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Issue 53
September 2016
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Adult fiction
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Autobiography and biography
Health and fitness
Hobbies and games
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Braille re-archived titles
Adult fiction
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Travel
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Children and young adult fiction
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Man Booker Prize longlist
Adult
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Giant print
Adult fiction
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Autobiography and biography
Health and fitness
History
Travel and tourism
Children and young adult fiction
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Adult fiction
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Autobiography and biography
Business management
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Braille
Adult fiction
Atwood, Margaret. The heart goes last. 2015. General fiction.
Positron: book 4. Living in their car, surviving on tips, Charmaine and Stan are in a desperate state. So, when they see an advertisement for Consilience, a 'social experiment' offering stable jobs and a home of their own, they sign up immediately. All they have to do in return for suburban paradise is give up their freedom every second month, swapping their home for a prison cell. At first, all is well. But then, unknown to each other, Stan and Charmaine develop passionate obsessions with their 'Alternates', the couple that occupy their house when they are in prison.
UEB. 6v. Price: £18.99. Order No: 25460203
Benedict, A. K. Jonathan Dark, or, The evidence of ghosts. 2016. Crime.
Maria King knows a secret London. Born blind, she knows the city by sound and touch and smell. But surgery has restored her sight, only for her to find she doesn't want it. Jonathan Dark sees the shadowy side of the city. A DI with the Metropolitan Police, he is haunted by his failure to save a woman from the hands of a stalker. Now it seems the killer has set his sights on Maria, and is leaving her messages in the most gruesome of ways.
UEB. 5v. Price: £12.99. Order No: 25482803
Bolano, Roberto. By night in Chile. 2009. Literary fiction.
During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a mediocre poet, relives some of the crucial events of his life. He believes he is dying and in his feverish delirium various characters, both real and imaginary, appear to him as icy monsters, as if in sequences from a horror film. Thus we are given glimpses of the great poet Pablo Neruda, the German writer Ernst Junger, General Pinochet, whom Father Lacroix instructs in Marxist doctrine, as well as various members of the Chilean intelligentsia whose lives, during a period of political turbulence, have touched upon his.
UEB. 2v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25458803
Carr, Susanna. Let them talk. 2015. Erotic fiction.
A risqué book club inspires three women to be naughty. In "The Diary", Sydney Tate is writing a fictional erotic diary inspired by the town's mouthwateringly hot mayor, Matthew Stone. Then her "diary" disappears and suddenly Matthew is bringing all of Sydney's secret fantasies to life! In "Talk of the town", librarian Isabel Bennett is pulling out every trick in the book to tempt Sean Hawkins. The oh-so-sexy businessman is about to find out just how bad this good girl can be. In "Craving you", Laura Dawson is desperate to get her gorgeous neighbour, Connor Adams, into her bed. So she turns to an aphrodisiac cookbook to serve up the most tantalizing, irresistible dish Connor has ever seen herself.
Contains sex scenes.
UEB. 4v. Price: £3.63. Order No: 25419603
Claydon, Annie. Snowbound with the surgeon. 2014. Mills and Boon romance.
Fiercely independent Dr Neve Harrison won’t let the heavy snow stop her from treating patients; she just needs a little help getting there. Her knight -in-shining-armour is handsome, enigmatic Joe Lamont. Joe’s past is a well-guarded secret, but as the snow continues to fall, and they’re trapped in their wintry Yorkshire village with nowhere to hide, can Neve’s healing touch warm this scarred ex-army surgeon’s heart?
UEB. 3v. Price: £3.49. Order No: 25423103
Gale, Iain. Jackals' revenge. 2012. War fiction.
Peter Lamb: book 2. Peter Lamb and his men are halted in their retreat to England and forced to join the British forces holding the pass at Thermopylae. When they land in Crete, Lamb becomes suspicious of some of the civilians who, on fleeing from Greece, have taken cover with the Jackals. Yet he knows that facing the awesome German paratroopers for the first time, combined with the desperate battle to hold Crete at all costs, will force him to find a way to work alongside any support he is offered. His new troop will be made up of partisans, allied irregulars, including Evelyn Waugh, and Spanish volunteers.
