Simon Vance
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Perfect for fans of Fredrik Backman and TJ Klune, this humorous, life-affirming, and charmingly wise novel tells the story of how the forced retirement of a shy, closeted postman in northern England creates a second chance with his lost love, as he learns to embrace his true self, connect with his community, and finally experience his life's great adventure...--
Albert Entwistle is a private man, living alone with his cat Gracie. And he's a postman--at...
82) Lehrter station
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Paris, November 1945. John Russell is walking home along the banks of the Seine on a cold and misty evening when Soviet agent Yevgeny Shchepkin falls into step alongside him. Shchepkin tells Russell that the American intelligence will soon be asking himto undertake some low grade espionage on their behalf--assessing the strains between different sections of the German Communist Party--and that Shchepkin's own bosses in Moscow want him to accept the...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
One dusty postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall, the residence of the Ayres family for more than two centuries. Its owners, mother, son and daughter, are struggling to keep pace with a changing society, as well as conflicts of their own. But the Ayreses are haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Julian Raines was one of the first Englishmen to volunteer for the international brigade in Spain. However, the British Secret Service suspects that he was recruited for the KGB by the Bolsheviks. They send Robert FLorry, a struggling young writer, to Spain with orders to eliminate him. But the British are not alone. The ruthless communist leader in Barcelona believes that the identity of the double agent conceals a powerful and profitable secret....
87) Mr. Toppit
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
After children's author Arthur Hayman is killed, the posthumous success of his series The Hayseed Chronicles--which features the enigmatic villain Mr. Toppit--burdens his family, especially when Laurie Clow, a tourist present at Hayman's death, wants hershare of the Hayseed phenomenon.
88) Not in the flesh
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
When a man and his dog searching for truffles unearth the corpse of a man buried more than a decade earlier, Chief Inspector Wexford must uncover the identity of the victim and the cause of his death.
89) The last battle
Author
Language
English
Description
The classic account of the final offensive against Hitler's Third Reich
The Battle for Berlin was the culminating struggle of World War II in the European theater. The last offensive against Hitler's Third Reich, it devastated one of Europe's historic capitals and marked the final defeat of Nazi Germany. It was also one of the war's bloodiest and most pivotal battles, whose outcome would shape international politics for decades to come.
The
...Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen, the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria, took up residence on Dragonstone. Their tale begins with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the generations of Targaryens who fought to hold that iconic seat, all the way up to the civil war that nearly tore their dynasty apart.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The story of Alex, a lawyer whose beautiful wife, Rachel is brutally murdered one summer night on the grounds of their alma mater, Worcester College, Oxford. He returns to Oxford that winter to work through his grief and piece together the mystery surrounding her death. He discovers in Rachel's wake a tangled web of sex, jealousy and blackmail.
92) Dune messiah
Author
Series
Dune chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known - and feared - as the man christened Muad'Dib. As Emperor of the known universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremen, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he displaced when he assumed the throne - and a conspiracy conducted within his own sphere of influence. And even as House Atreides begins...
93) The terror
Author
Lexile measure
1290L
Language
English
Description
Captain Crozier must find a way for his crew to survive the deadly attacks of a sea monster, in a novel loosely based on the mid-nineteenth-century Arctic expedition originally led by Sir John Franklin.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
From critically acclaimed world historian, Antony Beevor, this is the first major account in more than twenty years to cover the whole invasion from June 6, 1944, right up to the liberation of Paris on August 25. It is the first book to describe not only the experiences of the American, British, Canadian, and German soldiers, but also the terrible suffering of the French caught up in the fighting.
Author
Language
English
Description
Previously published as How Not to Die Alone
Smart, darkly funny, and life-affirming, for fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, Something to Live For is the bighearted debut novel we all need, a story about love, loneliness, and the importance of taking a chance when we feel we have the most to lose.
"Off-beat and winning...Gives resiliency and the triumph of the human spirit a good name."...
Smart, darkly funny, and life-affirming, for fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, Something to Live For is the bighearted debut novel we all need, a story about love, loneliness, and the importance of taking a chance when we feel we have the most to lose.
"Off-beat and winning...Gives resiliency and the triumph of the human spirit a good name."...
97) H.M.S. Surprise
Author
Series
Aubrey and Maturin volume 3
Language
English
Description
Jack is no sooner back in England after spiriting Stephen away from enemy clutches than he is flung in debtor's prison. The only escape lies at sea: the two friends are to accompany the king's envoy to Kampong, in present-day Cambodia. Braving the violence of Atlantic swells and predatory French squadrons, the Surprise battles its way to India in a series of thrilling and terrifying adventures against the exotic backdrop of the sub-continet, where...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Spellbound before his own portrait, Dorian Gray utters a fateful wish. In exchange for eternal youth he gives his soul, to be corrupted by the malign influence of his mentor, the aesthete and hedonist Lord Henry Wotton. The novel was met with moral outrage by contemporary critics who, dazzled perhaps by Wilde's brilliant style, may have confused the author with his creation, Lord Henry, to whom even Dorian protests, 'You cut life to pieces with your...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
An anthology of three novellas. In Octopussy, the legendary 007 is sent to Jamaica to deal with a rich, deranged major with a fondness for eight-legged creatures. In The living daylights, Bond's mission is to kill the KGB sniper, code-named Trigger, who will try to prevent an important Russian official from defecting. The property of a lady finds Bond at an auction tracking down an exotic objet d'art and a deceptive woman.