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Bad Panda: For Sale
Name: Amanda Shipton
12 March 2025;Genre: Funny Stories
Award-winning author Swapna Haddow has done it again. This is another incredible story which has you hooked from the very first chapter. The lovable characters that we have grown to love return in this beautifully illustrated early chapter book. Bad Panda: For Sale has...
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Call the Puffins! Tiny and the Cave Ghost
Name: Sue Wilsher
12 March 2025;Genre: Adventure
Muffin, Tiny and the rest of the trainee rescue puffins on the Island of Egg are all taking part in a special festival called Puffin Power. Tiny's team has gained a new member, a little yellow chick called Flotsam, who has appeared and is determined to join in the fun. However...
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Rebel Heart
Name: Jacqueline Harris
12 March 2025;Genre: Historical Fiction
The year is 1645 and the Civil War is raging. Merriweather Pryce decides to fetch her father to defend their home of Compton Blaize, as it is under attack from the Parliamentarian forces. Dressed as a boy, she leaves Compton Blaize to find him - only to run into deadly danger before she has go...
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Westfallen: What if you had to stop Germany winning WWII?
Name: Sue Wilsher
12 March 2025;Genre: Adventure
Although Henry, Frances and Lukas are no longer best friends, they meet up for the funeral of their pet gerbil. Whilst digging the grave, they make an amazing discovery - a radio which allows them to communicate with another group of three children who live in the very same place, only 80 year...
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Capitana: Set sail with the bestselling pirate romantasy of 2025!
Name: Sue Wilsher
10 March 2025;Genre: Fantasy
Ximena Reale is determined to become a Cazadoro at La Academia de los Cazadores, but despite being a star student, her prospects are tarnished by her heritage. Five years ago, her parents were executed for being pirates and now her older sister's behaviour is casting a shadow on Ximena's risin...
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The Rose Bargain
Name: Linda Brown
10 March 2025;Genre: Fantasy
The Rose Bargain is a thrilling and atmospheric dark fantasy set in 1848 England, where high society's yearly tradition of bargaining with an immortal fae Queen takes a sinister twist. This captivating novel explores themes of ambition, sacrific...
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Moving to Mars - Building a Colony on the Red Planet
Name: Jenny CADDICK
10 March 2025;Genre: Non Fiction
Moving to Mars is an incredibly detailed and scientifically visionary book created by the collaboration between amazing graphic designers and scientists who are enthusiastically committed to passing on their incredible technological, space-race knowledge and their exciting, fo...
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Pocket Book of Pocket Poems
Name: Jane Rew
10 March 2025;Genre: Poetry
Some of the poems in AF Harrold's Pocket Book of Pocket Poems have been published elsewhere, as detailed in the final pages, which also contain a helpful alphabetical list of the poems. Adult readers of the small print will note that none of this material may be used for the '...
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For She is Wrath
Name: Linda Brown
10 March 2025;Genre: Romance & Relationships
364 days, that's how long Dania has been in a hell-hole of a prison for a crime she didn't commit. She is counting down her days until she can exact revenge on Mazin, the boy responsible for her downfall, the boy she once loved - and still can't forget. However, first she has to escape and tha...
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They Bloom at Night
Name: Clare Wilkins
10 March 2025;Genre: LBGTQ+
Post-hurricane, the town of Mercy is beset by rising waters and a red algae bloom that suffocates and distorts wildlife. Mutant creatures lurk in the depths as a semblance of life is maintained on the partially submerged land. Noon and her mother are shrimpers, good at their work but up to the...
