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  • Julie Plec The Originals Series Collection 3 Books Set

    Julie Plec

    Paperback (Hodder, March 15, 2016)
    Julie Plec The Originals Series Collection 3 Books Set, (The Originals: 01: The Rise, The Originals: 02: The Loss and The Originals: 03: The Resurrection) - This series Follows on from Vampire Diaries. With the oldest Vampires, Klaus, Elijah, and Rebekah Mikaelson trying to survive from other Vampire clans, Witches and Werewolves and there father the greatest Vampire Hunter of all times. Klaus is a high-bride part ware wolf and part vampire. The mother is a high grand witch who wants to kill them. And there Dead brother who is a ghost. This is a amazing story which is worth while reading and has lots of twist and turns. This is a must read and has become a block buster series.
  • The Leafs

    Brian McFarlane

    Paperback (Stoddart Pub, Sept. 1, 1999)
    A glorious tribute to Maple Leaf history. On February 14, 1927, Conn Smythe led a group of investors to purchase the National Hockey League's struggling St. Patricks franchise. The new team would be called the Toronto Maple Leafs, and over the next seven decades the Leafs would delight their fans with countless displays of the sort of hockey excellence that wins 11 league championships. The Leafs quickly established themselves as a potenet force in the league, thanks to the likes of Charlie Conacher, Ace Bailey, King Clancy, and coach Dick Irvin. Since those early days a host of hockey legends have worn the distinctive blue and white jersey or guided the team: Primeau, Jackson, Bentley, Selke, Apps, Day, Kennedy, Sawchuk, Imlach, Horton, and many more. Their stories are all here in THE LEAFS, from Toronto's 1942 comeback from three games down to steal the Stanley Cup from the Red Wings, to Darryl Sittler's incredible, never-bested 10-point night in 1976 against Boston, to the present day.
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  • The Twelfth Day of July

    Joan Lingard

    Paperback (Puffin, Sept. 27, 2016)
    Twelfth Day of July
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  • The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Ages 133/4

    Sue Townsend

    Paperback (Puffin, Nov. 24, 2009)
    The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 Âľ is the first book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series. Friday January 2nd I felt rotten today. It's my mother's fault for singing 'My Way' at two o'clock in the morning at the top of the stairs. Just my luck to have a mother like her. There is a chance my parents could be alcoholics. Next year I could be in a children's home. Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life. Writing candidly about his parents' marital troubles, the dog, his life as a tortured poet and 'misunderstood intellectual', Adrian's painfully honest diary is still hilarious and compelling reading thirty years after it first appeared. Bestselling author Sue Townsend has been Britain's favourite comic writer for over three decades. 'I not only wept, I howled and hooted and had to get up and walk around the room and wipe my eyes so that I could go on reading' Tom Sharpe 'A satire of our times. Very funny indeed' Sunday Times 'We laugh both at Mole and with him. A wonderful comic read, that, like all the best comedy, says something rather meaningful' Heat Sue Townsend is Britain's favourite comic author. Her hugely successful novels include eight Adrian Mole books, The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 55Âľ), Number Ten, Ghost Children, The Queen and I, Queen Camilla and The Woman Who Went to Bed For a Year, all of which are highly acclaimed bestsellers. She has also written numerous well-received plays. She lives in Leicester, where she was born and grew up.
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  • No Turning Back

    Beverley Naidoo

    Paperback (Penguin UK, April 1, 2017)
    This is the powerful and moving story of Sipho and his struggle to survive on the city streets of South Africa in the 1990s. Society is on the brink of a huge change, but will it make any difference to the tough life of Sipho and the other street kids? When Sipho is befriended by a white shopkeeper and his daughter it feels as though his luck might be about to change—but is he really safe? Includes a glossary.
  • Unarranged Marriage

    Bali Rai

    Paperback (Penguin UK, Aug. 2, 2018)
    Reissued in Penguin's ORIGINALS series of powerful teenage fiction.MANNY WANTS TO BE A FOOTBALLER. OR A POP STAR. OR WRITE A BESTSELLER. HE DOESN'T WANT TO GET MARRIED...'Harry and Ranjit were waiting for me - waiting to take me to Derby, to a wedding. My wedding. A wedding that I hadn't asked for, that I didn't want. To a girl who I didn't know... If they had bothered to open their eyes, they would have seen me: seventeen, angry, upset but determined - determined to do my own thing, to choose my own path in life...'Set partly in the UK and partly in the Punjab region of India, this is a fresh, bitingly perceptive and totally up-to-the-minute look at one young man's fight to free himself from family expectations and to be himself, free to dance to his own tune.
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  • Across the Barricades: A Kevin and Sadie Story

