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The list of suspicious things / Jennie Godfrey.

Sometimes the strongest connections are found in the most unlikely of places. 'The List of Suspicious Things' is a tender and moving coming of age story about family, friendship and community.
Author: Godfrey, Jennie
Published: London : Hutchinson Heinemann, 2024.
528 pages ; 23 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Chalfont St Giles Community Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Donation - adult fiction - This item cannot be reserved (Set: 06 Mar 2024) - In-transit from West Berkshire Mobile Library to Chalfont St Giles Community Library (Set: 12 Jul 2024) - 95100000371917
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Great Missenden Community Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Donation - adult fiction - This item cannot be reserved (Set: 05 Mar 2024) - 95100000372745
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First lie wins / Ashley Elston.

Evie Porter has everything a girl could want: a doting boyfriend, a house with a picket fence, a fun group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn't exist. First comes the identity. Once she's given a name and location by her employer, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it. Then the mark: Ryan Sumner. The last piece of the puzzle is the job. For Evie, this job feels different. Ryan has gotten under her skin and she's started to picture another kind of life for herself - one where her boss doesn't pull the strings. But Evie can't make any mistakes. Because the one thing she's worked her entire life to keep clean, the one identity she could always go back to - her real identity - just walked right into this town. A woman, who looks just like her, has stolen her name - and she wants more.
Author: Elston, Ashley
Published: London : Headline, 2024.
384 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
1 reserve

Beaconsfield Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Adult fiction - CRI - Onloan - Due: 31 Jul 2024 - 95100000112641
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The last murder at the end of the world / Stuart Turton.

The world has been destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched. But, on the island, all is idyllic. 122 villagers and 3 scientists, living in peaceful harmony. The villagers are content to fish, farm and feast, to obey their nightly curfew, to do what they're told by the scientists. Until, to the horror of the islanders, one of their beloved scientists is found brutally stabbed to death. And they learn the murder has triggered a lowering of the security system around the island, the only thing that was keeping the fog at bay. If the murder isn't solved within 92 hours, the fog will smother the island - and everyone on it. But the security system has also wiped everyone's memories of exactly what happened the night before, which means that someone on the island is a murderer - and they don't even know it.
Author: Turton, Stuart
Published: London : Raven Books, 2024.
332 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Average rating: (2 reviews)
3 reserves

Beaconsfield Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Adult fiction - CRI - Onloan - Due: 03 Aug 2024 - 95100000425551
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The guest / B.A. Paris.

Iris and Gabriel have just got home from a make-or-break holiday. But a shock awaits them. One of their dearest friends, Laure, is in their house - sleeping in their bed, wearing Iris' clothes, even rearranging the furniture. She has walked out on her husband - and their good friend - Pierre over his confession of an affair. Iris and Gabriel want to be supportive. But as Laure's mood becomes more unpredictable, her presence begins to unravel secrets in all their pasts - until things inevitably reach breaking point.
Author: Paris, B. A.
Published: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2024.
359 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
6 reserves

Beaconsfield Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Adult fiction - Onloan - Due: 09 Aug 2024 - 95100000112647
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Moscow X / David McCloskey.

CIA operatives Sia and Max enter Russia to recruit Vladimir Putin's moneyman. Sia works for a London firm that conceals the wealth of the super-rich. Max's family business in Mexico - a CIA front since the 1960s - is a farm that breeds high-end racehorses. They pose as a couple, and their targets are Vadim, Putin's private banker, and his wife Anna, who is both a banker and an intelligence officer. As they descend further into a Russian world dripping with luxury and rife with gangland violence, Sia and Max's hope may be Anna, who is playing a game of her own. Careening between the horse ranch and the dark opulence of Saint Petersburg, 'Moscow X' is both a gripping thriller of modern espionage and a daring work of political commentary on the conflict between Washington and Moscow.
Author: McCloskey, David
Published: Great Britain : Swift, 2024.
454 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
10 reserves

11 copies

The gathering / C.J. Tudor.

