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MusicBraille musicChoralAntiphonae Beatae Mariae Virginis.The Marian Anthems are sung primarily by Roman Catholics particularly in Religious communities after Compline. Traditionally also said after Lauds and after each Hour when sung in choir if the choir was then to disperse. Open score. 1 volume. Price: £0.76; £1.26; £2.50. Order no: 25189102. Salve Regina: Hail Holy Queen.The Salve Regina, also known as the Hail Holy Queen, is a Marian hymn and one of four Marian antiphons sung at different seasons within the Christian liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church. The Salve Regina is traditionally sung at Compline during the time from the Saturday before Trinity Sunday until the Friday before the first Sunday of Advent. The Hail Holy Queen is also the final prayer of the Rosary. Open score. 1 volume. Price: £0.76; £1.26; £2.50. Order no: 25189302. Bizet, Georges. Habanera from Carmen (soprano chorus part).Open score. 1volume. Price: £0.76; £1.26; £2.50. Order no: 25322202 Mendelssohn, Felix. Hymn of praise: a sinfonia cantata, op.52 (1st tenor chorus part).For soli and chorus. Open score. 1 volume. Price: £0.76; £1.51; £4.00. Order no: 25255002. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Missa brevis in G major: K. 49 (soprano chorus part).For mixed chorus with orchestra. Open score. 1 volume. Price: £0.76; £1.26; £2.50. Order no: 25186902. Pizzetti, Ildebrando. Messa di requiem: per soli (1st tenor part).For unaccompanied voices. Contents: Requiem aeternam - Dies irae- Sanctus - Agnus Dei - Libera me. Open score. 1 volume. Price: £0.76; £1.26; £3.00. Order no: 25245602.
Rutter, John. A Gaelic blessing (soprano part).For mixed voices. Words adapted from an old Gaelic rune. Open score. 1 volume. Price: £0.76; £1.26; £2.50. Order no: 24977502. Schütz, Heinrich. Der 100 Psalm: For double chorus (1st soprano part).Open score. 1volume. Price: £0.76; £1.26; £2.50. Order no: 24845902. Vivaldi, Antonio. Gloria: for solo voices, mixed chorus and orchestra (tenor part).Open score. 1 volume. Price: £0.76; £1.26; £3.00. Order no: 25245702 . FluteEight folksongs for four flutes: arranged by Cecilia McDowall.Attractive folk songs from eight countries for school groups and concerts. Parts range from grades 2-5. Full score. 1 volume. Price: £ 0.76; £1.51; £ 4.00. Order no: 25397202 . Arnold, Malcolm. Sonatina for flute and piano: op. 19. Flute part.Single line. 1 volume. Price £0.76; £1.26; £2.50. Order no: 25397102. HarpAngels We Have Heard on High: traditional carol; arranged for harp by Sylvia Woods.Bar over bar. 1volume. Price: £0.76; £1.26; £2.50. Order no: 25370302. Ding dong merrily on high: traditional carol; arranged for harp by Sylvia Woods.Bar over bar. 1volume. Price: £0.76; £1.26; £2.50. Order no: 25370402. The twelve days of Christmas: traditional song; arranged for harp by Sylvia Woods.Bar over bar. 1volume. Price: £0.76; £1.26; £2.50. Order no: 25370202 OrchestralBernstein, Leonard. On the Waterfront: Symphonic Suite (opening).Bernstein’s only original film score composed in 1954 for Elia Kazan's film On the Waterfront. In 1955 he adapted the music into a continuous 20 minute suite of symphonic music. Full score.1 volume. £1.02; £2.65; £8.50. Order no: 25296402. PianoBach, J S. Partita no. I in B flat. BWV 825.The first of 6 Partitas which were collected into a single volume known as the Clavier-Ubung 1 (Keyboard Practice) in 1731. Bach chose to label this his Opus 1. Contents: Praeludium / Allemande / Courante / Sarabande / Menuet I-II / Gigue. Bar over bar. 1 volume. Price: £0.76p; £1.26; 3.00. Order no: 25414402.
