Cambridge High School Library 2025

 By: Thea Guanzon   Location: FIC GUA Genre: Romantasy  The author bio is awesome:  Traveler, fangirl, dungeon master, cat lady, and iced coffeeholic residing in Metro Manila. Somehow also a No. 1 International, New York Times, USA Today, and Indie List bestselling author! Two hearts circle each other in the eye of the storm in this highly-anticipated follow-up to  The Hurricane Wars —prepare for more enemies-to-lovers romance, magical adventures, and political schemes in this Southeast Asian-inspired world. After a lifetime of war, Alaric and Talasyn were thrust into an alliance between their homelands that was supposed to end the fighting; however, being married to their sworn foe feels far from peaceful. Now Talasyn must play the part of Alaric’s willing empress while her allies secretly plot to overthrow his reign. But the longer the couple are forced together, the harder it becomes to deny the feelings crackling like lightning between them. When the ti...

 By" Steve Braunias Location: NF 920 BRA Genre: Murder, Survival, True Crime- New Zealand! True stories of death and desperation Interesting collection of often-overlooked, true crime stories (involving disappearances, death and desperation), told by award-winning New Zealand journalist and novelist, Steve Braunias. One survivor chooses loneliness. One chooses exile. One chooses oblivion. Some have violent tendencies, ruining lives indiscriminately. Some seal their own fate in slow motion; others do so in the blink of an eye. In  The Survivors , award-winning true-crime writer Steve Braunias retells twelve mysteries of human nature - unusual stories of how people choose to survive their own lives, and their decisions, desires, impulses... and failings.

 By: Tammy Robinson  Location: FIC ROB Genre: Romance A lovely book set in my home country of New Zealand. A beautiful story about dealing with adversity due to an accident. What happens when a couple are torn apart just at the moment when they fall in love When Finn and Zoe meet, they fall in love hard and fast. But Finn is about to go travelling, fulfilling a promise to his late sister to raise money in support of her illness. It's terrible timing, but Zoe knows their feelings are strong enough to stand the test of time. While Finn is away, however, Zoe suffers a life-changing injury. And it leaves her wondering whether Finn could possibly still love her when he comes home . . . So she cuts all ties and disappears from Finn's life, without telling him why. And now Finn has to decide how hard he's willing to fight for the girl whose heart he's carried with him, while Zoe has to decide if she's got the strength to find her way back to the girl she once was. Why read...

 By: Robert Jackson Bennett  Location: FIC BEN Genre: Fantasy Nilfure says: Who can resist the charm of an Agatha Christie and Sherlock Holmes kind of murder mystery transported into a dystopian world where plants provide humans with more secure, healthy, and higher quality life sources? A Holmes and Watson-style detective duo take the stage in this fantasy with a mystery twist, from the Edgar-winning, multiple Hugo-nominated Robert Jackson Bennett In Daretana’s greatest mansion, a high imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, when a tree erupted from his body. Even here at the Empire’s borders, where contagions abound and the blood of the leviathans works strange magical changes, it’s a death both terrifying and impossible. Assigned to investigate is Ana Dolabra, a detective whose reputation for brilliance is matched only by her eccentricities. Rumor has it that she wears a blindfold at all times, and that she can solve impossible cases without even stepping out...

 By: Sophie Irwin   Location: FIC IRW Genre: Historical Romance Internationally bestselling author Sophie Irwin brings us another fresh, witty take on a romantic escape led by a deeply lovable heroine determined to start living on her own terms When shy Miss Eliza Balfour married the austere Earl of Somerset, twenty years her senior, it was the match of the season--no matter that he was not the husband Eliza would have chosen. But ten years later, Eliza is widowed. And at eight and twenty years, she is suddenly left titled, rich, and, for the first time in her life, utterly in control of her own future. Instead of living out her mourning quietly, Eliza heads to Bath with her cousin Margaret. After years of living according to everyone else's rules, Eliza has resolved, at last, to do as she wants. But when the ripples of the dowager Lady Somerset's behavior reach the new Lord Somerset--whom Eliza knew, once, as a younger woman--Eliza is forced to confront the fact that fre...

