New Books Issue 56 March 2017
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Adult non-fictionAutobiography and biographyCourtenay, Tom. Dear Tom: Letters From Home. 2001. TB23147.Tom Courtenay was born in Hull in 1937 and brought up near the fish dock where his father worked. When he left home for university, his mother, Annie, wrote to him every week and when her letters became more intimate in response to Tom's unhappiness he kept everyone, not knowing that after her early death they were to become his most treasured possession. Tom has selected the best of them and interwoven with them a portrait of what was going on in his life at the time, in the early Sixties when young working-class actors were coming to the fore for the first time. Read by Raymond Sawyer. 13 hours 28 minutes. Hegarty, Neil. Frost: That Was The Life That Was: The Authorised Biography. 2015. TB23519.Sir David Frost, who died suddenly in august 2013, was the only person to have met and interviewed every British Prime Minister since Harold Wilson as well as seven Presidents of the United States. Written in collaboration with Sir David Frost's wife and three sons, this work features many unpublished writings from Frost and exclusive access to his vast archive. It also offers opinions on Frost from his extraordinary list of friends. It is an epic story of personal achievement set amidst a rapidly changing world, encountering the great and the good that have dominated news and entertainment over the last 50 years. Read by Michael Fenner, Rory Bremner, Lady Karina Frost, George Frost, Wilfred Frost. 13 hours 16 minutes. Hilling, Wendy. My Life In His Paws: The Story of Ted and How He Saved Me. 2016. TB23181.Wendy has a rare skin condition which means her skin is very delicate. Every moment is difficult and causes pain. It affects the body inside and out: her throat is very narrow and she can stop breathing at any time. But 8 years ago Wendy's met Ted, a golden retriever, and he became her full-time carer. He has saved her life more times than she can remember, always watching and listening, and she is now entirely reliant on him. This is the story the unique relationship between a human and animal, and the extraordinary things animals are capable of. Read by Carolanne Lyme. 6 hours 32 minutes. Jones, Tom. Over the Top and Back. 2015.TB23497.In a career that has spanned six decades, Sir Tom Jones has performed with almost every major recording artist, from Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis and Sinatra, to Robbie Williams, Van Morrison and Jessie J, across every imaginable genre, from rock and pop to country, blues and soul. The one constant throughout has been his unique musical gift and unmistakable voice. Tom revisits his past, both personal and professional, exploring the twists of fate that took a boy from a poor Welsh coal-mining family to global celebrity status. Read by Jonathan Price. 12 hours 28 minutes. Kerman, Piper. Orange Is the New Black: My Time in a Women's Prison. 2013. TB23277.With her career, live-in boyfriend and loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the rebellious young woman who got mixed up with drug runners and delivered a suitcase of drug money to Europe over a decade ago. But when she least expects it, her reckless past catches up with her; convicted and sentenced to 15 months at an infamous women's prison in Connecticut. From her first strip search to her final release, she learns to navigate this strange world with its arbitrary rules and codes, its unpredictable, even dangerous relationships. Contains swear words. Read by Regina Reagan. 10 hours 54 minutes.
Phinn, Gervase. Road to the Dales: The Story of a Yorkshire Lad. 2011. TB23160.Gervase tells of a life full of happiness, conversation, music and books shared with his three siblings, mother and father. This title is a snapshot of growing up in Yorkshire in the 1950s - reminisce with Gervase, and share in his personal journey – of school days and holidays as well as his tentative steps into the adult world. Read by Ric Jerrom. 