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Teaching, Language & ReferenceNovember 2023David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the sun machine
by Nicholas Royle
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November 2019Berühmte Kinderbuchautorinnen und ihre Heldinnen und Helden
by Luise Berg-Ehlers
Ob Beatrix Potters liebenswerter Peter Hase, Enid Blytons fünf Detektiv-Freunde, Johanna Spyris herzenskluge Heidi, Tove Janssons freundliche Mumin-Trolle oder Astrid Lindgrens unangepasste Pippi – viele der erfolgreichsten Kinderbücher wurden von Frauen verfasst und sind noch heute beliebte Klassiker, die von Generation zu Generation weitergegeben werden. Luise Berg-Ehlers erzählt begeisternd und klug, unter welchen Umständen die Autorinnen schrieben und was ihre Beweggründe waren.
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February 2008Sklaven der Einsamkeit
Roman
by Patrick Hamilton, Miriam Mandelkow
Das wohlgeordnete Leben von Enid Roach gerät aus den Fugen. Der Londoner Bombenhagel treibt die 39jährige Verlagsangestellte in die Provinz, wo sie Dinge unternimmt, die sie unter normalen Umständen niemals auch nur in Betracht ziehen würde. Sie verabredet sich in Pubs, hat eine Affäre mit einem amerikanischen Offizier und wohnt in einer Pension mit den unterschiedlichsten Menschen zusammen. Im Tearoom, beim täglichen Abendessen, entwickeln die Pensionsgäste ihr eigenes Schlachtfeld. Hier haben Mr. Twaight und die Deutsche Vicki Kugelmann – erst ihre, dann seine Verbündete – das Sagen. Die beiden liefern Enid, ihrer „Miss Prüde“, einen zermürbenden Stellungskrieg, der diese langsam, aber unerbittlich zur Verzweiflung treibt.
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1978Fünf Minuten pro Patient
Eine Studie über die Interaktionen in der ärztlichen Allgemeinpraxis
by Enid Balint, J S Norell, Käte Hügel
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HumourEven More Ketchup than Salsa
The Final Dollop
by Joe Cawley
If the first six months of running the Smugglers Tavern had been a baptism of fire, the subsequent years were about as much fun as bobbing for apples in a vat of acid. Having swapped the tin roof of a cold British fish market for the sunny skies of a Spanish holiday island, Joe and Joy succeeded in thwarting the first wave of attacks from bungling bureaucrats, bewildered holidaymakers and their own spectacular ineptitude. What they didn’t realise was that their enemies were regrouping. Not only that, but those enemies had made camp a lot closer to home, enemies that would make their encounters with the exploding gas bottles, East European squatters and big-time Charlies featured in the first book, More Ketchup than Salsa, seem like chapters from Enid Blyton. The trials and tribulations of attempting to make a better life abroad continue... with disastrous consequences.
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Children's & YASummer Brook Spring
by Lynne Lumsden Green
10-year-old Freya Patel thinks it is RUBBISH her family are living on her Gran's farm in Australia for a year. Emma Lloyd is excited to have a girl her own age next door...but can a girl from the country make friends with a city girl from London? Can people from opposite ends of the earth really be friends? When Maisie the cow gets in trouble, Freya and Emma join forces to rescue her calf and discover they have more in common than they expect. Summer Brook Spring introduces the Summer Brook Besties series, a cosy new series for young readers about two very different girls, from very different backgrounds, who learn together that curiosity and kindness can bridge all sorts of differences. Featuring vivid, diverse characters and touching on themes such as the impact of climate change, this is a thoroughly modern take on the Enid Blyton-style bookseries. Escape with the Summer Brook Besties to a place where life isn't easy but people are kind.
