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Talking BooksAdult fictionAllen, Louise. A Rose for Major Flint. 2015. Mills and Boon romance. TB22290.Brides of Waterloo; book 3. "I fight dirty, I kill for a living and I'm not capable of being faithful". The words might come straight from Major Adam Flint’s mouth, but they certainly don’t describe the man who saved vulnerable Rose’s life. Yes, Flint is illegitimate, a roughened soldier and an incorrigible rake but Rose has never met a man so defined by honour. Read by Melissa Woodbridge. 7 hours 11 minutes. Bakker, Gerbrand. June. 2015. Literary fiction. TB22640.On a hot summer’s day in June 1969 everyone is gathered to welcome Queen Juliana. It would have been an unforgettable day of celebration if only the baker hadn’t been running late with his deliveries and knocked down Hanne, playing on the roadside, with his brand-new VW van. Years later, Jan Kaan arrives on a hot day in June in order to tidy his sister’s grave, and is overcome again with grief and silent fury. Isn’t it finally time to get to the bottom of things? Read by Mark Elstob. 8 hours 57 minutes. Barclay, Alex. Blood runs cold. 2013. Thriller. TB22426.Ren Bryce; book 1. When the body of FBI agent Jean Transom is found on the frozen slopes of Quandary Peak, the nearby town of Breckenridge, Colorado, becomes the focus of a major investigation. A quiet, dedicated agent on the surface, it soon becomes clear that there was another side to Jean. And who better to uncover it than Special Agent Ren Bryce, an expert in violent crime and a woman with secrets of her own; secrets that could compromise the entire investigation and put an end to her career. Her boss, her informant, her colleagues, her ex– Ren needs to know who she can trust because the last person she can trust is herself. Read by Penelope Rawlins. 11 hours 27 minutes. Bennett, Vanora. The White Russian. 2014. General fiction. TB22427.Evie, a rebellious young American leaves New York in search of art and adventure in jazz-age Paris, where her grandmother lives. But on arrival, her grandmother's sudden death leaves Evie compelled to carry out her dying wish: to find a man from her past called Zhenya. The quest leads Evie deep into the heart of the Russian émigré community of Paris. With the world on the brink of war, she becomes embroiled in murder plots, conspiracies and illicit love affairs and nothing is as it seems. Read by Laurel Lefkow. 9 hours 34 minutes. Booth, Stephen. Scared to live. 2007. Crime. TB22552.Ben Cooper and Diane Fry; book 7. An assassination in the night, the victim a middle-aged woman, but can she really be quite as innocent as she seems? The death of Rose Shepherd swarms with questions, unlike the deaths of a woman and her two children in a house fire. Then DS Fry discovers a link between the two cases, that crosses the borders between nations, between right and wrong, between madness and sanity. She and Ben discover why some people are scared to live and others fated to die. Read by David Thorpe. 16 hours 2 minutes. Bradford, Barbara Taylor. Letter from a stranger. 2011. General fiction. TB22425.Justine is a documentary filmmaker who lost her cherished grandmother a decade ago, the only source of love and comfort in her life. But when she inadvertently opens a letter addressed to her mother, she discovers that not only is her grandmother alive, but that Deborah has deliberately distanced her from the family for all these years. Justine's search for her grandmother takes her to Istanbul, where she begins to uncover secrets that stretch all the way back to World War II. As layers of deception peel away, Justine begins to understand a woman she never really knew. Read by Sarah Le Fevre. 14 hours 56 minutes. Britton, Fern. Hidden treasures. 2012. Chick lit. TB22431.Helen Merrifield decides to start afresh and put her old life behind her in the picture-postcard Cornish village of Pendruggan. Throwing herself into the local scene, Helen finds herself at the mercy of the rather desperate Vicar, but she is secretly drawn to the brooding local historian, Piran. Meanwhile, Helen’s best friend, Penny, decides that the village is the perfect setting for her new TV series. When the cast and crew descend, the village is thrown into a tizzy. Read by Fern Britton. 8 hours 12 minutes. Brown, Benita. A safe harbour. 2006. Historical romance. TB22269.Cullercoats Bay, 1895. Kate Lawson is eighteen when the sea claims her beloved and leaves her with a broken heart and a shameful secret. Banished from home by her violent father, Kate relies on the kindness of her aunt, until she too is cruelly taken from her. When Kate meets Richard Adamson, the owner of a fleet of steam trawlers, she knows she should despise the man who's stealing the livelihood of hardworking fisherfolk yet she finds herself falling in love with him. Has Kate found her safe harbour at last, or will the sins of the past destroy her chance for happiness? Read by Elizabeth Proud. 15:45 hours minutes. Burrows, Annie. A mistress for Major Bartlett. 2015. Mills and Boon romance. TB22289.Brides of Waterloo; book 2. Major Tom Bartlett is shocked to discover that the angel who nursed his battle wounds is Lady Sarah Latymor, his commanding officer’s virginal sister. One taste of her threatens both her impeccable reputation and his career. An honourable man would ask for her hand, but Bartlett is considered an unrepentant rake by polite society – sweet Sarah would be spurned as his mistress and even as his wife. He demands she leave, but Sarah is just as determined to stay, by his side and in his bed. Read by Melissa Woodbridge. 7 hours 8 minutes.
