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|isbn=1454955546
|title=Sugarless
|author=Nicole M Avena
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=''This isn't a diet book. The last thing anyone needs is another diet book.''
There was a time, not that long ago, when it was thought that sugary food was better for you than food with high-fat content. Fat was the demon food which was going to elevate your cholesterol and cause heart disease. Sugar was a carbohydrate, so good. There's a problem, though. Sugar is addictive and can hijack your brain in much the same way as drugs like heroin and cocaine. Does that sound over the top? Well, it isn't.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1635866847|title=The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|classgenre=Lifestyle|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts -"wikitable" cellpadding="15" but I wanted that cake viscerally. <(There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0760381267|title=Verdura: Living a Garden Life|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->Santiago|rating=3.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=''The most important part of a garden is the one who enjoys it''.
''Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margery Allingham and Julia Jones0760378134|title=Beloved Old Age and What to Do About itThe First-Time Gardener: Margery Allingham's the RelayContainer Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley|rating=4.5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=We remember [[:Category:Margery Allingham|Margery Allingham]] as a novelist from If you've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the golden age of crime, perhaps not as famous as Agatha Christie or Dorothy L Sayers but certainly well regarded by those who appreciate good writing garden and pick some fruit and excellent plotting. Her last completed book was not vegetables for a novel meal – but realised that you wouldn't know where to start, this is the book you need. It'The Relays comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you're going to grow, a combined account of caring for three elderly relatives, what you'll grow it in (Em, Maud both containers and Gracesoil) between 1959 , where you'll put these containers, how you'll water and 1961 fertilise them and suggestions as to how other people might achieve you finish the main part of the book with a handy section on troubleshooting. There's also a good old age for their relativesglossary. Margery died in 1966 and ''The Relay'' was never published in the form in which So, is it was written.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1899262296</amazonuk>any good?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Georgina Rodgers1529149800|title=Peace of MindThings You Can Do: A Book of Calm for Busy MumsHow to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows|rating=34|genre=LifestyleHome and Family|summary=The promise of We begin with a book bringing me calm was too much to resist! telling story. There it is, in All the birds and animals fled when the title, my job description (busy mum...well, that's just one forest fire took hold and most of my jobs!) them stood and that elusive state that many mums seem watched, unable to be trying to find, peace think of mindanything they could do. I have The tiny hummingbird flew to say, I was looking forward the river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to some insightful revelations drop them into changing my lifethe fire. The animals laughed: what good was that doing. ''I think 'm doing the problembest I can'', howeversaid the hummingbird. And that, was quickly apparent in that like a busy mumreally, who is trying to wear a hundred masks at the same time, and carry out a multitude only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of rolesus doing what we can, this book isn't entirely sure what it's trying to however small that might be, with everything from poetry and colouring to mindfulness and recipes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473635519</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carl-Johan Forssen Ehrlin1849767009|title=The Rabbit Who Wants To Fall AsleepIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Roger This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the Rabbit wanted to fall asleep, but somehow he couldnchoir't, no matter how hard he tried. It wasn: the only people who't ll buy it are the people who know that he didn't do much during nudity is OK and the day, because he ones who ''didknow'' but sometimes he was so tired that he could fall asleep on it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the swingssupermarket who is coughing fit to bust. One night Mummy Rabbit took Roger to see Uncle Yawn, who had But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a notice outside his house saying book about not wearing clothes. It's a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They'I can make anyone fall asleep're fine. In fact, they' and once Roger went home (it was actually quite difficult for him to get there as his eyes kept closing) he went straight to bed and fell asleepre wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241255163</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jessica Lahey1504321383|title=The Gift of Failure: How to step back Single, Again, and Again, and let your child succeedAgain|author=Louisa Pateman|rating= 4.5|genre= Home and FamilyAutobiography|summary= Lahey's introduction claims 'You can'todayt be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a man's over-protective failure-avoidant parenting style'. This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. It wasn' is responsible t unkind: it was simply the adults in her life advising her as to what they thought would be best for her. It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the caution and fear girl (she witnesses in 's usually fairly young people every day in ) is rescued by the handsome prince who then marries her job as a secondary school teacher, causing them to dislike learningso that they can live happily ever after. She goes on Few girls are lucky enough to claim be brought up ''without'' the expectation that, through this parenting style, we they will marry and have inadvertently taught our kids to fear failure at all costschildren. It was a belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is a choice''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722443</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John KempGraff_Find|title=Caring for ShirleyFind Another Place|author=Ben Graff|rating=43.