Lovely new library books for year 9+ by Jill Fenton

Young Gothic

lcullen33 — 2024-09-11 14:17:50 UTC

When four hopefuls are chosen to spend the summer at the mansion made famous by Byron and Shelley, they begin to encounter horrific monsters of the imagination, culminating in murder and nightmares.

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I'll Give You the Sun

lcullen33 — 2024-09-11 14:22:59 UTC

Once inseparable twin brother and sister whose lives are torn apart by tragedy. Jude and her twin Noah were incredibly close - until a tragedy drove them apart, and now they are barely speaking.

Then Jude meets a cocky, broken, beautiful boy as well as a captivating new mentor, both of whom may just need her as much as she needs them.

What the twins don't realize is that each of them has only half the story and if they can just find their way back to one another, they have a chance to remake their world.

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These Infinite Threads

lcullen33 — 2024-09-11 14:27:27 UTC

When Kamran, the heir to the human throne, falls in love with Alizeh, he's forced to question everything he's been taught about Jinn.

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Small Island

lcullen33 — 2024-09-27 10:40:07 UTC

The story of post-war Caribbean migration through four narrators – Hortense and Gilbert, who migrate from Jamaica to London in 1948, and the English couple, Queenie and Bernard, in whose house in London Hortense and Gilbert find lodgings.

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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

lcullen33 — 2024-09-27 10:41:32 UTC

A coming-of-age story about a lesbian who grows up in an English Pentecostal community.

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Hotel Magnifique

lcullen33 — 2024-09-27 10:55:18 UTC

Seventeen-year-old Jani tries to secure jobs for her sister and herself when a mysterious magical hotel teleports into her hometown.

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A Fragile Enchantment

lcullen33 — 2024-09-27 10:57:35 UTC

Determined to spend the little time she has left guaranteeing a better life for her family, Niamh jumps at the chance to design the wardrobe for a royal wedding in the neighbouring kingdom of Avaland.

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The Big Ask

lcullen33 — 2024-09-27 11:03:29 UTC

A geeky gay boy asks the hottest guy in school to prom, but they must face vindictive ex-girlfriends and homophobic classmates before the big night.

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The Sky Is Everywhere

lcullen33 — 2024-10-01 11:48:13 UTC

Lennie Walker spends her time tucked safely in the shadow of her fiery older sister, Bailey.
But when Bailey dies, Lennie is catapulted to centre stage of her own life - and suddenly finds herself struggling to balance two boys. One boy takes Lennie out of her sorrow; the other comforts her in it.

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The Botanist

lcullen33 — 2024-10-03 11:59:53 UTC

For a man who hates locked room mysteries, this is going to be the longest week of Washington Poe's life...

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Sisters of Sword and Shadow

lcullen33 — 2024-10-03 12:02:58 UTC

Set in the times of King Arthur, when women are treated as house and family makers, a young woman joins a household where a group of women secretly train as knights

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The Liar

lcullen33 — 2024-10-08 10:48:05 UTC

Leonard Howell's worst nightmare has come true: his daughter Caroline has been kidnapped. He can't rely on the cops, so Howell calls the only man he trusts to get her back.

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The Devil's Advocate

lcullen33 — 2024-10-08 10:51:55 UTC

When a young woman, Skylar Edwards, is found murdered in Buckstown, Alabama, a corrupt sheriff arrests the last person to see her alive, Andy Dubois. It doesn't seem to matter to anyone that Andy is innocent.He has no hope of a fair trial. And the local defense attorney assigned to represent him has disappeared.

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The Accomplice

lcullen33 — 2024-10-08 10:56:20 UTC

The maverick lawyer Eddie Flynn faces another thorny case, defending a prolific murderer’s wife who stands accused as his accomplice in Cavanagh’s new pulsating and scalpel-sharp courtroom thriller

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Lost and Never Found

lcullen33 — 2024-10-08 10:58:56 UTC

At three o'clock in the morning, Emergency Services receives a call. 'This is Zara Fanshawe. Always lost and never found.' An hour later, the wayward celebrity's Rolls Royce Phantom is found abandoned in dingy Becket Street. The paparazzi go wild.

