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Young Adult

  • Eight hours to stop an explosion ...Eight hours to fall in love.
    It's 2067, and the Graves family has transformed Mars from a lifeless rock into a chaotic patchwork of settlements. You can buy a one-way ticket to a new life - if you're rich.
    Enter Hunter Graves: handsome, ambitious, and with spectacularly bad timing. He shows up unannounced at the United Nations base just as an emergency evacuation sends everyone scurrying for safety. And he's left behind. Uh-oh.
    Also stranded: Cleo, a sharp-tongued
  • stowaway with no intention of dying today, and even less patience for overconfident trust fund boys. But the enemy of your enemy is the jerk who might just help you survive, so here we are.
    Now, Hunter and Cleo have one shot to stop the explosion, escape alive, and deal with the inconvenient fact that they're falling for each other.
    The clock is ticking.
Red Star Rebels Amie Kaufman $24.99
  • Seventeen-year-old Emma doesn’t believe in forever love, not after her parents’ heartbreaking divorce. But then she discovers a note from someone claiming to be her true love … contacting her from the future.
    Someone has to be pranking her. But as more notes pour in, Emma is forced to admit the writer truly knows her, which can only mean one thing: This is real.
    Is it Ezra, the absurdly popular musical genius? Theo, the literal boy next door? Or Colin, the confident, handsome rich kid she's just met?
  • As Emma tries to uncover the identity of the letter writer, she is forced to reconsider everything she believes about love. Are these letters nothing but an empty promise? Or can love actually last forever?
Love Me Tomorrow Emiko Jean $22.99
  • As Leafbare approaches, a new danger threatens the Clans. Twoleg construction has encroached on Clan territory, poisoning the stream and making prey especially scarce for SkyClan. Meanwhile, their leader, Leafstar, is struggling with a loss of vision while trying to maintain authority over a Clan that increasingly doubts her ability to lead.
    In ShadowClan, Tawnypelt senses peril as the Twoleg construction threatens the Moonpool, but she can’t get any cat, especially her son, TigerStar, to listen. Frustrated with the younger cats who don't respect her, she decides to take matters into her own paws.
  • In the midst of the chaos, Moonpaw, an apprentice struggling to understand the mysterious voice in her head, thinks that she might be having visions. But the voice becomes increasingly sinister, and Moonpaw wonders if it's a sign of darkness on the horizon.
Warriors: The Elders' Quest Erin Hunter $17.99
  • A deception. A tragedy. A murder. In a group of three, one must die so the other two survive!
    A betrayal. A deception. A tragedy. A murder.
    Charity has a past full of dark secrets that she keeps buried deep inside her cold heart. Samantha didn't used to have any secrets, but that's all about to change. And Roy, who seems to be caught in the middle, may have a haunting past of his own. All three of them were never supposed to survive.
    But when the small town they live in is hit with a devastating flood, the isolation and danger of the rising waters will lead the
  • three of them down a path they can never return from.
    How long will it take the three of them to realize that one will have to go, for the others to survive?
They All Had A Secret Michele Leathers $19.99
  • Wispy Falls is safe. The town motto is even "You'll be safe here!" But you aren't safe in the woods that surround the town. In the woods there are monsters. People go missing in the woods. And sometimes the monsters don't stay in the woods...maybe you aren't that safe in Wispy Falls.
    A seventeen-year-old vlogger known as Storymancer is determined to get to the bottom of what's wrong in his town. A few years ago, his little brother went missing in the woods and no one, not even his parents, seemed to care enough to try and find him.
    But for the first time, an actual body has been found in the woods, and Storymancer
  • is using the opportunity to uncover the rotten core at the heart of Wispy Falls. To investigate the monsters that lurk in the shadows, and the people in town who might just want the monsters there after all.
We're Not Safe Here Rin Chupeco $19.99
  • Like all ruinous things, he came from the abyss.Kidan Adane has finally embraced her darkness. She's killed without remorse, broken Uxlay University's most sacred law by inviting elusive rogue vampires, the Nefrasi, into their campus, and made a truce with the one vampire she swore she'd never trust - Susenyos Sagad.Trapped with a violently unstable vampire and reeling from her sister's return, Kidan wields her anger like a weapon. She vows to master her house and protect the sacred artifact hidden within, even if it means forging an alliance with the depraved leader of the Nefrasi, Samson Sagad - and betraying Susenyos in the process.
