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1) Blackwater
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?Blackwater? was published as part of the Quick Reads initiative on World Book Day 2006. How do you know when you're in too deep? Davey has always lived in the shadow of his older brother, a smiling sociopath who will stop at nothing to protect himself and his family. But when the shadowy figure of Denis Tanter comes into Davey's life, how far will the bond of brotherhood reach?.
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Pub. Date
2020
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One of the Guardian's Top Ten Best New Books in Translation The sensational Dutch bestseller: Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's extraordinary portrait of a Dutch farming family distorted by grief, translated by Michele Hutchison. I asked God if he please couldn't take my brother Matthies instead of my rabbit. 'Amen.' Jas lives with her devout farming family in the rural Netherlands. One winter's day, her older brother joins an ice skating trip; resentful...
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2021
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The master of suspense is back. Prepare yourself for the latest heart-in-mouth rollercoaster ride from the Sunday Times bestseller. Two years ago, Fran's sister Jenna disappeared on a wellness retreat in Gozo that went terribly wrong. Tom Wade, the now infamous man behind Soul Shrink Retreats, has just been released from prison after serving his sentence for the deaths of two people. But he has never let on what happened to the third victim: Jenna....
4) Nutshell
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Nine months pregnant, Trudy lives in a London terraced house gone to seed. John, her husband, is not here - but his property-developing brother Claude is a regular visitor. Claude has seamy designs on both the house and his sister-in-law, and Trudy finds herself entranced by him. Soon the pair hatch a plan to permanently remove John from the scene by poisoning one of his favourite fruit smoothies. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive,...
6) Too small
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ReadZone Books Limited
Pub. Date
2015
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A younger, smaller brother discovers that he can do things his older, taller brother can't.
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Pub. Date
2016
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Manjunath Kumar is fourteen. He knows he is good at cricket - if not as good as his elder brother Radha. He knows that he fears and resents his domineering and cricket-obsessed father, admires his brilliantly talented sibling and is fascinated by the world of CSI and by curious and interesting scientific facts. But there are many things, about himself and about the world, that he doesn't know. Sometimes it seems as though everyone around him has a...
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Charlotte Drummond knows she has a duty to obey her father. Girls, especially well-bred upper-class ones, are expected to be submissive to the men in their lives. But Charlotte's father is a cruel man, viciously beating her and her brothers for the slightest reason. He even wants to marry her off, at just 16 years old, to a man she does not love. Lion-hearted Charlotte wants to defy him - but to protect her brothers from his fury she agrees to become...
10) My brother
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Egmont Books
Pub. Date
2018
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Celebrates a child's relationship with their brother through the Mr Men characters.
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Tilly's little brother Timmy used to be as good as gold. But now he makes all sorts of chaos during the night and won't go to sleep. It's the fault of his imaginary friend, Naughty Morgan. He's the boss around here now. Can Tilly find out how to tame Morgan before her parents are forced to sell Timmy on eBay?
12) Press play
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Egmont Books
Pub. Date
2016
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Three children try to follow their mom's recorded instructions to get ready in the morning.
14) Tom's tooth
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Watts
Pub. Date
2017
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A boy worries that the tooth fairy won't visit when he loses his tooth that has fallen out.
15) The price
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Penguin
Pub. Date
2009
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Victor, a New York cop nearing retirement, moves among furniture in the disused attic of a house marked for demolition. When his brother Walter arrives, the talk turns to the price that one and not the other of them paid when their father lost both his fortune and the will to go on.
16) Secret sister
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Pub. Date
2023
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When Asha discovers a secret about having a twin, she tries to find a way to contact her sister and piece together the truth about their past.
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
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Taking the listener on a journey from the dying embers of Edwardian England, through the trauma of two world wars, the hedonism of 1980s London and 'Cool Britannia' in the 1990s right up to the present day, One Hundred Summers is a portrait of a century as it was experienced by one extraordinary family. Along the way, Vanessa Branson recalls the rough and tumble of her chaotic but happy childhood; growing up alongside her older brother Richard, entrepreneurial...
18) The bunk bed
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Watts
Pub. Date
2018
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Brothers squabble over who gets which bed when their parents buy a bunk bed for them.
19) Lark
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Nicky and Kenny find themselves in danger when they get lost on the Yorkshire Moors in a snowstorm.
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Years ago, Lucy Barton, a successful New York writer, spent time in hospital, with her mother at the foot of her bed to keep her company. Avoiding the distance between them, they spoke at length about people from their home town, the rural, dusty town of Amgash, Illinois. Writing these stories, Lucy imagines the lives of the people that she especially remembers. And the people she has imagined that, in small ways, have remembered her too. For isn't...