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ADRIFT ON THE NILE

\pause{1500}Author: Mahfouz, Naguib
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6934 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 6
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\pause{1500}Main subject: Contemporary Fiction
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In the Sixties, a group of middle-aged, middle-class offspring of the old bourgeoisie meet night after night on a houseboat on the Nile. They lament the social changes ushered in by Nasser, and try to re-create their cosy enchanted world. There are un-forseen consequences when, one night, art and reality collide.

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ALEXANDRIA SEMAPHORE, THE

\pause{1500}Author: Sole, Robert
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7117 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 8
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\pause{1500}Main subject: Family Stories
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Maxime Touta, a successful journalist, looks back over his life in Egypt. In 1863 he was thirteen years-old when he and his family arrived in Alexandria, as exiles from Syria. With the building of the Suez canal, Egypt was on the dawn of a new era. This proved to be a dramatic and romantic time for Egypt and Maxime himself.

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BOOKS DO FURNISH A ROOM

\pause{1500}Author: Powell, Anthony
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6861 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 6
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\pause{1500}Main subject: 20th Century Classics
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Book 10 in 'A Dance to the Music of Time' Series. Sequel to 'The Military Philosophers'.This novel follows Nicholas Jenkins and other familiar characters, whilst describing the literary life of post-war London.

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DUST DIARIES, THE

\pause{1500}Author: Sheers, Owen
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7539 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 11
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 0.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: Travel - World
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The author embarks on a journey through Zimbabwe to better understand the life of an obscure relative, Arthur Cripps, a poet and missionary to Rhodesia. At the start of the tale is a love story and an abandoned daughter.

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EMBERS

\pause{1500}Author: Marai, Sandor
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6256 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 7
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 6.50
\pause{1500}Main subject: Contemporary Fiction
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After forty-one years two men sit down for dinner in an ancient castle in the Carpathian mountains. Finally it is time to talk of old passions and their last, fateful meeting.

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GOD HAS A DREAM: A VISION OF HOPE FOR OUR TIMES

\pause{1500}Author: Tutu, Bishop Desmond
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6770 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 5
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\pause{1500}Main subject: Religion & Philosophy
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Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu is admired worldwide for his heroism and grace through South Africa's struggle for human rights. In his soul-searching book he shares the spiritual message that guided him through those troubled times.

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HIDDEN LIFE OF OTTO FRANK, THE

\pause{1500}Author: Lee, Carol Ann
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6218 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 13
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 19.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: Biography & Autobiography - General
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While Anne Frank may be the most famous girl of the twentieth century little has been written about her father, Otto.Here with extracts from his previously unknown journal is the story of the man who loyally fought in the German Army in World War One only to be persecuted and sent to a concentration camp during World War Two.

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IN THE COUNTRY OF MEN

\pause{1500}Author: Matar, Hisham
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7606 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 9
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\pause{1500}Main subject: Contemporary Fiction
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In 1979 Suleiman sees his father in the market square in Tripoli, but he is supposed to be away on business. Then as his friend's father also disappears, and people start to watch the house Suleiman starts to wonder if his father has disappeared for good.

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KAISER'S LAST KISS, THE

\pause{1500}Author: Judd, Alan
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7250 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 7
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\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
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A fictional account of the last years of Kaiser Wilhelm set in occupied Holland in 1940. It follows the growing relationship between the Kaiser and Krebbs, a young SS guard. When Krebbs begins an affair with a Jewish maid his belief in Nazism starts to change.

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NICHOLAS NICKLEBY

\pause{1500}Author: Dickens, Charles
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6496 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 27
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\pause{1500}Main subject: Classic Fiction - Pre 1900
\pause{1500}Additional subject: Key stage 4 - ages 14 - 16 years
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Nicholas and Kate, left penniless by the death of their father, appeal in vain to their wealthy Uncle Ralph. Nicholas' misfortunes continue when he is sent to work at Dotheboys Hall, a school for urchins run by the bullying Mr Squeers.

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