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|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Liuba Syrotiuk1838593187|title=Guess What Wonders Do You See... When You Dream?I Found in the Playground!|author=Victoria Thompson|rating=4.5
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|summary=Tilly is excited. She's just come dashing out of the classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and a big grin on her face. Dad's come to collect her and her brother and he ''The day has ended''<br>to try to guess what she found in the playground today, although she concedes that he will never guess. Dad wants to know how school was, but ''obviously''that'Hasns not important. Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (Isn't it been splendid?that so much more sensible than a scrap '' <br>book''But now?) Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. There are sequins, glittered paper and all sorts of other things in her pocket, itbut that's time, not what she wants Dad to be sure'' <br>guess.}}{{Frontpage|author= Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed|title= Yes No Maybe So ''For an entirely different adventure'' <br>|rating= 4|genre= TeensI hope you haven|summary= ''t forgotten how We might give it our all and crash and burn. But we might win. We might actually change things. And that maybe makes it feels to be much too excited still worth going for bed. If , don't youthink?'re a parent at least, you'll know how it is to persuade an excited small person that yes, it is Jaime has been spending his summer helping his cousin with campaigning in fact time for beda special election. When his mother encourages him to go canvassing, he can''What Wonders DoYou Seet think of anything worse...'' sets out However, Jaime has always wanted to cater be a politician and decides there is no time like the present to these children. Instead conquer his fear of trying speaking to persuade them that night time the public. Maya is calm time, it takes a slightly different tackPakistani-American Muslim girl who is having the worst summer of her life. It tells them that sleep Her parents are going through a separation, she has zero plans for the summer to help take her mind off things and her only close friend is actually an exciting time: permanently busy. To help occupy her, her parents offer to buy her a time of dreams in which imagination takes over and has no limitcar if she agrees to go canvassing. But The pair could possibly be the trick worst canvassing duo in accessing this wonderful and exciting worldhistory, is as neither of them really want to get calm and relaxed first so be there, but as the campaign goes on they discover that you can easily fall asleep they care, a lot, about the election - and open the door to it. maybe even about each other?|isbn=194812422X 1471184668
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|author=Michael HarrisGregg Hurwitz|title=Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded WorldInto The Fire
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|genre=LifestyleThrillers|summary= This Grant Merriweather is not the book I was expecting it to bea forensic accountant. For some reason I expected it to be another self-help manual on how to find calm Or rather, how to step outside the mainstream, but it is not that at allwas. Instead of telling us howHe was brought into an ER room after an alleged car crash, it is more about his friend pleading with the ''why''medics to keep him alive. Harries examines how we're eroding solitude, which used He was needed alive just long enough to be give up a natural part of our human life, and why that mattersname. Of course he talks about how some people have found solitude and what has come of that His cousin, and eventually in the final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it out, but mostly he wanders down the alleys and by-ways that his thinking about this lost art led himMax.|isbn=18479476620718185501
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|authorisbn=Andy Briggs1529124395|title=Ctrl+SWhen You See Me|author=Lisa Gardner|rating=54|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary= Life For Janet and Chuck, it was a hiking break in the near future's not all bad. We've reversed global warming Appalachians in Georgia and fixed pure chance that Chuck went off the collapsing bee populationbeaten track to find a stick. We even created SPACE What he found was a human bone and SSA Kimberley Quincy was called in, a virtual-sensory universe where average guys like Theo Wilson can do almost anything along with Sergeant D D Warren. Both women were experienced in this type of rather gruesome work but they desire. But almost anything isn't enough for some. Every dayalso called on the services of Keith Edgar, normal people are being takena computer analyst, their emotions harvested - and lives traded - Flora Dane who brought something unique to create death-defying thrills the table. Flora had been kidnapped and held for 472 days by the rich and twistednotorious killer, Jacob Ness. Now Theo’s mother has disappeared. And as he follows her breadcrumb trail of clues, he'll come up against If Ness had anything to do with the most dangerous SPACE has current discoveries then what Flora had to offer: vPolice, AI Bots and anarchists - as well as a criminal empire that will kill to stop him finding her say could be invaluable. . .|isbn=1409184641
