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|author=Gunnar StaalesenDavid Chadwick|title=Bitter FlowersHeadload of Napalm|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Varg Veum It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished Mojave desert town of a stint few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in rehab Hicks. A silver mine and is now returning to work. Howevera defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, the quiet job hethere's supposedly taken on caretaking someone's house quickly turns into a murder investigation, and a mystery around a missing woman. Varg finds himself not only investigating these, but also looking into an old, cold case much of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night note other than dive bars and was never foundJoshua trees. Somehow, these disparate cases appear to be linked, but what Life is the linkquiet, and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?until....|isbn=191319308XB0D321VJ76
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|author=Kia AhankoobTom Percival|title=The Gold Lion and the Tournament of SentinelsWrong Shoes|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength and weakeness, in the hope they would complement each other and collaborate, creating a dynamic and prosperous society. Each power is contained within a magical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by Myriad's children and their descendants. But it didn't quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and the eight countries went to war. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the cost of war too high, a solution is proposed. Each of the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels, to a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the rings and become the supreme ruler of Duniva.|isbn=B09MMQJFPV}}{{Frontpage|author=Alastair Chisholm and Eric Deschamps|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and Ironskin|rating=45
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|summary=Meet TomasWill's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. Happy to work with his father in He is bullied because he has 'the blacksmithwrong shoes's forge, hehas the wrong shoes because his dad can's almost t work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the age to become college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a full apprentice, building site and help with had an accident. Throw into that mix the new batch of dragonswords is certainly needed. Not fact that there his mum and dad are any dragonsseparated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except..hope. Strange signals from within the forge furnaceHe is good at art, and a peculiar invite clings to become an apprentice clerk instead, are things for Tom to puzzle over – until it all comes out in the washmoments of joy when he is drawing, that yes dragons do still exist in this world, and that Tom is rare in feel like a light at the ability to summon themend of a long, share magical attributes, and ride with them..dark tunnel.|isbn=18399400261398527122
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|isbnauthor=1529346541Sylvie Cathrall|title=Something A Letter to Hide: An Inspector Lynley Novel|author=Elizabeth Georgethe Luminous Deep
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|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=It's late July and Deborah St James is at There are few greater joys than a meeting with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary for the school system, a representative from the NHS, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but would later turn out book which lives up to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, a filmmakercompelling premise. It follows on from the success of Deborah's book ''London Voices'': the meeting is an exploration of the possibility of the idea behind the book being used to highlight an area which And this is causing concern in some communities. Deborah's uncertain about quite how successful she could be as the problem seems to occur in Nigerian and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust one of the people she speaks to and photographsthem.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=B09Q3P283Y0008517061|title=ShadebringerDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Grayson W HooperStig Abell
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|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam WarFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. He's not really that invested in There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the fight against Communismfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, nor is he particularly interested Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a career lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the military. If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices future she wants for herself and this one, at least, gets him out of her daughter? For the rut he's moment they’re enjoying life in. He's good in training the present and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himselfputting the future on the back burner.
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|authorisbn=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy1786482126|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=There is no mermaid Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for her in amongst all the other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold site was going to the millhold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments -owners by when they discovered the London workhouse they used to call homebones of a child beneath a doorway. Bess knows there is There was no time for friendship in skull. Was this a hand-to-mouthritual killing or murder? Inevitably, every man for himself kind of existenceDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be she is pregnant with his child as a glimmer result of companionship in the tired-out mill workersone night they spent together some three months ago. But surely that doesn't mean there Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is any truth in the existence prone to sudden bouts of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049Xsickness.
