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Continuing on the theme of ‘stories make us thoughtful’... these new novels are worth a read

Juror no. 3 - James Patterson & Nancy Allen

A racially charged murder splits a town in two. Ruby Bozarth, a newcomer to Rosedale, Mississippi, is also fresh to the Misissippi Bar – and she faces an impossible task defending a college football star accused of murder. The victim is a young woman from one of the town’s oldest families, and Rosedale’s upper crust are howling for blood. Then news breaks of a second murder...Ruby discovers that no one in Rosedale can be trusted, especially the twelve men and women on the jury.

Everything I’ve never said – Samantha Wheeler

Ava wants nothing more than to tell her family she loves then, but she has Rett Syndrome – she can’t talk, nod her head or even point at a communication card. She understands everything, but no-one understands her. When tragedy strikes her family, Ava becomes even more determined to talk. But it’s not until she meets occupational therapist Kieran and new friend Aimee that she is hopeful for change – and to be heard at last.

Dry – Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

The drought has been going on for a while. Life has become an endless list of don’t’s: don’t water the lawn, don’t take long showers, don’t panic. But now there is no water left at all. Suddenly, Alyssa’s quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone of desperation and violence. When her parents go missing, she and her younger brother must team up with an unlikely group in search of water.  Each of them will need to make impossible choices to survive.