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The things we do to our friends / Heather Darwent.

Clare arrives at the University of Edinburgh with a secret. This is her chance for a blank slate - to finally become who she was meant to be. And then she meets Tabitha. Tabitha is charismatic, beautiful and intimidatingly rich. Soon Clare is sucked into her enigmatic circle of friends and their dizzying world of champagne on rooftops and summers in France. Her new life has begun. Then Tabitha reveals the little project they're working on, a project they need Clare's help with. And Clare can't say no. Because they know what she did.
Author: Darwent, Heather
Published: UK : Penguin Books, 2024.
375 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Ashton Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback - Available - 38016019830118
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Empire of the vampire / Jay Kristoff ; illustrations by Bon Orthwick.

It has been twenty-seven long years since the last sunrise. For nearly three decades, vampires have waged war against humanity; building their eternal empire even as they tear down our own. Now, only a few tiny sparks of light endure in a sea of darkness. Gabriel de León, half man, half monster and last remaining silversaint - a sworn brother of the holy Silver Order dedicated to defending the realm from the creatures of the night - is all that stands between the world and its end. Now imprisoned by the very monsters he vowed to destroy, the last silversaint is forced to tell his story.
Author: Kristoff, Jay
Published: London : Harper Voyager, 2023.
718 pages : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white) ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Stalybridge Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Fantasy paperback - Available - 38016019833781

The no-show / Beth O'Leary.

8.52 a.m. Siobhan's been looking forward to her breakfast date with Joseph. She was surprised when he suggested it - she normally sees him late at night in her hotel room. Breakfast with Joseph on Valentine's Day surely means something, so where is he? 2.43 p.m. Miranda's hoping that a Valentine's Day lunch with Carter will be the perfect way to celebrate her new job. It's a fresh start and a sign that her grown-up life is finally falling into place: she's been dating Carter for five months now and things are getting serious. But why hasn't he shown up? 6.30 p.m. Joseph Carter agreed to be Jane's fake boyfriend at a colleague's engagement party. They've not known each other long but their friendship is fast becoming the brightest part of her new life in Winchester. Joseph promised to save Jane tonight. But he's not here. Meet Joseph Carter. That is, if you can find him.
Author: O'Leary, Beth
Published: London : Quercus, 2023.
392 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Ashton Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback - Available - 38016019747296
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Strong female character / Fern Brady.

This is a book about how being a woman gets in the way of people's expectation of what autism should look like and, equally, how being autistic gets in the way of people's expectations of what a woman should look like. 'Strong Female Character' is a game-changing memoir on sexism and neurodiversity. Fern Brady will use her voice as a neurodivergent, working-class woman from Scotland to bring issues such as sex work, abusive relationships and her time spent in teenage mental health units to the page. It will take a sledgehammer to the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope which is mistakenly applied to neurodiverse women. It will also look at how her lack of regard for social expectations ultimately meant she surpassed any limitations of what a Scottish working-class woman can do.
Author: Brady, Fern
First edition.
Published: London : Brazen, 2023.
287 pages ; 23 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Ashton Library - (Tameside) - Adult Non Fiction - 792.702809 - Onloan - Due: 08 May 2024 - 38016019758905

Maame / Jessica George.

Meet Maddie. To her mostly-absent mum, she's Maame, the woman of the family. To her dad, she's his carer - even if he hardly recognises her. To her friends, she's the one who still lives at home, who never puts herself first. It's time to become the woman she wants to be. The kind who wears a bright yellow suit, says yes to after-work drinks and flirts with a thirty-something banker. Who doesn't have to Google all her life choices. Who demands a seat at the table. But to put ourselves together, sometimes we have to fall apart.
Author: George, Jessica, 1994-
Published: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2023.
391 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (2 reviews)

Ashton Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult hardback - Available - 38016019796871

How to kill men and get away with it / Katy Brent.

Have you ever walked home at night, keys in hand, ready to throw a punch in self-defence? That's how it all started. The killing spree, I mean. I sort of tripped into this role. Literally. The first one was following me. That guy from the nightclub who wouldn't leave me alone. I pushed him, he stumbled, and fell onto his own broken wine bottle. Oops. It was such a waste of a good house white. But now I can't seem to stop and nor do I want to. I've got a taste for revenge and quite frankly, I'm killing it. A deliciously dark, hilariously twisted story about friendship, love, and murder.
Author: Brent, Katy
Published: London : HQ, 2023.
374 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Dukinfield Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback - Available - 38016019754979

Spare / Prince Harry.

