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|isbn=17765743381806344777|title=LeilongArthur and the Land of Nimbostratus: Arthur's Too Long!Able Adventures|author=Julia Liu Rob Keeley|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary= Arthur dreams of adventures. He looks out of his window each day and thinks of all the escapades he could have, the places he could go and the things he could see. His favourite day is Saturday because that's the day his friend Maxine - she of the booming laugh and silver bangles - comes to visit. Maxine is a great believer in the power of imagination.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035043092|title=The Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=I can't have been the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a new life on Orkney. It's been seven years since we heard from him, but he's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the daughter of his former partner. Willow's also his boss, and Bei Lynnshe ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when the body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in the aftermath of a storm, she can't resist getting involved. He'd been battered about the head with a Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.}}{{Frontpage|author=Polly Barton|title=What Am I, A Deer?
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|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=Every morning LeilongPolly Barton's debut novel is an intellectually playful yet emotionally exposed work that uses translation as both subject and governing metaphor. The narrator, the brontosaurus school busnewly relocated from London to Berlin, makes his way works translating video games into Japanese through the cityprocess of localisation, picking up children rewriting language until it feels comfortably familiar to a new audience. Barton treats this as he goes. Children who live a paradoxical act: arguably, in striving for universality, language is endlessly repackaged, its originality at the top risk of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neckdisappearing altogether. It's perfectFrom this, isn't it? What could be the novel opens out into a more fun way of going to school? There is a problemwider, though. Leilong isn't happy in the cityresonant question: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending what extent do we translate ourselves in order to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.understood, accepted, or loved?|isbn=1804272175
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|isbn=303091657XZabriskie1|title=Disaster A Village Where Many Ways Meet: A Story of Belonging and Community, Rooted in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should UnderstandIndigenous Wisdom|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S PetersonStephanie Zabriskie
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|genre=Business and FinanceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Boards must act ''Across many African and Indigenous systems, differences in how children learn, sense , or process the best interests world were not treated as disorders to be corrected. They were understood as natural variations of their stakeholders human intelligence and ensure that they are well-managed and financially secureawareness, each holding value within the community. '' This might seem obvious but lovely story is a series of disasters - some synthesis of that tradition, which have resulted in death or the collapse of a major company - have left interested parties asking what the board was doingcarried down through generations by oral retellings. Where were they? Occasionally the boards were unaware of what was happening or they preferred to turn It shows that a blind eye, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance community or criminality. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals society is not made up from interchangeable building blocks of human beings but what has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown by a range of people with different skills and Randall S Peterson give us different personalities, all contributing to a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway mania, the South Sea Bubble whole that combines them all and even tulip mania. Over three centuries we seem to have learned very littlethe benefit of them all.
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|isbn=15293379681787333175|title=In Place of FearYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Catriona McPhersonBenji Waterhouse
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|genre=Crime (Historical)Popular Science|summary=ItI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's July 1948 and Helen Crowther first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is due Going to start work as Hurt}}, a qualified medical almoner glorious mixture of insight into the following morning - on the day that workings of the NHS is born, humour and autobiography. She'll 'You Don't Have to be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her job will be to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their healthMad... The hardest part of '' promised the job will be same elements but moved from physical problems to persuade people that mental illness and the services she offers really are free and that they don't have work of a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to do anything to qualify be looking for them. Some of humour in this setting but the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has laughter is directed at a situation rather than a problem of her own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummatedperson and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.