  • When Kidan stumbles across a dangerous new philosophical text, it seems to hold the answers she seeks and promises the very thing she has lost: control. As the dark pages consume her, Kidan realises no soul at Uxlay is trustworthy - least of all Susenyos. For Kidan and Susenyos, the lines of loathing and attraction may blur, but the quest for power rules them both. And neither is willing to surrender.As devastating secrets resurface from the past, Kidan and her sister, June, must finally confront each other and take their rightful places in the looming war.
Eternal Ruin Tigest Girma $24.99
  • For the Kingdom. For the magic. And for love . . .
    Aurelia Wycherley has found someone to tether her magic to – her enigmatic former enemy, Jules Nightly. Now, they are heading off to coven college to learn advanced magic. But they are also on a secret mission: to discover the Lost Quarter of the college, create their own coven of twelve and try to discover a way to bring back the Old Magic.
    When malevolent magic interrupts their first night at college, Aurelia and Jules discover that Jonathan and his coven of untethered witches has escaped and now they are after her magic, curse and all…
  • Can they save the magic and the world - or will Aurelia lose her magic for good?
    Prepare for balls, late-night study groups, hidden mysteries, a heist, the return of old foes, and a lot more kissing!
The Wycherleys: Love and Other Curses Annaliese Avery $22.99
  • Welcome to the group chat! It's called Cringe Club because, as you might have guessed, it contains a cringe binge of EPIC proportions.
    My name is Kennedy King and I have been FORCED to move to London by The Mother. I have just started Hellington High School (aka HELL HIGH). The only GOOD thing about moving is that The Mother has finally agreed to let me have my own phone (guilt present) so I can stay in touch with my best friends. Enter at your own risk (of cringe) and remember . . . what is said in Cringe Club, STAYS in Cringe Club.
Cringe Club Emily-Jane Clark $17.99
  • Every evening after the museum closes, Amelia Cheeseheart and her best friend Webster go exploring.But what’s this? Special objects are being stolen from the museum’s Ancient Egyptian Room!Cleo the Cat Mummy is up to something ...It's time for Amelia Cheeseheart to investigate!
Amelia Cheeseheart Investigates: Mummy Mayhem! Cat Weldon $14.99
  • In the empire, magic determines your fate. But Yumi is tired of being a failed Cricket. Their magic is lousy and boring. She dreams instead of the sparkling magic of Fireflies, whose powers rival the sun. If only she could harness her talents like other magicians. . . For now, Yumi is ignored by even the crickets who are supposed to follow her spells.Then, Yumi gets a chance to prove herself sooner than expected when all sorcerers are summoned for the princess's coronation. But everything falls apart when the Firefly Crown is stolen, leaving the empire defenseless against the Ghost Swarm, a horde of undead bugs. Worse, Yumi is blamed. Suddenly this lowly Cricket is the empire's most wanted. To clear her name
  • and protect her loved ones, Yumi must find the real thief. But can a Cricket really save the day?
The Firefly Crown Yxavel Magno Dino $24.99
  • On the streets of White Roaring, Arthie Casimir is a criminal mastermind and collector of secrets. Her prestigious tearoom transforms into an illegal bloodhouse by dark, catering to the vampires feared by society. But when her establishment is threatened, Arthie is forced to strike an unlikely deal with an alluring adversary to save it – and she can't do the job alone. Calling on some of the city's most skilled outcasts, Arthie hatches a plan to infiltrate the dark and glittering vampire society known as the Athereum. But not everyone in her ragtag crew is on her side, and as the truth behind the heist unfolds, Arthie finds herself in the midst of a conspiracy that will threaten the world as she knows it.
A Tempest Of Tea Hafsah Faizal $26.99
  • Seventh grader Bag loves to read. It doesn’t come easy to her, thanks to her dyslexia, but she’s determined, and she spends every afternoon after school at the library. It’s a ritual she refuses to miss.
