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|author=Teresa DriscollSylvie Cathrall|title=Her Perfect FamilyA Letter to the Luminous Deep
|rating=5
|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=The novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to be your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisation, at the eleventh hour, that her graduation outfit is all wrong. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is not who he says he is…'', paving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. In a twist of events, and after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the midst of her graduation ceremonycompelling premise. With Gemma then in a coma, what follows And this is a complex whodunit with a list one of suspects that continues to grow the further you readthem.|isbn=15420287520356522776
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|isbn=84092901030008517061|title=If OnlyDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Matthew TreeStig Abell|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his fatherFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked has settled into his accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowancerustic life at Little Sky. Patrick sent There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the money regularly future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a correspondence - lot of sorts - sprang compromise: does Jake give up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, it was that he didn't care off-grid and relaxing life to have him move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this country where he might be a danger to his wife is the future she wants for herself and other children. her daughter? The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the young man future on his waythe back burner.
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|authorisbn=1786482126|title=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston The Janus Stone (translatorDr Ruth Galloway)|titleauthor=The Rabbit FactorElly Griffiths|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Henri. With a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beings, he's perfect for his job Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the insurance company – until they decide hesite was going to hold seventy-five 's not a team-member, that theyluxury'd prefer everyone to be all openapartments -plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshopping. This is when he finds his brother has died, having they discovered the bones of a child beneath a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, and has left Henri everythingdoorway. There was no skull. Unfortunately ( Was this a ritual killing or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure parkmurder? Inevitably, and nothing elseDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn'YouMeFun'' t, that she is so not what Henri wants to occupy pregnant with his mind, but he perks up child as a little when he sees huge holes in result of the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pace, despite one night they spent together some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out and the amount vanishedthree months ago. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to explain that missing money – it's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri Her condition will be obvious before long, and the activities of these guys are not conducive least because Ruth is prone to getting a cheap life insurance plan..sudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=191319387X
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|isbn=14711793110008551324|title=The UnheardDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Nicci FrenchNeil Lancaster
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Tess, a teacher and Jason, a headmaster, have split up: she and Poppy have moved out of It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family home and Jason is now married to Emilyapproach the police. The separation Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was amicable - they had just drifted apartresponsible for her death. They co-parent three-year-old Poppy who has her bedroom in what was the family home This person, he promises, is someone big and another in it will be worth the flat she shares with her motherpolice doing what he wants. It ''seemed'' And what he wants is to be working well until transferred to an open prison to serve the day that Poppy came home with a menacing drawing remainder of a woman falling from a tall building his sentence and she started swearing, using words she was unlikely to have heard in either home. Her behaviour deteriorated and there were problems at nursery schoolget an early parole date. Tess turns Not much to a therapist for helpask, then her doctor is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and finally she's even prepared to do the police but no one will take other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what she has to say seriously's happening.
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|isbn=14711966150008405026|title=IcedA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Felix FrancisJane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Miles Pussett used to be a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past and he now gets his thrills from hurling headIt's sixteen years since nine-first down the threeyear-quarter-mile Cresta Run, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hourold Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. He She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in St Moritz the same weekend as White Turf - thattheir bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's high-class horseracing on the frozen lake and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with something about the saddling positioning of the horsesbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. It's seven years since he put horseracing behind him What looked as though it was going to be an open-and he swore that he'd never go back to it-shut case is now a complex double murder. But when he sees Kerrigan is convinced that something suspicious is going on, Miles canthe explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent't help but look for answerss boss, even when it puts him in dangerUna Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=147228612X0571379877|title=The Late Train to Gipsy HillKellerby Code|author=Alan JohnsonJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=We all know people like Gary NelsonEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, although we probably haven't taken much notice of them. They live quietobsessed with his upper-class friends, uneventful lives Robert and stay mostly under the radarStanza. In Robert's a city like London, thattheatre director. He's quite easy also self- obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and even Gary's three flatmates largely ignore uses Edward to run errands for him. The highlight of his day