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Fantasy & magical realism (Children's/YA)November 2015Posie Pixie and the Torn Tunic
Book 3 in the Whimsy Wood Series
by Sarah Hill
WINNER of the READER’S FAVORITE “5 STAR BOOK AWARD” Welcome to Whimsy Wood! COME and meet some more of the quirky woodland characters in the 3rd book of this delightful series! In book 3 Posie has a mishap in Whimsy Wood and learns that “a friend in need is a friend indeed” and also that “every good turn deserves another”. "Posie Pixie just gets better and better! I love all the animal characters!" Poppaea Aldridge aged 5 yrs. “Think of the best bits from Enid Blyton’s fantastical stories for very young children.” Chopsy-Baby, Bristol’s Online Parenting Magazine. "I love the Posie Pixie books! I really like reading about the nature in the forest and the colours that you can find there." Freddie Lea, aged 6 yrs. "This engaging tale of the Whimsy Wood folk and their merry antics, will enchant children and transport them into the world of make-believe!" Mrs Carol Clough, Headteacher at Crockerton and Heytesbury Primary Schools, Wiltshire. "I love reading this story and I imagine being a Pixie and going on adventures like Posie." Kate Hagelthorn aged 6 yrs. "I really liked reading this book and finding out about Posie Pixie's next adventure. I'd like to meet those ants!" Thomas Antrobus aged 6 yrs.
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History: specific events & topicsJuly 2008Bardsey Bound
by Roberts, Enid
What could inspire a man or woman in the Middle Ages to leave behind the security of a familiar community to face dire peril? This book investigates the motives of the pilgrim, the society enjoyed bya company of travelling pilgrims and, in particular, the
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FictionFebruary 2021The Crow Folk
#1 in The Witches of Woodville Trilogy
by Mark Stay
For fans of Lev Grossman and Terry Pratchett comes this delightful novel of war, mystery and a little bit of magic... Fall in love with the extraordinary world of Faye Bright – it’s Maisie Dobbs meets The Magicians. As Spitfires roar overhead and a dark figure stalks the village of Woodville, a young woman will discover her destiny… Faye Bright always felt a little bit different. And today she’s found out why. She’s just stumbled across her late mother’s diary which includes not only a spiffing recipe for jam roly-poly, but spells, incantations, runes and recitations… a witch’s notebook. And Faye has inherited her mother’s abilities. Just in time, too. The Crow Folk are coming. Led by the charismatic Pumpkinhead, their strange magic threatens Faye and the villagers. As WW2 goes on in the background, and armed with little more than her mum’s words, her trusty bicycle, the grudging help of two bickering old ladies, and some aggressive church bellringing, Faye will find herself on the front lines of a war nobody expected.
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February 2022
The Dry Wood
by Caryll Houselander, Bonnie Lander Johnson, Julia Meszaros
In the English-speaking world, the Catholic Literary Revival is typically associated with the work of G. K. Chesterton/Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene. But in fact the Revival’s most numerous members were women. While some of these women remain well known⎯Muriel Spark, Antonia White, Flannery O’Connor, Dorothy Day - many have been almost entirely forgotten. They include: Enid Dinnis, Anna Hanson Dorsey, Alice Thomas Ellis, Eleanor Farjeon, Rumer Godden, Caroline Gordon, Clotilde Graves, Caryll Houselander, Sheila Kaye-Smith, Jane Lane, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Alice Meynell, Kathleen Raine, Pearl Mary Teresa Richards, Edith Sitwell, Gladys Bronwyn Stern, Josephine Ward, and Maisie Ward. There are various reasons why each of these writers fell out of print: changes in the commercial publishing world after World War II, changes within the Church itself and in the English-speaking universities that redefined the literary canon in the last decades of the 20th century. Yet it remains puzzling that a body of writing so creative, so attuned to its historical moment, and so unique in its perspective on the human condition, should have fallen into obscurity for so long. The Catholic Women Writers series brings together the English-language prose works of Catholic women from the 19th and 20th centuries; work that is of interest to a broad range of readers. Each volume is printed with an accessible but scholarly introduction by theologians and literary specialists. The first volume in the series is Caryll Houselander’s The Dry Wood. Houselander is known primarily for her spiritual writings but she also wrote one novel, set in a post-war London Docklands parish. There a motley group of lost souls are mourning the death of their saintly priest and hoping for the miraculous healing of a vulnerable child whose gentleness in the face of suffering brings conversion to them all in surprising and unexpected ways. The Dry Wood offers a vital contribution to the modern literary canon and a profound meditation on the purpose of human suffering.
