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Winterkill [electronic resource]

A gripping read from C.J. Box, author of the Joe Pickett and Cassie Dewell series, now adapted into the hit TV shows Joe Pickett and Big Sky.It's an hour away from darkness, a bitter winter storm is raging, and Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett is deep in the forest edging Battle Mountain, shotgun in his left hand, his truck's steering wheel handcuffed to his right – and Lamar Gardiner's arrow-riddled corpse splayed against the tree in front of him.Lamar's murder and the sudden onslaught of the snowstorm warn: get off the mountain. But Joe knows this episode is far from over. Somewhere in the dense timber, a killer is drawing his bowstring – with Joe as his prey…Reviews for Winterkill'A superb mystery series with an urgent message for troubled times.' Bill Ott, Booklist'Box keeps the suspense high through a final showdown.' South Florida Sun-Sentinel'Recommended, especially for fans of Nevada Barr and Tony Hillerman.' Library Journal
Author: Box, C.J.
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Head of Zeus -- an Aries Book, 2022
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The Complete Earthsea Series & The Left Hand of Darkness [electronic resource] : 3 BBC Radio Full Cast Dramatisations

Ursula K. Le Guin was one of the most revered and influential writers of the 20th Century. Her 'Earthsea' books have sold millions of copies and been translated into numerous languages, while her trailblazing novel The Left Hand of Darkness was a landmark in feminist science fiction and ranks among the greatest SF novels of all time. This BBC collection brings together the magical radio retellings of both these seminal classics.Set on an immense archipelago where magic is a part of life, Earthsea tells the stories of Ged, a young, reckless wizard, and Tenar, taken from her home as a child to become Arha, guardian priestess of the ominous Tombs of Atuan. Meeting for the first time deep within the tombs, their destinies become intertwined, and they unite to bring peace to their troubled world. Years later, their paths have diverged - but when Ged returns to Tenar's island on a dragon's back, they are caught up in an epic battle for the future of Earthsea itself. Starring James McArdle, Shaun Dooley and Robert Glenister as Ged, and Aysha Kala, Vineeta Rishi and Nina Wadia as Tenar with Toby Jones and Noma Dumezweni.The Left Hand of Darkness takes place on an alien world in the grip of an Ice Age. Genly Ai has been sent from Earth on a mission to persuade Gethen to join a planetary union, the Ekumen. But his task is fraught with difficulty. For this is a world whose people have no fixed gender, and Genly's encounters with the natives are marked by mutual incomprehension and mistrust. In coming to terms with their otherness and their sameness Genly must let go of his fixed ideas about identity, and embark on a dangerous journey across the snow plains with his only ally, First Minister Estraven. The stakes are high to save a world from war. Kobna Holdbrook-Smith stars as Genly, with Lesley Sharp as Estraven.Also included Ursula Le Guin at 85, in which novelist Naomi Alderman interviews Le Guin, with contributions from Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell and Karen Joy Fowler.Production creditsWritten by Ursula K.Le GuinAdapted by Judith AdamsEarthseaGed - James McArdle/Shaun Dooley/Robert GlenisterTenar - Aysha Kala/Vineeta Rishi/Nina WadiaYoung Ged - Kasper Hilton-HilleYoung Tenar - Nishi MaldeOgion - Paul Hilton/Michael BertenshawManan - Zubin VarlaCob - Toby JonesNilgu - Noma DumezweniOther Cast: Souad Faress, David Hounslow, Adam Thomas-Wright, Mark Edel-Hunt, Jessica Turner, Lucy Hutchinson, Stephen Critchlow, Sam Dale, Ayesha Antoine, Richard Linnell, Jack Kane, David Acton, Chris Pavlo, Will Featherstone, Jude Akudwudike, Laura Elphinstone, Rosie Boore, Elizabeth Counsell, John Lightbody, Ryan Early, Stephen Hogan, Sean Murray, Emma Handy, Lauren Cornelius, Kerry Gooderson, Ryan Whittle, Steven Robertson, Joseph Ayre, Narinder Samra, Tom Vanson, Sabrina SandhuDirected by Sasha YevtushenkoOriginal music by Jon Nicholls. Sound design by Caleb Knightley.First broadcast BBC Radio 4 Extra, 27 April-5 May 2015 (Series 1), 15-22 October 2018 (Series 2)The Left Hand of DarknessGenly Ai - Kobna Holdbrook-SmithEstraven - Lesley SharpArgaven - Toby JonesOther Cast: Louise Brealey, Noma Dumezweni, Ruth Gemmell, Adjoa Andoh, Stephen Critchlow, David Acton, David Hounslow, Rhiannon Neads, Sam Dale, Ayesha AntoineDirected by Allegra McIlroy. First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 12-19 April 2015Ursula Le Guin at 85Presented by Naomi AldermanWith Ursula K. Le Guin, David Mitchell, Neil Gaiman and Karen Joy FowlerReader: Ayesha AntoineProduced by Allegra McIlroy. First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 9 April 2015©2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
Author: Guin, Ursula.K.Le
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : BBC Digital Audio, 2022
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The Second World War / by Dominic Sandbrook ; with illustrations by Edward Bettison.

