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End of story / A.J Finn.

"I'll be dead in three months. Come tell my story." This is the chilling invitation from Sebastian Trapp, renowned mystery novelist, to his long-time correspondent Nicky Hunter, an expert in detective fiction. Welcomed into his lavish San Francisco mansion, Nicky begins to unravel Trapp's life story under the watchful eyes of his enigmatic wife and plain spoken daughter. But Sebastian Trapp is a mystery himself. And maybe, probably, a murderer. Two decades ago, his first wife and son vanished the case never solved. Is the master of mystery playing a deadly game and if so, who will be the loser? And when a body surfaces in the family's koi pond, they all realise the past isn't buried... it's waiting.
Author: Finn, A. J.
Published: London : Hemlock Press, 2024.
Published: ©2024
408 pages ; 24 cm
2 reserves

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Daddy's girl / Josephine Cox ; with Gilly Middleton.

Heart-broken Sarah Quinn is left to care for her father and siblings when their beloved mother dies. Putting her own dreams aside to keep the family together, she's watchful of her youngest sister, Janette, fast on the way to becoming a tearaway. Her father Fred, often in the pub rather than striving to pay the bills, delivers a shock. He's taken up with Mavis Swindel, the landlady of a shabby boarding house and swiftly marries her, moving them all into her lodgings. Forced to do most of the dirty and backbreaking housework, and often at the sharp end of Mavis's spite, Sarah becomes convinced that her father's new wife has something to hide. But as her quest becomes an obsession, does Sarah risk destroying everything that matters to her in the search for the truth?
Author: Cox, Josephine
Published: London : HarperCollins Publishers, 2024.
Published: ©2024.
424 pages ; 24 cm.

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The school run / Ali Lowe.

When a group of mothers takes the competition for private schooling too far, the consequences are deadly. Every year, the reputable Queensland institution of St. Ignatius, affectionately called Iggy, hosts a Gala Day. This battle of brains and brawn, where 11-year-olds vie for a spot inside those hallowed ivory walls, directly affects admissions and determines the path of each and every candidate. But in the cutthroat environment of elite academia, three mothers will stop at nothing to see their boys succeed. As Gala Day draws near, one scholarly prospect is struck down in a hit-and-run, and as whispers escalate to accusations, scandals and lies unravel until the only question on everyone's mind is: who will be left standing? Exploring the dark side of motherhood and the fierce competition that destroys close-knit communities, this chilling descent into the dangers of suburbia will thrill fans of Lisa Jewell and Andrea Bartz.
Author: Lowe, Ali
Published: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2024.
Published: ©2024.
389 pages ; 24 cm.
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The 24th hour / James Patterson & Maxine Paetro.

The Women's Murder Club is out celebrating an engagement at San Francisco's finest restaurant when a blood-curdling scream interrupts the festivities. They soon discover a young woman who has been the victim of a violent assault. Sergeant Lindsay Boxer makes an arrest. Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano takes the case. But assigning blame is made impossible due to the victim's chaotic version of events - and the shocking reason behind her ever-changing memory. As Yuki argues the toughest case of her career, Lindsay must chase down a high-society killer whose target practice may leave the Women's Murder Club short a bridesmaid... or two.
Author: Patterson, James, 1947-
Published: London : Century, 2024.
Published: ©2024
369 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Women's murder club ; 24.
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11 copies

The accident / Fiona Lowe.

"Freya thought she could relax when Ryan's best mate Jamie got engaged to her best friend Hannah. Two couples, four friends - what could be better than that? But a day before the wedding Freya's torn between keeping the peace or blowing it up. Hannah's perfect wedding is hours away and she's daydreaming of a honeymoon in Tahiti and starting the family she longs for when she hears the first-responder sirens. Is it a grass fire? Worse? And why aren't Ryan or Jamie answering their phones? When a car veers off the road with devastating consequences, the small wheatbelt town of Garringarup is left reeling, but no one's world is more shattered than Hannah and Freya's. As disturbing details surrounding the accident emerge and questions pile up, ugly secrets rise to the surface."--Back cover.
Author: Lowe, Fiona
Published: Gadigal Country ; [Sydney, NSW] : HQ Fiction, 2024.
Published: ©2024.
462 pages ; 24 cm.
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A Sign of Her Own / Marsh, Sarah.

