All Points West May 2025: First in the Series

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Updated May 3, 2025
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Bringing down the duke
Dunmore, Evie
Paper Book
Annabelle Archer, the brilliant but destitute daughter of a country vicar, has earned herself a place among the first cohort of female students at the renowned University of Oxford. In return for her scholarship, she must support the rising women's suffrage movement. The cold and calculating...
The colour of magic
Pratchett, Terry
Paper Book
A paperback edition with the original cover art of the classic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the first book in the Wizards series, part of the Discworld novels. NAMED AS ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 MOST INSPIRING NOVELS 'If you've never read a Discworld...
The golden compass
Pullman, Philip
Paper Book
The modern fantasy classic that Entertainment Weekly named an "All-Time Greatest Novel" and Newsweek hailed as a "Top 100 Book of All Time." Philip Pullman takes readers to a world where humans have animal familiars and where parallel universes are within reach. ...
The Honjin murders
Yokomizo, Seishi
Ebook
A Town & Country "Best Classic Murder Mystery Books of All Time" Japan's Agatha Christie introduces the beloved Detective Kindaichi in this 1930s classic locked room mystery--now translated into English for the first time! In the winter of 1937, the...
The long way to a small, angry planet
Chambers, Becky
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'A quietly profound, humane tour de force' Guardian The beloved debut novel that will restore your faith in humanity #SmallAngryPlanet When Rosemary Harper...
Stiff The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Roach, Mary.
Audiobook
An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For 2,000 years, cadavers-some willingly, some unwittingly-have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space...
The Tea Dragon Society
O'Neill, Kay (Cartoonist)
Paper Book
From the award-winning author of Princess Princess Ever After comes The TeaDragon Society, a charming all-ages book that follows the story of Greta, ablacksmith apprentice, and the people she meets as she becomes entwined in theenchanting world of tea dragons. After discovering a...

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