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|isbn=17856330740008551324|title=Staggering HubrisThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Josh BerryNeil Lancaster
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|genre=HumourCrime|summary=Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (thatIt's unusual for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but anyone from the reality is that Hardie family to approach the ''prime'' movers are police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the governmentother. We are But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the privileged position of having access to police where the memoirs body of Rafe Hubris, the man a missing person is buried and who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020responsible for her death. You might not know the name now but This person, he promises, is someone big and it will certainly be worth the man police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to watchbe transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbn=B09MYXSRV40008405026|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and HareStranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Cordellya SmithJane Casey|rating=45|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=When the world was made, the animals were given giftsIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Bear She was given strength so that he could become never found and the investigation ground to a protectorhalt. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burnNow, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Owl had excellent sight so Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that he could see the present ''makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and'' the futureher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to use What looked as though it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came going to be in an open-and-shut case is now a race with Turtlecomplex double murder. You might think Kerrigan is convinced thatthe explanation lies in Rosalie's not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always disappearance: others (such as they seem. IDerwent'll tell you how it came abouts boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Giovanna Fletcher0571379877|title=Walking on SunshineThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen yearsEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, has died. And whilst he is dealing obsessed with his grief, so are their best upper-class friends, Vicky Robert and ZazaStanza. But Pia left them all some Robert'ruless a theatre director. He' to follows also self-obsessed, demanding, knowing that she was dying handsome and entitled and that they would need help uses Edward to carry on livingrun errands for him. Whilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling Edward has been in love with Stanza since their grief university days - and their own life troubles, decide he'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's not like most men: Edward is left to drop everything stumble upon the two of them kissing in their own lives, and go along with hima dark passageway.|isbn=140593560X
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|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Robin Blyth When a man is nudged into found crucified on the top of a job hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the Civil Servicecase alongside her sidekick, much to his chagrinthe AI detective Lock. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the streets of London are threaded It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with magicseveral cold cases. Desperate to remove But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a curse very high profile case that threatens draws a lot of unwanted attention to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the countrysidecase in time, where or will Kat find herself taken off the hedgegrows bristle with incantations case and the people shimmer with power. There they uncover , potentially, out of a sinister plot that threatens the lives of all magicians in the British Isles. career?|isbn=1529080886139851120X
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|isbn=02414804421399613073|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition ScienceMoral Injuries|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian CopienChristie Watson
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|genre=CookeryThrillers|summary=EmotionallyOlivia, I am Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a vegancentury. MentallyOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, I am which is a bonus when you aim to be a vegancardiothoracic surgeon. I read [[How to Love Animals in Laura is a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] perfectionist and was appalled by the way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) fooda trauma doctor. Practically, I am not Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a veganGP. It worked for When we first meet them they're at a while apart from the odd blip with regard drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to cheese but then a perfect storm of those events which you hope don't occur too often end in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based proteintragedy. It wasnWe don't know who suffered the tragedy or the taste - I know that I can get plantconsequences. Twenty-based food five years later there will be an eerily similar event that tastes just as good as anything plundered from will impact the animal kingdom - three friends. This time, it was the ease of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare moments's their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=suppl_stafl0241636604|title=Supply Chain 20/20The Trading Game: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book LoversConfession|author=Kim StaflundGary Stevenson
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|genre=ReferenceAutobiography|summary=So, If you've finished writing were to bring up an image of a city banker in your book and mind, you think the hard work is all done? You're convinced that all you need unlikely to do now is get it published and the money will start rolling in? Wrong and wrong againthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. You presumably wrote A hoodie and jeans replaces the book because you wanted to pin- stripe suit and you had a talent for delivering his background is the written wordEast End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. You knew your subject back There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to frontthe London School of Economics. Now you're going to have to get to grips Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with the book supply chain, numbers which even parts most of the publishing industry believe us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be wrong but it's too difficult to change and no one wants to be the first to trystupid. ThenIt was his ability at what was, essentially, when you ''finally'' have a copy of the book in your handscard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, you're going to have to work out how to sell it - because it ''is'' going to be down to youthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=13987069061035021803|title=The LostAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Simon BeckettC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah ColleyIt's young son, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happenedtwenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. HeShe'd