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When the World Tips Over

lcullen33 — 2024-10-08 11:01:52 UTC

Three siblings find their lives turned upside down by the arrival of a mysterious rainbow-haired stranger.

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A Winter Grave

lcullen33 — 2024-10-08 11:04:05 UTC

A young meteorologist checking a mountain top weather station in Kinlochleven discovers the body of a missing man entombed in ice.

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Sexing the Cherry

lcullen33 — 2024-10-18 08:29:46 UTC

On the banks of the Thames a baby is found floating. Rescued by the Dog-Woman, a giant strong enough to fling an elephant into the air, their lives together will take them on a dizzying journey through space and time.

As past and present collapse and centuries overlap, love, truth, lies and twelve dancing princesses take centre stage.

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The Remains of the Day

lcullen33 — 2024-10-18 08:33:02 UTC

In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past.

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The Poisonwood Bible

lcullen33 — 2024-10-18 08:36:46 UTC

This story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959.

They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it - from garden seeds to Scripture - is calamitously transformed on African soil.

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The Long Earth

lcullen33 — 2024-10-18 08:52:45 UTC

Humans have discovered the ability to "step" into alternative realities of Earth, but there is something disturbing the indigenous life across these that teenager Joshua Valiente is uniquely equipped to address.

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Imogen, Obviously

lcullen33 — 2024-10-18 09:19:31 UTC

A girl who believes she is straight struggles with potentially romantic feelings for a new female acquaintance when she visits her best friend and her cool gang of queer friends at college.

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The Map That Led to You

lcullen33 — 2024-10-18 09:20:55 UTC

Reggie and Maeve try to piece together the rise and fall of the famous and corrupt pirate Republic

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Tell Me Three Things

lcullen33 — 2024-10-18 10:46:28 UTC

Jessie has been forced to move across the country to live with her stepmonster and her pretentious teenage son, and to start at a new school where she knows no one.

Just when she's thinking about hightailing it back to Chicago, she gets an email from a person calling themselves Somebody/Nobody (SN for short), offering to help her navigate the wilds of Wood Valley High School. Is it an elaborate hoax? Or can she rely on SN for some much-needed help?

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The Most Bizarre True Crime Stories Ever Told

lcullen33 — 2024-10-18 10:47:48 UTC

From murder and robberies to arson and blackmail, the 20 stories in this book are some of the most fascinating true crime stories ever recorded. Each of these cases is so bizarre that they confounded the police, baffled investigators and captured the attention of the press all over the world.

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Come Closer

lcullen33 — 2024-10-22 09:00:32 UTC

The new voice in Amanda's head, the one that tells her to steal things and talk to strange men in bars, is strange and frightening, and Amanda struggles to wrest back control of her life. Is she possessed by a demon, or is she simply insane?

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Ninth House

lcullen33 — 2024-10-22 09:05:19 UTC

Galaxy 'Alex' Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. A dropout and the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved crime, Alex was hoping for a fresh start.

Alex has been tasked with monitoring the mysterious activities of Yale's secret societies. Now there's a dead girl on campus and Alex seems to be the only person who won't accept the neat answer the police and campus administration have come up with for her murder.

Because Alex knows the secret societies are far more sinister and extraordinary than anyone ever imagined. They tamper with forbidden magic. They raise the dead. And sometimes they prey on the living . .

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What Moves the Dead

lcullen33 — 2024-10-22 09:07:03 UTC

When Alex Easton receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake.

The Crossing Places

lcullen33 — 2024-10-24 14:21:21 UTC

Start right here! Discover the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries and become obsessed with one of the most popular crime series in Britain.

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Dear Justyce

lcullen33 — 2024-11-07 12:06:09 UTC

A young boy who finds himself caught up with a local gang finds himself imprisoned on a murder charge when a policeman is fatally shot.