Camilleri, Andrea. The wings of the sphinx. 2012. Crime. TB22637.Inspector Montalbano; book 11. Things are not going well for Inspector Salvo Montalbano. His long-distance relationship with Livia is on the rocks, he feels himself getting even older and he's growing tired of the violence in his job. Then the dead body of a young woman is found in an illegal dump and Montalbano is propelled into the sex trade underworld. Read by Daniel Philpott. 5 hours 59 minutes. Cleeves, Ann. Thin air. 2014. Crime. TB22560.Shetland Island; book 6. A group of old university friends leave the bright lights of London and travel to Unst, Shetland's most northerly island, to celebrate the marriage of one of their friends. But late on the night of the wedding party, one of them, Eleanor, disappears - apparently into thin air. The following day, Eleanor's friend Polly receives an email. It appears to be a suicide note, saying she'll never be found alive. And then Eleanor's body is discovered, lying in a small loch close to the cliff edge. Detectives Jimmy Perez and Willow Reeves are dispatched to Unst to investigate. Read by Kenny Blyth. 10 hours 2 minutes. Clements, Rory. Revenger. 2011. Historical fiction. TB22435.John Shakespeare; book 2. 1592. England and Spain are at war, yet there is peril at home, too. The death of her trusted spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham has left Queen Elizabeth vulnerable. The quiet life of John Shakespeare is shattered by a summons from Robert Cecil, the cold but deadly young statesman who dominated the last years of the Queen's long reign, insisting Shakespeare re-enter government service. His mission: to find vital papers, now in the possession of the Earl of Essex. Sir Francis Walsingham has left Queen Elizabeth vulnerable. Read by Peter Wickham 13 hours 3 minutes. Coben, Harlan. The stranger. 2015. Thriller. TB22436.Adam Price has a lot to lose: a comfortable marriage to a beautiful woman, two wonderful sons, and all the trappings of the American Dream, a big house, a good job, a seemingly perfect life. Then he runs into the Stranger. When he learns a devastating secret about his wife, Corrine, he confronts her, and the mirage of perfection disappears as if it never existed at all. Soon Adam finds himself tangled in something far darker than even Corrine's deception, and realises that if he doesn't make exactly the right moves, the conspiracy he's stumbled into will not only ruin lives, it will end them. Read by Eric Myers. 10 hours 24 minutes. Corley, Elizabeth. Innocent blood. 2009. Crime. TB22437.DCI Andrew Fenwick; book 4. They watched as the car burnt. A smell of gasoline mingled with the throat-catching stench of melting rubber, almost masking the sickly sweet smell of roasting flesh. No one spoke. The time for recriminations and the appointment of blame would come. For now they were united by the need to cover up a crime and destroy the evidence. As DCI Fenwick investigates a powerful and predatory paedophile ring and Inspector Nightingale is left to deal with an ex-serviceman turned vigilante, they are both forced to ask themselves: when is a murderer not a murderer, and how far are they prepared to go to see justice done? Read by Jonathan Oliver. 17 hours 47 minutes. Cottam, Francis. The house of lost souls. 2009. Thriller. TB22438.The Fischer House was the scene of a vicious crime in the 1920s - a crime which still resonates as the century turns. At its heart was a beautiful, enigmatic woman called Pandora, a photographer of genius whose only legacy is a handful of photographs and the clues to a mystery. Paul Seaton was lured to the house ten years ago and escaped, a damaged man. Now three students will die unless he dares to go back. But this time he has Nick Mason at his side, and maybe Mason's military skills and visceral courage will be enough. Read by Peter Wickham. 12 hours 6 minutes. Cox, Maggie. A taste of sin. 2015. Mills and Boon romance. TB22545.Even before he strides into her London shop, billionaire restaurateur Gene Bonnaire’s merciless and seductive reputation precedes him. Antiques dealer Rose Heathcote has encountered men like him before and is determined never to give in to one again. Charismatic Gene always gets what he wants, and what he wants now is Rose’s shop for his new restaurant and its current alluring owner in his bed. Read by Dawn Murphy. 4 hours 47 minutes. Cussler, Clive. Sahara. 2008. Thriller. TB22514.Dirk Pitt; book 11. Egypt, 1996. Searching for a treasure on the Nile, Dirk Pitt thwarts the attempted assassination of a beautiful U.N. scientist who’s investigating a disease that is driving thousands of North Africans into madness, cannibalism, and death. The suspected cause of the raging epidemic is vast, unprecedented pollution that threatens to extinguish all life in the world’s seas. Pitt must escape capture and death at the hands of a ruthless West African dictator and French industrialist, and undertake a long, perilous journey across the merciless Sahara. Read by Jeff Harding. 