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|author=Kjell Ola Dahl Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and Don Bartlett (translator)had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Little DrummerDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=Part of the Oslo Detectives seriesFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, this crime story is has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a mixture little uncertainty about the future of police procedural and thriller. Beginning his life with the death of a young woman in a carparkhis vet girlfriend, that looks very much like an overdoseLivia and her daughter Diana, it unravels into as moving in together would mean a farlot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-reaching investigation of murder, fraud, grid and international pharmaceutical dealings. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and Frolich, who end up working separately on the case as Gunnarstranda remains relaxing life to move in Norway whilst Frolich with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is led to Africa as they follow the twists future she wants for herself and turns of her daughter? For the investigation. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenacious, chasing down the truth moment they’re enjoying life in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstances, trying hard to uncover the truth as they are sure that something much bigger, present and much more dangerous, is going putting the future onthe back burner.|isbn=1914585127
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|isbn=00085414771786482126|title=Clarice Bean: Scram!The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Lauren ChildElly Griffiths
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=It Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was a hot summer day right at going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the beginning bones of the summer holidays and Clarice Bean a child beneath a doorway. There was bored: no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn'Nothing ever happens except for sometimest, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago... And only on rare-sh occasions Her condition will be obvious before long, which not least because Ruth is hardly everprone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.''5|genre=CrimeThere are seven members of |summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Bean Hardie family living in to approach the house: Grandad (who lives on police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the ground floor because other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's wobbly), Mum prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and Dadwho was responsible for her death. This person, Clarice's older brotherhe promises, Kurt is someone big and younger brother, Minal Cricketit will be worth the police doing what he wants. There's also Marcie, who's main claim And what he wants is to be transferred to fame seems an open prison to be that she steals serve the batteries from Clarice's torch, which means that she can't read in the airing cupboardremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Clarice would love to have someone who listened Not much to herask, rather than wanting is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to talk, but do the only one who does other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that is Granny DS Max Craigie and she lives in New York. The Bean family anyone who works with him is kept well away from what''different''s happening.
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|isbn=07112662040008405026|title=The Secret Life of BirdsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)Jane Casey
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on investigation ground to a daily basishalt. An hour can pass without my noticingNow, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. IInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there've established which species feed from s something about the ground, which pop to positioning of the feeders for a quick snatch of some food bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeableher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. It would have been wonderful if, What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a child, Icomplex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie'd had access to a book s disappearance: others (such as Derwent''The Secret Life of Birds''s boss, Una Burt) are less convinced. So – what is it?
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|isbn=17370309420571379877|title=Bag OThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert'Goodiess 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 stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jolly Walker BittickJo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace
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|genre= AnthologiesCrime|summary=SometimesWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, you deserve a treat and mine was Jolly Walker BittickDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's ''Bag O'Goodies''their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. I first encountered his writing about But when there is a second body found crucified a year ago, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]]few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a rollicking tale lot of what happens when five young men find a base for unwanted attention to their partyingAI Future Policing project. Right nowWill they be able to solve the case in time, I didn't want a full-length novelor will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, so I turned to this anthology out of verse and short stories. Bittick's writing has matured - and so have his characters. Well... most of them!a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn=Caryl Lewis and George Ermos1399613073|title=SeedMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Marty has two parental figures in his lifeOlivia, Laura and they both might be thought Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of as complete embarrassmentsa century. His grandfather runs an allotment Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, and manages to stink the entire town out from it which is a bonus when he douses it in fish guts each spring you aim to fertilise his vegetablesbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. His mother somehow combines Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the dual roles free spirit of housebound failure the group and hoarder – while she seems to do nothing becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and hasnit't left the building s going to end in years she has still managed to fill it to the brim with junktragedy. What Marty's classmates We don't know about this they can draw lines to from how poor Marty always looks, with his one school uniform built from lost propertywho suffered the tragedy or the consequences. We see him as once again Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the council threaten her and him with evictionthree friends. This time, and as he celebrates his birthday with the gift from his grandfather of a solitary plant seedit's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1529077664
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|authorisbn=Sophie Cameron0241636604|title=Our Sister, AgainThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=After Isla's older sister Flora dies, her family struggle If you were to find bring up an image of a way forward. In particularcity banker in your mind, Islayou's mum who can’t seem re unlikely to be able to let her daughter gothink of someone like Gary Stevenson. When Isla passes her mum's details onto a support group she finds online A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, she thinks they might be able poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to helpthe London School of Economics. But actually, it turns out they are part Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of an experimental company who offer the family the chance us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to have Flora back again, in robot form. But this won't just be a look-a-likestupid. They use all of Flora's online history It was his ability at what was, essentially, and interviews a card game which got him an internship with family and friendsCitibank. Eventually, and through this data they will recreate Flora turned into permanent employment as closely as possiblea trader. But what will it really mean for the family, to have Flora back? And is it really Flora at all?|isbn=1788953916
