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|isbn=16867516801838593187|title=My Mummy does weird things / Maman fait des choses bizarresGuess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Amelie Julien and GustyawanVictoria Thompson|rating=4.5
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|summary=Which child doesnTilly is excited. She't think that there mother is, wells 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 ''weirdhas''? It might be that to try to guess what she found in the morning their mother doesn't like speaking muchplayground today, when every self-respecting child knows although she concedes that that is when youhe will never guess. Dad wants to know how school was, but 're at your brightest with lots to say? 'obviously'Why'that' then does Mummy stick her fingers in s not important. Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her earsscrap box? Then there's doing yoga in front of the television, which could be worrying if it wasn(Isn't that so funny. We wonmuch more sensible than a scrap ''book''t go into too much detail about what goes on in the bathroom and the colour changes which have occured when Mummy emerges and frankly?) Well, actually, the less said the better about her reactions to your artistic efforts on the wallTilly did find exciting stuff. I meanThere are sequins, glittered paper and all sorts of other things in her pocket, but that's not what else would you use paint for?she wants Dad to guess.
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|author=Justine Avery Becky Albertalli and Liuba SyrotiukAisha Saeed|title=What Wonders Do You See... When You Dream?Yes No Maybe So |rating=4|genre=For SharingTeens|summary=''The day has ended''<br>''Hasn't We might give it been splendid?'' <br>''our all and crash and burn. But now, we might win. We might actually change things. And that maybe makes it's timestill worth going for, to be sure'' <br>''For an entirely different adventure'' <br> I hope you havendon't forgotten how it feels to be much too excited for bed. If 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
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|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, Bart, the landscape artist famous for was missing he was already 200 miles away and just waking from a chemically-induced sleep. Maggie knew straight away that something was wrong. Bart might be twenty but he was considerate of his Turner prize winning mother and wouldn't have stayed out all night without letting her know. Besides, he didn'The Hay Wagont have his phone with him and he wouldn't have gone far without that. It', and Rinaldo, renowned conceptual artist would say s not long before Bart realises that theyhe're chalk s alone, trapped in a shipping container and cheeseon his way to France, if not sworn enemieswhere his fate has already been decided. If }}{{Frontpage|author= Alyssa Sheinmel|title= What Kind of Girl|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= '' Doing something when you've watched the relationship, as has our narrator, art dealer Jamie Helmsworth, re scared is braver than doing something when you'd have said that they were magnetsre not'' When Mike Parker's girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, drawing and repulsing each other in equal measure. Wainwright was at the socially acceptable end of the artistic continuumclaiming he gave it to her, but with Rinaldo it was all too obvious that there was but a fine dividing line between conceptual art and public nuisanceher whole world is tipped upside down. As time Her relationship has worn on, hejust ended and now she's frequently been brought to the attention talk of the policeschool. On this latest occasion we see him charged Mike was the most popular boy in school who was always so in love with arson her, everyone knew that, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and theft of ''The Hay Wagonsome don't, but one thing is for sure, this isn't going to blow over any time soon.|isbn=0349003297
