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|isbnauthor=1737030942David Chadwick|title=Bag O'Goodies|author=Jolly Walker BittickHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre= AnthologiesThrillers|summary=Sometimes, you deserve a treat and mine was Jolly Walker BittickIt's ''Bag O'Goodies''September 1973 in Hicks, California. I first encountered his writing about Hicks is a year ago, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]], Mojave desert town of a rollicking tale few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of what LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens when five young men find in Hicks. A silver mine and a base for their partying. Right nowdefence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, I didnthere't want a full-length novel, so I turned to this anthology s not much of verse note other than dive bars and short storiesJoshua trees. Bittick's writing has matured - and so have his charactersLife is quiet, until. Well... most of them!|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|author=Caryl Lewis and George ErmosTom Percival|title=SeedThe Wrong Shoes

|summary=Marty has two parental figures in his Will's lifeis difficult, and they both might be thought in a multitude of as complete embarrassmentsways. His grandfather runs an allotment He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and manages to stink doesn't have enough money for even the entire town out from it when most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he douses it lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in fish guts each spring to fertilise his vegetables-hand job on a building site and had an accident. His mother somehow combines Throw into that mix the dual roles of housebound failure fact that his mum and hoarder – while she seems to do nothing dad are separated, and hasnWill't left the building s life seems bleak in years she every direction. And yet, he still has still managed a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to fill it the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the brim with junkLuminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. What Marty's classmates don't know about And this they can draw lines to from how poor Marty always looksis one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, with has settled into his one school uniform built from lost propertyrustic life at Little Sky. We see him as once again There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the council threaten her and him future of his life with evictionhis vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as he celebrates moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his birthday 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 future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the gift from his grandfather of a solitary plant seedmoment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.|isbn=1529077664

|authorisbn=Sophie Cameron1786482126|title=Our Sister, AgainThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=After Isla's older sister Flora dies, her family struggle Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to find a way forward. In particular, Islahold seventy-five 's mum who can’t seem to be able to let her daughter go. When Isla passes her mumluxury's details onto apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a support group she finds online, she thinks they might be able to helpdoorway. But actually, it turns out they are part of an experimental company who offer the family the chance to have Flora back again, in robot form There was no skull. But Was this won't just be a look-a-likeritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. They use all of Flora It's online historydifficult as Ruth knows, and interviews but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with family and friends, and through this data his child as a result of the one night they will recreate Flora as closely as possiblespent together some three months ago. But what Her condition will it really mean for the familybe obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to have Flora back? And is it really Flora at all?|isbn=1788953916sudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=13985075040008551324|title=Cold ReckoningThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Russ ThomasNeil Lancaster

|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his father committed suicide and for the last sixteen years heIt's been searching unusual for evidence anyone from the Hardie family to prove that approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's right. When prepared to tell the police where the body of a frozen body missing person is buried and who was found in Damflask Reservoirresponsible for her death. This person, he promises, there was a link back to a cold case from 2002is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. There didn't immediately seem And what he wants is to be any connection with DI Richard Tyler's death but Adam Tyler senses a link transferred to an open prison to serve the case remainder of his father was investigating before he diedsentence and to get an early parole date. Above all there Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's a growing sense even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that the criminality of Det Supt Stevens DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is going to be brought out into the openkept well away from what's happening. Perhaps Tyler is going to get the answers he needs?

|isbn=07278505470008405026|title=Blind Justice A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS McAvoy 10Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt)are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=David MarkJonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre 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'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 stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace

|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadn't even had time for breakfast when the call came through. A body had been When a man is found in crucified on the roots top of a fallen tree at Brantinghamhill in Nuneaton, near Hull. When he gets DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the scenecase alongside her sidekick, he will find what greets him is even worse than he could have imaginedthe AI detective Lock. A young manIt's corpse their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is entangled suddenly struggling with the roots of a newly-fallen tree – the roots have grown through him – potential serial killer and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyes. It would seem a very high profile case that this was done whilst the man was still alivedraws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. McAvoy makes a promise Will they be able to solve the victim: I case in time, or will Kat find answers. You will know justice. But justice always comes at herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a cost and this time the cost might be to McAvoy's own family.career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Natalia Garcia FreireChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary= Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of 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 delightfew decades of technology in my lifetime. I will agree 've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the first – tremendous feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is no understatement – but - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'a delightm reading someone who knows what they' is perhaps using re talking about or the expression latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way Icould understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what'm not familiar withs happened through her photography. I have Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to confess my ignorance see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation hereSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. From the little (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have read (in translationbeen disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, I donbut to have 'disappeared' doesn't read Spanish) there does seem sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to be move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a tendency towards frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the fantastical – move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the mystical realismdangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone. |isbn=0861541901