17 hours. Sobel, Dava. The Glass Universe: The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars. 2016. TB23653.In the mid-nineteenth century, the Harvard College Observatory began employing women as calculators, to interpret the observations their male counterparts made via telescope each night. As photography transformed astronomy, the women turned to studying images of the stars captured on glass photographic plates, making extraordinary discoveries that attracted worldwide acclaim. They helped discern what the stars were made of, divided them into meaningful categories for further research, and even found a way to measure distances across space by starlight. Read by Laurence Bouvard. 11 hours 55 minutes. Thomasson, Anna. A Curious Friendship: The Story of a Bluestocking and a Bright Young Thing. 2015. TB23046.The winter of 1924: Edith Olivier, alone for the first time at the age of fifty-one, thought her life had come to an end. For Rex Whistler, a nineteen-year-old art student, life was just beginning. Together, they embarked on an intimate and unlikely friendship that would transform their lives. Gradually Edith's world opened up and she became a writer. Her home, in a corner of the Wilton estate, became a sanctuary for Whistler and the other brilliant and beautiful younger men of her circle: among them Sassoon, Stephen Tennant, William Walton and John Betjeman. Read by Lisa Milne Henderson. 21 hours 13 minutes. Walker, Adam. Man vs Ocean: The Inspirational Story of a Toaster Salesman Who Sets Out to Swim the World's Deadliest Oceans and Change His Life Forever. 2016. TB23048.Adam Walker is not your everyday record -breaking sportsman. He took on arguably the toughest extreme sport on the planet, to swim non-stop across seven of the world's deadliest oceans wearing only swim trunks, cap and goggles. It is not a test for the faint-hearted: swimmers face freezing temperatures, huge swells and treacherous currents, potentially deadly marine life (from sharks to Portuguese men o' war), vomiting and burning off a week's calories in a single swim. Read by David Thorpe. 7 hours 55 minutes. Walton, Janet. Six Little Miracles: The Heartwarming True Story of Raising the World's First Sextuplet Girls. 2015. TB22961.Janet had been told she couldn't have children, so she and her husband Graham were overjoyed to find out she was pregnant. Then they told her the real news, it was not just one baby, but six! On 18 November 1983, Janet Walton gave birth to the world's first all-female sextuplets. Janet takes us through the reality of parenting six children of the same age, the extreme sleep deprivation, the bottle-feeding, and later the chaotic routine of getting six kids to school on time. Read by Laura Morgan. 9 hours 56 minutes. Wulf, Andrea. The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt, The Lost Hero of Science. 2015. TB22963.Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else. There are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, the ocean current that runs along the South American coast, there's a penguin, a giant squid, even the Mare Humboldtianum on the moon. Taking us on a fantastic voyage in his footsteps, Andrea Wulf shows why his life and ideas remain so important today. Read by Fenella Fudge. 15 hours 54 minutes. DramaRowling, J. K. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay. 2016. Reading Age 9+. TB23637.When Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York, he intends his stay to be just a brief stopover. However, when his magical case is misplaced and some of Newt's fantastic beasts escape, it spells trouble for everyone. Inspired by the original Hogwart's textbook by Newt Scamander, “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay” marks the screenwriting debut of J.K. Rowling. Read by Andy Secombe. 4 hours 9 minutes. Food and drinkKerridge, Tom. Tom's Table: My Favourite Everyday Recipes. 2015. TB22666.Tom Kerridge is known for beautifully crafted food and big, bold flavours. “Tom's Table” features 100 delicious everyday recipes so that anyone can achieve his cooking at home. This is the sort of food you'll cook again and again, whether you bring his hearty and delicious starter, side, main and dessert recipes to quick mid-week meals or weekend dinners. Read by Mike Aherne. 6 hours 53 minutes. HistoryBerton, Pierre. The Great Lakes. 