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FictionAn Abundance of Scorpions
by Hadiza Isma El-Rufai
Following a horrific tragedy, Tambaya leaves Kano for Accra to live with her brother, Aminu. Sadly, her dream of a new beginning is dashed when she can no longer endure the indignity she suffers at the hands of her brother’s new wife. Vulnerable, and surrounded by malice, corruption and greed, Tambaya struggles to shape her destiny. An Abundance of Scorpions charts one woman’s journey through grief and uncertainty to a road that leads to self-discovery, redemption and love.
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November 2023On the Life and Death of Insects
The world of Jean-Henri Fabre
by Stephan Krall
— 200th anniversary of the birth of Jean-Henri Fabre on 21 December 2023 — First all-encompassing biography of the entomologist — Biodiversity as a hot topic Jean-Henri Fabre (1823–1915) was a French teacher, scientist and researcher. At a time when insects were not among the preferred biological objects of study (and if they were, it was only for them to be collected, pinned and identified), Fabre began to conduct behavioural research on insects. This was not appreciated until very late in his life, so Fabre and his family were largely destitute most of the time. Stephan Krall provides a very personal account of this extraordinary and passionate researcher of insects, spiders and scorpions, who managed to publish scientific documents, complete his doctorate and write books on the side. Today he is considered as one of the founding fathers of the behavioural biology of insects.
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Children's & YA2020The After-Time Chronicles
One Small Spark
by Andy Woodage
In the footsteps of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series comes Andy Woodage's debut novel and our entrance into his bio-engineered fantasy world. The After-Time Chronicles: One Small Spark is a young-adult fantasy novel of good, evil, genetically engineered creatures, romance, blood, and the search for belonging. Imagine a world without oil, where metals are only available if they can be salvaged or recycled. Imagine if coal was running out. It’s a world where armies no longer build metal monsters, but biological horrors. A world where genetic engineering has become the art of war. This is 12-year-old Jothan’s world. Orphaned by a terrible accident, he dreams of leaving his uneventful life with his grandparents on the family’s griffin farm. However, when a catastrophic attack wipes out every homestead in The Zoological Zone, his world is turned upside down. He finds himself thrust into a story larger than he ever dreamed, embarking on a rough journey with a mysteriously appearing warrior to the fabled ‘Temple of Elohim’. Accompanied by his best friend, the griffin Gozell, Jothan sets off across a land ravaged by poverty and wild creatures. Battling his way across the dangerous landscape, his eyes are opened to an empire in the grip of war and unrest... with the ever increasing weight of his role in events to come. Will they make it to the Temple? Will they be welcomed when they arrive? Can Jothan unravel the secrets that seem to control the lives of everyone he meets, including his mysterious saviour?
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May 2024Fish in Distress
On the careful management of an endangered resource
by Manfred Kriener, Stefan Linzmaier
Consumers stand perplexed at the fish counter. Cod or salmon; mackerel or sea bass? Or perhaps rather carp and trout? How about flounder and dab? Dab what? A terrific flatfish, but sadly hardly anyone has heard of it. And what was it again about organic, aquaculture, wild-caught, and that little blue sustainability certificate? Is catching your own a way out? Before you start thinking it’s time to opt for a chop and fried potatoes instead, read this book. It provides readers with deep blue facts from the world’s waters and analyses the global and local habitat of the finned creature.
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Children's & YAAugust 2020Cryptos
by Poznanski, Ursula
Where do we go when Nowhere is the only destination left? Kerrybrook is Jana‘s favourite virtual escape. An idyllic fishing village with beautiful nature and, every now and then, a breeze of fresh air from the nearby sea. Jana, is this world‘s designer and person in power, she’s satisfied with her masterpiece. Best job so far. Until one day, a dead body is found, in both, ’Virtual Reality‘ and the real world. In times of climate change, VR is the only safe place for humankind. That‘s why Jana needs to solve the crime, she’s responsible for stopping the destruction. • CliFi Thriller (Climate Fiction): Climate change & virtual reality • For fans of Black Mirror (Netflix) • All age readers • Strong, female protagonist • Highly relevant topic WHITE RAVENS recommendation (2021): "In the not too distant future, the world is an inhospitable place: droughts, storms, floods. That’s why world designers construct »alternative realities«, such as landscapes populated by dinosaurs, life at court in the Middle Ages, and surfing and chilling out on a beach. People can switch between these worlds at will and, when they die there, they are not truly dead; instead, they merely return to the »real world« – same as at night when they sleep. Then they are reunited with their body, which is lying inside a capsule. In »Cryptos«, Ursula Poznanski pulls out all the stops of storytelling: She embeds numerous references to human and intellectual history in an action-packed and extremely suspenseful thriller plot. In the process, she raises central existential and ontological questions that result from the interplay between the real and the virtual worlds. This complex dystopian novel is narrated in such an enjoyable way that readers will hardly notice their brains going into overdrive as they devour it."