|authorisbn= Ann Sei Lin1398524085|title= Rebel SkiesHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 5|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Kurara has spent Charlotte Salter was expected at her entire life as a servant on the Midorihusband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink Paul and Ollie and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like himdaughter, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after Etty. are all across the Empire. He asks worried but - strangely - her to come with himhusband, Alec, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has knownnot. Well Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, soon Kurara wonfind the body of Greg't have any say s father, Duncan Ackerley, in the matter, because river. It was an easy assumption for the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and she is forced to flee out into then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the worldguilt. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Patrice Lawrence1035906708|title=NeedleDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=34.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people We tend to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out think of multiple homes and schoolsMaria Callas as Greek, but she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutorwas born to Greek parents in Manhattan, AnnieNew York, in December 1923 and has taken up residence in only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her son Blakefather changed it to 's old room while heCallas's at unito make it more manageable in the States. Such a tempestuous personality may be When she was back in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the plot here, as Charlene is Nazi occupation by a wonder knitter, mother who mercilessly exploited her and is making something full made no secret of love her preference for her younger sister – a younger elder sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then..Jackie. well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|isbn=1800901011

|isbnauthor=1405940980Christopher Edge|title=The Birdcage|author=Eve ChaseBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=It's the 7th of January 2019 Lucas and we know his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that a body has been pulled out the nickname of the sea at Zennor in Cornwall'The Black Hole'. We donAll big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't know whose body it iseven imagine. Four days earlierBut as they lurch from one film genre to the next, Floracan they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, Kat and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the request sea. The call of their fatherthe deep, Charlie Finch, a famous artistthe answering beat in my heart. The girls are actually ''half''-sisters  Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and their dates plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of birth are embarrassingly closethe seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Finch was known for his fecundityBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, if not for his fidelity. Itthey capture the island's leader and Mira's been father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a long time since wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years agosea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, at as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the time heart of the total eclipse, something happened. Kat and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was a victim and itsmuggler's left her very wary territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her sistershome and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=1787634906James Sherwood Metts|title=No Less the Devil|author=Stuart MacBridePlanet Storyland

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=WeThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're in Oldcastle paid to do and Malcolm is in trouble. He's in an abandoned house and he's being threatened by two young people. One is Allegra (we'll soon learn other tasks that she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) and Hugotook time to accomplish. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat Just as they were beginning to get used to keep him warm (she often does all this for homeless people, apparently) but she'd put a tracking device in it so that she technological change and Hugo could find out where he was sleeping. It won't be long before the police realise that Malcolm was one starting to think of their own: not many other people are going , new ways to have spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it, all the Oldcastle police crest tattooed many daily social interactions on their backswhich they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|author=Jennifer SaintMatthew Tree|title=ElektraWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5

|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|author=A G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of the Dead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells 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.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the story Briar's, a family of three women witches who live in protect the heavily male-dominated town and the wider world of Ancient Greecefrom the Darklands. CassandraThough she has always wished for magic, ClytemnestraEllie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and Elektra are all bit players in administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the story of Briar Witch, the Trojan Wartown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the silent women have dead, putting her at the most compelling stories heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the most extreme furiesBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=14722739151803364548

|isbn=15291498001529900360|title=Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce WasteThe Ghost Orchid|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsJonathan Kellerman

|genre=Home and FamilyCrime|summary=We begin with a telling storyIt 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 reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. All the birds His assertions that there were only open-and animals fled when -shut cases which didn't need the forest fire took hold and most help of them stood and watcheda psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, unable to think of anything they could dowho nudged Milo into asking for help again. The tiny hummingbird flew to She knew that the river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into involvement was something that the fireman she loved needed. The animals laughed: what good was that doingnext case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. ''I'm doing He was the best I canheir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it'', said s not the hummingbirdItalian. And that, really, is But which of them was the only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might be.primary target?

