early life in Stanford in the Vale in the 1950s, through four years in the WRAF, through marriage and motherhood, to her career as a writer and broadcaster.1v.Politics and GovernmentMarshall, Tim. Prisoners Of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need To Know About Global Politics. 2016.All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. To follow world events you need to understand people, ideas and movements but if you don't know geography, you'll never have the full picture. 'Prisoners of Geography' looks at the past, present and future to offer an essential guide to geopolitics, one of the major determining factors in world history. 3v.Orwell, George. The Lion And The Unicorn: Socialism And The English Genius. 2018.'The Lion and the Unicorn' was written in London during the worst period of the blitz. It is vintage Orwell, a dynamic outline of his belief in socialism, patriotism and an English revolution. This is Orwell's fullest political statement, with moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for political change.1v.Popular SciencePeake, Tim. Ask An Astronaut. 2017.How does it feel to orbit the Earth ten times faster than a speeding bullet? What's it like to eat, sleep and go to the toilet in space? 'Ask an Astronaut' is Tim's personal guide to life in space, based on his historic Principia mission, and the thousands of questions he has been asked since his return to Earth.3v.Self HelpPeterson, Jordan B. 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote For Chaos. 2018.Psychologist Jordan B. Peterson provides twelve profound and practical principles for how to live a meaningful life, from setting your house in order before criticising others to comparing yourself to who you were yesterday, not someone else today. Happiness is a pointless goal, he shows us. Instead we must search for meaning, not for its own sake, but as a defence against the suffering that is intrinsic to our existence.5v.Travel and TourismPukstas, Daniel. Traveling With Athena: A Blind Man's Odyssey Through Italy And Greece. 2003.Traveling with Athena celebrates the odyssey of a humorous blind professor and his courageous wife as they explore numerous archaeological sites in Italy and Greece. Told in a witty and often poignant way, this tale also raises the possibility of supernatural intervention as Dr. Dan and his wife Nancy confront a variety of tourist challenges in their ninety-day adventure.1v.Higgs, John. Watling Street: Travels Through Britain And Its Ever-present Past. 2017.John Higgs takes us on a journey along one of Britain's oldest roads in search of the hidden history that makes us who we are today. Long ago a path connected the White Cliffs of Dover to the Druid groves of the Welsh island of Anglesey, across a land that was first called Albion then Britain, Mercia and eventually England and Wales. Watling Street is a road of witches and ghosts, of queens and highwaymen, of history and myth.4v.Children And Young Adult Fiction09+ Suggested Reading AgeBethell, Zillah. The Extraordinary Colours Of Auden Dare. 2017.Auden Dare has an unusual perspective on life: he cannot see in colour. Auden and his friend Vivi Rookmini discover an enigmatic and ingenious robot, who calls himself Paragon. Together they go on an adventure to find out just what exactly Paragon is. The answer could change the future of the world forever. 3v.Carroll, Emma. Sky Chasers. 2018. A encounter with Pierre, dangling from the sky in Paris, changes pickpocket Magpie's life forever. His family, the Montgolfiers, are desperate to be first to discover the secret of flight. Pierre and Magpie are soon caught up in a world of adventure and spies in a race to be the first to fly a hot air balloon, in front of King Louis and Marie Antoinette.2v.Duggan, Helena. A Place Called Perfect. 2017. Violet hates living in Perfect. Why does everyone have to wear special glasses to stop them going blind? What are the strange noises in the night and why is Mum acting so weird? Then Dad disappears and Violet is determined to uncover the truth with the help of the mysterious Boy. But returning normality to Perfect is a battle they never imagined.3v.Durrant, S. E. Running On Empty. 2018. AJ's grandfather has always been the one to keep his unusual family together, so when he dies things start to unravel at the edges. AJ is worried about his parents but they don't really seem to notice. In order to deal with his grief and to keep his anxiety at bay, AJ does what he and his grandfather did best: running. Round and round the Olympic Park, aiming for the nationals, running to escape, AJ only seems to be heading ever closer to disaster.2v.Edge, Christopher. The Infinite Lives Of Maisie Day. 2018. It's Maisie's birthday and she can't wait to open her presents. She's hoping for the things she needs to build her own nuclear reactor. But she wakes to an empty house and outside the front door is nothing but a terrifying, all-consuming blackness. Trapped in an ever-shifting reality, Maisie will have to use the laws of the universe and the love of her family to survive.1v.Evans, Maz. Who Let The Gods Out? 2017. Who let the gods out?: book 1. A shooting star crashes to Earth and changes Elliot's life forever. The star is Virgo, a young Zodiac goddess on a mission. When the pair accidentally unleash the wicked death daemon Thanatos, they turn to the old Olympian gods for help. But after centuries of cushy retirement on Earth, are Zeus and his crew up to the task?3v.Laird, Elizabeth. Welcome To Nowhere. 2017. 12-year-old Omar and his brothers and sisters were born and raised in Bosra, Syria. When war breaks out, Omar and his family have no choice but to flee their home with only what they can carry. Then they have to try to escape their homeland altogether. But where do you go when you can't go home?3v.Larwood, Kieran. The Legend Of Podkin One-Ear. 2017. Five realms: book 1. When a travelling bard arrives at Thornwood Warren on Midwinter night, he is warmly welcomed. In return for food and lodging, he settles down to tell the tale of Podkin One-Ear. Soon the rabbits are enthralled to hear the story of how one lost little rabbit overcame the cruellest enemy imaginable, and became the greatest warrior their land has ever known.2v.Larwood, Kieran. The Peculiars. 2018. The Peculiars are a band of misfits, trapped in a nightly Victorian sideshow. There's Wolfgirl, Sheba; Sister Moon, who can move at the speed of light; and Monkey Boy, ace climber and human stink bomb. But during the day, in a world of childsnatchers, grave robbers and dastardly doctors, they solve the mysteries no one else cares about, including why London's poorest children are being snatched from the banks of the Thames.2v.Leonard, M. G. Battle Of The Beetles. 