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===[[21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari]]===
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Yuval Noah HarariIf gave us ''Sapiens'', which told the history of mankind and then ''Homo Deus'' which looked at mankind's future. Now we have ''21 Lessons for the 21st Century'' which looks at the challenges we currently face and it's enlightening, thought-provoking and occasionally just a little bit frightening. It's unlikely that mankind will face what - eighty years ago - would have been thought of as a traditional war, with armies, navies and air forces fighting it out hand to hand. It's much more likely that the threats we'll face will be relatively new. Harari looks at them in some depth[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari:Category:For Sharing|Full ReviewFor Sharing]]
 Something's gone horribly wrong. It's Christmas Eve and everything is very busy in Santa's grotto. The presents are all ready and waiting to be loaded onto the sleigh and the reindeer are itching to get going. But Santa? Santa is just not in the mood. He is tired of delivering the latest toys to children who only play with them for five minutes. He wishes people would remember what Christmas is really about - a time for families to come together for love and friendship and goodwill to one another. [[Santa Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston|Full Review]]<!-- Wilson Keeley -->
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===[[Aftershocks by A N Wilson]]===
===[[The Coming of the Spirits by Rob Keeley]]=== [[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:General FictionConfident Readers|General FictionConfident Readers]]
In a country very much like New Zealand, but at the same time most avowedly not, two women will find love. Strong love too, for our narrator will say that her first attraction for her partner was the only thing to make sense of all those exaggerated songs she'd heard, and books and poems she'd read, and plays she'd acted in – works of art that had until then seemed sheer hyperbole. It was entirely unrequited love for quite some time, but it does burgeon, or so we're promised from the off, because of something quite drastic – a major earthquake very much like the one that hit Christchurch, but at the same time most avowedly not. This book then is the combined exploration of the lovers and the story of the quake. [[Aftershocks by A N Wilson|Full Review]]
In Victorian England, young Edward Fitzberranger is about to be infected with scarlet fever and die. Further back still in time, Sir Francis Fitzberranger is about to marry Tina, the love of his life. In the modern day, Henry and Luke are getting on with life. And in an alternate timeline, Ellie is working for a resistance movement and struggling under a Britain ruled by the Nazis... [[The Coming of the Spirits by Rob Keeley|Full Review]]<!-- Torday Wilson -->
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===[[The Lost Magician by Piers Torday]]===
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In a world ravaged by the horrors of the Second World War, two boys and two girls move to the countryside to stay with a professor[[image:4star. They find a secret door and then a strange and enthralling world where they are neededjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], to play a major role in an epic battle. Sound familiar? [[The Lost Magician by Piers Torday:Category:Teens|Full ReviewTeens]]
Jago doesn't like Clementine. He knows there is something different about her and he doesn't like it. And he never lets her forget it. Clementine knows she's different too, and that the difference is magic. And as much as she tries to ignore it, Clementine's magic is getting stronger. So when Jago's bullying gets too much, it's not really surprising that Clem loses control of it and gets herself suspended from school. [[Snowglobe by Amy Wilson|Full Review]]<!-- Bowden Haig -->
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===[[The Amber Maze Truth Pixie by Christopher BowdenMatt Haig and Chris Mould]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
Hugh Mullion goes away [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Poor old Truth Pixie. She's cursed! She can't speak unless it's to Dorset for tell the truth. You might think this is a good thing because telling lies is bad, right? But sometimes the weekend truth isn't nice and sometimes a white lie is okay and, while waiting for his wife sometimes it's better to say nothing at all. You might not want to arrive, finds a mysterious key down attract the back attention of an antique chair. The grubby the school bully by calling him mean and torn label nasty, for example, or you might not want to which is attached reads..tell someone that you think their brand new haircut looks awful. [[The Amber Maze Truth Pixie by Christopher BowdenMatt Haig and Chris Mould|Full Review]]
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===[[Worzel goes for a Walk. Will you come too? Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by Catherine Pickles and Chantal BourgonjeM B Vincent]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]], [[:Category:Pets|Pets]]