In a small Alaskan town, a boy is found with his throat ripped out and the blood drained from his body. The brutality of the murder chillingly echoes a killing from twenty-five years ago. Out-of-state Barbara Atkins is brought in to assist the sheriff, Jensen Tucker, who investigated the original case. However, the inhabitants of Deadhart believe they know who is responsible: one of the nearby vampyr colony who live in an old mining settlement deep in the mountains. Barbara is under pressure to authorize a cull of the entire colony. But the evidence doesn't stack up, people are lying, and the more Barbara and Tucker delve into Deadhart's history, the darker the secrets they uncover.
Author: Tudor, C. J.
Published: UK : Michael Joseph, 2024.
407 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (2 reviews)
5 reserves

Aylesbury Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Adult fiction - HOR - Onloan - Due: 16 Aug 2024 - 95100000425782
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Funny story / Emily Henry.

Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it - right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra. Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children's librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra's ex, Miles Nowak. Scruffy and chaotic, Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she's either FBI or in witness protection.
Author: Henry, Emily
Published: UK : Viking, 2024.
387 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (2 reviews)
2 reserves

13 copies

The secret lives of booksellers and librarians : true stories of the magic of reading / James Patterson & Matt Eversmann with Chris Mooney.

In this love letter to the heroes of literacy, James Patterson uncovers true stories from booksellers and librarians. Prepare to enter a world where you can feed your curiosities, discover new voices, and find whatever you need. Meet the smart and talented people who live between the shelves - and who can't wait to help you find your next great read.
Author: Patterson, James, 1947-
Published: London : Century, 2024.
viii, 335 pages ; 25 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Amersham Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Adult non-fiction - 381.45002 PAT - Onloan - Due: 13 Aug 2024 - 95100000427843
Gerrards Cross Community Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Adult non-fiction - 381.45002 PAT - Available - 95100000427925

Profile K / Helen Fields.

Midnight Jones is an analyst trained to understand the human mind. But everything changes when, in the course of her work, she discovers Profile K's file - because K stands for killer, and she knows that someone more dangerous than she could have ever imagined walks among them. Midnight knows what Profile K is capable of before he even commits his first crime. But as the news rolls with the brutal murder of a local woman, no one believes what she tells them: that he's capable of so much more. Profile K will kill again - and slowly, terrifyingly, Midnight realises that the moment she found his file was the moment she became his next target. Because Profile K is coming for Midnight - and the only way to escape with her life is to find him before he finds her.
Author: Fields, Helen, 1969-
Published: London : Avon, 2024.
368 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
3 reserves

Aylesbury Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Adult fiction - Reservation awaiting collection (Set: 22 Jul 2024) - 95100000425773
Buckingham Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Adult fiction - Onloan - Due: 01 Aug 2024 - 95100000425655
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Spine-tingling Spider-Man / Saladin Ahmed ; illustrated by Juan Ferreyra.

When a dangerous song takes all of New York City on a haunting journey through their dreams, a sleep-deprived Peter Parker must fight back his fears to face a threat unlike anything he has ever known! Because this time, his 'Peter tingle' is a chill right down his spine! And if he can survive his encounter with the Sleep-Stealer, Spider-Man will have to hit the road - and what he finds on his journey will haunt your dreams for the rest of your life!
Author: Ahmed, Saladin
Published: New York, NY : Marvel Worldwide, Inc., 2024.
144 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Aylesbury Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Children's fiction - Graphic Novel - Onloan - Due: 02 Aug 2024 - 95100000428093

Happiness / Danielle Steel.

After a dark and unhappy childhood and two failed marriages where love was rarely felt, bestselling thriller author Sabrina Brooks has finally found the life she's always craved. She's discovered that her writing, her close circle of friends, and her beautiful home in the Massachusetts Berkshire Mountains with her two beloved dogs are all that she needs to be happy and at peace. However, Sabrina's perfect life is suddenly disrupted when she receives a mysterious letter informing her that she is now the sole heir to her recently deceased uncle's title and manor house in southern England.
Author: Steel, Danielle
Published: London : Pan Books, 2024.
309 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Chalfont St Peter Community Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Adult fiction - In-transit from Lt. Chalfont Community Library to Chalfont St Peter Community Library (Set: 19 Jul 2024) - 95100000428361
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You are here / David Nicholls.

