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|isbnauthor=1454955546Sylvie Cathrall|title=Sugarless|author=Nicole M AvenaA Letter to the Luminous Deep
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|genre=LifestyleScience Fiction|summary=''This isn't There are few greater joys than a diet book. The last thing anyone needs is another diet book.'' There was a time, not that long ago, when it was thought that sugary food was better for you than food with high-fat content. Fat was the demon food which was going lives up to elevate your cholesterol and cause heart disease. Sugar was a carbohydrate, so good. There's a problem, thoughcompelling premise. Sugar And this is addictive and can hijack your brain in much the same way as drugs like heroin and cocaine. Does that sound over the top? Well, it isn'tone of them.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=15211298860008517061|title=They Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Keith RedfernStig Abell
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|summary=Greg Mason's just beginning to get Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he chargesrustic life at Little Sky. It's There’s perhaps a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted little uncertainty about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about future of his life with his sistervet girlfriend, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet Livia and her son is not thriving. Lucydaughter Diana, he says, is convinced that Gil as moving in together would never have killed himself mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off- it simply wasn't grid and relaxing life to move in his nature. The police 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 moment they’re enjoying life in the coroner have accepted that present and putting the death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened future on the night Gil diedback burner.
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|isbn=B0CK3MYJ561786482126|title=Responsibilities The Janus Stone (Greg Mason mysteriesDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Ann MacarthurElly Griffiths|rating=4.5
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|summary=It's Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used site was going to have a highhold seventy-flying job in the city but it wasnfive 't satisfying so heluxury's now set himself up as apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a private investigatordoorway. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking There was no skull. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up Was this professiona ritual killing or murder? On the other handInevitably, he has been asked to look into somethingDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in whatIt's been written off difficult as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parentsRuth knows, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - canbut Nelson doesn't understand what , that she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front is pregnant with his child as a result of a trainthe one night they spent together some three months ago. Greg's been asked Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to investigatesudden bouts of sickness.
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|authorisbn=Katherine Howe0008551324|title=A True AccountThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Hannah Masury It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is living struggling in Boston, having been sent prison and he's prepared to live with tell the police where the body of a family missing person is buried and who run an innwas responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and being made to work there from a young ageit will be worth the police doing what he wants. When she hears there And what he wants is to be a hanging transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of some pirates in the town, she decides his sentence and to go and watchget an early parole date. Enthralled and horrified in equal measureNot much to ask, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. is it? She hides away, so that they donThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn't find and kill her too, think so and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in even prepared to do the thick of things when there other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is a mutiny on board, and kept well away from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waveswhat's happening.|isbn=0861547438
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|authorisbn=Tananarive Due0008405026|title=The ReformatoryA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
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|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary= Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to six months at the Gracetown School for Boysa halt. Now, her mother, Helena, otherwise known as the Reformatoryand her father are dead in their bed. It Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But something about the segregated reformatory is a chamber positioning of horrors, haunted by the boys bodies that have died theremakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. In order What looked as though it was going to survive the school governor be an open-and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist -shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the help of the schoolexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's ghosts – only they have their own motivations.boss, Una Burt) are less convinced..|isbn=1803366532}}
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|isbn=14711801580571379877|title=Maybe TomorrowThe Kellerby Code|author=Penny ParkesJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Jamie Matson works in an Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class grocery storefriends, for a man whoRobert and Stanza. Robert's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half bricktheatre director. JamieHe's sonalso self-obsessed, Bodemanding, 'has his problems'handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. He's asthmatic Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrumdrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - sheMost men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Borelationship had begun between them but he's not fit enough like most men: Edward is left to go to school. Missed shifts or stumble upon the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put two of them kissing in the wrong. It was going to come to a headdark passageway.
