Library home. Books read by Judy Le Besque

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GETTING TO MANANA

\pause{1500}Author: Innes, Miranda
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7604 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 7
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\pause{1500}Main subject: Biography & Autobiography - General
\pause{1500}Additional subject: Travel - Continental Europe
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In 1997 the author fell in love with, and bought, a romantic ruin in Adalucia. What she hadnãt reckoned with was a new man in her life, or the struggle involved in rebuilding the house and creating a garden ¹ all with her young son in tow.

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GRANDMOTHER'S FOOTSTEPS

\pause{1500}Author: Smith, Carol
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6929 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 8
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\pause{1500}Main subject: Thrillers
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When a mother and her daughters are butchered in cold blood, there is a wave of media outrage. But this is just the latest in a series of murders. The police have missed the vital link but cartographer William Huxley, aided by a cub reporter and Mrs P, a cleaning lady, start to solve the puzzle.

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LADIES COUPE

\pause{1500}Author: Nair, Anita
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7111 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 7
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\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
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Akhila is forty-five and single, an income-tax clerk who has never been allowed to live her own life. One day she books a train ticket to a seaside town. Travelling in the all-women sleeping car, she and her fellow passengers ponder life, happiness and relationships.

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OTHER EDEN, THE

\pause{1500}Author: Bryant, Sarah
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7251 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 7
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\pause{1500}Main subject: Historical Fiction - Pre 1914
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A young pianist leaves a privileged life in Boston for a Louisiana estate when her beloved grandfather dies, the estate where her grandmother died twenty-five years earlier. There the shocking discovery of a forgotten painting and her love for a Russian musician lead her into deceptions from the past, and present, which threaten her life.

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POISON

\pause{1500}Author: Wooding, Chris
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 16496 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 6
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\pause{1500}Main subject: Key stage 4 - ages 14 - 16 years
\pause{1500}Additional subject: Key stage 3 - ages 12 - 14 years
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Poison is a wilful, contrary girl and she decides to go herself to rescue her sister who has been snatched by phaeries. With only her quick wits to help her she must find the Phaerie Lord, yet avoid his lethal attentions if she is to find her sister.

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SKIN AND BLISTER

\pause{1500}Author: Blake, Victoria
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7827 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 7
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 9.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: Detective & Mystery Stories
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P I Sam FalconerÆs brother Mark teaches at St Barnabas College, Oxford. Mark vanishes and their mother receives a card announcing a funeral mass for Mark. Sam fears the familyÆs brutal past has come back to haunt them. On a journey leading from Oxford to Iraq and the troubles in Ireland, what will Sam Find?

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TIGER RISING, THE

\pause{1500}Author: DiCamillo, Kate
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 16441 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 3
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\pause{1500}Main subject: Key stage 2 - ages 8 - 11 years
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Rob Horton is stunned to find a real-life tiger locked in a cage in a misty Florida wood. On the same day he meets a strange girl, Sistine Bailey, and as the two become friends Rob's whole life begins to change.

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UNFORTUNATES, THE

\pause{1500}Author: Graham, Laurie
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6841 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 8
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 0.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
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Despite their fortune Dora Minkel despairs of ever finding a husband for her fun loving, eccentric daughter Poppy. World War I opens up new horizons for Poppy, who invents her own life in step with the times she is living through.

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VENETIAN HOUSE, THE

\pause{1500}Author: Nickson, Mary
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7762 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 13
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 18.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: Love Stories
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Evanthi's beautiful house in Corfu was always a sanctuary to her granddaughter, Victoria, especially after Victoria's parents died. When Richard, her husband, dies in a tragic accident Victoria and her small son, Jake, need Evanthi and the Venetian House even more as a place of refuge and recovery.

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WATER LIKE A STONE

\pause{1500}Author: Crombie, Deborah
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 8019 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 9
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 12.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: Detective & Mystery Stories
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Hoping to spend more time with his partner and children, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid takes them to his childhood home for Christmas. When a child's body is discovered in a barn wall he realises that life in his hometown is far from idyllic. Drawn into the investigation he uncovers deadly secrets surrounding the Shropshire Union Canal.

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