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, 05 Mar 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/ Camille needs an alibi. Aubrey agrees to give her one. A tense, feverish thriller about two women's lives that are forever intertwined when a murder threatens to expose them both.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1757169037 In the middle of the night, on a winding road in a suburb outside of Washington DC, a homeless veteran is killed in a hit-and-run-a tragedy that barely catches the attention of the media and police.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1753805037 Everyone's talking about Janey Devine. Glasgow, 1979.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1745741037 It's the summer of 1985 and the residents of Delmont Close are preparing a neighbourhood barbecue to watch the biggest music event in history: Live Aid.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1745721037 Now a nascent demon-hunting crew on the lam, Danielle and her friends arrive in a small town that contains a secret occult library run by anarchists and residents who claim to have come back from the .https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1759306037 DCI Lesley Clarke's two teams are in flux. The Major Crime Investigations Team has a new DI, and the Cold Cases team has a member back from parental leave.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1756187037 As the champagne flows at a glittering society wedding, one guest isn't celebrating.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1739611037 Mira's days are filled with duty and light on freedom.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1754792037 Gloria Bonaventura, a divorced mother of three living with her 26-year-old son Nico in a sprawling house in Brooklyn, decides to participate in a new city programme Big Apple, Big Heart that would pay.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1756182037 January 1941.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1599992037 Rhea Wolfe lives a simple, if mundane, life in small-town Alabama with her pet cockatoo, Doris.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1745727037 Hamoodi may only be ten years old, but he already knows that to speak out is dangerous. Lessons from the mother-land have taught him that standing out can see you lose everything. Or disappear.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1761174037 In the sleepy English village of Sanford Angelorum, professor and amateur detective Gervase Fen is taking a break from his books to run for Parliament.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1738352037 Lucy Keiver has come back from service in the country to London's notorious Campbell Road.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1757161037 Hereford, England 1881. The adventure continues! After the fire and the tumultuous events in the cathedral library, Hecate is determined never again to come so close to losing the beloved mappa mundi.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1757184037 It's complicated: A thirty-year-old virgin gets more than he bargained for when his newfound magical power reveals he's the object of his male coworker's affections! Adachi's job transfer to Nagasaki .https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1757652037 On a far future Earth, mankind's achievements are immense: artificially intelligent robots, genetically uplifted animals, interplanetary travel, genetic modification of the human form itself.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1738560037 Returning injured from the Boer War, Jocelyn Irvin travels to the quiet cathedral town of Torminster.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1738601037 Mori and the 14 Mountain assault team are more than a week into their complete traverse of the Japanese Alps, but bad weather and worse personalities are making the training seem harder than ascending.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1754836037 A vanished plane. An earth-shattering secret. A countdown to World War III. Hemisphere Airlines Flight 777 the most advanced jetliner ever built disappears without a trace over the North Pole.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1755452037 Hattie finds other people their dream homes for a living.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1760027037 Paris, 1939: the pavement rumbles with the footfall of Nazi soldiers marching along the Champs Elysees.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1759218037 Hobnobbing with Seattle's elite on a super-yacht, Juliette Winters is about to land the deal of the century if she doesn't get arrested first.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1753837037 Dan and Tamma are two teenagers in their last year of high school in the southern Mojave Desert. One is a gifted golden child, the other a mouthy burnout.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1753813037 When the body of a missing tourist is discovered slain in the foothills of the Cuillin Mountain range beside Loch Coruisk, it falls to D.I.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1759215037 Julie Nowak has been missing since 7th September 2003. It broke her family. Only her father, Theo, doesn't give up on her.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1742148037 They call her many things. Witch, Nagual Warrior, lady, Pantera. And after defeating the Obsidian Butterfly, Leonora carries a new title: Godslayer. Peace in Mexico City is fragile.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1600764037 The lost Volsik heir has finally returned to the people of âIseldur, and even with the warrior who's captured her heart standing by her side, Silla's task is monumental.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1755419037 When the body of a celebrity author, recently returned to the Isle of Skye seemingly to live out his remaining days, is found on Staffin Beach, D.I. Duncan McAdam is left with a mystery to solve.