Cambridge High School Library 2024

 By: C. L. Miller Location: FIC MIL Genre: Cozy Mystery “What antique would you kill for?” Readers learn early on that this book was written in consultation with international antiques expert, Judith Miller (who passed in 2023) and was a regular specialist on BBC’s “Antiques Roadshow.” She was also the co-founder of the bestselling annual “Miller’s Antiques Price Guide” which began in 1979. What readers may not realize is that C.L. Miller, the author, was an editorial assistant for Judith Miller on the “Miller’s Antiques Price Guide” and that Judith was her mother. This is her debut novel. C L Miller's The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder is the start of your new favourite crime series, The Number One Ladies Detective Agency meets The Fellowship of the Puzzle Makers as written by Richard Osman. Freya, it’s down to you to finish what I started. . . Freya Lockwood has avoided the quaint English village in which she grew up for the last 20 years. That is until news arrives that Ar...

 By: Kristen Perrin Location: FIC PER Genre: Murder, Mystery Thriller For fans of Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club , an enormously fun mystery about a woman who spends her entire life trying to prevent her foretold murder only to be proven right sixty years later, when she is found dead in her sprawling country estate... Now it's up to her great-niece to catch the killer.  It’s 1965 and teenage Frances Adams is at an English country fair with her two best friends. But Frances’s night takes a hairpin turn when a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling One day, Frances will be murdered. Frances spends a lifetime trying to solve a crime that hasn’t happened yet, compiling dirt on every person who crosses her path in an effort to prevent her own demise. For decades, no one takes Frances seriously, until nearly sixty years later, when Frances is found murdered, like she always said she would be.   In the present day, Annie Adams has been summoned to a meeting at the sprawl...

 By:  Rebecca Carvalho Location: FIC CAR Genre: Romance, Contemporary, Food The grandchildren of two rival Brazilian bakeries fall in love despite their families’ feud. Trust neither thin-bottomed frying pans nor Molinas. Lari Ramires has always known this to be true. In Olinda, Brazil, her family’s bakery, Salt, has been at war with the Molinas’ bakery across the street, Sugar, for generations. But Lari’s world turns upside down when her beloved grandmother passes away. On top of that, a big supermarket chain has moved to town, forcing many of the small businesses to close. Determined to protect her home, Lari does the unthinkable—she works together with Pedro Molina to save both of their bakeries. Lari realizes she might not know Pedro as well as she thought—and she maybe even likes what she learns—but the question remains: Can a Ramires and a Molina truly trust one another? L ove between rival families’ children theme with sweet, salty, mouth watering bakeries make you extr...

 By:  Matthew Blake  Location: FIC BLA Genre: Thriller, Mystery READ LIKE A DREAM BUT UNSETTLES LIKE A NIGHTMARE- A.J.Finn BEST COVER OF THE YEAR FOR ME! so far!!! A dark, twisty, and shocking mystery about a young woman who commits a double murder while sleepwalking, and then never opens her eyes again. The world will know her name. What if your nightmares weren’t really nightmares at all? We spend an average of 33 years of our lives asleep. But what really happens, and what are we capable of, when we sleep? Anna Ogilvy was a budding twenty-five-year-old writer with a bright future. Then, one night, she stabbed two people to death with no apparent motive—and hasn’t woken up since. Dubbed “Sleeping Beauty” by the tabloids, Anna’s condition is a rare psychosomatic disorder known to neurologists as “resignation syndrome.” Dr. Benedict Prince is a forensic psychologist and an expert in the field of sleep-related homicides. His methods are the last hope of solving the infamou...

 By: Tobias Madden Location: FIC MAD Genre: Contemporary, LGBT, Young Adult Marco's always done the right thing. But now it's time for wrong answers only. Marco should be at university, studying biomedicine. Instead, he’s been sent to live on a cruise ship in the Mediterranean with his estranged uncle, all because of a ‘blip’ everyone else is convinced was a panic attack. (Which it most definitely was not.) And even though Marco’s trip is supposed to provide answers – about himself, about his family – all he finds on board the  Ocean Melody  are more and more questions. But then his best friend CeCe proposes a new plan: for someone who has always done the right thing, in every possible way, it’s time for Marco to get a few things  wrong . And hooking up with a hot dancer from the ship is only the beginning. Great review by Chris Leow Masked as a simple YA queer novel with a teenage protagonist as its main character, Madden weaves a complex story that brings forth the...

 By: Gabriele Zevin Location: FOC ZEV Genre: fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Death I'm so proud I discovered Zevin before she got big, years ago I read " The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry"- I loved it and recommended it to all our staff. Then came her bit hit "Tomorrow" and now we go "Elsewhere" I love the writing- it reads like it feels it would be said.. “Every so often a book comes along with a premise so fresh and arresting it seems to exist in a category all its own. Elsewhere is such a book” – New York Times Book Review "  I'd really recommend reading this book, it made me question life, death and everything in between and i feel it really helped me grow as a person." Phoebe Welcome to Elsewhere. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are beautiful. It's quiet and peaceful. You can't get sick and you can't get older. In Elsewhere, death is only the beginning … Elsewhere is where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she i...

 By: Shade Lapite Location: FIC LAP Genre: Fantasy, Sci Fi Fantasy Kalothia has grown up in the shadows of her kingdom, hidden away in the forested East after her parents were outed as enemies of the king. Raised in a woodland idyll by a few kindly adult caretakers, Kalothia can hunt and fish and fend for herself but knows little of the outside world. When assassins attack her home on her sixteenth birthday, she must flee to the king's court in the West--a beautiful but lethal nest of poison, plots, and danger, overseen by an entrenched patriarchy. "Wow. Such a beautiful face paced read with some black girl magic action thrown in story. In Goddess Crown we are introduced to Kalothia she’s 16 & we go on this journey with her. She’s brought up by guardians in a rural area basically living away from her birth parents who are King & Queen to keep her out of harms way. Kalothia is kind & smart from the very beginning. But we also get to see her use other skills & st...