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82) Best friends
Author
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2014
Description
"Sinjin the badly burned black cat. . .who survived to welcome others home Victor the abandoned Australian Shepherd mix. . . the capo among dogs Tyson and Tommy, two tiny black kittens. . .who had something to teach us all Discover Best Friends A Place Where Every Animal Is Safe. . .Loved. . .And Never, Ever Killed In the summer of 1982, a group of young men and women pooled every penny they had and bought 3,000 acres of high desert called Angel Canyon,...
Author
Series
Poppy Pym volume 3
Pub. Date
2017
Formats
Description
Winner of the Scholastic Montegrappa Prize for New Children's Writing Poppy is thrilled that they're spending the summer at Smuggler's Cove. It might even take her mind off the mystery of her past. But Poppy is about to make some amazing discoveries - and solve more than one mystery...
84) The girls
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous aura of abandon. Soon, Evie is in thrall to Suzanne, a mesmerising older girl, and is drawn into the circle of a soon-to-be infamous cult and the man who is its charismatic leader. Hidden in the hills, their...
85) Fire
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Formats
Description
From internationally bestselling author John Boyne, a challenging and visceral narrative that asks the question: can one cataclysmic moment turn someone into a monster? On the face of it, Freya lives a gilded existence, dancing solely to her own tune. She has all the trappings of wealth and privilege, a responsible job as a surgeon specialising in skin grafts, a beautiful flat in a sought-after development, and a flash car. But it wasn?t always like...
Author
Series
The Penwith Trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Maze
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Christmas will be slightly less turbulent than summer, won?t it? Demi certainly hopes so. She and Cal are keeping their fledgling relationship under wraps for now. But then Kit Bannen, a hunky, blond - and somewhat mysterious - writer arrives at Kilhallon Resort, and not everyone is charmed. Cal is sure that Kit is hiding something. But is he the only one guarding a secret? Demi is busy baking festive treats for the newly opened Demelza?s cafe, but...
Author
Series
Puffin Island volume 1
Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Windswept, isolated and ruggedly beautiful, Puffin Island is a haven for day-trippers and daydreamers alike. But this charming community has a way of bringing people together in the most unexpected ways? It's been a summer of firsts for Emily Donovan. From becoming a stand-in mom to her niece Lizzie to arriving on Puffin Island, her life has become virtually unrecognizable. Between desperately safeguarding Lizzie and her overwhelming fear of the ocean-which...
Author
Publisher
Canelo
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Sophia Bertoni discovers her boyfriend in bed with another woman, and realizes her life is going nowhere. Leaving her high-pressure job, she travels to Italy to stay with her grandmother while she figures out her next move. When Sophia - quite literally - bumps into devastatingly handsome Joe Lancaster her plans are turned upside down. As the two realize they?re both spending the summer in the same town, a love affair seems on the cards. But Sophia...
90) Devil?s delight
Author
Series
Agatha Raisin volume 33
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
Toni and Agatha are in the car on the way to Officer Bill Wong?s long-awaited wedding when, much to their shock, a naked young man bursts through a hedge on the side of the road and comes running toward them. Terrified, he explains that he has just seen a dead body in the woods. Toni lends him an old t-shirt to cover himself, Agatha calls the police and the young man takes them to the spot where he saw the body, across from a meadow where the Mircester...
91) The heir
Author
Series
Windham volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
2019
Description
New York Times and USA Today Bestseller! Now a New York Times Bestseller! "A dazzling debut brimming with passion, romance, and wit." -Sophia Nash, RITA ward-winning author of Secrets of a Scandalous Bride An earl who can't be bribed... Gayle Windham, earl of Westhaven, is the first legitimate son and heir to the duke of Moreland. To escape his father's inexorable pressure to marry, he decides to spend the summer at his townhouse in London, where...
Author
Publisher
Profile Books
Pub. Date
2017
Description
When we spend so much of our time immersed in books, who's to say where reading ends and living begins? The two are impossibly and gloriously wedded, as Hill shows in Jacob's Room is Full of Books. Considering everything from Edith Wharton's novels through to Alan Bennett's diaries, Virginia Woolf and the writings of twelfth century monk Aelred of Rievaulx, Susan Hill charts a year of her life through the books she has read, reread or returned to...
93) Horror movie
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
The monster at the heart of a cult 90s cursed horror film tells his shocking and bloody secret history. Slow burn terror meets high-stakes showdowns, from the bestselling author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World. Summer, 1993 - a group of young guerrilla filmmakers spend four weeks making Horror Movie, a notorious, disturbing, art-house horror film. Steeped in mystery and tragedy, the film has taken on a mythic, cult renown,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Susie and her sister have never been close. These days they barely speak. So when Danielle messages her out of the blue and begs to meet, Susie knows something must be wrong. But what Danielle tells her seems crazy. Her husband, Simon, may be a bully, but surely he wouldn't hurt her? Then the accident happens. And Susie is forced to rethink everything. Who is lying? Who is telling the truth? And who, really, is the killing type? JANE CORRY - THE QUEEN...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
2012
Description
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Grace Burrowes delivers remarkable characters, intriguing plots, and freshly imagined Regency settings in this unforgettable trilogy about three noble brothers. A Regency era battle of wits, wills, and the sexes, with a wily old duke determined to see the succession of his line secured, and his three headstrong sons equally determined to resist the bonds of matrimony. THE HEIR: The Earl of Wyndham, weighed...
Author
Publisher
Corsair
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Mouse never did fully suit her nickname.� Tiny she may have been, but timid never. After less than twenty-four hours in London she had bluffed her way into an audition at a famous theatre, infuriated its forceful young stage director, and amused its kind if quite amoral actor-manager. She had finally landed not a part but a toehold as a junior secretary.� During her involvement in the engrossing affairs of the Crossway Theatre she met her friends...
Author
Series
Confessions of Georgia Nicolson volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Brilliantly funny, teenage angst author Louise Rennison?s first book about the confessions of crazy but lovable Georgia Nicolson. Louise is an international bestselling author and her books can?t fail to make you laugh out loud. There are six things very wrong with my life: 1. I have one of those under-the-skin spots that will never come to a head but lurk in a red way for the next two years. 2. It is on my nose. 3. I have a three-year-old sister...
Author
Publisher
Quadrille Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2020
Description
This is James in his comfort zone, cooking the food he loves best. This irresistible collection of recipes ranges from fancy dinners to impress friends, to those times when you just need to make a satisfying lunch for two. The chapters reflect this and are divided into Little Lunches, Family Favourites, Weekends, Spice Suppers, Food with Friends, Summer Nights, Sunday Night Bites, Sweet Treats and Posh Puds. Much-loved for his trademark wholesome,...
99) Hold
Author
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2018
Description
?You have to imagine. That?s how I told myself.? ?Imagine what?? ?Imagine that you are the kind of girl that can cope with it, even if you are not.? Belinda knows how to follow the rules. She has learnt the right way to polish water glasses, to wash and fold a hundred handkerchiefs, and to keep a tight lid on memories of the village she left behind when she came to Kumasi to be a housegirl.Mary is still learning the rules. Eleven years old and irrepressible,...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2008
Description
It is a summer's night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. At some point after midnight a dog barks. The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome murder has taken place in their home. The household reverberates with shock, not least because the guilty party is surely still among them. Jack Whicher...
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