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The things we do to our friends / Heather Darwent.

Clare arrives at the University of Edinburgh with a secret. This is her chance for a blank slate - to finally become who she was meant to be. And then she meets Tabitha. Tabitha is charismatic, beautiful and intimidatingly rich. Soon Clare is sucked into her enigmatic circle of friends and their dizzying world of champagne on rooftops and summers in France. Her new life has begun. Then Tabitha reveals the little project they're working on, a project they need Clare's help with. And Clare can't say no. Because they know what she did.
Author: Darwent, Heather
Published: UK : Penguin Books, 2024.
375 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Boothstown Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Paperback - Available - 09698485
Broughton Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Paperback - Available - 09698493
Pendleton Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Paperback - Onloan - Due: 08 May 2024 - 09698507
Winton Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Paperback - Onloan - Due: 09 May 2024 - 09698515

The no-show / Beth O'Leary.

8.52 a.m. Siobhan's been looking forward to her breakfast date with Joseph. She was surprised when he suggested it - she normally sees him late at night in her hotel room. Breakfast with Joseph on Valentine's Day surely means something, so where is he? 2.43 p.m. Miranda's hoping that a Valentine's Day lunch with Carter will be the perfect way to celebrate her new job. It's a fresh start and a sign that her grown-up life is finally falling into place: she's been dating Carter for five months now and things are getting serious. But why hasn't he shown up? 6.30 p.m. Joseph Carter agreed to be Jane's fake boyfriend at a colleague's engagement party. They've not known each other long but their friendship is fast becoming the brightest part of her new life in Winchester. Joseph promised to save Jane tonight. But he's not here. Meet Joseph Carter. That is, if you can find him.
Author: O'Leary, Beth
Published: London : Quercus, 2023.
392 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Boothstown Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Paperback - Available - 09593047
Hope Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Paperback - Available - 09593071
Pendleton Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Paperback - Available - 09593063
Walkden Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Paperback - Onloan - Due: 16 May 2024 - 0964735X

Strong female character / Fern Brady.

This is a book about how being a woman gets in the way of people's expectation of what autism should look like and, equally, how being autistic gets in the way of people's expectations of what a woman should look like. 'Strong Female Character' is a game-changing memoir on sexism and neurodiversity. Fern Brady will use her voice as a neurodivergent, working-class woman from Scotland to bring issues such as sex work, abusive relationships and her time spent in teenage mental health units to the page. It will take a sledgehammer to the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope which is mistakenly applied to neurodiverse women. It will also look at how her lack of regard for social expectations ultimately meant she surpassed any limitations of what a Scottish working-class woman can do.
Author: Brady, Fern
First edition.
Published: London : Brazen, 2023.
287 pages ; 23 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
2 reserves

Eccles Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 920 BRA - Hardback - Onloan - Due: 07 Mar 2024 - 09604804

Spare / Prince Harry.

It was one of the most searing images of the 20th century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow - and horror. As Princess Diana was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling - and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last.
Author: Harry, Prince, Duke of Sussex, 1984-
Published: London : Bantam, 2023.
410 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Boothstown Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 920 HAR - Hardback - Onloan - Due: 10 May 2024 - 09576339
Cadishead Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 920 HAR - Hardback - Available - 09579249
Little Hulton Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 920 HAR - Hardback - Available - 09579273
Swinton Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 920 HAR - Hardback - Onloan - Due: 07 May 2024 - 09576363
Walkden Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 920 HAR - Hardback - Available - 09531815
Winton Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 920 HAR - Hardback - Onloan - Due: 29 Apr 2024 - 0957929X

The ferryman : a novel / Justin Cronin.

