13 Reasons Why
Jay Asher
Penguin Books
The #1 New York Times and international bestseller.
If you're listening, you're too late. ... You can't stop the future. You can't rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret.. is to press play.
Clay Jensen doesn't want anything to do with the tapes Hannah Baker made. Hannah died two weeks ago. Her secrets should be buried with her. The Hannah's voice explains that there are thirteen reasons why she died - and Clay is one of them. If he listens he'll learn that he is, in some way, responsible for her death. All through the night, Clay keeps listening. He follows Hannah's recorded words around his ... |
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If I stay
Gayle Forman
Now a major film.
Living is all about making choices. Dying is no different. ... "Just listen", Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel. I open my eyes wide now. I sit up as much as I can. And I listen. "Stay", he says. Everybody has to make choices. Some might break you. For seventeen-year-old Mia, surrounded by a wonderful family, friends and a gorgeous boyfriend decisions might seem tough, but they're all about a future full of music and love, a future that's brimming with hope. But life can change in an instant.
A cold February morning... a snowy road... and suddenly all of Mia's choices are ... |
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American Gods
Neil Gaiman
The Sunday Times No. 1 Bestselling Author.
Now a TV series on Amazon Prime Video. ... If you are to survive, you must believe.
Shadow Moon has served his time. But hours before his release from prison, his beloved wife is killed in a freak accident. Dazed, he boards a plane home where he meets the enigmatic Mr Wednesday, who professes both to know Shadow and to be king of America.Together they embark on a profoundly strange road trip across the USA, encountering a kaleidoscopic cast of characters along the way. Yet all around them a storm threatens to break.
The war has already begun, an epic struggle for the very soul of America, ... |
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Cincuenta sombras de Grey
E.L. James
Cuando la estudiante de literatura Anastasia Steele recibe el encargo de entrevistar al exitoso y joven empresario Christian Grey, queda impresionada al encontrarse ante un hombre atractivo, seductor y tambien muy intimidante. La inexperta e inocente Ana intenta olvidarle, pero pronto comprende cuanto le desea. Grey esta atormentado por sus propios demonios y le consume la necesidad de controlarlo todo, pero a su vez se ve incapaz de resistirse a la serena belleza de Ana, a su inteligencia y a su espiritu independiente. Debe admitir que la desea, pero bajo ciertas condiciones.
Cuando la pareja por fin inicia una apasionada relacion, Ana ... |
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Shtum.
Jem Lester
Orion
Ten - year - old Jonah can't speak. But it is time his family listened.
Selected for The BBC Radio 2 Book Club. ... Ten-year-old Jonah lives in a world of his own. He likes colours and feathers and the feel of fresh air on his skin. He dislikes sudden loud noises and any change to his daily routine. Jonah has never spoken, yet somehow he communicates better than all of the adults in his life.
Funny, heartbreaking and uplifting, "Shtum" is a novel about three generations of a family learning how to get along.
"I loved every word."
Joanna Cannon
"It's a book that breaks your heart."
Miranda ... |
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Stranger Than Fanfiction
Chris Colfer
Atom
In this touching novel, number one "New York Times" bestselling author Chris Colfer takes us on a journey full of laughter, tears and life-changing memories. ... Cash Carter is the youns, world famous lead actor of the television show Wiz Kids. When four fans jokingly invite him on a cross - country road trip, they are shocked by paparazzi and hounded by reporters, this unlikely crew embarks on a journey of a lifetime - but along the way they discover that the star the love has deep secrets he's been keeping. What they come to learn about the life of the mysterious person the thought the knew will teach them about the power of ... |
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Sharp Ends: Tales from the World of the First Law
Joe Abercrombie
Gollancz
"Sharp Ends" combines previously published, award - winning tales with exclusive new short stories. Violence explodes, treachery abounds, and the words are as deadly as the weapons in this rogue's gallery of side-shows, back-stories, and sharp endings from the world of the First Law.
The Union army may be full of bastards, but there's onlu one who thinks he can save the day single - handed when the Gurkish come calling: the incomparable Colonel Sand dan Glokta. Curnden Craw and his dozen are out to recover a mysterious item from beyond the Crinna. Only one small problem: no one seems to know what the item is. Shevedieh, ... |
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The Black Window
Daniel Silva
Harper Collins Publishers
The number one international bestseller.
A network of terror. A web of deceit. A deadly game of vengeance. ... Legendary spy Gabriel Allon is poised to become the chief of Israel's secret intelligence service. But on the eve of his promotion. ISIS detonate a massive bomb in the Marais district of Paris, and a desperate French government wants Gabriel to eliminate the man responsible. They call him Saladin.. He is a terrorist mastermind, whose network communicates in total secrecy, leaving Gabriel no choice but to insert an agent into the most dangerous terrorist group the world has ever known. An extraordinary young doctor, she must ... |
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A Boy Made of Blocks
Keith Stuart
Sphere
The most uplifting novel of the year. ... A father who rediscovers love. Alex love his wife Jody, but has forgotten how to show it. He loves his son Sam, but doesn't understand him. He needs a reason to grab his future with both hands.A son who shows him how to live. Meet eight years old Sam:beautiful, surprising - and different. To him the world is a frightening mystery. But as his imagination comes to life, his family will be changed.. for good. "A Boy Made of Blocks" is a beautiful, funny and uplifting story of family and love inspired by the author's own experiences with his son.
"One of those wonderful books that ... |
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Before I Fall
Lauren Oliver
Hodder & Stoughton
Now a major motion picture. ... They say live every day as if it's your last - but you never actually think it's going to be. You always think you'll have more time. That's what I thought. But I was wrong.
The thing is, you don't get to know when it happens. You don't remember to tell your family that you love them to - in my case - remember to say goodbye to them at all. What if, like me, you could live your last day over again? If your whole life flashed before you eyes, would you have any regrets? Are there things you'd want to change?
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"Hugely movin."
Heat
"Clever, funny, ... |
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Caraval
Stephanie Garber
Hodder & Stoughton
Remember, it's only a game. ... Welcome to "Caraval", where nothing is quite what it seems.
Scarlett and Tella have never left the tiny isle of Trisda, pining from afar for the wonder of Caraval, a once - a - years week - long performance where the audience participates in the show. Caraval is Magic. Mystery. Adventure. When the sisters' long - awaited invitations finally arrive, it seems their dreams have come true. But no sooner have they arrived than Tella vanishes, kidnapped by the show's mastermind organiser, Legend.
Scarlett has been told that everything that happens during Caraval is an elaborate ... |
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Different Class
Joanne Harris
Black Swan
After thirty years at St Oswald's Grammar in North Yorkshire, Latin master Roy Straitley has seen all kinds of boys come and go. Each class has its clowns, its rebels, its underdogs, its "Brodie" boys who, whilst of course he doesn’t have favourites, hold a special place in an old teacher’s heart. But every so often there's a boy who doesn't fit the mould. A troublemaker. A boy with hidden shadows inside.
With insolvency and academic failure looming, a new broom has arrived at the venerable school, bringing Powerpoint, sharp suits and even sixth form girls to the dusty corridors. But while Straitley does his sardonic ... |