Marnie is stuck. Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck battling the long afternoons and a life that increasingly feels like it's passing her by. Michael is coming undone. Reeling from his wife's departure, increasingly reclusive, taking himself on long, solitary walks across the moors and fells. When a persistent mutual friend and some very English weather conspire to bring them together, Marnie and Michael suddenly find themselves alone on the most epic of walks and on the precipice of a new friendship. But can it survive the journey?
Author: Nicholls, David, 1966-
Published: London : Sceptre, 2024.
349 pages : maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
54 reserves

19 copies

The last word / Elly Griffiths.

Natalka and Edwin, whom we met in 'The Postscript Murders', are running a detective agency in Shoreham, Sussex. Despite a steady stream of minor cases, Natalka is frustrated, longing for a big juicy case such as murder to come the agency's way. Natalka is now living with dreamer, Benedict. But her Ukrainian mother Valentyna has joined them from her war-torn country and three's a crowd. To add to Natalka's irritation, Benedict and her mother get on brilliantly. Then a murder case turns up. Local writer, Melody Chambers, is found dead and her family are convinced it is murder. Edwin, a big fan of the obit pages, thinks there's a link to the writer of Melody's obituary who pre-deceased his subject. The trail leads Benedict and Edwin to a slightly sinister writers' retreat. When another writer is found dead, Edwin thinks that the clue lies in the words.
Author: Griffiths, Elly
Published: London : Quercus, 2024.
338 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (2 reviews)
8 reserves

23 copies

Pineapple Street / Jenny Jackson.

Meet the Stockton women of Brooklyn Heights: Darley, who was born with money; Sasha, who married into it; and Georgiana, who wants to give it all away. Among glittering parties, weekend homes and hungover brunches, the three will have to grapple with the burden of parental expectations, the hardships and bewilderment of growing up, and the miles between the haves and have-nots.
Author: Jackson, Jenny (Editor)
Published: UK : Penguin Books, 2024.
304 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Bucks Library Reserve Store - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Book group item - Box set: Pineapple Street Reading group set - For reading group use only (Set: 07 Jun 2024) - 95100000428088
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The scarlet shedder / written and illustrated by Dav Pilkey as George Beard and Harold Hutchins ; with color by Jose Garibaldi & Wes Dzioba.

P.U.! Dog Man got sprayed by a skunk! After being dunked in tomato juice, the stink is gone but the scarlet red colour remains. Now exiled, this spunky superhero must struggle to save the citizens who shunned him! Will the ends justify the means for Petey, who's reluctantly pulled back into a life of crime in order to help Dog Man? And who will step forward when an all-new, never-before-seen villain unleashes an army of A.I. robots?
Author: Pilkey, Dav, 1966-
Published: London : Scholastic, 2024.
223 pages : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 22 cm.
Dog Man
Average rating: (1 review)
10 reserves

Amersham Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Children's fiction - Onloan - Due: 31 Jul 2024 - 95100000425191
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Happy place / Emily Henry.

Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple - they go together like bread and butter, gin and tonic, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. Every year for the past decade, they have run away from their lives to drink far too much wine and soak up the sea air with their favourite people in the world. Except this year, they are lying through their teeth. Harriet and Wyn broke up six months ago. And they still haven't told anyone. But this is the last time they'll all be together here. The cottage is for sale, and since they can't bear to break their best friends' hearts, they'll fake it for one more week. But how can you pretend to be in love in front of the people who know you best?
Author: Henry, Emily
Published: UK : Penguin Books, 2024.
388 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (2 reviews)

Chalfont St Peter Community Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Donation - adult fiction - This item cannot be reserved (Set: 29 Mar 2024) - Onloan - Due: 09 Aug 2024 - 95100000373882

Reign at dusk / Eve L. Ewing ; illustrated by Mack Chater.

A secret from Wakanda's past threatens to destroy its future! Wakandan crimelord Baba Nkisu has summoned a deadly killer known as Kivu'Ma - but he may have gotten more than he bargained for. Now, only Wakanda's history holds the key to the dark power that T'Challa must defend his country from!
Author: Ewing, Eve L.
Published: New York, NY : Marvel Worldwide, Inc., 2024.
112 pages : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 26 cm.
Black Panther and the Agents of Wakanda ; 2.
Average rating: (1 review)

High Wycombe Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Graphic novel - In-transit from Beaconsfield Library to High Wycombe Library (Set: 25 Jul 2024) - 95100000428306

The familiar / Leigh Bardugo.