fallen asleep in the park whilst Theo was playing and when he wokes back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Theo had goneCarole. It cost him his marriage and his home. Ten years later heFreya's largely come through it former mentor and heCarole's out with his team when he gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneyclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Gavin used Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to be his best friend but it's a long time since they've spokenthe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. He's obviously Even though they were in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - and he asks Jonah business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to meet him at Slaughter Quaybe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. ''There's no one else I can trust''After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, he sayswho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=Amanda MasonAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Hiding Place|rating=3.5|genre=Horror|summary=Needing an escape from their turbulent life, Nell Galilee takes her husband and stepdaughter to Whitby, where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by the name of Elder House. She hopes that it will be the perfect place to sort things out. But thereAll Tomorrow's something not quite right about Elder House. The atmosphere is unsettling and off – and before long Nell starts to suspect Futures: Fictions that she and her family aren't alone there…|isbn=1838771964}} {{FrontpageDisrupt|author=Paul Cleave|title=The Quiet PeopleBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary= I am not a fan ''Opening up new ways of "thinking about the Prologue"shape of things to come. Most books are the worse for them'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. In this case Well, I might make an exceptionmust confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. We start I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with Luca Pittman who the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is in a hurry- frankly - quite frightening. He has to hurry because he has children that he should not have Of course, I could research the possibilities and when he hurries, when he bundles things into the back of his car probabilities and tries to run end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and then hears sirens behind him, which he should not hear because this is New Zealand and that is not how they do things there, he takes who could deliver information in a riskway I could understand. It ends badly.|isbn=1913193942
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|author=Will CarverSunny Singh|title=Psychopaths AnonymousHotel Arcadia
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|genre=Thrillers|summary=Maeve The Hotel Arcadia is a high functioning alcoholicluxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, drinking continuously and alsokilling everyone on site, curiouslythere is Sam, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing wartime photographer and critiquing Abhi, the AA steps she is mainly using the groups hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to find targets...targets care remotely for sexual encountersthe residents who are still alive in the hotel, targets he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to feed be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her desire room to try to hear of peoplecapture what's misery, and targets for happened through her violent behaviourphotography. Yet she also seems Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to be searching for others who think as she does, help her keep safe and when she's unable they both wait to find like-minded people in any of see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornterrorists.|isbn=1913193756086154742X
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|isbn=15294181001529153298|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne TalesThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Martin WalkerJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesGeneral Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? Imean, honestly...) She'm s not usually a fan of short stories - I find it all too easy to put the book down between stories and forget to pick it up again - but I am a fan of Martin Walkerwhat's [[Martin Walkerworrying Miv's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to read have 'disappeared'Brunodoesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's Challengeupset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family ' was hard to resist and IDown South'm rather glad that I didn. When you't even tryre from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For those new to Miv, the seriesmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, thereand she'll do anything to prevent that. She's an excellent introduction not worried about the dangers or that will tell you all you need to know about whoher Mum's who and the background stopped talking - to why Bruno is in St Denisanyone.
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|isbn=B09GJW49GF1398524085|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Jenny O'BrienNicci French|rating=45
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|summary=Hannah Thomas Charlotte Salter was having expected at her first night away from her sonhusband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Hunter had diabetes Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and this was controlled by a pump attached to his stomach, so her over-protectiveness was understandabledaughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her fiancehusband, IanAlec, was pestering her to get married and she thought it would be a good idea for him to find out what parenting was ''really'' likeis not. Her friendShortly afterwards, MillyEtty and Greg, had arranged to take her boyfriendfind the body of Greg's father, LiamDuncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for a night in a posh hotel but the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he dumped her and she couldn't get stand the money back, so Hannah was offered the opportunity to go in his placeguilt. She would return home to find Ian dead The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and five-year-old Hunter missingwonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=B09GV3WS1Q1035906708|title=Without a TraceDiva|author=Jane BettanyDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Life hadn't been easy for Ruth Prendergast: We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she'd just come through a divorce was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and right now it only moved to Athens when she was raining hardthirteen. All she wanted Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to get back 'Callas' to her new home and settle down for a quiet eveningmake it more manageable in the States. It wasn't going to be though: when When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she went into could get appropriate training for her bedroom voice - she found was raised under the Nazi occupation by a dead man on mother who mercilessly exploited her bed with a knife in his chest. She'd and made no idea who he wassecret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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|isbnauthor=1838774823Christopher Edge|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog Problem|author=S J BennettBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It's 2016 Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the Queennickname of 'The Black Hole's Private Secretary, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting a strain on his waistband. SwimmingAll big movie fans, he decidesthey're looking forward to lots of exciting films, is the way to go and he can use many, many snacks! However, as the Buckingham Palace pool which movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is how he came to be there early one morning very different, and discovered the body of Cynthia Harris at the side of the poolthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. There was broken glass - a crystal tumbler, by the look at it - probably But as they lurch from one of film genre to the young royals being careless - and it looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped and cut herself so badly that she had bled next, can they figure out. what on earth is going on? StillWill they ever get back to the cinema, it was a shock for Sir Simon.and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|isbnauthor=057136358XRachel Greenlaw|title=April in Spain|author=John BanvilleCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Teens|summary=Terry Tice was a hitman, although he didn't think 'I can hear the song of himself the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in those termsmy heart. He saw what he did as '' Rosevear, a matter remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of making things tidy''. I couldn't resist the thought seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondolies within. He enjoyed his job, something which occurred to him But when he was in Burma with the army ''where he got Council Watch lays a trap to end the chance to kill a lot of wrecking, they capture the little yellow fellows island's leader and had a fine old time'Mira's father. He was spending Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a lot of time bargain with Percy Antrobus - a wreck survivor who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the purpose is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles family secret that lies buried deep in the ''morning''? It was after Percysea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's death that he saw territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the benefits future of taking up a job in Spainher home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730
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|author=Dave Letterfly KnodererJames Sherwood Metts|title=Speedy: Hurled Through HavocPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyConfident Readers|summary=How to summarise Things have been a bit sticky for the life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv in a pithy sentence to kick off a review of his memoir? Do you knowEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, I really donoften replacing jobs they't think I can. Dave is an author re paid to do and an artistother tasks that took time to accomplish. An inspirational speaker Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and a professional horseman. And a recovering alcoholic. The son starting to think of a Lutheran ministerother, he's struggled with a controlling father, run away new ways to join the circus (not a metaphor)spend time, trained horsesalong came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, painted caravansalong with it, designed and painted theatre sets, and hit rock bottom when all the bottle took overmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=B0965V3LLN1736128426
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|author=Tade ThompsonMatthew Tree|title=Far From the Light of HeavenWe'll Never Know
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|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=Michelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtimebe different from his father, bound for the world a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a babysitter for the ship's AI captain. However, when she wakes up being exceptional at the end any of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtime's AI almost non-responsive, she begins to realise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtime. Meanwhile, former astronaut artistic passions all failed miserably and friend who had endless crises of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle self confidence. So Tim applied himself to Bloodroothis studies, half-alien daughter in tow, to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagosset himself high but achievable ambitions. What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=0356514323B0CVFXPGP8
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|author=Rob KeeleyA G Slatter|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!The Briar Book of the Dead|rating= 45|genre=For SharingFantasy|summary= Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables'' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while. She likes carrots'' Within a remote mountain pass, broccolifar away from the world, cabbage lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and auberginesthe wider world from the Darklands. When her friends at school turn up their nosesThough she has always wished for magic, Lily Ellie Briar is keen the first non-witch to explain how good they are be born into her family for you generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and how nice to eatadministration rather than spells and potions. One dayWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, poor Lily gets tricked by JordanEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, who tells the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her that carrots grow on trees. InfuriatedAs challenges come her way left, right and centre, Lily checks Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the teacherdead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who explains that fruits grow on trees to trust and vegetables, like carrots, grow in determine what to do as the ground. Jordan saysBriar witches' legacy, "I did try everything they have sacrificed to tell hersurvive, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lilyis under threat.|isbn= B09HHN541V1803364548
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|isbn=178607981X1529900360|title=Bad ApplesThe Ghost Orchid|author=Will DeanJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tuva Moodyson It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was driving up a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the side help of the roada psychologist only worked for a while. Wondering if someone needed Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she got out loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the car - heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and heard it's not the screams from deep inside the forestItalian. Determining But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the direction Bag: The Secret Life of a sound isnVet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't easy want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when you need hearing aids and dampness is causing interference but Tuva made her way to where a woman he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was holding her coat over seventeen he took the body opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a manvet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. HeIt hadn'd t - as with so many students - been decapitatedhis dream since he was a child. He was Arne Gustav PerssonIf anything, he'd wanted to be a resident of Visbergprofessional footballer.