An empowering story of a young woman's journey to accepting her deaf identity, exploring the hidden history of the deaf community in the invention of the telephone.
Author: Marsh, Sarah
Published: London, UK : Headline, 2024.
23 cm.

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The hidden queen / Peter V. Brett.

Humanity thought the war with demonkind was over. Now, after less than a generation to rebuild, the demon corelings have returned with a vengeance. The Spear of Ala-the fortress that stands at the gates of the demon's hive-is the last bastion against the horde, and reports say it may already have fallen. Olive Paper is expected to take the vanguard in the fight. Only an heir of Kaji can wield the artifact that opens the gates of the Spear of Ala, and as Ahmann Jardir's child, Olive seems destined for a role as leader and Savior. But Olive does not wish to follow in her father's footsteps any more than she did her mother's. Darin Bales was born with supernatural senses that he struggles to process, so much that even those who love him believe he can barely take care of himself. Yet to save his mother from the clutches of Alagai Ka, the demon king, Darin will brave anything to mount a rescue. Darin and Olive each strive to walk their own path but find themselves inextricably tied to the legacies of their parents and to a fated confrontation with the demon king and his new hatchling queen. If they fail, humanity may not survive.
Author: Brett, Peter V.
Published: London : HarperVoyager, 2024.
Published: ©2024.
xiii, 584 pages : maps, genealogical table ; 24 cm.
Nightfall saga ; 2.

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The hunter / Tana French.

It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in the village. They're coming for gold. What they bring is trouble. Cal Hooper was a Chicago detective, till he moved to the West of Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less -- in his relationship with local woman Lena, and the bond he's formed with half-wild teenager Trey. So when two men turn up with a money-making scheme to find gold in the townland, Cal gets ready to do whatever it takes to protect Trey. Because one of the men is no stranger: he's Trey's father. But Trey doesn't want protecting. What she wants is revenge. Crackling with tension and slow-burn suspense, The Hunter explores what we'll do for our loved ones, what we'll do for revenge, and what we sacrifice when the two collide.
Author: French, Tana
Published: [London] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2024.
Published: ©2023.
409 pages ; 24 cm.
Cal Hooper ; 2.
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Still see you everywhere / Lisa Gardner.

A remote tropical island. Countless dangerous secrets. No way to call help. Missing persons specialist Frankie Elkin is on an isolated island off the coast of Hawaii. Her mission: to find Lani, the missing sister of a Death Row serial killer known as the Beautiful Butcher who is awaiting execution in just three weeks' time. According to the Beautiful Butcher's sources, Lani is being held captive by her millionaire ex-boyfriend on the island. The only way to gain access is for Frankie to go undercover. But can Frankie really trust the word of a serial killer? Plus, this island is no paradise with deadly creatures and suspicious co-workers at every turn, and an incoming tropical storm about to cut her off from the outside world.
Author: Gardner, Lisa
Published: London : Century, 2024.
Published: ©2024
405 pages ; 24 cm.
Frankie Elkin ; 3.
2 reserves

11 copies

What happened to Nina? / Dervla McTiernan.

"Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family's cabin in Vermont, and only Simon comes home. Nobody knows. Simon's explanation about what happened in their last hours together doesn't add up. Nina's parents push the police for answers, and Simon's parents rush to protect him. They hire expensive lawyers and a PR firm that quickly ramps up a vicious, nothing-is-off-limits media campaign. HOW FAR WILL HIS FAMILY GO TO KEEP HIM SAFE? Soon, facts are lost in a swirl of accusation and counter-accusation. Everyone chooses a side, and the story goes viral, fuelled by armchair investigators and wild conspiracy theories and illustrated with pretty pictures taken from Nina's social media accounts. Journalists descend on their small Vermont town, followed by a few obsessive "fans." HOW FAR WILL HER FAMILY GO TO GET TO THE TRUTH? Nina's family is under siege, but they never lose sight of the only thing that really matters -- finding their daughter. Out-gunned by Simon's wealthy, powerful family, Nina's parents recognise that if playing by the rules won't get them anywhere, it's time to break them."--Back cover.
Author: McTiernan, Dervla
Published: Gadigal Country ; [Sydney, NSW] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2024.
Published: ©2024.
322 pages ; 24 cm.
18 reserves

13 copies

Body of Lies / Sarah Bailey.

