New Titles Digital May 2013 (arrived in April)

Downloadable audiobooks

Deadly housewives (OverDrive audiobook), Sara Paretsky … [et al].

In the expert hands of two of the mystery world's top storytellers, being a housewife takes on a whole new meaning. Get ready for a lethal mix of meddling mothers-in-law, creepy neighbours, cheating husbands, fickle female friends, careers left behind, out-of-control kids, steamy sex, and much, much more in this thrilling collection of never-before-published stories!

A place in the country (OverDrive audiobook), Elizabeth A. Adler

Newly-single mother Caroline Evans dreams of restoring an old barn into a restaurant, but her chance at happiness suddenly hangs in the balance as whispers of murder and vengeance find their way to her and her daughter Issy, hovering in that limbo between girl and young woman, begins to make some dangerous choices.

A married man (OverDrive audiobook), Catherine Alliott

When Lucy Fellowes is offered a dream house in the country she leaps at it. It's hard enough living in London on an uncertain income, but when you're widowed with two small boys it's even harder. And anyway, a rural retreat will bring her closer to Charlie, the only man in four years to make her heart beat faster. Perfect. Or it would be. If only he didn't belong to someone else…

Olivia's luck (OverDrive audiobook), Catherine Alliott

When Olivia's husband Johnny announces 'I don't care what colour you paint the hall, I'm leaving', Olivia is understandably devastated. Left with an eccentric troop of builders camping in her back garden, a ten-year-old daughter with 'attitude' and a neurotic neighbour intent on foisting cast-off men in her direction, Olivia's dream home is suddenly less than dreamy.

One day in May (OverDrive audiobook), Catherine Alliott

One fine day in May, Hattie's life changes for ever when she bumps into the widow and gorgeous younger brother of Dominic Forbes, the married politician she worked for years ago. Will Hattie come clean about what really happened with Dominic all those years ago? And, if she does, is she ready to face the consequences? Whatever happens, Hattie comes to realise that you can't keep running from your mistakes.

A rural affair (OverDrive audiobook), Catherine Alliott

Freed from the shackles of her loveless marriage, Poppy is determined not to make the same mistakes again. Fully embracing village life, she becomes the object of the local menfolk's affections - from Bob, the resident odd ball, to Luke, the sexy church organist. Will Poppy have the courage to follow her heart and refuse to settle for second best?

The secret life of Evie Hamilton (OverDrive audiobook), Catherine Alliott

One sunny Oxford morning a letter - a ticking time-bomb - lands on Evie's immaculate doormat and up ends Evie's comfortable life. Something she could never have anticipated has been waiting in the wings to sabotage everything she holds dear, and it's not going away. But Evie is a fighter and she will fight for what she loves. And in the process, find there is more to her than she thought, and more to her life.

Eve and Adam (OverDrive audiobook), Katherine Applegate

One good turn (OverDrive audiobook), Kate Atkinson

It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - an incident that changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander - until he becomes a suspect.

Living together (OverDrive audiobook), Alan Ayckbourn

In the second "battle" of Ayckbourn's celebrated trilogy The Norman Conquests, we rejoin the family weekend, this time hearing the events in the living room, where Norman gets drunk on homemade dandelion wine - and all hell breaks loose.

Table manners (OverDrive audiobook), Alan Ayckbourn

The family gathers in the dining room, little suspecting that Norman's presence will create a gourmet's recipe for thwarted seductions and mistaken intentions.

Round and round the garden (OverDrive audiobook), Alan Ayckbourn

Alan Ackybourn presents the third installment in his critically-acclaimed trilogy of plays, The Norman Conquests. Hilarity ensues as Norman, a quintessential everyman, is forced to deal with the quirks of the women around him, including his family and friends.

Grave Consequences (OverDrive audiobook), Lisa T Bergren

Guy Langman, Crime Scene Procrastinator (OverDrive audiobook), Josh Berk

Able one (OverDrive audiobook), Ben Bova

Faced with the threat of a thermonuclear attack, the United States has only one possible defense: Able One. ABL-1, or Able One, is a modified 747 fitted with a high-powered laser able to knock out missiles in flight. But both the laser's technology and the jet's crew are untested. Will Able One's experimental technology be enough to prevent World War III - especially when it becomes clear that a saboteur is onboard?

Back of Beyond (OverDrive audiobook), C J Box

Lies beneath (OverDrive audiobook), Anne Greenwood Brown

As the only brother in a family of mermaids living in Lake Superior, Calder White is expected to seduce Lily, the daughter of the man believed to have killed the mermaids' mother, but he begins to fall in love with her just as Lily starts to suspect the legends about the lake are true.

Betsy's return (OverDrive audiobook), Wanda E Brunstetter

Betsy Nelson reluctantly returns to her childhood home to care for her failing father, a faithful minister who served the town for years. William Covington, a confirmed bachelor, comes to town to become the new pastor and set aside the luxuries of his birth for service to God. Can Betsy and William find common ground on which to work together for the better of the townspeople?

Kelly's Chance (OverDrive audiobook), Wanda E Brunstetter

Sarah's Choice (OverDrive audiobook), Wanda E Brunstetter

The Silence of Winter (OverDrive audiobook), Wanda E Brunstetter

Blood diamonds: tracing the deadly path of the world's most precious stones (OverDrive audiobook), Greg Campbell

Blood Diamonds is the gripping story of how diamond smuggling works, how the rebel war has effectively destroyed Sierra Leone and its people, and how the policies of the diamond industry - institutionalised in the 1880s by the De Beers Cartel - have allowed it to happen. Award-winning journalist Greg Campbell traces the deadly trail of these diamonds and the repercussions felt far beyond the poor and war-ridden country of Sierra Leone.

Breaking Silence (OverDrive audiobook), Linda Castillo

Gone Missing (OverDrive audiobook), Linda Castillo

Mixed blood (OverDrive audiobook), Nazrin Choudhury

Nazrin Choudhury's play, which won the Richard Imison Award for the best play by a writer new to radio, tells the story of a young British Asian woman whose life begins to unravel when she's faced with the possibility that her real father may actually be white.

Spoiled : a novel (OverDrive audiobook), Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan.

When her mother dies, sixteen-year-old Molly moves from Indiana to California, to live with her newly discovered father, a Hollywood megastar, and his pampered teenaged daughter.

Life & times of Michael K (OverDrive audiobook), J M Coetzee

The Power Trip (OverDrive audiobook), Jackie Collins

Chasing the dime (OverDrive audiobook), Michael Connelly

After accidentally intercepting some telephone messages for the previous tenant of his new apartment, computer entrepreneur Henry Price is drawn into a nightmarish web of dark and dangerous secrets as he races against time to save the life of a woman he has never met.

City of bones (OverDrive audiobook), Michael Connelly

Harry Bosch investigates the 20-year-old murder of a 13-year-old boy whose bones are unearthed by a dog in a remote part of a canyon in the Hollywood Hills. The bones carry the classic markings of long-term child abuse. But once Harry identifies the boy, the case spins another way.

Crime beat: true stories of cops and killers (OverDrive audiobook), Michael Connelly

Crime Beat is a riveting collection of true stories which reveals, time and again, the connection between Connelly the crime reporter and Connelly the novelist.

A darkness more than night (OverDrive audiobook), Michael Connelly

McCaleb is persuaded by the LA County Sheriff's office to profile a killer in an unsolved murder. The victim was arrested six years earlier by Bosch for murder, but then released. A clue found by McCaleb seems to lead to Bosch himself and now the two must work together to clear Bosch's name.

Echo Park (OverDrive audiobook), Michael Connelly

A man accused of two heinous killings is willing to come clean in regard to several other murders in a deal to avoid the death penalty. One of those murders, he says, is the killing of Marie Gesto an old cold-case of Bsoch's. In confirming the confession Bosch must get close to the man he has sought - and hated - for thirteen years. Bosch's whole being as a cop begins to crack when he comes to realise that he and his partner missed a clue back in 1993 that could have led them to Waits and would have stopped the nine murders that followed the killing of Marie Gesto.

All that remains (OverDrive audiobook), Patricia Daniels Cornwell

When the bodies of young courting couples start turning up in remote woodland areas, Chief Medical Examiner Scarpetta is unable to determine the cause of death. Then the daughter of one of the most powerful women in America goes missing.

Blow fly (OverDrive audiobook), Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Dr Kay Scarpetta has left Virginia in quest of peace but instead finds herself drawn into some baffling, horrific murders in Florida,where she becomes entangled in an international conspiracy that confronts her with the shock of her life.

Body of evidence (OverDrive audiobook), Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta investigates the murder of a reclusive author and discovers that being a coroner is much more than laboratory work as she becomes involved in a dangerous criminal investigation.

Book of the dead (OverDrive audiobook), Patricia Daniels Cornwell

The 'book of the dead' is the morgue log in which all cases are entered. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to have a new meaning. She moves to South Carolina in the hope of a quieter life, but then a series of violent murders begins.

Cruel and unusual (OverDrive audiobook), Patricia Daniels Cornwell

11:05 p.m. convicted murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell is excecuted but the same night Eddie Heath's nude, grotesquely wounded body is found propped against a dumpster. The two events seem unrelated until chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta remembers that Waddell arranged his victim in a strikingly similar position. And then there's a new murder, the most puzzling of all.

Hornet's nest (OverDrive audiobook), Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Deputy Chief Virginia West likes and respects her boss, but she finds it hard to accept that a rookie reporter, Brazil, should ride on patrol with her as she investigates a series of murders where the killer paints his victims bright orange.

Portrait of a killer: Jack the Ripper - case closed (OverDrive audiobook), Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Patricia Cornwell uses the demanding methods of modern forensic investigation to re-examine the evidence in the Jack the Ripper murders. Naming the killer as the artist, Walter Sickert, Cornwell details the evidence for this conclusion and reveals the reaction from a senior police officer.

Post-mortem (OverDrive audiobook), Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Richmond, Virginia: a serial killer is on the loose. Dr Kay Scarpetta is called in to help track the killer.

Predator (OverDrive audiobook), Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Florida is full of predators, from the animals who thrive in its heat to the humans who stalk the malls, & they all give Dr Kay Scarpetta the opportunity & the means to do what she does best - persuading the dead to speak to her.

Red mist (OverDrive audiobook), Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Kay Scarpetta has arranged to meet an inmate, a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer. Against advice, Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out. But soon she finds connections to a string of grisly killings, including the slaughter of a Savannah family years earlier. As she learns more, Scarpetta is compelled to conclude that this is only the beginning of something far more destructive and she is the only one who can stop it.

Trace (OverDrive audiobook), Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Against her own judgement, Kay Scarpetta agrees to return to Virginia as a consultant pathologist on the case involving the death of a 14 year-old girl. Soon Kay is investigating the probability that someone is after those closest to her.

Taken (OverDrive audiobook), Robert Crais

When the police tell a wealthy industrialist that her missing son has faked his own kidnapping, she hires Elvis Cole and Joe Pike - and Cole soon determines that it was no fake. Fortunately, the kidnappers don't yet know who the boy is, but when Cole goes undercover to try to buy the two of them back, he himself is taken, and disappears. Now it is up to Pike to retrace Cole's steps, burning through the hard and murderous world of human traffickers before it is too late.

The brothers Karamazov (OverDrive audiobook), Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The passionate Karamazov brothers spring to life, led by their rogue of a father, who entertains himself by drinking, womanizing, and pitting his three sons against each other. The men have plenty to fight over, including the alluring Grushenka.

The idiot (OverDrive audiobook), Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A saintly man, Prince Myshkin, is thrust into the heart of a society more concerned with wealth, power, and sexual conquest than the ideals of Christianity. Myshkin soon finds himself at the centre of a violent love triangle in which a notorious woman and a beautiful young girl become rivals for his affections.

The river of fire (OverDrive audiobook), Patrick Easter

A sunken lugger in the Pool of London at last reveals the bodies of two men entombed in the crew's cabin. Against the background of a nation at war with Napoleon, River Surveyor Tom Pascoe of the Marine Police finds his own life under threat as he digs deeper into the case. He uncovers the existence of French agents whose task is to undermine England's ability to continue the war.

Middlemarch (OverDrive audiobook), George Eliot

Dorothea Brooke is a young woman of fervent ideals who yearns to effect social change yet faces resistance from the society she inhabits. In this epic in a small landscape, Eliot's large cast of precisely delineated characters and the rich tapestry of their stories result in a wise, compassionate, and astute vision of human nature.

Alone (OverDrive audiobook), Loren D Estleman

Hollywood film detective and film archivist Valentino becomes embroiled in the murder of a blackmailer in this wacky comedic murder romp.

Betrayal (OverDrive audiobook), Karen Fenech

To save her son and people from a deadly enemy, Lady Katherine Stanfield marries her former betrothed, a man she'd betrayed but has never stopped loving. But someone won't let the past rest, and now she must stop that "someone" because he wants Katherine and her new husband dead.

A fate totally worse than death (OverDrive audiobook), Paul Fleischman

In this horror novel parody, three self-centered members of Cliffside High School's ruling clique, who are beginning to age rapidly, become convinced that the beautiful new exchange student is the ghost of the girl whose death they caused the year before.

A clear conscience (OverDrive audiobook), Frances Fyfield

Crown Prosecutor Helen West, her less-than-clean garden flat and her relationship with senior Geoffrey Bailey are all in need of a little care and attention. Further up the no. 59 bus route but a world away lives Cath, the 'treasure' who begins cleaning for Helen. At first the latter is only too happy to turn a blind eye to the tragedy of Cath's life but then the long arm of coincidence clutches at them all.

The Forsyte Saga (OverDrive audiobook), John Galsworthy

The short stories (OverDrive audiobook), Elizabeth Gaskell

Mary Barton (OverDrive audiobook), Elizabeth Gaskell

North and South (OverDrive audiobook), Elizabeth Gaskell

Ruth (OverDrive audiobook), Elizabeth Gaskell

Blood of the prodigal (OverDrive audiobook), Paul L Gaus

When an Amish boy is kidnapped, Bishop Eli Miller reluctantly seeks help from outsiders, the "vain ones" known as English. Pastor Caleb Troyer and Professor Michael Branden, boyhood friends and lifelong residents of the county the Amish and English share, understand better than anyone that the bishop would not have enlisted their help unless it were a matter of gravest concern, and they begin searching for the boy.

Broken English (OverDrive audiobook), Paul L Gaus

After a vicious murder in the heart of Amish Country, Professor Michael Branden, Sheriff Bruce Robertson, and Pastor Cal Troyer set out to catch a killer in the peaceful town of Millersburg, Ohio.

Cast a blue shadow (OverDrive audiobook), Paul L Gaus

Juliet Favor has immense wealth that empowers her acquisition of whatever, and whomever, she wants. So when Juliet is murdered the night before she is slated to sign a new will Sheriff Bruce Robertson faces no shortage of suspects.

Clouds without rain (OverDrive audiobook), Paul L Gaus

While helping to investigate a fatal accident involving an eighteen-wheeler and an Amish horse-and-buggy, Professor Michael Branden becomes suspicious about the so-called "accident" as he uncovers a gang of teenage Amish robbers, land swindles, a missing bank official, and murder.

Harmless as doves (OverDrive audiobook), Paul L Gaus

No one believes that Crist Burkholder could actually be a murderer. But the young Amish man is adamant that he killed his romantic rival in order to win Vesta Miller. So when Robertson's investigation reveals two potentially related murders in Florida's Pinecraft Amish community, Professor Mike Branden and Detective Ricky Niell head south to unravel the connection between the dead man and a far-flung Amish outpost on the shores of Sarasota Bay.

A prayer for the night (OverDrive audiobook), Paul L Gaus

When three young people on the Amish rite of passage, Rumschpringe go missing Pastor Cal Troyer along with his old friends Professor Michael Branden and Sheriff Bruce Robertson, must race against the clock to find a murderer and break a ruthless drug ring operating within the heart of Ohio's Amish country.

Separate from the world (OverDrive audiobook), Paul L Gaus

When an Amish man seeks help from Professor Michael Branden about the bizarre death of his brother, the apparent suicide of a woman on campus deepens the mystery as he searches for the connection between the two people.

Ranchero (OverDrive audiobook), Rick Gavin

Attacked by a belligerent man who steals an important car and flees with a television that was being repossessed, Nick Reid and his best friend, Desmond, pursue the man and find themselves on the trail of a notorious meth producer.

The serpent in the garden (OverDrive audiobook), Janet Gleeson

Portrait painter Joshua Pope is interrupted one night by a visitor with a challenge. Twenty years before, he painted a wedding portrait for widower Herbert Bentnick and his bride, Elinor Mercier. Joshua witnessed events which began and ended in murder, and their mystery has never been solved.

The Vicar of Wakefield (OverDrive audiobook), Oliver Goldsmith

'He loved all mankind; for fortune prevented him from knowing there were rascals.' Oliver Goldsmith's hugely successful novel of 1766 remained for generations one of the most highly regarded and beloved works of eighteenth-century fiction. It depicts the fall and rise of the Primrose family, presided over by the benevolent vicar, the narrator of a fairy-tale plot of impersonation and deception, the abduction of a beautiful heroine and the machinations of an aristocratic villain.

The examined life (OverDrive audiobook), Stephen Grosz

The Examined Life distils over 50,000 hours of conversation into pure psychological insight, without the jargon. This extraordinary book is about one ordinary process: talking, listening and understanding.

Chocolat (OverDrive audiobook), Joanne Harris

When Vianne Rocher arrives in the French village of Lansquenet and opens a chocolaterie directly opposite the church, Father Reynaud identifies her as a danger to his flock - especially as it is the beginning of Lent. But Vianne's plans for an Easter Chocolate Festival divide the community into an escalating 'Church not Chocolate' battle.

The lollipop shoes (OverDrive audiobook), Joanne Harris

Gentlemen and Players (OverDrive audiobook), Joanne Harris

Sleep, Pale Sister (OverDrive audiobook), Joanne Harris

The Fifth Floor (OverDrive audiobook), Michael T Harvey

Private investigator Michael Kelly, the Windy City's answer to Philip Marlowe, is back in another page-turner that revives a tantalizing mystery buried in Chicago's past. Kelly becomes embroiled in a scam that stretches from current politics back to the night Chicago burned to the ground, and along the way, he finds himself framed for murder, before finally facing a killer bent on rewriting history.

The third rail (OverDrive audiobook), Michael T Harvey

Harvey's tough talking, Aeschylus quoting, former Irish cop turned PI, Michael Kelly, is back - in a sizzling murder mystery that pits him against a merciless sniper on the loose.

We all fall down (OverDrive audiobook), Michael T Harvey

Chicago cop turned private investigator Michael Kelly is racing to save his city from a deadly new foe: a biological weapon unleashed underground. When a lightbulb falls in a subway tunnel, it releases a pathogen that could kill millions. Michael Kelly's hunt for the people who poisoned his city takes him into the tangled underworld of Chicago's West Side gangs and the even more frightening world of black biology, an elite discipline emerging from the nation's premier labs, where scientists play God and will stop at nothing to preserve their secrecy.

The Chicago Way (OverDrive audiobook), Michael Harvey

Beauvallet (OverDrive audiobook), Georgette Heyer

A swashbuckling tale set in the second half of the 16th century, when Elizabeth was on the throne and the Spanish Armada ruled the waves. Sir Nicholas Beauvallet, pirate and nobleman, captures a Spanish galleon and discovers a lovely lady on board.

Black sheep (OverDrive audiobook), Georgette Heyer

Miss Abigail Wendover's efforts to detach her spirited niece Fanny from a plausible fortune-hunter are complicated by the arrival in Bath of Miles Caverleigh, a cynical, outrageous care-for-naught with a scandalous past.

Devil's cub (OverDrive audiobook), Georgette Heyer

Banished to the Continent after wounding his opponent in a duel, Dominic Alistair, Marquis of Vidal and fiery son of the notorious Duke of Avon, schemes to abduct the silly aristocrat bent on seducing him into marriage and make her his mistress instead. In his rush, however, he seems to have taken the wrong woman!

The foundling (OverDrive audiobook), Georgette Heyer

The shy young Duke of Sale, known as Gilly, has endured twenty-four years of rigorous mollycoddling from his uncle and his valet. But his natural diffidence conceals a rebellious spirit. So when Gilly hears of Belinda, the beautiful foundling who appears to be blackmailing his cousin, he absconds with glee. Entering his new and dangerous world he is plunged into a frenzy of intrigue, kidnap and adventure.

An infamous army (OverDrive audiobook), Georgette Heyer

In 1815, beneath the aegis of the Army of Occupation, Brussels is the gayest town in Europe. And the widow Lady Barbara Childe, renowned for being as outrageous as she is beautiful, is at the centre of all that is fashionable and light-hearted. When she meets Charles Audley, dashing aide-de-camp to the great Duke of Wellington himself, her joie de vivre knows no bounds - until the eve of the fateful Battle of Waterloo…

Lady of quality (OverDrive audiobook), Georgette Heyer

When spirited, independent Miss Annis Wynchwood embroils herself in the affairs of a runaway heiress, she is destined to see a good deal of Mr Carleton, Lucilla's uncivil guardian. But unlike Bath society, Annis must admit that Carleton is never boring.

Powder and patch (OverDrive audiobook), Georgette Heyer

Cleone Charteris is the joy and despair of all the young men of the countryside, and she seeks a husband - a man who can duel and dice with the best of them. One of the men after her heart is the masterful and handsome Mr. Philip Jettan but a "a raw country bumpkin" - he even refuses to buy a wig! His hopes dashed, but wanting to win over the woman he loves, Philip leaves for Paris - to learn to be a gentleman.

Regency buck (OverDrive audiobook), Georgette Heyer

A novel set in Regency London and Brighton. The beautiful Judith Taverner and her brother Peregrine agree that Julian St John Audley is an insufferably arrogant dandy. Unfortunately he is also the 5th Earl of Worth, a friend of the Regent and, quite by chance, their legal guardian.

Sprig muslin (OverDrive audiobook), Georgette Heyer

Finding so young and pretty a girl as Amanda wandering unattended, Sir Gareth Ludlow knows it is his duty as a man of honour to restore her to her family. But it is to prove no easy task for the Corinthian. His captive in spring muslin has more than her rapturous good looks and bandboxes to aid her - she is also possessed of a runaway imagination.

The talisman ring (OverDrive audiobook), Georgette Heyer

The legend of the Headless Horseman and a proposed marriage de convenance both have their impact on the mystery of a golden talisman ring and Lord Lavenham's young heir, Ludovic. Neither Sir Tristram Shield nor Eustacie, his young French cousin, share the slightest inclination to marry one another, yet it is Lord Lavenham's dying wish. For there is no one else to provide for the old man's granddaughter while Ludovic remains a fugitive from justice…

The toll-gate (OverDrive audiobook), Georgette Heyer

Captain John Staple's exploits in the Peninsula had earned him the sobriquet Crazy Jack amongst his fellows in the Dragoon Guards. Now home from Waterloo, life in peacetime is rather dull for the adventure loving Captain. But when he finds himself lost at an unmanned toll-house in the Pennines, his soldiering days suddenly pale away beside an adventure and romance of a lifetime.

