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|isbnauthor=8409290103David Chadwick|title=If Only|author=Matthew TreeHeadload of Napalm
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|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his fatherIt's September 1973 in Hicks, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure that the young man got on board the boat California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and thereafter Patrick was to send him Las Vegas both a monthly allowancesignificant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. Patrick sent A silver mine and a defence contractor are the money regularly main local employers but otherwise, there's not much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, until....|isbn= B0D321VJ76}}{{Frontpage|author=Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in a correspondence - multitude of sorts - sprang up between ways. He is bullied because he has 'the two although we hear more about what Lowry wrong shoes', he has to say than Patrick. It wasnthe wrong shoes because his dad can't that Lowry senior didnwork and doesn't care have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his sonjob at the college, it was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that he didnmix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will't care to have him s life seems bleak in this country where every direction. And yet, he might be still has a danger tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to his wife and other childrenthe moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed |isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to get the young man on his wayLuminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776
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|authorisbn=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)0008517061|title=The Rabbit FactorDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet HenriFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. With There’s perhaps a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beings, he's perfect for little uncertainty about the future of his life with his job in the insurance company – until they decide he's not a team-membervet girlfriend, that they'd prefer everyone to be all open-planLivia and her daughter Diana, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshopping. This is when he finds his brother has died, having moving in together would mean a heart attack while busy changing lot of compromise: does Jake give up his Volvo's radio channel, off-grid and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or otherwise) that 'everything' not this is just an adventure park, the future she wants for herself and nothing else. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out present and putting the amount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly future on the scene to explain that missing money – it's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and the activities of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan..back burner.|isbn=191319387X
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|isbn=14711793111786482126|title=The UnheardJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Nicci FrenchElly Griffiths
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Tess, Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a teacher and Jason, child beneath a headmaster, have split up: she and Poppy have moved out of the family home and Jason is now married to Emilydoorway. The separation There was amicable - they had just drifted apartno skull. They co-parent three-year-old Poppy who has her bedroom in what was the family home and another in the flat she shares Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with her motherDCI Harry Nelson. It 's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn'seemed'' to be working well until the day t, that Poppy came home she is pregnant with his child as a menacing drawing result of a woman falling from a tall building and she started swearing, using words she was unlikely to have heard in either homethe one night they spent together some three months ago. Her behaviour deteriorated and there were problems at nursery school. Tess turns to a therapist for helpcondition will be obvious before long, then her doctor and finally the police but no one will take what she has not least because Ruth is prone to say seriouslysudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=14711966150008551324|title=IcedThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Felix FrancisNeil Lancaster
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Miles Pussett used It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to be a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down approach the three-quarter-mile Cresta Run, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hourpolice. He was Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in St Moritz the same weekend as White Turf - thatprison and he's high-class horseracing on prepared to tell the frozen lake and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with police where the saddling body of the horsesa missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. It's seven years since This person, he put horseracing behind him promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he swore that wants. And what he'd never go back wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to itget an early parole date. But when he sees that something suspicious Not much to ask, is going on, Miles canit? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't help but look for answers, think so and she's even when it puts prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him in dangeris kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbn=147228612X0008405026|title=The Late Train to Gipsy HillA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Alan JohnsonJane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=We all know people like Gary Nelson, although we probably havenIt't taken much notice of thems sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. They live quiet, uneventful lives She was never found and stay mostly under the radarinvestigation ground to a halt. In a city like LondonNow, her mother, Helena, that's quite easy - and even Gary's three flatmates largely ignore himher father are dead in their bed. The highlight of his day is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes to work on the train each morning: he'd love to ask her for Initially, it looks like a date straightforward murder/suicide but he doesnthere't have s something about the positioning of the couragebodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Then, on his homeward commute, Arina speaks What looked as though it was going to him be an open-and asks for his help-shut case is now a complex double murder. Before long he finds himself on Kerrigan is convinced that the run from mobstersexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Russian secret agents and the Metropolitan policeUna Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Claire McGowan0571379877|title=I Know YouThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=''Then:'' Casey returns from Edward Jevons is a walk working-class young man, obsessed with the baby, Carsonhis upper-class friends, Robert and comes across three bodies, almost Stanza. Robert's a whole family taken downtheatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he'Now:s drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he' Rachel s not like most men: Edward is out for a walk with her dog, Brandy, when she comes across left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a body in the woodsdark passageway.|isbn=1542019974
