New books! by Jill Fenton

All About Mia

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Mia, the middle child of three, goes off the rails in her family and personal life when her perfect older sister breaks the news that she is pregnant.

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Strike Back

jfe5 — 2024-06-18 09:36:35 UTC

Two soldiers: Britain's most celebrated military hero and a broken veteran living in the gutters of London. Their paths last crossed nearly twenty years ago. Now, amidst a hostage crisis in the Middle East, their lives are about to collide again. And the Strike Back is about to begin.

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See You On Venus

jfe5 — 2024-06-18 09:36:35 UTC

Two teens embark on a journey to Spain to discover the meaning of love, death and everything in between in this star-crossed tale.

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Elektra

jfe5 — 2024-06-18 09:36:35 UTC

The spellbinding new retelling of the Trojan War drawn from the perspective of the fearless women at the heart of it all.

The Assassin's Blade: Throne of Glass prequel novella

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Five stories featuring the young female assassin Celaena set before events in "Throne of Glass".

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I Kick and I Fly

jfe5 — 2024-06-18 09:36:35 UTC

Follows fourteen-year-old Indian girl who tries to escape her fate of being sold into the sex trade by her father. A story of hope and determination to change the inevitable. Well written with characters that you root for and grow to admire.

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If My Words Had Wings

jfe5 — 2024-06-18 09:36:35 UTC

When fifteen-year-old Tyrell Forrester gets caught up in a high-profile armed robbery, he's sentenced to two years in a young offenders' prison. Now he's getting out, and he's determined to turn his life around.

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Old Man's War Trilogy

jfe5 — 2024-06-18 09:36:35 UTC

The universe is a dangerous place in John Scalzi's Old Man's War, the first in The Old Man's War series.

Pride: A Pride and Prejudice Remix

jfe5 — 2024-06-18 09:36:35 UTC

In a timely update of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi skillfully balances cultural identity, class, and gentrification against the heady magic of first love in her vibrant reimagining of this beloved classic.

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I Wish You Would

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Turn every risk into a chance. Every kiss into a promise.

Yellowface

jfe5 — 2024-06-18 09:36:35 UTC

Juniper Hayward has long harboured jealousies over her frenemy Athena Liu’s literary success. When Athena dies in an accident, June steps in to save her unpublished manuscript from obscurity/steals her work and publishes it as her own.

Apt Pupil (Stephen King short story)

jfe5 — 2024-06-18 09:36:35 UTC

A classic story from Stephen King Apt Pupil reveals layers upon layers of deception and horror as the boy and old man hold each other in a mutual deathgrip. Each knows something the other wants kept secret.

Under The Eagle (Eagles of the Empire 1)

jfe5 — 2024-06-18 09:36:35 UTC

UNDER THE EAGLE is the gripping first novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling EAGLES OF THE EMPIRE series.

Tokyo Express

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In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. It is a puzzle with no solution. But he did not lose heart.

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Ghost Wall

squantrell — 2024-06-18 09:36:35 UTC

Seventeen-year-old Silvie is camping in rural Northumberland with her father and a group of archaeologists, who hope to uncover evidence of human sacrifice.

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Bad Soldier (4)

squantrell — 2024-06-18 09:36:35 UTC

As Danny pits himself against the violent thugs of the Islamic State, he learns that it is not just the UK that is under threat. There is nothing Danny will not do to protect his family. Whether that makes him a good soldier or a bad soldier he neither knows nor cares. It is sometimes impossible to tell the difference between the two.

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Big Bones

squantrell — 2024-06-18 09:36:35 UTC

16-year-old Bluebelle is forced to keep a food diary by her doctor and learns to reassess her relationship with food as well as her issues with her family and her role in it.

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Atalanta

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Left exposed on a mountainside, the defenceless infant Atalanta, is left to the mercy of a passing mother bear and raised alongside the cubs under the protective eye of the goddess Artemis.

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Where Sleeping Girls Lie

squantrell — 2024-06-18 09:36:35 UTC

Sade Hussein is the new girl at the prestigious Alfred Nobel Academy. And then a student is found dead.This was a mistake, the voice in her head whispered. You should never have come...

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One Of Us Is Back (3)

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When a member of the crew disappears, it's clear this 'game' just got serious - and no-one understands the rules.

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None Of This Is True

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Celebrating her 45th birthday at her local pub, podcaster Alix Summer crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie is also celebrating her 45th.