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|author=Mark LinganeMaria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale (Translator)|title=GalaxyThe Disappearing Act
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|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=SparkDespite her anonymisation of place names and people, Stepanova's message in this short work of autofiction is unmistakable. A novelist named M travels from B (ostensibly Berlin) to the town of F for a literary festival she is to be a guest speaker at. Detoured by erratic train schedules and nudged by forces beyond her control, her journey slowly bends toward a traveling circus. Swept up in this series of events, M eventually offers to step in for a circus performer who is an elite pilot with has unexpectedly left the Space Academyshow. The train functions as a motif of transience and impermanence, barely makes it through while the circus embodies the reshaping of identity and a battle aliveretreat into fantasy, an impulse that lies at the very heart of the novel form itself. His co|isbn=1804272329}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0GFQ81YQK|title=How the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-pilot Fiction|summary= Before people came and joined the animals, there was not only the sky and the earth. Everything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to each other. First, the earth created bodies. And then, the sky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so fortunatepeople lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, especially how they came to be. Waking from a coma that lasted yearsWhen they grew old and died, he remembers little their bodies returned to the earth and is in no physical shape their life returned to resume his dutiesthe sky. But Earth And that is under threat why the earth and he the sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must. Returned by his superiors pay attention to the space station, he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt to save humanity - and not just from the alien threats against itcare for, but also from its own sins against itselfboth. |isbn=B09X3NZ76W
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|authorisbn=Lissa EvansB0GHPMNF6P|title=WishedThe Zookeeper's Dragon: A Magical Modern Fantasy Tale for Grown-Ups|author=Carolyn Mathews
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|genre=Confident ReadersFantasy|summary=When things contrive to force Ed and Phil's father unexpectedly dies, he quits his sister Roo (aka Lucy) Canary Wharf finance job to stay with take over the neighbourhood spinsterish old womanrunning of the family's farm zoo. He's not expecting much excitement, Miss Filey, for until he receives an unidentified egg that his new-age stoner uncle Edgar found in a week of half-termcave in New Zealand, they're not looking forward to and suddenly life is no longer quite what itseems. For one thingThen the egg hatches into neither a reptile nor a bird, she thinks Wi-Fi is but a special brand of biscuit. They dondragon! Now he, Edgar, his mother Abi, and the zoo't particularly take s part-time café waitress Pearl have to Willard eitherraise this little bundle of scales and joy, the new kid next door, who seems despite having no idea how to ebulliently take over everything actually raise dragons and everywherenot being able to tell anyone about it. But things soon change when they find some this tiny old birthday candles, little dragon may show them love and manage to work out that these candles, for as long as their flames last, make birthday wishes come true. How will things change for a second time when connection in ways they realise that, having used up three of them, these should really be used for the wishes of someone two generations older than them?|isbn=178845202Xhad never before imagined…
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|author=Justyn EdwardsStephanie Zabriskie|title=The Great Fox IllusionHow Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show ''How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is a contest with children’s nonfiction book drawn from the oral traditions of Maasai elders in Ngorongoro, Tanzania.'' The Maasai are a difference. No singing, no dancing, cattle-herding people and this show is looking for magical children! Children who can understand story writes down its oral tradition explaining how magic tricks work, they came to be so. Cattle are status and who can attempt to win The Great Foxwealth in Maasai culture but this doesn's magical legacy - t tell the secrets to all whole story of his tricks! Flick is determined to winthe intimate and symbiotic connection its people, and especially its women, but not because she wants to own have with their cows and for the tricksnatural world. She is interested in just ''one'' trickThe oral tradition retelling the many conversations Maasai women have had with their cows, the trick that The Great Fox stole from her father. And she's hoping if she can find that trick then she will be able to bring her missing father homedoes.|isbn=1529501946B0G9WTGY6J
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|author=Jason RohanLivi Michael|title=S.T.E.A.L.T.H.: Access DeniedElizabeth and Ruth
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|genre=Confident ReadersHistorical Fiction|summary=Arun ''Elizabeth and Sam have had little to do with DonnaRuth'' is a work of historical fiction wrought from the life of the Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell, best known for her first novel Mary Barton (1848), a girl at their school. But things immediately change at radical critique of the start of this extended sprint treatment of the working class published under a pseudonym. The ''Ruth'' from Livi Michael's title appears in her novelas Pasley, when she insists Aruna young Irish prostitute who was abandoned as a child and finds herself in Manchester's house has become New Bailey Prison after a difficult and unjust hand at life. Set in Manchester between 1839 and 1842, the novel examines the harsh conditions endured by the attention of plain-clothes coppers Victorian working poor and that they should bunk off school interrogates the extent to find out whywhich the wealthy (including Gaskell herself) were responsible for addressing these injustices. And thus an unlikely trio |isbn=1784633682}}{{Frontpage|author=Makenna Goodman|title=Helen of Nowhere|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=It could be argued that the pervading theme of misfit young heroes this book is formed – Sam malaise - a hard-to-place feeling that something in your life is really not Donna's idea quite right. The protagonist, a disgraced professor on the brink of companylosing both his career and his relationship, but he embodies this feeling. However, Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a force which is the computer buffseductive, Donna seems to know all the criminal ins radical and outs unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and survival skills, and Arun? Well, itthe protagonist is indirect yet intimate. As the former owner of the countryside house he's considering, Helen represents a volta in his lot life, her past tied to find out that all he based his family life on isn't truepotential fresh start. The realtor who shows the protagonist around the house shares stories about Helen, and describes her as ''an entity that his father – kidnapped that very morning – is involved pure consciousness, beyond form''. Although she lives in something quite unexpected. But how can this disparate trio hope to best MI6an assisted living facility now, kidnappers, people able to keep Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the truth about themselves secret for decades, and so much more?sense are not altogether innocuous.|isbn=18399433861804272205
