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Young adult fictionBrailleAdult fictionAdichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Americanah. 2013. General fiction.From the award-winning author of 'Half of a Yellow Sun', 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. UEB. 10v. Price: £20.00. Order No: 25358503 Albom, Mitch. The time keeper. 2013. General fiction.The inventor of the world's first clock is punished for trying to measure God's greatest gift. He is banished to a cave for centuries and forced to listen to the voices of all who come after him seeking more days, more years. Eventually, with his soul nearly broken, Father Time is granted his freedom, along with a magical hourglass and a mission: a chance to redeem himself by teaching two earthly people the true meaning of time. UEB. 3v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 25360103 Andrews, Lynda M. Across a summer sea. 2004. Family stories.When Frank throws his family out on the street, they flee to Dublin. There, his wife Mary meets Richard O'Neill, a handsome, though solitary man. Despite the attraction between them, Mary's not looking for love, and when she hears that Frank needs her she returns to home where surprise awaits her. SEB. 4v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 25466702 Archer, Jeffrey. Mightier than the sword. 2015. Family stories.The Clifton chronicles: book 5. Mightier than the Sword 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 and some board members feel she should resign. When Emma's husband Harry Clifton visits his publisher in New York, he learns that he has been elected as the new president of English PEN, and immediately launches a campaign for the release of a fellow author, Anatoly Babakov, who's imprisoned in Siberia. So determined is Harry to see Babakov released and the book published, that he puts his own life in danger. UEB. 7v. Price: £20.00. Order No: 25347503 Atkinson, Kate. Human croquet. 1997. Family stories.The Fairfaxes once lived grandly at Fairfax Manor in the great forest of Lythe. But their number had dwindled over the years, as had the trees. This story centres on Isobel. Isobel, sixteen, is waiting for the return of her mother - the thin, dangerous Eliza with her scent of nicotine, Arpège and sex, whose disappearance is part of the mystery that still remains at the heart of the forest. SEB. 7v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 25438102 Atwood, Margaret Eleanor. MaddAddam. 2013. Science fiction.MaddAddam 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. As clever Pigoons attack their fragile garden and malevolent Painballers scheme, the small band of survivors will need more than stories. UEB. 7v. Price: £18.99. Order No: 25255903 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? UEB. 6v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25365203 Bailey, Martine. An appetite for violets. 2015. Historical fiction.Irrepressible Biddy Leigh, under-cook at the foreboding Mawton Hall, only wants to marry her childhood sweetheart and set up her own tavern. But when her elderly master marries the young Lady Carinna, Biddy is unwittingly swept up in a world of scheming, secrets and lies. When she finds herself embroiled in a murderous conspiracy, Biddy realises that the secrets she holds could be the key to her survival - or her downfall. UEB. 6v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25369203 Bennett, Anne. A strong hand to hold. 2014. Family stories.Linda Prosser is just twelve years old and desperately close to her mother and two tiny brothers. As the bombs drop around them one fateful night during World War II, Linda takes a risk which has disastrous consequences. Terrified, and buried beneath a mass of debris after her home takes a direct hit, it is Jenny who crawls through the wreckage of the house to rescue her. So begins a friendship which is last through the years. UEB. 8v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 25168403 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. UEB. 6v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25406203 Bray, Carys. A song for Issy Bradley. 2015. General fiction.Sometimes, however much you love someone, you can't understand them. Ian used to think that his life had been disappointingly easy, compared to the pioneers. He had a happy marriage, four children, a satisfactory job and, for just over a year, he has served the church in his role as Bishop of the local congregation. And then Issy died. Now his wife, Claire, won't get out of their dead daughter's bottom bunk and she won't speak. UEB. 6v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25369503 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. UEB. 6v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25364603 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. UEB. 5v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25348603 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. UEB. 5v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25360305 Clark, Mary Higgins. I'll walk alone. 2012. Thriller.Two years after the day that her son, Matthew, was kidnapped, Alexandra Moreland still finds herself torn between hope and despair. But now, on what would have been Matthew's fifth birthday, photos surface that seem to show Alexandra kidnapping her own child. Then, as her bank accounts are suddenly drained, Alexandra begins to suspect that someone is using her credit cards to steal her identity. Sustained only by her belief that Matthew is still alive, she sets out to discover who is behind this cruel hoax. UEB. 6v. Price: £5.99. Order No: 25360603 Cole, Martina. Faceless. 2001. Thriller.Eleven years ago Marie Carter was convicted of killing her two best friends. Now she is being released from prison. But although she has nowhere to go - her parents have disowned her, her friends have abandoned her, her kids don't want to know - some people care that she is out for revenge. SEB. 9v. Price: £14.76. Order No: 25438602 Cole, Martina. The good life. 2014. Thriller.For Cain Moran loving Jenny Riley was the easy part; it was telling his wife he wanted a divorce that was going to be the killer. Jenny cares nothing for Cain's hard-man reputation, she just wants to be with him. But Cain is not a free man. And he's about to find out that when his wife Caroline said 'til death us do part, she meant it. When Cain is sentenced to life in prison it seems that Caroline might have got her wish. All Cain and Jenny know is that if their love can survive such separation, then one day they will have a chance at the good life together again. But there are greater trials ahead than either can foresee. UEB. 6v. Price: £19.99. Order No: 25407103 Cornwell, Bernard. The empty throne. 2014. Historical fiction.Warrior chronicles: book 8. England is fractured, torn apart more by internal fighting than the threat of Viking invasion. The ruler of Mercia is dying, leaving no legitimate heir. His wife is a formidable fighter and great leader, but no woman has ever ruled over an English kingdom. And she is without her strongest warrior and champion, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. So the scene is set for an explosive battle between elders and warriors for an empty throne. UEB. 6v. Price: £20.00. Order No: 25390503 Cox, Josephine. Vagabonds. 1994. Historical fiction.Emma Grady: book 3. It is 1885, and Emma Grady has returned from Australia and is reunited with Marlow. But she is haunted by the past, and begins a search for her long-lost daughter, Molly. Mistakenly believing that the vengeful Justice Crowther is trying to have her arrested, Molly and her three children have run away and become vagabonds. Their life at times is almost unbearable, but Molly has inherited Emma's indomitable spirit. SEB. 6v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 25461502 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. UEB. 6v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25406303 Deaver, Jeffery. Garden of beasts. 2004. Thriller.Paul Schumann is a contract hitman for the mob in 1936. With Prohibition over and as the gang wars are coming to an end, he is contracted for a hit. But this time, he's caught - and finds that he's been set up. He's taken to meet an official in Army Intelligence and given a choice: spend the rest of his life in jail, or help his country. He is to pose as a member of the Olympic team, travel to Berlin, and kill a high-ranking Nazi close to Hitler. SEB. 6v. Price: £10.56. Order No: 25438302 Deaver, Jeffery. The twelfth card. 2005. Thriller.Lincoln Rhyme: book 6. Trying to discover why a Harlem high school student is being targeted for murder, quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme and his protegee, Amelia Sachs, look for answers in the student's term paper about her civil rights activist ancestor. SEB. 6v. Price: £10.56. Order No: 25437202 Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. 1838. Classic.Oliver Twist is orphaned and on the streets of London. Alone and vulnerable, he forms a new kind of family with a group of pickpockets, led by the enigmatic Fagin. At first Oliver's new family provides a sense of hope, but it is not long before the true colours of London's underclass reveals itself: prostitution, scheming, desperation and greed surround Oliver, making his prospects of happiness seem bleak. But this young boy, who never seems to stop running, is nothing like those he runs from. SEB. 7v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 25466402 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, microinvesting in high-tech communal start-ups like Perry and Lester's. But a new economic system requires a whole new belief system and there are plenty of non-believers out there. Contains sex scenes and swear words UEB. 10v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25233703