2018.Battle of the Beetles: book 3. Arch-villainess Lucretia Cutter has a secret Biome hidden in the Amazon rainforest: can Darkus and his friends, human and beetle alike, find it before it's too late? If they can't stop Lucretia, she will release her hoard of giant Frankenstein beetles, and the planet will never be the same again.2v.Lester, Cas. Do You Speak Chocolate? 2017. Nadima, a new girl at school recently arrived from Syria, doesn't speak any English. Jaz offers her a chocolate bar and they are soon firm friends. But when Nadima’s troubled past comes to light, Jas’s misguided efforts to help her friend put a strain on their friendship. Can Jaz find a way to put things right between them?2v.Thompson, Lisa. The Goldfish Boy. 2017. 12-year-old Matthew is trapped in his bedroom by crippling OCD, spending most of his time staring out of his window as the inhabitants of Chestnut Close go about their business. Until the day he is the last person to see his next door neighbour's toddler, Teddy, before he goes missing. Matthew must turn detective and unravel the mystery of Teddy's disappearance.3v.Townsend, Jessica. The Trials Of Morrigan Crow. 2018. Nevermoor: book 1. Morrigan Crow is cursed, destined to die on her eleventh birthday. But, as the clock strikes midnight, she's whisked away by a remarkable man called Jupiter North and taken to the secret city of Nevermoor. There she's invited to join the Wundrous Society. Mystery, magic and protection are hers, if only she can pass four impossible trials, using an exceptional talent. Which she doesn't have.4v.11+ Suggested Reading AgeFountain, Ele. Boy 87. 2018. Shif is just an ordinary boy who likes chess, maths and racing his best friend home from school. But one day, soldiers with guns come to his door and he knows that he is no longer safe. Shif is forced to leave his mother and little sister, and embark on a dangerous journey; crossing by land and sea. Boy 87 is a tale of one boy's struggle for survival. Summer Reading Challenge 2018.2v.Johnson, Mitch. Kick. 2017. Budi's going to play for the greatest team on earth, instead of sweating over each stitch he sews, each football boot he makes. But one unlucky kick brings Budi's world crashing down. Now he owes the Dragon, the most dangerous man in Jakarta. Soon it isn't only Budi's dreams at stake, but his life.2v.13+ Suggested Reading AgeAdeyemi, Tomi. Children Of Blood And Bone. 2018.Legacy of Orisha: book 1. Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Or?sha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie's Reaper mother summoned forth souls. But under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were targeted and killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope. Now Zélie has one chance to bring back magic and strike against the monarchy.5v.Ruiz Zafón, Carlos. The Prince Of Mist. 2010. In 1943, in a seaside town where their family has gone to be safe from war, thirteen-year-old Max Carver and sister, fifteen-year-old Alicia, with new friend Roland, face off against an evil magician who is striving to complete a bargain made before he died.2v.Suvada, Emily. This Mortal Coil. 2017. Mortal coil: book 1. When a lone soldier, Cole, arrives with news of Lachlan Agatta's death, all hope seems lost for Catarina. Her father was the world's leading geneticist, and humanity's best hope of beating a devastating virus. Then, hidden beneath Cole's genehacked enhancements she finds a message of hope: Lachlan created a vaccine. Only she can find and decrypt it, if she can unravel the clues he left for her.4v.Talking BooksAdult fictionAnthony, Gordon. Hunting Icarus. 2014. War fiction. TB24289.Iraq, 1917. Two young fliers, one German, one British, face the dangers of war in the skies above one of the most hostile places on Earth. Hunting Icarus is a story of love, life, death and courage as two men battle against one another in the deadliest war the world has ever seen.Read by Andrew Loudon. 17 hours 38 minutes. TB24289.Billingham, Mark. The Bones Beneath. 2014. Crime. TB24314.Tom Thorne: book 12. Stuart Nicklin, the most dangerous psychopath Tom Thorne has ever put behind bars, promises to reveal the whereabouts of a body he buried 25 years before. But only if Thorne agrees to escort him. Thorne gathers a team and travels to a remote Welsh island. Soon, new bodies are added to the old, and Thorne finds himself facing the toughest decision he has ever had to make.Read by Mark Billingham. 9 hours 38 minutes. TB24314.Bloody Scotland. 2017. Crime. Short stories. TB24187.A collection of short stories from twelve of Scotland's best crime writers. From murder in an Iron Age broch and a macabre tale of revenge among the furious clamour of an eighteenth century mill, to a dark psychological thriller set within the tourist throng of Edinburgh Castle and a rivalry turning fatal in the concrete galleries of an abandoned modernist ruin. Contains swear words.Read by Sally Armstrong, Caroline Guthrie, Angus King and David Monteath. 7 hours 53 minutes. TB24187.Buck, Pearl S. The Goddess Abides. 2003. Canadian library fiction. TB23619.At forty-three, Edith has lost a husband, and has children who have children of their own. Living in a large Vermont house, her days are spent reading and playing music. But all of this is to change when two candidates for her affection arrive on the scene, Edwin, a philosopher, and Jared, a scientist. Read by Helen Harrelson. 5 hours 19 minutes. TB23619.Burrows, Annie. The Viscount And The Virgin. 2010. Mills and Boon romance. TB24399.What sort of suitor could clumsy, gangling Imogen, at four and twenty, hope to catch? And then Viscount Mildenhall, the most eligible and arrogant rake in London, proposes. But Imogen could tell Mildenhall was in an indecent hurry, particularly when it came to producing an heir.Read by Imogen Wilde. 7 hours 27 minutes. TB24399.Clark, Mary Higgins. The Cradle Will Fall. 2004. Canadian library fiction. TB23625.A minor road accident landed county prosecutor Katie DeMaio in Westlake Hospital. That night, from her window, she thought she saw a man load a woman's body into the trunk of a car. At work the next day, Katie began investigating a suicide that looked more like murder. Medical examiner Richard Carroll saw a trail leading to Dr. Edgar Highley. But Katie had an appointment for routine surgery, in Dr. Highley's operating room.Read by Tara Yelle. 7 hours 49 minutes. TB23625.Cole, Martina. Damaged. 