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21) The keep
Author
Publisher
Abacus
Language
English
Description
After 20 years apart, two cousins reunite to renovate a medieval castle. The cousins are irrevocably bound to one another through the shared experience of their youth, when a childhood prank with devastating consequences changed both their lives forever.
Author
Series
The Harry Potter volume 5
Language
English
Description
This novel by J.K. Rowling continues the further adventures of boy wizard Harry and his friends. Harry is due to start his fifth year at Hogwarts School, and what he is about to discover will turn his world upside down.
23) Dark witch
Author
Series
Cousins O'Dwyer trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
Three cousins inherit a gift that will transform their lives. Iona Sheehan has just taken the biggest gamble of her life. Leaving her job, her home and her family in Baltimore, she has come to Ireland in search of adventure - and answers. Iona has always felt a powerful connection to the home of her ancestors. So when her beloved grandmother confesses an extraordinary family secret, she can't resist visiting County Mayo to discover the truth for herself....
24) Ross Poldark
Author
Series
Poldark volume 1
Language
English
Description
Tired from a grim war in America, Ross Poldark returns to his land and his family. But the joyful homecoming he has looked forward to turns sour, for his father is dead, his estate is derelict, and the girl he loves is engaged to his cousin.
Author
Publisher
Underlined
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
Being crammed into a house in Queens with her cousins is not how Dua envisions her trip to New York City. But here she is, spending the holy month of Ramadan with extended family she hasn?t seen in years. Dua struggles to find her place in the conservative household and to connect with her aloof, engaged-to-be-married cousin, Mahnoor. And as if fasting the whole day wasn?t tiring enough, she must battle her hormones whenever she sees Hassan,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Fiction
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Any visitor to Bicho Raro, Colorado is likely to find a landscape of dark saints, forbidden love, scientific dreams, miracle-mad owls, estranged affections, one or two orphans, and a sky full of watchful desert stars. At the heart of this place you will find the Soria family, who all have the ability to perform unusual miracles. And at the heart of this family are three cousins longing to change its future: Beatriz, the girl without feelings, who...
27) time twister
Author
Series
Children of the Red King volume 2
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
An academy for magic and special talents. A destiny unfulfilled. A secret legacy. Join Charlie Bone as he discovers the truth about the Red King, and the key to his own past ... January 1916. On the coldest night in memory, Henry Yewbeam's cousin Zeke tricks him into using the Time Twister, a beautiful marble full of shining colours that draws him into the future. January 2002. Charlie meets Henry reappearing at Bloor's in the 21st century, and realises...
28) The king?s evil
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
London 1667. In the Court of Charles II, it?s a dangerous time to be alive - a wrong move may lead to disgrace, exile or death. The discovery of a body at Clarendon House, the palatial home of one of the highest courtiers in the land, could therefore have catastrophic consequences.James Marwood, a traitor?s son, is ordered to cover up the murder. But the dead man is Edward Alderley, the cousin of one of Marwood?s acquaintances. Cat...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Orphaned young, H is sent to live with her doting aunt in London. H's life is a happy one until her lecherous cousin robs her of her innocence, and the plague takes away the city and the people she loves. H is cast out - friendless, pregnant and destitute - into the rapidly emptying streets of London under quarantine.
30) The lost girls
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Curl Curl, Sydney, January 1978. Angie's a looker. Or she's going to be. She's only 14, but already, heads turn wherever she goes. Male heads, mainly ... Jane worships her older cousin Angie. She spends her summer vying for Angie's attention. Then Angie is murdered. Jane and her family are shattered. They withdraw into themselves, casting a veil of silence over Angie's death. Thirty years later, a journalist arrives with questions about the tragic...
31) The king's evil
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A royal scandal that could change the face of England forever. London 1667. In the Court of Charles II, it's a dangerous time to be alive - a wrong move could lead to disgrace, exile or death. The discovery of a murder at Clarendon House, the palatial home of one of the highest courtiers in the land, could have catastrophic consequences. James Marwood, a traitor's son, is ordered to cover up the murder. But the dead man is Edward Alderley, the cousin...
32) Mr Cadmus
Author
Language
English
Description
Two apparently harmless women reside in cottages one building apart in the idyllic English village of Little Camborne. Miss Finch and Miss Swallow, cousins, have put their pasts behind them and settled into conventional country life. But when a mysterious foreigner, Theodore Cadmus - from Caldera, a Mediterranean island nobody has heard of - moves into the middle cottage, the safe monotony of their lives is shattered. The fates of the two cousins...
Author
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Language
English
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Description
This novel is a thrilling tightrope walk between high comedy and bitter tragedy. After escaping from Prague, Josef shuffles into his cousin Sam's New York bedroom. Little does he realise that this is the beginning of an extraordinary friendship.
34) Her every fear
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Following a brutal attack by her ex-boyfriend, Kate Priddy makes an uncharacteristically bold decision after her cousin, Corbin Dell, suggests a temporary apartment swap - and she moves from London to Boston. But soon after her arrival Kate makes a shocking discovery: Corbin's next-door neighbour, a young woman named Audrey Marshall, has been murdered. When the police begin asking questions about Corbin's relationship with Audrey, and his neighbours...
35) Commonwealth
Author
Language
English
Description
It is 1964: Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited and notices a heart stoppingly beautiful woman. When he kisses Beverly Keating, his host's wife, he sets in motion the joining of two families, whose shared fate will be defined on a day 7 years later. In 1988, Franny Keating, now 24, is working as a cocktail waitress in Chicago. When she meets the famous author Leon Posen one night at the bar, and tells him about her...
36) Wed wabbit
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
You're called Fidge and you're nearly 11. You've been hurled into a strange world. You have three companions: two are unbelievably weird and the third is your awful cousin Graham. You have to solve a series of nearly impossible clues. You need to deal with a cruel dictator and three thousand Wimbley Woos (yes, you read that sentence correctly). And the whole situation - the whole, entire thing - is your fault.
Author
Series
Tom Wilde volume 5
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sweden, 1942 - Two old friends meet. They are cousins. One is Prince George, Duke of Kent, brother of the King of England. The other is Prince Philipp von Hesse, a committed Nazi and close friend of Adolf Hitler. Days later, the Prince George is killed in a plane crash in the north of Scotland. The official story is that it was an accident - but not everyone is convinced. There is even a suggestion that the Duke's plane was sabotaged, but with no...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
1917: When two young cousins, Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright from Cottingley, England, announce they have photographed fairies at the bottom of the garden, their parents are astonished. But when the great novelist, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, endorses the photographs? authenticity, the girls become a sensation; their discovery offering something to believe in amid a world ravaged by war.One hundred years later? When Olivia Kavanagh finds an old manuscript...
39) Thornyhold
Author
Publisher
Hodder
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Inheriting Thornyhold, a house set in a deep wood, is the beginning of a fairy tale for Gilly - the magic brought fleetingly to her childhood by Cousin Geillis returns and she finds the love that finally ends her loneliness. This is the author's first novel since 'The Wicked Day'.
40) Tokyo ever after
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
Izumi Tanaka has lived an uneventful seventeen years in her small, mostly white, northern California town, keenly aware of all the ways in which her family is different from most of her classmates?. But then Izumi discovers a clue to her previously unknown father?s identity . . . and he?s none other than the Crown Prince of Japan. Which means outspoken, irreverent, can-burp-the-alphabet Izzy is literally a princess. Soon she?s traveling overseas to...
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