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|author=Harry AllenJo Callaghan|title=Children of the SunLeave No Trace|rating=54|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Ra Eun Seo lives in When a North Korean town and she man is found crucified on the top of a talented singerhill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. Life It's 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 hard suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and food is difficult a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to come bysolve the case in time, so Seo or will Kat find herself taken off the case and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations potentially, out of rice and kimchi at home.a career?|isbn=1805140493139851120X
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|authorisbn=Edel Rodriguez1399613073|title=Worm: A Cuban American OdysseyMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsThrillers|summary=We're in childhoodOlivia, Laura and we're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, and Castro, Anjali met on the first thought day of as medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a saviour quarter of the countrya century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, has proven himself which is a Communist, bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for alltrauma doctor. Well, those hours-long speeches Anjali is the free spirit of his were kind of taking his time awaythe group and she becomes a GP. Our narratorWhen we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's family werengoing to end in tragedy. We don't in the happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to be know who suffered the good soldier tragedy or the country demanded (especially as he would probably consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and an eerily similar event that will impact the father being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned uponthree friends. The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the heat, but in this sultry island countryThis time, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|isbn=1474616720's their teenage children who are involved.
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|authorisbn=K P O'Donnell0241636604|title=The Vital Link (Trading Game: A Spark in the Ashes)Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=34.5|genre=Science FictionAutobiography|summary=VL-15, If you were to bring up an image of a prototype robotcity banker in your mind, is desperate you're unlikely to understand who she think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is. Unfortunatelythe East End, before she could find any answers, the world endedwhere he was familiar with violence, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel poverty and Renadainjustice. Over half There was no posh public school on his CV -a-century later, civilisation is starting but he had been to rebuildthe London School of Economics. Dr Amelia Wong Stevenson is determined to continue her father's legacy, building bright - extremely bright - and he has a world where machines and humans facility with numbers which most of us can live together in harmonyonly envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, but internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down again. Craig Andersonessentially, leader of a group of salvagers called the Exhumerscard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, has his entire life this turned upside down when he unearths into permanent employment as a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herselftrader. Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn't diminished in the slightest, and no errant machine, no savage human tribe and not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|isbn=B0CKRYFRZM
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|isbn=18389544811035021803|title=The MisperAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Kate LondonC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: thereIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's no doubt about thatback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. He was Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the fifteen-year-old holding circumstances seem suspicious, to say the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shawleast. He pulled Arthur was the trigger but due reason why Freya had not been back to the vagaries of the jury system he was found village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not guilty of both felt able to be near the murder and man or pursue the manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go onprofession she loved. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving After the capital and hoping for a quieter life split, she worked in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - life, who was murdered) and Freya and back into the orbit of Ryan KennedyJames have now divorced.
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|isbn=1035025299AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Went to London, Took the DogAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Nina StibbeBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=AutobiographyScience Fiction|summary=Nina Stibbe ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is returning to London for what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a sabbatical after being away for twenty yearsfew decades of technology in my lifetime. SheI's been at Victoriave kept up reasonably well with what's smallholding in Leicestershire which isnadvantageous to me but I't all m left with the feeling that conducive to writing, as thereit's always something smallholding happening all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - as you might expectquite frightening. The other side of Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the decision was sealed when a room became available (courtesy of Deborah Moggach) at latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a very reasonable rentway I could understand.