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. 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. 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. UEB. 8v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 25381703 Fielding, Joy. Charley's web. 2008. Thriller.A beautiful single mother who writes a controversial column for the Palm Beach Post, Charley Webb has spent years building an emotional wall against scathing critics, snooty neighbours and her disapproving family. But when she receives a letter from Jill Rohmer, a young woman on death row, her wall slowly begins to crumble. Jill is a young woman serving time on death row for the murders of three small children - and she wants Charley to write her biography. But as Charley begins to delve into Jill's background, she starts receiving threatening, anonymous letters regarding her own children. UEB. 7v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 25347103 Fielding, Joy. Heartstopper: a novel. 2013. Thriller.Torrance, Florida. Population: 4,160. 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. And when the body count rises to three, Sandy must do everything in her power to help protect her family and target the attacker before it's too late. UEB. 8v. Price: £20.53. Order No: 25360503 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. UEB. 9v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25406103 Greene, Graham. A burnt-out case. 2004. Classic.A burnt-out case is a leper who has been cured, but by mutilation, loss of fingers, toes or more. He feels no pain but is virtually unemployable as the mental amputation makes him retire from the world's gaze. Is Querry, famous ex-architect seeking peace in a Congolese leproserie, the burnt-out case he imagines himself to be? UEB. 4v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25369603 Greene, Graham. The man within. 2001. Classic.The Man Within tells the story of Andrews, a young man who has betrayed his fellow smugglers and fears their vengeance. Fleeing from them, with no hope of pity or salvation, he takes refuge in the house of a young woman, also alone in the world. She persuades him to give evidence against his accomplices in court, but neither she nor Andrews is aware that to both criminals and authority treachery is as great a crime as smuggling. UEB. 4v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25362203 Gregory, Kay. An impossible kind of man. 1992. Mills and Boon romance.Bronwen had been horrified by Slade's callous actions eight years ago, so she wasn't about to be impressed by his devastating good looks now. And, what was more, it was obvious he hadn't changed a bit. Bronwen knew that animosity would be, could be, the only thing she ever felt for him. But Slade had other ideas. SEB. 4v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 25437502 Groves, Annie. Child of the Mersey. 2014. Family stories.For the ordinary people of Empire Street, life will never be the same again. Kitty Fisher has plenty on her plate to keep her busy. Since her mother died when she was just a child, she's cooked, cleaned and scraped to make ends meet for her drunken father and her headstrong brothers. Rita Kennedy, living with her husband under the roof of his spiteful mother-in-law, is desperate for their own home. For the two women, and others like them, the threatening clouds of war will bring heartache and tragedy. UEB. 6v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 25362103 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. It’s a treacherous place, especially for the tender-hearted. As Valentine’s Day approaches, the perils of war threaten life as they know it and all matters of the heart. Tilly is passionately in love with the dashing American journalist, Drew. Agnes is comforted by the loving arms of her caring train driver fiancé Ted. And Sally could not be happier with her talented surgeon boyfriend at her side. UEB. 6v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 25371603 Haddon, Mark. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time. 2003. Crime.This is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down. SEB. 3v. Price: £4.99. Order No: 25468902 Hammond, Alan. All's fair in love and law: small town tales of life, laughter and litigation. 2014. Country life fiction.Welcome to Hockam (pronounced Hokum) in this heart-warming collection of stories that revolve around the lives of the good people of a rural English town and of the lawyers to whom they look for help. We meet the lonely dentist and his noisy neighbours, the TV celebrity chef and his complex family, the policeman and his beloved budgies, the Vicar and the Major General. These and many others bring their problems to Dufty Dufty Popple & Dunn to be resolved by the long-suffering and well-meaning members of the firm, all of whom have their own lives to live when time permits. UEB. 5v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 25381803 Haynes, Natalie. The amber fury. 2014. General fiction.When Alex Morris loses her fiancé in dreadful circumstances, she moves from London to Edinburgh to make a break from the past. Alex takes a job at a Pupil Referral Unit, which accepts the students excluded from other schools in the city. These are troubled, difficult kids and Alex is terrified of what she's taken on. But with the help of the Greek tragedies she teaches, Alex gradually develops a rapport with them. UEB. 5v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25382003 Hill, Susan. A question of identity. 