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Secrets of the Henna Girl by Sufiya Ahmed

Secrets of the Henna Girl

Sufiya Ahmed

Life as Zeba knows it could be over for good . . .

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Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens Novels

Charles Dickens

As we approach Dickens' 200th birthday, Spinebreakers marvels at his fascinating novels, from Great Expectations to David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby to Oliver Twist and many more...

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The Catastrophic History of You and Me by Jess Rothenberg

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

Jess Rothenberg

If I'd known right then that this was the kid who would grow up to break my heart beyond repair, maybe I would've stayed upstairs on the phone with Tess.

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Legend by Marie Lu

Legend

Marie Lu

The first in an epic dystopian trilogy and a brilliant reimagining of Les Misérables.

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The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4

Sue Townsend

Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life. Writing candidly about his parents' marital troubles, the dog, his life as a tortured poet and 'misunderstood intellectual'.

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Marissa Meyer

A forbidden romance. A deadly plague. Earth's fate hinges on one girl . . .

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Saving Daisy

Phil Earle

Daisy's mum is gone. Her dad refuses to talk about it. As far as Daisy's concerned, it's all her fault. As her life starts to spiral out of control, panic leads to tragedy and Daisy's left alone.

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Crossed

Ally Condie

Rules are different outside the Society.

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The Quantum Universe

Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw

Two authors on a brilliantly ambitious mission to show that everyone can understand how the universe works.

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Beautiful Chaos

Beautiful Chaos

Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

The third instalment of the spellbinding love story that began with Beautiful Creatures...

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Naked

Kevin Brooks

Live fast, play dirty, get naked... The compulsive new book from award-winning author Kevin Brooks.

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Heroes of Olympus: The Son of Neptune

Heroes of Olympus: The Son of Neptune

Rick Riordan

The second title in this number one, bestselling spin-off series from Percy Jackson creator, Rick Riordan.

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The Help

The Help (Film Tie-In)

Kathryn Stockett

Film tie-in edition of the massive word-of-mouth hit, first published by Fig Tree in 2009 - to accompany the major new film starring Sissy Spacek, Allison Janney, Bryce Dallas Howard and Emma Stone.

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Beautiful Days

Beautiful Days

Anna Godbersen

The second irresistible book in an addictive Bright Young Things series set against the decadent backdrop of the Jazz Age.

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Kill All Enemies

Kill All Enemies

Melvin Burgess

Billie, Rob and Chris each have a story to tell. But there are two sides to every story, and the question is . . . who do you believe?

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Queen of Crafts

Jazz Domino Holly

Join the craft revolution with this gloriously illustrated handbook.

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Roald Dahl Adult Titles

Roald Dahl Adult Titles

Roald Dahl

Introducing the even darker side to Roald Dahl in this collection of Roald Dahl Adult Titles

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Billy Dean

The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean

David Almond

Just read and lissen and take note. Let the words enter yor blud & boans. I am Billy Dean. This is the truth. This is my tale.

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Bloodlines

Richelle Mead

A brand new spin-off series for fans of Vampire Academy...

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The Power of Six

The Power of Six

Pittacus Lore

They caught Number One in Malaysia. Number Two in England. And Number Three in Kenya. They tried to catch Number Four in Ohio - and failed.

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Eight Keys

Eight Keys

Suzanne LaFleur

The second moving novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Love, Aubrey…

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There Is No Dog

There Is No Dog

Meg Rosoff

In the beginning there was Bob. And Bob created the heavens and the earth...

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Wild Abandon

Joe Dunthorne

The eagerly awaited new novel from one of the most promising, funny and talented young writers in Britain.

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Brother / Sister

Brother / Sister

Sean Olin

Flowers in the Attic meets Natural Born Killers in the YA book everyone will be talking about this summer.

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The Rogue's Princess

The Rogue's Princess

Eve Edwards

The third book in this addictive Tudor romance series from Eve Edwards.

