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|author= Claire McGowanOnyi Nwabineli|title=The PushAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 4.5|genre= General fictionFiction|summary= Six mumsAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying toregain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-be meet mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at a prenatal class. the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's NCT 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what'style's worrying Miv's family, but not the proper NCTthough. Women have been disappearing. This bit is important Well, they've been murdered, but you to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to wait a little to see whymove the family 'Down South'. This being London When you're from Yorkshire, such Down South is a class attracts a wide variety of peoplefrightening, foreign place, from all sorts of backgroundsbest avoided. For Miv, but for most of the ladies the thing they have in common is itmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's their first baby. Probably after not worried about the first one, you don't have time for classes, dangers or think youthat her Mum've got childs stopped talking -rearing down patto anyone.|isbn=1542019990

|isbn=00083783631035906708|title=One Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Perfect MorningPassion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491}}{{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|isbn=0861547438}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Maybe Tomorrow|author=Pamela CranePenny Parkes|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It was going to come to a head.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL|title=Radio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, and armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the forest, broadcasting the strange, wild and rarely heard voices he encounters.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her Own

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=A husband After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is about sent to a school where she is taught to have his throat cut lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in his own bedanother school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. To find out who - At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and why - we need to go back nine days ideas, and twenty yearsEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=Good Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''This story is not for everyone.''

MackenzieLavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, Robin and Lily met when they all went suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to the same college hug her in Monroeville, Pennsylvania and twenty years later theycase it're still the best of friendss contagious. When they first met they called themselves the Spicier Girls as It's not easy being a nod to the famous black girl band of the daywhose skin is 84% white. Lily She had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would be Adventure Spice, Robin the Homemaker notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Mackenzie - well, Mackenzie Reggie asked if she would be the supporting actress in tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to his house and he raped her own life. She married OwenIn shock, she even allowed him to give her college sweetheart and they have a daughter, Aria, who's now fifteen-year-oldlift home.

|isbn=B07WWSCGVS1472263936|title=The Lies You ToldFigurine|author=Harriet TyceVictoria Hislop

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about having It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to start a new schoolGreece. She's was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the school she loved in New York family home and refused to return, but Mary and now sheHamish (Helena's going parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to Ashams the family apartment in North Londonup-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. It's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth She grew to love her grandmother and as the pupils have all been there ''forever'family's maid, they have their established groups. Robin's going to be an outsider. And why is this happening? WellDina, over a matter but was wary - and frightened - of a few days her parents' marriage fell apartgrandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. Andrew Spence is staying in New York - he works for a securities firm - He was proud of his close connections to the Junta and her mother, Sadie Roper, has come back expected his family to London uphold his values but saw no reason to pick up her practice as a criminal barristeraccommodate them. ThatHis prejudices included Helena's easier said than done when you've been out of the market place - red hair and the country green eyes - for more than ten yearsinherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.

|author=Antoine LaurainDean Koontz|title=The Readers RoomAfter Death|rating=3

|rating=3.5|summary=Violaine's publishing house has had Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a great successtop secret biological research facility, and it was through the slush pile of unsolicited manuscriptsis among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. The three people who work Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in the Readers' Room plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to sift through what is ninety-nine per cent dross him – and only him – plus the fourth advisor in her rarefied mansion as he sits up and looks around at the road – all agreed the book would be a huge smash, shrouded bodies of his dead friends and so it has provenformer colleagues. But As he recovers his senses, he realises that there are several is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything'howevers' to that. As in, however – Violaine herself Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The village is not having life all her own way, for she has been involved in a near-fatal accident, isolated and starts this book coming round from poor. It's surrounded by a comaWitching Forest. And, however – despite all urging, the author villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the book has never once made themselves known to the publishers in personforest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in factthe village and that is the reason Volushka, offered up a most peculiar statementdrunken, self-come-threat in their last email. What is going to befall Violaineindulgent, her memory, her staff – and how much lazy lout of a man is any of it due to the hit novel? And just where the heck did that come from?|isbn=1910477974tolerated.