A car crash victim clings to life and is rushed to hospital but can't be saved. Hours later, the body is stolen from the morgue. No one knows who the dead woman was or why her body was taken. Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock is back in her hometown of Smithson on maternity leave when the bizarre incident occurs. She is intrigued by the case but reluctant to get involved, despite the urging of her journalist friend Candy Fyfe. But in the days after the body goes missing, the town is rocked by another shocking crime and Gemma can't resist joining the investigation. Candy and Gemma follow the clues the dead woman left behind. As they attempt to discover the identity of the missing woman, Gemma uncovers devastating secrets about the people she thought she knew best. The closer Gemma gets to the truth, the more danger she's in. She desperately needs to confide in someone - but is there anyone she can trust?
Author: Bailey, Sarah (Australian author)
Published: Cammeraygal Country ; Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2024.
Published: ©2024.
470 pages ; 24 cm.
Gemma Woodstock ; 4.
3 reserves

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Has anyone seen Charlotte Salter? / Nicci French.

On the day of Alec Salter's fiftieth birthday party, just before Christmas 1990, his wife Charlotte vanishes. Most of the small English village of Glensted is at the party for hours before anyone realises Charlotte is missing. While Alec brushes off her disappearance, their four children--especially fifteen-year-old Etty--grow increasingly anxious as the cold winter hours become days and she doesn't return. When Charlotte's coat is found by the river, they fear the worst. Then the body of the Salters' neighbour, Duncan Ackerley, is found floating in the river by his son Morgan and Etty. The police investigate and conclude that Duncan and Charlotte were having an affair before he killed her and committed suicide. Thirty years later, Morgan Ackerley, a successful documentarian, has returned to Glensted with his older brother Greg to make a podcast based on their shared tragedy with the Salters. Alec, stricken with dementia, is entering an elder care facility while Etty helps put his affairs in order. But as the Ackerleys ask to interview the Salters, the entire town gets caught up in the unresolved cases. Allegations are made, secrets are revealed, and a suspicious fire leads to a murder. With the podcast making national news, London sends Detective Inspector Maud O'Connor to Glensted to take over the investigation. Resented by her mostly male colleagues, she has no tolerance for either their sexism or their incompetence. And she will stop at nothing to uncover the truth as a new and terrifying picture of what really happened to Charlotte Salter and Duncan Ackerley emerges.
Author: French, Nicci
Published: London : Simon & Schuster, 2024.
Published: ©2024
530 pages ; 24 cm
3 reserves

11 copies

The Miller women / Kelli Hawkins.

"When a teenage girl goes missing, Nicola Miller fears for her own daughter. Not for Abby's mental health or safety, but that she might have had something to do with it. She worries her daughter is a killer. Just like her. Nicola has never told the truth about what happened with Abby's father. But now as the search for Cara continues, Nicola, risks her secret coming to light. And she's not the only one with something to hide. her mother, Joyce, and her daughter also have secrets of their own. A stunning, captivating and yet unnerving exploration of how the sins of the fathers - or in this case, the mothers - can echo down the generations."--Back cover.
Author: Hawkins, Kelli
Published: Gadigal Country ; [Sydney, NSW] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2024.
Published: ©2024.
308 pages ; 24 cm.
1 reserve

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The atlas maneuver / Steve Berry.

