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Jenny Gladwell

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The Bookshop Murders

READERS LOVE THESE BOOKSHOP MURDERS...'An excellent Golden Age mystery!' 'A wonderful one-sit read!' 'The bookshop, the London landmarks, the reverence for ancient Egyptian history, the museums, the questioning of the past... Wow!' London, 1928. Lucy Darkwether has always made her own rules. After breaking off her engagement to pursue a degree in Ancient History, she's now the proud owner...

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Jenny McLachlan

Book 6 -

The Land of Roar

"Fast-paced, immersive and full of adventure – […] the perfect fuel for young imaginations.” A.F. STEADMAN, author of Skandar, on Dragon Riders of RoarThe SIXTH magical adventure in the epic and funny bestselling Land of Roar series.Arthur and Rose Trout have created the magical world of Roar, where they have amazing adventures with their friend Wininja and his baby dragon Pipsqueak. They are spending half-term in Roar when they learn that their gr...

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Jenny Smith

Do You Feel Stuck in the Intermediate English Level?Do you want to break out and start improving quickly?Then this is the perfect book to help you move up to the advanced level and start using everyday English fluently. The 500 phrases in this book will help you make the leap from intermediate to advanced.What made me want to write this book?After years of teaching intermediate students who never seemed to i...

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Jenny Downham, Louis Hill

Leah and Charlie are handling their family's loss in very different ways. Their choices push them down difficult and perilous paths which eventually collide, sending shockwaves through their community. This astounding, compulsive novel explores love, power, money, art, and asks: what matters most in the end?

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Jenny Uglow

Led by Erasmus Darwin, the Lunar Society of Birmingham was formed from a group of amateur experimenters, tradesmen and artisans who met and made friends in the Midlands in the 1760s. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the centre of things, but they were young and their optimism was boundless: together they would change the world. Among them were the ambitious toy-maker Matthew Boulton and his partner James Watt, of steam-engine fame; the potter Josiah Wedgwood; the larger-t...

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Jenny

This story is inspired by the real life of a Pakistani trans woman named Shamin—a compassionate and resilient individual whose journey reflects both profound hardship and enduring hope.Shamin was born in Islamabad, Pakistan. From an early age, she faced relentless cruelty for being different. As a child, she could not understand why she was met with hostility, exclusion, and violence—nor why no one, not even her mother, explained it.Ashamed and fearful of social judgment, h...

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Jenni Nuttall

**“A fascinating look at how we talk about women. . . . Dense with information and anecdotes, Mother Tongue touches on the hilarious and the devastating, with ample dashes of an ingredient so painfully absent from most discussions of sex and gender: humor.” ―Lisa Selin Davis, The Washington Post“[Nuttall] examines the origins of words used over many centuries to describe women’s bodies, desires, pregnancies, work lives, sexual victimhood, and stages of life. . . ....

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Jenny Wheeler

Book 8 -

Of Gold & Blood

Sugar heiress Leilani Manolo faces an impossible choice between love and duty. With time running out, will a shocking revelation be her salvation or her downfall?In 1870s Hawaii, royal favourite Lani Manolo is caught between the desires of her heart and the demands of her powerful family.Deeply in love with French vintner Aristide Laurent, she feels duty bound to secure her family’s future by marrying a man she does not lov...

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Jenny McLachlan

Science geek Meg is left to look after her little sister for ten days after her free-spirited mum leaves suddenly to follow up yet another of her Big Important Causes. But while Meg may understand how the universe was formed, baby Elsa is a complete mystery to her.And Mum's disappearance has come at the worst time: Meg is desperate to win a competition to get the chance to visit NASA headquarters, but to do this she has to beat close rival Ed. Can Meg pull off this double life of c...

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Jenny Tough

It’s time we celebrated women in adventureWhat does"toughness"mean to you? Perhaps it’s being physically fit and mentally resilient. Perhaps it’s doing something no one else has done before. Perhaps it’s breaking down boundaries and proving what you can do, in spite of the naysayers. Perhaps it’s travelling alone, immersing yourself in new cultures and meeting new people. Perhaps it’s running ultramarathons in the blistering heat and beating the competition. Perhaps it’s conquering ...

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Jenny Bayliss

She went home for Christmas…and found the love she thought she’d lost.Curl up with this cosy Christmas romance bursting with twinkling lights, second chances and seasonal joy, from bestselling author Jenny Bayliss–When Fred returns home to her Scottish town she must confront her past and decide whether it can be a part of her future…Fred Hallow-Hart isn't in love with the idea of returning home to Pine Bluff...

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Jenny Pearson

An explosive new novel about the friendship and courage of a group of young boys living through the Second World War, from award-winning author Jenny Pearson.There's a war going on out there, and I'm missing it.When war comes to London in 1939, Ronnie Smith is scared and excited: scared of the bombs that fall at night, but excited to race his friends to collect the best bits of shrapnel every morning.But for Ronnie, the bat...