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Lucy the diamond fairy

Author: Meadows, Daisy
Published: Orchard Bks, 0.
1 reserve

Chalfont St Giles Community Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Children's fiction: paperback - In-transit from Lt. Chalfont Community Library to Marlow Library (Set: 28 Nov 2023) - 95100000371681

The strange journey from bacteria to blue whales : a graphic novel about Earth's animals / by Sara Latta ; illustrated by Scott Jeralds.

Unlock the mystery of life on planet Earth with a talking bacterium! In this full-colour graphic novel, Bertie the Bacteria takes readers on a joke-fuelled journey, revealing how small organisms became some of Earth's largest creatures, including the epically humongous blue whale. With laugh-out-loud text and colourful comic book art, science lovers and comic book fans alike will delight in exploring the history of our precious blue planet.
Author: Latta, Sara L.
Published: Oxford : Raintree, [2024]
Published: ©2024
32 pages : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 23 cm.
Earth's amazing journey
Graphic library

Great Missenden Community Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Children's non fiction - J590 LAT - Available - 95100000419497
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Micklefield Community Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Children's non fiction - J590 LAT - Available - 95100000420552
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Forage & stitch : using natural materials in textile art / Caroline Hyde-Brown.

Find a wealth of instruction and inspiration on how to incorporate naturally foraged materials into your artwork. In the process, discover a range of textile techniques - suitable for all levels and abilities - to complement your design. These include hand and machine stitching, solar dyeing, felting, hapa-zome and more. Using natural materials in textile art is way of connecting a place directly with its artistic representation, but it also makes the artist tap into and observe the true rhythms of the natural world: the seasons, the weather and time. Incorporating consciously foraged goods in art gently forces you to slow down, to take note of each season's bounty, and kindle - or rekindle - an awareness that we are all part of one big eco-system. This is an enriching book on textile and natural art that celebrates the maker's relationship with art and the natural world.
Author: Hyde-Brown, Caroline
Published: Tunbridge Wells, Kent : Search Press, 2024.
128 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 28 cm

Winslow Community Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 746.028 HYD - Available - 95100000419894

Life in the UK test. Practice questions : questions and answers for the British citizenship test

Passing the Life in the UK test is a compulsory requirement for anyone wanting to live permanently in Britain or become a British citizen. This title features practice questions to make preparing for the test a lot easier.
2024 edition / edited by Henry Dillon and Alastair Smith.
Published: London : Red Squirrel Publishing, [2024]
Published: ©2024
132 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm

Amersham Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 323.620941 DIL - Onloan - Due: 22 Dec 2023 - 95100000421039
Marlow Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 323.620941 DIL - Available - 95100000421007

Life in the UK test. Study guide : the essential study guide for the British citizenship test

Passing the Life in the UK test is a compulsory requirement for anyone wanting to live permanently in Britain or become a British citizen. This practical study guide makes preparing for the test a lot easier.
2024 edition / edited by Henry Dillon and Alastair Smith.
Published: London : Red Squirrel Publishing, [2024]
Published: ©2024
xxiv, 228 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour) ; 21 cm
1 reserve

Amersham Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 323.620941 DIL - Reservation awaiting collection (Set: 30 Nov 2023) - 95100000420878
Marlow Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 323.620941 DIL - Onloan - Due: 22 Dec 2023 - 95100000421010

Life in the UK test. Handbook : everything you need to study for the British citizenship test

Passing the Life in the UK test is a compulsory requirement for anyone wanting to live permanently in Britain or become a British citizen. This practical handbook makes preparing for the test a lot easier.
2024 edition / edited by Henry Dillon & Alastair Smith.
Published: London : Red Squirrel Publishing, [2024]
Published: ©2024
xxii, 172 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour) ; 21 cm

Amersham Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 323.620941 DIL - Onloan - Due: 22 Dec 2023 - 95100000420877
Hazlemere Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 323.620941 DIL - Onloan - Due: 19 Dec 2023 - 95100000420931

The September house / Carissa Orlando.