  By: Julia Kelly Location: FIC KEL Genre: Historical Fictio n A character driven debut that takes a deep dive into difficult topics. 💔 Enthralling, touching and inspiring,  this impressive  historical fiction debut  has a touch of magical realism and explores  grief, healing, immorality, redemption and second chances. The Light Between Oceans  meets  The Snow Child  in this novel set in a Scottish village in the weeks after a young boy mysteriously washes up on shore, causing the buried secrets of the insular community to come to light and rekindling an old love story. It’s 1900 and Skerry, a small Scottish fishing village, is destined for an unyielding winter. During a storm, a young boy washes up on the shore. He bears an uncanny resemblance to teacher Dorothy’s son, lost to the sea at the same age many years before, his body never found. The village is soon snowed in, and Dorothy agrees to look after the child until they can uncover the myste...

  By: Kristen Ciccarelli  Location: FIC CIC Genre: Romantasy On the night Rune’s life changed forever, blood ran in the streets. Now, in the aftermath of a devastating revolution, witches have been diminished from powerful rulers to outcasts ruthlessly hunted due to their waning magic, and Rune must hide what she is. Spending her days pretending to be nothing more than a vapid young socialite, Rune spends her nights as the Crimson Moth, a witch vigilante who rescues her kind from being purged. When a rescue goes wrong, she decides to throw the witch hunters off her scent and gain the intel she desperately needs by courting the handsome Gideon Sharpe – a notorious and unforgiving witch hunter loyal to the revolution – who she can't help but find herself falling for. Gideon loathes the decadence and superficiality Rune represents, but when he learns the Crimson Moth has been using Rune’s merchant ships to smuggle renegade witches out of the republic, he inserts himself into her ...

 By: Nikki Shannon Smith Location: FIC SMI Genre: Adventure One storm. One winter. One girl's fight for survival. A contemporary My Side of the Mountain, Stranded is the story of a wilderness-hungry Black girl from Manhattan whose journey in the Adirondack mountains becomes a nail-biting story of courage, independence, and survival. Eleven-year-old Ava Adams is looking for something different. The tall Manhattan buildings around her feel like walls closing in. And what if she doesn't fit in with her city-loving friends or busybody family who think Black folks "don't do nature?" But in a twist of fate, Ava is shocked to learn that her parents are actually allowing her to stay with her Aunt Raven in the Adirondacks for the summer. In her Auntie's simple cabin, living off the land with nature's beauty filling her senses, the woods feel more like home than Manhattan. As Summer comes to a close and Aunt Raven has to leave for the winter, the dream has to come t...

  By: Alex Aster   Location: FIC AST Genre: Romantasy “If  The Hunger Games  was a dark fairy tale, you’d get the vicious and enchanting  Lightlark . Get ready to be transported into a dazzling world where love is a death sentence and the romances between competitors are even fiercer than the curses plaguing the islands.” It's the Hunger Games on Love Island Welcome to the Centennial. Every hundred years, the island of Lightlark appears for only 100 days to host a deadly game, where the rulers of six realms fight to break their curses and win unparalleled power. Each ruler has something to hide. Each curse is uniquely wicked. To break themand save themselves and their realms-one ruler must die. To survive, Isla Crown must lie, cheat, and betray. Even as love complicates everything.

 By: John Scalzi Location: FIC SCA Genre: Sci Fi From the New York Times bestselling author of Starter Villain comes an entirely serious take on a distinctly unserious subject: what would really happen if suddenly the moon were replaced by a giant wheel of cheese. It's a whole new moooooon. One day soon, suddenly and without explanation, the moon as we know it is replaced with an orb of cheese with the exact same mass. Through the length of an entire lunar cycle, from new moon to a spectacular and possibly final solar eclipse, we follow multiple characters -- schoolkids and scientists, billionaires and workers, preachers and politicians -- as they confront the strange new world they live in, and the absurd, impossible moon that now hangs above all their lives. Review by Jaime Have you ever wondered what would happen if the moon turned to cheese? If so, definitely give this book a read because it's a hoot. I mean, maybe don't trust the science-y bits because Scalzi admits in...