Life on the island archipelago of Prospera is everything a person could hope for. Founded by the mythical genius known as the Designer, Prospera lies hidden from the horrors of a deteriorating outside world. In this island paradise, Prospera's lucky citizens enjoy long, vigorous, and fulfilling lives - that is, until the monitors embedded in their forearms, meant to measure their physical health and psychological well-being, fall below 10 percent. When that happens, they retire themselves, embarking on a short ferry ride to the island known as the Nursery, where their failing bodies are renewed, their memories are wiped clean, and they are readied to restart life afresh. Proctor Bennett, Managing Director of the Department of Social Contracts, has a satisfying career as a ferryman, gently shepherding the elderly through the retirement process - and, when necessary, enforcing it.
Author: Cronin, Justin
Published: London : Orion, 2023.
538 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Eccles Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Hardback - Available - 09607080

All the sinners bleed / S.A. Cosby.

Titus Crown is the first Black sheriff in the history of Charon County, Virginia. In recent decades, Charon has had only two murders. After years of working as an FBI agent, no one knows better than Titus that while his hometown might seem like a land of moonshine, cornbread, and honeysuckle, secrets always fester under the surface. But a year to the day after Titus's election, a school teacher is killed by a former student. The student is then fatally shot by Titus's deputies. As he investigates the shootings, he unearths terrible crimes, and a serial killer who has been hiding in plain sight, haunting the dirt lanes and woodland clearings of Charon. With the killer's possible connections to a local church and the town's harrowing history weighing on him, Titus tries to project confidence about closing the case while concealing a painful secret from his own past.
Author: Cosby, S. A.
Published: London : Headline, 2023.
338 pages ; 25 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Swinton Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Hardback - Available - 09615326

Carrie Soto is back / Taylor Jenkins Reid.

Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. By the time Carrie retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Slam titles. And if you ask her, she is entitled to every one. She sacrificed nearly everything to become the best, with her father as her coach. But six years after her retirement, Carrie finds herself sitting in the stands of the 1994 US Open, watching her record be taken from her by a brutal, stunning, British player named Nicki Chan. At thirty-seven years old, Carrie makes the monumental decision to come out of retirement and be coached by her father for one last year in an attempt to reclaim her record. Even if the sports media says that they never liked the 'Battle-Axe' anyway. Even if her body doesn't move as fast as it did.
Author: Reid, Taylor Jenkins
Published: UK : Penguin Books, 2023.
369 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (2 reviews)

Broughton Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Paperback - Available - 0961804X
Cadishead Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Paperback - Available - 09618058
Eccles Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Paperback - Available - 09618066
Little Hulton Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Paperback - Available - 09618074

Playful wonders / Katie Still.

Everything you need to feed your child's curiosity and inject more play into their day. With this book you'll see that there's playtime for any place or occasion, whether it's during bath time, in the kitchen, or on a walk through the park. Find out how kitchen rolls can be turned into a car garage or how forgotten toys can be repurposed for fun activities, whether that's rescuing them from jelly or searching for them in a torch-lit scavenger hunt. Using household items, with photographs of each activity and easy-to-follow instructions, it's never been easier for kids to interact imaginatively with their environment.
Author: Still, Katie
Published: London : Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2023.
63 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 25 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Boothstown Library - (Salford Libraries) - Children's Non Fiction - J745.5 - Picture Book / Hardback - Available - 08940231
Broughton Library - (Salford Libraries) - Children's Non Fiction - J745.5 - Picture Book / Hardback - Onloan - Due: 02 May 2024 - 0894024X
Walkden Library - (Salford Libraries) - Children's Non Fiction - J745.5 - Picture Book / Hardback - Available - 08940266

The satsuma complex / Bob Mortimer.

Gary Thorn goes for a pint with a work acquaintance called Brendan. When Brendan leaves early, Gary meets a girl in the pub. He doesn't catch her name, but falls for her anyway. When she suddenly disappears without saying goodbye, all Gary has to remember her by is the book she was reading: 'The Satsuma Complex'. But when Brendan goes missing, Gary needs to track down the girl he now calls Satsuma to get some answers. And so begins Gary's quest, through the estates and pie shops of South London, to finally bring some love and excitement into his unremarkable life.
Author: Mortimer, Bob, 1959-
Published: London : Gallery Books UK, 2023.
298 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
1 reserve

Broughton Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Paperback - Available - 09622853
Eccles Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Paperback - Onloan - Due: 14 May 2024 - 09622861
Height Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Paperback - Onloan - Due: 09 May 2024 - 0962287X
Little Hulton Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Paperback - Onloan - Due: 02 May 2024 - 09622888

The sinister booksellers of Bath / Garth Nix.