North Shore Fish (OverDrive audiobook), Israel Horovitz

Presents a drama set in a fish-stick packing line at a plant in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Rumours of the plant closing, a lecherous foreman, and domestic troubles are among the problems faced by women fish-packers at the plant.

Granny (OverDrive audiobook), Anthony Horowitz

12 year old Jordan Warden's granny is physically repulsive and horrible mean. Even so Joe is shocked by the malicious gleam in her eye as she gives him a Christmas present fit for a two-year-old. It's the look of a predatory crocodile, and Joe starts to suspect that Granny has unpleasant designs on him. But what are they and how can he foil tham?

Mr. and Mrs. Bunny Detectives Extraordinaire (OverDrive audiobook), Polly Horvath

Death comes to Pemberley (OverDrive audiobook), P D (Phyllis Dorothy) James

The year is 1803, and Darcy and Elizabeth have been married for six years. There are now two handsome and healthy sons in the nursery, Elizabeth's beloved sister Jane and her husband Bingley live nearby and the orderly world of Pemberley seems unassailable. But all this is threatened when, Lydia - Elizabeth's younger, unreliable sister - stumbles out of a chaise screaming that her husband has been murdered.

Measure of darkness (OverDrive audiobook), Chris Jordan

For the parents whose children have been taken, for the broken lives we piece back together one relentless investigation at a time, our town house is a sanctuary. My name is Alice Crane. I'm just one of a talented team working for Naomi Nantz, the brilliant and very private detective. Today that sanctuary was violated. The famous kid-finder Randall Shane was taken away by unknown assailants, possibly government agents. Shane's client is dead, and a boy known as "the keyboard kid" is missing.

Mariana (OverDrive audiobook), Susanna Kearsley

The Rose Garden (OverDrive audiobook), Susanna Kearsley

Season of Storms (OverDrive audiobook), Susanna Kearsley

The Shadowy Horses (OverDrive audiobook), Susanna Kearsley

Sophia's Secret (OverDrive audiobook), Susanna Kearsley

White truffles in winter (OverDrive audiobook), Nicole Kelby

White Truffles in Winter imagines the world of the remarkable French chef Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935), who changed how we eat through his legendary restaurants at the Savoy and the Ritz. Escoffier was torn between two women: the famous, beautiful, and reckless actress Sarah Bernhardt and his wife, the independent and sublime poet Delphine Daffis, who refused ever to leave Monte Carlo. In the last year of Escoffier's life, in the middle of writing his memoirs, he has returned to Delphine, who requests a dish in her name as he has honored Bernhardt, Queen Victoria, and many others.

Always and forever (OverDrive audiobook), Cathy Kelly

Once upon a time, in the beautiful town of Carrickwell, lived three women who thought they had life pretty much mapped out. Until the landscape shifted and it all came tumbling down. Suddenly everything the three women have always worked for, always desired, looks in jeopardy. But Carrickwell is a magical place and the opening of the new Clouds Hill spa by Leah - a woman with her own secret turmoil - is destined to cause ripples no one could ever have imagined.

Past secrets (OverDrive audiobook), Cathy Kelly

The women of Summer Street have their fair share of secrets and soon learn that if you keep a secret too long it will creep out when you least expect it!

Between Sundays (OverDrive audiobook), Karen Kingsbury

Football season becomes a time of realisation that life's most important victories are won off the field. A star running back with much to learn, a younger player with much to give, and a woman with a heart for underprivileged kids are thrown together into a time of self-discovery and a new awareness of the things that matter most.

Every now & then (OverDrive audiobook), Karen Kingsbury

Alex Brady shuts out all relationships when he loses his beloved father in the Twin Towers. Will he have the courage to open his heart to love again?

Georgette Heyer's Regency world (OverDrive audiobook), Jennifer Kloester

A best-selling novelist since 1921, Georgette Heyer is known across the world for her historical romances set in Regency England. This is the ultimate definitive guide to Georgette Heyer's novels.

Team Human (OverDrive audiobook), Justine Larbalestier

The world is bigger now : an American journalist's release from captivity in North Korea : a remarkable story of faith, family, and forgiveness (OverDrive audiobook), Euna Lee with Lisa Dickey.

For the first time, the author, a young wife, mother, and film editor detained in North Korea, tells a harrowing, but ultimately inspiring, story of survival and faith in one of the most isolated parts of the world.

The haunting (OverDrive audiobook), Margaret Mahy

The family of Barney's dead mother is aware that there is something special about this particular boy. As he resigns himself to being haunted again, his sister and brother set out to discover the reason behind his supernatural attraction.

The pirates mixed up voyage (OverDrive audiobook), Margaret Mahy

This hilarious adventure story features Captain Wafer and his fellow pirates. When the pirates kidnap a famous inventor they sail into no end of trouble. Unable to read, they land at the wrong island and, realising the perils of illiteracy, enroll at the academy of the dreaded Dr Silkwood.

The constant wife (OverDrive audiobook), W Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

There's something Constance Middleton's friends are dying to tell her: her husband is having an affair - with her best friend! Despite their hints, Constance remains ever cool, and seemingly oblivious. Or is she?

Atonement (OverDrive audiobook), Ian McEwan

A story that begins with three young people in the garden of a country house on the hottest day of 1935, and ends with three profoundly changed lives. A depiction of love and war, class, childhood and England, that explores shame and forgiveness, atonement and the possibility of absolution.

Black dogs (OverDrive audiobook), Ian McEwan

Black Dogs is built around a brilliant short story, a mesmerically slow-motion encounter with two terrifying dogs by an English couple who are honeymooning just after the war in a French mountain village.

The child in time (OverDrive audiobook), Ian McEwan

A young couple have their child snatched from them and are driven apart by despair.

The innocent (OverDrive audiobook), Ian McEwan

The novel takes place in 1955-56 Berlin at the beginning of the Cold War and centres on the joint CIA/MI6 operation to build a tunnel from the American sector of Berlin into the Russian sector to tap the phone lines of the Soviet High Command.

C. S. Lewis A Life (OverDrive audiobook), Alister McGrath

Aggressor (OverDrive audiobook), Andy McNab

Ex-deniable operator Nick Stone seems to be living his dream. But when he witnesses the massacre of children in a terrorist siege the other side of the world, he finds himself catapulted into working for the American secret services.

Deep black (OverDrive audiobook), Andy McNab

Nick's future has never looked so bleak. The only person he has ever loved is dead and the only people who might give him a reason not to join her have turned their backs. Until a chance meeting with a man he saved ten years ago throws him a lifeline.

Recoil (OverDrive audiobook), Andy McNab

Recuperating in Switzerland after a job that cost the life of one of his closest friends, ex-deniable operator Nick Stone is looking for a quiet life. But, when his private life starts to disintegrate, Nick is reluctantly forced back into action. The trail leads him to Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Tumbleweeds (OverDrive audiobook), Leila Meacham

Three friends from a small Texas town that thrives on Friday night football games try to move on after a fateful event colours each of their futures.

Winnie-the-Pooh (OverDrive audiobook), A A Milne

Come with us to an enchanted place, a forest where Winnie-the-Pooh lived with Piglet, Rabbit, Owl, Eeyore, Kanga, and Little Roo. The stories are about Christopher Robin and these good companions having wonderful times getting in and out of trouble. It is all very exciting and, really, quite thrilling no matter how young or old you may be.

The secret life of William Shakespeare (OverDrive audiobook), Jude Morgan

The greatest writer of them all, brought to glorious life. How well do you know the man you love? How much do you think you know about Shakespeare? What if they were one and the same? He is an ordinary man: unwilling craftsman, ambitious actor, resentful son, almost good-enough husband. And he is also a genius.

Waiting for Anya (OverDrive audiobook), Michael Morpurgo

The Knights' Tales Collection (OverDrive audiobook), Gerald Morris

The blue boa (OverDrive audiobook), Jenny Nimmo

A dark secret is emerging from Bloor's Academy - a boy was once lost in the attics and never seen again. Charlie Bone is intrigued, but he has problems of his own. Uncle Paton has disappeared.

Leap of faith (OverDrive audiobook), Queen Noor of Jordan

The Queen of Jordan describes her youth in a privileged Arab American family, her Princeton education, and her marriage to King Hussein of Jordan, providing a portrait of their private life together and her work as a queen and activist.

12 years a slave (OverDrive audiobook), Solomon Northup

12 Years a Slave is the harrowing account of a black man, born free in New York State, who was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in 1841. Having no way to contact his family, and fearing for his life if he told the truth, Solomon Northup was sold from plantation to plantation in Louisiana, toiling under cruel masters for twelve years before meeting Samuel Bass, a Canadian who finally put him in touch with his family, and helped start the process to regain his freedom.

The key; Tone clusters (OverDrive audiobook), Joyce Carol Oates

The Key and Tone Clusters are two one-act plays by 2009 Man Booker Nominee Joyce Carol Oates.
The Key: a hilarious perverse encounter between a vacationing suburban housewife, recently separated from her husband, and a prosperous businessman.
Tone Cluster: a chilling trig-comedy that takes the form of an interview between a middle-aged, middle-class American couple and the media …

The truth teller (OverDrive audiobook), Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates' hilarious take-off on a classic Southern play begins when liberated Hedda arrives home to visit the family estate, ruled by the family's tyrannical patriarch "Tiny" Culligan. Tiny doesn't know what to make of Hedda's intellectual boyfriend, Saul. But then, Saul doesn't know what to make of Hedda's sister, the slinky Maggie, who finds Jewish professors very sexy indeed.

Oregon Hill (OverDrive audiobook), Howard Owen

Willie Black is a newspaper reporter who has squandered a lot of things in his life and is lucky to be employed. When a co-ed at the local university where Willie's daughter is a perpetual student is murdered, her headless body found along the South Anna River, the hapless alleged killer is arrested within days. But Willie, against the orders and advice of his bosses at the paper, the police, and just about everyone else, doesn't think the case is solved at all and embarks on a one-man crusade to do what he's always done: get the story.

Deadlock (OverDrive audiobook), Sara Paretsky

Deadlock, V.I. Warshawski's second case, involves the huge Great Lakes shipping industry. Once again the subject is murder - this time the "accidental death" of Boom-Boom Warshawski, an ex-hockey star and V.I.'s beloved cousin, who fell - or was pushed - off a rain-slicked pier on Chicago's busy waterfront.

Killing orders (OverDrive audiobook), Sara Paretsky

Feisty Chicago private eye Vic "V.I." Warshawski is used to getting mixed up in complicated cases, but when three million dollars in share certificates are stolen from a Dominican priory, she really doesn't want to get involved.

The big bad wolf (OverDrive audiobook), James Patterson

At the outset of his career with the FBI, Alex Cross is instructed to track down a band of kidnappers who are snatching people and possibly selling them into slavery, a case that is complicated by a terrible threat to Cross's own family.

Four blind mice (OverDrive audiobook), James Patterson

Alex Cross is ready to leave the Washington Police Force, when Samson arrives and begs him to take one last case - his best friend has been accused of an horrific triple murder. His fingerprints and DNA have been found - but Samson's friend swears he has been framed and that Alex is his only hope.

I, Michael Bennett (OverDrive audiobook), James Patterson

Bennett takes his ten kids and their beautiful nanny, Mary Catherine, out of the chaos on a much-needed vacation to upstate New York. But instead of escaping the violence, it follows them and they find themselves in the middle of another nightmare that threatens the entire family.

Kiss the girls (OverDrive audiobook), James Patterson

In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a beautiful medical intern suddenly disappears. Washington D.C.Us Alex Cross is back to solve the most baffling and terrifying murder case ever.

London bridges (OverDrive audiobook), James Patterson

Alex Cross joins forces with Scotland Yard and Interpol in pursuit of the Wolf and the Weasel.

Mary, Mary (OverDrive audiobook), James Patterson

Several high profile murders in LA have the whole district panicking. All of the victims are 'perfect' mothers, the image of motherhood. Very realistic first-person accounts of the murders from someone who calls herself Mary Smith have been arriving at the LA Times and FBI agent Alex Cross is called in to try to solve the case.

Nevermore (OverDrive audiobook), James Patterson

In the beginning, there was Maximum Ride. A girl. A fighter. A leader. A superhuman with a mission to save the world. She's gone to the ends of the earth seeking her destiny. And now, the end isn't near. It's here.

Private: #1 suspect (OverDrive audiobook), James Patterson

Since former Marine helicopter pilot Jack Morgan started Private, it has become one of the world's most powerful investigation firms, sought out by the rich and famous to discretely handle their most sensitive problems. When a former lover is found murdered in Jack's bed, he is instantly the number one suspect. While the police are investigating Jack, the mob strong arms him into recovering $30 million in stolen pharmaceuticals, and the beautiful manager of a luxury hotel chain persuades him to quietly investigate a spree of murders occurring on their properties. Fighting for his life on both sides of the law, Jack realises that he may not be able to save himself this time.

Violets are blue (OverDrive audiobook), James Patterson

The mastermind of Roses are Red is back - and on Alex Cross's trail. But Alex is also dealing with the deaths of two joggers, bitten and hung by their feet to drain their blood. Desperate to stop the killing, he teams up with Jamilla Hughes, a female detective, and the FBI's Kyle Craig.

Zoo (OverDrive audiobook), James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge.

All over the world, brutal attacks are crippling entire cities. Jackson Oz, a young biologist, watches the escalating events with an increasing sense of dread. With the help of ecologist Chloe Tousignant, Oz races to warn world leaders before it's too late. With wildly inventive imagination and white-knuckle suspense that rivals Stephen King at his very best, James Patterson's "ZOO" is an epic, non-stop thrill-ride.

Gideon's corpse (OverDrive audiobook), Douglas J Preston & Lincoln Child.

A top nuclear scientist turns homicidal, taking an innocent family hostage at gunpoint. Gideon Crew, a colleague of the scientist at Los Alamos, is called in to talk the man down. But the standoff ends in an explosion of violence. When the authorities discover the scientist's body is intensely radioactive, and that he had recently embraced Islamic extremism, all hell breaks loose.

The other side of silence (OverDrive audiobook), Bill Pronzini

Driving into Death Valley to clear his mind when his wife files for divorce, Rick Fallon saves the life of Casey Dunbar and learns about the events that drove her to despair, a story that brings him to Las Vegas on a quest to unravel the dark secrets of her life.

Die, Snow White! Die, damn you! a very Grimm tale (OverDrive audiobook), Yuri Rasovsky

At last it can be told! Was Snow White really as pure as the driven snow? Did her allegedly wicked stepmother get a bum rap from the Grimm brothers? What went on behind the closed Dutch doors of the dwarves' cottage? How many handsome princes does it take to screw in a light bulb? These and other burning questions may or may not be answered in this new pseudo-gothic audio play version of the Snow White fairy tale.

Bare bones (OverDrive audiobook), Kathy Reichs

First there's the newborn skeleton found in a wood stove. Then a pilot and passenger are found burnt, covered in a strange black substance. Most puzzling is a cache of bones, some animal, some human. All the pieces seem to lead back to an isolated farm. Can Dr Brennan decipher the clues in time?

Break no bones (OverDrive audiobook), Kathy Reichs

It's the second-to-last day of archaeological field school. Dr Temperance Brennan's students are working on a site of prehistoric graves on Dewees, a barrier island north of Charleston, South Carolina, when a decomposing body is uncovered in a shallow grave off a lonely beach. While Tempe is trying to piece together the evidence, her personal life is thrown into turmoil. But before long, another body is discovered - and Tempe finds herself drawn deeper into a shocking and chilling investigation, set to challenge her entire view of humanity.

Cross bones (OverDrive audiobook), Kathy Reichs

When an Orthodox Jew is found shot to death in Montreal, Temperance Brennan is called in to examine the body and to figure out the puzzling damage to the corpse. Unexpectedly, a stranger slips her a photograph of a skeleton and assures her the picture is the key to the victim's death. Before she knows it, Tempe is involved in an international mystery as old as Jesus, a mystery that could rewrite 2000 years of religious history.

Monday mourning (OverDrive audiobook), Kathy Reichs

Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan finds the skeletons of three young women in the basement of a pizza parlour. Homicide detective Luc Claudel believes the bones are historic. But Tempe has her doubts and sets out to prove that this is definitely a case of murder.

Absolution gap (OverDrive audiobook), Alastair Reynolds

They are ancient killing machines, designed to locate and destroy any life form reaching a certain level of intelligence. The first wave of Inhibitors has sent war veteran Clavain and a ragtag group of refugees into hiding. As she leads them to an apparently insignificant moon light-years away, it begins to dawn on Clavain and his companions that to beat one enemy, it may be necessary to forge an alliance with something much worse.

Chasm City (OverDrive audiobook), Alastair Reynolds

Redemption Ark (OverDrive audiobook), Alastair Reynolds

Revelation Space (OverDrive audiobook), Alastair Reynolds

Alone on the ice : the greatest survival story in the history of exploration (OverDrive audiobook), David Roberts

Describes the epic journey undertaken by Douglas Mawson, who suffered starvation, the loss of his team, and a crippling foot injury as he resorted to crawling back to base camp during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1913.

The Sky Beneath My Feet (OverDrive audiobook), Lisa Samson

Romeo and Juliet (OverDrive audiobook), William Shakespeare

The most iconic love story of all time, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is an epic-scale tragedy of desire and revenge. Despite the bitter rivalry that exists between their families, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet have fallen madly in love. But when the long-running rivalry boils over into murder, the young couple must embark on a dangerous and deadly mission to preserve their love at any cost.

The George Bernard Shaw collection (OverDrive audiobook), Bernard Shaw

A full cast of top L.A. talent brings to life the plays of George Bernard Shaw in this eight-part collection.

Tom-All-Alone's (OverDrive audiobook), Lynn Shepherd

London, 1850. The formidable lawyer Edward Tulkinghorn has powerful clients to protect, and a deadly secret to hide from a shadowy and unseen adversary - an adversary who must be tracked down before it's too late. Who better for such a task than young Charles Maddox? Charles is struggling to establish himself as a private detective; only business is slow.

My Hollywood (OverDrive audiobook), Mona Simpson

When composer Claire despairs of her television-writer husband's long hours and her own lack of childcare experience, she hires Lola, a Filipino mother of five who is in the U.S. to finance her children's educations back home.

Dead romantic (OverDrive audiobook), C J Skuse

Camille wants to find the perfect boy, with an athlete's body and a poet's brain, she knows there isn't a boy alive who'll ever measure up. Enter Zoe, her brilliant but strange best friend. She can create Camille's dream boy, Frankenstein-style, but can she make him love her?

The guardian (OverDrive audiobook), Nicholas Sparks

Four years after losing her husband, twenty-nine-year-old Julie Barenson considers falling in love again and wonders if she should choose sophisticated Richard, who treats her like a queen, or down-to-earth Mike, who is her best friend.

Torch (OverDrive audiobook), Cheryl Strayed

Grounded in the everyday particulars of life in a small town, leavened by earthy humour, this book presents the saga of a family coming to terms with death--a tale of love and loss, grief and redemption set in rural Minnesota

The Perfume Collector (OverDrive audiobook), Kathleen Tessaro

The Kashmir Shawl (OverDrive audiobook), Rosie Thomas

Home Run (OverDrive audiobook), Travis Thrasher

An uncertain place (OverDrive audiobook), Fred Vargas

Commissaire Adamsberg leaves Paris for a three-day conference in London, a welcome change of scenery, until a macabre and brutal case comes to the attention of their colleague Radstock from New Scotland Yard. Just outside Highgate Cemetery a pile of shoes containing severed feet is found. As Scotland Yard's investigation begins, Adamsberg and his colleagues return home to be drawn into a trail of vampires and vampire-hunters that leads them all the way to Serbia, a place where the old certainties no longer apply.

The child's child (OverDrive audiobook), Barbara Vine

When their grandmother dies, Grace and Andrew Easton inherit her sprawling, book-filled London home, Dinmont House. Rather than sell it, the adult siblings move in together,the arrangement is unusual, but ideal for the affectionate pair until the day Andrew brings home a new boyfriend. When he and Andrew witness their friend's murder outside a London nightclub, James begins to unravel, and what happens next will change the lives of everyone in the house.

The enchanted April (OverDrive audiobook), Elizabeth Von Arnim

A discreet advertisement in 'The Times', addressed to 'Those who Apppreciate Wisteria and Sunshine…' is the impetus for a revelatory month for four very different women. Lulled by the Mediterranean spirit, they gradually shed their skins and discover a harmony each of them has longed for but never known.

Black diamond (OverDrive audiobook), Martin Walker

France's Perigord region is the home of the exquisite black truffle, and at five thousand euros a kilo, it's a treasured local asset. In St Denis market, a Vietnamese family's popular stall is overturned and wrecked by attackers who look Chinese. When brutal murder is added to the mix, Bruno has his work cut out to find the connection between present and long buried crimes that are linked to France's colonial past.

Bruno, chief of police (OverDrive audiobook), Martin Walker

When an old North African man is found viciously murdered - a swastika carved in his chest - the obvious conclusion is that the killing must be racist. But Captain Bruno Courreges isn't convinced, and suspects it may have its roots in that most tortured period of French history - the Second World War.

The crowded grave (OverDrive audiobook), Martin Walker

The dark vineyard (OverDrive audiobook), Martin Walker

When the arson of a large barn and the fields surrounding it is followed by the arrival of a wine mogul from California with plans to create an industrial-scale wine-producing operation it appears that someone is determined to stop the scheme and is prepared to go to any lengths - including murder - to do so. Bruno must use all his skills, tact and local knowledge to negotiate a minefield in order to reach the truth.

The dark room (OverDrive audiobook), Minette Walters

Jane (Jinx) Kingsley, fashion photographer and heiress, tries to kill herself after being unceremoniously jilted by her fiance, Leo Wallader. With the help of Dr Alan Protheroe of the Nightingale Clinic, Jinx slowly begins to unlock her nightmares and piece together the fragments of the last few weeks. The truth about what happened to her lies deep within her mind. But what other terrifying memories is she about to disturb?

The echo (OverDrive audiobook), Minette Walters

When Billy Blake, a homeless alcoholic, turns up dead from starvation in the garage of wealthy Amanda Powell, Amanda, obsessed with her dead visitor, joins forces with cynical reporter Michael Deacon to uncover the truth.

The ice house (OverDrive audiobook), Minette Walters

'It was evident, if there were no other entrance to the ice house, that the body had at some point traversed this thorny barrier …The big question was, how long ago? How long had that nightmare been there?' The people of Streech village had never trusted the three women living up at the Grange not since Phoebe Maybury's husband suddenly, inexplicably, vanished. Ten years later a corpse is discovered in the grounds and Phoebe's nightmare begins. For once they have identified the body the police are determined to charge her with murder.

The scold's bridle (OverDrive audiobook), Minette Walters

An old woman is found dead in her bath, her wrists slashed: an apparent suicide. But she is wearing a scold's bridle on her head, adorned with a crown of nettles. What could have driven her to such a desperate act? Then rumours start to spread that her death wasn't suicide but murder.

The sculptress (OverDrive audiobook), Minette Walters

The facts of the case were simple: Olive Martin had pleaded guilty to killing and dismembering her sister and mother, earning herself the chilling nickname 'The Sculptress'. This much journalist Rosalind Leigh knew before her first meeting with Olive, currently serving a life sentence. How could Roz have foreseen that the encounter was destined to change her life for ever?

