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- The orphan's letters / by Peters, Glynis,author.;
As the Second World War wages on, nurse Kitty Pattison's life takes a nomadic turn as her work with the Red Cross sees her traversing the country, moving from post to post. With her best friends Jo and Trixie also scattered across the UK, and her soldier sweetheart Michael off on the continent undertaking medical missions he can't discuss, the war takes its toll and long days are followed by sleepless nights interrupted only by nightmares of what she's seen on the wards. Now, Kitty's hopes rise and fall with the arrival of the post - the only thing that keeps her connected to her aunt and uncle, her dear friends, and her Michael - and every moment spent with those she loves is held dear, because each one could be the last.- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Female friendship; Letters; Man-woman relationships; Nurses; Orphans; Red Cross and Red Crescent; World War, 1939-1945;
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- 888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers A Novel [electronic resource] : by Chang, Abraham.aut; Wong, Eunice.nrt; cloudLibrary;
“Abraham Chang’s novel, packed with pop culture, is wonderfully alive. This is a beautifully tender and funny examination of love, of identity, of making your way in a world that is getting bigger and smaller at the same time.” —Kevin Wilson, bestselling author of Nothing To See Here Young Wang has received plenty of wisdom from his beloved uncle: don’t take life too seriously, get out on the road when you can, and everyone gets just seven great loves in their life—so don’t blow it. This last one sticks with Young as he is an obsessive cataloger of his life: movies watched, favorite albums . . . all filtered through Chinese numerology and superstition. He finds meaning in almost everything, for which his two best friends endlessly tease him. But then, at the end of 1995, when Young is at New York University, he meets Erena. She’s brilliant, charismatic, quick-witted, and crassly funny. They fall in love and, for Young, it feels so real that he’s thrilled and terrified. As Young and Erena’s relationship blossoms, we get flashbacks to Young’s first five loves. That means Erena is “number six.” Was his uncle wrong—is she the one and only? Or are they fated for failure to make room for Young’s final, seventh love? A love letter to Western pop culture, Eastern traditions, and being a first-generation New Yorker, Abraham Chang’s dazzling debut reminds us that luck only gets us so far when it comes to matters of the heart. A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.- Subjects: Audiobooks.; Literary; Contemporary; Asian American;
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- Death under a little sky / by Abell, Stig,author.;
A detective ready for a new life ... For years, Jake Jackson has been a high-flying detective in London. But then one day he receives a letter from his reclusive uncle - he has left Jake his property in the middle of the countryside. For Jake, it is the perfect opportunity for a fresh start. A rural idyll the stuff of dreams ... At first, life in the middle of nowhere is everything Jake could wish for. His new home is beautiful, his surroundings are stunning, and he enjoys getting back to nature. A death that disrupts everything ... But then, what starts as a fun village treasure hunt turns deadly, when a young woman's bones are discovered. And Jake is thrust once again into the role of detective, as he tries to unearth a dangerous killer in this most unlikely of settings.- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Country life; Ex-police officers; Inheritance and succession; Moving, Household; Murder; Private investigators; Secrecy; Villages;
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- No ordinary duchess / by Hoyt, Elizabeth,author.;
Cold and brooding, Julian Greycourt, the heir to the Windemere dukedom, has always known that his uncle the duke was responsible for his mother's death. Now he's determined to exact revenge against his uncle -- if he can find the proof. But Julian hides a secret so explosive it will destroy him if it's ever revealed, and the duke is watching. The last thing he needs is a distractingly sensual woman whose very presence threatens to destroy his plans. Sunny and cheerful, Lady Elspeth de Moray doesn't know why her brother and Julian fell out all those years ago, but she can't let the autocratic man get in the way of her mission: to retrieve an ancient family text that she believes is in one of the Windemere libraries. Locating the tome, however, proves trickier than she anticipated, and at each turn, she's thrown together with the maddingly mysterious Julian. And the temptation to give in to her family's greatest enemy grows stronger with each intriguing encounter...- Subjects: Romance fiction.; Novels.; Aristocracy (Social class); Man-woman relationships; Revenge;
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- I'm All Right Jack. by Boulting, John,film director.; Price, Dennis,actor.; Carmichael, Ian,actor.; Rutherford, Margaret,actor.; Sellers, Peter,actor.; Attenborough, Richard,actor.; Terry-Thomas,actor.; Kino Lorber (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Dennis Price, Ian Carmichael, Margaret Rutherford, Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough, Terry-ThomasOriginally produced by Kino Lorber in 1959.When Stanley Windrush leaves the Army, he sees his future as an executive in industry. Unfortunately, Big Business takes the view that it can carry on quite successfully without the contribution of an amiable idiot like Stanley. And so in desperation he seeks the advice of his Uncle Bertram, the head of an arms factory, who is currently planning a shady, get-rich-quick deal. Stanley goes to work for his uncle and unwittingly upsets the elaborate and crooked business scheme.Mode of access: World Wide Web.- Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Comedy films.; Motion Pictures.; Motion pictures, Great Britain.;
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- The secret garden [yoto card] : Yoto card / by Burnett, Frances Hodgson,1849-1924.;
Read by Jenny Agutter.For use with a Yoto Player, the Yoto Player app on a device or NFC touchpoint to stream.When orphaned Mary Lennox arrives at Misselthwaite Manor, her uncle’s estate, everybody says she is the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. Depressed and withdrawn, Mary stumbles upon an arched doorway into an overgrown garden. She later discovers her pampered invalid cousin, tucked away in a dark room. Soon a charming journey into the magical secret garden begins…Ages 5 to 8.System requirements: 1 Yoto Player smart speaker or Yoto Player app on a device or NFC touchpoint to stream.- Subjects: Children's audiobooks.; Sound recordings.; Orphans; Gardens; Friendship; People with disabilities; Preloaded audiobook.; Yoto audio card.;
- © 2021., Yoto Inc.