2006. Canadian library non-fiction. TB23071.Berton relates the history of the Great Lakes and the humans who have lived around them. From their birth during the Ice age to the fight to save them from pollution, Berton tells the many stories which their shores have witnessed. He discusses the various people who sought to tame the Lakes: missionaries, voyageurs, fur trappers, loggers, miners. And there are vivid accounts of shipwrecks and storms on the Lakes. Read by Geoffrey Pierpoint. 6 hours 9 minutes. Hawksley, Lucinda. March, Women, March. 2015. TB23084.This explores the women's movement in Britain, from the passing of the Marriage and Divorce act in 1857 to women attaining the vote in 1928. Published to commemorate the centenary of the death of the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, who threw herself under King George V's horse during the Derby and consequently sustained fatal injuries. Using diary extracts and letters, the main protagonists of the women's movement are brought back to life as Lucinda Dickens Hawksley explores how they were portrayed in literature and art, as well as the media reports of the day. Read by Harriet Dunlop. 7 hours 39 minutes. PoetryPlath, Sylvia. Ariel. 2002. Canadian library non-fiction. TB22583.The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as “Lady Lazarus”, “Daddy”, “Edge” and “Paralytic”, were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, “The Colossus”, and her death in 1963. Read by Patricia Reid. 1 hour 40 minutes. Politics and governmentDanahar, Paul. The New Middle East: The World After the Arab Spring. 2015. TB23148.In 2011 the Arab revolts changed the Middle East forever. The toppling of a generation of dictators left the region in turmoil. Has the promise of the Arab Spring been lost? What does the rise of religious extremism on Europe's doorstep mean for the West and its allies? Here BBC Bureau Chief Paul Danahar lays bare the forces that are shaping the region. Read by Chris Courtenay. 18 hours 34 minutes. PsychologyPeters, Steve. The Chimp Paradox. 2012. TB23536.Do you sabotage your own happiness and success? Are you struggling to make sense of yourself? Do your emotions sometimes dictate your life? This is a personal development book by Dr Steve Peters, the British cycling team's psychiatrist, in which he shares his mind management programme. The Chimp Mind Management Model is based on scientific facts and principles, which have been simplified into a workable model for easy use. It will help you to develop yourself and give you the skills, for example, to remove anxiety, have confidence and choose your emotions. Read by Steve Peters. 9 hours 46 minutes. TravelBryson, Bill. The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes From a Small Island. 2015. TB23510.In 1995, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his home. The trip resulted in the book 'Notes from a Small Island'. Now, Bill sets out on a brand-new journey, on a route he dubs the Bryson Line, from Bognor Regis on the south coast to Cape Wrath on the northernmost tip of Scotland. Once again, he will guide us through all that's best and worst about Britain today. Read by Nathan Osgood. 13 hours 59 minutes. True crimeLee, Carol Ann. The Murders at White House Farm. 2015. TB22949.On 7th August 1985, Nevill and June Bamber, their daughter Sheila and her two young sons Nicholas and Daniel were discovered shot to death at White House Farm in Essex. The murder weapon was found on Sheila's body; a Bible lay at her side. It seemed a straightforward case of murder-suicide, but a dramatic turn of events was to disprove the police's theory. In October 1986, Jeremy Bamber was convicted of killing his entire family in order to inherit his parents' substantial estates. Read by Melissa Woodbridge. 14 hours 45 minutes. Warfare and defenceThe War At Sea, 1939-1945: An Anthology of Personal Experience. 2007. TB23049.Freedom's battle: book 1. This is the first volume in the “Freedom's Battle” trilogy, which provides vivid accounts of war at sea, in the air and on land. The Second World War produced hundreds of actions and incidents at sea which were packed with drama and suspense, and which evoked the greatest heroism. Here is a generous selection of personal experience written by the men and women who were there: in the British and Commonwealth Navies, the Fleet air arm, the Merchant Navy, or ashore. Read by Jon Cartwright. 23 hours 49 minutes. The War in The Air, 1939-1945: An Anthology of Personal Experience. 