Not that sort of girl (OverDrive audiobook), Mary Wesley

To Ned Rose was a perfect wife, mother of his son and elegant hostess of Slepe. To Mylo, Rose was an impetuous and unconventional mistress, answering his erratic and impassionate calls throughout fifty years of tactful duplicity. After Ned's funeral Rose looks back on a life of dual constancy, passion, humour, and the ambiguities of love - and chooses her future.

Video Rose (OverDrive audiobook), Jacqueline Wilson

Rose loves watching videos and sits in front of the telly all the time. So when the video player breaks, it's a total nightmare! But then a very mysterious repair man comes to fix it. He gives Rose the power to forward and rewind her life and then Rose sees what really happens to someone who spends all their time in front of the TV.

Healing hearts (OverDrive audiobook), Beth Wiseman

Three hope-filled stories about second chances, trusting your heart, and the power of forgiveness.

His love endures forever (OverDrive audiobook), Beth Wiseman

Danielle Kent is 18, pregnant, and hopes that the child's father, Aaron Lapp, will marry her and provide the life she's always dreamed of. But Aaron tells Danielle that he doesn't love her, a wife and baby don't fit into his plans.

Plain paradise (OverDrive audiobook), Beth Wiseman

Josephine Dronberger was a scared teenager when she left her baby in the care of an Old Order Amish couple. But seventeen years have passed and Josie longs to reconnect with her daughter Linda. When her birth mother comes to Paradise, Linda is drawn to a world she's never known. Will the direction she's been heading since birth be suddenly derailed, and who will stand by her convictions - mother or daughter?

Plain perfect (OverDrive audiobook), Beth Wiseman

On the rolling plains of Lancaster County, PA., Lillian Miller is searching for her grandparents' house…and so much more. After years of neglect and abuse, she's turning to a lifestyle of simplicity among the Amish to find herself. Will Lillian find her faith in plain living, or will she be forced to return to her former life?

Plain promise (OverDrive audiobook), Beth Wiseman

When wealthy Englischer Kade Saunders rents her guest cottage for a month, Sadie's world is turned upside-down. Kade has a five-year old autistic son who is unexpectedly left in his permanent care. As Sadie's feelings for the child grow, so do her feelings for Kade. But is this man suitable for anything more than friendship?

Plain proposal (OverDrive audiobook), Beth Wiseman

Miriam Raber enjoys life in her Amish community, and she is hopeful that Saul Fisher will propose to her soon. But when Saul starts talking about leaving, Miriam imagines what her life might look like as an Englischer. One thing she knows for certain, she loves Saul and feels he's the one God has chosen for her.

Plain pursuit (OverDrive audiobook), Beth Wiseman

Carley Marek takes a hiatus from her job to visit a friend in Amish country, Pennsylvania. When her time is up, Carley must make a life-changing decision: stay and face the path that is set before her, or flee and leave the only love she's ever known.

Back to blood (OverDrive audiobook), Tom Wolfe

As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay with officer Nestor Camacho on board Tom Wolfe is off and running. Into the feverous landscape of the city, he introduces the Cuban mayor, the black police chief, an ambitious young journalist and his Yale-marinated editor; a psychiatrist who specialises in sex addiction and his Latina nurse by day, mistress by night until lately, the love of Nestor's life; a refined, and oh-so-light-skinned young woman from Haiti and her Creole-spouting, black-gang-banger-stylin' little brother; a billionaire porn addict, crack dealers in the 'hoods, 'de-skilled' conceptual artists at the Miami Art Basel Fair, 'spectators' at the annual Biscayne Bay regatta looking only for that night's orgy, and a nest of shady Russians.

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21st century houses : 150 of the world's best (OverDrive e-book), [editor], Robyn Beaver.

This book offers a bumper selection of outstanding contemporary designs in gorgeous, glossy colour spreads.

100 of the world's best houses (OverDrive e-book)

365 golf tips and tricks from the pros (OverDrive e-book), edited by Jay Morelli.

This handy, illustrated guide contains the very best advice from more than 60 PGA teaching pros, compiled by a PGA Teacher of the Year.

Another 100 of the world's best houses (OverDrive e-book), [editor], Robyn Beaver.

Designed by some the world's leading architects, the homes featured in this visually spectacular title are works of art, as beautiful as they are innovative.

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Holiday magic (OverDrive e-book), Fern Michaels … [et al.].

A collection of four Christmas romance stories includes Fern Michaels' "Holiday Magic," in which ski shop manager Stephanie Marshall gets an unexpected Christmas bonus in the form of her handsome boss, Eddie O'Brien.

New Zealand's Great War: New Zealand, the Allies and the First World War (OverDrive e-book), edited by John Crawford and Ian McGibbon.

This book is a collection of essays arising out of the 'Zealandia's Great War' conference organised by the New Zealand Military History Committee in November 2003. Subjects include the Pioneer Maori Battalion, women who opposed the war, the early years of the RSA, Gallipoli, the infantry on the Somme, New Zealand's involvement in the naval war, prostitution and the New Zealand soldier, the Home Defence, religion in the First World War, and the Armistice.

Springsteen on Springsteen : interviews, speeches, and encounters (OverDrive e-book), edited by Jeff Burger.

The only book to present Bruce Springsteen's story in his own words. Included are feature interviews with well-known media figures, including Charlie Rose, Ted Koppel, Brian Williams, Nick Hornby, and Ed Norton. Fans will also discover hidden gems from small and international outlets, in addition to radio and TV interviews that have not previously appeared in print.

Purple hibiscus (OverDrive e-book), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

In the city of Enugu, Nigeria, fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother, Jaja, lead a privileged life. But, as Kambili reveals in her tender-voiced account, their home life is anything but harmonious. When Kambili's loving and outspoken Aunty Ifeoma persuades her brother that the children should visit her in Nsukka, Kambili and Jaja take their first trip away from home. Once inside their Aunty Ifeoma's flat, they discover a whole new world.

One hundred names (OverDrive e-book), Cecelia Ahern

Journalist Kitty Logan's career has been destroyed by scandal, and she now faces losing the woman who guided her and taught her everything she knew. With everything to prove, Kitty is assigned the most important task of her life - to write the story her mentor never had the opportunity to.

Dancing to the flute (OverDrive e-book), Manisha Jolie Amin

Abandoned as a young child, Kalu, a cheeky street kid, has against all odds carved out a life for himself in rural India. Perched high in the branches of a banyan tree, Kalu chooses a leaf, rolls it tightly and, doing what he's done for as long as he can remember, blows through it. His pure simple notes dance through the air attracting a travelling healer whose interest will change Kalu's life forever, setting him on a path he would never have dreamed possible, testing his self-belief and his friendships.

Shotgun City : Melbourne's gangland killings (OverDrive e-book), Paul Anderson

The execution of self-styled gangster Alphonse Gangitano in January 1998 sparked a deadly chain-reaction that has so far led to the deaths of a further 26 people and shows no sign of relenting.

Super splosh (OverDrive e-book), Scoular Anderson

Freddy Frogpurse has come to his Great Uncle Sneezer's house to learn how to be a wizard. His house dragon, Odds and Ends, nags at him to practise more, but Freddy just wants to have fun and eat Tingle Toast. Then an envelope arrives from the Inspector of Wizards. Freddy has his first test and it's tomorrow!

The Clumsies make a mess of the airport (OverDrive e-book), Sorrel Anderson

More sparklingly funny adventures about the much-loved talking mice that live under Howard's desk, eat his biscuits, try and help him out, but only ever end up making a mess. This time they are at the airport, but a mix up at security sees the Clumsies end up in the wrong suitcase and running amok in Departures

Floundering (OverDrive e-book), Romy Ash

Tom and Jordy have been living with their gran since the day their mother, Loretta, left them on her doorstep and disappeared. Now Loretta's returned, and she wants her boys back. Tom and Jordy hit the road with Loretta in her beat-up car. The family of three journeys across the country, squabbling, bonding, searching and reconnecting. This beautifully written and gripping debut is as moving as it is frightening, and as heartbreaking as it is tender.

Poison tree (OverDrive e-book), Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Alysia has quickly moved to a position of responsibility in SingleEarth, working among shapeshifters and witches who fight against vampires, but she is hiding secret alliances that could put her fellow mediators at risk.

Promises to keep (OverDrive e-book), Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Jay Marinitch, a young vampire hunter, may be Earth's best hope for thwarting the rise of a vampire-controlled slave empire called Midnight, despite his fear that those who question his worth may be right.

The harmony silk factory (OverDrive e-book), Tash Aw

Set in Malaysia in the 1930s and 40s, with the rumbling of the Second World War in the background and the Japanese about to invade, The Harmony Silk Factory is the story of four people who journey into the jungle which has a devastating effect on all of them, and brilliantly exposes the cultural tensions of the era.

Over the rainbow (OverDrive e-book), Meredith Badger

Elly's grandmother whisks her away from the human school she was attending and enrolls her in a prestigious fairy academy in the capital of Fairydom, Rainbowville, where Elly discovers that she might not hate being a fairy, after all.

Undercover (OverDrive e-book), Meredith Badger

Every time Elly goes to a new fairy school, it ends in disaster, but this week, Elly is going undercover at her friend Jess's South Street School. Human school should be a piece of cake: no spells, no flying, just normal human stuff. But Elly's fairy blunders make her feel like she's been living under a toadstool.

Friends and rivals (OverDrive e-book), Tilly Bagshawe

For everyone who loves Jilly Cooper, Penny Vincenzi, Tasmina Perry and Louise Bagshawe. As three women try to navigate a backstabbing world of infamy, desire and fortune, will they be tempted to betray the people they hold dearest?

Shift (OverDrive e-book), Em Bailey

As Miranda emerges from the shadows, Olive begins to realise something sinister going is on. Something almost…parasitic. Either Olive is losing her grip on reality, or those crazy rumours are true. Maybe Miranda is a killer. But who would believe Olive? She does have a habit of letting her imagination run away with her… Shift is a sinister psychological thriller that tears through the themes of identity, loss and toxic friendship.

The Baker Street Boys (OverDrive e-book), Brian Ball

If Mr. Sherlock Holmes had been in the country when the Baker Street Irregulars stumbled across the mystery of the Captive Clairvoyant, then no doubt he would have given immediate assistance. It all began - and ended - in Trump's Music Hall, the theatre where Sparrow was employed, where the star of the show was The Amazing Marvin, Hypnotist Extraordinaire and Mentalist Supreme! But Marvin had a secret and sinister agenda….

Remembering Lionsville (OverDrive e-book), Bronwyn Bancroft

Renowned artist Bronwyn Bancroft tells her inspiring story of growing up in country New South Wales. A unique picture book for the whole family.

Shining hero (OverDrive e-book), Sara Banerji

In Calcutta, a baby is discovered by Dolly, who is desperate for a child. She brings him up as her son, calling him Karna. But the events which see his good fortune turn to tragedy have already begun, so that years later, he's forced to seek out his mother Koonty, now married and with her own son.

Blood Loss (OverDrive e-book), Alex Barclay

The sugar girls : tales of hardship, love and happiness in Tate & Lyle's East End factories (OverDrive e-book), Duncan Barrett & Nuala Calvi.

In the years leading up to and after the Second World War thousands of women left school at fourteen to work in the bustling factories of London's East End. The work was back-breakingly hard, but Tate & Lyle was more than just a factory, it was a community, a calling, a place of love and support and an uproarious, tribal part of the East End. Tales of adversity, resilience and youthful high spirits are woven together to provide a moving insight into a lost way of life, as well as a timeless testament to the experience of being young and female.

The feast of love (OverDrive e-book), Charles Baxter

In vignettes, both comic and sexy, this novel, set in a coffee shop, delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people.

Traces (OverDrive e-book), Stephen Baxter

Stories set in a variety of futures from the award-winning author. What if Germany had won World War I. What if Archimedes had been right to his clock-work-like cosmological vision?

Only in Spain (OverDrive e-book), Nellie Bennett

A foot-stamping, full-on firecracker of a travel memoir, crackling with energy, dance, gypsies, love, food and the occasional donkey.

The Berenstain Bears' trouble with money (OverDrive e-book), Stan & Jan Berenstain.

Brother and Sister Bear learn some important lessons about earning and spending money.

Under the walnut tree (OverDrive e-book), Anna Bergenstrom, Fanny Bergenstrom.

Under the Walnut Tree is an inspiring cookbook by mother and daughter team, Anna and Fanny Bergenstrom. Combining international and Scandinavian flavours, recipes are organised by ingredient, such as coconut, ginger, chillies, chocolate and vanilla.

The unfinished journals of Elizabeth D (OverDrive e-book), Nichole Bernier

Summer vacation on Great Rock Island was supposed to be a restorative time for Kate, who'd lost her close friend Elizabeth in a sudden accident. But when she inherits a trunk of Elizabeth's journals, they reveal a woman far different than the cheerful wife and mother Kate thought she knew. Set in the anxious summer after the September 11th attacks, this story of two women-their friendship, their marriages, private ambitions and fears - considers the aspects of ourselves we show and those we conceal, and the repercussions of our choices.

Final grave (OverDrive e-book), Nadja Bernitt

For Meri Ann Fehr, a detective with Florida's Sarasota Sheriff's Office, the troubling discovery of bones on a high plateau in Boise, Idaho could not have come at a worse time. Eager to finally resolve the fifteen-year-old mystery of her mother's disappearance, she feels compelled to see the bones and visit the scene of their discovery. But leaving Florida and missing an important meeting with the Sheriff places her career in jeopardy.

Love your life (OverDrive e-book), Domonique Bertolucci

From the author of "The Happiness Code", Domonique Bertolucci, comes a new book Love Your Life showcasing a collection of uplifting messages that will inspire you to discover your inner (and lasting) happiness.

Breathe (OverDrive e-book), Kate Bishop

Alex thought she had married the man of her dreams: successful, gorgeous, and delighted by her small-town charm. When he walks out six months later, proclaiming to have "found himself" (with the help of a stunning yoga teacher), she "finds herself" alone in an unfamiliar city, vengefully drinking through his prized wine collection, living on takeout, and refusing to answer the door.

Betrayal in the Tudor Court (OverDrive e-book), Darcey Bonnette

Orphaned at the age of eight, Lady Cecily Burkhart becomes the ward of a rich and prestigious family. Welcomed as one of their own, Cecily is nurtured and loved by Lord Hal and his wife Lady Grace. As the years pass the family's devout daughter, Mirabella, becomes increasingly consumed by her religious vocation. But when Henry VIII's reign of terror begins to spread throughout England, Mirabella's monastic life is ripped from her. As her life is torn apart, the true reason for her religious fervour becomes clear -- her forbidden love for the family's priest and tutor, Father Alec. As the family falls apart, Cecily must hold them together. But a dangerous mutual attraction between her and Father Alec begins to grow. Plagued with jealousy, Mirabella unleashes a tumultuous chain of events that threatens to destroy everyone around her, especially Cecily.

Blood on the Tongue (OverDrive e-book), Stephen Booth

Dancing With the Virgins (OverDrive e-book), Stephen Booth

All this could end (OverDrive e-book), Steph Bowe

What's the craziest thing your mum has asked you to do? Nina doesn't have a conventional family. Her family robs banks - even she and her twelve-year-old brother Tom are in on the act now. Sophia, Nina's mother, keeps chasing the thrill: 'Anyway, their money's insured!' she says. After yet another move and another new school, Nina is fed up and wants things to change.

5-minute NLP (OverDrive e-book), Carolyn Boyes

Practise the skills and techniques of neuro-linguistic programming in just five minutes a day with this handy, portable guide. The principles of NLP can seem daunting and the jargon can be hard to decipher - what is meant by rapport, changing emotional states, modelling, the conscious and unconscious? This book unpicks the jargon and makes the subject accessible for both novices and experienced NLP enthusiasts alike.

For hire (OverDrive e-book), Luke Bradbury

What does a London based gigolo do when his worlds start to collide? Can he relinquish the glamour and wealth of escorting for the chance of a more stable lifestyle? Or does Luke enjoy his job more than he cares to admit - even to himself?

Write that memoir right now : forget "someday", start today! (OverDrive e-book), Kim Brittingham

Memoirist, blogger, and writing teacher Kim Brittingham shares her insight into getting started with your writing and crafting your memoir. Begin with the basic questions every writer should ask, such as why do you want to write a memoir; what story do you want to tell; what form should your story take; who is the audience; and most importantly, why does anyone care?

Hidden treasures (OverDrive e-book), Fern Britton

Fern's warmth, insight and humour combine to deliver a hugely enjoyable novel that will speak to women everywhere.

Deep betrayal (OverDrive e-book), Anne Greenwood Brown

As dead bodies start washing ashore, Lily and Calder realise someone's on a killing spree - and they fear it's either Calder's mermaid sisters or Lily's father.

The firstborn (OverDrive e-book), Conlan Brown

It took two thousand years to bring the Firstborn together. It will only take a moment…to tear them apart. Hannah Rice, John Temple, and Devin Bathurst return in this adrenaline-packed sequel to The Firstborn as they are hurled into a dark world of human trafficking, shadowy government agencies, assassination, and a race against time to save everything they believe in.

The overseer (OverDrive e-book), Conlan Brown

Torn between the call to rescue three innocent teenage girls abducted into sexual slavery, preventing the racially motivated assassination of a prominent American politician, and dealing with the wild warnings of an elusive and mysterious prophet, all eyes turn to the Overseer - and the struggle over who will control the fate of the Firstborn.

59 minutes (OverDrive e-book), Gordon (Gordon J ) Brown

When it comes to revenge - timing is everything. Enter the world of a Glasgow criminal as he rises to become one of the most powerful crime lords in the UK, only to have it all ripped away from him. Imprisoned, then reduced to a life on the street, he becomes hell bent on vengence.

Falling (OverDrive e-book), Gordon (Gordon J ) Brown

Charlie Wiggs is a quiet, unassuming accountant who has worked in a Glasgow firm for thirty years. When he agreed to look after a package for a work colleague he didn't expect to be flung from the roof of a forty storey building. Forced to flee for his life Charlie is reluctantly joined by George, a maintenance man and George's girlfriend Tina. The trio find themselves falling into a world that they are ill equipped to deal with.

Shot, boom, score! (OverDrive e-book), Justin Brown

An hilarious story about a boy who is promised a Gamebox V3 by his dad if he scores 20 wickets in cricket and 10 tries in rugby, but is foiled at every turn by the class bully.

Betsy's return (OverDrive e-book), Wanda E. Brunstetter

Relive the glory of a Pennsylvania canal town through the eyes of those who ministered to the needs of the workers. Betsy Nelson reluctantly returns to her childhood home to care for her failing father, a faithful minister who served the town for years. William Covington, a confirmed bachelor, comes to town to become the new pastor and set aside the luxuries of his birth for service to God. Can Betsy and William find common ground on which to work together for the better of the townspeople?

Sarah's Choice (OverDrive e-book), Wanda E Brunstetter

Widowed Sarah Turner has her hands full, raising three young children, tending the lock on the canal, baking bread, and washing clothes for boatmen. Yet she didn't count on meeting Captain Elias Brooks. Will she follow her heart where it leads or accept the proposal of a handsome land-loving blacksmith?

Invisible (OverDrive e-book), Jonathan Buckley

Edward Morton, a blind translator, arrives at the Oak, an ailing spa hotel in the west of England, intending to stay for a few days to visit his family and to work. Spanning the last three weeks of the Oak's existence, Invisible explores multiple voices - voices in conversation, voices in writing, on tape, in memory. It's an investigation of our perception of the world and our place in it, of the pleasures and deceptions of the senses, of the uses of language, of the lure of nostalgia and the difficulties of living in the present.

Never tell (OverDrive e-book), Alafair Burke

While investigating the suicide of sixteen-year-old Julia Whitmire, whose famous parents believe that she was murdered, NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher discovers that Julia was engaged in a dangerous game of cyberbullying against an unlikely victim.

Nest : the art of birds (OverDrive e-book), Janine Burke

We tend to take birds for granted, in the landscape or in our neighbourhoods. The presence of birds communicates the health of a place. When they're gone, it's as though there's a hole in the sky, in the air, an absence of beauty and grace, and vivid chatter or haunting cries are replaced with eerie silence. As an amateur naturalist and nature lover, Janine Burke, has spent many years observing birds. Nest: The Art of Birds is the story of her passion, a personal, wide-ranging and intimate book part natural history, part folklore, part exploration of art and aesthetics, part memoir that will appeal to all those who love nature, literature and art.

The antidote (OverDrive e-book), Oliver Burkeman

In an approach that turns decades of self-help advice on its head, Oliver Burkeman explains why positive thinking serves only to make us more miserable, and why 'getting motivated' can exacerbate procrastination. Hilarious and compulsively readable, The Antidote will have you on the road to happiness in no time.

First ladies (OverDrive e-book), Kay Burley

What happens when the power of love challenges the love of power? Three ambitious women vie for PM Julian Jenson and only one can emerge as the First Lady.

The Carrie diaries (OverDrive e-book), Candace Bushnell

Before Sex and the City, Carrie Bradshaw was a small town girl who knew she wanted more. She's ready for real life to start, but first she must navigate her senior year of high school.

Summer in Enchantia (OverDrive e-book), Darcey Bussell

Prima Ballerina Darcey Bussell takes you on a captivating journey to a faraway land of ballet and magic, in this summer reading special story.

Delphie and the Magic Ballet Shoes (OverDrive e-book), Darcey Bussell

Delphie and the Magic Spell (OverDrive e-book), Darcey Bussell

Insatiable (OverDrive e-book), Meg Cabot

Meena Harper, forced to write about vampires even though she doesn't believe in them, falls in love with Lucien Antonescu, a modern-day prince with a bit of a dark side.

Be the best at what matters most (OverDrive e-book), Joe Calloway

Winners in business aren't the ones who do the most things; the winners are the ones who do the most important things. This is about substance, not flash, and the ultimate "wow" factors of high quality performance, consistency and relentless improvement.

Blood diamonds : tracing the deadly path of the world's most precious stones (OverDrive e-book), Greg Campbell

Blood Diamonds is the gripping story of how diamond smuggling works, how the rebel war has effectively destroyed Sierra Leone and its people, and how the policies of the diamond industry - institutionalised in the 1880s by the De Beers Cartel - have allowed it to happen. Award-winning journalist Greg Campbell traces the deadly trail of these diamonds and the repercussions felt far beyond the poor and war-ridden country of Sierra Leone.

The gossamer cord (OverDrive e-book), Philippa Carr

Violetta Denver and her twin sister Dorabella are inseparable - until Dorabella falls in love with Dermot Tregarland. The newlyweds settle in Dermot's isolated ancestral home along the Cornish coast, but Violetta can't shake the terrible foreboding she's felt since her sister's marriage. When death claims another victim, Violetta knows the answer lies in the history of the Tregarlands - and a haunting legacy of madness and bad blood.

Me and you (OverDrive e-book), Claudia Carroll

Heartbreaking and uplifting, Me and You is a story about how hard it is to leave our old selves behind, the tough choices we sometimes have to make and how love and friendship can heal the most damaged of hearts.