It was one of the most searing images of the 20th century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow - and horror. As Princess Diana was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling - and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last.
Author: Harry, Prince, Duke of Sussex, 1984-
Published: London : Bantam, 2023.
410 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
1 reserve

Ashton Library - (Tameside) - Adult Non Fiction - 941.086092 - Onloan - Due: 02 May 2024 - 38016019736281
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Vera Wong's unsolicited advice for murderers / Jesse Sutanto.

Self-proclaimed tea expert Vera Wong enjoys nothing more than sipping a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy 'detective' work on the internet (AKA checking up on her son to see if he's dating anybody yet). But when Vera wakes up one morning to find a dead man in the middle of her tea shop, it's going to take more than a strong Longjing to fix things. Knowing she'll do a better job than the police possibly could - because nobody sniffs out a wrongdoing quite like a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands - Vera decides it's down to her to catch the killer.
Author: Sutanto, Jesse Q.
Published: London : HQ, 2023.
338 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Ashton Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Crime paperback - Available - 38016019760968
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The ferryman : a novel / Justin Cronin.

Life on the island archipelago of Prospera is everything a person could hope for. Founded by the mythical genius known as the Designer, Prospera lies hidden from the horrors of a deteriorating outside world. In this island paradise, Prospera's lucky citizens enjoy long, vigorous, and fulfilling lives - that is, until the monitors embedded in their forearms, meant to measure their physical health and psychological well-being, fall below 10 percent. When that happens, they retire themselves, embarking on a short ferry ride to the island known as the Nursery, where their failing bodies are renewed, their memories are wiped clean, and they are readied to restart life afresh. Proctor Bennett, Managing Director of the Department of Social Contracts, has a satisfying career as a ferryman, gently shepherding the elderly through the retirement process - and, when necessary, enforcing it.
Author: Cronin, Justin
Published: London : Orion, 2023.
538 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Ashton Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult hardback - Available - 38016019772435

Fourth wing / Rebecca Yarros.

Welcome to the brutal and elite world of Basgiath War College, where everyone has an agenda, and every night could be your last. Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general - also known as her tough-as-talons mother - has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away - because dragons don't bond to 'fragile' humans. They incinerate them. With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother's daughter - like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.
Author: Yarros, Rebecca
Published: London : Piatkus, 2023.
498 pages : maps (black and white) ; 25 cm
Average rating: (2 reviews)
1 reserve

Ashton Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Fantasy hardback - Available - 38016019800319
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Hyde Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Fantasy hardback - Onloan - Due: 03 May 2024 - 38016019809815

I heard what you said / Jeffrey Boakye.

Before Jeffrey Boakye was a black teacher, he was a black student. Which means he has spent a lifetime navigating places of learning that are white by default. Since training to teach, he has often been the only black teacher at school. At times seen as a role model, at others a source of curiosity, Boakye's is a journey of exploration - from the outside looking in. In 'I Heard What You Said', he recounts how it feels to be on the margins of the British education system.
Author: Boakye, Jeffrey
Published: London : Picador, 2023.
ix, 373 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Ashton Library - (Tameside) - Adult Non Fiction - 371.82996 - Available - 38016019779604

All the sinners bleed / S.A. Cosby.

Titus Crown is the first Black sheriff in the history of Charon County, Virginia. In recent decades, Charon has had only two murders. After years of working as an FBI agent, no one knows better than Titus that while his hometown might seem like a land of moonshine, cornbread, and honeysuckle, secrets always fester under the surface. But a year to the day after Titus's election, a school teacher is killed by a former student. The student is then fatally shot by Titus's deputies. As he investigates the shootings, he unearths terrible crimes, and a serial killer who has been hiding in plain sight, haunting the dirt lanes and woodland clearings of Charon. With the killer's possible connections to a local church and the town's harrowing history weighing on him, Titus tries to project confidence about closing the case while concealing a painful secret from his own past.
Author: Cosby, S. A.
Published: London : Headline, 2023.
338 pages ; 25 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Ashton Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult hardback - Available - 38016019787441

Carrie Soto is back / Taylor Jenkins Reid.

Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. By the time Carrie retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Slam titles. And if you ask her, she is entitled to every one. She sacrificed nearly everything to become the best, with her father as her coach. But six years after her retirement, Carrie finds herself sitting in the stands of the 1994 US Open, watching her record be taken from her by a brutal, stunning, British player named Nicki Chan. At thirty-seven years old, Carrie makes the monumental decision to come out of retirement and be coached by her father for one last year in an attempt to reclaim her record. Even if the sports media says that they never liked the 'Battle-Axe' anyway. Even if her body doesn't move as fast as it did.
Author: Reid, Taylor Jenkins
Published: UK : Penguin Books, 2023.
369 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (2 reviews)

Denton Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback - Available - 38016019834235
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Playful wonders / Katie Still.