Haydn, Joseph. Pieces for a musical clock: for the pianoforte, organ or harpsichord.The musical clock, a mechanically operated miniature organ, was the most popular mechanical musical instrument of the Rococo. Joseph Haydn wrote these pieces in around 1793 for a friend of his, a musician who wanted his musical clock to play nothing but music from the Viennese master. The transcription of these pieces for keyboard instruments now gives a chance to become acquainted with these delightful miniatures, besides providing interesting insights into a unique musical tradition. Bar over bar. 1 volume. Price: £1.26; £3.79; £11.00. Order no: 25331002. Lo, Vincent. Nokia Fugue: op. 31. 2008.A 3-part Bach-style fugue based on the Nokia mobile phone ring-tone. Bar over bar. 1 volume. Price: £0.76; £1.26; £2.50. Order no: 25460402. Giant printAdult fictionAdichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Americanah. 2013.General fiction.From the award-winning author of 'Half of a Yellow Sun', this is a powerful story of love, race and identity. As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self -assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. 5v.
Alleyn, Fredrica. Dark obsession. 2009. Erotic fiction.Interior designer Annabel Moss is delighted when a new assignment takes her to Leyton hall - home of the very wealthy Lord and Lady Corbett-Wynne. But the grandeur of the house and the impeccable family credentials are a façade for some shockingly salacious practices. Lord James spends an unusual amount of time in the stables while his idle son is only interested in his step-sister, Tania. Meanwhile, Lady Marina is harbouring her own dark secrets. Annabel is drawn into a world of decadence where anything is allowed as long as a respectable appearance prevails. Contains strong language and scenes of a sexual nature. 3v.
Anglada, Maria Ángels. The Auschwitz violin. 2010. General fiction.Imprisoned at Auschwitz, Daniel feels his humanity slipping away. Then a visit from a mysterious stranger changes everything, as Daniel's former identity as a crafter of fine violins is revealed to all. Interspersed with chilling Nazi documentation, this novel is a testament to the strength of the human spirit. 1v.
Archer, Jeffrey. Mightier than the sword. 2015. Family stories.The Clifton chronicles book 5. Story opens with an IRA bomb exploding during the MV Buckingham's maiden voyage across the Atlantic. Emma Barrington Clifton, chairman of Barrington Shipping, is facing the repercussions. Some board members feel she should resign, and Lady Virginia Fenwick will stop at nothing to cause Emma's downfall. Emma's husband, Harry Clifton, visits his publisher in New York, and becomes the new elected president of English PEN. He immediately launches a campaign for the release of a fellow author, imprisoned in Siberia for writing a book called Uncle Joe, a devastating insight into what it was like to work for Stalin. 4v.
Atwood, Margaret Eleanor. MaddAddam. 2013. Science fiction.Madd Addam trilogy book 3. Toby, a survivor of the man-made plague that has swept the earth, is telling stories. Stories left over from the old world, and stories that will determine a new one. Listening hard is young Blackbeard, one of the innocent Crakers, the species designed to replace humanity. Their reluctant prophet, Jimmy-the-Snowman, is in a coma, so they've chosen a new hero - Zeb, the street-smart man Toby loves. As clever Pigoons attack their fragile garden and malevolent Painballers scheme, the small band of survivors will need more than stories. 4v.
Backman, Fredrik. A man called Ove. 2015. Humorous fiction.There is something about Ove. At first sight, he is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet. He thinks himself surrounded by idiots - neighbours who can't reverse a trailer properly, joggers, shop assistants who talk in code, and the perpetrators of the vicious coup d'etat that ousted him as Chairman of the Residents' Association. He will persist in making his daily inspection rounds of the local streets. But isn't it rare, these days, to find such old-fashioned clarity of belief and deed? Such unswerving conviction about what the world should be and a lifelong dedication to making it just so? 4v.
Berne, Suzanne. The dogs of Littlefield. 2013. General fiction.Full of psychologists and college professors, Littlefield, Massachusetts is proud of its fine schools, its girls' soccer teams, its leafy streets and quaint village centre where George Washington once spent the night in what is now a yoga studio. In fact, a sociologist from the University of Chicago, Dr. Clarice Watkins, has moved to Littlefield for a year to study the elements of 'good quality of life'. Yet, no sooner has she arrived than someone begins poisoning the town dogs. Are the poisonings in protest to an off-leash proposal for Baldwin or the sign of a deeper disorder? 3v.
Bhutto, Fatima. The shadow of the crescent moon. 2013. General fiction.Fatima Bhutto's debut novel begins and ends one rain swept Friday morning in Mir Ali, a small town in Pakistan's Tribal Areas close to the Afghan border. Three brothers meet for breakfast. Soon after, the eldest, recently returned from America, hails a taxi to the local mosque. The second, a doctor, goes to check in at his hospital. His troubled wife does not join the family that morning. And the youngest, the idealist, leaves for town on a motorbike. Seated behind him is a beautiful, fragile girl whose life and thoughts are overwhelmed by the war that has enveloped the place of her birth. Three hours later their day will end in devastating circumstances. 2v.