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Wereworld: Rage of Lions

Wereworld: Rage of Lions

Curtis Jobling

YOUNG WEREWOLF DREW FERRAN IS THE FUTURE KING OF WESTLAND. He has the makings of a great warrior - but first he must master the blade and the beast.

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Gareth Russell

A fabulously witty and entertaining teen read, perfect for fans of GOSSIP GIRL and THE GALLAGHER GIRLS.

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A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman

A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman

Margaret Drabble

Novelist, critic and biographer, Margaret Drabble is one of the major literary figures of her generation.

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This Is A Book

Demetri Martin

From the Perrier Award Winner and Daily Show regular, a bold, original and rectangular kind of humour book.

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Duty Calls

Duty Calls: Dunkirk

James Holland

The first book in a blockbuster new series which throws you deep into the heart – and horror – of the Second World War.

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The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness

The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness

Lila Azam Zanganeh

With sly sophistication and ebullient charm, Lila Azam Zanganeh shares the intoxication of delirious joy to be found in reading

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Wish Me Dead

Wish Me Dead

Helen Grant

The latest compulsive thriller from an acclaimed, Carnegie-shortlisted author.

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The Little Women Letters

The Little Women Letters

Gabrielle Donnelly

When Josephine March's great-great-granddaughter stumbles across her letters, the Little Women shed a glorious light on a new generation of sisters.

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Mercy

Jussi Adler-Olsen

Carl Mørck used to be a good homicide detective. One of Copenhagen's best, in fact. Then a bullet almost took his life.

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Kane Chronicles: The Throne of Fire

The Kane Chronicles: The Throne of Fire

Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson fought Greek Gods. Now the Gods of Egypt are waking in the modern world...

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The Best of Everything

The Best of Everything

Rona Jaffe

When it first published in 1958, Rona Jaffe's debut novel electrified readers who saw themselves reflected in its story of five young employees of a New York publishing company.

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It's Not Summer Without You

It's Not Summer Without You

Jenny Han

A perfect beach read you'll never forget – the second in this gorgeous series.

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Angel Kiss

Angel Kiss

Laura Jane Cassidy

The dead don't talk. Unless they have a secret to tell . . .

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The Beach

The Beach

Alex Garland

The classic story of paradise found - and lost.

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The Set Up

The Set Up

Felix Riley

Framed for murder. Three days to clear his name.

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The Last Four Things

The Last Four Things

Paul Hoffman

Returning to the Sanctuary of the Redeemers, Thomas Cale is told by the Lord Militant that the destruction of mankind is necessary; the only way to undo God's greatest mistake

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The Perfect Murder

The Perfect Murder: The First Inspector Ghote Mystery

H. R. F. Keating

The Perfect Murder introduces Inspector Ghote: Bombay CID's most dutiful officer, and one of the greatest, most engaging creations in all detective fiction.

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Letters to a Young Poet

Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke

The book is perenially and hugely influential in the US, where it enjoys the accolade of being Lady Gaga's favourite book.

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Between Shades of Gray

Between Shades of Gray

Ruta Sepetys

Set in 1941, Between Shades of Gray is an extraordinary and haunting story based on first-hand family accounts and memories from survivors.

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Poems of John Keats

Poems of John Keats

John Keats

This new, wide-ranging selection of Keats's poetry has been selected by Claire Tomalin.

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Let's Make Whoopies

Let's Make Whoopies!

Sophie Grey

Easier to eat, with a cream cheese filling and a frosted top, whoopies are set to take over from cupcakes in a big way. Perfect for birthday parties and get-togethers - your guests will fall in love with whoopies!

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The Glass Collector

The Glass Collector

Anna Perera

A stunning new novel from the acclaimed author of Guantanamo Boy.

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Anatomy of a Disappearance

Anatomy of a Disappearance

Hisham Matar

In a voice that is delicately wrought and beautifully tender, Hisham Matar asks, in his extraordinary new novel, when a loved one disappears how does their absence shape the lives of those who are left?

