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Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has grown between them lasts long into the following years. This is an exquisite love story about how a person can change another person's life - a simple yet profound realisation that unfolds beautifully over the course of the novel. It tells...
2) Ghost girl
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Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Cath is a new girl at a Catholic convent. She is afraid of the nuns, unused to the restriction and terrified of God. She finds refuge in nature, and her friend Olive's vision of the starry limitless universe. Cath's sister Very is at art school in seventies Punk London. She lives a wild chaotic life with bedraggled artists, outrageous homosexuals, and shadowy nightclub owners. When Cath visits Very, the two sisters whirl through...
5) The lessons
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Hidden away in an Oxford back street is a crumbling Georgian mansion, unknown to any but the few who possess a key to its unassuming front gate. Its owner is the mercurial, charismatic Mark Winters, whose rackety trust-fund upbringing has left him as troubled and unpredictable as he is wildly promiscuous. Mark gathers around him an impressionable group of students: glamorous Emmanuella, who always has a new boyfriend in tow; Franny and Simon, best...
6) Bunny
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English
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'Brilliant, sharp, weird ... I loved it and couldn't put it down' KRISTEN ROUPENIAN. 'Made me nod and cackle in terrified recognition' LENA DUNHAM. Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort - a clique...
7) No brainer
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid volume 18
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Puffin
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English
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THE *BRAND-NEW, HILARIOUS* DIARY OF A WIMPY KID BOOK In No Brainer, book 18 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney, it's up to Greg to save his school before it's shuttered for good. Up until now, middle school hasn't exactly been a joyride for Greg Heffley. So when the town threatens to close the crumbling building, he's not too broken up about it. But when Greg realizes this means he's going to be...
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Occasional papers. New volume OPN5
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BIM Management House
Pub. Date
1969]
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English
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Melville House
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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The unruly undergraduates at Cambridge have a nickname for their new lecturer: Wittgenstein Jr. He?s a melancholic, tormented genius who seems determined to make them grasp the very essence of philosophical thought. But Peters-a working-class student surprised to find himself among the elite-soon discovers that there?s no place for logic in a Cambridge overrun by posh boys and picnicking tourists, as England?s greatest university is collapsing under...
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Piccadilly Press
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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Cookie's life is basically over. Her best friend in the whole world is moving to Solihull because one of her dads has a new job there. Solihull?! Where even is that?! Cookie begs her parents for a pet to fill the void but they have given her an absolute NO. It would be way too expensive and way way too messy. But Cookie has never been a fan of the word 'no' so she visits the pet shop anyway and sets her heart on the sweetest cutest kitteniest kitten...
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ABC Audio
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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NOW A MAJOR TELEVISION SERIES STARRING NATALIE DORMER (GAME OF THRONES) AND YAEL STONE (ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK). Everyone agreed that the day was just right for the picnic to Hanging Rock - a shimmering summer morning warm and still, with cicadas shrilling ? St Valentine?s Day, in the midst of the hot summer of 1900, a party of schoolgirls went on a picnic to Hanging Rock. Some were never to return ? An Australian classic, the disappearance of three...
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G2 Rights
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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First in the Egmont School series: Davina Dupree's just arrived in a luxury boarding school against her wishes, but that's the least of her problems. Could it be that the two art teachers there are hiding a shady secret? And why won't the school bullies Clarice and Cleo leave her alone? Davina turns detective... If you enjoy reading Malory Towers by Enid Blyton, you'll love this book. Davina is a modern day Darrell Rivers and her school, Egmont Exclusive...
15) Wrecking ball
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid volume 14
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English
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Book 14 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series - from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney. In Wrecking Ball, an unexpected inheritance gives the Heffley family a chance to make major improvements to their home. But they soon find that construction isn't all it's cracked up to be. When things get rough, will the Heffleys be able to stay . . . or will they be forced to move? And don't miss Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson's...
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Lottie Brooks volume 3
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Lottie Brooks is BACK for more extremely embarrassing adventures as she goes on holiday and gets her very first boyfriend! THINGS THAT ARE RUBBISH IN MY LIFE: � Have the most disgusting little brother in the entire world � Have to get braces when am on the brink of having my first kiss � Mum is making cottage pie for dinner. VOM. Finally summer has arrived and Lottie has BIG plans - scrolling through Instagram, dreaming about MEGA-crush Daniel...
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My Weird School Special volume 8
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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With more than 30 million books sold, the My Weird School series really gets kids reading! It?s time to catch a leprechaun in this holiday-themed My Weird School Special from New York Times bestselling author Dan Gutman and veteran illustrator Jim Paillot. A.J. and the gang are celebrating Saint Patrick?s Day with all the classic activities. But when A.J. spots a little man dressed head-to-toe in green sneaking around, it can only mean one thing:...
18) Stone of destiny
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Birlinn
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Ian Robertson Hamilton was an unknown law student at Glasgow University until Christmas Eve 1950. On that night, assisted by Alan Stewart, Gavin Vernon and Kay Matheson, he took the Stone of Destiny from beneath the Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey and in doing so became a Scottish national hero. In England, however, the act had the opposite effect and a manhunt for the 'vulgar vandals' was started to satisfy the outrage of the English establishment...
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Lottie Brooks volume 4
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Lottie Brooks continues to navigate the many perils of growing up in this fantastically funny illustrated series for a 9-12 audience, filled with friendship, embarrassing moments and plenty of lols. Woe is me. So much is wrong in my life... Still look like a tomato Am stuck indoors whilst my friends go bowling without me (rude) My parents are leaving me to go out on a 'Date Night'. GROSS! After a summer of meeting handsome French boys and getting...
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Trixie Pickle Art Avenger volume 1
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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'Funny, arty and just a little bit naughty, the Art Avenger is amazing!' Matt Lucas 'Very funny . . . I learned tons about art and laughed A LOT.' Joe Lycett Trixie loves art and hates bullies - and so decides to become an Art Avenger, righting wrongs at her school through art. She uses Picasso, Pollock and Ofili to teach bullies a lesson, get out of lessons and help those in need, like an arty Robin Hood. Highly illustrated throughout by Olaf Falafel,...
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