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Inventing ourselves : the secret life of the teenage brain
by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
An award-winning neuroscientist describes the transformations that take place in the human brain during adolescence, especially in the prefrontal cortex, which is the part of the brain governing decision-making, planning, inhibiting inappropriate behavior, evaluating risk, and understanding others.
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The dark intercept
by Julia Keller
In a world of endless summer, Violet's emotions are controlled by the state in exchange for the perception of safety, but when she finds out that her crush is hiding information from her, she launches an investigation that leads her question to the state of her existence.
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Deceived : a Private Justice novel
by Irene Hannon
Spotting a familiar-looking child in the mall, Kate Marshall is convinced he is the son she thought died in a boating accident along with her husband three years ago. With police skeptical of her story, she turns to private investigator Connor Sullivan,a former Secret Service agent, to discover the truth.
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The Girl Without Skin
by Mads Peder Nordbo
When a mummified Viking corpse is discovered in a crevasse out on the edge of an ice sheet, journalist Matthew Cave is sent to cover the story. The next day the mummy is gone, and the body of the policeman who was keeping watch is found naked and flayed - exactly like the victims in a gruesome series of murders that terrified the remote town of Nuuk in the 1970s. As Matt investigates, he is shocked by the deprivation and brutal violence the locals take for granted. Unable to trust the police, he begins to suspect a cover-up. It's only when he meets a young Inuit woman, Tupaarnaq, convicted of killing her parents and two small sisters, that Matt starts to realise how deep this story goes - and how much danger he is in.
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Heart and Home : Will All Their Dreams Come True?
by Lyn Andrews
Cathie Kinrade is all too used to hardship. Growing up on the Isle of Man in the 1930s, she sees her da set sail daily on dangerous seas while her mam struggles to put food on the table. Cathie has little hope for her own future, until a chance encounter changes her fortunes for ever. Fiercely determined, Cathie leaves for Liverpool, a bustling modern city full of possibility. With a lively job as a shop girl in a grand department store, and a firm friend in kind-hearted Julia, Cathie has found her niche. But the discovery of an explosive secret could put everything at risk. And when love comes calling, Cathie's new friends fear that she may be set to trust the wrong man with her heart...
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The Iliad of Homer
by Homer
In the final year of the Trojan War, Achilles has withdrawn from the battlefield after a falling out with Agamemnon. Meanwhile the war goes on, with no clear victor in sight, but much loss of life on either side. The gods too, fight among themselves as to which side they should support.
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Inky the octopus : Bound for Glory
by Erin Guendelsberger
One morning at the National Aquarium of New Zealand, aquarium keepers discover Inky the octopus is missing from his tank, and they suspect he may have escaped through a drain in the floor.
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Let me lie
by Clare Mackintosh
Struggling to come to terms with her parents' double suicide, new mother Anna commits herself to uncovering what really happened only to be confronted by a mysterious adversary who would keep the past hidden.
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No further questions
by Gillian McAllister
Your baby died in your sister's care - the police think it's murder but she insists she's innocent. Who should you believe? ... The unthinkable has happened to Martha. She thought her baby daughter would be safe with her sister Becky while she was called away with work. Becky might be more relaxed than Martha, but she's a good parent to her own son. But the news of her baby's death and, later, her own sister's arrest turns her whole world upside down. Martha will have to watch her sister stand trial, to hear the evidence build up piece by piece. Her husband is sure of Becky's guilt. But Martha loves her sister, she knows her sister. Doesn't she?
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The portable Veblen
by Elizabeth McKenzie
An aimless amateur translator struggling under the thumb of an oppressive parent and an ambitious medical researcher from a hippie family endure tests to their bond and question their priorities as their wedding approaches.
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Pages for you
by Sylvia Brownrigg
Seventeen-year-old Flannery Jansen develops a lusty obsession for a female graduate student teacher named Anne Arden, and by chance ends up in one of her classes, but as the two become closer and share more than Baudelaire, Flannery learns more about Anne than she ever wanted to.
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The power of one
by Bryce Courtenay
Growing up in South Africa during the apartheid era, young Peekay understood at an early age that learning English well would be an asset in his later years and so, despite growing up to be the welterweight champion of the world, used the power of his words to make the changes he deemed important when just the right moment presented itself.
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Scrublands
by Chris Hammer
The rural town of Riversend's dark secrets come to light after a young priest kills five parishioners before being taken down himself.
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