A very accidental love story (OverDrive e-book), Claudia Carroll

An original, funny and poignant story about those things in life that you just can't plan for.

Judas kisses : a true story of betrayal and survival (OverDrive e-book), Donna Carson with Debbie Ritchie.

On Good Friday 1994, Donna Carson was beaten, doused in petrol, and set alight by her partner. She suffered first-degree burns to 65 per cent of her body and spent the next six months in hospital. Throughout, what kept her alive was the thought of her two young sons. But while she recuperated social services stepped in and took them away.

The Selection (OverDrive e-book), Kiera Cass

It's the chance of a lifetime and 17-year-old America Singer has been chosen for The Selection, a reality TV lottery in which the special few compete for gorgeous Prince Maxon's love. Rivalry within The Selection is fierce and not all of the girls are prepared to play by the rules. But what they don't know is that America has a secret - one which could throw the whole competition… and change her life forever.

Hannah and Emil (OverDrive e-book), Belinda Castles

Emil, a German veteran of the Great War, has returned home to a disturbed nation. Hannah, soaked in the many languages of her upbringing as a Russian Jew in the West End of London and intent on experiencing the world, leaves home for Europe, travelling into a continent headed again towards total war. Hannah and Emil is a moving love story riven by the powerful currents of history - an inspiring story of courage, conviction, and love.

Dance-off! (OverDrive e-book), Harriet Castor

The belly fat diet (OverDrive e-book), John Chatham

Achieving a flat stomach is not about doing hundreds of crunches or worrying about how much you eat; it's about what you eat. The Belly Fat Diet teaches you how to eat more and weigh less, so there's no need to ever go hungry.

The belly fat diet cookbook (OverDrive e-book), John Chatham

Achieving a flat stomach is not about doing hundreds of crunches or worrying about how much you eat; it's about what you eat. The Belly Fat Diet Cookbook provides 105 delicious recipes and teaches you how to eat more, weigh less, and achieve a flat belly.

The case of the middle-aged wife (OverDrive e-book), Agatha Christie

Maria Packington suspects her husband of having an affair. In an attempt to revitalise her marriage, she responds to an advert from Mr Parker Pyne -- who promises to provide solutions to unhappiness. Maria's life soon undergoes a rapid transformation…

Four-and-twenty blackbirds (OverDrive e-book), Agatha Christie

Hercule Poirot is about to tuck into a very traditional English supper with his old friend Bonnington, when the habit and ritual of a lone diner sparks his interest more than the chestnut turkey. The lone diner has eaten there on Thursdays and Tuesdays for the last ten years like clockwork, but, no one at the restaurant even knows his name. However, 'Old Father Time,' as they have fondly nicknamed him, suddenly stops coming and Poirot believes that he might have picked up that one essential clue that could shed light on a man who no one really knows. Could what Old Father Time strangely ordered as his final meal prove to be the only thing that makes this suspicious?

Why the Chinese don't count calories (OverDrive e-book), Lorraine Clissold

Unlike many in the West, the Chinese see food not as a chore to prepare and source of unwanted calories, but as a health-giving pleasure. In 15 short, captivating chapters, Lorraine Clissold explains why the Chinese can eat as much as they wants without worrying about their weight.

World War One (OverDrive e-book), Rupert Colley

World War One gives a clear overview of the road to war, the major turning points and battles, and the key leaders involved, as well as the lasting impact the Great War had on almost every country in the world.

The winter hero (OverDrive e-book), James Lincoln Collier

Anxious to be a hero, a young boy relates how he becomes involved in Shays' Rebellion begun by farmers in western Massachusetts against unfair taxation levied on them by the Boston government.

The man in the white suit : the Stig, Le Mans, the fast lane and me (OverDrive e-book), Ben Collins

The Stig gets his kit off and reveals how he came to be Top Gear's iconic racing driver and so much more - including what it's like to thrash an Aston Martin DBS, train for the Army and face the terror of Jeremy Clarkson's underwear! It's an awesome story, told by an amazing man.

Not that tutu! (OverDrive e-book), Michelle Sinclair Colman

Taylor loved her tutu and wore it all the time, day and night. She wore it to school and she wore it in the pool, much to the mild annoyance and amusement of her friends and family. Will she ever give up that tutu?

My family feast (OverDrive e-book), Sean Connolly

Part cultural profile and part cooking show, in each episode Australians with diverse ethnic backgrounds invite Sean into their homes, introduce him to their families, share cultural traditions and teach both Sean and the audience how to cook a family feast with recipes and techniques that have been lovingly passed from generation to generation.

1356 (OverDrive e-book), Bernard Cornwell

Go with God and Fight Like the Devil. A fascinating hero and the pursuit of a sword with mythical power - this is the remarkable new novel by Britain's master storyteller, which culminates at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356.

Sharpe's revenge, Waterloo, Devil (OverDrive e-book), Bernard Cornwell

Three classic Richard Sharpe adventures.

Comeback (OverDrive e-book), Peter Corris

Cliff Hardy has his PI licence back - but does he still have what it takes to cut it on the mean streets of Sydney? Cliff reckons the skills are still there, if a little rusty, and actor Bobby Forrest's case looks promising. Bobby's a nice-enough guy, but why is he being stalked by a red-hot brunette? And why did he have to go online to find a date?

Deal me out (OverDrive e-book), Peter Corris

The Dunbar case (OverDrive e-book), Peter Corris

This wasn't Hardy's usual brief - uncover the mysteries of a nineteenth-century shipwreck - but he could do with an easy case and the retainer was generous. But is it ever that simple? The body count mounts up as he pushes closer to the truth about the mystery and the loot.

The dying trade (OverDrive e-book), Peter Corris

Meet Cliff Hardy. Smoker, drinker, ex-boxer. And private investigator. When the wealthy Bryn Gutteridge hires Hardy to help his sister, it looks as if blackmail is the problem until the case becomes more brutal, twisted and shocking than even Hardy could have guessed.

Taking care of business (OverDrive e-book), Peter Corris

Private investigator Cliff Hardy is no financial genius, but in this collection of hard-boiled detective stories he pursues white-collar criminals with the same doggedness he applies to his more downmarket villains.

The quantum universe : everything that can happen does happen (OverDrive e-book), Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw.

The bizarre behaviour of the atoms and energy that make up the universe has lead to some woolly pronouncements on the nature of all interconnectedness - but Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw reveal the simple and understandable theories that allow for concrete, yet astonishing, predictions about the world around us. From entangled twins to the incredible double-slit experiment, The Quantum Universe will give every reader the most up-to-date picture of that amazing subatomic world, where thousands of years of physics must be rewritten completely.

Why does E=mcp²: (and why should we care?) (OverDrive e-book), Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw.

Dr. Brian Cox and Professor Jeff Forshaw go on a journey to the frontier of twenty-first century science to unpack Einstein’s famous equation. A collaboration between one of the youngest professors in the United Kingdom and a distinguished popular physicist, Why Does E=mc2? is one of the most exciting and accessible explanations of the theory of relativity.

Journey's end (OverDrive e-book), Josephine Cox

Following the fortunes of the much-loved characters from "The Journey", the author's novel spans continents, decades and generations of one family.

Lovers and liars (OverDrive e-book), Josephine Cox

Denied the man she loves and dominated by a brutal uncle, Emmie is devastated when her father's farmhand rapes her. A baby is born and as she grows, Emmie's tormentor is drawn to her daughter in a sinister way. Years pass and as news of the man she loves reaches her, it sends her in search of him.

The Godzone dictionary of favourite New Zealand words and phrases (OverDrive e-book), Max Cryer

The Godzone Dictionary is a concise A-Z of the words and phrases that make our New Zealand language and speech patterns so distinctive and individual, from Aotearoa and Avondale spiders to Zambuck and Zespri.

Party time (OverDrive e-book), Fiona Cummings

Planning an extra-special sleepover for the school holidays, the Sleepover Club friends are banned from sleepovers after a class play disaster results in Kenny getting into a fight, a situation that compels the girls to work together to save their club.

Hippo says "Excuse me" (OverDrive e-book), Michael Dahl

Hippo demonstrates his good manners as he makes his way in crowded situations.

Mouse says "Sorry" (OverDrive e-book), Michael Dahl

As mouse rushes home to dinner, he apologizes for tracking mud everywhere he goes.

Penguin says "Please" (OverDrive e-book), Michael Dahl

Penguin learns to use good manners when asking for something.

Bear says "Thank you" (OverDrive e-book), Michael Dahl

Bear uses his manners while working on a craft project for his mom.

Sri Lankan flavours (OverDrive e-book), Channa Dassanayaka

Eat as the Sri Lankans do combining a mixture of curries - lamb with coriander, hot fish, cauliflower, cashew and green pea, mango or mustard potatoes - with some sambols - coconut and tamarind, caramelized onion with dried fish and spices, date chutney or tomato and lime pickles. A stunning mix of travelogue and food, Sri Lankan Flavours celebrates the food and traditions of this exotic island.

A thousand days in Tuscany : a bittersweet adventure (OverDrive e-book), Marlena De Blasi

On a forgotten patch of earth where Tuscany, Umbria and Lazio collide, Marlena de Blasi settles with her Venetian husband, Fernando, in search of a new life. The routines they establish are not that different from those of villagers centuries earlier: waking at dawn to harvest grapes, gather chestnuts, forage for wild mushrooms. Yet it is the friendship of the mesmeric Barlozzo, a self-styled village chieftain of sorts, that leads them deep into the heart of Tuscany.

Yesterday's spy (OverDrive e-book), Len Deighton

Sinister rumours link clandestine Arab arms dealing with the man who led the old anti-Nazi Guernica network. It's time to re-open the master file on yesterday's spy.

The lost diary of Annie Oakley's Wild West stagehand (OverDrive e-book), Clive Dickinson

Annie Oakley's rags-to-riches story is engaging and exciting. Her name is closely linked with other celebrities of the Old West most notably Buffalo Bill and the great leader of the Sioux nation, Chief Sitting Bull who adopted her as his daughter into the Sioux nation and gave her the nickname Little Sureshot. A role-model for young women in the American West she was also widely admired by boys and young men for her shooting skills.

The lost diary of Tutankhamun's mummy (OverDrive e-book), Clive Dickinson

Newly discovered diaries and postcards from Ancient Egypt reveal that King Tutankhamun was a bit of a "mummy's" boy - but what can you expect from a nine-year-old ruler with a mother like Nefertidy! Astonishing details of life in Ancient Egypt are revealed from a completely different perspective.

When I fall in love (OverDrive e-book), Miranda Dickinson

Elsie Maynard has a whole new life she never expected to have. From inadvertently founding a choir like no other with former 80s rock star Woody Jensen, to daring to date again, Elsie steps out into an unknown future - a future that could include gorgeous designer Olly Hogarth, a man who seems intent on winning her heart.

The shell collector : stories (OverDrive e-book), Anthony Doerr

In this debut collection, Anthony Doerr takes readers from the African coast to the suburbs of Ohio, from sideshow pageantry to harsh wilderness survival, charting a vast and varied emotional landscape. Like the best storytellers, Doerr explores the human condition in all its manifestations: metamorphosis, grief, fractured relationships, and slowly mending hearts. Most dazzling is Doerr's gift for conjuring nature in both its beautiful abundance and crushing power.

Do You Mind if I Put My Hand on it (OverDrive e-book), Mark Dolan

Arawata Bill : the story of legendary gold prospector William James O'Leary (OverDrive e-book), Ian Dougherty

Arawata Bill (1865-1947) was a pioneering folk hero. He spent decades in the unforgiving mountain country of New Zealand's South Island, prospecting for gold and other minerals and making new tracks in unexplored areas.

Centre of gravity (OverDrive e-book), Ian Douglas

In the evolution of every sentient race, there is a turning point when the species achieves transcendence through technology. The warlike Sh'daar are determined that this monumental milestone will never be achieved by the creatures known as human. A strong defensive posture is futile, so Admiral Alexander Koenig will seize the initiative and turn the gargantuan Star Carrier America toward the unknown. For the element of surprise is the only hope of stalling the Sh'daar assault on Earth's solar system - and the war for humankind's survival must be taken directly to the enemy.

Earth strike (OverDrive e-book), Ian Douglas

As the Sh'daar's great warships destroy everything in their path en route to the Sol system, the human Confederation government falls into dangerous disarray. There is but one hope, and it rests with a rogue Navy Admiral, commander of the kilometre-long star carrier America, as he leads his courageous fighters deep into enemy space towards humankind's greatest conflict - and quite possibly its last.

Singularity (OverDrive e-book), Ian Douglas

There is an unseen power in the universe - a terrible force that was dominating the galaxy tens of thousands of years before the warlike Sh'daar were even aware of the existence of Sol and its planets. As humankind approaches the Singularity, when transcendence will be achieved through technology, contact will be made.

Talk to me : what the dead whisper in your ear (OverDrive e-book), Allison DuBois

The inspiration for the blockbuster TV series Medium shares in her own words how she communicates with the dead. She illustrates what she has learned with stories of readings that she has done for people who have lost loved ones.

The lover (OverDrive e-book), Marguerite Duras

Saigon, 1930s: a poor young French girl meets the elegant son of a wealthy Chinese family. Soon they are lovers, locked into a private world of passion and intensity that defies all the conventions of their society.

Veronica (OverDrive e-book), Roger Duvoisin

Veronica, a hippopotamus who wants to stand out from the herd and be famous, travels to the big city where she indeed does stand out. How she discovers that there is no place like home is told with warm humour and sublimely mirthful illustrations that are great fun to share with a young child.

Green (OverDrive e-book), Nick Earls

From the disgraceful Creme de Menthe incident in their early med' school days in 1981, to their time as Brisbane's maestros of fried chicken, all the way to a disastrous attempt at the 2012 New York marathon, Phil Harris and Frank Green have been an unlikely but enduring duo. For the first time, Green puts all the short stories together with the novel World of Chickens, plus a brand new piece to bring this uneasy friendship all the way to the present.

The absentee (OverDrive e-book), Maria Edgeworth

The Absentee is the story of Lord and Lady Clonbrony, who neglect their responsibilities to their Irish estates in favour of their preoccupation with fashionable London society. Their son travels incognito to Ireland to seek the truth of the circumstances. But can he turn things around and bring wealth to everyone, estate staff and family alike?

Windflower wedding (OverDrive e-book), Elizabeth Elgin

Drew and Kitty's marriage plans are threatened by the arrival of Lyndis Carmichael. Will this catalyst be their undoing?

River of destiny (OverDrive e-book), Barbara Erskine

On the banks of the River Deben in Suffolk lies a set of barns dating back to the Anglo Saxons, within their walls secrets have laid buried for centuries. Whilst farmers are ploughing the land surrounding the barns, sets of human bones are found and when the police arrive it becomes clear that the bones are much older than first suspected! From an ancient burial ground to a Victorian murder, Erskine will have you gripped as the mystery unfolds across the ages!

Sufficient grace (OverDrive e-book), Amy Espeseth

Ruth and her cousin Naomi live in rural Failing, Wisconsin, part of a community of Pentecostal fundamentalists. Struggling with a horrifying secret, Ruth escapes her own disturbing reality by taking refuge in the beauty of the natural world. The girls' prayer for deliverance is answered, but only with more blood.

Saffron nights (OverDrive e-book), Liz Everly

Brazil… Hawaii… India…. As a food writer, Maeve has just been handed the hottest opportunity of her career. The downside is that she has to travel with rock star photographer and womanizer Jackson Dodds. And the upside is that she has to travel with Jackson Dodds. Because once they meet, Maeve understands why he's been named "America's Most Eligible Bachelor" and despite her best intentions, all she can think about is putting their arousing recipes to the test…

The midwife's here! : the enchanting true story of Britain's longest serving midwife (OverDrive e-book), Linda Fairley

Delivering my first baby is a memory that will stay with me forever. Just feeling the warmth of a newborn head in your hands, that new life, there's honestly nothing like it! I've since brought more than 2,200 babies into the world, and I still tingle with excitement every time. Rich in period detail and told with a good dose of Manchester humour, The Midwife's Here! is the extraordinary, heartwarming tale of a truly inspiring woman.

Faerie Tale (OverDrive e-book), Raymond E Feist

A darkness at Sethanon (OverDrive e-book), Raymond E Feist

Sethanon, a city of ruins, becomes the setting of the final battle between Order and Chaos, while the master magician Pug undertakes the perilous task to confront the terrible Enemy for the fate of a thousand worlds.

Jimmy and the Crawler (OverDrive e-book), Raymond E Feist

James, personal squire to Prince Arutha of Krondor, but in the underworld known as the thief and trickster Jimmy the Hand, must travel to Kesh in disguise. There, working with William, lieutenant of the prince's household guard and son of the magician Pug, and Jazhara, niece to the Keshian lord Hazara-Khan, he must attempt to unmask the mysterious Crawler and rid Krondor of his influence.

Magician (OverDrive e-book), Raymond E Feist

I longed to train as a warrior and fight alongside our duke like my foster-brother, but when the time came, I was not offered that choice. My fate would be shaped by other forces. My name is Pug. I was once an orphaned kitchen boy, with no family and no prospects, but I am destined to become a master magician. Magician is the first book in Raymond E. Feist's acclaimed Riftwar Saga. The trilogy continues with book two, Silverthorn.

Silverthorn (OverDrive e-book), Raymond E Feist

Arutha, the new king of Midkemia, is threatened by an evil power that raises dead and inspirits them to do battle with the living, as Jimmy the Hand searches for an antidote to the poison that threatens young princess Anita.

Brotherhood of Shades (OverDrive e-book), Dawn Finch

Lust and found (OverDrive e-book), Julie Fison

Cambodia is the last place in the world Sienna wants to visit. She likes five star hotels and exercising her credit card in air-conditioned malls -- not flea-ridden hostels and trekking through the jungle. But when her brother Eddie starts sending strange messages from Cambodia, Sienna's mum convinces her to go check on him.

Tall, dark and distant (OverDrive e-book), Julie Fison

When Georgia meets Nik on her summer holiday, she is sure he's too good to be true. He's gorgeous, with god-like abs and an adorable English accent. Then she discovers that he is actually a member of an obscenely wealthy Russian family and he wants to get to know her better.

The blue flower (OverDrive e-book), Penelope Fitzgerald

This is the story of Friedrich von Hardenberg, Fritz, to his intimates. A young man of the late 18th century who is destined to become one of Germany's great romantic poets. In just over 200 pages, Fitzgerald creates a complete world of family, friends and lovers, but also an exhilarating evocation of the romantic era in all its political turmoil, intellectual voracity, and moral ambiguity.

Offshore (OverDrive e-book), Penelope Fitzgerald

Offshore is set among the houseboat community who rise and fall with the tide of the Thames on Battersea Reach. Living between land and water, they feel as if they belong to neither… Offshore offers a delightful glimpse of the workings of an eccentric community.

Terra Australis : Matthew Flinders' great adventures in the circumnavigation of Australia (OverDrive e-book), Matthew Flinders edited and introduced by Tim Flannery.

First published in two-volumes in 1814, this is the enthralling account of the circumnavigation of Australia, by the man who gave Australia its name. His descriptions of the difficulties that he and his sailors faced still bristle with energy and immediacy two hundred years later.

Zelda's cut (OverDrive e-book), Philippa Gregory

For years, Isobel Latimer has composed serious novels for serious people, but to dwindling acclaim and ever-more dwindling financial gain. Isobel, together with her agent, Troy, resolves to change her writing and her appearance, for one book only: the blockbuster that will make her fortune and save her marriage. Once created, the fabulous author Zelda Vere takes on a life of her own, which eclipses Isobel's controlled existence in a way she could never have foreseen.

Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet (OverDrive e-book), Jamie Ford

Set in the ethnic neighbourhoods of Seattle during World War II and Japanese American internment camps of the era, this debut novel tells the heartwarming story of widower Henry Lee, his father, and his first love Keiko Okabe.

A cuppa tea and an aspirin (OverDrive e-book), Helen Forrester

Life in a Liverpool tenement block is a grim struggle for Martha and her poverty-stricken family, as every day renews the threat of homelessness, hunger and disease. Family warmth remains constant however, and an indomitible fighting spirit shines through.

Liverpool miss (OverDrive e-book), Helen Forrester

The second volume of Helen Forrester's powerful, painful and ultimately uplifting four-volume autobiography of her poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool during the Depression. Her untiring struggles against illness caused by severe malnutrition and dirt (she has her first bath in four years) and, above all, the selfish demands of her parents, make this a story of amazing courage and perseverance.

Head over high heels (OverDrive e-book), Kate Forster

Lyssa's parents don't like her talking to boys, let alone posing provocatively for a photographer, and while her best friend Emily is a champion liar, Lyssa's still not sure she'll get away with it: she's always played it safe. But then she meets Dan at the modeling agency, and Dan is all kinds of amazing. Maybe amazing enough to convince Lyssa that she should play it dangerous for once.

Unlucky break (OverDrive e-book), Kate Forster

Andie Powers' desperate for a break after her mother's battle with cancer and her boyfriend's pathetic betrayal. Staying with her celebrity aunt Cece in Hollywood seems like the perfect solution.

The bridal contract (OverDrive e-book), Susan Fox

Fay Sheridan is facing the bleakest moment of her life. As a fierce storm surges around her, one man plucks her from despair and into safety: Chase Rafferty. Rugged rancher Chase knows there is a fun-loving young woman hiding inside Fay, and he'll do anything to see her start living again - even propose!

Flashman (OverDrive e-book), George MacDonald Fraser

Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Brown's schooldays, now with a Victoria Cross, has three main talents - horsemanship, facility with foreign languages and fornication. En route to Afghanistan, he hones his skills as a soldier, duellist, imposter, coward and amorist (mastering all 97 ways of Hindu love-making during a brief sojourn in Calcutta), before being pressed into reluctant service as a secret agent.

Morris and the cat flap (OverDrive e-book), Vivian French

Morris is a lovable, greedy fat ginger kitten. In this story he is afraid of the new cat flap, but how will he get his food which is inside the house, when he is outside.

The Margaret Fulton cookbook (OverDrive e-book), Margaret Fulton

Hundreds of thousands of readers have discovered that it is not only Margaret Fulton's ability to cook, but her talent in imparting her technique and knowledge to others that makes her such a trusted and authoritative kitchen companion. This new edition of the Margaret Fulton Cookbook is a completely updated reissue of her classic cookbook, first published in 1968.

Margaret Fulton's favourites (OverDrive e-book), Margaret Fulton

Spanning a lifetime of cooking, this fresh, modern collection features Margaret Fulton's best, most loved recipes. Gathered for the first time and illustrated with stunning photography and original Australian artwork, each recipe is introduced with Margaret's own entertaining anecdotes of the people, places and events in her life that have influenced her cooking.

The palace of curiosities (OverDrive e-book), Rosie Garland

Cast out by Victorian society, Eve and Abel find succour from an unlikely source. They will become The Lion Faced Girl and The Flayed Man, star performers in Professor Josiah Arroner's Palace of Curiosities. And there begins a journey that will entwine their fates forever.