1945. In the waning months of World War II, Japan hid vast quantities of gold and other stolen valuables in boobytrapped underground caches all across the Philippines. By 1947 some of that loot was recovered, not by treasure hunters, but by the United States government, which told no one about the find. Instead, those assets were stamped classified, shipped to Europe, and secretly assimilated into something called the Black Eagle Trust. Present day. Retired Justice Department operative, Cotton Malone, is in Switzerland doing a favor for a friend. But what was supposed to be a simple operation turns violent and Cotton is thrust into a war between the world's oldest bank and the CIA, a battle that directly involves the Black Eagle Trust. He quickly discovers that everything hinges on a woman from his past, who suddenly reappears harboring a host of explosive secrets centering around bitcoin. The cryptocurrency is being quietly weaponized, readied for an assault on the world's financial systems, a calculated move that will have devastating consequences. Cotton has no choice. He has to act. But at what cost?
Author: Berry, Steve, 1955-
Published: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2024.
Published: ©2024.
vi, 401 pages ; 24 cm.
Cotton Malone novels ; 18.
2 reserves

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Until August / Gabriel García Márquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean ; edited by Cristóba Pera.

Sitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happily married and has no reason to escape the world she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover. Amid sultry days and tropical downpours, lotharios and conmen, Ana journeys further each year into the hinterland of her desire, and the fear that sits quietly at her heart.
Author: García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014
Published: [London] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2024.
Published: ©2024.
ix, 129 pages : facsimiles ; 21 cm.
1 reserve

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Black silk & sympathy / Deborah Challinor.

Tatiana Caldwell's childhood in London is idyllic and filled with the love of doting parents. But when they die in quick succession, she's left heartbroken and destitute, and at seventeen emigrates to Sydney in 1864, determined to build a new, financially secure life for herself. After an apprenticeship as an undertaker's assistant with Crowe Funeral Services, Tatty marries owner Titus Crowe. Titus himself soon dies and Tatty inherits the business and becomes Sydney's only female undertaker. But then rival funeral director Elias Nuttall, intent on acquiring Crowe Funeral Services, publicly accuses Tatty of deliberately poisoning Titus. She must find a way to stop him before he ruins her, and embarks on exposing Nuttall's own gruesome secrets, a mission that takes her from the cemetery at midnight, to house-breaking, to Sydney's criminal court, to the lunatic asylum. Black Silk and Sympathy is a riveting and realistic story of Sydney in the 1860s, of death laid out in front rooms, of funeral processions and mortuary trains, and of survival, reinvention and determination.
Author: Challinor, Deborah
Published: Gadigal Country : HarperCollins Publishers, 2024.
Published: ©2024.
375 pages ; 24 cm.
Tatty Crowe ; 1.

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City in ruins : a novel / Don Winslow.

Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond his wildest dreams rich. The former dock worker, Irish mob soldier and fugitive from the law is now a respected businessman -- a Las Vegas casino mogul and billionaire silent partner in a group that owns two lavish hotels. Finally, Danny has it all: a beautiful house, a child he adores, a woman he might even fall in love with. Life is good. But then Danny reaches too far. When he tries to buy an old hotel on a prime piece of real estate with plans to build his dream resort, he triggers a war against Las Vegas power brokers, a powerful FBI agent bent on revenge and a rival casino owner with dark connections of his own. Danny thought he had buried his past, but now it reaches up to him from the grave to pull him down. Old enemies surface, and when they come for Danny they vow to take everything - not only his empire, not just his life, but all that he holds dear, including his son. To save his life and everything he loves, Danny must become the ruthless fighter he once was - and never wanted to be again. Ranging from the gritty back rooms of Providence, RI to the power corridors of Washington, DC and Wall Street to the golden casinos of Las Vegas, City in Ruins is an epic crime novel of love and hate, ambition and desperation, vengeance and compassion.
Author: Winslow, Don, 1953-
Published: Gadigal Country : [Sydney, NSW] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2024.
Published: ©2024.
385 pages ; 24 cm.
City ; 3.
Danny Ryan trilogy ; 3.

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Three-inch teeth / C.J. Box.

