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===[[Everything About You The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Heather ChildNicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)]]===
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In the future, your social feed Jane Ashland is your entire existencedying. A.I. is That's a description of a very early scene here and it is – but also, of course, a platitude that can apply to all around youof us. It fills your fridgeJane's life, it keeps if anything, is going up to date with your friends and fulfils your wishes. It is also stealing your jobs anddown in levels of pleasure, possiblyenergy – sobriety – in these pages, loosening your grip on realitybut we soon learn that it recently found a very deeply dark down place. Freya is unexpectedly given Here then, scattered through a beta testing version of the latest smart specstimeline-bending narrative, glasses which give we have her all the information she'll ever needdays finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student in New York, right in front glimpses of her eyes by barely thinking about ittherapy, complete with a personality drive to guide find her. The problem is that the personality on the glasses is ancestors that of takes her missing from rural America to Norway – and presumed dead sister. Freya is thrown and unsettled by this. Her mum tells her a trip there with a new-found friend to stop using them or at watch the very least to reset them to a different personality. But Freya just can't do this. Hearing her sister's voice again is like she's right theremusk oxen, and although she knows this is just Ruby's data, part of Freya can't believe that it can be this accurate, it can't be this Rubyall things. Is it just possible that something more And nowhere in sight is feeding this personality than Ruby's data? anything like a platitude… [[Everything About You The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Heather ChildNicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning The Company of the Twenty-First Century Eight by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Harriet Whitehorn]]===
[[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionConfident Readers|Confident Readers]] Fourteen-year-old orphan Cass lives in the Magical District, but as she hasn't the slightest ability in that direction she doesn't exactly fit in. She takes after her dad, and she hopes desperately that she'll pass the upcoming auditions for acrobats and join the Circus Boat as it tours to give performances on all the islands of the Longest World. Her guardian Mrs Potts, however, does ''not'' approve: her hope that Cass will demonstrate magical abilities like her mother's (and make Mrs Potts very rich) has been disappointed so she is determined her ward will take on a sedate, genteel job instead: governess, maybe, or draper's model. So poor Cass is reduced to practising her routines in secret, using an old book her father left her. [[The Company of Eight by Harriet Whitehorn|Full Review]] <!-- Bremner -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Bremner_Us.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0525533184/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|General Fiction===[[Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism by Ian Bremmer]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]]
First, forgive me if I donIt wasn't refer supposed to be like this book with its full title often. It's pointedly precise, accurate, was it? Every day seems to bring yet more news of doom and rather ungainly – when in fact the book it describes has only the former two attributes in any quantitygloom. What happens in January is that a wild wolf walks across The spectre of terrorism hangs over most of the frozen river separating Poland world, fuelling refugee crises and eastern Germanyworries about national security. Which means People keep saying that, when the book starts properly, mid-February, it has had time to get a lot closer robots are coming to Berlin – within 80 kilometres, to be precise, for that is the road marker where one of take all our main characters sees itjobs. He is trying to get back to work in Berlin for the first time in a month, and to be with his girlfriend, not knowing she has had an infidelity while he was away. Also fancying the bright lights and big city Anti-establishment political parties are a teenaged pair of love-birds, the boy and girl next door to each other making huge gains in an eastern village, who flee an unhappy lot on countries all around the off-chance of a better oneworld. You just know there And inequality is as much of a chance that these characters problem as it ever was – human and lupine alike – are sucked into one combined narrative, but you won't know quite what that will entail…if not more so. [[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning Us vs Them: The Failure of the Twenty-First Century Globalism by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Ian Bremmer|Full Review]]
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===[[Stranger by Keren David]]===
===[[Humanatomy: How the Body Works by Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensConfident Readers|TeensConfident Readers]] ''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides!''
