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Little things : a positive toolkit for when life feels stressful / Fearne Cotton.

Stress is a normal part of life, but it can be overwhelming. The habits, tools, and advice in these pages will help you cope better, to understand your own worries, and to pause and respond rather than react (we've all done it!). This is all advice I've received - the lessons I've learned in my own up-and-down life, the expert conversations from my Happy Place podcast, and therapies I've tried - to keep working towards good days. By focusing on small steps, practising self-awareness and getting creative with the exercises and simple ideas, daily tricks and practical tools in the pages of this little book, we can counterbalance our hectic world and unlock daily happiness.
Author: Cotton, Fearne, 1981-
Published: London : Happy Place Books, 2024.
345 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Kentish Town Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 158.1 - Available - 30111069712759
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The fox wife / Yangsze Choo.

Manchuria, 1908: A young woman is found frozen in the snow. Her death is clouded by rumours of foxes, believed to lure people into peril by transforming into beautiful women and men. Bao, a detective with a reputation for sniffing out the truth, is hired to uncover the dead woman's identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods, yet they've remained tantalisingly out of reach. Until, perhaps, now. Meanwhile, the family of a famous Chinese medicine shop can cure all ailments - except the curse that afflicts them. All their eldest sons die before their twenty-fourth birthdays. Now the only grandson of the family is twenty-three. When a mysterious woman enters their household, their luck seems to change. But is their new servant a simple young woman from the north, or a fox spirit bent on her own revenge?
Author: Choo, Yangsze
Published: London : Quercus, 2024.
388 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Swiss Cottage Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - GEN - Onloan - Due: 29 May 2024 - 30111069732930

The Book of Doors / Gareth Brown.

Bookseller Cassie Andrews is living an unassuming life when she is given a gift by a favourite customer - an unusual book, full of strange writing and mysterious drawings. And at the very front there's a handwritten message to Cassie, telling her that this is the Book of Doors. What Cassie is about to discover is that the Book of Doors is a special book that bestows extraordinary powers on whoever possesses it, and soon she and her best friend Izzy are exploring all that the Book of Doors can do, swept away from their quiet lives by the possibilities of travelling to anywhere they want. But the Book of Doors is not the only magical book in the world. There are other books that can do wondrous and dreadful things when wielded by dangerous and ruthless individuals - individuals who crave what Cassie now possesses. Can Drummond Fox, a man fleeing his own demons, help them?
Author: Brown, Gareth
Published: London : Bantam Press, 2024.
416 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Kentish Town Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FAN - Onloan - Due: 01 Jun 2024 - 30111069737970

A death in diamonds / S.J. Bennett.

1957 - A young woman is found dead in a mews house a mile from Buckingham Palace, wearing only silk underwear and a a diamond tiara. An older man is discovered nearby, garrotted and pierced through the eye with a long, sharp implement. According to the police, a high society card game was going on downstairs that night. One of the players surely committed the murders, but each of them can give the others an alibi. When someone very close to her is implicated, the young Queen is drawn in to the investigation.
Author: Bennett, Sophia, 1966-
Published: London : Zaffre, 2024.
384 pages ; 23 cm.
Her Majesty the Queen investigates
Average rating: (1 review)

Kentish Town Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - CRI - Onloan - Due: 22 May 2024 - 30111069726957

Everyone on this train is a suspect / Benjamin Stevenson.

When the Australian Mystery Writers' Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book. Fiction, this time: I needed a break from real people killing each other. Obviously, that didn't pan out. The program is a who's who of crime writing royalty:the debut writer (me!), the forensic science writer, the blockbuster writer, the legal thriller writer, the literary writer, and the psychological suspense writer. But when one of us is murdered, six authors quickly turn into five detectives. Together, we should know how to solve a crime. Or commit one.
Author: Stevenson, Benjamin
Published: UK : Michael Joseph, 2024.
352 pages : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white) ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Kentish Town Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - CRI - Onloan - Due: 07 May 2024 - 30111069746989

The women / Kristin Hannah.

