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{{newreview
|author=Jennifer Weiner
|title=Fly Away Home
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Sylvie Serfer married Richard Woodruff and from that day on made herself the perfect politician's wife. The senator came first in everything, even before their children. That's not to say that the girls were neglected – it's just that they never came first. The senator's image, his convenience, his schedule and his clothing were of paramount importance to Sylvie. There's a problem though – the senator has been having an affair and as with all such matrimonial earthquakes in political circles it broke on the national news rather than in the privacy of the matrimonial home. What's Sylvie to do?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847390250</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=D J Taylor
|summary=Mrs McCready ''was'' ever so greedy. She was a cheerful, red-headed lady who simply loved her food. She would eat absolutely anything – sometimes it was quite healthy, such as the berries, especially cherries, but she didn't even worry if there were ''worms'' inside. She didn't even worry too much about whether the foods she ate tasted good together – she just loved to ''eat''. This caused something of a problem with clothes, as absolutely nothing would fit her – not even the wedding marquee or the hot air balloon. Eventually she met her fate…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184886065X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Wall of Days
|author=Alastair Bruce
|rating=3.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=The front cover of this debut novel caught my full and undivided attention with ''Alone, ten years on an island, until one day...'' I couldn't wait to start reading. We meet the central character - we don't know his name just yet and in the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter. He's living alone on an island, somewhere in the world. Is it the past, the present or even the future? As the story developed I decided on the former.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846688000</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Avril Lethbridge, Diana Mather and Mary-Ann Mackenzie
|title=Please Bear's Birthday
|rating=3
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Please Bear is having a birthday party and all the bears, both the nice ones and the naughty ones, are invited. In a delightful sing-song rhyme we see Please Bear writing his invitations, the preparations for the party, and the party itself. Some bears are very good, helping other bears if they are a little shy or helping mummy Bear to set the table. Unfortunately, other bears are not so good. They boast, they scream, their greedy and downright unreasonable.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848860676</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Ember and Ash
|author=Pamela Freeman
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Ember is about to be married. It's not just a romantic day for her personally, it's exciting because her wedding will seal the alliance of the Far South Domain and the Last Domain in the north, making a new kingdom which is a shining example of justice and peace. By fantasy standards, this sounds too good to be true. And so, of course, it is. Barely have the words which bind Ember to new husband Osfrid been spoken before he is consumed by flames, murdered by an elemental god her mother once angered. Soon after that, nearly every fire in the kingdom is extinguished. Shocked to learn that the world is controlled by elemental powers she knew nothing about, Ember enlists her cousins Ash and Cedar to go with her to Fire Mountain to bring back a piece of the mountain and relight their lost fires.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498270</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Julia Stagg
|title=L'Auberge
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=L'Auberge des Deux Vallees was sadly neglected but it had been bought, not as everyone expected, by a relative of the mayor, but by an English couple who, by all accounts, had little French and not a lot of experience in running a restaurant. Obviously, such a travesty cannot be allowed to continue, and within hours of hearing the news, mayor Serge Papon has called an emergency council meeting to ensure that the newcomers are forced out as quickly as possible. Unfortunately he hadn't reckoned on Christian Dupuy, whose politics are guided by his conscience rather than his wallet. When it comes down to it are quite a few other people in Fogas who don't see what's happening in quite the same way as the mayor.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444708236</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Fetish Room
|author=Redmond O'Hanlon and Rudi Rotthier
|rating=4.5
|genre=Biography
|summary=An ongoing debate in our family has centred on the value of biographies, particularly of writers. I've always loved the touchstone of the places people lived and wrote, the banality of their lives, the detail, the insight, and the fact that it can tell you everything or nothing at all about the work. My Dad held that the work was what mattered; the rest is just social history. He said that almost disparagingly, which is odd, because if you presented it as social history rather than biography, he'd lap it up. I guess I just don't make the distinction.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684145</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Candle Man: Society of Dread
|author=Glenn Dakin
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=We left Theo after he had discovered his true identity as the Candle Man and defeated his evil ex-guardian, Dr Saint. The young boy is still ambivalent about his superhero status and conflicted over his ability to use tripudon energy to melt his - and London's - enemies. But the fight against evil pays no attention to inexperience or moral ambiguity and Theo is about to find himself down in the Network again. This time, his attempts to return The Society of Good Works to its original benevolence are thwarted by the renaissance of an old, and even more terrifying, villain - Dr Pyre. With his friends abducted and enslaved, Theo must use his Candle Man abilities once again...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405246774</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=You Are Very Special
|author=Su Box and Susie Poole
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=''You Are Very Special'' introduces the idea of individuality, of how we're all different and how we're all special. This isn't really a story as such, but rather a book that invites further discussion. Written in occasionally clunky rhyme, it investigates how everyone is different, all different shapes and sizes. It suggests how miraculous our bodies are, breathing and working through the day and also through the night, even when we're asleep!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0745963005</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=From the Day You Were Born
|author=Sophie Piper and Kristina Stephenson
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=This lovely little story looks at parental love, of that special bond that grows between parents and children, how babies grow and develop as they get older, and how that love is ''for ever and for always.''
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0745962378</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Play With Colours (The Happets)
|author=Laurence Jammes and Marc Clamens
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=The Happets are a friendly looking bunch of animal friends all made of different coloured fabrics. In this story we're introduced to each character and told about its colour, for example Milo is green like ''gorgeous green apples, gorgeous green clover, gorgeous green balls.'' Each page has a fabric tab, to match the character in question, making it a lovely book for babies to touch and play with.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444904078</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Storm at the Door
|author=Stefan Merrill Block
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The author, Stefan Merrill Block, is writing about members of his own family in ''The Storm at the Door''. The story opens at the end, if you get my drift. We see the elderly grandmother Katherine in a bit of a spot, wondering whether to open and then read a bunch of papers. These papers (these red-hot papers) are the words and thoughts of her husband Frederick from his time in a mental institution. If she opens them, then it will be opening a veritable can of worms. Does she or doesn't she?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571269591</amazonuk>
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