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All Quiet On The Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the ‘glorious war’. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is the moving story of a young ‘unknown soldier’ experiencing the horror and disillusionment of life in the trenches.
3 Volumes
Interpoint
The Vanishing Half – Brit Bennett
The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it’s not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it’s everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters’ storylines intersect?
- 5 Volumes
- Interpoint
Goosebumps / Say Cheese and Die! – R.L. Stine
Greg thinks there is something wrong with the old camera he found. The photos keep turning out… different.
When Greg takes a picture of his father’s brand-new car, it’s wrecked in the photo. And then his dad crashes the car.
It’s like the camera can tell the future–or worse. Maybe it makes the future!
- 3 Volumes
- Embossed One-Sided
Goosebumps 34 / Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes – R.L. Stine
Trouble begins when Joe Burton’s dad brings home two new lawn ornaments–ugly lawn gnomes.
- 3 Volumes
- Embossed One-Sides
Goosebumps 27 / A Night in Terror Town
J.D. Sue and Eddie decide to join a tour group going around London while their parents are at a big meeting at their hotel. While visiting Terror Tower they manage to lose their group, then are even chased by a scary man in a black hat and cape. But that’s only the beginning of their scary adventure.
- 3 Volumes
- Embossed One-Sided
Goosebumps 39 / How I got my Shrunken Head?; by R.L. Stine
What has two eyes, a mouth, and wrinkly green skin? Mark’s shrunken head. It’s a present from his Aunt Benna. A gift from the jungle island of Baladora.
Mark can’t wait to show the kids at school his shrunken head. It’s so ugly. So gross. So awesome. But late one night the head starts to glow. Because it’s no ordinary head. It gives Mark a strange power. A magical power. A dangerous power….
- 3 Volumes
- Embossed One-Sided
The Book Thief – Marcus Zusak
It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will be busier still.
By her brother’s graveside, Liesel’s life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger’s Handbook, left behind there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordian-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor’s wife’s library, wherever there are books to be found.
But these are dangerous times. When Liesel’s foster family hides a Jew in their basement, Liesel’s world is both opened up, and closed down.
In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.
- 7 Volumes
- Interpoint
The Genesis Flaw – L.A. Larkin
Human experiments in Zimbabwe. An Australian farmer’s death. A Sydney CEO’s suicide. These events are linked in the mind of one woman, Serena Swift, a ballsy advertising director with a guilty conscience, when she decides to take on one of the world’s most powerful producers of genetically modified food, Gene-Asis. Serena disguises herself to infiltrate Gene-Asis in an attempt to expose the company’s horrific genetic experiments. But suddenly Swift’s informants disappear, she is hunted by a hired killer, and framed for murder. Chased from Sydney to New York, she must face the man she fears most, on his own turf. If she fails, nothing can stop a global catastrophe. And nobody can help her — except a dead man.
- 6 Volumes
- Interpoint
The Guest List – Lucy Foley
A gripping, twisty murder mystery thriller from the No.1 bestselling author of The Hunting Party.
On an island off the windswept Irish coast, guests gather for the wedding of the year – the marriage of Jules Keegan and Will Slater.
Old friends.
Past grudges.
Happy families.
Hidden jealousies.
Thirteen guests.
One body.
The wedding cake has barely been cut when one of the guests is found dead. And as a storm unleashes its fury on the island, everyone is trapped.
All have a secret. All have a motive.
One guest won’t leave this wedding alive . . .