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1759217037 Saint-Sauver, home to Richard Ainsworth and Valerie d'Orcay's detective agency, is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its town twinning with Anglethorp Spa in Lincolnshire.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1761181037 On a small boat in the remote south Atlantic Abbie and her team are on a rescue mission. Deception Island, a sunken volcano, is about to blow and the scientists studying it need evacuating.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1745722037 Sydney, May 2021. Ashraf is an academic whose career and personal life are in freefall. Hannah is a young journalist struggling to honour the voices of her community.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1758000037 Quinn Alexander has committed an unthinkable crime. To avoid spending her life in prison, Quinn makes a run for it. She leaves behind her home, her job, and her family.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1742685037 CC Cilento's best memories are of spending every summer holiday running wild in and out of the Friend family beach house with her cousins, James, Ollie, Felix and Lily.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1753812037 In a hospital in Paris, a woman in her 60’s has lost her memory. All she knows is that her name is Diana. But she also knows secrets only Princess Diana could know.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1758298037 You have one new follower. Esther first sees Ted walking in a park in London. They lock eyes and for a fraction of a second, she feels something she's never felt before.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1757974037 Radically open-minded, formidably strong, and unusually clear-eyed about herself and others, Evelyn Bednarz has always been a misfit.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1745763037 The reappearance of an old flame, held hostage by a man claiming to be her husband. A seemingly-innocuous invitation laced with a coded signal for help.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1759308037 Tilly, Alice and the rest of the Keiver clan are knuckling down to life on one of the toughest and most villainous streets in London.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1756089037 "Dear Diary. Today I'm going to kill her. Love, Rose.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1745714037 1796. Cora, an orphan newly arrived from Jamaica, has never felt cold like this. In the depths of winter, everyone in her community huddles together in their homes to keep warm.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1755422037 London, 1947. After recent events have left the normally steadfast Iris Sparks thoroughly shaken, she's looking forward to some peace.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1757978037 For Glitter Bats keys player and composer Jane Mercer, writing music helps tune out her self-doubt from a strict upbringing, as well as suppress her longtime feelings for her bandmate and best friend,.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1745755037 Driven by his wife's dying wish to find their firstborn son, John Baxter sets about the search. His prayer? That Elizabeth's wish would be fulfilled before the upcoming Baxter family reunion.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1757244037 Bruno, a young magazine editor, seems to live a charmed life, until he discovers a growth on his neck the first sign of incurable cancer.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1742466037 After a botched high-profile murder investigation, Corporal Elderick Cole is exiled to the remote, rugged landscape of Nunavut, a vast territory in the Arctic Circle known for its untamed beauty, frig.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1742692037 The Sharaf family live in an exclusive neighbourhood in Virginia, the father a successful businessman and the children attending the most prestigious schools.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1753814037 Ed is in trouble with the yakuza. He's gambled away all his money and his family is at risk. But just as he's about to lose everything, he receives an offer he can't refuse.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1754085037 Ten years ago, 17-year-old high school volleyball star Callie Jones vanished from her quiet Wisconsin lake community. A highly publicized search followed but her body was never found.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1757995037 Welcome to Harker Academy for Deviant Defense. Keep your daggers sharp and your wits sharper. Viv Abbot is just like any other twenty-one-year-old girl.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1745720037 Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, 34th in line for the throne, is flat broke. She's bolted Scotland, her greedy brother, and her fish-faced betrothed for London.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1757170037 Hazel's family live a simple life in their village. Just one of the communities on a vast generation ship on a centuries long journey to a new world.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1742136037 Across a bridge in a quiet neighbourhood in Tokyo, a seasonal cherry blossom sits on the river.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1757345037 Once upon a time at Avenue Publishing, editors had their own offices. But those days are gone.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1742140037 It's 1999, and Nikki Rose is the only Black editor on the staff of a prestigious fashion magazine she once thought would be her ticket to becoming a respected editor in chief.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1745765037 As the first female team owner in Major League Baseball, Reese Remington has spent her entire life preparing for this role.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1761200037 FBI Agent Gardner Camden is an analytical genius with an affinity for puzzles.