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Updated October 11, 2023
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And Tango makes three
Richardson, Justin
Paper Book
One of the six political books for kids you should definitely read according to Zoe Williams in the Guardian, November 2018! Roy and Silo are just like the other penguin couples at the zoo - they bow to each other, walk together and swim together. But Roy and...

Picture Book

The complete Persepolis
Satrapi, Marjane
Paper Book
Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up as a girl in Iran during the revolution has for twenty years been a classroom staple, a feminist manifesto, and one of the most popular and widely known graphic novels of all time. <...

Young Adult and Adult Non Fiction Graphic Novel

The giver
Lowry, Lois.
Paper Book
It's a perfect world, where everything looks right. But ugly truths lie beneath the surface... It is the future. There is no war, no hunger, no pain. No one in The Community wants for anything. Everyone is provided for. Each Family Unit is entitled to one female and male...

Juvenile Fiction

Holes
Sachar, Louis
Paper Book
'You want to run away?' Mr Sir asked him. Stanley looked back at him, unsure what he meant. 'If you want to run away, go ahead, start running. I'm not going to stop you.' Stanley didn't know what kind of game Mr Sir was playing. 'We don't need a fence. Know why? Because we've got the...

Juvenile Fiction

Melissa
Gino, Alex
Paper Book
"Allow me to introduce you to a remarkable book, full of love, wonder, hope, and the importance of getting to be who you were meant to be. You must read this." - David Levithan, author of Every Day and editor of George. When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a...

Juvenile Fiction

The Hunger Games
Collins, Suzanne.
Paper Book
First in the ground-breaking HUNGER GAMES trilogy, this new foiled edition of THE HUNGER GAMES is available for a limited period of time. Set in a dark vision of the near future, a terrifying reality TV show is taking place. Twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event called...

Young Adult Fiction


Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.
Blume, Judy
Paper Book
Over Nine Million Copies Sold Worldwide.Meet Margaret. She's going through all the same things most teenage girls have to face; fitting in, friendship and first bras.Life isn't easy for Margaret. She's moved away from her childhood home, she's starting a new school, finding new friends - and she's...

Juvenile Fiction

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Rowling, J. K.
Paper Book
Harry Potter's summer has included the worst birthday ever, doomy warnings from a house-elf called Dobby, and rescue from the Dursleys by his friend Ron Weasley in a magical flying car! Back at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for his second year, Harry hears strange whispers echo...
Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban
Rowling, J. K.
Paper Book
When the Knight Bus crashes through the darkness and screeches to a halt in front of him, it's the start of another far from ordinary year at Hogwarts for Harry Potter. Sirius Black, escaped mass-murderer and follower of Lord Voldemort, is on the run - and they say he is coming after Harry. In...
Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone
Rowling, J. K.
Paper Book
Galloping gargoyles ... 2022 is the silver anniversary of J.K. Rowling's magical classic Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone! The boy wizard Harry Potter has been casting a spell over young readers and their families ever since 1997. Now the first book in this...

Juvenile Fiction

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, Book 4)
Rowling, J. K.
Paper Book
The Triwizard Tournament is to be held at Hogwarts. Only wizards who are over seventeen are allowed to enter - but that doesn't stop Harry dreaming that he will win the competition. Then at Hallowe'en, when the Goblet of Fire makes its selection, Harry is amazed to find his name is one of those...
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Rowling, J. K.
Paper Book
Dark times have come to Hogwarts. After the Dementors' attack on his cousin Dudley, Harry Potter knows that Voldemort will stop at nothing to find him. There are many who deny the Dark Lord's return, but Harry is not alone: a secret order gathers at Grimmauld Place to fight against the Dark...
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, Book 6)
Rowling, J. K.
Paper Book
When Dumbledore arrives at Privet Drive one summer night to collect Harry Potter, his wand hand is blackened and shrivelled, but he does not reveal why. Secrets and suspicion are spreading through the wizarding world, and Hogwarts itself is not safe. Harry is convinced that Malfoy bears the Dark...
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Brian Selznick Cover Edition)
Rowling, J. K.
Paper Book
Harry has been burdened with a dark, dangerous and seemingly impossible task- that of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes. Never has Harry felt so alone, or faced a future so full of shadows. But Harry must somehow find within himself the strength to complete the task he has been...
The golden compass
Pullman, Philip
Paper Book
Lyra Belacqua and her animal daemon live half-wild and carefree among scholars of Jordan College, Oxford. The destiny that awaits her will take her to the frozen lands of the Arctic, where witch-clans reign and ice-bears fight. Her extraordinary journey will have immeasurable consequences far beyond...