In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position. What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when Luzia garners the notice of Antonio Pérez, the disgraced secretary to Spain's king. Still reeling from the defeat of his armada, the king is desperate for any advantage in the war against England's heretic queen - and Pérez will stop at nothing to regain the king's favour.
Author: Bardugo, Leigh
Published: UK : Viking, 2024.
385 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
1 reserve

Chalfont St Giles Community Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Adult fiction - FAN - In-transit from Chalfont St Giles Community Library to High Wycombe Library (Set: 23 Jul 2024) - 95100000428321
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The husbands / Holly Gramazio.

One night Lauren finds a strange man in her flat who claims to be her husband. All the evidence - from photos to electricity bills - suggests he's right. Lauren's attic, she slowly realises, is creating an endless supply of husbands for her. There's the one who pretends to play music on her toes. The one who's too hot (there must be a catch). The one who makes a great breakfast sandwich. The one who turns everything into double entendres ('I'll weed your garden'). And the one who can calm her unruly thoughts with a single touch. But when you can change husbands as easily as changing a lightbulb, how do you know whether the one you have now is the good-enough one, or the wrong one, or the best one? And how long should you keep trying to find out?
Author: Gramazio, Holly
Published: London : Chatto & Windus, 2024.
368 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
2 reserves

Buckingham Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Adult fiction - In-transit from Buckingham Library to Chalfont St Peter Community Library (Set: 24 Jul 2024) - 95100000428555
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Princes Risborough Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Adult fiction - Onloan - Due: 03 Aug 2024 - 95100000428630

Sabertooth war. Part 1 / Benjamin Percy, Victor Lavalle ; illustrated by Cory Smith.

The Sabretooth war begins here as Logan finally faces his nemesis once again! Wolverine faces off against his arch-nemesis for the first time in the Krakoan era! Now deadlier than ever before, Sabretooth is ready to tear Logan's world apart!
Author: Percy, Benjamin
Published: New York, NY : Marvel Worldwide, Inc., 2024.
144 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm.
Wolverine ; 8.
Average rating: (1 review)

Aylesbury Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Graphic novel - Onloan - Due: 12 Aug 2024 - 95100000428528

The mercy chair / M.W. Craven.

Washington Poe has a story to tell. And he needs you to listen. You'll hear how it started with the robber birds. Crows. Dozens of them. Enough for a murder. He'll tell you about a man who was tied to a tree and stoned to death, a man who had tattooed himself with a code so obscure, even the gifted analyst Tilly Bradshaw struggled to break it. He'll tell you how the man's murder was connected to a tragedy that happened fifteen years earlier when a young girl massacred her entire family. And finally, he'll tell you about the mercy chair. And why people would rather kill themselves than talk about it. Poe hopes you've been paying attention. Because in this story, nothing is as it seems.
Author: Craven, M. W. (Mike W.), 1968-
Published: London : Constable, 2024.
384 pages ; 24 cm.
Washington Poe series
Average rating: (1 review)
19 reserves

Beaconsfield Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Adult fiction - CRI - Onloan - Due: 16 Aug 2024 - 95100000428586
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Way back / Sara Cox.

Josie's life is fine. Absolutely, completely fine. Nice husband, brilliant best friend, a gorgeous kid at uni. The big house of her dreams on its leafy London street is a lifetime away from the Lancashire farm of her childhood. So what if her mother is tricky, and James isn't in love with Josie any more, and maybe she's not in love with him either? It's great to have time to herself now Chloe's flown the nest - isn't it? This is the life Josie never believed possible. The life she needed when her heart was breaking as a child, when her mum wasn't coping and Josie had to grow up too fast. So why this feeling, nibbling away at the edges of Josie's thoughts? The sense that she has lost something. That she has lost herself. If Josie is to truly live, she must now take back the reins and confront her future. And to find her way ahead, she needs to go back - way back - to the place where it all began.
Author: Cox, Sara
Published: London : Coronet, 2024.
314 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
2 reserves

Aylesbury Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Adult fiction - Onloan - Due: 03 Aug 2024 - 95100000425739
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Enlightenment / Sarah Perry.