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|isbn=13985075041035021803|title=Cold ReckoningThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Russ ThomasC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his father committed suicide and for It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the last sixteen years heEnglish country village where she grew up. She's been searching back now because of a request for evidence to prove that hehelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's rightclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. When a frozen body Arthur was found the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in Damflask Reservoirbusiness together as antique hunters, there was a link back she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cold case cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from 2002the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. There didn}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow't immediately seem 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 be any connection 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 DI Richard Tylerwhat's death advantageous to me but Adam Tyler senses 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 link way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|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 case his father was investigating before residents who are still alive in the hotel, he died. Above all thereforms 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 a growing sense that 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 criminality terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Det Supt Stevens Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is going 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 be brought out into have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the openfamily 'Down South'. Perhaps Tyler When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is going a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to get prevent that. She's not worried about the answers he needs?dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.
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|isbn=07278505471398524085|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=David MarkNicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadnCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband't even had time for breakfast when the call came throughs fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. A body had been found in the roots of a fallen tree at BrantinghamHer children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, near HullEtty. When he gets to the sceneare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, he will find what greets him is even worse than he could have imaginednot. A young manShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's corpse is entangled with father, Duncan Ackerley, in the roots of a newly-fallen tree – the roots have grown through him – and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyesriver. It would seem that this was done whilst an easy assumption for the man was still alive. McAvoy makes a promise police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the victim: I will find answers. You will know justiceguilt. But justice always comes at a cost and this time the cost might be to McAvoyThe Salter children are not convinced but there's own familylittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|authorisbn=Natalia Garcia Freire1035906708|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary= Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include TremendousWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, a delightNew York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'a delightCallas' is perhaps using to make it more manageable in the expression in a way I'm not familiar withStates. I have to confess my ignorance of the SpanishWhen she was back in Athens -language literary tradition supposedly so forgive my generalisation here. From that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the little I have read (in translationNazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realismJackie. |isbn=0861541901
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|author= Ann Sei LinChristopher Edge|title= Rebel SkiesBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating= 54|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a servant on the Midorimovie marathon at their local cinema, a massive dining hall floating in place that has the sky where soldiers nickname of the Empire come 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to drink lots of exciting films, and make merry between their conquests. many, many snacks! However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with as the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with himmovie starts, to leave the life of dreary servitude they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is all she has known. Wellvery different, soon Kurara wonand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known even imagine. But as a shikigami, and she is forced they lurch from one film genre to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihimenext, a sky-ship whose express purpose can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to hunt down shikigamithe cinema, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…to their real lives?|isbn=14063995901839942738
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|author=Patrice LawrenceRachel Greenlaw|title=NeedleCompass and Blade|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' I can hear the song of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers boththe sea. Kicked out The call of multiple homes and schoolsthe deep, shethe answering beat in my heart.''s fostering with  Rosevear, a pleasant yoga tutor, Annieremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uniplundering the wrecks. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanketMira, you might perhaps thinklike her mother before her, and the creation of is one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a wonder knittertrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister sheMira's allowed contact with no morefather. We see Charlene prove her belligerence Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a store detective, wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and then force people with only coordinates to give guide her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorantsets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. And then... wellWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, what exactly happens is not for me as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to saythe heart of the smuggler's territory, only Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to remark how sharp save the future of her home and pointy those knitting needles can be..the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=18009010110008664730
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|isbnauthor=1405940980James Sherwood Metts|title=The Birdcage|author=Eve ChasePlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=It's Things have been a bit sticky for the 7th of January 2019 Earthlings. AI and we know that a body has automation have been pulled out of the sea at Zennor in Cornwall. We donproceeding apace, often replacing jobs they't know whose body it is. Four days earlier, Flora, Kat re paid to do and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at the request of their father, Charlie Finch, a famous artistother tasks that took time to accomplish. The girls are actually ''half''-sisters Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and their dates starting to think of birth are embarrassingly close. Finch was known for his fecundity, if not for his fidelity. It's been a long time since the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years agoother, at the new ways to spend time of the total eclipse, something happenedalong came an awful pandemic. Kat and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren Life was a victim pretty much shut down and , along with it's left her very wary of her sisters, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|isbnauthor=1787634906Matthew Tree|title=No Less the Devil|author=Stuart MacBrideWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.
