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Good omens : the nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter, witch / Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman ; illustrated with line drawings and colour plates by Paul Kidby.

There is a hint of Armageddon in the air. According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (recorded, thankfully, in 1655, before she blew up her entire village and all its inhabitants, who had gathered to watch her burn), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. So the Armies of Good and Evil are massing, the four Bikers of the Apocalypse are revving up their mighty hogs and hitting the road, and the world’s last two remaining witchfinders are getting ready to Fight the Good Fight. Atlantis is rising. Frogs are falling. Tempers are flaring, and everything appears to be going to Divine Plan. Except that a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon are not particularly looking forward to the coming Rapture. They’ve lived amongst Humanity for millennia, and have grown rather fond of the lifestyle. So if Crowley and Aziraphale are going to stop it from happening, they’ve got to find and kill the AntiChrist (which is a shame, really, as he’s a nice kid). There’s just one glitch: someone seems to have misplaced him. This edition features a new revised text, approved by Neil Gaiman and the Pratchett Estate, which clears up many typos and errors from previous editions. It also features twelve full colour illustrations from Paul Kidby – Terry Pratchett’s artist of choice – and further pencil drawings.
Author: Pratchett, Terry, 1948-
Limited edition.
Published: London : Gollancz, 2019.
Published: ©1990.
393 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm.
1 reserve

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Darkness on the edge of town / Adam Christopher.

Chief Jim Hopper reveals long-awaited secrets to Eleven about his old life as a police detective in New York City, confronting his past before the events of the hit show Stranger Things. Christmas, Hawkins, 1984. All Chief Jim Hopper wants is to enjoy a quiet first Christmas with Eleven, but his adopted daughter has other plans. Over Hopper’s protests, she pulls a cardboard box marked “New York” out of the basement―and the tough questions begin. Why did Hopper leave Hawkins all those years ago? What does “Vietnam” mean? And why has he never talked about New York? Although he’d rather face a horde of demogorgons than talk about his own past, Hopper knows that he can’t deny the truth any longer. And so begins the story of the incident in New York―the last big case before everything changed… Summer, New York City, 1977. Hopper is starting over after returning home from Vietnam. A young daughter, a caring wife, and a new beat as an NYPD detective make it easy to slip back into life as a civilian. But after shadowy federal agents suddenly show and seize the files about a series of brutal, unsolved murders, Hopper takes matters into his own hands, risking everything to discover the truth. Soon Hopper is undercover among New York’s notorious street gangs. But just as he's about to crack the case, a blackout rolls across the boroughs, plunging Hopper into a darkness deeper than any he’s faced before.
Author: Christopher, Adam, 1978-
Published: London : Century, 2019.
Published: ©2019.
411 pages ; 24 cm.
Stranger things

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Heart of darkness : and other stories / Joseph Conrad.

'The horror! The horror!'. These are Kurtz's final words in Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness', the story of a man who travels into the jungle to seek his fortune and who instead finds an all-consuming moral and spiritual wilderness. Conrad's enduring tale served as a touchstone for many works of fiction inspired by its sombre theme. This collection also includes an additional five of Conrad's best stories.
Author: Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
2019 edition.
Published: New York, NY : Barnes & Noble, [2019]
Published: ©2019.
viii, 358 pages ; 22 cm.

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The world according to Garp / John Irving.

This is the life of T.S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields - a feminist leader ahead of her time. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes - even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with "lunacy and sorrow"; yet the dark, violent events of the story do not undermine a comedy both ribald and robust.
Author: Irving, John, 1942-
40th anniversary edition.
Published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2019.
Published: ©1978.
516 pages ; 20 cm.

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It / Stephen King.

Derry, Maine is just an ordinary town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part, a good place to live. It is a group of children who see - and feel - what makes Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, IT lurks, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each one's deepest dread. Sometimes is appears as an evil clown named Pennywise and sometimes IT reaches up, seizing, tearing, killing... Time passes and the children grow up, move away and forget. Until they are called back, once more to confront IT as IT stirs and coils in the sullen depths of their memories, emerging again to make their past nightmares a terrible present reality.
Author: King, Stephen, 1947-
Paperback edition.
Published: London : Hodder, 2019.
Published: ©1986
1065 pages ; 20 cm.

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Les miserables / Victor Hugo ; translated by Isabel F. Hapgood.

