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, 11 Jun 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/ Claire's life changed forever one ordinary morning, on an ordinary train journey. Her actions that day saved hundreds of lives.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1757982037 In their novel 2034, decorated military officers and award-winning authors Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis imagined a war between the U.S. and China.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1822720037 The story opens with the apparently accidental drowning of a sixth form student in the Norfolk countryside.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1822719037 When documentary filmmaker turned stay-at-home mom Tennessee Cherish moves into the the dream house her husband bought for her, a brighter future seems to be on the horizon.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1824009037 After successful ad exec Alan Anderson bombs the biggest pitch of his career, he has an epiphany.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1818955037 After thirty long years, Louisa's daughters can finally look after themselves or so she thinks. Because suddenly, they're back apparently for good. Meg's second-guessing her marriage.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1818280037 On May 1, 1992, Jules Delaney and Quinn Riley hardly know each other.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1804047037 Lewis is grieving his dead wife; Korine is hiding from his very-much-alive one. Lewis never had children; Korine is an ambivalent parent at best.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1815900037 When Saul Keng Hsiu and his wife, Mei Lee, move from China to the United States to take possession of a 160-acre homestead bequeathed to them by a distant relative, all they have are the possessions o.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1815902037 Jade, Stef, and Zoe are hiking Washington State's Bones Hollow Trail, braving cougars, black bears, and storms that roll in without warning.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1818291037 In the dark streets of deepest London, Bartholomew searches for answers. But when the answers find him, he's thrown into a hidden world of the unknown, the unknowable, and the downright monstrous.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1825632037 Enter the world of Bloodshot in this brand-new Black, White, and Blood anthology! Meet Bloodshot, the world's deadliest assassin! A super soldier engineered with Nanites, a versatile nanotechnology th.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1824860037 When April and Leo's house burns in the middle of the night, they escape with their two young children and the quiet knowledge that the fire is not the only thing threatening their family.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1824983037 Guinevere's late mother, Edith Sharpe, needs little introduction.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1818270037 Forty or so years in the future. The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by vice and split along tribal lines.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1824845037 The tragic deaths of his teammates in the northern Japanese Alps leave Mori reeling, but despite the devastating experience, his love of climbing has not been dimmed.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1824855037 When a NATO super-weapon is successfully tested at the North Pole, the aircraft carrying it suddenly vanishes off the radar, the crew are found murdered at their stations and the weapon capable of tri.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1818264037 It's the summer of 2017 and D__, a poet working by day as a copywriter at a retail start-up, can't dispel a creeping sense of dissolution on the horizon.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1824985037 The Liddiards have lived at Honeycote House for generations. But all that might be about to change. Rakishly charming Mickey Liddiard has several problems.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1826233037 It's the summer of 1957 and Max, a piano prodigy, is on a sold-out concert tour. His twin sister, Natasha, serves as his manager and minder.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1823943037 A lover of love and a champion for happily ever after. Those are two of many things people expect from Aphrodite's daughter. To Adalyn Whitlock, 'love' pays the bills, and currently, not well.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1823938037 London, 1942. The war is far from over for soldier Raymond de Guise. His wife, Nancy, is overjoyed to be reunited with her husband, and to introduce him to their son.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1825016037 Reeling from the death of her husband, thirty-something audiobook narrator Lindsay Hale retreats to her Scottish hometown and the comforts of old times.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1824986037 In the storm-drenched city of Verdigris, home to indolent sorcerers and undead hotels, something is dreadfully wrong.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1823940037 A dead judge. A silent defendant. And a courtroom full of liars.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1781923037 When Dahee Shin was nine years old, she made a promise to protect her favourite cousin, Channing, who has always been like a sister to her.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1804065037 Six authors. One private island. Seventy-two hours to write the ending. World-famous author Arthur Fletch is dead. His final novel, the most anticipated book in history, remains unfinished.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1757178037 In the soot-streaked alleys of 19th-century London, Minha is a girl unlike any other born with an extraordinary gift: an overwhelming, all-consuming sense of taste.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1826373037 When Oaklin Nettlewood accidentally joined an evil world-ending cult, mind control magic forced them to do unspeakable things.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1818286037 Maddileh is a knight. There aren't many women in her line of work, and it often feels like the sneering and contempt from her peers is harder to stomach than the actual dragon slaying.