When Margaret and her husband Hal bought the large Victorian house on Hawthorn Street - for sale at a surprisingly reasonable price - they couldn't believe they finally had a home of their own. Then they discovered the hauntings. Every September, the walls drip blood. The ghosts of former inhabitants appear, and all of them are terrified of something that lurks in the basement. Most people would flee. Margaret is not most people. Margaret is staying. It's her house. But after four years Hal can't take it anymore, and he leaves abruptly. Now, he's not returning calls, and their daughter Katherine - who knows nothing about the hauntings - arrives, intent on looking for her missing father. To make things worse, September has just begun, and with every attempt Margaret and Katherine make at finding Hal, the hauntings grow more harrowing, because there are some secrets the house needs to keep.
Author: Orlando, Carissa
Published: New York : Berkley, [2023]
pages cm

High Wycombe Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult fiction: hardback - Onloan - Due: 21 Dec 2023 - 95100000421027

The unicorns of Silver Street / Robin Birch ; illustrated by Jobe Anderson.

Aisha and Jayden are definitely not fans of Outside. Aisha would rather be home playing on her tablet or messaging her friends. Jayden thinks the worlds inside his books are much more exciting than the real one beyond his window. But when they are asked to join the Secret Beast Club, a centuries-old secret group that protects mythological creatures, Aisha and Jayden discover that real magic could be closer than they think - you just have to know where to look.
Author: Birch, Robin
Published: UK : Puffin, 2023.
165 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.
Secret Beast Club ; 1.

Long Crendon Community Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Children's fiction: paperback - Available - 95100000276367

The creek

Join Bluey on a new adventure down to the never-explored before creek! Bluey and her friends are bored at the park and Mackenzie suggests a trip to the creek. Bluey is unsure as she has never been there before. What will Bluey find when she explores the creek? And will she end up liking what she finds? An exciting board book about the beauty of trying something new! What other adventures will you go on with Bluey? Also available: Bluey: The Pool Bluey: Grannies Bluey: Hammerbarn Bluey: Fruit Bat
Author: Bluey
Published: Ladybird 2023
Bluey

Long Crendon Community Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Children's fiction - Available - 95100000276402

Milkman Mike / Julia Bichener.

'Milkman Mike' is out on his countryside deliveries. Children will love meeting him and his customers while gaining a grasp of time passing and enjoying a play on repetitive sounds. The book gives a glimpse into village life and provides an opportunity to have quiet time with your children while talking about the places he visits and people he meets. It encourages conversation about what you see on the page (can you spot the eggs?) and is illustrated in an interesting and tactile way.
Author: Bichener, Julia
Published: London : Austin Macauley Publishers, 2023.
34 pages : chiefly illustrations (colour)

Gerrards Cross Community Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Junior picture book - Available - 95100000419806

White torture : interviews with Iranian women prisoners / Narges Mohammadi ; translated by Amir Rezanezhad.

Extended solitary confinement has been condemned as a severe violation of human rights. Yet it is still widely used in Iranian prisons. In 'White Torture', thirteen women, including Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, share their experiences of imprisonment: harassment and beatings by guards, total blindfolding and denial of medical treatment. Angry interrogators threaten their families and lie about their whereabouts. One prisoner is even told she is dead. None of the women have committed crimes - they are prisoners of conscience or held hostage as bargaining chips.
Author: Muḥammadī, Nargis
Published: London : Oneworld, 2023.
272 pages ; 20 cm
1 reserve

High Wycombe Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 364.374095 MUH - Onloan - Due: 20 Dec 2023 - 95100000421041

With and without you / Kelsey Parker.

Kelsey Parker's world was turned upside down in the summer of 2020 when her husband Tom, singer in boyband The Wanted, was cruelly diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour. Heavily pregnant with their second child and coping with her own heartache at losing her partner of 13 years, Kelsey remained a tower of strength and positivity for Tom during his darkest days. When traditional treatments stopped working, she spent hours researching alternative therapies to give her husband extra time with his young children Aurelia and Bodhi. Hope came late in 2021 when Tom's tumour became stable, but sadly his condition quickly deteriorated and on March 30, 2022, aged just 33, he died surrounded by his loyal wife, family and friends. 'With And Without You' is her moving, deeply personal story of the first 12 months since Tom's tragic passing.
Author: Parker, Kelsey
Published: London : Mirror Books, 2023.
288 pages ; 24 cm

Aylesbury Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - B PAR PAR - Onloan - Due: 11 Dec 2023 - 95100000420252

Deep into that darkness / M.S. Morris.

