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ACCIDENTAL MARATHON, THE

\pause{1500}Author: Hawking, Lucy
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7434 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 7
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 0.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
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When impulsive, thirtysomething Fleur accidentally finds herself training for the London Marathon she hopes it will lend her life some focus. But she suddenly finds herself in prison, as her haphazard life is ripped apart.

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ADULTERY FOR BEGINNERS

\pause{1500}Author: Duncan, Sarah
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6958 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 9
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 0.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
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Conflicting loyalties come to the fore when Isabel finds herself attracted to her new boss. As lust turns to love, and love to obsession the question is - can an adulterous wife be a good mother?

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AGAINST HER NATURE

\pause{1500}Author: Buchan, Elizabeth
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 5251 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 9
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 12.25
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
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Tessa and Becky, who have been friends since the beginning of their City careers, face many choices in their lives, not least the choice presented by biology - children.

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AMY

\pause{1500}Author: Hooper, Mary
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 16420 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 4
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 0.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: Key stage 3 - ages 12 - 14 years
\pause{1500}Additional subject: Key stage 4 - ages 14 - 16 years
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When Louise and Bethany fell out with Amy she decided to find a friend on an internet chatroom. She knows it is stupid to go alone to meet someone she has been chatting to - but Zed seems so normal, what can possibly go wrong?

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ANNELI THE ART HATER

\pause{1500}Author: Fine, Anne
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 16316 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 3
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 2.25
\pause{1500}Main subject: Key stage 2 - ages 8 - 11 years
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Anneli hates drawing, painting and anything artistic. But when she finds a picture hidden behind a secret door in her house she is drawn into an extraordinary story.

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ARTISTIC LICENCE

\pause{1500}Author: Fforde, Katie
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6125 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 7
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 10.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
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Thea leaves a houseful of student lodgers at home and takes an art appreciation holiday in Provence. There she meets Rory and decides to extend her holiday with a visit to his studio in Ireland, but her home life is not so easy to leave behind!

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BILGEWATER

\pause{1500}Author: Gardam, Jane
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6817 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 8
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\pause{1500}Main subject: Contemporary Fiction
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Marigold Green, 'Bilgewater' to some, thinks of herself as plain and peculiar, an idea reinforced by growingup in the boys' school where her father is a housemaster. Groomed by wise and loving Paula, but upstaged ba bad yet beautiful Grace, Marigold suffers almost comicallt through the turbulent world of adolescence.

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BRIGHT DAY, DARK NIGHT

\pause{1500}Author: Staples, Mary Jane
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6361 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 8
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 10.75
\pause{1500}Main subject: Family Stories
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In the Devon village of Ashleigh evacuee David Adams meets Kate Trimble, an orphan who now lives with her aunt. Their friendship develops over the summer and David is determined to help Kate after an incident which shocks everyone and brings home the darker side of war.

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CHARMED LIFE

\pause{1500}Author: Jones, Diana Wynne
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 16412 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 8
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 7.25
\pause{1500}Main subject: Key stage 4 - ages 14 - 16 years
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Cat knows that his sister is the most promising witch in Coven Street. They are summoned to live in the castle of the enchanter Chrestomanci, who refuses to recognise Gwendolen's talent. Frustrated she devises a scheme that treatens to destroy all the worlds of Chrestomanci.

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CONFESSIONS OF A BAD MOTHER

\pause{1500}Author: Calman, Stephanie
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7307 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 6
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\pause{1500}Main subject: Biography & Autobiography - Humour
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Do all the mother's around seem to be gettingit right, when you are so obviously getting it all wrong? Read Stephanie Calman's confessions of breaking all the rules and realise that you are just normal!

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