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1742469037 To bright and anxious eight-year-old Kay Washington, the worst thing in the world is being alone with the quiet.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1757546037 One afternoon in 1976, teenagers Jean and Tom share an almost imperceptible look across the grounds of Compton Manor, a boarding school for boys with problems.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1745718037 The most respected citizen in Union Springs, Alabama (population 3,314), is Judge Mary Stone.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1754446037 Ethel Gathers, the proud wife of an American Officer, is living in Occupied Germany in the 1950s.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1745716037 All Lady Alice Walpole wants is to be swept off her feet, but she keeps finding herself on one bad date after another.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1601233037 1869. Tibet is closed to Europeans, an infuriating obstruction for the rapidly expanding British Empire.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1745759037 Former correspondents E. and Henerey, accustomed to loving each other from afar, did not anticipate continuing their courtship in an enigmatic underwater city.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1759431037 1901: Trapped in a loveless marriage, Isabella Winterbourne struggles with a grief from which she doubts she will ever recover.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1759933037 Mrs B, landlady of the Marigold Cottages, only rents to favoured tenants, and they're an eccentric (read: odd, slightly broken) bunch.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1600286037 Laurie is sixty-five and living with Alzheimer's. Her daughter Amelia, a once fiery and strong-willed activist, can't bear to see her mother's mind fade.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1744205037 After a long and happy life with a loving human family, tabby cat Fuuta has passed into the afterlife. But he is not as far from his owner Michiru as it seems.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1754090037 It's been three years since best friends Elin, Grace, Mariella and Jamie got together with their daughters for a book club night that would change their lives forever.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1755420037 'Is it merely a long con? Is Bitcoin just a mighty payday, or have I gatecrashed one of the great moments of history? Up there with the enslavement of fire, the invention of writing, the power of flig.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1745736037 When 73-year-old matriarch Magnolia Chen sweeps into the family Chinese New Year celebration with a woman on her arm that she introduces as her girlfriend, shockwaves ripple through the room.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1737671037 In the skies above America, strangers talk to Cora. Their stories at first seem harmless – until she notices uncanny echoes of her own life in their words.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1738573037 Amid the chaos and political upheaval of 1970s America, three very different women must accept the world as it is, or act to change it. Phyllis Patterson is a housewife in White Plains, Illinois.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1754093037 "Marco is stressed. On one hand, he’s a cook in a progressive city bar, a married father of three, doing all he can to raise his boys right. On the other (slightly burnt) hand, his life is chaos.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1753904037 A Cinderella for the viscount: Rachael Albright's future is going up in flames first her betrothal ends, then she learns she's about to become penniless! Thank goodness for Devlin Bryan, Viscount Mont.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1755129037 Four siblings meet up in their grandparents' old house for three long, hot summer weeks. But under the idyllic surface lie shattering tensions.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1759214037 Special Agent A.X.L.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1742702037 The Pilbara, late 1800s: Frontier country, the wild west of Australia a lawless, violent place where treachery is a way of life.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1744212037 Ethan Lewis is the joker of his rugby team, the guy who’s always up for a good time. The only thing that can wipe the smile from his face is any mention of his former best friend.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1760831037 Craig Gisto promised Eliza Moss that his elite team at Private Sydney will investigate the disappearance of her father.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1758003037 If his wife hadn't changed, then maybe Bernardo wouldn't have left, with his son in tow, to try and tame the wilderness of his childhood.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1761217037 It's 1961 and the Queen is planning her state visit to Italy aboard Britannia. But before she goes, an unreliable witness claims to have seen a brutal murder from the royal train.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1744981037 When the Elder God recently installed as Prime Minister identifies the monarchy as a threat to his growing power, Bob Howard and Mo O'Brien recently of the supernatural espionage service known as the .https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1742477037 In 1786 a fisherman's daughter from Cornwall called Mary Broad was sentenced to be hung for theft.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1760045037 Shadow--the head of Treadstone--has found evidence of massive Chinese espionage activity in the U.S. The spy running the operations is a shadowy American known only by the codename Bai Ze.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1745761037 When a wave of royal scandals hits the British press, American Lauren Morgan is whisked from the White House press office to Buckingham Palace to rescue the monarchy's reputation.