When the body of one of his own colleagues is found in Scarborough harbour, DCI Tom Raven throws himself into finding out what led to the young man's death. The killing shows similarities to the unsolved murder of the victim's own mother. Might his off-the-books investigation into her case have got him into deep water? Or could his death be related to the attacks on women that are taking place at night? The dead man left a trail of cryptic clues to his final movements that might lead Raven to the truth. Drawn into Scarborough's shady night life in his quest to find the killer, Raven faces temptations of his own.
Author: Morris, M. S. (Joint pseudonym)
Published: Englefield Green : Landmark Media, 2023.
290 pages ; 20 cm.
DCI Tom Raven crime thrillers ; 4.
1 reserve

Aylesbury Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult fiction: paperback - Onloan - Due: 18 Dec 2023 - 95100000420047

Commonwealth & British Empire stamps 1840-1970

This Stanley Gibbons comprehensive catalogue covers Great Britain, Commonwealth and Empire countries 1840-1970. The listings include variations in watermark, perforation, paper and printing methods, major shades, important plate flaws, errors, government telegraph stamps and booklets (all listed and priced).
2024 edition.
Published: Ringwood : Stanley Gibbons, 2023.
780 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 31 cm

Aylesbury Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult reference - QR769.56 STA - Item not loanable (Set: 20 Nov 2023) - 95100000420823
Chesham Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult reference - QR769.56 STA - Item not loanable (Set: 20 Nov 2023) - 95100000420824
High Wycombe Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult reference - QR769.56 STA - Item not loanable (Set: 20 Nov 2023) - 95100000420825

Funny fig / Claire Smith

Author: Smith, Claire
Published: Patch, 2023

Amersham Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Junior picture book - Available - 148991442

Minecraft Annual 2024

Author: Mojang Ab
Published: HarperCollins Publishers 2023
72

Flackwell Heath Community Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Donation: children's non fiction - J794.85 MOJ - This item cannot be reserved (Set: 29 Nov 2023) - In-transit from Bucks Library Reserve Store to Flackwell Heath Community Library (Set: 30 Nov 2023) - 95100000421173

Stanley Gibbons stamps of the world: 2024 (6 vol set)

Author: Gibbons, Stanley
Published: Stanley Gibbons Limited 2023
6000

Aylesbury Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult reference - RQR769.56 STA - Item not loanable (Set: 29 Nov 2023) - 95100000421209
Chesham Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult reference - RQR769.56 STA - Item not loanable (Set: 29 Nov 2023) - 95100000421215
High Wycombe Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult reference - RQR769.56 STA - Item not loanable (Set: 29 Nov 2023) - 95100000421221

Happiness seeker / Jennifer Burkinshaw

Author: Burkinshaw, Jennifer
Published: Beaten Track, 2023

Amersham Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Young adult - Onloan - Due: 19 Dec 2023 - 148991019

Paula's way / Anna Jacobs.

An unexpected inheritance is most people's dream, but not so for Paula. She's happy and secure in Western Australia with her own business, a complete contrast to her rootless childhood, and has little interest in the minor stately home in Wiltshire of which she is apparently now the owner. Persuaded to at least visit the property, she travels to the UK but from the journey to what awaits her at the other end, complications personal, romantic and financial abound which will test the adage that home is where the heart is.
Author: Jacobs, Anna
Published: London : Allison & Busby Limited, 2023.
350 pages ; 20 cm.
Waterfront series ; book 3.

Amersham Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult fiction: paperback - Available - 95100000420983
Beacon Villages Community Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult fiction: paperback - Available - 95100000420944
Beaconsfield Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult fiction: paperback - Onloan - Due: 22 Dec 2023 - 95100000421098
Gerrards Cross Community Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult fiction: paperback - Onloan - Due: 15 Dec 2023 - 95100000420913
Great Missenden Community Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult fiction: paperback - On order
Hazlemere Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult fiction: paperback - Onloan - Due: 28 Dec 2023 - 95100000420923
Wing Community Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult fiction: paperback - On order

Under water / by Brenda McHale.