When we [[Worzel says hello! Will you be my friend? by Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonjeimage:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|last met Worzel WoolfaceGeneral Fiction]] he was a rather frightened dog who had difficulty meeting people. He's a bit better now and something which he really enjoys is going for a walk. It's not just a case of attaching a lead and heading for your favourite spot - there are a lot of other things to think about first. , [[Worzel goes for a Walk. Will you come too? by Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje:Category:Crime|Full ReviewCrime]]
Dr Jess Castle, the self proclaimed failure of the prestigious Castle family has returned home to the sleepy, idyllic chocolate box town of Castle Kidbury. Rather than being delighted, her family are suspicious, especially her father, the judge. Luckily for Jess, she doesn't have to try too hard to dodge her family's suspicions as a series of gruesome local murders are taking place and that's all anyone is talking about. Jess accidentally finds herself in the thick of the investigation, and to her delight finds that she can actually be useful. But with the small population dwindling and the sense of danger moving ever closer to home, has Jess made a grave mistake getting involved? [[Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by M B Vincent|Full Review]]
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Flitting between We never know the present day and mid 16thcentury, man's name but let's call him ''BellewetherBoyo'' tells the fascinating tale of the Wilde House and all its inhabitants. In the present tense aspects It's what his mother used to call him, the Wilde House is being turned into a museum due to the legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wildenot least because he found it annoying. It When we first meet Boyo his mother is told from the perspective of Charleyalive, the museum curator, who if not ''living'' as most people would understand it. She spends her days watching daytime television and drinking. Housework is intrigued by the ghost who haunts the house and their story; a tale that ends in tragedy involving Benjamin Wildeforeign country. When she dies she's sisternot missed, Lydia, and firstly because she'd spent a couple of years in a French-Canadian lieutenantmental hospital, Jean-Philippe who was sent but mainly because her ghost continues to live therehaunt Boyo. The perspective of the book is continuously shifted between Charley, then Lydia and Jean-Philippe. The latter two tell the truth about She wants him to achieve something in his life: what was happening during this chaotic time she has in history, just as Charley mind is beginning to unravel it herselfthat he could be a famous arsonist. [[Bellewether Nothing Lasting by Susanna KearsleyLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[The Legend of Kevin: A Roly-Poly Flying Pony Adventure (Legend of Kevin 1) Broken Things by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyreLauren Oliver]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
[[image''This is the problem with words and even stories:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]there is never one truth''
Meet Kevin. He's a flying ponySummer, Mia and heBrynn are obsessed with a novel called ''The Way into Lovelorn''s a little on the plump side. He loves biscuits too much They begin to believe it is whyreal, but he's happily living in that the middle world of nowhere, in the wild, wet hills of the Outermost West. Now meet Max. He's a simple human being, not flying anywhereLovelorn is really materialising around them, and wishing for a pet to share his time in his topstart writing their own fan-floor flat with, something his Byronically goth sister and parents don't agree withfiction sequel. One night, howeverday, Summer is violently murdered in the wild woods where they all played and wet hills are wilder and wetter than usual, everyone thinks Mia and an enormous storm blows Kevin out of his nest, and on to the balcony outside Max's windowBrynn did it. The two are bound to become friends, but they might not be able to relax just yet, for the bad weather has not finished… [[The Legend of Kevin: A Roly-Poly Flying Pony Adventure (Legend of Kevin 1) Broken Things by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyreLauren Oliver|Full Review]]
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===[[The Murder of Harriet Monkton What if It's Us by Elizabeth HaynesBecky Albertelli and Adam Silvera]]===
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''But that's just I believe in love at first sight. Fate, the universe, all of it'', she said. ''It's ''But nothow you're thinking. I don' Harriet, is t mean it? Not in the our Harrietsouls were split and you're my other half forever and ever sort of way. ItI just think you's re meant to meet some manufactured creature, that exists only for this blessed inquest: something to be summed up like a spirit, to be examined and pored over, to be sneered at and judgedpeople. Harriet deserves to be remembered as she was to us, not picked at like carrionI think the universe nudges them into your path.''