2017. Crime. TB24356.DI Kate Burrows: book 4. DCI Kate Burrows might be retired, but when the bodies of missing schoolgirls start turning up in Grantley, she's the first person DCI Annie Carr calls for help. This new case could be just what Kate needs to escape troubles at home. As the body count grows, Kate and Annie must try to stop the killer before another schoolgirl dies.Read by Annie Aldington. 8 hours 51 minutes. TB24356.Cussler, Clive. The Treasure Of Khan. 2007. Thriller. TB24316.Dirk Pitt: book 19. Rescuing an oil survey team from a freak wave on Russia's Lake Baikal is all in a day's work for adventurers Dirk Pitt and partner Al Giordino. When their ship is sabotaged and the survey team vanishes Pitt must uncover why. A powerful tycoon holding an astonishing secret about Genghis Khan is hoping to emulate the legend's greatest conquests but on a global scale! Read by Jeff Harding. 16 hours 9 minutes. TB24316.Davis, Lindsey. Enemies At Home. 2014. Historical crime. TB24340.Flavia Albia: book 2. Young, widowed and fiercely independent, Flavia Albia lives alone on the Aventine Hill in Rome and makes a good living as a hired investigator. Two mysterious deaths at a local villa may be murder and, as the household slaves are implicated, Albia is once again forced to involve herself. Her fight is not just for truth and justice, however; this time, she's also battling for people who can't fight for themselves.Read by Lucy Brown. 10 hours 45 minutes. TB24340.Deaver, Jeffery. The Burial Hour. 2017. Thriller. TB24341.Lincoln Rhyme: book 13. A businessman is snatched from an East Side street in broad daylight or so it appears to the eight year old girl who is the only witness. The perp leaves a token at the site of the kidnapping: a miniature noose. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are called in to investigate. But the investigation takes an unexpected turn when a similar kidnapping occurs across the Atlantic in a small town outside Naples.Read by Jeff Harding. 15 hours 6 minutes. TB24341.Dickinson, Margaret. Sow The Seed. 2010. Family stories. TB24215.Fleethaven: book 2. Unable to marry her childhood sweetheart due to family revelations, Kate finds unexpected release with the outbreak of war. She leaves Fleethaven Point to become a driver in the WAAF. In the chaos and destruction of the war years, Kate will experience her first taste of a love that finally allows her to leave the past behind.Read by Mira Dovreni. 13 hours 20 minutes. TB24215.Dunn, Matthew. Slingshot. 2015. Spy stories. TB24227.Spycatcher: book 3. Will Cochrane monitors the night time streets of Gdansk, Poland, waiting for the appearance of a Russian defector, a man bearing a top-secret document. He believes the defector is about to step out of the cold and into the hands of Polish authorities, but suddenly a van speeds into the melee and snatches the defector. It's up to Will and his CIA and MI6 team to find him before the Russians do.Read by Robert Portal. 10 hours 54 minutes. TB24227.Fielding, Joy. Kiss Mommy Goodbye. 2003. Canadian library fiction. TB23621.Those goodbye kisses Donna received from her children when ex-husband Victor picked them up for their day's outing with him were for all time, forever. Only Donna did not know that, and the memory of her children's kisses on the day they disappeared come back to haunt her, for Victor did not return. Donna sets out on a terror-filled quest to find her children that would take her across the country and beyond the law.Read by Doris Petrie. 10 hours 23 minutes. TB23621.Findley, Timothy. Famous Last Words. 2005. Canadian library fiction. TB23628.In the final days of the Second World War, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley scrawls his desperate account on the walls and ceilings of his ice-cold prison high in the Austrian Alps. Officers of the liberating army discover his frozen, disfigured corpse and his astonishing testament, the sordid truth that he alone possessed. Fascinated but horrified, they learn of a dazzling array of characters caught up in scandal and political corruption.Read by Frank Herbert. 11 hours 55 minutes. TB23628.Gemmell, David. Winter Warriors. 2017. Fantasy. TB24278.Drenai: book 8. Upon the death of three kings the world will be plunged into chaos, and all the cast-out demons of history will return to bring blood and horror to the world. Two of the kings are dead. The third, about to be born to a queen, is hunted by the Demon Riders of the Krayakin, Lords of the Undead. Three powerful warriors are with the queen, the last of the once proud Drenai army. Read by Sean Barrett. 13 hours 7 minutes. TB24278.Gemmell, David A. Sword In The Storm. 2017. Fantasy. TB24279.Rigante: book 1. Born in the storm that doomed his father, Connavar grows to manhood among the mist-covered mountains of Caer Druagh, where the Rigante tribe dwell in harmony with the land and its gods, but beyond the border an evil force is gathering strength.Read by Adjoa Andoh. 16 hours 56 minutes. TB24279.Gowar, Imogen Hermes. The Mermaid And Mrs Hancock. 2018. Historical fiction. TB24510.1785. The merchant Jonah Hancock learns one of his captains has sold Jonah's ship for what appears to be a mermaid. Its arrival takes Jonah through the doors of high society. At an opulent party, he makes the acquaintance of Angelica Neal, a courtesan of great accomplishment. This meeting will steer both their lives onto a dangerous new course. Read by Juliet Stevenson. 17 hours 19 minutes. TB24510.Grisham, John. Camino Island. 2017. Thriller. TB24344.Five manuscripts of F. Scott Fitzgerald's are stolen and this puts bookseller Bruce Cable on the FBI's Rare Asset Recovery Unit's watchlist. Mercer spent summers on Florida's idyllic Camino Island as a child, in her grandmother's beach cottage. Now she is being made an offer she can't refuse: to return to the island and infiltrate Bruce Cable’s circle of literary friends, ideally getting close enough to him to learn his secrets.Read by January LaVoy. 8 hours 48 minutes. TB24344.Hassel, Sven. The Bloody Road To Death. 2014. War fiction. TB24443.They were known as the 'Old Man's' unit, the most savage section in the whole German army. The 27th Penal Regiment are veterans of the frontline. But when Hitler's war takes them through Greece, Yugoslavia and Albania, they are entirely unprepared for what awaits them. And when the water rations run out, they are willing to commit murder just for a drink.Contains violence and swear words. Read by Jonathan Oliver. 13 hours 21 minutes. TB24443.Hodgson, Antonia. A Death At Fountains Abbey. 2016. Historical crime. TB24345.Tom Hawkins: book 3. 