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All Souls' Day Fiction Assassins Fiction Collecting of accounts Fiction Criminals Fiction Detective and mystery stories Families England Fiction Gangsters Scotland Glasgow Fiction Glasgow (Scotland) Fiction Organized crime Scotland Glasgow Fiction Social change Great Britain History 19th century FictionMassey, Malcom
Summary: The publication of George Orwell's "1984" forever changed our view of the future. With Orwellian events looming above our world like thunderclouds on the horizon, take time to learn one account of what happened in the eventful year preceding this classic dystopian novel, before it's too late.This original prequel to "1984" will shake you to your very core. The events that bridged the chasm from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Independently published] 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASManville, Lesley
Summary: Follows the adventures of a newly widowed woman as she navigates her new life with the help of her family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2018
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MUMHansen, Malcolm.
Summary: "The Secret Life of Bees meets Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle in this bold debut novel, set between the deep South and New York City during the 1960s and early 70s, following a biracial teenage boy whose new life in a big city is disrupted by childhood memories of the summer when racial tensions in his hometown reached a tipping point. It's 1969 when fifteen-year-old Huey Fairchild begins...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANMackay, Malcolm
Summary: "A twenty-nine-year-old man lives alone in his Glasgow flat. The telephone rings; a casual conversation, but behind this a job offer. The clues are there if you know to look for them. He is an expert. A loner. Freelance. Another job is another job, but what if this organization wants more? A meeting at a club. An offer. A target: Lewis Winter, a necessary sacrifice that will be only the first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M MACBrooks, Malcolm
Summary: "In 1937 Montana, fourteen-year-old Houston "Huck" Finn finds a dead body in a local creek and steals the man's rare Lindbergh flight watch. Huck is an aspiring aviator, working to build his own airplane--a secret he has kept from his God-fearing mother.His cousin, Annelise, arrives from Los Angeles for a long stay with his family, and Huck is initially wary until he learns she has had flight...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BROBanville, John
Summary: When Quirke travels to the coast of San Sebastian, Spain for some relaxation, he sees a woman who he believes had been murdered by her brother several years prior. San Sebastian, Spain. Dublin pathologist Quirke is struggling to relax, despite the beaches, cafés and the company of his lovely wife. When he glimpses a familiar face in the twilight at Las Acadas bar, he knows it can't be April...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BANBanville, John.
Summary: When a young woman threatens to expose a damaging secret from his former life, Axel Vander, an elderly scholar and master liar, is forced to examine his past to uncover the truths that he has so carefully hidden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANBanville, John
Summary: "From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and The Blue Guitar--a dazzling new novel that extends the story of Isabel Archer, the heroine of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, into unexpected (and completely stand-alone) territory. Isabel Archer is a young American woman, swept off to Europe in the late nineteenth century by an aunt who hopes to round out the impetuous but naive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANBanville, John
Summary: "From the revered, Booker Prize-winning author comes a playful, multi-layered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory, which opens with the return of one of his most celebrated characters-Freddie Montgomery from The Book of Evidence-as he is released from prison. A man with a borrowed name steps from a flashy red sportscar-also borrowed-onto the estate of his youth. But all is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BANBanville, John.
Summary: While old Adam Godley, a mathematical genius, lies on his deathbed, his family gathers in anticipation of his passing. His son, young Adam, is distracted by his faltering marriage to a prominent movie actress while his daughter is distraught by voices in her head. All the while, the Greek patriarchal god Zeus hovers over the family with his eyes on young Adam's wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BANBanville, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: D.R. Godine 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANBanville, John.
Summary: Oliver Otway Orme, a semi-famous artist and petty thief, despairing of limits in his talents, flees when his latest theft is discovered and sequesters himself in his childhood home, where he struggles to understand how he reached his current state.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Banville 2015Banville, John.
Summary: Alexander Cleaver, a famous actor with a disintegrating career, retreats to his childhood home where he struggles to come to terms with his memories, the unsettling presence of a caretaker and teenage housekeeper, and ghosts of the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANJudge, Malcolm
Summary: Twelve-year-old Jonny Jakes is an undercover reporter for a banned school newspaper, The Woodford Word, and right now he has the story of a lifetime--the new principal is an alien (he does not even try and hide it), Jonny is sure he is planning something nefarious, and it is up to the Word's star (really the only) reporter to find out what it is.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC JUDMitchell, Malcolm
Summary: Henley hates to read, so his homework assignment to bring in his favorite book seems an impossible challenge--until his mother shows him a box of books he made himself when he was younger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MITNewsome, Malcolm
Summary: After his mother tells him the baby she was expecting went to be with the stars, a young boy writes a letter to his unborn sibling describing the things he was looking forward to doing together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beaming Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NEWBanville, John.
Summary: Max Morden visits the seaside town where he spent his summers as a child after the death of his wife. There he remembers the Graces, the family that introduced him to a world of feeling he'd never experienced before. Interwoven with this story are Morden's memories of his wife, Anna--of their life together, of her death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANMelville, Herman
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 1967
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Summary: Alcoholic consul Geoffrey Firmin's life changes over the course of one day when his wife Yvonne arrives in Mexico on a mission to save him and their failing marriage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial Classics 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOWMacdonald, Malcolm
Summary: John Stevenson is a just a foreman when a near-fatal accident brings young Nora Telling into his life. Her nimbleness of mind and his power of command enable them to take over the working mill and rescue it from catastrophe. Together with their friends the Thorntons-who are troubled by a marriage mismatched in passion-they are willing to risk any dare, commit themselves to any act of cunning on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACMackay, Malcolm
Summary: "Martin Sivok is in trouble. Tied to a chair, plastic strips biting his wrists, inside a deserted warehouse...There are only so many ways this scenario can end, most of them badly. For now his best hope is figuring out who put him here--and staying conscious long enough to confront them"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Mackay 2016Mackay, Malcolm
Summary: "How does a gunman retire? Frank MacLeod was the best at what he does. Thoughtful. Efficient. Ruthless. But with his health failing him, how long before he's no longer of use to his employers? A new job. A target. But something is about to go horribly wrong. And up-and-coming hitman Calum MacLean will be called upon to pick up the pieces. Most gunmen say goodbye to the world with a bang....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACMackay, Malcolm
Summary: "Oliver Peterkinney and Alex Glass, two friends from Glasgow's desperate fringes, become involved in one of the city's darkest and most dangerous trades: debt collection. While one rises quickly through the ranks, the other falls prey to the industry's addictive lifestyle, accumulating steep debts of his own. Meanwhile, the three most powerful rivals in the business--Marty Jones, ruthless pimp;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2016