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61 hours [large print] by Lee Child.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:39:03 GMT

Winter in South Dakota. Blowing snow, icy roads, a tired driver. A bus skids and crashes and is stranded in a gathering storm. There's a small town twenty miles away, where a vulnerable witness is guarded around the clock. There's a strange stone building five miles further on, all alone on the prairie. There's a ruthless man who controls everything from the warmth of Mexico. Jack Reacher hitched a ride in the back of the bus. A life without baggage has many advantages. And crucial disadvantages too, when it means facing the arctic cold without a coat. But he's equipped for the rest of his task. He doesn't want to put the world to rights. He just doesn't like people who put it to wrongs.

Up west [large print] by Pip Granger.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:37:24 GMT

Do you remember the West End of London during the 1950s? Did you live or work there? If so, I want to hear from you ...This was the advertisement author Pip Granger placed in a local newspaper, and the response was immediate. Soon she was hearing from people who recalled what it was like when sweets were rationed from families who'd been bombed out of their homes during the Blitz from men who'd worked in the flower markets of Covent Garden and, from the son of a family of immigrants who'd opened one of the very first delicatessens in Soho. All had extraordinary stories to tell. Based on the author's own memories and dozens of interviews and written testimonies, Up West evokes a unique and vibrant community, and a way of life that is vanishing fast.

The Spurlock gun [large print] by Matt Logan.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:35:49 GMT

They said that Chase Donovan had been a Texan Ranger for too long, and that they weren't prepared to put up with his maverick, gun-fast ways any longer. So they took away his badge and kicked him out of the battalion, and he turned into a full-time drunk. Then a wealthy businessman offered to bankroll his very own fight against the lawless. There was only one catch - Chase had to mend his wicked ways. He agreed to give it a go - and wound up trading lead with the bully-boys of North Town, Texas, where bullets were cheap but life was even cheaper...

The longest road [large print] by Pamela Oldfield.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:34:28 GMT

Clare was devastated after her fiance was killed in the First World War. Her only enjoyment now is writing for The Ladies Journal, so her hopes rise when she is asked to write a novel. She meets editor Steven Fllint, who is very encouraging, but her attempts to write are thwarted by a series of problems. Steven is a friendly shoulder to cry on but will her feelings for him cause problems?

Paperboy [large print] by Christopher Fowler.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:33:07 GMT

Superman, Dracula, The Avengers, Treasure Island... when you're ten years old, you can fall in love with any story so long as it's a good one. But what if you're growing up in a house without books? Christopher Fowler's memoir captures life in suburban London as it has rarely been seen: through the eyes of a lonely boy who spends his days between the library and the cinema, devouring novels, comics, cereal packets - anything that might reveal a story. But it's 1960, and after fifteen years of post-war belt-tightening, his family is not ready to indulge a child cursed with too much imagination... Caught between an ever-sensible but exhausted mother and a DIY-obsessed father fighting his own demons, Christopher takes refuge in words. His parents try to understand their son's peculiar obsessions, but fast lose patience with him - and each other. The war of nerves escalates to include every member of the Fowler family, and something has to give, but does it mean that a boy must always give up his dreams for the tough lessons of real life? Beautifully written, this rich and astute evocation of a time and a place recalls a childhood at once eccentric and endearingly ordinary.

High wind in Java [large print] by Peter Tonkin.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:30:46 GMT

Richard Mariner is out to buy the revolutionary vessel Tai Fun, but not if multi-millionaire eco-warrior Nic Greenbaum has his way. The situation is further complicated when the tiny island of Pulau Baya, Tai Fun's final port of call, is torn by a series of unexplained, overwhelming disasters. Helpless and desperate, the islanders go out to pirate and pillage. And the first vessel to appear over their horizon is the Tai Fun.

A dream of jewelled fishes [large print] by John Aston.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:29:32 GMT

This fishing autobiography ranges from the boyhood quest for perch in Yorkshire's West Riding, through salmon and carp fishing, to his first love, wild trout on small streams in north Yorkshire. It is by a child of the sixties for whom fly fishing is 'rock and roll fishing', and whose angling references are very likely to be Frank Zappa or Hemingway.

As you do [large print] by Richard Hammond.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:25:12 GMT

The wry, honest and often hilarious chronicles of a very brave and clever TV presenter, Arctic Explorer and general drawer of the Short Straw. Moving quickly on from the devastating crash that nearly killed him, he ranges widely over his life and times.

The year of the flood [large print] by Margaret Atwood.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:23:58 GMT

Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners - a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life - has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have survived: Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, a God's Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa where many of the treatments are edible. Have others survived? And what are the odds for the human race?

