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Judith Allnatt The silk factory

When young mother Rosie gets the news that her mother has died she decides to leave London and head back to her home village. Carefully picking through her mother's things, she tries not to frighten the children with her tears. Then one piece of paper stops her in her tracks, setting in motion a reawakening of

memories long forgotten.

Kevin J. Anderson Blood of the cosmos

The humans and Ildirans, having narrowly escaped annihilation at the hands of the Shana Rei and their robot allies, are desperate to find a way to combat the black cloud of Shana Rei's antimatter. Believing they have found a way to stop their dreaded enemies, a new weapon is tested, but it's a horrible failure, throwing the

human race and its allies to the brink of extinct

Paul Thomas Anderson Inherent Vice

Blu-ray DVD

Joaquin Phoenix and Josh Brolin star in this Academy Award-nominated crime comedy drama written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.


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V. C. Andrews Secret Brother

A young boy suffers amnesia from a trauma he suffered in what feels like must have been another life. He's adopted into a wealthy family - but what will happen when he learns the truth about his past?

Lucy Atkins The other child

When her newly married husband is offered the job of a lifetime in Boston, Tess reluctantly agrees to move to the US. But once they arrive they don't find settling in easy. Strange things seem to be happening at their new house, and the neighbours are acting oddly towards Tess. Then she makes a jaw-dropping discovery

Louise Bagshawe Career game

Music wonder Rowena Krebs is so huge she's now in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Her old rival, now best friend, Topaz Rossi, is a magazine guru in New York, heading up American Magazines. But things are changing: Rowena senses a shift both in business and on the home front. And Topaz can't work out why the

circulation figures are dropping. Something's up. Paradise is a place that can bring trouble

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Fredrik Backman My grandmother sends her regards

Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy. Standing-on-the-balcony- firing-paintball-

guns-at-men-who-want-to-talk-about-Jesus crazy. She is also Elsa's best, and only, friend. At night Elsa runs to her grandmother's stories, to the Land of Almost-Awake and the Kingdom

of Miamas. There, everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal

Ernie Barbarash Pound of flesh

DVD

Jean-Claude Van Damme stars as a former black ops agent in this action thriller directed by Ernie Barbarash. As the only viable match in his family, Deacon Lyle (Van Damme) travels to the Philippines to donate a kidney to his dying niece

Isabella (Adele Baughan)

Chris Beckett Mother of Eden

Generations after the breakup of the human family of Eden, the Johnfolk emphasise knowledge and innovation, the Davidfolk tradition and cohesion. But both have built hierarchical societies sustained by violence and dominated by men - and both claim to be the favoured children of a long-dead woman from Earth that all Eden

knows as Gela, the mother of them all.


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Saul Black The killing lessons

When the two strangers turn up at Rowena Cooper's isolated Colorado farmhouse, she knows instantly that it's the end of everything. For the two haunted and driven men, on the other hand, it's just another stop on a long and bloody journey. And they still have many miles to go, and victims to sacrifice, before their work is done

Terry Brooks The darkling child

After taking up his enchanted sword against the dark sorcerer Arcannen, Paxon Leah has become the sworn protector of the Druid order. Now a critical hour is at hand, as duty summons him. In a distant corner of the Four Lands, the magic of the wishsong has been detected.

Andy Bull Speed kings

796.95

In the 1930s, as the world hurtled towards terrible global conflict, speed was all the rage. It was described by Aldous Huxley as 'the one genuinely modern pleasure', and one of the fastest and most thrilling ways to attain it was through the

new sport of bobsledding. Exotic, exciting and above all dangerous, it was by far the most popular event at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics. It required an abundance of skill and bravery.

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Michael Bundock Fortunes of Francis Barber

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This volume chronicles a young boy's journey from the horrors of Jamaican slavery to the heart of London's literary world, and reveals the unlikely friendship that changed his life.

Jonny Campbell The casual vacancy

DVD

Rory Kinnear, Michael Gambon, Julia McKenzie and Keeley Hawes star in this three-part miniseries adapted from the novel by J.K. Rowling. The story is set in the English village of Pagford, which seems idyllic on the surface but in reality is fraught with conflict between the

residents over social and political issues. When one of the locals suffers an untimely death his seat on the parish council is left vacant and an election is held to find his replacement, causing tensions to rise even further...