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|author=A G Slatter
|title=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 trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.
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|isbn=1529900360
|title=The Ghost Orchid
|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=WeIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis're in Oldcastle s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and Malcolm is in troubleeven after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. He's in an abandoned house His assertions that there were only open-and he-shut cases which didn's being threatened by two young peoplet need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. One is Allegra (we'll soon learn that sheFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's Allegra Dean-Edwards) and Hugopartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. It seems She knew that the involvement was something that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat to keep him warm (the man she often does this for homeless peopleloved needed. The next case did look simple, apparently) but she'd put though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a tracking device remote property in it so that Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and Hugo could find out where he was sleepingit's not the Italian. It won't be long before the police realise that Malcolm But which of them was one of their own: not many other people are going to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backs.primary target?
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|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Jennifer SaintSion 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 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=ElektraA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
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|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live 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 the heavily malea street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -dominated world of Ancient Greeceand he killed a Ghurka. Cassandra, Clytemnestra Initially, and Elektra are all bit players in the story he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the Trojan Warman. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often Now he could be facing the silent women have the most compelling stories death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and the most extreme furieswouldn't help Danny at all.|isbn=1472273915
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|isbnauthor=1529149800Alexander McCall Smith|title=Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Home and FamilyGeneral Fiction|summary=We begin with 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 telling storymore personal, tailored service. All the birds Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and animals fled when look after the forest fire took hold and most of them stood and watchedbusiness, unable as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to think of anything they could doget away for a while. The tiny hummingbird flew to the river and began taking tiny amounts Katie is coming out of water a break up with a bad boyfriend, and flying back so jumps at the chance to come home to drop them into the fireEdinburgh. The animals laughed: what good was that doing. ''I'm doing 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 best I can''Isabel Dalhousie novels, said the hummingbirdbut with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. And thatKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, reallyand there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, is the only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we canWilliam, however small that might be.to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|isbn=17765743380811771741|title=Leilong's Too Long!InstaKnits for Baby|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnMelissa Leapman
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|genre=For SharingCrafts|summary=Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goesMelissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Children who live at Some will be quick knits - others are of the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out long, cosy afternoons in front of the window and slide down his neckfire' variety. ItThe projects are divided by the time they's perfectll take to complete - less than five hours, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going five to school? There is a problemten hours, thoughten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. Leilong isn't happy in All the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to projects are attractive, modern and traffic regularly gets snarled upuseable. The school decides I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that he can't be the bus anymores me being picky.
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|isbnauthor=303091657XDean Koontz|title=Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S PetersonThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceParanormal|summary=Boards must act in the best interests of their stakeholders and ensure that they are well-managed Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and financially securehis house gets trashed. This might seem obvious but Oh, and someone has delivered a series of disasters really weird, disturbing coffin- some of which have resulted in death sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the collapse of very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a major company - have left interested parties asking what the board was doingnice person. Where were they? A really nice person. Occasionally So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the boards were unaware of what was happening or they preferred delivery to turn his house is a new friend, a blind eyebad weather friend called Spike, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance or criminalitywho has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but what has happened Spike is nothing new: Gerry Brown going to take care of Benny, and Randall S Peterson give us a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway maniawill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, the South Sea Bubble and even tulip mania. Over three centuries we seem to have learned very littleHarper (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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|isbn=1529431735
|title=The Winter Visitor
|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped 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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