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|author= Deborah O'ConnorSylvie Cathrall|title= The CaptiveA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating= 45|genre= ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Hannah knows the cage, intimatelyThere are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. It lurks in the corner And this is one of her eyethem. Soon, it will be occupied. Then what? What if he speaks to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=18387726500356522776
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|isbn=B08CR3WNFT0008517061|title=The TherapistDeath in a Lonely Place|author=B A ParisStig Abell|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When Leo Curtis found the house in The CircleFormer Metropolitan Police detective, a gated communityJake Johnson, Alice Dawson was in Venicehas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Leo wanted to move quickly on There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the property future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as it was on the market at such moving in together would mean a reasonable price that Alice wouldn't have lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to sell her cottage move in Harlestone for them with Livia or does Livia move to be able to afford it. Alice agreed - Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she was tired of their long-distance relationship. wants for herself and her daughter? Now they would be able to spend most of For the moment they’re enjoying life in the week together instead of just present and putting the weekends. Leo had some work done future on the house: he made two bedrooms into one and although Alice knew that the house was stunning she just didn't feel comfortable thereback burner.
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|isbn=14063954041786482126|title=The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage BrainJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Nicola MorganElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=2020 has been Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statementdoorway. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problemsThere was no skull. Some teens will dismiss Was this as irrelevant ('who needs sleepa ritual killing or murder? - I've got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most peopleInevitably, from children to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it worseDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. And thereIt's also the fact difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded she is pregnant with his child as a virtue and sleep made to seem like lazinessresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Being up earlyHer condition will be obvious before long, working late has been praised and the ability not least because Ruth is prone to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CVsudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=000820831X0008551324|title=The Coffinmaker's GardenDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Stuart MacBrideNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
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|summary=At It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the coastal village of Clachmara, police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the headland other. But Davie Hardie is slowly eroding into struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the sea. Storm Trevor speeds up police where the processbody of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. A ship - the Ocean-Gold Harvester This person, he promises, is stuck on the rocks someone big and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out of it will be worth the house to see police doing what's happeninghe wants. Margaret runs after her son and as she grabs him And what he wants is to be transferred to pull him back an open prison to safety she glances across at serve the newly-exposed cliff front remainder of his sentence and sees human bonesto get an early parole date. Gordon SmithNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's home is falling into even prepared to do the North Sea other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and the evidence of anyone who works with him is kept well away from what he's been doing for decades is going with it - except for what Ash Henderson of LIRU can grab as he later escapes the tumbling ruinhappening.
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|isbn=B08BC4D58S0008405026|title=Winterkill A Stranger in the Family (Dark IcelandMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Ragnar JonassonJane Casey|rating=45
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|summary=Ari Thor Arason is the police inspector in Siglufjordur and heIt's still living in the house on Eyrargata which he shared with his wife Kristin and son Stefnir before Kristin left to go to Sweden to do a Masters degree, taking threesixteen years since nine-year-old Stefnir with Rosalie Marshall disappeared from herbed one summer night. They were supposed She was never found and the investigation ground to spend Christmas together but Kristin cancelleda halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. ItInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's now something about the Thursday positioning of Holy Week the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and his family -shut case is due to arrive in Siglufjordur that afternoonnow a complex double murder. Ari Thor Kerrigan is having trouble sleeping but when he finally managed to get to sleep convinced that the phone ringsexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: the body of a young woman has been found on Adalgataothers (such as Derwent's boss, the main street of the townUna Burt) are less convinced.
