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Wandering souls : a novel / by Pin, Cecile,author.;
"A boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, expanding into a luminous meditation on ancestry and love. After the last American troops leave Vietnam, siblings Anh, Thanh, and Minh begin a perilous journey to Hong Kong with the promise that their parents and younger siblings will soon follow. But when tragedy strikes, the three children are left orphaned, and sixteen-year-old Anh becomes the caretaker for her two younger brothers overnight. In the years that follow, Anh and her brothers resettle in the UK and confront their new identities as refugees, first in overcrowded camps and resettlement centers and then, later, in a modernizing London plagued by social inequality and raging anti-immigrant sentiment. Anh works in a clothing factory to pay their bills. Minh loiters about with fellow unemployed high school dropouts. Thanh, the youngest, plays soccer with his British friends after class. As they mature, each sibling reckons with survivor's guilt, unmoored by their parents' absence. With every choice they make, their paths diverge further, until it's unclear if love alone can keep them together. Told through lyrical narrative threads, historical research, voices from lost family, and notes by an unnamed narrator determined to chart their fate, Wandering Souls captures the lives of a family marked by war and loss yet relentless in the pursuit of a better future. With urgency and precision, it affirms that the most important stories are those we claim for ourselves, establishing Cecile Pin as a masterful new literary voice"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Families; Immigrants; Orphans; Siblings; Vietnamese;
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Scandal at six / by Purser, Ann.;
Lois investigates when the village is infested by insects and reptiles.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Meade, Lois (Fictitious character); Cleaning personnel; Country life; Zoo keepers;
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Bleeding Heart Yard / by Griffiths, Elly,author.;
"When Cassie Fitzgerald was at school in the late 1990s, she and her friends killed a fellow student. Almost twenty years later, Cassie is a happily married mother who loves her job--as a police officer. She closely guards the secret she has all but erased from her memory. One day her husband finally persuades her to go to a school reunion. Cassie catches up with her high-achieving old friends from the Manor Park School--among them two politicians, a rock star, and a famous actress. But then, shockingly, one of them, Garfield Rice, is found dead in the school bathroom, supposedly from a drug overdose. Because Garfield was an eminent--and controversial--MP, and the investigation is high profile, it's headed by Cassie's new boss, DI Harbinder Kaur, freshly promoted and newly arrived in London. The trouble is, Cassie can't shake the feeling that one of her old friends has killed again. Is Cassie right? Or was Garfield murdered by one of his political cronies? It's in Cassie's interest to skew the investigation so it looks like it has nothing to do with Manor Park, and she seems to be succeeding. Until someone else from the reunion is found dead in Bleeding Heart Yard ... "--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Class reunions; Murder; Police;
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Suspects. [videorecording] / by Ashitey, Clare-Hope,1987-actor.; Carless, Lucy,actor.; Crichlow, Lenora,1985-actor.; Davies, Alexa,actor.; Fitzpatrick, Perry,actor.; Hassan, Karen,actor.; Molony, Damien,actor.; Murray, James,1975-actor.; Acorn Media (Firm),publisher.; RLJ Entertainment,film distributor.;
Damien Molony, Clare-Hope Ashitey, James Murray, Lenora Crichlow, Perry Fitzpatrick, Alexa Davies, Karen Hassan, Lucy Carless.DS Jack Weston and DC Charlie Steele are shocked when their boss, DI Martha Bellamy, is shot dead in her home. DCI Daniel Drummond joins Jack and Charlie to lead the investigation into Martha's murder, also bringing in detectives Alisha Brooks and Gary Roscoe. The new team soon realizes that Martha's murder could be connected to a cold case she was investigating. Could one of those suspects have killed her?Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Detective and mystery television programs.; Television cop shows.; Television crime shows.; Television series.; Crime; Murder; Criminal investigation; Detectives; Police;
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The fire court / by Taylor, Andrew,1951 October 14-author.;
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Great Fire, London, England, 1666; Murder;
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The ashes of London / by Taylor, Andrew,1951 October 14-author.;
From the No.1 best-selling author of The American Boy and The Silent Boy comes a brand new historical thriller set during the time of the Great Fire of London. The first of an exciting new series of novels. London, September 1666. The Great Fire rages through the city, consuming everything in its path. Even the impregnable cathedral of St. Paul's is engulfed in flames and reduced to ruins. Among the crowds watching its destruction is Richard Marwood, son of a disgraced printer, and reluctant government informer. In the aftermath of the fire, a semi-mummified body is discovered in the ashes of St. Paul's, in a tomb that should have been empty. The man's body has been mutilated and his thumbs have been tied behind his back - the sign of a Regicide, one of those who signed Charles I's death warrant. Under orders from the government, Marwood is tasked with hunting down the killer across the devastated city. But at a time of dangerous internal dissent and the threat of foreign invasion, Marwood finds his investigation leads him into treacherous waters - and across the path of a determined, beautiful and vengeful young woman.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Mystery fiction.; Great Fire, London, England, 1666; Murder;
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Lethal white / by Galbraith, Robert,author.;
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Private investigators;
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Here I am : the story of Tim Hetherington, war photographer / by Huffman, Alan.;
Traces the life and career of the photojournalist who was killed by a mortar blast while covering the Libyan Civil War, examining how his achievements reflected the realities of twenty-first-century war reporting.
Subjects: Hetherington, Tim.; Photojournalists;
© c2013., Grove Press,
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My brother the killer : a family story / by Sharkey, Alix,author.;
In this remarkable memoir, a harrowing true story of family, violence, guilt and atonement, a journalist reflects on his own journey to come to terms with his brothers terrible crimes - and to find justice for the young girl he killed.
Subjects: Biographies.; True crime stories.; Sharkey, Stuart.; Murderers;
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WPC 56. [videorecording] / by Barber, Ian.; Bowler, John.; De'Ath, Charles.; Fraser, Niall.; Jacques, Jennie.; BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd.; British Broadcasting Corporation.Television service.;
Cry, cry, cry -- Dead man dancing -- Eye of the storm -- That old devil called love -- The harder they fall.Jennie Jacques, Charles De'Ath, John Bowler.The daily challenges facing the first policewoman to join a West Midlands force in the 1950s, where sexism, chauvinism and petty grudges are added to the policeman's usual lot.PG.DVD, widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital stereo.
Subjects: Criminal behavior; Man-woman relationships; Nineteen fifties; Policewomen; Television programs.;
© c2014., Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia,
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