Author: | Delia Owens |
Category: |
Fiction |
Awards: | NY Times Bestseller |
#1 New York Times Bestseller A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick "I can't even express how much I love this book! I didn't want this story to end!" Reese Witherspoon "Painfully beautiful." The New York Times Book Review For years, rumors of the "Marsh Gi... read more
Author: | Geraldine McCaughrean |
Category: |
Young Adult |
Awards: | 2018 Carnegie Medal Winner |
In the summer of 1727, a group of men and boys from St Kilda are put ashore on a remote sea stac to harvest birds for food. No one returns to collect them. Why? Surely nothing but the end of the world can explain why they have been abandoned to endure storms, starva... read more
Author: | Lynette Noni |
Category: |
Young Adult |
Subject 684--"Jane Doe"--has been locked underground in a secret government facility, enduring tests and torture. After a freak accident reveals the dangerous power Jane has concealed for years, it also reveals that the government has been keeping secrets of its own.f its own.
Author: | Ben Aaronovitch; Stephen Walter (Designed by) |
Category: |
Crime & Thriller |
Series: | A\Rivers of London Novel Ser. |
Reading Level: | General Adult |
It begins with a dead body at the far end of Baker Street tube station, all that remains of American exchange student James Gallagher-and the victim's wealthy, politically powerful family is understandably eager to get to the bottom of the gruesome murder. The t... read more
Author: | Amy Bloom |
Category: |
Historical |
Reading Level: | near fine |
For readers of The Paris Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue comes a "sensuous, captivating account of a forbidden affair between two women" (People)--Eleanor Roosevelt and "first friend" Lorena Hickok. Lorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Fran... read more
Author: | Kara Barbieri |
Category: |
Fiction |
Reading Level: | 1 Fiction |
As the last child in a family of daughters, seventeen-year-old Janneke was raised to be the male heir. While her sisters were becoming wives and mothers, she was taught to hunt, track, and fight. On the day her village was burned to the ground, Janneke--as the only survivor--was taken ca... read more
Author: | Aravind Adiga |
Category: |
Fiction |
Reading Level: | General Adult |
Awards: | Winner of Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2008. |
No saris. No scents. No spices. No music. No lyricism. No illusions.This is India now.Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells us the terrible and... read more
Author: | Maria Lewis |
Category: |
Fantasy |
Series: | Tommi Grayson |
'Gripping, fast-paced, and completely unexpected, Who's Afraid has more twists than a tornado. I loved this story!' Darynda Jones, New York Times bestselling author of the Charley Davidson series'Truly one of the best in the genre I have ever read.' Oscar-nominee Lexi Alexander (Gr... read more
Author: | Keri Arthur |
Category: |
Romance |
Series: | Souls of Fire |
Crimson Death, the plague like virus spawned from a failed government experiment to isolate the enzymes that make vampires immortal, continues to spread. Emberly and her partner, Jackson Miller, are desperately seeking the stolen research for a cure before the virus becomes a pandemic. B... read more
Author: | Nikita Gill |
Category: |
Poetry & Plays |
A stunning collection of poetry on feminism, trauma, survival and empowerment.
You cannot burn away What has always been aflame
WILD EMBERS explores the fire that lies within every soul, weaving words around ideas of feeling at home in your... read more
Author: | Barry Crump |
Category: |
Cooking, Food & Drink |
Reading Level: | General Adult |
When Social Welfare threatens to put Ricky into care, the overweight Maori boy and cantankerous Uncle Hec flee into the remote and rugged Ureweras. The impassable bush serves up perilous adventures, forcing the pair of misfits to use all their skills to survive hunger, wild pigs ... read more
Author: | Haruki Murakami |
Category: |
Fiction |
"His life was like his recurring nightmare- a train to nowhere. But an ordinary life has a way of taking an extraordinary turn. Add a girl whose ears are so exquisite that, when uncovered, they improve sex a thousand-fold, a runaway friend, a right-wing politico, a... read more