There's often trouble of a mythical sort in Bath. The booksellers who police the Old World keep watch there, particularly on the entity who inhabits the ancient hot spring. Yet this time it's not from Sulis Minerva that trouble starts. It comes from the discovery of a sorcerous map, leading left-handed bookseller Merlin into great danger. A desperate rescue is attempted by his sister the right-handed bookseller Vivien and their friend, art student Susan Arkshaw, who's still struggling to deal with her own recently discovered magical heritage. The map takes them to a place separated from this world. But this is only the beginning, as the booksellers investigate centuries of disappearances and deaths and try to unravel secrets of the murderous Lady of Stone, a serial killer of awesome powers. If they don't stop her, she will soon kill again. And this time, her target is not an ordinary mortal.
Author: Nix, Garth
Published: London : Gollancz, 2023.
330 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Broughton Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Fantasy / Paperback - Available - 09680365

Berserker! / Adrian Edmondson.

Berserk: out of control with anger or excitement; wild or frenzied. Berserkers: an elite Norse fighting corp who, apparently off their tits on hallucinogenic drugs, fought with a particular fury and senseless abandon still present in many Scandinavian heavy metal groups. Ade Edmondson smashed onto the comedy circuit in the 1980s, stormed The Comedy Store and, alongside Rik Mayall, brought anarchy to stage and screen. How did a child brought up in a strict Methodist household - and who spent his formative years incarcerated in repressive boarding schools - end up joining the revolution? Well, he is part Norse. Could it be his berserker heritage? With wisdom, nostalgia and uniquely observed humour, Ade traces his journey through life and comedy: starting out on the alternative scene, getting arrested in Soho, creating his outrageously violent characters and learning more about his curious heritage.
Author: Edmondson, Adrian, 1957-
Published: London : Macmillan, 2023.
403 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Eccles Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 920 EDM - Hardback - Available - 09683623

No brainer / by Jeff Kinney.

Up until now, middle school hasn't exactly been a joyride for Greg Heffley. So when the town threatens to close the crumbling building, he's not too broken up about it. But when Greg realises this means he's going to be sent to a different school than his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, he changes his tune. Can Greg and his classmates save their school before it's shuttered for good? Or is this the start of a whole new chapter for Greg?
Author: Kinney, Jeff
Published: London : Puffin, 2023.
217 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm.
Diary of a wimpy kid
Average rating: (1 review)
8 reserves

Broughton Library - (Salford Libraries) - Children's Fiction - Hardback - Onloan - Due: 13 Apr 2024 - 08971315
Eccles Library - (Salford Libraries) - Children's Fiction - Hardback - Onloan - Due: 15 May 2024 - 08971323
Irlam Library - (Salford Libraries) - Children's Fiction - Hardback - Onloan - Due: 29 Apr 2024 - 08996202

Running up that hill : 50 visions of Kate Bush / Tom Doyle.

Comprising 50 chapters or 'visions', 'Running Up That Hill' is a multi-faceted biography of this famously elusive figure, viewing her life and work from fresh and illuminating angles. Featuring details from the author's one-to-one conversations with Kate, as well as vignettes of her key songs, albums, videos and concerts, this artful, candid and often brutally funny portrait introduces the reader to the refreshingly real Kate Bush. Along the way, the narrative also includes vivid reconstructions of transformative moments in her career and insights from the friends and collaborators closest to Kate, including her photographer brother John Carder Bush and fellow artists David Gilmour, John Lydon and Youth. This title is a vibrant and comprehensive re-examination of Kate Bush and her many creative landmarks.
Author: Doyle, Tom, 1967-
Published: London : Nine Eight Books, 2023.
358 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Walkden Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 782.42164 DOY - Paperback - Available - 09682627

Iron flame / Rebecca Yarros.

Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College, Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins, and Violet's already wondering how she'll get through. The new vice commandant has made it his personal mission to teach Violet exactly how powerless she is - unless she betrays the man she loves. Although Violet's body might be weaker and frailer than everyone else's, she still a will of iron. And leadership is forgetting the most important lesson Basgiath has taught her: Dragon riders make their own rules. Violet knows the real secret hidden for centuries at Basgiath War College - and nothing, not even dragon fire, may be enough to save them in the end.
Author: Yarros, Rebecca
Published: London : Piatkus, 2023.
623 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Empyrean series
Average rating: (2 reviews)

Swinton Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Fantasy / Hardback - Onloan - Due: 13 May 2024 - 0969367X
Walkden Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Fantasy / Hardback - Available - 09693688

The woman in me / Britney Spears.

In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice - her truth - was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. She reveals for the first time her incredible journey - and the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history. Written with remarkable candour and humour, Spears's groundbreaking book illuminates the enduring power of music and love - and the importance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms, at last.
Author: Spears, Britney
Published: London : Gallery Books UK, 2023.
277 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (2 reviews)
3 reserves

Pendleton Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 920 SPE - Hardback - Onloan - Due: 10 May 2024 - 09687998

The dictionary of lost words / Pip Williams.

In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Esme's place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day, she sees a slip containing the word 'bondmaid' flutter to the floor unclaimed. Over time, Esme realises that some words are considered more important than others, and that words and meanings relating to women's experiences often go unrecorded. She begins to collect words for another dictionary: The Dictionary of Lost Words.
Author: Williams, Pip, 1969-
Published: London : Vintage, 2022.
422 pages : maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Swinton Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Paperback - Available - 09483535

How to kill your family / Bella Mackie.

When Grace Bernard discovers her absentee millionaire father has rejected her dying mother's pleas for help, she vows revenge, and sets about to kill every member of his family. Readers have a front row seat as Grace picks off the family one by one - and the result is as and gruesome as it is entertaining in this wickedly dark romp about class, family, love. and murder. But then Grace is imprisoned for a murder she didn't commit.
Author: Mackie, Bella
Published: London : The Borough Press, 2022.
359 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Height Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Paperback - Onloan - Due: 23 Apr 2024 - 09481095
Height Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Paperback - Available - 09508783

Freckles / Cecelia Ahern.

Allegra Bird's arms are scattered with freckles, a gift from her beloved father. But despite her nickname, Freckles has never been able to join all the dots. So when a stranger tells her that everyone is the average of the five people they spend the most time with, it opens up something deep inside. The trouble is, Freckles doesn't know if she has five people. And if not, what does that say about her? She's left her unconventional father and her friends behind for a bold new life in Dublin, but she's still an outsider. Now, in a quest to understand, she must find not one but five people who shape her - and who will determine her future.
Author: Ahern, Cecelia, 1981-
Published: London : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2022.
372 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Height Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Paperback - Onloan - Due: 30 Mar 2024 - 09568298
Walkden Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Paperback - Available - 09568344

Verity / Colleen Hoover.

Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of the night their family was forever altered. Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents would devastate the already grieving father.
Author: Hoover, Colleen
Published: London : Sphere, 2022.
321 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (3 reviews)
1 reserve

Broughton Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Paperback - Onloan - Due: 02 May 2024 - 09585907
Pendleton Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Paperback - On reserve shelf at Walkden Library - 09585915
Walkden Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Paperback - Onloan - Due: 11 Apr 2024 - 09534075

The Atlas six / Olivie Blake.