is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes to work on the train each morning: Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he'd love s drunkenly confided how he feels to ask her for Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a date relationship had begun between them but he doesn't have the courage. Then, on his homeward commute, Arina speaks s not like most men: Edward is left to him and asks for his help. Before long he finds himself on stumble upon the run from mobsters, Russian secret agents and the Metropolitan policetwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|author=Claire McGowanJo Callaghan|title=I Know YouLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=''Then:'' Casey returns from When a walk with man is found crucified on the babytop of a hill in Nuneaton, CarsonDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, and comes across three bodiesthe AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, almost a whole family taken downhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. ''Now:'' Rachel But when there is out for a walk second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with her doga potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, Brandypotentially, when she comes across out of a body in the woods.career?|isbn=1542019974139851120X
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|isbn=15291482511399613073|title=Misfits: A Personal ManifestoMoral Injuries|author=Michaela CoelChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyThrillers|summary=''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rapeOlivia, malpractice Laura and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling Anjali met on the truth whilst simultaneously running away from itfirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century.'' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you need aim to be in a certain frame of mindcardiothoracic surgeon. You're not going to read Laura is a perfectionist and a book trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of essays or the group and she becomes a self-help bookGP. YouWhen we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coelend in tragedy. We don's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within t know who suffered the television industry at tragedy or the Edinburgh TV Festivalconsequences. You might Twenty-five years later there will be ''reading'' the book but you need to ''listen'' to an eerily similar event that will impact the words as though you're in the lecture theatrethree friends. The disjointedness will fade away and youThis time, it'll be carried on a cloud of exquisite writings their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=00084336310241636604|title=Next of KinThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Kia AbdullahGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=It was the sort If you were to bring up an image of thing that happened every daya city banker in your mind, although not you're unlikely to Leila Syedthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. She'd never driven her nephew, Max, to school before but A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his fatherbackground is the East End, Andrew Hansonwhere he was familiar with violence, had rung her in a panicpoverty and injustice. He There was supposed to be taking Max to no posh public school on his CV - but he'd had been called into work and the delay in getting there could lead to financial losses. As the school was only five minutes out London School of Leila's way, could she drop him off? Economics. Of course, she could Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a sleeping Max was duly strapped into the back facility with numbers which most of her carus can only envy. On the way Leila took a phone call - there He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was panic his ability at her work toowhat was, essentially, with a problem card game which could put got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a multi-million-pound contract at risktrader.
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|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova1035021803|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesnThe Antique Hunter't find them irresistibly funny. Funny s Guide to talk about and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1784165263|title=Invite Me InMurder|author=Emma CurtisC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Martin CurranIt's wife, Eliza knew that she had to be home twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to make his lunch for one o'clock on the dot, despite the fact that English country village where she was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being letgrew up. If she didnShe't get homes back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, there would be troubleCarole. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and confined to a wheelchairthe circumstances seem suspicious, but don't be too quick to be understandingsay the least. He Arthur was also a very unpleasant personthe reason why Freya had not been back to the village: he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointment''Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. All this was Even though they were in Eliza's mind when business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she first met Dan Jones who arrivedloved. After the split, unannouncedshe worked in a cafe, at met and married James (on the flat just as Eliza was about to leave: he wanted rebound from the lease love of flat 2her life, 42 Linden Road who was murdered) and Freya and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being availableJames have now divorced.
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|isbn=1784742775AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=A Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Susan HillBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Drugs hadn't really been that much 'Opening up new ways of a problem in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought thinking about the shape of drugs ops as things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a bit few decades of a waste of timetechnology in my lifetime. They still were, I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to a great extent, me but Serrailler knew I'm left with the feeling that something had to be doneit's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Children as young as nine were being recruited to transport Of course, I could research the drugs possibilities and the operation running the county lines was tight. A mule might know the name (although it probably wouldnprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I't be the correct one) of the person m reading someone who was running him but he certainly wouldnknows what they't know anything re talking about those higher up in or the organisationlatest conspiracy theorist. The police might catch I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a few of the runners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher upway I could understand.