|isbn=085752612XB0BYF82CXT|title=Rodham: What if Hillary hadn't Married Bill?Semi-Detached|author=Curtis SittenfeldDeborah Stone

|summary=I was tempted to read ''Rodham'' by the success Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in a depressing rut of Curtis Sittenfeld's ''American Wife''boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and very much in love – move in next door. That book wasn't marketed as being a portrait of Laura BushDespite their different outlooks on life, but the word couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.''thinly-veiled'' seemed to occur very regularly }}{{Frontpage|author=Shalini Boland|title=The Silent Bride|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Alice and Seth are a match made in reviewsheaven. How would ''Rodham'' compare? He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. Unfortunately, there She is all he could possibly want in a difference: relatively little was known about Laura Bushwife; beautiful, successful, which gave confident… and so the book a freshness which inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the first third of ''Rodham'' lackswedding is planned and set. We've all heard When the storiesmuch-anticipated day arrives, read Alice is walked down the books - about Hillary and particularly about Bill. It's still an interesting concept, though: how would Hillary have fared if she hadn't subsumed aisle by her own ambitions into Bill's careerfather, if beaming with pride and excitement as she hadn't had surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to carry the burden of all Billface his approaching bride, Alice's baggage and if world implodes because she hadn't left her own run has absolutely no idea who the man at the presidency so late? Could she have done better without the Clinton surname?altar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife.|isbn=1662507089

|authorisbn=Anstey Harris1787636003|title=Where We BelongThe Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop

|summary= I've always believed It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that places she and buildings absorb what happens within them Caroline went backpacking around Greece and reflect it back; this is how we can tell that a sacred space is sacredarrived on the island. Cate Morris believes a similar thingRachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, she believes was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and by that ''A house absorbs happinesstime she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, it blooms into looking after his interests on the island and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.}}{{Frontpage|author=Amanda Craig|title=Three Graces|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the wallpaper, -nation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the wood atmosphere of the window framesday and capture it, crafting an image of the brickscountry as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: thatshe's how it becomes practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in a homeway that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|isbn= 140871468X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152915118X|title=Pineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary='' She Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is having these thoughts as married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she packs up her homeisn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. She has Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to leaveanother property, a street or so away, which they own. A combination They won't need any of circumstances means the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a choice but that is not only redundant but also homelesswasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. With nowhere else to go, she has called on her late husbandShe's living in ''their'' family for helphome. Just for a few weeksThey use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'.|isbn=1471173836

|author=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)Emily Critchley|title=A Life Without EndOne Puzzling Afternoon

|summary=I looked at the calendar the other week''Love, and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know'd read, yet another one. It won't was supposed to be one of the major numbers, but the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizon. And then a few of the big 0-numbers, light and if all goes wellweightless feeling, but Ihad always longed for gravity'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Now if that's  Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the extent of my midyear-life crisis, I guess I have to be happy. Our author here doesn't use long relationship that exact phrase, but he might be said to be living oneonce defined her. Determined to find out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed Overlaid with later wisdom, the assistant to narrator relives the first geneticist he interviews, and they end up affair with a child, which is at least a way of continuing man twenty years her senior from its inception – the life of his genes, and a motive summer after finishing university – to keep ongoingits sorrowful end the summer after. But how can he get to not flick Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town 'final way out' switchThirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=16428606700861546490

|isbn=B08774SJYN0008506337|title=The Greenbecker GambitGarnett Girls|author=Ben GraffGeorgina Moore

|summary=The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo'I suppose s mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the odd fleeting sense Isle of loneliness is Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a price all truly successful people must pay for our giftswell-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. I tell myself that I do so willingly Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''. Then Richard left them.}}

|authorisbn=J Paul Henderson1914585402|title=DaisyDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=4.5

