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|isbnauthor=B08CR3WNFTTom Percival|title=The Therapist|author=B A ParisWrong Shoes
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=When Leo Curtis found 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 house in The Circlemost basic of things like food, a gated communityand his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, Alice Dawson was working a cash-in Venice-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Leo wanted to move quickly on the property as it was on Throw into that mix the market at such a reasonable price fact that Alice wouldnhis mum and dad are separated, and Will't have to sell her cottage s life seems bleak in Harlestone for them to be able to afford itevery direction. Alice agreed - she was tired And yet, he still has a tiny amount of their long-distance relationshiphope. Now they would be able He is good at art, and clings to spend most of the week together instead moments of just the weekends. Leo had some work done on the house: joy when he made two bedrooms into one and although Alice knew is drawing, that feel like a light at the house was stunning she just didn't feel comfortable thereend of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|isbnauthor=1406395404Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola MorganA 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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|genre=Crime
|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|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was 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't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5
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|summary=Ari Thor Arason is It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police inspector . Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in Siglufjordur prison and he's still living in prepared to tell the police where the house on Eyrargata which he shared with his wife Kristin body of a missing person is buried and son Stefnir before Kristin left to go to Sweden to do a Masters degree, taking three-year-old Stefnir with who was responsible for herdeath. They were supposed to spend Christmas together but Kristin cancelledThis person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. It's now And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the Thursday remainder of Holy Week his sentence and his family is due to arrive in Siglufjordur that afternoonget an early parole date. Ari Thor Not much to ask, is having trouble sleeping but when he finally managed it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to get to sleep do the phone rings: the body of a young woman has been found on Adalgata, the main street of the townother 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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{{FrontpageinterviewFrontpage|isbn=31106412910008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen AlexanderJane Casey|rating=5|summarygenre=Crime|summary=Sue It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was so impressed by [[The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing Newnever found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, Novel or Game-Changing Breakthroughs by Olga Kokshagina and Allen Alexander]] that she wished that she had her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a good business idea straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her own so that she could use the bookboss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Perhaps that What looked as though it was what she was talking about when Olga going to be an open-and Allen popped into Bookbag Towers to chat to us-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=0571379877|title=The 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's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Rob WintersJo Callaghan|title=His Name Was WrenLeave No Trace
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=In September 1944 something came down When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Oban WoodsNuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, near the village of HurstwickAI detective Lock. It came down hard's their first live case together, taking the spire of the village church having previously been very successful with itseveral cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, destroying Kat is suddenly struggling with a stone shack, potential serial killer and leaving a wide trail through the wood, but no trace very high profile case that draws a lot of what it actually wasunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. German secret weapon was Will they be able to solve the local gossipcase in time, but there should have been an explosion or will Kat find herself taken off the case and a crater, and there were neither potentially, out of those things.a career?|isbn=B08KGVNVNB139851120X
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|authorisbn=Stephen Clarke1399613073|title=The Spy Who Inspired MeMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=This is Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a spoof spy story, that isn't about James Bondcentury. Or Ian FlemingOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. But it features Laura is a man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well perfectionist and 'likes the ladies' and who works for the secret service, but in a trauma doctor. Anjali is the planning side free spirit of things more than the active servicegroup and she becomes a GP. Lemming finds himself put on When we first meet them they're at a mission with a female spy called Margaux, drug and alcohol-fuelled party and the pair it's going to end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on a desperate mission to unearth traitors in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the resistance networkthree friends. This time, and Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!|isbn=2952163855it's their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=31107060750241636604|title=Making a DifferenceThe Trading Game: Leadership, Change and Giving Back the Independent Director WayA Confession|author=Gerry BrownGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceAutobiography|summary=''YouIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're not there unlikely to run think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the organisationpin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. You are there There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to make sure that it is run properlythe London School of Economics.'' Gerry Brown Stevenson is passionate about the benefits which Independent Directors can bring to a board bright - extremely bright - not just and he has a corporate board, but the board facility with numbers which most of an NHS Trust, a university, a sports organisation or a charityus can only envy. He's particularly keen also realised that there's increased diversity on these boards and feels that this would help most rich people expect poor people to avoid some of the scandals (Oxfambe stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, Kids Company - we're thinking about you) a card game which have occurred in recent yearsgot him an internship with Citibank. For Eventually, this to happen, boards need to have turned into permanent employment as a wider field of people to choose from when they're looking for an IDtrader.
