libwebteam@ccc.govt.nz (Digital Library Web Team) libwebteam@ccc.govt.nz (Digital Library Web Team) en-nz http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/NewTitles/RSS/fiction_for_rss.xml New fiction at Christchurch City Libraries 2021 Christchurch City Libraries Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:50:01 +1300 Thu, 02 Jan 2021 09:00:00 +1300 http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/ http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/assets/images/logos/CCL-logo-Colour.gif http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/ In the winter of 1919, Lily and her three-year-old son, Ted, rush through the streets of Melbourne to welcome home Lily's husband, Bert, who has spent the last four years fighting with the Light Horse.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1834213037 Ruth Dawson finds her ideal living space in an Art Deco building in Potts Point, The Lumen.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1839522037 London, East End, 1941: When everything is lost, can love rebuild a family? With the Blitz blazing through London and sirens wailing through the night, district nurse Sarah Rhodes tends the injured an.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1835074037 In the Civilized World, everyone is rich, yet money doesn't buy safety. It only buys a gold coffin. The real currency is having the right allies.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1835023037 It's been eight long years since a bloodlusting brown bear droveinto the city, kidnapped a kind young duck, dissected his body, and buried the pieces in the woods.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1831948037 Anne was a reckless, arrogant royal who had never tasted defeat. After a brutal betrayal on her wedding night, Anne vanishes from the kingdom she was meant to rule.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1835021037 Molly and George Warburton, ageing in Las Vegas, shock their family by naming their grandson Luke as heir to their fortune.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1830751037 Maggie Wise will take your eyes. When Malcolm was growing up, the local kids made up that chant about his mother, claiming she was a witch. He and his siblings did their best to ignore it.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1826360037 Ewer's Rock, Virginia, 1917. Roy Young is restless, determined to leave this rural valley and make his mark on the twentieth century.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1830753037 Captain Blite and Agent Cormac thought they had stopped the malevolent Mobius AI Straeger. But Straeger's goal to plunge the galaxy into a devastating war is far from defeated.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1814610037 In 1870, three Chinese women arrive in the small, dusty and violent pueblo of Los Angeles.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1818948037 A runewitch on the run has only one option left: join forces with the sarcastic, unpleasantly gorgeous necromancer she loathes. The man Thraga loved is dead, and her future is in shambles.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1835073037 1939: when the Second World War breaks out, the courage of two women will be tested to the limit.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1821297037 Twenty-five years ago in the woods by the Hoh River near Seattle, three boys were kidnapped. One never came home.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1834357037 In the cramped basement office of their university newspaper, Jake and Nadia break a huge story that exposes a decade of institutional corruption. In the quieter hours, they also fall in love.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1836036037 When Roxie makes a tongue-in-cheek wish to live out the plot of her favourite author's next novel, she has romance in mind namely, the sweet, safe, swoon-worthy storylines Anna Matthews is known for.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1817022037 Four damned souls, two impossible bargains, and a romance powerful enough to topple the realms. Mercedes Midnight should be dead.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1835069037 For the past three years, Harper Westbrook has been one of the Blood Bound girls and women cursed with a bloodlust only satisfied by killing terrible men.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1829602037 Eddie Wilkens runs his own house-painting business. Forty-something and living alone, he just wants to take life one day at a time.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1815866037 Bodkin Bell, orphan, pickpocket and survivor, doesn't know where she came from, but she knows she's different. Gaslights flare as she walks past. Cutlery spins. Shocks fly from her fingertips.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1830791037 Bryher Enys is the proud owner of Cornwall's newest restaurant, Panorama.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1805908037 Clockmaker Arthur Throckmorton lives a quiet life with his sister and her children, only dreaming of adventure.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1826403037 Felix Rivendale, the Marquess of Wrenworth, is The Ideal Gentleman, a man all men want to be and all women want to possess. Even Felix himself almost believes this golden image.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1827067037 Ken Kato is a half-British, half-Japanese photojournalist working for a low-brow weekly magazine in Tokyo.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1826993037 When Velveteen Vargas, an eleven-year-old Fresh Air Fund kid from Brooklyn, comes to stay with a couple in upstate New York, what begins as a two-week visit blossoms into something much more significa.