Stephen Clarke How the French won Waterloo 940.27

Two centuries after the Battle of Waterloo, the French are still in denial. If Napoleon lost on 18th June, 1815 (and that's a big 'if'), then whoever rules the universe got it wrong. As soon as the cannons stopped firing, French historians began re-writing history


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Joshua Cohen The book of numbers

813.6

For readers of David Foster Wallace, Don DeLillo, and George Saunders, Joshua Cohen's breakout novel, 'The Book of Numbers', pulls back the veils of the Internet in a prodigious search for the meaning of life in the Digital Age

Dilly Court The orphan’s dream

Motherless since she was five, Mirabel Cutler was raised by her father to be a lady. But when he dies suddenly, Mirabel finds herself cast out on the street by her ruthless stepmother. She is taken to a place of refuge by charismatic sea captain, Jack Starke. But the safe haven turns out to be house of ill-repute

Clive Cussler Piranha

In 1902, Mt. Pelee erupted, sinking a ship carrying a German scientist on the verge of an astonishing breakthrough. More than a century later, an American weapons designer has completed his work, sending Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon on a race against time to stop an attack that could lead to one man creating

the largest empire the world has ever known

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Ava DuVernay Selma DVD

David Oyelowo stars in this American drama directed by Ava DuVernay. Based on the Selma to Montgomery marches of 1965 that led to the passing of the Voting Rights Act, the film follows the story of James Bevel (Common), Hosea Williams (Wendell Pierce) and Martin Luther King Jr (Oyelowo) as they campaigned

for their right to vote.

Brian M Fagan The Intimate bond

591.5

Animals, and our ever-changing relationship with them, have left an indelible mark on human history. From the dawn of our existence, animals and humans have been constantly redefining their relationship with one another, and entire

civilizations have risen and fallen upon this curious bond we share with our fellow fauna

Karin Fossum The drowned boy

A 16-month-old boy with Down's Syndrome is found naked and drowned in a pond right by his home. Chief Inspector Konrad Sejer is called to the scene as there is something troubling about the mother's story. As even her own family turns against her, Sejer is determined to get to the truth.


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Miranda France The day before the fire

When fire devastates Turney House, London's finest stately home, the immaculate Lady Alexandra Marchant demands that everything be restored exactly as it was 'the day before the fire'. Every charred remnant must be salvaged. Even the famous chandelier will be pieced back together into a flawless reconstruction

Jean Fullerton Fetch Nurse Connie

Connie Byrne, a nurse in London's East End working alongside Millie Sullivan from 'Call Nurse Millie', is planning her wedding to Charlie, set to take place as soon as he returns from the war. But when she meets him off the train at London Bridge, she finds that his homecoming isn't going to go according to plan. Connie's busy

professional life, and the larger-than-life patients in the district, offer a welcome distraction, but for how long

Peter Gillman Extreme Eiger

796.522

In February 1966, two teams - one German, the other British/American - aimed to climb the notorious North Face of the Eiger. Astonishingly, the two teams knew little about each other's attempt until both arrived at the foot of the face.

The race was on.

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Seni Glaister The museum of things left behind

Vallerosa is every tourist's dream - a tiny, picturesque country surrounded by lush valleys and verdant mountains; a place sheltered from modern life and the rampant march of capitalism. But in isolation, the locals have grown cranky, unfulfilled and disaffected. In the Presidential

Palace hostile Americans, wise to the country's financial potential, are circling like sharks. Can the town be fixed?

Thomas Grant Jeremy Hutchinson’s case histories 340.092

This title provides a compelling portrait of the time when freedom of speech and the need to throw off censorship came to the fore, told through its great trials, from 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' to Howard Marks

Susanna Gregory A poisonous Plot

In 1358, over a century after its foundation in Cambridge, the college of Michaelhouse is facing a serious shortfall of funds and competition from rival upstarts. Their problems are made no easier by the hostility of the town's inhabitants who favour the university moving away, but this simmering tension threatens to break into violence when a well-known tradesman is found

dead in one of the colleges.


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John Grisham The fugitive

He was supposed to be having fun with his friends, not playing detective and stalking a serial killer. Theodore Boone - teenage lawyer and courtroom hero - is on a class trip seeing the sights of the capital city. But he hadn't counted on seeing the most wanted man in the history of his home town, Strattenberg. Suddenly Theo is

caught in the hunt for an accused murderer, alongside the FBI.