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|isbn=17864959021035021803|title=The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your MindAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Isabel HardmanC L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she chooses not to sharegrew up. She says that 's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, who does knowArthur Crockleford, burst into tears is dead and health-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbeliefthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Hardman dealt with this at Arthur was the time by 'keeping going': the next day she went to work reason why Freya had not been back to cover the budgetvillage: Arthur, next there was the EU referendumshe feels, the political party leadership contests and then it was party conference seasonlet her down badly. One night Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she had has not felt able to be sedated near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and returned home to begin long-term sick leave. That was what brought me to this book: 2020 was married James (on the year when rebound from the bins went out more often than I didlove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=3030513025AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Independent Director in SocietyAll Tomorrow's Futures: Our current crisis of governance and what to doFictions that Disrupt|author=Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse Benjamin Greenaway and Filipe MoraisStephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=Business and FinanceScience Fiction|summary=Independent Director: ''a job for which no one is qualifiedOpening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' (''Financial Times'')
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|isbnauthor=B002SQCYWQSunny Singh|title=The Complete Barchester Chronicles|author=Anthony TrollopeHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers |summary=When I told my daughter The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that I didn't know what to listen to now that I'd finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibilityhas suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, Pride and Prejudicekilling everyone on site, Mansfield Parkthere is Sam, Emmaa wartime photographer and Abhi, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels of Jane Austen]] the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the second time on residents who are still alive in the trot she had the perfect answer: The Barchester Chronicles hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and they were in my inbox in a matter keeps on venturing out of minutesher room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. They're not ''quite'' as well known Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the Austen books but they're an excellent follow onterrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn=00082144681529153298|title=A Time to LieThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Simon BerthonJennie Godfrey
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=A workman has a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out of an excavation on a building site. It's wrapped in part of an old shower curtain 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is a handPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, severed above the wristhonestly... ) ItShe's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been there for about twenty-five to thirty-five years. Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - is Prime Ministerdisappearing. HeWell, they's married ve been murdered, but to heiress Carol van Koon and they have two daughters, Becca and Bella'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. SandfordMiv's determined upset because she's overheard that her father wants to be a better type of politician: he wants move the family 'Down South'a government that is not just practically good, but morally good.'' One of the ways heWhen you's planning on going about this re from Yorkshire, Down South is to ban arms sales to dubious regimesa frightening, foreign place, best avoided. Henry Morland-CrossFor Miv, the Deputy Prime Minister move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and Chancellor of the Exchequer, wishes she'll do anything to prevent that he. She'd been warned s not worried about this: itthe dangers or that her Mum's easy stopped talking - to see that he wouldn't have been in agreementanyone.
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|isbn=B077K6BQFD1398524085|title=The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Jane AustenNicci French
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|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Yes - thatCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's over eightyfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely -one hours her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of listening Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the purchase of one audio bookpolice to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. All six major novels The Salter children are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin and theynot convinced but there're presented in the order in which s little else they were publishedcan do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=02414535851035906708|title=Banking On It: How I Disrupted an IndustryDiva|author=Anne BodenDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceGeneral Fiction|summary=Anne Boden had an impressive track record in the financial services sector: We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she had thirty years experience at a senior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish Bank. AIB was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in the throes of recovering from the 2008 financial crisis December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she arrived and she was one of the first to realise that banks needed to do things differentlythirteen. AIB thought it Her original surname was at the cutting edge when Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it proposed opening a branch which allowed customers to access their accounts via a terminal'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. Boden took things a step further, realising When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that customers she could access their accounts from their homes: get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the old branch network, employing thousands Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of peopleher preference for her elder sister, would soon become redundantJackie.
