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|author=Natalia Garcia FreireSylvie Cathrall|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsA Letter to the Luminous Deep
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary= Early comments on There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendousis one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a delightlot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4. I will agree with 5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the first – tremendous is no understatement – but site was going to hold seventy-five 'a delightluxury' is perhaps using apartments - when they discovered the expression in bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a way Iritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn'm not familiar t, that she is pregnant withhis child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. I have Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to confess my ignorance sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation hereHardie family to approach the police. From Neither side likes or has any respect for the little I have read (other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in translationprison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, I donis it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't read Spanish) there does seem think so and she's even prepared to be a tendency towards do the fantastical – the mystical realismother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening. |isbn=0861541901
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|authorisbn= Ann Sei Lin0008405026|title= Rebel SkiesA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 5|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Kurara has spent It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her entire life as bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a servant on the Midorihalt. Now, her mother, Helena, a massive dining hall floating and her father are dead in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquestsbed. However Initially, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter it looks like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave positioning of the life of dreary servitude bodies that is all she has knownmakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known What looked as a shikigami, though it was going to be an open-and she -shut case is forced to flee out into the worldnow a complex double murder. She joins Himura aboard Kerrigan is convinced that the Orihimeexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Patrice Lawrence0571379877|title=NeedleThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Brave. CharleneEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to likeobsessed with his upper-class friends, characters Robert and readers bothStanza. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, sheRobert's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutortheatre director. He's also self-obsessed, Anniedemanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has taken up residence been in her son Blakelove with Stanza since their university days - and he's old room while drunkenly confided how hefeels to Robert. Most men in Robert's at uni. Such position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is part of left to stumble upon the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full two of love for her younger sister – them kissing in a younger sister she's allowed contact with no moredark passageway. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|isbn=1800901011
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|isbnauthor=1405940980Jo Callaghan|title=The Birdcage|author=Eve ChaseLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a 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, potentially, out of a career?
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|isbn=1399613073
|title=Moral Injuries
|author=Christie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It's Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the 7th first day of January 2019 medical school and we know that their friendship would keep them inseparable for a body has been pulled out quarter of the sea at Zennor in Cornwalla century. We don't know whose body it Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which isa bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Four days earlier, Flora, Kat Laura is a perfectionist and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at a trauma doctor. Anjali is the request free spirit of their father, Charlie Finch, the group and she becomes a famous artistGP. The girls are actually ''half'When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-sisters fuelled party and their dates of birth are embarrassingly closeit's going to end in tragedy. Finch was known for his fecundity, if not for his fidelityWe don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. It's been a long time since the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty Twenty-five years ago, at later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time of the total eclipse, something happened. Kat and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was a victim and it's left her very wary of her sisterstheir teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=17876349060241636604|title=No Less the DevilThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Stuart MacBrideGary Stevenson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=1035021803
|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder
|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover
|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt
|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of 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 few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|author=Sunny Singh
|title=Hotel Arcadia
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. 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 terrorists.
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|isbn=1529153298
|title=The List of Suspicious Things
|author=Jennie Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.
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|isbn=1398524085
|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?
|author=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=WeCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband're in Oldcastle s fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and Malcolm her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is in troublenot. HeShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in an abandoned house and he's being threatened by two young people. One is Allegra (we'll soon learn that she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) and Hugothe river. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat was an easy assumption for the police to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless people, apparently) but she'd put a tracking device in it so make that she Duncan had murdered Charlie and Hugo could find out where then committed suicide when he was sleeping. It woncouldn't be long before stand the police realise that Malcolm was one of their own: guilt. The Salter children are not many other people are going to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their backslives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=1035906708|title=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=Jennifer SaintChristopher Edge|title=ElektraBlack Hole Cinema Club
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?
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|author=Rachel Greenlaw
|title=Compass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''
Rosevear, a remote 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 any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With 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 territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.
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|author=James Sherwood Metts
|title=Planet Storyland
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.
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|author=Matthew Tree
|title=We'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of three women being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who live in the heavily male-dominated world had endless crises of Ancient Greeceself confidence. Cassandra, ClytemnestraSo Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and Elektra are all bit players in the story of the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and the most extreme furiesset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1472273915B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1529149800A G Slatter|title=Things You Can Do: How The Briar Book of the Dead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary='' 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, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though 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 administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. 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 maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to Fight Climate Change trust and Reduce Wastedetermine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Home and FamilyCrime|summary=We begin with a telling storyIt 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. All the birds His assertions that there were only open-and animals fled when -shut cases which didn't need the forest fire took hold and most help of them stood and watcheda psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, unable to think of anything they could dowho nudged Milo into asking for help again. The tiny hummingbird flew to She knew that the river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into involvement was something that the fireman she loved needed. The animals laughed: what good was that doingnext case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. ''I'm doing He was the best I canheir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it'', said s not the hummingbirdItalian. And that, really, is But which of them was the only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might be.primary target?
