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1) Emma's duty
Author
Series
Emma trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Ebury Press
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Emma Reece is slowly adjusting to her husband's return from the war, even though his appalling injuries mean their marriage is in name only. But then tragedy strikes, and Emma finds she cannot turn to Jack Harvey, her long-standing friend and one-time lover - for while he still loves her, he is now a married man.
Author
Publisher
Mainstream
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
This is a no-holds-barred account of the realities of an American spy working outside the conventional parameters of military conflict in a region culturally, geographically, and philosophically disassociated from conventional American war tactics.
Author
Publisher
Clipper Large Print Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Gabby McPhee is the owner of The Tin Man, a chic new cafe and coffee roasting house in Melbourne. The struggles of her recent heart transplant are behind her and life is looking up - until a mysterious customer appears in the cafe, convinced that Gabby has her deceased husband's heart beating inside her chest. Krystal Arthur is a bereaved widow, struggling to hold herself and her two young boys together since Evan's death, and plagued by unanswered...
Author
Series
Lucky stars volume 6
Publisher
Macmillan Children's
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Cassie meets a little girl who keeps forgetting her dance steps. How can she help her to remember them? Surely her heart charm must hold the key.
Author
Series
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
It is almost a decade since Duluth said goodbye to its innocence. The city creeps ever closer to the tenth anniversary of the year in which it found itself both gripped by murder and united in terror; and during which the pillar of its community, DS Jonathan Stride, had his home and heart torn to ribbons by the claws of cancer. Cat Mateo, an orphan with a knack of landing on her feet, has bid farewell to a life on the streets. This once-stray teenager...
7) Pigeon P.I
Author
Publisher
Andersen Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Pigeon private investigator Murray just wants to take things easy, but when kind-hearted Vee starts to sing like a canary (after all, she is a canary) he can't hold out. Murray agrees to find the feather thief who has kidnapped her friends, but his change of heart comes too late: now Vee herself has gone missing. Can Murray find the mysterious feather thief and save his new friend, or is her goose cooked?
Author
Publisher
Headline
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In this no-holds barred, warts and all account of life in London's financial heartland, Anderson breaks the Square Mile's code of silence, revealing explosive secrets, tricks of the trade and the corrupt, murky underbelly at the heart of life in the City.
9) The reunion
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
At school Hannah and her three best friends, Laura, Jenny and Annabel, were inseparable. So when Laura calls out of the blue after 18 years, with the idea of holding a reunion, Hannah is excited about seeing how the years have treated her friends. But a reunion that should have been nostalgic and light-hearted soon becomes a nightmare.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Miss Deer is holding a competition to find the most helpful animal in her class, and there's a prize for the winner - but someone isn't playing fair. In this story of the good, the bad, and the fluffy, it will be Aye-Aye who wins your heart.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
who are you when you're alone Starry Night, Blurry Dreams is a collection of graphic poetry about loneliness, love and existing in our world. a heavy heart is hard to carry hold on When words aren't enough to describe our emotions, this book will offer comfort, joy and a friend in the dark. we all have our own beautiful universe.
12) The tower
Author
Series
Sancti trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The forbidden Citadel at the heart of the ancient Turkish city of Ruin opens its gates for the first time in history. Why now, after centuries of secrecy? A deadly disease has erupted within, and threatens to spread beyond its walls. Infected charity worker Gabriel Mann may hold the cure - but can one dying man stop an epidemic? Without him Liv Adamsen, a former journalist, is vulnerable, surrounded by strangers in the desert oasis that is her new...
Author
Publisher
BBC Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Canals hold a unique place in British culture, with associations of lazy summer afternoons, journeying through lush green countryside. But as Liz McIvor explains in the book to accompany her BBC series, the story of our canals is also the story of how modern Britain was born. It was the canals that helped open up the trade of the Industrial Revolution, furthered the new science of geology, and even ushered in a new form of architecture. The legacy...
14) Foundation
Author
Series
Foundation volume 1
Language
English
Description
Long after earth was forgotten, a galaxy took shape, an Empire governed from the city-planet of Trantor. The system worked, and grew, for generations. Everyone believed it would work forever, except Hari Seldon.
Author
Publisher
Pan Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
James Bulger was just a few weeks shy of his third birthday when, on 12 February 1993, he wandered away from his mum Denise in a shopping mall in Bootle. Grainy images from a security camera showed him trustingly holding the hand of ten-year-old Jon Venables as they walked away. Venables and his friend Robert Thompson murdered James, in a crime that shocked the world. In this haunting book, James' father Ralph describes how his world fell apart in...
Author
Publisher
Ebury Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Growing up in poverty, one of six siblings, Hannah Armstrong never thought she'd know anything other than her little mining town. But then she falls for Timothy Durkin, a wealthy Oxford student. Following her heart, Hannah sacrifices everything she holds dear and follows her new husband to Oxford. But will her new life of luxury be everything she expected - or will she find that once a coal miner's daughter, always a coal miner's daughter?
17) Am I normal yet?
Author
Series
The Normal volume 1
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
Evie, Amber and Lottie: three girls facing down tough issues with the combined powers of friendship, feminism and cheesy snacks. Both hilarious and heart-rending, this is Evie?s no-holds-barred story of struggling to live a ?normal? teen life in the grip of OCD, from the acclaimed author of The Manifesto on How to be Interesting.
18) The blood gospel
Author
Publisher
Orion Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
When an earthquake in Masada, Israel, reveals a tomb buried in the heart of the mountain, a trio of investigators are sent to explore the macabre discovery, a subterranean temple holding the crucified body of a mummified girl. But a brutal attack at the site sets the three on the run, thrusting them in to a race to recover what was once preserved in the tomb: a book rumoured to have been written by Christ's own hand.
19) Trust me
Author
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Catch and Richard & Judy pick The Holiday comes T.M. Logan's new, utterly gripping thriller 'Everything you want from a thriller, and more' Lesley Kara TWO STRANGERS, A CHILD, AND A SPLIT SECOND CHOICE THAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING . . . Ellen was just trying to help a stranger. That was how it started: giving a few minutes respite to a flustered young mother sitting opposite her on the train. A few minutes...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Last summer, Gottie's life fell apart. Her beloved grandfather Grey died and Jason, the boy to whom she lost her heart wouldn't even hold her hand at the funeral. This summer, still reeling from twin heartbreaks, Gottie is lost and alone and burying herself in equations. Until, after five years absence, Thomas comes home: former boy next door. Former best friend. Former everything. And as life turns upside down again she starts to experience strange...
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