Laura Hamilton Dead Ice

Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton returns with another exciting, thrilling and addictive adventure for her vampire hunting heroine

Olia Hercules Mamushka 641.5947

This title features everything from Moldovan giant cheese twists and Ukrainian buns with potatoes & shallots to garlicky Georgian poussins with spicy plum chutney and Armenian pickled wet garlic; to Napoleon cake, wasp nest buns and apricot & sour cherry pie. To top it off, why not enjoy a digestif of Winter

punch or blackcurrant vodka? Olia Hercules will entice you with evocative new flavours and ingredient combinations that will leave you asking yourself why you haven't been eating Ukrainian food all your life!

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David Hewson The flood

Florence, 1986. A seemingly inexplicable attack on a church fresco of Adam and Eve brings together an unlikely couple: Julia Wellbeloved, an art student, and Pino Fratelli, a semi-retired detective who longs to be back in the field. Their investigation leads them to the secret society that underpins the city: an elite underworld of excess,

violence, and desire.

Jack Higgins Rain of the dead

A storm is coming for Sean Dillon and company in this new thriller of murder, terrorism and revenge. It begins with the attempted assassination of the ex-President of the United States. Only the presence of Sean Dillon and the fellow members of the 'Prime Minister's Private Army' prevents it from becoming a bloodbath.

Matt Hilton The devil’s Anvil

Accepting the task of protecting Billie Womack is a no-brainer for ex-counterterrorist soldier Joe Hunter, but it comes with its own set of complications. Billie's husband, Richard, stole thirty million dollars from some violent people. He apparently died in a car crash with Billie's daughter, Nicola, during a desperate attempt to elude his pursuers.


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Antonia Hodgson The last confession of Thomas Hawkins

Spring, 1728. A young, well-dressed man is dragged through the streets of London to the gallows at Tyburn. The crowds jeer and curse as he passes, calling him a murderer. He tries to remain calm. His name is Tom Hawkins and he is innocent. Somehow he has to prove it,

before the rope squeezes the life out of him.

Jillian Hoffman All the little pieces

Faith Saunders is the perfect wife, mother and sister - loved and admired by all who know her. One night will change everything. As she drives home in the pouring rain, a dishevelled young woman appears out of nowhere, pleading for help. The isolated stretch of road is dark, and with her four-year-old daughter Maggie asleep in the

backseat, Faith refuses to let the stranger in

Gill Hornby All together now

The small town of Bridgeford is in crisis. The high street is half empty, businesses are closing and the idea of civic pride seems old-fashioned to the commuters rushing home from work. Somehow, it seems to have lost its heart. But there is one thing that might just bring the town together - music. The Bridgeford Community Choir has a chance of winning the county championship. First

though, the small band of singers must find a lot of new members- and a whole new sound!

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Alex Hourston In my house

In the queue for the toilets at Gatwick, a teenage girl catches 57-year-old Margaret Benson's eye in the mirror and mouths the word 'help.' Margaret's reaction leads to the dramatic rescue of the teenager from her trafficker and Margaret becomes a hero. But when the story gets picked

up by the papers, Margaret is panicked by the publicity, as well as the strange phone calls she begins to receive

Stephen Hunt Foul tide’s turning

Jacob Carneham rescued his son from slavery but he may have started a war - one in which he is hopelessly overmatched - and his wits and ruthlessness will only take him so far. Carter Carneham has gone from slave to revolutionary - but what will his ideas be worth when they come under fire?

Anna Jacobs Legacy of Greyladies

Olivia Hanbury's work brings her to Greyladies, where she meets Phoebe, who seems to be the owner. She loves the old house on sight and becomes friendly with Phoebe. But not everyone approves of what Olivia is doing and she makes enemies as well as friends.


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Stephen Jarvis Death and Mr Pickwick

The story of a sporting-cum-drinking club presided over by fat, loveable Mr Pickwick, and assisted by his cockney manservant Sam Weller, 'The Pickwick Papers' soon became a popular sensation, outselling every other book except the Bible and Shakespeare's plays.