Secrets. Betrayal. Seduction. Welcome to the Alexandrian Society. When the world's best magicians are offered an extraordinary opportunity, saying yes is easy. Each could join the secretive Alexandrian Society, whose custodians guard lost knowledge from ancient civilizations. Their members enjoy a lifetime of power and prestige. Yet each decade, only six practitioners are invited - to fill five places. Contenders Libby Rhodes and Nico de Varona are inseparable enemies, cosmologists who can control matter with their minds. Parisa Kamali is a telepath, who sees the mind's deepest secrets. Reina Mori is a naturalist who can perceive and understand the flow of life itself. And Callum Nova is an empath, who can manipulate the desires of others. Finally there's Tristan Caine, whose powers mystify even himself.
Author: Blake, Olivie
Published: London : Tor, 2022.
556 pages ; 20 cm.
Atlas six trilogy
Average rating: (1 review)
1 reserve

Eccles Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Paperback - Onloan - Due: 28 Mar 2024 - 09615733
Swinton Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Paperback - In-transit from Swinton Library to Walkden Library (Set: 25 Apr 2024) - 09647422

Still life / Sarah Winman.

'Still Life' is a beautiful, big-hearted, richly tapestried story of people brought together by love, war, art, flood - and the ghost of E.M. Forster. We just need to know what the heart's capable of, Evelyn. And do you know what it's capable of? I do. Grace and fury. It's 1944 and in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa, as the Allied troops advance and bombs fall around them, two strangers meet and share an extraordinary evening together. Ulysses Temper is a young British solider and one-time globe-maker, Evelyn Skinner is a sexagenarian art historian and possible spy. She has come to Italy to salvage paintings from the ruins and relive her memories of the time she encountered E.M. Forster and had her heart stolen by an Italian maid in a particular Florentine room with a view.
Author: Winman, Sarah, 1964-
Published: London : 4th Estate, 2021.
438 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Swinton Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Hardback - In-transit from Irlam Library to Swinton Library (Set: 25 Apr 2024) - 09421637
Walkden Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Hardback - Available - 09421645

The once and future witches / Alix E. Harrow.

In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box. But when the three Eastwood sisters join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten ways that might turn the women's movement into the witch's movement. Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote - and perhaps not even to live - the sisters must delve into the oldest magics, draw new alliances, and heal the bond between them if they want to survive. There's no such thing as witches. But there will be.
Author: Harrow, Alix E.
Published: London : Orbit, 2021.
viii, 516 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Pendleton Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Fantasy / Paperback - Available - 09436774

Daisy Jones & the Six / Taylor Jenkins Reid.

Daisy Jones & the Six rose from the 1970s LA music scene to become one of the biggest bands in the world. They sold out arenas from coast to coast. Their music defined an era and every girl in America idolised Daisy. But, in 1979, on the night of the final concert of their tour, they split. Nobody ever knew why. Until now. This is the whole story, right from the beginning: the sun-bleached streets, the grimy bars on the Sunset Strip, knowing Daisy's moment was coming. Relive the euphoria of success and experience the terror that nothing will ever be as good again.
Author: Reid, Taylor Jenkins
Published: London : Arrow Books, 2020.
ix, 401 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (2 reviews)

Pendleton Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Paperback - Available - 07414072
Swinton Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Paperback - Available - 09374213

Queenie / Candice Carty-Williams.

Queenie Jenkins can't cut a break. Well, apart from the one from her long term boyfriend, Tom. That's definitely just a break though. Definitely not a break up. Then there's her boss who doesn't seem to see her and her Caribbean family who don't seem to listen (if it's not Jesus or water rates, they're not interested). She's trying to fit in two worlds that don't really understand her. It's no wonder she's struggling. She was named to be queen of everything. So why is she finding it so hard to rule her own life?
Author: Carty-Williams, Candice, 1989-
Published: London : Trapeze, 2020.
392 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Eccles Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Diversity / Paperback - Available - 07417071
Pendleton Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Diversity / Paperback - Available - 0741708X
Walkden Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Diversity / Paperback - Available - 0743118X

Black and British : a short, essential history / David Olusoga.

