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Captive [text (large print)] / by Johansen, Iris,author.;
"Eve Duncan's daughter Jane MacGuire seems to have found a perfect life with Seth Caleb - until a ruthless madman threatens to destroy it all in this gripping suspense novel from the #1 bestselling author of The Persuasion. Jane is an internationally renowned artist, while Seth channels his unique abilities as an agent for the MI6 intelligence service. But when Seth crosses crime lord Hugh Bohdan, he incurs the wrath of one of the world's most powerful criminal empires ... one whose tentacles reach across the globe and even to the idyllic Scottish retreat where Jane is working. Soon Jane is on the run, struggling to stay one step ahead of Bohdan's army and devastating high-tech weaponry. Even with the assistance of Scottish Earl John MacDuff, she finds danger at every turn. But with that peril comes an astonishing discovery: a 200-year-old secret on the brink of becoming lost to history. Together Jane and Caleb must join forces to unlock the fascinating puzzle, even as they hurtle toward a lethal final confrontation in the Scottish Highlands. The suspense builds with each twist and turn ... and before their adventure is over, Jane and Caleb will encounter their biggest shock of all ... and realize nothing can be the same for them ever again"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Spy fiction.; Large type books.; Novels.; Duncan, Eve (Fictitious character); Great Britain. MI6; Man-woman relationships; Secrecy; Women artists;
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Mayflies / by O'Hagan, Andrew,1968-author.;
"Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life. In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, James and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them, they rush towards the climax of their youth: a magical weekend in Manchester, the epicentre of everything that inspires them in working-class Britain. There, against the greatest soundtrack ever recorded, a vow is made: to go at life differently. Thirty years on, half a life away, the phone rings. Tully has news. Mayflies is a memorial to youth's euphorias and to everyday tragedy. A tender goodbye to an old union, it discovers the joy and the costs of love"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Cancer; Male friendship; Middle-aged men; Nineteen eighties; Young men;
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Bonnie Jack / by Hamilton, Ian,1946-author.;
As a boy, Jack Anderson was abandoned by his mother in a Glasgow movie theatre. Now living in the United States and facing his impending retirement, Jack and his wife Anne travel to Scotland to track down his long-lost sister. Their journey takes them from their home in a quiet Boston suburb to the impoverished mill towns of Ayrshire, the gray cobbled streets of Glasgow, and the majestic Scottish Highlands. Along the way, Jack gets entangled in local affairs and must confront uncomfortable truths about family, legacy, and the wife he thought he knew.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Abandoned children; Families; Married people; Older people; Self-realization;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Beautiful ugly [sound recording] / by Feeney, Alice,author.; Armitage, Richard,1971-narrator.; Middleton, Tuppence,1987-narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Richard Armitage, Tuppence Middleton."Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life. Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge the headlights are on, the driver door is open, her phone is still there ... but his wife has disappeared. A year later, Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby. He can't sleep, and he can't write, so he travels to a tiny Scottish island to try to get his life back on track. Then he sees the impossible - a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife. Wives think their husbands will change but they don't. Husbands think their wives won't change but they do"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Novels.; Thrillers (Fiction); Authors; Islands; Man-woman relationships; Marriage; Missing persons;
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Rizzio / by Mina, Denise,author.;
"From the multi-award-winning master of crime, Denise Mina delivers a radical new take on one of the darkest episodes in Scottish history--the bloody assassination of David Rizzio, private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, in the queen's chambers in Holyrood Palace. On the evening of March 9th, 1566, David Rizzio, the private secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots, was brutally murdered. Dragged from the chamber of the heavily pregnant Mary, Rizzio was stabbed fifty six times by a party of assassins. This breathtakingly tense novella dramatises the events that led up to that night, telling the infamous story as it has never been told before. A dark tale of sex, secrets and lies, Rizzio looks at a shocking historical murder through a modern lens--and explores the lengths that men and women will go to in their search for love and power."--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Historical fiction.; Novellas.; Riccio, David, 1533?-1566; Riccio, David, 1533?-1566; Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587;
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The fisherman's gift : a novel / by Kelly, Julia R.,author.;
