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Aftertaste

Lavelle, Daria2025
A food story to binge. A ghost story to devour. A love story to savour. When dead-end dishwasher Kostya discovers the ability to summon spirits through the food he cooks, he embarks on a journey to open a New York City restaurant that serves closure - something he's craved for as long as he can r...
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Art hour at the Duchess Hotel

Green, Sophie (Novelist)2024
Mornington Peninsula, 1999: Wife and now grandmother Joan has checked into the grand old Duchess Hotel to find herself again, having spent thirty-five years being who her husband and family have wanted her to be. Peninsula local and soon-to-be octogenarian Frances is distracting herself from gett...
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Best friends forever (for ever)

Costain, Meredith2025
Warning: You are about to read my utterly biggest secrets. Can I trust you? OK then. I'm Ella, and this is my diary. Join Ella in this bind up of two of her hilarious and relatable best friends forever stories, in which she navigates school plays, cooking projects and the ups and downs that come ...
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Bethnal Green

Skoda, Amélie2025
Penang, 1971. When Suyin Lim is offered the opportunity of a lifetime, a place as a trainee nurse in London's Bethnal Green Hospital, she jumps at the chance to leave her job as a seamstress and unite with her sister, who left for the same path a year before. However, without warning her sister r...
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BFF tales

Poshoglian, Yvette2025
Meet Ella and Olivia. Big sister. Little sister. Best friends! Ella and Olivia are best friends who also happen to be sisters. Join them in these four fun tales as they learn the power of friendship!
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The book thief

Zusak, Markus2019
It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath.Death has never been busier, and will become busier By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, left there by accident, and it is...
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The bright years : a novel

Damoff, Sarah2025
This multigenerational novel follows the Bright family across four generations as they navigate secrets, addiction, and unexpected reunions. Newlyweds Ryan and Lillian Bright are raising their daughter, Georgette, while each harbors a hidden truth -- Lillian has a son from a previous relationship...
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The burrow

Cheng, Melanie2024
Amy, Jin and Lucie are leading isolated lives in their partially renovated, inner city home. They are not happy, but they are also terrified of change. When they buy a pet rabbit for Lucie, and then Amy's mother, Pauline, comes to stay, the family is forced to confront long-buried secrets. Will o...
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Clementine Rose. Collection five

Harvey, Jacqueline2020
Clementine Rose was delivered not in the usual way, at a hospital, but in the back of a mini-van, in a basket of dinner rolls. So begins the story of a lovely little girl who lives in Penberthy Floss in a large ramshackle house with her mother, Lady Clarissa, Digby Pertwhistle the butler and a ve...
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The correspondent : a novel

Evans, Virginia, 1986-2025
In her letters to family and friends we come to know the life of Sybil Van Antwerp: stubborn, cantankerous, opinionated, always steadfast in her belief in the power of the written word. But as the clock begins to tick for Sybil, the need for a few post-scripts to the life she's led becomes appare...
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Counterattacks at thirty : a novel

Son, Won-p'yong, 1979-2025
Jihye is an ordinary woman who has never been extraordinary. In her administrative job at the Academy, she silently tolerates office politics and the absurdities of Korean bureaucracy. Forever only one misplaced email away from career catastrophe, she effectively becomes a master of the silent ey...
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Dusk

Arnott, Robbie, 1989-2024
In the distant highlands, a puma named Dusk is killing shepherds. Down in the lowlands, twins Iris and Floyd are out of work, money and friends. When they hear that a bounty has been placed on Dusk, they reluctantly decide to join the hunt. As they journey up into this wild, haunted country, they...
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The Emperor of Gladness : a novel

Vuong, Ocean, 1988-2025
One summer evening in the town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on a bridge, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a lif...
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The fetishist

Min, Katherine2025
On a cold, gloomy night, twenty-three-year-old Kyoko stands in the rain with a knife in her hoodie's pocket. Her target is Daniel, who seduced Kyoko's mother then callously dropped her, leading to her suicide. Tonight, there will be repercussions. Following the unsuspecting Daniel home, Kyoko man...
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Frankie

Norton, Graham, 1963-2024
Always on the periphery, looking on, young Frankie Howe was never quite sure enough of herself to take centre stage - after all, life had already judged her harshly. Now old, Frankie finds it easier to forget the life that came before. Then Damian, a young Irish carer, arrives at her London flat,...
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Fundraiser fail

