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New Titles Audio and Video April 2014 (arrived in March)
CDs
- Quality Street : a seasonal selection for all the family, Nick Lowe
Blues
- Road dog's life, Smokin' Joe Kubek
CLASSICAL
- Il cor tristo., Hilliard Ensemble
- A work commissioned by the ensemble from British contemporary composer Roger Marsh: Il Cor Tristo, a setting of cantos 32 and 33 from Dante’s Inferno, which deftly blends Renaissance techniques with a modern idiom.
- The world of the oboe : [an introduction to the music, players, reeds and instruments].
- Bach concertos.
- Janine Jansen, violin; Ramon Ortega Quero, oboe
- The complete music for piano trio, 2, Beethoven
- Features Florestan Trio.
- Timotheus, oder Die Gewalt der Musik, Handel
- Roberta Invernizzi, soprano; Gerald Finley, bass.
- Concerti per due violini e archi. I, Vivaldi
- Violinists Dmitry Sinkovsky and Riccardo Minasi recorded in Italy.
- Goldberg variations, Bach
- Robert Costin plays the Aria from Bach's Goldberg Variations on the historic 1708 organ of Pembroke College, Cambridge
- Spohr, Nielsen, Debussy : clarinet concertos and rhapsody.
- Charismatic and with a fast-rising profile, Greek clarinetist Dionysis Grammenos, 23, presents his debut album, dedicated to 3 major works from the clarinet repertoire.
COUNTRY
- Covers, Kimmie Rhodes
- Drinks after work, Toby Keith
- Foreverly, Billie Joe Armstrong
- The son of Noisy Dan : a musical autobiography, Slim Dusty
- Welcome to my world, John Grenell
- Beautiful lady : the very best of Patsy Riggir., Patsy Rigger
EASY LISTENING
- Nostalgia : the very best of the Jim Sutton Show.
- A picture of you, Daniel O'Donnell
- The classics, Tony Bennett
- The essential collection, Shirley Bassey
- Andre Rieu celebrates ABBA ; Music of the night., Andre Rieu
JAZZ
- Rain or shine, Paul Carrack.
- No end, Keith Jarrett
- Paris 1969, Thelonious Monk
MUSICAL
- A musical affair, Il Divo
OPERA
- La passion Lemieux, Marie-Nicole Lemieux
- Features soprano Karina Gauvin and counter-tenor Philippe Jaroussky.
POPULAR
- On air. Volume 2 : live at the BBC, The Beatles.
- Beautiful, Jessica Mauboy
- Freedom, Rebecca Ferguson
- Girl on fire : VH1 storytellers, Alicia Keys
- Living for the weekend, The Saturdays
- Love in Portofino, Andrea Bocelli
- Loved me back to life, Celine Dion
- Popular people do popular people, Prophet Hens
- Since I saw you last, Gary Barlow
- The ash & clay, The Milk Carton Kids
- The fabulous rock 'n' roll songbook, Cliff Richard
- Treble & reverb, Aaradhna
ROCK
- Greatest ever! indie anthems : the definitive collection.
- Luckless., Luckless
- Now that's what I call music. 43 .
- Putumayo presents world reggae.
- Scorpions MTV unplugged in Athens.
- The best of Keane., Keane
- Crossroads. 2013 : Eric Clapton guitar festival.
- Avril Lavigne., Avril Lavigne
- Amalgam, Skeptics
- Artpop, Lady Gaga
- Benefit, Jethro Tull
- Calm before the storm, The Cakekitchen
- Clarity, Zedd
- December, Julien Dyne
- Direct hits : 2003-2013, The Killers
- Disconnected in New York City, Los Lobos
- Falling into place, David Dallas
- Give me strength : the '74/'75 studio recordings, Eric Clapton
- Internal sounds, The Sadies
- Live at Montreux 2013, George Thorogood & the Destroyers.
- Live at the Cellar Door, Neil Young
- Live from KCRW, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
- Making tracks : on tour 2010-2011, Yardbirds
- Matangi, M.I.A.