20 hours 23 minutes. DeLaine, Alison. A wedding by dawn. 2015. Mills and Boon romance. TB22264.Lady India Sinclair will stop at nothing to live life on her own terms, even stealing a ship and fleeing to the Mediterranean. At last on her own, free to do as she pleases, she is determined to set her own course. There's only one problem. Nicholas Warre has made a deal with her father. To save his endangered estate, he will find Lady India, marry her and bring her safely back to England. And with thousands at stake, he doesn't much care what the lady thinks of the idea. But as the two engage in a contest of wills, the heat between them becomes undeniable. Read by Ceri Gifford. 9 hours 35 minutes. Delaney, Luke. Cold killing. 2013. Crime. TB22441.DI Sean Corrigan; book 1. A series of brutal killings leaves South London’s Murder Investigation Unit struggling to connect the crimes: no recognizable method; no forensic evidence; and the victims have nothing in common. DI Sean Corrigan’s troubled past has left him with an uncanny ability to identify the darkness in others. Sean knows these murders are the work of one man. As the violence escalates, Sean must find the evidence he needs to bring the perpetrator to justice –before the next attack hits too close to home. Contains strong language and violence. Read by Robin Bowerman. 13 hours 28 minutes.
Dickinson, Miranda. When I fall in love. 2013. Chick lit. TB22442.Elsie Maynard has a whole new life she never expected to have. From inadvertently founding a choir like no other with former 80s rock star Woody Jensen, to daring to date again, Elsie steps out into an unknown future that could include gorgeous designer Olly Hogarth, a man who seems intent on winning her heart. Elsie believes she is making the most of her life. But then a heartfelt request brings her to Paris and the last item on a very important list. Read by Penelope Rawlins. 13 hours 11 minutes. Doerr, Anthony. All the light we cannot see. 2014. Literary fiction. TB22201.Marie-Laure has been blind since the age of six. Her father builds a perfect miniature of their Paris neighbourhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. But when the Nazis invade, father and daughter 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. Read by Julie Teal. 17 hours 3 minutes. Douglas, Robert. Staying on past the terminus. 2012. General fiction. TB22443.18 Dalbeattie Street; book 2. Glasgow 1961. It is ten years since we last visited the close at 18 Dalbeattie Street in Maryhill. The stalwarts are still there. Ella, Drena, Rhea and 'Granny' Thomson (86). Irma the German war bride speaks fluent Scots nowadays. Well, 'Fluent' if you were brought up in the same close as the Broons and Oor Wullie. The new tenant, Frank Galloway knows all about trams, he's a driver. The other new arrival is Ruby Baxter who impresses no one with her attitude - as Granny Thomson says 'She's no better than she ought to be, that yin!' Read by Crawford Logan. 12 hours 15 minutes. Enright, Anne. The green road. 2015. General fiction. TB22046.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. 'The Green Road' is a story of fracture and family, selfishness and compassion. Read by Caroline Lennon. 9 hours 40 minutes. Ferrante, Elena. My brilliant friend. 2012. Literary fiction. TB22520.Neapolitan; book 1. The story begins in the 1950s, in a poor but vibrant neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing up on these tough streets two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else. As they grow, as their paths repeatedly diverge and converge, Elena and Lila remain best friends whose respective destinies are reflected and refracted in the other. They are likewise the embodiments of a nation undergoing momentous change. Read by Madeleine Brolly. 10 hours 59 minutes. Fox, Brian. A dollar to die for. 1980. Western. TB22401.The Man With No Name found his bounty-hungry guns pitted against the greed of three desperate professional killers who had parlayed the price on their heads - to $250,000 in homeless gold. This time The Man With No Name had no choice. He wanted the gold and the wanted men, so he joined the deadly trio in a murderous friendship based on greed and hate, which only one of the four could survive. Read by William Roberts. 4 hours 31 minutes. Frost, Jeaniene. Once burned. 2012. Fantasy. TB22510.Night Prince; book 1. After a tragic accident scarred her body and destroyed her dreams, Leila never imagined that the worst was still to come: a terrifying ability to channel electricity and to see a person's darkest secrets through a single touch. Leila is doomed to a life of solitude, until creatures of the night kidnap her, forcing her to reach out with a telepathic distress call to the world's most infamous vampire. Read by Kelly Burke. 9 hours 28 minutes. Galbraith, Robert. Career of evil. 2015. Crime. TB22900.A Cormoran Strike novel; book 3. When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible – and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality. With the police focusing on the one suspect Strike is increasingly sure is not the perpetrator, he and Robin take matters into their own hands, and delve into the dark and twisted worlds of the other three men. Read by Robert Glenister. 