Books Young Adult Books A dark psychological thriller about obsession, manipulation, & those friendships which take hold of you & never let you go. Tic tac toe, three girls in a row. Nine years old & inseparable. Friends for life, or so they think.  Best friends Syd, Rain & Brie grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in the stifling California desert, desperately wishing for a way out.  In the end, each of them will escape, but not in the way they expect. One will do it by dying, another by lying, a third by taking the fall. A deadly fire is set two weeks before the end of their senior year of high school & nothing will ever be the same.  With gorgeous, taut prose & shocking twists, All the Best Liars will keep you guessing to the very last page. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781529510553 • Author: Amelia Kahaney • Publisher: Walker Books • Format: Paperback • Pages: 352 • Dimensions: 12.9 x 2.1 x 19.8cm   ...

FBI agent Reed Markham is haunted by one painful unsolved mystery: who murdered his mother? Camilla was brutally stabbed to death more than forty years ago while baby Reed lay in his crib mere steps away.

The trail went so cold that the Las Vegas Police Department has given up hope of solving the case.

But then a shattering family secret changes everything Reed knows about his origins, his murdered mother, & his powerful adoptive father, state senator Angus Markham.

Now Reed has to wonder if his mothers killer is uncomfortably close to home.

Reed enlists his friend, suspended cop Ellery Hathaway, to join his quest in Vegas.

Ellery has experience with both troubled families & diabolical murderers, having narrowly escaped from each of them.

Far from home & relying only on each other, Reed & Ellery discover young Camilla had snared the attention of dangerous men, any of whom might have wanted to shut her up for good.

They start tracing his twisted family history, knowing the path leads back to a vicious killer
- one who has been hiding in plain sight for forty years & isnt about to give up now.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781789090581
• Author: Joanna Schaffhausen
• Publisher: Titan Books
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 336
• Dimensions: 19.8 x 2.2 x 13 cm
























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Pithy put-downs, hard-boiled snarlings, words of love & regret... All the Best Lines presents 500 memorable movie"es, embracing both one-liners (My name is Pussy Galore) & slices of snappy dialogue from pictures as diverse as When Harry Met Sally & Pulp Fiction. Arranged under such timeless themes as Dreams, Friends, Libido & Memories, the"es juxtapose films & stars from every era & every genre. Dotted throughout the text are feature capsules focusing on themes & stories in the movies from Goldwynisms to Mae West, plus a generous scattering of cinema anecdotes, making the book both a joy to browse & an authoritative reference. Lavishly illustrated with full-colour photographs, All the Best Lines will delight & entertain you in equal measure, reacquainting you with your favourite movies & introducing you to some forgotten classics. Anyone who loves the movies will be delighted to find it in their Christmas stocking. ...

Books Young Adult Books A compelling & beautiful story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who's drawn to death -  Now a major Netflix film starring Elle Fanning & Justice Smith. Theodore Finch tries to look for good things in the world, even if sometimes he doesn't always find them. violet Markey exists for the future, counting the days until she can escape her Indiana town & its painful memories of her sister. When they meet on the ledge of a tower, what might have been their end turns into their beginning. It's only with violet that Finch can truly be himself
- a funny guy who actually wants to experience the joy in life. & when violet's with Finch, she forgets to wish away the days & starts to live them. But as violet's world grows, Finch's begins to shrink. He's trying to cling on to his bright places, but will it be enough this time? Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9780141357034 •†Author:   Jennifer Niven •†Publisher:   Penguin •†Format:   Paperbac...
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Books Contemporary Fiction Books From the author of the globally bestselling, multi-million-copy classic, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, comes its astonishing & powerful sequel. Gretel Fernsby is a quiet woman leading a quiet life. She doesn't talk about her escape from Germany seventy years ago or the dark post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn't talk about her father, the commandant of one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps. But when a young family moves into the apartment below her, Gretel can't help but befriend their little boy, Henry, though his presence brings back painful memories. One night, she witnesses a violent argument between his parents, which threatens to disturb her hard-won peace. For the second time in her life, Gretel is given the chance to save a young boy. To do so would allay her guilt, grief & remorse, but it will also force her to reveal her true identity. Will she make a different choice this time, whatever the cost to herself?   Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781529176131 •†Author: John Boyne  •†Publisher:†  Penguin •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:† 384 •†Dimensions:† 12.7 x 2.3 x 19.8 cm ...

A beautiful June day in the Yorkshire Dales, & a group of children are spending the last of their half-term freedom swimming in the river near Hindswell Woods. But the idyll is shattered by their discovery of a mans body, hanging from a tree. DI Annie Cabott soon discovers he is Mark Hardcastle, the well-liked & successful set designer for the Eastvale Theatres current production of Othello. Everything points to suicide, & Annie is mystified. Why would such a man want to take his own life? Then Annies investigation leads to another shattering discovery, & DCI Alan Banks is called back from the idyllic weekend he had planned with his new girlfriend. Banks soon finds himself plunged into a shadow-world where nothing is what it seems, where secrets & deceit are the norm, & where murder is seen as the solution to a problem. The deeper he digs the more he discovers that the monster he has awakened will extend its deadly reach to his friends & family. Nobody is safe. ...

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Any visitor in Bicho Raro, Colorado, can find a landscape of dark saints, forbidden love, estranged affections, one or two orphans & a sky full of watchful desert stars.

At the heart of this place you can find the Soria family & the three cousins longing to change the familys future...

.. . Beatriz, Daniel & Joaquin.

All looking for a miracle, they soon realise Bicho Raro miracles are never quite what you expect.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781407164793
• Author: Maggie Stiefvater
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 311
• Dimensions: 21.5 x 15 x 2.5cm















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In settings that range from small town Illinois to the Upper East Side of Manhattan, this title

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' The whole world is full of dead things, ' said Esther. ' In every bush there is a bird, a butterfly, a mouse. Someone must be kind & look after them. Someone must make a sacrifice & see that all these things are buried.' ' Who must?' I asked. ' We must, ' she said. Esther was very brave. I was little & scared. ...