Library Loot (51), a purchase & 2 review copies

Library

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Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles
Waves by Sharon Dogar
Shadows by Amy Meredith
Shadow Souls by L J Smith
Diary of a Wimpy Vampire by Tim Collins
Skeleton Creek by Patrick Carman
Rogue by Mark Walden
Viola in Reel Life by Adriana Trigiani

Bought

Secrets of My Hollywood Life by Jen Calonita

Review Copies


I an Number Four by Pittacus Lore (Puffin, Aug 2010)
In the beginning we were nine. We left when we were very young, almost too young to remember. Almost. And now . . . Three are gone. We are here to keep our race alive, which was almost entirely obliterated. We’re just trying to survive. Six are left. But we are hunted, and the hunters won’t stop until they’ve killed us all. They caught Number One in Malaysia. Number Two in England. And Number Three in Kenya. I am Number Four. I know that I am next.

The Radleys by Matt Haig (Canongate Books Ltd, July)
Meet the Radleys: Peter, Helen and their teenage children, Clara and Rowan, live in an English town. They are an everyday family, averagely dysfunctional, averagely content. But as their children have yet to find out, the Radleys have a devastating secret. From one of Britain's finest young novelists comes a razor-sharp unpicking of adulthood and family life. In this moving, thrilling and extraordinary portrait of one unusual family, The Radleys asks what we grow into when we grow up, and explores what we gain - and lose - when we deny our appetites.