1728. Fresh from his escape from the gallows, Thomas Hawkins has arrived in Yorkshire with his ward, Sam Fleet. John Aislabie, Tom's host, is being tormented by anonymous letters threatening murder. As a disgraced politician, Aislabie has plenty of enemies. But Tom begins to suspect that the danger lies much closer to home.Read by Joseph Kloska. 9 hours 54 minutes. TB24345.Jacobs, Anna. Ridge Hill. 2009. Family stories. TB24322.Gibson family: book 3. It's 1848 and preparations are underway for Annie Gibson's wedding to Bilsden's wealthy mill owner, Frederick Hallam. Frederick's daughter, Beatrice, is horrified at the prospect of a new attractive stepmother arriving at the house on Ridge Hill. Annie's own family feels threatened. And Annie's joy cannot last because someone has uncovered the secrets she has fought so hard to keep hidden.Read by Nicolette McKenzie. 13 hours 57 minutes. TB24322.Keaney, Brian. The Alphabet Of Heart's Desire. 2017. Literary fiction.TB24339.In 1802 Thomas de Quincey, a young man who would go on to become one of the most celebrated writers of his day, collapsed on Oxford Street. He was discovered by a teenage prostitute who brought him back to her room and nursed him to health. The lives of a street girl, an aspiring writer, and a freed slave cross the slums of London in this novel about the birth of passion, the burden of addiction, and the consolations of literature.Read by Thomas Eyre, Annabel Bates and David Anthony Montieth. 11 hours 38 minutes. TB24339.King, Stephen. Sleeping Beauties. 2017. Horror. TB24348.Something is happening to women when they fall asleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If awakened, the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed, and the women become violent. In West Virginia, the virus is spreading through a women's prison, affecting all the inmates except one. Soon, word spreads about the mysterious Evie, who seems able to sleep and wake. Is she a medical anomaly or a demon to be slain?Read by Marin Ireland. 25 hours 20 minutes. TB24348.Kogawa, Joy. Obasan. 2001. Canadian library fiction. TB23610.Naomi is a sheltered and beloved five-year-old when Pearl Harbor changes her life. Separated from her mother, she watches bewildered as she and her family become enemy aliens, persecuted and despised in their own land. Naomi is protected by the resolute endurance of her aunt Obasan and the silence of those around her. Only after Naomi grows up does she return to question the haunting silence.Read by Joy Kogawa. 8 hours 51 minutes. TB23610.Lightfoot, Freda. That'll Be The Day. 2007. Family stories. TB24403.Champion Street Market: book 3. Betty works on her busy flower stall in Champion Street. Sam regularly buys bouquets for his wife, Judy, so why does she always look so worn out and miserable? Leo comes every week for flowers for his mother, but never for his elegant wife. Betty's own husband went off long ago. If only all marriages could be happy. Read by Emma Swan. 14 hours 27 minutes. TB24403.McCall Smith, Alexander. The Miracle At Speedy Motors. 2008. Crime.TB24325.The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: book 9. Precious Ramotswe, owner of the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, deals with her fellow detective Mma Makutsi's dowry negotiations. And there are more difficult problems for Mma Ramotswe to solve. A client, who was adopted, asks her to trace her biological family. But will Mma Ramotswe's searches bring happiness or something rather different, something rather frightening?Read by Adjoa Andoh. 6 hours 38 minutes. TB24325.Malliet, G. M. Death Of A Cosy Writer. 2015. Crime. TB24447.St. Just: book 1. Bestselling mystery writer Sir Adrian Beauclerk-Fisk torments his four grown children with threats of disinheritance. Then he announces he's engaged to Violet, a beautiful widow with a dubious past. His appointed heir, Ruthven, turns up dead in the wine cellar and Detective Chief Inspector St. Just must find the killer.Read by Lucy Tregear. 7 hours 48 minutes. TB24447.Munro, Alice. Who Do You Think You Are? 2003. Canadian library fiction. TB23622.Ten interlocked chronological stories about a working-class Ontario girl and her stepmother. Rose and her stepmother, Flo, live in Hanratty-across the bridge from the "good" part of town. Rose grows up nursing her hope of outgrowing her humble beginnings and plotting an escape to university.Read by Stephanie Taylor. 7 hours 30 minutes. TB23622.Munro, Alice. The Progress Of Love. 2004. Canadian library fiction.TB23626.A divorced woman returns to her childhood home where she confronts the memory of her parents' confounding yet deep bond. The accidental near-drowning of a child exposes the fragility of the trust between children and parents. In these and other short stories, Alice Munro proves once again a sensitive and compassionate chronicler of our times.Read by Mauralea Austin. 12 hours 12 minutes. TB23626.Norton, Graham. Holding. 2016. Crime. TB24349.When human remains are discovered on an old farm in the remote Irish village of Duneen, suspected to be that of Tommy Burke - a former lover of two different inhabitants - the village's dark past begins to unravel. As the frustrated Sergeant PJ Collins struggles to solve a genuine case for the first time in his life, he unearths anger and resentments, secrets and regret.Read by Graham Norton. 7 hours 30 minutes. TB24349.Ondaatje, Michael. In The Skin Of A Lion. 2002. Canadian library fiction. TB23615.This entwines adventure, romance and history, real and invented, enmeshing us in the lives of the immigrants who built Toronto and those who dreamed it into being: the politically powerful, the anarchists, bridge builders and tunnellers. This is a haunting tale of passion, privilege and biting physical labour, of men and women moved by compassion and driven by the power of dreams, sometimes even to murder.Read by Vincent Tovell. 7 hours 5 minutes. TB23615.Reichs, Kathy. Devil Bones. 2011. Crime. TB24438.Temperance Brennan: book 11. An underground chamber is exposed in a seedy, dilapidated house. In the dark cellar, a human skull rests on a cauldron, surrounded by slain chickens and bizarre figurines. Forensic anthropologist Dr Brennan determines that the skull is that of a young, black female. Then a headless corpse is discovered carved with Satanic symbols. The truth is more shocking than Tempe could have imagined.Read by Lorelei King. 9 hours 3 minutes. TB24438.Richards, David Adams. Nights Below Station Street. 2001. Canadian library fiction. TB23609.Set in a small town in northern New Brunswick, this book draws us into the lives of a community of people, including: Joe, isolated and strong in the face of a drinking problem; his wife, Rita, willing to believe the best about people; and their teenage daughter Adele, whose nature is rebellious and wise, and whose love for her father wars with her desire for independence.Read by Art Cuthbert. 