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Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Paul Auster's brilliant debut novels, City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room brought him international acclaim for his creation of a new genre, mixing elements of the standard detective fiction and postmodern fiction. City of Glass combines dark, Kafka-like humor with all the suspense of a Hitchcock film as a writer of detective stories becomes embroiled in a complex and puzzling series of events, beginning with a call from a stranger in the middle...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Non-Fiction and Media
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Lewis has a few things to say to his younger teen self. He knows she hates her body. He knows she's confused about who to snog. He knows she's really a he and will ultimately realize this... But she's going to go through a whole lot of mess (some of it funny, some of it not funny at all) to get to that point. Lewis is trying to tell her this ... but she's refusing to listen. In Welcome to St Hell, author-illustrator Lewis Hancox takes readers on the...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Molly Bolt is a young lady with a big character. Beautiful, funny and bright, Molly figures out at a young age that she will have to be tough to stay true to herself in 1950s America. In her dealings with boyfriends and girlfriends, in the rocky relationship with her mother and in her determination to pursue her career, she will fight for her right to happiness. Charming, proud and inspiring, Molly is the girl who refuses to be put in a box.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Meredith Stratton, at forty-four the owner of six elegant international inns, is about to celebrate her daughter?s engagement. At this seemingly happy time in her life she begins to suffer from a strange illness that baffles everyone. Her doctor cannot find a physical cause for her debilitating symptoms, and, desperate for answers, she seeks the help of a psychiatrist. Through therapy Meredith peels back the layers of her life to discover the truth...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Set in the dark world of a European winter, and illuminated with Barbara Hodgson's haunting illustrations, The Sensualist is a visual and literary exploration of the limitations of looking and the boundless power of seeing.
Author
Series
Wings of Fire volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
The WINGS OF FIRE saga continues with a visit to the mysterious land of the NightWings, where Starflight must face a terrible choice---his home, or his friends? Starflight has always wanted to see his home -- but he's also been afraid of his fellow NightWings. Starflight is the smartest of the dragonets... but is he brave enough to speak up?.
7) Insurgent
Author
Series
Divergent volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tris has survived a brutal attack on her former home and family. But she has paid a terrible price. Wracked by grief and guilt, she becomes�ever more�reckless as she�struggles to accept�her�new future. Yet if Tris wants to uncover the truth about her world,�she�must be stronger than ever? because�more shocking choices�and sacrifices lie ahead. Praise for DIVERGENT: ?The next big thing. ? (Rolling Stone ) ?If you like Hunger Games...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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From the best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend, a powerful new novel set in a divided Naples "Ferrante shows again how she is unbeatable."- The Times (UK) "Modern, urgent, truthful." - Lucy Hughes-Hallett, The Telegraph "Elena Ferrante is an expert chronicler of adolescence and its many indignities, as well as its erratic, overwhelming passions." - The Observer Giovanna?s pretty face has changed: it?s turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
The lives of four sensuous, bold and remarkable women intersect in the year 70AD, in the desperate days of the siege of Masada, when supplies are dwindling and the Romans are drawing near. All are dovekeepers, and all are keepers of secrets - about who they are, where they come from, who fathered them, and whom they love. There is Yael, the assassin's daughter whose heartbreak leads to her true path in the ruins of the desert; Revka, the baker's wife...
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Language
English
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Description
Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love - all forgotten overnight. And the one person you trust may only be telling you half the story. Welcome to Christine's life.
11) Queenie
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Language
English
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Queenie Jenkins can't cut a break. Well, apart from the one from her long term boyfriend, Tom. That's definitely just a break though. Definitely not a break up. Then there's her boss who doesn't seem to see her and her Caribbean family who don't seem to listen (if it's not Jesus or water rates, they're not interested). She's trying to fit in two worlds that don't really understand her. It's no wonder she's struggling. She was named to be queen of...
Author
Publisher
Tindal Street
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In her early years, Allie and her bohemian mother Helena were always on the move. Now Helena keeps people at arm's length: relationships never last and old friends have slipped away. But when Allie inherits Helena's childhood home, she begins to see snatches of the tormented past her mother has been running from. Determined to find out what keeps driving her mother away from people, Allie follows a lead to the beautiful island of Ischia. Here she...
13) Jessica's ghost
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Francis has never had a friend like Jessica before. She's the first person he's ever met who can make him feel completely himself. Jessica has never had a friend like Francis before. Not just because he's someone to laugh with every day - but because he's the first person who has ever been able to see her . . . Jessica's Ghost is a funny, moving and beautiful book by a master storyteller, about the power of friendship to shine a warm light into dark...
14) Radio silence
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Frances has always been a study machine with one goal, elite university. Nothing will stand in her way; not friends, not a guilty secret - not even the person she is on the inside. But when Frances meets Aled, the shy genius behind her favourite podcast, she discovers a new freedom. He unlocks the door to real Frances and for the first time she experiences true friendship, unafraid to be herself. Then the podcast goes viral and the fragile trust between...
15) Just one look
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Grace Lawson is living a happy, straightforward life in the suburbs with her husband, Jack, and two young children. But that security is about to come to a brutal end. For when Grace picks up a set of holiday snaps, amongst them is one shot that doesn?t fit: a faded image of a life that Grace doesn?t recognise and of her husband as she never knew him. Within 12 hours, Jack has disappeared, a brutal hitman is stalking her family and the safe world...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning ?red pine?, and Oumi, ?blue sea?, while the girls? names were Shirane, ?white root?, and Kurono, ?black field?. Tazaki was the only last name with no colour in it. One day Tsukuru Tazaki?s friends announced that they didn't want to see him, or talk to him, ever again. Since that day Tsukuru has been floating through life, unable to form intimate connections...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Meet Horace Hopper, a 21-year-old farm hand in Tonopah, Nevada, who works for Mr Reece and his wife, the nearest thing he's had to family in years. But Horace, half-white half-Paiute Indian, dreams of bigger things. Leaving behind the farm and its fragile stability, he heads South to reinvent himself as the Mexican boxer Hector Hidalgo. Slowly, painfully, the possibility emerges that his dreams might not just be the delusions of a lost soul. But at...
Author
Series
Wings of Fire volume 3
Language
English
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Description
The WINGS OF FIRE saga continues! Something deadly is stalking the peaceful RainWing kingdom. RainWings have been disappearing from the forest. When the RainWing queen won't do anything to find her missing tribe members, Glory and her friends set off on their own rescue mission - which leads them right back into enemy territory. . . .
19) Escaping peril
Author
Series
Wings of Fire volume 8
Publisher
Scholastic Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Now, Peril is loyal to Clay, the only dragonet who has ever been her friend. So when Scarlet threatens Jade Mountain Academy, Peril sets off to find her former queen, stop her, and save the day, no matter what it takes. There's just one problem: a strangely persistent SeaWing, Turtle, insists on coming along, too. Turtle is worried about his friends, who left to search for Scarlet and haven't returned. Peril is worried that she might accidentally...
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