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Twin crowns / Catherine Doyle & Katherine Webber.

Two sisters. One throne. Who will ultimately rise to power and wear the crown? Wren Greenrock has always known that one day she would steal her sister's place in the palace. Trained from birth to avenge her parents' murder and usurp the princess, she will do anything to rise to power and protect the community of witches she loves. Princess Rose Valhart knows that with power comes responsibility including marriage into a brutal kingdom. Life outside the palace walls is a place to be feared and she is soon to discover that it's wilder than she ever imagined. Twin sisters separated at birth and raised into entirely different worlds are about to get to know each other's lives a whole lot better.
Author: Doyle, Catherine (Paranormal fiction writer)
Published: London : Electric Monkey, 2022.
506 pages : map (black and white) ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Cox Green Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Teenage fiction:11-14 - Onloan - Due: 01 Jun 2024 - 95800000208641

This place is still beautiful / XiXi Tian.

Two sisters. A shocking racist incident. The summer that will change both of their lives forever. Annalie and Margaret are sisters who agree on only one thing: that they have nothing in common. Annalie is seventeen: sweet, content and looking forward to a summer of flirting with the most popular boy in school. Margaret is nineteen: ambitious, a warrior for social justice, and desperate to forget her ex-boyfriend in New York City. When their family is the victim of a racial attack, Annalie tries to pretend it never happened - but Margaret wants to fight back. Suddenly their relationship - and all the ones around them - are hanging by a thread.
Author: Tian, XiXi
Published: London : Penguin Books, 2022.
320 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Dedworth Community Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Teenage fiction:14+ - Available - 95800000207535
Windsor Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Teenage fiction:14+ - Available - 95800000206739

Legendborn / Tracy Deonn.

After her mother dies in an accident, 16-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential programme for bright high-schoolers at UNC - Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape - until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus. A flying demon feeding on human energies. A secret society of so called 'Legendborn' students that hunt the creatures down. And a mysterious teenage mage who calls himself a 'Merlin' and who attempts - and fails - to wipe Bree's memory of everything she saw. The mage's failure unlocks Bree's own unique magic and a buried memory with a hidden connection: the night her mother died, another Merlin was at the hospital. Now that Bree knows there's more to her mother's death than what's on the police report, she'll do whatever it takes to find out the truth, even if that means infiltrating the Legendborn.
Author: Deonn, Tracy
Published: London : Simon & Schuster, 2020.
501 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (2 reviews)

Cox Green Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Teenage fiction:14+ - Available - 95800000213256

Bloody brilliant women : the pioneers, revolutionaries and geniuses your history teacher forgot to mention / Cathy Newman.

In this freewheeling, feminist history of modern Britain Channel 4 journalist Cathy Newman explores the motivations of the women who played a crucial role in the dramatic transformations that took place in British women's lives from the mid-19th century onward. These were uncompromising women who seized - or created - opportunities for themselves and who refused to be bowed by tradition, convention, or their generation's hostile, entrenched views about gender. While a few of them are now household names, many more have faded into oblivion, their personal and collective achievements mere footnotes in the history we are told.
Author: Newman, Cathy
Published: London : William Collins, 2019.
376 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm

63 copies

A pocketful of stars / Aisha Bushby.

Can piecing together the past help you change the present? Safiya and her mum have never seen eye to eye. Her mum doesn't understand Safiya's love of gaming and Safiya doesn't think they have anything in common. As Safiya struggles to fit in at school she wonders if her mum wishes she was more like her confident best friend Elle. But then her mum falls into a coma and, when Safiya waits by her bedside, she finds herself in a strange alternative world that looks a bit like one of her games. And there's a rebellious teenage girl, with a secret, who looks suspiciously familiar.
Author: Bushby, Aisha
Published: London : Egmont, 2019.
244 pages ; 20 cm

Cox Green Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Child fiction:General - Fiction - Available - 95800000115782
Maidenhead Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Child fiction:General - Fiction - Available - 95800000115722
Maidenhead Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Child fiction:General - Fiction - Available - 95800000115766
Maidenhead Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Reading Development Service for Schools:Fiction - Available - 95800000119335
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Deeds not words : the story of women's rights, then and now / Helen Pankhurst.