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To Miss with Love

To Miss with Love

Katharine Birbalsingh

Spanning a year of shocking truths and hard-won victories, of fights and phone-thefts, teenage pregnancies and the dreaded OFSTED report, this is the remarkable diary of an inner-city school teacher.

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Across The Universe

Across The Universe

Beth Revis

Titanic meets Brave New World – a global publishing sensation with Razorbill US.

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Moon Lake

Moon Lake

Eudora Welty

Moon Lake is the story of a summer camp in Mississippi, a surly lifeguard, a rebellious orphan girl, and the fateful day when they learn the secrets of life and death.

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The Tooth

The Tooth

Shirley Jackson

Portraying insanity, disturbing encounters, troubling children and a sinister lottery, Shirley Jackson's work has an unmatched power to unnerve and unsettle.

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Wunderkind

Carson McCullers

Writing about outcasts, dreamers and misfits in the Deep South, Carson McCullers was acclaimed for her sympathetic depictions of loneliness, the need for understanding and the search for love.

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The Cornet-Player Who Betrayed Ireland

The Cornet-Player Who Betrayed Ireland

Frank O'Connor

Praised as Ireland's Chekhov, Frank O'Connor was a modern master of the short story.

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Children on Their Birthdays

Children on Their Birthdays

Truman Capote

Truman Capote's bewitching short stories, many of which were set in the Deep South of his youth, are among his finest works.

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Emma

Jane Austen

Lively young socialite Emma Woodhouse likes nothing more than interfering in the romantic lives of others and when she appoints herself matchmaker to her gentle friend Harriet, she has no idea just how much chaos she will create...

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TimeRiders The Doomsday Code

TimeRiders: The Doomsday Code (Book 3)

Alex Scarrow

The third thrilling instalment in this blockbuster series.

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Grace

Morris Gleitzman

In the beginning there was me and Mum and Dad and the twins. And talk about happy families, we were bountiful. But it came to pass that I started doing sins...

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Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

Set in a city torn apart by feuds, Romeo and Juliet is a dazzling combination of passion and hatred and tragedy.

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Gladiator: Fight for Freedom

Simon Scarrow

The first in an epic new series by bestselling author Simon Scarrow.

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Great House

Great House

Nicole Krauss

Nicole Krauss has written a soaring, powerful novel about memory struggling to create a meaningful permanence in the face of inevitable loss.

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The Queen's Lady

The Queen's Lady

Eve Edwards

The enchanting sequel to The Other Countess...

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Periodic Tales

Periodic Tales

Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Welcome to a dazzling tour through history and literature, science and art. Here you'll meet iron that rains from the heavens and noble gases that light the way to vice. You'll learn how lead can tell your future while zinc may one day line your coffin.

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Frankenstein

Mary Shelly

One of the best known horror stories ever. Victor Frankenstein, a Swiss scientist, has a great ambition: to create intelligent life. But when his creature first stirs, he realizes he has made a monster.

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Eating Animals

Eating Animals

Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals is the most original book on the subject of food written this century. It will change the way you think, and change the way you eat. For good.

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Caribou Island

Caribou Island

David Vann

From the author of the massively-acclaimed Legend of a Suicide, comes a devastating novel about a marriage, a couple blighted by past shadows and the weight of expectation, of themselves and of each other.

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Being Billy

Being Billy

Phil Earle

A thought-provoking and hard-hitting teenage debut from a new British talent.

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The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Ninth Grade Slays

The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Ninth Grade Slays

Heather Brewer

Get your teeth into the teen angst and thrilling vampire action of Vladimir Tod!

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Bright Young Things

Bright Young Things

Anna Godbersen

An addictive new teen series, set in the roaring twenties, by the bestselling author of The Luxe.

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There Once Was A Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbours Baby

There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

In these blackly comic tales of revenge, disturbing deaths and haunting melancholy, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya blends miracles and madness in the darkest of modern fairy tales.