A rogue grizzly bear has gone on a rampage-killing, among others, the potential fiancée of Joe's daughter. At the same time, Dallas Cates, who Joe helped lock up years ago, is released from prison with a special list tattooed on his skin. He wants revenge on the people who sent him away: the six people he blames for the deaths of his entire family and the loss of his reputation and property. Using the grizzly attacks as cover, Cates sets out to methodically check off his list. The problem is, both Nate Romanowski and Joe Pickett are on it.
Author: Box, C. J.
Published: London : Head of Zeus, 2024.
Published: ©2024
371 pages ; 24 cm.
Joe Pickett novel ; 24.
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Death Holds the Key / Alexander Thorpe.

In 1928, on a property near Kojonup, widely despised farmer Fred O'Donnell is found dead in his study with a bullet hole in his chest. But the murder occurred in a locked room, and the weapon and its wielder have vanished without a trace. For rookie Detective Hartley, fresh from the city, his only good fortune is that a nameless mendicant has offered to help him investigate a crime in which everybody has a motive, but nobody has the means.
Author: Thorpe, Alexander (Novelist)
Published: Fremantle, WA : Fremantle Press, 2024.
Published: ©2024.
293 pages ; 21 cm.

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The players / Deborah Pike.

An emotional journey through the lives of a group of university students as they fall in and out of friendship and love. In this dramatic coming-of-age story, bonds formed during an intense summer of rehearsals will be tested across decades. One hot summer, a group of university students gathers in an orchard to rehearse a play. Veronika is born for a life on the stage while Felix seizes his last chance for creative freedom. Sebastian woos Veronika, and Cassie longs for Sebastian. Josh and Gloria each carry a secret they are unable to share. Passion, rivalry and enduring connections will bind the Players across years and continents, long after the final curtain falls and they leave university behind. From Perth to Paris, Cambridge, London, Berlin and Dili the friends search for meaning in their careers and friendship, discover love and endure heartbreak.
Author: Pike, Deborah
Published: North Fremantle, Western Australia : Fremantle Press, 2024.
Published: ©2024.
399 pages ; 24 cm.

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The sunlit man / Brandon Sanderson.

Years ago he had comrades in arms and a cause to believe in, but now the man who calls himself Nomad knows only a life on the run. Forced to hop from world to world in the Cosmere whenever the relentless Night Brigade gets too close, Nomad lands on a new planet and is instantly caught up in the struggle between a tyrant and the rebels who want only to escape being turned into mindless slaves--all under the constant threat of a sunrise whose heat will melt the very stones. Unable to understand the language, can he navigate the conflict and gain enough power to leap offworld before his mind or body pay the ultimate price?
Author: Sanderson, Brandon
Published: London : Gollancz, 2024.
Published: ©2023.
xii, 385 pages ; 24 cm.
Secret projects ; 4.

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The rumor game / Thomas Mullen.

Reporter Anne Lemire writes the Rumor Clinic, a newspaper column that disproves the many harmful rumors floating around town, some of them spread by Axis spies and others just gossip mixed with fear and ignorance. Tired of chasing silly rumors about Rosie Riveters' safety on the job, she wants to write about something bigger. Special Agent Devon Mulvey, one of the few Catholics at the FBI, spends his weekdays preventing industrial sabotage and his Sundays spying on clerics with suspect loyalties and he spends his evenings wooing the many lonely women whose husbands are off at war. When Anne's story about Nazi propaganda intersects with Devon's investigation into the death of a factory worker, the two are led down a dangerous trail of espionage, organized crime, and domestic fascism, one that implicates their own tangled pasts and threatens to engulf the city in violence.
Author: Mullen, Thomas
Published: London, UK : Abacus, 2024.
Published: ©2024.
359 pages ; 24 cm.

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The Wartime Book Club / Thompson, Kate.

Jersey, 1943. Once a warm and neighbourly community, now German soldiers patrol the cobbled streets, imposing a harsh rule on the people of the island. Grace La Mottee, the island's only librarian, is ordered to destroy books which threaten the new regime. Instead, she hides the stories away in secret.
Author: Thompson, Kate
Published: London, UK : Hodder & Stoughton, 2024.
23 cm.
1 reserve

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Red Side Story / Fforde, Jasper.

