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I'm on deadline this week for book reviews, so it's always helpful when I can turn to one of Sandie Herron's reviews of audiobooks. She reviewed the fourth in Miranda James' Cat in the Stacks mystery series, Out of Circulation . I hope you "check it out." Out of Circulation Series:  Cat in the Stacks, Book 4 Written by Miranda James Narrated by Erin Bennett Unabridged Audiobook Listening Length: 8 hours and 10 minutes Publisher: Tantor Audio Release Date: April 29, 2014 ASIN: B00JPGT6GE Charlie Harris has gotten busier since the last time we visited Athena, Mississippi where he lives with his large Maine coon cat named Diesel.  As this book opens, we learn that Charlie is now on the board of the Friends of the Library organization.   As a last minute favor to the ill member of the board who had promised to host this meeting, Charlie holds the board meeting at his home. A decision on where to orchestrate the annual Christmas fund raising event must be made. ...

J.E. Barnard's debut novel, When the Flood Falls , introduces three troubled women who have to fight past their fears. Despite their initial distrust of each other, they find common ground in their need to find a killer. Lacey McCrae's husband, a fellow officer in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, was abusive. After her divorce, she left the force, and fled. She's hiding out west of Calgary at the edge of the wilderness, working security at a soon-to-be-opened Arts Centre. She's staying with her university roommate, Dee. Dee has money and power, and works with, and runs with barons and hockey stars. However, she's scared to death. She finally admits to Lacey that she hears footsteps at night, yet no one has seen a prowler. Because of Lacey's own past, she believes Dee's ex-husband is terrorizing her. When there are incidents at the Arts Centre, and Dee is the victim in a hit-and-run accident, there doesn't seem to be a connection. Then a hockey star dis...

The Cypher Bureau is a novel by Eilidh McGinness. It tells the story of what happens when the Polish Cypher Bureau learn that the Germans are employing a new type of code that hey cannot decypher. The Cypher Bureau takers the decision to employ mathematics students to implement a new way of dealing with the science of code breaking. One of these students is Marian Rejewski. With other

Fragments is a new novel from lawyer turned author John Ellison. It's a novel that draws heavily on the maxim "Borrow from history, build from imagination." It's a piece of historical fiction, yet a piece of recent history, set in the 1960s and beyond. Rather than writing a 'straight' memoir, John Ellison has decided to mine memoir to create a fictionalised story which he uses to tell

The Girl in the Abbey is set during the tumultuous period of World War 2. Grimsby was an important British port and, as such, it was constantly under attack by Nazi bombers so many of the children of Grimsby were evacuated inland to places of safety. Violet Cobb is one of the evacuees. Violet is a resourceful and brave young girl who finds herself waiting on the doorstep of Bramblington Abbey