Raised on California's idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, twenty-year-old nursing student, Frances 'Frankie' McGrath has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different path for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurses Corps and follows his path. As green and inexperienced as the young men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is about to discover the true value of female friendship and the heartbreak that love can cause.
Author: Hannah, Kristin
Published: London : Macmillan, 2024.
471 pages : illustration (black and white) ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
1 reserve

Camden Town Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - GEN - Onloan - Due: 29 May 2024 - 30111069743481
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The happiest ever after / Milly Johnson.

Polly Potter is surviving, not thriving. She used to love her job - until her mentor died and her new boss decided to make her life hell. She used to love her partner Chris - until he cheated on her, and now she can't forget. The only place where her life is working is on the pages of the novel she is writing - there she can create a feistier, bolder, more successful version of herself, as the fictional Sabrina Anderson. But what if it was possible to start over again? After a set of unforeseen circumstances, Polly ends up believing she really IS Sabrina, living at the heart of a noisy Italian family restaurant by the sea.
Author: Johnson, Milly
Published: London : Simon & Schuster, 2024.
437 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Kilburn Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - GEN - Available - 30111069739521
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The island swimmer / Lorraine Kelly.

When Evie's father falls desperately ill, she finally returns to the family home on Orkney and the wild landscape she left as a teenager, swearing never to return. Not everyone is happy at her arrival, particularly her estranged sister Liv, their relationship broken after a childhood trauma. As Evie clears out her father's neglected house to prepare it for sale, lonely Evie finds herself drawn to a group of cold-water swimmers led by her old friend Freya, who find calmness beneath the waves. Together they help Evie face up to the mistakes in her past, unlocking a treasure of truths that will reverberate through the community, and shake her family to its core.
Author: Kelly, Lorraine
Published: London : Orion, 2024.
353 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (2 reviews)

Swiss Cottage Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - GEN - Available - 30111069734910

The trial / Rob Rinder.

When hero policeman Grant Cliveden dies from a poisoning in the Old Bailey, it threatens to shake the country to its core. The evidence points to one man. Jimmy Knight has been convicted of multiple offences before and defending him will be no easy task. Not least because this is trainee barrister Adam Green's first case. But it will quickly become clear that Jimmy Knight is not the only person in Cliveden's past with an axe to grind. The only thing that's certain is that this is a trial which will push Adam - and the justice system itself - to the limit.
Author: Rinder, Robert, 1978-
Published: UK : Penguin Books, 2024.
359 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Queens Crescent Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - THR - Available - 30111069738291

Pity / Andrew McMillan.

The town was once a hub of industry. A place where men toiled underground in darkness, picking and shovelling in the dust and the sleck. It was dangerous and back-breaking work but it meant something. Once, the town provided, it was important, it had purpose. But what is it now? Brothers Alex and Brian have spent their whole life in the town where their father lived and his father, too. Still reeling from the collapse of his personal life, Alex, is now in his middle age, and must reckon with a part of his identity he has long tried to mask. Simon is the only child of Alex and had practically no memory of the mines. Now in his twenties and working in a call centre, he derives passion from his side hustle in sex work and his weekly drag gigs.
Author: McMillan, Andrew, 1988-
Published: Edinburgh : Canongate, 2024.
192 pages ; 22 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Kentish Town Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - GEN - Onloan - Due: 21 Jun 2024 - 30111069740891

Happiness falls / Angie Kim.

We didn't call the police right away. Later, I would blame myself, wonder if things might have turned out differently if I hadn't shrugged it off, insisting Dad wasn't missing missing but just delayed, probably still in the woods looking for Eugene. Mia Parkson's life is turned upside down when her stay-at-home dad, the family's anchor, goes missing. The only witness? Eugene - her younger, nonverbal teenage brother. As the Police struggle for leads, and her mother and twin brother struggle to keep things together at home, Mia gains access to key clues about her father's disappearance. Headstrong, hyper analytical, and with secrets of her own, she decides to try and solve the case. But could Mia's impulsive actions be putting her whole family in danger?
Author: Kim, Angie, 1969-
Published: London : Faber & Faber, 2024.
352 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Kentish Town Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - THR - Onloan - Due: 04 Jun 2024 - 30111069728995

Family politics / John O'Farrell.