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- Far Cry : a novel / by York, Alissa,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.It's 1922 at Far Cry Cannery, a quarter-mile of boardwalk and wooden buildings strung along the rocks of Rivers Inlet on the northwest coast of British Columbia. The time has come for Anders Viken, storekeeper and honorary uncle to the recently orphaned Kit, to give an account of his secret self--from his first home in Norway, another land of islands and fjords, to his escape from his family's loving grip, to his wide-open years of rough living and impossible love. As the sockeye flood up the inlet, Anders sets his secrets down for 18-year-old Kit, the only member of his chosen family he has left after her mother, Bobbie, scandalized Far Cry by running off with the camp's handsome Chinese cook, and her father, Frank, was found drowned alongside his own boat. While Anders does his reckoning, Kit fends off the attentions of the cannery manager and tries to earn her keep. Oars in hand, she glides her skiff out over the great returning school and casts her net. This, at least, makes sense to her, as opposed to the convoluted workings of love.- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Fishing villages; Reminiscing; Secrecy; Young women;
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- Great circle / by Shipstead, Maggie,author.;
"After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There--after encountering a pair of pilots passing through town in a beat up Cessna--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fifteen, she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy rancher who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement that will haunt her for the rest of her life, even as it allows her to fulfill her destiny: circumnavigating the globe and piloting her plane over the Arctic Circle. A century later, Hadley Baxter is cast to play Marian in a film that centers on Marian's disappearance over the South Pacific. Vibrant, canny, disgusted with the claustrophobia of Hollywood, Hadley is eager to re-define herself after a romantic film franchise has imprisoned her in the grip of cult celebrity. Her immersion into the character of Marian unfolds, thrillingly, alongside Marian's own story, as the two womens' fates--and their hunger for self-determination in vastly different geographies and times--collide. Epic and emotional, meticulously researched and gloriously told, Great Circle is a monumental work of art, and a tremendous leap forward for the prodigiously gifted Maggie Shipstead"--- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Women; Women; Motion picture actors and actresses; Pilots and pilotage;
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- Little Eve / by Ward, Catriona,author.;
"Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for best novel and the August Derleth Prize for best horror novel, Catriona Ward's Little Eve is a heart-pounding literary gothic with a devastating twist. Eve and Dinah are everything to one another, together day and night. They are raised among the Children, a clan ruled by a mysterious figure they call Uncle. All they know is the gray Isle of Altnaharra, which sits alone in the black sea off the wildest coast of Scotland. Eve loves the free, savage life of the Isle and longs to inherit Uncle's power. But Dinah longs for something more, something different. With the dawn of the first World War, the solitude of Altnaharra is broken, and soon after, Eve's faith starts to fracture. In the depths of winter, as the old year dies, the nearby townsfolk awaken to discover a massacre on the Isle. Eve and Dinah's accounts of that night contradict and intertwine. As past and present converge, only one woman can be telling the truth. Who is guilty, who innocent? And who can be trusted?"--- Subjects: Horror fiction.; Gothic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Cults; Massacres; Orphans; Secrecy;
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- Scooby-Doo and the haunted house [videorecording] / by Barbera, Joseph,creator.; Cohn, Mindy,1966-voice actor.; DeLisle, Grey,voice actor.; Hanna, William,1910-2001,creator.; Kasem, Casey,voice actor.; Messick, Don,voice actor.; Welker, Frank,voice actor.; Hanna-Barbera Productions,production company.; Warner Home Video (Firm),distributor.;
Voices: Don Messick, Casey Kasem, Frank Welker, Patricia Stevens, Heather North.Home is where the mystery is. An eccentric millionaire includes Scooby-Doo in his will in A Night of Fright is no Delight. Now Scooby and his ghost-chasing cohorts must spend the night in a haunted manor to receive his inheritance. In What the Hex Going On?, the Mystery Inc. Crew explores Kingston Mansion in search of their friend's uncle and finds a ghost instead. And in Haunted House Hang-Up, the gang is stranded near a creepy southern mansion.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.DVD ; full screen presentation ; Dolby digital.- Subjects: Animated television programs.; Children's television programs.; Scooby-Doo (Fictitious character); Criminal behavior; Criminal investigation; Haunted houses; Detectives; Ghosts; Great Dane; Monsters;
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