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Have a look at www.scottishreaders.net to find some great recommended reading. You can add your own comments too!

You too can enjoy reading some of the most popular books in Moray libraries today. Just click on the image to check availability and use our online reservation facility.
The top ten most borrowed books during May and June are as follows:


Maisy, Charley and the Wobbly Tooth by Lucy Cousins - JA
When Charley gets a wobbly tooth, he goes a little 'wobbly' himself, but then Maisy takes him to see Dr Biteright - the really nice dentist - and he soon gets a smile back on his face!

 Maisy, Charley and the Wobbly Tooth


A prisoner of birth by Jeffrey Archer - F
Danny and Beth travel up to the West End to celebrate their engagement. They end the evening in a wine bar where criminal barrister Spencer Craig is celebrating his birthday. Although the two men don't meet, their lives will never be the same, for, an hour later, one of them is arrested for murder, while the other ends up as chief witness.

A prisoner of birth


Songbird by Josephine Cox - F
In 1976, Madeleine is a young and vibrant girl, singing in a club and in love, but murder lies ahead - murder that will force her to vanish and live looking over her shoulder. 20 years later, just when she thinks her life is truly over, the kindness of one young girl brings her back from the brink of total devastation.



Songbird


7th heaven by James Patterson - F
Michael Campion was a people's hero, a popular governor's son who publicly battled against a rare and debilitating heart illness. When he vanished without a trace, his disappearance and the search to find him, dead or alive, hit the headlines daily - but the trail went cold very quickly.

7th Heaven


The navigator by Clive Cussler - F
Years ago, an ancient Phoenician statue known as the Navigator was stolen from the Baghdad museum, and there are men who would do anything to get their hands on it. What's so special about this statue, Kurt Austin wonders. The search for answers will take the NUMA team on an astonishing odyssey through time and space.

 


The navigator


The stranger house by Reginald Hill - MF
Things move slowly in the village of Illthwaite, but that changes when two strangers arrive in the village to dig up bits of the past locals would rather keep buried. The antipathy between Sam Flood and Miguel Madero is obvious but as they follow their separate quests their paths become increasingly entangled.

The Stranger House


The other side of the bridge by Mary Lawson - F
Arthur and Jake are the sons of a local farmer in the mid-1930s. Arthur is reticent, solid, dutiful, and is set to inherit the farm and his father's character. Jake is younger, attractive, mercurial and dangerous to know. A young woman comes into the community and tips the fragile balance of sibling rivalry over the edge.


The other side of the bridge

 


Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - F
Set in Nigeria during the 1960s, this novel contains three main characters who get swept up in the violence during these turbulent years. It is about Africa, about the end of colonialism, about class and race, and the ways in which love can complicate these things

Half of a yellow sun


Rough justice by Jack Higgins - F
Sean Dillon returns in an action-packed tale of lies, deceit and deadly power play. Dillon has his hands full after a British cabinet minister, whilst on a tour of Kosovo, shoots a Russian soldier who is about to commit an atrocity


Rough Justice

 


My sister Jodie by Jacqueline Wilson - JC
Pearl and Jodie are sisters. When their parents get new jobs as the cook and caretaker at a fusty old boarding school, the girls have to move there and spend their summer holidays in the school with just a few children and staff for company. When they arrive, things start to change!

My sister Jodie