Michael Jecks Blood on the sand

Calais, 1346. Berenger Fripper and his men are stationed in the ancient port city, a city under English control and surrounded by enemies. They are here to defend their newly won territory from the French and their allies the Genoese. Enemies are all about them, but there is also trouble within. Someone in the vintaine is leaking vital

information to the French, jeopardizing not only the safety of the men but also the future of the war, and Berenger must find out who before it's too late

Adam Karlin Florida

917.59

This guide to Florida is full of helpful advice on what to see, where to go, local customs, where to stay and other useful hints for the traveller

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M.R.C. Kasasian Death descends on Saturn Villa

Gower Street, 1883: March Middleton is the neice of London's greatest (and most curmudgeonly detective, Sidney Grice. She has just discovered a wealthy long-lost relative she never knew she had, but when this newest family member meets with a horrible death, March is in the frame for murder -

and only Grice can prove her innocence.)

Jessie Keane Dangerous

1953. Fifteen-year-old Clara Dolan's world is turned upside down following the shock death of her mother. Battling to keep what remains of her family together, Clara vows to keep her younger siblings, Bernadette and Harry, safe whatever the cost. With the arrival of the swinging sixties, Clara finds herself swept up in London's dark

underworld where the glamour of Soho's dazzling nightclubs sit in stark contrast to the terrifying gangland violence that threatens the new life she has worked so hard to build

Philip Kerr Hand of God

A London City player collapses in a crucial match in Athens. A heart attack? Or something more sinister? Scott Manson must find the truth before the rest of the team is put in danger.


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Stephen King Finders Keepers

John Rothstein is a Salinger-like icon who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn't published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Rothstein has stopped providing books, but because the nonconformist Jimmy Gold has sold out for a career in

advertising.

David Koepp Mortdecai

DVD

Johnny Depp and Ewan McGregor star in this action comedy directed by David Koepp. Suave English art dealer Charlie Mortdecai (Depp) is notorious amongst his people for being able to charm his way into or out of any situation

M.D. Lachlan Valkyrie’s Song

M.D. Lachlan's brooding and powerful tales of Vikings, Norse gods and werewolves has already won praise from, amongst others, Joe Abercrombie, Adam Roberts, Mike Carey and Chris Wooding. With an original and terrifying take on magic, an ability to bring the Norse gods to vivid life on the page, a keen historical eye and

a knack for fast-moving and brutally effective plots M.D. Lachlan's series has won over critics, fellow authors and readers alike

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Nick Lane The vital question

576.83

Why is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved into complex life just once in four billion years of life on earth - and all complex life shares many strange properties, from sex to ageing and death. If life evolved on other planets, would it be the

same or completely different? Nick Lane radically reframes evolutionary history, putting forward a cogent solution to conundrums that have troubled scientists for decades

Dennis LeHane World gone by

Joe Coughlin is untouchable. Once one of America's most feared and prominent gangsters, he now moves effortlessly between the social elite, politicians, police and the mob. He has everything he could possibly want; money, power, a beautiful mistress, and anonymity. But in a town that runs on corruption, vengeance and greed,

success can't protect Joe from the dark truth of his past

Max Leonard Lanterne Rouge

796.62

Lanterne Rouge tells the absurd and often inspirational stories of the last placed rider in the Tour de France.


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Nell Leyshon Memoirs of a dipper

Gary is a dipper, a burglar, a thief, and this is his story: fierce, unflinching, and at times unexpectedly tender, told in a voice that is hard to forget.

David Loades The Seymours of Wolf Hall

942.05

Although the Seymours arrived with the Normans, it is with Jane, Henry VIII's third queen, and her brothers - Edward, Duke of Somerset, and Thomas, Lord Seymour of Sudeley - that they became prominent. Jane bore Henry his longed-

for son, Edward VI, and both her brothers achieved prominence through her.

Sarah Lotz Day four

Four days into a five-day singles cruise on the Gulf of Mexico, the ageing ship Beautiful Dreamer stops dead in the water. With no electricity and no cellular signals, the passengers and crew have no way to call for help. But everyone is certain that rescue teams will come looking for them soon. All they have to do is wait.

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Kathleen MacMahon Long, hot summer

Nine Lives. Four Generations. One Family. The MacEntees are no ordinary family. Determined to be different to other people, they have carved out a place for themselves in Irish life by the sheer force of their own personalities. But when a horrifying act of violence befalls television star Alma, a chain of events is set in motion that will

leave even the MacEntees struggling to make sense of who they are.