 By: Rosalie Ham Location: FIC HAM Genre:  Historical Fiction It's 1914 and Molly Dunnage wants to see at home, at work and in underwear. Her burgeoning corsetry business is starting to take off, thanks to some high-profile supporters. She's marching with Melbourne's suffragists for better conditions for women everywhere. And her family - her eccentric, confounding, adored father and aunt - are turning their minds to country retirement. But as the clouds of war gather and an ominous figure starts skulking in the shadows of her life, Molly's dreams begin to falter. Then, when true love drops out of the sky and into her arms, her hopes for her life and the world are entirely upended. With the dark humour, richly detailed settings and vividly drawn characters we've come to expect from Rosalie Ham, this prequel to the international bestseller  The Dressmaker  is an unforgettable story of hopes lost, love found - and corsets loosened. Review by Gloria Molly  by ...

 By: Christopher Paoloini  Location: FIC PAO Genre: Epic Fiction FINALLY- NUMBER FIVE! Henny says what so many are thinking... "You're not kidding me, right? Right...? I never thought I would ever see the day this series continues. My 12-year old self is screaming right no w" Master storyteller and internationally bestselling author Christopher Paolini returns to the World of Eragon in this stunning epic fantasy set a year after the events of the Inheritance Cycle. Join Dragon Rider—and fan favorite—Murtagh and his dragon as they confront a perilous new enemy! The world is no longer safe for the Dragon Rider Murtagh and his dragon, Thorn. An evil king has been toppled, and they are left to face the consequences of the reluctant role they played in his reign of terror. Now they are hated and alone, exiled to the outskirts of society. Throughout the land, hushed voices whisper of brittle ground and a faint scent of brimstone in the air—and Murtagh senses that something wick...

 By: Tracy Deoon   Location: FIC DEO Genre: Fantasy “Don't make your life about the loss. Make it about the love.” ―  Tracy Deonn,  Legendborn This book was brilliant, as expected!! Tracy Deon has, beyond the shadow of a doubt, such a masterful writing style, and her ability to write the most intricate, unique, fascinating, interwoven stories is insane. The first three books in Tracy Deonn’s Legendborn Cycle about a dazzling contemporary fantasy world that blends Southern Black Girl Magic with secret societies and the legend of King Arthur are now available together in a hardcover boxed set! After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC–Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape—until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus. A flying demon feeding on human energies. A secret society of so called “Lege...

 By: Amie Kaufman Location: FIC KAU Genre: Romantasy LBGT An undeniably fierce, unforgettably funny, unapologetically queer feminist romp through the England of medieval legend. Bestselling and acclaimed authors Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner bring readers along on an epic quest for valor, freedom, and, above all, love.  A Knight’s Tale  meets the Lady Jane series, with a dash of  The Great ! Gwen is sick of hiding—hiding the fact that she’s taken over her father’s blacksmithing duties, hiding her attraction to girls, hiding her yearning for glory as a knight. Meanwhile, Lady Isobelle of Avington, queen bee of the castle, has never once considered hiding who she is—until now. She’s been chosen as the grand prize in the Tournament of Dragonslayers, to be given to whichever knight can claim her hand. And for the first time in her life, she can’t talk her way out of trouble. When Isobelle discovers Gwen’s knightly ambitions, they hatch a scheme together—Gwen will joust...

 By: Ben Tomlinson   Location: FIC TOM Genre: Romance Love’s a Losing Game? Alfie’s convinced Maya is The One, but his dreams shatter when she unveils her older boyfriend. Heartbroken, he finds solace with Maya’s introverted best friend, Gwen, and sparks begin to fly. But Gwen’s keeping secrets, leaving Alfie utterly lost. Navigating the tangled web of his friendship group, Alfie’s quest for love takes a complicated turn, culminating in a major blunder. Can he win over the girl of his dreams, or is he destined for a losing streak in the game of love? A charmingly humorous romance about the pitfalls and unexpected turns on the road to finding love. “Deeply relatable. Very refreshing to see a romance set in the world I grew up in, with characters I grew up with. Teen boys should be flocking toward this” – Nathanael Lessore “Fresh, funny and full of heart. Impossible not to fall for” - Lisa Williamson “A fun, refreshing read. It feels really genuine and heartfelt, and the ch...