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1474940641 
Book 
Year: 2021
Language: English
Type: Book
Subject: Bildungsromans, Young adult fiction
Class Number: JT
Publisher: Usborne
Physical or Electronic: Physical
ISBN: 9781474940641
Note: "Trigger warning inside"--Back cover Fifteen year old Sander wishes he was like everyone else. But he has Silver-Russell syndrome, a condition that affects one in a hundred thousand. It means he is smaller than all the other kids in school, a place where the biggest and the loudest get all the attention. Like Niklas. Everyone thinks Niklas is cool and good-looking - except Sander. He doesn't like the way Niklas brags, behaves like a jerk and lies. Niklas is one of life's tall people and next to him, Sander always ends up feeling small. But Sander is different in more ways than one. He notices things other people miss, and he's noticed something about Niklas.
Target audience: Young readers
260 pages ; 20 cm (pbk)
1445147408 
Book
Year: 2016
Language: English
Type: Book
Class Number: 591.68
Content type: Bibliography
Publisher: Franklin Watts
Physical or Electronic: Physical
ISBN: 9781445147406
Note: Originally published: 2014 You can count numbers all around you, from the eight legs on a spider to the one nose on your face. But can you count the stars in the sky or the fish in the Amazon? Find out all about animals in this book, including evolution and classification, endangered species, reproduction and life cycles, habitats, migration, and hibernation.
Target audience: Young readers
Series: The big countdown
32 pages, illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour) ; 27 cm (pbk)
1848876092 
Book 
Year: 2011
Language: English
Type: Book
Subject: Detective and mystery stories
Class Number: CRIME
Publisher: Corvus
Physical or Electronic: Physical
ISBN: 9781848876095
Note: This translation originally published: 2010 1222 metres above sea level & the worst snow storm in recent Norwegian history is raging. Marooned in a mountain pass & with night falling, 269 travellers are forced to abandon their train & decamp into a centuries-old mountain hotel. They ought to be safe from the storm here, but as dawn breaks one of them will be found dead, murdered.
Target audience: Adult
Series: Hanne Wilhelmsen
352 p. ; 20 cm (pbk)
1445865629 
Large print
Year: 2012
Language: English
Type: Large print
Subject: Love stories
Class Number: F
Publisher: Wheeler Chivers
Physical or Electronic: Physical
ISBN: 9781445865621
Note: Dear Reader, you've probably heard that my wife has left me. Rachel's pregnant, and she says she can't handle the stress in our house anymore. As a widower I spoiled my daugher, Jolene. She claims Rachel ruined everything. How can I get my wife back?
Series: Cedar Cove
Large Print
1472144309 
Book
Year: 2020
Language: English
Type: Book
Class Number: 305.896
Content type: Bibliography
Publisher: Robinson
Physical or Electronic: Physical
ISBN: 9781472144300
Note: Patrick Vernon's landmark '100 Great Black Britons' campaign of 2003 was one of the most successful movements to focus on the role of people of African and Caribbean descent in British history. Frustrated by the widespread and continuing exclusion of the black British community from the mainstream popular conception of 'Britishness', despite black people having lived in Britain for over a thousand years, Vernon set up a public poll in which anyone could vote for the black Briton they most admired. The response to this campaign was incredible. As a result, a number of black historical figures were included on the national school curriculum and had statues and memorials erected and blue plaques put up in their honour. Now, with this book, Vernon and Osborne have relaunched the campaign with an updated list of names and accompanying portraits.
Target audience: Adult
xxiv, 440 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates, illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm (hbk)
1787332810 
Book
Year: 2020
Language: English
Type: Book
Class Number: 599.909
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Physical or Electronic: Physical
ISBN: 9781787332812
Note: Translated from the Hebrew One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one-homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us? In this first volume of the full-colour illustrated adaptation of his groundbreaking book, renowned historian Yuval Harari tells the story of humankind's creation and evolution, exploring the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be 'human'.