Civilisation has rebuilt after an unspoken 'Something that Happened' five hundred years before. Society is now colour-based, the strict levels of hierarchy dictated by the colours you can see, and the economy, health service and citizen's aspirations all dominated by visual colour, run by the shadowy National Colour.
Author: Fforde, Jasper
Published: London, UK : Hodder & Stoughton, 2024.
23 cm.
Shades of Grey, 2

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Girl Abroad / Kennedy, Elle.

When Abbey gets the opportunity to study for a year in London, it's the perfect chance to slip out from under the thumb of her beloved but overbearing father. She's ready to be free, to discover herself - but first, to meet the girls she's rooming with. That is, until she arrives at her new flat to discover those roommates are actually all boys.
Author: Kennedy, Elle
Published: London, UK : Piatkus, 2024.
384 p.
2 reserves

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Into the Dark / Hastings, Jessa.

Magnolia and BJ are reeling from a devastating loss as they try to plan what's been dubbed 'the wedding of the century'. As family tensions mount and their respective pasts begin catching up to them, they finally have to look the truth in the eye: Can they learn to trust and be with one another again, or will they die trying?
Author: Hastings, Jessa
Published: London, UK : Orion Books, 2024.
Magnolia Parks, 5

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The Last Days of Lilah Goodluck / Scott, Kylie.

When Lilah Goodluck saves the life of Good Witch Willow, the last thing she expects is five unwanted predictions as a reward. Who gives someone the lotto numbers then tells them they've only got a week to live? And who believes that nonsense anyway? But when the first three predictions come true, Lilah's disbelief turns to panic.
Author: Scott, Kylie
Published: London, UK : Piatkus, 2024.
304 p.

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Everyone Who Can Forgive Me is Dead / Hollander, Jenny.

A debut thriller about a woman who is trying to escape the past and the horrific event she witnessed at the prestigious journalism school she attended.
Author: Hollander, Jenny
Published: London, UK : Constable & Robinson, 2024.
23 cm.
1 reserve

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Everything is perfect / Maxine Fawcett.

Cassie Prince lives in a beautiful beachside suburb with her successful husband Jon and their children Ellie and Danny. Life is perfect, right? Except now she's reached her mid-forties, she can't help wondering what happened to the fun-loving, sexy and accomplished woman she used to be. This isn't what was promised. She's panicking about ageing, bored in her marriage, exhausted by her demanding kids, and increasingly torn by news of her sick mother back in England. So Cassie does what she's always done -- buries her feelings and ignores her problems (and does some more online shopping). Then at school drop-off she meets Chris Lancaster, a charismatic widowed father-of-five. Soon she can't stop imagining romantic scenarios between them, even daydreaming of a future together. She may have been spiralling these last few months, but now Cassie is convinced that the unsuspecting and still vulnerable widower is the answer to everything...
Author: Fawcett, Maxine
Published: [Melbourne, Vic.] : Michael Joseph, 2024.
Published: ©2024.
306 pages ; 24 cm.
1 reserve

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Kind of, sort of, maybe ... but probably not / Imbi Neeme.

Librarian Phoebe Cotton lives with misophonia. The sound of other people crunching an apple, slurping their tea or snapping chewing gum fills her with a rage that she buries deep within. Mortified by her 'Not Quite Right' brain, she hides away inside 6 Salmon Street, the family home that her formidable grandmother Dorothy has abandoned for a more convivial life at the Western Retreat Retirement Village. But when Phoebe begins receiving mysterious postcards in the mail, she slowly, but surely, finds herself being pulled back out into the world and towards Monty, the sweet postal clerk. Across town, Suze, a university student with a high distinction in study avoidance, is clinging to the hope that the neglectful J might actually be her boyfriend. When J's attention turns to Ky and her un-art ways, it sets Suze on a path that leads her to 6 Salmon Street and Phoebe Cotton. Together, Phoebe, Suze and Monty go on a mission to solve the mystery of the postcards but end up finding much, much more, including acceptance, strength and love... maybe even for her grandmother Dorothy.
Author: Neeme, Imbi
Published: [North Sydney, N.S.W.] : Viking, 2024.
Published: ©2024.
317 pages ; 24 cm.

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