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1825446037 Kotaro scales a steep cliff with Satoko in his arms. Waiting at the top is Shinpei, his eyes burning with hatred.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1824868037 Foreclosure Gothic reimagines the American Gothic against the backdrop of today's Hudson Valley.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1825633037 New Jersey, 2023. Riley Carmichael is getting married and finally joining a huge, loving family, but she can't help but feel the emptiness of her own side of the church.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1825624037 Disillusioned by the government and institutions he dedicated his life to serving, former Navy SEAL and CIA ground branch operative Chris Walker is about to end his life when he receives a call that s.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1804067037 A land filled with magic and dragons and wizards and warriors. Thousands of people live and work within its borders, fearful of their enemies and loyal to their king.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1814823037 Mercy Chan is a triad exorcist with a mysterious past.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1814824037 "Alys is an orphan, raised by her grandfather in a mining town in South Wales.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1825023037 Hermina Davenport can hardly believe the audacious exploit she is about to attempt.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1823961037 Han Solo at Stars' End: Han Solo trusts no one, and does no favours.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1824630037 Jessamine never expected to be on the Deathless One's side let alone be in love with him.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1823960037 Mika is about to turn twenty-five, and all she has to show for it is a soul-sucking office job and a terminal case of virginity.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1818991037 It's always awkward when five thousand kronor goes missing.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1826389037 It was a warm evening in September when 12-year-old Danny Yates came back from the dead.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1814826037 The first time, Yrsa doesn't intend to kill. But the Cambridge professor sitting opposite has manipulated her friend, stolen her research.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1818976037 1919, Washington D.C. Elisabeth Beaumont comes from a renowned jeweler family, but after the untimely death of her twin brother, she's left on her own to run the failing family business.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1824698037 When new recruit Helspira takes on the doomed mission that no other soldier wants, life and death start to get a little complicated.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1818298037 Raised by a doomsday prepper and hardened by the startup world, Emma Sharp has learned how to endure especially in her marriage to Logan Grant, a charismatic tyrant who keeps her under tight control.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1818943037 Frank owns a service station on a little-used highway. His granddaughter, Allie, is sent to stay with him for the summer, but they don't talk a lot.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1829366037 Ten years after her daughter, Melanie, was murdered, Bree Winter is finally moving on with a new love, a new home, and a new beginning.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1824877037 Frances's older sister Charley was a star of the modern dance world. But just as she was ascending, she fell in love with Johnny, an enigmatic trust fund artist, and married him.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1824988037 After a decades-long stint in prison, former serial killer Carol is looking to kick back and relax in her new retirement home until a fellow resident drops dead and Carol has to prove she actually did.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1825623037 In the summer of 2000, seventeen-year-old AJ dreams of being a writer far from her small town. Working in a video rental store, her life changes forever when Noah walks in.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1820099037 Rome, 1951. Veronica Gold is in the city as the correspondent for Vogue magazine.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1761111037 At seventeen, Ruth lost her mother to cancer.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1804081037 Now that the World's Greatest Heroes have gone international, even more members are joining their ranks--making it the most unlikely grouping of heroes yet! Batman, Blue Beetle, Booster Gold, Martian .https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1824859037 When a run of bad luck lands Reito in prison, about to be sentenced, a distant aunt he has never met offers him a surprising way out: he must become the next keeper of the camphor tree.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1818296037 Every year the gods demand boys for the mines. When Leina slaughters the soldiers who come for her brother, she expects death.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1818938037 A coastal community faces the wrath of a mysterious sea creature.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1823921037 When Pixie Nolan first came to Bramble, Kentucky, the abandoned and desperate young single mother found hope, healing, and a fresh start.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1816097037 On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomas and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1805414037 When Malichai Fortunes attacks a problem, he does it full force a habit that earns the GhostWalker a painful injury and a forced vacation in San Diego, California.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1824852037 Meriel grows up in England a tomboy, helping her beloved grandfather with DIY projects. At school she discovers a talent and love for art, but her mother forces her to become an accountant.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1825014037 Rafe seems like your perfect man intelligent, charming, attractive. He also happens to be your boss. You're too swept up to care for office gossip. In Rafe, you have found the one.