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{{newreview
|author=Melissa de la Cruz
|title=Blue Bloods
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=''Blue Bloods'' is the first book in a series aimed at teenagers and it's about vampires, currently a popular theme in young adult novels. However Melissa De La Cruz offers an original twist on this topic: the Vampires are known as 'Blue Bloods' and they're part of the New York elite. They're rich, young, beautiful and popular. Thought to be immortal, their world is shattered as one of them is found murdered.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190565474X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alexandra Horowitz
|summary="This city is a paradise, Tally. It feeds you, educates you, keeps you safe. It makes you pretty." And that's meant literally. As soon as they're sixteen years old, ugly people like Tally are completely rebuilt - no more freckles, dull eyes, rough skin, or ideas about biting their fingernails, and made a pretty. It's scientific, and obviously of benefit, considering the parties, status and love afforded to pretties. But is it essential? When her best friend is prettified Tally finds a new friend, Shay, who has secrets to share in the few weeks before the operation they're due to have on the same day. Secrets of another place, another way, and of people staying forever ugly - through choice.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389066</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Preston Rutt and Ben Redlich
|title=Tortoise vs. Hare - The Rematch!
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Harry 'The Hurricane' Hare has been licking his wounds since 'Steady' Eddie Tortoise beat him in the famous race. It's time for a rematch, and Harry's been training hard. Eddie couldn't possibly win again, could he?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845394186</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jo Nesbo
|title=Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Lisa's best friend has moved away. The neighbourhood bullies, Truls and Trym Trane, are causing havoc. Her dad is getting ready for Norway's Independence Day celebrations. Oh, and there's an anaconda on the loose in the sewers. Then Nilly moves into her street, and the two of them meet Doctor Proctor and discover his amazing fart powder.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386539</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Nicole Dryburgh
|title=Talk to the Hand
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=We first met Nicole Dryburgh in her book ''The Way I See It'', which she wrote at eighteen, and which detailed her battles with cancer and the loss of her sight. We loved the warts-and-all picture of her life that she gave us then, and so we were really pleased to see that she's written a second book.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340996978</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ian Mathie
|title=The Man of Passage
|rating=3.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Ian Mathie's association with Africa began when his father was posted to what was then Northern Rhodesia when Mathie was just four years old. School was in a convent and was run by German and Italian nuns and for a while he was the only white child amongst a couple of hundred Africans. Even when he was joined by others he was still part of an ethnic minority although he didn't realise it! He was taught in the local language and grew up with the local children. It was his home and was to be the centre of his life for decades to come.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955312418</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=K A S Quinn
|title=The Queen Must Die (Chronicles of the Tempus)
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=In this historical time-travelling extravaganza, Katie Berger-Jones-Burg (I know, it's a mouthful, but stay with me) is the daughter of Mimi, an ex-girl band member who has been married three times, so far, hence Katie's hyphenated name. Katie has come home from school to find that Mimi has gone off with another man, Dr Fishberg, and as she begins to stress about the potential new addition to her surname she crawls into her hidey-hole space beneath her bed to escape for a little while. Here she keeps her diary and her stash of books, and she curls up to read her latest book, a compilation of letters from Princess Alice, Queen Victoria's youngest daughter. She starts to feel a bit sleepy, but is suddenly startled awake by a flash of light. She finds herself in Victorian England, underneath a sofa and staring into the eyes of Princess Alice, who is just as startled as she is.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848873700</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Robert Williams
|title=Luke and Jon
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=
Luke's mum died in a car accident a while ago and since then his father has let things go. The house has been repossessed and they are forced to move to a new town. The new place is falling down - it's all they can afford after the debts were paid. Neither Luke nor his father are really that bothered - what can a house be when there's no mum to fill it with her brightness and vivacity and love? The bottle of whisky that has begun to live in his father's hand though - that's a worry for Luke; that makes him feel rather sick inside.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571249639</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Melanie Rose
|title=Coming Home
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=We meet the narrator of this story drinking coffee from a thermos in a lay-by, on a cold grey day. All her worldly possessions are travelling with her in her car, including her cat. She has clearly made some momentous decision, and is on her way to somewhere new. I assumed that as story unfolded, I'd learn more about her and where she was going.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561063</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=P C Cast
|title=Divine by Choice (Goddess of Partholon)
|rating=3
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=A few months after the Formorian war, Shannon Parker is living the high life. Hailed as Goddess Incarnate, married to a man (well, centaur) who was born to love her, carrying her first child, the next daughter of Epona and royally spoiled with amazing jewels and clothes, life really can't get much better.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303586</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Stephanie Tillotson
|title=Cut on the Bias
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=If ''Cut on the Bias'' is in your local bookshop, you will surely be won over by the feisty cover. Stories about women and their clothes are about identity, so what better start to a set of short stories than a fashion statement cover featuring the bags in which said clothes arrive home?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784132</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Nick Hornby
|title=Juliet, Naked
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=A clever, comic delight, pitch-perfect, astutely observed, particularly insightful, must-read. Crumbs. Whatever else is there to say about Nick Hornby's latest book that isn't already plastered on this newly-published paperback edition? I can only report that ''Juliet,'' ''Naked'' bowled me over with yet another Hornby strike.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141020644</amazonuk>
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