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		<title>The way I am now</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><strong>THE SEQUEL TO THE TIKTOK SENSATION THAT EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT</strong></p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>The highly anticipated sequel to the internationally bestselling TikTok sensation  <em>The Way I Used To Be</em></strong></p>
<p>&#8216;<strong>An absolute stunner of a sequel.</strong>&#8216;  <strong>Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, author of  </strong><em><strong>The Girls Are All So Nice Here</strong></em></p>
<p>Eden used to believe the only person who could save her was Josh. He was everything that was good in her world &#8211; an open heart, a tender touch, a kind smile &#8211; but he couldn&#8217;t be her saviour. Eden had to do that for herself.</p>
<p>Back in high school, they never had a fair shot at a healthy relationship. Eden carried the burden of a devastating assault, while Josh struggled with the demons of his alcoholic father. Now that Eden has faced up to her attacker and is starting college, they might finally be in the right place at the right time&#8230;</p>
<p>But can their love withstand the chaos of college life and the crushing realities of a trial that will determine whether Eden gets the justice she deserves?</p>
<p><strong>&#8216;I could not put it down &#8211; a moving and powerful portrayal of trauma, love, and hope.&#8217;  <u></u>Alyssa Sheinmel,  <em>New York Times</em>  bestselling author of  <em>A Danger to Herself and Others</em></strong></p>
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		<title>How to love</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emma]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Isn't it wonderful when love strikes? When you encounter someone beautiful and interesting and suddenly: feelings. But what do you do when that first crush squashes you flat, when sparks fly but fizzle out, when you and your other half just don't click together? Enter 'How to Love'! Your funny, wise and very different guide to relationships of all shapes and sizes, covering topics from singlehood to jealousy to happily ever after - all delivered in Alex Norris's clever, accessible and bright graphic style.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A brilliantly witty and wise illustrated guide to relationships for teens &#8211; by the hugely popular webcomic artist and creator of Oh No!</p>
<p>Isn&#8217;t it wonderful when love strikes? When you encounter someone beautiful and interesting and suddenly: <i>feelings</i>. But what do you do when that first crush squashes you flat, when sparks fly but fizzle out, when you and your other half just don&#8217;t click together? </p>
<p>Enter <i>How to Love</i>! Your funny, wise and very different guide to relationships of all shapes and sizes, covering topics from singlehood to jealousy to happily ever after &#8211; all delivered in Alex Norris&#8217;s clever, accessible and bright graphic style. </p>
<p>Full colour throughout and in an Agony Aunt format, with each chapter posed as a question &#8211; answered in comic book form. Inclusive of all genders and sexualities, and created by a queer non-binary artist.</p>
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		<title>If you&#8217;ll have me</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emma]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Momo Gardner is the kind of friend who's always ready to lend a helping hand. She's introverted, sensitive, and maybe a little too trusting, but she likes to believe the best in people. PG, on the other hand, is a bit of a lone wolf, despite her reputation for being a flirt and a player. Underneath all that cool mystery, she's actually quick to smile, and when she falls for someone, she falls hard. An unexpected meet-cute brings the two together, kicking off the beginning of an awkward yet endearing courtship. With their drastically different personalities, Momo's overprotective friend, and PG's past coming back to haunt her, Momo and PG's romance is put to the test.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8216;<i>Super sweet and totally heartwarming!</i>&#8216; &#8211; Alice Oseman, bestselling author of <i>Heartstopper</i></p>
<p><b>Momo Gardner</b> is the kind of friend who&#8217;s always ready to lend a helping hand. She&#8217;s introverted, sensitive, and maybe a little too trusting, but she likes to believe the best in people.</p>
<p><b>PG</b>, on the other hand, is a bit of a lone wolf, despite her reputation for being a flirt and a player. Underneath all that cool mystery, she&#8217;s actually quick to smile, and when she falls for someone, she falls hard.</p>
