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2012., Atlantic Books Ltd Call No: SC MYS Fic Fer Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Douglas Brodie Volume: bk. 2.Summary Note: Summer in Glasgow. When the tarmac bubbles, and the tenement windows bounce back the light. When lust boils up and tempers fray. When suddenly, it's bring out your dead...Glasgow's melting. The temperature is rising and so is the murder rate. Douglas Brodie, ex-policeman, ex-soldier and now newest reporter on the Glasgow Gazette, has no shortage of material for his crime column. But even Brodie balks at his latest subject - a rapist who has been tarred and feathered by a balaclava-clad group. Brodie soon discovers a link between this horrific act and a series of brutal beatings.
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2021., Scribner Call No: NEW SC Bio F692p Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This life story of an aristocratic trans man, whose secret 1968 legal case had a profound impact on trans rights for decades, is a singular contribution to trans history and the ongoing struggle for trans rights.
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By West, Mathew2022., Adult, Harper North Call No: SC MYS Fic Wes Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: It's 1923 and at Mordrake Manor, a forbidding house on the Scottish border, the roaring twenties seem not to have arrived. But Simon Christie has -- a young man who can't believe his luck when he gets a job cataloguing the infamous art collection of the Mordrake family. Yet from the moment he gets off the train at the deserted village station, he can't shift a headache and a sense that there's more to the Manor and its gruesome selection of pictures. Simon's host is glad of his company, but he gets the feeling the house is not so welcoming. As his questions about the Mordrakes grow, he finds answers in surprising places. But someone is not pleased that old secrets are stirring. As night falls each evening, and a growing sense of unease roils in the shifting shadows around him, Simon must decide what he can trust and ask if he can believe what he sees in the dusk or if his mind is poisoned by what has happened before in this place between lands, between light and dark.
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2008., Reaktion Call No: SC 941.1 P691r Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Contemporary worldsSummary Note: "In The Road to Independence? the author relates the economic, social and cultural history of Scotland since 1960, the rise of modern Scottish nationalism and the reasons for it, the recent history and differing character of Scotland's cities and cultural industries, the impact of multiculturalism on Scottish as distinct from British society and the changes wrought by devolution, including the reasons for the election of Scotland's first-ever nationalist government in 2007." "The Road to Independence? is the only history of Scotland available with a truly contemporary focus. In dealing with everything from modern painting to political structures, it is remarkably comprehensive; in explaining the rise of modern nationalism it is of fundamental importance to policymakers and the wider public. It will be of interest to students of politics, history, law and social science, and to all who want to understand the rapidly changing face of Britain."--BOOK JACKET.
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2003., Thames & Hudson Call No: SC 941.1 M158s Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Following its invention in 1839, a craze for photography ripped through Scotland, and over the next 100 years Scottish photographers captured an impressive visual record of their land and its people, their mixed fortunes, hopes and aspirations. Their achievements document a century of profound contrasts, of division, upheaval and change that recast forever the character of Scotland. This volume presents the triumphs of a self-confident Scotland - the completion of the Forth Bridge and the stream of vessels that slid down the slipways of the Clyde to bind together a far-flung empire - but also its injustices, the story of the rural and urban poor, and the Clearances that drove people from the land to seek work in the cities or new hope in emigration to the New World. Gordon Highlanders drinking whisky from enamel buckets in the New Year celebrations of 1890; the caves of Staffa and their association with the mythical Celtic hero, Finigal; the grandeur of Edinburgh Catle; a portrait of John Logie Baird, Scottish scientist-hero and inventor of the television; the golfers of Scotscraig a mere decade after the invention of photography; or salmon fishing in the Ness Islands - this visual history brings the country to life not only for those of Scottish descent but for everyone who has enjoyed the rich character and landscape of this nation.
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2009, c2008., Birlinn Call No: 940.54 W623s Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: TRUE STORIES: WAR / COMBAT / ELITE FORCES. This is the remarkable story of one of the Second World War's most unusual animal heroes - a 14-stone St Bernard dog who became global mascot for the Royal Norwegian Forces and a symbol of freedom and inspiration for Allied troops throughout Europe.
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2008., Birlinn Call No: SC 941.085 H2185s Edition: [New ed.] / foreword by Alex Salmond. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