Some animals are weird and others are downright wacky. Some animals are creepy and lots more are completely terrifying. But all of them are incredibly interesting! Find out all about the weirdest, strangest and scariest animals under the water, from pistol shrimps to wobbegongs.
Author: McHale, Brenda
Published: King's Lynn, Norfolk : BookLife Publishing, [2023]
Published: ©2023
24 unnumbered pages : illustrations (colour) ; 22 cm.
Totally awesome guide to animals

Flackwell Heath Community Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Donation: children's non fiction - J591.77 MAC - This item cannot be reserved (Set: 29 Nov 2023) - In-transit from Bucks Library Reserve Store to Flackwell Heath Community Library (Set: 30 Nov 2023) - 95100000421160

Groundskeeping / Lee Cole.

Eager to clean up his act after his troubled early twenties, Owen has returned to Kentucky to take a job as a groundskeeper at a small college in the Appalachian foothills, one which allows him to enrol on their writing course. It's there that he meets Alma, a Writer-in-Residence, who seems to have everything Owen doesn't - a prestigious position, an Ivy League education, and published success as a writer. They begin a secret relationship, and as they grow closer, Alma, from a supportive, liberal family of Bosnian immigrants, struggles to understand Owen's fraught relationship with his own family and home.
Author: Cole, Lee, 1990-
Published: London : Faber & Faber, 2023.
336 pages ; 20 cm

Flackwell Heath Community Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult fiction: paperback - In-transit from Bucks Library Reserve Store to Flackwell Heath Community Library (Set: 30 Nov 2023) - 95100000421139

Owner of a lonely heart / Eva Carter.

Gemma is terrified of slowing down, because if she does, she'll have to admit how lonely she's felt since losing the love of her life. So she fills her days with work and taking her dog, Bear, to comfort young patients at the local hospital. That's enough, isn't it? Dan is scared of anyone getting to know the real him. He's the life and soul of every party, but he's certain that if people find out what he's done, everything will fall apart. Casey is Dan's twelve year old daughter - though they barely know each other. She's starting four weeks of treatment for a benign tumour, and is scared this summer could be her last. When Gemma, Dan, and Casey meet one scorching July, the connection is instant. Yet they're all used to protecting themselves from heartbreak by keeping their distance.
Author: Carter, Eva
Published: London : Pan Books, 2023.
388 pages ; 20 cm

Princes Risborough Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult fiction: paperback - Onloan - Due: 21 Dec 2023 - 95100000420109

Good for a girl : my life running in a man's world / Lauren Fleshman.

From the time Lauren first laced up her running shoes to dominate boys in her neighbourhood, through puberty when half of all girls abandon sports for good, into the NCAA where young women routinely starve and hurt themselves, and into elite running where she had to be 'fast and fuckable' to fit into the Nike machine, Lauren felt she was bumping into a system that was not made for her. She realised, as many women now have, that something is deeply off with the sports experience and that it's high time to rebuild it without men at its centre. Lauren Fleshman - one of the fastest American women runners - explores scientific and social research while telling her own story in a bold, energetic voice. This is a time for female athletes, so it's the time to understand their bodies and knock down the barriers that hold them back.
Author: Fleshman, Lauren
Published: London : Virago, 2023.
352 pages ; 24 cm

Aylesbury Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - B FLE FLE - Available - 95100000420382

Snow fall / Jørn Lier Horst ; translated by Anne Bruce.

William Wisting is contacted by the leader of an online group dedicated to solving the murder of the Australian backpacker Ruby Thompson. But when one of the members, Astria, claims she's close to solving the mystery, she goes offline, and no one in the group has heard from her since. Wisting is sent to investigate and soon finds himself in a case where nothing is as it seems.
Author: Horst, Jørn Lier, 1970-
Published: UK : Penguin Michael Joseph, 2023.
407 pages ; 25 cm
5 reserves

Aylesbury Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult fiction: hardback - Onloan - Due: 21 Dec 2023 - 95100000420971
Farnham Common Community Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult fiction: hardback - CRI - On order

Inverse cowgirl : a memoir / Alicia Roth Weigel.