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|isbn=16098093781529009677|title=The Rabbits' RebellionA Window Breaks|author=Ariel Dorfman and Chris RiddellC M Ewan|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=WeTom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are having problems. It're in s not just the realm usual growing apart after more than a decade of the rabbitsmarriage. Their son, Michael, only the foxes was killed in a car crash some months before: he was driving his father's Audi and wolves have taken overat sixteen wasn't legally entitled to drive. King WolfNot only did he kill himself when the car rammed into a tree, His Wolfinessbut he also killed his girlfriend, has declared the rabbits donfifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. Tom can't existthink about Michael without a sense of shame and guilt. Rachel is broken, but the pesky birds have spread rumours from awing that the bunnies are in fact still aroundshe wants to forgive Michael. Demanding a propaganda spreeTo give some space, Tom's moved out of the family home, King Wolf orders a humble monkey but stresses to be his official portrait photographerthirteen-year-old daughter, but whatever the poor innocent monkey prints out in his darkroom there Holly, that it is only a distinct leporine hinttrial separation. Can King Wolf succeed in proving himself victorious, can the rabbits show their continued existence to all who need to know of it – and what can the poor monkey caught in between do?
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|authorisbn=Innosanto Nagara0241985153|title=M is for MovementThe House on the Lake|author=Nuala Ellwood|rating=43.5|genre=Emerging ReadersThrillers|summary=Set in Indonesia, We know that something has gone wrong - badly wrong - when the woman who was alone in the not too distant past, this house is a story about social change. Dealing with some difficult issues, such as political corruption and nepotism, taken away by the book is neither boring nor preachy. It educates gently, with vibrant, challenging illustrationspolice, and but it portrays how social movements need people who will try, even when it seems that they will fail. The message is 's going to be a positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain world, while before we do still have the power to instigate changelearn exactly what has happened.|isbn=1609809351
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|isbnauthor=1780724047Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)|title=A Dictionary Orphans of Interesting and Important Dogs|author=Peter J Conradithe Tide|rating=45|genre=PetsConfident Readers|summary=I struggle In the last city on Earth, anyone can be the vessel of The Enemy - the god who drowned the world - who has come to resist wreak havoc on the last of humanity. When a book about dogsmysterious boy is pulled from the corpse of a whale, but I did wonder why this one was so ''thin'': given that I've never encountered a dog who wasn't interesting or important the citizens immediately believe him to be the Vessel - and probably bothall except for young Ellie Lancaster, I was expecting a massive tomegirl inventor. But ''A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs'' As the ruthless Inquisition prepares to execute the boy, Ellie must prove that he is actually ''a rich compendium of the world's most significant and beloved dogs'' and innocent - even if it's certainly a rich treasure trove. We begin with Peter J Conradi's four collies: Cloudymeans revealing her deepest, Skydarkest secrets. Bradley and Max. They're consecutive rather than simultaneous dogs, but what comes over is Conradi's love for each and every one of them. I knew that I was in safe hands.|isbn=0241384435
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|isbn=17857692940008297169|title=Man at the Window (Detective Cardilini)The Guest List|author=Robert JeffreysLucy Foley
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's when we read that a young boy is creeping reluctantly The boat trip out to a teacher's bedroom one October night that we realise something is badly wrong. Nowadays you ''Inis Amploir, off the Irish coast, might'' hope that something would be done about have been enough to put some guests off, but it fairly quickly but this was 1965 and child abuse was generally regarded as malicious mischief on the part wedding of the childyear. The boy would be safe that night though - albeit Will Slater (television personality, if not yet a celebrity) was to marry Jules Keegan, online magazine publisher, in the most horrific fashionruined chapel on the island. When he reached Captain EdmundThe bride's bedroom he found sister, Olivia, would be her only bridesmaid and the man dead on the floorwedding planner and chef are Aoife and her husband, the top of his skull missingFreddy. The school's initial reaction was that this was They gave a dreadful accident: there had been a cull of kangaroos in some nearby fields and huge discount to get the couple to the island, but surely it would be worth it was obviously a stray bullet which had killed for the Captain.publicity?