17 hours 58 minutes. Goddard, Robert. The ends of the Earth. 2015. Thriller. TB22247.James Maxted; book 3. July 1919. Ex-flying ace James 'Max' Maxted's attempt to uncover the secret behind the death of his father has seemingly ended in failure - and his own death. The trail uncovered by him leads to Japan and a mysterious prisoner held by Sir Henry Maxted's old enemy, Count Tomura. Unaware of Max's fate, the team he has recruited to finish the job are already there, where their paths cross that of former German spymaster, Fritz Lemmer, now rebuilding his spy network in the service of a new, more sinister cause. In the days and weeks ahead, the full truth of what occurred 30 years before will finally be laid bare. Read by Christopher Oxford. 13 hours 42 minutes. Green, Abby. An heir fit for a king. 2015. Mills and Boon romance. TB22656.While exiled King Alix Saint Croix lies in wait to reclaim his throne a mistress would provide a welcome distraction. He enters a Parisian perfume house to buy fragrance for a current lover and leaves with a powerful craving for another woman: stunningly exotic perfumer Leila Verughese. The very smell of Alix awakens Leila’s every nerve. If she’s going to give her innocence to anyone, who better? Leila’s life spirals out of control until she realises her power, she’s carrying a royal heir! Read by Lynsey Beauchamp. 6 hours 31 minutes. Gregory, Philippa. The king's curse. 2015. Historical fiction. TB22559.The cousins' war; book 6. The riveting story of Margaret Pole, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, and was one of the few surviving members of the Plantagenet dynasty after the Wars of the Roses. Plantagenet, once carried proudly by Margaret like a crown upon her head, is now, at the end of the 15th century, the most dangerous name in England. Read by Jilly Bond. 21 hours 33minutes. Gross, Andrew. The dark tide. 2008. Thriller. TB22657.Ty Hauck; book 1. For Karen Friedman's family, a string of bad luck is just the beginning. One morning her husband Charlie takes the train to work, straight into a lethal terrorist blast. When the Friedmans begin to receive terrifying threats Karen turns to Detective Ty Hauck for help. Hauck’s family fell apart too, after a tragic accident he still blames himself for. Now he’s determined to keep Karen’s family safe. But Hauck doesn’t know about how people who investigate Charlie have a way of ending up dead. Read by Michael Fitzpatrick. 11 hours 56 minutes. Gross, Andrew. Don't look twice. 2009. Thriller. TB22658.Ty Hauck; book 2. For local detective Ty Hauck, life is good. But then a day trip with his daughter turns into a bloodbath. Inner-city violence seems to have invaded his quiet Greenwich suburb. Or does someone just want it to appear that way? If so, it’s someone powerful enough to kill without fear of reprisal. Ty suspects things go deeper, maybe to Washington and the Middle East. And everyone wants him to stop looking. But with his estranged brother, Warren, in danger, Ty can’t turn away. Read by Michael Fitzpatrick. 10 hours 9 minutes. Gross, Andrew. 15 seconds. 2012. Thriller. TB22452.Henry Steadman is stopped by the police for a minor traffic violation and pulled from his vehicle, handcuffed, and told he is under arrest. Then a blue sedan drives up, a police officer is shot dead, and the car speeds away, leaving behind one suspect: Henry. Suddenly his life becomes an unrelenting chase to stay alive. Henry is the target of a massive police manhunt while also being pursued by a cunning, unnamed predator bent on terrifying vengeance. Read by Christian Hoff. 11 hours 2 minutes. Grylls, Bear. Ghost flight. 2015. Adventure. TB22457.Ghost flight; book 1. Haunted by his wife and son's brutal abduction and murder, ex-soldier Will Jaeger runs to the ends of the earth to recover and to hide. But even there he is found, and compelled to undertake one last mission, and to confront a savage past he can barely even remember. Jaeger agrees to lead an expedition into the Mountains of the Gods in the remote Amazon jungle. At the dark heart of this real life Lost World lies a mystery WWII warplane, one that harbours a secret so explosive its very discovery may tear the world asunder. Read by Rupert Degas. 14 hours. Hampton, Susanne. A baby to bind them. 2015. Mills and Boon romance. TB22660.Neonatal nurse Jade Grant's former wild-child existence ended the day she became sole guardian to her newborn niece. Three years on and she's Miss Sensible'; she'd wrap Amber in cotton wool if she could. And she definitely doesn't have time for men. Especially not Amber's devil-may-care uncle, Mitchell Forrester, no matter how gorgeous he is. But as Mitchell reminds Jade how to live a little, and she sees the way he lights up Amber's eyes, she begins to wonder. Perhaps her perfect family was right there all along! Read by Lynsey Beauchamp. 5 hours 29 minutes. Henry, Veronica. The birthday party. 