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|author=Lauren MartinChristopher Edge|title=The Book of MoodsBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary= I was Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a great mood when I first learnt of this bookmovie marathon at their local cinema, and because sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writing, imagine a place that has the word nickname of 'The Black Hole'great. All big movie fans, they'' being delivered with an eye roll re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and a sighmany, through clenched teeth. I had spent the best part of a rainymany snacks! However, windy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club in as the rescue ribmovie starts, on standby in case anyone who was racing needed support. It's a volunteer duty we all do during the yearthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and normally Ithey are swept up into an adventure they couldn'm happy t even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre tothe next, but that day can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the weather was miserable and I was miserablecinema, and it all came to a head that evening when I noticed on the website that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife". Wow. I had never needed this book more.their real lives?|isbn=15387336251839942738
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|author=Becky AlbertalliRachel Greenlaw|title= Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens AgendaCompass and Blade|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary= Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier has a great life''I can hear the song of the sea. He has a close group The call of friendsthe deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a loving familyremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and even an adorable dogany treasure that lies within. But he has when the Council Watch lays a secret: hetrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's gay. Only one person knows this, leader and thatMira's Blue – father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a boy wreck survivor who is as charming as he has been emailing almost daily since he found out is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that there was another closeted guy at his schoollies buried deep in the sea. Their emails are a safe space for Simon; itWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's his own private universe without territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the fear future of being judged. Until one day, these emails fall into her home and the wrong hands, and everything Simon knows is turned upside downones she holds most dear.|isbn=014135609X0008664730
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|isbnauthor=3110641119James Sherwood Metts|title=The Journey Mapping Playbook: A Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value of Customer Journey Mapping|author=Jerry AngravePlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceConfident Readers|summary=I had no idea what 'journey mapping' was until I read this playbook but any business that engages with their customers will benefit from reading Things have been a bit sticky for the book Earthlings. AI and acting on the contents. Youautomation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're going paid to learn how do and other tasks that took time to run a workshop accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to discover what it feels like all this technological change and starting to be one think of your own customersother, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. At this pointLife was pretty much shut down and, along with it, please donall the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=Matthew Tree|title=We't say 'oh (expletive deleted) not another workshop' because this is going ll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be fun different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and you're going who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to be surprised by what emergeshis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=3110641291A G Slatter|title=The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing Breakthroughs|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen AlexanderBriar Book of the Dead
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|genre=Business and FinanceFantasy|summary=So, why bother? Every time you set out to do something new you end up with the same thing in a slightly different form and quite '' There's a bit part of money spentme that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. Why not just leave it as it is? After This secret magic of my own, allmine, at last. I just want to enjoy itfor a while.'s ''roughly'' working, isn't it?
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|isbn=14729620441529900360|title=Creating Value Through Technology: Discover the Tech that Can Transform Your BusinessThe Ghost Orchid|author=Andrew HampshireJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=I was once told that It hadn'technologyt been Lt Milo Sturgis' is anything s fault that happens Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after you're eighteenAlex recovered, so Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that therewere only open-and-shut cases which didn's been t need the help of a lot of technology in my life. I once psychologist only worked for a manager while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who judged if an accountant nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was reputable by establishing whether or not they had a typewritersomething that the man she loved needed. Times The next case did look simple, though. - thankfully - have moved onTwo lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. Nowadays He was the problem heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is that someone running a business doesnmarried to an extremely rich man and it't have s not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the time to keep up with constant innovation 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 they might also be scared because previous IT investments havenRowlands didn't delivered as expected. Itwant to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's also life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a fact that no one develops family friend who was a business because they have vet and was convinced this was the knowledge of the required technologyjob for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so they start off in conversations about technology feeling that they're at many students - been his dream since he was a disadvantagechild. They need helpIf anything, but they frequently donhe't know what help they needd wanted to be a professional footballer.
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|authorisbn=Mark Lingane0861541774|title=Note to Self: An EducationA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
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|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary= In KryDCI Domenic Jejeune's worldclose friend and former colleague, the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in Danny Maik, has taken a cascade of medical "advances": short holiday in 2030 it's found that radiation can return cells back Singapore to their regeneration state seven years beforemeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in 2035 it's possible to cure cancerous tumours but a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with the side effect a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of erasing seven years of memory, by 2045 manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the cosmetics industry is using man. Now he could be facing the same technique death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to "de-age" their customers by seven years. In help as any interference from another police force could provoke a society obsessed with image diplomatic incident and youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KSwouldn't help Danny at all.}}
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|isbnauthor=1838770046Alexander McCall Smith|title=Body Language|author=A K TurnerThe Perfect Passion Company
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|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Raven The Perfect Passion Company is the senior mortuary technician a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and not only does she talk operating as an alternative to all the deadonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she also hears what they have could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to say Canada to herget away for a while. It's not something she's inclined Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to share with people as she's pretty certain about what their reaction will beEdinburgh. She's certainly not going And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to share it 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with the some new pathologistcharacters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, Dr Archie Chuffbut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, wearer of a genuine Barbour jacket and old Harrovian. Hethere's always her very conscious of his position helpful (and isnrather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0811771741|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''t even inclined InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to ask for blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the view 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the anatomical pathology technicians despite fire' variety. The projects are divided by the fact that time they have a lot 'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more experience than him twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and he has only a limited amount of time to spend on each bodyuseable. That will prove to be a mistakeI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.