Victor Hugo's classic tale follows the tragic life of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict who tries to do the right thing and put his past behind him but is constantly thwarted by a society unwilling to accept that a man can change. When he encounters a suffering young woman, Fantine, who has been driven to illness and despair by poverty, she tells him about her daughter Cosette. Valjean goes to extraordinary lengths to protect her as the policeman Javert draws closer to discovering his true identity. There is no other novel quite like Victor Hugo's sweeping epic of French society from the end ofthe Napoleonic era until the 1830 Revolution.
Author: Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885
Dover edition.
Published: Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, Inc., 2018.
1369 pages ; 21 cm.
Dover thrift editions

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Breath / Tim Winton.

When paramedic Bruce Pike is called out to deal with another teenage adventure gone wrong, he knows better than his colleague, better than the kid's parents, what happened and how. Thirty years before, that dead boy could have been him. A relentlessly gripping and deeply moving novel about the damage you do to yourself when you're young and think you're immortal.
Author: Winton, Tim, 1960-
Published: [Melbourne, Vic.] : Penguin Books, 2018.
Published: ©2008.
264 pages ; 20 cm.

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The kite runner / Khaled Hosseini.

Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan grow up in different worlds: Amir is the son of a prominent and wealthy man, while Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant, is a Hazara - a shunned ethnic minority. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them. When Amir and his father flee the country for a new life in California, Amir thinks that he has escaped his past. And yet he cannot leave the memory of Hassan behind him.
Author: Hosseini, Khaled
Published: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.
Published: ©2003
343 pages ; 20 cm.

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Ready player one / Ernest Cline.

Ready Player One takes place in the not-so-distant future--the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia. People can plug into OASIS to play, go to school, earn money, and even meet other people (or at least they can meet their avatars), and for protagonist Wade Watts it certainly beats passing the time in his grim, poverty-stricken real life. Along with millions of other world-wide citizens, Wade dreams of finding three keys left behind by James Halliday, the now-deceased creator of OASIS and the richest man to have ever lived. The keys are rumored to be hidden inside OASIS, and whoever finds them will inherit Halliday's fortune. But Halliday has not made it easy. And there are real dangers in this virtual world. Stuffed to the gills with action, puzzles, nerdy romance, and 80s nostalgia, this high energy cyber-quest will make geeks everywhere feel like they were separated at birth from author Ernest Cline.
Author: Cline, Ernest
Film tie-in edition.
Published: London : Arrow Books, 2018.
Published: ©2011
374 pages ; 20 cm.

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The shining / Stephen King.

Danny is only five years old, but in the words of old Mr Hallorann he is a 'shiner', aglow with psychic voltage. When his father becomes caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, Danny's visions grow out of control. As winter closes in and blizzards cut them off, the hotel seems to develop a life of its own. It is meant to be empty. So who is the lady in Room 217 and who are the masked guests going up and down in the elevator? And why do the hedges shaped like animals seem so alive? Somewhere, somehow, there is an evil force in the hotel - and that, too, is beginning to shine.
Author: King, Stephen, 1947-
Paperback edition.
Published: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2018.
Published: ©1977
xiii, 497 pages ; 20 cm.
Shining ; 1.

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Big little lies / Liane Moriarty.

Follows three mothers, each at a crossroads, and their potential involvement in a riot at a school trivia night that leaves one parent dead in what appears to be a tragic accident, but may have been premeditated.
Author: Moriarty, Liane
Berkley trade paperback miniseries tie-in edition.
Published: New York : Berkley, 2017.
Published: ©2014.
492 pages ; 21 cm.

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The call of the wild / by Jack London ; illustrations by Paul Bransom.

The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack.
Author: London, Jack, 1876-1916
Calla edition.
Published: Mineolo, New York : Calla Editions, 2017.
ii, 254 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 27 cm.

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Fantastic beasts and where to find them / J.K. Rowling ; illustrated by Olivia Lomenech Gill.

Offers alphabetically arranged entries detailing the characteristics of such mythical beasts as hippogriffs, blast-ended skrewts, dragons, and unicorns.
Author: Rowling, J. K.
Published: New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, [2017]
Published: ©2017.
xviii, 135 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm.

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The Martian / Andy Weir.

I'm stranded on Mars. I have no way to communicate with Earth. I'm in a Habitat designed to last 31 days. If the Oxygenator breaks down, I'll suffocate. If the Water Reclaimer breaks down, I'll die of thirst. If the Hab breaches, I'll just kind of explode. If none of those things happen, I'll eventually run out of food and starve to death.
Author: Weir, Andy
Young readers edition.
Published: London : Del Rey, 2016.
Published: ©2014.
383 pages : map ; 20 cm.

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How the Grinch stole Christmas / by Dr. Seuss.