5 hours 57 minutes. TB23609.Richler, Mordecai. Joshua Then And Now. 2004. Canadian library fiction. TB23623.His father a boxer turned honest crook, his mother an erotic dancer, Joshua has overcome his beginnings in the Jewish ghetto of Montreal to become a celebrated television writer and journalist. But Joshua is not a happy man. Incapacitated by a freak accident, anguished by the disappearance of his wife, and caught up in a sex scandal. Read by Desmond Scott. 13 hours 24 minutes. TB23623.Rosen, Rob. Best Gay Erotica Of The Year Volume 3. 2018. Erotic fiction. TB24404.Features tales of man-on-man erotica. This collection has a range of stories from dominant men going after the lovers they lust for, to suave men charming their sweethearts into the bedroom, to sweat-inducing masculine quickies. Contains sex scenes.Read by Daniel Arden. 8 hours 30 minutes. TB24404.Roy, Gabrielle. The Tin Flute. 2001. Canadian library fiction. TB23611.Roy’s first novel is a classic of Canadian fiction. Imbued with Roy’s unique brand of compassion this moving story focuses on a family in the Saint-Henri slums of Montreal, its struggles to overcome poverty and ignorance, and its search for love. This is an affecting story of familial tenderness, sacrifice, and survival during the Second World War.Read by Sandra Scott. 12 hours 6 minutes. TB23611.Scott, Walter. Waverley. 2015. Classic. TB24049.Set against the backdrop of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, 'Waverley' tells the story of Edward Waverley, a captain in the King's army whose loyalty to his regiment is threatened when they are sent to the Scottish Highlands. He is drawn to the brave Highlanders. Even his heart is torn, between gentle Rose Brawardine, and the passionate, principled Flora Mac-Ivor.Read by David Monteath. 20 hours 18 minutes. TB24049.Shields, Carol. Small Ceremonies. 2003. Canadian library fiction. TB23617.Judith Gill lives with her husband, son, and daughter in a nice house in the suburbs of Ontario. She has carved out a niche as a respected biographer. Her universe is shaped and bounded by the lives around her, from her family to the subjects of her books. She finds herself in the background of her life, but she hungers to tell stories of her own.Read by Mae Penfound. 5 hours 28 minutes. TB23617.Shields, Carol. Happenstance. 2003. Canadian library fiction.TB23620.In THE WIFE'S STORY, Brenda, now forty years old is about to spend a week away from home to attend a craft convention in Philadelphia. In THE HUSBAND'S STORY, back in Chicago, Jack faces his own crisis. It is the first time he has been left to cope on his own. He is immobilised by self-doubt, beginning to question his worth and the value of his work as a historian. Suddenly, in that one week, his world falls apart.Read by Doris Petrie. 8 hours 1 minute. TB23620.Tóibín, Colm. House Of Names. 2017. Historical fiction. TB24395.On the day of his daughter's wedding, Agamemnon orders her sacrifice. His daughter is led to her death, and Agamemnon leads his army into battle, where he is rewarded with glorious victory. Three years later, he returns home and his murderous action has set the entire family on a path of intimate violence, as they enter a world of hushed commands and soundless journeys through the palace's dungeons and bedchambers. Read by Juliet Stevenson, Charlie Anson and Pippa Nixon. 8 hours 46 minutes. TB24395.Tranter, Nigel G. Rough Wooing. 1989. Historical fiction. TB24228.James V trilogy: book 3. The young James, King of Scots is a beleaguered man. Still grief stricken at the untimely death of his queen, Madeleine, the king is without an heir. Both he and his throne are vulnerable. The poet David Lindsay, Lord Lyon King of Arms, and the Lord Privy Seal, David Beaton, battle to keep James on the throne.Read by Crawford Logan. 14 hours 4 minutes. TB24228.Wilde, James. The Bloody Crown. 2017. Historical fiction. TB24337.Hereward: book 6. Constantinople, 1081. The bloody battle for the crown of the Holy Roman Empire begins. Within the city of Constantinople itself, three venal factions will go to any length to seize the throne. To the west of the city, are the forces of the most feared Norman warlord. In the east are the Ottoman hordes. Read by Andrew Cullum. 11 hours 42 minutes. TB24337.Wilson, Gayle. Claiming The Forbidden Bride. 2010. Mills and Boon romance. TB24338.Regency silk & scandal. Soldier Rhys Morgan is back home in England and in the market for a bride. But the simpering debutantes on the Marriage Mart don’t seem able to rouse his interest. Dark-haired, dark-eyed Romany beauty Nadya Argentari, has a strength and passion to match his own. If he took her as his mistress, no one would blink an eye. But what if Honourable Major Rhys Morgan were to marry her?Read by Annette Holland. 8 hours 54 minutes. TB24338.Winspear, Jacqueline. Pardonable Lies. 2006. Historical crime. TB24229.Maisie Dobbs: book 3. Psychologist-sleuth Maisie Dobbs is called in by Sir Lawton, fuelled by a deathbed plea from his dying wife, to investigate the mystery behind the death of his wife's aviator son during the Great War. It is a mission that tests her feelings for her mentor, Maurice Blanche, and brings her face to face with a college friend with ties to the missing pilot.Read by Sherry Baines. 12 hours 34 minutes. TB24229.Adult non-fictionAutobiography and biographyBraithwaite, Max. Never Sleep Three In A Bed. 2003. Canadian Library Nonfiction. TB23618.From the pinnacle of his remarkable writing career, the popular author and humorist casts a perceptive eye over the world he shared with his family and friends in western Canada during the first quarter of the twentieth century. That world comes to life in vivid anecdotes of how things were.Read by Desmond Scott. 6 hours 17 minutes. TB23618.Holden, Anthony. Tchaikovsky. 1997. TB24230.The life of Tchaikovsky has been shrouded in mystery and myth for more than a century. After years of research in archives in post-Soviet Russia, Europe and the United States, Holden offers a portrait of an ill-starred genius, whose life and career were as colourful and passionate as his music. Holden sees the composer's death as the logical climax to his tortured life as a promiscuous homosexual.Read by Christopher Oxford. 23 hours 25 minutes. TB24230.Montgomery, L. M. The Alpine Path: The Story Of My Career. 