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|isbnauthor=1529148251Jo Callaghan|title=Misfits: A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela CoelLeave No Trace|rating=54|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=''How am I able to be so transparent When a man is found crucified on paper about rapethe top of a hill in Nuneaton, malpractice and povertyDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, yet still compartmentalise? the AI detective Lock. It's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from ittheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases.'' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a certain frame of mind. You're not going to read very high profile case that draws a book lot of essays or a self-help book. You're going unwanted attention to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within the television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festivaltheir AI Future Policing project. You might Will they be ''reading'' the book but you need to ''listen'' able to solve the words as though you're case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away case and you'll be carried on , potentially, out of a cloud of exquisite writing.career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=00084336311399613073|title=Next of KinMoral Injuries|author=Kia AbdullahChristie Watson|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It was Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the sort first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of thing that happened every day, although not to Leila Syeda century. She'd never driven her nephew, MaxOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to school before but his father, Andrew Hanson, had rung her in be a paniccardiothoracic surgeon. He was supposed to be taking Max to school but he'd been called into work Laura is a perfectionist and the delay in getting there could lead to financial lossesa trauma doctor. As Anjali is the school was only five minutes out free spirit of Leilathe group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's way, could she drop him off? going to end in tragedy. Of course, she could and a sleeping Max was duly strapped into We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the back of her carconsequences. On the way Leila took a phone call Twenty- five years later there was panic at her work toowill be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, with a problem which could put a multi-million-pound contract at riskit's their teenage children who are involved.
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|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova0241636604|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingAutobiography|summary= Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your word for themmind, find us a child that doesnyou't find them irresistibly funnyre unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Funny to talk about A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and joke abouthis background is the East End, that iswhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the wrong timeLondon School of Economics. In class, say, when everyone will hear it Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and everyone will laughhe has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. At you He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim It was his ability at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmlywhat was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with the familiar humour attachedCitibank. Eventually, explains that tooting is perfectly normalthis turned into permanent employment as a trader. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}}
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|isbn=17841652631035021803|title=Invite Me InThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Emma CurtisC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Martin CurranIt's wife, Eliza knew that she had to be home twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to make his lunch for one o'clock on the dot, despite the fact that English country village where she was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being letgrew up. If she didnShe't get homes back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, there would be troubleCarole. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and confined to a wheelchairthe circumstances seem suspicious, but don't be too quick to be understandingsay the least. He Arthur was also a very unpleasant personthe reason why Freya had not been back to the village: he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointment''Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. All this was Even though they were in Eliza's mind when business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she first met Dan Jones who arrivedloved. After the split, unannouncedshe worked in a cafe, at met and married James (on the flat just as Eliza was about to leave: he wanted rebound from the lease love of flat 2her life, 42 Linden Road who was murdered) and Freya and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being availableJames have now divorced.
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|isbn=1784742775AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=A Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Susan HillBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Drugs hadn't really been that much 'Opening up new ways of a problem in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought thinking about the shape of drugs ops as things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a bit few decades of a waste of timetechnology in my lifetime. They still were, I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to a great extent, me but Serrailler knew I'm left with the feeling that something had to be doneit's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Children as young as nine were being recruited to transport Of course, I could research the drugs possibilities and the operation running the county lines was tight. A mule might know the name (although it probably wouldnprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I't be the correct one) of the person m reading someone who was running him but he certainly wouldnknows what they't know anything re talking about those higher up in or the organisationlatest conspiracy theorist. The police might catch I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a few of the runners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher upway I could understand.
