Category: Crime | Reading Level: very good
When seven-year-old Alyssa is kidnapped, Deputy Noah Harper decides he will do what it takes to find her - but that means crossing lines he can never come back from. Finding the girl safe, isn't enough to stop Noah from losing his job, his wife, and from being kicked out of Acacia Pines. He's told if he ...Show more
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD THE NICKEL BOYS is Colson Whitehead's follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning bestseller THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, in which he dramatizes another strand of United States history, this time ...Show more
Category: Real World | Reading Level: 9 YA
I am not who I say I am, and Marla isn't who she thinks she is. I am a girl trying to forget. She is a woman trying to remember. Allison has run away from home and with nowhere to live finds herself hiding out in the shed of what she thinks is an abandoned house. But the house isn't empty. An elderly w ...Show more
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Let me tell you about our brother. The fourth Dunbar boy named Clay. Everything happened to him. We were all of us changed through him. The Dunbar boys bring each other up in a house run by their own rules. A family of ramshackle tragedy - their mother is dead, their father has fled - they love and figh ...Show more
Category: Staff Picks
From the award-winning author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers comes a dark, playful, propulsive novel about an ethereal young boy who attracts the attention of a mythical, menacing force. There's a village an hour from London. It's no different from many others today: one pub, one church, red ...Show more
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A seductive, unputdownable psychodrama following one cunning, ruthless man who will stop at nothing in his pursuit of success "Clever, chilling, and beautifully paced; a study of inner corrosion that Patricia Highsmith herself could not have done better." -- The Times (London) Maurice Swift is handsome, ...Show more
Category: General Fiction
The health and wellness retreat at Tranquillum House promises total transformation. Nine stressed city dwellers are keen to drop their literal and mental baggage, while enjoying their hot stone massages in complete serenity. Watching over them is the resort's director, a woman on a mission to reinvigora ...Show more
Category: Staff Picks | Reading Level: very good
Kavanagh begins his life patrolling the Wall. If he's lucky, if nothing goes wrong, he only has two years of this, 729 more nights. The best thing that can happen is that he survives and gets off the Wall and never has to spend another day of his life anywhere near it. He longs for this to be over; lon ...Show more
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Imagine you could erase your grief. Imagine you could forget your pain. Imagine you could hide a secret. Forever. Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a letter arrives summoning him to begin an apprenticeship. He will work for a Bookbinder, a vocation that arouses fear, superstition and prejudice ...Show more
Category: Staff Picks | Reading Level: near fine
#1 New York Times Bestseller A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick "I can't even express how much I love this book! I didn't want this story to end!" Reese Witherspoon "Painfully beautiful." The New York Times Book Review For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a q ...Show more
Category: NZ Authors | Reading Level: very good
The Ice Shelf - an eco-comedy. On the eve of flying to Antarctica to take up an arts fellowship, thirty-something Janice, recently separated, has a long night of remembrance, regret and realisation as she goes about the city looking for a friend to take care of her fridge while she's away. En route she ...Show more