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|isbn=1786695227B07ZGL6B1B|title=Invisible in a Bright LightIn Plain Sight (D I Clare Mackay)|author=Sally GardnerMarion Todd
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=The beginning of this excellent story will leave the reader more than It was a little confused: who is coincidence that Detective Sergeant Chris West and DI Clare Mackay were at the man in beach when the green suit, what is baby was stolen. They were there for the Reckoning, fun run and why are rows of people in a cave? their attention was taken by the NEFEW protesters who tried to disrupt the race. But stick with it – Ms Gardner They're against the planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant to be constructed on Priory Marsh and the firm is very cleverly letting us experience sponsoring the same disorientation as our heroinefun run. It was Lisa Mitchell's scream which stopped everything. We watch in dismay as the strange man Her daughter, who seems to have no eyessix-month-old Abi, does his best to persuade had been taken from her to answer his questionspram whilst no one was looking. But for some reason Celeste It's a major incident when ''any'' child is abducted but Abi needs regular medication because of a heart problem: without it, despite her bewilderment, remains wary and gives nothing awayshe might have only forty-eight hours to live.
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|isbn=19123748541471180921|title=VioletFirewatching|author=S J I HollidayRuss Thomas|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=IDetective Sergeant Adam Tyler is in the Cold Cas Review Unit at South Yorkshire Police and there are those who think that he've never been but understand s lucky to be there, given that travelling is all about meeting new people and forming instantaneous bonds with people in often chance situationshe decked a superior officer. Well that He's exactly what happens when there because Tyler came off worse in the two main/only characters meet in exchange - there's a travel agency in Beijing scar on his face to prove it - Carrie is unsuccessfully trying and the superior officer was forced to get take early retirement. There's a refund suggestion too that Tyler's godmother (she's on an extra ticket for the Trans-Siberian train force too) has looked after him and Violet that his current boss is trying keen to unsuccessfully buy have a ticket for tame gay to put on the same sold-out journeytown hall steps come Pride. As the two team up Either way, travelling through Mongoliahe's there, Serbia and but without anything really interesting to get his teeth into Russia, it could've been the start of a beautiful friendship but this a thriller after all so it quickly becomes a tale of obsession, manipulation and toxic friendships.
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|isbnauthor=1912374838A K Larkwood|title=Nothing Important Happened Today|author=Will CarverThe Unspoken Name|rating=4|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=Nothing Important Happened Today What does it mean to betray someone? What if that someone is a darkgod? Csorwe has been raised knowing that she would be sacrificed to her god on her fourteenth birthday, twistedyet when the opportunity arises, difficult readshe chooses to abandon everything she knows and flee with her life. Stories about cults often are, but this is different; itWho can blame her? Her god's written with a sense of style that reach is quite unlike anything I've read before. I can't remember ever having read a novel with such an oddlimited and Csorwe intends to stay far beyond it, distinctive narrative voice. While yet fate is a slim funny thing and relatively small book, when circumstances bring her back within the slow-moving nature reach of the plot makes it feel far larger than its 276 pagesher god Csorwe learns that her god remembers her, and blames her very much indeed.|isbn=1250238900
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|isbnauthor= williamabbeyM G Leonard and Sam Sedgman|title=The Pursuit of William Abbey|author=Claire NorthHighland Falcon Thief|rating=3.5|genre=ParanormalConfident Readers|summary=When William Abbey fails Harrison Beck, or Hal as he prefers to prevent the lynching of be called, isn't exactly pleased when his parents send him off with his uncle Nat, a travel writer, on a young boy in 1880long train journey. Although, this isn's South Africat any old train; this is the Highland Falcon, he finds himself cursed by the grieving motherroyal train, and this is its last ever journey before it gets sent to a museum. A naïve English Doctornumber of high-society figures, he slowly learns including film stars, millionaires and aristocrats, will be on this train, so it is quite the weight of event on the curse upon himsocial calendar. However, when an expensive brooch is stolen, Hal realises that maybe this trip won't be as boring as he previously thought. As the shadow of the dead boy begins passengers begin to turn on each other, Hal vows to get to follow him across the world. Never stopping, always growing – it crosses oceans and mountains in pursuit bottom of William. As he finds himself unable to resist speaking the truths that he hears in others, he also learns that mystery…before the dark shadow is deadly – and seeks train gets to kill the one he loves end of the most…line.|isbn=1529013062
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|isbn=16437850360008275246|title=The Wondrous ApothecaryPerfect Kill (D I Callanach)|author=Mary E MartinHelen Fields
