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1529058309 
Book 
Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Book
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Originally published: 2008 We need some long grass, tall trees, an enormous elephant, lots of noisy monkeys and all kinds of creepy crawlies. Young children children will love discovering why all these things are needed in this book by the author of the best-selling 'Dear Zoo'.
22 unnumbered pages, chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 18 cm (hbk)
0241469716 
Paperback 
Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Limited
Resource type: Physical
Note: Do you want to know what it really takes to be a web-slinging, wisecracking, fearless super hero? Why did Spider-Man become a super hero? What are his webs made of and why are they so strong? How is he able to stick to walls? This book will answer these questions and many more in an engaging and funny book for young readers.
127 pages, illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm (pbk)
0241443997 
Paperback
Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: It is 20 years in 2021 since Malorie Blackman's groundbreaking series began with 'Noughts & Crosses', which charted the deeply forbidden romance between Sephy (a Cross) and Callum (a Nought) - a love affair which had repercussions for their families for generations. 'Endgame', the breathtaking conclusion to the series, influenced by the unprecedented global events of recent years, is full of twists and turns and emotions, with its incredible characters reaching a dramatic conclusions to their stories.
468 pages, illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm (pbk)
0571368093 
Paperback
Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Faber
Resource type: Physical
Note: Originally published: New York: Celadon Books When a young writer dies before completing his first novel, his teacher, Jake, (himself a failed novelist) helps himself to its plot. The resulting book is a phenomenal success, but Jake worries: what if somebody out there knows? Somebody does. As Jake is increasingly tormented by accusations and threats, he learns more about his former student and the source of his marvellous plot - one that, it transpires, is an actual person's actual story. That actual person is furious. The closer Jake gets to the real people he's fictionalised, the more violence he unearths; if he can't figure out who he's dealing with, he risks something far worse than the loss of his career.
322 pages ; 20 cm (pbk)
0008404003 
Hardback
Year: 2020
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Harper Voyager
Resource type: Physical
Note: In the humid jungles of Ixachipan, a war has been raging for fifty years as the Pechaqueh, by order of their supreme ruler the Singer, conquer their neighbouring tribes and bring them into the glory of the Empire of Songs. Only the Yaloh and their neighbours, the Tokob of the hills, remain. Meanwhile, the Tokob fight a second war - against the Drowned. Clawed and fanged humanoid predators who dwell in water, luring unwary victims to their deaths. As the Pechaqueh army advances ever closer, conquering Yaloh land and taking its people as slaves to the glory of the Singer and their gods, the Tokob must find a way to survive the war and the waters both. But within their home, the Sky City, not everyone is who they seem, and one people's gods are another's monsters.
400 pages ; 24 cm (hbk)
0241480728 
Paperback
Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: 'The Inheritance Games' ended with a bombshell, and now heiress Avery Grambs has to pick up the pieces and find the man who might hold the answers to all of her questions - including why Tobias Hawthorne left his entire fortune to Avery, a virtual stranger, rather than to his own daughters or grandsons. As the mystery grows and the plot thickens, Grayson and Jameson, the enigmatic and magnetic Hawthorne grandsons, continue to pull Avery in different directions. And there are threats lurking around every corner, as adversaries emerge who will stop at nothing to see Avery out of the picture - by any means necessary.
358 pages ; 20 cm (pbk)
0857526219 
Hardback
Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Doubleday
Resource type: Physical
Note: What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. At once, a gateway to other worlds - and a treacherous weapon in the hands of the unwary, the unwitting, the inept. The Cleverley family live a gilded life, little realising how precarious their privilege is, just one tweet away from disaster. George, the patriarch, is a stalwart of television interviewing, a 'national treasure' (his words), his wife Beverley, a celebrated novelist (although not as celebrated as she would like), and their children, Nelson, Elizabeth, Achilles, various degrees of catastrophe waiting to happen. Together they will go on a journey of discovery through the Hogarthian jungle of the modern living where past presumptions count for nothing and carefully curated reputations can be destroyed in an instant.
419 pages ; 24 cm (hbk)
1529356555 
Hardback
Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Resource type: Physical
Note: Shiori'anma, the only princess of Kiata, has a secret. Forbidden magic runs through her veins. Normally she conceals it well, but on the morning of her betrothal ceremony, Shiori loses control. At first, her mistake seems like a stroke of luck, forestalling the wedding she never wanted, but it also catches the attention of Raikama, her stepmother. A sorceress in her own right, Raikama banishes the young princess, turning her brothers into cranes, and warning Shiori that she must speak of it to no one: for with every word that escapes her lips, one of her brothers will die. Penniless, voiceless, and alone, Shiori searches for her brothers, and uncovers a dark conspiracy to seize the throne. Only Shiori can set the kingdom to rights, but to do so she must place her trust in a paper bird, a mercurial dragon, as well as the very boy she fought so hard not to marry.