<p>An unexpected meet-cute brings the two together, kicking off the beginning of an awkward yet endearing courtship. With their drastically different personalities, Momo&#8217;s overprotective friend, and PG&#8217;s past coming back to haunt her, Momo and PG&#8217;s romance is put to the test.</p>
<p><i>If You&#8217;ll Have Me</i> is beautifully-illustrated, irresistibly romantic graphic novel that explores and celebrates Sapphic first love, perfect for fans of <i>Heartstopper</i> and <i>She Gets the Girl</i>.</p>
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		<title>Every exquisite thing</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emma]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><strong>A feminist YA horror-thriller-romance retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray by the TikTok sensation and author of The Society for Soulless Girls?</strong></p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>A feminist YA horror-thriller-romance retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray by the TikTok sensation and author of The Society for Soulless Girls?</strong></p>
<p>Penny Paxton is the daughter of an icon. Her supermodel mother has legions of adoring fans around the world, and Penny is ready to begin her journey to international adoration, starting with joining the elite Dorian Drama School.</p>
<p>When Penny&#8217;s new mentor offers her an opportunity she cannot refuse, to have a portrait painted by a mysterious artist who can grant immortal beauty to all his subjects, Penny happily follows in the footsteps of Dorian&#8217;s most glittering alumni, knowing that stardom is sure to soon be hers.</p>
<p>But when her trusted mentor is found murdered, Penny realises she&#8217;s made a terrible mistake &#8211; a sinister someone is using the uncanny portraits to kill off the subjects one by one. As more perfectly beautiful students start to fall, Penny knows her time is running out . . .</p>
<p><strong>A seductive and searing exploration of beauty, identity, and what the pursuit of perfection can truly cost.</strong></p>
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		<title>Yours from the tower</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emma]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[1896. Tirzah, Sophia and Polly are best friends who've left boarding school and gone back to very different lives. Polly is teaching in an orphanage. Sophia is looking for a rich husband at the London Season. And Tirzah is stuck acting as an unpaid companion to her grandmother. In a series of letters, they share their hopes, their frustrations, their dramas - and their romances. Can these three very different young women find happiness?]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1896. Tirzah, Sophia and Polly are best friends who&#8217;ve left boarding school and gone back to very different lives. Polly is teaching in an orphanage. Sophia is looking for a rich husband at the London Season. And Tirzah is stuck acting as an unpaid companion to her grandmother. In a series of letters, they share their hopes, their frustrations, their dramas &#8230; and their romances. Can these three very different young women find happiness?</p>
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		<title>See you on Venus</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emma]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<b>Two teens embark on a journey to Spain to discover the meaning of love, death and everything in between in this star-crossed love story.Â </b>]]></description>
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<p><b>The runaway romance now  a major motion picture starring</b><b> Virginia Gardner and Alex Aiono! Two teens embark on a journey to Spain to discover the meaning of love, death and everything in between in this star-crossed love story perfect for fans of<i> The Fault in our Stars, Five Feet Apart</i> and <i>All the Bright Places</i>.</b></p>
<p><b>Mia  </b>has had a heart condition her whole life. She&#8217;s not afraid of dying but something has always stopped her from her biggest fear: tracking down her biological mother in Spain  . . . until now.  </p>
<p><b>Kyle  </b>has always been the life of the party . . . that was until the car accident that killed his best friend. Now he&#8217;s  willing to do just about anything to escape his reality.   </p>
<p> After a twist of fate,  <b>Mia and Kyle</b>  meet and make the decision to travel to Spain together for a once-in-a-lifetime road trip. But what starts as a hunt for Mia&#8217;s mother soon turns into a whirlwind summer romance. Did the universe bind them together to change how they feel about love and death forever?</p>
<p><i>See You on Venus  </i>is a heartwrenching novel  perfect for readers looking for: </p>
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<li> Contemporary teen romance books   </li>
<li> Complex emotional YA  stories </li>
<li> Books to finish before or after seeing the film </li>
