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|isbnauthor=1406395404Tom Percival|title=The Awesome Power Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of Sleep: How Sleep Superways. 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-Charges Your Teenage Brainhand job on a building site and 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=Nicola MorganSylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep
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|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=2020 has been There are few greater joys than a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statementbook which lives up to a compelling premise. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss And this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, from children to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it worse. And there's also the fact that for far too long, lack one of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. Being up early, working late has been praised and the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CVthem.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=000820831X0008517061|title=The Coffinmaker's GardenDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stuart MacBrideStig Abell
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|summary=At the coastal village of ClachmaraFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, the headland is slowly eroding has settled into the seahis rustic life at Little Sky. Storm Trevor speeds up There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the process. A ship - the Ocean-Gold Harvester is stuck on the rocks future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of the house to see what's happening. Margaret runs after her son compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and as she grabs him relaxing life to pull him back move in with Livia or does Livia move to safety Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she glances across at the newly-exposed cliff front wants for herself and sees human bones. her daughter? Gordon Smith's home is falling into For the moment they’re enjoying life in the North Sea present and putting the evidence of what he's been doing for decades is going with it - except for what Ash Henderson of LIRU can grab as he later escapes future on the tumbling ruinback burner.
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|isbn=B08BC4D58S1786482126|title=Winterkill The Janus Stone (Dark IcelandDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Ragnar JonassonElly Griffiths|rating=4.5
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|summary=Ari Thor Arason is the police inspector in Siglufjordur and he's still living Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the house on Eyrargata which he shared with his wife Kristin and son Stefnir before Kristin left to go to Sweden site was going to do a Masters degree, taking threehold seventy-yearfive 'luxury' apartments -old Stefnir with herwhen they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. They were supposed to spend Christmas together but Kristin cancelledWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's now difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the Thursday of Holy Week and his family is due to arrive in Siglufjordur that afternoonone night they spent together some three months ago. Ari Thor Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is having trouble sleeping but when he finally managed to get prone to sleep the phone rings: the body of a young woman has been found on Adalgata, the main street sudden bouts of the townsickness.
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{{FrontpageinterviewFrontpage|isbn=31106412910008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen AlexanderNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|summarygenre=Crime|summary=Sue was so impressed by [[The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide It's unusual for Harnessing New, Novel anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or Game-Changing Breakthroughs by Olga Kokshagina has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and Allen Alexander]] that she wished that she had he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a good business idea of missing person is buried and who was responsible for her own so that she could use death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the bookpolice doing what he wants. Perhaps that was And what she was talking about when Olga he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and Allen popped into Bookbag Towers to chat get an early parole date. Not much to usask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|authorisbn=Rob Winters0008405026|title=His Name Was WrenA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=In September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the village of Hurstwickinvestigation ground to a halt. It came down hardNow, taking the spire of the village church with ither mother, destroying a stone shackHelena, and her father are dead in their bed. and leaving Initially, it looks like a wide trail through straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the wood, but no trace positioning of what it actually wasthe bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. German secret weapon What looked as though it was the local gossip, but there should have been going to be an explosion open-and -shut case is now a cratercomplex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, and there were neither of those thingsUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=B08KGVNVNB
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|authorisbn=Stephen Clarke0571379877|title=The Spy Who Inspired MeKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=This Edward Jevons is a spoof spy storyworking-class young man, that isn't about James Bondobsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Or Ian FlemingRobert's a theatre director. But it features a man called Ian LemmingHe's also self-obsessed, demanding, who dresses well handsome and 'likes the ladies' entitled and who works uses Edward to run errands for the secret service, but in the planning side of things more than the active servicehim. Lemming finds himself put on a mission Edward has been in love with a female spy called Margaux, Stanza since their university days - and the pair end up stranded he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Normandy, with Margaux on Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a desperate mission relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to unearth traitors stumble upon the two of them kissing in the resistance network, and Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!|isbn=2952163855a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=3110706075Jo Callaghan|title=Making a Difference: Leadership, Change and Giving Back the Independent Director Way|author=Gerry BrownLeave No Trace
