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On Canaan's Side (Export Ed.)

Author(s): Barry, Sebastian;

Classification(s): Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945);

Narrated by Lilly Bere, the story opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. It then goes back to the moment she was forced to flee Dublin, at the end of the First World War, and follows her life through into the new world of America, a world filled with both hope and danger.

9780571273638

4 Aug 2011

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Kings of the Water

Author(s): Behr, Mark;

Classification(s): Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945);

* A beautifully written story which brings into focus the personal - a man's reconciliation with his father - and the big-picture-political: how South Africa comes to terms with its past

9780349113708

30 Oct 2009

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Liberty's Exiles: How the Loss of America Made the British Empire

Author(s): Jasanoff, Maya;

Classification(s): Colonialism & imperialism; National liberation & independence, post-colonialism; Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions;

From the prize-winning author of 'Edge of Empire' comes an exhilarating, ambitious, personality-filled book, at once an intimate narrative history and a compelling new account of the making of the modern British Empire.

9780007180080

3 Feb 2011

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My Dad's a Policeman (Quick Reads ed)

Author(s): Glass, Cathy;

Classification(s): Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945);

The second novel, and first quick read title, from bestselling author Cathy Glass. My Dad's a Policeman is a dramatic and engaging story of a young boy with an alcoholic mother and no knowledge of his father. Lonely, bullied and desperate for a life of happiness and security he tells everyone he meets his dad's a policeman.

9780007374755

17 Feb 2011

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Of Mutability

Author(s): Shapcott, Jo;

Classification(s): Poetry by individual poets;

Offers a collection of poems that explores the nature of change - in the body and the natural world, and in the shifting relationships between people.

9780571254705

1 Jul 2010

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Bit Lost, A

Author(s): Haughton, Chris;

Classification(s): Picture storybooks;

Little Owl must be more careful when he is sleeping... Uh-oh! He has fallen from his nest, and with a bump he lands on the ground. Where is his mummy? With the earnest assistance of his new friend Squirrel, Little Owl sets off in search of her, and meets a sequence of other animals. Which of his new friends will lead him back to his mummy?

9781406327465

6 Sep 2010

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