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|isbnauthor=B0CKD1L5JLSunny Singh|title=Radio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey DunnHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionThrillers |summary= Petr The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an orphanunnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Rescued by Hiding from the strangeterrorists who are rampaging through, reclusive Bearkilling everyone on site, he there is brought up far from bustling cities Sam, a wartime photographer and busy human societyAbhi, in the forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsulahotel manager. After Bear dies and a brief sojourn As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in human companythe hotel, and armed he forms a bond with only a pirate radio transmitterSam who refuses to be cowed by events, Petr goes and keeps on a journey venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the forestphone, broadcasting their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the strange, wild and rarely heard voices he encountersterrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn=16358662431529153298|title=The Knitting Pattern Writing HandbookList of Suspicious Things|author=Kristina McGrath and Sarah Walworth Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsGeneral Fiction|summary=It''I quickly discovered that putting words s 1979 and numbers on a page wasn't enoughMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. Creating a pattern that was correct(A woman? I mean, clearhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, concisethough. Women have been disappearing. Well, and consistent required a great deal of trial and errorthey've been murdered, patience, and perseverance.but to have 'disappeared' (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy) A friend recently showed me a knitting pattern for which shedoesn'd paid good moneyt sound quite so frightening. The first line of Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the instructions began: family 'Down South'Cast off 100 stitches...'' It was clear that no good could come of this - the instructions didnWhen you't get any better - and (finally) PayPal obliged with re from Yorkshire, Down South is a refund when the seller refused as she couldn't afford the repaymentfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. The pattern looked prettyFor Miv, but the creator didnmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she't have the basic knowledge and skills ll do anything to enable her to connect with her knittersprevent that. She should have read ''The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.
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|authorisbn=Adam Baron and Benji Davies1398524085|title=Oscar's LionHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=35|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple of times before he has to be ready for schoolnever turned up. But when he enters his parents' bedroomHer children, all he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bedsons Niall, looking sheepishPaul and Ollie and her daughter, and admitting that he won't be hungry for another two daysEtty. But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the other monthall worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. And it can shapeshiftShortly afterwards, so he can take it to school Etty and it can get him out Greg, find the body of a problem. And itGreg's wonderful to have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intakefather, Duncan Ackerley, being much more lax about in the rules, and so onriver. OK, it canIt was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't work a dimmer switch stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but it there's little else they can give Oscar a wonderful timedo but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|isbn=0008596751
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|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR1035906708|title=Good Girls DieDiva|author=Ayura AyiraDaisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short We tend to think of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She Maria Callas as Greek, but she was a very bright studentborn to Greek parents in Manhattan, a bit too nerdy if truth be toldNew York, in December 1923 and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid only moved to hug Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her in case father changed itto 's contagious. ItCallas's not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% whiteto make it more manageable in the States. She had a crush on seventeenWhen she was back in Athens -yearsupposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice -old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for herelder sister, Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and Reggie asked if she would tutor him. many, many snacks! She readily agreed: tutoring was However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something she gladly did at church: about this was just new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an extensionadventure they couldn't even imagine. She went But as they lurch from one film genre to his house and he raped her. the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? In shockWill they ever get back to the cinema, she even allowed him and to give her a lift home.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|author=V CastroRachel Greenlaw|title=The Haunting of AlejandraCompass and Blade
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|genre=HorrorTeens|summary=''This was a part I can hear the song of her past that had to stop with herthe sea. She would be The call of the deep, the one to confront thisanswering beat in my heart.''
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|author=Richard KadreyJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Pale House DevilPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=HorrorConfident Readers|summary=Ford and Neuland are Things have been a couple of, well, guys bit sticky for hire I guess, though really the way I thought of them through the book was as a couple of strange detectives! One of them is living, you see, and the other is undead, Earthlings. AI and so one of them kills the livingautomation have been proceeding apace, and the other kills the undead. (Only not each other, obviously). Theyoften replacing jobs they're on a job in New York that goes badly, and so they head out paid to the West coast to try to lay low for a while do and find some other work tasks that took time to keep them goingaccomplish. But when a young woman called Tilda hires them Just as they were beginning to get used to kill the 'something' that appears all this technological change and starting to be haunting a wealthy gentleman's house they find themselves uncovering a whole lot think of family historyother, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and a terrifyingly powerful creature that , along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they've never come across before!depend so heavily.|isbn=18033638941736128426
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|author=Helen CooperMatthew Tree|title=The Taming of the CatWe'll Never Know|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Once again, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and in case you're seeing a connectionTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, they live in a cheese shop drunk and therefore all the names used here seem to be the names chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of cheeses. Anyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don't match the other mice he lives with. They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the visuals on it. And that story-telling will come in handy one night, when he feels artistic passions all alone failed miserably and cast out. It's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to tell stories to keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse communityhis studies, though, as all the others had the chance to half-inch some cheese while the cat was distractedcultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|isbn=0571376010B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=B0CDZRGT1MA G Slatter|title=Super Short Stories: Flash Fiction|author=Mark C WallfischThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesFantasy|summary=''Got There's a minute part of me that wants to be amusedkeep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, entertainedall mine, or challenged?''''These 100 stories are super shortat last. None is more than 300 words. You can read one in I just want to enjoy it for a flash.''''Some are funny. Some are poignant. All are shortwhile.''