Target audience: Adult
240 pages, chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 29 cm (hbk)
0356508374 
Book
Year: 2018
Language: English
Type: Book
Subject: Fantasy fiction
Class Number: FANTASY
Publisher: Orbit
Physical or Electronic: Physical
ISBN: 9780356508375
Note: The greatest empire of them all began with a road. The Circle - a thousand miles of perilous forests and warring clans. No one has ever tamed such treacherous territory before, but ex-soldier Teyr Amondsen, veteran of a hundred battles, is determined to try. With a merchant caravan protected by a crew of skilled mercenaries, Amondsen embarks on a dangerous mission to forge a road across the untamed wilderness that was once her home. But a warlord rises in the wilds of the Circle, uniting its clans and terrorising its people. Teyr's battles may not be over yet. All roads lead back to war.
Target audience: Adult
452 pages, map (black and white) ; 20 cm (pbk)
1447246187 
Book
Year: 2015
Language: English
Type: Book
Subject: Detective and mystery stories
Class Number: CRIME
Publisher: Macmillan
Physical or Electronic: Physical
ISBN: 9781447246183
Note: Sinterklaas, a beaming, friendly saint with a white beard, was set to mark his arrival in Amsterdam with a parade so celebrated it would be watched live on television throughout the Netherlands. Today the crowds would run into three hundred thousand or more, and the police presence top four figures. The city centre was closed to all traffic as a golden barge bore Sinterklaas down the Amstel river, surrounded by a throng of private boats full of families trying to get close. Amsterdam is bursting at the seams with children trying to get a glimpse of their hero and families enjoying the occasion. The police are out in force, struggling to manage the crowds on one of the busiest days of the year. Brigadier Pieter Vos is on duty with his young assistant, Laura Bakker, when the first grenade hits. As Sinterklaas prepares to address the crowds a terrorist outrage grips the heart of the city.
Target audience: Adult
Series: Pieter Vos
384 pages ; 24 cm (hbk)
A really brilliant book. You need to read this book after The House of dolls in order to follow the characters in the books.
30/07/17
1911214462 
Book
Year: 2019
Language: English
Type: Book
Class Number: 844. CARRERE EM
Content type: Essay
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Physical or Electronic: Physical
ISBN: 9781911214465
Note: Translated from the French Over the course of his career, Emmanuel Carrere has reinvented non-fiction writing. In a search for truth in all its guises, he dispenses with the rules of genre. For him, no form is out of reach: theology, historiography, reportage, and memoir - among many others - are fused under the pressure of an inimitable combination of passion, curiosity and intellect that has made Carrere one of our most distinctive and important literary voices today. '97,196 Words' introduces Carrere's shorter work to an English-language audience.
Target audience: Adult
294 pages, illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm (hbk)
This group of essays holds together pretty well but there is some overlap with his other work
07/12/20
1408870827 
Book
Year: 2020
Language: English
Type: Book
Class Number: 920. BUCHAN JOH
Content type: Bibliography
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Physical or Electronic: Physical
ISBN: 9781408870822
Note: Originally published: 2019 John Buchan's name is known across the world for 'The Thirty-Nine Steps'. In the past one hundred years the classic thriller has never been out of print and has inspired numerous adaptations for film, television, radio and stage, beginning with the celebrated version by Alfred Hitchcock. Yet there was vastly more to 'JB'. He wrote more than a hundred books, fiction and non-fiction and about a thousand articles for newspapers and magazines. He was a scholar, antiquarian, barrister, colonial administrator, journal editor, literary critic, publisher, war correspondent, director of wartime propaganda, member of parliament and imperial proconsul - given a state funeral when he died, a deeply admired and loved Governor-General of Canada. Ursula Buchan, his granddaughter, has drawn on recently discovered family documents to write this comprehensive and illuminating biography.
Target audience: Adult
479 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates, illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm (pbk)
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