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1817140037 Daisy Dixon is desperate to escape her controlling husband and crumbling estate. But the night before she leaves, a terrible accident changes everything.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1830011037 Twelve years ago, Carrie married Johan on a beach in Thailand. But as the sun set on their perfect day, armed men swarmed the island and her husband was taken, never to be seen again.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1818944037 The Time Police don't think twice about jumping to the past. But, this time, the past has come to them...https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1834032037 Arthur Conan Doyle's Poison Belt reunites the ever-popular Professor Challenger, intrepid journalist Edward Malone, dashing Lord John Roxton and the querulous Professor Summerlee for yet another adven.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1835029037 She's the shifter alpha's fated mate, and the red marking on her hand is the proof.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1835070037 In a world where magic is distributed equally, there are some people who refuse to share their power. Dark mages. Lethal. Selfish. And utterly without morals. Audrey Sable is one of them.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1835024037 Welcome to the British Ladies Football Club. London, 1897. Minnie Newton twenty-eight-year-old schoolteacher and women's rights advocate has a passion for football.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1826429037 Six friends. One dinner. And a secret that won't stay buried. Mallory Taylor was looking forward to a fun night out with old college friends nostalgia, laughter, nothing more.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1830003037 Devika is living her best life, moving out of home in her final year of university. Close to the beach and away from her mother. Independent and self-sufficient, just like Kalyani.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1835068037 Franz Escher is waiting for the electrician. His power outlet has a loose connection. To pass the time, he buries himself in a book about a Mafioso-turned-informant Elio Russo.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1817057037 It's the winter of 2049 and Daniel is elderly and long isolated.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1839548037 At age forty-five, office worker Sasaki has had enough of the corporate grind. His only solace is smoking and the friendly smile of supermarket cashier Yamada.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1836139037 As the end of the year approaches, Yamada feels blindsided by a coworker's claim that Sasaki is a married man! Naturally, misunderstandings ensue.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1836135037 Summer arrives, and the slow burn continues. When Sasaki's subordinate wins a work award, the downtrodden salesman must choose whether to confront his fear of visiting the company's head office.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1836137037 1950, Pyongyang. Oksoon's father confident that the war is over has left for Seoul in search of opportunity.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1830818037 Ruby Spencer is known as "the exonerator." Her job as an investigator is to free innocent men from death row, and she's good at what she does.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1826435037 Dorothy Louise Walcott is a timid young woman. Twenty-three, chronically ill and over-educated, she dreams ceaselessly of running away from her drab existence to learn magic.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1838955037 Zoe Carson, former figure skating queen, needs a fresh start as a hockey skating coach. An NHL gig with the New York Legends is her big chance.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1834027037 If the past catches up with you, time travel can be murder. London, the present day: commercial time travel is a reality.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1830829037 After many years abroad, Hatoko reluctantly returns to Kamakura to take over the stationery store left to her by her late grandmother.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1839547037 Brace yourself for Fisk vs. Mr. Negative vs.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1824862037 Ex-assassin Syn Malleore hates kings. The last one poisoned her sister, leaving her to slowly die of a curse.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1835025037 Dear Reader, Just when you think it can't get any worse, the universe seems to take that as a personal challenge. The Devil's Backbone Society has their fingers everywhere.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1835188037 Stripped of power. Fuelled by vengeance. She lost everything because of his lie.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1835022037 Something terrible has happened to Jack but no one seems to want to talk about it.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1830835037 Virgil Wounded Horse is trying to leave behind his past as a hired enforcer. But when a revered figure on the reservation is found murdered, he is drawn back into a world he thought he'd escaped.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1826444037 Emily is unmoored as a new mother in Manhattan exhausted, broke, and slipping away from her well-meaning husband.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1830027037 Dear Reader, I've spent too many nights caught between reality and nightmare, each bleeding into the other like a twisted dream I can't wake from.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1835187037