Despite huge progress since the original suffragette campaigns and wave after wave of new feminism, women are still not equal. On the centenary of one of the greatest steps forward for women - the Vote - Suffragette descendent and campaigner Helen Pankhurst takes the reader on a journey exploring how women's lives have changed over the last 100 years, and how we can take things even further.
Author: Pankhurst, Helen
Published: London : Sceptre, 2019.
376 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm

Maidenhead Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult non fiction - 305.42 PANK - Onloan - Due: 04 Jun 2024 - 95800000103336

A thousand splendid suns / Khaled Hosseini.

'A Thousand Splendid Suns' is a chronicle of Afghan history, and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, and the salvation to be found in love.
Author: Hosseini, Khaled
Published: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.
412 pages ; 20 cm
3 reserves

Ascot Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult fiction:General - Available - 95800000222455
Dedworth Community Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult fiction:General - On reserve shelf at Sunningdale Library - 95800000222532
Maidenhead Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult fiction:General - Fiction - In-transit from Maidenhead Library to Cox Green Library (Set: 18 May 2024) - 95800000145111
Maidenhead Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult fiction:General - Onloan - Due: 06 Jun 2024 - 95800000222603
Sunningdale Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult fiction:General - Available - 95800000222365
Windsor Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult fiction:General - Fiction - Available - 95800000094087
Windsor Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Adult fiction:General - On reserve shelf at Cox Green Library - 95800000222307

Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 tales of extraordinary women / Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo.

A New York Times bestseller!Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls is a children's book packed with 100 bedtime stories about the lives of extraordinary women from the past and the present, illustrated by 60 female and non-binary artists from all over the world.Created out of the most successful publishing project in crowdfunding, this must-have volume brings readers on an empowering journey, introducing them to the real-life adventures of trailblazing women from Elizabeth I to Malala Yousafzai.The unique narrative style of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls transforms each biography into a fairytale, filling readers with wonder and a burning curiosity to know more about heroes such as:Ada Lovelace, MathematicianAmelia Earhart, AviatorFrida Kahlo, PainterMalala Yousafzai, ActivistJane Goodall, PrimatologistJulia Child, ChefMarie Curie, ScientistMaya Angelou, WriterMichelle Obama, Lawyer and First LadyRuth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court JusticeEach woman's story is also accompanied by a full-page, full-color portrait that captures her rebel spirit.This hardcover edition, with an extra-smooth matte scuff-free lamination, 100lbs paper, a satin ribbon bookmark, and extraordinary print quality, is the perfect gift for any young reader and begs to be read again and again.
Author: Favilli, Elena
Published: [Venice, CA] : Timbuktu Labs, [2016]
xii, 212 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

61 copies

Little women / Louisa M. Alcott.

In 1868 Louisa May Alcott began to write a novel based on her own childhood, in the hope of settling some of her father's mounting debts. 'Little Women' is a sensitive portrayal of the lives of four young sisters growing up during the Civil War.
Author: Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888
[New] edition / introduced by Louise Rennison.
Published: London : Puffin, 2008.
vii, 368 pages ; 18 cm.
Puffin classics
Average rating: (2 reviews)
1 reserve

Maidenhead Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Child fiction:General - Onloan - Due: 17 May 2024 - 95800000169189
Maidenhead Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Child fiction:General - Onloan - Due: 26 May 2024 - 95800000169190
Windsor Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Child fiction:General - Onloan - Due: 08 Jun 2024 - 95800000169376

The Hunger Games / Suzanne Collins.

16-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. But Katniss has been close to death before and survival, for her, is second nature.
Author: Collins, Suzanne
Published: London : Scholastic, 2014.
435 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (3 reviews)
1 reserve

Maidenhead Library - (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Library) - Teenage fiction:14+ - FICTION - In-transit from Maidenhead Library to Dedworth Community Library (Set: 17 May 2024) - 30867170000199