2007. TB23032.Freedom's battle: book 2. From the brilliant summer nonchalance of 1940 to the grim, exhaustion of the bomber crews delivering the infernos of Hamburg and Dresden. Described by the men in the British and Commonwealth air Forces who did the fighting. We accompany them in the desperate days of the fall of France; during the Battle of Britain; throughout the agony of Bomber Command; over the high seas, Malta, the desert battles and in the struggle with Japan. Read by Jon Cartwright. 16 hours 19 minutes. Children and young adult fiction7+ suggested reading ageBlade, Adam. Tagus: The Horse-Man. 2007. TB23284.A mysterious force has been creeping over the plains of Avantia. The animals are stampeding, and brush fires sweep the prairie. Tom and Elenna speed to the plains to stop Tagus the Night Mare before he can do any more damage. But Tom ends up in the wrong place at the wrong time and is mistakenly thrown in jail. Can he win the trust of the people, and his own freedom, before it's too late to stop Tagus? Read by John Hopkins. 1 hour 3 minutes. Hutchison, Barry. The Swivel-Eyed Ogre-Thing. 2015. TB23086.Benjamin Blank: book 2. In an alternate 15th century, where dragons roam, sailing ships transform into submarines, and blacksmiths build steampunk robots, ten-year-old orphan Benjamin Blank battles monsters, rescues maidens, and discovers new lands, but never quite manages to get his homework handed in on time. Read by David Monteath. 2 hours 26 minutes. Ince, Russell. Santa Claus: The Book of Secrets. 2013. TB23572.After centuries of closely guarding ancient secrets, Santa Claus has decided that the time has come to share the magical mysteries behind Christmas. All of the miraculous happenings that contribute towards making Christmas the most remarkable time of the year are finally to be revealed to the world. Who is Santa Claus and how did he first get his job? Who are the Elves and what magic do they possess? Read by David Graham. 1 hour 15 minutes. Michaels, Anne. The Adventures of Miss Petitfour. 2016. TB23209.In these five captivating stories of gentle adventure, meet the utterly irresistible Miss Petitfour. She loves baking and making and dancing with her cats, but most of all she loves to fly. All she has to do is pick up a favourite tablecloth, catch the breeze and she swooshes off on an adventure – with her many cats dangling paw-to-tail behind her. Read by Laurence Bouvard. 1 hour 45 minutes. 9+ suggested reading ageEdge, Christopher. Shadows of the Silver Screen. 2013. TB23177.A mysterious filmmaker approaches The Penny Dreadful with a proposal to turn Montgomery Flinch's sinister stories into motion pictures. With Monty installed as the star of his production, filming begins but is plagued by a series of strange and frightening events. As Monty pleads with Penny to help him, she is drawn into the mystery, but soon finds herself trapped in a nightmare penned by her own hand. Can Penny uncover the filmmaker's dark secret before it's too late? Read by Louise Jameson. 6 hours 29 minutes. Kinney, Jeff. The Third Wheel. 2012. TB20638.Diary of a wimpy kid: book 7. A Valentine's Day dance at Greg's school has turned his world upside down. As Greg scrambles to find a date, he's worried he'll be left out in the cold on the big night. His best friend, Rowley, doesn't have any prospects either but that's small consolation. Then an unexpected twist gives Greg a partner for the dance and leaves Rowley the odd man out. But a lot can happen in one night, and in the end, you never know who's going to be lucky in love. Read by Dan Russell. 1 hour 45 minutes. Kinney, Jeff. The Long Haul. 2014. TB23498.Diary of a wimpy kid: book 9. A family road trip is supposed to be a lot of fun, unless, of course, you're the Heffleys. The journey starts off full of promise, then quickly takes several wrong turns. Gas station bathrooms, crazed seagulls, a fender bender, and a runaway pig – not exactly Greg Heffley's idea of a good time. But even the worst road trip can turn into an adventure and this is one the Heffleys won't soon forget. Read by Dan Russell. 1 hour 50 minutes. Kinney, Jeff. Old School. 2015. TB23499.Diary of a wimpy kid: book 10. Life was better in the old days. Or was it? That's the question Greg Heffley is asking as his town voluntarily unplugs and goes electronics-free. But modern life has its conveniences, and Greg isn't cut out for an old-fashioned world. With tension building inside and outside the Heffley home, will Greg find a way to survive? Or is going “old school” just too hard for a kid like Greg? Read by Dan Russell. 