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|isbn=17328987661529900360|title=The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk DragonGhost Orchid|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)Jonathan Kellerman
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|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=When we first meet Birpus It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and Bulbus they're running even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for their lives in the Forest of Fine Reputehis help on difficult cases. Their greatest fear has come about: His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing themhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. HeFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's right behind thempartner, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrilswho nudged Milo into asking for help again. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end wellShe knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed.) FortunatelyThe next case did look simple, they though. Two lovers were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when murdered in the swimming pool of a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, they escapedremote property in Bel Air. They climbed up He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Tree Wee homes high up in Italian. But which of them was the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.primary target?
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|isbn=14722639361529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The FigurineSecret Life of a Vet|author=Victoria HislopSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to GreeceSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. She His father was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home a GP and refused Rowlands didn't want to returnfollow in his footsteps, but Mary and Hamish (Helenaparticularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritagelife. Her trip to When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the first of several annual visitsjob for him. She grew to love her grandmother and the family's maid, DinaBefore long, but he was wary at Liverpool University. It hadn't - and frightened as with so many students - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He been his dream since he was proud of his close connections to the Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate thema child. His prejudices included HelenaIf anything, he's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestorsd wanted to be a professional footballer.
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|authorisbn=Cody Goodfellow0861541774|title=VerticalA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= ThereDCI Domenic Jejeune's something about tall buildings close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a 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 just captures my imaginationhe was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Who doesn't love Initially, he faced a good view from up high, after all? Even charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to get inside if ithelp as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's 40 stories tallt help Danny at all. So when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|isbn= 1803363991
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|author=Hannah Gold and Levi PinfoldAlexander McCall Smith|title=Finding BearThe Perfect Passion Company
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|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=[[The Last Bear Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a lot further north than many people would venturemore personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and finding look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with trip to Canada to get away for a polar bear – that she called Bearwhile. Back homeKatie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, things on and so jumps at the domestic and family front are a bit advancedchance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, but not perfect for herbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left onIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. For Katie has no experience in running a bear doing very Bearbusiness, or in match-y things making, but Ness has been shot full confidence in her abilities, and wounded. Desperate to make sure hethere's OK, she and always her father return to the Arctic and hope that in a world of very white helpful (and very dangerous thingsrather handsome) neighbour, William, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the friendship can continue.to lend a hand…|isbn=00085820171846976596
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|isbn=18041832100811771741|title=No ReserveInstaKnits for Baby|author=Felix FrancisMelissa Leapman
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|genre=ThrillersCrafts|summary=Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldnMelissa Leapman's ''t have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up InstaKnits for auction, but Peter Radway, the chairman, hadnBaby''t arrived, so he continued his sessiongives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would Some will be an understatement. A lovely animal quick knits - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each otherothers are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. Brian Kitman and Elliot The projects are divided by the time they'Mitch' Mitchell were wellll take to complete -known less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and respected in the racing industrymore than twenty hours. Jennings was in one of All the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in projects are attractive, modern and their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to that figureuseable. Both were happy I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that they had insurance in place. The following morning, the horse was dead in its stall's me being picky.