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|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdadottir0861541774|title=Cold As HellA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
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|summary= In DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a red suitcase as the bottom of short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a fissure in knife - and he killed a lava fieldGhurka. Initially, there is he faced a body. And charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man who has put her there has just discovered that . Now he is capable of killingcould be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.|isbn=1913193888
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|author=Lucy HopeAlexander McCall Smith|title=FledglingThe Perfect Passion Company
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|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Bavaria, 1900. Our scene The Perfect Passion Company is a most peculiar hilltop housedating agency in Edinburgh, built bit run by bit over the decades, Ness and now looking imperiously down on the village and woods below. It's operating as an eccentric house, alternative to host eccentrics, so all the library shelving system is not as we'd know itonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the roof is retractablebusiness, there as Ness is planning to take a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, and so ontrip to Canada to get away for a while. At the moment it houses an ex-soldier Katie is coming out of a break up with PTSD and a passion for the long-standing family hobby of taxidermy, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudlybad boyfriend, and so jumps at the dying grandma chance to our heroinecome home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, Cassiebringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, a young lass who has thanks to do all 44 Scotland Street and the maintenance of this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh Isabel Dalhousie novels, but it's also going with some new characters who quickly begin to house someone charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or something elsein match-making, when crashing through Cassiebut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherub. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to be lend a completely great and wonderful thing, think again...hand…|isbn=183994188X1846976596
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|isbn=18462767720811771741|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our MindsInstaKnits for Baby|author=Jessica NordellMelissa Leapman|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyCrafts|summary=Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: itMelissa Leapman's simply ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a part collection of everyday lifeknits from toys to blankets. White men Some will always come firstbe quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. The able will come before projects are divided by the disabled. Jobstime they'll take to complete - less than five hours, promotionsfive to ten hours, higher salaries are the preserve of the white manten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. Even when those who wouldn't pass All the medical become a part of an organisation it's rare that their views projects are heardattractive, that their concerns are acknowledgedmodern and useable. ItI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias but itthat's not just the individuals who are negatively impactedme being picky.
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|author=Teresa DriscollDean Koontz|title=Her Perfect FamilyThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersParanormal|summary=The novel begins by introducing you to GemmaBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, who at first instance appears disturbing coffin-sized object to be your average studenthis home, faced with and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the familiar horrifying realisationthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, at Benny is the eleventh hour, that her graduation outfit is very last person to deserve all wrongthis bad luck. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating '' He is not who he says he is…'', paving the way a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for the sinister tone Benny it turns out that remains throughout the noveldelivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. In a twist Spike is going to take care of eventsBenny, and after a change will certainly take care of outfitBenny's enemies, Gemma is shot in the midst of her graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in a comaif he, Benny, what follows is and Harper (a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow the further you readwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=15420287521662500491
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|isbnauthor=8409290103Adam Stower|title=If Only|author=Matthew TreeMurray and Bun
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|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers |summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his fatherMurray is supposed to be a humble, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patricktidy and friendly cat, one who is able to ensure that the young man got on board the boat sleep and eat and eat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. Patrick sent the money regularly sleep and a correspondence - , well, whatever takes his fancy next of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn But he't that Lowry senior didns a bad magician't care for s cat, so his sonfavourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was that , to be honest, but he didn't care to s turned up and he'll have him in this country where he might be a danger to his wife and other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his way.do…|isbn=0008561249
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|authorisbn=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)B0C47LV1PC|title=The Rabbit FactorFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=3.54|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Meet Henri. With Can you make a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it ? Or is other human beings, he's perfect for his job in the insurance company – until they decide he's not a team-memberquestion if you did, would it land? The catch is that they'd prefer everyone to the answer for both could well be all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshopping. This is when he finds his brother has died, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure park, and nothing else. . no. ''YouMeFunFragility'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in set as the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pacecity of Portland, despite some desultory staff ideasOregon, but loans have been made out and cautiously begins to emerge from the amount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on restrictions imposed during 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...|isbn=191319387Xcovid pandemic
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