Black, Benjamin. Christine Falls. 2013. Thriller.Quirke book 1. Quirke’s pathology department, set deep beneath the city, is his own gloomy realm: always quiet, always night, and always under his control. Until late one evening after a party he stumbles across a body that should not be there and his brother-in-law, falsifying the corpse’s cause of death. This is the first time Quirke has encountered Christine Falls, but the investigation he decides to lead into the way she lived and died uncovers a dark secret at the heart of Dublin’s high Catholic network; one with the power to shake his own family and everything he holds dear. 4v.
Caldwell, Ian. The rule of four. 2005. Thriller.First published in 1499, the 'Hypnerotomachia Poliphili' has baffled scholars ever since. When a Princeton graduate stumbles upon a means to decoding its hidden meanings, tragedy strikes. He and his friend have stumbled upon a secret worth dying to protect. 3v.
Cameron, Claire. The bear. 2014. Adventure.Anna is five. Her little brother, Stick, is three. They are camping with their parents in Algonquin Park, in three thousand square miles of wilderness. Something big is moving in the shadows. Their father is terrified. Their mother is screaming. Then, suddenly, silence. Alone in the woods, it is Anna who has to look after Stick, battling hunger and the elements to stay alive. 2v.
Carol, James. Broken dolls. 2014. Thriller.Jefferson Winter book 1. Jefferson Winter is no ordinary investigator. The son of one of America's most renowned serial killers, Winter has spent his life trying to distance himself from his father's legacy. Once a rising star at the FBI, he is now a freelance consultant. When he accepts a disturbing case in London, he arrives to find a city in the grip of a cold snap, with a psychopath on the loose who likes abducting and lobotomising young women. Winter must work out who is behind the attacks, before another young woman becomes a victim. As Winter knows all too well, however, not everyone who's broken can be fixed. 3v.
Child, Lee. Personal. 2014. Thriller.Jack Reacher; book 19. Jack Reacher is pulled back into service for the State Department and the CIA. Someone has taken a shot at the president of France. How many snipers can shoot from three-quarters of a mile with total confidence? Very few, but John Kott, an American marksman gone bad, is one of them. And after fifteen years in prison, he’s out, unaccounted for, and likely drawing a bead on a G8 summit packed with enough world leaders to tempt any assassin. If anyone can stop Kott, it’s Reacher, who has beat him before. Though he’d rather work alone, Reacher is teamed with Casey Nice, a rookie analyst who keeps her cool with Zoloft. 4v.
Clark, Mary Higgins. Daddy's gone a-hunting. 2014. Thriller.Designer Hannah Connelly is plunged into a web of horror when she learns that the family-owned furniture business founded by her grandfather has been levelled by an explosion. Everything has been destroyed; and worse, Hannah's younger sister, Kate, had jumped from a window and is now in a coma. Why would Kate be in the warehouse at night? What Hannah does not know is that Kate is most at risk from the people who have access to her in the hospital. 3v.
Clark, Mary Higgins. Second time around. 2004. Thriller.Lynn Spencer asks financial reporter Carley DeCarlo, her stepsister, to investigate the case of Lynn's missing husband, Nick. Nick's medical research company, which may have been on the verge of discovering a cure for cancer, has been left nearly bankrupt by Nick's disappearance along with substantial corporate assets. 3v.
Clark, Mary Higgins. The shadow of your smile. 2011. Thriller.At age eighty-three and in failing health, Olivia Morrow knows she has little time left. Years ago, at the age of seventeen, her cousin Catherine gave her son up for adoption and he grew up to become a world-famous scientist. Dr. Monica Farrell, Catherine's granddaughter, stands as the rightful heir to what remains of the Gannon family fortune. But in telling Monica who she really is and getting what is lawfully hers, Olivia would have to betray Catherine's wishes and reveal the story behind Monica's ancestry. And little does Olivia realize that Alex Gannon's grand-nephews will stop at nothing to silence her. 3v.
Clark, Mary Higgins. Where are you now? 2009. Thriller.It has been ten years since 21-year-old Mack went missing. A Columbia University senior, he walked out of his room and has not been seen since. Every year he calls his mother on her birthday, on his birthday, and on Mother's Day. He assures her he is fine, refuses to answer her frenzied questions, then hangs up. Mack's sister, Caroline, determined to solve the mystery surrounding her brother's disappearance, sets out to discover the truth. But with it comes a secret that someone will do anything to protect, leading her to a deadly confrontation with an unexpected enemy 3v.