Astor, OntarioThat's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to do and honestly, 1904I don't see how you could resist. Emmy and her friend Sadie are walking along when This informative book provides a bloody and bruised boy staggers out of the forest clutching a pistol. Sadie runs off terrified. But something wonderful primer about the boy draws Emmy. She knows, deep inside, that he is not a danger. She kicks human body to curious children- from the pistol into skeletal system to the grass muscular system via circulation, respiration and cradles digestion, right up to the boy until help arrivesDNA that makes who we are. Who is he? [[Humanatomy: How has he been living? And will the townsfolk accept him?[[Stranger Body Works by Keren DavidNicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|Full Review]]<!-- Banks Keeley -->
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On the slopes of Mt Hood in Oregon, an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking exploration. Josh Kinninger is inspired by the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angry, unmoored and with his world in turmoil. Beginning a journey westward, he's filled with a desire to wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corrupt[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[W by John Banks:Category:For Sharing|Full ReviewFor Sharing]]
In ''My Favourite People'' the central character takes us to meet all the important people in his life. There's Auntie Meg, who does brilliant haircuts and loves cats. She has four of them! There's Uncle Steve, who's a gentle giant and an inveterate joker. There's best friend Alice, who can do that clever whistle when you put your fingers in your mouth. There's Carmel the library lady, who always suggests brilliant books to read. And loads more. The book ends with a fabulous party to which everyone is invited. [[My Favourite People by Rob Keeley|Full Review]]<!-- Curran Togawa -->
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===[[My The Lady's Choosing Killer by Kitty Curran Masako Togawa and Larissa ZagerisSimon Grove (translator)]]===
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You are Japan, the early 1960s. The prologue of this book sets us up in a lass lovely way with a world of twenty eight. Plucky, penniless both innocence and in Regency era London the race is on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinsterseedy nightclubs. Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - When a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life young girl enters one alone, and fired by for a rogueish sense drink she ends up singing along with the musical duet doing the rounds of the venues for adventuretips – as does a man with a distinctive bass voice. When it comes They leave together. Six months later, she clings to suitors thougha balcony at work, you'll have thinks about it – and drops to make her death in suicide. She was pregnant. But the ultimate decision between wittyman involved, pretty a rampant womaniser with an intricate diary of all his comings and wealthy Sir Benedict Granvillegoings, wholesomeis not having a perfect time, either. He returns to an old flame, rugged to find her murdered – and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or then the madlady who would be his alibi for that death also gets killed, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Cravenso on. With orphansFrom our point of view, werewolveshe cannot be a killer of ladies, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along as the way, title might imply – but what else could it's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision... mean? [[My The Lady's Choosing Killer by Kitty Curran Masako Togawa and Larissa ZagerisSimon Grove (translator)|Full Review]]<!-- Clover Hall -->
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===[[Rory Branagan Detective The Industry of Human Happiness by Andrew Clover and Ralph LazarJames Hall]]===
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Ten-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a normal kid. He's a detective The Industry of Human Happiness'' first and he has foremost is a mystery novel about music. It is about human beings being able to solve – why did his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't know where to start but, then, Cassidy moves find music and magic in next door the simplest of places. Max and he discovers he has an accomplice who is full his younger cousin have realised their dream of ideasopening a gramophone company. This is just as well as they However, their ambition and hubris soon discover puts them on a very serious crime: Corner Boycourse towards London's dad has been poisoned and is at risk of dying but no-one else underworld. They will believe he's in danger. It's up to Rory ascend broken and Cassidy to uncover the truth and save a lifetheir lives changed forever. [[Rory Branagan Detective The Industry of Human Happiness by Andrew Clover and Ralph LazarJames Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Philip Kerr]]===
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Jamie loves his new island homeSet in Germany in 1957, ''Greeks Bearing Gifts'' is a historical crime thriller with everything from dodgy Nazi past histories to insurance fraud. He likes Bernie Gunther is a Berliner, who was a sarjeant during the school second world war and he has even made some friends. Butnow, with his history of being bulliedin this novel, Jamie knows that he has some fears to conquer if he wants to follow his grandfather is working in the traditional island occupation morgue of boat buildera hospital. His fear of the sea He finds himself embroiled in particulara mystery, taking on a new role as an insurance claims investigator. And this is what draws The investigation takes him to MaraGreece, a strange, wild, independent girl who can handle a boat with aplomb. But Mara has her own demons and an approaching show down with back into the island authorities because dark times of them.the war. With layered plots and double-crossing left, right and centre, there's lots to keep you guessing throughout this story.[[To the Edge of the World Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Julia GreenPhilip Kerr|Full Review]]