All across Britain, a generation of grown-up children are graduating from university, moving back in to their old bedrooms and showing their gratitude by berating their parents for their out-of-date politics. But for proud and high-profile left-wingers Emma and Eddie Hughes, the return of their only child is a far greater challenge than they ever could have anticipated. Young Dylan had warned them there was something personal he needed to tell them, but nothing could have prepared his right-on parents for the shocking revelation he delivers. Their son is a Conservative. With his customary warm-hearted wit and razor-sharp political satire, John O'Farrell delivers another hilarious and entertaining dissection of the zeitgeist and offers a funny and insightful antidote to our divided times.
Author: O'Farrell, John
Published: London : Doubleday, 2024.
293 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Swiss Cottage Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - GEN - Available - 30111069751732

Bride / Ali Hazelwood.

Misery Lark, the only daughter of the most powerful Vampyre councilman of the Southwest, is an outcast - again. Her days of living in anonymity among the Humans are over: she has been called upon to uphold a historic peacekeeping alliance between the Vampyres and their mortal enemies, the Weres, and sees little choice but to surrender herself in the exchange. Again - Weres are ruthless and unpredictable, and their Alpha, Lowe Moreland, is no exception. He rules his pack with absolute authority, but not without justice. And, unlike the Vampyre Council, not without feeling. It's clear from the way he tracks Misery's every movement that he doesn't trust her. If only he knew how right he was - because Misery has her own reasons to agree to this marriage of convenience, reasons that have nothing to do with politics or alliances, and everything to do with the only thing she's ever cared about.
Author: Hazelwood, Ali
Published: London : Sphere, 2024.
399 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
1 reserve

Kentish Town Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - GEN - In-transit from Kentish Town Library to Holborn Library (Set: 13 May 2024) - 30111069746948

Frank and Red / Matt Coyne.

Sometimes, the friend you need is the one you never saw coming. Frank and Red are a mess. Frank is a grumpy old curmudgeon. A recluse whose only company is the 'ghost' of his dead wife, Marcie. He is estranged from his friends, his son, and the ever-changing world beyond his front gate. And then Red moves in next door. Red is six. A boy struggling to adjust to the separation of his mum and dad, a new school, and the demonic school bully. Red is curious, smart, he never stops talking, and he's got a trampoline. From the moment Red's blonde mop appears over the top of the fence that divides their two gardens, the unlikeliest of friendships is born. And it is a friendship that will change both of their lives forever.
Author: Coyne, Matt
Published: London : Wildfire, 2024.
432 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Kentish Town Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - GEN - Available - 30111069732641

Go as a river / Shelley Read.

1940s Colorado: Teenage Victoria Nash is the sole surviving woman in a family of troubled men. She spends her days running the household on her family's peach farm.Wilson Moon is a young drifter with a mysterious past. Displaced from his tribal land, he wants to believe one place is just like another. When Victoria and Wil meet on a street corner, their unexpected connection ignites both passion and danger, revelations and secrets. But when tragedy strikes, Victoria is propelled away from the only home she has ever known and towards a reckoning with loss, hope, and her own untapped strength. Gathering all the pieces of her small and extraordinary existence, she will arrive at a single rocky decision that will change her life for ever.
Author: Read, Shelley
Published: London : Penguin Books, 2024.
305 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Holborn Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - GEN - Available - 30111069765914
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Clytemnestra / Costanza Casati.

