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A Marvellous Light
Marske, Freya
Robin Blyth is struggling to be a good older brother, a responsible employer, and the harried baronet of a seat gutted by his late parents’ excesses. When an administrative mistake sees him named the civil service liaison to a hidden magical society, he discovers what’s been operating beneath the reality he’s always known.
Wuthering Heights
Brontë, Emily
Wuthering Heights is now widely considered to be one of the greatest novels ever written in English, but contemporaneous reviews were polarised. It was controversial for its depictions of mental and physical cruelty, including domestic abuse, and for its challenges to Victorian morality, religion, and the class system.
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Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of the Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly-popular, highly-controversial, profit-raising program in America’s increasingly dominant private prison industry.
“In a village at the edge of the wilderness of northern Russia, where the winds blow cold and the snow falls many months of the year, a stranger with piercing blue eyes presents a new father with a gift – a precious jewel on a delicate chain, intended for his young daughter.
An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl. Hey girlfriend I got a proposition, goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you want. Kathleen Hanna’s rallying cry to feminists echoed far and wide through the punk scene of the ’90s and beyond.
In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained and largely ignored. Then she finds a strange book.
Hana Babic is a quiet, middle-aged librarian in Minnesota who wants nothing more than to be left alone. But when a detective arrives with the news that her best friend has been murdered, Hana knows that something evil has come for her, a dark remnant of the past she and her friend had shared.
In 1988, days before world leaders gather for the G7 summit, police get a hot tip that an assassin is on the way. The Toronto chief of police is told by a mysterious source that a would-be assassin is about to cross the border into Canada to kill the heads of the seven most powerful countries in the world.
Nick Sorensen had once been one of the fastest men in hockey-until the devastating plane crash that took the lives of his best friends, leaving him the only survivor. Now he’s physically ready to get back on the ice, but his coach is concerned Nick isn’t doing as well mentally as he says he is.
The quirky members of the Senior Citizen’s Social Club join forces with the tiny members of the daycare next door to thwart the city council’s planned sale of the building housing both centers.
When ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ propelled Rick Astley into the pop stratosphere, it irrevocably altered his life’s trajectory. Nothing could have prepared the young, unassuming Lancashire lad for what was in store for him. What followed was a whirlwind of TV appearances, fame, worldwide tours, bestselling albums and media scrutiny.
Pull up a chair in the kitchen as this hilarious book explores milestone moments and offers golden advice and fun activities through the wise and witty perspectives of everyone’s favourite foursome.
After feelings for her best friend Deve become complicated, thirteen-year-old African American Birdie makes a wish with a West African trickster god that goes awry.
Bear and Bird are the kind of friends who just want to make each other happy. So when Bird realizes Bear has had a leaf stuck to his face all day, she goes to comical extremes not to embarrass him – even if it means encouraging a new trend.
When an enemy pack attacks, Warm, the smallest wolf in the pack, is left alone to defend and feed four pups.
Jenna Chen has spent her life in the shadow of her flawless cousin. Jessica Chen is so smart she gets the top score on every test. Jessica Chen is so beautiful people stop in the hallway to stare at her. Jessica Chen is so perfect she got into Harvard. And Jenna Chen will only ever be a disappointment.
Three teens seek to unravel the truth behind conflicting agendas surrounding a deadly virus that could change humanity forever.
Fifteen-year-old Haitian American Fancy navigates high school, friendship, and crushes.