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|isbnauthor=0578761718Dean Koontz|title=The Inspiring History of a Special Relationship|author=Nancy CarverBad Weather Friend
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|genre=HistoryParanormal|summary=The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the City of London from at least 1181Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, when and it 's possible that whoever or whatever was first mentioned in records. Sadlyinside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the original church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666very last person to deserve all this bad luck. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from He is a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the fire and then survived nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for centuries until World War II, when Benny it was again ruined by bombs during the Blitz. But turns out that wasn't the end of its story: after delivery to his house is a new friend, a phenomenal fundraising effortbad weather friend called Spike, the stones who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from the churchnefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's walls were transported to Fultonenemies, Missouri. Thereif he, in the grounds of Westminster CollegeBenny, the church was rebuilt and today serves as Harper (a memorial to Winston Churchillwaitress 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=B08NF79QXTAdam Stower|title=Cherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke AdamsMurray and Bun|rating=34.5|genre=Women's FictionConfident Readers |summary=Thirty-Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shopwho is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, the Cherry Blossom Boutiquewell, for just six months when she's nominated for - and wins - whatever takes his fancy next of the Retail Best Newcomer Awardtwo. SheBut he's delighted and the two people shea bad magician's brought with her to the event couldn't be more pleased. Sonjacat, her motherso his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, is an ex-model and Brazilian: you the catflap they both use can see where Liberty got her looks from. Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husbandchuck them out, not into the regular back garden, Charles but into a world of frightening adventure and their four-year-old daughter, Avawhiffs. Life would 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 perfect for Liberty if it wasnhonest, but he's turned up and he't for one thing: she misses having a man in her life.ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249
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|isbn=B08BTXSS84B0C47LV1PC|title=Fallen Angel (Gaby Darin Book 3)Fragility|author=Jenny O'BrienMosby Woods
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|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Acting DI Gaby Darin Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is twiddling her thumbs: the usual flood of cases has slowed to less than a dribble and she's looking through cold cases for inspiration as to which one she question should have a good look at. DS Owen Bates suggests the murder of eighteen-year-old Angelica Brock in 1995 and Gaby you make it? Or is intrigued. She can't see any immediate failings in the original investigation: Angelica disappeared from a room in a securely-locked housequestion if you did, wearing her pyjamas, and was found dead by a dog walker on would it land? The catch is that the Gt Orme in Llandudno the next dayanswer for both could well be.... She was wearing a hand-made nightdress which her mother had never seen beforeno. Bates hasn 't 'Fragility'quite'' told is set as the whole story: he's married city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to Kate Brock, Angelica's younger sister.emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic
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|authorisbn=Nick Jones and Si Clark1529431735|title=One Night in BeartownThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
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|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= Many children have an obsession It's February 1991 and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy Essex is Berisfordbitingly cold, a teddy bear passed down by her grandmotherwhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. Every night, she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to He'd been exiled on the bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a colourful painted bear that lives at her schooldecade. She even The return has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|isbn=B08NFH7H9X}} {{Frontpage|author=Gail Honeyman|title=Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Eleanor Oliphant is almost 30. She lives in Glasgow, alone. And she likes it that way. She works 9-5, 5 days a week, and spends the weekend not drunk, but not sober. alone. And she likes it that way. She lives by a routine, and thatcome about because he's fine, thankyouverymuch. Nothing is missing had a letter from her life. Except everything is. Until one day, at a concert she won tickets for in an office rafflehis ex-wife, she sees the man she is sure will be her husband. Eleanor begins a journey to make herself the best version of herself saying that she can, in order 's ill and hasn't long to secure this beautiful musicianlive. Then, as she It's on her way home one Fridayhard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, she stripped to his underwear and the new IT guy at her office see sent to a man collapse watery grave in the street and stay close to him in hospitalboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Then, before she knows Is it, her once quiet life becomes a hubbub of social engagements with the man's family and friends, with Raymond warning from IT and of course her side project of falling in love with Johnnie Lomond. But just as her life seems to be looking up, things take a turn for the worse. Is Johnnie all he's cracked up Spanish gang or a problem closer to behome? 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 doesn't have to do it alone.|isbn=0008172145}}