|summary=This is the story of Herod S. Pinkney, a rather unusual (yet somehow charming) man who is in search of I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a woman called Daisy, whom he first sees in an episode couple of Judge Judy on television years back and instantly falls in love with her! Rod is writing the novel of his quest, guided remember being absolutely floored by an embittered ex-literary agent who is now clearing glasses in how powerful and affecting it was. It was a pub for a living. Determined to find and meet Daisygripping, the book takes us through Rod's life, introduces us to his friendsemotionally wounding read, and tells us rereading my review of what happens in his quest for love.|isbn=0857303309}}{{Frontpage |isbn=1529123941 |title=The Silent Treatment |author=Abbie Greaves |rating=4.5 |genre=General Fiction |summary= When we meet Professor Frank Hobbs and his wife, Maggie, Frank is playing chess against his computer, although it my main takeaway was that I might not very successfully. Maggie, have lavished enough praise on the other hand, has just taken some pills - eight of them, in fact - and before long she will collapse. When Frank rings the emergency services in Oxford he has a bit of a problem. He has to admit that he and Maggie haven't actually spoken for a while. How long? Well, it's about six months since he spoke to Maggie and he can't really say if it's likely that Maggie has tried to take her own life.

|author=Camilla BruceLucy Ashe|title=You Let Me InClara and Olivia|rating=4.5

|summary= Eccentric, isolated romance novelist Cassandra Tipp has been missing for a The year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and has been pronounced legally dead by her lawyersOlivia are sisters, twins no less. Her will instructs her niece and nephew to enter her home and find Identical on the key to their inheritance in an old manuscript left in her office: outside but not, we learn, on the last story she'll ever tellinside. And not on stage, either.|isbn=1787633179}}{{Frontpage|author= Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed|title= Yes No Maybe So |rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Because there''We might give it our all and crash and burn. But we might wins a lot that builds a dancer. We might actually change Some things. And that maybe makes it still worth going forcan be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and some things, donthat ''t you think?je ne sais quoi''Jaime has been spending his summer helping his cousin with campaigning in time for a special election. When his mother encourages him to go canvassing, he canthat don't think of anything worsecome from the classroom. HoweverA stage presence, a charm, Jaime has always wanted to be a politician and decides there is no time like the present to conquer his fear of speaking to the public''joie de vivre''. Maya is The difference between a Pakistanihard-American Muslim girl who is having the worst summer of her life. Her parents are going through a separationworker, she has zero plans for the summer to help take her mind off things and her only close friend is permanently busy. To help occupy her, her parents offer to buy her a car if she agrees to go canvassingstar. The pair could possibly be the worst canvassing duo in history, as neither of them really want to be there, but as the campaign goes on they discover that they care, a lot, about the election - and maybe even about each other?|isbn=14711846680861544080

|author=Elliot ReedHeather Fawcett|title=A Key to Treehouse LivingEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|summary=This Emily Wilde is the story of a young boyan expert academic scholar on faerie lore, William Tyceand she has travelled extensively, who is being raised by his uncle after the death of his mother and his fatherresearched meticulously, to write her life's abandonmentwork, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. HoweverWhilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, it isn't told in the usual narrative wayshe is not so good with people. InsteadSo when she finds herself far, far North in the book is made up small village of glossary entriesHrafvsnik, written by Williamhaving somehow offended the village matriarch, as a way of describing certain eventsshe is not sure what she has done, situations nor how to redeem herself and emotionsput her final investigations for her book back on the right track. It runs alphabeticallyEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, starting with ABSENCEall charm and delight, then moving much to ALPHABETICAL ORDEREmily's frustration. As I began to read I did find myself thinking 'But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on earthwith the faerie folk around Hravsnik?!' but I soon grew used to the style, and was instead caught up in William's story.|isbn=19115454180356519120

|authorisbn= T R Hendrick1398515388|title= What if They KnewThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= It's 2025. Underneath a lodge First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the Blue Mountain resort ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in Pennsylvaniaturn, is a secret facilitycaused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. Here The deaths were uncountable, Dr Benton and his team are making some critical scientific advances on behalf the loss of the Benefactor, their anonymous funderlivelihoods was widespread. Already, the team have succeeded in teleporting small primates The fact that many pets were separated from one place to another. But, unbeknownst to their owners came far down the Benefactor, Dr Benton has also coded for another type list of teleportation altogether priorities but - six months after the tsunami - travel through timeKazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. And he He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's ready comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to test. If successful, Benton has a very specific use for open his technology car door and Tamon the dog jumped in mind|isbn=1734277211.