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|isbnauthor=B09FS89KX9Sunny Singh|title=Fall On Me|author=Penelope PottsHotel Arcadia
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|genre=Women's FictionThrillers |summary=Life should have The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been good for Hollie: violently taken over by a terrorist group. She was just going into Hiding from the final year of her veterinary degree terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and - three years later - was still working at BB's dinerAbhi, the hotel manager. Bob - As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the owner - regarded her fondly: residents who are still alive in the hotel, he was forms a good boss. Hollie had moved in bond with her boyfriendSam who refuses to be cowed by events, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his career. Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most keeps on venturing out of all he wanted her room to try to leave capture what's happened through her job at the dinerphotography. Then there was Although they only ever talk over the fact that he would be violentphone, both their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to other peoplesee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|authorisbn=John Gwynne1529153298|title=The Shadow Of The GodsList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey
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|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is the first installment of the Bloodsworn SagaPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarokthey've been murdered, when the Gods but to have battled and their bones lie scattered for all 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to seemove the family 'Down South'. This story When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is the ultimate in High Fantasya frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genremove would mean leaving her best friend, with mythical creaturesSharon, archaic language and battles galoreshe'll do anything to prevent that. This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters She's not worried about the dangers or that are woven together her Mum's stopped talking - to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battleanyone.|isbn=0356514218
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|isbn=B09HTWX47X1398524085|title=Endless ObsessionHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Dai HenleyNicci French|rating=45
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|summary=ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's some years since we last caught fiftieth birthday party but never turned up with Andy Flood. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, formerly a DCI in the Met Etty. are all worried but now a well-respected private investigator. He's married to Laurastrangely - her husband, Alec, formerly his DS in the Murder Squad but now working in a forensics laboratoryis not. Flood's daughtersShortly afterwards, Gemma Etty and PippaGreg, have flown find the nestbody of Greg's father, Pippa to AustraliaDuncan Ackerley, from where she has very little contact with in the family, and Gemma to married liferiver. She's It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy murdered Charlie and Laura hope that married life will provide then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the support she needsguilt. FloodThe Salter children are not convinced but there's business is going well little else they can do but get on with their lives and that was why he felt able to turn down the case of Lisa Blackwonder about what really happened.
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|authorisbn=Peter Papathanasiou1035906708|title=The StoningDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=In a town sleazy enough We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous Greek parents in comparisonManhattan, New York, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, December 1923 and only moved to Athens when shewas thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas's been taped to a tree and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were make it more manageable in the world's tallest cricket stumpsStates. When she's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. An arson attack on was back in Athens - supposedly so that shows she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the feeling – Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and it's only fair, is the general opinion, made no secret of her preference for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from the city, to sort everything out. Because such an aggrievedher elder sister, insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the lawJackie...|isbn=1529416973
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|isbnauthor=B08Z8BMZ7HChristopher Edge|title=The Mystery of Healing|author=A P McGrathBlack Hole Cinema Club
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=''Stories have joy Lucas and surprises in them'', we his friends are told here. And none more so than all booked in this wondrous storyfor a movie marathon at their local cinema, which feels an instant classic with a place that has the freshness and the agelessness it has in equal proportionnickname of 'The Black Hole'. We start with a group of monks All big movie fans, the Order they're looking forward to lots of the Chronicles of Sorrowingexciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the demonic goat movie starts, they very quickly realise that loves nothing more than upendingsomething about this new film format is very different, trampling on and biting the poor Brothersthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Things change drastically when the beast takes a totally maternal approach to a homeless girl, But as they lurch from one who has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memory. Elsewhere sits a King in his castle, desperate film genre to find the girlnext, for it can they figure out what on earth is prophesied that a young child can unseat the throne and cause great change. Who foretold that revolution but the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowinggoing on? But how can a simpleWill they ever get back to the cinema, amnesiac lass ever prove a threat and to anyonetheir real lives?|isbn=15295008931839942738
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|isbnauthor=B09FFJF8YSRachel Greenlaw|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery Compass and Kate ZhoidikBlade
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|genre=For SharingTeens|summary=''For I can hear the big, grownup girls out theresong of the sea. The call of the deep, the potty masters answering beat in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pridemy heart.''
