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Check & Mate
0170.00 DHIn brief: Mallory has given up on chess and her dreams. But after beating world champion Nolan in a charity tournament, chess has come back for her. Can she make money and keep her distance as she makes friends and keeps winning?
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I Will Find You
0160.00 DHDescription. In this breathtaking thriller from a New York Times bestselling author, an innocent father serving life for the murder of his own son receives evidence that his child may still be alive—and must break out of prison to find out the truth.
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Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
0160.00 DHGone Girl is about a woman who frames her husband for her disappearance. She is actually in hiding and has concocted an elaborate plan to punish him for his infidelity.
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Things We Hide From The Light
0165.00 DHThe sizzling sequel to the TikTok sensation Things We Never Got Over, Things We Hide From The Light unravels the story of Nash, the good Morgan brother, and the powerful connection he forms with his sexy and mysterious new neighbour Lina. Welcome back to Knockemout, Virginia.
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Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian (Book 5)
0130.00 DHHalf boy. Half God. ALL Hero. Normally when you turn sixteen you get a really cool present. But, being sixteen and the son of Poseidon can never be that simple. So instead, I get a prophecy that says the fate of the entire world on my shoulders. Great. On top of that, Kronos, Lord of the Titans, is attacking New York City and the dreaded monster Typhon is heading our way. So, it’s me and forty of my demi-god friends versus untold evil. Happy birthday to me! WHAT TO EXPECT FROM PERCY JACKSON: * Monsters * Greek Gods * Laughs (and terrified screams) Rick Riordan has now sold an incredible 60 million copies of his books worldwide. ‘This is the stuff of legends’ – The Guardian
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Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth (Book 4)
0130.00 DHHalf boy. Half God. ALL Hero. Being the son of a Greek God, nothing in my life has been straightforward. Or monster-free. And it looks like that’s not going to change anytime soon now that my arch enemy Luke wants to invade Camp Half-Blood via an ancient labyrinth. If he succeeds, thousands of bloodthirsty monsters will attack. So it’s goodbye sunshine, hello darkness as four of us descend into the terrifying underground and beyond . . .
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Percy Jackson and the Titan’s Curse (Book 3)
0130.00 DHHalf boy. Half God. ALL Hero. My life could have been the same as an ordinary teenager. Except my dad is Poseidon, and I live in a camp full of half Gods and mythical creatures. So instead, my days are spent combatting half-lion half-humans and trying to live a somewhat normal life. But normalcy has just gone out the window. My friend Annabeth is missing, a Goddess is in chains, and only five of us can join the quest to save the day. Oh and guess what. The Oracle has predicted that not all of us will survive… WHAT TO EXPECT FROM PERCY JACKSON: * Monsters * Greek Gods * Laughs (and terrified screams) Rick Riordan has now sold an incredible 60 million copies of his books worldwide. ‘This is the stuff of legends’ – The Guardian
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Honour
0160.00 DHElif Shafak’s Honour is the story of three generations of a culturally split Turkish-Kurdish family that undergoes yet another cultural division when it migrates to London. The story starts when Naze, who had always wanted to have a boy, gives birth to twin girls whom she names Kader (Destiny) and Yeter (Enough).
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The Concise Art of Seduction
0150.00 DHThe companion book to the bestselling Concise 48 Laws of Power, which has now sold over 125,000 copies in the UK. Amoral, ruthless, clever and cunning, this is the essential guide to the art of seduction.
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Glass Sword (Red Queen, 2)
0160.00 DHOn the underground train Mare Barrow and Cal boarded at the end of Red Queen, Mare waits, tense, as they speed toward the city of Naercey, which they’ve learned is not surrounded by deadly radiation and is actually a former safe haven for the Scarlet Guard.
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Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know
0160.00 DHInstant #1 New York Times Bestseller Discover how rethinking can lead to excellence at work and wisdom in life Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world it might matter more that we can rethink and unlearn. Organizational psychologist Adam Grant is an expert on opening other people’s minds-and our own. As Wharton’s top-rated professor and the bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take, he tries to argue like he’s right but listen like he’s wrong. Think Again invites us to let go of views that are no longer serving us well and prize mental flexibility, humility, and curiosity over foolish consistency. If knowledge is power, knowing what we don’t know is wisdom.
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles
039.00 DHess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman is a novel by Thomas Hardy. It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, published by the British illustrated newspaper The Graphic in 1891 and in book form in 1892. Like much of Hardy’s work, the novel focuses partly on the declining rural society of the Victorian era, and also addresses class issues, as Tess’ father’s aspiration to transcend his class sets in motion a disastrous series of events. Though now considered a major nineteenth-century English novel and possibly Hardy’s fictional masterpiece, Tess of the d’Urbervilles received mixed reviews when it first appeared, in part because it challenged the sexual morals of late Victorian England.
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Five Children and It
039.00 DHLike Nesbit’s The Railway Children, the story begins when a group of children move from London to the countryside of Kent. The five children – Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother, known as the Lamb – are playing in a gravel pit when they uncover a rather grumpy, ugly, and occasionally malevolent Psammead, a sand-fairy with ability to grant wishes.
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Northanger Abbey
039.00 DHCatherine Morland has little experience of the world. When a neighbor takes her to visit the fashionable city of Bath, her naiveté leaves her vulnerable. Who should Catherine trust? Whose friendship is genuine and whose will be harmful? Catherine’s adventure becomes sinister when she visits Northanger Abbey. What is hidden in the locked cabinet? Why are the General’s children afraid of him? What terrible secrets does he keep in his dead wife’s bedroom? Guided only by the gothic horror stories she so loves reading, Catherine stumbles through her adventures. Will hers be a happy ending? Will she find a hero to share her « happily ever after? »
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Homage to Catalonia
039.00 DHBoth a memoir of Orwell’s experiences during the Spanish Civil War and a heartfelt tribute to those who died, Homage to Catalonia is an extraordinary first-hand record of him time on the frontline. Written with all of the depth, passion and deep human understanding that defines Orwell’s writing this is a vivid account of the battles that were faced by ordinary working people as they fought for both their lives and their ideologies.
Although Orwell was himself near-fatally wounded he finds both bleak and comic notes in his experience which is recorded with such clarity and depth that this short work has become one of his best known.
