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  Murder of Convenience

  Pat Herbert

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  It is London in the early 1960s and Teddy Bean is making a name for himself as a private detective. 
  However, his personal problems are taking over, with his brother, John, only slowly recovering from a heart attack and his wife, Pearl, dying in a car accident. Added to this, he takes on a difficult case involving a woman presumably drowned at sea by her husband. 
  Teddy needs help while his brother is incapacitated and finds it in his friend, ex-Detective Inspector Tony Halliday. With the added support of their secretary Muriel, the Bean Detective Agency is open for business once more!

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  The De Bercy Affair

  Louis Tracy

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  A beautiful French actress with concealed origins and a clandestine involvement with a group of anarchists is brutally murdered in London. Circumstances lead Scotland Yard to several suspects, including her wealthy American fiancé, a couple of the anarchists, and even a respected "Yard" detective. The search for the killer sets off an absorbing mystery with an interesting cast of characters and plot twists. Gordon Holmes is a pen-name of Louis Tracy (1863-1928), a British journalist and prolific writer of fiction.

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  We Love Toa Payoh

  Singapore Urban Sketchers

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  Admire beautiful sketches of well-loved places in Toa Payoh—the grand old dame that is the Toa Payoh Swimming Complex; the lovely Toa Payoh Town Park; the famous Lian Shan Shuang Lin Monastery…. Or reminisce over the smaller nooks and crannies, such as the old-timer Bugs Bunny barber shop and the bird singing pavilion at Lorong 4.  
   
  By artists from Urban Sketchers Singapore, the drawings  in this little time capsule of a book bring to you all that  is quintessentially ‘Toa Payoh’.

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  The Mill on the Floss

  George Eliot

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  The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot's second novel, and was published in 1860, only a year after her first, Adam Bede. It centres on the lives of brother and sister Tom and Maggie Tulliver growing up on the river Floss near the town of St. Oggs (a fictionalised version of Gainsborough, in Lincolnshire, England) in the years following the Napoleonic Wars, with both as young adults eventually meeting a tragic end by the Mill which the family holds so dear. In large measure, their lives are dominated by their father, a successful miller brought down by his inability to resist settling arguments in a court of law. Character differences between Tom and Maggie - he dour and rigid of thought, she lively and impulsive - seem to matter little in childhood, but eventually strain their relationship beyond breaking point. It is Maggie, however, who is the dominant character of the book, arguably one of the great characters of 19th century literature. Each of her relationships is vital to the narrative: with her parents, with Tom above all, but on a romantic level with Philip Wakem, the sensitive hunchbacked son of her father's (and Tom's) bitterest enemy, and with charming and urbane Stephen Guest, fiance of Maggie's cousin Lucy Deane. Maggie's life is changed utterly by an impulsive elopement which she turns back from, but too late to stop the inevitable abuse and contempt. This is a semi-autobiographical reflection of the vilification which George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) herself had to endure while openly living with a married man, a time when her brother was willing to communicate with her only through lawyers. Eliot writes of character and relationships with an insight and sharp detail that few authors have ever equaled. It's a long book, but you will appreciate it for its depth

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  X Volume 3: Siege [Dramatized...

  Eric Nguyen, Duane Swierczynski

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  "Arcadia descends into chaos as old villains return to town and new ones are born! While X faces down suicidal psychos, superstitious mobsters, and thrill-junkie assassins, Leigh uncovers the secrets of his past . . . before he locked on his mask and became X! 
   
  Collects issues #9–#12. Adapted from the issues and produced with a full cast of actors, immersive sound effects and cinematic music. 
   
  Featuring the return of some of the original X characters from Comics’ Greatest World. 
   
  Performed by Eric Messner, Rayner Gabriel, Natalie Van Sistine, Andrew James Spooner, Steven Carpenter, Gabriel Michael, Ryan Carlo Dalusung, Stephanie Németh-Parker, James Lewis, Peter Holdway, James Konicek, Earl Fisher, Anthony Palmini, Bradley Foster Smith, Darius Johnson, David Engel, David Cui Cui, Evan Casey, James J. Johnson, Jean Rosolino, Jon Vertullo, Keith Richards, Ken Jackson, Keval Shah, Matthew Bassett, Matthew Pauli, Michael John Casey, Nanette Savard, Nickolette Kong, Nicole Perez, Nora Achrati, Patrick Boylan, Richard Rohan, Rob McFadyen, Sam Intrater, Scott McCormick, Shawn K. Jain, Sheree Wichard, Shravan Amin, Torian Brackett, Trei Taylor and Yasmin Tuazon."

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  Wired Up Wrong

  Rachael Smith

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  A new graphic memoir, from the award-winning author of Quarantine Comix.
  
  Hoping to better understand her own brain, award-winning comic-creator Rachael Smith set about documenting her experiences and struggles with anxiety and depression through comic strips.
  
  The resulting book, Wired Up Wrong, is both educating and entertaining, holding a mirror up to all the flattering and unflattering aspects of mental health.
  
  Featuring Rufus the cat, Barky, a giant black dog who lives inside her head, and two tiny, imaginary game-show hosts, Comedy Women in Print-shortlisted Rachael Smith's work is at times light-hearted, others heart-breaking, but always brave and honest.

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