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Library@EA Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

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Dynamic, diverse, distinct. Silver Reading School Librarian Shelagh Toonen: SLG Scotland Chair. CILIPS Library & Information Professional of the Year 2018.

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Book Cover for: The Vanishing Half: A GMA Book Club Pick (a Novel), Brit Bennett

The Vanishing Half: A GMA Book Club Pick (a Novel)

Brit Bennett
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Our Staff Book Group meets today and the September choice is The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett. You can escape a town, but you cannot escape blood... https://t.co/TJfoX3QGOo

Paperback, 2022

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Toshikazu Kawaguchi
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If you could relive one conversation, what would it be? In a Tokyo coffee shop, that's exactly what you can do - as long as you follow strict rules. Very importantly, return before your coffee gets cold. Staff Book Group today: Before the coffee gets cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. https://t.co/gP5zapfEul

Hardcover, 2020

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Missing: The True Story of My Family in World War II, Michael Rosen

The Missing: The True Story of My Family in World War II

Michael Rosen
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One of the books in our #EmpathyDay book talk is The Missing @MichaelRosenYes. We all listened to Michael Rosen read his poem The Absentees. Powerful. Affecting. All silent as we heard the words. We are using this book for both #EmpathyDay2021 and for #RefugeeWeek2021. https://t.co/3nZQXeAfJ3

Paperback, 2024

$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Girl Who Saved Christmas, Matt Haig

The Girl Who Saved Christmas

Matt Haig
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Jake and Alex from Bishopmill P7 opened no.8 in our Book Advent Calendar. They shared The Girl Who Saved Christmas by Matt Haig with all the P7s and their teachers. Everyone agreed: this is a cracker 🎁🔰💜. https://t.co/ARnIqv87lx

Paperback, 2018

$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman

The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman
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Books shared today by Novelties Book Club: 🔖Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir for SF fans. 🔖Cosmology for physics-keen readers. 🔖Berserk if you are mad for Manga. 🔖She Drives Me Crazy for romcom lovers. 🔖Solitaire by Alice Oseman. 🔖The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman https://t.co/fwrWMgC5Tk

Paperback, 2018

$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and MR Hyde: And Other Tales of Terror, Robert Louis Stevenson

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and MR Hyde: And Other Tales of Terror

Robert Louis Stevenson
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Our staff were gifted books recently and are sharing their views. Mrs McKenzie: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson is a book I first read many moons ago. Reading it this time made me wonder how I had coped with it as a youngster as it is/

Paperback, 2003

$9.00$4.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Ghostlight, Kenneth Oppel

Ghostlight

Kenneth Oppel
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Half-term read no 1: Ghostlight by Kenneth Oppel. 'Rebecca Strand was sixteen the first time she saw her father kill a ghost.' This is a thrill-a-minute, fast-paced great ghost story. It may be included in next month's book talk programme. #Chills #Thrills #Ghostlight. https://t.co/qx3jWXhNvQ

Hardcover, 2022

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: When the World Was Ours, Liz Kessler

When the World Was Ours

Liz Kessler
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Our Book of the Month is back on the library desk: When The World Was Ours by Liz Kessler. https://t.co/gqqCrZh2rn

Paperback, 2022

$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Everything, Everything, Nicola Yoon

Everything, Everything

Nicola Yoon
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February Book of the Month and recommended by one of our senior pupils: Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon. https://t.co/8ogB0PJm3c

Paperback, 2017

$13.99$6.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Mistletoe and Murder, Robin Stevens

Mistletoe and Murder

Robin Stevens
Library@EALibrary@EA

Day 12 of our Book Advent Calendar is Mistletoe and Murder. Relish it with a mince pie & a hot chocolate: the fabulous fifth Murder Most Unladylike mystery by Robin Stevens. Can Daisy and Hazel solve the crime before Christmas Day? 🕵‍♀️📚🕵‍♀️ A simply spiffing seasonal story! https://t.co/Hf1gO5D6GO

Paperback, 2019

$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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