2013. Crime.Simon Serrailler: book 7. One snowy night in the cathedral city of Lafferton, an old woman is dragged from her bed and strangled with a length of flex. DCS Simon Serrailler and his team search desperately for clues to her murderer. All they know is that the killer will strike again, and will once more leave the same tell -tale signature. Then they track down a name: Alan Keyes. But Alan Keyes has no birth certificate, no address, no job, no family, no passport, no dental records. Nothing. UEB. 6v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25346903 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, a devoted student of Holmes's methods of investigation and deduction, Frederick Chase must forge a path through the darkest corners of the capital to shine light on this shadowy figure. UEB. 5v. Price: £19.99. Order No: 25360803 Howard, Elizabeth Jane. The light years. 1991. Family stories.Cazalet Chronicles: book 1. For two unforgettable pre-war summers the Cazalet family gathered together at Home Place on the Sussex coast. This is the first volume of a trilogy chronicling the fortunes of the Cazalet family, from the early days of 1937 when the ordinary wear and tear of family life is infiltrated by growing anxiety about German air power, Czechoslovakia and Mr. Chamberlain's trips to see Hitler. SEB. 9v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 25461802 Howard, Elizabeth Jane. Marking time. 1991. Family stories.Cazalet Chronicles: book 2. Polly, Clary and Louise grow up in the shadow of World War II. Louise dreams of being an actress; Clary, the aspiring writer, is keeping a book of things she's noticed people never talk about; while Polly, burdened with knowledge and the need to share it, wonders why others find honesty so hard. We see how the raw experience of adolescence is heightened by war, with its mixture of dull days, random drama and unpredictable death. SEB. 10v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 25461902 Howard, Elizabeth Jane. Confusion. 1991. Family stories.Cazalet Chronicles: book 3. This is the third book in the series following the fortunes of the Cazalet family, from the spring of 1942, through the dark, middle period of the war. Polly and Clary have left Home Place for London, where Archie Lestrange keeps a close eye on them; Louise, surprisingly, has married; Polly makes a painful discovery; Zoe, despairing of Rupert's return, stumbles upon solace, while Edward's duplicity demands a reckoning. SEB. 10v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 25196902 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. UEB. 7v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25365307 Kent, Alexander. For my country's freedom. 1996. Sea stories.Richard Bolitho: book 22. March, 1811. After two and a half months of precious peace in Cornwall with his beloved mistress, Catherine, Admiral Richard Bolitho is once again summoned to action. In defence of an Empire, the Admiralty must quell the unrest in America - or face war with former allies. Distance too is their enemy, as the "Indomitable" leads the fleet from Plymouth towards the rich merchant grounds of the Americas. SEB. 7v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 25448102 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. UEB. 9v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 25238703 Kinsella, Sophie. Can you keep a secret? 2003. General fiction.Emma is a nervous flyer and she can't help but tell the man next to her - quite a dishy American, but she's too frightened to notice - all her innermost secrets. She survives the flight, but when the American boss of the whole corporation visits the company, he seems strangely familiar. SEB. 5v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 25438502 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. UEB. 7v. Price: £9.99. Order No: 25313403 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 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. UEB. 6v. Price: £16.99. Order No: 25256103 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. UEB. 7v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25238905 O'Hagan, Andrew. The illuminations. 2015. General fiction.Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow. Nobody remembers her now, but this elderly woman was in her youth a pioneer of British documentary photography. Her beloved grandson, Luke, now a captain with the Royal Western Fusiliers, is on a tour of duty in Afghanistan. Only when Luke returns home to Scotland does Anne's secret story begin to emerge, along with his. UEB. 5v. Price: £17.99. Order No: 25313703 Patterson, James. Jack and Jill. 1997. Thriller.Alex Cross: book 3. When a controversial US Senator is found murdered, the police turn up only one clue: a mysterious rhyme signed "Jack and Jill", which declares that they are "out to get the rich and famous, and will stop at nothing". Meanwhile, Alex Cross is called to a murder scene. The victim is a beautiful little girl, savagely beaten. Could there be a connection between the two murders? SEB. 7v. Price: £10.57. Order No: 25437802 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. UEB. 2v. Price: £11.88. Order No: 25390103 Pilley, Sheila. The Divided way. 2015. Historical fiction.A Cornish Tale of Dissolution & Rebellion. Set against the background of the developing religious split between King Henry VIII and the papal authorities in Rome, this book tells the dramatic story of the lives of the Trewarne and Trenwith families and the effect these historical events had on them.Covering the years from 1520 to 1550, this powerful novel tells a story of love and death; of families divided and friends betrayed; and the fateful impact on the people of Devon and Cornwall. SEB. 11v. Price: £10.00. Order No: 25425902 Quick, Matthew. The silver linings playbook. 2015. General fiction.Pat Peoples knows that life doesn't always go according to plan, but he's determined to get his back on track. After a stint in a psychiatric hospital, Pat is staying with his parents and trying to live according to his new philosophy: get fit, be nice and always look for the silver lining. Most importantly, Pat is determined to be reconciled with his wife Nikki. Pat's parents just want to protect him so he can get back on his feet, but when Pat befriends the mysterious Tiffany, the secrets they've been keeping from him threaten to come out. UEB. 5v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25365403 Reeman, Douglas. Twelve seconds to live. 2003. Sea stories.The mine is an impartial killer and a lethal challenge to any volunteer in the Special Countermeasures of the Royal Navy. Lieutenant-Commander David Masters, haunted by a split second glimpse of the mine that destroyed his first and only command, H. M. Submarine Tornado, now defuses 'the beast' on land. Lieutenant Chris Foley, minelaying off an enemy coast, rolls on an uneasy sea with a lie mine jammed, and hears the menacing growl of approaching E-boats. And Sub-Lieutenant Michael Lincoln dreads exposure as a coward even more than the gentle whirr of the activated fuse marking the last twelve seconds of his life. SEB. 5v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 25466202 Richell, Hannah. Secrets of the Tides. 2012. General fiction.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, the youngest daughter, discovers she is pregnant the news leaves her shaken and staring back at the darkness of a long-held guilt. She comes to realise that the path to redemption may rest with her troubled sister, Cassie. If Dora can unlock the secrets Cassie swore she would take to her grave, just maybe she will have a shot at salvation. UEB. 8v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25369803 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. UEB. 7v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25360203 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. UEB. 4v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 25369903 Shute, Nevil. Pastoral. 1974. General fiction.Set during the turmoil of World War II, this novel tells the story of a brave young fighter pilot, Peter Marshall, and a pretty WAAF officer. SEB. 5v. Price: £8.20. Order No: 25438402 Tey, Josephine. The singing sands. 1992. Crime.On sick leave from Scotland Yard, Inspector Alan Grant finds a dead man aboard the night train to Scotland. He is drawn into the mystery of the man's death by some enigmatic lines of verse that are written on the dead man's newspaper. SEB. 5v. Price: £6.30. Order No: 25438202 Wilde, Oscar. The Canterville ghost. 2015. Classic.Canterville Chase possesses all the trappings of a standard haunted country house - including large suits of armour and Gothic panelled library walls. However, it soon becomes difficult to ignore the spooky signs that Sir Simon is haunting the house - the usual Halloween fare of rattling chains and bloodstains. Surprisingly, and hilariously, the Otises refuse to be scared; despite all of Sir Simon's best flamboyant efforts and costume changes. Instead, the poor revenant is faced with practical jokes from the two young twins in the family - and seeks solace by befriending 15-year-old Virginia instead. UEB. 1v. Price: £5.18. Order No: 25404403 Williams, John. Stoner. 2012. Classic.William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet, and after his death his colleagues remember him rarely. UEB. 5v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 25471102 Winterson, Jeanette. The gap of time: The Winter's tale retold. 2015. Literary fiction.A black man finds a white baby abandoned in the night. He gathers her up and decides to take her home. After the financial crash Leo Kaiser knows how to make money but he doesn’t know how to manage the jealousy he feels towards his best friend and his wife. New Bohemia 17 years later. 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