Everything you need to feed your child's curiosity and inject more play into their day. With this book you'll see that there's playtime for any place or occasion, whether it's during bath time, in the kitchen, or on a walk through the park. Find out how kitchen rolls can be turned into a car garage or how forgotten toys can be repurposed for fun activities, whether that's rescuing them from jelly or searching for them in a torch-lit scavenger hunt. Using household items, with photographs of each activity and easy-to-follow instructions, it's never been easier for kids to interact imaginatively with their environment.
Author: Still, Katie
Published: London : Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2023.
63 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 25 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Ashton Library - (Tameside) - Junior Non Fiction - J745.5 - Junior hardback - Onloan - Due: 06 Apr 2024 - 38016020508554
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The satsuma complex / Bob Mortimer.

Gary Thorn goes for a pint with a work acquaintance called Brendan. When Brendan leaves early, Gary meets a girl in the pub. He doesn't catch her name, but falls for her anyway. When she suddenly disappears without saying goodbye, all Gary has to remember her by is the book she was reading: 'The Satsuma Complex'. But when Brendan goes missing, Gary needs to track down the girl he now calls Satsuma to get some answers. And so begins Gary's quest, through the estates and pie shops of South London, to finally bring some love and excitement into his unremarkable life.
Author: Mortimer, Bob, 1959-
Published: London : Gallery Books UK, 2023.
298 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
1 reserve

Denton Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback - Available - 38016019795311
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Conspirituality : how new age conspiracy theories became a health threat / Derek Beres, Julian Walker, Matthew Remski.

Conspirituality takes a deep dive into the troubling phenomenon of influencers who have curdled New Age spirituality and wellness with the politics of paranoia-peddling vaccine misinformation, tales of child trafficking, and wild conspiracy theories. In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a disturbing social media trend emerged: a large number of yoga instructors and alt-health influencers were posting stories about a secretive global cabal bent on controlling the world's population with a genocidal vaccine. Since May 2020, Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, and Julian Walker have used their Conspirituality podcast to expose countless facets of the intersection of alt-health practitioners with far-right conspiracy trolls. Now this book unpacks the follies, frauds, cons and cults that dominate the New Age and wellness spheres.
Author: Beres, Derek
Published: New York : PublicAffairs, 2023.
384 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Denton Library - (Tameside) - Adult Non Fiction - 001.98 BER - Available - 38016019805961

Some desperate glory / Emily Tesh.

All her life, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the destruction of planet Earth. Raised on Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. Then Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates her to the nursery to bear sons, and she knows she must take humanity's revenge into her own hands. Alongside her brother's brilliant but seditious friend and a lonely, captive alien, Kyr must escape from everything she's ever known.
Author: Tesh, Emily
Published: London : Orbit, 2023.
448 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (2 reviews)

Stalybridge Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Science fiction paperback - Available - 38016019833930

The sinister booksellers of Bath / Garth Nix.

There's often trouble of a mythical sort in Bath. The booksellers who police the Old World keep watch there, particularly on the entity who inhabits the ancient hot spring. Yet this time it's not from Sulis Minerva that trouble starts. It comes from the discovery of a sorcerous map, leading left-handed bookseller Merlin into great danger. A desperate rescue is attempted by his sister the right-handed bookseller Vivien and their friend, art student Susan Arkshaw, who's still struggling to deal with her own recently discovered magical heritage. The map takes them to a place separated from this world. But this is only the beginning, as the booksellers investigate centuries of disappearances and deaths and try to unravel secrets of the murderous Lady of Stone, a serial killer of awesome powers. If they don't stop her, she will soon kill again. And this time, her target is not an ordinary mortal.
Author: Nix, Garth
Published: London : Gollancz, 2023.
330 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Droylsden Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Fantasy paperback - Available - 38016019809658
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Berserker! / Adrian Edmondson.

Berserk: out of control with anger or excitement; wild or frenzied. Berserkers: an elite Norse fighting corp who, apparently off their tits on hallucinogenic drugs, fought with a particular fury and senseless abandon still present in many Scandinavian heavy metal groups. Ade Edmondson smashed onto the comedy circuit in the 1980s, stormed The Comedy Store and, alongside Rik Mayall, brought anarchy to stage and screen. How did a child brought up in a strict Methodist household - and who spent his formative years incarcerated in repressive boarding schools - end up joining the revolution? Well, he is part Norse. Could it be his berserker heritage? With wisdom, nostalgia and uniquely observed humour, Ade traces his journey through life and comedy: starting out on the alternative scene, getting arrested in Soho, creating his outrageously violent characters and learning more about his curious heritage.
Author: Edmondson, Adrian, 1957-
Published: London : Macmillan, 2023.
403 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
1 reserve

Ashton Library - (Tameside) - Adult Non Fiction - 791.45028 - In-transit from Ashton Library to Denton Library (Set: 20 Apr 2024) - 38016019814567
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No brainer / by Jeff Kinney.

