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The 57 Bus

The 57 Bus
  • Author(s): Dashka Slater
  • Location(s): Oakland, California
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 2013, 21st century

Winner of the Stonewall Young Adult Literature Award One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter. One moment that changes both their lives forever. Two teenagers growing up in Oakland, California. One, Sasha, was born male but...

The Abandoned Baobab: The Autobiography of a Senegalese Woman

The Abandoned Baobab: The Autobiography of a Senegalese Woman
  • Author(s): Ken Bugul
  • Location(s): Senegal
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The subject of intense admiration – and not a little shock, when it was first published – “”The Abandoned Baobab”” has consistently captivated readers ever since. The book has been translated into numerous languages and was chosen by “”QBR...

The Abandoned Daughter

The Abandoned Daughter
  • Author(s): Mary Wood
  • Location(s): Dieppe
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

Will Ella ever find what she’s looking for? Voluntary nurse Ella is haunted by the soldiers’ cries she hears on the battlefields of Dieppe. But that’s not the only thing that haunts her. When her dear friend Jim breaks...

The Abersoch Killings

The Abersoch Killings
  • Location(s): Abersoch, Snowdonia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Keep your enemies close and your family closer… At his beachside mansion, with his large family and beautiful wife, Jack Rush celebrated his stepdaughter’s wedding: an extravagant, happy day. But that night, the movie producer is found in a...

The Abominables

The Abominables
  • Author(s): Eva Ibbotson, Jamie Littler (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Tibet
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

A classic from beloved author Eva Ibbotson – now with a brand-new cover from Jamie Littler. How do you smuggle a family of yetis from Tibet to England? When Agatha Farlingham is kidnapped by a yeti on a mountain...

The Absolute Book

The Absolute Book
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Knox
  • Location(s): London, Auckland, Norfolk, Wye Valley
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Taryn Cornick believes her sister Bea was deliberately run down and killed. She believes it so hard she allows a man called the Muleskinner to exact the justice Bea was denied. An eye for an eye. Which is when...

The Abstainer

The Abstainer
  • Author(s): Ian McGuire
  • Location(s): Manchester
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1860s

Manchester, 1867: Stephen Doyle, an Irish-American veteran of the Civil War, arrives from New York with a thirst for blood. He has joined the Fenians, a secret society intent on ending British rule in Ireland by any means necessary....

The Abyss

The Abyss
  • Author(s): Marguerite Yourcenar
  • Location(s): Bruges
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Medieval

Marguerite Yourcenar instantly assumes command of our imagination in her novel The Abyss. Almost before we know it the author establishes a scene and time, and engages us in the fate of two cousins.

The Academy

The Academy
  • Author(s): Elin Hilderbrand, Shelby Cunningham
  • Location(s): New England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Secrets, rumours, and dangerous liaisons – at an elite New England boarding school, they come with the territory. It’s move-in day at Tiffin Academy and amidst the happy chaos of friends reuniting, selfies uploading, and cars unloading, shocking news...

The Acapulco

The Acapulco
  • Author(s): Simone Buchholz, Rachel Ward (translator)
  • Location(s): Hamburg
  • Genre(s): Thriller, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A serial killer is on the loose in Hamburg, targeting dancers from The Acapulco, a club in the city’s red-light district, taking their scalps as gruesome trophies and replacing them with plastic wigs. Chastity Riley is the state prosecutor responsible...

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