|author=H G Parry Christopher Bowden|title=The Unlikely Escape of Uriah HeepMr Magenta

|summary=Brothers Rob and Charley have struggled to see eye to eye for years - Rob Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a sensible lawyer seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who exists in the "normal" world - always provided a safe harbour and Charley a man who is blessed with an ability he can't fully control - one which allows him to bring literary characters into the real world. After years little bit of protecting Charley, Rob wants indulgence to discharge his duties a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and leave Charley it seems to his own devices - but circumstances soon take choices out of both their hands. As literary characters begin him an obligation to appear everywhere, find it soon becomes clear that someone all out there shares Charley's powers and intends to use them for nefarious gains. Rob and Charley must team up to stop the madness - in a battle to win before they, the characters and the world reach The End…|isbn=0356513777B0B6Z9VJDW

|isbnauthor=1643785036Jennifer Mason|title=The Wondrous Apothecary|author=Mary E MartinPartitions of Unity

|summary=Those who have known Alexander WainwrightHere at Bookbag Towers, the landscape artist famous for his Turner prize-winning ''The Hay Wagon''we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and Rinaldounintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], the renowned conceptual artist would say that they're chalk when she investigated and cheese, if not sworn enemiesunravelled a series of disappearances. If youIn 've watched the relationship, as has our narrator, art dealer Jamie Helmsworth, you'd have said that they were magnets, drawing and repulsing each other in equal measure. Wainwright was at the socially acceptable end Partitions of the artistic continuumUnity'', but with Rinaldo, it was all too obvious that there was but she sets her mind to solving a fine dividing line between conceptual art and public nuisancemurder. As time has worn on, he's frequently been brought to the attention of the police. On this latest occasion, we see him charged with arson and theft of ''The Hay Wagon''.|isbn=B09LQR9FRF

|author=Mary H.K. ChoiWill Carver|title=Permanent RecordThe Daves Next Door

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Pablo, a college drop-out, is working at a New York bodega. He's massively Five strangers come together in debt, he's avoiding his mother, and he finds his joy in creating unusual snacks with random ingredients! Whilst working one evening, he's surprised to discover that the girl he is chatting with moment as he serves is a super-famous pop star and, as unlikely as it may seem, they start suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a relationshipLondon tube line. With one character who is trying very hard not to be seen or noticed by anyone and As their fates overlap, the other who story is seen and followed and hounded by everyone all over the worldtold in backwards order, it's an interesting clash as they come together. This isn't just a love story though, and actually it's really just Pab's story, about leading up to the journey he takes in his life via his meet-up with Leanna Smartfateful moment.|isbn=03490034591914585186}}

|author=Daniel KrausJennifer Mason|title=Blood SugarPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery

|summary=This is ''A struggling poetry zine, a difficult read. And not because of mom-and-pop mobile diner in the dark subject matter – that'll come later – but because of Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the way in which it2004 Olympics, a women's told. This might put track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a lot state-of readers off-the-art S&M dungeon, and to be honest it'd be hard to blame them. Kraus tells the story a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a distinctive voice unlike any other I've read; cheap oil painting, an erratic dialect with heavy and frequent slangerotic art dealer in Georgia.. The immediate effect is disorientating and distracting, and it takes some time to feel natural. It's ' This is just a struggle to acclimatise to Jody's voice, to get acquainted with his mannerisms, but sample of the story wouldn't be the same without it, cast of characters and somehow it workssettings in Preposterous. It shouldn'tAs you can see, but it doessome keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|isbn=1789091934B09STS96HS

|isbn=B07W4MNBSGB0B2N7MVYM|title=Be Careful Who You MarryThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Lizzy MumfreyDaniel Godfrey|rating=45

|summary=It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and a group 's the 10th of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing December 1962 when they were fiftywe first meet Dr Joseph Marr. When you're only seventeen that seems positively ancientJust to put what happens in context, but Liz was convinced that ''your entire life depends on who you marry'the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. The only eligible boys were world has barely had a chance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, it's not the Young Farmers and missile crisis that's at the idea front of living in a farmhouse and having a couple his mind. He's been convicted of children called Will and Olly appealed to Charlotte, or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Bothammurder. The place With the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to start their search was obviously think otherwise than that the Young Farmersprosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen' Halloween disco that weekends Bench, a relatively new prison. There was He's just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and learning to be wary of the classMcArthur brothers.

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