West, Steve

The grand design by S. W Hawking ( Recording )
5 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 765 libraries worldwide
Along with Caltech physicist Mlodinow (The Drunkard's Walk), University of Cambridge cosmologist Hawking (A Brief History of Time)deftly mixes cutting-edge physics to answer three key questions--Why is there something rather than nothing? Why do we exist? Why this particular set of laws and not some other?--and explains that scientists are approaching what is called "M-theory," a collection of overlapping theories (including string theory) that fill in many (but not all) the blank spots in quantum physics; this collection is known as the "Grand Unified Field Theories."

The left hand of God by Paul Hoffman ( Recording )
5 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 218 libraries worldwide
Follows the adventures of sixteen-year-old Thomas, one of thousands of imprisoned youths being trained in combat by warrior monks who becomes aware of his secret destiny after a daring escape.

The Tudor Secret The Elizabeth I spymaster chronicles by C. W Gortner ( Recording )
2 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 151 libraries worldwide
The era of the Tudors was one of danger, intrigue, conspiracy, and, above all, spies.Summer 1553 was a time of danger and deceit. Brendan Prescott, an orphan, has been reared in the household of the powerful Dudley family. Brought to court, Prescott finds himself sent on an illicit mission to the king's brilliant but enigmatic sister, Princess Elizabeth...

The white devil [a novel by Justin Evans ( Recording )
1 edition published in 2011 in English and held by 151 libraries worldwide
A ghost story about an American teenager who attends a British boys boarding school, and becomes the target of a haunting.

Neal's common foot disorders : diagnosis and management ( Book )
3 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 126 libraries worldwide

Jamrach's menagerie [a novel by Carol Birch ( Recording )
1 edition published in 2011 in English and held by 77 libraries worldwide
520 London, 1857: after surviving an encounter with an escaped tiger on the streets of Bermondsey, nine-year-old Jaffy stumbles into a job for its owner, the wild animal collector, Mr Jamrach.Commissioned by Jamrach to find and collect a sea dragon, Jaf soon joins a ship bound for the South Seas, and so begins a wonder-filled voyage of discovery. But when things start to go awry, Jaf's journey becomes a fight for survival which will push faith, love and friendship to their outermost limits. Brilliantly written and utterly compulsive, Carol Birch's novel evokes the smells, sights and flavours of the nineteenth century from the squalor of London to the islands of the South Seas.

Cave swallow : Hirundo fulva by Steve West ( Book )
2 editions published in 1995 in English and held by 72 libraries worldwide

Anatomy of a disappearance a novel by Hisham Matar ( Recording )
2 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 72 libraries worldwide
Nuri is a young boy when his mother dies. It seems that nothing will fill the emptiness that her strange death leaves behind in the Cairo apartment he shares with his father. Until Mona. When Nuri first sees Mona, sitting in her bright yellow swimsuit by the pool of the Magda Marina holiday resort, the rest of the world vanishes.

The Tudor secret by C. W Gortner ( Recording )
8 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 65 libraries worldwide
In sixteenth-century England, Brendan Prescott enters a world of danger and lies when he reluctantly agrees to work as a double agent for Princess Elizabeth's protector, William Cecil.

The last four things by Paul Hoffman ( Recording )
1 edition published in 2011 in English and held by 44 libraries worldwide
To the warrior-monks known as the Redeemers, who rule over massive armies of child slaves, "the last four things" represent the culmination of a faithful life. Death. Judgement. Heaven. Hell. The last four things represent eternal bliss-or endless destruction, permanent chaos, and infinite pain. Perhaps nowhere are the competing ideas of heaven and hell exhibited more clearly than in the dark and tormented soul of Thomas Cale. Betrayed by his beloved but still marked by a child's innocence, possessed of a remarkable aptitude for violence but capable of extreme tenderness, Cale will lead the Redeemers into a battle for nothing less than the fate of the human race. And though his broken heart foretells the bloody trail he will leave in pursuit of a personal peace he can never achieve, a glimmer of hope remains. The question even Cale can't answer: When it comes time to decide the fate of the world, to ensure the extermination of humankind or spare it, what will he choose? To express God's will on the edge of his sword, or to forgive his fellow man-and himself?