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===[[Boards That Dare: How to Future-proof Today's Corporate Boards All Rivers Run Free by Marc Stitger and Sir Cary CooperNatasha Carthew]]===
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I wasn't optimistic when I started reading ''Boards That Dare''. I feared that I would encounter new ways Ia Pendilly lives in a caravan on the coast of minimising tax liabilities, of getting Cornwall – a woman as much raw as possible out of employees whilst paying them the legal minimum landscape that surrounds her. Living with Bran, her abusive cousin and constant reminders that the ''shareholders'common law husband, she' s never yet had her own baby. Discovering a waif washed up on shore, Ia rescues the girl but is also rescued by the company girl – given a new found strength to escape and to embark on a new journey. The journey takes her deep into a troubled society and through a damaged, hurting world – finding family and memories long hidden will break Ia, remake her and of perhaps give her the necessity elusive sense of maximising their return. In the event I was only a few pages in before I discovered that I couldnfreedom she't have s been more wrong, that we were looking at ways of future proofing the company. I began to feel hopeful..seeking. [[Boards That Dare: How to Future-proof Today's Corporate Boards All Rivers Run Free by Marc Stitger and Sir Cary CooperNatasha Carthew|Full Review]]
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===[[The Invasion (The Call, Book 2) Tale of a Tooth by Peadar o GuilinAllie Rogers]]===
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We already know that the Aes Sidhe are backDanny lives in a small Sussex town with his mother, Natalie. And in their quest to win back Ireland from humankindLife is poor, but they have placed manage - until they're threatened by a magical seal around the entire islandbenefits sanction. At some point during adolescence, every teenager is transported A Job Centre employee looks to be their salvation - but her impact on the Sidhe realmfamily goes far beyond what they first expect, that grey, colourless land and the resulting changes are described to which they were banished thousands of years before. If they can evade the vengeful faerie kind for a full day (just three minutes in reader through the human world) then their lives are spared, although they are often sent back with horrific mutilations. Fewer than one in ten children survivenaive yet perceptive and wholly original eyes of four-year-old Danny. [[The Invasion (The Call, Book 2) Tale of a Tooth by Peadar o GuilinAllie Rogers|Full Review]]
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===[[The Catchers in Pirates, Thieves, Zombies and Magic Claudia by Stuart J KentAnthony Trevelyan]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
[[image:2starWhen Claudia is called to the reception of her Manchester Office block to meet a visitor, she doesn't expect it to be her father figure – a man she hasn't seen for fifteen years. Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild Samson, The Aztec and The Sun King, walked out of Claudia's life and into a world of success as a solar panel salesman – but now he's returned and he needs Claudia's help. Reggie, Samson's son, has joined a mysterious cult called ''Tarantula'', a group who prepare for the end of the world and encourage humanity to embrace their impending doom.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] Claudia's journey takes her far from her home in Manchester to the end of the world – where encounters with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… [[:Category:Confident ReadersClaudia by Anthony Trevelyan|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
Meet the Catchers – a mix of young and old, magical and human, smart and, er, less smart. It's their job to round up Fabulous Beasts, and right from the get-go they have a job on their hands in this, the second book to contain their adventures. Colin, the older and magical (if not completely smart) one, is tasked with a recovery mission by a friend who boasted about having a wonderful lion griffin, only for it to vanish. Well, wouldn't you, if you were a lion griffin called Muffin? Either way, we know the adventure is going to include more than that simple task implies, as the extended title of the book suggests, but is it any good? Is it rock bottom on the pile of juvenile fantasy reads, or does the combination of Pirates, Thieves, Zombies (both tame and wild) and Magic make this particular Muffin top? [[The Catchers in Pirates, Thieves, Zombies and Magic by Stuart J Kent|Full Review]]<!-- Hepworth Gayle -->
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===[[The Family Next Door Man I Think I Know by Sally HepworthMike Gayle]]===
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Pleasant Court is a cul-de-sac a few minutes from the beach James DeWitt and Danny Allen are both men in Melbournetheir early thirties whose lives haven't taken them where they were supposed to go. Kids play in At an all time low time for both of them, the street two men reconnect and itslowly find they's re exactly what the sort of place people aspire toother needs. Certainly that's how the families who live there feel and there's a good sense of communityTogether, they help each other put their lives back together. Ben and Essie are glad that Essie's mother This is living next door as Essie had a mental breakdown three years ago when her first daughter was having difficulty sleeping. Mia's come through that stage, but now there's Poppy, who's been the perfect baby for the first six months of her life, but is just starting beautiful story about friendship and what it really means to be difficulthelp another person. Ben, in particular, is pleased that he can rely on Barbara to keep an eye on the situation whilst he's out at work. [[The Family Next Door Man I Think I Know by Sally HepworthMike Gayle|Full Review]]
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===[[Panic Room by Robert Goddard]]===
===[[Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersTeens|ThrillersTeens]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] ''How small I look. Laid out flat, my stomach touching ground. My right knee bent and my brand-new Nikes stained with blood.''