Huntress. Warrior. Mother. Murderess. Queen. You are born to a king, but marry a tyrant. You stand helplessly as he sacrifices your child to placate the gods. You watch him wage war on a foreign shore and comfort yourself with violent thoughts of your own. You play the part, fooling enemies who deny you justice. Slowly, you plot. You are Clytemnestra. But when the husband who owns you returns in triumph, what then? Acceptance or vengeance - infamy follows both. So you bide your time and wait, until you might force the gods' hands and take revenge. Until you rise. For you understood something that the others don't. A blazing novel set in the world of Ancient Greece and told through the eyes of its greatest female protagonist, this is a thrilling tale of power and prophecies, of hatred, love, and of an unforgettable Queen who fiercely dealt out death to those who wronged her.
Author: Casati, Costanza, 1995-
Published: UK : Penguin Books, 2024.
ix, 405 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Holborn Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - GEN - Available - 30111069723541
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The bad weather friend / Dean Koontz.

Benny Catspaw's perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée, and his favourite chair. He's not paranoid. Someone is out to get him. He just doesn't know who or why. Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he's never heard of: a giant crate and a video message. All will be well in time. How strange - though it's a blessing, his uncle promises. Stranger yet is what's inside the crate. He's a seven-foot-tall self-described 'bad weather friend' named Spike whose mission is to help people who are just too good for this world. Spike will take care of it. He'll find Benny's enemies. He'll deal with them. This might be satisfying if Spike wasn't such a menacing presence with terrifying techniques of intimidation. In the company of Spike and a fascinated young waitress-cum-PI-in-training named Harper, Benny plunges into a perilous high-speed adventure.
Author: Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945-
First edition.
Published: Seattle : Thomas & Mercer, [2024]
Published: ©2024
370 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Camden Town Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - THR - Onloan - Due: 04 Jun 2024 - 30111069733631
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Arkham rising / Mariko Tamaki ; art by Ivan Reis.

After years of housing Gotham City's most dangerous enemies, Arkham Asylum developed a bad reputation as the place where legions of deranged costumed predators sharpened their sinister skills. The building was destroyed, but fear of the institution remains high as a new Arkham Tower is under construction. When the Dark Knight himself is afraid, what hope exists for the citizens of Gotham City?
Author: Tamaki, Mariko
Published: Burbank, CA : DC Comics, 2024.
128 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm.
Batman detective comics ; 3.
Average rating: (1 review)

Swiss Cottage Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - GRA T - Onloan - Due: 22 May 2024 - 30111069748258

Knight terrors / Joshua Williamson, Howard Porter.

Horror devastates the DC Universe as its greatest heroes confront their worst nightmare in this terrifying epic, perfect for all fans of Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman! When Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman find the body of one of their earliest enemies inside the Hall of Justice, their investigation takes them past the land of the living, beyond the land of the dead, and directly to a new villain called Insomnia - who uses his powers to engulf every single hero and villain in their own dark and twisted nightmares. The only way to save the world is to call for the help of an unlikely hero - Deadman! As Batman, Deadman, and Wesley Dodds - the original Sandman - attempt to unravel this mystery, Insomnia unleashes his horrifying army - the Sleepless Knights!
Author: Williamson, Joshua
Published: Burbank, CA : DC Comics, 2024.
192 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Swiss Cottage Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - GRA W - GEN - In-transit from Inter Library Loans to Faversham Library (Set: 16 May 2024) - 30111069748456

The Kellerby code / Jonny Sweet.

Edward is living in a world he can't afford and to which he doesn't belong. To camouflage himself, he has catered to his friends' needs: fetching drycleaning, sorting flowers for premieres. It's a noble effort, really - anything to keep his best pals Robert and Stanza happy. In return, his proximity to them might sponge the shame of his birth and violent past cleanly away. But the chink in his armour is his painfully unrequited love for Stanza. When he realises Stanza and Robert are an item, Edward is pushed too far. His little acts of kindness take a sinister turn, giving way to the unspeakable brutality Edward fears is at his core. Are there limits to what he will do for his friends? Are there limits to what he will do to them?
Author: Sweet, Jonny
Published: London : Faber & Faber, 2024.
384 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
1 reserve

Kentish Town Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - THR - Available - 30111069755501
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Rose and the Burma sky / Rosanna Amaka.