Cornwell, Patricia Daniels. All that remains. 1993. Crime.Dr Kay Scarpetta book 3. A novel featuring Dr Kay Scarpetta, female Chief Medical Examiner. The bodies of young courting couples start turning up in remote woodland areas. When the latest girl to disappear turns out to be the daughter of one of America's most powerful women, Dr Scarpetta comes under political pressure. 3v.
Cussler, Clive. Shock wave: a novel. 1997. Thriller.Dirk Pitt book 13. Seymour Island, Antarctica, 2000. Dirk Pitt rescues Maeve Fletcher, a descendant of Betsy and Jess, after an unknown cataclysm kills thousands of marine animals and nearly two hundred people aboard a cruise ship. Pitt traces the carnage to the global diamond operations of Maeve's father, Arthur Dorsett, and her callous sisters. From a chilling escape at a high-security Canadian mine to a tiny boat adrift on lonely, shark-infested seas, the ingenious Pitt is racing to thwart Dorsett's ruthless plans before an unthinkable disaster claims millions of innocent lives. 5v.
Davis, Lindsey. Enemies at home. 2014. Historical crime.Flavia Albia mystery 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 the very lives of people who can't fight for themselves. 4v.
Doctorow, Cory. Makers. 2010. Science fiction.Perry and Lester invent things. All sorts of things. Seashell robots that make toast, Boogie Woogie Elmo dolls that drive cars. They also invent an entirely new economic system. 'New Work' is a New Deal for the technological era. Soon barefoot bankers are criss-crossing the nation, micro-investing in high-tech communal start-ups like Perry and Lester's. Together they transform a country, and journalist Suzanne Church is there to document it. But a new economic system requires a whole new belief system and there are plenty of non-believers out there. Contains strong language and scenes of a sexual nature. 7v.
Doerr, Anthony. All the light we cannot see: a novel. 2015. Literary fiction.Marie-Laure has been blind since the age of six. Her father builds a perfect miniature of their Paris neighbourhood so she can memorise it by touch and navigate her way home. But when the Nazis invade, they flee with a dangerous secret. Werner is a German orphan, destined to labour in the same mine that claimed his father's life, until he discovers a knack for engineering. His talent wins him a place at a brutal military academy, but his way out of obscurity is built on suffering. At the same time, far away in a walled city by the sea, an old man discovers new worlds without ever setting foot outside his home. But all around him, impending danger closes in. 5v.
Doyle, Arthur Conan. Tales of terror and mystery. 2007. Horror.Tales of Terror and Mystery is a volume collecting 12 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle and first published in 1922 by John Murray. The collection is divided in two parts: Tales of Terror with horror stories, and Tales of Mystery with stories with strange schemes. 2v.
Edwards, Kim. The Lake of Dreams. 2011. General fiction.After years abroad, Lucy returns home from Japan. She is newly haunted by her father's unresolved death a decade ago. Late one night, as she paces the hallways of her family's lakeside house, she discovers, locked in a window seat, a collection of objects that appear to be idle curiosities, but soon reveal a complex family history. 3v.
Enright, Anne. The green road. 2015. Literary fiction.The children of Rosaleen Madigan leave the west of Ireland for lives they never could have imagined in Dublin, New York and various third-world towns. In her early old age their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she's decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds. Her adult children come back for a last Christmas, with the feeling that their childhoods are being erased, their personal history bought and sold. A darkly glinting novel set on Ireland's Atlantic coast, 'The Green Road' is a story of fracture and family, selfishness and compassion. 3v.
Fairstein, Linda A. Death dance. 2006. Crime.Alexandra Cooper book 8. Teaming up with old friends and colleagues Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, Alex Cooper investigates the disappearance of a world-famous ballet dancer from the Metropolitan Opera House. Meanwhile, Alex and Mercer are also on the trail of a doctor who has been drugging and assaulting numerous women. 3v.
Falkner, John Meade. Moonfleet. 1995. Classic.The tiny village of Moonfleet nestles on the English coast, and every one of its inhabitants lives off the sea in one way or another. When local young man John Trenchard accidentally stumbles upon treasure stashed in the local crypt, he unknowingly enters the murky world of the smuggling trade and the local secret of Colonel John Mohune’s treasure. Trenchard is soon forced to flee England with a price on his head, leaving behind his beloved Grace and the life he hoped for. 2v.