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|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=''You're not there When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to run the organisationcase alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. You are It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there to make sure that it is run properly.'' Gerry Brown is passionate about the benefits which Independent Directors can bring to a board - not just second body found crucified a corporate board, but the board of an NHS Trustfew days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a university, potential serial killer and a sports organisation or very high profile case that draws a charitylot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. He's particularly keen that there's increased diversity on these boards and feels that this would help Will they be able to avoid some of solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the scandals (Oxfamcase and, Kids Company - we're thinking about you) which have occurred in recent years. For this to happenpotentially, boards need to have out of a wider field of people to choose from when they're looking for an ID.career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=17864959021399613073|title=The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your MindMoral Injuries|author=Isabel HardmanChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleThrillers|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma which doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she chooses not to sharebecomes a GP. She says that When we first meet them they're at a friend, who does know, burst into tears drug and healthalcohol-care professionalsfuelled party and it' jaws have sagged s going to end in disbelieftragedy. Hardman dealt with this at the time by We don'keeping going': t know who suffered the next day she went to work to cover tragedy or the budget, next consequences. Twenty-five years later there was will be an eerily similar event that will impact the EU referendumthree friends. This time, the political party leadership contests and then it was party conference season. One night she had to be sedated and returned home to begin long-term sick leave. That was what brought me to this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I did's their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=30305130250241636604|title=The Independent Director in SocietyTrading Game: Our current crisis of governance and what to doA Confession|author=Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe MoraisGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceAutobiography|summary=Independent Director: ''a job for which no one is qualified'' (''Financial Times'') Independent Director: ''An independent director is a member If you were to bring up an image of the board of directors who (1) do not have a material relationship with the companycity banker in your mind, (2) is not part of the companyyou's executive team, and (3) is not involved with the day-re unlikely to-day operations think of the companysomeone like Gary Stevenson. (Corporate Finance Institute) Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse A hoodie and Filipe Morais feel that jeans replaces the relationship between the executive members of boards pin-stripe suit and his background is the independent directors (formerly known as non-executive directors)East End, where he was familiar with violence, trustees or governors of organisations is frequently unbalancedpoverty and injustice. The function of the independent director is There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to have general oversight of the executive side London School of the board Economics. Stevenson is bright - to spot when and where things are going wrong extremely bright - but all too often the relationship is too cosy, too antagonistic or the independent director lacks the knowledge and/or experience to understand what's happening or to know how to intervene. Covid-19 he has highlighted the failings and weaknesses a facility with numbers which most of leadership and governance and you might be tempted us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to think that these are extraordinary times and that all will be well once we get back to 'normal' but stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a pandemic was predicted and modelled in the past and there has been card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a general failure to prepare for what has happened - and is still happeningtrader.
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|isbn=B002SQCYWQ1035021803|title=The Complete Barchester ChroniclesAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Anthony TrollopeC L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=When I told my daughter that I didnIt't know what to listen s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now that Ibecause of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya'd finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense s former mentor and SensibilityCarole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, Pride is dead and Prejudicethe circumstances seem suspicious, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels of Jane Austen]] for to say the second time on least. Arthur was the trot she reason why Freya had not been back to the perfect answervillage: The Barchester Chronicles and Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in my inbox in a matter of minutesbusiness together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. They're not ''quite'' as well known as After the Austen books but they're an excellent follow split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (onthe rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=0008214468AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=A Time to LieAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Simon BerthonBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=A workman has a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out of an excavation on a building site. It's wrapped in part 'Opening up new ways of an old shower curtain and is a hand, severed above thinking about the wristshape of things to come. It's been there for about twenty-five to thirty-five years.'
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|isbnauthor=B077K6BQFDSunny Singh|title=The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion |author=Jane AustenHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers |summary=Yes - The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that's has suddenly been violently taken over eighty-one hours of listening for 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 purchase of one audio bookhotel manager. All six major novels As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are read still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by conmedienne Alison Larkin events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they're presented in only ever talk over the order in which 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 were publishedare discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn=02414535851529153298|title=Banking On It: How I Disrupted an IndustryThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Anne BodenJennie Godfrey
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|genre=Business and FinanceGeneral Fiction|summary=Anne Boden had an impressive track record in 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 financial services sector: she had thirty years experience at family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a senior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish Bankfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. AIB was in For Miv, the throes of recovering from the 2008 financial crisis when she arrived move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she was one of the first 'll do anything to realise prevent that banks needed to do things differently. AIB thought it was at She's not worried about the cutting edge when it proposed opening a branch which allowed customers dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to access their accounts via a terminal. Boden took things a step further, realising that customers could access their accounts from their homes: the old branch network, employing thousands of people, would soon become redundantanyone.