The Scarpetta factor [large print] by Patricia Cornwell.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:22:48 GMT

Kay Scarpetta, despite her busy schedule, has offered her services to New York City's Medical Examiner. Her increased visibility seems to precipitate unsettling events. She is asked live on CNN about the case of Hannah Starr, who has vanished and is presumed dead. During the same telecast she receives a call-in from a former psychiatric patient of Benton Wesley's. When she returns home after the show, she finds a package - possibly a bomb - waiting for her. Scarpetta finds herself embroiled in a plot that includes an actor accused of a sex crime and the disappearance of a beautiful millionaire.

The revolt of the eaglets [large print] by Jean Plaidy.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:21:34 GMT

At the height of his powers, Henry II has been accused of the murder of his one-time friend, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas à Becket, and is beset by the devilish machinations of his own family. Eleanor, who has grown to hate him, openly encourages discontent and resentment in their four sons: Henry, Richard, Geoffrey and John.

The monster in the box [large print] by Ruth Rendell.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:20:22 GMT

Wexford had almost made up his mind that he would never again set eyes on Eric Targo's short, muscular figure. And yet there he was, back in Kingsmarkham, still with that cocky, strutting walk. Years earlier, when Wexford was a young police officer, a woman called Elsie Carroll had been found strangled in her bedroom. Although many still had their suspicions that her husband was guilty, no one was convicted. Another woman was strangled shortly afterwards, and every personal and professional instinct told Wexford that the killer was still at large. And it was Eric Targo. A psychopath who would kill again.

Girl in blue [large print] : how one woman survived fourteen years in the police force by Anne Ramsay with Diane Taylor.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:19:10 GMT

Girl in blue is Anne Ramsay's story of the fourteen years she spent in the police, first as a WPC and then as a detective. On the beat she would never know if she was about to face a violent criminal, a burglar funding his heroin habit, or even a corpse. Life as a police officer could involve catching drug dealers, watching a post-mortem or solving murder cases. But eventually she was exiled from the 'biggest gang in the world', as differences between life on Scotland's toughest streets and life inside the force itself were sometimes hard to see.

Blood safari [large print] by Deon Meyer translated from Afrikaans by K.L. Seegers.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:17:53 GMT

Lemmer is a freelance bodyguard for Body Armor, a security company in South Africa. Emma le Roux wants to find her missing brother, who supposedly died 20 years ago, but whom she is convinced she's seen on the news as a suspect in the killing of several people. She hires Lemmer to watch her back when she goes looking for answers.

Around the world in 80 trades [large print] by Conor Woodman.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:16:18 GMT

Economist Conor Woodman has decided to test his negotiating skills, charm and eye for a bargain against some of the world's oldest trading cultures. He's sold his house to finance the trip, but if his hunches are right - trading Sudanese camels for Kenyan coffee, coffee for South African red wine and then off to China to buy porcelain with the proceeds - he'll return six months later with a lot of money, some new friends and a whole raft of brilliant tall tales.Conor believes that the principles of profit are universal wherever you go, whatever language you speak. Whether trading teak or bath taps, light bulbs or seafood he'll work out how to make money in every market he encounters along his route...

Always looking up [large print] : the adventures of an incurable optimist by Michael J. Fox.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:15:04 GMT

Always looking up is a memoir of this last decade, told through the critical themes of Michael's life: work, politics, faith, and family. The book is a journey of selfdiscovery and reinvention, and a testament to the consolations that protect him from the ravages of Parkinson's.

A winding road [large print] by Jonathan Tulloch.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:13:48 GMT

Spring 2008. The art world is awash with money. The celebrated art mogul and 'adviser' Piers Guest has a client list which includes the wealthiest of individual collectors and an international merchant bank. A newly discovered masterpiece leads him away from his gallivanting through London's galleries and cafes, and takes him onto altogether different terrain... 1933. Under the shadow of the Nazi party, Helga and Ernst Mann bring a disabled child into the world. While Ernst drifts near the baleful influence of the Third Reich, Helga is determined to keep her child safe. 1890. In Auvers-sur-Oise, Vincent Van Gogh lives out his last days. Tormented by illness and regret, he takes up his brush, and paints the picture that will draw many disparate lives together.

Where the shadows lie by Michael Ridpath.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:27:45 GMT

US-raised Magnus Jonson is seconded to the Icelandic Police Force for his own protection after a run-in with a drugs gang in Boston. When a professor is found murdered Magnus is soon involved in a hunt for a lost Icelandic saga, which may have links to J.R.R. Tolkein.

Tongues of serpents by Naomi Novik.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:26:11 GMT

Convicted of treason despite their heroic defense against Napoleon's invasion of England, Temeraire the dragon and his friend and rider, Capt. Will Laurence, are transported to the prison colony in Australia. They carry with them three dragon eggs intended to help establish a covert in the colony.