Andy McNab State of emergency

3AM on a frozen winter's night. A small craft skims the Thames closing in on London's most exclusive new riverside hotel. On board is a lone assassin, his target - Britain's most powerful new politician. In a nation threatened by extremist jihadis and torn apart by civil unrest, Vernon Rolt has been catapulted into government on an

extreme anti-terror platform.

John Madden The second best exotic Marigold Hotel DVD

British comedy. Following on from their exploits in 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' (2011), Muriel (Smith) is now fully-fledged manager of the hotel owned by Sonny Kapoor (Patel) and Evelyn (Dench), along with new-found companion Douglas (Nighy) help to run the day-

to-day business. When Sonny realises that he has only one room left in his ever-expanding hotel, he decides to dream bigger than ever and open the Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.


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Cesca Major The Silent Hours

This is a sweeping, moving and romantic historical novel, based on a shocking true story: the massacre of an entire French village in the unoccupied zone during the Second World War.

Edward Marston Timetable of Death

1859. St Mary's Church, Spondon. A little girl playing hide-and-seek jumps into a freshly-dug grave to find a dead man already occupying it. It is the body of a senior director of the Midland Railway. Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming travel to Derbyshire to investigate

Simon Mawer Tightrope

Marian Sutro has survived Ravensbruck and is back in dreary 1950s London trying to pick up the pieces of her pre-war life. Returned to an England she barely knows and a post-war world she doesn't understand Marian searches for something on which to ground the rest of her life

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Olivier Megaton Taken 3

DVD

Action thriller sequel to 'Taken' (2008) and 'Taken 2' (2012) starring Liam Neeson and Famke Janssen. When former CIA agent Brian Mills (Neeson) discovers his wife Lenny (Janssen)'s dead body in their bedroom, he

quickly realises that he is being framed for her murder and goes on the run.

Freya North The turning point

Frankie Shaw is a single mum in pursuit of a fresh start. Moving from London to a small town in Norfolk with her two teenage kids will do them all good, she thinks, with dreams of seaside life filling her head. But the reality is harsher - isolated and struggling with writer's block, she regrets her decision to move her family to a run-down town

that sits uneasily alongside second homes and expensive boutiques.

Carla Norton Hunted

In this sequel to Norton's debut novel, 'The Edge of Normal', Reeve is moving closer to the normal life she so craves, no longer defined by the kidnapping that changed her life. But when her abductor, Daryl Wayne Flint, escapes from a hospital for the criminally insane, Reeve's new-found strength and tranquility are about to be

tested in ways neither she nor Flint could have imagined


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Sara Novic Girl at war

Growing up in Zagreb in the summer of 1991, 10-year-old Ana Juric is a carefree tomboy; she runs the streets with her best friend, Luka, helps take care of her baby sister, Rahela, and idolizes her father. But when civil war breaks out across Yugoslavia, soccer games and school lessons are supplanted by sniper fire and air raid drills.

Dean Palmer The Queen and Mrs Thatcher

941.085

This is the remarkable story of how the two most powerful women in Britain met and disliked each other on sight. For over a decade they quietly waged a war against each other on both a personal and political stage

Jeremy Pang Chinese unchopped

641.5951

In this volume, acclaimed teacher and School of Wok founder Jeremy Pang demystifies the secret traditions of Chinese cookery, revealing the core techniques that bring the authentic flavours of traditional Chinese cooking into

your own kitchen

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Adele Parks If you go away

1914. Vivian, a young, impassioned debutante is hurried into a pedestrian marriage to cover a scandal. War breaks out on her wedding day - domestically and across Europe. Quick to escape the disappointment of matrimony, her husband enlists and Vivian has no alternative than to take up running of his estate.

Tony Parsons The slaughter man

On New Year's Day, a wealthy family is found slaughtered inside their exclusive gated community in north London, their youngest child stolen away. The murder weapon - a gun for stunning cattle before they are butchered - leads Detective Max Wolfe to a dusty corner of Scotland Yard's Black Museum devoted to a

killer who - 30 years ago - was known as the Slaughter Man

James Patterson Truth or die

New York attorney Trevor Mann's world shatters when he receives a phone call telling him his girlfriend has been shot dead in a mugging. But the circumstances point to something more calculated than a random attack. Claire was a New York Times journalist and Trevor is convinced she had unearthed a secret so

shocking that she was murdered to keep it from coming to light. she was killed for. It's time to find out


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Nicky Pellegrino One summer in Venice

Addolorata Martinelli knows she should be happy. She has everything she thought she wanted - her own business, a husband, a child. So why does she feel as if something is missing? Then when her restaurant, Little Italy, is slated by a reviewer, she realises that she's lost the one thing she thought she could always count on, her love of

food.

