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School for Good and Evil volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A dark and enchanting fantasy adventure perfect for girls who prefer their fairytales with a twist. Every four years, two girls are kidnapped from the village of Gavaldon. Legend has it these lost children are sent to the School for Good and Evil, the fabled institution where they become fairytale heroes or villains. Sophie, the most beautiful girl in town, has always dreamed of her place at the School for Good while her friend Agatha, with her dark...
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Language
English
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Description
When a newborn baby dies after a routine hospital procedure, there is no doubt about who will be held responsible: the nurse who had been banned from looking after him by his father. What the nurse, her lawyer and the father of the child cannot know is how this death will irrevocably change all of their lives, in ways both expected and not.
4) Woman of God
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Language
English
Description
St Peter's Square, Rome. White smoke signals that a new Pope has been chosen. The world is watching as massive crowds gather in Rome, waiting for news of a new Pope. It's a turning point that could change the Catholic Church for ever, as one of the rumoured candidates, Brigid Fitzgerald, would be the first female Pope in history. But Brigid has made a legion of powerful enemies and is a target for all those who fear that the Church has lost its way...
5) The savage
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Language
English
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Description
Imagine you wrote a story and that story came true. This is exactly what happens to Blue Baker when he writes about a savage living alone in the woods near his home.
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Series
The Song of the Tears volume 1
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
After 10 years of servitude, Nish is about to be released from the blackest prison of his corrupt father, the maimed God-Emperor, Jal-Nish Hlar. Using the sorcerous Profane Tears, Gatherer and Reaper, Jal-Nish has crushed all opposition and is remaking Santhenar in his depraved image. The oppressed peoples of the world see Nish as a messianic figure, the Deliverer, who promised long ago to return and cast down his father. Unfortunately, Nish has no...
Author
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Ralph and Anna Eldred live in the big Red House in Norfolk, raising their four children and devoting their lives to charity. The constant flood of ?good souls and sad cases?, children plucked from the squalor of the East London streets for a breath of fresh countryside air, hides the growing crises in their own family, the disillusionment of their children, the fissures in their marriage. Memories of their time as missionaries in South Africa and...
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Series
The chronicles of Narnia volume 6
Language
English
Description
Eustace is trying to cheer up Jill with his tales of Narnia, and with combined will power they wish themselves there and begin an adventurous quest for Aslan. This collector's edition contains full-colour illustrations.
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Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Twenty-one-year-old Beth is in prison. The thing she did is so bad she doesn't deserve ever to feel good again. But her counsellor, Erika, won't give up on her. She asks Beth to make a list of all the good things in her life. So Beth starts to write down her story, from sharing silences with Foster Dad No. one, to flirting in the Odeon on Orange Wednesdays, to the very first time she sniffed her baby's head. But at the end of her story, Beth must...
10) The hive queen
Author
Series
Wings of Fire volume 12
Publisher
Scholastic Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Growing up in the hives, Cricket has always had a million questions. Why are trees forbidden, even in art? Why do her parents seem to hate her? And the biggest, most dangerous and secret question of all: why is Cricket immune to Queen Wasp's powers? Whenever the queen takes control of all the HiveWings, speaking through their mouths and seeing through their eyes, Cricket has to hide, terrified of being discovered. Now she's hiding again, wanted for...
11) Scales of empire
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Series
Dragon Empire volume 1
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Corporal Jian Choumaliis on the mission of a lifetime - security officer on one of Earth's huge generation ships, fleeing Earth's failing ecosystem to colonise a distant planet. The ship encounters a technologically and culturally advanced alien empire, led by a royal family of dragons. The empire's dragon emissary offers her aid to the people of Earth, bringing greater health, longer life and faster-than-light travel to nearby stars. But what price...
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Publisher
BBC Digital Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Five seminal SF masterpieces are brought vividly to life in these gripping BBC Radio dramatisations, with casts including Robert Glenister, Francis de Wolff, Carleton Hobbs and Joanne Froggatt. Hugely influential on first publication, these five landmark science fiction classics continue to enthral today, and these thrilling radio adaptations are full of surprise, suspense and excitement. Frankenstein, first broadcast in 1994, is adapted from Mary...
13) The shadow
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English
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Description
Only two people know Lamont Cranston?s secret identity as vigilante crime-fighter the Shadow: his greatest love, Margo Lane, and his fiercest enemy, Shiwan Khan. When Khan ambushes the couple, they must risk everything for the slimmest chance of survival ? in the future. A century and a half later, Lamont wakes in a world both unknown and strangely familiar. The first person he meets is Maddy Gomes, a teenager with her own secrets, and more than passing...
14) The end of oz
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Series
Dorothy Must Die volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
In this dark, action-packed fourth book in the New York Times bestselling Dorothy Must Die series, Amy Gumm travels from Oz to the twisted land of Ev, where she fights to free Oz from evil once and for all. My name is Amy Gumm. You might remember me as the other girl from Kansas. When a tornado swept me away to the magical land of Oz, I was given a mission: Dorothy must die. That?s right, everyone?s favorite Wicked-Witch-slayer had let the magic of...
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Series
Wings of Fire volume 10
Publisher
Scholastic Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Qibli knows Darkstalker must be stopped. And he knows he could stop him -- if he had magic. With even a sliver of the ancient dragon's all-powerful scroll, Qibli could rewrite history the right way: end war forever; make every dragon happy; perhaps even cast a very small spell so that everyone would like him . . . Instead, as Darkstalker's dangerous influence spreads across Pyrrhia, entrancing or killing every dragon in the seven tribes, Qibli can...
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Series
Groosham Grange volume 2
Language
English
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Description
In the wickedly funny sequel to Groosham Grange by bestselling author Anthony Horowitz, someone is trying to destroy David Eliot's school. A year ago, he'd have been happy to see the end of Groosham Grange and its ghoulish teachers. Now, he's on course to win the Unholy Grail, a cup of magical power presented to the star pupil. But a series of suspicious mishaps sees the gap between David and new boy Vincent King narrow alarmingly. Someone, it seems,...
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Publisher
BBC Digital Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Jon Culshaw reads this novelisation of a unique adventure featuring the Doctor in each of his first five incarnations. Each of the first five Doctors has been removed from his time-stream and - with one unfortunate exception - brought to the Death Zone on Gallifrey. There, along with several of their loyal former companions, they encounter an array of deadly obstacles. Daleks, Cybermen, Yeti, the Master, and a lethal set of puzzles are among the challenges...
19) Talons of power
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Series
Wings of Fire volume 9
Publisher
Scholastic Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
The New York Times and USA Today best-selling series soars to even greater heights with a new prophecy and five new dragonets ready to claim their destiny! The war is over. The false prophecy has been fulfilled. But the dragonets still have enemies. A dark evil, buried for centuries, is stirring. And a young NightWing may have had the first true prophecy in generations. Something is coming to shake the earth. Something is coming to scorch the ground....
20) Uprooted
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Winner of the 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novel Winner of the 2016 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel Winner of the 2016 British Fantasy Society Award for Best Novel Shortlisted for the 2016 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel Shortlisted for the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novel A dark enchantment blights the land in the award-winning Uprooted - a enthralling, mythic fantasy by Naomi Novik, author of the Temeraire series. Agnieszka loves her village,...
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