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|isbn=1638485216B0GCB1MQ7D|title=Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law EnforcementWhy My Mother Went Away|author=Frederick ReynoldsAlan Kennedy
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|genre=Autobiography
|summary=I have often wondered how prominent people came to hold their positions. With 'celebrities'Corruption is , there's frequently a book they might or might not departmenthave written, gender which might or race specificmight not tell the true story. It has everything to 's not often that you find a book that gives the full backstory, and rarely do with character. Periodyou discover a memoir where the telling is so perfect that you'll go back and reread paragraphs and sentences, just for the pleasure the words give. '' Why My Mother Went Away''One more body just wouldnis one of those rare exceptions. It't matter''. The murder s the story of George Floyd, how a forty-six-year-old black manboy from the Midlands, on 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvin, a forty-four-year-old police officer, in born at the US city beginning of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the world. We rarely see pictures of Second World War, would become a murder taking place but Floyd's death was an exception. The image Professor of Chauvin kneeling on George's neck is not one which I'll ever forget and the protests which followed cannot have been unexpectedPsychology at Dundee University. There In fact, he was a backlash against one of the police - and not just in Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''all'' tarred by founders of the Chauvin brushdepartment.
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|isbnauthor=B09DD1QJKJJeremy Cooper|title=The Club|author=Ellery LloydDiscord|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=''The party Discord: a lack of the year turned into the murder mystery of the decade.''agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas)
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|author=Melissa Fu Tom Percival|title=Peach Blossom Spring The Wrong Shoes|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction Confident Readers|summary= I loved the prelude to Peach Blossom SpringWill's life is difficult, in a short chapter entitled multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes'Origins, he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn'. Unfortunately it is t have enough money for even the only truly poetic part most basic of a book that I expected more from. Covering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one familythings like food, and his dad can's perspective. When their home city is set ablaze during t work because he lost his job at the war with Japancollege, was working a young mother (Meilin) and her fourcash-yearin-old son (Renshu) hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are among those who flee. The story follows them on their journey across Chinaseparated, and in RenshuWill's case eventually life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to Americathe moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel. |isbn=14722775381398527122
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|author=Vanda SymonEdward W Said|title=FacelessRepresentations of the Intellectual |rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersPolitics and Society|summary=In this book told from multiple viewpoints, several troubled people are thrown into Edward Said's ''Representations of the same story thanks to just one mis-step. Set in New Zealand, the first of our characters Intellectual'' is Bradley, less a middle aged man struggling with an overbearing boss, strict theory of what intellectuals are and more a weighty mortgage, and passionate argument for what he feels is an unappreciative wifethey should be. Then there’s Billy, a homeless teenage girl who is a street artist working Said clearly rejects the comfortable image of the intellectual as a prostitute sometimes in order detached expert speaking only to pay for the materials she needsother specialists. And then we have MaxInstead, who is also living he insists on the streets and who keeps an eye on Billy. He is intellectual as a shell of a manpublic figure, barely able to take any care of himselfoften awkward, and yet we can sense that he was once something more than he is now. One nightabrasive, Bradley finds himself half-crazed with stress and anxietyunpopular, driving down the street looking for a prostitute. He picks up Billy, and then with one thoughtless decision finds his life thrown into turmoil and a spiral away from the person he thought he was into someone very differentwho speaks truth to power even when it is inconvenient or risky.|isbn=19145850461804272248
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|isbnauthor=0760373531Sylvie Cathrall|title=Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around A Letter to the World|author=Sue FlandersLuminous Deep