2015. Chick lit. TB22460.Secrets, rivalry, glamour - it's time for the party of the year. Delilah has lived out her tempestuous marriage to hell-raiser Raf in the glare of the media spotlight. Now planning a milestone birthday, she has more on her mind than invitations. Raf has been offered a part in a movie he can't refuse. But will he succumb to the temptations he's struggled to resist for the last ten years? Delilah's three daughters are building careers of their own, only too aware that the press are waiting for them to slip up. It's the perfect recipe for a party like no other. Read by Penelope Rawlins. 13 hours 53 minutes. Hensher, Philip. King of the Badgers. 2011. General fiction. TB22461.Hanmouth: a quiet, picturesque English seaside town. When an 8-year-old girl goes missing from the estate on the fringes of the town, Hanmouth becomes the centre of national attention. Under the scrutiny of the investigation the extraordinary individual lives of the community are laid bare: the passions of a quiet international aid worker; a recently widowed old woman’s late discovery of sexual gratification; and a memorable party, held by the Bears. Contains strong language and scenes of a sexual nature. Read by Mike Rogers. 14 hours 55 minutes.
Hislop, Victoria. The sunrise. 2015. General fiction. TB22557.In 1972, Famagusta in Cyprus is the most desirable resort in the Mediterranean, with Greek and Turkish Cypriots living and working side by side. Elsewhere on the island, there has been a decade of unrest and violence between the communities and in 1974, following a Greek military coup, Turkey invades the island to protect the Turkish Cypriot minority. As Famagusta is shelled, its population flees. In the now deserted city, just two families are left behind. This is the story of this group living in hiding. Read by Julia Franklin. 11 hours 58 minutes. Jones, Sadie. Fallout. 2014. General fiction. TB22465.Luke Kanowski is a young playwright: intense, magnetic, fleeing a disastrous upbringing in the North East. Arriving in London, he meets Paul Driscoll, an aspiring producer, and beautiful, fiery Leigh Radley. Luke, Paul and Leigh set up a radical theatre company. Nina Jacobs is a fragile actress, bullied by her mother and in thrall to a controlling producer. When Luke meets Nina he recognises a soul in danger and everything he has fought for is drawn into the heat of their collision. Read by Daniel Weyman. 10 hours 52 minutes. Kearsley, Susanna. The firebird. 2013. General fiction. TB22467.Slains; book 2. Nicola Marter was born with a gift. When she touches an object, she sometimes sees images; glimpses into its past, and of those who have owned it before. Born with this rare ability, Nicola sees it as something to keep hidden. But when a young woman arrives at the London gallery Nicola works at, offering a wooden carving for sale and claiming it belonged to Russia's Empress Catherine, Nicola faces a dilemma. With no proof of its past, Nicola's boss believes the carving, known as 'the Firebird', is worthless. But Nicola has held it, and she knows that the woman, who is in desperate need of money, is telling the truth. Read by Sally Armstrong. 16 hours 14 minutes. Kelly, Cathy. The house on Willow Street. 2012. Chick lit. TB22468.Welcome to Avalon: a quaint, sleepy town on the Irish coast. Nothing has changed here for generations – least of all the huge mansion on Willow Street; the house in which sisters Tess and Suki grew up. Now, years later, Tess is trying to save her marriage and protect her glamorous sister Suki who has come back home, dreams shattered. Similarly, Mara Wilson is seeking refuge from a broken heart at her Aunt Danae’s house. Danae, the inscrutable postmistress, is hiding some dark memories of her own. Now that the house is up for sale, change is blowing on the cold sea wind. Read by Amy Creighton. 14 hours 39 minutes. Kelly, Cathy. It started with Paris. 2015. Chick lit. TB22469.At the top of the Eiffel Tower, a young man proposes to his girlfriend, and in that second, everything changes, for the couple, but also for their families back in Ireland. Leila's been nursing a badly broken heart since her husband upped and left, but she's determined to put on a brave face for the bride. And head teacher Grace finds the impending wedding of her son means that she's spending more time with her ex-husband. After all those years apart, is it possible she's made a mistake? Read by Olivia Caffrey. 14 hours 53 minutes. Larkin, Philip. Jill. 2005. Literary fiction. TB22538.John Kemp is a young man from Huddlesford, Lancashire, who goes up to Oxford. Socially awkward and inexperienced, Kemp is attracted by the reckless and dissipated life of his roommate Christopher Warner, a well-off southerner who has attended a minor public school. The eponymous Jill is Kemp's imaginary sister, whom he invents to confound Warner. Kemp then discovers a real-life Jill called Gillian, the 15-year-old cousin of Warner's friend Elizabeth. Kemp becomes infatuated with Gillian, but his advances are thwarted by Elizabeth and rebuffed by Gillian. Read by Stephen Thorne. 