- Miami pop festival, Jimi Hendrix Experience
- Milestones, Lou Reed
- My Father's Place, Tom Waits
- New on earth, Shona Laing
- Recharged, Linkin Park
- Roaring 20s, Rizzle Kicks
- Saint, James Reid
- Shangri La, Jake Bugg
- Somewhere in London, Marillion
- State to state, Robin Trower
- Still climbing, Leslie West
- The Explorers Club : Antarctica, Bond Street Bridge
- The homeland recordings, Fly My Pretties.
- The Marshall Mathers LP. 2, Eminem
- Three sixty, A perfect circle
- Timeless — : the musical legacy, Badfinger
- Unplugged and strung up, Saxon
- Wintersmith : in collaboration with Terry Pratchett, Steeleye Span
- The last show : May 28, 2012 — Raalte, Holland, Alvin Lee
WORLD
- Chants : the spirit of Tibet, The Gyuto Monks of Tibet.
- The arms dealer's daughter, Shooglenifty.
- The living room sessions. Part 2, Ravi Shankar
- Waiata, Kiri Te Kanawa
DVDs
COMEDY
- Fobulous, The Laughing Samoans
FILM
- A gun in each hand = Una pistola en cada mano, Directed by Cesc Gay.
- A Spanish attempt at a sort of comedy spaghetti western.
- A case of you, Directed by Kat Coiro.
- With Evan Rachel Wood, Vince Vaughn, Sam Rockwell.
- About Elly, Written and directed by Asghar Farhadi.
- Iranian drama.
- Before midnight, Directed by Richard Linklater.
- Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy.
- Cloudburst, Directed by Thom Fitzgerald
- With Brenda Fricker and Olympia Dukakis.
- Diana, Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel.
- Naomi Watts as Princess Diana.
- Great expectations : the untold story, Directed by Tim Burstall
- Australian sequel of sorts to "Great expectations."
- Mammuth, Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern
- With Gerard Depardieu.
- Private Peaceful, Directed by Pat O'Connor
- Adaptation of the Michael Morpurgo novel.
- Tabu, Directed by Miguel Gomes.
- Romantic drama, a Berlin Festival winner.
- The World's End, Directed by Edgar Wright
- With Simon Pegg, Martin Freeman, Nick Frost.
- Two jacks, Directed by Bernard Rose
- Adaptation of a Tolstoy short story with Jack Huston and Sienna Miller.
- What Maisie knew, Directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel
- The Henry James novel updated. With Steve Coogan and Julianne Moore.
Music
- Springsteen & I, Directed by Baillie Walsh.
- Live : gathered in their masses, Black Sabbath
- Live on the Queen Mary, Hugh Laurie
- Sweet summer sun : Hyde Park live, Rolling Stones
NON-FICTION
- How far is Heaven, Directed by Mirian Smith & Christopher Pryor
- Story of the Sisters of Compassion in the remote village of Jerusalem.
- Sky whisperers = Ranginui, Directed by Kathleen Gallagher
- Haere mai : welcome to the marae, Director, Jude Roberts
- Vegucated, Written and directed by Marisa Miller Wolfson.
- Harry Dean Stanton : partly fiction, Written and directed by Sophie Huber.
- Beyond the edge, Written and directed by Leanne Pooley.
- The 1953 Mt. Everest expedition.
- Good keen men, Filmed and produced by Dave Asher and Dave McCarli
- Anzacs in Vietnam, Filmed & produced by Dave Asher, Dave McCarlie.
- Discover Stewart Island : the island of the glowing skies.
- The Method for beginners
- Barre conditioning
- Grace meets athleticism in these two innovative workouts.
