Old School: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (BK10) by Jeff Kinney
Category: Fiction | Series: Diary of a Wimpy Kid | Reading Level: very good
In the tenth book, more bad luck follows Greg Heffley in Jeff Kinney's laugh out loud series! I really don't understand why Mom thinks we need to go BACKWARDS, anyway. From what I can tell, the old days weren't that much fun. Life was better in the old days. Or was it? That's the question Greg Heffley ...Show more
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Now a major motion picture by Lynne Ramsay, starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly, Lionel Shriver's resonant story of a mother's unsettling quest to understand her teenage son's deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, and the explosive link between them reverberates with the haunting ...Show more
Things I Need You to Know by Mark Lamprell
Category: Fiction
A brilliantly observed novel about families and secrets, from acclaimed writer and film director Mark Lamprell. You don't know what you've got till it's gone. Birdie McBride seems to have it all- a fulfilling and lucrative job, five healthy daughters and a doting husband, Ned, at home keeping the family ...Show more
The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
Category: Fiction
***The No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller and the overall bestselling novel of 2017***PEOPLE ARE CAPABLE OF ALMOST ANYTHING.'Meticulously crafted and razor-sharp. THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR lingers long after you turn the final page? HARLAN COBENFast-paced and addictive, THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR announces a major new ...Show more
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Very good
Sarajevo: a city under siege. As the mortars fall and the snipers conduct their deadly business, a cellist sits at his window, playing Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor. Then a bomb kills twenty-two people waiting in line to buy bread on the street below. For the next twenty-two days he will carry his cello ...Show more
The Encircling Sea (#2 Vindolanda) by Adrian Goldsworthy
Category: Fiction | Series: Vindolanda
AD 100: Flavius Ferox, Briton and Roman centurion, is finding it hard to keep the peace. Based at Vindolanda - an army fort on the northern frontier of Britannia and the entire Roman world - he feels the eyes of his enemies on him at all hours. Ambitious leaders sense a chance to carve out empires of t ...Show more
Sandwich by Catherine Newman
Category: Fiction
One week in Cape Cod. The perfect family holiday. What could possibly go wrong...? From the author of We All Want Impossible Things, a raucously funny novel with an unexpected punch about being 'sandwiched' between growing children and ageing parents and the power of change. From the bestselling author ...Show more
Go as a River by Shelley Read
Category: Fiction
For fans of WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING, GREAT CIRCLE and THE PAPER PALACE- lush, immersive, soaring tale of a young woman's journey to becoming, of love and loss, home and resilience, and finding those where least expected, and a breathtaking exploration of our connection to nature. On a cool autumn mornin ...Show more
Dark Mode by Ashley Kalagian Blunt
Category: Crime | Thriller
Once you’re online, there’s nowhere to hide Is it paranoia – or is someone watching? For years, Reagan Carsen has kept her life offline. No socials. No internet presence. No photos. Safe. Until the day she stumbles on a shocking murder in a Sydney laneway. The victim looks just like her. Coinci ...Show more
Smoke by Michael Brissenden
Category: Crime | Thriller
'The best crime book I've read this year.'Chris Hammer 'The best crime book I've read this year. Kept me guessing right to the end. The setting is brilliant, the characters compelling, the writing elegant, the plot bewitching, the tension palpable. A winner.'Chris Hammer 'A great book and an engrossing ...Show more
Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan
Category: Fiction
Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan is the critically acclaimed second collection from the Booker-shortlisted author of Small Things Like These. A long-haired woman moves into the priest's house and sets fire to his furniture.That Christmas, the electricity goes out.A forester mortgages his land and ...Show more
Night Swimmers by Roisin Maguire
Category: Fiction
A funny and moving family story with an unconventional heroine in a quirky coastal community - Olive Kitteridge or The Shipping News on the edge on the Irish Sea. Grace lives alone in Ballybrady, a little village on the sublimely beautiful east coast of Northern Ireland. She fills her days with swimmin ...Show more