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1) Warlight
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?The past never remains in the past?? London, 1945. The capital is still reeling from the war. 14-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel are abandoned by their parents who leave the country on business, and are left in the dubious care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. Nathaniel is introduced to The Moth?s band of criminal misfits and is caught up in a series of teenage misadventures, from smuggling greyhounds for illegal dog racing to...
2) A new day
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London, 1938. Hanna and Jack Foster had been sent to an orphanage when their parents were killed. Through the years Hanna refused to let them be separated. But when a couple chose to adopt Jack, Hanna decided it was time to let him go. However, it soon became clear that she had made a dreadful mistake.
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Rockwood Chronicles volume 1
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2021
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Don?t miss the brand-new six-part series from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court! Rockwood was home and she would do anything she could to stop it being stolen from them. Abandoned by their parents and left to fight for themselves, headstrong Rosalind Carey has no choice but to take charge of her younger brothers and sister in Devonshire?s grand Rockwood Castle. But their once much-loved home is crumbling like the family that lives...
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What happened in the Lake District twenty-six years ago that resulted in a family being torn apart? An old tragedy, still unresolved, brings together estranged brother and sister Adam and Kirsty, who try to solve it despite their relatives? objections. Does a missing camera hold clues to what might have happened? Meanwhile Kirsty, co-owner of a cake-making company, has more immediate worries in the form of increasingly threatening emails and gifts,...
5) Dear Olly
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HarperCollins
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Read by Paul McGann, ?Dear Olly? was written by Michael Morpurgo in 2000. Ollie?s brother wants to go and work with children who have been made orphans, through war, in Africa. He wants to be a clown and make them laugh. His mother and sister want him to stay in England and go to university.Hero, a swallow, has a journey to make too. He must fly to Africa for the winter to join all the other swallows. His journey is difficult and fraught with danger.Three...
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Harper
Pub. Date
2017
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The stunning debut for fans of Celia Imrie and Dawn French.Meet the daughters of Iris Parker. Dee; sensitive and big-hearted; Rose uptight and controlled and Fleur the reckless free spirit.At the reading of their mother?s will, the three estranged women are aghast to discover that their inheritance comes with very tricky strings attached. If they are to inherit her wealth, they must spend a series of weekends together over the course of a year and...
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Viking
Pub. Date
2017
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An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss from the No. 1 New York Times bestselling and Man Booker long-listed author of My Name is Lucy Barton Anything is Possible tells the story of the inhabitants of rural, dusty Amgash, Illinois, the hometown of Lucy Barton, a successful New York writer who finally returns, after seventeen years of absence, to visit the siblings she left behind.
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2022
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Unabridged ed.
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Dimple Pennington knew of her half siblings, but she didn't really know them. Five people who don't have anything in common except for faint memories of being driven through Brixton in their dad's gold jeep and some pretty complex abandonment issues. Dimple has bigger things to think about. She's 30, and her life isn't really going anywhere. An aspiring lifestyle influencer with a terrible and wayward boyfriend, Dimple's life has shrunk to the size...
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Heart of the Wolf volume 9
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Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
2012
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USA Today Bestseller! Her instincts tell her he's dangerous... While her overprotective brother's away, Meara Greymere's planning to play-and it wouldn't hurt to find herself a mate in the process. The last thing she needs is one of his SEAL buddies spoiling her fun, even if the guy is the hottest one she's ever seen... His powers of persuasion are impossible to resist... Finn Emerson is a battle-hardened Navy SEAL and alpha wolf. He's a little overqualified...
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Logan Point volume 2
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Revell
Pub. Date
2014
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Acting Sheriff Ben Logan hasn't heard from Leigh Somerall in a very long time, but it doesn't mean he can get her--or their whirlwind romance of ten years ago--out of his head. When she calls out of the blue, it is with a strange request to protect her brother, Tony. When Tony dies just days later, Ben is charged with a different task--protecting Leigh and her nine-year-old son, TJ, from the killers. But how can Ben keep an eye on Leigh if she's doing...
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Brothers Grimm Mysteries volume 2
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2019
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Unabridged ed.
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Bavaria, 1776. When Albrecht Durer the Much Much Younger's Frog Prints go missing, he knows exactly where to turn for help. Gretel (yes, that Gretel), now 35 and still living with her gluttonous brother Hans, is the country's most famous private investigator, and she leaps at the opportunity to travel to cosmopolitan Nuremberg to take on the case. But amid the hubbub of the city's annual sausage festival, Gretel struggles to find any clues that point...
13) The treatment
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2017
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?You have to help me. We?re not being reformed. We?re being brainwashed.?All sixteen year old Drew Finch wants is to be left alone. She's not interested in spending time with her mum and stepdad and when her disruptive fifteen year old brother Mason is expelled from school for the third time and sent to a residential reform academy she's almost relieved.Everything changes when she's followed home from school by the mysterious Dr Cobey, who claims...
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Enola Holmes volume 5
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Hot Key Books
Pub. Date
2021
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Follow London's newest detective, Enola Holmes, in her electrifying fifth escapade - from the series that inspired the film, starring Millie Bobby Brown. While on the run from her brother Sherlock, the world's most famous detective, Enola Holmes has been hiding in plain sight, lodging with Mrs Tupper. Mrs Tupper may be half-deaf and a terrible cook, but she is the closest thing Enola has to a family. So when she discovers that her dear land lady has...
15) The Sanatorium
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Detective Elin Warner volume 1
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2021
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An imposing, isolated hotel - high up in the Swiss Alps - is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. But she's taken time off from her job as a detective, so when she receives an invitation out of the blue to celebrate her estranged brother's recent engagement she has no choice but to accept. Arriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge. Though it's beautiful, something about the hotel, recently converted from an abandoned...
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Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2018
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Unabridged ed.
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Meet the Lotterys: a unique and diverse family featuring four parents, seven kids and five pets - all living happily together in their big old house, Camelottery. Nine-year-old Sumac is the organiser of the family and is looking forward to a long summer of fun. But when their grumpy and intolerant grandad comes to stay, everything is turned upside down. How will Sumac and her family manage with another person to add to their hectic lives? The Lotterys...
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London. June 2019, early morning: on the foreshore of the River Thames a bag of bones is discovered. Human bones. DCI Samuel Owusu quickly sends the bag for forensic examination. The bones are those of a young woman, killed by a blow to the head many years ago. Also inside the bag are the seeds of a rare tree which lead DCI Owusu to a mansion in Chelsea where, nearly 30 years previously, three people lay dead in a kitchen while a baby waited upstairs...
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Storm Keeper's Island volume 1
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Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018
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When Fionn Boyle sets foot on Arranmore Island, it begins to stir beneath his feet ... Once in a generation, Arranmore Island chooses a new Storm Keeper to wield its power and keep its magic safe from enemies. The time has come for Fionn's grandfather, a secretive and eccentric old man, to step down. Soon, a new Keeper will rise. But, deep underground, someone has been waiting for Fionn. As the battle to become the island's next champion rages, a...
19) Nutshell
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Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She?s still in the marital home - a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse - but John?s not there. Instead, she?s with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy?s womb. Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world?s master storytellers....
20) Bad sister
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Maze
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2017
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The gripping new thriller from the author of Saving Sophie.Stephanie Cousins is scared for her life. Her psychiatrist wants to help Stephanie through her fears, but Connie Summers will never truly know her. Stephanie?s history has been wiped away as part of the witness protection programme.Stephanie isn?t even the girl?s real name.But, then, Connie Summers isn?t Connie?s real name either. And that?s not all the women have in common. Secrets and mistakes...
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