8 hours 56 minutes. Luiselli, Valeria. The story of my teeth. 2015. General fiction. TB22521.Gustavo 'Turnpike' Sanchez is a man with a mission: he is planning to replace every last one of his unsightly teeth. Studying auctioneering under Grandmaster Oklahoma and the famous country singer Leroy Van Dyke, Highway travels the world, amassing his collection of 'collectibles' and perfecting his own specialty: the allegoric auction. In his quest for a perfect set of pearly whites, he finds unusual ways to raise the funds, culminating in the sale of the jewels of his collection: the teeth of the 'notorious infamous' - Plato, Petrarch, Chesterton, Virginia Woolf et al. Read by Sherrie Baines and Philip Bretherton. 4 hours 6 minutes. Mackay, Malcolm. The night the rich men burned. 2014. Thriller. TB22765.Two friends, Alex Glass and Oliver Peterkinney, look for work and for escape from their lives spent growing up in Glasgow's most desperate fringes. Soon they will become involved in one of the city's darkest and most dangerous trades. While one rises quickly up the ranks, the other will fall prey to the industry's addictive lifestyle. Before long, violence will spill out onto the streets, those at the top make deadly attempts to out-manoeuvre one another for a bigger share of the spoils. Peterkinney and Glass find themselves at the very centre of this war. Contains strong language and violence. Read by David Gallacher. 11 hours 37 minutes.
Mackay, Malcolm. The sudden arrival of violence. 2015. Thriller. TB22481.Glasgow trilogy; book 3. He's touching the front of his coat, feeling the shape of the gun. Should have got rid of it. On any other night, any other job, he would. This isn't any other job. This, he intends, will be his last. It begins with two deaths: a money-man and a grass. Deaths that offer a unique opportunity to a man like Calum MacLean. A man who has finally had enough of killing. Meanwhile two of Glasgow s biggest criminal organizations are at quiet, deadly war with one another. Read by Angus King. 9 hours 35 minutes. Maitland, Karen. The falcons of fire and ice. 2013. Historical fiction. TB22477.1564 and the Portuguese Inquisition ushers in an era of torture and murder. When the Royal Falconer is imprisoned on false charges to remove him from the inner circle of the boy King, the Inquisitors strike an impossible deal with his daughter, Isabela. Bring back two rare white falcons from Iceland within the year or her father dies. It is a journey that will take her into a dark and dangerous world filled with menacing people driven by fearful beliefs. And, unfortunately for Isabela, the Church has sent a companion to ensure she never returns. Read by David Thorpe. 17 hours 13 minutes. Mallory, Sarah. A lady for Lord Randall. 2015. Mills and Boon romance. TB22262.Brides of Waterloo; book 1. Independent schoolmistress Mary Endacott has no intention of ever surrendering to a man, especially when she meets stubborn yet infuriatingly handsome Lord Randall. But with a major battle fast approaching normal rules dissolve, and Mary gives herself to him. Justin is renowned for his authority on the battlefield, but Mary is a challenge of a whole new kind. He’s determined to seize every moment of happiness while he can, but when the fighting commences will the promise of Mary’s kiss be enough to keep him safe? Read by Melissa Woodbridge. 7 hours 21 minutes. Mieville, China. Looking for Jake and other stories. 2011. Fantasy. TB22266.This collection contains a novella and 13 short stories, of visionary cityscapes and urban paranoia, ghosts, monsters and impossible diseases. Step into a London ravaged by unearthly creatures at once utterly alien and chillingly familiar. The story in comic-strip form has been omitted from this recording. Contains strong language. Read by David Thorpe, Pip Brignall, Damian Lynch, and Steve Hodson. 10 hours 22 minutes. Millard, Joe. A coffin full of dollars. 1980. Western. TB22400.The Man With No Name is the fastest gun in the Southwest. Shadrach is a cunning killer, stalking the same human prey for the same prize in cash. These two bounty hunters have sworn to kill each other on sight. Apachito is a ruthless outlaw, and the price on his head is the greatest of all. The Man With No Name, Shadrach, and Apachito form a threesome, out for each other's blood, with a coffin full of dollars for the victor! Read by William Roberts. 6 hours 10 minutes. Mosby, Steve. Dark room. 2015. Crime. TB22483.For DI Andrew Hicks, solving a murder is logical: your first suspicions are usually right. So when the brutally beaten body of a young woman is found, his attention focuses closely on the ex-boyfriend. But then more bodies start appearing, all beaten beyond recognition, and there is no connection between any of the victims. To survive, Hicks must face not only a serial killer with no discernible motive, but the hidden darkness of his own past. Read by David Thorpe. 10:49 hours minutes. O'Donnell, Peter. Modesty Blaise. 