UEB. 6v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 25405307
Genova, Lisa. Still Alice. 2015. General fiction.
Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. A Harvard professor, she has a successful husband and three grown children. She soon finds herself in the rapidly downward spiral of Alzheimer's Disease. Her short-term memory may be hanging on by a couple of frayed threads, but she is still Alice.
UEB. 5v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25427203
Goodwin, Rosie. Dancing till midnight. 2006. Family stories.
Grace Collins, orphaned as a child, has been brought up by her severely religious aunt, Emily. Starved of love, she falls for the first man who shows her affection. Then she discovers the joy of ballroom dancing, and she meets Philip, who sweeps her off her feet and promises to show her a better way of life. But as he draws her into a web of deceit, she discovers that all that glitters is not gold.
UEB. 8v. Price: £5.99. Order No: 25427103
Greene, Vanessa. The Seafront Tea Rooms. 2014. Chick lit.
Charismatic journalist Charlotte is on a mission to scope out Britain's best tea rooms. She knows she's found something special in the Seafront Tea Rooms, but is it a secret she should share? Kathryn, a single mother whose only sanctuary is the Seafront, convinces Charlie to keep the place out of her article by agreeing to join her on her search. Together with another regular, Seraphine, a culture-shocked French au pair with a passion for pastry-making, they travel around the country discovering quaint hideaways and hidden gems. But what none of them expect is for their journey to surprise them with discoveries of a different kind.
UEB. 5v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25426703
Han, Kang. The vegetarian: a novel. 2015. Literary fiction.
Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptable flatline of their marriage is interrupted when Yeong-hye, seeking a more 'plant-like' existence, decides to become a vegetarian, prompted by grotesque recurring nightmares. In South Korea, where vegetarianism is almost unheard-of and societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye's decision is a shocking act of subversion.
UEB. 3v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25548203
North, Freya. The turning point. 2016. Chick lit.
Frankie Shaw is a single mum in pursuit of a fresh start. Moving from London to a small town in Norfolk with her two teenage kids will do them all good, she thinks. But isolated and struggling with writer's block, she regrets her decision to move her family to a run-down town. When she meets Scott, a wary Canadian on a work trip, it seems to be a turning point. But fate has a twist in store and the real turning point comes when tragedy strikes.
UEB. 7v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25524203
Patterson, James. Private. 2011. Thriller.
Private: book 1. Former US Marine Jack Morgan runs Private, a renowned investigation company with branches around the globe. In L.A., Jack is already deep into the investigation of a multimillion-dollar gambling scandal and the unsolved slayings of eighteen schoolgirls when he learns of a horrific murder close to home: his best friend's wife, Jack's former lover, has been killed. It nearly pushes him over the edge. Instead, Jack pushes back and devotes all of Private's resources to tracking down her killer. And Jack doesn't have to play by the rules.
UEB. 4v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25424603
Patterson, James. Private London. 2012. Thriller.
Private: book 2. For Hannah Shapiro, a beautiful young American student, this particular nightmare began eight years ago in Los Angeles, when Jack Morgan, owner of Private, the world's most exclusive detective agency, saved her from a horrific death. She has fled her country, but can't flee her past. The terror has followed her to London, and now it is down to former Royal Military Police Sergeant Dan Carter, head of Private London, to save her all over again.
UEB. 4v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25424703
Patterson, James. Private games. 2012. Thriller.
Private: book 3. When Sir Denton Marshall, a key member of the London Olympic organising committee, is found brutally murdered, Peter Knight, head of Private London, is called to the scene. Private are working with the organising committee on security for the Games, so Denton Marshall was a valuable client. It soon becomes clear that this is no isolated incident. The killer is targeting the Games itself, and the lives of everyone involved are under threat.
UEB. 5v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25424803
Patterson, James. Private - no. 1 suspect. 2013. Thriller.
Private: book 4. Since former US Marine Jack Morgan started Private, it has become the world’s most successful detective agency. But when his former lover is found murdered in Jack’s bed, Jack is instantly the number one suspect. With his team stretched to breaking point and Jack fighting for his life, he finds himself strong-armed by the mob into recovering $30 million in stolen pharmaceuticals, and Jack realises he is facing his most powerful enemies ever.