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|genre=CraftsScience Fiction|summary=Just occasionally you encounter There are few greater joys than a book of knitting patterns which seems lives up to meet your every needa compelling premise. Right now, it's bitterly cold and we're in the sandwich filling between two storms: I need socks, scarves, hats and mittens. They have to look stylish, keep me warm and be so cheerful that they make me feel better. If that sounds like a lot to ask, have a look at ''Cozy Knits'': it has thirty designs for those necessary items and I don't think that there was And this is one of them which I couldn't see myself wearing. We start with an introduction by Nancy Bush which gives some of the history of knitting. It's not essential but it's a nice extra.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=17765740281786482126|title=Bumblebee GrumblebeeThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=David ElliottElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills site was going to have realise that you can hold seventy-five 'luxury'play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. We have apartments - when they discovered the elephant who dons bones of a tutu - and becomes child beneath a ''balletphant''doorway. There was no skull. The buffalo who has had Was this a bath (complete ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn'fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone t, that she is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on pregnant with his potty changes into child as a ''smresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago.......'' OKHer condition will be obvious before long, let's not go there Some people are eating!least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=B09V1NQ5SX0008551375|title=Death at Friar's InnWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Rob KeeleyNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nat Webber and Tom Barton were in Leanne Wilson's body was found at the finals bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the Moots to take place at The Honourable Society result of Friara tragic accident. She's Innd looked so happy, too, when she posted her intentions on Facebook. For aspiring barristersHer friends were relieved as she was just out of an unpleasant relationship, moots test but it looked like she was living her best life now. Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the last year. All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and sensible people. None of the participants' knowledge of several areas of law as well as their advocacy skillswhat a stupid thing to do' explanations applied. They were all alone when they died: itDS Max Craigie is certain there's a great way killer on the loose.}}{{Frontpage|author=Paul B Preciado|title=Dysphoria Mundi|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''It is never too late to embrace the revolutionary optimism of childhood'' Through this hybrid text, consisting of getting invaluable practice arias, letters, essays and autofiction, Preciado expresses his own hybrid self, and brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to the new generation, a new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a sign of getting yourself noticedpolitical apathy. Tom Rather, it is the proportional, valid response to ''the epistemological and Nat political crack we are from living through, and the tension between emancipatory forces and conservative resistances that characterize our present'a provincial university' and they're which Preciado calls ''almostdysphoria mundi'' looked down on because of this. The other contestants whole text is framed against the backdrop of the Covid- Becca Decker-Hamilton and Lucia 19 pandemic as that which has catalysed this revolution, when dysphoria began to emerge on a global scale, or as ''pangea covidica'Mouse' Dawes have no such disadvantage and Becca has an abundance . Rather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a sign of confidence. Tomweakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, Preciado urges his readers to ''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform's £30 supermarket suit doesn't make him feel any better.|isbn=1804271454
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|isbnauthor=1529125944Samantha Harvey|title=City of the Dead|author=Jonathan KellermanOrbital|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=When you drive large vehicles In 2024, Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for a living, you're careful and it's not just about the way that you drive. You restrict your alcohol intake and if itOrbital''s , a trip compact yet profound work that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleep. When you're taking unfolds over a removals truck through single day in the lives of a residential neighbourhood you head off at 5 group of astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Through a.m. when narrative lens that mirrors the roads are quieterastronauts' orbital perspective, even if you have Harvey invites readers to wait up when you get to where you're going. And it was going well until the men hit something see our planet in Westwood Village, an upmarket neighbourhood of Los Angeles. The man was stark naked and couldn't be identifieda wholly new light.|isbn=1529922933
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|authorisbn=Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)295967572X|title=I May Be WrongPale Pieces|author=G M Stevens
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|genre= AutobiographyLiterary Fiction|summary= When Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they're going and what the Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiecepurpose of this journey is, Iis uncertain. Django found the tickets 'm inclined to think it doesn't really matter how on the rest of the world responds floor somewhere'' and has persuaded our narrator to your bookaccompany him. I know, having read the book Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in question, that Lindeblad would disagree with that thought. He knows (and at core so do I) that it matters very much how the rest of past as the world responds pair travel to this book, because it tells the truth as it station by coach and the train is, in the early 21st centurya steam locomotive.|isbn=1526644827
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|isbn=B0949Q1DC10008551324|title=The Patient Devil You Know (A DS Cross thrillerD S Max Craigie)|author=Tim SullivanNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS George Cross It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably Aspergerany respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's Syndromeprepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. He can be rudeThis person, he promises, difficult is someone big and awkward with people, although it's never intentionalwill be worth the police doing what he wants. It's just that And what he thinks differently wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and social niceties simply don't occur to himget an early parole date. ThereNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn's a reason why he's in Bristol's Major Crime Unit t think so and itshe's even prepared to do the other thing that he has the best conviction rate Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with cases, ever. His partner him is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross with affection (not an emotion he would recognise, or welcome being attached to himself) and even attempts to instil some of those missing social niceties into Crosskept well away from what's behaviourhappening.