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|author=Sarah WilsonDean Koontz|title=This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured worldThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre= LifestyleParanormal|summary= My favourite Mary Oliver line Benny is the one in which she asks ''What is it you plan 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, disturbing coffin-sized object to do with your one wild his home, and precious life?it'' I get to love s possible that line so much because my answer whoever or whatever was inside is ''Thisthe thing that has trashed his house! Precisely The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all thisbad luck.'' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the way I want toHe is a nice person. Sarah Wilson is equally luckyA really nice person. In her book So fortunately for Benny it turns out that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to think about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the best life that we could be livinghelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Her answer Spike is an unequivocal ''nogoing to take care of Benny, we are not''. Don't and will certainly take care what youof Benny're doings enemies, if he, Benny, she thinks you and Harper (we, I) could be doing more…And shea waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's effing furious about the fact that we wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are not.|isbn=17856338481662500491
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|isbnauthor=1839948493Adam Stower|title=A World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak Murray and Luisa UribeBun|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers |summary=In the interests of full disclosureMurray is supposed to be a humble, I must tell you that I'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decadestidy and friendly cat, I've never met one I didn't trust who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and I've loved most , well, whatever takes his fancy next of them. I wish I felt the same about human beingstwo. SoBut he's a bad magician's cat, any book about dogsso his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, I'm going to sit down and devour. Then I'm going to go the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and read it properlywhiffs. And so This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was with ''A World of Dogs'', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - shebe honest, but he's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249
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|isbn=1405951680B0C47LV1PC|title=The Safe HouseFragility|author=Cameron WardMosby Woods
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|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Jess Walker accepted an offer (OKCan you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, actually she was gently nudged into is the question should you make it by her friend? Or is the question if you did, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in would it land? The catch is that the Australian outback answer for a couple of monthsboth could well be... After the problems she'd had at work, it seemed like just the break she needed. She was no longer a data analyst for . ''Fragility'' is set as the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to the country city of her birth and in need of the space Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to get over emerge from the traumatic end of her relationship with Charles. A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just restrictions imposed during the ticket.covid pandemic
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|authorisbn=Rachel Harrison1529431735|title=Bad DollsThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
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|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=It's been some time since IFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins've read any horrorreturn all the more surprising. I had a couple of misspent teen years reading Stephen King, borrowing He'd been exiled on the books from Costa del Sol as a boy I fancied at school and scaring myself half silly with them to the point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night wanted drug smuggler for fear of the vampires outside! a decade. DonThe return has come about because he't worry s had a letter from his ex- this short story collection isn't like wife, saying that! It doesnshe't have those jump scares, s ill and I didnhasn't have long to read it during daylight hours only! live. But it It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is creepyabducted, stripped to his underwear and I found most of that feeling came from the fact that these are stories about women, living normal lives, and that at least sent to a watery grave in part, the horrors arises boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from very normal situations such as a breakup, trying Spanish gang or a new dieting app, going problem closer to a hen party and a coping with grief.|isbn=1803363932home?
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|isbnauthor=1394159544Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Recycling for Dummies|author=Sarah WinklerThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary=''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of oil.'' ''Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.'' If you send Eli is a busy lad – by day an apple core to landfillapprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, it will take between 6 months and 2 years to decomposein the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. As a just-post-WWII babyEli lives with his lovely gran, I faced too – for there is a dilemma: reducing, reusing and recycling is part of my DNAgeneration missing in the family. NEVER throw away anything that might A few short years ago, Eli''possibly'' come in handy now or s parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the futurecompany of a magical beast. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve This has made the purpose. Almost everything can be used one more time and any purchase must pass race anathema to the test of 'Is this absolutely essential?' On pair – but when a bad incident at the other handeatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, I suspected I was guilty with the sole aim the prize of wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking magic at you) and dropping it in the kerbside bin. Yes, I could go searching on end – the internet - and get conflicting advice - but what I needed was a recycling bibleonly thing to possibly save his gran.s|isbn=0571382231
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