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List view record 26: A beautiful way to dieList view anchor tag for record 26: A beautiful way to die
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A beautiful way to die

Kyriacou, Eleni2025
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London, 1954. Stella Hope, once the most famous actress in Hollywood, has been ousted to Ealing Studios after her divorce from the powerful Max. Just as she accepts her fate, she receives a letter, blackmailing her for a mistake she made many years ago. 'A Beautiful Way to Die' delves into the de...
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Because she looked away

Bruce, Alison2025
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After the sudden death of her sister, devastated detective DS Ronnie Blake relocates to Cambridge to help her brother Alex raise their sister's young son, Noah. She reports for her first day but instead finds herself being questioned by a special investigations unit, nicknamed the DEAD Team. With...
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Before Dorothy

Gaynor, Hazel2025
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The greatest journey is the one you least expect. Long before Dorothy visits Oz, her aunt, Emily Gale, sets off on her own unforgettable adventure much closer to home. When news reaches Kansas that her beloved sister has tragically died, Emily Gale must become a mother overnight. Her sister's orp...
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Berlin Alexanderplatz

Döblin, Alfred, 1878-19572019
Books
Franz Biberkopf is back on the streets of Berlin. Determined to go straight after a stint in prison, he finds himself thwarted by an unpredictable external agency that looks an awful lot like fate. Cheated, humiliated, thrown from a moving car; embroiled in an underworld of pimps, thugs, drunks a...
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Best day walks Italy

2024
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Your passport to 70 easy escapes into nature. Stretch your legs away from the city by picking a hike that works for you, from just a couple of hours to a full day, from easy to hard. Hike Dolomites, explore the Italian Lakes, and stroll Sardinia's coast. Get to the heart of Italy and begin your j...
List view record 32: The best of Peter Lovesey storiesList view anchor tag for record 32: The best of Peter Lovesey stories
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The best of Peter Lovesey stories

Lovesey, Peter2025
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Unexpected discoveries hidden among the branches of the family tree. A parrot and an astonishing cache of uncut diamonds. The story of a marriage revealed between the lines of a Victorian advice column. To crown a writing career spanning over fifty years, this collection showcases the very best o...
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Best summer ever

Swain, Heidi2025
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Summer is in full swing when Daisy drives back into Wynmouth in her almost-clapped-out car, having left both her most recent job and the man her parents thought she was going to marry. Coming home could be just what she needs to move her life on. At Wynbrook Manor, things are in disarray. Owner A...
List view record 34: Betsy's warList view anchor tag for record 34: Betsy's war
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Betsy's war

Morton, Elizabeth, 1961-2025
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Betsy Drew has one thing on her mind. And that's the hope that Alvis Dooley might glance in her direction. But it's the outbreak of World War II in Liverpool and whilst everyone is fearful of what Hitler might do next, Betsy is full of dreams for a future with Alvis. But one afternoon when he eve...
List view record 35: Biodynamic gardening : organic growing guided by the moon for bountiful harvestsList view anchor tag for record 35: Biodynamic gardening : organic growing guided by the moon for bountiful harvests
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Birding

Ruane, Rose2025
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In a small seaside town, autumn is edging into winter, gulls ride winds over the waves, and two women, pass each other on the promenade, as yet unaware of each other's existence. In the nineties Lydia was a teen pop star, posed half naked on billboards everywhere with a lollipop between her lips ...
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Blood of Hercules

Mas, Jasmine2025
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Alexis Hert isn't a hero, and she certainly isn't a god. All she's ever been is a survivor. But the Fates disagree. When a blood test leads to her admittance at the Spartan War Academy, she'll have to do more than merely survive. Alexis will have to claim her birthright: immortality. But immortal...
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Blood of Hercules

Mas, Jasmine2024
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Alexis Hert isn't a hero, and she certainly isn't a god. All she's ever been is a survivor. The Fates disagree. When a blood test leads to her admittance at the Spartan War Academy, she'll have to do more than merely survive. Alexis will have to claim her birthright: immortality. But immorta...
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Blue labyrinth

Preston, Douglas J.2015
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One of Aloysius Pendergast's most implacable enemies has arrived on his doorstep as a corpse. His death bears all the hallmarks of the perfect murder, save for one enigmatic clue: a piece of turquoise lodged in the dead man's stomach. That single piece of evidence will lead Pendergast from an aba...
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The bone garden

Beckett, Simon2024
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Driving back through Wales in a fierce winter storm, forensic anthropologist David Hunter is forced to seek shelter at a remote village in the Eryri mountains. But a one-night stop-over becomes something very different after a gruesome discovery in depths of the local forest. With communications ...
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Bone of contention

Mara, Blake2025
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When Yaz and her dog Hercules find a dead man on a bench along the canal with chicken bones lying around him, she immediately calls Louise - and the police. The case is odd: a chicken bone has been forcibly rammed down the victim's throat, and the last person to see him was their friend - and Pac...
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Book boyfriend

Vine, Lucy2025
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Jemma has lived a thousand lives through books. The only life she isn't living is her own. That is, until the day she finds a note from a stranger in her favourite library book. When she replies, the pair begin a longhand conversation about their love of novels that sees Jemma finally coming out ...
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The book of lost stories

Ashley, Trisha2025
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Cleo Finch has loved gothic literature all her life. She's spent years researching and writing her thesis on the works of one gothic novelist in particular, Orlando Browne, and is determined to prove that Browne was the pen name of a female author, Alys Weston. Then Cleo's Uncle Ambrose unknowing...
List view record 44: The book-makers : a history of the book in eighteen remarkable livesList view anchor tag for record 44: The book-makers : a history of the book in eighteen remarkable lives
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The bookseller

Sullivan, Tim, 1958-2025
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When the body of a bookseller is discovered, collapsed in a pool of blood in his Bristolian bookshop, it is immediately clear that he has been murdered. What is unclear is how someone could have met such a violent end in this quiet, peaceful place. DS Cross is adept at dismissing red-herrings but...
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Born bad

Burnside, Heather2019
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Brother and sister Peter and Adele Robinson never stood a chance. Dragged up by an alcoholic, violent father and a weak, beaten mother, their childhood in Manchester only prepared them for a life of crime and struggle. But Adele is determined to break the mould. She studies hard at school and, in...
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Born evil

Chambers, Kimberley2017
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June Dawson has come a long way from the rough East End background where she met, got pregnant by and eventually married charming, reckless Johnny Fuller. Now she lives in leafy Rainham, in a nice little cul-de-sac, with her ultra-respectable second husband and a lovely social life.
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Born in a burial gown

Craven, M. W. (Mike W.), 1968-2020
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Detective Inspector Avison Fluke is a man on the edge. He has committed a crime to get back to work, concealed a debilitating illness and is about to be made homeless. Just as he thinks things can't get any worse, the body of a young woman is found buried on a Cumbrian building site. Shot once in...
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Briefly very beautiful

Dineen, Roz2025
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The world is on fire. And what will you do? In a city rocked by global catastrophe, home-grown terrorism, shortages and wildfires, Cass is quietly raising three small children by herself. Her husband, Nathaniel, has left to serve as a medic in a war overseas. As life in the city becomes increasin...
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Broken country

Hall, Clare Leslie2025
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Everyone in the village said nothing good would come of Gabriel's return. And as Beth looks at the man she loves on trial for murder, she can't help think they were right. She was 17 when she'd first met Gabriel. Over that heady, intense summer, he made her think and feel and see differently. She...
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