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Seventeen-year-old Farrah Turner is one of two Black girls in her country club community, and the only one with Black parents. Her best friend, Cherish Whitman, adopted by a white, wealthy family, is something Farrah likes to call WGS--White Girl Spoiled. With Brianne and Jerry Whitman as parents, Cherish is given the kind of adoration … Continue reading Cherish Farrah, by Bethany C. Morrow
🎧 Audiobook review 🎧 How well do you know your neighbour?Would you trust them with your life? I heard Emily before I saw her. The harsh smack of heels against cheap wooden floorboards. The loud phone calls. The incessant music. I knew Emily before I met her. Discarded receipts in our communal hallway. Sticky leftovers … Continue reading The Girl Upstairs, by Georgina Lees
The best-selling book of Mushroom has came back in a luxury English edition!This book is a collection of mushroom and fungi paintings by European and Japanese naturalists in 18th to 19th century. The paintings each show the plant in its habitat and have been executed in a straightforward natural history illustration style with meticulous attention … Continue reading Mushroom Botanical Art, by Toshimitsu Fukiharu
Girls of Paper and Fire #3 'Don't struggle, Lei-zhi. It's time to take you back to the Hidden Palace. You're going home.' The jaw-dropping conclusion to Girls of Storm and Shadow left the fates of Lei and Wren hanging in the balance. There's one thing Lei knows - she can never return to the Hidden … Continue reading Girls of Fate and Fury, by Natasha Ngan
Long ago cursed by the god of lies, a poor miller's daughter has developed a talent for spinning stories that are fantastical and spellbinding and entirely untrue. Or so everyone believes. When one of Serilda's outlandish tales draws the attention of the sinister Erlking and his undead hunters, she finds herself swept away into a … Continue reading Gilded, by Marrisa Meyer
Girls of Paper and Fire #2 Lei, the naive country girl who became a royal courtesan, is now known as the Moonchosen, the commoner who managed to do what no one else could. But slaying the cruel Demon King wasn't the end of the plan---it's just the beginning. Now Lei and her warrior love Wren … Continue reading Girls of Storm and Shadow, by Natasha Ngan
A story about standing out What a gorgeous book! Aimed at pre-school children, Fun For Anyone! tells an important story about a little boy called Weston, who is teased at school about the things he likes to wear. It's very unkind. We learn about how he overcomes his worries about what other people think and … Continue reading Fun For Anyone, by Erin Alon Brain
🎧 Audiobook review 🎧 The young friends were unaware of the man who had followed them through the park. With his trilby pulled down, he moved stealthily through the trees. He was careful and kept to the shadows. He worried it might not have been his wisest move to join the girl on the bench … Continue reading The Girl at My Door, by Rebecca Griffiths
It’s just a normal morning when Anna's husband announces that he's leaving her for her best friend and taking their two daughters with him. With her safe, comfortable world shattered, Anna distracts herself with someone else's story: a true-crime podcast. That is until she recognises the name of one of the victims and becomes convinced … Continue reading Conviction, by Denise Mina
🎧 Audiobook review 🎧 Ghost-writer Joely Foster has been asked to write the memoir of an eccentric old lady with a troubling past. Relieved to have a break from her own marital difficulties, Joely escapes to the woman’s isolated house, where she gets to work writing about a pivotal event in Freda Donahoe’s life. On its surface, … Continue reading My Lies, Your Lies, by Susan Lewis
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