The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
Black Swan
The №1 International Bestseller. ... Here is a small fact - you are going to die.
1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier.
Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and the story of the inhabitants of her street when the bombs begin to fall.
Some important information - this novel is narrated by Death.
It's a small story, about:
a girl;
an accordionist;
some fanatical Germans;
a Jewish fist fighter;
and quite a lot of thievery.
Another thing ... |
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The Mountain Shadow
Gregory David Roberts
Abacus
The international bestseller by the author of "Shantaram". ... "Shantaram" introduced millions of readers to a cast of unforgettable characters through Lin, an Australian fugitive, working as a passport forger for a branch of the Bombay mafia. In The Mountain Shadow, the long-awaited sequel, Lin must find his way in a Bombay run by a different generation of mafia dons, playing by a different set of rules.
It has been two years since the events in "Shantaram", and since Lin lost two people he had come to love: his father figure, Khaderbhai, and his soul mate, Karla, married to a handsome Indian media tycoon. ... |
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But Then I Came Back
Estelle Laure
Orchard Books
Can a coma wake you up? ... Before the accident, Eden had life planned out. But when she comes back from a coma, the world is stranger and more magical than before. And when she meets Joe with the melting-chocolate eyes, she suddenly doesn't have a plan at all...
Love and loss beautifully combine in this new book from the author of this raging light. ... |
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Juniper Lemon's Happiness Index
Julie Israel
Penguin Books
An unforgettable story of love, loss, mistakes and memories. ... It's hard to keep close a person everyone keeps telling you is gone. It's been sixty-five days since the accident that ripped Juniper's world apart. Life without her kind, beautiful, vibrant big sister Camilla is a colder, darker place. Until she discovers the letter. The letter Camie wrote, but never got to send. It's mysteriously addressed to "You" and dated July 4th - the day of the accident. Desperate to learn the identity of Camie's secret love, Juniper starts to investigate.
But then she loses something herself. A card from her daily ... |
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Themis Files - book 1: Sleeping Giants
Sylvain Neuvel
Penguin Books
The end has just begun. ... This thing... it rewrites history. It dares us to question what we know about ourselves. About everything.
As a young girl. dr Rose Franklin made a life-changing discovery. Hidden deep underground, she found an enormous, ornate metal hand. Tests prove the artefact predates all human civilization. Where did it come from? Dr Franklin leads the top-secret investigation into the mystery of its origin - but finding answers leads her to an awe-inspiring question. Where we meant to find it? When it emerges that there may be more pieces buried out there, a fierce race begins to solve this vast, global puzzle. And what ... |
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Bridget Jones’s Baby
Helen Fielding
Vintage
The Sunday Times Bestseller. ... 8.45 P.M. Realise there have been so many times in my life when have fantasised about going to a scan with Mark or Daniel: just not both at the same time. Before motherhood, before marriage, Bridget, with biological clock ticking very, very loudly, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant at the eleventh hour: a joyful pregnancy which is dominated, however, by a crucial but terribly awkward question - who is the father? Mark Darcy: honourable, decent, notable human rights lawyer? Or Daniel Cleaver: charming, witty, notable fuckwit?
9.45 P.M. It’s like they’re two halves of the perfect man, who’ll spend the rest ... |
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Everything, Everything
Nicola Yoon
Corgi Books
The New York Times Bestseller.
Now a Major Motion Picture staring Amanda Stenberg and Nick Robinson. ... Maddy is allergic to the world; stepping outside the sterile sanctuary of her home could kill her. But then Olly moves in next door. And just like that, Maddy realizes there's more to life than just being alive. You only get one chance at first love. And Maddy is ready to risk everything, everything to see where it leads.
"Gorgeous and lyrical."
New York Times ... |
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The Upside of Unrequited
Becky Albertalli
Penguin Books
From the award-winning author of "Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda". ... I don't entirely understand how anyone gets a boyfriend. Or a girlfriend. It just seems like the most impossible odds. A perfect alignment of feeling and circumstances.
Molly Peskin-Suso knows all about unrequited love. No matter how many times her twin sister, Cassie, tells her to woman up, Molly is always careful. Better to be careful than be hurt. But when Cassie gets a new girlfriend who comes with a cute hipster-boy sidekick, everything changes. Will is funny, flirtatious and basically the perfect first boyfriend. There's only one problem: Molly& ... |
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The Nowhere Man
Gregg Hurwitz
Penguin Books
The bestselling author of "Orphan X".
The Sunday Times № 1 bestseller. ... Evan Smoak is Orhan X - the Nowhere Man... Raised and trained as a military asset in a secret government programme, Evan escaped and now uses his skills to protect the helpless. If you can find him, the Nowhere Man will save your life. Until the night it all goes wrong.
Ambushed, drugged and kidnapped, Evan wakes in a locked room with no idea where he is or who has taken him. His opponent outnumbers and outguns him and time is running out. Because if he doesn't escape soon, the people sho evan swore to help will be the first to die..."A ... |
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The State of Grace
Rachael Lucas
Macmillan Children's Books
Sometimes fitting in means standing out. ... "Sometimes I feel like everyone else was handed a copy of the rules for life and mine got lost."
Grace has Asperger's and her own way of looking at the world. She's got a horse and a best friend who understand her, and that's pretty much all she needs. But when Grace kisses Gabe and things start to change at home, the world doesn't make much sense to her any more. Suddenly everything threatens to fall apart, and it's up to Grace to fix it on her own.
Whip-smart, hilarious and unapologetically honest, The State of Grace by Rachael Lucas is a heart-warming story of ... |
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The Dark Artifices - Book 2: Lord of Shadows
Cassandra Clare
Simon & Schuster
From the #1 New Yourk Times Bestselling Author. ... Would you trade your soul mate for your soul? A Shadowhunter's life is bound by duty. Constrained by honour. The word of a Shadowhunter is a solemn pledge, and now vow is more sacred than the vow that binds parabatai, warrior partners - sworn to fight together, die together, but to never fall in love.
Emma Carstairs has learned that the love she shares with her parabatai, Julian Blackthorn, isn't just forbidden - it could destroy them both. She knows she should run from him. But how can she when the Blackthorns are threatened by enemies on all sides? Their only hope is the Black ... |
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Border
Kapka Kassabova
A Journey to The Edge of Europe.
BBC Radio 4 book of the week. ... From a multi-award-winning author, a vivid journey through the haunted borderlands that once made up the easternmost stretch of the old Iron Curtain and today mark the outer reaches of Europe.
When Kapka Kassabova was a child, the borderzone between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece was rumoured to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall so it swarmed with soldiers, spies and fugitives. On holidays close to the border on the Black Sea coast, she remembers playing on the beach, only miles from where an electrified fence bristled, its barbs pointing ... |