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Once Upon A Broken Heart

squantrell — 2024-06-18 09:36:35 UTC

For as long as she can remember, Evangeline Fox has believed in happily ever after. Until she learns that the love of her life is about to marry another, and her dreams are shattered.

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Different For Boys

jfe5 — 2024-06-18 09:36:35 UTC

Teenager Ant is involved in a secret sexual relationship with best friend Charlie but their dynamic is challenged when an old friend returns to their school.

Night Wing Volumes 1 and 2

jfe5 — 2024-06-18 09:36:35 UTC

When Nightwing returns to Bludhaven he is faced with a new terrifying villain, Heartless, who steals his victims' hearts.

Overthinking

jfe5 — 2024-06-18 09:36:35 UTC

Amidst challenging roommates and strained friendships, Steven and Troy find themselves enlisted by DEMA for a task that will unearth the past, shaking up the present and causing Steven to doubt what he perceives as reality.

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Goddess Crown

jfe5 — 2024-06-18 09:36:35 UTC

A girl raised in secret must leave her sheltered rural home for the subtle dangers of the royal court, where she becomes caught up in deadly power struggles and romantic intrigue.

Burning Crowns

jfe5 — 2024-06-18 09:36:35 UTC

Wren and Rose's adventures come to an end as they face off against their ancestor who is determined to seize back the kingdom with an undead army. To defeat her, the pair will need to corral their allies and fight together.

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The Body

jfe5 — 2024-06-18 09:36:35 UTC

We'd all listened to the Ray Brower story . . . he was a kid our age. The small town of Castle Rock is tuning in to the news of a young boy who has gone missing from a nearby town.

Gordie Lachance and his three friends set off along the railway tracks on a quest, determined to become famous by officially finding the boy's body. But their journey becomes a rite of passage, and as they cross the railway trestle and the tracks begin to hum, the boys encounter an intimation of their own mortality.

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Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

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A mesmerizing tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is one of Stephen King's most beloved and iconic stories, and it helped make Castle Rock a place readers would return to over and over again. Suspenseful, mysterious, and heart-wrenching, this iconic King novella, populated by a cast of unforgettable characters, is about a fiercely compelling convict named Andy Dufresne who is seeking his ultimate revenge.

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Seraphina

jfe5 — 2024-06-18 09:36:35 UTC

In a world where humans and dragons live in an uneasy truce, a teen girl has to find out who murdered the prince while struggling with her own identity.

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Blood Flowers

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When Bear discovers that the governors of the town of Calleston are corrupt, he must find a way to prove them guilty in order to save the townsfolk and his friends.

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Five Girls Lied, Five Girls Died

jfe5 — 2024-06-18 09:36:35 UTC

Five years after her cheerleader sister's suicide, a girl finds herself in the middle of many unanswered questions about what happened to her sister and to her four friends, who died at the same time.

Powerful (Powerless novella)

jfe5 — 2024-06-18 09:36:35 UTC

A sizzling and heart-racing new story set in the Kingdom of Ilya.

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Our Violet Ends

jfe5 — 2024-06-18 09:36:35 UTC

Juliette and Roma grappling with their feelings for each other yet again as Shanghai crumbles around them to the conflict between the Nationalists and Communists, as well as the return of the monsters they thought they eliminated.

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The Forevers

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Follows the changing relationships and ethics of a group of seventeen-year-old teenagers as they prepare for the Earth to be destroyed by an asteroid.

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Don't Let In The Cold

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When her mother remarries, Lottie and her new stepsister must house sit in a ski cabin for the night while their parents honeymoon in Reno but things quickly take a turn for the worst...

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The Invocations

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When a serial killer begins to prey upon witches, three girls with unique powers are brought together to try and stop him

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The Court of Miracles

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Les Misérables meets Six of Crows in this page-turning adventure as a young thief finds herself going head to head with leaders of Paris's criminal underground in the wake of the French Revolution.

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Marple

squantrell — 2024-06-18 09:36:35 UTC

A collection of new short stories featuring the Queen of Crime's legendary detective Jane Marple, penned by twelve remarkable bestselling and acclaimed authors.

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Black Ops (7)

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A series of gruesome killings take place in Dubai, Ghana and America. The victims are all connected with the SAS.

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The Fountains Of Silence

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A rich young American and a Spanish hotel maid meet and fall in love against the backdrop of Franco-dictated Spain in the 1950s.