2005. Crime. TB22677.In her first adventure for British Intelligence Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin must foil a multi-million pound diamond heist. They travel from London to the South of France, across the Mediterranean to Cairo before battling, against impossible odds, against a private army of professional killers. Read by Crawford Logan. 8 hours 30 minutes. Pammi, Tara. The Sicilian's surprise wife. 2015. Mills and Boon romance. TB22066.Stefan Bianco is a man with one thing on his mind. Revenge. And the last person he expects to see hanging on the arm of his nemesis is the stunning Clio Norwood, the only woman ever to resist his near-lethal brand of seduction. Clio's life has become a mere shadow of what it once was. But Stefan's searing gaze returns her to the fiery, passionate woman he once knew. Clio has the key to his revenge, and Stefan has the key to her freedom, but only if he agrees to her shocking proposal! Read by Laurel Lefkow. 5 hours 35 minutes. Pemberton, Margaret. A season of secrets. 2015. Family stories. TB22186.From the Great War, through the Jazz Age to the 1940s, this tale follows the entwined lives of the Fentons, an aristocratic family from Yorkshire. Thea, flouts the unwritten rules of her class by embarking on a love affair with Hal, the son of one of her father's tenant farmers. Carrie, her close childhood friend, has always been expected to marry Hal but when she goes into service she finds herself longing for the one person she can never hope to marry. Then there is Rozalind, their American cousin, who is secretly in love with a married U.S. senator. Her ambitions to become a photojournalist will take her into the heart of Hitler's Germany. Read by Charlotte Worthing. 17 hours 53 minutes. Pyper, Andrew. The damned. 2015. Horror. TB22492.Ashleigh and Danny Orchard are twins. But there's a secret in the Orchard house: Ash is a monster, a psychopath who can feel only through bringing others pain. When Ash and Danny are caught in a fire on their 16th birthday, both of them die. But only Danny comes back. Since then, Ash has haunted Danny, denying him any form of normal life or love. When Danny meets Willa and her son Eddie he glimpses the life he could have without Ash. To stop her from ruining his new-found happiness, Danny must venture into the frightening underworld of Detroit, where he will unearth the mystery of the night his and Ash's fates changed forever. Read by Adam Simms. 8 hours 23 minutes. Richell, Hannah. Secrets of the Tides. 2012. General fiction. TB22416.The Tides are a family with dark secrets. Haunted by the events of one tragic day ten years ago, they are each struggling to move forwards with their lives. When Dora discovers she is pregnant the news leaves her shaken and staring back at the darkness of a long-held guilt. Returning to Clifftops Dora begins her search for clues surrounding the events of that terrible summer's day when life changed forever. She comes to realise that the path to redemption may rest with her troubled sister, Cassie. Read by Emilia Fox. 15 hours 13 minutes. Robertson, Craig. Random. 2011. Crime. TB22244.Tony Winter; book 1. Glasgow is being terrorised by a serial killer the media have nicknamed The Cutter. There seems to be neither rhyme nor reason behind the killings a different method of murder and nothing that connects the victims except for the fact that the little fingers of their right hands have been severed. If DS Rachel Narey could only work out the link, she would be well on her way to catching him. But as the police and the press begin to close in on The Cutter, his carefully-laid plans threaten to unravel with horrifying consequences. Contains strong language and violence Read by Jonathan Hackett. 10 hours 27 minutes.
Rose, Karen. Die for me. 2011. Thriller. TB21828.When a multimedia games designer decides to take his research to the next level for his new game, 'The Inquisitor', fantasy ends and murder begins. Homicide detective Vito Ciccotelli is expecting the worst. Called to a remote murder site, he is confronted with numerous bodies, all with horrific injuries, all it seems the victim of the same killer. When the medical examiner reveals that the wounds are consistent with instruments of medieval torture, Ciccotelli turns to Sophie Johannsen, museum curator and specialist in medieval warfare, to learn more about the killer's methods and to try and find the killer before he spirals out of control. Read by Christopher Ragland. 18 hours 9 minutes. Scott, Manda. Into the fire. 2015. Crime. TB22536.A man’s charred corpse is found in the latest of a string of arson attacks in the French city of Orléans. An extremist group claim responsibility but their whereabouts cannot be found. Police inspector Capitaine Ines Picault and her team must track them down before more people die. Their only clue? The name of a woman who has been dead for over 500 years: Joan of Arc. As more fires rage in Orléans and the death toll mounts, Picault must look to the past to unravel the mysteries of the present. Contains strong language and violence. Read by Lucy Tregear. 15 hours 36 minutes.