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{{FrontpageinterviewFrontpage|isbn=31106412910571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen AlexanderJonny Sweet|rating=3.5|summarygenre=Crime|summary=Sue was so impressed by [[The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing NewEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, Novel or Gameobsessed with his upper-Changing Breakthroughs by Olga Kokshagina class friends, Robert and Allen Alexander]] that she wished that she had Stanza. Robert's a good business idea of her own so that she could use the booktheatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Perhaps that was what she was talking about when Olga Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and Allen popped into Bookbag Towers he's drunkenly confided how he feels to chat Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to usstumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|author=Rob WintersJo Callaghan|title=His Name Was WrenLeave No Trace
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=In September 1944 something came down When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Oban WoodsNuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, near the village of HurstwickAI detective Lock. It came down hard's their first live case together, taking the spire of the village church having previously been very successful with itseveral cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, destroying Kat is suddenly struggling with a stone shack, potential serial killer and leaving a wide trail through the wood, but no trace very high profile case that draws a lot of what it actually wasunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. German secret weapon was Will they be able to solve the local gossipcase in time, but there should have been an explosion or will Kat find herself taken off the case and a crater, and there were neither potentially, out of those things.a career?|isbn=B08KGVNVNB139851120X
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|authorisbn=Stephen Clarke1399613073|title=The Spy Who Inspired MeMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=This is Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a spoof spy story, that isn't about James Bondcentury. Or Ian FlemingOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. But it features Laura is a man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well perfectionist and 'likes the ladies' and who works for the secret service, but in a trauma doctor. Anjali is the planning side free spirit of things more than the active servicegroup and she becomes a GP. Lemming finds himself put on When we first meet them they're at a mission with a female spy called Margaux, drug and alcohol-fuelled party and the pair it's going to end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on a desperate mission to unearth traitors in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the resistance networkthree friends. This time, and Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!|isbn=2952163855it's their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=31107060750241636604|title=Making a DifferenceThe Trading Game: Leadership, Change and Giving Back the Independent Director WayA Confession|author=Gerry BrownGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceAutobiography|summary=''YouIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're not there unlikely to run think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the organisationpin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. You are there There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to make sure that it is run properlythe London School of Economics.'' Gerry Brown Stevenson is passionate about the benefits which Independent Directors can bring to a board bright - extremely bright - not just and he has a corporate board, but the board facility with numbers which most of an NHS Trust, a university, a sports organisation or a charityus can only envy. He's particularly keen also realised that there's increased diversity on these boards and feels that this would help most rich people expect poor people to avoid some of the scandals (Oxfambe stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, Kids Company - we're thinking about you) a card game which have occurred in recent yearsgot him an internship with Citibank. For Eventually, this to happen, boards need to have turned into permanent employment as a wider field of people to choose from when they're looking for an IDtrader.
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|isbn=17864959021035021803|title=The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your MindAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Isabel HardmanC L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she chooses not to sharegrew up. She says that 's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, who does knowArthur Crockleford, burst into tears is dead and health-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbeliefthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Hardman dealt with this at Arthur was the time by 'keeping going': the next day she went to work reason why Freya had not been back to cover the budgetvillage: Arthur, next there was the EU referendumshe feels, the political party leadership contests and then it was party conference seasonlet her down badly. One night Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she had has not felt able to be sedated near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and returned home to begin long-term sick leave. That was what brought me to this book: 2020 was married James (on the year when rebound from the bins went out more often than I didlove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=3030513025AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Independent Director in SocietyAll Tomorrow's Futures: Our current crisis of governance and what to doFictions that Disrupt|author=Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse Benjamin Greenaway and Filipe MoraisStephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=Business and FinanceScience Fiction|summary=Independent Director: ''a job for which no one is qualified'' (''Financial Times'') Independent Director: ''An independent director is a member Opening up new ways of thinking about the board shape of directors who (1) do not have a material relationship with the company, (2) is not part of the company's executive team, and (3) is not involved with the day-things to-day operations of the companycome. (Corporate Finance Institute)''
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|isbnauthor=B002SQCYWQSunny Singh|title=The Complete Barchester Chronicles|author=Anthony TrollopeHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers |summary=When I told my daughter The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that I didn't know what to listen to now that I'd finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibilityhas suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, Pride and Prejudicekilling everyone on site, Mansfield Parkthere is Sam, Emmaa wartime photographer and Abhi, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels of Jane Austen]] the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the second time on residents who are still alive in the trot she had the perfect answer: The Barchester Chronicles hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and they were in my inbox in a matter keeps on venturing out of minutesher room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. They're not ''quite'' as well known Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the Austen books but they're an excellent follow onterrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn=00082144681529153298|title=A Time to LieThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Simon BerthonJennie Godfrey
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=A workman has a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out of an excavation on a building site. It's wrapped in part of an old shower curtain 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is a handPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, severed above the wristhonestly... ) ItShe's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been there for about twenty-five to thirty-five years. Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - is Prime Ministerdisappearing. HeWell, they's married ve been murdered, but to heiress Carol van Koon and they have two daughters, Becca and Bella'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. SandfordMiv's determined upset because she's overheard that her father wants to be a better type of politician: he wants move the family 'Down South'a government that is not just practically good, but morally good.'' One of the ways heWhen you's planning on going about this re from Yorkshire, Down South is to ban arms sales to dubious regimesa frightening, foreign place, best avoided. Henry Morland-CrossFor Miv, the Deputy Prime Minister move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and Chancellor of the Exchequer, wishes she'll do anything to prevent that he. She'd been warned s not worried about this: itthe dangers or that her Mum's easy stopped talking - to see that he wouldn't have been in agreementanyone.