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|isbnauthor=B09FS89KX9Sunny Singh|title=Fall On Me|author=Penelope PottsHotel Arcadia
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|genre=Women's FictionThrillers |summary=Life should have The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been good for Hollie: violently taken over by a terrorist group. She was just going into Hiding from the final year of her veterinary degree terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and - three years later - was still working at BB's dinerAbhi, the hotel manager. Bob - As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the owner - regarded her fondly: residents who are still alive in the hotel, he was forms a good boss. Hollie had moved in bond with her boyfriendSam who refuses to be cowed by events, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his career. Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most keeps on venturing out of all he wanted her room to try to leave capture what's happened through her job at the dinerphotography. Then there was Although they only ever talk over the fact that he would be violentphone, both their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to other peoplesee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|authorisbn=John Gwynne1529153298|title=The Shadow Of The GodsList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is the first installment of the Bloodsworn SagaPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarokthey've been murdered, when the Gods but to have battled and their bones lie scattered for all 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to seemove the family 'Down South'. This story When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is the ultimate in High Fantasya frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genremove would mean leaving her best friend, with mythical creaturesSharon, archaic language and battles galoreshe'll do anything to prevent that. This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters She's not worried about the dangers or that are woven together her Mum's stopped talking - to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battleanyone.|isbn=0356514218
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|isbn=B09HTWX47X1398524085|title=Endless ObsessionHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Dai HenleyNicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's some years since we last caught fiftieth birthday party but never turned up with Andy Flood. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, formerly a DCI in the Met Etty. are all worried but now a well-respected private investigator. He's married to Laurastrangely - her husband, Alec, formerly his DS in the Murder Squad but now working in a forensics laboratoryis not. Flood's daughtersShortly afterwards, Gemma Etty and PippaGreg, have flown find the nestbody of Greg's father, Pippa to AustraliaDuncan Ackerley, from where she has very little contact with in the family, and Gemma to married liferiver. She's It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy murdered Charlie and Laura hope that married life will provide then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the support she needsguilt. FloodThe Salter children are not convinced but there's business is going well little else they can do but get on with their lives and that was why he felt able to turn down the case of Lisa Blackwonder about what really happened.
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|authorisbn=Peter Papathanasiou1035906708|title=The StoningDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=In a town sleazy enough We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous Greek parents in comparisonManhattan, New York, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, December 1923 and only moved to Athens when shewas thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas's been taped to a tree and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were make it more manageable in the world's tallest cricket stumpsStates. When she's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. An arson attack on was back in Athens - supposedly so that shows she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the feeling – Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and it's only fair, is the general opinion, made no secret of her preference for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from the city, to sort everything out. Because such an aggrievedher elder sister, insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the lawJackie...|isbn=1529416973
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|isbnauthor=B08Z8BMZ7HChristopher Edge|title=The Mystery of Healing|author=A P McGrathBlack Hole Cinema Club
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=''Stories have joy Lucas and surprises in them'', we his friends are told here. And none more so than all booked in this wondrous storyfor a movie marathon at their local cinema, which feels an instant classic with a place that has the freshness and the agelessness it has in equal proportionnickname of 'The Black Hole'. We start with a group of monks All big movie fans, the Order they're looking forward to lots of the Chronicles of Sorrowingexciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the demonic goat movie starts, they very quickly realise that loves nothing more than upendingsomething about this new film format is very different, trampling on and biting the poor Brothersthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Things change drastically when the beast takes a totally maternal approach to a homeless girl, But as they lurch from one who has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memory. Elsewhere sits a King in his castle, desperate film genre to find the girlnext, for it can they figure out what on earth is prophesied that a young child can unseat the throne and cause great change. Who foretold that revolution but the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowinggoing on? But how can a simpleWill they ever get back to the cinema, amnesiac lass ever prove a threat and to anyonetheir real lives?|isbn=15295008931839942738
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|isbnauthor=B09FFJF8YSRachel Greenlaw|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery Compass and Kate ZhoidikBlade
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|genre=For SharingTeens|summary=''For I can hear the big, grownup girls out theresong of the sea. The call of the deep, the potty masters answering beat in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pridemy heart.''