|isbn=17765743381529395224|title=LeilongLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|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 want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's Too Long!life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnSteve Burrows

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks donDCI Domenic Jejeune't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window s close friend and slide down his neck. It's perfectformer colleague, Danny Maik, isn't it? What could be has taken a more fun way of going short holiday in Singapore to school? There is a problemmeet up with an old ally, thoughGuy Trueman. Leilong isn't happy Maik was involved in the city: a street brawl - he's always having to be careful about where would later maintain that he puts his feet was facing a man armed with a knife - and – because he's longer than killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a tennis court – charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he often causes damage without intending might have planned to and traffic regularly gets snarled upmurder the man. The school decides that Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune cando nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't be the bus anymorehelp Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=303091657XAlexander McCall Smith|title=Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S PetersonThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceGeneral Fiction|summary=Boards must act The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the best interests of their stakeholders online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and ensure that they are well-managed and financially securelook after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. This might seem obvious but Katie is coming out of a series of disasters - some of which have resulted in death or the collapse of break up with a major company - have left interested parties asking what bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the board was doingchance to come home to Edinburgh. Where were they? Occasionally And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the boards were unaware of what was happening or they preferred Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to turn charm. Katie has no experience in running a blind eyebusiness, leaving watchers wondering which was worse or in match- ignorance or criminality. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals making, but what Ness has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown full confidence in her abilities, and Randall S Peterson give us a there's always her very readable trip through such major debacles as railway maniahelpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, the South Sea Bubble and even tulip mania. Over three centuries we seem to have learned very little.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=15293379680811771741|title=In Place of FearInstaKnits for Baby|author=Catriona McPhersonMelissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical)Crafts|summary=ItMelissa Leapman's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day that the NHS is bornblankets. She'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her job Some will be to help patients with those nonquick knits -medical problems which affect their healthothers are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. The hardest part of the job will be to persuade people that projects are divided by the services she offers really are free and that time they don't have ll take to complete - less than five hours, five to do anything ten hours, ten to qualify for themtwenty hours and more than twenty hours. Some of All the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of her own which might give her some insightprojects are attractive, modern and useable. Her marriage has never been consummatedI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.

|author=Mark LinganeDean Koontz|title=GalaxyThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionParanormal|summary=SparkBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, who is an elite pilot with the Space Academyhe loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, barely makes it through and someone has delivered a battle alive. His coreally weird, disturbing coffin-pilot sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was not so fortunate. Waking from a coma inside is the thing that lasted yearshas trashed his house! The thing is, he remembers little and Benny is in no physical shape the very last person to resume his dutiesdeserve all this bad luck. But Earth He is under threat and he musta nice person. A really nice person. Returned by So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his superiors house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to the space station, he finds himself amid help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a last ditch attempt good person. Spike is going to save humanity - take care of Benny, and not just from the alien threats against itwill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, but also from its own sins against itselfand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. |isbn=B09X3NZ76W1662500491

|author=Lissa EvansAdam Stower|title=WishedMurray and Bun

|genre=Confident Readers|summary=When things contrive Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to force Ed sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his sister Roo (aka Lucy) to stay with fancy next of the neighbourhood spinsterish old womantwo. But he's a bad magician's cat, Miss Filey, for so his favourite bun has been turned into a week of half-termhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they're both use can chuck them out, not looking forward to it. For one thinginto the regular back garden, she thinks Wi-Fi is but into a special brand world of biscuitfrightening adventure and whiffs. They don't particularly take to Willard eitherThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, the new kid next doorone much bigger than Murray was, who seems to ebulliently take over everything and everywhere. But things soon change when they find some tiny old birthday candlesbe honest, but he's turned up and manage he'll have to work out that these candles, for as long as their flames last, do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make birthday wishes come true. How will things change for a second time when they realise that''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, having used up three of themis the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, these should really would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be used for .... no. ''Fragility'' is set as the wishes city of someone two generations older than them?|isbn=178845202XPortland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic