Cherry Tree Bookswap

Lies
Michael Grant
66 hours 52 minutes
Suddenly it's a world without adults and normal has crashed and burned. When life as you know it ends at 15, everything changes.
Tensions are growing in the FAYZ. The mutants are under attack. Food is scarce. Sam's gone AWOL.
At ight, a solitary figure roams the streets - the ghost of a boy with a whip hnand, haunting the dreams of those he has tormented.
Then the toen is deliberately set on fire... And through the flames, Sam sees the figure he dreads most - Drake. But that's impossible, Drake is dead.

The Pursuit of Oblivion
Richard Davenport-Hines
A history of drug taking, telling the story across five centuries of addicts and users; monarchs, prime ministers, great writers and composers, wounded soldiers, overworked physicians, oppressed housewives, exhausted labourers, high-powered businessmen, playboys, s*x workers, pop stars, seedy losers, stressed adolescents, defiant schoolchildren, the victims of the ghetto and happy young people on a spree.
It is also the history of one bad idea, prohibition.

Only A Mother Could Love Him
Ben Polis
How I lived with and triumphed over ADHD
Ben Polis attended 6 different schools, served -he estimates- over 3,000 hours of detention and drove his entire family into counselling. But against all odds, with a combination of selftaught concentration techniques and sheer determination, he made it through the education system to university. This is his triumphant story - and a remarkabel look inside the mind of a person with ADHD. From his unique perspective, Ben describes what it's really like to feel those constant inexplicable impulses, to get all that medication, to desperately want to be 'normal'.

Ben's inspiring, frank and often funny account will enlighten every parent who's ever despaired of their seemingly uncontrollable child; every teacher who's ever vented frustration at a student who just won't pay attention; every kid who has ever pondered 'Why does everyone hate me?' and indeed anyone who wants to understand the world of an ADHD child.

Gomorrah - Italy's Other Mafia
Roberto Saviano
In the spring of 2006, what began as a reporter's investigation of Neapolitan organized crime made international news headlines. Vigilante journalist Roberto Saviano compiled the most thorough account to date of the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia, which exerts malign influence on contemporay Italy. At great personal risk, Saviano worked undercover in his native city in Camorra-controlled factories, construction sites and even as a waiter at a mob wedding. He recalls seeing his first murder at the age of 14, and how his own father, a doctor, suffered a brutal beating fro trying to aid an 18 year old victim who had been left for dead in the street.
Unforgettable and utterly compelling, Gomorrah is a nightmare journey into a world of devastating brutality.

The Blood Detective
Dan Waddell
'The past isn't like that; you can't just bury it, mark it down as history. It's taken more than 125 years, but the events of 1879 have finally washed up...'
It's not the best start to DCI Grant Fosters day: standing over a mutilated body in a windswept London churchyard. Although the killer has left a cryptic and brutal clue.
It is only when the clue is handed to Nigel Barnes, a specialist in compiling family trees, that the full message becomes spine-chillingly clear. For it leads Barnes back more than 100 years - to the victim of a demented Victorian serial killer...
When a second body is discovered, Foster needs Barnes's skills more than ever - because the murderer's clues appear to run along the tangled bloodlines that lie between 1879 and now. And if Barnes is right about his blood-history, the killing has only just begun...

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The Sixth Man
David Baldacci
Whe nalleged serial killer Edgar Roy is locked away in Cutter's Rock psychiatric unit, private investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Rob's lawyer, Ted Bergin, to examine the case further. But the investigtion is derailed before it begins when Bergin is found murdered in his car on the highway.
A sinister trail of terrifying events begins to unfold as King and Maxwell attempt to determine Roy's guilt or innocence. When the FBI become involved, if fast becomes apparent that there's much more to this case than meets the eye. As they dig deeper into Roy's past and learn about his phenomenal ability, they are bombarded with obstacles, half-truths and dead-ends which make filetring the facts all the more difficult.
As each new theory brings a new revelation, King and Maxwell are pushed to the limit Could this be the case which leaves the duo permanently parted?

Daughters of Castle Deverill
Santa Montefiore
It is 1925 and the was is long over but much has been lost and life will never truly be the same again.
Castle Deverill, cherished home to the Deverill family in the west of Ireland, has burned to the ground. Now, young and flightly Celia Deverill is determined to restore the sad ruins to their former glory. Celia married well and has the wealth, after all, to keep it in the family and she cannoy bear to see it stand neglected.
But dark shadows are gathering once more, as the financial markets start to shake. And everything that felt so certain is thrown once again into doubt...

A nice soundtrack in the background ✔️
A cuppa tea ✔️
A cool breeze from the window ✔️
Pets napping ✔️
Fingers sore from the yarn but these wedding souvenirs are prepared with love 🥰

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