Time's legacy by Barbara Erskine.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:24:53 GMT

In present-day Cambridge, Abi, a recently ordained priest of the Church of England, is appointed to a notoriously difficult parish. The priest in charge is the charismatic but fundamentalist Kier. He objects to her mysticism, her practice of healing in particular. When she sees a vision of a congregation in an old church, Kier accuses her of witchcraft, but Abi soon sees more visions an entire Roman family history, dark with betrayal and a promise of bloody revenge. With foreboding forces building up to violence, Abi must battle the approaching terror along with her own personal demons, drawing upon the expertise of Druidry and shamanism from a questionable source!

The search by Nora Roberts.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:22:21 GMT

To most people, Fiona Bristow seems to have an idyllic life. But she got to this point by surviving a nightmare. Several years ago, Fiona was the only survivor of the Red Scarf serial killer, who shot and killed Fiona's cop fiancÃ© and his K-9 partner. On Orcas Island, Fiona found the peace and solitude she needed to rebuild her life. But all that changes on the day Simon Doyle barrels up her drive, desperate for her help. He's the reluctant owner of an out-of-control puppy, Jaws. To Fiona, Jaws is nothing she can't handle. Simon, however, is another matter. A newcomer to Orcas, he's a rugged and in-tensely private artist. As Fiona embarks on training Jaws, and Simon begins to appreciate both dog and trainer, the past tears back into Fiona's life. A copycat killer has emerged out of the shadows, a man whose bloodlust has been channeled by a master with one motive: to reclaim the woman who slipped out of his hands...

The price of glory by Seth Hunter.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:20:54 GMT

Nathan Peake charts a perilous course through the treacherous seas off Brittany and into the even more dangerous waters of post-Revolutionary Paris. There he encounters two of the most beautiful and scandalous courtesans in history - and their little toy soldier, laughingly dubbed Captain Cannon, who is about to win enduring fame as Napoleon Bonaparte. Returned to the command of the frigate Unicorn, Nathan is sent to join another young glory-seeker, Captain Horatio Nelson, in a bid to wreck Bonaparteâ€™s plans for the invasion of Italy. But Nathan has his own private agenda â€“ to find his lost love amid the chaos of war â€“ and as the fighting spreads from the mountains to the sea, he discovers that glory comes at a higher price than all the gold in the vaults of Genoa.

The last letter from your lover by Jojo Moyes.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:18:59 GMT

When journalist Ellie looks through her newspaper's archives for a story, she doesn't think she'll find anything of interest. Instead she discovers a letter from 1960, written by a man asking his lover to leave her husband -- and Ellie is caught up in the intrigue of a past love affair. Despite, or perhaps because of her own romantic entanglements with a married man. In 1960, Jennifer wakes up in hospital after a car accident. She can't remember anything -- her husband, her friends, who she used to be. And then, when she returns home, she uncovers a hidden letter, and begins to remember the lover she was willing to risk everything for.

The importance of being seven by Alexander McCall Smith.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:17:42 GMT

The story of Bertie and his dysfunctional family continues in this sixth instalment alongside the familiar cast of favourites - Big Lou, Domenica, Angus Lordie, Cyril and others - in their daily pursuit of a little happiness.

The Botticelli secret by Marina Fiorato.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:16:24 GMT

In fifteenth-century Italy, Luciana Vetra is asked to pose as the goddess Flora for Sandro Botticelli's painting La Primavera. Luciana is willing to oblige - until the artist abruptly sends her away without payment. Luciana is not usually a thief, but this time she is angry and cannot resist taking an unfinished version of the painting. But Luciana soon learns that someone is ready to kill her to get the painting back. As friends and clients are murdered around her, Luciana turns to the one man who has never tried to exploit her beauty, Guido della Torre. Fleeing Florence together, they race through the nine great cities of Renaissance Italy, desperately trying to decode the painting's secrets before their enemies stop them.

In the name of honor : a novel by Richard North Patterson.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:15:06 GMT

Capt. Paul Terry, one of the army's most accomplished young lawyers, must defend Brian McCarran, a general's son who recently returned from a harrowing tour in Iraq. In the high-profile court-martial, Terry is joined by Brian's sister, Meg McCarran, who leaves her practice in San Francisco to help save her brother. Before the case is over, Terry will become deeply entwined with Meg and the McCarrans--and learn that families, like war, can break the sturdiest of souls.

I think I love you by Allison Pearson.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:13:34 GMT

Two friends Petra and Sharon live for David Cassidy. His fan magazine is the girls' Bible and they memorise every word that he sings and writes, in the hope of becoming the future Mrs Cassidy. But unbeknownst to Petra, and to millions of other hopefuls, David's letters may not be all his own work.