Scottoline, Lisa. Courting trouble. 2003. Thriller. TB22286.Rosato and Associates; book 7. A quiet Fourth of July weekend at the beach is shattered when Anne Murphy opens her morning newspaper. Staring back at her from the front page is her own photo, under the headline LAWYER MURDERED. Once the body in the morgue is identified, the murderer will realize their mistake. Unable to rely on the police, who have already allowed her stalker to slip through their hands once, she has no choice but to confide in her new colleagues at Rosato & Associates. It will take all their combined ingenuity to crack the case. Contains strong language. Read by Christy Meyer. 10 hours 33 minutes.
Severin, Timothy. Sea robber. 2010. Sea stories. TB22494.Hector Lynch; book 3. Ambushed by a gang of hardened sea robbers headed for the South Sea, Hector Lynch, pirate and fugitive, must navigate their vessel on a nightmarish journey through the stormy seas off Cape Horn. There Hector uncovers the macabre and eerie remains of a small warship emtombed on an ice float. Her only crew are two skeletons - the unfortunate captain and his dog, both frozen to death. Read by John Cormack. 11:17 hours minutes. Warren, Robert Penn. All the King's men. 2007. Literary fiction. TB22540.All the King's Men is a loosely fictionalized account of Governor Huey Long of Louisiana. Set in the 1930s, this is the story of Willie Stark, a southern-fried politician who builds support by appealing to the common man and playing dirty politics with the best of the back-room deal-makers. Though Stark quickly sheds his idealism, his right-hand man, Jack Burden, who narrates the story, retains it and proves to be a thorn in the new governor's side. Contains strong language. Read by Michael Fitzpatrick. 23 hours 26 minutes.
Webb, Katherine. The night falling. 2015. General fiction. TB22501.Puglia, 1921. Leandro Cardetta, born into poverty, emigrated to America to make his fortune and has returned home to southern Italy a rich man, accompanied by his glamorous wife, Marcie, an ex-showgirl fighting middle age. Now Leandro has money enough to hire renowned English architect, Boyd Kinsgley, to renovate a crumbling palazzo into an Art Deco statement of wealth, and host Boyd's teenage son and his diffident young second wife, Clare, for one extraordinary summer. Read by Anna Bentink. 16 hours 48 minutes. Wilson, Robert. The big killing. 1997. Thriller. TB22554.Bruce Medway; book 2. Bruce Medway, go-between and fixer for traders in steamy West Africa, smells trouble when he’s approached by a porn merchant to deliver a video to a secret location. And just to add to his problems, BB, Medway’s rich Syrian patron, hires him to act as minder to Ron Collins, a spoilt playboy in Africa to buy diamonds, in the Ivory Coast. The video delivery leads to a shootout and the discovery of a mutilated body and Medway is soon caught up in a terrifying cycle of violence. Read by Peter Noble. 10 hours 33 minutes. Young, Louisa. The heroes' welcome. 2014. General fiction. TB22238.Sequel to 'My dear I wanted to tell you'. 1919, and Britain is realising that it is no longer at war. Now, Nadine and Riley, Rose, and Peter and Julia, must try to regain a sense of normality. But long shadows cast by the war dim the potential joys of peacetime, and matters of the heart prove arduous and bewildering. Normality doesn't seem to exist the way it did, and there is no 'going back' to anything. What must give, for happiness to stand a chance? For those who fought, those who healed and those left behind, 1919 is a year freighted with perilous beginnings, unavoidable realities and gleams of indestructible hope. Read by Dan Stevens. 8 hours 32 minutes. Directory: sites -> default -> files files -> Answer True False 2 points Question 2 files -> Northern England’s set-jetting locations files -> Nstructions for Acquiring Excess Equipment online, through the 1033 Program files -> Occupational health and safety files -> The Black Panther Party’s Ten Point Program files -> International programs roel profile files -> Fermi Questions a guide for Teachers, Students, and Event Supervisors Lloyd Abrams, Ph. D. DuPont Company, cr&D/ccas experimental Station Wilmington, de 19880 files -> Personal Information Name: Maha Al-Ammari Nationality: Saudi Relationship Status Download 347.57 Kb. Share with your friends:
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