"From a celebrated activist on the forefront of fighting for intersex representation and rights-and a subject of the forthcoming documentary Every Body, from the filmmakers behind RBG-a funny, thought-provoking collection of essays about owning your identity and living your truth"-- Foreword by Jonathan Van NessFrom a celebrated activist on the forefront of fighting for intersex representation and rights-and a subject of the forthcoming documentary Every Body, from the filmmakers behind RBG-a funny, thought-provoking collection of essays about owning your identity and living your truth.Two percent of the world's population-the same percentage of humans who have naturally red hair-is born intersex. Yet many people aren't even familiar with the word. Intersex individuals are born with both male and female reproductive organs, yet many are stripped of their identity at birth when a parent designates M or F on a birth certificate. That subjective choice is often followed by invasive, life-changing surgeries, performed without the individual's consent. Intersex people have become a target of politicians, attacked for who they are and threatened by legislation that attempts to categorize and define them.Alicia Weigel is fighting back against the hate and fearmongering to protect the rights and lives of everyone. As an activist and the Human Rights Commissioner for the City of Austin, Alicia has championed legislation to reduce sexual assault and human trafficking, mandate paid sick leave and abortion funding, decriminalize and alleviate homelessness, and target other social determinants of health. In this book, Alicia boldly speaks out about working as a change agent in a state that actively attempts to pass legislation that would erase her existence, explores how we can reclaim bodily autonomy, and encourages us to amplify our voices to be heard. Disarming, funny, charming, and powerful, this is a vital account of personal accomplishment that will open eyes and change minds.
Author: Weigel, Alicia Roth
First edition.
Published: New York, NY : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023]
pages cm

Buckingham Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - B WEI WEI - Onloan - Due: 19 Dec 2023 - 95100000420642

Watts cooking : deliciously simple recipes to inspire home cooks / Jon Watts.

From prison to professional chef, Jon Watts' debut cookbook shares the story of how he turned his life around through food, inspiring others with his passion for cooking. Designed to suit any skill level in the kitchen, the book features over 80 fun and accessible recipes for every home cook to enjoy. Jon loves to turn well-known classics into meals and treats that anyone can try, from chicken alfredo to custard tarts. Half of these delicious dishes are brand new creations, all using accessible ingredients and easy-to-follow methods, so you'll want to make them again and again.
Author: Watts, Jon
Published: Sheffield : Meze Publishing, 2023.
240 pages
1 reserve

Beacon Villages Community Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 641.5 WAT - Onloan - Due: 12 Dec 2023 - 95100000419361

The dying of the year / M.S. Morris.

Sam Earnshaw's recovery from a year-long coma should be an occasion for celebration. Instead, he reveals that the hit and run incident that left him close to death was no accident. Someone deliberately pushed him into the path of a speeding vehicle. As DCI Tom Raven leads the investigation into the attempted murder, he soon uncovers a web of dark secrets and lies. The attempt on Sam's life is not the first time a killer has struck. And it won't be the last. As the bodies mount up, Raven is forced into a race against time, whilst facing serious questions about his own life and future.
Author: Morris, M. S.
Published: Englefield Green : Landmark Media, 2023.
292 pages ; 20 cm.
DCI Tom Raven crime thrillers ; 3.

Aylesbury Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult fiction: paperback - Available - 95100000419580

Escape to Starshine Cove : An utterly feel good holiday romance to escape with / Debbie Johnson

Author: Johnson,Debbie
Published: UK : Storm Publishing, 2023
1 reserve

High Wycombe Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult fiction: paperback - In-transit from High Wycombe Library to Aylesbury Library (Set: 30 Nov 2023) - 95100000420001

Ever King / L J Andrews

Author: Andrews, L J
Published: UK : Victorious, 2023

Princes Risborough Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult fiction: paperback - Onloan - Due: 21 Dec 2023 - 95100000419916

A sacred oath : memoirs of a Secretary of Defense during extraordinary times / Mark T. Esper.

From June of 2019 until his firing by President Trump after the November 2020 election, Secretary Mark T. Esper led the Department of Defense through an unprecedented time in history. Esper takes readers behind the scenes during dramatic moments in the Trump administration involving several foreign nations and as he worked to shore up the United States' shaky relationships with its allies - all while facing a global pandemic that threatened America's military readiness, a nationwide unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd, and a White House determined to politicize the armed forces.
Author: Esper, Mark T.
Published: New York, NY : William Morrow, 2023.
x, 735 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (colour) ; 20 cm

Princes Risborough Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 355.6092 - Onloan - Due: 14 Dec 2023 - 95100000419678