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List view record 161: The lion's denList view anchor tag for record 161: The lion's den
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The lion's den

Mwanza, Iris, 1969-2025
Books, Manuscripts
Rookie lawyer Grace Zulu does not give up easily. She escaped an arranged marriage to put herself through university. Now she's got her first case. Her client is young Willbess 'Bessy' Mulenga, who has been arrested for offences 'against nature'. Bessy works in a men-only bar, loves to dance, to ...
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Horror Movie

Tremblay, Paul2025
Books, Manuscripts
Summer, 1993 - a group of young guerrilla filmmakers spend four weeks making Horror Movie, a notorious, disturbing, art-house horror film. Steeped in mystery and tragedy, the film has taken on a mythic, cult renown, despite only three of the original scenes ever being released to the public. Deca...
[3 copies, 0 available]
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Hunted on the Fens

Ellis, Joy2024
Books, Manuscripts
DI Nikki Galena faces her toughest challenge yet. Can she save her team and herself from a cruel and determined adversary who will stop at nothing to harm Nikki and her colleagues?
[1 copy, 0 available, 1 reserve]
List view record 164: Our London livesList view anchor tag for record 164: Our London lives
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Our London lives

Hickey, Christine Dwyer2025
Books, Manuscripts
In the vast and often unforgiving city of London, two Irish outsiders seeking refuge find one another: Milly, a teenage runaway, and Pip, a young boxer full of anger and potential who is beginning to drink it all away. Over the decades their lives follow different paths, interweaving from time to...
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How the other half die

North, Rachel2025
Books, Manuscripts
Privilege has a price. But who will pay it? Since usurping her brother as CEO, Geri Chalice has grown the family business into a lucrative global empire. She is revered and feared in equal measure. On the eve of her seventieth birthday, Geri gathers her brother's spoilt adult children together on...
[3 copies, 0 available, 1 reserve]
List view record 166: Emma on fireList view anchor tag for record 166: Emma on fire
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Emma on fire

Patterson, James, 1947-2025
Books, Manuscripts
Emma Caroline Blake is known at Ridgemont Academy for getting straight As, leading student clubs and winning at multiple sports. But her life falls apart when she loses her sister, along with any hope for the future. The high schooler is soon unrecognisable from the happy, active girl she used to...
[3 copies, 0 available, 3 reserves]
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The teacher of Auschwitz

Holden, Wendy, 1961-2025
Books, Manuscripts
At the dark heart of the Holocaust, there was a wooden hut whose walls were painted with cartoons; a place where children sang, staged plays and wrote poetry. Safely inside, but still in the shadow of the chimneys, they were given better food, kept free of vermin, and were even taught meditation ...
List view record 168: The specimensList view anchor tag for record 168: The specimens
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The specimens

Kidd, Mairi2025
Books, Manuscripts
Inside the grand walls of Edinburgh's 19th-century scientific institutions, anatomists began to map the secrets of the human body in order to discover new medical innovations. But to the horror of the local population, a shortage of bodies soon led to the gruesome act of graveyard bodysnatching, ...
List view record 169: The woman who laughedList view anchor tag for record 169: The woman who laughed
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The woman who laughed

Mason, Simon, 1962-2025
Books, Manuscripts
In the first months of 2020 there was a spate of murders of Black sex workers in northern cities. One of them was Ella Bailey, last seen talking to a punter in an alley in Sheffield city centre, and although no trace of her was ever found, the punter, Michael Godley, soon confessed to all three m...
[3 copies, 0 available, 4 reserves]
List view record 170: Exodus : the Archimedes engineList view anchor tag for record 170: Exodus : the Archimedes engine
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Exodus : the Archimedes engine

Hamilton, Peter F.2025
Books, Manuscripts
In a past age, humanity fled a dying Earth in massive ark ships. These searched the galaxy to find a new home. Then one fleet found Centauri, a dense cluster of stars teeming with habitable planets. Now, thousands of years later, Centauri's settlers have evolved into advanced beings known as Cele...
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