Freeing Grace by Charity Norman.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:12:08 GMT

Witty, warm and poignant, Freeing Grace tells the story of a young couple: David, the vicar of an inner-city London parish, and Leila, his Nigerian-born wife. Not able to have children of their own, they're desperate for a family, and when they finally hear they' ve just been approved to adopt a young baby, Grace, they are over the moon.

Dexter is delicious : a novel by Jeff Lindsay.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:10:30 GMT

Everything's changing for our friendly neighbourhood serial killer. As if getting married wasn't enough to complete his nice-guy persona, Dex is now the proud father of a baby girl. And disconcertingly, he actually seems to care. But even if fatherhood is distracting Dexter from his midnight excursions to rid Miami of a few more lowlifes, there's no let-up at work. Two young girls are missing - and it's not long before one of the bodies turns up, partially eaten. But as Dexter and Miami PD's finest investigate, Dex can't shake the feeling that somebody's watching him...At home, there's no rest for the wicked. His stepchildren are clamouring to learn how to control their bloodlust and Dexter must train up his young apprentices. But to do that, he'll have to find the missing girl, find out who's tailing him and survive a dark journey into a underground community who really have a taste for death.

Crashers by Dana Haynes.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:09:03 GMT

When a passenger plane, a Vermeer One Eleven, slams into the ground outside Portland, Oregon, a team--the crashers -- is quickly assembled to investigate the cause. Usually the team has months to determine the cause of a crash. But this time it's different. This time, the plane was brought down deliberately, without leaving a trace, and this was only a trial run.

Beyond the sunset by Anna Jacobs.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:07:30 GMT

In the untamed outback of Western Australia, the Blake sisters are together again despite what seemed like unsurmountable odds. For Cassandra - reunited again with the man she loves - the Swan River Colony is a refuge that seems like a miracle after her ordeals. And two of her sisters have fallen in love with their new way of life. But then a messenger arrives from faraway England, and it is the fourth sister, Pandora, who jumps at the chance to make her way back to the Lancashire moors that she misses so badly. The way home, though, will be even harder than the voyage to Australia. The only ship that can take her and her new protector back to England lies many days' journey away, across country that would daunt even a hardened explorer. And when she reaches Outham, a devious, dangerous enemy will do anything to prevent her from taking charge of her family's inheritance.

Balthazar Jones and the Tower of London Zoo by Julia Stuart.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:06:00 GMT

When Buckingham Palace announce that the Queen's exotic animals will be moved from London Zoo to the Tower of London, Beefeater Balthazar Jones, owner of the world's oldest tortoise and collector of rare raindrops, is charged with minding them. The magical (and ghostly), labyrinthine world of the Tower is already home and workplace to a strange collection of creatures - including the Reverend Septimus Drew, the Ravenmaster, and Ruby Dore, landlady of the Rack & Ruin, and, of course, Jones and his wife, the spectacular and fiery Hebe. Once it was home too for Milo, their young son, but then came the fateful day that haunts them both.

At sea by Laurie Graham.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:04:40 GMT

When Lady Enid - a woman in need of a project and a husband - throws her lot in with dashing Bernard Finch, she thinks she's found her perfect life's companion. Handsome and clever, Bernard has come a long way from his small-town American roots. Now more English than the English, he is a celebrated lecturer on Aegean cruises. Which is where his past comes back to bite him, in the shape of his old college chum, Frankie Gleeson. Frankie has made his fortune in corn snacks and to celebrate his success he brings his wife, Nola, to cruise the Greek islands. Frankie is a simple man but he has the gift of total recall, of every detail of Bernard's early years. Conflict is inevitable, for while Bernard shuns his cruise companions, Enid finds herself strangely drawn to them.

As husbands go : a novel by Susan Isaacs.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:03:10 GMT

Astonished when her seemingly devoted husband is found murdered in a prostitute's apartment, Susie, a mother of four-year-old triplets, bristles at her neighbors' mixed reactions and tackles everyone from her husband's partners to the DA to restore her family's honor.

A fabumouse school adventure [text by] Geronimo Stilton [Illustrations by Alessandro Pastrovicchio].

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:14:22 GMT

Everything keeps going wrong for Geronimo when he goes to his nephew Benjamin's school to speak for Career Day.

Adrian Mole : the prostrate years by Sue Townsend.

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:28:03 GMT

Adrian Mole is back. He's older, no wiser and possibly even funnier than before... When we last heard from Adrian, he had fallen in love with Daisy Flowers and they had embarked on a new life with their baby, Gracie. Fast-forward four years and Adrian's life is in turmoil again.

Me and my little blokes

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:00:35 GMT

In this heart-warming, inspirational and humorous book for all dads, Lowie shares the joys of fatherhood, his hopes and fears, and his tips on making the most of the best job a bloke can have: being a father.