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Issue 54
November 2016
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Braille
Adult fiction
Allende, Isabel. The Japanese lover. 2015. General fiction.
In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis and the world goes to war, young Alma Belasco's parents send her overseas to live with an aunt and uncle in their opulent San Francisco mansion. There she meets Ichimei Fukuda, the son of the family's Japanese gardener. Between them a tender love blossoms, but following Pearl Harbor the two are cruelly pulled apart. Throughout their lifetimes, Alma and Ichimei reunite again and again, but theirs is a love they are forever forced to hide from the world.
UEB. 6v. Price: £16.99. Order No: 25432203
Allingham, Merryn. The girl from Cobb Street. 2015. Family stories.
Daisy's war: book 1. 1938: Daisy Driscoll has been raised in an orphanage and is now struggling to make ends meet by working in London. At the outset of war, Daisy meets Gerald Mortimer and falls in love. Gerald is a cavalry subaltern in the Indian Army and is in London on leave. After his time with Daisy, he returns to India. Daisy, alone and pregnant, writes desperate letters to Gerald. Daisy's news reaches his Colonel's ears and Gerald is forced into marrying her. Daisy begins a new life with her husband but tragedy is about to strike.
UEB. 5v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 25434303
Alliott, Catherine. Wish you were here. 2015. Chick lit.
When Flora, James and their two teenage daughters are offered the holiday of a lifetime in the south of France in return for one simple good deed, they jump at the chance. They exchange the confines of Clapham for a blissful break. But Flora didn't anticipate a mysterious guest and a whole heap of family baggage coming too. With James developing a schoolboy crush on a famous singer and Flora distracted by ghosts from her past, their dream holiday suddenly takes some very unexpected turns.
UEB. 7v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25434003
Archer, Jeffrey. Cometh the hour. 2016. Family stories.
The Clifton chronicles: book 6. Cometh the Hour opens with the reading of a suicide note, which has devastating consequences for Harry and Emma Clifton, Giles Barrington and Lady Virginia. Giles must decide if he should withdraw from politics and try to rescue Karin, the woman he loves, from behind the Iron Curtain. But is Karin truly in love with him, or is she a spy? Harry Clifton remains determined to get Anatoly Babakov released from a gulag in Siberia, following the international success of his acclaimed book, Uncle Joe. But then something unexpected happens that none of them could have anticipated.
UEB. 7v. Price: £20.00. Order No: 25495803
Baldacci, David. Memory man. 2015. Crime.
Amos Decker: book 1. When ex-detective Amos Decker returned home 18 months ago to find the bodies of his wife and only daughter, he didn't think he could carry on living. Overwhelmed with grief, he saw his life spiral out of control, losing his job, his house and his self-respect. But when his former partner in the police visits to tell him that someone has confessed to the murders, he knows he owes it to his wife and child to seek justice for them.
UEB. 7v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25434003
Brodrick, William. The sixth lamentation; a novel. 2004. Thriller.
What should you do if the world has turned against you? When Father Anselm is asked this question by an old man at Larkwood Priory, his response, to claim sanctuary, is to have greater resonance than he could ever have imagined. For that evening the old man returns, demanding the protection of the church. His name is Eduard Schwermann and he is wanted by the police as a suspected war criminal.
SEB. 5v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 25596502
Brown, Sandra. Deadline. 2014. Thriller.
Dawson Scott is a well-respected journalist recently returned from Afghanistan. Haunted by everything he experienced, he's privately suffering from battle fatigue which is a threat to every aspect of his life. But then he gets a call from a source within the FBI. A new development has come to light in a story that began 40 years ago. It could be the big story of Dawson's career and one in which he has a vested interest.
UEB. 7v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 25459003
Chadwick, Elizabeth. The winter crown. 2015. Historical fiction.
Eleanor of Aquitaine: book 2. It is the winter of 1154 and Eleanor, Queen of England, is biding her time. While her husband King Henry II battles for land across the channel, Eleanor fulfils her duty as acting ruler and bearer of royal children. But she wants to be more than this, if only Henry would let her. Instead, Henry belittles and excludes her, falling for a young mistress and leaving Eleanor sidelined and angry. Frustrated at Henry's hoarding of power, Eleanor is forced into a rebellion of devastating consequences.
UEB. 10v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25433703
Cleeves, Ann. The crow trap. 2010. Crime.
Vera Stanhope: book 1. At the isolated Baikie's Cottage, three very different women come together to complete an environmental survey. The three women each know the meaning of betrayal. Rachael is the first to arrive at the cottage, where she discovers the body of her friend, Bella Furness. Bella, it appears, has committed suicide, a verdict Rachael refuses to accept. When another death occurs, a fourth woman enters the picture, the unconventional Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope.
UEB. 8v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25434703
Cogman, Genevieve. The invisible library. 2015. Fantasy.
Invisible Library: book 1. Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, which harvests fiction from different realities. And along with her enigmatic assistant Kai, she's posted to an alternative London. Their mission - to retrieve a dangerous book. But when they arrive, it's already been stolen. London's underground factions seem prepared to fight to the very death to find her book. Adding to the jeopardy, this world is chaos-infested - the laws of nature bent to allow supernatural creatures and unpredictable magic.
UEB. 6v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25434103
De Bernières, Louis. The dust that falls from dreams. 2015. General fiction.
In the brief golden years of King Edward VII's reign, Rosie McCosh and her three sisters are growing up in an idyllic and eccentric household in Kent. For Rosie, the path ahead is full of challenges. Torn between her love for two young men, one an infantry soldier and one a flying ace, she has to navigate her way through extraordinary times. Can she, and her sisters, build new lives out of the opportunities and devastations that follow the Great War?