Thomas Hart and Grace Macaulay have lived all their lives in the small Essex town of Aldleigh. Though separated in age by three decades, the pair are kindred spirits - torn between their commitment to religion and their desire for more. But their friendship is threatened by the arrival of romantic love. Thomas falls for James Bower, who runs the local museum. Together they develop an obsession with the vanished 19th-century astronomer said to haunt a nearby manor, and whose identity might finally be revealed when a startling discovery is made. As Thomas fears a broken heart, he comes to find solace in astronomy: might it offer as much as earthly or even divine love? Meanwhile Grace meets Nathan, a fellow sixth former. They are drawn recklessly together, but quickly pulled apart, casting Grace into the wider world and far away from Thomas.
Author: Perry, Sarah, 1979-
Published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2024.
400 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
7 reserves

Buckingham Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Adult fiction - Reservation awaiting collection (Set: 30 May 2024) - Reservation allocation expired (Set: 15 Jun 2024) - 95100000426887
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Long Crendon Community Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Donation - adult fiction - This item cannot be reserved (Set: 12 Jun 2024) - Onloan - Due: 10 Aug 2024 - 95100000380498
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Astrochimp / David Walliams ; illustrated by Adam Stower.

Chump the chimpanzee was always being silly. He would make rude noises from BOTH ENDS, pick his nose with his little toe, and eat the skins of bananas, hurling out the tasty part inside. NASA's scientists thought he'd be the PERFECT chimp to send into space. Little did Chump know that he had been selected for a deadly-dangerous mission. If a chimp could orbit Earth, then chances were a human could too. With Chump the chimp at the controls of a spacecraft, what could possibly go wrong? As it turned out, EVERYTHING. Blast off with Chump, and encounter dog space pirates, evil insects, and the silliest chimpanzee who ever lived in this wildly funny space opera.
Author: Walliams, David, 1971-
Published: London : HarperCollins Children's Books, 2024.
224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
3 reserves

Amersham Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Children's fiction - Onloan - Due: 09 Aug 2024 - 95100000428209
Aylesbury Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Children's fiction - Available - 95100000428105
Beaconsfield Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Children's fiction - Onloan - Due: 23 Jul 2024 - 95100000428027
Bourne End Community Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Children's fiction - In-transit from Bourne End Community Library to Hazlemere Library (Set: 25 Jul 2024) - 95100000428134
Buckingham Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Children's fiction - Onloan - Due: 10 Aug 2024 - 95100000427990
Chalfont St Peter Community Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Donation - children's fiction - Junior fiction - This item cannot be reserved (Set: 07 Jun 2024) - Onloan - Due: 13 Aug 2024 - 95100000382185
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Marlow Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Children's fiction - Onloan - Due: 30 Jul 2024 - 95100000428175
Princes Risborough Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Children's fiction - In-transit from Z UNKNOWN to Princes Risborough Library (Set: 03 Jul 2024) - 95100000428009

In the blink of an eye / Jo Callaghan.

In the UK, someone is reported missing every 90 seconds. Just gone. Vanished. In the blink of an eye. DCS Kat Frank knows all about loss. A widowed single mother, Kat is a cop who trusts her instincts. Picked to lead a pilot programme that has her paired with AIDE (Artificial Intelligence Detective Entity) Lock, Kat's instincts come up against Lock's logic. But when the two missing person's cold cases they are reviewing suddenly become active, Lock is the only one who can help Kat when the case gets personal. AI versus human experience. Logic versus instinct. With lives on the line can the pair work together before someone else becomes another statistic? 'In the Blink of an Eye' is a dazzling debut from an exciting new voice and asks us what we think it means to be human.
Author: Callaghan, Jo
Published: London : Simon & Schuster, 2024.
403 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Lt. Chalfont Community Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Donation - adult fiction - This item cannot be reserved (Set: 17 Jan 2024) - 95100000377484

Powerless / Lauren Roberts.