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|isbn=17765743381529395224|title=LeilongLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: 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 strain that being on-call put on his father's Too Long!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=Julia Liu and Bei LynnSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks donDCI Domenic Jejeune't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window s close friend and slide down his neck. It's perfectformer colleague, Danny Maik, isn't it? What could be has taken a more fun way of going short holiday in Singapore to school? There is a problemmeet up with an old ally, thoughGuy Trueman. Leilong isn't happy Maik was involved in the city: a street brawl - he's always having to be careful about where would later maintain that he puts his feet was facing a man armed with a knife - and – because he's longer than killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a tennis court – charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he often causes damage without intending might have planned to and traffic regularly gets snarled upmurder the man. The school decides that Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune cando nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't be the bus anymorehelp Danny at all.
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|isbnauthor=303091657XAlexander McCall Smith|title=Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S PetersonThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceGeneral Fiction|summary=Boards must act The Perfect Passion 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 best interests business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of their stakeholders a break up with a bad boyfriend, and ensure that they are well-managed 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 financially securethe Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. This might seem obvious 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 series hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0811771741|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of disasters knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - some others are of which have resulted the 'long, cosy afternoons in death or the collapse front of a major company - have left interested parties asking what the board was doingfire' variety. Where were The projects are divided by the time they? 'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. Occasionally All the boards were unaware of what was happening or they preferred to turn projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a blind eyeterrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance or criminalityand his house gets trashed. The 21st century Oh, and someone has delivered some major company scandals but what 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 happened 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 nothing a new: Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson give us friend, a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway maniabad weather friend called Spike, the South Sea Bubble and even tulip maniawho has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Over three centuries we seem Spike is going to have learned very littletake 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
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|isbnauthor=1529337968Adam Stower|title=In Place of Fear|author=Catriona McPhersonMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Confident Readers |summary=It's July 1948 Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and Helen Crowther friendly cat, one who is due able to start work as a qualified medical almoner sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the following morning - on the day that the NHS is borntwo. SheBut he'll be working for Dr Deuchar s a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her job will be to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their health. The hardest part of the job will be to persuade people that the services she offers really are free and that catflap they don't have to do anything to qualify for both use can chuck them. Some of out, not into the problems will require delicate handling regular back garden, but Helen has into a problem world of her own which might give her some insightfrightening adventure and whiffs. Her marriage has never been consummated.This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249
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|authorisbn=Mark LinganeB0C47LV1PC|title=GalaxyFragility|author=Mosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=SparkCan you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, who is an elite pilot with the Space Academyquestion should you make it? Or is the question if you did, barely makes would it through a battle aliveland? The catch is that the answer for both could well be... His co-pilot was not so fortunate. Waking from a coma that lasted years, he remembers little and is in no physical shape to resume his duties. But Earth ''Fragility'' is under threat and he must. Returned by his superiors to set as the space stationcity of Portland, Oregon, he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt cautiously begins to save humanity - and not just emerge from the alien threats against it, but also from its own sins against itself. |isbn=B09X3NZ76Wrestrictions imposed during the covid pandemic
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|authorisbn=Lissa Evans1529431735|title=WishedThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=When things contrive to force Ed It's February 1991 and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) to stay with Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the neighbourhood spinsterish old woman, Miss Filey, Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a week of half-term, they're not looking forward to itdecade. For one thingThe return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she thinks Wi-Fi is a special brand of biscuit. They don's ill and hasn't particularly take to Willard either, the new kid next door, who seems long to ebulliently take over everything and everywherelive. But things soon change It's hard to feel any sympathy when they find some tiny old birthday candlesHopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and manage sent to work out that these candles, for as long as their flames last, make birthday wishes come truea watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. How will things change for Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a second time when they realise that, having used up three of them, these should really be used for the wishes of someone two generations older than themproblem closer to home?|isbn=178845202X
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|author=Justyn EdwardsAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Great Fox IllusionGlorious Race of Magical Beasts
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show Eli is a contest busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a differencehelper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. No singing Eli lives with his lovely gran, no dancing, this show too – for there is looking for magical children! Children who can understand how magic tricks worka generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, and who can attempt to win The Great FoxEli's parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical legacy - beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the secrets eatery leads to all of a confession from gran, Eli knows his tricks! Flick only hope is determined to windare to enter what he most hates, but not because she wants to own with the sole aim the prize of magic at the tricks. She is interested in just ''one'' trick, end – the trick that The Great Fox stole from her father. And she's hoping if she can find that trick then she will be able only thing to bring her missing father homepossibly save his gran.|isbn=15295019460571382231
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