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|isbnauthor=1529151600Thea Lenarduzzi|title=Give Unto Others|author=Donna LeonThe Tower
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|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changed. The ''pandemiaHow unctuous are the fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream'' stripped . In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the city identity of T, the protagonist of this tale. Just as T's story is being told, the story of a second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the daughter of its tourists for nearly two years and a lot wealthy family in the 19th century, who died of businesses have closedtuberculosis after being locked in a tower, most never to reopencaptures T's imagination. ThereAnnie's now a cascade of money as life begins again but even 125fate is, above all,000 deaths have not put an end enticing story to greedT. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are they going to launder all the money It is a story which is coming their way? Whilst he's thinking about thisshe consumes avariciously, Brunetti encounters someone he's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when he was both in a childquest for truth and knowledge, and in service of myth, fable and fantasy. Elisabetta Foscarini has a problem and she'd like Brunetti's advice.|isbn=1804271799
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|author=Marcus SedgwickClaire-Louise Bennett|title=WrathBig Kiss, Bye-Bye
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|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=Meet FitzEverything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a young Scottish lad full kiss, usually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of frustration at himselflove lost. Lockdown is only just When the narrator cries out internally, ''come over, here and he should be free to do what he wantskiss me, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in '' it when he talks is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to his best friend, Cassieconfirm her emotional numbness. They were half The imagined recipient of a desultory school bandthis plea is Xavier, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her ecoex-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already partner, a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music ghost she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't..conjures to test her detachment.|isbn=18009008991804271934
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|isbn=16358640700008405026|title=Knit 2 Socks A Stranger in 1the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Safiyyah TalleyJane Casey|rating=45|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=If youIt've ever started knitting 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 pair of sockshalt. Now, her mother, Helena, finished the first one and either got bored by her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the idea positioning of doing the same thing all over again, or started on the second sock bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and lost the first before you finished her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it, this was going to be an open-and-shut case is the book for younow a complex double murder. Where Kerrigan is it convinced that single socks go to hide? Safiyyah Talley has developed a system that allows you to knit two socks the explanation lies in one, divide them up and have a perfectly finished pair of socks. Sounds good? ItRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's clever and well-thought-outboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|author=Olivie BlakeAnnie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=The Atlas SixOther Girl
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|genre=FantasyAutobiography|summary= Dark, sharp, and highly inquisitive, ''The Atlas Six'We were born from the same body. I' makes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensation.|isbn=1529095239}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008384983|title=The Paris Apartment|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4ve never really wanted to think about this.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=''Things are not what they seem''.
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|isbnauthor=0760373558Maxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=Nordic Knits|author=Sue FlandersReminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev|rating=43.5|genre=CraftsBiography|summary=Biographies are often seen as the form of life-writing which offers less colour; it can be seen as more objective and less personal. I was so delighted by Sue Flanders' [[Cozy Knits: 30 Hatthink that Gorky completely rejects this perspective, Mittenand offers a vibrant, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around subjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. In the World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] first section of this book, Tolstoy complains to his friend Gorky that I didn: ''t need any persuading at all you write not of real life as it is, but of what you yourself imagine it to pick up her ''Nordic Knitsbe. Whom would it help to know how I see this tower, that sea, or that Tartar - why should it interest anyone? Of what use is it?''. This delivers forty-four patterns inspired by textiles and local traditions Well, Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from Norway, Sweden and Iceland. There are a few sweaters or jackets but the majority of patterns are for smaller items such as mittenssubjective account, glovesgiving us access to how he saw Tolstoy, hats Chekhov and bags. All are bright and cheerful and very cosyAndreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of it.|isbn=1804271977
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|isbn=19160720381529077745|title=The House in the Hollow Dark Wives (The Talbot SagaD I Vera Stanhope)|author=Allie CresswellAnn Cleeves
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|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=We meet part A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811park near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. TwentyThe dead man was Josh -seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, one of the care workers who was due to work a shift the house in the hollownight before but who had never turned up. The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn D I Vera Stanhope is well aware of called in to investigate the murder - but her mother's strengths and weaknesses: ''She only clue is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath a facade the disappearance of one of respectabilitythe residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the deplorable truth''. Hester death but Vera thinks this is furious about Jocelynunlikely as the girl's refusal to do as diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she was asked, which has precipitated ''this violent and unexpected removal''. Then we are told of the birth of a child and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshireto find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.