Fielding, Joy. Heartstopper: a novel. 2013. Thriller.Torrance, Florida. Population: 4,160 is a safe place, where residents feel comfortable leaving their doors unlocked and allowing their children to run freely. It's here that high school English teacher Sandy Crosbie is establishing a new life for herself and her teenage children, following the painful and very public breakdown of her marriage. But when the body of the most popular girl at Torrance High is found buried in a shallow, swampy grave, everyone in the cosy community becomes a suspect. Now it seems that everyone has something to hide. When the body count rises to three, Sandy must do everything she can to help protect her family before it’s too late. 5v.
Goddard, Robert. Hand in glove. 2011. Thriller.Tristram Abberley was an acclaimed English poet of the 1930s whose legendary reputation was sealed when he died fighting for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. Nearly fifty years later, his sister Beatrix is brutally murdered in her seaside cottage. Her family are stunned by the crime - especially Beatrix's niece, Charlotte Ladram. But Charlotte has little time to mourn her aunt as fifty years of secrets begin to unravel. Beatrix is the victim of a dark conspiracy, one that her loved ones are powerless to defeat. A harrowing quest for answers begins, one that uncovers a shocking tale of wartime greed and treachery, and a vendetta seemingly without end. 6v.
Green, Anna Katharine. A strange disappearance. 2009. Classic crime.Ebenezer Gryce book 2. A young woman working as a domestic servant disappears from a wealthy household in New York City. The police investigating the disappearance have few clues, and the other servants working in the mansion, which is owned by a Mr. Blake, seem to know little about the woman in question. Did she leave voluntarily or was she kidnapped? This was the second book written by Green after her famous Leavenworth Case, and was originally published in 1880 by New York firm, A.L. Burt. 1v.
Groves, Annie. My sweet Valentine. 2012. Family stories.Article Row book 3. The women of No.13 Article Row know that joy is short lived in the London of 1941. As Valentine’s Day approaches, the perils of war threaten life as they know it and all matters of the heart. Tilly is in love with the dashing American journalist, Drew. Agnes is comforted in the arms of her caring train driver fiancé Ted. And Sally could not be happier with her surgeon boyfriend at her side. For Tilly’s mother, Olive, the cold heart that had been frozen since her partner died, is beginning to thaw but the man she pines for is betrothed to another. The net curtains have been twitching, and prying eyes have seen the way she looks at Sergeant Dawson. 4v.
Hammond, Alan. All's fair in love and law: small town tales of life, laughter and litigation. 2014. Country life fiction.This is a heart warming collection of stories that revolve around the lives of the good people of a rural English town and the lawyers to whom they look for help. Meet the lonely dentist and his noisy neighbours, the TV celebrity chef and his complex family, the policeman and his beloved budgies plus many others. They all bring their problems to Dufty Dufty Popple & Dunn to be resolved by the long-suffering and well-meaning members of the firm who all have their own lives to live. There are also the ever -present rumours concerning former partner Robert Popple, who departed from the firm some years previously in mysterious circumstances. 3v.
Hannah, Kristin. Night road. 2011. General fiction.Lexi and Mia are inseparable from the moment they start high school. Mia’s beloved, and incredibly good-looking, twin brother Zach, finds life much less complicated than his sister. It was expected that he’d always sail through life easily achieving whatever he wanted but then he fell in love. The summer they graduated is a time they will always remember, and one they could never forget. It is a summer of love, best friends, shared confidences and promises. Then one moment one night changes them all forever. As hearts are broken, loyalties challenged and hopes dashed, the time has come to leave childhood behind and learn to face the future. 5v.
Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia. Goodbye, Piccadilly. 2015. Historical fiction.War at home book 1. In 1914, Britain faces a new kind of war. For Edward and Beatrice Hunter, their children, servants and neighbours, life will never be the same again. For David, the eldest, war means a chance to do something noble; but enlisting will break his mother's heart. His sister Diana, 19 and beautiful, longs for marriage. She has her heart set on Charles Wroughton, son of Earl Wroughton, but Charles will never be allowed to marry a banker's daughter. Below stairs, Cook and Ada, the head housemaid, grow more terrified of German invasion with every newspaper atrocity story. 4v.
Hawkins, Paula. The girl on the train. 2015. Thriller.Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. 'Jess and Jason', she calls them. Their life - as she sees it - is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy. And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on, but it's enough. Now everything's changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she's only watched from afar. Now they'll see: she's much more than just the girl on the train. 3v.
