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Author
Publisher
Canongate
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Bea, he boards a flight for a remote and unfamiliar land, a place where the locals are hungry for the teachings of the Bible - his 'book of strange new things'. It is a quest that will challenge Peter's beliefs, his understanding of the limits of the human body and, most of all, his love for Bea.
224) A rising man
Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
India, 1919. Captain Sam Wyndham, former Scotland Yard detective, is a new arrival to Calcutta. Desperately seeking a fresh start after his experiences during the Great War, Wyndham has been recruited to head up a new post in the police force. But with barely a moment to acclimatise to his new life or to deal with the ghosts which still haunt him, Wyndham is caught up in a murder investigation that will take him into the dark underbelly of the British...
231) Trumpet
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A celebrated trumpeter has died and the jazz world is in mourning, but in death, he can no longer guard the secret he kept all his life, and his adoring son must confront the truth that the man whom he believed to be his father was, in fact, a woman.
232) The getaway
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 12
Publisher
Puffin
Language
English
Description
Life was better in the old days. Or was it? That's the question Greg Heffley is asking as his town voluntarily unplugs and goes electronics-free. But modern life has its conveniences, and Greg isn't cut out for an old-fashioned world. With tension building inside and outside the Heffley home, will Greg find a way to survive? Or is going 'old school' just too hard for a kid like Greg?
Author
Publisher
Review
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was four years old. Now 14, she yearns for forgiveness and a mother's love. When her only friend, a black servant, is beaten, the two become fugitives from justice, and end up following a trail left by Lily's mother.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1920, a young man escapes London to embark on the unveiling of a medieval church wall painting in a small north country village. As he becomes absorbed by his work so too does he get drawn into the lives of those around him.
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