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Tonight, inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art – somewhere between the hours of 8 PM and 5 AM – Auden Peck will fall in love with Miki Kawamura. That’s Miki’s plan anyway. And the plan is destiny. Her grandparents fell in love after accidentally being locked in the Met overnight in 1965. And so now, after too many almost-confessions, hopeless romantic Miki will finally tell her best friend Auden that she loves him by retracing her grandparents’ love story through the museum’s hallowed halls. But destiny has other plans. Because it’s not Auden who joins Miki on her midnight tour – it’s Lou McSweeney. The world’s most jaded cynic – and Miki’s ex. How can she possibly bare her heart to Auden when she’s stuck sparring with the boy who broke it? Is her masterpiece of a plan truly written in the stars? Or will the night paint a wholly different picture?
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Cassie lives in Oak Falls, where the holiday season is about ice skating in the snow, browsing the Christmas market, and curling up in front a log fire with a hot chocolate. Cassie’s been feeling left behind since her friends went away to college, and is counting down the days until they – and her on/off boyfriend – come home for Christmas break. She’s been hoping for a romantic reunion with Tom under the mistletoe, so she’s crushed when he announces he’s met someone new at college. Then Cassie’s dad offers to buy her last-minute flights to visit him in Australia and she’s faced with a decision. In alternating chapters see Cassie live both versions of her choice – and two different versions of falling in love. Cassie could stay at home and try to win Tom back – or even get to know her cute new friend Jack the Christmas tree seller a little better. Or she could spend the holidays in Australia, enjoying barbecues on the beach and learning
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It's autumn in Lake Pristine! Get ready to fall in love in this fake-dating romance from Elle McNicoll, award-winning author of Wish You Were Her.
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Better Than the Movies, Lynn Painter, comes a rags-to-riches rom-com about a small-town girl whose family inherits a fortune and moves to New York City, where she meets a big-city boy hiding an explosive secret.
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Mercy Gray Harding’s troubles started in the swampland on the outskirts of town – that’s where a mist wolf viciously murdered her father. She enlists a monster hunter named Jonah to put the creature down, but the plan quickly falls apart. When the incorporeal beast tries to attack Mercy, it instead possesses her. Now Mercy’s human and wolfish sides grapple for control, and she is haunted by the memories of both. Jonah promises to free her from the monster, and the two set off for a cure. But the open road is full of untold danger, and her new wolfish powers come in handy.
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Elizabeth married Mr Darcy; Jane married Mr Bingley; Lydia married Mr Wickham. But what happened to the forgotten Bennet sisters? Six months after ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ Mary is stuck at home with her parents. So, when an opportunity arises that will take her to far away India, Mary jumps at the chance for independence and adventure. Meanwhile, Kitty has been flitting between the estates of her sisters, searching for a suitable husband at every ball and dinner. When Mary sets off to India, Kitty’s disappointment at returning home is tempered by the revelation that a new tenant has come to Netherfield Park – handsome poet Mr Whittaker. He seems like the perfect husband for Kitty, but will he end up being everything she hoped? Through letters and journals we learn to understand and love the forgotten Bennet sisters.
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Norah Sullivan has just discovered she’s a navigator: a person who can manipulate probability. The same day Norah’s navigation manifests, she and her father are swarmed by possibility beasts. When a possibility beast bites you, your risk of death skyrockets. And pretty soon, her father gets sick. Desperate to find a cure, Norah applies to the Academy of Navigation, where there are rumours of restricted information on beast bites hidden in research archives. Once on campus, Norah learns that only senior research assistants are allowed in the archives – and you can only become one by winning a team trial designed to push your navigation abilities to the brink She’ll need to rely on her roommates, as well as her peer mentor, the handsome Vik Souza, to win the competition. As Norah gets deeper into the competition, she realises not everything is as it seems, and the stakes are much higher than she ever could have imagined.
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A contemporary and diverse Sense & Sensibility spin-off by Waterstones prize shortlistee Christine Pillainayagam
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Sunrise on the Reaping takes place over the 50th Hunger Games.
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REBELLION HAPPENS IN THE SHADOWS
Vivien Featherswallow has uncovered the secret language of dragons. Now can she use it to end a war?
The extraordinary sequel to the instant #1 Sunday Times Bestseller, A Language of Dragons
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In a world where disease, war and crime have been eliminated the only way to die is to be randomly killed by professional scythes. Citra and Rowan are teenagers who have been selected to be scythes’ apprentices, and despite wanting nothing to do with the vocation, they must learn the art of killing and understand the necessity of what they do. Only one of them will be chosen as a scythe’s apprentice and as Citra and Rowan come up against a terrifyingly corrupt Scythedom, it becomes clear that the winning apprentice’s first task will be to kill the loser.
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Sixteen-year-old Ashlyn Threadneedle lives a double life in a world where dreams are more real than ever before. By day she works as a government messenger, by night she escapes into vivid, lucid dreams, navigating a world called the Stream. When her long-dead mother appears in a dream, Ashlyn is thrown into a world where time bends and thoughts are weaponized. She joins The Corvi Signum, a secret society of dreamers who are fighting to protect the Stream. But their fight is against a powerful enemy who wants to control it, manipulate people’s thoughts, and seize control of London. Join Ashlyn as she navigates a world of dreams and danger, where the only way to save her friends and fight for freedom is to change the past.
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When aspiring crime journalist Fliss Keller uncovers a disturbing self-portrait of a man at an estate sale, her Art History professor dad buys it, despite how unsettled Fliss feels. The portrait has been lost for decades and completes a set of four existing paintings of women by the same artist already hanging in the town’s gallery. That evening, the portrait falls to the floor, revealing paperwork inside the frame that suggests the artist was a serial killer and that the women depicted were his victims. Despite her alarm, Fliss vows to investigate and uncover the truth. But when a series of gruesome murders rock the community, and some think the resurrection of the self-portrait has unleashed a curse, Fliss knows better than to believe them. There are shocking similarities between the poses of the modern-day murders and the painted women, and she’s sure there’s a copycat killer on the loose.
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In the middle of the night, Liv Walker is kidnapped from her bedroom by two masked figures. As she’s dragged into an unmarked van, she’s met with an even more horrifying sight: her family are waving goodbye. Camp Smiling Skies is a wilderness therapy camp for ‘troubled teens’. At least, that’s what it says in the brochure. In truth, it’s filled with dark secrets, cruel counsellors and no chance of escape. Things seem as bad as they can get, until, one by one, people start to die. Liv has already been betrayed by her family, but it seems like they’re not the only traitors in her life. There’s a murderer in the camp, and everyone’s a suspect.
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Margo is on a train to a new boarding school when she slips into another dimension, passing from the height of Irish summer into the chill of an alien winter, from a 24-hour day to one that begins and ends in just six hours. From a stranger on the train – a travelling salesman by the name of Moon – she learns that New Davia is part of a world scarred by uprisings, travel bans and world sealings. Power is determined by time – who has it, who doesn’t, and who has the freedom to travel between time zones. Can Margo find a way to get back home – or will she choose to stay in a world where her teenagehood is slipping away faster than ever before, but where she may have found the only person with whom she would choose to spend eternity?
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