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61) Beloved
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100 Books by Black Authors
100 Books by Black Women
Death Positive Library
Women Telling Women's Stories
100 Books by Black Women
Death Positive Library
Women Telling Women's Stories
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Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.
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Would-be medical man, James Maclachlan, is learning his trade by following his father around the disease-ridden slums of Georgian Newcastle. Tragically his hopes for the future are ripped apart when both his parents sicken and die. With no alternative but to work as a chimney boy, James soon encounters the mysterious and forbidden world of body-snatchers and grave-robbers who supply Dr Stickler at the Barber Surgeons? Hall with fresh corpses. James?...
63) The time machine
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In 'The Time Machine', Wells' time traveller journeys to 802701 AD, where humanity has evolved and divided into the effete Eloi and the brutal Morlocks. This science fiction classic raises profound questions about progress and social order.
64) Holes
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Holes volume 1
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Stanley Yelnat's family has a history of bad luck, so he is not too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to a detention centre. Nor is he surprised when he is told that his daily labour is to dig a hole and report anything he finds in it. First published in hardback in August 2000.
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2021
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THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FOSTER, ANTARCTICA AND WALK THE BLUE FIELDS It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church. The long-awaited new work from the author of Foster, Small Things...
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Birlinn
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This title tells the story of Hadrian's Wall, its markers, and its effect and impact on northern Britain. The wall is a staggering phenomenon, originally stretching for 120 miles, its mass greater than all the Egyptian pyramids. It took 30,000 soldiers and craftsmen ten years to build.
68) Long way down
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AND THEN THERE WERE SHOTS Everybody ran, ducked, hid, tucked themselves tight. Pressed our lips to the pavement and prayed the boom, followed by the buzz of a bullet, didn't meet us. After Will's brother is shot in a gang crime, he knows the next steps. Don't cry. Don't snitch. Get revenge. So he gets in the lift with Shawn's gun, determined to follow The Rules. Only when the lift door opens, Buck walks in, Will's friend who died years ago. And Dani,...
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Tom Gates volume 4
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Marcus like to think he has good ideas. But they are mostly all rubbish. When Uncle Kevin says he is an expert on everything it makes Dad pull a face.
70) It ends with us
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2016
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Lily has come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up. She graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid everything in Lily's life suddenly seems almost too good to be true. Ryle is assertive, stubborn, and maybe even a little arrogant. He's also sensitive, brilliant and has a total soft spot for Lily. Lily can't get him out of her...
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A Court of Thorns and Roses volume 3
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English
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Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin's manoeuvrings and the invading king threatening to bring Prythian to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit - and one slip may spell doom not only for Feyre, but for her world as well. As war bears down upon them all, Feyre must decide who to trust amongst the dazzling and lethal High Lords - and hunt for allies in unexpected places. In this...
72) The fallen
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Amos Decker volume 4
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2018
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English
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Amos Decker, David Baldacci's unique special agent with the gift of a remarkable memory, returns in The Fallen. Small towns which have seen better times are not unusual. But the mysterious events in Baronville, Pennsylvania, are raising the highly-tuned antennae of agent Amos Decker and his FBI partner, Alex Jamison. What was supposed to be a relaxing vacation turns into a murder investigation when two bodies are found in a nearby deserted house....
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Tom Gates volume 12
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2017
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English
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Working HARD on my school project, I?ve found out ALL kinds of interesting FACTS I wasn?t expecting to. STUFF like: ? Mum and Dad got together because of cake. (full story inside). ? Cats sleep for 70% of their lives. ? Peppermint ice cream is JUST WRONG. (TRUE.).
75) Never say die
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Alex Rider volume 11
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English
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Alex Rider is trying to get his life back on track after the traumatic events of his last mission. But even Alex can't fight the past - especially when it holds a deadly secret.
76) The glass house
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2020
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Outside a remote manor house in an idyllic wood, a baby girl is found. The Harrington family takes her in and disbelief quickly turns to joy. They're grieving a terrible tragedy of their own and the beautiful baby fills them with hope, lighting up the house's dark, dusty corners. Desperate not to lose her to the authorities, they keep her secret, suspended in a blissful summer world where normal rules of behaviour - and the law - don't seem to apply....
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Inspector Rebus volume 24
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John Rebus stands accused: on trial for a crime that could put him behind bars for the rest of his life. Although it's not the first time the legendary detective has taken the law into his own hands, it could well be the last. What drove a good man to cross the line? Or have times changed, and the rules with them? Meanwhile, Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke faces Edinburgh's most explosive case in years, as a corrupt cop goes missing after claiming...
79) Game of thrones
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A song of ice and fire volume 1
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English
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This is the first volume of a fantasy trilogy. It tells the tragic tale of treachery, greed and war that threatens the unity of the Seven Kingdoms. It is a powerful and absorbing epic in the style of Stephen Donaldson's 'The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant'.
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It is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey. It is almost ten years since readers left Lyra and the love of her young life, Will Parry, on a park bench in Oxford's Botanic Gardens at the end of the ground-breaking, bestselling His Dark Materials sequence. Now, in The Secret Commonwealth, we meet Lyra Silvertongue. And she is no longer a...
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