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Every Little Piece of My Heart
Name: Sharon Bolton
06 August 2020;Genre: Friends and family
For Sophie, the last five months have been doubly rubbish. Not only has her best friend Freya disappeared suddenly and is proving impossible to contact, but she has also been battling lupus and its effects on her body. When a parcel from Freya arrives, Sophie experiences a brief upturn in her...
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Cinderella is Dead
Name: Tanja Jennings
01 August 2020;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
From the distinctive front cover, celebrating Sophia Grimmins as proud, beautiful, defiant, fierce and brown skinned, to her explosive story inside, Kalynn Bayron reclaims the iconic fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm with her new YA fantasy, Cinderella Is Dead. Groundbreaking...
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Cinderella is Dead
Name: Linda Brown
31 July 2020;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
After reading Cinderella Is Dead, you will never look at the original Grimms fairytale in the same way ever again... It's been 200 years since Cinderella found her Prince Charming and they lived happily ever after, or did they? Sophia, our lead character, knows th...
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Far From Perfect
Name: Jess Locke
23 July 2020;Genre: Friends and family
Far From Perfect, he second book in the Valentines series from Holly Smale, follows Faith, the 16 year old beautiful Valentine sister.Faith appears on the surface to have it all, looks, fame, a famous rock star boyfriend and a glittering future ahead of her. Yet al...
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Far From Perfect
Name: Elen Green
13 July 2020;Genre: Friends and family
Far From Perfect is the second book in The Valentines series about a family of actors - the Valentines - whose lives are constantly under the spotlight of a voracious press. Each book in the series by Geek Girl author Holly Smale tells the story of one of the...
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We Are Bound by Stars
Name: Linda Brown
09 July 2020;Genre: Fantasy
We are Bound by Stars is the second instalment set in the magical fantasy world of Scarossa (see We Are Blood and Thunder) and once again the authors writing is as beautiful and stirring. Bea is the middle sister in a se...
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Harrow Lake
Name: Lorraine Ansell
09 July 2020;Genre: Horror
After a shocking incident involving her father, Lola is shipped off to a town made famous by his best horror movie. Staying with a grandmother that she's never met, strange events threaten Lola's sanity. Unexplained disappearances lead Lola to believe that a monster, Mr Skitters, lives in the...
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The Rules
Name: Linda Brown
09 July 2020;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Amber is a looked-after child who is facing the prospect of spending Christmas alone, that is until her social worker tells her that she has received a letter from her dad. Amber, you would think, would be happy, but sadly you are mistaken; she now has to work out how to escape; she must move...
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The Rules
Name: Clair Bossons
09 July 2020;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
I loved reading The Rules, it was a truly addictive read. Amber is a looked after child who is facing the prospect of a Christmas with no foster placement as her boarding school closes for the end of term. She is a bit of a prickly character who is not afraid to call it as she...
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Dark Blue Rising
Name: Linda Brown
05 July 2020;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
This is the first instalment of a new trilogy from the amazing YA author Teri Terry. Love this author's writing as her books are descriptive, pacy, full of drama and intrigue and they always leave the reader wanting more...Tabby and her mom Cate never stay in one place long enough...