Rats: the small dog with a big personality (OverDrive e-book), Isabel George

Rats was a stumpy, feisty, determined little terrier of mixed parentage who attached himself to British solders serving in Northern Ireland during the late 1970s. Extracted from the bestselling title The Dog That Saved My Life, The Small Dog With A Big Personality tells the story of a courageous canine who brought an oasis of friendship in a desert of sadness.

Seargeant Stubby: the most decorated dog in history (OverDrive e-book), Isabel George

A stub-tailed Bull Terrier, Sergeant Stubby was recognised many times over for his bravery in the trenches of Flanders. Extracted from the bestselling title 'Beyond The Call Of Duty', the story of the unofficial mascot for the 26th 'Yankee' Division and his rescuer Private Robert J. Conroy takes us on a journey through the build up to WWI and beyond.

The essential A-line : make 17 flirty skirts from 1 basic pattern (OverDrive e-book), Jona Giammalva

In this how-to book, The Essential A-line, accomplished seamstress Jona Giammalva shows you how to whip a chic A-line skirt in no time! It features a single pattern with easy variations to make 17 stylish skirts in a range of sizes from 0 - 20.

Dinner with a Vampire (OverDrive e-book), Abigail Gibbs

After toast (OverDrive e-book), Kate Gibbs

A lot of good things start out with a piece of toast. Breakfast, for one. This book raises the bar for the packed lunch, serves up new ideas on snacks, shows teens and twenty-somethings what to cook for mates or Mum, and puts an end to endless fridge searches by answering the perpetual question, 'What can I eat?'

Wife 22 (OverDrive e-book), Melanie Gideon

Baring her soul in an anonymous survey for a marital happiness study, Alice catalogues her stale marriage, unsatisfying job and unfavorable prospects and begins to question virtually every aspect of her life.

Here and there : collected travel writing (OverDrive e-book), A A Gill

From acclaimed writer A. A. Gill comes this collection of travel pieces selected from his monthly column in Australian Gourmet Traveller - 'AA Gill is away'. Witty, acerbic and often moving, these pieces are far from standard travel writing fare.

The Nullarbor kid : the life and times of the Nullarbor kid : Ray Gilleland's life on the post-war roads of Australia (OverDrive e-book), Ray Gilleland

The Nullarbor Kid tells of the true adventures Ray Gilleland and his mates had when the trucking industry was born, and the battlelines between government and truckers.

Arthur Lydiard : master coach (OverDrive e-book), Garth Gilmour

Arthur Lydiard was the most successful and influential running coach of the last fifty years. He burst into prominence at the Rome Olympics in 1960 when two of his proteges, Peter Snell and Murray Halberg, won Olympic gold medals on the same day. In the year before his death in December 2004, Arthur Lydiard worked with his long-time friend Garth Gilmour to tell the full story of his remarkable life, from his early years in New Zealand to his coaching experiences in Finland, Mexico, Venezuela and elsewhere around the world.

Another forgotten child (OverDrive e-book), Cathy Glass

As Aimee begins to trust Cathy her behaviour improves and she starts to open up. And the more Cathy learns about Aimee's life before she came into care the more horrified she becomes. It's clear that Aimee should have been rescued much sooner and Cathy promises to stand by her no matter what, but as Aimee's journey seems to be coming to a happy end Cathy can't help but reflect on all the other forgotten children, that are still suffering.

A baby's cry : the heartbreaking true story of a mother torn between fear and love for her newborn child (OverDrive e-book), Cathy Glass

Upon collecting Harrison from the hospital, Cathy realises she has more to worry than she thought when she discovers that his background is shrouded in secrecy. Cathy tries to put her worries aside as she looks after Harrison, a beautiful baby, who is alert and engaging. Cathy and her children quickly bond with Harrison although they know that, inevitably, he will eventually be adopted. But when a woman Cathy doesn't know starts appearing in the street outside her house acting suspiciously, Cathy fears for her own family's safety and demands some answers from Harrison's social worker. The social worker tells Cathy a little but what she says is very disturbing. How is this woman connected to Harrison and can she answer the questions that will affect Harrison's whole life?

Bee season (OverDrive e-book), Myla Goldberg

Myla Goldberg's keen eye for detail brings Eliza's journey to three-dimensional life. As she rises from classroom obscurity to the blinding lights and outsized expectations of the National Spelling Bee, Eliza's small pains and large joys are finely wrought and deeply felt. Not merely a coming-of-age story, Goldberg's first novel delicately examines the unravelling fabric of one family.

The storyteller's daughter (OverDrive e-book), Maria Goodin

I try and imagine a world without you in it, A world where I have no-one to call when I can't remember the recipe for chicken soup; where no-one bakes my favourite chocolate cake on my birthday; where no-one worries if I don't eat my greens, or if I read in a dim light, or if I don't take a rain coat, I try, but I can't imagine it at all.

Eighty days (OverDrive e-book), Matthew Goodman

On 14 November 1889 Nellie Bly, a crusading young female reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's World newspaper, left New York City by steamship on a quest to break the record for the fastest trip around the world. Also departing from New York that day, heading in the opposite direction by train, was a young journalist from The Cosmopolitan magazine, Elizabeth Bisland. Each woman was determined to outdo Jules Verne's fictional hero Phileas Fogg and circle the globe in less than eighty days.

The lottery ticket (OverDrive e-book), Michael D Goodman

The Campbell Family house is broken into while they are away and the thieves steal two lottery tickets. One of these is the winning ticket and the gang who did the break-in claims the first prize of over 4 million pounds.

The earthbound cook (OverDrive e-book), Myra Goodman

Offers 250 nutritious recipes that are based on clean eating and the health of the planet, with recommendations for ingredients, cooking techniques, and equipment, and advice on how to be environmentally conscious in the kitchen.

Seemed like a good idea at the time (OverDrive e-book), David Goodwillie

David Goodwillie recounts the experiences he had after moving to New York in the hopes of launching his writing career, and falling into one implausible job after another.

My fair man (OverDrive e-book), Jane Gordon

My Fair Man is a modern fairy tale and a witty portrayal of men, women and contemporary society, in which Jane Gordon explores with humour, sympathy and incisiveness the important issues of gender, class, and different people's motivations.

Blood, Bullets and Blue Stratos (OverDrive e-book), Tom Graham

Why Mars & Venus collide : improving relationships by understanding how men and women cope differently with stress (OverDrive e-book), John Gray

In Why Mars and Venus Collide, Gray focuses on the ways that men and women misinterpret and mismanage the stress in their daily lives, and how these reactions ultimately affect their relationships.

Blood and circuses (OverDrive e-book), Kerry Greenwood

Astute, suave and divine, Phryne Fisher moves at flashing pace through this thrilling sixth adventure. The Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher is feeling dull. But is she bored enough to leave her identity, her home and family behind and join Farrell's Circus and Wild Beast Show? Phryne Fisher is the souffle course of the gourmet detective dinner.

Cooking the books (OverDrive e-book), Kerry Greenwood

Corinna Chapman, talented baker and reluctant sleuth, is back and this time it's sinister events on the set of a television soap opera. Zany comedy.

Death at Victoria Dock (OverDrive e-book), Kerry Greenwood

Australian flapper Phryne Fisher avenges the death of a young man who dies in her arms after she and her car are shot at by two men. Although Phryne and members of her household are in danger from anarchists, they manage to foil a bank robbery while also solving the case of a missing young girl.

Death before wicket (OverDrive e-book), Kerry Greenwood

Phryne is definitely not the woman to say 'no' when two delightful young men come to her on bended knees, begging for her help in finding their friend innocent of theft. It all sounds simple enough as Phryne sets investigations into motion, but when greed and fear are the motivating factors, people become ruthless and Phryne finds herself enmeshed in blackmail, secrets, lies and the dangerous influences of deep magic.

The Green Mill murder (OverDrive e-book), Kerry Greenwood

Phryne Fisher's fifth adventure leads to smoke-filled clubs, a dashingly handsome band leader, some fancy flying across the Australian Alps and a most unexpected tryst with a gentle stranger.

Unnatural habits (OverDrive e-book), Kerry Greenwood

Phryne is back in a thrilling mystery that takes her into dark convents and dank cellars in a frantic search for missing girls. It's a tale of convents and plots, piracy, murder and mystery and Phryne finally finds out if it's true that blondes have more fun.

Urn burial (OverDrive e-book), Kerry Greenwood

Phryne Fisher, scented and surprisingly ruthless, is not one to let sleuthing an horrific crime get in the way of an elegant dalliance. The redoubtable Phryne Fisher is holidaying at Cave House, a Gothic mansion in the heart of the Victorian mountain country. Phryne's search for answers takes her deep into the dungeons of the house and of the limestone Buchan caves. But what will she find this time?

Destiny and Stardust (OverDrive e-book), Stacy Gregg

The other Boleyn girl (OverDrive e-book), Philippa Gregory

The Boleyn family is keen to rise through the ranks of society, and what better way to attract the attention of the most powerful in the land than to place a beautiful young woman at court? But then the course of English history is irrevocably changed.

My sweet Valentine (OverDrive e-book), Annie Groves

An emotional portrayal of the lives of four women as Valentine's day approaches, in 1941 wartime London.

Raising confident, happy children (OverDrive e-book), Anthony Gunn

Anthony Gunn, psychologist, author and father of a primary schooler, knows exactly how difficult it can be to raise children with a sense of strength and courage. In Raising Confident, Happy Children, he offers forty helpful approaches, explaining common fears and setbacks and how to combat them.

Blind truth (OverDrive e-book), Jenna Guy

At twenty-six, attractive, successful and fun-loving Kristin has everything she ever wanted: a gorgeous fiance, a successful career and the wedding of her dreams just around the corner. A life-changing accident, however, throws her whole life out of kilter. Things get even more complicated when she meets a mystery stranger online.

Ruby learns to swim (OverDrive e-book), Phillip Gwynne and Tamsin Ainslie.

Splash the water. Floaties on. Eyes wide open. Blow big bubbles. Legs straight out. Kicking hard. Ruby's swimming now! Ruby's swimming fast! A joyous learn-to-swim book for the very young.

The bone man (OverDrive e-book), Wolf Haas

At a wildly popular chicken shack in the Austrian countryside, a gruesome discovery is made in the pile of chicken bones waiting to be fed into the basement grinder: human bones. But when former-police detective now private eye Simon Brenner shows up to investigate, the woman who hired him has disappeared …

101 tropical drinks (OverDrive e-book), Kim Haasarud

101 fun and fruity cocktails for chilling out by the beach.

Embroidered memories : 350 embroidery designs - 2 alphabets - 13 basic stitches - for crazy quilts, clothing, accessories (OverDrive e-book), Brian Haggard

A rich compendium with hundreds of embroidery designs for quilting, wearables, gifts, and more.

The speckled people (OverDrive e-book), Hugo Hamilton

The childhood world of Hugo Hamilton, born and brought up in Dublin, is a confused place. His father, a sometimes brutal Irish nationalist, demands his children speak Irish, while his mother, a softly spoken German emigrant who has been marked by the Nazi past, talks to them in German. He himself wants to speak English. English is, after all, what the other children in Dublin speak. English is what they use when they hunt him down in the streets and dub him Eichmann, as they bring him to trial and sentence him to death at a mock seaside court. Out of this fear and guilt and often comical cultural entanglements, he tries to understand the differences between Irish history and German history and turn the twisted logic of what he is told into truth. It is a journey that ends in liberation, but not before he uncovers the long-buried secrets that lie at the bottom of his parents' wardrobe

Keepsakes : recipes, mementos, miscellany (OverDrive e-book), Frances Hansen

Keepsakes is unlike any other cookbook - it is a handmade, visual feast. Containing the well-loved recipes collected by Frances over time from family and friends, each spread is an artwork in itself.

Growing up modern (OverDrive e-book), Allison Harris

Shows how anyone can make a child's quilt that will be cherished for years to come.

The evil seed (OverDrive e-book), Joanne Harris

When Alice Farrel meets Joe's new girlfriend she is disturbed by the girl's placid nature, not realising that this is just one side of her persona. Is the lust for power which was true of Rosemary Ashley 40 years before, the same hunger she sees in Ginny? This is a revised edition of the very first Joanne Harris novel which has been out of print for some time.

Runemarks (OverDrive e-book), Joanne Harris

Seven o'clock, on a Monday morning, five hundred years after the end of the world, and goblins had been at the cellar again… Maddy Smith was born with a rusty-coloured ruinmark on her hand - a symbol of the old gods and definitely cause for suspicion. For magic is dangerous. Or so everyone thinks.

A perfect blood (OverDrive e-book), Kim Harrison

When she discovers that a would-be creator is determined to make his (or her) own demons and needs her blood, former witch-turned-day-walking-demon Rachel Morgan, a bounty hunter, faces her toughest adversary yet humanity.

Every Which Way But Dead (OverDrive e-book), Kim Harrison

The Chicago Way (OverDrive e-book), Michael T. Harvey

Chicago private investigator Michael Kelly is hired by his former partner, John Gibbons, to help solve an eight-year-old rape and battery case, a case it turns out his old friend was once ordered to forget. To close the case, Kelly will have to face the mob, a serial killer, his own double-crossing friends, and the mean streets of the city he loves.

The Fifth Floor (OverDrive e-book), Michael T. Harvey

When Kelly is hired by an old girlfriend to tail her abusive husband, he expects trouble of a domestic rather than a historical nature. Life, however, is not so simple. Kelly becomes embroiled in a scam that stretches from current politics back to the night Chicago burned to the ground, and along the way, he finds himself framed for murder, before finally facing a killer bent on rewriting history.

The third rail (OverDrive e-book), Michael T. Harvey

After witnessing a shooting on an L platform - and receiving a phone call from the killer himself - Kelly is drawn toward a murderer with an unnerving link to his own past, to a crime he witnessed as a child, and to the consequences it had on his relationship with his father, a subject Kelly would prefer to leave unexamined.

We all fall down (OverDrive e-book), Michael T. Harvey

When a lightbulb falls in a subway tunnel, it releases a pathogen that could kill millions. Finally, the government acts, sealing off entire sections of the city, but are they keeping people out or in? Meanwhile, Michael Kelly's hunt for the people who poisoned his city takes him into the tangled underworld of Chicago's West Side gangs and the even more frightening world of black biology, an elite discipline emerging from the nation's premier labs, where scientists play God and will stop at nothing to preserve their secrecy.

On the farm (OverDrive e-book), Roland Harvey

Uncle Kevin had a farm, A-E-I-O-U, and on that farm we had a holiday, A-E-I-O-U! With a moo moo here and an oink oink there, here a honk, there a quack, everywhere a neigh neigh. Uncle Kevin had a farm, A-E-I-O-U!

Slide (OverDrive e-book), Jill Hathaway

Vee Bell hates having narcolepsy. But when Vee passes out she slides randomly into other people's heads and ends up seeing through their eyes. So when Vee finds herself in the head of a killer, standing over the body of a cheerleader, she's beyond freaked. Struggling to understand her terrifying and unwanted 'gift', Vee is tangled in a web of secrets, lies and danger!

Ghost girl (OverDrive e-book), Torey L Hayden

Jadie never spoke, never laughed, never cried. She spent every waking hour locked in her own private world of shadows. But nothing in Torey Hayden's experience had prepared her for the nightmare Jadie revealed to her when finally persuaded to break her self-imposed silence. This is an account of an extraordinary teacher's determination.

Human remains (OverDrive e-book), Elizabeth Haynes

When Annabel discovers her neighbour's decomposing body in the house next door, she is appalled to think that no one, including herself, noticed her absence. Back at work, she is compelled to investigate, despite her colleagues' lack of interest, and finds data showing that such cases are frighteningly common in her home town. People, of all ages, all dying of natural causes. Seemingly. All forgotten. But for Annabel. As Annabel is drawn deeper into the mystery, she comes face to face with her own demons and her own mortality. Would anyone notice if she just disappeared?

When we wake (OverDrive e-book), Karen Healey

In 2027, sixteen-year-old Tegan is just like every other girl - playing the guitar, falling in love, and protesting the wrongs of the world with her friends. But then Tegan dies, waking up 100 years in the future as the unknowing first government guinea pig to be cryogenically frozen and successfully revived. Appalling secrets about her new world come to light, and Tegan must choose to either keep her head down or fight for a better future.

The hero's guide to saving your kingdom (OverDrive e-book), Christopher Healy

Prince Liam. Prince Frederic. Prince Duncan. Prince Gustav - these are the princes who saved Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Snow White, and Rapunzel, respectively, and yet, thanks to those lousy bards who wrote the tales, you likely know them only as Prince Charming. But all of this is about to change. Rejected by their princesses and cast out of their castles, Liam, Frederic, Duncan, and Gustav stumble upon an evil plot that could endanger each of their kingdoms. Now it's up to them to triumph over their various shortcomings, take on trolls, bandits, dragons, witches, and other assorted terrors, and become the heroes no one ever thought they could be.

Sewing the seasons (OverDrive e-book), Sandi Henderson

23 seasonal sewing and craft projects - Sandi Henderson's readers love her look, her patterns, and her descriptions of home, family life, and holidays.

Radhika's story (OverDrive e-book), Sharon Hendry

A seemingly innocent sip of Coca-Cola, drunk by a starving and desperately thirsty 16-year-old girl led to the first of Radhika's human trafficking experiences. Drugged, Radhika woke up hours later, in great pain, only to discover that her kidney had been removed and sold to the highest bidder.

The border hostage (OverDrive e-book), Virginia Henley

Raven Carleton is every inch the English lady. But on this glorious morning, as she gallops along the seacoast, Raven is thinking about her freedom, not her imminent betrothal to aristocratic Christopher Dacre. Suddenly Raven is forced to draw rein when a man appears directly in her path. Silhouetted against the predawn sky, he is magnificent - a darkly powerful stranger who will alter the course of her life.

The dragon and the jewel (OverDrive e-book), Virginia Henley

Young and beloved sister of King Henry, Princess Eleanor is widowed at a tender age and swears never to marry again. But when legendary war lord Simon de Montfort marches into England, a reckless desire ignites them both.

The falcon and the flower (OverDrive e-book), Virginia Henley

A wickedly handsome warrior who lived by blood and the sword, Falcon de Burgh wanted to wed no woman - until he laid eyes on the exquisite Jasmine, and he vowed to possess her, to teach her all the wondrous ways a man could love a woman, no matter what it might take to conquer her fiery, unyielding heart.

The marriage prize (OverDrive e-book), Virginia Henley

Orphaned at a young age, Rosamond Marshal is a royal ward of Eleanor de Montfort, sister of King Henry III and wife of the renowned warlord Simon de Montfort. As she reaches young womanhood, the beautiful heiress is fearful of leaving the security of the de Montfort household and fulfilling her betrothal to the powerful bachelor knight Rodger de Leyburn.

Tempted (OverDrive e-book), Virginia Henley

All men lusted for the firebrand they called Flaming Tina, famed for the molten fire in her hair - and for the hot temper running fierce through the noble Scots blood of Lady Valentina Kennedy. Forced into marriage with the fearsome warrior of an enemy clan, Tina vowed to use her wild beauty to gain mastery over Lord Ramsey Douglas.

A year and a day (OverDrive e-book), Virginia Henley

When Lynx de Warenne, Edward Plantagenet's most prized warrior, invaded Dumfries castle, he took possession of Jane Leslie's home - and soon wanted something more from the headstrong lass. Desperate for an heir, he proposed a handfasting and Jane had no choice but to surrender to the invader's knowing touch… .

The Irish healer (OverDrive e-book), Nancy Herriman

When a cholera epidemic sweeps through London, Irish healer and accused murderer Rachel Dunne feels compelled to nurse the dying daughter of the enigmatic physician she has come to love. James Edmunds, wearied by the deaths of too many patients, has his own doubts about God's grace. Together, they will have to face their darkest fears … and learn what it means to have real faith.

The Agincourt bride (OverDrive e-book), Joanna Hickson

When her own first child is tragically still-born, the young Mette is pressed into service as a wet-nurse at the court of the mad king, Charles VI of France. Her young charge is the princess, Catherine de Valois, caught up in the turbulence and chaos of life at court. Can Mette protect Catherine from forces at court who seek to harm her or will her loyalty to Catherine place her in even greater danger?

Mismatch (OverDrive e-book), Tami Hoag

Bronwynn Prescott Pierson was a jet-setting socialite, a one-time fashion icon, and now a runaway bride. Wade Grayson was a straitlaced, ambitious congressman from the American heartland. They couldn't have had less in common and more to lose by their accidental meeting in the Vermont woods, where they'd each gone in hopes of escaping the past.

Straight from the heart (OverDrive e-book), Tami Hoag

They say that each of us becomes an entirely new person every seven years. But Rebecca Bradshaw doesn't feel any different when an old lover shows up severely injured at the hospital where she runs the physical therapy department. The only thing that had stayed the same was the most important thing of all - and now suddenly time was running out.

The cutting room (OverDrive e-book), Jilliane Hoffman

The body of a student who went missing from a Florida nightclub is found in a dumpster. A horrifying scene, but nothing compared to what she had to endure before her murder. Detective Manny Alvarez works the homicide alongside young hotshot Assistant State Attorney Daria DeBianchi. For Manny and Daria, the nightmare is just beginning. And the only thing more devastating than this case's past is what lies ahead!

Wonder dogs (OverDrive e-book), Ben Holt

Wonder Dogs contains numerous amazing tales that demonstrate the astonishing bravery of some very heroic canines - from trained guide dogs to loved pets and homeless strays.

Glittering images (OverDrive e-book), Susan Howatch

Charged by Canterbury with the spiritual monitoring of a wayward bishop, Dr. Charles Ashworth, a young, driven Anglican minister, encounters a genteel world whose deeply embedded apostasy forces him to confront his own inner demons.

The 13th horseman : an Afterworlds novel (OverDrive e-book), Barry Hutchison

Drake is surprised to find three horsemen of the apocalypse playing snakes and ladders in his garden shed. He's even more surprised when they insist that he is one of them. At first he's reluctant to usher in Armageddon but does being in charge of Armageddon have to spell the end of the world?

Summers in France (OverDrive e-book), Kathryn M Ireland

Skin deep (OverDrive e-book), Laura Jarratt

After the car crash that leaves her best friend dead, Jenna is permanently scarred. She struggles to rebuild her life, but every stare in the street, every time she looks in the mirror, makes her want to retreat further from the world. Until she meets Ryan. As Jenna and Ryan grow closer, repercussions from the crash continue to reverberate through the community.

Howl's moving castle (OverDrive e-book), Diana Wynne Jones

Eldest of three sisters in a land where it is considered to be a misfortune, Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice until a witch turns her into an old woman and she finds herself in the castle of the greatly feared wizard Howl.

Vile visitors (OverDrive e-book), Diana Wynne Jones

Two hilarious stories from the bestselling and well-loved author Diana Wynne Jones, about the worst visitors in the world coming to stay.

Dickens (OverDrive e-book), Kaye Jones

How to do everything and be happy (OverDrive e-book), Peter Jones

Do you ever feel that you could be, well, just that little bit happier? This simple book reveals how you can be happy every day, through these surprisingly easy tips and advice.

My life as an alphabet (OverDrive e-book), Barry Jonsberg

Introducing Candice Phee: twelve years old, hilariously honest and a little … odd. But she has a big heart, the very best of intentions and an unwavering determination to ensure everyone is happy. So she sets about trying to 'fix' all the problems of all the people (and pets) in her life.