It's 1900 and Skerry, a small Scottish fishing village, is destined for an unyielding winter. During a storm, a young boy washes up on the shore. He bears an uncanny resemblance to teacher Dorothy's son, lost to the sea at the same age many years before, his body never found. The village is soon snowed in, and Dorothy agrees to look after the child until they can uncover the mystery of his origins. But over time, the lines between reality and desperate hope start to blur as the boy reminds Dorothy more and more of her own lost child. The boy's arrival also finally forces Dorothy to face the truth about her brief but passionate love affair with Joseph, the fisherman who found the boy on the shore and who has been the subject of whispers connecting him to the drowning of Dorothy's son years earlier. As the past rises to meet the present, long-buried secrets are unearthed within this tight-knit community, and the child's arrival becomes a catalyst for something far greater than any of them could imagine.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Magic realist fiction.; Novels.; Boys; Fishing villages; Interpersonal relations; Man-woman relationships; Secrecy; Villages; Women teachers;
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Traces: S1. by Spence, Jennifer,actor.; Fraser, Laura,actor.; Compston, Martin,actor.; Windsor, Molly,actor.; BBC Studios (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Jennifer Spence, Laura Fraser, Martin Compston, Molly WindsorOriginally produced by BBC Studios in 2019.UKTV continues its push into original drama with Traces, a crime drama driven by a personal tragedy. From the makers of Happy Valley, based on an original idea by best-selling crime author Val McDermid.A body buried in Dundee 18 years ago. A daughter left behind. A murder unsolved. Until now – because Emma Hedges needs to find out what happened to her mum. With help from colleagues at the Scottish Institute of Forensic Science and Anatomy, she follows the trail of evidence. It leads her to new love, old friends, and plunges her into a police investigation. This is a world of danger and deceit. Will Emma have the nerve to follow the evidence no matter where it takes her?Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Horror films.;
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Traces. by Spence, Jennifer,actor.; Fraser, Laura,actor.; Compston, Martin,actor.; Windsor, Molly,actor.; BBC Studios (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Jennifer Spence, Laura Fraser, Martin Compston, Molly WindsorOriginally produced by BBC Studios in 2019.UKTV continues its push into original drama with Traces, a crime drama driven by a personal tragedy. From the makers of Happy Valley, based on an original idea by best-selling crime author Val McDermid.A body buried in Dundee 18 years ago. A daughter left behind. A murder unsolved. Until now – because Emma Hedges needs to find out what happened to her mum. With help from colleagues at the Scottish Institute of Forensic Science and Anatomy, she follows the trail of evidence. It leads her to new love, old friends, and plunges her into a police investigation. This is a world of danger and deceit. Will Emma have the nerve to follow the evidence no matter where it takes her?Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Horror films.; Crime.; Detective and mystery films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures).; Television series--Great Britain.;
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Captive [sound recording] / by Johansen, Iris,author.; Rodgers, Elisabeth S.,narrator.; Hachette Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Elisabeth Rodgers."Eve Duncan's daughter Jane MacGuire seems to have found a perfect life with Seth Caleb - until a ruthless madman threatens to destroy it all in this gripping suspense novel from the #1 bestselling author of The Persuasion. Jane is an internationally renowned artist, while Seth channels his unique abilities as an agent for the MI6 intelligence service. But when Seth crosses crime lord Hugh Bohdan, he incurs the wrath of one of the world's most powerful criminal empires ... one whose tentacles reach across the globe and even to the idyllic Scottish retreat where Jane is working. Soon Jane is on the run, struggling to stay one step ahead of Bohdan's army and devastating high-tech weaponry. Even with the assistance of Scottish Earl John MacDuff, she finds danger at every turn. But with that peril comes an astonishing discovery: a 200-year-old secret on the brink of becoming lost to history. Together Jane and Caleb must join forces to unlock the fascinating puzzle, even as they hurtle toward a lethal final confrontation in the Scottish Highlands. The suspense builds with each twist and turn ... and before their adventure is over, Jane and Caleb will encounter their biggest shock of all ... and realize nothing can be the same for them ever again"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Novels.; Spy fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Duncan, Eve (Fictitious character); Great Britain. MI6; Man-woman relationships; Secrecy; Women artists;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The rose villa / by Fleming, Leah,author.;
From the French Riviera between the wars to a terrifying endgame in World War 1 Occupied France, a gripping story of doomed but triumphant love from the author of A Wedding in the Olive Garden. High above the Mediterranean, on the French Riviera, stands a beautiful pink stucco villa. Once a playground for the rich and glamorous, now - in the aftermath of World War 1 - it is a convalescent home for sick and wounded nurses. Here Scottish Flora Garvie is recovering from four traumatic years on the ambulance trains. And here she will meet again charismatic but troubled Kit Carlyle, a regimental chaplain who no longer believes in his calling and certainly doesn't believe himself worthy of Flora's love. Their dramatic rollercoaster of a story will take them through death, separation and war, until a terrifying game of cat and mouse in Occupied France seals their fate.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Novels.; Man-woman relationships; Military chaplains; Nurses; Nursing homes; Scots; World War, 1914-1918;
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