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|authorisbn=Lauren Martin1398524085|title=The Book of MoodsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
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|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary= I Charlotte Salter was in a great mood when I first learnt of this bookexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and because sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writingOllie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, imagine the word ''great'' being delivered with an eye roll Etty and a sighGreg, through clenched teeth. I had spent find the best part body of a rainyGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, windy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club in the rescue rib, on standby in case anyone who was racing needed supportriver. It's a volunteer duty we all do during was an easy assumption for the year, and normally I'm happy police to, but make that day the weather was miserable and I was miserable, Duncan had murdered Charlie and it all came to a head that evening then committed suicide when I noticed he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on the website that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave with their lives and wife". Wow. I had never needed this book morewonder about what really happened.|isbn=1538733625
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|authorisbn=Becky Albertalli1035906708|title= Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens AgendaDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier has a great life. He has a close group We tend to think of friendsMaria Callas as Greek, a loving familybut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, and even an adorable dog. But he has a secret: he's gay. Only one person knows thisNew York, in December 1923 and that's Blue – a boy who he has been emailing almost daily since he found out that there only moved to Athens when she was another closeted guy at his schoolthirteen. Their emails are a safe space for Simon; Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed itto 's his own private universe without Callas' to make it more manageable in the fear of being judgedStates. Until one day, these emails fall into When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the wrong handsNazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, and everything Simon knows is turned upside downJackie.|isbn=014135609X
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|isbnauthor=3110641119Christopher Edge|title=The Journey Mapping Playbook: A Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value of Customer Journey Mapping|author=Jerry AngraveBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54|genre=Business and FinanceConfident Readers|summary=I had no idea what Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'journey mappingThe Black Hole' was until I read this playbook but any business that engages with their customers will benefit from reading the book and acting on the contents. YouAll big movie fans, they're going to learn how to run a workshop to discover what it feels like looking forward to be one lots of your own customers. exciting films, and many, many snacks! At However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this pointnew film format is very different, please donand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't say 'oh (expletive deleted) not another workshop' because this 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 be fun the cinema, and you're going to be surprised by what emerges.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|isbnauthor=3110641291Rachel Greenlaw|title=The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing Breakthroughs|author=Olga Kokshagina Compass and Allen AlexanderBlade|rating=3.5|genre=Business and FinanceTeens|summary=So''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, why bother? Every time you set out to do something new you end up with the same thing answering beat in a slightly different form and quite a bit of money spentmy heart. Why not just leave it as it is? After all, it's ''roughly'' working, isn't it?
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|isbnauthor=1472962044James Sherwood Metts|title=Creating Value Through Technology: Discover the Tech that Can Transform Your Business|author=Andrew HampshirePlanet Storyland
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|genre=Business and FinanceConfident Readers|summary=I was once told that 'technology' is anything that happens after you're eighteen, so there's Things have been a lot of technology in my life. I once worked bit sticky for a manager who judged if an accountant was reputable by establishing whether or not they had a typewriterthe Earthlings. Times - thankfully - AI and automation have moved on. Nowadays the problem is been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that someone running a business doesn't have the took time to keep up with constant innovation and they might also be scared because previous IT investments haven't delivered accomplish. Just as expected. It's also a fact that no one develops a business because they have the knowledge were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of the required technologyother, new ways to spend time, so they start off in conversations about technology feeling that they're at a disadvantagealong came an awful pandemic. They need helpLife was pretty much shut down and, along with it, but all the many daily social interactions on which they frequently don't know what help they needdepend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|author=Mark LinganeMatthew Tree|title=Note to Self: An EducationWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary= In Kry's worldTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a cascade drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of medical "advances": in 2030 it's found that radiation can return cells back self confidence. So Tim applied himself to their regeneration state seven years beforehis studies, in 2035 it's possible to cure cancerous tumours cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but with the side effect of erasing seven years of memory, by 2045 the cosmetics industry is using the same technique to "de-age" their customers by seven yearsachievable ambitions. In a society obsessed with image and youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KSB0CVFXPGP8}}
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|isbnauthor=1838770046A G Slatter|title=Body Language|author=A K TurnerThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Raven is the senior mortuary technician and not only does she talk '' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to the deadmyself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, she also hears what they have at last. I just want to say to herenjoy it for a while. It'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's not something , a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she's inclined has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to share with people be born into her family for generations and as such since shewas young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's pretty certain about what their reaction will be. Shecousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's certainly not going leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to share it communicate with the new pathologistdead, Dr Archie Chuff, wearer putting her at the heart of a genuine Barbour jacket and old Harrovianmaelstrom of chaos. He's very conscious of his position Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and isn't even inclined determine what to ask for do as the view of the anatomical pathology technicians despite the fact that Briar witches' legacy, everything they have a lot more experience than him and he has only a limited amount of time sacrificed to spend on each body. That will prove to be a mistakesurvive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548
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|isbn=05787617181529900360|title=The Inspiring History of a Special RelationshipGhost Orchid|author=Nancy CarverJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryCrime|summary=The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had existed in the City of London from at least 1181been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, when it Sturgis was first mentioned in recordsreluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. Sadly, His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the original church was destroyed in the Great Fire help of London in 1666. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the fire and then survived psychologist only worked for centuries until World War IIa while. Finally, when it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again ruined by bombs during the Blitz. But She knew that wasn't the end of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, involvement was something that the stones from the church's walls were transported to Fultonman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, Missourithough. There, Two lovers were murdered in the grounds swimming pool of Westminster College, a remote property in Bel Air. He was the church was rebuilt heir to an Italian shoe empire and today serves as a memorial she is married to Winston Churchillan extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=B08NF79QXT1529395224|title=Cherry Blossom BoutiqueLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Brooke AdamsSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Women's FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shopSiôn 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 Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when shestrain that being on-call put on his father's nominated for - and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Awardlife. She's delighted and When he was seventeen he took the two people she's brought opportunity of doing work experience with her to a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the event couldn't be more pleasedjob for him. Sonja, her motherBefore long, is an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks fromhe was at Liverpool University. Jessica It hadn's thirtyt - as with so many students -four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other been his dream since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, Charles and their four-year-old daughter, Avahe was a child. Life would If anything, he'd wanted to be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in her lifeprofessional footballer.
