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1) Wonder
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CHILDRENS READING GROUP COLLECTIONC47481
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CHILDRENS READING GROUP COLLECTIONC47481
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'Wonder' is the funny, sweet and incredibly moving story of Auggie Pullman. Born with a terrible facial abnormality, this shy, bright ten-year-old has been home-schooled by his parents for his whole life, in an attempt to protect him from the stares and cruelty of the outside world.
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3) Tombland
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Fenham Library - Crime
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Kenton Library - Crime
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Newburn Library - Adult Fiction
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When Mateo receives the dreaded call from Death-Cast, informing him that today will be his last, he doesn't know where to begin. Quiet and shy, Mateo is devastated at the thought of leaving behind his hospitalised father, and his best friend and her baby girl. But he knows that he has to make the most of this day, it's his last chance to get out there and make an impression. Rufus is busy beating up his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend when he...
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City Library - Adult Fiction
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High Heaton Library - Adult Fiction
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Walker Library - Adult Fiction
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Technology is everywhere. It makes our lives easier, our connections faster and journeys quicker. But in the hands of someone smart enough, every piece of technology can be a murder weapon. When an escalator gives way mid-chase, Amelia Sachs is forced to let a killer escape as she helps the man trapped in the depths. Now Sachs and forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme must investigate if the collapse was a freak accident - or whether they are facing a...
6) The silkworm
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When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days - as he has done before - and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realises. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he...
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City Library - Adult Audiobook on CD
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Fenham Library - Large Print
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High Heaton Library - Crime
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Outer West Library - Large Print
823.9'2 23
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823.9'2 23
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A serial killer is burning people alive in the Lake District's prehistoric stone circles. He leaves no clues and the police are helpless. When his name is found carved into the charred remains of the third victim, disgraced detective Washington Poe is brought back from suspension and into an investigation he wants no part of. Reluctantly partnered with the brilliant, but socially awkward, civilian analyst, Tilly Bradshaw, the mismatched pair uncover...
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Newburn Library - Reading Group Stock
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City Library - Junior Fiction
READING WELL: SHELF HELP
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READING WELL: SHELF HELP
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Denton Burn Library - Teenage Fiction
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Fenham Library - Junior Fiction
READING WELL: SHELF HELP
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READING WELL: SHELF HELP
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Charlie is a shy and introspective boy, a wallflower always standing on the edge of the action. We learn about him through the letters he writes to someone of an undisclosed name, age and gender.
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City Library - Crime
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Gosforth Library - Crime
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Newburn Library - Reading Group Stock
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L823 W879
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Cruddas Park Library - Crime
READING WELL: SHELF HELP
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READING WELL: SHELF HELP
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Denton Burn Library - Crime
READING WELL: SHELF HELP
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READING WELL: SHELF HELP
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Kenton Library - Junior Fiction
823.92
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823.92
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City Library - Junior Fiction
823.92
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823.92
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City Library - Junior Fiction
READING WELL: SHELF HELP
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READING WELL: SHELF HELP
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Cruddas Park Library - Junior Fiction
823.92
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823.92
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A murder mystery like no other, this novel features Christopher Boone, a 15-year-old who suffers from Asperger's syndrome. When he finds a neighbour's dog murdered, he sets out on a journey which will turn his whole world upside down.
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Cruddas Park Library - Large Print
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Kenton Library - Large Print
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Written under a pseudonym by J.K. Rowling, this gripping, elegant mystery is steeped in the atmosphere of London. A war veteran wounded both physically and psychologically, Cormoran Strike's life is in disarray but the case he is working on gives him a lifeline, despite coming at a personal cost.
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Victor Griffin seemed to be one of the good guys, but that didn't stop someone coming to his home and killing him and his wife. The last act of Vic's life was to try and save his children: fifteen-month-old Jack, and his beloved stepdaughter, Sarah. But why were Vic and his wife shot dead? Why is there no record of them before they came to live in Ferrymouth three years ago? The one clue to their past is a business card, wedged between the pages of...
15) One way street
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Fenham Library - Crime
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16) Magnificent Joe
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City Library - Adult Fiction
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High Heaton Library - Adult Fiction
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This novel is set in the north of England where childhood friendships last longer than they should, redemption comes at a high price, and a man called Joe is about to change everything.
17) Lethal white
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City Library - Adult Audiobook on CD
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City Library - Crime
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Blakelaw Library - Crime
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Cruddas Park Library - Crime
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When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic. Trying to get to the bottom of Billy's...
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Joe O'Brien is a 44-year-old police officer from the Irish Catholic neighbourhood of Charlestown, Massachusetts. A devoted husband, proud father of four adult children, and respected officer, when he begins experiencing bouts of disorganised thinking, uncharacteristic temper outbursts, and strange, involuntary movements, he initially attributes them to stress. Finally, he sees a neurologist and is handed a diagnosis that will change his and his family's...
19) I am, I am, I am
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City Library - Large Print
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Gosforth Library - Non-fiction
823.92
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823.92
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High Heaton Library - Non-fiction
823.92
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823.92
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20) Half the world
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City Library - Science Fiction
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Newburn Library - Science Fiction
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Sometimes a girl is touched by mother war. Thorn is such a girl. Desperate to avenge her dead father, she lives to fight. But she has been named murderer by the very man who trained her to kill.