Category: General | Series: The Handmaid's Tale | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Leigh Sales: “A work of literature that reads like an airport thriller. An incredible treat for fans of Margaret Atwood.” (Joint Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize) The wait is over And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light. When the van door slammed on Of ...Show more
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The Sun Sister is the sixth epic story in the Seven Sisters series by the number one international bestseller Lucinda Riley. To the outside world, Electra d'Apliese seems as though she is the woman who has everything: as one of the world's top models, she is beautiful, rich and famous. But beneath the ...Show more
Category: General | Series: Crescent City
#1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas launches her brand-new CRESCENT CITY series with House of Earth and Blood: the story of half-Fae and half-human Bryce Quinlan as she seeks revenge in a contemporary fantasy world of magic, danger, and searing romance. Half-Fae, half-hu ...Show more
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
From the million-copy bestselling author of The Miniaturist and The Muse, Jessie Burton's latest novel tells the story of three women and the complex connections they have shared across decades and continents. This is a novel about love, sex, work, motherhood, how we construct our pasts and dream our fu ...Show more
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A mother. A child. An impossible choice. Poland, 1941. After the Jews in their town are rounded up, Róza and her five-year-old daughter, Shira, spend day and night hidden in a farmer’s barn. Forbidden from making a sound, only the yellow bird from her mother’s stories can sing the me ...Show more
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Rami Elhanan and Bassam Aramin live near one another – yet they exist worlds apart. Rami is Israeli. Bassam is Palestinian. Rami’s license plate is yellow. Bassam’s license plate is green. It takes Rami fifteen minutes to drive to the West Bank. The same journey for Bassam takes an hou ...Show more
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Even when you come out of bloodshed and disaster in the end you have got to learn to live. Winona is a young Lakota orphan adopted by former soldiers Thomas McNulty and John Cole. Living with Thomas and John on the farm they work in 1870s Tennessee, she is educated and loved, forging a life for herself ...Show more
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In the Autumn of 1941, the war is going badly for Britain and its allies. If the tide is going to be turned against Hitler, a new weapon is desperately needed. In Cambridge, brilliant history professor Tom Wilde is asked by an American intelligence officer to help smuggle a mysterious package out of Naz ...Show more
Category: General | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
From the globally bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring 'I loved it. So compelling and warm and subtle, and very moving' Bridget Collins, author of The Binding 'Deeply touching ... careful, beautiful' Louisa Young, author of You Left Early It is 1932, and the losses of the First World War ...Show more
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On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the ...Show more
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'DAZZLING' Marian Keyes, 'HILARIOUS' Dolly Alderton, 'TENDER' Jessie Burton, 'MAGNIFICENT' Daisy Buchanan, 'INCREDIBLE' Candice Carty Williams, 'MOVING' Laura Jane Williams, 'BRILLIANT' Nikesh Shukla, 'I LOVED IT' Sam Baker, 'PAINFULLY TRUE' Kate Davies Jenny is unloved, unemployable and emotionally unf ...Show more
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Joint Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize. Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends ...Show more
