Cambridge High School Library 2024

 By: Christopher Buehlman Location: FIC BUE Genre: Fantasy Prequel to  The Blacktongue Thief A masterful tale of war and loss.  T he Daughter's War  is achingly beautiful, and once it has you in its grip, it will not let go until you turn that final page  Shauna Lawless A standalone novel following young warrior Galva dom Braga on her journey from untested academy swordswoman to feared and bloodied veteran knight, set during the war-torn, goblin-infested years just before The Blacktongue Thief . The goblins have killed all of our horses and most of our men. They have enslaved our cities, burned our fields, and inflicted a waking nightmare on the known world. Yet humanity persists, fighting back with all we have against their bottomless hunger for human lands and human flesh. Now it's up to the daughters of Manreach to save what’s left of the human kingdoms; they’ll fight with every weapon at hand, with fearsome gods at their backs and brutal monsters at their si...

 By: Giles  Kristian Location: FIC KRI Genre: King Arthur 3 in the Series:  Lancelot - Warrior, Friend. Lover. Legend Camelot - they fought to keep the dream alive Arthur : Out of the mist of legend thunders this epic story of the last lord of war. “And yet Arthur had Merlin. And Merlin had an idea. And so Arthur listened” John Gwynn-  Loved this. A truly excellent finale to a wonderful trilogy. Gritty and heartbreaking, this is a novel that grabs you and sweeps you along to its emotional and bittersweet ending. A must read. review by Willim Gwyn We follow a grim, disillusioned mercenary named Beran. He kills for money, but then he is ordered to kill a boy. And no ordinary boy at that. It is a boy who could unite Britain, but only if he lives…. I imagine everyone has seen or read or watched many different takes on the Arthurian legend, but please do not let that move you away from this. Arthur, as well as the two companion novels, Lancelot and Camelot, offer such a u...

 By: Mick Conefrey Location: NF 920 CON- Exploration Genre:  Everest-  Bio, Non Fiction An excellent biography of George Mallory, who died on Everest in 1924 and whose body was discovered in 1999 close to the Summit. The question of whether he and Sandy Irvine, his young co-climber, reached the summit remains unanswered and has preoccupied historians and mountaineers ever since. Mick Conefrey is an accomplished mountaineer and writer who writes sensitively and sensibly about the pros and cons of this argument and conveys the heroics and resilience of these early climbers. A stirring, romantic account of extraordinary bravery and single minded commitment. Review by Stephen King An authoritative, myth-piercing study of the world-famous explorer George Mallory, who disappeared on Mount Everest in 1924. In the years following his disappearance near the summit of Mount Everest in June 1924 at the age of thirty-seven, George Mallory was elevated into a legendary international ...

 By: Riley Sager Location: FIC SAG Genre: Thriller, Mystery ...   it’s absolutely unusual, creative, twisty, mind spinning!   Nilufer The  New York Times  best-selling author of  Final Girls  and  Survive the Night  is back with his most unexpected thriller yet. Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family’s lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of liquor, she passes the time watching Tom and Katherine Royce, the glamorous couple who live in the house across the lake. They make for good viewing—a tech innovator, Tom is rich; and a former model, Katherine is gorgeous. One day on the lake, Casey saves Katherine from drowning, and the two strike up a budding friendship. But the more they get to know each other—and the longer Casey watches—it becomes clear that Katherine and Tom’s marriage is not as perfect and placid as i...

 By: Karin Slaughter Location: FIC SLA Genre: Thriller, Mystery 'A nerve-shredding psychological thriller that will keep readers guessing to the very last page'  New York Journal of Books 'A frenetic, stay-up-all-night kind of read'  Good Reading 'Filled with Slaughter's trademark twists'  Entertainment Weekly Now a major Netflix adaptation: The #1 Australian bestseller from the author of  The Silent Wife   'A novel that sets the standard for psychological thriller writing. Rarely in fiction have the past and the present collided with such force and in such a distinctive and compelling voice' Jeffery Deaver What if the person you thought you knew best turned out to be someone you never knew at all? Andrea Oliver's mother, Laura, is the perfect small-town mum. Laura lives a quiet but happy life in sleepy beachside Belle Isle. She's a pillar of the community: a speech therapist, business owner and everybody's friend. And she's never kep...

 By: Sarah Beth Durst Location: FIC DUR Genre: Fantasy, Animals A group of magical misfit animals learns to appreciate their seemingly useless powers—and themselves—when they work together to thwart a villain’s attempt to steal their magic. Holly, a grey squirrel, and her animal friends have accepted that they will never be wizards’ familiars. Though they are each magical, their powers are so offbeat—Holly herself can conjure pastries (and only pastries)—that no professional magic-worker would choose any of them as a companion for noble quests. So instead of going on adventures, they languish at the Shelter for Rejected Familiars, where they are known as “shelterlings.” When an old friend appears with a plan for curing the shelterlings’ defective magic, everyone is on board to help him locate and retrieve the ingredients for a powerful spell. But when they learn that his offer is not what it seems, Holly and the shelterlings must fight to defend their magic, discovering in the proc...

 By: Josie Ferguson Location: FIC FER Genre: Historical Fiction,  Berlin Wall, family “And we are guilty. We did nothing. And in doing nothing, we gave our consent." Imagine waking up and a wall has divided your city in two. Imagine that on the other side is your new-born baby... This is what happens to Lisette. Overnight, on 13 August 1961, the border between East and West Berlin has closed, slicing the city - and the world - in two. With the streets in chaos and armed guards ordered to shoot anyone who tries to cross, her situation is desperate. Lisette's teenage daughter, Elly, has always struggled to understand the distance between herself and her mother. Both have lived for music, but while Elly hears notes surrounding every person she meets, for her mother - once a talented pianist - the music has gone silent. Perhaps Elly can do something to bridge the gap between them. What begins as the flicker of an idea turns into a daring plan to escape East Berlin, find her baby b...

 By: Isabel Ibanez Location: FUIC IBA Genre:  Fantasy. Historical Fiction The Mummy  meets  Death on the Nile  in this lush, immersive historical fantasy set in Egypt filled with adventure, a rivals-to-lovers romance, and a dangerous race. Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Buenos Aires, and like the rest of the world, the town is steeped in old world magic that’s been largely left behind or forgotten. Inez has everything a girl might want, except for the one thing she yearns the most: her globetrotting parents—who frequently leave her behind. When she receives word of their tragic deaths, Inez inherits their massive fortune and a mysterious guardian, an archeologist in partnership with his Egyptian brother-in-law. Yearning for answers, Inez sails to Cairo, bringing her sketch pads and an ancient golden ring her father sent to her for safekeeping before he died. But upon her arrival, the old world magi...

 By: Cara Hunter Location: FIC HUN Genre: Mystery, Thriller What a format- this book is so weirdly cool! Nilufer - one of my favourite Goodreads reviewers raves about this one... My mind! My gray cells! Quick correction: my last remaining gray cells! It took me a day to gather my thoughts after reaching the end of this book, and even now, a day later, I am still rendered speechless. No words I can conjure adequately express my heightened emotions, immense admiration, awe, and adoration for Cara Hunter's true masterpiece! Twenty years ago Luke Ryder was killed in the garden of his upmarket London home - no one was ever prosecuted. Now, his stepson, TV director Guy Howard, decides to revisit that fateful night in the form of a six part docu-drama as part of a Netflix true crime series. The investigation and evidence is presented in the form of text messages, emails and old newspaper clippings, together with specialists sifting through the material, debating each and every point, and ...