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Hidden Gem: Shades of Grey

Hundreds of years in the future, the world is an alarmingly different place. Life is lived according to The Rulebook and social hierarchy is determined by your perception of colour.

Eddie Russett is an above-average Red who dreams of moving up the ladder. Until he is sent to the Outer Fringes where he meets Jane - a lowly Grey with an uncontrollable temper and a desire to see him killed.

For Eddie, it's love at first sight. But his infatuation will lead him to discover that all is not as it seems in a world where everything that looks black and white is really shades of grey...

*Summary from Goodreads

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Reckless Girls

When charting out on an adventure to a remote deserted island in search of adventure, Lux and her cohorts are going soon learn the dangers of being reckless

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An Oldie but a Goodie: Rose Madder

Rose Daniels has finally woken up to life with Norman Daniels after seeing one drop of blood on the bed from a nose bleed the night before, Rose finally understands that it is now or never, and life and death.

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Once There Were Wolves

“Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team of biologists tasked with reintroducing fourteen gray wolves into the remote Highlands. She hopes to heal not only the dying landscape, but Aggie, too, unmade by the terrible secrets that drove the sisters out of Alaska.

Inti is not the woman she once was, either, changed by the harm she’s witnessed—inflicted by humans on both the wild and each other. Yet as the wolves surprise everyone by thriving, Inti begins to let her guard down, even opening herself up to the possibility of love. But when a farmer is found dead, Inti knows where the town will lay blame. Unable to accept her wolves could be responsible, Inti makes a reckless decision to protect them. But if the wolves didn’t make the kill, then who did? And what will Inti do when the man she is falling for seems to be the prime suspect?”

*Audible Summary of Novel

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No-no Boy

No-no Boy follows the return of Ichiro, a Japanese-American who has returned from serving a prison sentence for refusing to serve in the military during WWII. Asking where he belongs, Ichiro tries to understand why he made the choices he made, as well as seeing his community attempting to heal.

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About A Boy

Will is thirty-six but acts like a teenager. Single, child-free and still feeling cool, he reads the right magazines, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He's also discovered a great way to score with women at single parents' groups, full of available (and grateful) mothers, all waiting for Mr Nice Guy. That's where he meets Marcus, the oldest twelve-year-old in the world. Marcus is a bit strange: he listens to Joni Mitchell and Mozart, he looks after his Mum and he's never even owned a pair of trainers. Perhaps if Will can teach Marcus how to be a kid, Marcus can help Will grow up and they can both start to act their age.

*Taken from Goodreads

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Later

The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mother urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine-as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.

*Taken from back of the book

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The Book of Cold Cases

In 1977, Claire Lake Oregon, was shaken by the Lady Killer Murders: Two men, seemingly randomly, were murdered with the same gun, with strange notes left behind. Beth Greer was the perfect suspect-a rich, eccentric twenty-three-year-old woman, seen fleeing one of the crime scenes. But she was acquitted, and she retreated to the isolation of her mansion.

Oregon, 2017. Shea Collins is a receptionist, but by night, she runs a true-crime website, the Book of Cold Cases-a passion fueled by the attempted abduction she escaped as a child. When she meets Beth by chance, Shea asks her for an interview. To Shea’s surprise, Beth says yes.

They meet regularly at Beth’s mansion, though Shea is never comfortable there. Items move when she’s not looking, and she could swear she’s seen a girl outside the window. The allure of learning the truth about the case from the smart charming Beth is too much to resist, but even as they grow closer, Shea senses something isn’t right. Is she making friends with a manipulative murderer, or are there other dangers lurking in the darkness of the Greer house?

*Taken from book jacket

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Darling Girl

“Life is looking up for Holly Darling, granddaughter of Wendy-yes, that Wendy. She’s running a successful skincare company; her son, Jack, is happy and healthy; and the tragedy of her past is well behind her . . . until she gets a call that her daughter, Eden, who has been in a coma for nearly a decade has gone missing from the estate where she’s been long tucked away. And, worst of all, Holly knows who must be responsible: Peter Pan, who is not only very real, but very dangerous.

*Taken from book jacket

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Project Hail Mary

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.

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The Paris Apartment

Meet the residents of 12 rue des Amants, a beautiful old apartment building in the City of Light…

The Socialite

The nice guy

The alcoholic

The girl on the verge

The concierge

Everyone’s a neighbor.

Everyone’s a suspect.

And everyone knows something they’re not telling.

*Taken from the back of the book.

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Mexican Gothic

After receiving a frantic letter from her newlywed cousin, Noami Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside, unsure what she will find.

Noami is an unlikely rescuer: She’s a glamorous debutante, more suited to cocktail parties than amateur sleuthing. But she’s also tough, smart, and not afraid: not of her cousin’s new English husband, a stranger who is both menacing and alluring; not of his father, the ancient patriarch who seems fascinated by Noami; and not even of the house itself, which begins to invade Noami’s dreams with visions of blood and doom.

Noami’s only ally in this inhospitable place is the family’s youngest son. But he too may be hiding something dark. For there are many secrets behind the walls of High Place, as Noami discovers when she begins to unearth stories of violence and madness.*

*Taken from book jacket

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The Woman in Cabin 10

In this tightly wound, enthralling story reminiscent of Agatha Christie’s works, Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is clear, the water calm, and the veneered, select guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage int eh picturesque North Sea.

At first, Lo’s stay is nothing but pleasant: the cabins are plush, the dinner parties are sparkling, and the guests are elegant. But as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the deck, gray skies fall, and Lo hears what she can only describe as a dark and terrifying nightmare: a woman being thrown overboard. The problem? All passengers and crew members remain accounted for, and so, the ship sails on as if nothing has happened, despite Lo’s desperate attempts to convey that something (or someone) has gone terribly, terribly wrong…*

*Taken from book jacket

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Rock Paper Scissors

Things have been wrong with Mr. and Mrs. Wright for a long time. Every anniversary the couple exchange traditional gifts-paper, cotton, pottery, tin-and each year Adam’s wife writes him a letter that she never lets him read. Until now.

Self-confessed workaholic and screenwriter Adam Wright has lived with face blindness his whole life. He can’t recognize friends or family, or even his own wife. And Amelia is sick of feeling unseen.

When Adam and Amelia win a weekend away in Scotland, it might be just what their marriage needs. They both know this weekend will make or break their relationship, but they didn’t randomly win this trip. One of them is lying, and someone doesn’t want them to live happily ever after. *

*Taken from book jacket

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The Hunting Party

A New Year’s reunion in the Scottish wilderness.

The beautiful one

The golden couple

The volatile one

The new parents

The quiet one

The city boy

The outsider

One of these friends is a murderer. And one won’t make it out alive.*

*summery from the back of the book

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