    Then a new career opportunity for her mother means Bag will no longer have a ride to her cherished library. Instead, Bag will have to wait for a ride at school. With her sister, Minerva. At cheerleading practice.
    Bag is uncoordinated and completely uninterested in school spirit. But she is curious about what her sister has been hiding. Minerva has been acting stranger than usual, and Bag has been noticing. So
  • while cheerleading practice may be the last place Bag wants to be, she’s going to use her time wisely and get to the bottom of Minerva’s secrets.
Bad Cheerleader Alex Thayer $16.99
  • Kit thought he was ready for anything, but when he discovers the next dungeon is at the bottom of an ocean he's not so sure - he can't swim!
    But with his trusty teammates, Sandy and Thorn, keen to do battle, solve puzzles and find treasure, Kit is up for the challenge. Now is his chance to prove himself as a hero, once and for all!
    Have you got what it takes to survive the Dungeon?Now is your chance to prove it!
Dungeon Runners Level 3: Ocean Chase Kieran Larwood $16.99
  • Jodie Jones is quick, shrewd and obsessed with words, but failing in school. She's also hiding a painful secret whilst navigating life with a narcissistic mother, the highs of best friendship and the confusing butterflies of a first crush. Things can only simmer for so long, but Jodie is always one step ahead of the game . . . A compelling, witty, moving love letter to the magic of words.
My Name is Jodie Jones Emma Shevah $19.99
  • Ella wishes that she could do something more fun on New Year’s Eve than babysit, but lately her life has taken a scary turn with a diagnosis that she is trying her best to ignore. So after she barely recovers from another paralyzing migraine, Ella arrives late to her aunt’s house for babysitting.
    But when nobody answers the door, she knows something isn’t right. Breaking in, she finds her cousins unconscious on the floor. And Aunt Julie is dead. Ella is barely able to rescue them from the house before she collapses into the snow.
    When investigators discover that the cause of death was from a gas leak, a small voice
  • in the back of her head keeps reminding Ella that it could have been her – not Aunt Julie – inside that house. Ella is determined to find out what really happened to her aunt, but her family is so sure it was an accident. After all, Ella’s paranoia must just be a side effect of her diagnosis – a diagnosis that makes everyone tiptoe around her.
    As deadly lies begin to seep through the cracks of the investigation, Ella gets the feeling that the gas leak might not have been an accident – and that someone might be out to kill her next.
Gaslit Megan Davidhizar $19.99
  • Every evening after the museum closes, Amelia Cheeseheart and her best friend Webster go exploring.
    Oh no! Someone has stolen all the chocolate bars from the museum gift shop. It’s time for Amelia and Webster to investigate! They follow the trail to the Aztec exhibit, where all the mice are trapped in a giant melted chocolate lake ...
    Only Amelia Cheeseheart can save everyone from this sticky situation
Amelia Cheeseheart Investigates: Chocolate Cheat! Cat Weldon $14.99
  • Sixteen-year-old Charise “Char” Tang is desperate to ditch her dead-end small town. So when she’s invited to a highly selective hackathon at MIT, she seizes the opportunity to jet across the country, spend the summer building an app, and maybe even snag the top prize—a golden ticket to a new life.
    When she arrives, she teams up with Khoi Astor, coding wunderkind and creator of last year’s biggest mobile game. Khoi, who has soft eyes and a gentle smile. Khoi, who can make anyone laugh. Khoi, who is easy to fall for…and already dating her camp roommate. If only Char could reprogram her heart to forget about him.
  • As the competition heats up, so do things between Char and her teammate. But sabotage lurks around every corner, and she soon discovers that the glitzy tech world has a dark, dangerous underbelly.
You Had Me At Hello World Rona Wang $22.99
  • White Roaring is sharpening its fangs after the deadly night that left the city in shambles. The press are dead, the public calls for justice, vampires are in danger, and amid the turmoil, the Ram announces a celebration. Still reeling from the bloodshed, Arthie Casimir has no time to mourn the death of anyone, let alone her own. She has no time for love, either, but it had saved her life. As Arthie navigates new emotions and new allies, she must reassemble her scrambled crew and scrape what little they have left to fight one last time – and she will need to face the ghosts of her past to do it. In Ceylan. After the jaw-dropping ending of #1 bestselling A Tempest of Tea, Arthie and her crew still have plenty of hearts to break
  • and crimson-red secrets to uncover.