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1754094037 In her 20-something years of existence, Catherine never skipped mass once.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1757684037 Italy, 1943- With war blazing through Europe, nowhere is entirely safe-not even the remote hills of the Tuscan countryside.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1757186037 With the Chinese government's crackdown on private investigators, times are hard for those in the business: Which includes Inspector Chen's good friend Old Hunter.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1757977037 The end has come at last.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1753835037 When Ari Shumba and Drew Dlamini meet on New Year's Eve, neither one is looking to fall in love.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1753824037 Eliot and his wife Claire have been happily married for nearly four decades.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1753826037 The Head of British Intelligence is having a bad day.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1755428037 Punk rock's most notorious and elusive frontman, Dax Nakamura, is ready to set the record straight about his band, his life, and what happened that summer.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1745731037 A summer's evening in Manhattan. Nothing not cold drinks, not showers not a stroll through the chilly aisles of an all-night drugstore can undo the heat's hold on the city.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1745715037 Alice Keiver is a sensitive girl, growing up in one of the roughest parts of North London.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1757162037 Eastbourne, late 1960s. Ten-year-old Sarah is restless and curious, and she forms a close friendship with Becky, sharing secrets, dreams, and the hopes of youth.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1757299037 Lonely college student Minnie feels invisible until she stumbles upon HOURglass- America's new K-pop inspired boyband obsession.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1753828037 Maitland 1892: When Viola Oswald's beloved brother Sebastian dies of a hereditary blood disease, Viola suspects her stepfather, prestigious surgeon Elias Sinclair, has used Sebastian's illness to enha.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1759216037 When Tilly Nightingale receives a call telling her there's a birthday gift from her fiancé waiting for her at her local bookshop, it couldn't come as more of a shock.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1753825037 Was this just a brief skirmish, or the beginning of a thirty-year feud? In the Rubenstein family, it could go either way.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1757376037 A prince who prefers games of the head to those of the heart.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1754099037 Anequs has not only survived her first year at Kuiper's Academy but exceeded her professors' admittedly low expectations and passed all her courses with honours.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1745758037 Sandra dies suddenly at a death conference in Nepal attended by academics and mystics. Days later, back in America, her teenage son, Trip, runs away with a man who picks him up on the side of a road.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1745712037 Wivenhoe, 1940. As war tightens its grip, the residents of Harbour House are doing their bit for King and country-keeping calm through air raids, blackouts and family issues.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1761226037 Storm used to be just like her name. Wild and strong. A force to be reckoned with.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1761229037 One year. 365 days. Twelve months. Harry Dresden has been through a lot, and so has his city.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1745757037 On any given day, there are thousands of items slowly gathering dust in the Lost and Found of Heathrow Airport.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1756183037 Independence seems to be drifting away from Misty. Just months ago, she was living with her fiance and planning their life together.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1742151037 Maggie Hodges and her daughter Piper are looking forward to a restful knitting retreat in the picturesque village of New Hope, Pennsylvania.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1600003037 The host of paranormal reality show Phantom Files, Ash built their massive following on fake hauntings, possessions, and passing off special effects as honest-to-god spirit activity.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1757589037 Yorkshire, 1643. Civil war divides the country. Jane mourns the departure of her last boy who goes off to fight for the king.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1745708037 On July 2, 2022, two criminals set out to rob a jewelry shop in Geneva. But even with a foolproof plan, their "perfect" heist will prove far from uneventful.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1760044037 When a drone uncovers a dead cyclist in the West Wales countryside, DCI Evan Warlow is pulled into a case where the clues are scarce, the suspects slippery, and the motive buried deep beneath layers o.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1739299037 The rightful heir to the throne has returned, and now all must choose a side.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1760712037 Most people fear Death. But Samarra feels safest by his side. Grief is drowning Samarra's mind. Her sister's death was too sudden, too senseless.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1759435037 Mr Burman is unmoored. Still reckoning with the death of his wife Ada, and struggling to understand his grown-up daughter Leila, he finds himself on a train to London, at the invitation of the police.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1753860037