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=John KempWhen Ben Graff's wifegrandfather Martin handed him a plastic folder of handwritten notes from his journal, Shirley, suffered from dementia and loss of coordination and for eight years he was her full-time carer as she was unable to walk unaided (well, she didn''could'' - but t take much notice of it was likely to result in a serious fall) and took care of all her most personal needs. Probably At the most heart-breaking part age of this is that Shirley 24, Graff didn't recognise John as her husband - apart from 'give us a kiss', realise the question 'where's John?' was usually gravity of the first which sprang to her lips in any situation. Although she could often have quite an affable disposition she pages he was capable of kicking and biting when she was being 'encouraged' to do something which she didn't want to doholding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1479374245</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jan RobinsonGoodland_Worth|title=Tips From WidowsIt's Worth a Try|author=Nicola Goodland
|rating=4
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=IThis is how Nicola Goodland introduces her book, ''It'm not s Worth a widow and I secretly hope that I never will be, but I picked up Try''Tips From Widows: '' I wanted to write this kind of book because when I was a close friend (who is supporting someone who knows young woman, ladies and gents told me that becoming a widow is frighteningly close) mentioned they suffered from abuse of some kind as children and only found the need courage to plan what to dotalk about it as adults. The death of a husband must be devastating, even terrifying, but as next of kin you have certain responsibilities Maybe this book can deter children from becoming future abusers and there are some things which you must dostop abuse so it goes away for good. Who better to give advice than other women who have experienced what must be the worst thing that life can throw at them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140886553X</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=June AndrewsHigashida_Fall|title=Dementia: The One-Stop GuideFall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: Practical advice for families, professionals, and people living with dementia and AlzheimerA Young Man's DiseaseVoice From the Silence of Autism|author=Naoki Higashida and David Mitchell
|rating=5
|genre=ReferenceHome and Family|summary=Worldwide there are probably as many Naoki Higashida was only 13 years old when he wrote the international best-seller ''The Reason I Jump''. The book was popular because it gave a rare glimpse into the workings of the autistic mind, as 44.4 million people who suffer told from dementia and many times that number the unique perspective of familya teenager with non-verbal autism. Naoki communicates by using an alphabet grid, friends, carers and relatives who are affected or by what is happening to tracing letters on the suffererpalm of a transcriber. There's no cureDespite this slow and laborious method of writing, but it's not terminal he has published several books in his native Japan and the symptoms (memory loss would seem manages to be the most common, but in some cases there are hallucinations, sexual or verbal disinhibition, not being able give public presentations to work things out, difficulty in learning something new, finding your way about, or coping with the normal symptoms raise awareness of aging) affect everyone involvedhis condition. If you talk to people who are aging then it's not uncommon for them Fall Down 7 Times Get up 8 reintroduces us to say that they'd rather have cancer than dementia Naoki as you're unlikely to be an endless burden a young adult in his 20s and explains how his perspectives on other peoplelife have changed since writing his first book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251711</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Bialik_Girling|title=The Art of Making ShadowsGirling Up|author=Sophie CollinsMayim Bialik
|rating=4.5
|genre=EntertainmentHome and Family|summary=Winter This book arrived on my desk to cries of ''Amy Farrah Fowler's written a book?'' or ''No, that's Blossom'' depending on your generation. Mayim Bialik is almost upon us and the evenings are getting darker. Howeveror was both, rather than bemoaning the lack of sunshinecourse, how about putting but in addition to being a well-known sitcom actress, she is also a positive spin neuroscientist (and the only PhD on The Big Bang Theory, except for the situation and viewing those longcharacters). Aimed at teenagers, dark evenings this book focuses on growing up as the perfect opportunity a girl, or ''Girling up'' if you will, and what it means to transition from school girl to hone your shadowgrown-casting skills? Shadow-play is an art form up, via that has endured through hideous detour of teenage years.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Mattinson_Puppy|title=Choosing the ages Perfect Puppy|author=Pippa Mattinson|rating=4.5|genre=Home and yet still has Family|summary=If you have ever, for even a fleeting moment, thought about getting a puppy, you really ought to read this book. Too many people are carried away in the heat of the power to enchant moment and ''must'' have a particular breed and entertaingo ahead without any thought about the consequences. So grab They then have to live with the problems which ''might'' have been avoided for a lamp, gather round decade or more. The puppy and get ready the adult dog also has to live with an owner who might not be able to create barking dogs, flying birds and a whole menagerie of shadow charactersaccommodate his needs. [[:Category:Pippa Mattinson|Pippa Mattinson]] is my go-to author on matters dog related: she talks sense. She doesn't try to talk you out of getting a particular breed or any puppy: she simply presents the facts and allows you to make your own decisions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905695454</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Raskin_Grow|title=Grow: A Family Guide to Growing Fruit and Veg|author=Ben Raskin|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=I worried when I looked at this book: ''Grow'', it said, ''A family guide to growing fruit and veg''. Why did it worry me? Well, it's a mere 48 pages and the cover says that it includes ''Games, stickers and MORE!'' I have weighty tomes which don't completely cover what I need to know about growing fruit and veg, so wasn't this going to fall a little short? Well, it doesn't - not at all.