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, 27 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/ Spoiled heiress Luna Stack is meant to be sipping mai tais on a beach. But when she crashes (literally) into Claw Haven in a snowstorm, no one is prepared for her to up-end everything.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1819073037 In this sweeping story of high-stakes romance and cut-throat politics amongst the stars, dashing junior supply officer Levar Boylan finds himself unceremoniously pulled from the front lines to serve a.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1826980037 One summer evening, in a quiet seaside town near Rome, everything changes for the Ansaldo family.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1836261037 When a young woman, a golf prodigy, kills a caddy with a stray ball at the country club, the investigation of this freak accident reveals a dark and shocking tale of secret affairs and predatory men, .https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1830019037 Impossible crime stories have delighted readers since the invention of detective fiction as puzzle-lovers sought more cerebral entertainment.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1839551037 As a boy, William Bellman commits one small cruel act that appears to have unforeseen and terrible consequences.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1836038037 Could you kill someone? Someone you love? Paris, 1938. Twin sisters are divided by fierce loyalties and by a terrible secret. The drums of war are beating and France is poised, ready to fall.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1835180037 Parenting teens is not for the faint of heart but Madeline, Jane and Celeste have been through worse.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1822993037 It's 1949 Los Angeles, and Kevin Yamagata, a Japanese American comic book author, is drawing his bestselling character, Billy Bat: a quick-witted detective who is, unsurprisingly, a cartoon bat.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1824872037 Another summer is in full swing on the island of Roone, and preparations are underway for a big birthday party at the local hotel.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1833233037 As I stood under it, looking up into the branches, listening as the wind rustled the leaves, I could hear my Kiju's voice: "This tree holds our stories.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1832952037 Amaia Harding isn't looking for love at her daughter's wedding, but that's exactly what finds her in the form of a sexy wolf shifter.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1833519037 O'Malley makes his living at the poker table and his reputation solving problems the police won't touch.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1833497037 Her own life is becoming a mystery. Australian writer Emma Callander has been recruited to complete the final historical mystery in a series by celebrated author Iris Blackburn.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1819873037 All Cleo Dang has ever wanted is to be a mother. The day she discovers she's pregnant is the happiest of her life, especially when she learns that her best friend, Paloma, is also expecting.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1839543037 When Natasha Mason's AA sponsor is in deadly danger, she turns to the cranky yet brilliant Julia Mann for help.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1835075037 Beneath a sky ruled by gods and monsters, a drowned land spreads thousands of scattered isles, each its own dominion, each a deadly trap for the unwary.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1829614037 As summer heat lingers in Los Angeles, girls are found murdered, the winds are blowing a strange energy into the city and wildfire warnings are everywhere.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1822971037 Old spooks carry the memory of tradecraft in their bones, and when Solomon Dortmund sees an envelope being passed from one pair of hands to another in a Marylebone cafe, he knows he's witnessed more t.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1839422037 Missing soldiers, MI6 secrets and European partisans collide in a deadly game where the lines between lies and reality are fast disintegrating.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1829792037 Eve is at a breaking point.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1835027037 Phillip Tennent makes his living at the tideline, collecting artefacts that wash up from the Channel. It's been years since the crisis changed everything, but its exact nature remains obscured.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1822725037 1943, America: SOE's Saffron Courtney is back in New York, but even as she recovers from her mission to Washington, events on the other side of the Atlantic are making her return to England inevitable.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1822677037 In fifteen funny, colourful, poignant and mysterious stories, the irreverent modernist Katherine Mansfield, a friend and contemporary of D. H.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1840977037 As owner of her beloved Gingerbread Bakery, Annie Andrews should have a love life to match her business; sugary and sweet.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1840874037 Juno Hardwick's a fighter or at least she thought she was. A year ago, she had a promising career influencing national security policy at the highest levels.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1830778037 1987: After a childhood trauma and years in and out of the care system, sixteen-year-old Ursula finds herself with a new job in the postroom of a local art school, a bed in a halfway house, and—deligh.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1814828037 You witnessed a murder. But no one believes you. After an attack that nearly killed her, Ria moves with her husband to Silverleaf Heights a luxury gated community where everything feels safe.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1829598037 The Great War is over at long last, and with it comes an inheritance that will free Serena Fleming from her bullying father. She can finally lead the life she has always wanted.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1840447037 The future is looking bright for Billie Carlson. With her child safely home and a new relationship on the horizon, she hasn't felt so settled in years.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1832678037 Munich, 1937. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor have arrived in Germany for a historic meeting at Hitler's mountain retreat.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1829578037 Kluge is narrated by an AI that has been responding to the same prompt Am I right? for 120 years. Each night the AI generates a new response, pulling from everything it knows.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1829774037 Human laws do not apply in the territory controlled by the Others--vampires, shape-shifters, and even deadlier paranormal beings. And this is a fact that humans should never, ever forget.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1835019037 Here is a truth that can't be escaped: for Mia "Rabbit" Hayes, life is coming to and end. Rabbit Hayes loves her life, ordinary as it is, and the extraordinary people in it.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1839540037 Recently and abruptly divorced Veronica Barrington is anxious for a new direction when she answers a listing for a travel companion.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1835066037 Lipa, Philippines, 2001. Neneng is 11 when her mother, Rosa, leaves to work as a nurse overseas: abandoning Neneng to care for a distant father, unsettled relatives and rebellious siblings.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1829584037 M is a film star, and one of the most recognisable faces of our time.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1829383037 It's 1941 and Kate is living in Rangoon, Burma, a world away from her traditional English upbringing.