Bookmarks: Cosy Reads: April 2020
Welcome to this issue of Bookmarks, Cosy Reads. Cosy reads includes cosy mysteries, fictional and true life country stories, family novels, fictional and true life nature and animal stories, and Christian fiction.
The listed DAISY audio books have been recently added to the Blind Low Vision NZ Library collection. They are available to order via our CD service and to download from Book Link and over Alexa.
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Audio books
New Zealand war animals
By Nigel Allsopp
Book number 128524
Non Fiction: Nature And Animals. This book recognises and honours the sacrifices of the war animals. Throughout history, in war and in peacetime, animals and mankind have worked alongside each other. As beasts of burden, messengers, protectors, mascots, and friends, these war animals have demonstrated true valour and an enduring partnership with humans. In modern times, within the NZDF, the use of animals is on the increase as opposed to decline, due to military working dogs and specialist explosive search dogs being used to combat terrorist activities in both homeland defence and international operations.
Produced by RNZFB. Read by Catriona MacLeod in 2 hours, 56 minutes.
That’s New Zealand War Animals, by Nigel Allsopp, book number 128524.
The vulgar wasp : the story of a ruthless invader and ingenious predator
By Phil Lester
Book number 131033
Non fiction: Nature And Animals. Native to Europe, Vespula vulgaris, the common wasp, has been inadvertently transported to New Zealand and around the globe - in people's cargo. Though known as pests, wasps are smart predators, hunters and invaders. This book tells the story of the common wasp and its impact on us and our biodiversity.
Produced by RNZFB. Read by Paul Barrett in 9 hours, 37 minutes.
That’s The vulgar wasp : the story of a ruthless invader and ingenious predator, by Phil Lester, book number 131033.
Christmas in Silver Springs
By Brenda Novak
Book Number: 131099
Fiction: Christian Fiction. When Harper Devlin's husband ditches her, she takes her daughters to Silver Springs, hoping family can heal her broken heart. But comfort comes unexpectedly in ex-prisoner Tobias Richardson.
Produced by Blackstone. Read by Veronica Worthington in 10 hours, 5 minutes.
That’s Christmas in Silver Springs by Brenda Novak, book number 131099.
House of broken angels
By Luis Alberto Urrea
Book Number: 127291
Fiction: The Family. A beloved and ailing patriarch, Big Angel, has summoned his Mexican-American family for one last legendary birthday party. But then his mother dies herself, leading to a farewell doubleheader.
Produced by Blackstone. Read by Luis Alberto Urrea in 9 hours, 46 minutes.
That’s House of broken angels, by Luis Alberto Urrea, book number 127291.
That kind of mother: a novel
By Rumaan Alam
Book Number: 127294
Fiction: The Family. Rebecca Stone steps forward to adopt the newborn of the one woman who offered her any real help when she was a new mother. But Rebecca is unprepared for what it means to be a white mother with a black son. Navigating motherhood for her will be a matter of learning how to raise two children whom she loves with equal ferocity but whom the world is determined to treat differently.
Produced by Blackstone. Read by Vanessa Johansson in 8 hours, 12 minutes.
That’s That kind of mother, by Rumaan Alam, book number 127294.
The last romantics: a novel
By Tara Conklin
Book Number 127301
Fiction: The Family. An unforgettable exploration of the ties that bind us together, the responsibilities we embrace, and the duties we resent, and how we can lose, and sometimes rescue, the ones we love.
Produced by Blackstone. Read by Cassandra Campbell in 12 hours, 14 minutes.
That’s The last romantics: a novel, by Tara Conklin, book number 127301.
My life as a rat; a novel
By Joyce Carol Oates
Book number 127308
Fiction: The Family. This novel traces a life of banishment from a family--from parents, siblings, and the church--that forces Violet Rue Kerrigan to discover her own identity and to emerge transformed.
Produced by Blackstone. Read by Sadie Alexandru in 13 hours, 3 minutes.
That’s My life as a rat; a novel, by Joyce Carol Oates, book number 127308.
A share in death
By Deborah Crombie
Book number 131092
Fiction: Mystery And Detective Stories. A week's holiday in a luxurious hotel is just what Scotland Yard's Superintendent Duncan Kincaid needs. But his vacation ends dramatically with the discovery of a dead body in the whirlpool bath. Despite a suspicious lack of cooperation from the local constabulary, Kincaid's keen sense of duty won't allow him to ignore the heinous crime, impelling him to send for his enthusiastic young assistant, Sergeant Gemma James. But the stakes are raised significantly when a second murder occurs, and Kincaid and James find themselves locked in a determined hunt for a fiendish felon looking for fresh blood. Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James series book 1. Has sequel : All shall be well 131093.
Produced by Blackstone. Read by Michael Deehy in 7 hours, 3 minutes.
That’s A share in death, by Deborah Crombie, book number 131092.
Pride of Lancashire
By Anna Jacobs
Book number 131688
Fiction. The Family. Carrie Preston is used to hard work - oldest of ten, with an incompetent mother and a drunken father, she struggles to find food for the younger children. But nothing could have prepared her for the day fate deals her family the cruelest of hands, rendering the Preston’s more helpless and desperate than ever. Preston sisters series, book 1.
Produced by Ulverscroft. Read by Anne Dover in 14 hours, 30 minutes.
That’s Pride of Lancashire, by Anna Jacobs, book number 131688.
The easternmost house
By Juliet Blaxland
Book number 131683
Non fiction: Nature and Animals. Within the next three years, Juliet Blaxland's home will be demolished, and the land where it now stands will crumble into the North Sea. In her numbered days living in the Easternmost House, Juliet fights to maintain the rural ways she grew up with, re-connecting with the beauty, usefulness and erratic terror of the natural world. A memoir, describing a year on the easternmost edge of England, and exploring how we can preserve delicate ecosystems and livelihoods in the face of rapid coastal erosion and environmental change.
Produced by Ulverscroft. Read by Juliet Blaxland in 6 hours, 54 minutes.
That’s The easternmost house, by Juliet Blaxland, book number 131683.
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