Hayes, Samantha. Until you're mine. 2014. Thriller.Claudia seems to have the perfect life. She's pregnant, has a loving husband and a beautiful home. And then Zoe steps into her life. Zoe has come to help Claudia with her baby. But there's something about Zoe that Claudia doesn't like. And when she finds Zoe in her bedroom going through her possessions, Claudia's anxiety turns to fear. 4v.
Haynes, Natalie. The amber fury. 2014. General fiction.When Alex Morris loses her fiancé, she moves from London to Edinburgh where she takes a job at a Pupil Referral Unit, working with students excluded from other schools in the city. These are troubled, difficult kids and Alex is terrified of what she's taken on. There is one class - a group of five teenagers - who intimidate Alex and other teachers on The Unit. But with the help of the Greek tragedies she teaches, Alex gradually develops a rapport with them. Finding them enthralled by tales of cruel fate and bloody revenge, she even begins to worry that they are taking her lessons to heart, and that a whole new tragedy is being performed, right in front of her. 3v.
Hickson, Joanna. Red rose, white rose. 2014. Historical fiction.In fifteenth century England the Neville family rules the north with an iron fist. Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmorland, a giant of a man and a staunch Lancastrian, cunningly arranges marriage between his youngest daughter, nine-year-old Cicely, and his ward Richard, the thirteen-year -old Duke of York, England's richest heir. Born of Lancaster and married to York, the willowy and wayward Cicely treads a hazardous path through love, loss and imprisonment and between the violent factions of Lancaster and York , as the Wars of the Roses tear England’s ruling families apart. 5v.
Hornby, Nick. Funny girl. 2014. General fiction.Barbara Parker is Miss Blackpool of 1964, but she doesn't want to be a beauty queen. She only wants to make people laugh. So she leaves her hometown behind, takes herself off to London, and lands a life-changing audition for a new BBC comedy series. Overnight she becomes Sophie Straw: charming, gorgeous, destined to win the nation's hearts. Funny Girl is the story of a smash-hit TV show and the people behind the scenes. The show's success continues rocketing and the cast and crew are having the time of their lives. But when the script begins to get a bit too close to home, and life starts imitating art, they all face a choice. 4v.
Horowitz, Anthony. Moriarty. 2014. Historical crime.Anthony Horowitz's Sherlock Holmes book 2. Sherlock Holmes is dead. Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. The death of Moriarty has created a poisonous vacuum which has been swiftly filled by a fiendish new criminal mastermind who has risen to take his place. Ably assisted by Inspector Athelney Jones of Scotland Yard, Frederick Chase must forge a path through the darkest corners of the capital to shine light on this shadowy figure, a man much feared but seldom seen. 3v.
Hyland, M. J. This is how. 2010. General fiction.All actions have consequences. This is how life goes. Patrick is a loner. An intelligent but disturbed young man struggling to find his place in the world. He ventures out on his own and as he begins to find happiness commits an act of violence that sends his life horribly and irreversibly out of control. But should a person's life be judged by a single bad act? 4v.
Jardine, Quintin. Mathew's tale. 2014. Historical fiction.1818, Carluke, Lanarkshire. Mathew Fleming returns home to Scotland following heroic service at the Battle of Waterloo. After seven years away, he is a ghostly presence to those he left behind. But Mathew is ambitious and soon becomes a man of influence in his county and beyond. Yet through all his success, he still hides the loss of his one true love. When a terrible act of murder occurs, Mathew must choose between the rule of blood and the rule of law. And as a man of honour with a warrior's instincts, he embarks on a journey of vengeance that will test every sinew of his faith in mankind. 3v.
Johnson, Milly. The teashop on the corner. 2014. Chick lit.At her beloved husband's funeral, Carla Pride discovers that Martin never divorced his first wife and has been living a double life with her for years. And his other wife, Julie Pride, is determined to take everything from Carla - her home, her money, and her memories. When Will Linton's business goes into receivership he at least thinks that with the support of his trophy wife Nicole he will rise to the top again. But Nicole isn't going to stick around with 'a loser' and Will finds himself at rock bottom. 4v.
Joyce, Rachel. The love song of Miss Queenie Hennessy. 2014. General fiction.Harold Fry book 2. When Queenie Hennessy discovers that Harold Fry is walking the length of England to save her, and all she has to do is wait, she is shocked. Her note to him had explained she was dying from cancer. How can she wait? A new volunteer at the hospice suggests that Queenie should write again; only this time she must tell Harold the truth. Composing this new message, the volunteer promises, will ensure Queenie hangs on. It will also atone for the secrets of the past. This is that letter. 3v.