Joanna Smith Rakoff Fortunate age

Like 'The Group', Mary McCarthy's classic tale about coming of age in New York, Joanna Smith Rakoff's richly drawn and immensely satisfying first novel details the lives of a group of Oberlin graduates whose ambitions and friendships threaten to unravel as they chase their dreams, shed their youth, and build their lives in Brooklyn

during the late 1990s and the turn of the twenty-first century

Eva Rice Love notes for Freddie

1967, Welwyn Garden City. Freddie is a dancer. He's also a dropout, a rebel and the son of a factory-worker. And no-one must know his secret. Marnie is a boarding-school girl. But now her family has lost their money, she's the most hated pupil at the local comp. Julie is a teacher. Yet once she was a great

dancer. And she still has something left to learn about love.

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Nora Roberts Hidden riches

Creative and spontaneous, antiques dealer Dora Conroy has an infectious enthusiasm for life. She also has an eye for quality, and her gorgeous shop in Philadelphia is overflowing with fascinating finds. But when - on impulse - she buys a few curiosities at auction, she gets a lot more than she bargained for.

Julia Rochester The house at the edge of the world

Twins Morwenna and Corwin are 18 when their father falls to his death near their beloved family home in Devon. While the twins flee in opposite directions to try to begin new lives, their mother, enraged by years of unhappy marriage, seeks freedom from the family home that has oppressed

her. But for all of them, the connections to the house - and family - are not so easy to break.

Craig Russell The ghosts of Altona

Four bodies are found. There is nothing to connect them, other than that they have been killed in the same way: quick, efficient, and bloodless, each victim stabbed with the same instrument. The press call the killer 'The Ghost', as he leaves no trace. Nor can Fabel see any hint of any psycho-sexual or other motive. The

victims are of both genders and from completely different walks of life.


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Frank Ryan Mysterious world of the human genome

611.018166

Your genome defines you at the most profound level. That same genome is present in every one of the approximately 100,000 billion cells that make you who you are as an individual member

of the human species.

Sunjeev Sahota The year of the runaways

Three young men live in a house in Sheffield, each in flight from India and in desperate search of a new life. Tarlochan, a former rickshaw driver, will say nothing about his past in Bihar and Avtar has a secret that binds him to protect the chaotic Randeep. Randeep, in turn, has a visa-wife in a flat on the other side of town

Juan Sanchez The double life of Fidel Castro 972.91

There are few living international figures who fascinate the world more than Fidel Castro. He is at once an infamous historical figure, a modern-day politician and one of the last of his kind. From the leader of a revolution to one who has been accused of dictatorship, exploiting the power of

his position to become one of the wealthiest leaders in the world, Fidel Castro's life away from the public eye has remained largely unscrutinised.

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Simon Scarrow Hearts of Stone

In the early 1930s schoolboys Peter Dorner and Andreas Papandraki became friends while Peter's father worked on an archaeological dig on the Greek island of Lefkas. Years later, at the height of the Second World War, they are fated to meet again. Now, though, Peter is an intelligence officer in the German army, brought in to help

suppress the partisans, while Andreas is the leader of the local resistance movement.

William Shaw A book of scars

London - Devonshire, 1969. Five years ago, teenager Alexandra Tozer was murdered on her family farm. Her sister Helen Tozer will never forget. Returning home after quitting the Met Police, she brings with her the recovering Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen, who begins to covertly investigate the unsolved case.

Debbie Shore Half yard Christmas

745.5

Are you craving a crafty, creative Christmas? Let Debbie Shore show you how to create all the accessories you'll need in this addition to her 'Half Yard' series. The book features six themed chapters: rustic, traditional,

contemporary, monochrome, Scandinavian, and kids. With over 30 simple, stylish projects requiring only half yards of fabric, this text will have you feeling festive in no time


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T.D. Spector The diet myth

612.3

Drawing on the latest science and his team's own pioneering research, Professor Tim Spector explores the hidden world of the microbiome, and demystifies the common misconceptions about fat, calories, vitamins and nutrients.