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|author=Matthieu AikinsOlga Tokarczuk|title=The Naked Don't Fear the WaterHouse of Day, House of Night|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyLiterary Fiction|summary=It''What's easy to forget at times the good of a world that keeps changing like that ? How can one go on calmly living in it?'' The Naked Dontitle of this spellbinding work, ''House of Day, House of Night't Fear the Water isn't actually fiction, because it reads very much like a wellsomewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities -paced thriller at times. This is not by any means a criticismthe small, but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. There are tense moments and gripping accounts of border crossings subtle changes which had me on edge govern our lives, like the whole way throughshift from day to night, however quotidian, causing chaos. But it's written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality , the constant in that allows image is the reader to perfectly envisage house, stoic against the environments and people describedancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn= B09N9157T61804271918
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|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger1836284683|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)The Big Happy|author=David Chadwick
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|genre=CrimeDystopian Fiction|summary=Well! This is the third a murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a book in a series of stories featuring Alexander Blix, a police officerit's nothing like I expected it to be, and Emma Ramm, it takes me on a crime journalistwild ride. In this book we find And that when one is just what happened with ''The Big Happy''. I don't want to ruin a similar experience for any of Blixyou reading but I's colleagues, Kovic, uncovers a connection between several Oslo cases, she tries ll have to contact her superior, Blixat least set the scene. Before she can reach him, however, she is murdered, and BlixOnce that's daughter Iselin who shares the same apartmentdone, narrowly escapes being murdered too. We then find ourselves a few days later with Blix and Ramm, who are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot and killed someone, and Ramm saw it all happenI think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003
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|author=Daniel AbrahamSally Rooney|title=Age of AshIntermezzo
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|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction |summary= We meet Alys under Sally Rooney has studied the most northerly chessboard of life and is something of Oldgate's four bridgesa grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, she has a knife in as her hand and a meeting that she dreadscharacters never quite say exactly what they feel. MeanwhileAmong the many relationships woven into this story, the City of Kithamar central one for readers to unravel is at a point in the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and all things are possiblePeter Koubek. It is the night between the funeral of Ivan, a Prince and the coronation of socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his successorolder brother Peter, a successful lawyer living in Dublin. For Following their father's passing after a night long battle with cancer, the Kithamar is un-ruledbrothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=03565154270571365469
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|isbn=15290955221836285493|title=The InterviewDouble Life of a Wheelchair User|author=C M EwanRob Keeley|rating=45|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Kate Harding Will is a keen player of video games, a conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and a supportive friend. But most of all, he is going for an interview for her dream job at Edge Communicationsaspiring writer. It's the last interview of the day English is his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and one of Londonat which he excels. This hasn's newest office buildings and Edge have fitted out their part of the building to be something special. Maggiet gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Kate's recruitment agentMrs Howarth, is keen and she has suggested to see Will and his mum that Kate approaches the interview in he spends a good state couple of mind: Kate assumes that this is because Maggie will get afternoons a week at a decent bonus if Kate gets the job - and she has to admit that life has not been easy for her recentlydifferent school, Station Road, where his ability might be better extended.
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|isbn=B097XNMCRK1009473085|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Neil LancasterAnthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=45|genre=CrimePolitics and Society|summary=Loch Torridon Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't''isand that applies to '' the back of beyondThe Conservative Effect: there2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?'s not even any light pollution '. If you're looking for an easy read which is why it was will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the perfect place to land illegal deliveries of drugsbook for you. Jimmy McLeish thought If that he was onto a nice little earner's what you're looking for, only to find that MaccaI don't think Anthony Seldon's book, the man he thought he was working with{{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, is deadcan be bettered for those tumultuous years. His remains would never It's a compelling read and should be foundcompulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The delivery Conservative Effect'' is hijacked by Davie an entirely different beast. It's the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and Callumco-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. As This book follows the story progresses we'll get to know them quite well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and the situation in 2024.
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|isbnauthor= B09NDJ77LMJenny Valentine|title=Me Us in the Before and My Shadow|author=Deborah StoneAfter|rating=45|genre=General FictionTeens|summary= ''What happens when someone is pushed too far Elk and they begin to lose Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their grip on reality? How would you cope if you felt that no one loved you? And how far would you go to be happy? Accompany Rachel as she tries to shake off the shadows of her past and attempts to repair decades worth of pain.'' Rachel friendship is a once in a current conversation with her psychiatrist, who pushes her to recall her life from very young childhood onwardslifetime connection. But Rachel is combative with Doctor Blake, sometimes even contemptuous of her. You can see that it They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's not an easy therapeutic relationshipcontact details at the time. Rachel's recall of her life is in remarkable detail But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. She remembers each minor slight Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and each major betrayal in perfect detail with absolute now they must work through their grief, and unforgiving claritytheir friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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