Shelberg, Rebecka Sharpe2024
Saskia Spark-Lee loves animals – she’s almost adopted a whole zoo-worth! But when Da and Dee say they can’t add another to the collection, she must come up with a new plan to continue supporting her furry friends. With some help from Nanna, and the amazing fundraising skills of her friends, Saski...
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The Great Alone

Hannah, Kristin2023
Lenora Allbright is thirteen when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to move to Kaneq, Alaska. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him. Having been left a homestead by a buddy who died in the war, Ernt is secure in his beli...
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The hat of great importance

Ness, Patrick, 1971-2025
On what should be a normal school day at their normal school -- recently rebuilt at great expense by the town's supervillain after her son destroyed it with a giant robot pelican suit -- things begin to spin out of control for monitor lizards Zeke, Daniel, and Alicia and Meil the hawk the moment ...
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Honeybee

O'Porter, Dawn2024
Old friends Renee and Flo couldn't be more different. Flo wants to be invisible, Renee wants to be a somebody. But old friendships are magnetic. In their early twenties, and on the cusp of the rest of their lives, Renee and Flo both fly home to Guernsey: to the island where it all began. Back in ...
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Into the blue

Burne, Cristy2024
Blair and his cousin embark on an adventurous day out, snorkelling on the wreck of the Omeo, but their excitement turns to panic when Blair loses his brother's cherished GoPro camera on the seabed. No one knows about his mistake except his cousin, and she urges Blair to keep it a secret. But Blai...
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Laughter is the best ending

Master, Maryam2024
Zee is a loner. She likes to read Oscar Wilde and watch documentaries all day which, according to her parents, is not normal for 13 year olds. So they decide to send her on a five-day holiday camp, hoping she'll make at least one friend. But Zee would rather take a bath in Tabasco sauce than atte...
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Library dreams

Gannon, Hayley2025
'Hi, I'm Luna! This diary you're reading? My mum's idea. She said it will help me to focus. You see, my mind is always racing with a million thoughts! I have so much I want to say and do! So, I'm going to use this diary to show you everything that's going on in my world...' Luna Merrian is a ten-...
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Mia Megastar

Nicodemou, Ada, 1977-2024
I'm Mia! This will be easy. My life is pretty interesting and amazing. I'm the only kid in my class who lives above a shop. And not just any shop - everyone knows Costa's is the best place for fresh fruit and pastries and dips and bread. Anyway, I wanted to tell you about what happened at school ...
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The mix-up

Ladd, Kylie2025
What would you do if you found out you'd been raising another couple's child - and they've been raising yours? Fourteen years ago, Kelsey and Raf Maccioni left hospital with their newborn daughter, Ammy. Days later, Shona and Nathan James welcomed the birth of their son, Zac. The only thing the t...
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Molly found a monster

Hoysted, Isabel2024
Molly loves playing in the sunshine, time with friends, and cuddling up by the fire to watch cartoons. She hasn't a worry in her head until the day her monster moves in and changes the way she sees her world. Soon, Molly no longer takes joy in the activities she previously enjoyed, and her friend...
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My friends

Backman, Fredrik, 1981-2025
Most people don't even notice them-three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it's just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an artist herself, knows otherwise and she is determined to find out the story of...
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The names

Knapp, Florence2025
In the wake of the 1987 storm, Cora sets off with her 9-year-old daughter Maia to register her son's birth. Her husband Gordon, a local doctor, respected in the community but a terrifying and controlling presence at home, intends for her to follow his family tradition going back generations, and ...
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Nesting

O'Donnell, Roisin2025
On a bright spring afternoon in Dublin, Ciara makes a split-second decision that will change everything. Grabbing an armful of clothes from the washing line, Ciara straps her two young daughters into her car and drives away. Head spinning, all she knows for certain is that home is no longer safe....
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The original daughter

Wei, Jemimah2025
Before Arin, Genevieve Yang was an only child. Living with her parents and grandmother in a single-room flat in working-class Bedok, Genevieve is saddled with an unexpected sibling when Arin appears, the shameful legacy of a grandfather long believed to be dead. As the two girls grow closer, they...
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Perfect harmony

Poshoglian, Yvette2025
Meet Ella and Olivia. Big sister. Little sister. Best friends. Ella and Olivia both try out for the girls' choir. But only one of them gets a spot! Can the sisters stay in perfect harmony?
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