1939: In a village in south-east Nigeria at the brink of the world, young Obi watches from a mango tree as a colonial army jeep whooshes by, filled with soldiers laughing and shouting, their buttons shining in the sun. To Obi, their promise of a smart uniform and regular wages are hard to resist, especially as he has his sweetheart Rose to impress and a family to support. Years later, when Rose falls pregnant to another man, his young heart is shattered. As the Burma Campaign mounts, and Obi is shipped out to fight, he is haunted by the mystery of Rose's lover. When his identity comes to light, Obi's devastation leads to a tragic - and wholly unforeseeable - chain of events.
Author: Amaka, Rosanna
Published: London : Penguin Books, 2024.
258 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Queens Crescent Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - GEN - Onloan - Due: 30 May 2024 - 30111069751260

Clear / Carys Davies.

1843. On a remote Scottish island, Ivar, the sole occupant, leads a life of quiet isolation until the day he finds a man unconscious on the beach below the cliffs. The newcomer is John Ferguson, an impoverished church minister sent to evict Ivar and turn the island into grazing land for sheep. Unaware of the stranger's intentions, Ivar takes him into his home, and in spite of the two men having no common language, a fragile bond begins to form between them. Meanwhile on the mainland, John's wife Mary anxiously awaits news of his mission. Against the rugged backdrop of this faraway spot beyond Shetland, Carys Davies's intimate drama unfolds with tension and tenderness: a touching and crystalline study of ordinary people buffeted by history and a powerful exploration of the distances and connections between us.
Author: Davies, Carys
Published: London : Granta, 2024.
154 pages ; 21 cm
Average rating: (2 reviews)

Kentish Town Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - GEN - Available - 30111069750791

Strange Sally Diamond / Liz Nugent.

Sally Diamond cannot understand why what she did was so strange. She was only doing what her father told her to do, to put him out with the rubbish when he died. Now Sally is the centre of attention, not only from the media and police, but also a sinister voice from the past. As she begins to discover the horrors of her childhood, recluse Sally steps into the world for the first time, finding independence and learning that people don't always mean what they say. But when messages start arriving from a stranger who knows far more about her past than she knows herself, Sally's life is thrown into chaos once again.
Author: Nugent, Liz
Published: UK : Penguin Books, 2024.
363 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Kentish Town Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - THR - Available - 30111069757663
West Hampstead Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - THR - Onloan - Due: 01 Jun 2024 - 30111069756947

The gathering / C.J. Tudor.

In a small Alaskan town, a boy is found with his throat ripped out and the blood drained from his body. The brutality of the murder chillingly echoes a killing from twenty-five years ago. Out-of-state Barbara Atkins is brought in to assist the sheriff, Jensen Tucker, who investigated the original case. However, the inhabitants of Deadhart believe they know who is responsible: one of the nearby vampyr colony who live in an old mining settlement deep in the mountains. Barbara is under pressure to authorize a cull of the entire colony. But the evidence doesn't stack up, people are lying, and the more Barbara and Tucker delve into Deadhart's history, the darker the secrets they uncover.
Author: Tudor, C. J.
Published: UK : Michael Joseph, 2024.
407 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Camden Town Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - GEN - Onloan - Due: 24 May 2024 - 30111069759719
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The lifeline / Libby Page.

