Ken Stott
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Called to investigate a college shooting, Rebus and his partner, DS Siobhan Clarke, find complete carnage: two dead, bloodied boys, one of whom is Rebus's cousin once removed. A third boy has suffered serious injuries and is taken to the hospital, unable to speak. The suspected shooter (an ex-commando) appears to have taken his own life. Upon closer inspection, Rebus notices that a highly trained assassin died with tears in his eyes.
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
After the defense calls Rebus's interrogation methods into question at trial, the prosecution drops its case against Daniel Carr, the accused murderer in a drug-related killing. Soon after, Carr himself winds up murdered. All the while, Rebus has received anonymous notes pleading for help, each containing carefully tied crosses or knotted cords. What connection--if any--do they have to the case?
4) One day
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"After one day together -- July 15th, 1988, their college graduation -- Emma Morley (Anne Hathaway) and Dexter Mayhew (Jim Sturgess) begin a friendship that lasts a lifetime. She's a working-class girl who dreams of making the world a better place. He's a wealthy charmer who thinks the world is his playground. Somewhere over the next two decades, these two very different people realize that the love they've been hoping for has been there for them...
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Sammy McNally walks into the prestigious investment firm Hammill Ferguson and abruptly blows out his brains with a sawed-off shotgun, directly in front of the firm's founder. Rebus's subsequent investigation leads him to some of Edinburgh's wealthiest and most influential citizens and puts him at odds not only with his boss, DSC Gill Templer, but also with his partner, DS Siobhan Clarke.
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
When police bust a local brothel, they find Gregor Jack, a millionaire entrepreneur and self-styled antipoverty activist. Later, Jack's wife turns up dead-- murdered in a manner similar to that of a working-class woman in Edinburgh. Did both women fall prey to a serial killer? Or was Mrs. Jack's murder a copy-cat killing?
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
As Edinburgh prepares to host the world trade summit, agitated protestors crowd the streets. An unidentified body turns up on the grounds of the inn where the heads of state will stay. Later, a junior minister jumps--or falls--to his death. In the investigation, Rebus butts heads with Special Branch operatives, who seem bent on obstruction rather than solutions.
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
During the investigation of an art dealer's murder, a temper tantrum lands Rebus in remedial training-- the last chance at redemption for mavericks and marginal performers. There he falls in with two cops on the take. Discovering the extent of their corruption, Rebus tests the trust of all his colleagues on the force, including his partner, DS Siobhan Clarke.
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Immediately before his induction as the new moderator of the Church of Scotland, Rev. Derek Brady is found naked in a popular lovers' lane alongside a married woman. Both have had their throats slashed. Rebus and Clarke's investigation leads them to long standing sins that someone in the ecclesiastical hierarchy would prefer not to confess.
11) Café society
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in the 1930s, a young Bronx native moves to Hollywood where he falls in love with the secretary of his powerful uncle, an agent to the stars. After returning to New York he is swept up in the vibrant world of high society nightclub life.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The first chapter in Peter Jackson's new epic trilogy set in Middle Earth 60 years before J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings saga. Follow Bilbo Baggins as he's swept into a quest to reclaim the Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, long ago conquered by the dragon Smaug. Approached by the wizard Gandalf, Bilbo joins a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior Thorin Oakenshield. Along the way they face many dangers; Bilbo meets Gollum and takes...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first chapter in Peter Jackson's new epic trilogy set in Middle Earth 60 years before J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the rings saga. Follow Bilbo Baggins as he's swept into a quest to reclaim the Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, long ago conquered by the dragon Smaug. Approached by the wizard Gandalf, Bilbo joins a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior Thorin Oakenshield. Along the way they face many dangers; Bilbo meets Gollum and takes...
Language
English
Description
Thorin Oakenshield and the dwarves of Erebor have reclaimed their homeland but now face the consequences of having unleashed the dragon Smaug upon Lake-town. Meanwhile, the Dark Lord Sauron has sent forth legions of Orcs to attack the Lonely Mountain and Bilbo Baggins finds himself fighting for his life as five great armies go to war and Dwarves, Elves, and Men must decide to unite against Goblins and Orcs... or be destroyed.
15) King Lear
Series
Language
English
Description
When England's aging King Lear renounces his throne to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, treachery, madness and murder soon follow. After banishing Cordelia, his most loyal daughter, Lear is betrayed and cast out by her elder sisters Regan and Goneril. Meanwhile, evil brews at the Gloucester castle as Edgar falls victim to his brother's deception. As battle lines are drawn and backs are stabbed, Lear rages against a fearsome storm.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
[Rental].
Language
English
Description
The epic conclusion the adventures of Bilbo Baggins. Having reclaimed their homeland from the Dragon Smaug, the Company has unwittingly unleashed a deadly force into the world. Enraged, Smaug rains his fiery wrath down upon the defenseless men, women and children of Lake-town. Obsessed above all else with his reclaimed treasure, Thorin sacrifices friendship and honor to hoard it as Bilbo's frantic attempts to make him see reason drive the Hobbit towards...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
John Rebus is a hard bitten detective who pursues truth on the gritty streets of modern-day Edinburgh. When a beautiful young seamstress goes missing, the search take Rebus and Clarke to the mean, melting streets of Knoxland Estate, the high-rise project that houses Edinburgh's Kosovan immigrant community.
19) Toast
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A delicious love letter to the tastes and smells that a young boy associates with his journey into adulthood. Nigel's Mother was always a poor cook, and her addiction to all things canned isn't helping. Nigel, on the other hand, laps up cookbooks as if they were porn, and spends all his free time gazing longingly at the delights offered at Percy Salt's grocery shop.
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