2003. Canadian Library Nonfiction. TB23616.The Alpine Path references the author's long and difficult journey to become a full-fledged writer and describes her childhood in rural Prince Edward Island, during the closing years of the 1800s. Maud writes about her family, friends, and the island way of life and through this memoir we learn how these special people and places became the inspiration for many scenes and incidents in her later novels.Read by Susan Sneath. 2 hours 24 minutes. TB23616.Moodie, Susanna. Roughing It In The Bush: or, Forest Life In Canada. 2001. Canadian Library Nonfiction. TB23612.Roughing It in the Bush is an account of life as a Canadian settler by Susanna Moodie. Moodie immigrated to Upper Canada near modern-day Peterborough, Ontario during the 1830s. At the suggestion of her editor, she wrote a "guide" to settler life for British subjects considering coming to Canada. The work is part memoir, part novelisation of her experiences.Read by Billie Mae Richards. 9 hours 35 minutes. TB23612.GardeningDon, Monty. Down To Earth: Gardening Wisdom. 2017. TB24400.Monty Don shares essential tips, knowledge and musings from his 50 years of gardening experience. This is Monty right beside you in the garden, challenging norms and giving advice. Discover Monty's thoughts and garden ideas around nature, seasons, colour, and much more. And read about the month-by month jobs he does in his own garden.Read by Philip Bretherton. 6 hours 51 minutes. TB24400.HistoryBreen, Colin. A Force Like No Other: The Real Stories Of The RUC Men And Women Who Policed The Troubles. 2017. TB24398.In 1968, the RUC was catapulted into the Troubles in Northern Ireland. As a former police officer, Colin Breen has unparalleled access to former RUC, Special Branch and CID officers who have never spoken out before. Their stories show the bombs, death threats and murder that officers regularly dealt with. They reveal the psychological and personal toll of the job as well as the camaraderie and the whiskey that helped them to cope.Contains swear words.Read by Stephen Armstrong. 6 hours 53 minutes. TB24398PetsDon, Monty. Nigel: My Family And Other Dogs. 2016. TB24342.Monty Don's golden retriever Nigel became the surprise star of BBC 'Gardeners' World' inspiring huge interest, fan mail and even his own social media accounts. This lead Monty to explore what makes us connect with animals quite so deeply, a memoir of Monty's dogs past and present.Read by Monty Don. 5 hours 53 minutes. TB24342.PoetryFrost, Robert. Selected Poems Of Robert Frost. 1980. TB24332.A four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Frost created a new poetic language that has a deep and timeless resonance. This collection includes eighteen early poems that have rarely been reprinted. Some of these express the idealism of youth inspired by heroic figures of the past. Others are love poems to Elinor White, whom he married in 1895.Read by John Chancer. 7 hours 7 minutes. TB24332.Travel and tourismBarkham, Patrick. Islander: A Journey Around Our Archipelago. 2017.TB24302.The British Isles are an archipelago made up of two large islands and 6,289 smaller ones. Some, like Ray Island in Essex, are abandoned and mysterious places haunted by myths, ghosts and foxes. Barkham explores some of the most beautiful landscapes in Britain as he travels to ever-smaller islands in search of their special magic.Read by Kris Dyer. 12 hours 35 minutes. TB24302.Warfare and DefenceHelm, Sarah. If This Is A Woman: Inside Ravensbrück - Hitler's Concentration Camp For Women. 2016. TB24307.Ravensbrück was a concentration camp designed specifically for women by Heinrich Himmler, prime architect of the Nazi genocide. For decades the story of Ravensbrück was hidden behind the Iron Curtain and remains little known. Using testimony unearthed since the end of the Cold War, and interviews with survivors who have never spoken before, Sarah Helm shows how easily and quickly the unthinkable horror evolved.Read by Beverley Klein. 36 hours 4 minutes. TB24307.Stevenson, William. A Man Called Intrepid: The Secret War. 2003. Canadian Library Nonfiction. TB23613.The year was 1940, when the survival of Britain and the fate of free nations hung perilously in the balance, INTREPID was charged with maintaining the closet possible but most guarded cover communication between Churchill and Roosevelt, and with establishing, a worldwide intelligence network that would challenge the staggering force of the Nazi juggernaut.Read by Vincent Tovell. 19 hours 42 minutes. TB23613.A selection of Harper Collins titlesAdult FictionBodies From The Library: Lost Classic Stories By Masters Of the Golden Age. 2018. Classic crime. TB703337.This anthology is a selection of rare tales from the Golden Age of detective fiction. It contains short stories from Cyril Hare, Freeman Wills Crofts and A.A. Milne. It also includes the first detective story by Georgette Heyer, unseen since 1923 and a dark tale by Agatha Christie published only in an Australian journal in 1922.Read by Philip Bretherton. 8 hours 37 minutes. TB703337.Butler, JL. Mine. 2018. Thriller. TB703102.Francine is a high flying lawyer, ambitious and brilliant. She needs one headline grabbing client to seal her place as Queen’s Counsel. Martin Joy. The attraction is instant. They embark on a secret affair and Francine thinks she can hold it together. Then Martin's wife goes missing, Martin is the prime suspect. Francine is now his lawyer, lover and the last person to see Donna alive.Read by Chloe Massey. 11 hours 46 minutes. TB703102.Cox, Josephine. A Woman's Fortune. 2018. Family stories.TB703090.In the middle of the night, Evie is torn away from her beloved home and close-knit community, as her family run away to the south. Her father's luck has finally run out. Her mother, worn down by life, runs off with a new man, and with her grandmother's sight failing, it's left to Evie to earn their keep and run the house. Holding her family together is made harder when tragedy strikes at its heart.Read by Carole Boyd. 9 hours 18 minutes. TB703090.Debona, Katherine. Love Me, Love Me Not. 2018. Thriller. TB703315.Since they were teenagers, Jane and Elle had been inseparable. Until the day that Elle stole the love of Jane's life. Now everything has changed. Jane wants him back, and with a little help from her horticultural obsession, she may just have found the perfect solution.Read by Issy Inchbald. 7 hours 50 minutes. TB703315.Franqui, Leah. America For Beginners. 2018. Humorous fiction.TB703336.Recently widowed Pival travels to America to discover the truth about her long-estranged son. Her Bangladeshi tour guide, Satya, has been in America for less than a year and has never left the five boroughs of New York. Aspiring actress, Rebecca, has signed up for the role of Pival's modesty companion. As their preconceptions about each other and about America are challenged, these companions might learn how to live again.Read by Soneela Nankani. 