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|author=Nick Lake and Emily GravettJames Sherwood Metts|title=Locked Out LilyPlanet Storyland
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Lily is, or was, or has Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have beenproceeding apace, very ill, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to give her parents relief she's been told to stay with her grandma for a few daysaccomplish. The parents need the relief Just as Lily's baby sibling is just about they were beginning to get used to be born – a child Lily swears she hates already all this technological change and wants nothing starting to do with. But on tracking back home for word think of her parents (and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra of her parentsother, and the babe-in-armsnew ways to spend time, already installedalong came an awful pandemic. These devilish interlopers need to be ousted to get the family back intactLife was pretty much shut down and, even if along with it's not the family Lily wants – and , all she has to help her in the task are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse and Snakemany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=14711948331736128426
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|author=Greg James and Chris SmithMatthew Tree|title=The Great Dream RobberyWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Maya's Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father is , a professor drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who invented an amazing dream machinehad endless crises of self confidence. But something went wrongSo Tim applied himself to his studies, and now he can't wake up. Or at least, that's what Maya has been told. In a cultivated his abilities rather strange dream one night Maya makes a new friend, than his daydreams and discovers that the only way to save her dad may be by being asleep. Cue one madcap action adventure story where dreams and reality collide...really.set himself high but achievable ambitions..and there's everything from llamas and bananas, dream machines made from hairdresser cast-offs, to a talking cat called Bin Bag!|isbn=024147051XB0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1800464495A G Slatter|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas The Briar Book of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smiththe Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionFantasy|summary=''Babies seem There's a part of me that wants to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, being aware keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of quantities at seven hours oldmy own, assessing probability at six months oldall mine, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months oldlast. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about:
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|isbn=15293793851529900360|title=The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)Ghost Orchid|author=Louise PennyJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In the Canadian village of Three Pines, weIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis're post-pandemic: the scars are still there s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but life is starting he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to get back to normalask for his help on difficult cases. The villagers are beginning to return to the Bistro His assertions that there were only open-and -shut cases which didn't need the Aubergehelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. They're visiting each otherFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's homes and having friends and relatives to staypartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for She knew that the involvement was something that the Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor and man she soon proves that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people to be around - loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a bit like Vincent Gilbert, known remote property in Bel Air. He was the village as heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Asshole SaintItalian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn= B09F4CTKJR1529395224|title= Flights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=It's Letting the later stages Cat Out of World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is Bag: The Secret Life of a young American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, the first to be attached to the RAF and the first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combat. But before that can happen, Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=183885410X|title=The Dark RemainsVet|author=William McIlvanney and Ian RankinSion Rowlands
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|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Bobby Carter Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a lawyer GP and consigliere Rowlands didn't want to one of follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the major crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgowstrain that being on-call put on his father's life. DC Jack Laidlaw is on When he was seventeen he took the CID team charged opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the investigationjob for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. I say It hadn''on the team'' but Laidlaw never really seems to be t - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a part of itchild. He does his own thingIf anything, goes his own way and he''The Dark Remains'' uncovers the truth of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubsd wanted to be a professional footballer.
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|isbn=19424102550861541774|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Michael PronkoSteve Burrows|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune''Zangyo: overtime works close friend and former colleague, often unpaid'' It's the cultureDanny Maik, isn't it? The hours for which you're paid are really just has taken a statement of the minimum you'll be required short holiday in Singapore to do: you'll work more hours to get the job done and done to the satisfaction of bullies like Shigeru Onizukameet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. When he Maik was found dead involved in front of Senden Central's headquarters in Tokyo there a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was nothing in the way facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of regret or grief, even from his family, manslaughter but there was a mild curiosity as evidence came to whether light that suggested that he'd jumped from might have planned to murder the roof of the building or been assisted in his descentman. Gossip revolves around the fact that Now he left the roof at could be facing the exact same spot that an employee, Mayu Yamase, had committed suicide some three years earlierdeath penalty. SheDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn'd accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing her to work an unreasonable amount of overtimet help Danny at all.