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Fantasy & magical realism (Children's/YA)Petronella and the Janjilons
by Cheryl Bentley
Loved this book - engaged with it straight away - especially liked Betty. Delightful book. Well recommended. Lorraine Baker, Bookseller, Wales"... a great book for reluctant readers ... A good fantasy read with good vs. evil" Ann Klausing, Books-a-Million"There are three witches, a hidden school and a lot of evil in this story. You'll meet characters that will surprise you and the ending is great. Ms. Bentley does not write boring books. I can see a young one reading this book more than once. Maybe they can even write a story of their own..." Jo Ann Hakola, The Book Faerie“What happens next? You’ll have to jump on this fast moving fairy tale thriller to find out!” Bill Baker, Maine, USA.The bookThe Janjilons are not what they seem. They look like a type of monkey but they are really children. How did they turn into Janjilons? And could it happen to anyone?Behind this mystery is someone evil, Judge Ormerod who wants to be the next Duke of Westshire. With the help of three weird sisters, he has to rid the land of clever children from being an obstacle to him. The Janjilons work for him as the three sisters mete out punishment and keep them locked up.Petronella starts to look into these strange happenings. But time is running out because when the Judge no longer needs the Janjilons, they will be destroyed.
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The ArtsRise Up
Voices of Today's Indigenous Music
by Craig Harris
The heartbeat of powwow/round dance drums and the melodies of wooden end-blown flutes have woven into a magnificent tapestry that includes Indigenous rock, blues, pop. jazz, country music, punk, classical, opera, hip-hop, rap, and electronica music. Picking up where my book, Heartbeat, Warble, and the Electronic Powwow (University of Oklahoma Press, 2014) left off, Rise Up brings together the autobiographical reflections of Native American Music Awards (NAMMY), Juno, Grammy, and Polaris Prize winners between 2015 and 2020. The genre’s top artists not only discuss their music but also their memories, heritage, day-to-day lives, and challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. The very first volume about Native artists working commercially today, Rise Up presents artists speaking for themselves without being filtered through a stereotypical lens. Indigenous communities have been calling for self‐determination in self‐representation in their craft. Rise Up answers that call.
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Individual actors & performersOn the Beat
My Story
by Graham Cole
Actor Graham Cole pounded the beat in ITV1 police drama The Bill for more than two decades and won plaudits for his carefully crafted portrayal of dependable PC Tony Stamp, the television cop most like the real thing. While on screen Tony Stamp became a Sun Hill stalwart and the sort of old-fashioned policeman you would want on your side, off-screen Graham worked tirelessly with the real police to make sure he's kept up to date with frontline officers. Graham worked in the NHS as a porter before starting his acting career doing summer seasons and working in holiday camps. His television break came as an extra playing monsters in Doctor Who and appearing in episodes of shows such as Only Fools and Horses and Secret Army. Later his skill at stage fighting landed him work as an extra in The Bill and it wasn't long before he was given a full-time job as area car driver and all round good guy Tony Stamp. Now, in a witty and candid memoir, he reveals just what it was like to star in one of television's most enduring series, the key events he's seen during his time on the show and how he really felt about leaving after 25 years. On The Beat is the entertaining autobiography of a likeable star who reveals the inside story behind the scenes of Britain's favourite police drama and the ups and downs of an actor's life.
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RomanceThomas is Telling the Truth
by Alex Jordan
An entertaining, moving and feelgood novel. Mattie wants another baby, a sibling for son Thomas. An intelligent child, he truly believes his own tales of a pink house and the children who live there. When Mattie discovers Rob is cheating on her, they separate. Helping financially, her parents discover a diary written in 1941. Through the help of family and friends, Mattie becomes stronger and happier. But the diary and a passionate love affair cause her to wonder if Thomas is telling the truth. Is it possible for someone to have lived before? Is this life really all there is? And has her Grandma Beattie been watching over her - all this time?