10 hours 49 minutes. TB703336.French, Kat. A Summer Scandal. 2018. Chick lit. TB703096.When Violet moves to Swallow Beach, she inherits a small Victorian pier in with an empty arcade perched on the end of it, and falls in love immediately. She wants nothing more than to rejuvenate it. When she meets hunky Calvin, inspiration strikes. What if she turned the arcade into an adult-themed arcade full of artisan shops? Not everyone in the town is happy with the idea. Read by Elisabeth Hopper. 9 hours 58 minutes. TB703096.Lyons, Annie. The Happiness List. 2018. Chick lit. TB703320.Heather is finally back on Hope Street after running from the memories for so long. Fran is still trying to get used to a life without her husband by her side. Pamela is fed up with being taken for granted by her grown-up children and grumbling husband. So when the three women hear about a `happiness course' surely it's the perfect opportunity to let their hair down, laugh with new friends and maybe even change their lives.Read by Jaimi Barbakoff. 8 hours 31 minutes. TB703320.McIlvanney, Liam. The Quaker. 2018. Crime. TB703101.Duncan McCormack: book 1. Glasgow,1969. The city is brought to its knees by a killer whose name fills the streets with fear: the Quaker. The police are chasing a ghost, with no new leads and no hope of catching their prey. DI McCormack, a young detective from the Highlands, is ordered to join the investigation. But his arrival is met with anger from a group of officers on the brink of despair. Read by Angus King. 11 hours 2 minutes. TB703101.Martin, Faith. A Fatal Obsession. 2018. Crime. TB703306.Ryder and Loveday: book 1. Oxford, 1960. There's a murderer on the loose and two unlikely heroes are poised to solve the case. Meet Probationary WPC Trudy Loveday - smart, enthusiastic and always underestimated. In the hope of getting her out of the way, Trudy's senior officer assigns her to help coroner Clement Ryder as he re-opens the case of a young woman's death. Read by Stephanie Racine. 8 hours 56 minutes. TB703306.Newman, Peter. The Deathless. 2018. Fantasy. TB703078.Deathless: book 1. In the endless forests of the Wild, humanity scratches a living by the side of the great Godroads, paths of crystal that provide safe passage and hold back the infernal tide. Creatures lurk within the trees, watching, and plucking those who stray too far from safety. Born and reborn into flawless bodies, the Deathless are immortal. Read by Emma Newman. 14 hours 17 minutes. TB703078.O'Neill, Joseph. Good Trouble. 2018. Short stories. TB703086.Characters are forced to discover exactly who they are, and who they can never quite be. There's Rob, who swears he is a dependable member of society, but can't scrape together a character reference to prove that's the case. And Jayne, who has no choice but to investigate a strange noise downstairs while her husband lies glued to the bed with fear. Read by Danny Campbell, Robbie Daymond, Arthur Morey, Mark Deakins, Mike Chamberlain, Allyson Ryan, John H Meyer, Cassandra Campbell, Mark Bramhall and Kimberley Farr. 5 hours 7 minutes. TB703086.O'Reilly, Noel. Wrecker. 2018. Historical fiction. TB703332.Shipwrecks are part of life in the village of Porthmorvoren. When, after a fierce storm, Mary rescues a man half-dead from the sea, she ignores the whispers of her neighbours and carries him home to nurse better. Gideon is a Methodist minister from Newlyn, a married man. Touched by Mary's sacrifice and horrified by the superstitions and pagan beliefs the villagers cling to, Gideon sets out to bring salvation by building a chapel.Read by Imogen Church. 10 hours 16 minutes. TB703332.Reed, Joe Mungo. We Begin Our Ascent. 2018. General fiction. TB703313.For Sol and Liz, competition is everything. As a young professional cyclist in the Tour de France and a geneticist on the brink of a major discovery, success looks within reach for them both. But everything comes at a cost, whether that's starting a family or doping to keep up with the team, and soon the worlds of drugs, cycling and family will collide.Read by Joseph Tweedale. 6 hours 53 minutes. TB703313.Williams, Katie. Tell The Machine Goodnight. 2018. General fiction.TB703326.Happiness is Pearl's job. Using the revolutionary Apricity machine, every day she provides customers with personalized recommendations for their emotional wellbeing; from getting a dog to getting a divorce. Pearl's teenage son, Rhett, is a sensitive boy who has forged an unconventional path through adolescence. He seems to find contentment in being unhappy. If only Pearl could persuade him to take the Apricity test. Read by Rebecca Lowman, Kirby Heyborne and Alex McKenna. 8 hours 39 minutes. TB703326.Worrall, S C. The Very White of Love. 2018. Romance. TB703076.'3rd September 1938. Martin is in his second year of Oxford when he meets beautiful Nancy. A whirlwind romance blossoms. 3rd September 1939. Martin is sent to the battlefields of France, he tells Nancy their love will keep him safe. Then his letters stop. 3rd September 1940. Nancy knows he is still alive, she'll do anything to find him. But what she discovers will change her life forever.Read by Madeleine Worrall and Thomas Judd. 11 hours 30 minutes. TB703076.Adult Non-FictionAutobiographyMiddleton, Ant. First Man In: Leading from the Front. 2018.TB703051.After 13 years service in the military, with 4 years as a Special Boat Service sniper, Ant Middleton is the epitome of what it takes to excel. He served in the SBS, the naval wing of the special forces, the Royal Marines and 9 Parachute Squadron Royal, achieving what is known as the `Holy Trinity' of the UK's Elite Forces. Read by Ant Middleton. 6 hours 59 minutes. TB703051.HistoryLokhova, Svetlana. The Spy Who Changed History: The Untold Story of How the Soviet Union Won the Race for America's Top Secrets. 2018. TB703081.Shumovsky was an aviation spy, his espionage was so successful that the USSR acquired every US aviation secret from his network of agents in factories and at top secret military research institutes. Svetlana takes the reader through Stalin's most audacious intelligence operation, exposing how even Shirley Temple and Franklin D. Roosevelt unwittingly advanced his schemes.Read by Richard Trinder. 12 hours 55 minutes. TB703081.Natural HistoryPyenson, Nicholas. Spying On Whales. 