A Steeping Of Blood Hafsah Faizal $26.99
  • When Maisie travels with her Dad to the Himalayas to research his book, How to Find Buried Treasure, she doesn't expect their exploration to take them deep into the caves beneath the mountains. Before long, Maisie has discovered a cursed treasure, stolen a shark, been hunted as a thief, walked through an underground lake and outrun an explosion. Just another average day!
    Turns out there's more to Maisie than she even realised herself, but will Dad tell her truth? Or is this secret just too dangerous?
Maisie VS The Himalayas Jack Jackman $16.99
  • Evander has lived like a ghost in the forgotten corners of the Hazelthorn estate ever since he was taken in by his reclusive billionaire guardian.He can never leave, he can never go in the gardens and he can never be alone with Laurie, the boy who tried to kill him seven years ago.But when his guardian is murdered and Evander inherits Hazelthorn, Laurie may be the only one who can help him find the killer.As dark secrets unravel, moss bleeds though the walls, poisonous mushrooms flourish beneath the floorboards, and Evander must discover what he's really inherited before Hazelthorn's garden demands to be fed.
Hazelthorn CG Drews $19.99
  • Rocko Jarvis is on top of the world.
    The Secret Detectives Club has landed its second case: The Case of the Missing Milk Jugs! It might not sound thrilling, but Rocko loves being in the club with his best friend Cosmo and Mingus Reid—the coolest kid in town. For a while, he can even forget about the school bullies and the way his brain sometimes feels a bit... different. This mystery should be easier than solving a haunted hall. Right? Then a mysterious note arrives. Someone has a new case for Rocko—one so big it could affect the whole town. Suddenly, strange and silly accidents start happening. One by one, people in Table Cape are being targeted, and no one knows who’s
  • behind it—or who’s next. As the clues pile up, Rocko starts to worry: what if it’s his mum, with her big art show coming up? Or his sister’s band, The Capers, right before their big festival gig? Or worse... what if he’s the next target? And just when things couldn’t get weirder, strange symbols begin to appear on the town’s walls. Are they connected to the pranks? Or something even more mysterious? Rocko, Cosmo, and Mingus must crack the case before the next prank goes too far. And through it all… Bruce’s milk jugs are still going missing!
The Table Cape Crusader Kate Gordon $16.99
  • The forest is dense and dark.And the trail full of unexpected perils.The dog can't move. The boy can't talk.And you won't know why. Or where you are going.You will put this story down not wanting the journey to end.The trickiest teller of tales and the master of surprise endings will take you into dense and dark forests, across vast oceans and on to lands of the imagination far from home.
    All the Different stories together in one volume:A Different DogA Different BoyA Different Land
The Different Stories Paul Jennings $24.99

Childrens

  • Birds warble their happy tune.The garden sprouts wild daisies.The world sings a serenade:'Hello to you, Spring Baby!'
Hello Spring Baby! Jess Racklyeft $19.99
  • Everyone in the neighborhood was getting ready for the party.Everyone knew somebody on the guest list. . . .This was the day the dead returned.There's a party tonight, but Cala doesn't want to go. While her family prepares for the celebration, Cala grieves her grandfather and tries to pretend she's not afraid.But when she is separated from her family at the cemetery, Cala encounters four mysterious riders who will show her she is actually quite brave after all.
The Invisible Parade Leigh Bardugo & John Picacio $36.99
  • Dear Broccoli,Last night at dinner you were on my plate. AGAIN. Please don't come back.From,Frank.
    Dear Frank,I am afraid I cannot grant your request. The matter is out of my florets.Most respectful regards,Broccoli
    A deliciously funny picture book that is sure to make even the pickiest of eaters look at their dinner in a new light.