1 hour 54 minutes. Mabbitt, Will. The Unlikely Adventures of Mabel Jones. 2015. TB23500.Unlikely adventures of Mabel Jones: book 1. When Mabel Jones unknowingly commits “The Deed” she finds herself swiftly bundled into a sack and carried off to the pirate ship the Feroshus Maggot. Crewed by the strangest bunch of pirates you would ever want to meet and captained by the dreaded Idryss Ebeneezer Split (a wolf with a false leg carved from a human thighbone, a rusty cutlass sheathed in his belt and a loaded pistol tucked in his pants with no fear of the consequences), the Feroshus Maggot whisks Mabel Jones off on the adventure of a lifetime. Read by Toby Jones. 3 hours 49 minutes. Matson, Stacey. A Year in the Life of a Total and Complete Genius. 2015. TB23101.Arthur Bean: book 1. Arthur Bean is a genius - it's just that no one else realises this quite yet. He's going to be a world-famous author, even if he's an outcast who is only confident whilst writing. What he writes is pretty funny, but it gets him into trouble, too - with his English teacher; the editor of the school newspaper; the beautiful girl in his class, Kennedy; and with his number one nemesis, Robbie Zack. Read by James Sobel Kelly. 5 hours 8 minutes. Ralphs, Matt. Fire Girl. 2015. TB23292.Fire girl: book 1. 12-year-old Hazel has spent her whole life trapped in a magical Glade created by her mother, Hecate. She's desperate to find out about the world. And, more than anything, she wants to be a witch. But when her mother is kidnapped by a demon, everything changes. It turns out that Hazel does have magic, she's just not very good at controlling it. And she may have accidentally created a grumpy familiar in the form of a dormouse called Bramley. Determined to rescue her mother, the young witch and her mouse set out to track down the demon and find Hecate. Read by Perry Moore. 6 hours 51 minutes. Rowling, J. K. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay. 2016. TB23637.When Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York, he intends his stay to be just a brief stopover. However, when his magical case is misplaced and some of Newt's fantastic beasts escape, it spells trouble for everyone. Inspired by the original Hogwart's textbook by Newt Scamander, “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay” marks the screenwriting debut of J.K. Rowling. Read by Andy Secombe. 4 hours 9 minutes. Rundell, Katherine. The Girl Savage. 2011. TB23157.Wilhelmina Silver's world is golden. Living half-wild on an African farm with her horse, her monkey and her best friend, every day is beautiful. But when her home is sold and Will is sent away to boarding school in England, the world becomes impossibly difficult. For lions and hyenas are nothing compared to packs of schoolgirls. Read by Helen Bourne. 6 hours 52 minutes. Schlitz, Laura Amy. Fire Spell, or, Splendours and Glooms. 2012. TB22902.In London, 1860, Clara celebrates her twelfth birthday with a puppet show, run by sinister puppetmaster Grisini, assisted by his two apprentices. Grisini traps her in the form of a marionette and then promptly goes missing. His two assistants realise what has happened, all three children find themselves caught up in a terrible struggle for supernatural eminence between Grisini and a dying witch of extraordinary power. Read by Juliette Burton. 15 hours 2 minutes. Sedgwick, Marcus. Fright Forest. 2012. TB23293.Elf Girl and Raven Boy: book 1. Raven Boy has short black spiky hair, amazing night vision and can talk to animals. Elf Girl is light of foot, sharp of mind and elfish all over. She hadn't expected to meet Raven Boy; it's not that often someone falls out of the trees and squashes your home flat like Raven Boy did. Before they know it they are plunged into some very strange, creepy, altogether spooky and hilarious adventures as they save their world from trolls, ogres, witches and things that slither and slide in the fiendish forest. Read by Andy Secombe. 2 hours 38 minutes. Walliams, David. The Midnight Gang. 2016. TB23650.Midnight is the time when all children are fast asleep, except of course for the Midnight Gang. That is when their adventures are just beginning. When Tom gets hit on the head by a cricket ball, he finds himself at Lord Funt Hospital, and is greeted by a terrifying-looking porter. Things go from bad to worse when he meets the wicked matron in charge of the children's ward. But Tom is about to embark on the most thrilling journey. Read by David Walliams, Peter Serafinowicz, Morwenna Banks, Ellen Thomas, and Nitin Ganatra. 6 hours 11 minutes.
