Walker, Martin
Summary: Investigating an apparent occult murder during the Easter season in St. Denis, beloved chief of police Bruno discovers links to a troubling real estate proposal, a suspicious accident, and the sudden reappearance of a controversial elderly countess.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WALKearsley, Susanna
Summary: In the autumn of 1707, old enemies from the Scottish Highlands to the Borderlands are finding common ground as they join to protest the new Union with England. Queen Anne has sent money up from London for Scots who took part eight years earlier in the ill-fated Darien expedition that left Scotland all but bankrupt. A young widow comes forward to collect her husband's portion of this money, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KEAKing, Laurie R.
Summary: When Kate walks into her latest crime scene, she figures she's finally seen it all. In a Victorian sitting room are a violin, a tobacco-filled Persian slipper, and the late queen's name blasted onto the wallpaper with gunshots. The victim is Sherlock Holmes aficionado Philip Gilbert, whose collection of priceless memorabilia is definitely worth killing for. And perhaps the greates treasure is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KingKrauss, Nicole.
Summary: A young novelist inherited the desk from a poet taken by Pinochet's police. Then the desk is stolen from her by the poet's supposed daughter. In its drawers, another man discovers a long-kept secret about his wife. And a Jerusalem antiques dealer uses the desk in his family's study, which was devastated by the Nazis in 1944.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KRAMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: Domestic bliss seems in short supply at 44 Scotland Street. Over at the Pollocks, dad, Stuart, is harbouring a secret about a secret society and Bertie is feeling kind of blue. Having had enough of his neurotic hot-housing mother, he puts himself up for adoption on eBay. Will he go to the highest bidder or will he have to take matters into his own hands? Will the lovelorn Big Lou find true love...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCCMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: When Pat accepts her narcissistic ex-boyfriend Bruce's invitation for coffee, she has no idea of the complications in her romantic and professional life that will follow. Meanwhile, Matthew, her boss at the art gallery, attracts the attention of the police after a misunderstanding at the local bookstore. Whether caused by small things such as a cup of coffee and a book, or major events such as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCCGabaldon, Diana
Summary: A collection of short fiction--including two never-before-published novellas--featuring Jamie Fraser, Lord John Grey, Master Raymond, and many more, all extending the story of Outlander in thrilling new directions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GABMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: While gathering material for a photography book about Edinburgh, Alexander McCall Smith found himself inspired to create stories about the people captured in a number of particularly striking photos. A smiling girl leading a younger girl astride a pony, and a boy in a kilt on a tricycle beside them, gives rise to a story of a lifelong romance between the two riders. A dapper, roguish-looking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCCMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: It's the most anticipated, and perhaps controversial, event of the decade--Lou and Bob's wedding--and everyone is invited. But the relative peace and tranquility of 44 Scotland Street is about to be disrupted. Outspoken Irene is returning home for a two-month stay, with plans to send young Bertie to a sleep-away camp. She also manages to come between the enigmatic nun, Sister Maria-Fiore dei...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCCMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: The residents of 44 Scotland Street grapple with problems both trivial and severe, but none so great as when six-year-old Bertie Pollock--who longs to be seven--mislays his mum and learns a valuable lesson about wish fulfillment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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Summary: Bertie Pollock's father is powerless to stop overbearing Irene and her motion for Bertie to travel to Aberdeen. And up in the New Town, while Bruce Anderson plots with old-school chums, love blossoms in Big Lou's Cafe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Stil enduring psychotherapy, the precocious Bertie gets a chance to escape when he joins a junior orchestra trip to Paris where he is accidentally left behind. Never fear for Bertie, though. He quickly finds the silver lining by making friends with students at the Sorbonne. Meanwhile, Domenica Macdonald heads to the Malacca Straits, where she intends to study the economic structure of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCCMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: Summer has come to Scotland Street. The long days have prompted its denizens to engage in flights of fancy. Some, like the Duke of Johannesburg's plan to create a microlite seaplane, are literal flights, and some, like the vain Bruce Anderson's idea of settling down with one of his many admirers, are more metaphorical. With the domineering Irene off pursuing academic challenges, Stuart and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCCMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: The rocking of the train car, the sound of its wheels on the rails, and there's something special about this form of travel that makes for easy conversation. This is just what happens to the four strangers who meet on a train. As they travel by rail from Edinburgh to London, they entertain one another with tales of how trains have changed their lives.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCCMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: Precocious six-year-old Bertie joins the scouts to escape his mother, Matthew learns to handle the challenges of marriage, and Domenica deals with loneliness. Even four-legged Cyril gets in on the action, finding himself a bit of canine romance.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MCCWalker, Martin
Summary: "Bruno Courrèges--provincial French police chief extraordinaire--is back in another delectable tale of mystery and suspense that unfolds in the gastronomically ravishing Dordogne. A veteran of the Resistance dies, and among his possessions are documents that connect him to a notorious train robbery. A former British spymaster's estate is burglarized, the latest in a spree of expert thefts. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WALAirth, Rennie
Summary: The Second World War has ended, leaving a bruised and fragile peace. But this tranquillity is threatened when a shocking murder takes place in the Sussex countryside. Before long, police experts discover a link to another, earlier, killing hundreds of miles away. While Scotland Yard detective Billy Styles struggles to find a link between these two murders, a strange twist of fate brings former...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AIRMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: The focus is squarely on precocious six-year-old Bertie this time, as the young lad with the overbearing mother learns to speak Italian, play the saxophone, and do yoga.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCCWalker, Martin
Summary: "When an undercover agent tracking domestic jihadists is found murdered, it's troubling enough for Bruno's beloved village. But when this is followed by the return of Sami, a local autistic youth thought lost to Islamic extremism, provincial St. Denis suddenly becomes a front line in the global war on terror"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WALKing, Laurie R.
Summary: Waking up in Morocco with no memory of her identity, Mary Russell is enmeshed in the political and military uprisings of Europe, while Sherlock Holmes taps the assistance of T. E. Lawrence to restore Mary's memory and prevent a full-scale war that threatens countless lives.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC KINMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: When Pat rents a room in Edinburgh, she acquires some interesting neighbors--including a pushy Stockbridge mother and her talented, sax-playing, five-year-old son. Her job at an art gallery hardly keeps her busy until she suspects one painting in the collection may be an undiscovered work by a Scottish master.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCCMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: The newest installment of Alexander McCall Smith's perennially popular and irresistibly charming 44 Scotland Street series. Bertie's respite from his overbearing mother, Irene, is over. She has returned home from the Middle East, only to discover that her son has been exposed to the worst of evils: cartoons, movies, and even carbonated beverages. But the one who should be most concerned is her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCCMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: It's not that poor Bertie Pollock is wishing his life away, but having anticipated his seventh birthday for so long he's now longing to be eighteen. But before then there's a lot of living to do and Bertie is not alone amongst the residents of Scotland Street in trying to do just that--with mixed fortunes.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCCMcCall Smith, Alexander
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006