And ''What If It's Us'' is one of those books that was the problem: just gives you a boost when you need it seemed that there were two Harriets. There was the one her friends - a fellow teacher, her would-be loverA feel good, her seducer fun and easy read. I was surprised at the man who was her landlord who was also her lover - knew. Some spoke collaboration of her as kindly, virtuous Silvera and piousAlbertalli – one known for happy endings, the other for tragedy – but that was before her body was found behind the chapel which she regularly attended in Bromleythey really work together well. She'd been poisoned - or had taken her own life. After the inquest was opened another Harriet would emergeEach takes a character and their voices are so distinct, one who was about six months pregnant and who had obviously not been living the chaste life expected of a youngso real, unmarried woman that you are immediately sucked in 1843. [[The Murder of Harriet Monkton What if It's Us by Elizabeth HaynesBecky Albertelli and Adam Silvera|Full Review]]
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===[[You Only Live Once Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) by Jess VallanceQuentin Bates]]===
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Gracie Dart is Gunna wasn't too keen when she was taken off police duties to become a studious, responsible student with a colour coded timetable and French verbs covering her wallsbodyguard. SheIt wasn's hardworking t just the sheer inconvenience of it - away from home for however long the job took and smart but once her final school exams are overwith no contact with the family - she wasn't the only one to have doubts about the man she was guarding. Invited to Iceland by prominent politician Steinunn Strand, Ali Osman was either a saint who devoted himself to helping refugees escape the carnage in their Middle Eastern homeland, Gracie has or a revelationmoney-laundering gunrunner. After she mistakenly thinks she The truth was probably a combination of the two, but whichever or whatever was correct, there's contracted a fatal illness (the perils of looking up symptoms money on Osman's head and this is the internet) Gracie decides to start living her life. Her studies reason why he and Gunna are finished for the summer so Gracie wants to say yes to every opportunity that comes holed up in an isolated house outside Reykjavik, with Gunna toting a gun under her way, fleece and just like her meticulous study timetable, Gracie Dart doesn't do anything by half measureswith a group of armed police in a nearby house. [[You Only Live Once Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) by Jess VallanceQuentin Bates|Full Review]]
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===[[Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[Dear Evan Hansen:Category:Fantasy|FantasyThe Novel by Val Emmich]]===
Sancia Grado is just about to pull off the biggest heist [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Evan Hansen spends a lot of her fugitive life for more money than she time indoors by himself. This worries his mother, who has ever seen before in all her gruelling years on Tevanneengaged a therapist to try to help Evan with his extreme anxiety issues. Evan's streets. The job: steal therapist assigns him the task of writing a small wooden box from daily letter to himself as a safe deep inside the Waterwatch-patrolled harbour way of getting Evan to think more constructively about himself and deliver it untouched to the clientworld around him. Fearless and quickBut Connor Murphy, she is the best thief Foundryside has to offer and has never interfered with jobs before. Yet once she has the box in her possessiona rather scary boy at school, she canfinds one of Evan't shake s letters and gets the uneasy apprehensive feeling wrong end of what lies within. For Sancia is no ordinary thiefthe stick because Evan has mentioned Zoe, with the magical ability to scrive girl he has a crush on and understand everything she touches shewho is Connor's about to discover a secret that will sent her fleeing for her life, unearthing myths that are it transpires more truth than fairy-tale. Working against the clock, Sancia will work to save her world and prevent a descent into destructionsister. [[Foundryside Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel by Robert Jackson BennettVal Emmich|Full Review]]
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===[[Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer by M C Beaton]]===
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[[image:4starSt Ethelred's Church in the idyllic Cotswold village of Thirk Magna has a team of dedicated bell ringers, with the keenest being twins Mavis and Millicent Dupin and when we first meet them they're preparing for the bishop's visit. Now you might be expecting an older, perhaps rather grey man, but this bishop is a little different. One description is 'sex on legs' and even Agatha Raisin is a little smitten - at first - but there's the merest whiff of a scandal about the bishop. It's the mystery of the bishop's ex-fiancee, local heiress Jennifer Toynby, who disappeared very suddenly and neither she nor her body have ever been found.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionAgatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer by M C Beaton|General FictionFull Review]]
