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121) Birdy Flynn
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Pub. Date
2017
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Description
It is the summer and a group of children are playing down by a stream when they do a terrible thing. Something that Birdy tries unsuccesfully to avert. While the other children in the gang find it easy to forget what they have done, Birdy is trapped in the moment and feels bound to do something to make ammends. But how does a child face up to responsibility and find the courage to do the right thing?.
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Pub. Date
2019
Description
Would you sacrifice yourself to save thousands of others? In the Summer of 1940, after the Nazi occupation of Poland, an underground operative called Witold Pilecki accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands of people being interred at a new concentration camp on the border of the Reich. His mission was to report on Nazi crimes and raise a secret army to stage an uprising. The name of the detention centre -- Auschwitz. It was only after arriving...
123) Firefly dance
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Publisher
Bell Bridge Books
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Bright lights flicker in the dark evenings of summer. Pinpoints of hope float against the black descent of night. The sweetest of small and innocent creatures finds its way through the shadows. Fireflies seem to dance on sheer air, illuminating the space between heartbeats.Children give off a similar brave glow, despite the challenges of their young lives. The lessons of childhood are often painful, the shedding of fragile wings in the gloam of an...
124) The blue hour
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Publisher
BAD PRESS iNK
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Shortlisted for the Holyer An Gof awards 2022, semi-finalist in the Book Blogger Novel of the Year Awards 2022 The Blue Hour - two love affairs and two summers, 75 years apart ?the literary equivalent of a strong gin and tonic on a warm summer's evening: refreshing, invigorating and inspiring?a stunningly good debut. Beautifully written, this honest, emotional and moving novel had me hooked from the opening pages. �I could not stop reading until...
125) The crash
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Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2023
Description
As the world falls apart, a deadly conspiracy comes together . . . THE BRAND NEW 2023 THRILLER FROM BRITAIN'S TOP POLITICAL JOURNALIST - NOW AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER IN HARDBACK, EBOOK & AUDIOBOOK. London, 2007. It's summer in the City: the economy is booming, profits are up and the stock market sits near record highs. But journalist Gil Peck is a lone voice worrying it can't last. Deep in the plumbing of the financial system, he has noticed strange...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2020
Description
An Almost Perfect Holiday is a warm and witty story of friendship, family and hope, by the Sunday Times bestseller Lucy Diamond. 'No one creates funny, flawed and immediately relatable characters like Lucy. I adored this book from the very first page' Cathy Bramley, bestselling author of A Patchwork Family The holidays are here, and down in Cornwall Lorna?s cottages are fully booked. The sun loungers are lined up beside the swimming pool, the sky...
127) My favourite mistake
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Pub. Date
2024
Description
THE HILARIOUS AND HEARTWARMING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER MUST-READ OF THE SUMMER Anna has just lost her taste for the Big Apple? She has a life to envy. An apartment in New York. A well-meaning (too well-meaning?) partner. And a high-flying job in beauty PR. Who wouldn?t want all that? Anna, it turns out. Trading a minor midlife crisis for a major life event, she switches the skyscrapers of Manhattan for the tiny Irish town of Maumtully (population...
128) Destination India
Author
Series
The Lonely Hearts Travel Club volume 2
Pub. Date
2016
Description
?This is a story with real heart. We absolutely loved it.? - Heat?the perfect first-sunny-afternoon in the garden book!?- Kathleen GrayLet yourself go?Starting the Lonely hearts Travel Club was supposed to be the second chance that gave Georgia Green back her life. She thought it would be just like travelling, but the reality is far from rosy as she realises that starting a new business is definitely not a beach!So when Georgia finds herself on an...
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Nina has always played it safe. But when her divorce papers come through on her fortieth birthday she decides enough is enough. She?s always chosen the sensible route, staying in her stable job and marrying her rather boring ex. In fact - she realises - she?s chosen security over excitement for years. Ever since she refused to elope with her first love: beautiful, poetic, thoughtful Pierre, the man she met aged 17, on her French exchange. The only...
Author
Publisher
Citadel
Pub. Date
2012
Description
No one looked like her. No one walked like her. No one talked like her. Sexy yet vulnerable, and unexpectedly talented, she was no ordinary screen goddess. Few really knew her. What others wrote, she called "Lies! Lies! Lies!" Here, at last, is Marilyn Monroe's account, in her own singular voice. It was June 1, 1962, her thirty-sixth birthday. Famed photographer and reporter George Barris had come to see Marilyn on the set of what would be her final,...
131) Helsinki noir
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Series
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
2014
Description
"Readers should be prepared to keep the lights on at night after finishing this unnerving collection." --Publishers Weekly "A gripping collection...Whether you are already a fan of the gloomy Finns or are new to the uniquely sinister aspect of Scandinavian literature, this book will provide steady entertainment." --Reviewing the Evidence "This is a good collection of all kinds of stories." --Journey of a Bookseller "Mystery and true crime readers...
132) The lost notebook
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Pub. Date
2022
Description
The brand new novel from top 5 bestseller Louise Douglas.A notebook full of secrets, two untimely deaths - something sinister is stirring in the perfect seaside town of Morranez? It?s summer and holidaymakers are flocking to the idyllic Brittany coast. But when first an old traveller woman dies in suspicious circumstances, and then a campaign of hate seemingly drives another victim to take his own life, events take a very dark turn. Mila Shepherd...
133) The catch
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Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2020
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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Richard & Judy Book Club pick THE HOLIDAY, comes an unmissable new thriller. She says he's perfect. I know he's lying . . . He caught me watching, and our eyes met. That was when it hit me. There was something not quite right about my daughter's new boyfriend . . . The doting father Ed finally meets his daughter's boyfriend for the first time. Smart, successful and handsome, Ryan appears to be a real catch....
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