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Overemotional

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Follows, Steven, a teen with emotion based superpowers, learning how to control them in the face of a government agency.

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Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

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When Naomi loses her memory and tries to piece back the fragments of the last three and a half years of her life, she discovers a lot about herself.

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DI Fawley series

jfe5 — 2024-06-18 09:41:53 UTC

The first book, Close To Home was very popular with Cheney readers so we've bought the rest of the series! Just search for DI Fawley on the library app!

Poppy War by R F Kuang

jfe5 — 2024-06-18 09:48:06 UTC

We've bought the second two books in the Poppy War trilogy. Just search for The Poppy War on the library app.

Escape from St Hell

jfe5 — 2024-06-18 13:20:33 UTC

Escape from St Hell is the life-affirming sequel to the Eisner Award-nominated graphic memoir, Welcome to St Hell, by author, illustrator and filmmaker, Lewis Hancox.
We re-join Lewis on his transition journey as he leaves his small Northern hometown for university, and starts picking his way through life as an adult, beset with hilarious awkwardness, plaid shirts, and a second puberty.

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: the Graphic Novel

jfe5 — 2024-06-18 13:57:42 UTC

Re-imagining of Jane Austen's classic love story where the characters also have to contend with a plague of zombies.

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Fierce Fragile Hearts

jfe5 — 2024-06-18 15:49:20 UTC

A girl endeavours to get her life back together after coming out of the care system when she turns eighteen.

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The Other Boleyn Girl

jfe5 — 2024-06-18 15:52:21 UTC

The Other Boleyn Girl (2001) is a historical novel written by British author Philippa Gregory, loosely based on the life of 16th-century aristocrat Mary Boleyn (the sister of Anne Boleyn) of whom little is known.

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Hornet Flight

jfe5 — 2024-06-18 15:53:19 UTC

As the Nazis bring Denmark to its knees, a resistance forms - and make a discovery that could turn the tide of war. From the master storyteller Ken Follett, Hornet Flight is a startling thriller set amidst the Danish Resistance of the Second World War.

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

jfe5 — 2024-06-18 15:54:30 UTC

Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is an audacious retelling of English literature's most enduring novel.

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Safe Area Gorazde

jfe5 — 2024-06-18 16:02:11 UTC

In late 1995 and early 1996, cartoonist/reporter Joe Sacco travelled four times to Gorazde, a UN-designated safe area during the Bosnian War. Still surrounded by Bosnian Serb forces, the mainly Muslim people of Gorazde had endured heavy attacks to hang on to their town. This book presents a snapshot...

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Where The Light Goes

jfe5 — 2024-06-18 16:12:40 UTC

Forced to face a world without the guiding light of her bright, brilliant big sister, Emmy must wrestle with the impact of private grief, public scrutiny and discover who she once was and who she will become, now that Beth is gone.

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Monday Monday (Rivers of London Graphic Novel)

jfe5 — 2024-06-18 16:15:13 UTC

Grant works as part of a very special London police unit investigating unusual crimes involving magic and the general weirdness that permeates London's dark underbelly.

What starts as a routine undercover operation to break up an organised teenage pickpocket gang turns into something far more dangerous when the Metropolitan police are confronted by a Swedish werewolf who'll stop at nothing to avoid capture. Now it's up to Peter and his cohort of chums to hunt the deadly lycanthrope and bring him to justice!

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Dear Martin

jfe5 — 2024-06-20 15:43:22 UTC

A black honour student starts keeping a journal in which he writes to Martin Luther King Jr. after being apprehended by a policeman in a racially-motivated arrest.

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Your Time Is Up

jfe5 — 2024-06-20 15:49:08 UTC

A read in one sitting real time thriller set over the course an A' Level exam.

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A Dark Inheritance

jfe5 — 2024-06-25 12:41:37 UTC

A young man doomed to die on his eighteenth birthday seeks a way to break the curse afflicting his family.

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Burn

jfe5 — 2024-09-20 10:39:06 UTC

This dragon, Kazimir, has more to him than meets the eye. Sarah can't help but be curious about him, an animal who supposedly doesn't have a soul but is seemingly intent on keeping her safe from the brutal attentions of Deputy Sheriff Emmett Kelby.

Kazimir knows something she doesn't. He has arrived at the farm because of a prophecy. A prophecy that involves a deadly assassin, a cult of dragon worshippers, two FBI agents - and somehow, Sarah Dewhurst herself.
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