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Those who have known Alexander WainwrightWhen Maggie Campbell realised that her son, the landscape artist famous for his Turner prize winning ''The Hay Wagon''Bart, was missing he was already 200 miles away and Rinaldo, renowned conceptual artist would say that they're chalk and cheese, if not sworn enemiesjust waking from a chemically-induced sleep. If you've watched the relationship, as has our narrator, art dealer Jamie Helmsworth, you'd have said Maggie knew straight away that they were magnets, drawing and repulsing each other in equal measuresomething was wrong. Wainwright Bart might be twenty but he was at the socially acceptable end considerate of the artistic continuum, but with Rinaldo it was his mother and wouldn't have stayed out all too obvious that there was but a fine dividing line between conceptual art and public nuisancenight without letting her know. As time has worn onBesides, hedidn's frequently been brought to the attention of the police. On this latest occasion we see t have his phone with him charged with arson and theft of he wouldn't have gone far without that. It'The Hay Wagon's not long before Bart realises that he's alone, trapped in a shipping container and on his way to France, where his fate has already been decided.
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|author=Mary H.K. ChoiAlyssa Sheinmel|title=Permanent RecordWhat Kind of Girl|rating=4|genre=TeensWomen's Fiction|summary=Pablo'' Doing something when you're scared is braver than doing something when you're not'' When Mike Parker's girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, a college drop-outclaiming he gave it to her, her whole world is working at a New York bodegatipped upside down. HeHer relationship has just ended and now she's massively the talk of the school. Mike was the most popular boy in debt, he's avoiding his mother, and he finds his joy school who was always so in creating unusual snacks love with random ingredients! Whilst working one eveningher, he's surprised to discover everyone knew that the girl , so why did he is chatting with as do what he serves is a super-famous pop star did? Some people believe her andsome don't, as unlikely as it may seem, they start a relationship. With but one character who thing is trying very hard not to be seen or noticed by anyonefor sure, and the other who is seen and followed and hounded by everyone all over the world, it's an interesting clash as they come together. This this isn't just a love story though, and actually it's really just Pab's story, about the journey he takes in his life via his meet-up with Leanna Smartgoing to blow over any time soon.|isbn=03490034590349003297
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|isbnauthor=1609809319Holly Rivers|title=Long-Haired Cat-Boy Cub|author=Etgar Keret, Aviel Basil Demelza and Sondra Silverston (translator)the Spectre Detectors|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=One day Demelza Clock is a boy is in the zoo with his fatherscientist, when the man gets called away often staying up late to work on urgent business. The boy isn't hustled into a cab and taken home firsther various gadgets, though, no – hemuch to her Grandma Maeve's given hot dog moneyirritation. However, and taxi moneyshe has also inherited a certain set of skills that are not especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, and told the ability to just stick around on his own and enjoy himselfsummon the ghosts of the recently deceased. Well, it's no surprise that the orphan-for-an-afternoon sensation Under the lad feels doesn't make him happy, and so he thinks guidance of a species name for himselfher Grandma Maeve, and curls himself up into an empty cageDemelza begins to master her newfound skills. However, as if he were there is a new exhibitmysterious individual on the prowl, kidnapping young Spectre Detectors. And itIt's then up to Demelza and her best friend Percy to get to the drama begins… bottom of this...|isbn=1912626039
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|isbn=17857855161787477533|title=Fucking Good MannersThe Lantern Men (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Simon GriffinElly Griffiths|rating=45|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=Manners maketh man, they sayEverything has changed for Dr Ruth Galloway. It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a set She's no longer providing assistance to the police and isn't even working at the University of conventions, some of which are ages old North Norfolk. She's lecturing at Cambridge and other which have evolved over timehas moved from her beloved Saltmarsh cottage to live with Dr Frank Barker in Cambridge. Manners are not about how much to tip or how you should behave if you get an invitation to Buckingham PalaceHer daughter, Katie, they has settled into school better than she could ever have nothing to do with class or financial status: hoped and life is looking good. they're about getting the basics right before we try to deal with more difficult mattersSettled. Of course we all have more relaxed manners when weShe can're with family and friendst help thinking about Harry Nelson, but itKatie's best if we learn to distinguish between our public father, because Katie sees him regularly and private lives and to act appropriatelythere's a close relationship with his family. You might ''Fucking Good Mannersalmost'' aims to help us on the waythink that Ruth's life is settling down.