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|isbn=B08BTXSS840861541774|title=Fallen Angel (Gaby Darin Book 3)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Jenny O'BrienSteve Burrows
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|summary=Acting DI Gaby Darin is twiddling her thumbs: the usual flood of cases DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has slowed to less than taken a dribble and she's looking through cold cases for inspiration as short holiday in Singapore to which one she should have a good look at. DS Owen Bates suggests the murder of eighteen-year-meet up with an old Angelica Brock in 1995 and Gaby is intriguedally, Guy Trueman. She can't see any immediate failings Maik was involved in the original investigation: Angelica disappeared from a room in street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a securelyknife -locked house, wearing her pyjamas, and was found dead by he killed a dog walker on the Gt Orme in Llandudno the next dayGhurka. She was wearing Initially, he faced a hand-made nightdress which her mother had never seen beforecharge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Bates hasn't ''quite'' told Now he could be facing the whole story: he's married death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to Kate Brock, Angelicahelp as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's younger sistert help Danny at all.
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|author=Nick Jones Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and Si Clarkoperating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0811771741|title=One Night in BeartownInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
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|genre=For SharingCrafts|summary= Many children have an obsession and Sandy LaneMelissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, who lives cosy afternoons in Beartownfront of the fire' variety. 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. All the projects are attractive, is obsessed with bearsmodern and useable. She collects books I perhaps show my age when I wonder about bears'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky. Her favourite toy }}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is Berisfordhaving a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every nightreally weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the bear statue outsidedelivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Every morning she says hello Spike is going to Bee Beartake care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a colourful painted bear that lives at her schoolwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|isbn=B08NFH7H9X1662500491}}
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|author=Gail HoneymanAdam Stower|title=Eleanor Oliphant is Completely FineMurray and Bun
|rating=4.5
|genre=General FictionConfident Readers |summary= Eleanor Oliphant Murray is almost 30. She lives in Glasgowsupposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, alone. And she likes it that way. She works 9-5one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, 5 days a weekwell, and spends whatever takes his fancy next of the weekend not drunk, but not sobertwo. alone. And she likes it that way. She lives by But he's a routine, and thatbad magician's finecat, thankyouverymuch. Nothing is missing from her life. Except everything is. Until one day, at so his favourite bun has been turned into a concert she won tickets for in an office rafflehyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, she sees the man she is sure will be her husband. Eleanor begins a journey to make herself and the best version of herself that she catflap they both use canchuck them out, in order to secure this beautiful musician. Thennot into the regular back garden, as she's on her way home one Friday, she and the new IT guy at her office see but into a man collapse in the street world of frightening adventure and stay close to him in hospitalwhiffs. Then, before she knows This time round itdrops them into a Viking land, her once quiet life becomes where a hubbub of social engagements with the man's family and friendstroll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, with Raymond from IT and of course her side project of falling in love with Johnnie Lomond. But just as her life seems to be looking uphonest, things take a turn for the worse. Is Johnnie all but he's cracked turned up to be? What secrets does Eleanor have from her childhood? Eleanor's walls have been broken down and she has to fight her way out of the shadows - but maybe she doesnhe't ll have to do it alone.do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008172145B0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no. ''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic
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|isbn=18388873341529431735|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)The Winter Visitor|author=Angela MarsonsJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Kim Stone It's February 1991 and DS Jim Bryant were Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on their way back from Diversity Awareness trainingthe Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The need for coffee overtook Stone - the course return has come about because he's had been a complete waste of time for her as she knew letter from his ex-wife, saying that she was equally rude 's ill and hasn't long to everyonelive. It was in the shopping centre that Stone caught sight of a little girl clutching a teddy bear in the absence of her mother. Stone and Bryant didn't realise the extent s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to which this case was going his underwear and sent to occupy their minds as a watery grave in the body boot of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours latera stolen Ford Sierra. Her neck had been broken and Is it had all the hallmarks of a quick, functional kill, but who would do that warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to a young mother out shopping with her childhome?}}