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March 2021Columbus, the Discarded Explorer
Disaster of the legendary sailor
by Wolfgang Wissler
There he stands, the man the whole of Spain cheered, before whom the most catholic regents Isabella and Ferdinand rose to their feet, his eyes on his ship Capitana, devoured by shipworm, stranded off Jamaica. Some of the crew mutiny, the locals can no longer be fobbed off with glass beads, the Spanish on the nearby island of Hispaniola do not help, the world doesn‘t want anything to do with him, the demanding whinger. He, Christopher Columbus, is a John Lackland, a king without land, a conqueror without conquest. Between fiction and historical truth, Wolfgang Wissler recounts the legendary sailor‘s last expedition in an entirely new way – and what a story it is!
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FictionHotel California
by Ramón Valdés Elizondo
Damián flees from two assassins who are chasing him on a lonely desert road. He manages to elude them but his car is running out of gas. In the distance he discovers a hotel that looks abandoned from the outside. He knocks on the door and is greeted by Mercedes, a beautiful blonde who invites him in. Inside the hotel is spectacular: every detail is taken care of to perfection, but there is something shady lurking within its walls and corridors. Damián thinks he hears voices calling his name, although he attributes them to stress and fatigue. Our anguished protagonist lives a terrifying experience when he tries to leave the next day and inexplicable things happen that prevent him from doing so. Suddenly, Damian will be trapped in this place that changes, that whispers, that makes us doubt if he is living a nightmare or if everything is a product of his hallucinations. A novel written to the rhythm of rock, with nods to horror classics and a twist that will take you to a place you may never be able, or want, to leave.
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Geography & the Environment2015Spiders and Scorpions of IRAN
The field guide
by Alireza Zamani
This book provides a detailed look at 230 of the most common, rarest and endemic species. Professionals and enthusiasts alike should find this book useful for study and as a field guide.
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FictionScorpions In Stilettos
by Hinemura Ellison and Ted D Hughes
Caught in a compromising position, Clara AKA Flat White, the classy, conservative career girl of the Trinity Trio, struggles as her carefully constructed life comes crashing down around her. Juggling a complicated love life, a career with bullying managers, a domineering mother and her own demons from the past, may be just a little too much even for her. Can Clara recover and navigate her way back with the help of her friends? Book Three in the Trinity Trilogy following on from Sharks With Lipstick and Snakes In Suits.
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May 2011Scorpion
Out of Print
by Aleksandr Voinov, Reese Dante
You learn your wisest lessons from your enemies. Assuming, of course, you survive the encounter.Kendras is a casualty of war: injured, penniless, and quite possibly the last surviving member of the only family he's ever known—the elite fighting force known as the Scorpions. When a steel-eyed stranger offers him medicine and shelter in exchange for submission and a secret task, Kendras has no choice but to accept. He is a Scorpion; he’ll do whatever it takes to survive.But his true goal is to rebuild the Scorpions. Neither Steel’s possessive nature nor Kendras’s shattered foot can keep him from finding the last of his brothers... or the mysterious leader of the Scorpions, a man who held Kendras’s heart long before Steel tried to take it for himself. The goal is simple, the situation anything but. To rescue his leader and escape from Steel for good, Kendras must fight through a morass of politics and intrigue, where enemies are allies and even allies have hidden agendas. ;
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Children's & young adult fiction & true storiesThe Garden Dwellers
by Liliana Stafford
The Garden Dwellers is an illustrated story book based around a group of little people in a magical garden. The story is suitable for children age six to ren or any child who loves fairies and magic. This book is the first in a series.
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October 2020The Art of Pulp Horror
An Illustrated History
by Edited by Stephen Jones; foreword by Robert Silverberg
The companion title to the award-winning The Art of Horror and The Art of Horror Movies, and from the same creative team behind those acclaimed illustrated volumes, this third title in the series looks at the sexy, sleazy, and sensational subject matter in books, magazines, comics, and movies, which helped to shape modern horror. Compiled by multiple award-winning writer and editor Stephen Jones, and with a foreword by prolific and acclaimed author Robert Silverberg, this visual history brings together insightful and revelatory comment from some of the genre's most highly esteemed experts.