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Wereworld

Curtis Jobling

A fantastic new blend of fantasy and horror.

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The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eighth Grade Bites

The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eighth Grade Bites

Heather Brewer

The first book in a deliciously witty bestselling vampire series for teen boys.

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Vampire Academy: Last Sacrifice

Vampire Academy: Last Sacrifice

Richelle Mead

The final stunning book in the Vampire Academy series.

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Matched

Ally Condie

On her seventeenth birthday, Cassia meets her Match. Society dictates he is her perfect partner for life.

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Lady Chatterley's Lover

Lady Chatterley's Lover: 50th Anniversary Edition

D.H. Lawrence

50 years since the trial of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, it’s time to (re)discover it!

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Parlour Games for Modern Families

Parlour Games for Modern Families

Myfanwy Jones & Spiri Tsintziras

This book is bursting with games of logic and memory, wordplay, card games, role-play, and rough and tumble. No game requires any equipment beyond a pack of cards, a dictionary, dice, paper, and pen.

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A Tiny Bit Marvellous

A Tiny Bit Marvellous

Dawn French

A TINY BIT MARVELLOUS is the story of a modern family all living in their own separate bubbles lurching towards meltdown. It is for anyone who has ever shared a home with that weird group of strangers we call relations.

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Beautiful Darkness

Beautiful Darkness

Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

One night in the rain, Ethan Wate opened his eyes and fell in love with Lena Duchannes. His life would never be the same...

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Life and Laughing

Life & Laughing

Michael McIntyre

Michael reveals all in his remarkably honest and hilarious autobiography Life & Laughing. His showbiz roots, his appalling attempts to attract the opposite sex, his fish-out-of-water move from public to state school...

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Wreck This Journal

Wreck This Journal

Keri Smith

Think of Wreck This Journal as the anarchist's Artist's Way -- the book for those who've always wanted to draw outside the lines but were afraid to do it.

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The Lost Hero

Heroes of Olympus: The Lost Hero

Rick Riordan

A thrilling new series featuring three brand-new demigod heroes, from the best-selling creator of Percy Jackson.

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Mr Chartwell

Mr Chartwell

Rebecca Hunt

In this utterly original, moving, funny and exuberant novel, Rebecca Hunt explores how two unlikely lives collide as Mr Chartwell's motives are revealed to be far darker and deeper than they seem.

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The Dead

The Dead

Charlie Higson

A terrible disease is striking everyone over the age of fourteen. Death walks the streets. Nowhere is safe.

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I Am Number Four

I Am Number Four

Pittacus Lore

Reminiscent of Smallville and Heroes, here finally is a thriller with awesome pace, mindblowing special effects and a breathtaking high concept. It demands to be read in one sitting.

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The Salt Road

The Salt Road

Jane Johnson

From Tafraout's magnificent mountainside, Isobel absorbs the heat and romance of the Moroccan vista before her, with mosque and homes scattered far below.

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Left Hand of God

The Left Hand Of God

Paul Hoffman

The stunning first instalment in a most remarkable trilogy . . . a must read book, now out in paperback.

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The Eternal Ones

The Eternal Ones

Kirsten Miller

An epic and thrilling romance set in the snake-handling churches of Appalachia, the dusty ruins of ancient Rome, and the grand mansions of Manhattan. The Eternal Ones tells the story of the first battle in a war between undying love and eternal evil.

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Think of a Number

Think of a Number

John Verdon

A mindblowing thriller that will want to make you leave the lights on at bedtime. Retired police detective Dave Gurney hunts a smart serial killer who is playing a sinister game . . .

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The Day of the Predator

TimeRiders: Day of the Predator

Alex Scarrow

The next mind-blowing adventure in Scarrow's hottest new series for 2010.

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Girl in Translation

Girl in Translation

Jean Kwok

In this powerful story, Jean Kwok spins a moving tale of hardship and triumph, of heartbreak and love, of all that's said without words and all that gets lost in translation.