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|isbn=0008324859183895015X|title=Fowl TwinsA Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner|author=Eoin ColferChris Atkins
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|genre=Confident ReadersPolitics and Society|summary=Relax, everyone – our old friend Artemis may be off planet, but the baddies arenDocumentary filmmakers don't getting away with skulduggery any time soon because they now have not one but two members usually get the run of establishments within the Fowl family to contend with. Those cute little twins are now eleven (andMountbatten-Windsor Hotel Group, frankly, cute no longer) and but after getting involved in thisan illegal tax scheme to fund his latest film, their first independent adventure, they meet Chris Atkins was invited for a troll and without even trying manage to make two deadly enemies: a nobleman obsessed with immortality whatever the cost (to other people), and an unusual interrogatorfive-nunyear stay. The boys are chasedfirst nine months were spent in HMP Wandsworth, kidnappedwhich is probably the oldest, arrested largest and even killed (though not for long), all with the help of one trainee fairymost dysfunctional prison in Europe.
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|isbn=14722557981250168546|titleauthor=The Bad Fire (Bob Skinner)Sarah Kozloff|authortitle=Quintin JardineA Queen In Hiding|rating=4.53|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=Nine years ago local councillor Marcia Brown took her own life after being accused of shoplifting from World-building is the backbone by which fantasy novels live and die. And what a pleasure, then, to get a local supermarketnovel with world-building you actually want to delve into. ItSarah Kozloff's always been assumed that she couldn't live debut novel presents a startlingly rich and layered world, with the shame. People were surprised a complex history of connecting nations that she committed suicide just before the court case when she had been adamant that she would fight seems certain to have more to clear her name. She said that she'd been set up because she was hot on tap, and the trail of corruption in the councilcharacters are interesting – if a little underdeveloped. Her ex-husband has contacted Alex Skinner, Solicitor Advocate as well as retired Police Constable Bob SkinnerBut it's daughtera world I could – and did – eagerly buy into, and asked that she look into clearing Brown's name: it's something which he feels that he has the struggle of each Queen to do in memory of his son who was murdered recentlydiscover and hone her magical talent felt very real and very apt.
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|isbn=B07X6GLQ3Q1543987877|title=See Them RunLearn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Marion ToddDr Thomas Jordan|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=D I Clare Mackay is still relatively new ''Learn to Love: Guide to St AndrewHealing Your Disappointing Love Life''s: she was previously at Maryhill Rd station in Glasgowis a book about love relationships rather than a book about love. SheThe two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is the opposite of grief: ''if you love's left quite a lot behind including a relationship that wasn't going anywhere after Tom failed to support her when the chips were down. She also left a nasty situation, of her own making but not her faultDr Thomas Jordan tells us, and St Andrew's is a fresh start'you will inevitably grieve''. Not long into Your love relationships begin the job shemoment you's faced with a hit re born and run death and there's little doubt that it wasn't accidental - the card with the number five suggests murderend only when you die. Andy Robb was married Whilst we all come into the world hoping to Sandragive and receive love there are many people for whom love is not quite so simple. You could say that they had an open marriage but there seemed to be a lot of Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the 'open' same mistakes - and very little of this eventually becomes resignation. For people who are making the 'marriage' left same mistakes repeatedly, self- on both sidespreservation, but would she want him dead?in the form of resignation is a necessity.
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|isbnauthor=1786540991Chris Hauty|title=The Impossible Boy|author=Ben BrooksDeep State|rating=4.53|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=''Oleg and Emma entered their den to find Hayley Chill is a cardboard spaceship standing where they usually satfighter. Slowly She is every kind of fighter, the front door opened. Smoke billowed out. And out stepped a boy, dressed and well-trained in a long coat with an even longer scarf, wound around his neckmost of them.'' ''"My nameShe's Sebastian Cole," the boy said, "But you already know thatarmy infantry and she boxes for fun – and she wins. Always."'' And indeed they doShe wins because she is focussed. Ever since the summerShe works hard, when their friend Sarah's mother had moved her awaymentally and physically, Oleg and Emma have been unable she knows how to find a new friend deal with the pain. She is not so much cold as controlled. This fight is against someone she is not expected to take her placebeat. And she is being watched.|isbn=1471185605
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|isbnauthor=1447281357H G Parry |title=Salvation Lost|author=Peter F HamiltonThe Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
|rating=4
|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=In Brothers Rob and Charley have struggled to see eye to eye for years - Rob a sensible lawyer who exists in the twenty"normal" world -third century, humanity is enjoying and Charley a comparative utopia. Yet life on Earth man who is about blessed with an ability he can't fully control - one which allows him to change, forever. Feriton Kane's investigative team has discovered bring literary characters into the worst threat ever to face mankind – and we've almost no time to fight backreal world. The supposedly benign Olyix plan to harvest humanityAfter years of protecting Charley, in order Rob wants to carry us discharge his duties and leave Charley to their god at the end his own devices - but circumstances soon take choices out of the universe. And as both their agents conclude schemes down on earth, vast warships converge above to gather this cargohands. Some factions push for humanity As literary characters begin to fleeappear everywhere, to live in hiding amongst the stars – although only a chosen few would make it soon becomes clear that someone out in time. But others refuse there shares Charley's powers and intends to break before the stormuse them for nefarious gains. As disaster looms, animosities Rob and Charley must be set aside team up to focus on just one goal: wiping this enemy from stop the face of creation. Even if it means preparing for madness - in a future this generation will never see.battle to win before they, the characters and the world reach The End…|isbn=0356513777
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|isbn=14711863931444776185|title=Photographer of the LostHaven't they Grown|author=Caroline ScottSophie Hannah
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It was when Beth Leeson was ferrying her son, Ben, to a football match that she found herself on Wyddial Lane in Hemingford Abbots. Actually, It's a little disingenuous to say 'found herself' as Beth had made a deliberate detour on the grounds that she didn't find herself in this neck of the woods very often and she was curious to see where a family who'd come into money had lived before they'd all lost contact twelve years ago. And it might have gone no further than that had Beth not seen a car draw up and her friend Flora get out along with two children she called Thomas and Emily. Beth remembered the names well - but these children were about three and five and Flora's children - Thomas and Emily - would now be fifteen and seventeen.
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|isbn=1529123763
|title=Miss Austen
|author=Gill Hornby
|rating=5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=May 1921. Edie receives a photograph through It's long been known that Cassandra Austen burned most of the letters which she and other members of the post. There is no letter extensive Austen family had exchanged with or note with itabout her sister Jane. There What is nothing written on the back of the photograph. It not known is ''why'' she did this and at this stage - more than two hundred years after Jane's death - a picture of her husband, Francisdefinitive answer is unlikely to forthcoming. Francis Gill Hornby has been missing for four years. Technically, he has been "missing, believed killed" but that is not something provided us with some possible answers in a book that a young widow can believe. She hangs on the word 'missing', disbelieving the word killedproved to be far more emotionally complex than I was expecting.
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