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|isbnauthor=0241425425Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Man Who Died Twice|author=Richard OsmanPerfect Passion Company
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Elizabeth Best was The Perfect Passion Company is a little surprised when she received dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the letteronline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. It came from a man whose body Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she had helped to pull from could come and look after the Thames and who had never existed but then this business, as Ness is the sort of conundrum which retired spies have planning to take a trip to Canada to deal with on get away for a regular basiswhile. When she visits the sender Katie is coming out of the letter (he's moved into the Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it's someone a break up with whom she has a long professional history - bad boyfriend, and who used so jumps at the chance to come home to be her husbandEdinburgh. He's made a bad mistake - something And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to do 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a mask being removed within the range of a CCTV camera on a raidbusiness, a missing twentyor in match-million pounds making, but Ness has full confidence in diamonds her abilities, and a few death threats. Hethere's now in hiding with always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a young woman called Polly, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitress.hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|authorisbn=Andrew Sharp0811771741|title=The Chef, the Bird and the BlessingInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
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|genre=General FictionCrafts|summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to his employer blankets. Some will be quick knits - isothers are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in his mind, front of the head chef of a safari business catering to VIP guests in an unnamed African countryfire' variety. Mozzy is earnest and dedicated The projects are divided by the time they'll take to his task and he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the guests at BODcomplete -W safaris but his dream is less than five hours, five to become the head chef of a restaurant in London or a big American city. Even ten hours, ten to win a Michelin startwenty hours and more than twenty hours. He is thwarted in this ambition by his boss All the projects are attractive, Mr Bin (Ben to you modern and me) who incurs Mozzyuseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 's disapproval for his scruffy ways, his uninterest in his guests and social- shock, horror media- his allowing of bush animals into the houseworthy projects' but that's me being picky.|isbn=B09926MK8H
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|author=Alex FoulkesDean Koontz|title=Rules for VampiresThe Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for short) Benny is having a Vampireterrifically bad day. She drinks blood He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, she sleeps during the dayand his house gets trashed. Oh, and she can Grimwalk (turning into someone has delivered a flock of bats to travel aroundreally weird, although not all of them remember disturbing coffin-sized object to come back). Pretty cool stuff. Nowhis home, on and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the night of her hundredth birthnight, she thing that has to go out and hunt her first human. However, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanage. Oopstrashed his house! And to make things worse The thing is, Benny is the ghosts of one of the orphans and the evil master of the orphanage come back very last person to haunt herdeserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So, not only does Leo have to team up with fortunately for Benny it turns out that the friendly ghost Minna delivery to stop the ghost of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerfulhis house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, she who has been sent to do it all while hiding it help him since Benny is clearly under attack from her familynefarious forces for being a good person. Did I mention vampires Spike is going to take care of Benny, and ghosts hate each other? Yeahwill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, thereif he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's a reason why there wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are rules for vampires….|isbn=147119955X1662500491
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|author=Tori BovalinoAdam Stower|title=The Devil Makes ThreeMurray and Bun
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|genre=TeensConfident Readers |summary= Working all summer in her boarding school's library Murray is the last thing Tess Matheson wants supposed to do — especially when she gets be a request for over a hundred books that she has humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the books: Mr Birchtwo. The boarding school But he's a bad magician's headmastercat, and so his favourite bun has been turned into a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and deliver such a large requestthe catflap they both use can chuck them out, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of not into the booksregular back garden, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think but into a world offrightening adventure and whiffs. They're never meant to reach him This time round it drops them into a Viking land, of course. Her plan where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to get her anger out like thisbe honest, but he's turned up and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadnhe't delivered them for her.ll have to do…|isbn=17890981300008561249
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|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6B0C47LV1PC|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)Fragility|author= Justine Avery and Seema AmjadMosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary= Can you make a ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the latest release in question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no. ''Everybody Potties!Fragility'' series from Justine Avery. This series is set as the city of fun picture books aims Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to take emerge from the restrictions imposed during the pain out of potty training children and replace it with some fun. It's a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. .covid pandemic
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