Kidd, Sue Monk. The invention of wings. 2014. Historical fiction.Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls of the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women. On Sarah’s eleventh birthday she is given ownership of ten year old Handful, who is to be her handmaid. Following crushed hopes, betrayal, unrequited love, and ostracism she leaves Charleston to join her fearless younger sister, Angelina, as one of the early pioneers in the abolition and women’s rights movements. 4v.
King, Stephen. Firestarter. 2011. Horror/Chilling classic.This is the story of a sinister government agency, a fateful drug experiment, and a pigtailed girl named Charlie, who has an unimaginably terrifying gift. First, a man and a woman are subjects of a top-secret government experiment designed to produce extraordinary psychic powers. Then, they are married and have a child, a daughter. Early on the daughter shows signs of a wild and horrifying force growing within her. Desperately, her parents try to train her to keep that force in check, to “act normal.” Now the government wants its brainchild back, for its own insane ends. 5v.
Lalami, Laila. The moor's account. 2015. Historical fiction.In 1527 the Spanish conquistador Pánfilo de Narváez arrived on the coast of modern-day Florida with hundreds of settlers, and claimed the region for Spain. Almost immediately, the expedition was decimated by a combination of navigational errors, disease, starvation and fierce resistance from indigenous tribes. Within a year, only four survivors remained: three noblemen and a Moroccan slave called Estebanico. The official record, set down after a reunion with Spanish forces in 1536, contains only the three freemen's accounts. The fourth, to which the title of Laila Lalami's novel alludes, is Estebanico's own. 4v.
McCall Smith, Alexander. Emma. 2014. General fiction.Fresh from university, Emma Woodhouse triumphantly arrives home in Norfolk ready to embark on adult life with a splash. Her sister has been whisked away to London. Her astute governess is at a loose end. Someone is needed to rule the roost and young Emma is more than happy to oblige. As she gets her fledging design business off the ground, there is plenty to delight her in the buzzing little village of Highbury. There is only one person who can play with Emma's indestructible confidence, her old friend and inscrutable neighbour George Knightley; has Emma finally met her match? 4v.
McDermid, Val. Northanger Abbey. 2014. General fiction.Seventeen-year-old Catherine 'Cat' Morland has led a sheltered existence in rural Dorset, a life entirely bereft of the romance and excitement for which she yearns. So when Cat's wealthy neighbours, the Allens, invite her to the Edinburgh Festival, she is sure adventure beckons. Edinburgh initially offers no such thrills: Susie Allen is obsessed by shopping, Andrew Allen by the Fringe. A Highland Dance class, though, brings Cat a new acquaintance: Henry Tilney, a pale, dark-eyed gentleman whose family home, Northanger Abbey, sounds perfectly thrilling. And an introduction to Bella Thorpe, who shares her passion for supernatural novels. 3v.
Mendelson, Charlotte. Almost English. 2013. General fiction.Home is a foreign country: they do things differently there. In a tiny flat in West London, 16-year-old Marina lives with her emotionally delicate mother, Laura, and three ancient Hungarian relatives. Imprisoned by her family's crushing expectations and their fierce un-English pride, by their strange traditions and stranger foods, she knows she must escape. But the place she runs to makes her feel even more of an outsider. At Combe Abbey, a traditional English public school for which her family have sacrificed everything, she realises she has made a terrible mistake. 3v.
Moriarty, Liane. The last anniversary. 2014. Chick lit.73 years have passed since sisters Rose and Connie found an abandoned baby in the only other house on their little island, Scribbly Gum. With both parents vanished without a trace, Rose and Connie made the decision to take the baby in as their own. And since then the 'Munro Baby Mystery' has brought them fame and fortune. But now, with Connie dead and outsider Sophie Honeywell inheriting her home, Rose begins to wonder if they made the right decision all those years ago. With the anniversary looming how much longer can they cover up the lie that has sustained their little community for four generations? 5v.
Perry, Anne. A New York Christmas. 2014. Historical crime.Christmas novellas book 12. Thomas Pitt's daughter Jemima, now a young woman, leads the cast of Anne Perry's enthralling festive mystery. In New York, at the turn of the century, where new American money and old English aristocracy collide, a young bride's secret past could destroy her future. Jemima, in America as a chaperone until her friend's wedding, is instead drawn into the crisis, and must decide whom to trust, and how to thread her way through the dangerous streets of this cold, brash new city. 1v.