454 pages, map (black and white) ; 25 cm (hbk)
152910341X 
Paperback
Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Ebury Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: Originally published: 2020 Meet Maria. Maria doesn't see herself as a criminal. She's just a farmhand picking the crops that never lose money: coca. This is Cachote. He prays to the Virgin of the Assassins that his bullets find their target. If he misses, he'll have to answer to the cartel who pay him to take out their enemies. Pedro works the coca labs. But this laboratory is hidden deep in the jungle, and he turns coca leaves in to coca paste, a step just short of cocaine. And finally, here is Alex. Alex is a drug-lord and decides where the drug goes next: into Europe or the US. And he wields the power of life and death over everyone around him. In this book, Toby Muse takes us deeper into the mechanism of the drug trade than ever before, following a kilo of cocaine as it travels from its origins to the street.
xi, 301 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates, illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm (pbk)
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0860685241 
Paperback 
Year: 2007
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Edition: [New ed.] ; introduced by Zadie Smith /and with an afterword by Sherley Anne Williams
Publisher: Virago
Resource type: Physical
Note: At the age of 16, Janie is caught kissing the shiftless Johnny Taylor, so her grandmother quickly marries her off to an old man with 60 acres. Refusing to compromise in spite of society's expectations, Janie endures two stifling marriages before meeting the man of her dreams.
xxiv, 272 p. ; 20 cm (pbk)
0241972930 
Paperback
Year: 2015
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Originally published: New York: Viking Penguin, 2010 Ella Rubinstein is 40 years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a literary agent. She comes across an ancient Sufi manuscript and suddenly her life is transformed.
350 pages ; 20 cm (pbk)
0582823064 
Paperback
Year: 2004
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Resource type: Physical
Note: Previous ed.: 1998 Includes bibliographical references
151p
0582506204 
Paperback
Year: 2002
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Resource type: Physical
Note: Previous ed.: 1998
119p
P000198104 
eBook
Year: 2019
Language: English
Media class: eBook
Publisher: Penguin Books
Resource type: Electronic material
Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed. Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love. So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life and love, she is shocked out of herself. Turning her back on her family she embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author of this work.
1 online resource (audio files (12 hr., 1 min., 18 sec.)) : digital, stereo (audio download)
057301356X 
Book
Year: 1936
Media class: Book
Publisher: Samuel French
Resource type: Physical
Note: The drawing-room of three different houses
1444949950 
Hardback
Year: 2019
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Hodder
Resource type: Physical
Note: A fresh, funny and accessible retelling of Jane Austen's best-known story, with witty black and white illustrations throughout. Elizabeth Bennet is the second eldest in a family of five daughters. Although their mother is very keen to see them all married to wealthy men, Elizabeth is determined that she will only ever marry for love. At a ball, Elizabeth meets Mr Darcy, who at first she believes is proud and haughty. But perhaps there is more to him than first meets the eye.
244 pages ; 21 cm (hbk)
1843440717 
Paperback
Year: 2013
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Pulp! The Classics
Resource type: Physical
Note: 'Pride and Prejudice' is one of the best loved and most intimately known of Jane Austen's novels. Her sense of comedy and satire makes this an enduring classic of English literature.
352p ; 18cm
1800900244 
Paperback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Barrington Stoke
Resource type: Physical
Note: Witty, intelligent Elizabeth Bennet has no desire for a marriage of convenience. And when she meets the handsome, wealthy Mr Darcy, her opinion of him is quickly set: he is aloof, selfish and proud - the last man in the world she would ever marry. Until their paths cross again, and again, and the pair begin to realise that first impressions can be flawed. But as Elizabeth and Darcy become entangled in a dance through the strict hierarchies of society, will there be space for true love to bloom?
129 pages ; 20 cm (pbk)
191121456X 
Hardback
Year: 2016
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Resource type: Physical
Note: In this gloriously funny, touching story of baby-deadline panic, maternal bliss, and social, professional, technological, culinary and childbirth chaos, Bridget Jones - global phenomenon and the world's favourite Singleton - is back with a bump.
216 pages ; 21 cm
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