Don Challenor is Danny was playing with a down on toy gun his luck estate agent friend Carlos had lent to him when he was shot by Officer Moore, who gets tasked to sell a house claims he was in Cornwall and upon meeting the live-in cleanerfear for his life, Blakethat Danny, finds his life utterly turned upside down. A simple sales job gets increasingly complex with the addition of a witchfive foot tall, twelve-year-old boy, professional heavies and was a mysterious panic room. Intrigue builds on intrigue threatening thug whose menace was such that Officer Moore had no choice but to reach for his gun and what started fairly simply becomes something far more complexeliminate the threat. [[Panic Room Ghost Boys by Robert GoddardJewell Parker Rhodes|Full Review]]
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===[[Horace & Harriet Take on the Town The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Clare ElsomStephanie Butland]]===
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When HarrietAilsa Rae has been sick her whole life, aged seven and just as she was edging closer to death she finally, finally got the call that she needed, that a quarter, decides heart was available for her to go to Princes Park to practise 'Going to the Park on Her Own' (ihave a transplant.e. with her Grandad walking at least thirty steps behind) Previously she had felt so helpless that she can't believe had used her eyes. The statue of Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the Third (or Horace blog to make decisions for short) starts her, running polls amongst her readers to movedecide on her actions. He not only moves but stamps his foot, shouts something that would get him in serious trouble But with Harriet's mumher new heart, and climbs down from his pillar. Understandably Harriet can't resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around the town as Horace searches for she has been given a new – and more suitable – homelife. His sights are firmly set on the Mayor's mansion and it, therefore, falls Can Ailsa manage to Harriet start to persuade him that there must be a better alternative. Sadly, Horace's visits to the museum, cinema, train station, playgroundlive on her own, bank and library all cause mayhem. Luckily, however, a competition in the park reveals the perfect answer. will her mother let her do that? [[Horace & Harriet Take on the Town The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Clare ElsomStephanie Butland|Full Review]]
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===[[Gillie Can Share Spirit by Sarah-leigh WillsSally Christie]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
[[image:4Matt Barker has seen something strange. Something extraordinary that no one would normally see. That wouldn't usually matter but Matt accidently tells the rest of his class when they're playing the 'truth game' on the school bus. Now most of the class think he's either mad or a liar.5starTo make matters worse, his classmate and new next-door neighbour, Jazzy O'Hanlon, believes him and she's determined to find a way to share his experience, even if that means losing her best friend.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For SharingSpirit by Sally Christie|For SharingFull Review]]
Gillie the rabbit is baking cookies with Daddy. We might think they look most appetising (they're shaped liked carrots and rabbits, you know) but Gillie is really taken by the way that they smell. Lips are being licked. Does she dive in and eat them? No, she doesn't There are eight cookies. Two - a carrot and a rabbit - are for Grandma and Gillie hops off to deliver them. Another two are for Grandpa and then there are two for Mummy. Now there are just two left and Daddy gives them to Gillie, but Gillie is a kind, generous and thoughtful rabbit and whilst she eats one cookie, a rather scrumptious looking rabbit is offered to the reader. I wanted to hug her! [[Gillie Can Share by Sarah-leigh Wills|Full Review]]<!-- Henley Green -->
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===[[Reckless Obsession The Smoke Thieves by Dai HenleySally Green]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
[[image:4starTension exists among the kingdoms surrounding the Pitorian Sea, and peace is definitely not on everyone's agenda. Instead power is sought by force, and political manoeuvring of the worst kind sees families torn apart and innocent victims swept up in the fallout. This story of warring nations is fast moving from page one, and the main characters, who move between kingdoms, face challenge after challenge. There are five separate story lines, each led by a colourful and interesting character, and Sally Green weaves them together beautifully like a tapestry as their paths cross and their lives intertwine.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeThe Smoke Thieves by Sally Green|CrimeFull Review]]
