Handbook for the blind, partially sighted, their families and friends. Explains what it is really like to be blind and how the sighted can make the lives of the blind easier.
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Author: Daniels, EllenSummary: -
Author: Ragen, NaomiSummary:This is the story behind the headlines we read every day, the heart-wrenching reality of modern life, where terrorists reign and average citizens find themselves at the intersection of politics...
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Author: Hart, ErinSummary:American forensic pathologist Nora Gavin has been called to an archaeological site in the bleak midlands west of Dublin to assist at an excavation where a well-preserved Iron Age body has been...
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Author: Pratchett, TerrySummary:
The comic adventures of Crowley, Hell's most approachable demon, and his old friend Aziraphale, a genuine angel and bookshop owner, as they attempt to stop Armageddon and track down the...
Genre: Fantasy fiction -
Author: Pratchett, TerrySummary:
Discworld's greatest witches, Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, visit Ankh Morpork's Opera House where dying the death on stage is more than just a metaphor and where an evil mastermind lures...
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Author: Anthony, FletcherSummary:
50,000 years ago: The People, who for time immemorial have lived in the Javanese rainforests, are driven from their ancestral hunting grounds by the invaders they call the Newcomers. So begins the...
Genre: Historical fiction -
Author: Lacey, RobertSummary:
A picture of life in the year 1000. Set in England, it follows the Julian Calendar month by month, revealing amazing details of a mainly agrarian life.
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Author: Fraser, AntheaSummary:
A French student disappears from an English university and Inspector Webb has a more complicated case than expected. Plenty of suspects and past events make it a difficult one to crack.
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Author: Folsom, AllanSummary:The Addison brothers, Harry and Danny, have been estranged for many years, but when Danny calls from Rome pleading for Harry to get in touch, his brother doesn't ignore him. Except he is too late...
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Author: Steel, DanielleSummary:Story of an extraordinary man, the woman who loved him, and a bond so powerful it could never be broken. It is about finding the courage to let someone you love fly free...
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Author: Thomas, RosieSummary:A story of love, loss and the distance between three generations of one family, this novel centres on Iris and Ruby, a grandmother and her granddaughter - as they try and make sense of their...
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Author: Silvey, CraigSummary:Meet Eleanor Rigby: tiny, blind and left behind. Led by her zealous, overprotective guide dog, Warren, she courses constantly through the places she knows. Tired of the world, Eleanor can't...
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Author: Spoto, DonaldSummary:
This biography taken from papers, files, medical reports casts new light on every aspect of Marilyn Monroe's thirty-six years; her dramatic childhood and adolescence; her marriages and...
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Author: Playford, PhillipSummary:
Contents include an introduction to the ship, a description of its voyages and connection to the Dutch East India Company, the fate of the survivors and activities since 1971.
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Author: Potok, ChaimSummary:
A compassionate fictional account of survival during the Korean War by an old peasant and his wife when sheltering in a ditch they find a semi-conscious, wounded boy.