11+ suggested reading ageHarris, M. G. Zero Moment. 2014. TB23153.The Joshua files: book 3. Now that he has the ancient device that once belonged to the Itzamna of Mayan legends, Josh Garcia thinks he has discovered the key to time travel. Should he use it to jump back in time and save his father? His betrothed, Ixchel knows what he intends to do. Should she stop him? Before they can decide, Ixchel is kidnapped by a rival secret society, a cabal who intend to make certain that a prophecy predicting the end of the world in 2012 comes true. Read by Ryan Watson. 8 hours 29 minutes. Higson, Charles. The Sacrifice. 2013. TB23023.Enemy: book 4. The sickness destroyed everyone over the age of 14. All across London diseased adults are waiting, hungry predators with rotten flesh and ravaged minds. Small Sam and his unlikely ally, The Kid, have survived. They're safe with Ed and his friends at the Tower of London, but Sam is desperate to find his sister. Their search for Ella means Sam and The Kid must cross the forbidden zone. And what awaits them there is more terrifying than any of the horror they've suffered so far. Read by Robert Nairne. 8 hours 12 minutes. Walter, Jon. My Name's Not Friday. 2015. TB23188.A tale of the American Civil War from the perspective of an educated orphan boy sold into slavery. "This boy has bought me. This white boy who don't even look as old as I am. He owns me body and soul, and my worth has been set at six hundred dollars". Samuel's an educated boy. He was never supposed to be a slave. He's a good boy too, thoughtful and kind. The type of boy who'd take the blame for something he didn't do, if it meant he could save his brother. Read by Christopher Ragland. 10 hours 28 minutes. 13+ suggested reading ageDavis, Ben. The Private Blog of Joe Cowley: Return of the Geek. 2015. TB23078.Joe Cowley: book 2. Things are looking up for Joe. For one thing, he has a real life girlfriend, who actually likes “Star Trek” almost as much as he does! It all seems too good to be true and for disaster-prone Joe, it's only a matter of time before things go wrong in spectacularly hilarious fashion! Read by Tom Stanley. 7 hours 28 minutes. Maslin, Helen. Darkmere. 2015. TB23033.Leo has invited Kate and a few friends to spend the summer at his inheritance, Darkmere Castle, a place as wild and remote as it is beautiful. Kate thinks it will be the perfect opportunity for her and Leo to get together. Instead, she's drawn into the dark story of a young 19th-century bride who haunts the castle's tunnels and towers and whose curse now hangs over them all. Read by Esme Sears, Gemma Lawrence. 9 hours 14 minutes. 15+ suggested reading ageHussey, William. Jekyll's Mirror. 2015. TB23205.Sam is a tortured soul, but his darkest hour is yet to come, when he’s invited to take part in Project Hyde, a new social networking site where users can enjoy total anonymity. It’s exhilarating at first, until Sam notices that the other users are becoming obsessed, addicted to the cruelty they are inflicting online. Sam watches with a growing sense of horror as his classmates turn into something unrecognisable. Read by David Thorpe. 8 hours 38 minutes. Lindstrom, Eric. A Tragic Kind of Wonderful. 2016. TB23656.How can you have a future if you can't accept your past? Mel Hannigan doesn't have it easy. Mourning the death of her firework of a brother, trying to fit back into a school she's been conspicuously absent from and struggling to deal with the loss of three friendships that used to mean everything. Struggling to deal with a condition that not even her closest friends know about. So Mel tries to lock away her heart. Until someone new shows her that it can be worth taking a risk. Read by Katharine Mangold. 6 hours 20 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 283.28 Kb. Share with your friends:
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