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|author=Nick Lake and Emily GravettJames Sherwood Metts|title=Locked Out LilyPlanet Storyland
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|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Lily is, or was, or has Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have beenproceeding apace, very ill, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to give her parents relief she's been told to stay with her grandma for a few daysaccomplish. The parents need the relief Just as Lily's baby sibling is just about they were beginning to get used to be born – a child Lily swears she hates already all this technological change and wants nothing starting to think of other, new ways to do withspend time, along came an awful pandemic. But on tracking back home for word of her parents (Life was pretty much shut down and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra of her parents, and along with it, all the babe-in-arms, already installedmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=Matthew Tree|title=We'll Never Know|rating=4. These devilish interlopers need 5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be ousted to get the family back intactdifferent from his father, even if it's not the family Lily wants – a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all she has failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to help her in the task are some talking animals – Crow, Molehis studies, Mouse cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and Snakeset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1471194833B0CVFXPGP8
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|author=Greg James and Chris SmithA G Slatter|title=The Great Dream RobberyBriar Book of the Dead
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|genre=Confident ReadersFantasy|summary=Maya'' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's father is , a professor family of witches who invented an amazing dream machineprotect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. But something went wrongThough she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and now he canadministration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie't wake up. Or at leasts cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, thatthe town's what Maya has been toldleader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. In As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a rather strange dream maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one night Maya makes a new friendfamily secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and discovers that determine what to do as the only way Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to save her dad may be by being asleepsurvive, is under threat. Cue one madcap action adventure story where dreams |isbn=1803364548}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The 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 reality collideeven 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.really 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 thereit's everything from llamas and bananas, dream machines made from hairdresser cast-offs, to a talking cat called Bin Bag!|isbn=024147051Xnot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=18004644951529395224|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby MathsLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: Support All Areas The Secret Life of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of MathsVet|author=Emma SmithSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn''Babies seem t want to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the womb, strain that being aware on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months oldwas convinced this was the job for him.'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement Before long, double that of literacy skillshe was at Liverpool University.'' I didn It hadn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes as with so many students - gives children been his dream since he was a solid foundation when they start schoolchild. But do we think the same way about maths If anything, beyond counting? I donhe't think we do, in part because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children d wanted to be a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficialprofessional footballer.
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|isbn=15293793850861541774|title=The Madness A Nye of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)Pheasants|author=Louise PennySteve Burrows|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In the Canadian village of Three PinesDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, we're postGuy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -pandemic: the scars are still there and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but life is starting evidence came to get back light that suggested that he might have planned to normalmurder the man. The villagers are beginning to return to the Bistro and Now he could be facing the Aubergedeath penalty. They're visiting each other's homes and having friends and relatives Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to stay. A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and she soon proves that not wouldn't help Danny at all saints are necessarily pleasant people to be around - a bit like Vincent Gilbert, known in the village as the Asshole Saint.
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|isbnauthor= B09F4CTKJRAlexander McCall Smith|title= Flights for Freedom|author= Steven BurgauerThe Perfect Passion Company
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|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=It's the later stages of World War I The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the United States online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has just entered asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the conflictbusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Petrol Petronus Katie is coming out of a young American who has signed break up with a bad boyfriend, and joined so jumps at the 17 Aero Squadronchance to come home to Edinburgh. This company was the first US Aero Squadron And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to be trained in Canadaan Edinburgh we already love, the first to be attached thanks to the RAF 44 Scotland Street and the first Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in active combat. But before that can happenmatch-making, Petrol but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|isbn=183885410X0811771741|title=The Dark RemainsInstaKnits for Baby|author=William McIlvanney and Ian RankinMelissa Leapman|rating=3.54|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=Bobby Carter was Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a lawyer and consigliere collection of knits from toys to one blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the major crime families 'long, cosy afternoons in nineteen seventies Glasgow. DC Jack Laidlaw is on front of the CID team charged with the investigationfire' variety. I say ''on The projects are divided by the teamtime they'' but Laidlaw never really seems ll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to be a part of ittwenty hours and more than twenty hours. He does his own thingAll the projects are attractive, goes his own way modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'The Dark Remains'' uncovers the truth of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgowbut that's seedier pubsme being picky.