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1824689037 When Lili Lowe is caught in a compromising position with her boss, married politician Teddy Landen, she suddenly finds herself thrust into the centre of a media frenzy.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1814621037 Celia is so tired of being alone. All she wants is to have a family to belong to someone.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1804085037 No matter what's going on in the May sisters' lives, the one thing they can rely upon is seeing each other for one week each year, while staying at their grandmother's beachside home in gorgeous Coron.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1804086037 When Matthew Pillai is found dead, slumped over the wheel of his BMW, the women of Willow Road are roped into the investigation of their friend's death.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1822961037 The Cross sisters have lived their entire lives on the sprawling grounds of Mercy Hill, the embattled Raleigh mental hospital run by their formidable mother.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1824014037 The Mistral has long bestowed 'Roots' magical abilities to people destined to shape the future.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1815863037 Back in the 1970s the Beatles didn't split up and instead recorded a hallucinodelic album Never Mind (strictly, Never Mind the Beatles) which literally changed the world by imbuing many of those who h.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1815903037 He was born an outsider, like the rest of his family.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1825447037 In a city of ancient automata, strange spirits, and sleeping gods, a cleric of death finds his own life on the line in this vividly imagined fantasy murder mystery from the acclaimed author of The Bon.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1814833037 Reader, your life is full of choices. Some will bring you joy and others will bring you heartache.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1824878037 Tokyo, 1947. The Pink Labyrinth is one of the bomb-scarred city's most shady neighbourhoods.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1826700037 In the glitz and decadence of 1970s Hollywood, an era when sex and drugs are readily available on any movie set, the writer of the next Western blockbuster, Bloodrock, has just been found dead in his .https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1822756037 At a glitzy gala in the ballroom of the Hotel Ritz, young American tourist Maisy Bell meets an intriguing man and accepts his charming offer to take her on a day trip.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1826415037 In Paris, murder is a dish best served with chocolate éclairs.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1824701037 Lenny Winter is fifteen years old when she moves with her parents to an aging houseboat off the rugged coast of Washington.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1817173037 After being reunited at Annie's memorial, Kieran and Harlow begin separate searches for their lost friend, all while trying to repair their friendship.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1818964037 When the world finally ends, will you see it coming? Will you be prepared? In the summer sky, a celestial object is fast approaching, due to slingshot around the Earth and disappear again.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1815888037 It is April 1940 and the Nazi Blitzkrieg delivers a hammer blow to defenceless Norway. The few remaining British troops are retreating in the face of such a remorseless German advance.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1824844037 Book IV heralds the arrival of many others, and soon to be even more, roaming uncertainly through the same November day.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1817048037 Two worlds, two women, one story . . . In 1793, eighteen-year-old Catherine is sentenced to transportation on the Tempest, a convict ship bound for New South Wales.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1758376037 In Phet Buri, 1972, a teenaged Manda Sulakorn overhears her parents whispering that they will be sending one of their girls to the Outer Country - to America.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1824013037 Paris, 1926. A young dancer Ray Cohen arrives from London to compete at the Exhibition Paris.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1825017037 An unsuspecting couple is treated to a luxury vacation by their deceased neighbor.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1825265037 Miss Alice Lockey, daughter of a tenant farmer, has by dint of hard work, innate intelligence, and a cunning ability to predict the moods of her betters, raised herself to the lofty status of lady's m.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1815880037 It's the turn of the twentieth century and Pamela 'Pixie' Colman Smith is a young woman of stark contradictions: plucky yet naive, artistically gifted despite lacking classical training, fascinated by.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1758277037 Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1815864037 A Predator King, emboldened by a new vibranium arsenal and aided by a surprising human ally, launches an all-out invasion of Earth, claiming the planet as a hunting preserve! After several battles in .https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1824863037 As the Pallaseen's campaign to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world rages on, Eres Ffenegh 'the City on the Back of a Crab' is the next state slated for conquest.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1824993037 You are cordially invited to the wedding of Princess Leia Organa and Han Solo. The Death Star is destroyed. Darth Vader is dead. The Empire is desolated.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1825260037 With each walk together, Kiyotaka and Chiharu's friendship slowly deepens into something more.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1824864037 In 1910 Sabé Parella makes the journey from northern Italy to southern Colorado to join her husband who went ahead to labour in the mines.