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Artemis Fowl and the Atlanits Complex

Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex

Eoin Colfer

At a conference in Iceland, Artemis is behaving strangely – he seems different. Something terrible has happened to him...Artemis has become NICE.

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Hamlet

William Shakespeare

Hamlet, prince of Denmark, meets with his father's ghost, who alleges that his own brother, now married to his widow, murdered him.

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iBoy

Kevin Brooks

Before the attack, sixteen-year-old Tom Harvey was just an ordinary boy. But now fragments of a shattered iPhone are embedded in his brain and it’s having an extraordinary effect . . .

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Austen's Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life.

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The Other Countess

The Other Countess

Eve Edwards

Will is destined to marry a worthy Lady so the only question is – which one . . . ?

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Bram Stoker's Dracula

Dracula

Bram Stoker

When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries about his client and his castle.

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Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt and later attends a charity school with a harsh regime, enduring loneliness and cruelty.

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Nicholas Dane

Nicholas Dane

Melvin Burgess

When Nick's mother dies suddenly, the fourteen-year-old is sent straight into a boys' home, where he finds institutional intimidation and violence keep order.

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The Turn of the Screw

The Turn of the Screw (RED)

Henry James

A young governess is left in sole charge of two charming and beautiful orphans. As she begins to see and hear strange things, she grows increasingly uneasy, and is swiftly drawn into a frightening battle against unspeakable evil.

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Vampire Academy: Spirit Bound

Vampire Academy: Spirit Bound

Richelle Mead

Spirit Bound is book 5 in the Vampire Academy series. After a long and heartbreaking journey to Dimitri’s birthplace in Siberia, Rose Hathaway has finally returned to St. Vladimir’s Academy — and to her best friend, Lissa.

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The Glass Demon

The Glass Demon

Helen Grant

The first death: Seventeen-year-old Lin Fox finds a body in an orchard. As she backs away in horror, she steps on broken glass.

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The Kane Chronicles: The Red Pyramid

The Kane Chronicles: The Red Pyramid

Rick Riordan

A new series from the author of Percy Jackson, Rick Riordan. Percy Jackson fought Greek gods. Now the gods of Egypt are waking in the modern world...

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The Summer I Turned Pretty

The Summer I Turned Pretty

Jenny Han

Everything that happened this past summer, and every summer before it, has all led up to this. To now.

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Decide Your Destiny, The Claws of Macra

Doctor Who: Decide Your Destiny: Claws of the Macra

In the first book of the brand new Doctor Who Decide Your Destiny series, readers can really feel part of the action as they make decisions which determine the plot, putting them right in the middle of the storyline.

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Justin Bieber

Justin Bieber

Ronny Bloom

Read about super-talented Justin in this unauthorized biography – from filming videos to where he’d go on a first date. Complete with web links, a quiz and 4 pages of full colour photos – get your hands on THE Justin Bieber book.

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Skippy Dies

Skippy Dies

Paul Murray

An epic, tragic, comic, human and heartfelt novel about a maths-loving, competitive-eating, ET-searching genius called Ruprecht Van Doren and his roommate Daniel 'Skippy' Juster.

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Angelology

Danielle Trussoni

Angels are the new vampires . . .

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Wimpy Kid Movie Diary

The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary

Jeff Kinney

The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary goes behind the scenes to tell the story of Greg Heffley from the funniest cartoon character ever, to a real live person on the big screen.

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Stephen Vizinczey's In Praise of Older Women

In Praise of Older Women

Stephen Vizinczey

Growing up in war-torn Hungary, the narrator András Vajda, discovers that the charms of young girls are lost on him, and seeks out the embraces of older women.

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Impossible

Nancy Werlin

A beautifully wrought modern fairy tale from master storyteller and award-winning American author Nancy Werlin.