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|author=Mary H.K. ChoiHolly Rivers|title=Permanent RecordDemelza and the Spectre Detectors|rating=45|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Pablo, Demelza Clock is a college drop-outscientist, is working at a New York bodega. He's massively in debtoften staying up late to work on her various gadgets, hemuch to her Grandma Maeve's avoiding his motherirritation. However, and he finds his joy in creating unusual snacks with random ingredients! Whilst working one eveningshe has also inherited a certain set of skills that are not especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, he's surprised the ability to discover that summon the ghosts of the recently deceased. Under the girl he is chatting with as he serves is a super-famous pop star andguidance of her Grandma Maeve, as unlikely as it may seem, they start a relationshipDemelza begins to master her newfound skills. With one character who is trying very hard not to be seen or noticed by anyoneHowever, and the other who there is seen and followed and hounded by everyone all over a mysterious individual on the worldprowl, itkidnapping young Spectre Detectors. It's an interesting clash as they come together. This isn't just a love story though, up to Demelza and actually it's really just Pab's story, about her best friend Percy to get to the journey he takes in his life via his meet-up with Leanna Smartbottom of this...|isbn=03490034591912626039
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|isbn=16098093191787477533|title=Long-Haired Cat-Boy CubThe Lantern Men (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Etgar Keret, Aviel Basil and Sondra Silverston (translator)Elly Griffiths
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=One day a boy is in the zoo with his father, when the man gets called away on urgent businessEverything has changed for Dr Ruth Galloway. The boy She's no longer providing assistance to the police and isn't hustled into a cab and taken home first, though, no – heeven working at the University of North Norfolk. She's given hot dog moneylecturing at Cambridge and has moved from her beloved Saltmarsh cottage to live with Dr Frank Barker in Cambridge. Her daughter, and taxi moneyKatie, has settled into school better than she could ever have hoped and told to just stick around on his own and enjoy himselflife is looking good. Settled. WellShe can't help thinking about Harry Nelson, itKatie's no surprise that the orphan-for-an-afternoon sensation the lad feels doesn't make father, because Katie sees him happy, regularly and so he thinks of there's a species name for himself, and curls himself up into an empty cage, as if he were a new exhibitclose relationship with his family. And itYou might ''almost'' think that Ruth's then the drama begins… life is settling down.
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|isbn=1785785516183895015X|title=Fucking Good MannersA Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner|author=Simon GriffinChris Atkins|rating=45|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=Manners maketh man, they say. It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a set Documentary filmmakers don't usually get the run of conventionsestablishments within the Mountbatten-Windsor Hotel Group, some of which are ages old and other which have evolved over time. Manners are not about how much to tip or how you should behave if you get but after getting involved in an invitation illegal tax scheme to Buckingham Palacefund his latest film, they have nothing to do with class or financial status: Chris Atkins was invited for a five-year stay. they're about getting The first nine months were spent in HMP Wandsworth, which is probably the basics right before we try to deal with more difficult matters. Of course we all have more relaxed manners when we're with family and friendsoldest, but it's best if we learn to distinguish between our public and private lives largest and to act appropriately. ''Fucking Good Manners'' aims to help us on the waymost dysfunctional prison in Europe.
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|isbn=00083248591250168546|titleauthor=Fowl TwinsSarah Kozloff|authortitle=Eoin ColferA Queen In Hiding|rating=53|genre=Confident ReadersFantasy|summary=RelaxWorld-building is the backbone by which fantasy novels live and die. And what a pleasure, everyone – our old friend Artemis may be off planetthen, but the baddies aren't getting away to get a novel with skulduggery any time soon because they now have not one but two members of the Fowl family world-building you actually want to contend withdelve into. Those cute little twins are now eleven (Sarah Kozloff's debut novel presents a startlingly rich andlayered world, frankly, cute no longer) and in this, their first independent adventure, they meet with a troll and without even trying manage complex history of connecting nations that seems certain to make two deadly enemies: a nobleman obsessed with immortality whatever the cost (have more to other people)tap, and an unusual interrogator-nunthe characters are interesting – if a little underdeveloped. The boys are chasedBut it's a world I could – and did – eagerly buy into, kidnapped, arrested and even killed (though not for long), all with the help struggle of one trainee fairyeach Queen to discover and hone her magical talent felt very real and very apt.