Up until now, middle school hasn't exactly been a joyride for Greg Heffley. So when the town threatens to close the crumbling building, he's not too broken up about it. But when Greg realises this means he's going to be sent to a different school than his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, he changes his tune. Can Greg and his classmates save their school before it's shuttered for good? Or is this the start of a whole new chapter for Greg?
Author: Kinney, Jeff
Published: London : Puffin, 2023.
217 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm.
Diary of a wimpy kid
Average rating: (1 review)

Ashton Library - (Tameside) - Junior Fiction - Junior hardback - Available - 38016020522829
Denton Library - (Tameside) - Junior Fiction - Junior hardback - Onloan - Due: 16 May 2024 - 38016020522837
Droylsden Library - (Tameside) - Junior Fiction - Junior hardback - Onloan - Due: 29 Apr 2024 - 38016020522845
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Stalybridge Library - (Tameside) - Junior Fiction - Junior hardback - Onloan - Due: 13 May 2024 - 38016020522878

Running up that hill : 50 visions of Kate Bush / Tom Doyle.

Comprising 50 chapters or 'visions', 'Running Up That Hill' is a multi-faceted biography of this famously elusive figure, viewing her life and work from fresh and illuminating angles. Featuring details from the author's one-to-one conversations with Kate, as well as vignettes of her key songs, albums, videos and concerts, this artful, candid and often brutally funny portrait introduces the reader to the refreshingly real Kate Bush. Along the way, the narrative also includes vivid reconstructions of transformative moments in her career and insights from the friends and collaborators closest to Kate, including her photographer brother John Carder Bush and fellow artists David Gilmour, John Lydon and Youth. This title is a vibrant and comprehensive re-examination of Kate Bush and her many creative landmarks.
Author: Doyle, Tom, 1967-
Published: London : Nine Eight Books, 2023.
358 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Hyde Library - (Tameside) - Adult Non Fiction - 782.42164 - Available - 38016019803891

Iron flame / Rebecca Yarros.

Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College, Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins, and Violet's already wondering how she'll get through. The new vice commandant has made it his personal mission to teach Violet exactly how powerless she is - unless she betrays the man she loves. Although Violet's body might be weaker and frailer than everyone else's, she still a will of iron. And leadership is forgetting the most important lesson Basgiath has taught her: Dragon riders make their own rules. Violet knows the real secret hidden for centuries at Basgiath War College - and nothing, not even dragon fire, may be enough to save them in the end.
Author: Yarros, Rebecca
Published: London : Piatkus, 2023.
623 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Empyrean series
Average rating: (2 reviews)
2 reserves

Ashton Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Fantasy hardback - Onloan - Due: 18 Apr 2024 - 38016019820788
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Stalybridge Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Fantasy hardback - On reserve shelf at Stalybridge Library - 38016019820804

The woman in me / Britney Spears.

In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice - her truth - was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. She reveals for the first time her incredible journey - and the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history. Written with remarkable candour and humour, Spears's groundbreaking book illuminates the enduring power of music and love - and the importance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms, at last.
Author: Spears, Britney
Published: London : Gallery Books UK, 2023.
277 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (2 reviews)

Ashton Library - (Tameside) - Adult Non Fiction - 782.42164 - Onloan - Due: 07 May 2024 - 38016019818543
Denton Library - (Tameside) - Adult Non Fiction - 782.42164 - Onloan - Due: 04 May 2024 - 38016019823790
Droylsden Library - (Tameside) - Adult Non Fiction - 782.42164 - Available - 38016019823808
Dukinfield Library - (Tameside) - Adult Non Fiction - 782.42164 - Onloan - Due: 07 May 2024 - 38016019823816

The dictionary of lost words / Pip Williams.

In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Esme's place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day, she sees a slip containing the word 'bondmaid' flutter to the floor unclaimed. Over time, Esme realises that some words are considered more important than others, and that words and meanings relating to women's experiences often go unrecorded. She begins to collect words for another dictionary: The Dictionary of Lost Words.
Author: Williams, Pip, 1969-
Published: London : Vintage, 2022.
422 pages : maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Ashton Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback - Available - 38016019646555

How to kill your family / Bella Mackie.