UEB. 10v. Price: £18.99. Order No: 25431903
Diamond, Lucy. The year of taking chances. 2015. Chick lit.
In the small Suffolk village of Larkmead, Gemma is throwing a New Year's Eve party. It was supposed to be a small do but sociable husband Spencer has gone overboard with the invites and now the whole village is there. Caitlin has returned to the village where she spent her teenage years to pack up her much-missed mum's house and try and figure out what to do with her life; and Saffron, a PR whizz who is hiding a life-altering secret which no amount of spin can change. At the party, the three women meet over a glass or two of bubbly and pass around fortune cookies as Big Ben counts down to midnight. As the year unfolds the women come to lean on each other more and more as shocks, disappointments and rifts test them to their limits.
UEB. 6v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25426803
Dillon, Lucy. One small act of kindness. 2015. Chick lit.
When a woman is hit by a car and knocked unconscious, passer-by Libby feels a sense of responsibility towards her. She was the one who called the ambulance, after all. When the woman comes round, she's suffered complete temporary memory loss. Libby feels sorry for the scared woman and offers to put her up for a few days at the rundown B&B she and her husband Jason are trying to convert into a chic romantic hideaway. But as the women's friendship blossoms, Pippa, as they're calling her, starts to get the feeling she was looking for someone.
UEB. 8v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25431303
Douglas, Donna. The Nightingale girls. 2012. General fiction.
Nightingale girls: book 1. Three very different girls sign up as student nurses in 1936, while England is still mourning the death of George V. Dora is a tough East Ender, driven by ambition, but also desperate to escape her squalid, overcrowded home and her abusive stepfather. Helen is the quiet one, a mystery to her fellow nurses, avoiding fun, gossip and the limelight. In fact she is in the formidable shadow of her overbearing mother, who dominates every aspect of her life. Can a nursing career free Helen at last? The third of our heroines is naughty, rebellious Millie, an aristocrat on the run from her conventional upper class life.
UEB. 8v. Price: £5.99. Order No: 25427303
Evans, Harriet. A place for us. 2015. Family stories.
The house has soft, purple wisteria twining around the door. You step inside. The hall is cool after the hot summer's day. The welcome is kind, and always warm. Yet something makes you suspect life here can't be as perfect as it seems. After all, the brightest smile can hide the darkest secret. But wouldn't you pay any price to have a glorious place like this? Welcome to Winterfold. Martha Winter's family is finally coming home.
UEB. 9v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25427403
Evans, Nicholas. The loop. 1998. General fiction.
"The loop" is the story of Helen Ross, a twenty-nine-year-old biologist sent alone to protect the wolves, in a sleepy mountain town in Montana, from those who seek to destroy them. It tells of her struggle for self-esteem and survival, and charts her dangerous love affair with the eighteen-year-old son of her most powerful opponent, brutal and charismatic rancher, Buck Calder.
SEB. 9v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 25580102
Fellowes, Julian. Belgravia. 2016. Historical fiction.
On the evening of 15 June 1815, the great and the good of British Society have gathered in Brussels at the Duchess of Richmond's ball. For Sophia Trenchard, the young and beautiful daughter of Wellington's chief supplier, this night will change everything. But it is only twenty-five years later, when the upwardly mobile Trenchards move into the fashionable new area of Belgravia, that the true repercussions of that moment will be felt. For in this new world, where the aristocracy rub shoulders with the emerging nouveau riche, there are those who would prefer the secrets of the past to remain buried.
UEB. 8v. Price: £18.99. Order No: 25548003
Finnigan, Judy. I do not sleep. 2015. General fiction.
Five years ago, Molly Gabriel lost her twenty-year-old son, Joey, to a terrible sailing accident. His empty boat was washed ashore on the rocks but his body was never found. Now, Molly has returned to the sands of Cornwall haunted by his disappearance, unable to accept he is gone. Joey was an experienced sailor and died on a calm sea. Things just don't add up and Molly cannot let it go. Desperate for answers, she turns to Joey's best friend, Ben, to go back to what really happened that day.
UEB. 5v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25424503
Flynn, Katie. Rainbow's end. 2013. Family stories.
Liverpool, 1904. When Ada Docherty gives birth to twins, Deidre and Donal, in her tiny house in Evangelist Court, she has no choice but to make Ellen, her eldest daughter, bring them up, for she must work to feed seven hungry mouths. But in Dublin, Maggie McVeigh's lot is even harder, for she sleeps on straw in a tumbledown tenement. When a local woman, Mrs Nolan, needs someone to look after her sons, Maggie takes on the job and finds security and comfort and love, too, with the eldest boy, Liam. This is the story of two families struggling through poverty and hardship to reach their Rainbow's End.
UEB. 9v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 25427003
Forster, Margaret. Have the men had enough?. 1989. Family stories.
In this story of female courage, black comedy turns to disturbing pathos as the rights of Mrs McKay are fought over. As generations and sexes clash, "Have the men had enough?" tells us truths at many levels. At once funny, moving and compelling, it is a portrait of an indomitable grandmother and a very special love story.
SEB. 6v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 25580202
Galbraith, Robert. Career of evil. 2015. Crime.
Cormoran Strike: 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.
UEB. 9v. Price: £20.00. Order No: 25432403
Grafton, Sue. A is for alibi. 2007. Crime.
Kinsey Millhone: book 1. When Laurence Fife was murdered, few cared. Plenty of people in the picturesque Southern California town of Santa Teresa had reason to want him dead. Including, thought the cops, his young and beautiful wife, Nikki. With motive, access and opportunity, Nikki was their number one suspect. The Jury thought so too. Eight years later and out on parole, Nikki Fife hires Kinsey Millhone to find out who really killed her husband. But the trail has gone cold and there is a chilling twist even Kinsey didn’t expect.