Addition (OverDrive e-book), Toni Jordan

Grace Lisa Vandenberg brings order to her world through obsessive counting but one day, when she steals a banana from another shopper's cart (she can't buy just nine) and ends up letting him into her life, she is forced to ask herself what she really wants from life.

Fall girl (OverDrive e-book), Toni Jordan

Dr Canfield is seeking funding for a highly unorthodox research project to prove that an extinct animal still roams. Meet Daniel Metcalf, good-looking, expensively dishevelled millionaire. He heads the Metcalf Trust, which donates money to offbeat scientific research projects. Problem number one: There is no such person as Dr Ella Canfield. Problem number two: Della Gilmore, professional con artist, has never met anyone like Daniel Metcalf before. Someone is going to take a fall.

Nine days (OverDrive e-book), Toni Jordan

It is 1939 and although Australia is about to go to war, it doesn't quite realise yet that the situation is serious. Deep in the working-class Melbourne suburb of Richmond it is business your own and everyone else's as usual. Ambitious in scope and structure, triumphantly realised, this is a novel about one family and every family. It is about dreams and fights and sacrifices, and of course love.

The scarlet contessa : a novel of the Italian Renaissance (OverDrive e-book), Jeanne Kalogridis

Daughter of the Duke of Milan and wife of the conniving Count Girolamo Riario, Caterina Sforza was the bravest warrior Renaissance Italy ever knew. She ruled her own lands, fought her own battles, and openly took lovers whenever she pleased.

S.C.U.M (OverDrive e-book), Danny Katz

The Students Combined Underground Movement (S.C.U.M.) is a society for outcasts, weirdos and massive losers. At their headquarters on the bench beside the bin behind the canteen, they plot their revolutionary ideas for a better schoolyard. Divided they may be weak, but as S.C.U.M., they're still weak; but at least they have somewhere to sit.

Book Lover (OverDrive e-book), Jennifer Kaufman

Life in outer space (OverDrive e-book), Melissa Keil

Sam Kinnison is a geek, and he's totally fine with that. He has his horror movies, his nerdy friends, World of Warcraft, and, until Princess Leia turns up in his bedroom, worry about girls he won't. Then Camilla Carter arrives on the scene. She's beautiful, friendly and completely irrelevant to his plan - except that Camilla has a plan of her own.

Always and forever (OverDrive e-book), Cathy Kelly

Once upon a time, in the beautiful town of Carrickwell, lived three women. Three women who thought they had life pretty much mapped out. But Carrickwell is a magical place. Nestled in the shadows of Mount Carraig, it's as ancient as time itself. And the opening of the new Clouds Hill spa by Leah - a woman with her own secret turmoil - is destined to cause ripples no one could ever have imagined.

The honey queen (OverDrive e-book), Cathy Kelly

To discover the sweetest things in life, you sometimes have to lose your way. It's easy to fall in love with the beautiful town of Redstone the locals wave and chat to each other, the shops and cafes are full of cheerful hustle and bustle. And amidst all this activity, two women believe they are getting on just fine.

Dark roots (OverDrive e-book), Cate Kennedy

This collection of prize-winning short stories opens up worlds of small, finely observed detail, which resonate in the reader's mind long after the story is finished.

Like a house on fire (OverDrive e-book), Cate Kennedy

From prize-winning short-story writer Cate Kennedy comes a new collection to rival her highly acclaimed Dark Roots.

Sing, and don't cry (OverDrive e-book), Cate Kennedy

For Australian author Cate Kennedy the dice rolls and she finds herself in small town Mexico. From a hilarious evening at a disco, to a fifteenth birthday party where dancing to the Bee Gees is mandatory, to a joyous wedding reception in a hot, dusty backyard and quiet moments of hardship, grief and loss, the Mexican gusto for celebration, pilgrimage and family challenges her to confront the big issues of life.

The world beneath (OverDrive e-book), Cate Kennedy

Once Rich and Sandy were environmental activists, part of a world-famous blockade in Tasmania to save the wilderness. Now, 25 years later, they have settled into the uncomfortable compromises of middle age - although they've gone about it in very different ways. About the only thing they have in common these days is their 15-year-old daughter, Sophie. The uneasy truce established long ago between Rich and Sandy is shattered when, on a tramp together, he and Sophie leave the track to explore the remote terrain known as the Labyrinth. As days pass with no word, all three begin to understand that if they are to survive, each must traverse not only the secret territories that lie between them but also those within themselves.

OMG! I can eat that? : indulgent food minus the boombah (OverDrive e-book), Jane Kennedy

A lifetime love of cooking, teamed with a refusal to give up the flavours of her favourite meals, led Jane to develop her own dishes that are delicious but also good for you. In Jane's second book, OMG! I can eat that?, she shares some of her favourite recipes, just without all the unwanted fat.

The nightmare (OverDrive e-book), Lars Kepler

He knows your darkest dreams. Then he makes them come true. On a summer night the body of a woman is found on board an abandoned pleasure boat. Her lungs are filled with water, but her clothes are completely dry. Detective Inspector Joona Linna takes up the case. The next day a man is found dead in his apartment, hanging from a lamp hook in the ceiling. The room has a high ceiling with no furniture and absolutely nothing to climb on. Nevertheless, Linna is convinced that it is suicide and so begins an investigation full of dizzyingly intense and dangerous events.

Divine (OverDrive e-book), Karen Kingsbury

The #1 bestselling author of "Redemption" presents a modern-day parable of Mary Magdalene as the fiction response to Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code." Mary Madison was a child of unspeakable horrors, a young woman society wanted to forget. Now a divine power has set Mary free to bring life-changing hope and love to battered and abused women living in the shadow of the nation's capital. At the crossroads of her life, only one power set Mary free and gave her a lifetime of love and hope. A power that could only be divine.

Fame (OverDrive e-book), Karen Kingsbury

As Hollywood actor Dayne Matthews searches for meaning in his life, Jamie Hart makes her way as director of the Bloomington, Indiana, Christian Kids Theater. New families and situations will be introduced, but Dayne's search will stand at the centre.

Family (OverDrive e-book), Karen Kingsbury

In the wake of finding his firstborn son, John Baxter looks for a way to tell his other children the truth about a secret he's kept from them all their lives. At the same time, a sensational Hollywood trial brings Dayne Matthews and Katy Hart together again, this time in a very public way. In the midst of this crisis, the truth is clear for all of them - never in their lives has family been more important.

Forever (OverDrive e-book), Karen Kingsbury

Katie Hart is thrilled about her future with Hollywood's Dayne Matthews. But as she plans a wedding and looks for a house on the shores of Lake Monroe, she receives tragic news. Ultimately, the Baxter family must pull together one last time in an act of service and love to help Katie and Dayne find what they've always been looking for - a chance at forever.

Forgiven (OverDrive e-book), Karen Kingsbury

A-list Hollywood actor Dayne Matthews wrestles with the shocking information he learned about his past in Karen's best-selling novel Reunion. Now Dayne must come to terms with the reality of his situation and find both forgiveness and family along the way.

Found (OverDrive e-book), Karen Kingsbury

John Baxter hires a private investigator to fulfil his wife's dying wish - that they find their firstborn son and make him part of the Baxter family. Meanwhile, top Hollywood actor Dayne Matthews undergoes a personal search for truth despite great loss, and Christian Kids Theater director Katy Hart makes a decision that could take her from the simple life she has grown to love.

The accidental office lady (OverDrive e-book), Laura Kriska

An account of a young woman's two-year journey into corporate Japan during the late 1980s, when she was the first and only American woman in a company of 80,000 workers.

A French restoration : La Maison d'Etre (OverDrive e-book), Clive Kristen and David Johnson.

When David and Doris Johnson restored a French mini-chateau, they learnt new skills, solved the mysteries of septic drainage, and excavated not only the ancient foundations, but the chequered history of the house itself. And through all this, and through new friends, they also rediscovered themselves.

The drowning (OverDrive e-book), Camilla Lackberg

Christian Thydell has been receiving anonymous threats since he began writing his novel The Mermaid. When one message, secreted within a bouquet of flowers, causes him to collapse at the launch party, crime writer Erica Falck is compelled to investigate.

The lost boy (OverDrive e-book), Camilla Lackberg

Detective Patrik Hedstrom has barely stepped foot inside his office following a lengthy sick leave before he catches a murder investigation. A man has been murdered in his home: the victim, Mats Sverin, was the council's financial director, heading up a regeneration project worth millions. But when Patrik and his team start digging into the dead man's life, all they can uncover is unanswered questions. Mats visited Graskar before his death. The locals call the island 'The Ghost Isle' - they say that it's haunted, and that the dead have something to tell the living. But will anyone get close enough to uncover the dark secrets that lurk there?

A different kind of normal (OverDrive e-book), Cathy Lamb

Through a series of unexpected events and revelations, hospice nurse Jaden Bruxelle learns how to let go of her fears and anger, and loosen her control on her special-needs son, Tate.

Such a pretty face (OverDrive e-book), Cathy Lamb

After losing 150 pounds from bariatric surgery, Stevie Barrett finds that life isn't so easy as a thinner person, as she contends with a jealous friend, bad romantic relationships, and a difficult family dynamic.

Kingdom of the wicked (OverDrive e-book), Derek Landy

Magic is a disease. Kitana, along with her normal teenage friends, becomes infected. Becomes powerful. Becomes corrupted. Wielding the magic of gods, they're set to tear the city apart unless someone stands up against them…

The maleficent seven : from the world of Skulduggery Pleasant (OverDrive e-book), Derek Landy

When the villains around her are lying and scheming and plotting, Tanith needs to stay two steps ahead of her teammates and her enemies. After all, she's got her own double-crosses to plan - and she's a villain herself…

Zac's moon trip (OverDrive e-book), H I Larry

Zac has two new gadgets to test drive. Will they help him clean a dirty space station?

Confessions of a Window Cleaner (OverDrive e-book), Timothy Lea

The world is bigger now : an American journalist's release from captivity in North Korea : a remarkable story of faith, family, and forgiveness (OverDrive e-book), Euna Lee with Lisa Dickey.

For the first time, the author, a young wife, mother, and film editor detained in North Korea, tells a harrowing, but ultimately inspiring, story of survival and faith in one of the most isolated parts of the world. This is the story of faith and love and a personal conviction that God will sustain and protect us, even in our darkest hours.

Handmade hostess : 12 imaginative party ideas for unforgettable entertaining : 37 sewing & craft projects, 12 desserts (OverDrive e-book), Kelly Lee-Creel and Rebecca Soder.

In this book, Kelly and Rebecca have captured the heart of social gatherings for special occasions - expressing your love for family and friends in the DIY spirit of decorating, baking, and sewing. Dozens of sewing and no-sew projects for all skill levels, ranging from chic and elegant to festive and whimsical.

Let go of my leg : a practical guide to returning to work after children (OverDrive e-book), Kirsten Lees

You've had your babies and taken a year or more off work and now it's time to get out there and start earning again. How? Has the working world changed while you've been nurturing your brood? Or have you?

The decisive moment (OverDrive e-book), Jonah Lehrer

Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we 'blink' and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind's black box with the latest tools of neuroscience, they're discovering this is not how the mind works.

If you lived here, I'd know your name : news from small-town Alaska (OverDrive e-book), Heather Lende

Tiny Haines, Alaska, is ninety miles north of Juneau, accessible mainly by water or air - and only when the weather is good. There's no traffic light and no mail delivery, and funerals are community affairs. Whether contemplating the mysterious death of eccentric Speedy Joe, who never took off his hat--not even for a haircut; observing the Chilkat Bald Eagle Festival; or ice skating in the shadow of glacier-studded mountains, Lende's warm, folksy style brings us inside her busy life.

The fifth child (OverDrive e-book), Doris Lessing

Harriet and David Lovatt's life is a glorious hymn to domestic bliss and old-fashioned family values. But when their fifth child is born, a sickly and implacable shadow is cast over this tender idyll. Large and ugly, violent and uncontrollable, the infant Ben, 'full of cold dislike,' tears at Harriet's breast. Struggling to care for her new-born child, faced with a darkness and a strange defiance she has never known before, Harriet is deeply afraid of what, exactly, she has brought into the world.

The good terrorist (OverDrive e-book), Doris Lessing

In a London squat a band of bourgeois revolutionaries are united by a loathing of the waste and cruelty they see around them. These maladjusted malcontents try desperately to become involved in terrorist activities far beyond their level of competence. Nonetheless, while they may not have changed the world, their lives will never be the same again.

A thousand years of good prayers (OverDrive e-book), Yiyun Li

In this collection of stories, the author illuminates how mythology, politics, history, and culture intersect with personality to create fate.

The vagrants (OverDrive e-book), Yiyun Li

Based on a true story: a provincial town in China a young woman is sentenced to death for her loss of faith in Communism. The townsfolk stage a protest which is brutally suppressed.

My lady deceiver (OverDrive e-book), Freda Lightfoot

1905. Rosie Belsfield feels as if her life has ended when she is rejected from Ellis Island and put on the next boat back to England, leaving her family behind. Having boarded the ship with one identity, fate decrees that Rosie leave it with another … As Rosie arrives in Cornwall as 'Rosalind', she must fend for herself amongst a new and bitterly resentful family.

Now is the time : 170 ways to seize the moment (OverDrive e-book), Patrick Lindsay

You don't have to feel tired and disconnected. You can recapture that child-like spark. What are you waiting for? The time is now. This collection of reflections will remind you to live you passion, take time out and expand your horizons.

Don't Look Back (OverDrive e-book), Laura Lippman

Vietnamese street food (OverDrive e-book), Tracey Lister

As any traveller to Vietnam will know, the street food is second to none in terms of its diversity, great taste and availability. With stunning food photography of every dish and complemented by evocative location photography, Vietnamese Street Food provides an unforgettable insight into Vietnamese street food and culture that will inspire both the home chef and the armchair traveller.

Municipal architecture (OverDrive e-book), Helen Liu

This book has selected many excellent municipal projects completed in recent years around the world, including Judicial buildings, Administrative office buildings, Embassy buildings, Fire stations and Emergency Operations Centre as well as Shelter Homes.

Birthdays for the Dead (OverDrive e-book), Stuart MacBride

Close to the Bone (OverDrive e-book), Stuart MacBride

Cast into doubt (OverDrive e-book), Patricia J MacDonald

Shelby Sloan, a successful Philadelphia businesswoman in her early forties, life becomes a nightmare when her son-in-law Rob calls to tell her that her only child Chloe has disappeared overboard. The police decide it was an accident, but Shelby refuses to accept the official verdict …

From cradle to grave (OverDrive e-book), Patricia J MacDonald

When Morgan Adair arrives at the small seaside town of West Briar on the Long Island shore, she is looking forward to attending the baptism of her new godson, Drew. But a few days after the christening, Morgan receives a devastating phone call from her friend …

Missing child (OverDrive e-book), Patricia J MacDonald

One morning Caitlin Eckhart receives a phone call that changes her life forever - her much-loved six-year-old stepson Geordie has disappeared from school.

Sisters (OverDrive e-book), Patricia J MacDonald

Alex Woods is shocked to discover through the family lawyer that her beloved mother was keeping a secret - a baby she gave up for adoption when she had just left high school. But when Alex decides to search for her long lost sister - and finds her she is in for a terrible surprise.

Heather fell in the water (OverDrive e-book), Doug MacLeod

A hilarious story about a little girl who is afraid of the water, but ultimately makes friends with it - and learns to swim.

Heartsong (OverDrive e-book), Debbie Macomber

Skye Garin treasures her work as a volunteer in the paediatric ward of the local hospital. Bringing even a small amount of joy to a suffering child is a blessing that Skye cherishes. But due to overcrowding, her favourite young patient's new roommate is an adult - a man who catches Skye completely off guard. Despite his gruff exterior, Skye is compelled to help the unnerving man.

Starlight (OverDrive e-book), Debbie Macomber

At a magical Christmas fete, Karen McAlister meets a man she cannot ignore - the first man to interest her in a long while. But the fates are determined to pull them apart.

Doodle quilting : over 120 continuous-line machine-quilting designs (OverDrive e-book), Cheryl Malkowski

Helps you gain confidence in your innate artistic ability to draw basic shapes, then you can learn how to put them together into over a hundred different all-over designs. In this guide, the focus is on selecting the right forms and lines that get you where you need to go - because sometimes the hardest part is figuring out where to quilt next.

A Fool's Gold Christmas (OverDrive e-book), Susan Mallery

When an injury forces her to return home to Fool's Gold and into the fold of her estranged family, dancer Evie Stryker, who doesn't believe in Christmas miracles, agrees to stage the winter festival and then plans to leave town, but her brother's best friend has other plans for her.

Hot on her heels (OverDrive e-book), Susan Mallery

Dana Birch vowed never to put herself at the mercy of a powerful man. She became a deputy so that she could take care of herself, and protect those she loved.

Lip service (OverDrive e-book), Susan Mallery

When Mitch Cassidy returns home from the Navy to discover that Skye Titan, the woman he loved, is now a widow with a young daughter he suspects is his, he vows to find out the truth and help Skye break free of her controlling father.

Sizzling (OverDrive e-book), Susan Mallery

Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, Reid Buchanan, a former pro baseball pitcher and current owner of his family's sports bar, has a history of making women swoon. But not all women - especially his grandmother's nurse, Lori Johnson, who is determined to remain professional.

Arabesque : modern Middle Eastern food (OverDrive e-book), Greg and Lucy Malouf.

Greg Malouf is widely admired as one of Australia's most innovative and influential chefs. This collection of 170 recipes is not slavish to tradition, but rather Greg's modern takes on the food he has grown up with.

Saraban : a chef's journey through Persia (OverDrive e-book), Greg & Lucy Malouf

Persian cooking is one of the oldest and most sophisticated cuisines in the world and its influence has spread across India and the Middle East to North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula and even through Medieval Europe. Discover the joy of Persian cooking for yourself with the mouth-watering recipes that Greg has created for the home kitchen, as he mixes centuries of tradition with modern techniques and flavours for both the home cook and experienced chef.

Turquoise : a chef's travels in Turkey (OverDrive e-book), Greg and Lucy Malouf

A highly illustrated travel and cookbook based on the authors' journey through Turkey. Greg Malouf is an internationally renowned chef based in Melbourne.

The Season's Plate cookbook (OverDrive e-book), Lucy Malouf

A cookbook to celebrate 10 years of Season's Plate lunch events held at the Wyndham Estate winery in the Hunter Valley NSW. The cookbook features 70 recipes from well-known chefs who have contributed to the event over the years.

A sea too far (OverDrive e-book), Hank Manley

15-year old Warren early find himself transported through time to the days of Blackbeard the pirate.

Bring up the Bodies (OverDrive e-book), Hilary Mantel

The sacred sword (OverDrive e-book), Scott Mariani

Returning to the UK to try to sort out his stormy personal life, Ben runs into two old friends, Simeon and Michaela, now The Reverend and Mrs Arundel. Ben senses that Simeon is deeply troubled and frightened, but before the truth can emerge both he and Michaela are wiped out in a devastating road crash and Ben is propelled on a global quest from the UK to France, the Holy Land and America to unlock the enigma of a sacred sword.

The glass butterfly (OverDrive e-book), Louise Marley

A new life. A new name. A complete break with the past. It's the only way therapist Victoria Lake can think to protect her son - and herself - from a case turned deadly. She can't even listen to her beloved Puccini. But without the music in her ears, eerie dreams invade her sleep. Lush with the sounds and sights of 19th-century Tuscany, they're also loaded with a very real warning she can't afford to ignore.

Ruby (OverDrive e-book), Marie Maxwell

As a former evacuee, feisty Ruby is forced to fend for herself when she returns to her family in London. Set in the aftermath of WW2 and based in Southend, this gripping saga is richly evocative of the period.

Class captain (OverDrive e-book), Rowan McAuley

By the time Olivia arrives at school she has thought up a hundred different disasters and is starting to feel slightly sick. Maybe it isn't such a good idea to sleep-over at her best friend's house after all?

The new girl (OverDrive e-book), Rowan McAuley

Zoe thought the new girl would be nice, but it turns out she's kind of a bully! Will Zoe become a bully too, or can she be a good friend and stand up to the new girl?

The convent (OverDrive e-book), Maureen McCarthy

Peach is nineteen and pretty happy with the way things are, but when she takes a summer job at a cafe in the old convent, her idea of who she is takes a sharp turn into the past. Warm and real, intense and provocative, Maureen McCarthy's The Convent shows in vivid detail how fate and the choices we make ripple and reverberate through time.

Knuckle (OverDrive e-book), James Quinn McDonagh

Knuckle is the true story of James Quinn McDonagh - clan head and champion bare-knuckle fighter. Caught in a brutal cycle of violence that has left men dead, houses burned and lives destroyed, James tells a story that opens up a hidden world - revealing why history repeats itself, and why he can never go home!

You had me at hello (OverDrive e-book), Mhairi McFarlane

It’s been a decade since they last spoke, but when Rachel bumps into Ben one rainy day, the years melt away. They’d been partners in crime and the best of friends. But life has moved on: Ben is married. Rachel is not. Yet in that split second, Rachel feels the old friendship return. And along with it, the broken heart she’s never been able to mend.

iPad 4th generation and iPad mini portable genius (OverDrive e-book), Paul McFedries

Everything you need to know about the newest iPads from Apple!

New Zealand's Vietnam War : a history of combat, commitment and controversy (OverDrive e-book), Ian Callum McGibbon

New Zealand's Vietnam War provides a comprehensive and authoritative account of New Zealand's involvement in the Vietnam War, one that will remain the standard reference work on the subject for decades. Its publication completes the programme of official war history production that began in 1945.

All natural murder (OverDrive e-book), Staci McLaughlin

As Dana Lewis settles into a quiet life of tofu this and tofu that, murder a la carte is the last thing she wants on her plate.

Feeding frenzy (OverDrive e-book), Paul McMahon

Feeding Frenzy traces the history of the global food system and reveals the underlying causes of recent turmoil in food markets. Supplies are running short, prices keep spiking and the media is full of talk of a 'world food crisis'. This book reveals trends that could lead to more hunger and conflict but Paul McMahon also outlines actions that can be taken to shape a sustainable and just food system.

iPad for the older and wiser (OverDrive e-book), Sean McManus

Easy-to-follow advice on using your iPad, this new edition gets you up and running on new iPad features such as iCloud, tabbed browsing, the new Messages app, and new photo editing capabilities but it also includes general information such as how to set up and register your iPad, sync it with other devices, download apps from the App Store, play games or watch films, and much more.

Why you're not married yet : the straight talk you need to get the relationship you deserve (OverDrive e-book), Tracy McMillan

A full-length guide based on the author's popular Huffington Post article shares straight-talking advice for women on how to make recommended emotional and behavioural changes in order to foster a healthy committed relationship.

Aggressor (OverDrive e-book), Andy McNab

Ex-deniable operator Nick Stone seems to be living his dream. But when he sees a news report of the massacre of women and children in a terrorist outrage on the other side of the world, long-suppressed memories are triggered, and Nick knows he must risk everything to repay a longstanding debt of friendship.

