Del Norte Public Library

"The rebels will be hanged at dawn, and their brotherhood is already plotting revenge. Stephen Doyle, an Irish-American veteran of the Civil War, arrives in Manchester from New York with a thirst for blood. He has joined the Fenians, a secret society intent on ending British rule in Ireland by any means necessary. Head Constable James O'Connor has fled grief and drink in Dublin for a sober start in Manchester, and connections with his fellow Irishmen...

Ever since his schoolmate, Alice Wilde, disappeared down Back Half Moon Street, sixteen-year-old Preston has not slept well, knowing Alice went to investigate the disappearance of other kids in Manchester; but Preston promised not tell the police, so there is only one thing to do--follow her into Dark Manchester and rescue her himself.

Isabelle Rackham enters into an arranged marriage in 1850 with the eligible Alexander Osgood, owner of a successful mill in Manchester, England, and who has close business relationships with Isabelle's father. Although she enters the marriage with no illusions about love, but with a will to make it work, she finds her new home in cold, dreary, dark northern England difficult to bear until an accident occurs on a visit to Alexander's country estate....

It's October half-term, and Dylan Kershaw's dreams of a reunion with Leo, the gorgeous boy he met over the summer, are dashed when his sports-mad dad whisks him off to football camp in Manchester instead. What's worse, dancer Leo seems to be too busy practicing his pirouettes to care. At least Dylan's best friend Kayla is along for the trip, on a quest to win exclusive tickets to see her favourite band, the Deathsplash Nightmares. It all looks set...

As a favor to her rock journalist boyfriend, Kate agrees to track down a missing song-writer Moira Pollock, a search that takes her into some of the seediest parts of Leeds and Bradford. But little does she realise that finding Moira is only a prelude to murder. Juggling her other cases, including a search to uncover the source of counterfeit luxury goods, Brannigan finds herself for the first time on the trail of a killer. In Kick Back, Kate Brannigan...

Oliver Walzer is a natural - at ping-pong. Even with his improvised paddle, he can chop, flick, and half-volley like a champion. At sex he is not so adept, shy and frightened of women, but with guidance from Sheeny Waxman, fellow member of the Akiva Social Club Table Tennis Team, Oliver's game improves.

Newly-appointed DI Jack Striker, of Greater Manchester Police's Major Incident Team, has a dark secret, one that would land him in prison. Striker's first case seems a straight-forward gang-on-gang slaying, until a notorious youth is found hanged.