Juvenile and Young Adult Fiction

The subtle knife
Pullman, Philip
Paper Book
Book 2 in His Dark Materials series A New York Times Bestseller A Publishers Weekly BestsellerThe epic adventure continues as Lyra finds herself in the beautiful, haunted world of Citta gazze. But here she encounters an ally. Like Lyra, Will Parry has spent his childhood playing games. Unlike hers,...
The amber spyglass
Pullman, Philip
Paper Book
  "An astonishing imaginative feat - Pullman has conjured a universe of intensity and beauty that leaves one gasping" The Times "Only Rankin can light and photograph faces with such intensity and drama. I'm delighted with this vision of my story." Philip Pullman ...
The perks of being a wallflower
Chbosky, Stephen.
Paper Book
A modern cult classic, a major motion picture and a timeless bestseller, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a deeply affecting coming-of-age story.  Charlie is not the biggest geek in high school, but he's by no means popular. Shy,...

Young Adult Fiction

Thirteen Reasons Why
Asher, Jay
Ebook
Read this sensational mystery bestseller before you watch season two of the golden Globe nominated Netflix series, executive produced by Selena Gomez. There are 500 reasons why I love this book...' Jennifer Niven author of All the Bright Places You can't stop...

Young Adult Fiction

Brave new world
Huxley, Aldous
Paper Book
Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here. INTRODUCED BY MARGARET ATWOOD Our perfect society achieves peace and stability by dispensing with monogamy, privacy, money, family and history itself. Now everyone belongs. You can be happy too. All you need to...

Young Adult and Adult Fiction

Of mice and men
Steinbeck, John
Paper Book
Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California's Salinas Valley, but their hopes are dashed as Lennie -...

Young Adult and Adult Fiction

Fahrenheit 451
Bradbury, Ray
Paper Book
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal...

Young Adult and Adult Fiction

Catch-22
Heller, Joseph.
Paper Book
Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage. Set in the closing months of World War II, this is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious...

Young Adult and Adult Fiction

Good omens : the nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter, witch
Gaiman, Neil.
Paper Book
GOOD OMENS SEASON 2 COMING 28TH JULY ON AMAZON PRIME. The book behind the Amazon Prime / BBC Series starring David Tennant, Michael Sheen, Jon Hamm and Benedict Cumberbatch. 'Ridiculously inventive and gloriously funny' Guardian What...

Young Adult and Adult Fiction

Beloved
Morrison, Toni.
Paper Book
Discover Toni Morrison's most iconic work in this Pulitzer-prize winning novel that exemplifies her powerful and important place in contemporary American literature. 'An American masterpiece' AS Byatt It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to...

Young Adult and Adult Fiction

Beartown : a novel
Backman, Fredrik
Paper Book
FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ANXIOUS PEOPLE AND A MAN CALLED OVE, FREDRIK BACKMAN **NOW A MAJOR HBO TV SERIES** 'I utterly believed in the residents of Beartown and felt ripped apart by the events in the...

Adult Fiction

Fun home : a family tragicomic
Bechdel, Alison
Paper Book
DISCOVER the BESTSELLING GRAPHIC MEMOIR behind the Olivier Award nominated musical. 'A sapphic graphic treat' The Times A moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's gothic...

Adult Graphic Novel

Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Nafisi, Azar.
Ebook
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * We all have dreams--things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi's dream and of the nightmare that made it come true. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven...

Adult Non Fiction

Vox
Dalcher, Christina
Paper Book
'This book will blow your mind' PRIMA 'Disturbing' LEE CHILD 'A petrifying reimagining of The Handmaid's Tale' ELLE 'Left me speechless' DAILY MAIL 'Terrifying' RED 'A novel ripe for the #MeToo era' VANITY FAIR 'Extraordinary' LOUISE O'NEILL 'The...

Adult Fiction

The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Haddon, Mark.
Paper Book
OVER TEN MILLION COPIES SOLD The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's Syndrome. He knows a very great deal about...

Young Adult and Adult Fiction

The hate u give
Thomas, Angie
Paper Book
Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2018. Winner of the 2018 Silver Inky Award #1 New York Times bestseller A Teen Vogue Best YA Book of the Year "Stunning."-John Green "A masterpiece."-The Huffington Post "An essential read for everyone."-Teen Vogue "Outstanding." -The Guardian Sixteen...

Young Adult Fiction


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