5 yrs+
Author: Seuss Dr., 1904-1991
Published: London : HarperCollins Children's Books, 2016.
Published: ©1957.
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 16 cm.

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The woman in black / Susan Hill.

'I did not believe in ghosts'. Few attend Mrs Alice Drablow's funeral, and not one blood relative amongst them. There are undertakers with shovels, of course, a local official who would rather be anywhere else, and one Mr Arthur Kipps, solicitor from London. He is to spend the night in Eel Marsh House, the place where the old recluse died amidst a sinking swamp, a blinding fog and a baleful mystery about which the townsfolk refuse to speak. Young Mr Kipps expects a boring evening alone sorting out paperwork and searching for Mrs Drablow's will. But when the high tide pens him in, what he finds - or rather what finds him - is something else entirely.
Author: Hill, Susan, 1942-
Published: London : Vintage books, 2015.
Published: ©1983.
207 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Vintage classics

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The jungle book : Mowgli's story / Rudyard Kipling, Nicola Bayley.

"A stunning edition of Rudyard Kipling's century-old classic stories about Mowgli the man-cub, illustrated in exquisite detail by Nicola Bayley. First published in 1894, these three stories tell of Mowgli's upbringing by wolves in the Indian jungle; his lessons in the law and language of the jungle from Baloo the bear, Bagheera the black panther and Kaa the python; his kidnap by the Monkey People and his clash with the evil tiger, Shere Khan. Illustrated in ravishing full-colour and exquisite detail by award-winning artist Nicola Bayley, this is a book to treasure for ever."--Publisher's website.
Author: Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
Published: London : Walker Books and subsidiaries, 2015.
Published: ©2005.
149 pages : colour illustrations ; 22 cm.

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To kill a mockingbird / Harper Lee.

Review: 'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird'. Atticus finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this classic novel - a black man charged with attacking a white girl. Through the eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Lee explores the issues of race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s with compassion and humour. She also creates one of the great heroes of literature in their father, whose lone struggle for justice pricks the conscience of a town steeped in prejudice and hypocrisy.
Author: Lee, Harper, 1926-
Published: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015]
Published: ©1960.
323 pages ; 22 cm.

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Outlander / Diana Gabaldon.

What if your future was the past? 1945, and Claire Randall goes to the Scottish Highlands with her husband Frank. It's a second honeymoon, a chance to learn how war has changed them and to re-establish their loving marriage. But one afternoon, Claire walks through a circle of standing stones and vanishes into 1743, where the first person she meets is a British army officer - her husband's six-times great-grandfather. Unfortunately, Black Jack Randall is not the man his descendant is, and while trying to escape him, Claire falls into the hands of a gang of Scottish outlaws, and finds herself a Sassenach - an outlander - in danger from both Jacobites and Redcoats. Marooned amid danger, passion and violence, her only chance of safety lies in Jamie Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior. What begins in compulsion becomes urgent need, and Claire finds herself torn between two very different men, in two irreconcilable lives.
Author: Gabaldon, Diana
Published: London : Arrow Books, 2015.
Published: ©1991.
864 pages ; 20 cm.
Outlander ; 1.

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The haunting of Hill House / Shirley Jackson ; introduction by Laura Miller ; series editor Guillermo Del Toro.

Part of a six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy award-winning director Guillermo del Toro. First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House- Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a 'haunting'; Theodora, his light-hearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers - and soon it will choose one of them to make its own. Adapted into a film, The Haunting, starring Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Owen Wilson, The Haunting of Hill House is a powerful work of slow-burning psychological horror.
Author: Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965
Published: New York : Penguin Books, 2013.
Published: ©1959
xxxii, 235 pages ; 22 cm.
Penguin horror

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A clockwork orange : the restored edition / Anthony Burgess ; edited with an introduction and notes by Andrew Biswell ; foreword by Martin Amis.

Told through a central character, Alex, the disturbing novel creates an alarming futuristic vision of violence, high technology, and authoritarianism. A modern classic of youthful violence and social redemption set in a dismal dystopia whereby a juvenile deliquent undergoes state-sponsored psychological rehabilitation for his aberrant behaviour.
Author: Burgess, Anthony, 1917-
50th anniversary restored ed.
Published: London : William Heinemann, 2012.
xxxi, 306 p. ; 24 cm.