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Thriller / suspenseDominium Dei
by Thomas Greanias
The assassination of Caesar's chief astrologer explodes into revelations of a supersecret organization known as Dominium Dei—the "Rule of God"—and an imperial plot to establish the rule of Rome forever. DOMINIUM DEI. In his global blockbusters Raising Atlantis, The Atlantis Prophecy and The Atlantis Revelation, New York Times bestselling author Thomas Greanias masterfully blended ancient mysteries and modern conspiracies. In this spectacular new thriller set in Ancient Rome, Greanias reveals the master plan to shape our world’s reality and has crafted a timeless epic adventure. DOMINIUM DEI. Welcome to the New World Order. Welcome to Rome at the end of the first century. No one from slave to senator can escape the Reign of Terror under Emperor Domitian. Caesar has declared himself Lord and God of the Universe. Before him all must bow or die in the Games. Enter the innocent playwright Athanasius. Wrongly accused of treason by jealous rivals, he is condemned to the scripted "reality" of the arena. Death is guaranteed. Against all odds he escapes, alone with a secret that will shake the world. But Athanasius has unleashed the wrath of Rome. Now the empire will hunt him down to the ends of the earth, stopping at nothing to ensure that the secret of Dominium Dei—the "Rule of God"—dies with him.
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RomanceOctober 2014The Perils of Skinny-dipping
by Julie Sandilands
Readership: Women's fiction Genre: Romance/adventure Manuscript length 65,000 words Abbey Harris is a successful, career woman and enjoys a comfortable life style in the leafy Cheshire suburbs. One Sunday, she spots an advertisement for volunteers to work on an ecological project in the north of Botswana, and impulsively applies. Abbey arrives in Kasane, ready to complete a one year contract with an international charity, working in the forestry unit. A few months into her contract, Abbey meets Darren, a diamond prospector, falls in love, and marries. As Abbey settles into her new life, she has to battle her way through black magic, arson and a poisonous snake lurking under her bed. To add to her problems she also has to contend with Anna, a stunning South African, who is determined to rekindle a relationship with Darren, undermining Abbey’s confidence whenever she can. Abbey has two colleagues, Richard and Phil, who have both run away from responsibilities and failures at home in the England. Richard is an emotionally dysfunctional man, who in a bid to dominate others, treats people, especially women, with disdain and suspicion. His attitude towards the Batswana women whom he uses for his personal gratification, demonstrates an inability to interact with the opposite sex in a meaningful way. Richard’s growing frustration of his two colleagues result in him devising a plot which he thinks will eliminate both of them out of his life forever. Just as Abbey thinks she is settled and her problems are behind her, the sudden death of her mother forces her to temporarily return to the UK. Here, she has to not only reassess her feelings, and come to terms the loss of her mother, but finds herself on a collision course with her estranged father. The rift between father and daughter is not just one of geographical distance, but deep rooted in an upbringing Abbey struggles to come to terms with. Local characters are also important to the story, their individual accounts intertwined around the two main characters. Each character is based on a person who was/is known by the author. Names and other personal details have been changed; however, both Botswana and the Batswana have been portrayed as a proud, gracious race of people who readily accept newcomers into their hearts and communities. The story takes the reader from Gaborone in the south, to Kasane in the north. The Perils of Skinny-dipping is a love story which documents one woman’s desire to find inner peace and create a meaningful life which has so far eluded her. It also describes the beauty and uniqueness of a country which enjoys both political and economic stability, and, reflects on its achievements as well as its problems. It observes the interaction between rich and poor, black and white, as they strive to live in harmony side by side
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FantasyLyre
by Helen Harper
Yuri, a half Japanese-half English girl, has struggled ever since her beloved father drowned when she was a child. The circumstances of his death were anything but natural - he was drawn into a storm by the sensual singing of a group of sirens and Yuri's life has been overshadowed by the threat of the gods of Olympus ever since. However, when she meets Ozzy, a soulful singer who goes on to become one of the country's biggest rockstars, she attempts to put her past behind her. Unfortunately, fate has not finished messing with her just yet. The second book in the Olympiana series, although able to be read as a stand-alone, Lyre follows the classic tale of Orpheus and Eurydice.
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Children's & YANovember 2021A Light in the Sky
by Shina Reynolds (author)
Red Queen meets The Scorpio Races in a high-flying new fantasy series filled with passion, betrayal, and adventure from debut author Shina Reynolds.
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September 2020That's my Home!
by Aurore Petit
A pop-up vocabulary book to visit the Earth! In the mountain, in the desert, on the icefield...This simple and elegant vocabulary book, with three spot colours, offers the child a world tour discovering seven landscapes in relief. With each double-page, he or she will have fun finding the animal traditionally associated to the represented landscape: for instance, the wolf in the forest, the scorpion in the desert, or even the man in the city.
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Bugs from 1 to 10
by Carla Baredes, Ileana Lotersztain
Numbers are everywhere you look: counting the days until the start of the summer hols, the distance between your house and your best friend’s, the coins you save till you have enough for a bar of chocolate, the candles you blow out on your birthday cake, how many mouthfuls to go before you finish your dinner… And they’re also hidden in Bugs! Take a look at Bugs from 1 to 10 and find out how bees live, what’s so special about a scorpion’s tail, how a praying mantis works out to grow, how spiders see, how many spots a ladybird’s got, how glow-worms send messages, and why ants’ mouths are úberstrong.