The Elites have possessed powers for decades, gifted to them by the Plague, while those born Ordinary are just that. Banished from the kingdom if you lack an ability and forced to live in the slums, the Ordinaries don't have it easy. No one knows this better than Paedyn Gray. She'll do anything to survive and stay out of trouble, even if it means posing as a Psychic to blend in with the Elites. But when Paeydn unsuspectingly saves Kai Azer, an Ilya prince, she finds herself thrown into the Purging Trials, a cut-throat competition showcasing the Elites' powers - the very thing Paedyn is incapable of. Either the Trails or the opponents are going to kill her, or the prince she's fighting feelings for will when he discovers what Paedyn is - completely Ordinary.
Author: Roberts, Lauren, 2002-
Published: London : Simon & Schuster, 2023.
501 pages : map (black and white) ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
4 reserves

Aylesbury Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Donation - children's fiction - Onloan - Due: 12 Aug 2024 - 95100000424608
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River sing me home / Eleanor Shearer.

Mary Grace, Micah, Thomas Augustus, Cherry Jane, and Mercy. These are the names of her children. The five who survived, only to be sold to other plantations. The faces Rachel cannot forget. It's 1834, and the law says her people are now free. But for Rachel freedom means finding her children, even if the truth is more than she can bear. With fear snapping at her heels, Rachel keeps moving. From sunrise to sunset, through the cane fields of Barbados to the forests of British Guiana and on to Trinidad, to the dangerous river and the open sea. Only once she knows their stories can she rest. Only then can she finally find home.
Author: Shearer, Eleanor
Published: London : Headline Review, 2023.
376 pages : map (black and white) ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Chesham Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Adult fiction - HIS - Available - 95100000402323
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I will find you / Harlan Coben.

David and Cheryl Burroughs are living the dream - married, a beautiful house in the suburbs, a three year old son named Matthew - when tragedy strikes one night in the worst possible way. David awakes to find himself covered in blood, but not his own - his son's. And while he knows he did not murder his son, the overwhelming evidence against him puts him behind bars indefinitely. Five years into his imprisonment, Cheryl's sister arrives - and drops a bombshell. She's come with a photograph that a friend took on vacation at a theme park. The boy in the background seems familiar - and even though David realises it can't be, he knows it is. It's Matthew, and he's still alive.
Author: Coben, Harlan, 1962-
Published: London : Century, 2023.
407 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (2 reviews)

14 copies

Glitter boy / Ian Eagleton.

James loves dancing, poetry, and Mariah Carey (not in that order, though, because Mariah would obviously be first!). His teacher, Mr Hamilton, is getting married to his boyfriend and it seems that James will be part of a surprise choir performance at the wedding. But James's father seems uncomfortable about the plan, and a lot of other things - like any mention of Mr Hamilton, and James's dancing, and how James talks about his new friend Joel. Meanwhile, a different boy has been harassing James at school and calling him gay, and it's getting worse every day. James can find relief with his beloved Nan, she's been having worrying falls, and James can't tell anyone, or she might be sent to a faraway care home. The secrets are building up, and James is starting to lose his characteristic spark. Can he find the strength to let the truth out?
Author: Eagleton, Ian
Published: London : Scholastic, 2023.
348 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Lt. Chalfont Community Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Donation - children's fiction - Junior fiction - This item cannot be reserved (Set: 04 Mar 2023) - 95100000279641

Black butterflies / Priscilla Morris.

Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city into ethnic enclaves; each morning, the residents - whether Muslim, Croat or Serb - push the makeshift barriers aside. When violence finally spills over, Zora, an artist and teacher, sends her husband and elderly mother to safety with her daughter in England. Reluctant to believe that hostilities will last more than a handful of weeks, she stays behind while the city falls under siege. As the assault deepens and everything they love is laid to waste, black ashes floating over the rooftops, Zora and her friends are forced to rebuild themselves, over and over. Theirs is a breathtaking story of disintegration, resilience and hope.
Author: Morris, Priscilla
Published: Richmond : Duckworth, 2023.
280 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (2 reviews)

Bourne End Community Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Adult fiction - Onloan - Due: 13 Aug 2024 - 95100000407166
Chalfont St Peter Community Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Adult fiction - In-transit from West Berkshire Mobile Library to Chalfont St Peter Community Library (Set: 05 Jul 2024) - 95100000411236
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Marlow Library - (Buckinghamshire Libraries) - Adult fiction - Onloan - Due: 13 Aug 2024 - 95100000407167