<li> TikTok favourites like  <i>If He Had Been With Me, Girl in Pieces </i>and  <i>You&#8217;ve Reached Sam  </i></li>
<li> Colleen Hoover books </li>
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		<title>Home girl</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emma]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is the story of Naomi, a teenage girl growing up fast in the care system. It is a wholly modern story which sheds a much needed light on what can be an unsettling life - and the consequences that can follow when children are treated like pawns on a family chessboard.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i><b>&#8216;This isn&#8217;t my home.  Haven&#8217;t had a proper home since &#8230;This is just somewhere I&#8217;ll be resting my bones for a week and maybe a bit.  This time next year you&#8217;ll forget who I am.  I haven&#8217;t got a diddly where I&#8217;ll be by then.  But I&#8217;m used to it&#8217;</b></i></p>
<p>Naomi has bounced around the care system for far too long. When she&#8217;s placed with the Goldings, an emergency foster home, her expectations are already on the floor. But sometimes connections find you where you least expect them.</p>
<p><b><i>Home Girl</i> is fast-paced and funny, tender, tragic and full of courage &#8211; just like Naomi. It is award-winning author Alex Wheatle&#8217;s most moving and personal novel to date.</b></p>
<p>&#8216;Studded with Wheatle&#8217;s characteristic slang, Naomi&#8217;s story is both heartbreaking and hilarious, offering no easy happy endings, but a flickering sense of hope.&#8217; <i>Guardian</i></p>
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		<title>Finding Phoebe</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emma]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Phoebe is autistic. She prefers to stay in her comfort zone: walking her dog, writing fantasy fiction, surviving school with as few incidents as possible. When her best (and only) friend rebels and gets a secret boyfriend, Phoebe reluctantly agrees to cover for her. Before long, Phoebe's dealing with all sorts of things she'd rather not, like deception, fashionable jackets, and the bewildering politics of the school chess club. Breaking the rules has never been Phoebe's thing, but as events take a seriously unexpected turn, she realises there's more to her than she ever imagined.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8216;Totally enchanting, warm and funny&#8217; Ciara Smyth, author of Not My Problem&#8217;Neurodiversity has a voice, and it&#8217;s witty and uplifting and enlightening all at once&#8217; Jasper Fforde, author of The Eyre Affair&#8217;A lovely book&#8217; Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie ProjectPhoebe is autistic. She prefers to stay in her comfort zone: walking her dog, writing fantasy fiction, surviving school with as few incidents as possible.When her best (and only) friend rebels and gets a secret boyfriend, Phoebe reluctantly agrees to cover for her. Before long, Phoebe&#8217;s dealing with all sorts of things she&#8217;d rather not, like deception, fashionable jackets, and the bewildering politics of the school chess club. Breaking the rules has never been Phoebe&#8217;s thing, but as events take a seriously unexpected turn, she realises there&#8217;s more to her than she ever imagined . . .</p>
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		<title>The queen next door</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emma]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In a faraway land, a happy queen rules over the happiest of kingdoms. But when a new queen moves in next door and starts showing off her ginormous, brand-new, super-duper throne, the happy queen can't help feeling a little jealous snd decides she must have a throne of her own - no matter the cost. Can she learn that what makes a true queen is not what she has, but how she treats others? Filled with humour and heart, this beautiful picture book encourages everyone to be grateful for what we have and who we have to share it with.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A beautifully illustrated modern-day fairy tale, filled with friendship, fun and <i>fairness</i>.</p>
<p>In a faraway land, a happy queen rules over the happiest of kingdoms. But when a <i>new</i> queen moves in next door and starts showing off her ginormous, brand-new, super-duper throne, the happy queen can&#8217;t help feeling a little jealous snd decides she MUST have a throne of her own . . . no matter the cost.</p>
<p>Can she learn that what makes a true queen is not what she <i>has</i>, but how she treats others?</p>
<p>Filled with humour and heart, this beautiful picture book encourages everyone to be grateful for what we have and who we have to share it with.</p>
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