When did Africans first come to Britain? Who are the well-dressed black children in Georgian paintings? Why did the American Civil War disrupt the Industrial Revolution? These and many other questions are answered in this essential introduction to 1800 years of the Black British history: from the Roman Africans who guarded Hadrian's Wall right up to the present day.
Author: Olusoga, David
Published: London, England : Macmillan Children's Books, 2020.
Published: ©2020
216 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Height Library - (Salford Libraries) - Children's Non Fiction - J941.004 - Diversity / Paperback - Available - 08726582
Pendleton Library - (Salford Libraries) - Children's Non Fiction - J941.004 - Diversity / Paperback - Available - 08726590
Pendleton Library - (Salford Libraries) - Children's Non Fiction - J941.004 - Diversity / Paperback - Available - 08789789
Swinton Library - (Salford Libraries) - Children's Non Fiction - J941.004 - Diversity / Paperback - Available - 08726604
Walkden Library - (Salford Libraries) - Children's Non Fiction - J941.004 - Diversity / Paperback - Available - 08726612

Such a fun age / Kiley Reid.

Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her young black babysitter, Emira Tucker, is accused by a security guard of kidnapping the Chamberlains' toddler at the supermarket one night. A small crowd gathers, a bystander films everything, and Emira is furious and humiliated. Alix resolves to make it right. But Emira herself is aimless, broke and wary of Alix's desire to help. When the video of Emira unearths someone from Alix's past, both women find themselves on a crash course that will upend everything they think they know about themselves, and each other.
Author: Reid, Kiley
Published: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
310 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Broughton Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Paperback - Available - 09412425
Pendleton Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Paperback - Available - 09412433

Surrounded by idiots : the four types of human behavior (or, How to understand those who cannot be understood) / Thomas Erikson ; English translation by Martin Pender and Rod Bradbury.

Do you ever look around you and think you're the only one making any sense? Or tried to reason with your partner with disastrous results? Do long, rambling answers drive you crazy? Or does your colleague's abrasive manner get your back up? Do you ever get the feeling you're surrounded by idiots? You are not alone. Swedish behavioural scientist and runaway author Thomas Erikson is here to help, and will inform and entertain you in equal measure. This book presents his simple model based on four personality types (Red, Blue, Green and Yellow). When you understand the psychology of each you can adapt your communication style to handle anyone more easily and get the best out of the people you have to deal with - be it at work, in public or at home.
Author: Erikson, Thomas, 1965-
Published: London : Vermilion, 2019.
xv, 282 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Little Hulton Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 302.2 ERI - Paperback - Onloan - Due: 26 Apr 2024 - 07394608

The parable of the talents : a novel / Octavia E. Butler.

It is 2032 and Lauren Olamina's daughter Larkin narrates the story of her mother's life as she spreads the word of her Earthseed philosophy. As Larkin describes how they attain their goal of reaching the stars, she denounces her mother.
Author: Butler, Octavia E.
Published: London : Headline, 2019.
400 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Pendleton Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Paperback - Available - 09493247

Parable of the sower / Octavia E. Butler.

Set in a California where civilisation has all but broken down and poverty and unspeakable violence are the norm, this is a horrifying vision of what might be. Teenage Lauren knows there must be a better way to live and invents a new religion.
Author: Butler, Octavia E.
Published: London : Headline, 2019.
1 volume ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
1 reserve

Swinton Library - (Salford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Paperback - Onloan - Due: 11 Mar 2024 - 09443193

Rotherweird / Andrew Caldecott ; illustrated by Sasha Laika.

Twelve children, gifted far beyond their years, have been banished by their queen and given sanctuary at Rotherweird. Some say they are the golden generation; some say the devil's spawn. But everyone knows there is something to be revered - and feared. Four and a half centuries on, the town of Rotherweird is still bound by the Elizabethan laws that keep it isolated from the rest of England, any study of its past forbidden. Then an outsider arrives: a man of unparallelled wealth and power, enough to buy the town of Rotherweird - deep-buried secrets and all.
Author: Caldecott, Andrew
Published: London : Jo Fletcher Books, 2018.
xvi, 456 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
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