Stefan Spjut Stallo

1978. A young boy disappears without trace from a cabin in the woods. His mother claims that he was abducted by a giant. The boy is never found. The previous year, over in a Swedish National Park, a wildlife photographer takes a strange picture from his small airplane, of a bear running over the marshes. On its back sits a creature,

which the photographer claims is something extraordinary

Cath Staincliffe Half the world away

Newly graduated photography student Lori Maddox chooses to spend the year after university travelling and visits China where she finds casual work as a private English tutor. When she disappears, her parents Jo and Tom, who separated when Lori was a toddler, travel to China to find their daughter.

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Neal Stephenson Seveneves

A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space

Meera Syal The house of hidden mothers

Little India, East London: Shyama, aged 44, has fallen for a younger man. They want a child together. Meanwhile, in a rural village in India, young Mala, trapped in an oppressive marriage, dreams of escape. When Shyama and Mala meet, they help each other realise their dreams. But will fate guarantee them both happiness?

Peter A. Thiel Zero to one

658.11

Peter Thiel is the co-founder of PayPal and the first outside investor in Facebook. In the spring of 2012, he gave a lecture course at Stanford for software engineers, calling on them to think boldly and broadly about how they might use their skills to

shape the future, and imparting the lessons he has gleaned from his own experience


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Nicola Upson London rain

May, 1937, and London prepares to crown a new king. Bestselling writer Josephine Tey is in town to oversee a BBC radio production of her play, but adultery, treachery and pent-up jealousies are stalking the corridors of Broadcasting House. At the height of the Coronation celebrations, Detective Chief Inspector Archie Penrose is

called in to investigate the murder of one of the BBC's best-known broadcasters

Matthew Vaughn Kingsman

DVD

British action comedy starring Colin Firth and Taron Egerton. When Harry Hart (Firth), a top member of a secret spy agency in London, notices the potential in young street kid Eggsy (Egerton), he devotes his time to proving to his

colleagues that the wayward youth has what it takes

Tomothy Venning Lords of the Isles

941.1

In contrast to most of Scotland, the north-western coast and the islands beyond were a region of mixed culture and political control until well into the 16th century. The divergent influences of Celtic and Scandinavian culture were more

marked here than in the evolving mainland kingdom of Scotland.

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Andy Wachowski Jupiter ascending

DVD

In the future it is revealed that humans were not born on Earth but the planet was, in fact, seeded by the royal House of Abrasax, the most powerful alien dynasty, 100,000 years ago. After their mother dies, the Abrasax children and heirs

to Earth - Balem (Redmayne), Kalique (Tuppence Middleton) and Titus (Douglas Booth) - compete for their inheritance

Robert Weintraub No better friend

940.547

An extraordinary tale of the remarkable bond between one man and his dog during the Second World War.

Louise Welsh Death is a welcome guest

Magnus McFall was a comic on the brink of his big break when the world came to an end. Now, he is a man on the run and there is nothing to laugh about. Thrown into unwilling partnership with an escaped convict, Magnus flees the desolation of London to make the long journey north, clinging to his hope that the sickness has

not reached his family on their remote Scottish island.


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Laura Wilson The Wrong Girl

In 2006, three-year-old Phoebe Piper went missing on a family holiday. Despite massive publicity and a long investigation, no trace of her was ever found. Seven years later, Molly Jackson, aged ten and recently uprooted to a Norfolk village, finds her great uncle Dan dead in his bed. Molly remembers nothing of her early

years, but she's been sure for ages that she is Phoebe.

Kate Winter The happy ever afterlife of Rosie Potter (RIP)

When Rosie Potter wakes up one morning with what she assumes is the world's worst hangover, the last thing she expects is to discover that she's actually dead. With a frustrating case of amnesia, suspicious circumstances surrounding her untimely demise, and stuck wearing her ugliest

flannel PJs, she must figure out not only what happened last night, but why on earth she's still here

James Wyllie Codebreakers

940.48

The stories of Bletchley Park and the spies of the Second World War are well known, but it was Room 40 and their colleagues across the intelligence services that started it all. From the docks of New York City to shady Cairo hotels,

this is the gripping and fast-paced story of spies, codebreakers and saboteurs.

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