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List view record 1: Mia MegastarList view anchor tag for record 1: Mia Megastar
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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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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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Small acts

Gordon, Kate, 1982-2024
There are people everywhere who need help, who might seem okay on the outside but aren't on the inside. Josh wants a friend but he doesn't know how to find somewhere to belong... Ollie wants to express herself but doesn't want to be noticed... Small Acts introduces two kids with great hearts who ...
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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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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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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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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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Sweet bean paste

Sukegawa, Dorian, 1962-2017
Sentaro has failed. He has a criminal record, drinks too much, and his dream of becoming a writer is just a distant memory. With only the blossoming of the cherry trees to mark the passing of time, he spends his days in a tiny confectionery shop selling dorayaki, a type of pancake filled with swe...
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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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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...
List view record 11: The mix-upList view anchor tag for record 11: The mix-up
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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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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 instrumentalist

Constable, Harriet2024
Anna Maria may have no name, no fortune, no family. But she has her ambition, and her talent. Her best hope lies in her teacher, Antonio Vivaldi. Soon she is his star pupil. But as Anna Maria's star rises, not everyone is happy. Because Anna Maria's shining light is threatening to eclipse that of...
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When I see blue

Bailey, Lily2022
There are 4 things you should know about Ben: 1. He's 12 years old 2. He's the new kid at school 3. His special number is 4 4. He has a bully in his brain. Sometimes Ben's brain makes him count to 4 to prevent bad things happening. Sometimes it makes him tap or blink in 4s. Mostly it makes the sm...
List view record 15: The library of lost dollhouses : a novelList view anchor tag for record 15: The library of lost dollhouses : a novel
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The library of lost dollhouses : a novel

Hooper, Elise2025
Tildy Barrows, Head Curator of a beautiful archival library in San Francisco, is meticulously dedicated to the century's worth of inventory housed in her beloved Beaux Art building. She loves the calm and order in the shelves of books and walls of art. But Tildy's life takes an unexpected turn wh...
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There's no turning back

De Céspedes, Alba, 1911-19972025
The young women studying at the Grimaldi yearn for new kinds of life. Monitored by the nuns who run the college, eight of them form a close group, sharing confidences and hopes for the future. But each, too, has her private secrets -- a child from an early love affair, frustrated artistic ambitio...
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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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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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The view from the balcony

Paul, Janette2025
Andie has no memory of the man who pushed her out of the way of a speeding car. A week before Corals biggest career highlight, her mum has a fall. And the last thing Mara wants is to be assigned to work at the hospital bedside of the much-despised senior partner of her law firm. Andie, Coral and ...
List view record 20: Grown women : a novelList view anchor tag for record 20: Grown women : a novel
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Grown women : a novel

Johnson, Sarai2024
A novel about four generations of Black women contending with motherhood and daughterhood, generational trauma and the deeply ingrained tensions and wounds that divide them as they redefine happiness and healing for themselves.
List view record 21: The original daughterList view anchor tag for record 21: The original daughter
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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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Jaded

Lee, Ela, 1995-2024
A young lawyer wakes up the morning after a work gala with no memory of how she got home the previous night and must figure out what, exactly, happened-and how much she's willing to put up with to make her way to the top of the corporate ladder.
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Melville

Fresán, Rodrigo, 1963-2024
"A dying father in the grip of fever and delirium recounts his youth, his Grand Tour, the Venetian palaces populated by fascinating and evil figures, his ruin, and his most beautiful journey—the crossing on foot of the frozen Hudson River. His son, still a child, sits at the foot of the bed, atte...
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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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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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Fun for the whole family

Smith, Jennifer E., 1980-2025
The four Endicott siblings--Gemma, Connor, Roddy, and Jude--were once inseparable, a bond created by the absence of their dazzling, mercurial mother, who would return for a few weeks each summer to whisk them off on sprawling road trips around the country. Decades later, the unthinkable has happe...
List view record 27: The bright years : a novelList view anchor tag for record 27: The bright years : a novel
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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 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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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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