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The Handmaid's Tale [electronic resource]

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She has only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.The Handmaid's Tale is a 1985 dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. Set in a near-future New England, in a totalitarian, Christian theonomy that has overthrown the United States government, the novel explores themes of women in subjugation and the various means by which they gain individualism and independence. The novel's title echoes the component parts of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, which comprises a series of connected stories ("The Merchant's Tale", "The Parson's Tale", etc.).
Author: Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939-
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Vintage Digital, 2012
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The Handmaid's Tale [electronic resource] / Margaret Atwood

NOW A SMASH-HIT CHANNEL 4 TV SERIES WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM MARGARET ATWOOD The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire – neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs. Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful vision of the future gives full rein to Margaret Atwood's irony, wit and astute perception.
Author: Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939-
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Random House, 2012
1 online resource (1 text file)

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One flew over the cuckoo's nest / Ken Kesey.

A criminal feigns insanity and is admitted to a mental hospital where he challenges the autocratic authority of the head nurse.
Author: Kesey, Ken
50th anniversary ed.
Published: New York : Viking, 2012, c1962.
277 p. ; 24 cm.

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Catch 22 / Joseph Heller.

Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage. Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch-22 is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met keep trying to kill him. Joseph Heller's bestselling novel is a hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it.
Author: Heller, Joseph
50th anniversary edition.
Published: London : Vintage Books, 2011.
Published: ©2011.
540 pages ; 20 cm.

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Game of thrones / George R.R. Martin.

Here is the first volume in George R. R. Martin’s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R. R. Martin’s stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.
Author: Martin, George R. R.
Published: London : HarperVoyager, 2011.
801 p. : maps ; 20 cm.
Song of ice and fire ; bk. 1.

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Warm bodies / Isaac Marion

He has no memory, no identity, and no pulse, but he is a little different from his fellow Dead.
Author: Marion, Isaac
Published: London : Vintage : 2010.
300 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.

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The walking dead. Book one : a continuing story of survival horror / created by Robert Kirkman.

Author: Kirkman, Robert
[Hardback ed.]
Published: Berkeley, CA : Image Comics, 2010.
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 29 cm.
The walking dead ; bk 1 (Issues #1-12)
1 reserve

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Old Possum's book of practical cats / T.S. Eliot ; illustrated by Axel Scheffler.

Cats! Some are sane, some are mad and some are good and some are bad. Meet magical Mr Mistoffelees, sleepy Old Deuteronomy and curious Rum Tum Tugger. But you'll be lucky to meet Macavity because Macavity's not there! In 1925, T.S. Eliot became co-director of Faber and Faber, who remain his publishers to this day. Throughout the 1930s he composed the now famous poems about Macavity, Old Deuteronomy, Mr Mistoffelees and many other cats, under the name of 'Old Possum'. In 1981, Eliot's poems were set to music by Andrew Lloyd Webber as "Cats" which went on to become the longest-running Broadway musical in history. This charming new edition contains original colour illustrations by the award-winning illustrator of "The Gruffalo", Axel Scheffler.
Author: Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965
Published: London : Faber, 2010.
64 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.

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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind [electronic resource] : Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

It was also a land withered by drought and hunger, and a place where hope and opportunity were hard to find. But William had read about windmills in a book called Using Energy, and he dreamed of building one that would bring electricity and water to his village and change his life and the lives of those around him. His neighbors may have mocked him and called him misala—crazy—but William was determined to show them what a little grit and ingenuity could do.Enchanted by the workings of electricity as a boy, William had a goal to study science in Malawi's top boarding schools. But in 2002, his country was stricken with a famine that left his family's farm devastated and his parents destitute. Unable to pay the eighty-dollar-a-year tuition for his education, William was forced to drop out and help his family forage for food as thousands across the country starved and died.Yet William refused to let go of his dreams. With nothing more than a fistful of cornmeal in his stomach, a small pile of once-forgotten science textbooks, and an armory of curiosity and determination, he embarked on a daring plan to bring his family a set of luxuries that only two percent of Malawians could afford and what the West considers a necessity—electricity and running water. Using scrap metal, tractor parts, and bicycle halves, William forged a crude yet operable windmill, an unlikely contraption and small miracle that eventually powered four lights, complete with homemade switches and a circuit breaker made from nails and wire. A second machine turned a water pump that could battle the drought and famine that loomed with every season.Soon, news of William's magetsi a mphepo—his "electric wind"—spread beyond the borders of his home, and the boy who was once called crazy became an inspiration to those around the world.Here is the remarkable story about human inventiveness and its power to overcome crippling adversity. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind will inspire anyone who doubts the power of one individual's ability to change his community and better the lives of those around him.
Author: Kamkwamba, William
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : HarperAudio, 2009
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