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BAY OF ANGELS, THE

\pause{1500}Author: Brookner, Anita
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 5821 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 9
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 8.25
\pause{1500}Main subject: Contemporary Fiction
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When her widowed mother remarries, Zoe is delighted. Her stepfather is amiable and his home in Nice offers a pleasant refuge. This agreeable life comes to an abrupt end when an unexpected tragedy forces Zoe to re-examine her life.

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BLOOD SISTERS

\pause{1500}Author: Keating, Barbara & Stephanie
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7925 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 19
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 27.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
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Three young girls from the Kenya Highlands, and with different backgrounds, become blood sisters. They promise that nothing will ever come between them. On growing up their lives are changed by families and distance. This is a story of transition from childhood innocence to reality.

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CANDLE IN THE STRAW, A

\pause{1500}Author: Wyatt, Clare E M
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 5107 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 6
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 8.75
\pause{1500}Main subject: Historical Fiction - Pre 1914
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A family saga in rural China, beginning with the Boxer Rebellion & ending with the violence of the communist revolution.

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CHASE, THE

\pause{1500}Author: Fergusson, Lorna
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6474 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 8
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 11.75
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
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Hoping to salvage their life and their marriage, Netty and Gerald Feldwick seek refuge in a new home, an old hunting lodge in the woods of the Dordogne. As they become increasingly alienated from each other, Netty is drawn to the local history and is haunted by spirits of past centuries. Can thay ever find sanctuary?

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CURE FOR DEATH BY LIGHTNING, THE

\pause{1500}Author: Anderson-Dargatz, Gail
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 5565 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 8
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 11.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
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In a remote part of British Columbia strange and unsettling events occur, 15 year old Beth Weeks is pursued, children go missing and a girl is mauled by a bear! Explicit sex.

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DANGEROUS VINE, A

\pause{1500}Author: Ewing, Barbara
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6719 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 10
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 0.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
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Margaret-Rose, like her sister, is named after an English princess,in fact everything in the family is very English. There is something odd and unspoken between Margaret-Rose and her parents, and she rebels against what they think is right and ordered and maps out her own path in 1950's New Zealand, looking for colour and passion

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DARK ROOM, THE

\pause{1500}Author: Seiffert, Rachel
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6226 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 7
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 9.75
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
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Three stories of ordinary Germans: Helmut a young photographer in Berlin before and during the War; Lore, twelve years old in 1945, who leads her siblings through a devastated Germany; and Micha a young teacher obsessed by what his grandparents did in the war.

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DEAR FRANCESCA

\pause{1500}Author: Contini, Mary
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6358 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 8
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 11.50
\pause{1500}Main subject: Home & Garden
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Mary Contini and her husband grew up in extended Italian families in Scotland and she wanted to pass on the family histories, traditions and passion for food to her daughter. She successfully combines Italian heritage and recipes in this book which can be enjoyed if you like cooking or just reading about Italian food.

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DEAR OLIVIA

\pause{1500}Author: Contini, Mary
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7955 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 9
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 13.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: Biography & Autobiography - General
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Mary Contini writes to her younger daughter to tell her about their family origins in Italy, and about the grandparents who moved to Scotland to escape poverty. She also tells of the WWII experiences of the women left to manage businesses and families when their husbands and sons were rounded up as aliens.

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DEVIL THAT DANCED ON THE WATER, THE

\pause{1500}Author: Forna, Aminatta
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6426 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 12
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 18.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: Biography & Autobiography - Political
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Mohamed Forna was one of the first black students to come to Britain after the war. A dissident he became a rising star in the fledgling democrary of Sierra Leone. As corruption grew he found himself in jail as a prisoner of conscience, and worse followed. His daughter returned to Africa to determine her father's fate.

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