Quindlen, Anna. Still life with bread crumbs. 2014. General fiction.'Still Life with Bread Crumbs' begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendent, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled the city for the middle of nowhere. There she discovers, in a tree stand with a roofer named Jim Bates, that what she sees through a camera lens is not all there is to life. 3v.
Reichs, Kathy. Bones never lie. 2014. Crime.Temperance Brennan book 17. For a decade, Temperance Brennan has been haunted by the one who got away. The killer of young women. The monster. And the one who has now come back. Feeding on fear, grief, and rage. Killing again. Killing girls. Getting closer. Coming for Tempe. 4v.
Robinson, Marilynne. Lila. 2014. General fiction.Gilead book 3. Lila, homeless and alone after years, steps inside a small-town Iowa church and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister, John Ames, and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of her life of suffering that preceded her newfound security. Neglected as a toddler, Lila was rescued by Doll, who brought her up in a life on the run, living hand-to-mouth. But these times were also laced with moments of joy and love. When Lila arrives in Gilead, she struggles to harmonize the days of hardship with the gentle worldview of her husband which paradoxically judges those she loves. 3v.
Robinson, Peter. Abattoir blues. 2015. Crime.Inspector Banks book 22. When two boys vanish under mysterious circumstances, the local community is filled with unease. And when a caravan belonging to one of the youths is burned to the ground, and a bloodstain is discovered in a disused World War Two hangar nearby, things quickly become much more sinister. Assigned to the case, DCI Banks and his team are baffled by the mystery laid out before them. But when a motor accident throws up a gruesome discovery, the investigation spins into a higher gear and in another direction. 4v.
Sendker, Jan-Philipp. The art of hearing heartbeats: a novel. 2013. Romance.A poignant love story set in Burma, 'The Art of Hearing Heartbeats' spans the decades between the 1950s and the present. When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be - until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago, to a Burmese woman they have never heard of. Intent on solving the mystery and coming to terms with her father's past , Julia decides to travel to the village where the woman lived. There she uncovers a tale of unimaginable hardship, resilience, and passion that will change her life once more. 3v.
Seymour, Gerald. Rat run. 2014. Thriller.When Malachy Kitchen, an intelligence officer in Iraq, is accused of running away in the face of enemy fire, his career is left in tatters. Kicked out of the army, Malachy sinks into despair. He becomes an isolated recluse in a drug-infested London estate. But the mugging of an elderly widow by addicts draws him into a fight to regain his lost pride. His target is the network of narcotics traders. Pushers, dealers and suppliers all form part of that network, and at their head is Ricky Capel, a crime baron responsible for importing hard drugs into the UK. Untouchable up to now, Capel will have to confront an enemy more driven than any that have come before. 5v.
Sparks, Nicholas. The longest ride. 2015. Romance.91-year-old Ira Levinson is in trouble. Struggling to stay conscious after a car crash, with his mind fading, an image of his beloved, and long-dead, wife Ruth appears. Urging him to hang on, she lovingly recounts the joys and sorrows of their life together – how they met, the dark days of WWII, and its unrelenting effect on their families. A few miles away, college student Sophia Danko meets the young, rugged Luke and is thrown into a world far removed from her privileged school life. However, Luke has a secret which threatens it all. Two couples, separated by years and experience are about to converge in the most unexpected and shocking of ways. 4v.
Steel, Danielle. Fine things. 1988. Romance.Living on the crest of a highly successful career, he was moving too fast to realise that he had everything - except what he wanted most. Sent to San Francisco to open the smartest department store in California, Bernie Fine becomes aware of the hollowness of his personal life. Despite his success he grows increasingly disenchanted with his existence - until five-year-old Jane O'Reilly gets lost in the store. Through Jane, Bernie meets her mother Liz, who finally offers him the possibility of love. But the rare happiness they find together is disrupted by tragedy and Bernie must face the terrible price we sometimes have to pay for loving. 4v.
Strout, Elizabeth. The Burgess boys. 2013. Family stories.Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim and Bob Burgess escaped from their hometown for New York City as soon as they possibly could. Jim, a sleek, successful corporate lawyer, has belittled his bighearted brother their whole lives, and Bob, a legal aid attorney who idolises Jim, has always taken it in his stride. But their long-standing dynamic is upended when their sister, Susan - the sibling who stayed behind - urgently calls them home. 4v.
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