First US edition (Red Badge), Dodd Mead 1937.

Cards on the Table

Literature & Fiction

CHRISTIE,AGATHA

Literary

Charnwood Pub

Halloween Party

Christie, Poirot--and murder--are never out of season. A family get-together for the holidays begins with a game, and ends in cold-blooded murder. Who better to solve it than Poirot, who "has solved some puzzling mysteries in his time but never has his mighty brain functioned more brilliantly than in Hercule Poirot's Christmas" (New York Times).

Hercule Poirot's Christmas

Offering personal accounts of the animals the author has treated, this book includes some about patients familiar from the BBC programme "Animal Hospital". The book finishes some stories only half told in the television series, by updating the progress of a patient several months on.

Tales from the Animal Hospital

Grant, David

Children's Books

Sophie and Riba have been friends since childhood. Though they couldn't be more different - Sophie is elegant and diffident while Riba is flamboyantly extrovert - the bond between them seems unbreakable. Then Riba's teenaged daughter Zelda falls gravely ill. Frustrated by the limitation of conventional medicine, Riba pins all her hopes on alternative methods. Sophie is torn between her loyalty to her friend and her fear that Zelda will not get the help she desperately needs. United in their distress, Sophie and Riba's husband Brian find themselves drawn to each other. Time is running out for Zelda, for two marriages, and for a friendship...

Marble Gardens

Purcell, Deirdre

As a child, David Reynolds developed a fascination with the mysterious disappearance of his long-dead grandfather. He interrogated relatives, read diaries and slowly pieced together a spellbinding story. The trail led from Dalston in London's East End to a remote town on the edge of the Canadian prairies, by way of a tragic romance in Victorian London, and the harsh life of an impoverished exile. Reynolds tells how he unearthed the colorful story of his East End forebears as he came of age in London in the swinging Sixties. Family members from four generations are beautifully drawn--from his great-aunt, a music-hall artiste, to Reynolds' own father, a warm-hearted monster.

Swan River: A Family Memoir (Charnwood Library)

Biographies & Memoirs

REYNOLDS, David

Memoirs

Rukhsana Mahmood is dead, ferociously battered about the head. But who would want to kill a kindly young woman whose job as a health visitor made her loved and respected? Detective Inspector John Handford is assigned the case. It's particularly sensitive as the Asian community is still reeling from a murder case the previous year: Handford got the right man but at the cost of enormous racial divisions. Now he's investigating another death that will rake up all the tension from the past... Rukhsana made a mixed marriage and her husband Amajit's family make no secret of their pleasure at her death. But is this a punishment killing? Or, was Rukhsana betraying more than one person?

Snares of Guilt

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Horton, Lesley

Mystery

Everyone has something to lose...for Stacey Salton, checkout girl as SavaMart supermarket, it's half her body-weight. She is fat, lonely and depressed, until a dramatic revelation gives her hope that she can change her life--but at what price? A few moments spent chatting at Stacey's till one evening lead Charles Thornton, mild-mannered barrister and family man, to become inextricably involved in her life. His wife, Judy, and their teenage children are left floundering in the chaos that follows. And as Judy begins to fear that Charlie may be losing his mind, she too finds she needs to lose something--something she has kept secret for many years...

Losing It (Charnwood Library)

ASHER, JANE.

The Trespass

London, 1849, is a city in fear - cholera is everywhere. MP Sir Charles Cooper decides to send his younger daughter, the strangely beautiful and troubled Harriet, to the countryside. Rusholme is a world away from London, full of extraordinary relations, including cousin Edward, who plans a new life in New Zealand. However, the countryside can offer only temporary respite to Harriet, who longs to return to her beloved sister, Mary. But when she does come home, London is even more dangerous and escape is essential. Can Harriet board the ""Amaryllis" without being discovered? Does she realize that more than one person will pursue her, literally to the end of the world?

Romance

Ewing, Barbara

Romantic Suspense

During his five years in captivity in Beirut, John McCarthy had very little reading material. But the one book he did have was the Bible, which he read from cover to cover--twice. He was particularly intrigued by the stories of the Old Testament. But how much of this 'history' is actually true? Returning to the Holy Land, John McCarthy visited sites associated with the great biblical stories and spoke to the archaeologists and the historians who are uncovering the truth of the biblical past. This book encapsulates the evidence, examines the arguments and, offers fresh, sometimes shocking but challenging perspectives on the Bible.

It Ain't Necessarily So: Investigating the Truth of the Biblical Past

History

STURGIS, Matthew

World

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