Dear Broccoli Jo Dabrowski & Cate James $24.99
  • What’s more powerful than a secret wish? A wish you say out loud. Anything paints a tender picture of a father and daughter moving into a new home. Dad brings a birthday cake for the new apartment to celebrate their new beginning and tells his daughter she can wish for anything (or, more precisely, “three Anythings”). Over the course of the day, she wishes for some of her favorite things, including a rainbow and “the biggest slice of pizza in the whole world." But she keeps some of her wishes inside. Because what she really wants is to go back home to their old apartment, with its big blue bathtub and space in the closet for hide-and-seek. When she finally admits this last wish, her dad takes her on a journey, and by the book’s final pages, she is home . . . in every way that matters.
Anything Rebecca Stead $26.99
  • When Little Rabbit meets the Moon, the two play, dance and discover the wonders of nature in the quiet time before dawn. Charming nighttime sceneries and critters fill the pages of this gentle story that bridges Earth and Space.
Little Rabbit And The Moon Inda Zahri and Claire Wee $24.99
  • From the comfort of home to the adventure of the great outdoors, from family to first encounters with nature, Welcome to the World revels in the joy that comes with sharing this new world with children, and seeing it through their eyes.
    A perfect read-aloud story for sharing from Julia Donaldson and Helen Oxenbury.
Welcome to The World Julia Donaldson $14.99
  • Get ready to meet Barbara the beetle and Derek the squirrel who (through the power of poo) help a wise-cracking seed turn into a handsome tree . . . and become a wonderful book! And GUESS WHAT? It's the book that you're holding! A book to be loved, shared and cherished forever. Perfect for fans of Jon Klassen and Oliver Jeffers.Tactile jacket cover with a surprise underneath! Have fun with turn-around pages. If you are looking for a laugh-out-loud picture book about the wonder of trees, books and stories.... this is for you!
Once I Was a Tree Eoin McLaughlin $24.99
  • Somewhere, towards the beginning of time, a mountain rose from the ocean and came to rest above the clouds.Life sang a lullaby, and the mountain slept for many millions of years.Until one day, when the world became too silent for sleep ...
When The Mountain Wakes Matt Shanks $29.99
  • If we were dogs, what kind would we be?I'd be a big dog! And you'd be a little dog.Woof!Join two friends as they bark and growl, woof and howl - and maybe even quack - in a romp that makes room for everybody's ideas.
If We Were Dogs Sophie Blackall $24.99
  • Join the narrator, as they proudly introduce the reader to their prized collection, featuring BIG things to small things ... and spiky things to wobbly things!
    Each page is bursting with humor, and they are interactive too, with children encouraged to interact with the book, with invitations to point, make noises, clap their hands and think about what they could collect.
These Are my Rocks Bethan Woollvin $24.99
  • A celebration of the unparalleled creative partnership of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, packed full of fun facts, behind-the-scenes information and never-before-seen illustrations. With a foreword by Rob Brydon. Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler have been working together for over thirty years, creating some of the world’s best-loved picture books, including The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom, Stick Man and Zog. Discover more about their early lives, how their creative partnership began, and dive deeper inside the wonderful worlds of all your favourite characters and stories. Packed with full-colour illustrations, sketches and photographs, in a stunning hardback edition, The Amazing World of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler is a must-have gift for fans of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, and is perfect for all the family to enjoy together. Published by Macmillan Children's Books and Alison Green Books.
The Amazing World of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler Julia Donaldson $49.99
  • hey reached a giant lemon tree.The old woman sat up, tapping an urgent finger against the window.'Hay! Hay! Hanna zarr'et ha. Hay!''She's saying that Hanna planted this tree,' Mama said as Dad pulled over.'It's a beautiful tree, shajrah hhelweh,' Mama said to the old woman.When a little girl, Safiya, and her family help Maryam, a lost and confused stranger by the side of the road, to find her way home, they begin to understand who she is and the rich and remarkable life she has lived. Through kind-natured Safiya, we come to see Maryam, a woman who had been made invisible by society because of her ethnicity, race, religion, language, age and now dementia.With Arabic text interspersed throughout, A Lemon for Safiya is a wonderful exploration of language, diversity and culture.
A Lemon For Safiya Jemima Shafei-Ongu $24.99
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