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Nee Naw

Nee Naw

Suzi Brent

When you dial 999 for an ambulance, Suzi's could be the voice you hear on the other end of the phone. Working in one of the country's busiest control rooms, it is her job to stay on the phone until the ambulance arrives...

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The End of the Party

The End of the Party

Andrew Rawnsley

The definitive account of the rise and fall of New Labour by 'the master chronicler of British politics'

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Along for the Ride

Along for the Ride

Sarah Dessen

Since her parents’ divorce, Auden stayed out of the party scene. But now, just like that, she changes everything.

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Vampire Academy: Shadow Kiss

Vampire Academy: Shadow Kiss

Richelle Mead

It's springtime at St. Vladimir's Academy and Rose is close to graduation, but since making her first Strigoi kills, things haven't felt quite right.

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Halo

Zizou Corder

From the bestselling creator of the Lionboy Trilogy. Washed ashore as a baby in ancient Greece, Halo is discovered by a family of centaurs. Although her true identity remains a mystery, she is loved as one of their own.

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Vampire Academy: Blood Promise

Vampire Academy: Blood Promise

Richelle Mead

How far will Rose go to keep a promise? The recent Strigoi attack at St. Vladimir's Academy was the deadliest ever in the school's history, claiming the lives of many.

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Beautiful Creatures

Beautiful Creatures

Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

In Ethan Wate’s hometown there lies the darkest of secrets . . .

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TimeRiders

Alex Scarrow

Three teenagers have cheated death. Now they must stop time travel destroying the world....

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Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin

Alone in Berlin

Hans Fallada

Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their different ways

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Splendour

Anna Godbersen

The fourth book in The Luxe series. It's a brand new year and in this dramatic conclusion to the Luxe saga, the future of Manhattan's favourite socialites is looking decidely different from the ones they had imagined for themselves.

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Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

Rick Riordan

This is the one where Zeus, God of the Sky, thinks I've stolen his lightning bolt - and making Zeus angry is a very bad idea . . .

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Love, Aubrey

Love, Aubrey

Suzanne LaFleur

Synopsis: Something terrible has happened. Eleven-year-old Aubrey is on her own. She's determined to hide away and take care of herself, because facing the truth is too much to bear.

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The Wild Things

The Wild Things

Dave Eggers

This is an all-ages adventure, full of wit and soul, that explores the chaos of youth while Max explores the chaos of the world around him.

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Penguin's Poems for Love

Penguin's Poems for Love

Various Contributors

Here are poems to take you on a journey from the 'suddenly' of love at first sight to the 'truly, madly, deeply' of infatuation and on to the 'eternally' of love that lasts beyond the end of life.

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days

Jeff Kinney

Split your sides laughing as Greg Heffley struggles with all the trials and tribulations of school, family and friends that come with being everyone's favourite wimpy kid!

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And Another Thing . . .

And Another Thing . . .

Eoin Colfer

Don't Panic! But whatever you do, don't miss the least-expected publishing phenomenon of 2009

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Vampire Academy: Frostbite

Vampire Academy: Frostbite

Richelle Mead

The thrilling and addictive wintery sequel to Vampire Academy.

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Juliet, Naked

Juliet, Naked

Nick Hornby

A compelling new novel from the author of High Fidelity about the nature of creativity and obsession, and how two lonely people can gradually find each other.

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Fantastic Mr Fox: Screenplay

Fantastic Mr Fox: The Screenplay

Every time Mr Fox steals a chicken from the farm, Farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean grow wild with rage! They're the nastiest crooks in the valley, and they've concocted a cunning plan to dig him out of his hole once and for all.

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The Enemy

The Enemy

Charlie Higson

When the sickness came, every parent, policeman, politician - every adult - fell ill. The lucky ones died. The others are crazed, confused and hungry. Only children under fourteen remain, and they're fighting to survive.

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Jamie's America

Jamie's America

Jamie Oliver

The food adventure of a lifetime. Jamie's ultimate road trip, travelling around the USA.

