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1) Check & mate
Author
Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Mallory Greenleaf is done with chess. Every move counts nowadays; after the sport led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory's focus now is on them; and the dead-end job that keeps the lights on. That is, until she begrudgingly agrees to play in one last charity tournament and inadvertently wipes the board with notorious 'Kingkiller' Nolan Sawyer: current world champion and reigning Bad Boy of chess. Nolan's loss to an unknown...
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2023
Description
'Penguin Readers' is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.
4) Brooklyn
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2023
Description
'Penguin Readers' is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.
5) Delirium
Author
Publisher
Hodder
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Lena Haloway has always looked forward to the day when she'll be cured. A life without love is a life without pain: safe, measured, predictable, and happy. But then, with only 95 days left until her treatment, Lena does the unthinkable!
6) Afterlove
Author
Publisher
Hodder Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
THE LESBIAN LOVE STORY YOU'VE BEEN DYING TO READ. Ash Persaud is about to become a reaper in the afterlife, but she is determined to see her first love Poppy Morgan again - the only thing that separates them is death.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
The thrilling conclusion to the Chaos & Flame YA fantasy duology by New York Times bestselling authors Justina Ireland and Tessa Gratton - featuring ancient magic, a morally grey villain, and a smouldering enemies-to-lovers romance.Adapting to her new life as the legendary Phoenix, Darling Seabreak has a simple task ahead of her: control Chaos and gather her fellow empyreals, unite the warring great Houses and bring peace to Pyrlanum. As she struggles...
8) Grave mercy
Author
Series
His fair assassin volume 1
Publisher
Chivers Children's Audio
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Young, beautiful and deadly - trained as an assassin by the god of Death, Ismae is sent to the court of Brittany, where she finds herself underprepared; not only for the games of intrigue and treason, but for the impossible choices she must make.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Reading Group Set
When Holmes is visited by a distressed young woman one dark night, he listens intently as she tells him of her father's disappearance ten years before and how, four years after his death, she began to receive a large and beautiful pearl once a year every year. Now she has a letter from the person who sent her the pearls: they wish to meet her.