    Joan Lingard

    Paperback (Puffin, Sept. 27, 2016)
    Across the Barricades is part of Joan Lingard's ground-breaking Kevin and Sadie series, the sequel to The Twelfth Day of July. Both books are part of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first. Kevin and Sadie just want to be together, but it's not that simple. Things are bad in Belfast. Soldiers walk the streets and the city is divided. No Catholic boy and Protestant girl can go out together - not without dangerous consequences . . . The Originals are the pioneers of fiction for young adults. From political awakening, war and unrequited love to addiction, teenage pregnancy and nuclear holocaust, The Originals confront big issues and articulate difficult truths. The collection includes: The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton, I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith, Postcards from No Man's Land - Aidan Chambers, After the First Death - Robert Cormier, Dear Nobody - Berlie Doherty, The Endless Steppe - Esther Hautzig, Buddy - Nigel Hinton, Across the Barricades - Joan Lingard, The Twelfth Day of July - Joan Lingard, No Turning Back - Beverley Naidoo, Z for Zachariah - Richard C. O'Brien, The Wave - Morton Rhue, The Red Pony - John Steinbeck, The Pearl - John Steinbeck, Stone Cold - Robert Swindells.
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  • Abomination

    Robert Swindells

    Paperback (Penguin UK, June 1, 2018)
    A dark tale of shameful secrets, religious intolerance, and breaking through the emotional chains binding one girl to an abusive home life Martha is 12—and very different from other kids, because of her parents. Strict members of a religious group—the Brethren—their rules dominate Martha's life. And one rule is the most important of all: she must never ever invite anyone home. If she does, their shameful secret—Abomination—could be revealed. But as Martha makes her first real friend in Scott, a new boy at school, she begins to wonder. Is she doing the right thing by helping to keep Abomination a secret? And just how far will her parents go to prevent the truth from being known?
  • Buddy

    Nigel Hinton

    Paperback (Puffin, Sept. 27, 2016)
    Buddy has a hopeless father who is an aging rocker, interested only in Elvis and bikes, and living on the fringes of the under-world. When Buddy's mum walks out, the two manage to strike up some kind of relationship - until Buddy realizes that his dad is involved in something more serious than he suspected. A moving, totally convincing account of a boy's faltering relationship with his father.
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  • Postcards from No Man's Land

    Aidan Chambers

    Paperback (Puffin, Sept. 27, 2016)
    Aidan Chambers' Carnegie-medal winning novel is about love, discovery and betrayal. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first. Jacob, aged 17, is abroad on his own for the time, visiting his grandfather's grave at the commemoration of the Second World War Battle of Arnhem in Holland. Jacob's life-changing experiences are interwoven with the extraordinary wartime story of passion and treachery that he learns from Geertrui, whose family is linked to Jacob's in a way he never suspected. The Originals are the pioneers of fiction for young adults. From political awakening, war and unrequited love to addiction, teenage pregnancy and nuclear holocaust, The Originals confront big issues and articulate difficult truths. The collection includes: The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton, I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith, Postcards from No Man's Land - Aidan Chambers, After the First Death - Robert Cormier, Dear Nobody - Berlie Doherty, The Endless Steppe - Esther Hautzig, Buddy - Nigel Hinton, Across the Barricades - Joan Lingard, The Twelfth Day of July - Joan Lingard, No Turning Back - Beverley Naidoo, Z for Zachariah - Richard C. O'Brien, The Wave - Morton Rhue, The Red Pony - John Steinbeck, The Pearl - John Steinbeck, Stone Cold - Robert Swindells.
  • Star Trek: Sarek

    A. C. Crispin

    Audio Cassette (Simon & Schuster (Trade Division), March 1, 1994)
    Sarek's wife is dying, and Spock returns to Vulcan to see her. He and Sarek enjoy a rare moment of togetherness until Sarek's work calls him away. Yet Sarek and Spock soon find themselves working together to foil a far-reaching plot to destroy the federation.
  • Stone Cold

    Robert Swindells

    Paperback (Puffin, Sept. 27, 2016)
    Stone Cold is a Carnegie Medal-winning thriller by Robert Swindells. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first. A tense thriller plot is combined with a perceptive and harrowing portrait of life on the streets as a serial killer preys on the young and vulnerable homeless. Link, aged 17, is distrustful of people until he pairs up with Deb, another homeless youngster. But what Deb doesn't tell him is that she's an ambitious young journalist on a self-imposed assignment to track down the killer and she's prepared to use herself as bait ... The Originals are the pioneers of fiction for young adults. From political awakening, war and unrequited love to addiction, teenage pregnancy and nuclear holocaust, The Originals confront big issues and articulate difficult truths. The collection includes: The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton, I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith, Postcards from No Man's Land - Aidan Chambers, After the First Death - Robert Cormier, Dear Nobody - Berlie Doherty, The Endless Steppe - Esther Hautzig, Buddy - Nigel Hinton, Across the Barricades - Joan Lingard, The Twelfth Day of July - Joan Lingard, No Turning Back - Beverley Naidoo, Z for Zachariah - Richard C. O'Brien, The Wave - Morton Rhue, The Red Pony - John Steinbeck, The Pearl - John Steinbeck, Stone Cold - Robert Swindells.
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