Brute force (OverDrive e-book), Andy McNab

Days after his car erupts in a ball of flame, Nick Stone narrowly cheats death a second time when a gunman opens fire on him from the back of a motorcycle. Who knows his movements? Who wants him dead, and why? Stone's only chance of survival is to carry the fight to his attackers.

Crisis four (OverDrive e-book), Andy McNab

A heart-stopping novel of violence, betrayal and high-octane suspense. Nick Stone, ex-SAS, now a 'K' working for British Intelligence on deniable operations, is tough, resourceful, ruthless, highly trained - a master of his trade. Sarah is beautiful, steel willed, intelligent, cunning - the only woman that Stone has ever let under his guard. And now he's been sent to hunt her down …

Crossfire (OverDrive e-book), Andy McNab

Bodyguarding a TV crew on the streets of war-torn Basra, ex-deniable operator Nick Stone's life is saved by a reporter's swift action as a roadside bomb explodes. When the man later vanishes, Stone is asked to find him.

Dark winter (OverDrive e-book), Andy McNab

When Nick Stone is despatched to Malaysia by the CIA to assassinate a biochemist, he expects his mission to be a straightforward part of the fight against Bin Laden. But soon Stone finds himself facing an unspeakable trade-off involving the life of someone he loves.

Deep black (OverDrive e-book), Andy McNab

Nick's future has never looked so bleak. The only person he has ever loved is dead and the only people who might give him a reason not to join her have turned their backs. Until a chance meeting with a man he saved ten years ago throws him a lifeline.

Firewall (OverDrive e-book), Andy McNab

An ex-SAS officer now working for British Intelligence finds himself to be a disposable pawn in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse between the superpowers. Being a deniable operative, he is in deadly danger, but he needs the money.

Last light (OverDrive e-book), Andy McNab

In Central America, Stone prepares for his mission. But he has made powerful enemies, and as the hunter turns into the hunted, Nick gradually uncovers a far-reaching conspiracy involving Colombian rebels, the US government, and Chinese big business.

Liberation day (OverDrive e-book), Andy McNab

December 2001. A Zodiac inflatable slips away from a submarine off the Algerian coast. If he hadn't needed American citizenship so badly, Nick Stone wouldn't have agreed to do this one last job.

Recoil (OverDrive e-book), Andy McNab

Recuperating in Switzerland after a job that cost the life of one of his closest friends, ex-deniable operator Nick Stone is looking for a quiet life. But, when his private life starts to disintegrate, Nick is reluctantly forced back into action. The trail leads him to Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Remote control (OverDrive e-book), Andy McNab

When British intelligence agent Nick Stone pays a visit to Kev Brown, his old colleague, he finds a chilling scene of carnage in the quiet suburban home. With the seven-year-old survivor in tow, Stone is suddenly on the run. Bestselling author Andy McNab draws on seventeen years of active service as a member of the elite Special Air Service, filling his remarkable tale with authentic details, relentless action, daring escapes, and breathless plotting.

Phyllis Wong and the forgotten secrets of Mr Okyto (OverDrive e-book), Geoffrey McSkimming

A junior Jonathan Creek-style mystery in which the clever and resourceful young magician, Phyllis Wong, helps solve numerous crimes including the thefts of a missing diamond necklace and the most valuable painting ever to come to the city.

The Fowler family business (OverDrive e-book), Jonathan Meades

Henry Fowler was twice, long ago, runner-up in the Oil Fuels Guild sponsored Young Funeral Director of the Year competition. Well into middle age, and Henry's life is running smoothly as he always hoped it would. But then the foundations of a world, a family and an identity begin to rock.

Preincarnate (OverDrive e-book), Shaun Micallef

The tale of an ordinary man in a race against and across time. Join Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H.G. Wells, Queen Victoria, Jack the Ripper and Tom Cruise as they unravel a Masonic plot to restore James II to the throne, and in the process, perhaps destroy the Universe itself.

Big sky country (OverDrive e-book), Linda Lael Miller

When he inherits half of a ranch, Sheriff Slade Barlow meets resistance from his half-brother Hutch, especially when Hutch's former flame, Josyln Kirk, who is working hard to make up for her stepfather's dishonesty, catches his eye.

The silver brumby (OverDrive e-book), Elyne Mitchell

Thowra, the magnificent silver stallion, becomes king of the brumbies. But he must defend his herd from the mighty horse, The Brolga, in the most savage of struggles. That is not the only danger. Thowra needs all his speed and cunning to save his herd from capture by man.

The lonely passion of Judith Hearne (OverDrive e-book), Brian Moore

A timeless classic dealing with the complexity and hardships of relationships, addiction and faith. Judith Hearne, a Catholic middle-aged spinster, moves into yet another bed-sit in Belfast. A socially isolated woman of modest means, she teaches piano to a handful of students to pass the day. She wonders what place there is for her in a world that so values family ties and faith, both of which she is without.

Private Peaceful (OverDrive e-book), Michael Morpurgo

Told in the voice of Private Tommo Peaceful, the story follows twenty-four hours at the front, and captures his memories of his family and his village life - by no means as tranquil as it appeared. Full of vivid detail and engrossing atmosphere, leading to a dramatic and moving conclusion, Private Peaceful is both a compelling love story and a deeply moving account of the First World War.

A teaspoon of earth and sea (OverDrive e-book), Dina Nayeri

When Saba finds herself abandoned, alone with her father in Iran, she is certain that her mother and twin have moved to America without her. As she grows up in the warmth and community of her local village she imagines a simultaneous, parallel life - a Western version, for her sister, filled with a freedom and control that Saba can only dream of. A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea is told in a bewitching voice that mingles the rhythms of Eastern storytelling with straightforward Western prose, to tell a wholly original story about the importance of controlling your own fate.

A broken family (OverDrive e-book), Kitty Neale

Seventeen year old Amy Miller is an only child living with her parents in a small house at the bottom of Lark Rise. Her boyfriend Tommy lives at the top of hill in one of the few nicer houses and his mother Cecelia doesn't think Amy is good enough for her son.

A father's revenge (OverDrive e-book), Kitty Neale

Thirteen years have passed since Kevin Dolby was sent to prison for robbery with violence. In the meantime, his ex wife Pearl Button has divorced him and remarried, determined to protect her son. Then she hears two pieces of terrifying news - Kevin Dolby is up for parole and that her dear friend Bessie is gravely ill.

What the traveller saw (OverDrive e-book), Eric Newby

One of the funniest and most entertaining of all travel writers, Eric Newby has been wandering the by-ways of the world for over half a century.

Strands of bronze and gold (OverDrive e-book), Jane Nickerson

When seventeen-year-old Sophia Petheram's beloved father dies, she receives an invitation - on fine ivory paper, in bold black handwriting - from the mysterious Monsieur Bernard de Cressac, her godfather. With no money and fewer options, Sophie accepts, leaving her humble childhood home for the astonishingly lavish Wyndriven Abbey, in the heart of Mississippi.

Unravelling (OverDrive e-book), Elizabeth Norris

Leaving the beach, seventeen-year-old Janelle Tenner is hit head on by a pickup truck and killed. Then Ben Michaels, resident stoner, is leaning over her and even though it isn't possible, she knows Ben somehow brought her back to life…

Hand-crafted candy bars (OverDrive e-book), Susie Norris

The beloved candy bars of your childhood have finally grown up. Using high-quality chocolate, creamy homemade caramel and nougat, crunchy nuts, and lots and lots of sugar, these recipes raise the (candy) bar to new levels of sweet sophistication.

Polly (OverDrive e-book), Freya North

Polly Fenton loves her job teaching English in London, and she's mad about Max Fyfield, but she's leaving both behind to embark on a year-long teacher's exchange to Vermont. Spanning three terms and two countries, this is a sparky and sassy story of New England and Old England, fidelity and flirtation, receiving one's comeuppance - and making amends.

Pip (OverDrive e-book), Freya North

Pip McCabe takes her role as a clown very seriously, whether at spoilt kid's parties or on children's hospital wards. Zac Homes is popular, charming and affluent, with a six-year-old son. So what can a clown and an accountant possibly have in common?

We were the Mulvaneys (OverDrive e-book), Joyce Carol Oates

The Mulvaneys are blessed with a successful, hard-working father, a loving mother, three fine sons, and a sweet, pretty daughter. Their position in the community seems secure. But something happens to 16-year-old Marianne on Valentine's Day, 1976, and incident that is hushed up in the town and never spoken of in the Mulvaney home that causes the bottom to fall out of their world.

The Catalans (OverDrive e-book), Patrick O'Brian

Alain Roig returns to the rolling vineyards and gentle courtyards of his Catalonian hometown having been nominated to prevent an impending marriage between his cold, ascetic cousin Xavier and Madeleine, a quiet, introspective village girl of unusual beauty. As Alain seeks to understand his cousin's complex motivations for wooing the unhappy girl, he is slowly drawn into Xavier's dark crisis of faith, the well-worn pattern of the sleepy Catalan days and the tight circle of village gossip that surrounds Madeleine.

Master and commander (OverDrive e-book), Patrick O'Brian

Jack Aubrey, a sea officer in the wars against France, is accompanied through his career by his friend Stephen Maturin. This book looks at the beginnings of their friendship.

Richard Temple (OverDrive e-book), Patrick O'Brian

Captive in a brutal German prison towards the end of World War II, the real Richard Temple has been suppressed to the point of near-extinction when a sudden respite in his torture allows him a moment of rare release, when he can lower his guard and remember who he is. Huddled in his cell, too badly beaten to move, the action of the novel takes place in the Richard's mind as he retraces a convoluted course from an unhappy childhood, through a vague and uncertain adolescence to a complex, compromised adulthood, shot through with artistic sensibility and the myriad impulses that make a man.

Without warning (OverDrive e-book), Jane O'Connor

On Saturday 7 February 2009, Jane and her family were listening with concern to reports of fires sweeping through Kilmore and Wandong, 50 kilometres to their east and - according to the reports - heading south. But as the clouds of smoke loomed closer they realised that the fire was in fact heading towards them. But by then it was too late to evacuate; they were trapped as the firestorm swept towards them, obliterating everything in its ferocious path.

Out of order : stories from the history of the Supreme Court (OverDrive e-book), Sandra Day O'Connor

From Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to sit on the United States Supreme Court, comes this fascinating book about the history and evolution of the highest court in the land. Out of Order sheds light on the centuries of change and upheaval that transformed the Supreme Court from its uncertain beginnings into the remarkable institution that thrives and endures today.

Outdoor : grill your way 'round the world (OverDrive e-book), Ben O'Donoghue

Recipes for cooking global recipes using various barbecuing techniques.

Sorted! : the ultimate guide to organising your life - once and for all (OverDrive e-book), Lissanne Oliver

This is the perfect guide to getting organised, sorting out your life, and getting back on track.

Barefoot in Baghdad (OverDrive e-book), Manal M Omar

A riveting story of hope and despair, of elation and longing, Barefoot in Baghdad takes you to the front lines of a different kind of battle, where the unsung freedom fighters are strong, vibrant, and female.

French food safari : a delicious journey into culinary heaven (OverDrive e-book), Maeve O'Meara with Guillaume Brahimi.

Following on from bestsellers Food Safari and Italian Food Safari, French Food Safari is the much-awaited next feast in the beautiful Food Safari series - a celebration of the incredible breadth and diversity of French food traditions. Offering simple foolproof recipes that anyone can cook at home, it's a delicious journey into France making discoveries that will inspire any cook.

Italian food safari : a delicious celebration of the italian kitchen (OverDrive e-book), Maeve O' Meara with Guy Grossi.

Set around Australia and covering the four seasons, Italian Food Safari introduces you to the concrete backyards full of abundant tomato and basil plants, the cosy home kitchens where masterpieces are whipped up, the elegant restaurants filled with delicious cooking aromas, the specialist providores and extensive delis, bakeries, cheese-makers and pasticcerias.

The Breezes (OverDrive e-book), Joseph O'Neill

Fourteen years ago Mary Breeze was killed by lightning ? it should have been all the bad luck that the Breeze family were due but, as John Breeze is about to find out, this couldn't be further from the truth.

Netherland (OverDrive e-book), Joseph O'Neill

In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, Hans - a banker originally from the Netherlands - finds himself marooned among the strange occupants of the Chelsea Hotel after his English wife and son return to London. Netherland gives us both a flawlessly drawn picture of a little-known New York and a story of much larger, and brilliantly achieved ambition: the grand strangeness and fading promise of 21st century America from an outsider's vantage point, and the complicated relationship between the American dream and the particular dreamers.

New boots in New Zealand (OverDrive e-book), Gillian Orrell

New boots in New Zealand is a humorous, first-hand account of walking the nine Great Walks of New Zealand, encompassing many additional facts, anecdotes and insights about New Zealand's culture, history and peoples.

Sisterhood Of Lake Alice (OverDrive e-book), Mari M Osmon

In the small town of Fergus Falls, Minnesota, a place small enough where everyone knows each other's business, four unlikely girls become the best of friends. Each woman is at a turning point in their life when they return to Fergus Falls for their twentieth class reunion. They struggle with various problems - wearing the masks of success or learning to be honest - and together they rediscover the joy of friendships once more.

Life magic (OverDrive e-book), Ruth Ostrow

Life Magic is a motivating, practial guide to understanding and changing the thought processes and mental habits that make us what we are.

Oregon Hill (OverDrive e-book), Howard Owen

Willie Black is back on the night cops beat, right where he started when he came to work for the Richmond paper almost thirty years ago. When a coed at the local university where Willie's daughter is a perpetual student is murdered, her headless body found along the South Anna River, the hapless alleged killer is arrested within days. But Willie, against the orders and advice of his bosses at the paper, the police, and just about everyone else, doesn't think the case is solved at all and embarks on a one-man crusade to do what he's always done: get the story.

Aquatan (OverDrive e-book), Mac Park

Was Kai right to choose the Torpedo Cross Bow to battle the water beast? Will it work against toxic jellyfish? Will it be enough to take on a wave attack?

Aquaterros (OverDrive e-book), Mac Park

Something strange is happening in Beastium. A new mutant beast is filling the water land with rocks. Will Kai and BC be able to battle the new beast with their new gear? Will Kai battle well enough to prove himself a worthy Border Captain?

Chillterratan (OverDrive e-book), Mac Park

Beasts have escaped from the Outlands and are back in Beastium. Two beasts are fighting in the ice land. New beasts. Mega-mutants. Will Kai and his battle partner, Will Ritter, know how to battle these beasts and win?

Flamatoraq (OverDrive e-book), Mac Park

Only a wall divides Earth from the Beasts of Beastium. Only a boy and his dogbot defend the wall and protect Earth. Kai Masters! Border guard and beast battler. Things have changed again in Beastium. Beasts have appeared in the border-lands, New beasts. Combination beasts. Kai will have to learn quickly to battle these. Can he win against the fire-water-rock beast?

Infernix (OverDrive e-book), Mac Park

Can Kai get past the fire-fly splats? Will his Foam Blaster hose down the Flamaxagon fire beast's fire-ball attack?

Isolus (OverDrive e-book), Mac Park

Only a wall divides Earth from Beasts of Beastium. Only a boy and his dogbot defend the wall and protect Earth. Kai Masters! Border guard and beast battler. Things have changed in Beastium. Beasts have appeared in the border-lands, New beasts. Combination beasts. Kai will have to lean quickly to battle these one.

Sludgia (OverDrive e-book), Mac Park

Only a wall divides Earth from Beasts of Beastium. Only a boy and his dogbot defend the wall and protect Earth. Kai Masters! Border guard and beast battler. Things have changed in Beastium. Beasts have appeared in the border-lands, New beasts. Combination beasts. Kai will have to lean quickly to battle these one.

Stormasaurix (OverDrive e-book), Mac Park

Something strange is happening in Beastium. There is a dust storm in the wind land and a new mutant beast. Will Kai and BC be able to battle the new beast with their new gear? Will Kai battle well enough to prove himself a worthy Border Captain?

Tempesta (OverDrive e-book), Mac Park

Only a wall divides Earth from Beasts of Beastium. Only a boy and his dogbot defend the wall and protect Earth. Kai Masters! Border guard and beast battler. Things have changed in Beastium. Beasts have appeared in the border-lands, New beasts. Combination beasts. Kai will have to lean quickly to battle these one.

Terradon (OverDrive e-book), Mac Park

Terraserpix (OverDrive e-book), Mac Park

Only a wall divides Earth from Beasts of Beastium. Only a boy and his dogbot defend the wall and protect Earth. Kai Masters! Border guard and beast battler. Things have changed again in Beastium. Beasts have appeared in the border-lands, New beasts. Combination beasts. Kai will have to lean quickly to battle these. Can he win against the fire-water-rock beast?

Torlavasaur (OverDrive e-book), Mac Park

Kai Masters, border guard and beast battler, is now a captain. Will Kai choose the right battle partner to beat the mega-mutants?

Tornados (OverDrive e-book), Mac Park

Volcan (OverDrive e-book), Mac Park

Only a wall divides Earth from Beasts of Beastium. Only a boy and his dogbot defend the wall and protect Earth: Kai Masters! border guard and beast battler. Things have changed in Beastium. Beasts have appeared in the border-lands, New beasts. Combination beasts. Kai will have to lean quickly to battle these ones.

Back to the Pilliga (OverDrive e-book), Tony (Anthony D ) Parsons

When a wealthy society woman asks Lachie to lead the search for her missing daughter, he reluctantly agrees. Early indications are that the woman's captors are hiding her in the Pilliga region, meaning Lachie must return to his roots in order to try and save her life. A rollicking bush yarn.

Endal (OverDrive e-book), Allen Parton

Forgotten (OverDrive e-book), Cat Patrick

Each night at precisely 4:33 am, while sixteen-year-old London Lane is asleep, her memory of that day is erased. In the morning, all she can "remember" are events from her future. When London starts experiencing disturbing flashbacks, or flash-forwards, as the case may be, she realises it's time to learn about the past she keeps forgetting-before it destroys her future.

Revived (OverDrive e-book), Cat Patrick

Another fast paced thriller from Cat Patrick with enough romance and suspense to keep girls hooked right to the end. Daisy has died five times. She's a test subject for a government super drug called Revive, which brings people back from the dead.

Camellia (OverDrive e-book), Lesley Pearse

Camellia Norton is orphaned at fifteen when her mother's body is fished from a river in rural Sussex. Devastated, she runs away to London, and loses herself in a metropolis that offers opportunity, temptation and danger, especially to a young girl hungry for love and acceptance.

Georgia (OverDrive e-book), Lesley Pearse

When nine-year-old orphan Georgia James is unexpectedly fostered by the kindly Celia and her bank manager husband she can hardly believe her luck. But then, on her fifteenth birthday, she suffers the cruellest betrayal of all at the hands of her foster father and is forced to run away, leaving everything she loves behind her.

Tara (OverDrive e-book), Lesley Pearse

This is the story of Mabel, whose great love for a gambling man has brought her close to insanity; gentle Amy, who marries a man brutalised by war and failure; and Tara, who is hungry for success and life on her own terms.

Blogging and tweeting without getting sued (OverDrive e-book), Mark Pearson

As more than a few bloggers or tweeters have discovered, you can be sued in your own country, or arrested at the airport heading off to a holiday in another country. In this handy guide, media law expert Mark Pearson explains how you can get your message across online without landing yourself in legal trouble.

Blind delusion (OverDrive e-book), Dorothy Phaire

Things are not what they appear to be in this multi-layered psychological thriller of murder, obsession, and romance where a lonely clinical psychologist realises it can be more frightening to reveal her soul than to face death.

Between the lines (OverDrive e-book), Jodi Picoult

If anyone knew how many times she has read and re-read the sweet little fairy tale she found in the library, especially the popular kids, Delilah'd be sent to social Siberia forever. Turns out, this Prince Charming is real, and a certain fifteen-year-old loner has caught his eye. But they're from two different worlds, and how can it ever possibly work?

To sell is human (OverDrive e-book), Daniel H. Pink

In this provocative book, New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Daniel H. Pink offers a fresh look at the art and science of persuasion. Physicians sell patients on a remedy. Lawyers sell juries on a verdict. Teachers sell students on the value of an education.

Illumination (OverDrive e-book), Matthew Plampin

A powerful story of revolution, love and intense rivalry set in 1870 during the four-month siege of Paris.

Real tastes of Indonesia (OverDrive e-book), Rose Prince

The Real Taste of Indonesia is genuine Indonesian food, from real Indonesian families.

Deception (OverDrive e-book), Amanda Quick

Olympia Wingfield is saddled with raising her motherless nephews but her dreary life gets a bit more interesting when Mr. Jared Chillhurst arrives to tutor her three incorrigible charges. Soon she is swept up in a scandalous affair with a dangerous, desirable man who is haunted by old enemies and an even older mystery.

Lessons in French (OverDrive e-book), Hilary Reyl

It's 1989, the Berlin Wall is coming down, and Kate has just graduated from Yale, eager to pursue her dreams as a fledgling painter. She finds herself surrounded by a seductive cast of characters, including the bright, pretentious Schells, with whom she boards, and their assortment of famous friends; Kate's own flamboyant cousin; a fellow Yalie who seems to have it all figured out; and a bande of independently wealthy young men with royal lineage.

Out "A" order (OverDrive e-book), Evie Rhodes

Shannon Davenport is struggling to make a better life for himself and his beloved eight-year-old daughter Jasmine when she's cut down by a sniper's bullet. As Shannon's quest for her killer drives him to the edge of sanity, he must confront an enemy more sinister than he ever imagined.

The fanatic (OverDrive e-book), James Robertson

It is Spring 1997 and Hugh Hardie needs a ghost for his Tours of Old Edinburgh so, with cape, stick and a plastic rat, Andrew Carlin is paid to pretend to be the spirit of Colonel Weir and to scare the tourists. But who is Colonel Weir, executed for witchcraft in 1670?

Damascus countdown (OverDrive e-book), Joel C Rosenberg

After Israel declares war on Iran, CIA operative David Shirazi infiltrates the Iranian regime and intercepts information indicating that two Iranian nuclear warheads have been moved to a secure and undisclosed location.

The enchantress of Florence (OverDrive e-book), Salman Rushdie

"The Enchantress of Florence" is the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world. It brings together two cities that barely know each other - the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant emperor wrestles daily with questions of belief, desire and the treachery of sons, and the equally sensual Florentine world of powerful courtesans, humanist philosophy and inhuman torture. These two worlds, so far apart, turn out to be uncannily alike, and the enchantments of women hold sway over them both.

Fury (OverDrive e-book), Salman Rushdie

Malik Solanka, historian of ideas and dollmaker extraordinaire, steps out of his life one day, abandons his family without a word of explanation, and flees London for New York. There's a fury within him, and he fears he has become dangerous to those he loves. The petty spats and bone-deep resentments of the metropolis engulf him. His own thoughts, emotions, and desires, meanwhile, are also running wild.

Shalimar the clown (OverDrive e-book), Salman Rushdie

Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls, one of the makers of the modern world, is knifed to death in broad daylight on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India, slaughtered by his Kashmiri driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the Clown. The murder looks at first like a political assassination but turns out to be passionately personal. This is the story of Max, his killer, and his daughter - and of a fourth character, the woman who links them, whose story explains them all.