When Grace Bernard discovers her absentee millionaire father has rejected her dying mother's pleas for help, she vows revenge, and sets about to kill every member of his family. Readers have a front row seat as Grace picks off the family one by one - and the result is as and gruesome as it is entertaining in this wickedly dark romp about class, family, love. and murder. But then Grace is imprisoned for a murder she didn't commit.
Author: Mackie, Bella
Published: London : The Borough Press, 2022.
359 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Ashton Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback - Available - 38016019665423
Denton Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback - Available - 38016019665431

Freckles / Cecelia Ahern.

Allegra Bird's arms are scattered with freckles, a gift from her beloved father. But despite her nickname, Freckles has never been able to join all the dots. So when a stranger tells her that everyone is the average of the five people they spend the most time with, it opens up something deep inside. The trouble is, Freckles doesn't know if she has five people. And if not, what does that say about her? She's left her unconventional father and her friends behind for a bold new life in Dublin, but she's still an outsider. Now, in a quest to understand, she must find not one but five people who shape her - and who will determine her future.
Author: Ahern, Cecelia, 1981-
Published: London : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2022.
372 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Ashton Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback / Readers' Groups - Onloan - Due: 08 May 2024 - 38016019710575
Denton Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback / Readers' Groups - Onloan - Due: 08 May 2024 - 38016019710583
Droylsden Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback - Onloan - Due: 31 May 2024 - 38016019838319
Dukinfield Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback / Readers' Groups - Onloan - Due: 08 May 2024 - 38016019710609
Stalybridge Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback / Readers' Groups - Onloan - Due: 08 May 2024 - 38016019710625

Verity / Colleen Hoover.

Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of the night their family was forever altered. Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents would devastate the already grieving father.
Author: Hoover, Colleen
Published: London : Sphere, 2022.
321 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (3 reviews)

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The Atlas six / Olivie Blake.

Secrets. Betrayal. Seduction. Welcome to the Alexandrian Society. When the world's best magicians are offered an extraordinary opportunity, saying yes is easy. Each could join the secretive Alexandrian Society, whose custodians guard lost knowledge from ancient civilizations. Their members enjoy a lifetime of power and prestige. Yet each decade, only six practitioners are invited - to fill five places. Contenders Libby Rhodes and Nico de Varona are inseparable enemies, cosmologists who can control matter with their minds. Parisa Kamali is a telepath, who sees the mind's deepest secrets. Reina Mori is a naturalist who can perceive and understand the flow of life itself. And Callum Nova is an empath, who can manipulate the desires of others. Finally there's Tristan Caine, whose powers mystify even himself.
Author: Blake, Olivie
Published: London : Tor, 2022.
556 pages ; 20 cm.
Atlas six trilogy
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The whistling / Rebecca Netley.

Alone in the world, Elspeth Swansome has taken the position of nanny to a family on the remote Scottish island of Skelthsea. Her charge, Mary, is a strange child. Distracted and secretive, she hasn't uttered a word since the sudden death of her twin, William - just days after their former nanny disappeared. With her charge defiantly silent, Elspeth turns to the islanders. But no one will speak of what happened to William. Just as no one can explain the hypnotic lullabies sung in empty corridors. Nor the strange dolls that appear in abandoned rooms. Nor the faint whistling that comes in the night. As winter draws in and passage to the mainland becomes impossible, Elspeth finds herself trapped. But is this house haunted by the ghosts of the past? Or the secrets of the living?
Author: Netley, Rebecca
Published: UK : Penguin Books, 2022.
376 pages ; 20 cm
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Terciel & Elinor / Garth Nix.

A thrilling, atmospheric dive into the history of the Abhorsen, featuring Sabriel's parents, Terciel and Elinor. In the Old Kingdom, a land of ancient and often terrible magics, 18 year-old orphan Terciel is learning the art of necromancy - but not to raise the Dead, rather to lay them to rest. He is the Abhorsen-in-Waiting, the latest in a long line of people whose task it is to make sure the Dead do not return to Life. Across the Wall in Ancelstierre, a steam-age country where magic usually does not work, 19 year-old Elinor lives a secluded life, her only friends an old governess and an even older groom who was once a famous circus performer. Her mother is a tyrant, feared by all despite her sickness and impending death. Elinor does not know she is deeply connected to the Old Kingdom, until a plot by an ancient enemy of the Abhorsens brings Terciel to Ancelstierre.
Author: Nix, Garth
Published: London : Hot Key Books, 2021.
480 pages ; 24 cm.
Old Kingdom series
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