- A tribute to the iron horse : the Southland Steam Engine Club 50th anniversary rally
- Madhur Jaffrey's curry nation., Madhur Jaffrey
Talking Books
Adventure
- Prayer, Philip Kerr
Fantasy
- Magician, Raymond E. Feist
- The Crown Tower, Michael J. Sullivan
- The language of dying, Sarah Pinborough
- When it's a jar, Tom Holt
Fiction
- Coming home, Sue Gee
- Don't tell the groom, Anna Bell
- How to be a good wife, Emma Chapman
- Immortality, Milan Kundera
- Laughable loves, Milan Kundera
- Little exiles, Robert Dinsdale
- Magnificent Joe, James Wheatley
- Me and Mr Jones, Lucy Diamond
- Odour of chrysanthemums, D.H. Lawrence
- Owls do cry, Janet Frame
- Resurrection, Leo Tolstoy
- Spearfield's daughter, Jon Cleary
- The book thief, Markus Zusak
- The coincidence authority, J.W. Ironmonger
- The first phone call from heaven, Mitch Albom
- The girl on the landing, Paul Torday
- The lives of Stella Bain, Anita Shreve
- The reunion, Amy Silver
- The slap, Christos Tsiolkas
- The Windsor faction, D.J. Taylor
- Twenty thousand leagues under the sea, Jules Verne
- Unexploded, Alison Macleod
- Whitethorn, Bryce Courtenay
- Wish upon a star, Trisha Ashley
Historical
- A humble companion, Laurie Graham
- A leaf on the wind of All Hallows, Diana Gabaldon
- The black moth, Georgette Heyer
- The blood crows, Simon Scarrow
- The white princess, Philippa Gregory
Mystery
- A darkness descending, Christobel Kent
- Alex Cross, run, James Patterson
- Bad monkey, Carl Hiaasen
- Bricks and mortality, Ann Granger
- Casting the first stone, Frances Fyfield
- City of sins, Daniel Blake
- Cockroaches, Jo Nesbo
- Cripple Creek, James Sallis
- Cross and burn, Val McDermid
- Dilemma, Jon Cleary
- Explosive eighteen, Janet Evanovich
- Explosive eighteen, Janet Evanovich
- Fire and brimstone, Colin Bateman
- I am half-sick of shadows, Alan Bradley
- Leaving everything most loved : a Maisie Dobbs novel, Jacqueline Winspear
- Murder on the Flying Scotsman, Carola Dunn
- Pariah, David Jackson
- Soul murder, Daniel Blake
- Speaking from among the bones, Alan Bradley
- The American gun mystery, Ellery Queen
- The bedlam detective, Stephen Gallagher
- The cadaver game, Kate Ellis
- The cruellest game, Hilary Bonner
- The darkening hour, Penny Hancock
- The easy sin, Jon Cleary
- The Egyptian cross mystery, Ellery Queen
- The frozen shroud, Martin Edwards
- The hiding place, David Bell
- The October list, Jeffery Deaver
- To tell the truth, Anna Smith
- Watch your back, Karen Rose
- Wrapped in white, Kevin Brooks
Non-Fiction
- Flappers : six women of a dangerous generation, Judith Mackrell
- Will you love me? : the story of my adopted daughter Lucy, Cathy Glass
- Charles Kingsford Smith and those magnificent men, Peter Fitzsimons
- Jessi-cat : the cat that unlocked a boy's heart, Jayne Dillon
- One chance : a memoir, Paul Potts
- The ballad of Les Darcy, Peter Fitzsimons
- Smokin' Joe : the autobiography of a heavyweight champion of the world, Joe Frazier
- Tobruk, Peter Fitzsimons
- Kokoda, Peter FitzSimons
- The spy who loved : the secrets and lives of one of Britain's bravest wartime heroines, Clare Mulley
- Nancy Wake : a biography of our greatest war heroine, Peter FitzSimons
- The children of Henry VIII, John Guy
- Batavia : betrayal, shipwreck, murder, sexual slavery, courage : a spine-chilling chapter in Australian history, Peter FitzSimons
- Eureka : the unfinished revolution, Peter FitzSimons.
- Mawson : and the ice men of the heroic age : Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen, Peter FitzSimons
Saga
- Hidden, Barbara Taylor Bradford
- A debt from the past, Beryl Matthews
- Barra Creek, Di Morrissey
- Dancing in the moonlight, Rita Bradshaw
- Heart of the dreaming, Di Morrissey
- Jacaranda blue, Joy Dettman
- Scatter the stars, Di Morrissey
- Some day I'll find you, Richard Madeley
- The best of daughters, Dilly Court
- The golden land, Di Morrissey
- The islands, Di Morrissey
- The last mile home, Di Morrissey
- The secret keeper, Kate Morton
- The silent country, Di Morrissey
- Thorn on the rose, Joy Dettman
- Wind in the wires, Joy Dettman
- Mallawindy, Joy Dettman
Western
- Jokers extra wild, Max Brand