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41) Echo burning
Author
Series
Jack Reacher volume 5
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Description
Jack Reacher, adrift in the hellish heat of a Texas summer. Looking for a lift through the vast empty landscape. A woman stops, and offers a ride. She is young, rich and beautiful. But her husband's in jail. When he comes out, he's going to kill her. Her family's hostile, she can't trust the cops, and the lawyers won't help. She is entangled in a web of lies and prejudice, hatred and murder. Jack Reacher never could resist a lady in distress.
Author
Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2014
Description
'Perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy' - Candis Welcome to Blossom Street - where dreams come true. The ultimate indulgence of Debbie Macomber?s bestselling Blossom Street novels. Including: The Shop on Blossom Street, A Good Yarn, Susannah?s Garden, Christmas in Seattle, Back on Blossom Street, Twenty Wishes, Summer on Blossom Street, Hannah?s List, A Turn in the Road and Thursdays at Eight, Make time for friends, Make time for Debbie Macomber.
43) Moonlocket
Author
Series
The Cogheart Adventures volume 2
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Storm clouds gather over Lily and Robert?s summer when criminal mastermind the Jack of Diamonds appears. For Jack is searching for the mysterious Moonlocket - but that?s not the only thing he wants. Soon, dark secrets from Robert?s past plunge him into danger, because Jack is playing a cruel game. Lily and Malkin, the mechanical fox, must stay one step ahead before Jack plays his final, deadly, card...
44) Masters of Rome
Author
Series
The Vespasian volume 5
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Description
Britannia, 45 AD: Vespasian's brother, Sabinus, is captured by druids. The druids want to offer a potent sacrifice to their gods - not just one Roman Legate, but two. They know that Vespasian will come after his brother and they plan to sacrifice the siblings on mid-summer's day. But to whom will they be making this sacrifice? What were the gods of
45) The holiday home
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Set on a Cornish cliff, Atlantic House has been the jewel in the Carew family crown for centuries. Each year, the Carew sisters embark on the yearly trip down to Cornwall for the summer holidays, but they are as different as vinegar and honey: Prudence, hard-nosed businesswoman and married to the meek and mild Francis, she is about to get a shock r
Author
Series
Harry Potter volume 6
Description
"There it was, hanging in the sky above the school: the blazing green skull with a serpent tongue, the mark Death Eaters left behind whenever they had entered a building? wherever they had murdered?" When Dumbledore arrives at Privet Drive one summer night to collect Harry Potter, his wand hand is blackened and shrivelled, but he does not reveal why. Secrets and suspicion are spreading through the wizarding world, and Hogwarts itself is not safe....
47) Forget me not
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Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2019
Description
It?s six in the morning during the hottest summer on record when Elizabeth O?Loughlin, out walking her dog, comes across Clare, a victim of a horrific knife attack, clinging onto life at the side of the road.�Clare dies minutes later, but not before�whispering her haunting last words to Elizabeth.��When it becomes clear that Clare?s killer has more than one murder on his mind, Elizabeth has to take drastic action or face losing everything.�But...
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An International Bestseller - A Guardian Summer Read - An Amazon Best Book of the Month - A Goodreads Best Book of the Month - A Buzzfeed Summer Read - A Foyles Book of the Month - AHuffington Post Summer Read - A Yorkshire Post Book of the Week In 1883, Thaniel Steepleton returns to his tiny flat to find a gold pocketwatch on his pillow. But he has worse fears than generous burglars; he is a telegraphist at the Home Office, which has just received...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Welcome to Camp Reset, a summer camp with a difference. A place offering a shot at ?normality? for Olive, a girl on the edge, and for the new friends she never expected to make - who each have their own reasons for being there. Luckily Olive has a plan to solve all their problems. But how do you fix the world when you can?t fix yourself?.
50) Tehran noir
Author
Series
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Launched with the summer '04 award-winning best seller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Includes brand-new stories by: Gina B. Nahai, Salar Abdoh, Lily Farhadpour, Azardokht Bahrami, Yourik Karim-Masihi, Vali Khalili, Farhaad Heidari Gooran, Aida Moradi Ahani, Mahsa...
