Book of the Week for World Cup Kick-Off!
11
Jun
2018
Category: Book Reviews
A TEAM OF SPIES
HIGHLY TRAINED.
SUPER-INTELLIGENT.
THIRTEEN YEARS OLD...
THEY ARE THE SQUAD.
As a major football tournament opens,
the squad face a deadly mission.
The England team are under threat from a terror group
moving through the Ukraine.
To protect their country,…
Book of the Week
5
Jun
2018
Category: Book Reviews
From the bestselling author of 'If I Stay'...
They lost their way but found each other.
Freya has lost her voice while recording her debut album,
the one that's supposed to propel her to stardom.
Harun has lost the love of his life. Now he's decided to run
rather than confront the…
Book of the Week
21
May
2018
Category: Book Reviews
Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire
Russell Pickett, but there's a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her best
and most fearless friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate.
So together they navigate the short distance and broad divides…
Book of the Week
14
May
2018
Category: Book Reviews
Based on a True Story set in St Kilda...
Every summer Quill and his friends are put ashore
on a remote sea stac to hunt birds.
But this summer, no one arrives to take them home.
Surely nothing but the end of the world can explain
why they've been abandoned -cold, starving and…
Book of the Week
30
Apr
2018
Category: Book Reviews
The year of 1816 felt extraordinary, and all because of a sort of strange star in the sky...
LAKE GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
Early one summer's morning, a servant boy named Felix delivers an invitation.
Tonight, at the mysterious Villa Diodati, there will be ghost stories that promise to
…
Book of the Week
23
Apr
2018
Category: Book Reviews
Three different kids.
One mission in common:
ESCAPE
JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930's Nazi Germany.
With the threat of concentration camps looming,
he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world...
ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994.
With riots and…
Book of the Week
16
Apr
2018
Category: Community
For our older readers...
A brilliant thriller... No film or televising could compete with the immediacy of this intense plotting.
This novel crackles with tension as the plot unfolds - a mother and son desperate to start a new life.
Danny is a boy on the edge. A boy teetering on the brink…
Book of the Week
9
Apr
2018
Category: Book Reviews
Jennifer Niven delivers another poignant, exhilarating love story about finding that one person
who sees you for who you really are - and seeing them right back.
Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout, but no one's ever looked past her weight
to see who she really is. Since her mum's…
Book of the Week
19
Mar
2018
Category: Book Reviews
In Memory of Stephen Hawking
Travelling to Infinity: the incredible story of Jane and Stephen Hawking
His Mind Changed Our World...
A memoir by Jane Hawking of her life with the most famous
and remarkable scientist of our time.
NOW AVAILABLE IN THE STUDY CENTRE
Book of the Week
26
Feb
2018
Category: Book Reviews
Ruby Cooper likes to expect the worst.
That way, she's never disappointed.
Abandoned by her mother and forced to leave the house she calls home,
Ruby is facing too many changes.
Her world has been transformed into a life of luxury by her long-lost sister;
but all Ruby wants to do…
Book of the Week
19
Feb
2018
Category: Book Reviews
For our older readers...
A masterful suspense novel from the author of the unforgettable bestseller-We Were Liars
Imogen is a runaway heiress, an orphan, a cook and a cheat.
Jule is a fighter, a social chameleon and an athlete.
Imogen and Jule. Jule and Imogen.
An intense…
Book of the Week
5
Feb
2018
Category: Book Reviews