UEB. 4v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25424903
Patterson, James. Private L.A. 2014. Thriller.
Private: book 7. Jack Morgan is having a bad week. His twin brother is up on a murder charge and determined to frame him for the crime, and one of Jack’s clients has just called to report the burnt bodies of four surfers on his beach. But what seems like a random mugging gone wrong soon reveals something far worse, a killer calling themselves No Prisoners is holding the city to ransom. And there’s more bad news: Hollywood’s golden couple, Thom and Jennifer Harlow, have been kidnapped, along with their adopted children.
UEB. 5v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25425203
Patterson, James. Private India. 2014. Thriller.
Private: book 8. Santosh Wagh heads Private India, the Mumbai branch of the world's finest PI agency. Someone is killing women, seemingly unconnected women murdered in a chilling ritual, with strange objects placed carefully at their death scenes. As Santosh and his team race to find the killer, an even greater danger faces Private India, a danger that could threaten the lives of thousands of innocent Mumbai citizens.
UEB. 5v. Price: £18.99. Order No: 25426203
Patterson, James. Private Vegas. 2015. Thriller.
Private: book 9. Jack Morgan, head of Private Investigations, the global PI agency of the rich and famous, is being pushed to the limit. His car has been firebombed, his ex is dating someone else, and his twin brother is still out to destroy him. Add to that Jack’s best friend being held on a trumped-up charge that could see him locked away for a very long time, and it seems like all bets are off.
UEB. 4v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25425303
Patterson, James. Private Sydney. 2015. Thriller.
Private: book 10. Craig Gisto has promised Eliza Moss that his elite team at Private Sydney will investigate the disappearance of her father. After all, as CEO of a high-profile research company, Eric Moss shouldn't be difficult to find. Powerful figures want Moss to stay 'lost', while others just as ruthlessly want him found. Meanwhile, a routine background check becomes a frantic race to find a stolen baby and catch a brutal killer, a killer Private may well have sent straight to the victim's door.
UEB. 4v. Price: £18.99. Order No: 25426303
Powell, Anthony. At Lady Molly's. 2005. Classic.
A dance to the music of time: book 4. It is 1934 and Nick is working, without great success, as a script writer at a film company. He gets invited by a colleague, Chips Lovell, to a party at the home of Lady Molly Jeavons. There he learns that Widmerpool is to marry the twice widowed, somewhat notorious (somewhat insane according to Nick) Mrs. Mildred Haycock. Nick subsequently has to endure having to lunch with Widmerpool and fending-off questions from Widmerpool's prospective in-laws becomes, for Nick, a motif throughout the novel.
UEB. 5v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25480703
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's cabin. 2014. Classic.
Selling more than 300,000 copies the first year it was published, Stowe's powerful abolitionist novel fuelled the fire of the human rights debate in 1852. Denouncing the institution of slavery in dramatic terms, the incendiary novel quickly draws the reader into the world of slaves and their masters. Stowe's characters are powerfully and humanly realized in Uncle Tom, a majestic and heroic slave whose faith and dignity are never corrupted; Eliza and her husband, George, who elude slave catchers and eventually flee a country that condones slavery; Simon Legree, a brutal plantation owner; Little Eva, who suffers emotionally and physically from the suffering of slaves; and fun-loving Topsy, Eva's slave playmate.
UEB. 10v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25537603
Wyld, Evie. All the birds, singing. 2013. General fiction.
Jake Whyte is the sole resident of an old farmhouse on an unnamed British island, a place of ceaseless rains and battering winds. It's just her, her untamed companion, Dog, and a flock of sheep. Which is how she wanted it to be. But something is coming for the sheep - every few nights it picks one off, leaves it in rags. It could be anything. There are foxes in the woods, a strange boy and a strange man, rumours of an obscure, formidable beast. And there is Jake's unknown past, perhaps breaking into the present, a story hidden thousands of miles away and years ago, in a landscape of different colours and sounds.