Step across this line (OverDrive e-book), Salman Rushdie

A collection of the author's nonfiction pieces addresses such topics as his fascination with "The Wizard of Oz," the 2000 presidential election, the Muslim faith, life under a fatwa, and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Blackbirds (OverDrive e-book), Garry Ryan

When young Sharon Lacey travels from Canada to England in the spring of 1940 in search of the father she never knew, she finds herself called upon to participate in a much larger and more dangerous mission.

The Lucky Elephant Restaurant : a Detective Lane mystery (OverDrive e-book), Garry Ryan

When the young daughter of popular radio talk show host Bobbie Reddie disappears along with Bobbie's ex-husband, Detectives Lane and Harper are on the case. As the pressure mounts for Lane and Harper to swiftly close the case, Lane's private life becomes threatened. The two detectives are running out of time and must untangle the many lies surrounding this bizarre investigation before another child disappears.

Queen's Park (OverDrive e-book), Garry Ryan

Detective Lane has a knack for discovering the whereabouts of missing persons but the city's latest case has disappeared without a trace. A zany cast of characters, including a love doll and a chain-smoking grandma with an oxygen tank, lead Detective Lane on a thrilling romp through the streets of Calgary.

Smoked (OverDrive e-book), Garry Ryan

When Jennifer Towers is found dead in a graffiti-tagged dumpster, Detectives Lane and Harper must decipher the art to find its artist - and possibly the victim's killer. With a surprising shift in tone, Smoked highlights the Detective Lane mystery series as one that reminds us of this generation's obligation to the children in its care.

Manage a homebuild and renovation project (OverDrive e-book), Leonard John Sales

Undertaking a building or renovation project can be a bit daunting but with the help of this book you will be in control at all times, confident in your decision making, and sure of getting the job done on time and to a high standard.

My secret life in Paris (OverDrive e-book), Lucy Salisbury

Outwardly cool and respectable, very English and very reserved, but Lucy has a hidden need for the sort of adventure that would make your hair curl. Intensely kinky erotica from the author of 'A Study in Shame' and 'S is for Spanking'.

Ring road (OverDrive e-book), Ian Sansom

A warm, humane, and sharply observed tale of small town life that is by equal turns hilarious and moving. Clever, touching and, above all, utterly spot-on in its depiction of small town life, Ring Road is confirms Ian Sansom’s status as one of our most perceptive authors working today.

Gluten-free kids : a parents' guide to happy, healthy, gluten-free children (OverDrive e-book), Kate Santon

Coeliac disease is controllable with diet, and it's a really healthy diet too. You need to understand your child's condition and Gluten-free kids will help you do just that. Along the way you will pick up some invaluable advice on kids' parties, fast food, holidays, travelling, illness, teenage food rebellion and dealing with resistance from people of all ages!

Eating for the healthy heart (OverDrive e-book), Catherine Saxelby

Nutritionist Catherine Saxelby gives you the information and strategies you need to lower your cholesterol and look after your heart in years to come.

All that happened at Number 26 (OverDrive e-book), Denise Scott

"I'll never forget the first time John and I saw number 26. We just knew it was going to be ours. It was so awful and ugly and repulsive in every way, not to mention the fact that it was located in a suburb I had sworn I'd rather die than live in, that we knew we had a great chance of getting it.' And so Denise Scott moved into number 26, with a husband, his circus equipment, a king-sized futon (but not a base), and a Ventolin inhaler.

South (OverDrive e-book), Ernest Henry Shackleton

Sir Ernest Shackleton's final ambition to be the first to lead an historic expedition across the Antarctic. Shackleton tells how he and his crew crossed six hundred miles of ice and sea and landed on the desolate Elephant Island. From there, in an open boat, he and four others crossed the tempestuous sub-Antarctic Ocean, a distance of eight hundred and fifty miles, to reach South Georgia and help.

A thousand sisters (OverDrive e-book), Lisa Shannon

The founder of the organization Run for Congo Women describes her visit to Congo and recounts the extreme hardships and tragic events in the lives of the women she meets there.

Nate the Great and the monster mess (OverDrive e-book), Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

Nate and his dog Sludge are determined to find the recipe for his mother's monster cookies.

Nate the Great and the mushy Valentine (OverDrive e-book), Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

Nate the Great investigates two cases that may be connected, involving a missing Valentine and a Valentine that came from nowhere.

Nate the Great and the pillowcase (OverDrive e-book), Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

Nate the Great investigates the disappearance of a homemade pillowcase belonging to Rosamond's cat Big Hex.

Children of Liberty (OverDrive e-book), Paullina Simons

Eating for England (OverDrive e-book), Nigel Slater

Geek girl (OverDrive e-book), Holly Smale

"My name is Harriet Manners, and I am a geek." Harriet Manners knows that a cat has 32 muscles in each ear, a "jiffy" lasts 1/100th of a second, and the average person laughs 15 times per day. But she doesn’t know why nobody at school seems to like her. So when Harriet is spotted by a top model agent, she grabs the chance to reinvent herself. As her old life starts to fall apart, will Harriet be able to transform herself before she ruins everything?

The explorer (OverDrive e-book), James Smythe

A tense, claustrophobic and gripping science fiction thriller from the author of The Testimony. When journalist Cormac Easton is selected to document the first manned mission into deep space, he dreams of securing his place in history as one of humanity's great explorers. The crew wake from hypersleep to discover their captain dead in his allegedly fail-proof safety pod. The word from ground control is unequivocal: no matter what happens, the mission must continue. But as the body count begins to rise, Cormac finds himself alone and spiralling towards his own inevitable death unless he can do something to stop it.

Who could that be at this hour? (OverDrive e-book), Lemony Snicket

Author Lemony Snicket is a broken man, wracked with misery and despair as a result of writing 'A Series Of Unfortunate Events'. He spends his days wandering the countryside weeping and moaning, and his evenings eating hastily-prepared meals. But what was he like when he was thirteen years old?

The dead hand of history (OverDrive e-book), Sally Spencer

Two grisly murders at a bakery provide a trial by fire for Charlie Woodend's protégée. But the newly minted DCI isn't quite prepared for the treachery of her misogynist bagman, DS Walker, who undercuts her at every turn. Only DI Colin Beresford seems willing to help Monika find out whether it really was Szymborska who killed his wife Linda, who ran Brunskill's along with her sister Jenny. Monika carries the torch nobly as Spencer's franchise keeps its edge.

The essence of the thing (OverDrive e-book), Madeleine St John

Nicola nips out to the off-licence to buy cigarettes and returns to find a stranger in her living room. The stranger looks like Jonathan, talks like Jonathan, yet Nicola did not recognise him as the man he was before. Friends gather round, always ready to offer encouragement or insult her ex-husband, yet Nicola must face up to the adjustments of Life After Jonathan. It is not the experience of liberation, empowerment and excitement it is meant to be.

Armada (OverDrive e-book), John Stack

After decades of religious strife, Elizabeth sits on the throne of England. The reformation continues. Catholic revolts have been ruthlessly quashed, and Elizabeth has ordered the execution of her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots. Thomas Varian is a captain in Drake's formidable navy, rising quickly through the ranks but he guards a secret - one for which he would pay with his life if discovered: he is a Catholic. He is about to find his conflicting loyalty to his religion, to his Queen, and to his country tested under the most formidable of circumstances: facing the mighty Armada.

First light (OverDrive e-book), Rebecca Stead

When twelve-year-old Peter and his family arrive in Greenland for his father's research, he stumbles upon a secret his mother has been hiding from him all his life, and begins an adventure he never imagines possible.

Liar & spy (OverDrive e-book), Rebecca Stead

When Georges moves into a Brooklyn apartment building, he meets Safer, a twelve-year-old coffee-drinking loner and self-appointed spy. Georges becomes Safer's first spy club recruit. His assignment? Tracking the mysterious Mr X, who lives in the apartment upstairs. But as Safer becomes more demanding, Georges starts to wonder: how far is too far to go for your only friend?

When you reach me (OverDrive e-book), Rebecca Stead

As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1970s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.

Marilyn (OverDrive e-book), Gloria Steinem

Few books have altered the perception of a celebrity as much as Marilyn. Gloria Steinem reveals that behind the familiar sex symbol lay a tortured spirit with powerful charisma, intelligence, and complexity.

Billy Connolly (OverDrive e-book), Pamela Stephenson

First loves (OverDrive e-book), Jean Stone

For every woman, there is a first love. Three friends make a pact to reconnect with the men who touched their lives so long ago.

One thousand chestnut trees (OverDrive e-book), Mira Stout

After a youth spent rejecting her Oriental side, a New York artist discovers a glorious past. The daughter of an Irish-American and a Korean mother, Anna visits Korea to learn she descends from nobles and patriots.

Paris flea market style (OverDrive e-book), Claudia Strasser

Inspired by the Parisians and calling upon her own unique taste, Claudia developed a decorating style that transforms any home into a beautiful, exciting world, a private stage on which you can play out your favourite fantasies - the Paris Apartment.

Aristotle : philosophy in an hour (OverDrive e-book), Paul Strathern

The philosophy of Aristotle dominated Western thought for over a thousand years. Above all, Aristotle is credited with the founding of logic. Here is a concise, expert account of Aristotle's life and philosophical ideas - entertainingly written and easy to understand.

Nietzsche : philosophy in an hour (OverDrive e-book), Paul Strathern

In Nietzsche in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers an account of Nietzsche's life and ideas and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world. The book also includes selections from Nietzsche's work, a brief list of suggested readings for those who wish to delve deeper, and chronologies that place Nietzsche within his own age and in the broader scheme of philosophy.

White boots (OverDrive e-book), Noel Streatfeild

Harriet is told that she must take up ice-skating in order to improve her health. She isn’t much good at it, until she meets Lalla Moore, a young skating star. Now Harriet is getting better and better on the ice, and Lalla doesn’t like it. Does Harriet want to save their friendship more than she wants to skate?

Breaking up with depression : the superchick's guide to overcoming the blues (OverDrive e-book), Michelle Summers

I am here to tell you that your motivation, support, and encouragement are here and there is something better! There is light at the end of the tunnel, there is a rainbow after the storm, there is summer after winter, and joy after pain. So put down your ice-cream and take off those sweat pants because the best way to get through something is exactly that, through it.

Grace grows (OverDrive e-book), Shelle Sumners

Grace Barnum's life is precariously balanced on sensible choices and uncomfortable compromise. She is engaged to a patent attorney who is steady and reliable. She has a cautious relationship with her fascinating father, a renowned New York painter, and she prefers her mom slightly drunk.

Super natural every day (OverDrive e-book), Heidi Swanson

The eagerly anticipated follow-up to Heidi Swanson's James Beard-nominated Super Natural Cooking features 100 vegetarian recipes for nutritious, gratifying, weekday-friendly dishes from the popular blogger behind 101 Cookbooks.

The hundred secret senses (OverDrive e-book), Amy Tan

Olivia, the narrator of this story, was born to an American mother and a Chinese father. She meets her 18-year-old Chinese half sister, Kwan, for the first time shortly after their father's death. The climax of the story comes when she and her estranged husband Simeon, a writer, go to China on assignment with Kwan as the interpreter.

The kitchen god's wife (OverDrive e-book), Amy Tan

Dreading her mother's reaction, Pearl has kept secret the fact that she is suffering from MS. But as she learns during the course of the narrative, Winnie herself has concealed some astonishing facts about her early life in China, abetted by her friend and fellow émigré Helen Kwong. Tan draws a vivid picture of the male-dominated culture, the chasm between different classes of society, and the profusion of rules for maintaining respect and dignity.

The American boy (OverDrive e-book), Andrew Taylor

The American Boy is a 21st-century novel with a 19th-century voice. It is both a multi-layered literary murder mystery and a love story, its setting ranging from the coal-scented urban jungle of late Regency London to the stark winter landscapes of rural Gloucestershire. And at its centre is the boy who does not really belong anywhere, an actor who never learns the significance of his part.

The perfume collector (OverDrive e-book), Kathleen Tessaro

'Our firm is handling the estate of the deceased Mrs Eva D'Orsey and it is our duty to inform you that you are named as the chief beneficiary in her will. We request your presence at our offices at your earliest convenience, so that we may go through the details of your inheritance.' There is only one problem. Grace has never heard of Eva D'Orsey.

Earn what you're really worth (OverDrive e-book), Brian Tracy

Provides proven strategies for earning true worth at work and explains how to better organize time and advance skills to succeed at every stage of a career no matter how competitive the industry.

The boy under the table (OverDrive e-book), Nicole Trope

Told from the alternating points of view of Tina, Sarah, Doug and Pete, The Boy Under the Table is gritty, shocking, moving and, ultimately, filled with hope. A harrowing glimpse into the real world behind the headlines, this is a novel of immense power and compassion, one which will not fail to move all who read it.

Who moved my stilton : a guide to getting ahead in business (OverDrive e-book), [Tyers and Beach].

Forged in the white heat of the industrial revolution, Who Moved My Stilton? reveals the practical skills that every modern professional needs to get ahead in the workplace.

Broken Soup (OverDrive e-book), Jenny Valentine

Finding Violet Park (OverDrive e-book), Jenny Valentine

When a series of chance events leaves him in possession of an urn with ashes, sixteen-year-old Londoner, Lucas Swain, becomes convinced that its occupant, Violet Park, is communicating with him, initiating a voyage of self-discovery that forces him to finally confront the events surrounding his father's sudden disappearance.

Confidence woman (OverDrive e-book), Judith Van Gieson

When a witness tells police about an argument she saw the evening of a murder, and the description fits Claire, suddenly all the twists of fate seem aligned against her. To establish her innocence, Claire draws on her expertise as a librarian at the University of New Mexico's Center for Southwest Research, contacts with rare book dealers, and her ability to see through pretence and guise - in herself and others.

Land of burning heat (OverDrive e-book), Judith Van Gieson

Archivist Claire Reynier may have a priceless find on her hands but before Claire can establish the document's authenticity, it disappears, and tragedy visits the Santos family. As Claire searches for the missing paper, she fears that uncovering the history of a dark and dangerous time may bolster her career at the cost of her life.

The shadow of Venus : a Claire Reynier mystery (OverDrive e-book), Judith Van Gieson

When a young woman is found dead in the basement of the university library - with an illustration from a valuable book beside her - the illustration leads Claire to a secretive commune where the woman grew up - and may have suffered terrible abuse. But someone doesn't want Claire to shed too much light on the shadows of the past - and will do anything to stop her…

The stolen blue (OverDrive e-book), Judith Van Gieson

The vanishing point : a Claire Reynier mystery (OverDrive e-book), Judith Van Gieson

Claire Reynier is thrilled when her old friend Burke Lovell donates his collection of valuable books to the university where she works as a librarian. But the morning after she arrives at his ranch in the remote region known as "the Blue" to collect the bequest, Burke is found dead. His daughter Mariah - recently discovered - admits to helping the ailing man commit suicide. Mariah has also been named his principal heir, much to the shock of his other children. Upon Claire's return to work, a box of valuable titles from Burke's collection is stolen, and Claire realises that the theft may hold clues to a much more sinister mystery…

Walking for fitness, pleasure and health : a complete guide for women of all ages (OverDrive e-book), Helen Vause

'Walking for Fitness, Pleasure and Health' is designed to meet the needs of all women who want to know the basics of walking: how to start walking, how far to walk, what clothing and shoes are needed, how to walk with children. Useful information on everything from motivation, weight loss and nutrition to pedometers, coping with injuries and training for events is given in a simple and non-technical way.

The Virgin diet : drop 7 foods, lose 7 pounds, just 7 days (OverDrive e-book), J J Virgin

In this groundbreaking program, nutrition and fitness expert JJ Virgin reveals the real secret behind weight gain - "food intolerance" - and advocates eating plenty of anti-inflammatory, healing foods to reclaim your health and reset your metabolism, while avoiding the 7 foods that are most likely to cause food intolerance.

Catch Your Death (OverDrive e-book), Louise Voss

Growing up Amish (OverDrive e-book), Ira Wagler

In this heart-warming memoir, Ira paints a vivid portrait of Amish life, from his childhood days on the family farm, his Rumspringa rite of passage at age 16, to his ultimate decision to leave the Amish Church for good at age 26. Growing Up Amish is the true story of one man's quest to discover who he is and where he belongs.

Ratburger (OverDrive e-book), David Walliams

Things are not looking good for Zoe. Her stepmother Sheila is so lazy she gets Zoe to pick her nose for her. The school bully Tina Trotts makes her life a misery - mainly by flobbing on her head, and now the evil Burt from Burt's Burgers is after her pet rat!

The comfort of water (OverDrive e-book), Maya Ward

Maya Ward's lyrical exploration of her river as it winds through the city and the wild is a revelation, a testament to the fact that the greatest of worlds are often at our doorstep.

Chelsea Wives (OverDrive e-book), Anna-Lou Weatherley

The fat woman's joke (OverDrive e-book), Fay Weldon

Fay Weldon's first novel is a sharp and witty parable on the way people see themselves. From the fastness of her Earls Court retreat Esther starts to recount the events leading up to her revelation to her friend Phyllis. 'I suppose you really do believe your happiness is consequent upon your size?' she asks. Phyllis does; Esther does not and triumphantly sets out to prove her point.

Partials (OverDrive e-book), Dan Wells

The human race is all but extinct after a war with Partials - engineered organic beings identical to humans - has decimated the population. Kira, a sixteen-year-old medic-in-training, is on the front lines of this battle, seeing RM ravage the community while mandatory pregnancy laws have pushed what's left of humanity to the brink of civil war, and she's not content to stand by and watch. Dan Wells, acclaimed author of I Am Not a Serial Killer, takes readers on a pulse pounding journey into a world where the very concept of what it means to be human is in question--one where our humanity is both our greatest liability and our only hope for survival.

Trainspotting (OverDrive e-book), Irvine Welsh

Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting on a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrassment tae the selfish, fucked-up brats ye've produced. Choose life.

How mumbo-jumbo conquered the world (OverDrive e-book), Francis Wheen

In 1979 two events occurred that would shape the next 25 years: the arrival of Margaret Thatcher and the restoration in Iran, by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, of a regime that had last existed over 1000 years before. The author explores the post-political era and the rise in relativism.

The beggar bride (OverDrive e-book), Gillian White

Angela Harper's life has never been simple. She's an orphan who spent her childhood in foster homes. Her handsome, charming husband Billy can't hold down a job. And they're both stuck in a grimy London flat with no prospects for their future beyond the periodic welfare check. That is, until Ange concocts a lie that will change their lives. Her con targets the wealthy, twice-divorced businessman Fabian Ormerod, whom, with the approval of her husband, she is determined to trick into a very advantageous marriage - with a quick divorce to follow.

Beyond Evil (OverDrive e-book), Neil White

By stone, by blade, by fire (OverDrive e-book), Kate Wilhelm

The case against young Travis Morgan is simple: he walked into his father's house and shot the man at his desk in front of two witnesses yet Travis swears he is innocent. This is the case attorney Barbara Holloway is presented with. As Barbara digs deeper, the case explodes into a dangerous conspiracy, causing Frank, Barbara's father and part-time associate, to hire a bodyguard to protect her.

Container gardening for all seasons (OverDrive e-book), Barbara Wise horticulturist

Presents the basic principles of container gardening and provides designs and diagrams for plantings that are specific for each season of the year.

His love endures forever (OverDrive e-book), Beth Wiseman

Danielle Kent is 18, pregnant, and hopes that the child's father, Aaron Lapp, will marry her and provide the life she's always dreamed of. Even though Aaron is Old Order Amish, Danielle knows that he wants to leave his community for a life outside of the district. But Aaron tells Danielle that he doesn't love her, a wife and baby don't fit into his plans.

Plain paradise (OverDrive e-book), Beth Wiseman

Josephine Dronberger was a scared teenager when she left her baby in the care of an Old Order Amish couple. But seventeen years have passed and Josie longs to reconnect with her daughter now called Linda. When her birth mother comes to Paradise, Linda is drawn to a world she's never known. Will the direction she's been heading since birth be suddenly derailed, and who will stand by her convictions - mother or daughter?

Plain perfect (OverDrive e-book), Beth Wiseman

A search for peace in Amish country proves anything but simple for a woman on the run from life…and herself. Will Lillian find her faith in Plain living, or will she be forced to return to her former life?

Plain promise (OverDrive e-book), Beth Wiseman

Sadie Fisher wonders if she'll ever find true love again after the death of her husband. When wealthy Englischer Kade Saunders rents her guest cottage for a month, Sadie's world is turned upside-down. Kade has a five-year old autistic son who is unexpectedly left in his permanent care. As Sadie's feelings for the child grow, so do her feelings for Kade. But is this man suitable for anything more than friendship?

Plain proposal (OverDrive e-book), Beth Wiseman

Miriam Raber enjoys life in her Amish community, and she is hopeful that Saul Fisher will propose to her soon. But when Saul starts talking about leaving, Miriam imagines what her life might look like as an Englischer. One thing she knows for certain, she loves Saul and feels he's the one God has chosen for her. But Saul's indecision has come at an inconvenient time as Miriam is noticing advances from Jesse Dienner.

Plain pursuit (OverDrive e-book), Beth Wiseman

Carley Marek takes a hiatus from her job to visit a friend in Amish country, Pennsylvania. When her time is up, Carley must make a life-changing decision: stay and face the path that is set before her, or flee and leave the only love she's ever known.

Confessions of a criminal lawyer (OverDrive e-book), Seymour Wishman

As an advocate for the accused in Newark, New Jersey, criminal lawyer Seymour Wishman defended a vast array of clients, from burglars and thieves to rapists and murderers. Reveling in the adrenaline rush of winning, Wishman gave no thought to the ethical considerations of his daily dealings … until he was confronted on the street by a rape victim he had humiliated in the courtroom.

Diving belles (OverDrive e-book), Lucy Wood

Along Cornwall's ancient coast, the flotsam and jetsam of the past becomes caught in the cross-currents of the present and, from time to time, a certain kind of magic can float to the surface. In these stories, Cornish folklore slips into everyday life. Hopes, regrets and memories are entangled with catfish, wrecker's lamps, standing stones and baying hounds, and relationships wax and wane in the glow of a moonlit sea.

Rosy George's convention conundrum (OverDrive e-book), P J (Polly J ) Young

Twenty nine-year old Londoner Rosy dreams of writing like Pinter, marrying before thirty and never leaving London. But although Shrek lookalike fiancé David's MBA means just that, her parents' village of Lytton holds surprising attractions. Such as theatre and sexy schoolteacher Angus. And when David's infidelity sparks a blissful affair with Angus, with a brand new 'happy ever after' a bouquet toss away, Angus is exiled. David returns … but his 'deal-breaker' means Rosy must discover her real dreams.

To be honest (OverDrive e-book), P J (Polly J ) Young

Fifteen year old Lisi Reynolds likes to fib. Just little ones. What's wrong with that? Everyone lies, don't they? But when a rare mammatus cloud over the Globe puts Lisi in her delectable English teacher Miss Mint's shoes, living the ultimate lie proves irresistible.

Essex Girls (OverDrive e-book), Laura Ziepe