Cambridge High School Library 2024

 By: Kiera Cass Location: FIC Cas Genre: Romance, Fantasy "  I really enjoyed this!  An easy fantasy that focuses on characters, romance, and politics - my favourite kind!" Oceani a #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Selection series Kiera Cass is back with her most epic novel yet – a sweeping enemies-to-lovers standalone romance. ‘Love has a sound. It sounds like a thousand heartbeats happening at the same time.’ Annika has lived a life of comfort and luxury as the Princess of Kadier—but now, after the death of her mother, she’s weighted under the looming threat of a loveless marriage arranged by her cold father. Far outside the palace walls, on the outskirts of the land Annika’s family has long ruled over, Lennox is waiting for his moment. His people displaced, his father gone, Lennox knows that it’s up to him to lead his people into a battle to overthrow the Kadierian monarchy. After Annika and Lennox’s worlds collide, they can’t stop thinking of each other. Annik

 By Sara Novic Location: FIC NOV Genre:  Fiction, Disability, Deaf, True biz (adj./exclamation; American Sign Language): really, seriously, definitely, real-talk This is a story of sign language and lip-reading, disability and civil rights, isolation and injustice, first love and loss, and, above all, great persistence, daring, and joy. Absorbing and assured, idiosyncratic and relatable, this is an unforgettable journey into the Deaf community and a universal celebration of human connection. True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history finals, and have politicians, doctors, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school's golden boy, whose world is rocked when his baby sister is born heari

By: Tom Wood Location: FIC WOO Genre: Action Thriller  SOMEONE'S SET HIM UP SOMEONE'S GOING TO DIE When Victor is arrested for a murder that, for once, he didn't commit, escape must surely be inevitable for a hitman of his ferocity. Yet someone wants Victor put away, and he finds himself behind bars, incarcerated by police who have no idea of the monster they are dealing with and have, apparently, tamed. Quickly, however, his fellow prisoners realise that he's not trapped in there with them: they are in a cage, with the most dangerous of enemies. And Victor has a traitor to find.

 By: Gabrielle Zevin Location: FIC ZEV Genre: Fiction, Contemporary, Romance Sometimes I find an author early and fall in love with how they write. Years ago I did that with Zevins first book- The Storied Life of A J Frikry- I raved about it and gave it to all my colleagues. On Friday I fly to the UK and I see that book is now a movie and I cant wait to watch it. As soon as I saw Zevin had written another book- it was a no brainer- and now it is a super star hit. In this exhilarating novel, two friends--often in love, but never lovers--come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. This is not a romance, but it is about love Two kids meet in a hospital gaming room in 1987. One is visiting her sister, the other is recovering from a car crash. The days and months are long there. Their love of video games becomes a shared world -- of joy, escape and fierce competition. B

 By: Eleanor Catton Location: FIC CAT Genre: Aotearoa, Fiction, Thrille r " Part social satire, part literary fiction, part thriller,  Birnam Wood  sees the return of the Booker Prize-winning author, Eleanor Catton, with  a compulsively readable and compelling story  about  activism, the climate crisis, and deception.  I flew through this book; I couldn't put it down. I wanted not only to find out what happened but also enjoyed the many different conversations characters had about big themes like purpose, activism, social responsibility, economics, privilege, etc. She writes these diatribes so well they may go on for pages but you can't stop reading. You will flip who you are siding with from section to section. And it all ends with  a memorable ending that will definitely create lots of discussion" Maxwell- Goodreads . A gripping psychological thriller from the Booker Prize-winning author of  The Luminaries ,  Birnam Wood  is Shakespearean in its wit, drama, and imme

 By: C.J.Tudor Location: FIC TUD Genre: Horror, Thriller " Oh boy, is this clever, it’s CJ Tudor on tiptop form, knocking it out of the park" Survival can be murder . . . Hannah awakens to carnage, all mangled metal and shattered glass. Evacuated from a secluded boarding school during a snowstorm, her coach careered off the road, trapping her with a handful of survivors. Meg awakens to a gentle rocking. She's in a cable car stranded high above snowy mountains, with five strangers and no memory of how they got on board. Carter is gazing out of the window of an isolated ski chalet that he and his companions call home. As their generator begins to waver in the storm, the threat of something lurking in the chalet's depths looms larger. Outside, the storm rages. Inside each group, a killer lurks. But who? And will anyone make it out alive? .