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The Bride's Farewell

The Bride's Farewell

Meg Rosoff

A haunting, romantic novel from Meg Rosoff, author of How I Live Now.

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Wilde's Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty.

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Thirteen Reasons Why

Thirteen Reasons Why

Jay Asher

On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she did what she did - and Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out how he made the list - and it'll change Clay's life forever.

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The Last Straw

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw

Jeff Kinney

Greg's dad, Frank, is on a mission - a mission to make this wimpy kid, well, less wimpy.

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Killing God

Kevin Brooks

A thrilling, thought-provoking novel from critically acclaimed Kevin Brooks.

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Spud - The Madness Continues

Spud - The Madness Continues

John van de Ruit

A hilarious sequel to Spud that will make you weep with laughter!

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Vampire Academy

Vampire Academy

Richelle Mead

When you've finished reading Stephanie Meyer and you're looking for something even better, read Vampire Academy

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Envy

Envy: A Luxe Novel

Anna Godbersen

The third delicious book in the addictive Luxe series - the must-have accessory for every girl.

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Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian

Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian

Rick Riordan

The greatest monster of all, the storm giant Typhon, is on the loose, wreaking havoc and destruction across the U.S. - while Kronos's army lays siege to Manhattan.

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Lock and Key

Lock and Key

Sarah Dessen

The latest unputdownable novel from the hugely popular Sarah Dessen, the Judy Blume of the iPod generation.

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The English Prisoner

The English Prisoner

Tig Hague

The gripping true story of one man's survival inside a Russian prison camp

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Butterfly

Sonya Hartnett

A gripping tale of what a teenage girl will do to keep her friends, by one of Australia's finest writers

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The Vanishing of Katharina Linden

The Vanishing of Katharina Linden

Helen Grant

On the day Katharina Linden disappears, Pia is the last person to see her alive. Terror is spreading through the town. How could a ten-year-old girl vanish in a place where everybody knows everybody else?

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This Charming Man

This Charming Man

Marian Keyes

Four very different women. One awfully charming man. And the dark secret that binds them all...

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Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth

Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth (Book 4)

Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth is the fourth title in the Percy Jackson series.

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The Element

The Element

Ken Robinson

The element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion. This groundbreaking new book is all about how every one of us can find our element, connecting with our true talents and fulfilling our creative potential.

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Joe Dunthorne's Submarine

Submarine

Joe Dunthorne

Hello. I'm Oliver Tate, the protagonist. I am likely to use words like protagonist and, moments later, words like twonk.

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Doctor Who: The Dust of Ages

Doctor Who: The Dust of Ages

Justin Richards

The Dust of Ages is the first in a new series of Doctor Who books. The Doctor arrives just in time to lend a helping hand to a survey team of scientists drilling beneath the Moon’s surface to discover the cause of an unusual power source.

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Doctor Who: The Graves of Mordane

Doctor Who: The Graves of Mordane

Colin Brake

Convinced that the Doctor is Varlos, the Agent demands the return of the Eternity Crystal. But what happened on Mordane to make the Crystal too dangerous to be left on the Moon?

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

Jeff Kinney

It's a brand-new year and a brand-new journal and Greg is keen to put the humiliating (and secret!) events of last summer firmly behind him.

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Rumours

Anna Godbersen

There is a very fine line between truth and love, lies and hate. And all is about to be gloriously revealed.

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Then

Morris Gleitzman

Felix and Zelda have escaped the Nazi death train but how long can they remain hidden when there are so many people ready to hand them over for a reward?

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Benjamin Button gets younger every year. Is a life in reverse ideal or is it a life less lived? Find out in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

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Simon Holt's The Devouring

The Devouring

Simon Holt

Prepare to be scared... A terrifying new series that fans of Darren Shan will die for.

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SilverFin: The Graphic Novel

Charlie Higson

SEE Young Bond in action for the very first time, explosively illustrated by Kev Walker.

