Books added to the library in week ending 27th September, 2014
Click on the picture to find more details about the book on the Warwickshire County Libraries website.Children's Fiction
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Janis MacKay
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The Selkie Girl
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Fiction - Fergus
lives with his father by the sea, but is lonely. He wants a friend more
than anything. One day Fergus finds treasure on the beach: a beautiful
fur blanket hidden in the rocks. But Fergus doesn’t know that his
treasure belongs to someone else - a selkie girl has lost her seal skin
and can’t go home to the sea without it.
The Selkie Girl is
one of the first titles released in the new Picture Kelpies:
Traditional Scottish Tales range of picture books that bring classic
Scottish folk and fairy tales to life for young children.
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Alexander McCall Smith | Good Dog Lion | 5+ 7+ Dyslexia Friendly
- Timo and his mother do not have much money - in fact, they have
almost none. But that does not matter too much, because Timo has his
mother and she has him. They have their little house. They have friends
and neighbours. They have the world about them. All of that can be
enough for happiness. There is one more thing, though, that Timo would
like to have ...A dog! |  |
Adult Fiction
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David Almond | Skellig | 11+
Michael stumbles into the old garage of his new home, and finds a
strange creature - part owl, part angel, a being who needs Michael’s
help if he is to survive. Michael nourishes Skellig back to health,
while his baby sister languishes in the hospital. But as Skellig helps
Michael breathe life into his sister, Michael’s world changes for ever.
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Katie Flynn |
Chasing Rainbows |
Adult Fiction
- A story of marriage in which the husband, Clive, spends most of his
time working away from home in Saudi Arabia. Despite this, he objects
when his wife, Clare, takes on a part time job working in a cafe, and
she soon finds that Clive’s visits home become less important to her.
Originally published: as by Judith Saxton. 1988.
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Katie Flynn | Jenny Alone | Adult Fiction - After
the sudden and brutal breakdown of her marriage, Jenny finds herself
alone for the first time in her life when she leaves the comfortable
farmhouse with her four-year-old daughter. Taking refuge in a seaside
town in North Wales, Jenny finds a room in a boarding house. It’s
difficult atfirst, but as she gets to know her fellow residents ... |  | Penny Hancock | A Trick of the Mind | Thriller / Suspense - Driving
down to the cottage in Southwold she’s newly inherited from her Aunty
May, Ellie senses she is on the edge of something new. The life she’s
always dreamed of living as a successful artist seems as though it is
about to begin. So excited is she that she barely notices when the car
bumps against something on the road. |  | Charlaine Harris | Dead Ever After (A True Blood Novel) | Teen Fiction - Life
has taken Sookie from waitress in a bar to its part owner; from social
outcast to popularity; from a vampire’s girlfriend to the wife of one
of the most powerful vampires in the state. She has survived
explosions, revolutions and attempts on her life. But the question is,
in the end, who will love, who will live and who will be dead ever
after. |  | Jack Higgins | The Death Trade | Thriller / Suspense - The
world’s most dangerous man has escaped - and it’s up to Sean Dillon and
Co to find him, before he falls into the hands of al Qaeda. When Iran’s
head of nuclear weapons programme absconds he is hunted by everyone:
the Iranians, al Qaeda and Sean Dillon’s team of specialists.
Travelling from London, Paris, and the Middle East to the desert wastes. |  | John-Henri Holmberg | A Darker Shade | Thriller / Suspense
- Sweden’s best crimewriters have been brought together to form this
dark and gripping collection, published for the first time in the
English language. Contributors include Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell,
Per Wahloo and Eva Gabrielsson. |  | Philip Kerr | Prayer | LARGE PRINT Thriller / Suspense - Special
Agent Gil Martins investigates domestic terrorism for the Houston FBI.
He is a religious man who is close to losing his faith; the very nature
of his job has led him to question the existence of a God who could
allow the things that Gil sees every day. But Gil’s wife Ruth doesn’t
see things the same way and his crisis of faith provokes a fracture in
their marriage. Gil’s world is breaking apart. At the same time, Gil
starts to investigate a series of unexplained deaths that bring this
crisis of faith into uncomfortable focus. |  | Judith Lennox | One Last Dance | Family Drama - As
the twentieth century draws to a close, Esme Reddaway knows that she
must uncover the truth. A truth that began during the First World War
when Devlin Reddaway fell passionately in love with Esme’s elder
sister, Camilla, and promised to rebuild his ancestral home, Rosindell,
for her. But the war changes everything and Devlin returns to England
... |  | Peter Lovesey | Keystone | Crime / Thriller - Warwick
Easton is a cop - a movie cop, that is. Landing in the crazy world of
Keystone Film Studios, California, in 1916, a chance meeting with a
silent comedy star lands him a job as Keystone the cop. Little does he
realise some very real danger is on its way. Terrible events begin to
occur: a horrific death on a rollercoaster, a body in a bungalow ... |  | Carole Mortimer | A D’Angelo Like No Other | LARGE PRINT Romance - When
trouble comes in twos...Michael D'Angelo might be the driving force
behind the successful Archangel galleries, but it doesn't mean he's
perfect...he lost his halo years ago! Yet when a delectable woman shows
up in Paris, claiming he's the father to twins, it's one mistake
Michael is certain he's not responsible for. Fiery Eva Foster won't
walk away until the twins in her charge are reunited with their father.
Now the one person she hoped would help is the only person standing in
her way. A line has been drawn in the sand - but when the spark between
them catches all bets are off! |  | James Patterson and Ashwin Sanghi | Private India | Thriller / Suspense - When
Santosh Wagh isn’t struggling out of a bottle of whisky he’s head of
Private India, the Mumbai branch of the world’s finest PI agency. In a
city of over thirteen million he has his work cut out at the best of
times. But now someone is killing women - seemingly unconnected women
murdered in a chilling ritual, with strange objects placed ... |  | Amy Ruttan | Melting the Ice Queen’s Heart | LARGE PRINT - Medical Romance
- Having left his humanitarian posting in Africa to raise his two
orphaned nieces in San Francisco, Dr Gavin Brice has enough on his
plate without an inconvenient attraction to his new boss! The frosty Dr
Virginia Potter clearly disapproves of his maverick ways - but with one
amazing kiss, the ice begins to thaw... |  | Alan Titchmarsh | Bring me Home | Family Drama - ’You
really are the perfect family, aren’t you?’ Charlie Stuart, the owner
of a Scottish castle and disappointed father of a brood of grown-up
children, took in the full irony of his guest’s comment at a Sunday
house party. His family - and his life - were far from perfect. He had
longed since childhood to inherit the Castle on the loch. |  |
Adult Non-Fiction
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Lonely Planet: Sweden
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Travel - From
the beauty of Stockholm to the vastness of the country's wilderness
areas, this guide will help you experience all that Sweden has to offer
no matter what your budget. Previous ed.: published as by Becky Ohlsen
and Cristian Bonetto.
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Michael Palin | Travelling to Work Diaries 1988 - 98 | Biography - This
is the third volume of Michael Palin’s widely acclaimed diaries. After
the Python years and a decade of filming, writing and acting, Palin’s
career takes an unexpected direction into travel, which will shape his
working life for the next 25 years. |  |
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