 By: Monty Soutar Location: FIC Sou Genre: Aotearoa, Historical Fiction Kāwai: For Such a Time as This is the remarkable first novel by respected historian Dr. Monty Soutar, ONZM (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Awa, Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki, Ngāti Kahungunu) in a series that reveals the role of colonisation in shaping Aotearoa New Zealand, balanced with an honest appraisal of the country in pre-colonial times Ockham New Zealand Book Awards  Nominee  for Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize Fiction (shortlist))  (2023) This epic historical adventure tells the story of pre-colonial Aotearoa New Zealand like it’s never been told before. A young Māori man, compelled to learn the stories of his ancestors, returns to his family marae on the east coast of the North Island to speak to his elderly grand-uncle, the keeper of the stories. What follows is the enthralling account of the young man’s tipuna, the legendary warrior Kaitanga, after whom his marae’s whare puni has been named. Tracing the author’s own ancestral line

 By: Michael Ball Location: FIC BAL Genre Historical Fiction, Mystery Welcome to The Empire theatre 1922. When Jack Treadwell arrives at The Empire, in the middle of a rehearsal, he is instantly mesmerised. But amid the glitz and glamour, he soon learns that the true magic of the theatre lies in its cast of characters - both on stage and behind the scenes. There's stunning starlet Stella Stanmore and Hollywood heartthrob Lancelot Drake; and Ruby Rowntree, who keeps the music playing, while Lady Lillian Lassiter, theatre owner and former showgirl, is determined to take on a bigger role. And then there's cool, competent Grace Hawkins, without whom the show would never go on . . . could she be the leading lady Jack is looking for? When long-held rivalries threaten The Empire's future, tensions rise along with the curtain. There is treachery at the heart of the company and a shocking secret waiting in the wings. Can Jack discover the truth before it's too late, and the thea

 By: Percival Everett Location: FIC EVE Genre: Fiction, Humour A sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star keeps rising The protagonist of Percival Everett’s puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics who goes by Wala Kitu. (Wala, he explains, means “nothing” in Tagalog, and Kitu is Swahili for “nothing.”) He is an expert on nothing. That is to say, he  is  an expert, and his area of study is nothing, and he does nothing about it. This makes him the perfect partner for the aspiring villain John Sill, who wants to break into Fort Knox to steal, well, not gold bars but a shoebox containing nothing. Once he controls nothing he’ll proceed with a dastardly plan to turn a Massachusetts town into nothing. Or so he thinks. With the help of the brainy and brainwashed astrophysicist-turned-henchwoman Eigen Vector, our professor tries to foil the villain while remaining in his employ. In the process, Wala Kitu learns that Sill’s

 By: Rachel Barenbaum Location: FIC Bar Genre: Historical Fiction, Sci Fi Three brilliant women. Two life-changing mistakes. One chance to reset the future. In 1986, renowned nuclear scientist, Anna Berkova, is sleeping in her bed in the Soviet Union when Chernobyl’s reactor melts down. It’s the exact moment she tears through time—and it’s an accident. When she opens her eyes, she’s landed in 1992 only to discover Molly, her estranged daughter, shot in the chest. Molly, with her dying breath, begs Anna to go back in time and stop the disaster, to save Molly’s daughter Raisa, and put their family’s future on a better path. In ‘60s Philadelphia, Molly is coming of age as an adopted refusenik. Her family is full of secrets and a past they won’t share. She finds solace in comic books, drawing her own series,  Atomic Anna , and she’s determined to make it as an artist. When she meets the volatile, charismatic Viktor, their romance sets her life on a very different course. In the ‘80s, Raisa