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|isbn=B077K6BQFD1398524085|title=The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Jane AustenNicci French
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|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Yes - thatCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's over eightyfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely -one hours her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of listening Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the purchase of one audio bookpolice to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. All six major novels The Salter children are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin and theynot convinced but there're presented in the order in which s little else they were publishedcan do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=02414535851035906708|title=Banking On It: How I Disrupted an IndustryDiva|author=Anne BodenDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceGeneral Fiction|summary=Anne Boden had an impressive track record in the financial services sector: We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she had thirty years experience at a senior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish Bank. AIB was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in the throes of recovering from the 2008 financial crisis December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she arrived and she was one of the first to realise that banks needed to do things differentlythirteen. AIB thought it Her original surname was at the cutting edge when Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it proposed opening a branch which allowed customers to access their accounts via a terminal'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. Boden took things a step further, realising When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that customers she could access their accounts from their homes: get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the old branch network, employing thousands Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of peopleher preference for her elder sister, would soon become redundantJackie.
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|author=Lauren MartinChristopher Edge|title=The Book of MoodsBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary= I was Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a great mood when I first learnt of this bookmovie marathon at their local cinema, and because sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writing, imagine a place that has the word nickname of 'The Black Hole'great. All big movie fans, they'' being delivered with an eye roll re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and a sighmany, through clenched teeth. I had spent the best part of a rainymany snacks! However, windy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club in as the rescue ribmovie starts, on standby in case anyone who was racing needed support. It's a volunteer duty we all do during the yearthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and normally Ithey are swept up into an adventure they couldn'm happy t even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre tothe next, but that day can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the weather was miserable and I was miserablecinema, and it all came to a head that evening when I noticed on the website that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife". Wow. I had never needed this book more.their real lives?|isbn=15387336251839942738
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|author=Becky AlbertalliRachel Greenlaw|title= Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens AgendaCompass and Blade|rating=3.5
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|summary= Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier has a great life''I can hear the song of the sea. He has a close group The call of friendsthe deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a loving familyremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and even an adorable dogany treasure that lies within. But he has when the Council Watch lays a secret: hetrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's gay. Only one person knows this, leader and thatMira's Blue – father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a boy wreck survivor who is as charming as he has been emailing almost daily since he found out is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that there was another closeted guy at his schoollies buried deep in the sea. Their emails are a safe space for Simon; itWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's his own private universe without territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the fear future of being judged. Until one day, these emails fall into her home and the wrong hands, and everything Simon knows is turned upside downones she holds most dear.|isbn=014135609X0008664730
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|isbnauthor=3110641119James Sherwood Metts|title=The Journey Mapping Playbook: A Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value of Customer Journey Mapping|author=Jerry AngravePlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceConfident Readers|summary=I had no idea what 'journey mapping' was until I read this playbook but any business that engages with their customers will benefit from reading Things have been a bit sticky for the book Earthlings. AI and acting on the contents. Youautomation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're going paid to learn how do and other tasks that took time to run a workshop accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to discover what it feels like all this technological change and starting to be one think of your own customersother, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. At this pointLife was pretty much shut down and, along with it, please donall the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=Matthew Tree|title=We't say 'oh (expletive deleted) not another workshop' because this is going ll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be fun different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and you're going who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to be surprised by what emergeshis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=3110641291A G Slatter|title=The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing Breakthroughs|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen AlexanderBriar Book of the Dead
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|genre=Business and FinanceFantasy|summary=So, why bother? Every time you set out to do something new you end up with the same thing in a slightly different form and quite '' There's a bit part of money spentme that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. Why not just leave it as it is? After This secret magic of my own, allmine, at last. I just want to enjoy itfor a while.'s ''roughly'' working, isn't it?
