Item category 2: Book

Beginning in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and moving to Europe, then New York, this is the story of one woman's struggle to keep her family and her business together, in the face of all odds

LuLing Young is now in her eighties, and finally beginning to feel the effects of old age. Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to write down all that she can remember of her life as a girl in China. Meanwhile, her daughter Ruth, a ghostwriter for authors of self-help books, is l...

It is late summer 1862 and the Confederacy is invading the United States of America. Nate Starbuck, a northern preacher’s son fighting for the rebel South, is given command of a punishment battalion – a despised unit of shirkers and cowards. His enemies expect it to be his downfall, as Starbuck ...

Messy Molly is on a mission to stay tip-top tidy. But slurpy spaghetti gets everywhere. Rainwater wiggles its way into her wellies. Mud seems to find her, always. Will Molly manage to stay spick and span for her singing show? A hilarious picture book about messy mishaps and muddy mayhem by a huge...