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|isbnauthor=1942410255Dean Koontz|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Michael PronkoThe Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=''Zangyo: overtime workBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, often unpaid'' It's the culturehe loses his fiancee, isn't it? and his house gets trashed. The hours for which you're paid are Oh, and someone has delivered a really just a statement of the minimum you'll be required weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to do: you'll work more hours to get the job done his home, and done to the satisfaction of bullies like Shigeru Onizuka. When he was found dead in front of Senden Centralit's headquarters in Tokyo there possible that whoever or whatever was nothing in inside is the way of regret or grief, even from thing that has trashed his familyhouse! The thing is, but there was Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a mild curiosity as to whether he'd jumped from the roof of the building or been assisted in his descentnice person. A really nice person. Gossip revolves around the fact So fortunately for Benny it turns out that he left the roof at the exact same spot that an employeedelivery to his house is a new friend, Mayu Yamasea bad weather friend called Spike, had committed suicide some three years earlierwho has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. She'd accused Onizuka Spike is going to take care of bullying her Benny, and forcing her to work an unreasonable amount will certainly take care of overtimeBenny'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
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|isbnauthor=0241425425Adam Stower|title=The Man Who Died Twice|author=Richard OsmanMurray and Bun
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=Elizabeth Best was Murray is supposed to be a little surprised when she received the letter. It came from a man whose body she had helped to pull from the Thames humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who had never existed but then this is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the sort of conundrum which retired spies have to deal with on a regular basistwo. When she visits the sender of the letter (But he's moved into the Coopera bad magician's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it's someone with whom she cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a long professional history - hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and who used to be her husband. He's made a bad mistake - something to do with a mask being removed within the range of a CCTV camera on a raidcatflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds world of frightening adventure and a few death threatswhiffs. He's now in hiding with This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a young woman called Pollytroll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, whobut he's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitress.turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249
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|authorisbn=Andrew SharpB0C47LV1PC|title=The Chef, the Bird and the BlessingFragility|author=Mosby Woods
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|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy to his employer - Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is, in his mind, the head chef of a safari business catering to VIP guests in an unnamed African country. Mozzy question should you make it? Or is earnest and dedicated to his task and he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the guests at BOD-W safaris but his dream question if you did, would it land? The catch is to become that the head chef of a restaurant in London or a big American cityanswer for both could well be.... Even to win a Michelin starno. He ''Fragility'' is thwarted in this ambition by his bossset as the city of Portland, Oregon, Mr Bin (Ben cautiously begins to you and me) who incurs Mozzy's disapproval for his scruffy ways, his uninterest in his guests and - shock, horror - his allowing of bush animals into emerge from the restrictions imposed during the house.|isbn=B09926MK8Hcovid pandemic
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|authorisbn=Alex Foulkes1529431735|title=Rules for VampiresThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or It'Leo' for short) s February 1991 and Essex is a Vampire. She drinks bloodbitingly cold, she sleeps during which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the day, and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats to travel around, although not all of them remember to come back)more surprising. Pretty cool stuff. Now, He'd been exiled on the night of her hundredth birthnight, she Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has to go out and hunt her first human. Howevercome about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, instead saying that she ends up killing two humans by accident 's ill and burning down an orphanagehasn't long to live. Oops! And It's hard to make things worsefeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, the ghosts of one of the orphans stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the evil master boot of the orphanage come back to haunt hera stolen Ford Sierra. So, not only does Leo have to team up with the friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerful, she has to do it all while hiding Is it a warning from her family. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each othera Spanish gang or a problem closer to home? Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955X
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|author=Tori BovalinoAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Devil Makes ThreeGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Working all summer Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in her boarding school's the wondrous library is we start by visiting with him, and in the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets evening a request helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for over there is a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is generation missing in the man who requested the books: Mr Birchfamily. The boarding school A few short years ago, Eli's headmasterparents were both lost to the titular race, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks postglobe-it notes on each of trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the books, scribbled with world in the ugliest insults she can think company ofa magical beast. They're never meant This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to reach hima confession from gran, of course. Her plan Eli knows his only hope is to get her anger out like thisdare to enter what he most hates, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for herwith the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=17890981300571382231
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