Sasha has a lot on her plate. Husband Jeremy is distant and absent and the marriage needs work. Son Zac is entering a rebellious adolescent phase and it's hard to know how to redirect him. Mother Annie, an alcoholic, is beginning the journey into dementia and has never been an easy person at the best of times. Thank heavens for her lovely dog, Sebastian, and his unconditional love. [[What's Left Unsaid by Deborah Stone|Full Review]] <!-- Marion Leigh DiCamillo -->
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===[[A Holiday Louisiana's Way Home by Kate DiCamillo]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] It is the middle of the night when twelve year old Louisiana Elefante's granny wakes her up to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they must leave home immediately. Granny is prone to middle of the night ideas so initially Louisiana is not too worried by this but then gradually she realises that this time it is different. This time Granny intends that they will never return. Separated from her friends, Raymie and Beverly and her cat, Archie, Louisiana is devastated and desperate. She is determined that she will find her way home somehow. But as her life becomes entwined with the people living in a small Georgia town Louisiana starts to Die For worry about the ''curse'' Granny told her was upon her head and fears that she is destined only for goodbyes. [[Louisiana's Way Home by Marion LeighKate DiCamillo|Full Review]] <!-- Chadwick --> |-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:0349700249.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0349700249/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 
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It was the holiday of a lifetime[[image: Petra Minx was accompanying her childhood friend, Carlo, to his cousin's wedding in South Africa and taking the opportunity to see as much of the country as she could whilst she was there5star. Petra works for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Carlo is from Interpol, so they're hoping for a holiday free from crime, although Carlo does seem to have rather more interest in diamond smuggling than the average tourist and Petra's boss doesn't seem to appreciate that she's on vacation. It's not asking much for her to track down a young girl who's the daughter of an influential friend and check that she's OK, is it? Then there are Megan and Hilaryjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: they're on a gap year, but Petra can't help but think that they're getting themselves into dangers they don't understand. StillLGBT Fiction|LGBT Fiction]], it's not going to spoil a wedding in a vineyard, is it? The bride does seem strangely uninvolved in the proceedings, though... [[A Holiday to Die For by Marion Leigh:Category:Science Fiction|Full ReviewScience Fiction]]
Angela Chadwick's debut novel explores the possibility of two women being able to produce a baby girl through a process called Ovum-to-Ovum fertilisation. It centres around Rosie and Jules who take part in the first ever clinical trial that would allow them to have a child of their own without the need for a sperm donor or any other male intervention. What follows is a story that shows the harshness and at times disgraceful behaviour of the media, and the general public, when faced with a controversial technique that could lead to the demise of men. [[XX by Angela Chadwick|Full Review]] <!-- Ellis Gardner -->
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===[[The Place Where Love Should Be Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon by Elizabeth EllisSally Gardner]]===
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''Edward is six weeks old and I’ve had no sleepBetsy K Glory lives a rather wonderful life on a peaceful island where nothing horrible ever happens. I had thirty stitches Her father, Alonso, makes the most wonderful ice cream in my perineumevery flavour you could imagine. Her mother, Myrtle, the wounds still tug is a mermaid and itch. They had comes to do the stitches twice because visit regularly, although she still lives in the first lot became infected. The old-school midwife told me I wasn’t paying enough attention to personal hygienesea. I must shower twice a dayBetsy dreams of two things: firstly, or better still, take about the circus owned by a salt bath. Do they really expect me to do that? Have they tiger and whether it would ever tried come to shower when her island and secondly, about a baby is crying and you’re so tired you magical ice cream made from the berries of the Gongalong bush. One scoop of this ice cream can barely stand and your partner is banging around downstairs because he’s late for work again?''make wishes come true.