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|isbn=14722557981543987877|title=The Bad Fire (Bob Skinner)Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Quintin JardineDr Thomas Jordan
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|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=Nine years ago local councillor Marcia Brown took her own life after being accused of shoplifting from ''Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a book about love relationships rather than a local supermarketbook about love. It The two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is the opposite of grief: ''if you love'', Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''you will inevitably grieve's always been assumed that she couldn't live with . Your love relationships begin the shamemoment you're born and end only when you die. People were surprised that she committed suicide just before Whilst we all come into the court case when she had been adamant that she would fight world hoping to clear her namegive and receive love there are many people for whom love is not quite so simple. She said that she'd been set up because she was hot on Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the same mistakes - and this eventually becomes resignation. For people who are making the trail of corruption same mistakes repeatedly, self-preservation, in the councilform of resignation is a necessity.}}{{Frontpage|author=Chris Hauty|title=Deep State|rating=3|genre=Thrillers|summary= Hayley Chill is a fighter. Her ex-husband has contacted Alex Skinner She is every kind of fighter, Solicitor Advocate as and well as retired Police Constable Bob Skinner-trained in most of them. She's daughterarmy infantry and she boxes for fun – and she wins. Always. She wins because she is focussed. She works hard, mentally and physically, and asked that she look into clearing Brown's name: it's something which he feels that he has knows how to deal with the pain. She is not so much cold as controlled. This fight is against someone she is not expected to do in memory of his son who was murdered recentlybeat. And she is being watched.|isbn=1471185605
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|isbnauthor=B07X6GLQ3QH G Parry |title=See Them Run|author=Marion ToddThe Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
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|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=D I Clare Mackay is still relatively new Brothers Rob and Charley have struggled to see eye to St Andrew's: she was previously at Maryhill Rd station eye for years - Rob a sensible lawyer who exists in Glasgow. She's left quite the "normal" world - and Charley a lot behind including a relationship that wasnman who is blessed with an ability he can't going anywhere after Tom failed fully control - one which allows him to support her when bring literary characters into the chips were downreal world. She also left a nasty situationAfter years of protecting Charley, of her Rob wants to discharge his duties and leave Charley to his own making devices - but not her faultcircumstances soon take choices out of both their hands. As literary characters begin to appear everywhere, and St Andrewit soon becomes clear that someone out there shares Charley's is a fresh startpowers and intends to use them for nefarious gains. Not long into Rob and Charley must team up to stop the job she's faced with madness - in a hit and run death and there's little doubt that it wasn't accidental - the card with the number five suggests murder. Andy Robb was married battle to Sandra. You could say that win before they had an open marriage but there seemed to be a lot of , the 'open' characters and very little of the 'marriage' left - on both sides, but would she want him dead?world reach The End…|isbn=0356513777
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|isbn=17865409911444776185|title=The Impossible BoyHaven't they Grown|author=Ben BrooksSophie Hannah
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|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=''Oleg and Emma entered their den It was when Beth Leeson was ferrying her son, Ben, to find a cardboard spaceship standing where they usually satfootball match that she found herself on Wyddial Lane in Hemingford Abbots. Slowly Actually, the front door opened. Smoke billowed out. And out stepped It's a boy, dressed in a long coat with an even longer scarf, wound around his neck.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'"My named come into money had lived before they's Sebastian Cole," the boy said, "But you already know thatd all lost contact twelve years ago."'' And indeed they doit 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. Ever since Beth remembered the summer, when their friend Sarahnames well - but these children were about three and five and Flora's mother had moved her away, Oleg children - Thomas and Emily - would now be fifteen and Emma have been unable to find a new friend to take her placeseventeen.
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|isbn=14472813571529123763|title=Salvation LostMiss Austen|author=Peter F HamiltonGill Hornby|rating=45|genre=Science Historical Fiction|summary=In It's long been known that Cassandra Austen burned most of the twenty-third century, humanity letters which she and other members of the extensive Austen family had exchanged with or about her sister Jane. What is enjoying a comparative utopia. Yet life on Earth not known is about to change, forever. Feriton Kane's investigative team has discovered the worst threat ever to face mankind – 'why'' she did this and weat this stage - more than two hundred years after Jane've almost no time s death - a definitive answer is unlikely to fight backforthcoming. The supposedly benign Olyix plan to harvest humanity, in order to carry Gill Hornby has provided us to their god at the end of the universe. And as their agents conclude schemes down on earth, vast warships converge above to gather this cargo. Some factions push for humanity to flee, to live with some possible answers in hiding amongst the stars – although only a chosen few would make it out in time. But others refuse book that proved to break before the storm. As disaster looms, animosities must be set aside to focus on just one goal: wiping this enemy from the face of creation. Even if it means preparing for a future this generation will never seefar more emotionally complex than I was expecting.
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