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Hugo is travelling to his friend Dorian's home planet, Hydrox, for the holidays. Although thrilled at the invitation, Hugo is still astonished that Duke Dorian, could possibly be friends with a humble android watchmaker like him. But when the pair land on Hydrox, Hugo discovers that there are much bigger problems afoot. A race of butterflies have evacuated their now-uninhabitable planet, and Hydrox is struggling to find space for the refugees. Meanwhile,...
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The night that Heathcliff, an unkempt orphan, arrives at the Heights, Cathy's life will change for ever but theirs will not be a happy love story. From a harsh childhood to a foolish marriage, a troubled path of pain and punishment lies ahead. Yet no matter how they suffer, they cannot stay apart for whatever souls are made of, Cathy's and Heathcliff's are the same. After all these years, will Cathy s ghost find the peace that life denied her?
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When a man returns to his childhood home and visits the derelict tree house in which his father once chose to live, he recalls the past unravelling of his family, the unspoken strangeness of their lives, and the impact on his own adult life.
4) Firebird
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Lionacleit Library - Teenage
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Nastia is no traitor. She is a daring pilot, the daughter of revolutionaries, and now, as the Second World War descents on Russia, she must fight to save the glorious Motherland. But all is not as it seems, and when the battles begin, secrets are revealed and everything that she once knew is challenged.
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Welton Blake has done it! He's asked out Carmella McKenzie - the best-looking girl in school - and she's only gone and said yes! But just as he thinks his luck is starting to change, Welton's phone breaks, kick-starting a series of unfortunate and humiliating events. With bullies to avoid, girls ready to knock him out and all the drama with his mum and dad, life for Welton is about to go very, very wrong. Hilarity follows disaster in this sharp-witted...
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It's just a little blip. Violet's mum hasn't been herself for a while. A few too many glasses of wine in the evening. Mornings when she can't get out of bed. Now Violet's the one looking after her little brother and looking out for empty bottles in Mum's bag.
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An arranged marriage interferes with star-crossed love in this sweeping medieval romance from Sally Nicholls - perfectly pitched for struggling teen readers.
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Feeling betrayed when her long-term foster placement breaks down, Amy is sent to live with a new family, the Dawsons. Although initially reluctant to trust them, she eventually starts to let down her guard. But just when it seems like she's found her forever family, she hears a telephone call that suggests things aren't going to work out. Will Amy be abandoned again - or does she dare hope that she might finally have found home?
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Critically acclaimed author Elizabeth Wein returns with a thrilling, female-led aviation adventure set against the backdrop of Hitler's Germany and the last days of the Nazi regime.
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Frustrated by his environmental activist mother's refusal to talk about his father, a teenage boy learns an uncomfortable truth about him as a series of events lead to him finding out who he is.
11) One shot
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After the death of her beloved father, Maggie and her family are thrown into a life of destitution. With little income and no way to live off their poor land, Maggie tries to provide for her family the way her father always had - with his hunting rifle and whatever animals the forest would provide. But when her mother is confronted with her 'unladylike' behaviour, Maggie is thrown into a life of unthinkable cruelty and abuse. With no one to care for...
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Castlebay Library - Teenage
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Miri is fourteen and in the last year she's been mugged by puberty. She's grown six inches, expanded in all directions, her breasts are out of control, and she's prone to random eruptions of spots. Life already feels like a nightmare and now she's been asked to act as a bridesmaid for two of her siblings. Two weddings and two bridesmaid dresses - could things get any worse? Of course they could. Her brother is getting married to brittle, beautiful...
13) Tilly's promise
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Castlebay Library - Teenage
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Tilly is a young nurse doing her best to help in the war effort. When she hears her brother Georgie must go to the front line in France she is devastated. Georgie isn't like other people - he has learning difficulties and doesn't understand what the war means. Tilly asks her sweetheart Harry to keep Georgie safe. But they soon learn that the nature of war makes any promise hard to keep.
14) Trapped
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Lionacleit Library - Teenage
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When the singing-club trip ends in disaster, leaving the coach hanging over the edge of a precipice and Hailey trapped at the back with none other than her nemesis and her crush, she is forced to re-examine the relationships she has with them both.
15) Wrath
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Cassie Cotton has always been unusual, a bit different - but this only makes her more intriguing to her classmate Fitz. Cassie can hear a noise that most people don't notice or recognise, and she believes it's a sound that shows the Earth is in distress, damaged by human activity that is causing climate change. When this belief leads to her being ridiculed and bullied at school, Cassie disappears. Fitz is determined to find her, but he has no idea...