It was two-thirty in the morning. Darkness hung over the coast of France. Prepare for a journey back into the most extreme conflict the world has ever seen, as historian Dominic Sandbrook takes us on a rip-roaring, heart-stopping adventure in time. We witness the Second World War first-hand through the eyes of ordinary people living in extraordinary times, from the women who worked all night in factories to the chess players who cracked unbreakable codes. Because in total war, no life is left untouched.
Author: Sandbrook, Dominic
Published: UK : Particular Books, 2021.
xi, 354 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 23 cm.
Adventures in time by Dominic Sandbrook

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The left hand of darkness / Ursula K. Le Guin.

Two people, until recently strangers, find themselves on a long, tortuous and dangerous journey across the ice. One is an outcast, forced to leave his beloved homeland; the other is fleeing from a different kind of persecution. What they have in common is curiosity, about others and themselves, and an almost unshakeable belief that the world can be a better place. As they journey for over 800 miles, across the harshest, most inhospitable landscape, they discover the true meaning of friendship, and of love. Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards on its first publication in 1969.
Author: Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018
[New] edition / with an introduction by David Mitchell.
Published: London : Gollancz, 2018.
xxi, 304 pages ; 20 cm

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The left hand of darkness / Ursula K. Le Guin.

Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards on its first publication in 1969, this classic SF novel is the story of Winter, a planet with semi-Arctic conditions and inhabitants all of the same sex.
Author: Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018
[New] edition.
Published: London : Gollancz, 2017.
xvii, 304 pages ; 20 cm.
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The Left Hand of Darkness [electronic resource] : Library

Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can change their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters. Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction.
Author: Guin, Ursula K. Le
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Recorded Books, Inc., 2017
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The Edge of Winter [electronic resource]

Open Season:There's nothing unusual about the sound of a gunshot in Twelve Sleep. Here in remotest Wyoming, where elk roam the pine forests and cougars prowl the mountains, everyone owns a gun. But when Joe Pickett hears two sharp cracks ring out months before hunting season, it's his job to investigate the first murder he's ever encountered. Battling grudge-holding neighbours, corrupt officials and out-of-town activists, Joe begins to unravel a mystery that threatens the life and the family he loves.Savage Run:Game warden Joe Pickett is called to a bizarre crime scene deep within the forests of Twelve Sleep County, Wyoming. The case is wrapped up too quickly, and Joe's search for the truth leads him ever deeper into the wilderness of the Bighorn Mountains. With two unlikely allies at his side, and two hired killers on his heels, Joe can't avoid the legendary Savage Run - a treacherous, isolated canyon with no crossing...Winterkill:It's an hour away from darkness, a bitter winter storm is raging, and Joe Pickett is deep in the forest edging Battle Mountain, shotgun in his left hand, his truck's steering wheel handcuffed to his right - and Lamar Gardiner's arrow-riddled corpse splayed against the tree in front of him. Lamar's murder and the sudden onslaught of the snowstorm warn: Get off the mountain. But Joe knows this episode is far from over. Somewhere in the dense timber, a killer draws his bowstring - with Joe as his prey...
Author: Box, C. J.
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Corvus, 2017
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Joe Pickett

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The Left Hand of Darkness [electronic resource]

Based on Ursula Le Guin’s award-winning masterpiece, The Left Hand of Darkness is set on Gethen, a world in the grip of an ice age whose people are ambigendered – both male and female, and neither. Genly Ai has been sent from Earth on the biggest mission of his life: to persuade the people of Gethen to join the Ekumen, a union of planets. But his task is fraught with danger.The Left Hand of DarknessADAPTED BY Judith AdamsFIRST BROADCAST BBC Radio 4 12–19 April 2015PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY Allegra McIlroy
Author: Guin, Ursula Le
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : BBC Digital Audio, 2016
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Hearts of darkness / Paul Lawrence.

1666. London is recovering from the Great Plague and mourning its dead. The city is free at last, but the pestilence is in search of new feeding grounds, plentiful in the villages outside of London. Harry Lytle, who works for Lord Arlington's intelligence service, is sent to Essex to track down a traitor and bring him back alive. But Lord Arlington's latest recruit for the mission is a man Lytle left dead. Having learnt first hand of Lord Arlington's barbaric cruelty, Lytle knows he can't refuse the job.
Author: Lawrence, Paul, 1963-
Published: London : Allison & Busby, 2015.
413 pages ; 20 cm.
Chronicles of Harry Lytle ; 3.

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Hearts of darkness / Paul Lawrence.