I think most women have felt like this shortly after having And then Mr Tiger and his circus arrive. And a babyjourney is planned... Many of them simply managed to put one foot in front of the other until things calmed down but some will have found it harder and developed post-natal depression[[The Place Where Love Should Be Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon by Elizabeth EllisSally Gardner|Full Review]]
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===[[Unrest Tirzah and the Prince of Crows by Jesper SteinDeborah Kay Davies]]===
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DCI Steen This is assigned a puzzling case – the tortured body of a man found quiet but remarkable story, written in a cemetery in Copenhagen but left there during a riot – a riot that had the area swarming in policestyle reminiscent of E. M. How could anyone have been murdered Forster, ''[Tirzah and left in the open with so many police on site? Unless the killer is one Prince of them… As the case becomes more Crows'' has no great and more complicated, it soon begins to take stirring action but rather small ripples that make a toll on Steen's already troubled personal lifehuge impact. He won't stop until the killer Tirzah is caught, whatever a young girl of sixteen raised in a small Welsh town in the consequences1970s by highly religious parents as part of a strict religious community. But the consequences may turn out The book follows Tirzah though a tumultuous year as she tries to decide who she wants to be greater than expected – especially for Axel himself… , and what she wants to do with her life. [[Unrest Tirzah and the Prince of Crows by Jesper SteinDeborah Kay Davies|Full Review]]
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===[[Rockstar Retirement ProgrammeModern Patchwork Home: How to retire like a rockstar Dynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room by Dominic WatsonVivika DeNegre (Editor)]]===
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Even The problem with a birthday fast approachingcraft which is largely based on traditional designs is that what results from your labours is also traditional, Ior - depending upon what light you shine on it - old-fashioned. Vivika DeNegre has curated a collection of patterns from today'm still a bit young to be reading about retirements top designers. My next life change in the pipeline will be a big one, and it does involve leaving the 9 to 5 behind for As a yacht and the silky blue waters word of the Caribbeanwarning, but only for a year, and then I will be back, tanned and refreshed but barely 40 and with many working years still to come. Also, I like work. My job is interesting, I get to travel, what we do matters and itif you read ''Modern Patchwork Magazine'' you may well find that there's not badly rewarded. So nonothing new in the book, Ibut if you'm not planning re new to retire just yet. But as the premise of magazine this book is about planning (and if not now, then when?) I was still intriguedcould well prove to be a delightful collection from the back catalogue. [[Rockstar Retirement ProgrammeModern Patchwork Home: How to retire like a rockstar Dynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room by Dominic WatsonVivika DeNegre (Editor)|Full Review]]
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===[[Murder Mile (Jane Tennison The Chaos of Now by Erin Lange]]=== [[image:4) .5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] Eli, a talented hacker, is one of those people who manage to fly below the radar. When new friends offer him the chance to enter a prestigious competition he soon realises this golden opportunity has a sting in its tail. How many people can hand on heart say that they have not made mistakes? Most people are fortunate not to have a permanent online reminder, the very presence of which refuses to allow you to adapt, to change, to grow. Eli has a few mistakes skulking online, moments of madness that if discovered would change his life forever. [[The Chaos of Now by Erin Lange|Full Review]] <!-- Clár Ní Chonghaile -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1787198146.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1787198146/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[The Reckoning by Lynda La PlanteClar Ni Chonghaile]]===
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It was February 1979 in As the strike-ridden blurb says, 'Winter of Discontent' when In a body was discovered cottage in Peckham. It was Normandy, Lina Rose is writing to be the first daughter she abandoned as a baby''…the whole of two bodies in two days, but the first - that Chonghaile's second novel is a series of a young woman - would remain unidentified for some timeletters addressed to Diane. The second - an older lady - was found Lina is now in the boot of her car by her son. Jane Tennison has been promoted to Sergeant seventies and finds Diane is a mother herself in the midst of an investigation hindered by press articles about police incompetence and pressure to get a quick result. Four days later and another body to add to the count, the police They have named their suspect, but Tennison has met just once since Lina gave her doubtsup for adoption. It was not a good meeting. [[Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) The Reckoning by Lynda La PlanteClar Ni Chonghaile|Full Review]]
