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When American teenager, Morgan Taylor, arrives to spend the summer with her British cousins, all anyone knows is that an accident has left her scarred inside and out. But Morgan is hiding a secret she’ll do anything to keep. Then the town’s hottest surfer, Cal Heyward, saves her life and suddenly the truth about her past feels harder than ever to hide. To escape, Morgan takes a job at a stableyard, hoping that horses will heal her as they’ve done so often before. But everything changes when she’s asked to help Night Dancer, a horse with his own dark history.
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There are rules to first dates: don’t talk about your ex, do ask lots of questions, always meet in a public place. Digby Coombe-Watson didn’t think they applied to him. He had other worries: how to get rid of his great-grandfather’s crumbling property, and whether his family would let him. So he ignored the rules, and invited someone in. Now he’s dead. And he won’t be the last.
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It’s 1941 and the Second World War has transformed London. All the adults are doing important things and playing their part. Jimmy and his friends want to be in the thick of the action, doing whatever they can to keep the East End safe. So they form a top-secret group called the Cobb Street Commandos. Houses become hidden headquarters for official CSC meetings. Abandoned warehouses turn into their personal training grounds. They create helmets from cardboard and training tools from old scraps of wood. They know how to be creative and are more than ready for battle. The only thing missing is a mission for them – until now, that is. Join Jimmy and his friends in action-packed adventures around the city as they raise money for Spitfire planes, train alongside soldiers and go on daring missions to meet the prime minister – Winston Churchill himself!
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In lines perfectly constructed and as beautiful as they are plain-spoken, Philip Larkin found a way of delineating our most difficult emotions – giving them back to us in images and formulations that help us both comprehend and contain ourselves.
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High in the mountains of western Scotland, there is a loch, and on its shores there is a castle, and in that castle there is a school. Stormy Loch Academy is like no other teaching establishment. For one, its headmaster, Major Fortescue, believes in sharing the beauty of the world with his students, so that they will have the courage to fight for it. For Minna, Kass and Tom it proves to be the safe haven from their chaotic home lives, giving them all a chance to breathe freely, and to roam the valleys and lakes on their doorstep. But then they come across Addie, an older ex-student, hiding out in the wild, with only her guitar and her dog for company. At first they believe her stories, but when she goes missing, the lies she has told start to emerge. With Addie at risk, Minna, Kass and Tom must travel to London to uncover her past. The journey is dangerous, especially for those so young.
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On a Yorkshire farm, a man is brutally bludgeoned with a solid gold bar. A plucky young journalist sets out to uncover the truth surrounding the attack, connecting the dots between an amoral banker landlord, an iconoclastic columnist, and a radical anarchist movement. She solves the mystery, but her viral longread exposé raises more questions than it answers. ‘Universality’ is a twisty, slippery descent into the rhetoric of truth and power. Through a voyeuristic lens, it focuses in on words: what we say, how we say it, and what we really mean.
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From the streets of Petrograd during the heady autumn of 1917 to Mao’s stunning victory in October 1949, and Fidel’s triumphant arrival in Havana, in January 1959, the history of the twentieth century was transformed in dramatic and profound ways by the Russian, Chinese and Cuban revolutions. Here, the stories of these epoch-defining events are told together.
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Mika is about to turn twenty-five, and all she has to show for it is a soul-sucking office job and a terminal case of virginity. Between the pervy salarymen she works with and the pretty boys she pines after, Mika is ready to explode. But it’s summer in Tokyo, AKA peacock season. Time to strut her stuff. So when her certified Hot Girl bestie sends her the invite for an upcoming beach party, Mika clicks ‘attending’. Just when she thinks real life is never going to live up to the wild fantasies her imagination cooks up, someone new catches her eye. It could be limerence, or the beginning of something much less one-sided.
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The caravan was in a field behind a hedge. And beyond the hedge was the sea. The caravan smelled old and damp. The caravan smelled like you were on holiday. Eoin lives with his Nana, and every year they make their way to their caravan for the whole of the summer. There Eoin has the freedom to go off with his friends for hours on end, and to roam the beach. One day the waves come up really high – will they get through to the other side? A warm, cosy story full of laughter and adventure about one epic summer spent in a caravan. Based on the author’s own childhood, the book offers homage to alternative families.
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Trinidad, 1980: Dawn Bishop, aged 16, leaves her home and journeys across the sea to Venezuela. There, she gives birth to a baby girl, and leaves her with nuns to be given up for adoption. Dawn tries to carry on with her life – a move to England, a marriage, a career, two sons, a divorce – but through it all, she still thinks of the child she had in Venezuela, and of what might have been. Then, forty years later, a woman from an internet forum gets in touch. She says that she might be Dawn’s long-lost daughter, stirring up a complicated mix of feelings: could this be the person to give form to all the love and care a mother has left to give?
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Chuck and Joey meet in a bar. He’s in his mid-thirties; she’s twelve years younger. He’s long-abandoned his ambition of being a novelist, and works as a copywriter at a big ad agency. ‘Lead copywriter,’ he corrects himself. Joey’s living paycheck to paycheck on her barista wages, and privately dreams of making it as a poet. They go back to Chuck’s luxury flat-a world away from Joey’s cramped house-share, the crumbs in her bed. Soon, Joey’s imagining a future between them and Chuck’s moving on from a major change in his recent past. Amazing, how meeting a new person can make you feel so new.
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Elvis loves the circus life – the thrills, the skills, the treats, the wide-eyed crowds that cheer out loud, the rows of polished seats. But Sidney, the ringmaster, only lets fluffy and feathery animals perform on stage! Can Elvis the crocodile show his star potential?
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A woman recalls the time her grandfather claimed to have met Jesus. A professional musician travels across the world and through her memories with a violin older than the USA. A young Belfast theatre troupe brings their experimental production of Hamlet to New York. Transporting and profound, these are stories of love, grief, and the ways that lives can be haunted.
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Mia and Inés: two girls enveloped in love, trapped by social conventions of Casablanca at the dawn of the 21st century and silenced by the political ‘truths’ that envelop their lives. Mia – the older sister, a warrior and a pariah, her sexuality a matter of scorn, a truth to be erased. Inés – the little sister, a woman trying to carve out an identity in a Paris that derides and erases her with no way back to Morocco, a homeland her father has warned her never to return for her own sake. As these sisters struggle to find a home, a place of safety and love that holds rather than binds, this story of their lives becomes a battle for their hearts and souls.
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‘On Revolution’ is the great political thinker Hannah Arendt’s classic exploration of a phenomenon that has radically reshaped the world. Exploring the eighteenth-century rebellions in America and France through to the explosive political upheavals of the twentieth-century, ‘On Revolution’ is essential reading for anyone seeking to decipher the forces that have shaped our tumultuous age.
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Titan Pterodactyl is the terror of the skies, he flaps about and scares us all with loud and squawky cries! Won’t you come and help us Reg? We need you! What d’you say? Titan’s just unstoppable – and heading right this way! When Titan Pterodactyl begins to terrorise the other dinos, mud-slinging and dive-bombing, Reg and Lou use all their best moves to foil him. Luckily they have been eating their veg and are strong, fit and healthy – and happily Titan was only trying to be cool – he just wanted to join their healthy fun!