1666. London is recovering from the Great Plague and mourning its dead. The city is free at last, but the pestilence is in search of new feeding grounds, plentiful in the villages outside of London. Harry Lytle, who works for Lord Arlington's intelligence service, is sent to Essex to track down a traitor and bring him back alive. But Lord Arlington's latest recruit for the mission is a man Lytle left dead. Having learnt first hand of Lord Arlington's barbaric cruelty, Lytle knows he can't refuse the job.
Author: Lawrence, Paul, 1963-
Published: London : Allison & Busby, 2014.
383 pages ; 23 cm.
Chronicles of Harry Lytle

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Kidnap in Crete [electronic resource] : The True Story of the Abduction of a Nazi General

On a moonlit night in April 1944 a small band of fearless partisans, led by the British SOE agent Patrick Leigh Fermor, kidnapped a high-ranking Nazi general on the German-occupied island of Crete. In 1941 the German army invaded the strategically important Mediterranean island with the largest airborne force in history. The years of Nazi occupation that followed saw mass executions, widespread starvation and the brutal destruction of homes – but amid the horror, the Cretan resistance, the Andartes, with the support of a handful of British SOE agents, fought on heroically. In Cairo, Patrick Leigh Fermor came up with a plan to avenge the islanders’ suffering. Under cover of darkness on 4 February 1944, he parachuted onto Crete’s deserted Mount Dikti in preparation for his secret and high-risk mission. This is the story of the abduction of General Kreipe by Leigh Fermor, his second-in-command William Stanley Moss and their tight-knit group of partisans; of the midnight ambush of the general’s car and the perilous drive through the garrison town of Heraklion and twenty-two heavily guarded roadblocks; of their epic, dangerous journey on foot and mule across rocky peaks, hiding from their German pursuers in mountain caves and ditches, towards the coast where a Royal Navy launch was waiting to spirit the general to Egypt. But success came at a price for the islanders left behind: German reprisals were swift, unsparing and devastating. With unprecedented access to first-hand accounts of the Cretan guerrilla fighters themselves, as well as SOE files, Leigh Fermor’s own account and other private papers and diaries, this astonishing true story of daring in the battle against Hitler is told in full for the first time.
Author: Stroud, Rick
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014
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Boston Noir [electronic resource]

"Dennis Lehane advises us not to judge the genre by its Hollywood images of sharp men in fedoras lighting cigarettes for femmes fatales standing in the dark alleys. . . . [Lehane] writes persuasively of the gentrification that has . . . left people feeling crushed."New York Times Book ReviewBrand-new stories by: Dennis Lehane, Stewart O'Nan, Patricia Powell, John Dufresne, Lynne Heitman, Don Lee, Russ Aborn, Itabari Njeri, Jim Fusilli, Brendan DuBois, and Dana Cameron.Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, The Given Day) has proven himself to be a master of both crime fiction and literary fiction. Here, he extends his literary prowess to that of master curator. In keeping with the Akashic Noir series tradition, each story in Boston Noir is set in a different neighborhood of the citythe impressively diverse collection extends from Roxbury to Cambridge, from Southie to the Boston Harbor, and all stops in between.Lehane's own contributionthe longest story in the volumeis set in his beloved home neighborhood of Dorchester and showcases his phenomenal ability to grip the heart, soul, and throat of the reader.In 2003, Lehane's novel Mystic River was adapted into film and quickly garnered six Academy Award nominations (with Sean Penn and Tim Robbins each winning Academy Awards). Boston Noir launches in November 2009 just as Shutter Island, the film based on Lehane's best-selling 2003 novel of the same title, hits the big screen.Dennis Lehane is the author of The New York Times bestseller Mystic River (also an Academy Awardwinning major motion picture); Prayers for Rain; Gone, Baby, Gone (also a major motion picture); Sacred; Darkness, Take My Hand; A Drink Before the War, which won the Shamus Award for Best First Novel; and, most recently, The Given Day. A native of Dorchester, Massachusetts, he splits his time between the Boston area and Florida.
Author: Lehane, Dennis
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Akashic Books, 2009
1 online resource (1 text file)
Akashic Noir

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Winterkill / C.J. Box.

It's an hour away from darkness with a bitter winter storm raging when Joe Pickett find himself deep in the forest, shotgun in his left hand, his truck's steering wheel handcuffed to his right - and Lamar Gardiner's arrow-riddled corpse splayed against the tree in front of him.
Author: Box, C. J.
Published: London : Robert Hale, 2004.
255 p. ; 25 cm.

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Searoad : chronicles of Klatsand

A contemporary novel by the author of "The Left Hand of Darkness", "The Dispossessed" and the "Earthsea" books. Klatsand is a typical American beachside community in which small-town loyalties, betrayals and generations-old resentments combine to produce a powerful crescendo.
Author: Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-
Published: Victor Gollancz, 1992.
193p.

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