2018. TB703008.The Smithsonian's star palaeontologist Nicholas Pyenson takes us to the cutting edge of whale research as he searches for the answers to some of our biggest questions about these graceful giants. He takes us to the cool halls inside the Smithsonian's priceless fossil collection, to the frigid fishing decks on Antarctic whaling stations, and to the blazing hot desert of Chile. Read by Mike Grady. 7 hours 45 minutes. TB703008.PoetryCox, Charly. She Must Be Mad. 2018. TB703325.She Must be Mad explores coming-of-age: the pain and beauty of love, the relief and the agony of turning from girl to woman, the isolation of an untethered mind and the power and subjugation of the body. Charly captures the formative experiences of today's young women from the poignant to the prosaic in writing that is at once witty, wry and heartfelt.Read by Charly Cox. 2 hours 33 minutes. TB703325.Politics and GovernmentFox, Emily Jane. Born Trump. 2018. TB703088.Born Trump examines what shaped the Trump children into who they are. Given their father's nature, and how often his personal life is played out in public, it seems astonishing that his children remain so close to him. Fox looks at the childhood privileges and traumas, the individual adolescences and early adulthoods that have been chronicled but never detailed in depth. Read by Emily Jane Fox. 11 hours 56 minutes. TB703088.Children and young adult fiction05+ Suggested Reading Age Butchart, Pamela. Super Dog! 2017. TB24484.Wigglesbottom Primary: book 4. This is a collection of three school stories. Is that a superhero dog on the school roof? Yes! Is the lunchtime mashed potato really, really weird? Yes! Does Susie Keys own an alien egg? Yes! So what are Class 2R going to do about it all? Have a lot of fun!Read by Avita Jay. 31 minutes. TB24484.Hart, Caryl. The Beast Of Bramble Woods. 2017. TB24485.Invincibles: book 3. Nell and Freddie have the best time camping. They eat all the marshmallows and play tricks on Nell's big brother and his nerdy friends. But the Beast of Bramble Woods wants to join in the fun too! Read by Avita Jay. 35 minutes. TB24485.Pankhurst, Kate. Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World. 2016. TB24445.Discover fascinating facts about some of the most amazing women who changed the world. Fly through the sky with the incredible explorer Amelia Earhart, read all about the wonderful adventures of Mary Seacole and many more inspiring women.Read by Joan Walker. 35 minutes. TB24445.09+ Suggested Reading Age Bethell, Zillah. The Extraordinary Colours Of Auden Dare. 2017. TB24496.Auden Dare has an unusual perspective on life: he cannot see in colour. Auden and his friend Vivi discover an enigmatic and ingenious robot, who calls himself Paragon. Together they go on an adventure to find out just what exactly Paragon is. The answer could change the future of the world.Read by Kris Dyer. 9 hours 9 minutes. TB24496.Butchart, Pamela. Petunia Perry And The Curse Of The Ugly Pigeon. 2015. TB24330.Petunia has decided to write her memoirs. She wants the world to know what it's like to start secondary school with a best friend who stages one-person flash mobs in the canteen, a mother who over-shares at parents' evenings and a suitor who draws pictures of her as a unicorn.Read by Claire Morgan. 4 hours 59 minutes. TB24330.Durrant, S. E. Running On Empty. 2018. TB24486.AJ's grandfather has always been the one to keep his unusual family together, so when he dies things start to unravel. AJ is worried about his parents but they don't really seem to notice. In order to deal with his grief and to keep his anxiety at bay, AJ does what he and his grandfather did best: running. Round and round the Olympic Park, aiming for the nationals, running to escape. Read by Chetan Pathak. 4 hours 45 minutes. TB24486.Foster, Stewart. The Bubble Boy. 2016. TB24402.Eleven-year-old Joe can't remember a life outside of his hospital room, with its beeping machines and view of London's rooftops. His condition means he's not allowed outside, not even for a moment, and his few visitors risk bringing life-threatening germs inside his 'bubble'. But then someone new enters his world and changes it for ever.Read by Simon Pothecary. 8 hours 23 minutes. TB24402.Lester, Cas. Do You Speak Chocolate? 2017. TB24487.Jaz has found the best way to make friends with new girl Nadima, who doesn't speak any English – by offering her a chocolate bar. Nadima grins and offers back some Turkish Delight, the ice is broken, and a special friendship begins. Jaz is outgoing, rebellious and a little bit bolshy - but it doesn't stop her from finding it hard that she doesn't have a best friend at school any more. Not since Lily went off with Kara.Read by Avita Jay. 5 hours 53 minutes. TB24487.Peers, Bobbie. William Wenton And The Luridium Thief. 2017. TB24221.William Wenton: book 1. Twelve year-old code breaking genius William Wenton, is trying to make sense of his family's dramatic escape from their home in London. But when his extraordinary talent for cracking codes is suddenly revealed, William must face the danger that has been lurking around him for years.Read by Martin Quinn. 5 hours 24 minutes. TB24221.11+ Suggested Reading Age Blume, Judy. Tiger Eyes. 2004. Canadian library fiction. TB23624.Davey has never felt so alone. Her father has just been killed, shot in a holdup at the 7-Eleven near their home. Her mother has transplanted her and her little brother to New Mexico, to stay with family and recover. But Davey is withdrawn, full of rage and fear and loneliness. Then one day, while exploring a canyon, she meets an older and he is the one who helps her realize that she must find a way to move forward with her life.Read by Stephanie Taylor. 4 hours 17 minutes. TB23624.Paterson, Katherine. Bridge to Terabithia. 2005. Canadian library fiction. TB23629.Jess has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest runner in the fifth grade and he almost is, until the new girl in school, Leslie, outpaces him. The two become friends and spend most days in the woods behind Leslie's house, where they invent an enchanted land called Terabithia. One morning, Leslie goes to Terabithia without Jess and a tragedy occurs.Read by Sandra Scott. 3 hours 6 minutes. TB23629.Save 15% on a Sovereign USB player Treat yourself to a Sovereign USB player (DH445) with an exclusive New Books discount. Use code NBSUMMER to get this portable USB player with built-in speakers for only ?33.96 ex VAT (usual price: ?39.95 ex VAT, saving you ?5.99). Simply plug in a USB stick to play audiobooks, music and talking newspapers. With four large yellow tactile control buttons and an extra-large volume control, it's really easy to use. 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