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Mcgrath_Camping|title=Camping With Kids|author=Simon McGrath|rating=4.5|genre=Home and Family|summary=When my daughter was young it used to be joked that if a child asked on his fifth birthday to go camping and you told him that he could in five years' time, he'd be there on his tenth birthday, all kitted up and ready to go. These days the discussions - and delaying tactics - are more likely to be about technology - and mobiles in particular. Whilst it's wonderful that children do embrace technology, it shouldn't be at the expense of getting out in the fresh air, being free of screens and having an adventure - preferably with all the family doing it ''together''. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=Williams_Son|title=Flowerpot FarmMy Son's Not Rainman: One Man, One Autistic Boy, A First Gardening Activity BookMillion Adventures|author=Lorraine HarrisonJohn Williams
|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=With the demand for us In 2012, stand-up comedian John Williams was encouraged by his work colleagues to eat seemingly more fruit and vegetables every day, write a show charting his experiences as the world parent of grow-your-own is backan autistic boy. Why buy from After registering the supermarket when you can release the kids into the garden domain name: ''My Son's Not Rainman,'' he also decided to graze like cattle? However, before you do this, perhaps you should pick up write a book like ‘Flowerpot Farm’ by Lorraine Harrison blog to share his funny anecdotes and Faye Bradley which will show experiences. After a shaky start (''I had a handful of followers. Three of them how to create their own fruitwere my brothers''), veg the blog eventually went viral as it increased in popularity with parents who felt a connection with John and flower garden no matter how small a space they have to work 'The Boy'. This book fills in some of the gaps in the story, starting with'The Boy's' early childhood and ending, appropriately, on his thirteenth birthday when he suddenly became 'The Teen'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400818</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Mbaya_Brain|title=Hospice Voices: Lessons for Living at My Brain Is Out Of Control|author=Patrick Mbaya|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=Dr Patrick Mbaya was enjoying life as a consultant psychiatrist, husband and father. His career was going well and he enjoyed making ill people better. His marriage was solid and fulfilling and his two children were exploring their potential, often through the End uplifting power of music. Lifewas good. But then...}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Allingham_Beloved|title=Beloved Old Age and What to Do About it: Margery Allingham's the Relay|author=Eric LindnerMargery Allingham and Julia Jones
|rating=4.5
|genre=AutobiographyHome and Family|summary=We remember [[:Category:Margery Allingham|Margery Allingham]] as a novelist from the golden age of crime, perhaps not as famous as Agatha Christie or Dorothy L Sayers but certainly well regarded by those who appreciate good writing and excellent plotting. Her last completed book was not a novel but ''Hospice VoicesThe Relay'' tells , a combined account of caring for three elderly relatives, (Em, Maud and Grace) between 1959 and 1961 and suggestions as to how other people might achieve a good old age for their relatives. Margery died in 1966 and ''The Relay'' was never published in the stories form in which it was written.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Rodgers_Peace|title=Peace of Mind: A Book of Calm for Busy Mums|author=Georgina Rodgers|rating=3|genre=Home and Family|summary=The promise of a book bringing me calm was too much to resist! There it is, in the last days title, my job description (busy mum...well, that's just one of my jobs!) and that elusive state that many mums seem to be trying to find, peace of mind. I have to say, I was looking forward to some fascinating people while it follows author Eric Lindner through his journey as insightful revelations into changing my life. I think the problem, however, was quickly apparent in that like a busy mum, who is trying to wear a hospice volunteer hundred masks at the same time, and carry out a crisis in his own daughtermultitude of roles, this book isn't entirely sure what it's healthtrying to be, with everything from poetry and colouring to mindfulness and recipes. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1442220597</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean M Twenge and W Keith CampbellEhrlin_Rabbit|title=The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of EntitlementRabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep|author=Carl-Johan Forssen Ehrlin|rating=4.5|genre=Politics Home and SocietyFamily|summary=Twenge and Campbell have been studying Roger the rise in narcissism as a social trend. They are well-qualified Rabbit wanted to commentfall asleep, having worked since 1998 with social psychologist Roy Baumeisterbut somehow he couldn't, who pioneered research in this fieldno matter how hard he tried. At more than three hundred pages itIt wasn't that he didn's rather weighty for t do much during the popular market at which it's aimedday, because he did but even if you only dip into this booksometimes he was so tired that he could fall asleep on the swings. One night Mummy Rabbit took Roger to see Uncle Yawn, who had a notice outside his house saying I think you'll take can make anyone fall asleep and once Roger went home their message(it was actually quite difficult for him to get there as his eyes kept closing) he went straight to bed and fell asleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1416575987</amazonuk>
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