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A Tempest of Tea

lcullen33 — 2024-11-20 13:10:34 UTC

When Arthie Casimir tea room Spindrift is under threat, she must enlist the expertise of fellow misfits in order to plan and successfully pull off the heist of their lives in order to save it.

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The Satsuma Complex

lcullen33 — 2024-11-20 13:13:01 UTC

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.

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What You Are Looking For Is In the Library

lcullen33 — 2024-11-20 13:15:12 UTC

What are you looking for? She is no ordinary librarian. Naturally, she has read every book on her shelf, but she also has the unique ability to read the souls of anyone who walks through her door. Sensing exactly what they're looking for in life, she provides just the book recommendation they never knew they needed to help them find it.

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The Things We Leave Behind

lcullen33 — 2024-11-21 11:56:15 UTC

A 16-year-old refugee is found near to collapse and recounts her story to a kind adult, explaining how a totalitarian government in London ripped her family apart.

Let's Split Up

lcullen33 — 2024-11-21 11:57:51 UTC

When hot "it-couple" Brad and Shelley are brutally murdered in a manor on the edge of town, a group of teen friends investigate.

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The Pretty Little Liars Series

lcullen33 — 2024-11-21 12:00:13 UTC

Four friends carry dark secrets about the time their friend, Alison vanished.

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Parable of the Sower

lcullen33 — 2024-11-22 11:38:46 UTC

America is a place of chaos, where violence rules and only the rich and powerful are safe. Lauren Olamina, a young woman with the extraordinary power to feel the pain of others as her own, records everything she sees of this broken world in her journal.

Then, one terrible night, everything alters beyond recognition, and Lauren must make her voice heard for the sake of those she loves.

All the Hidden Monsters

lcullen33 — 2024-11-22 11:39:59 UTC

A young werewolf and a warlock detective join forces to try and stop a serial killer who is targeting supernatural creatures.

How To Survive a Horror Movie

lcullen33 — 2024-11-22 11:41:22 UTC

Horror movie enthusiast Charley is determined to keep a low profile when she's enrolled at a girls' boarding school on a remote island. That is, until someone starts killing off her senior class.

Clytemnestra

lcullen33 — 2024-11-22 11:43:03 UTC

You were born to a king, but you marry a tyrant. You stand by helplessly as he sacrifices your child to placate the gods. You watch him wage war on a foreign shore, and you comfort yourself with violent thoughts of your own. Because this was not the first offence against you. This was not the life you ever deserved. And this will not be your undoing. Slowly, you plot.

The Only Light Left Burning

lcullen33 — 2024-11-28 08:32:33 UTC

Against the backdrop of a ravaged world, Andrew and Jamie have settled in a new community, more in love than ever. Finally they've reached safety and have each taken on roles and responsibilities in this new life. But it's soon clear they want different things:
Jamie is ready to move on and take to the road, just the two of them.
Andrew wants to remain in the safety of numbers.

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Nothing but Blackened Teeth

lcullen33 — 2024-11-28 08:39:33 UTC

A Heian-era mansion stands abandoned, built on the bones of a bride, its walls packed with the remains of the girls sacrificed to keep her company. For a group of thrill-seeking friends, it's a dare. But a night of food, drinks, and games quickly spirals into a nightmare.

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The Kill Factor

lcullen33 — 2024-11-29 12:00:07 UTC

In a world where social media is everything and followers equal money, Emerson is facing a prison sentence.Then, she's offered a way out: a brand new gameshow for young felons that combines social media and reality TV. The first prize? Freedom - and a comfortable life for Emerson's little brother. But if she loses? Incarceration for life.

The Glass Girl

lcullen33 — 2024-12-17 09:56:09 UTC

From the author of Girl In Pieces. The story of a teenage girl on the brink, and the bumpy road back to recovery.

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My Father's House

lcullen33 — 2024-12-17 09:58:16 UTC

When the Nazis take Rome, thousands go into hiding. One priest will risk everything to save them.