Author
Publisher
HQ
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Forget the old days. Forget summer. Forget warmth. Forget anything that doesn't help you survive Lynn McBride has learned much since society collapsed in the face of nuclear war and the relentless spread of disease. As memories of her old life haunt her, she has been forced to forge ahead in the snow-covered Canadian Yukon, learning how to hunt and trap to survive. But her fragile existence is about to be shattered. Shadows of the world before have...
Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2021
Description
At a local summer fete, Bo and her friends meet the mysterious fortune teller Madame Odette, and they are each given the same prediction: You will meet the love of your life by Christmas Day. With just a few months until the festive season, they dismiss the predictions out of hand. Bo's attentions are focused on creating the best seasonal menu for her Boatyard Cafe, and her rock and roll dance group - the Falford Flingers - who are hard at work getting...
Author
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2014
Description
The team arrives at Leighford High one glorious summer and proceeds to stick its collective nose into classrooms various, including that of Head of Sixth Form, Peter Maxwell. Just when the atmosphere at the High School has become decidedly fraught, one of the inspectors is found stabbed to death and the shadow of suspicion falls upon Headteacher, James Diamond. Aided by his inside informant, lover DS Jacquie Carpenter, Maxwell sets out to prove that...
54) The Greek escape
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Description
A scorching summer novel, set on a lush Greek island, The Greek Escape by bestselling author Karen Swan, is the perfect getaway for fans of Victoria Hislop and Santa Montefiore. Before every new beginning, there must be an ending . . . Running from heartbreak, Chloe Marston leaves her old life in London for a fresh start in New York. Working at a luxury concierge company, she makes other people?s lives run perfectly, even if her own has ground to...
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Don?t miss the next captivating page-turner from Sunday Times bestseller Susan Lewis!Escape with the next gripping thriller from Sunday Times bestseller Susan Lewis!A triple murder.A mother, her daughter and a family friend, are brutally killed at Kellon Manse one quiet summer?s day.A young girl disappears and has not been seen since.One suspect.All fingers point to the husband of one of the victims. Yet he still walks free.An unsolvable crime.Cristy...
56) The last wolf
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Description
A thrilling Second World War saga - In the summer of 1936, a teenage German boy, Reinhard Richter, is sailing in his father?s yacht, Sturmwind, off Scotland. Moored in an island cove, he meets Stroma Mackay and is captivated by her. He persuades her to write to him in Hamburg, and their correspondence continues until war is declared. Reinhard joins the elite U-boat service, while Stroma serves as a plotter in the WRNS, helping fight the desperate...
57) The cardturner
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
When Alton's ageing, blind uncle asks him to attend bridge games with him, he agrees. After all, it's better than a crappy summer job in the local shopping mall, and Alton's mother thinks it might secure their way to a good inheritance sometime in the future. But, like all apparently casual choices in any of Louis Sachar's wonderful books, this choice soon turns out to be a lot more complex than Alton could ever have imagined. As his relationship...
Author
Publisher
Stripes Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Elsie has a crush on Ada, the only person in the world who truly understands her. Unfortunately, they?ve never met in real life and Ada lives an ocean away. But Elsie has decided it?s now or never to tell Ada how she feels. That is, until her long-lost best friend Joan walks back into her life. In a summer of repairing broken connections and building surprising new ones, Elsie realises that she isn?t nearly as alone as she thought. But now she has...
59) The last night
Author
Publisher
Corvus
Pub. Date
2016
Description
In a quiet coastal village, Irina spends her days restoring furniture, passing the time in peace and hiding away from the world. A family secret, long held and never discussed, casts a dark shadow and Irina chooses to withdraw into her work. When an antique bureau is sent to her workshop, the owner anonymous, Irina senses a history to the object that makes her uneasy. As Irina begins to investigate the origins of the piece, she unearths the secrets...
Author
Publisher
Killer Reads
Pub. Date
2016
Description
You can?t escape the past? Juliet and Chrissy were best friends until one fateful summer forced them apart. Now, nearly twenty years later, Juliet wants to be back in Chrissy?s life.But Chrissy doesn?t want Juliet anywhere near her, or her teenage daughter Eloise. After all, Juliet is the only person who knows what happened that night - and her return threatens to destroy the life that Chrissy has so carefully built. Because when the past is reawakened,...
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