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1833169037 A prison guard and a convict have an affair fuelled by the hallucinations of fungal spores. Squatters arrive in a weird train station, where they unearth a strange idol.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1834034037 She is a curator, who spends her time dressing the rooms of historic buildings to bring them to life.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1834558037 Julia Glover has brought her twenty-three-year-old daughter, Piper, to Paris for the first time. Julia is dying, and they know that this trip will be their last together.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1821300037 Hanoi, 1972. As war breaks out in Viet Nam, twelve-year-old Huong clings to her grandmother in an improvised shelter as American bombs fall around them.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1840897037 Munich, 1931. A young woman is found dead in Adolf Hitler's apartment. The official verdict is suicide. Detective Inspector Thomas Bauer knows it's murder.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1826412037 On the grim streets of London, a young man succumbs to his demons. Discarded by his lover and left penniless and alone, Michael 'Micha' Dashwood uses sex to pay the bills and opium to numb the pain.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1834356037 It's 1896 in Sevres, France and, from her bedroom window, Odette Hure watches a funeral bier carry her father's coffin away.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1829996037 In Offshore Service and Other Stories, award-winning author Craig Cliff explores the emotional, economic, cultural and climatic forces that drive our decisions.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1830519037 Bounty hunter Elle Randolph is on the hunt for a fugitive in the wilderness of Mendocino County.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1820454037 -.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1840453037 Oxford biographer Lyssa Moore is delighted to be commissioned to write about Amelia 'Monty' Montrose, the 1960s music icon who died mysteriously at her birthday party in 1966.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1833464037 Scarred by his experiences in World War One, German doctor, Sebastian Braun lives a quiet life tending to his patients and his beloved garden.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1834026037 Yui Sanada struggles to raise her twelve-year-old brother, Hiro, while contending with a neglectful, alcoholic mother.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1840534037 A ghost moves into a woman's apartment and begins to cough up teeth. A town keeps building as the sea prepares to take it back. A daughter inherits hunger like an heirloom.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1829797037 There's a serial killer prowling the city, and no one has noticed... Except for me.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1829798037 The story of Lucio Cavaliero, a Venezuelan writer and cosmopolitan libertine, is a vibrant and thrilling account of carnivalesque exile in New York.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1829613037 -.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1833008037 There is a changeling in this story but who? Madeleine is young for motherhood, a promising grad student in Victorian and Modernist literature, twenty-three and not long married.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1833234037 Isolde, newly coronated queen, has finally found a king worthy of her in the vampire Adrian. But their love for each other has cost Isolde her father and her homeland.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1840536037 In February 1942, shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Franklin D.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1834138037 By day, Dr Ruth Morgan lectures on 'AI: the new frontier of storytelling' at East Toronto University.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1830811037 From the two reporters who have covered him more closely than perhaps anyone else over the past decade comes this definitive portrait of Donald Trump in the White House.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1830813037 When Claire's fiance Elias mysteriously dies of an unknown neurological illness, his estranged family invites her to a three-day wake at Harrow Point, their family home on a remote private island.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1830814037 Fifty-two-year-old Meredith McGillicutty is not having a midlife crisis. She's just ready for a change of pace, that's all.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1835076037 India, 1799. The citadel of Seringapatam is under siege.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1840455037 After the stress of a medical misdiagnosis, Sasaki resumes his strange yet calming nighttime smokes with Tayama.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1836138037 The new year starts strong for Sasaki when the beleaguered salaryman forgets his own birthday. But his days turn around when he meets Daigoro's owner and discovers a new side of Tayama.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1836140037 After smoking away from the supermarket together for the first time, Yamada and Sasaki begin to realize their fleeting feelings for each other are taking shape.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1836134037 Val Caruso, Alex Reed, and June Kennerson could not come from more different worlds - Val is a tough-talking private investigator; Alex is reticent, nervous and on the run from her past; and June is a.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1835072037 In 2024, Nina's small aircraft crashes into a lake in the Wyoming mountains.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1830823037 Fates woven. Power strung. Worlds torn. Yiva Ulfrik drinks to forget, gambles to feel alive, and lies to herself about the power burning beneath her skin.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1829800037 The Black Panther investigates the deepening mysteries of Vibranium! T'Challa leads a campaign against Adi and his associates, the monsters of Vibranium Incarnate! Meanwhile, the Panther's trusted co.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1824866037 Struggling actress Marin Keane is shocked when she lands a role in a major film about the unsolved mystery of New Avalon, an island on sprawling Lake Faraday in Vermont.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1819903037 Magneto and Professor X. Superman and Lex Luthor. Victor Vale and Eli Ever. Sydney Clarke once had Serena-beloved sister, betrayed enemy, powerful ally.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1840935037 At sunrise, high in the Italian hills, a body is found on the steps of a beautiful private villa. On the body is a threatening note, signed by a mystery man.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1825141037 When Daphne notices an older gentleman following her around the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, she doesn't expect it to be Eddie her former stepfather.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1805594037 Only the truly devoted manage to swim every day at Whitstable, because the sea's only deep enough at high tide.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1841008037 Annie MacLeod always knew she was different, growing up on a sailboat in the Pacific Northwest, navigating by stars and swimming with sea creatures alongside her parents and best friend Evan.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1830020037 In the wake of a tragic accident, Indi Jaensch shoulders the weight of generations, determined to keep the family property near Settlers Bridge viable.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1840940037 In 1964, four remarkable young women at a prestigious university became the subjects of parapsychology experiments by a visionary scientist.https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1830836037