For Kate, having a newborn baby means she is almost never alone. But that doesn't mean she isn't lonely. The move from London to Somerset with her husband Jay was supposed be the start of an exciting new chapter. But sometimes she can't help but wonder if she turned the pages too soon. Phoebe Harrison needs a break. As a mental health nurse serving her community, the wellbeing of her patients has always come before her own. But there's only so long she can pour from an empty cup. Looking for a lifeline, Kate and Phoebe find one in their local river swimming group. But what they didn't expect was the buoying friendship they would find in each other.
Author: Page, Libby
Published: London : Orion, 2024.
400 pages ; 23 cm
Average rating: (2 reviews)

Kilburn Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - GEN - Available - 30111069761517
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St Pancras Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - GEN - Onloan - Due: 01 Jun 2024 - 30111069761285
Swiss Cottage Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - GEN - Onloan - Due: 20 May 2024 - 30111069760642

The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers / Samuel Burr.

Clayton Stumper is an enigma. He might be twenty-five years old, but he dresses like your grandad and drinks sherry like your aunt. Abandoned at birth on the steps of the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers, he was raised by the sharpest minds in the British Isles and finds himself amongst the last survivors of a fading institution. When the esteemed crossword compiler, Pippa Allsbrook, passes away, she bestows her final puzzle to him: a promise to reveal the mystery of his parentage and prepare him for his future. Yet as Clay begins to unpick the clues, he uncovers something even the Fellowship have never been able to solve - and it's a secret that will change everything.
Author: Burr, Samuel, 1990-
Published: London : Orion Books, 2024.
368 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
1 reserve

Swiss Cottage Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - GEN - On order

Mr Einstein's secretary / Matthew Reilly.

All Hanna Fischer ever wanted to do was to study physics under the great Albert Einstein. But when, as a teenager in 1919, her life is suddenly turned upside-down, she is catapulted into a new and extraordinary life - as a student, a secretary, a sister and a spy. From racist gangs in Berlin to gangsters in New York City, Nazis in the 1930s and Hitler's inner circle during the Second World War, Hanna will encounter some of history's greatest minds and most terrible moments, all while desperately trying to stay alive. She is a most unique secretary and she will work for many bosses - from shrewd businessmen to vile Nazis, to the greatest boss of them all, Mr Albert Einstein. Spanning forty years, this is the thrilling tale of a young woman propelled through history's most dangerous times.
Author: Reilly, Matthew
Published: London : Orion, 2024.
450 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Kentish Town Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - THR - Onloan - Due: 23 May 2024 - 30111069757804
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Levitation for beginners / Suzannah Dunn.

It's 1972 and ten-year-old Deborah is living a ten-year-old life: butterscotch angel delight and Raleigh chopper bikes, and Clunk Click, and Crackajack and Jackanory, Layla and the Bee Gees, flares and ponchos. But new girl Sarah-Jayne breezes into school, pretty as a picture and full of gossip and speculation, as well as unlikely but thrilling stories about levitation. The other girls are dazzled, but Deborah is wary and keeps her distance. Then she's invited to Sarah-Jayne's lovely house, where she meets her charming family and encounters Sarah-Jayne's big sister's fiancé, Max, which is when she senses that all isn't quite as it seems.
Author: Dunn, Suzannah, 1963-
Published: London : Abacus, 2024.
272 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Kilburn Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - GEN - Available - 30111069756681
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Funny story / Emily Henry.

Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it - right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra. Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children's librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra's ex, Miles Nowak. Scruffy and chaotic, Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she's either FBI or in witness protection.
Author: Henry, Emily
Published: UK : Viking, 2024.
387 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
8 reserves

Kilburn Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - GEN - Onloan - Due: 04 Jun 2024 - 30111069763778
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Happy place / Emily Henry.

Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple - they go together like bread and butter, gin and tonic, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. Every year for the past decade, they have run away from their lives to drink far too much wine and soak up the sea air with their favourite people in the world. Except this year, they are lying through their teeth. Harriet and Wyn broke up six months ago. And they still haven't told anyone. But this is the last time they'll all be together here. The cottage is for sale, and since they can't bear to break their best friends' hearts, they'll fake it for one more week. But how can you pretend to be in love in front of the people who know you best?
Author: Henry, Emily
Published: UK : Penguin Books, 2024.
388 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

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