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1824697037 On a bleak, windswept farm on the coast of rural Sweden, where the misty white light is as 'mute as the blind milk of membrane around an extinguished eye', beneath the oppressive silence, the salt spr.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1815898037 The Kingdom of Oryndhr has been saved by the will of the Royal Stars. But King Roshan, once Sura's best friend and chosen love, has changed.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1817148037 A record shop nestled in a quiet Tokyo neighbourhood, a pirate radio ship battling the waves of the ocean, a globally-renowned band on tour, bootleggers under an oppressive regime.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1817527037 Following a breakup with his long-term girlfriend, "Local," as he is known to his friends, moves from Alexandria to Cairo.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1823936037 As the shadows of the Empire loom ever larger across the galaxy, so do deeply troubling rumors. The Rebellion has learned of a sinister Imperial plot to bring entire worlds to their knees.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1825625037 How far would you go when the world feels unbearable? Mike Garvey is an ordinary man living on the West Coast of New Zealand, a sculptor, a neighbour, someone who watches the news like everyone else.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1823162037 Young Han dreams of someday soaring into space at the helm of his own starship and leaving his home, the gritty industrial planet Corellia, far behind.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1825261037 It is a dark time for the Rebellion. Although the Death Star has been destroyed, Imperial troops have driven the Rebel forces from their hidden base and pursued them across the galaxy.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1824631037 Art teacher Okabe creates strange, headless statues. One day, he is found murdered, his corpse headless. From that day on, art club member Shimada seems off somehow.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1757686037 The surface of Isabel Dalhousie's life is usually a tranquil one. From her house in Edinburgh she edits a philosophical journal.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1805909037 May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1818987037 College professor Jesse del Ruth has been abandoned.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1815895037 Amina al-Sirafi thinks she's struck gold.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1804108037 Captivated: When real-life witch Morgana Donovan is asked to be a research subject for an upcoming film, she humours the skeptical writer behind the project.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1826702037 Eleanor Dash can never catch a break. Not only has she had to solve two real-life murder plots in the past year, but both times it was when she was meant to be on vacation.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1815892037 Alexis Turner walks into the police station to report an assault. By the end of the day, she is nowhere to be found.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1759454037 After the Atonement Trials, Selena is trying to navigate her newlife outside the Seelie Court. The world is very different from what she imagined, but her mission remains the same.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1804110037 In 1885, Nikosis 'Niko' Eriksen spends his days playing buffalo hunter, even though it's been many years since a member of his tribe has actually seen one of the once-ubiquitous animals.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1824875037 When young nurse Claire Davidson goes missing on the riverbank, the only clues left behind are her phone and shoes. People disappear all the time, but this case sparks an online frenzy.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1824828037 A race against time for justice on the edge of the world. When a desperate young man arrives on an isolated Scottish isle, the locals view him with suspicion.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1804115037 A college student falls for her professor and learns to transmute longing into language.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1818946037 Anne of Brittany was a child when her kingdom was invaded, her castle besieged, and her royal father driven to his death.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1818271037 Jack Griffin has always been invisible to the people around him--at least in his own mind.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1823885037 The river Ata grants the nomadic Fluters all they need to survive. That is how it has been since the dawn of time. But every year, that becomes less and less, and their hardships grow.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1805399037 Sixteen-year-old Lena Palmer has gone missing when a violent video of her assault by masked men goes viral. Yashira, chief inspector at the German FBI, has been put in charge of the case.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1824996037 As a reproductive health care worker in Chicago, Nisha is barely staying afloat in the ocean of abortion bans, screaming protesters, and her own all-consuming depression.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1824997037 What does it mean to lose yourself and is that something you should be aiming for? A young woman with little interest in games takes up a job in Frankfurt at a famous gaming company, naively set on re.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1761121037 Mia Almas has a secret.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1804119037 Forbidden from leaving her house from girlhood until marriage, Nicole has only her mother's lessons and what she can see from her bedroom window to draw on in forming her view of the world, and of her.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1822757037 On the three-year anniversary of true crime writer Olivia Cruz's horrific kidnapping, she's scheduled to walk her podcaster friend Zoe March through the crime scene, but Zoe fails to show.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1824999037