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A selection of new books on CD recently added to shelves |
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The mission song by John Le Carre
"Bruno Salvador, known to his friends and enemies alike as Salvo, is the ever-innocent, twenty-nine-year-old orphaned love child of a Catholic Irish missionary and a Congolese headman's daughter. Inspired by his mentor, Brother Michael, he trains s a professional interpreter in minority African languages. Soon he is courted by city corporations, law courts, the immigration services and - inevitably- British Intelligence. He is also courted - and won - by the all-white, Surrey born Penelope.
Yet even as the story opens, a contrary and irristible love is dawning in him. Despatched to a no-name island in the North Sea to attend a top-secret meeting between Western financiers and East Congolese warlords, Salvo is obliged to interpret matters never intended for his reawakened African conscience..." (Cover) |
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I heard Lenin laugh by Martin Sixsmith
"Meet Zhenya Gorevich - an irrepressible idealist baffled by life. In the cut-throat arenas of pre-school spelling tests, teenage football and Socialist Art competitions, he finds himself beset by contradictions and absurdities.
As his eyes open to love, life (and Lenin), he struggles to reconcile his own reality with the world about him: Soviet Russia, where the future is certain, but the past is unpredictable and the truth always negotiable. So when his mother confesses the unlikely secret of his parentage, Zhenya knows he must go west, find his long-lost father and save his mother from the neighbours' small-minded vitriol." (Cover)
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I heard that song before by Mary Higgins Clark
"Kay Lansing was the daughter of the landscape gardener to the wealthy and powerful Carrington family. One morning, six-year-old Kay sneaks into a chapel in the grounds of the Carrington's manor house. There, she overhears a woman blackmailing a man. That same evening, a young woman is driven home by Peter Carrington...and is never seen again.
A cloud of suspicion hangs over Peter throughout the years. Not only has the young woman disappeared, but Peter's pregnant wife drowned in their swimming pool. At 42, he is the head of the family business empire. Thus he is the person of whom Kay - now working as a local librarian - asks permission to hold a fundraiser on his estate. Peter and Kay meet and fall in love. But after they marry, the police arrive at her doorstep..." (Cover) |
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Mao's last dancer by Li Cunxin
"'This is my story.. my recollection of those years growing up in Mao's China...from my earliest memories, through discovering dance, to my life in the West. History may record things differently. Others may too, but the stories here remain as true to me now as they ever were. It is a remembrance that contains thetreasures from my heart.'
This is the true story of Li Cunxin, whose peasant life in Chairman Mao's communist China changes dramatically when, at the age of eleven, he was chosen by Madame Mao's cultural advisers to become a student at the Beijing Dance Academy. After a summer school in America, for which he was one of only two students chosen, he defected to the West and became a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet." (Cover) |
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Living the dream by Kate Thompson
"We've all dreamt about it, but for Cleo Dowling the dream becomes a reality. Cleo comes into money and moves to Kilrowan in the West of Ireland to write a novel. But what happens when she loses the plot and becomes obsessed with her sexy neighbour? Dannie Moore's love life has always been complicated - but when film director Jethro Palmer chooses Kilrowan as the location for a blockbuster movie, the effect on her life is cataclysmic. Deirdre O'Dare leaves her husband Rory in LA to accompany her friend, movie star Eva Lavery, to Kilrowan. But although Deirdre is writing Eva's biography, it would appear that the actress is not telling the truth..." (Cover) |
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The voice of the violin by Andrea Camilleri
"Montalbano's gruesome discovery of a naked young woman suffocated in her bed immediately sets him on a search for her killer. Among the suspects are her aging husband, a famous doctor; a shy admirer, now disappeared; an antiques-dealing lover from Bologna; and the victim's friend, Anna, whose charms Montalbano cannot help but appreciate. But it is a mysterious, reclusive violinist who holds the key to this murder..." (Cover)
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State of the Union by Douglas Kennedy
"America in the Sixties was an era of radical upheaval - of civil rights protests and anti-war marches; of sexual liberation and hallucinogenic drugs. More tellingly, it was a time when you weren't supposed to trust anyone over the age of thirty; when, if you were young, you rebelled against your parents and their conservative values. But not Hannah Buchan. Hannah is a great disappointment to her famous radical father and painter mother. Because instead of mounting the barracades and embracing this age of profound social change, she wants nothing more than to marry her doctor boyfriend and raise a family in a small town. Hannah gets her wish. But once installed as the doctor's wife in a nowhere corner of Maine, boredom sets in..." (Cover) |
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New Europe by Michael Palin
"Michael Palin's New Europe starts with a simple idea: that only a couple of hours from home is half of Europe that is for him as unknown and unexplored as the plateau of Tibet or the vastnesses of the Sahara. Cut of for most of his life by Cold Wars and Iron Curtains, Europe's eastern lands are now open for business - and Michael sets off to discover them.
After the Balkans, which experienced the vicious fighting of the 1990s, Michael encounters a strong eastern influence through Bulgaria, Macedonia and into Turkey, where Europe and Asia meet. He follows the mighty Danube into Serbia and Hungary, the very heart of Europe, and on to Ukraine. Then it's the Baltic States, Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and what was formerly East Germany.
It's New Europe, but vintage Palin." (Cover)
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Losing you by Nicci French
"Nina Landry is supposed to be taking her two children on a Christmas holiday. But the road to Sandling Island seems littered with obstacles. Most pressing of all, her fiteen-year-old daughter, Charlie, has yet to return from a night out. Has Charlie run away? Or has something more sinister happened to her. As a series of half-buried secrets leads Nina from sickening suspicion to deadly certainty, the question becomes less whether she and her daughter will leave the island for Christmas - and more whether they'll ever leave it again..." (Cover)
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More twisted by Jeffery Deaver
"Murder: A millionaire philanthropist is shot while he sleeps. His terrified wife made a narrow escape. Or did she?
Mystery: A crime writer's violent fictions start to come chillingly true. Has he unwittingly inspired a murderer?
Suspence: A young woman is trapped in a tunnel deep underground. Two men battle torescue her. Are they heroes, or driven by some darker motive?
In the cunning, suspense-filled world of Jeffery Deaver,only on thig is certain: the next twist is never far away..." (Cover)
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Divas don't knit by Gil McNeil
"Jo Mackenzie needs a new start. Newly widowed with two young sons and a perilous bank balance, she has to leave London to take over her grandmother's wool shop. They arrive in the pouring rain. Broadgate Bay is the kind of Kentish seaside town where the tide went out a long time ago and the dusty old shop is full of peach four-ply. An A-list actress moving into the local manison and a "Stitch and Bitch" group addicted to cake both help, but it's not going to be easy.
Very large dogs, celebrity and small-town intrigues, packed lunches and romance all loom large in Gil McNeil's funny and uplifting novel." (Cover)
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Blood river: A journey to Africa's broken heart by Tim Butcher
"When Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to cover Africa in 2000, he quickly became obsessed with the idea of recreating H.M.Stanley's famous expedition - but travelling alone. Despite warnings that his plan was suicidal, Butcher set out for the Congo's eastern border with just a rucksack and a few thousand dollars hidden in his boots. Making his way in an assortment of vessels including a motorbike and a dugout canoe, helped along by a cast of characters from UN aid workers to a campaigning pygmy, he followed in the footsteps of the great Victorian adventurers. Butcher's journey was a remarkable feat, but the story of the Congo, is more remarkable still..." (Cover)
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