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===[[Broken Ground The Moving Blade (Detective Hiroshi 2) by Val McDermidMichael Pronko]]===
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As the Officer The funeral is a good time to rob a house in Charge Tokyo - and even better when they're famous as most people will be there. Bernard Mattson had been famous - one of the Historic Cases Unit, DCI Karen Pirie rarely finds herself at great political thinkers - and renowned for his support of the scene American bases in Japan. One of the crimegreat tragedies of his murder was that he was just a few days short of meeting up with his daughter Jamie: they hadn't been estranged, but for once, when Mattson and her mother divorced she's in took the right place at teenager to the right time when a body is dug up in the HighlandsUSA and father and daughter just drifted apart. Initially it looks as though Jamie and her mother came back for the death dates back to WWIIfuneral, but the fact that the dead man is wearing a pair of Nikes means that the case is Karenher mother departed as soon (or even before) she decently could, leaving Jamie to settle her father'saffairs. A little while later she'd come to think The only problem is that shean awful lot of people seem very interested in Bernard Mattson'd been in the wrong place at the wrong time when she overheard a conversation in a cafe. Intervening, she thought that shes legacy - and they'd prevented a crime, but what she said would come back re prepared to be violent to haunt herget their hands on it. [[Broken Ground The Moving Blade (Detective Hiroshi 2) by Val McDermidMichael Pronko|Full Review]]
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===[[Half Moon Bay Storytelling: The Presenter's Secret Weapon by Alice LaPlanteJohn Clare]]===
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Half Moon Bay is a small town on the west coast of America, I was a little down from San Franciscobit nervous when I picked up ''Storytelling: The Presenter's Secret Weapon''. Jane has just moved thereAfter all, to start the majority of presentations which I've seen or given were in a new life after losing everything when her teenage daughter business context and what was required was killed and her husband left herabsolute professionalism, not an act put on for light entertainment. Although she I needn't have worried though: the book is an essential guide to preparing and giving your presentation, with or without what has begun now come to find a little peace be known as The Dreaded PowerPoint. I've been making presentations successfully (but I'll say more about this later) in the quiet, seaside town, one day a child goes missing, bringing back painful memories various professional situations for Jane of her grief some forty or more years and loss and, also, rousing I did wonder if the suspicions of the local townsfolk that she is somehow involved in the disappearancebook would be able to teach me anything. It did. [[Half Moon Bay by Alice LaPlante|Full Review]]
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===[[Phantom Treasure of the Golden Skull (Maudlin Towers) by Leo HuntChris Priestley]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
Sixteen-year-old Nova is an undercity dweller and a leecher - a futuristic kind of pickpocket who uses tech hacks to steal byts from hapless corps workers[[image:4.5star. The higher up in jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] (If multiple categories use the city you livesame format, the more sunlight you see separated by comma + space)Sponge and Mildew are not the easier your lifebiggest fans of their school, Maudlin Towers. For leechers like Nova, four hundred storeys below Who would be? It's run down. It's gloomy. You can't move for gargoyles and that's discounting the surface, life is toughteachers. But with the help of when they find out that there's no money left and the hacking program Phantomschool might close they realise that, invented by legendary anti-corps hacker tatty and morose as the MothMaudlin Towers is, Nova can sneak up to the city, leech some byts and at least make rentit is ''home''. So they set their minds on a rescue mission... v [[Phantom Treasure of the Golden Skull (Maudlin Towers) by Leo HuntChris Priestley|Full Review]]
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