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Young Bond: By Royal Command

Charlie Higson

The fifth heart-stopping adventure in this phenomenal series by the brilliant, multi-talented Charlie Higson.

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Deluxe

Dana Thomas

Fashion may be fabulous, but what price true luxury?

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Books v. Cigarettes

Books v. Cigarettes

George Orwell

George Orwell’s entertaining and uncompromising essays explore everything from the perils of second-hand bookshops to the dubious profession of being a critic, from freedom of the press to what patriotism really means.

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Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox

Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox

Eoin Colfer

Teenage criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl has a new mission – and this time, it's personal.

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The Luxe

Anna Godbersen

Glittering with jewels, brimming with secrets and loaded with eligible young men. This is New York City – 1899.

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Jeff Kinney

It's tough being Wimpy when everyone else is shaving...

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Spud by John van de Ruit

Spud

John van de Ruit

It's 1990. Apartheid is crumbling, Nelson Mandela has just been released from prison and thirteen-year-old Spud Milton...

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The Truth About Forever

Sarah Dessen

The stunning and beautifully written new novel for teenagers by multi-award-winning author Sarah Dessen – the Judy Blume of the iPod generation.

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Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse

Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse

Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse is the third title in the Percy Jackson series. It's the last Friday before the winter holidays but Percy Jackson isn't at school: he's battling the fearsome Manticore

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

Some blame the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville on the legend of a fearsome and ghostly hound that is said to have haunted his Devonshire family for generations.

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Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters (Book 2)

Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters (Book 2)

Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters is Book 2 in the series. Percy Jackson has had an unnervingly quiet school year. But then he discovers that the magical borders protecting Half Blood Hill are failing.

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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

Dr Jekyll has discovered the ultimate drug. A chemical that can turn him into something else. Suddenly, he can unleash his deepest cruelties in the guise of the sinister Hyde.

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Persuasion

Jane Austen

Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, Persuasion is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, but, above all, it is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.

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Great Expectations

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

‘It was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me’

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The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

In The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusion of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with wealth and status.

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Guantanamo Boy

Anna Perera

Khalid, a fifteen-year-old Muslim boy from Rochdale, is abducted from Pakistan while on holiday with his family.

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Just So Stories

Just So Stories

Rudyard Kipling

The delightful tales of whales and cats and kangaroos and crabs – everything from how the camel got in a humph (and got his hump!) to how the alphabet was invented.

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Slam

Nick Hornby

The first teenage novel from mega-selling Nick Hornby author of Fever Pitch, High Fidelity and About A Boy. Click through to hear some of Nick's top writing tips as well as an exclusive video interview.

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Jamie Does

Jamie Does...

Jamie Oliver

Jamie Does . . . is Jamie's personal celebration of amazing food from six very different countries.

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Devil's Kiss

Devil's Kiss

Sarwat Chadda

Darren Shan meets The Da Vinci Code in a brilliant dark teen thriller from debut author Sarwat Chadda.

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WAGS' World: Playing the Game

Anonymous

An ordinary girl thrown into an extraordinary life . . .

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The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams

Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'.

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Kevin Brooks' Black Rabbit Summer

Black Rabbit Summer

Kevin Brooks

Kevin Brooks' agressive thriller is probably the loudest book ever written

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Hurricane Gold

Young Bond: Hurricane Gold

Charlie Higson

The fourth thrilling Young Bond adventure. Click through to watch a video interview with author Charlie Higson and look at alternative characters and scenes put together by the crew.

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Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

The classic tale of brothers and the darkness of the American Dream.

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Catherine Sanderson's Petite Anglaise

Petite Anglaise

Catharine Sanderson

The true story of one eventful year in the life of a thirtysomething working mother in Paris

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Book of the Shadows and The Coven

Book of Shadows and The Coven

Cate Tiernan

Something is happening to Morgan. She sees things, feels things in a new way. She has discovered a power inside her that normal people don't posses.

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