Jordanhill School Library AV Catalogue 2015/16 Audio CDs CD1 The Subtle Knife – Pullman, Phillip (8 CDs/ 8 hours 55 mins) Unabridged Will is twelve years old and he’s just killed a man. On the run, he finds a window into another world, and meets a strange, savage girl called Lyra. Both children have a mission to fulfil ……… But the world of Cittagazze is a dangerous place, where soul-eating Spectres roam. And in the mysterious Torre degli Angeli lurks an important secret – an object which people from many worlds would kill to posses …………. CD 2 The Story Of Tracy Beaker – Wilson, Jaqueline (3 CDs/ 2 hours 40 mins) Ten-year old Tracey was taken inti care a while ago, now she lives in a Children’s Home. She doen’t know exactly where her mum is, but she used to have long, pretend phone calls with her. Tracy’s had two foster families, but things just didn’t work out with either of them. ‘They’ve advertised me in the papers’ she writes, ‘but there weren’t many takers and now I think they’re getting a bit desperate’ CD 3 Flash Flood – Ryan, Chris (3 CDs / 3 hours) Abridged Code Red, Code Red ……. The Thames Barrier has gone! A tidal surge. A dramatic thunderstorm. And a rapidly rising river. Ben is in London for the day. And suddenly his visit becaomes a terrifying struggle to survive as the Barrier is overwhelmed and a torrent of water floods through the city’s streets in an unstoppable deluge of destruction. CD 4 Goodnight Mister Tom – Magorian, Michelle (3 CDs / 3 hours 15 mins) Abridged x 2 copies Young Willie Beech is evacuated to the country as Britain stands on the brink of the Second World War. A sad, deprived child, he slowly begins to flourish under the care of old Tom Oakley – but his new-found happiness is shattered by a summons from his mother back in London ………. CD 5 The Wee Free Men – Pratchett, Terry (3 CDs / 3 hours) Abridged There’s trouble on the Aching farm – a monster in the river, a headless horseman in the driveway, and nightmares spreading down from the hills. And now Tiffany Aching’s little brother has been stolen by the Queen of the Faries. Tiffany’s got to get him back. To help her, she has a weapon (a frying pan), her granny’s magic book (well, Diseases of the Sheep, actually) and …….. oh, yes. She’s also got the Nac Mac Feegle, the Wee Free Men, the fightin’, theivin’, tiny blue-skinned pictsies who were thrown out of Fairyland for being Drunk and Disorderly ……….. CD6 Point Blanc – Horowitz, Anthony (5 CDs/ 5 hours 44 mins) Unabridged Fourteen -year old Alex is back at school trying to adapt to his new double life ….. and double homework. But MI6have other plans for him. Armed only with a false ID and a new collection of brilliantly disguised gadgets, Alex must infiltrate the mysterious Point Blanc Academy and establish the truth about what is happening there. Can he alert the world to what he finds before it is too late? CD7 The Kite Runner – Hosseini, Khaled (5 CDs/ 6 hours) Abridged As a young boy growing up in pre-Soviet Afghanistan, Amir befriends his servant’s son, Hassan. Occupying polar ends of Kabul’s social hierarchy, the two boys nevertheless play together and defend each other against neighbourhood bullies. But during Kabul’s annual kite-fighting tournament in the winter of 1975, Amir takes advantage of Hassan’s guileless devotion and commits a terrible act of betrayal against him. CD8 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – de Bernieres, Louis (3 CDs/ 3 hours 25 mins) Abridged Despite its atmosphere of timeless tranquillity, Cepallonia is no stranger to the ravages of invasion and war. When the Axis powers occupy the beautiful Greek island in 1941, its inhabitants treat the newcomers with the same quiet resistance and contempt as their many predecessors. But the young Italian officer Captain Corelli, billeted with Dr Iannis and his spirited daughter Pelagia, proves to be not only a superb musician but also a truly remarkable man. CD9 The Da Vinci Code – Brown, Dan (5 CDs/ 6 hours 40 mins) Abridged Harvard Professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent phone call while on business in Paris: the curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci – and suggests the answer to a mystery that stretches deep into the vault of history. CD10 Labyrinth – Mosse, Kate (6 CDs/ 7 hours 50 mins) Abridged July 1209: in Carcassonne a seventeen –year-old girl is given a mysterious book by her father which he claims contains the secret of the true Grail. Although Alais cannot understand the strange words and symbols hidden within, she knows that her destiny lies in keeping the secret of the labyrinth safe. CD11 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Niffenegger, Audrey (4 CDs/ 5 hours) Abridged This is the extraordinary story of Clare and Henry who meet when Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry suffers from a rare condition where his genetic clock periodically resets and he finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future. In the face of this force they can neither prevent nor control, Henry and Clare’s struggle to lead normal lives is both intensely moving and entirely unforgettable. CD12 The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas – Boyne, John (4 CDs/ 5 hours) Unabridged Nine-year old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution or the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives in a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like all the other people there, wears a uniform of stripped pyjamas. CD13 Half Moon Investigations – Colfer, Eoin (3 CDs/ 3 hours 30 mins) Abridged Meet Fletcher Moon. Half-pint schoolboy and fully qualified private investigator. Since graduating online, he has solved all sorts of minor mysteries at school and at home. It was only a matter of time before things got serious. When Fletcher starts asking questions about a spate of odd crimes in the town of Lock, it quickly becomes clear that nothing is quite as it seems. And, as Fletcher delves deeper, it’s not long before the hunter becomes the hunted …….. CD14 The War Of The Worlds – Wells, H.G. (3 CDs/ 2 hours 50 mins) When a Martian spacecraft crash-lands near Woking, mankind is terrorised by aliens in tall, armoured capsules that stalk the countryside on three legs. The frightening machines wreak havoc on London and the Southern Counties with their heat-rays, and survivors are driven underground. CD 15 Recoil – McNab, Andy (3 CDs/3 hours) Recuperating in Switzerland after a job that cost the life of one of his closest friends, ex-special forces soldier and deniable operator Nick Stone has only one thing on his mind: the girl who has disappeared. Her trail leads him to Africa, and the deep end of a very dirty Congo war – where it isn’t long before the past comes knocking at his door. CD 16 Spies – Fryn, Michael (5 CDs/ 6 hours) Abridged In the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live, the only immediate signs of the Second World War are the blackout at night and a single random bombsite. But the two boys start to suspect all is not as it seems when one day Keith announces a disconcerting discovery: the Germans have infiltrated his own family. And when the secret underground world they have dreamed up emerges from the shadows, they find themselves engulfed in mysteries far deeper and more painful than they had bargained for. CD 17 Young Bond. Silverfin – Higson, Chalie (3 CDs/ 3 hours 30 mins) Abridged Before the name became a legend. Before the boy became a man. Meet James Bond. The Dark waters around a remote Scottish castle hold a sinister secret. One man with a thirst for power will use it – whatever the cost. CD 18 Cherub. The Recruit – Muchamore, Robert (3 CDs/ 3 hours 40 mins) Abridged A terrorist doen’t let strangers into her flat because they might be undercover police or intelligence agents, but her children bring their mates home whenever they like. What the terrorist doen’t know is that one of these kids has bugged every room. Made copies of all her computer files and stolen her address book. The kids work for CHERUB. For official purposes, these children do not exist. CD 19 The Colour Of Magic – Pratchett, Terry (3 CDs/ 3 hours) Abridged Somewhere on the frintier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. It plays by different rules. Certainly it refuses to succumb to the quaint notion that universes are rules by pure logic and the harmony of numbers.