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|isbn=14729620441529900360|title=Creating Value Through TechnologyThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: Discover The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the Tech strain that Can Transform Your Businessbeing on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Andrew HampshireSteve Burrows|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company
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|genre=Business and FinanceGeneral Fiction|summary=I was once told that 'technology' The Perfect Passion Company is anything that happens after you're eighteena dating agency in Edinburgh, so there's been run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a lot of technology in my lifemore personal, tailored service. I once worked 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 manager who judged if an accountant was reputable by establishing whether or not they had a typewriter. Times - thankfully - have moved onwhile. Nowadays the problem Katie is that someone running coming out of a break up with a business doesn't have bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the time chance to keep up 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 constant innovation and they might also be scared because previous IT investments haven't delivered as expectedsome new characters who quickly begin to charm. It's also a fact that Katie has no one develops experience in running a business because they have the knowledge of the required technology, so they start off or in conversations about technology feeling that they're at a disadvantage. They need helpmatch-making, but they frequently donNess has full confidence in her abilities, and there't know what help they need.s always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|authorisbn=Mark Lingane0811771741|title=Note to Self: An EducationInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
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|genre=Science FictionCrafts|summary= In KryMelissa Leapman's world, the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a cascade collection of medical "advances": in 2030 itknits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 's found that radiation can return cells back to their regeneration state seven years beforelong, cosy afternoons in 2035 itfront of the fire's possible to cure cancerous tumours but with the side effect of erasing seven years of memory, variety. The projects are divided by 2045 the cosmetics industry is using the same technique time they'll take to "decomplete -less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age" their customers by seven yearswhen I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky. In a society obsessed with image and youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}}
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|isbnauthor=1838770046Dean Koontz|title=Body Language|author=A K TurnerThe Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Raven Benny is the senior mortuary technician having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and not only does she talk 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 deadthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, she also hears what they have Benny is the very last person to say to herdeserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. It's not something she's inclined to share with people as she's pretty certain about what their reaction will beA really nice person. She's certainly not going to share So fortunately for Benny it with turns out that the delivery to his house is a new pathologistfriend, Dr Archie Chuffa bad weather friend called Spike, wearer of who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a genuine Barbour jacket and old Harroviangood person. HeSpike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's very conscious of his position enemies, if he, Benny, and isnHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny't even inclined to ask for the view of the anatomical pathology technicians despite the fact that s wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they have a lot more experience than him and he has only a limited amount of time to spend on each body. That will prove to be a mistakeare.|isbn=1662500491
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|isbnauthor=0578761718Adam Stower|title=The Inspiring History of a Special Relationship|author=Nancy CarverMurray and Bun
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|genre=HistoryConfident Readers |summary=The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the City of London from at least 1181Murray is supposed to be a humble, when it was first mentioned in records. Sadlytidy and friendly cat, the original church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the fire one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and then survived for centuries until World War II, when it was again ruined by bombs during well, whatever takes his fancy next of the Blitztwo. But that wasnhe's a bad magician't the end of its story: after s cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a phenomenal fundraising efforthyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the stones from catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the church's walls were transported to Fultonregular back garden, Missouribut into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. There This time round it drops them into a Viking land, in the grounds of Westminster Collegewhere a troll hunter is expected – well, the church one much bigger than Murray was rebuilt , to be honest, but he's turned up and today serves as a memorial he'll have to Winston Churchill.do…|isbn=0008561249
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|isbn=B08NF79QXTB0C47LV1PC|title=Cherry Blossom BoutiqueFragility|author=Brooke AdamsMosby Woods|rating=34|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when sheCan you make a 's nominated for - and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. She's delighted and the two people sheYo birthing person's brought with her to the event couldn't be more pleased. Sonjajoke? And if you could, her motheris the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks fromthat the answer for both could well be.... no. Jessica 's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: theyFragility've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husbandis set as the city of Portland, Charles and their four-year-old daughterOregon, Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in her life.cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic
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|isbn=B08BTXSS841529431735|title=Fallen Angel (Gaby Darin Book 3)The Winter Visitor|author=Jenny O'BrienJames Henry
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Acting DI Gaby Darin is twiddling her thumbs: the usual flood of cases has slowed to less than a dribble and sheIt's looking through February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold cases for inspiration as to , which one she should have a good look at. DS Owen Bates suggests made Bruce Hopkins' return all the murder of eighteen-year-old Angelica Brock in 1995 and Gaby is intriguedmore surprising. She canHe't see any immediate failings in d been exiled on the original investigation: Angelica disappeared from Costa del Sol as a room in a securely-locked house, wearing her pyjamas, and was found dead by wanted drug smuggler for a dog walker on the Gt Orme in Llandudno the next daydecade. She was wearing The return has come about because he's had a handletter from his ex-made nightdress which her mother had never seen before. Bates wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't ''quite'' told the whole story: helong to live. It's married hard to Kate Brockfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, Angelica's younger sisterstripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|author=Nick Jones Alex Bell and Si ClarkTim McDonagh|title=One Night in BeartownThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts
|rating=4
|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary= Many children have Eli is a busy lad – by day an obsession apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and Sandy Lane, who runs. Eli lives in Beartownwith his lovely gran, too – for there is obsessed with bearsa generation missing in the family. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, a teddy bear passed down by her grandmotherglobe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. Every night This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight Eli knows his only hope is to the bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello dare to Bee Bearenter what he most hates, a colourful painted bear that lives with the sole aim the prize of magic at her schoolthe end – the only thing to possibly save his gran. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|isbn=B08NFH7H9X0571382231
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