It was several years since DCI Andy Flood's wife had been murdered, but he'd not come to terms with it. His daughters were coping reasonably well, not least because his mother had moved in after Georgina's death and she ran the home and looked after the girls. Flood's real problem was that the Met had moved the murder to cold case status. He couldn't believe that they'd do this when the murder of the wife of one of their own was unsolved, but ''he's'' determined not to give up on the case. Each evening when he's finished work he goes into his study and works on the statements from the case, looking for any inconsistencies. [[Reckless Obsession by Dai Henley|Full Review]]<!-- Bonnefoy de Lacey Davidson -->
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===[[Black Sugar by Miguel Bonnefoy and Emily Boyce (translator)]]===
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Miguel Bonnefoy's ''Black Sugar'' is a sensual epic chronicling three generations of the Otero family. The tale begins with the disappearance of Captain Henry Morgan's treasure and then illustrates the power this treasure holds over people. Multiple people become obsessed with finding this fabled treasure that has become an urban legend in the town in which the story is set[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Black Sugar by Miguel Bonnefoy and Emily Boyce (translator):Category:Historical Fiction|Full ReviewHistorical Fiction]]
Nathan Whyte is tremendously excited about the arrival of Frederick Douglass in Ireland. And even more excited that his Quaker father, who is publishing the British edition of ''Narrative'', Douglass's memoir of his life as a slave, will be accompanying the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. Nathan is deeply impressed by Douglass, who is a charismatic figure and a gifted orator. But Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on it. We watch him through Nathan's eyes as he sees for himself the beginnings of the horrors of the potato famine and meets and befriends the famous Irish nationalist, Daniel O'Connell. [[Precept: A Novel by Matthew de Lacey Davidson|Full Review]]<!-- Ruby Daniel Peltz -->
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===[[The Zero and the One Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Ryan RubyDaniel Peltz]]===
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''The Zero and When we first visit the OneChiesa di Santa Maria we'' is an incredibly well written and well crafted book. We meet our narrator, Owen, on re in the plane to New York for the funeral company of his best friend. He Molly Cavendish who is still reeling after recent eventsa part-time guide at the Museo di Santa Maria, a suicide pact in which his friend died but he lived, and he is going through what the motions ruins of the funeral and consoling family whilst still trying Chiesa - a chapel - have now become. Crowds flock to get to grips see its centrepiece, a renaissance fresco with his own feelings a history which grabs the attention of grief young and guiltold. So far Molly uses the history to entertain the tourists, so simple. But this but there's more too it than she knows, particularly as the history of the building is where also the talent history of Ryan Ruby steps the Vannini family, who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and slowly, so slowly, he reveals little tantalising clues that all one of whose descendants is not what it seems, a throw-away comment here, a mis-step there, and it becomes clear that Owen is not a reliable narratorthe director of the museum. [[The Zero and the One Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Ryan RubyDaniel Peltz|Full Review]]
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In eighteenth century LondonWhen your best friend vanishes, sisters Fitzgerald, Constance and Verity are changed forever when they become entwined with the Fowler family - and charged with protecting a mysterious child. Fast forward how can you begin to the London of 2015, and the sisters are still waiting - with no way of move on? How can you live your life not knowing whether they're okay? And what would you do if the boy is alive or deadthey reappeared in your life? – all questions that Vanessa faces every day, even seven years after her best friend Mark vanished. Far awayWhen he reappears, a hidden pool grants those who sup from it eternal she's shocked not only by his presence back in her life, but also forces them to keep by the fact that he hasn't aged a secret day – for two hundred yearshim, no time has passed since his disappearance. As those years pass byShocked, confused and emotionally reeling, those who were granted immortality Vanessa must return to her home town in order to help Mark find that itthe answers he so desperately craves. But what's waiting for them is far from a blessing - with true darkness emerging in the absence more surprising than either of death. them could ever have dreamt… [[The Parentations Falling Leaves by Kate MayfieldStefan Mohamed|Full Review]]
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===[[Don't Ever Look Behind Door 32 by B C R Fegan and Lenny Wen]]===
===[[Nickerbacher by Terry John Barto]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For SharingEmerging Readers|For SharingEmerging Readers]]
Mr Nicholas Noo Nickerbacher is the host doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of the magical Hotel of Hoo and hecourse, princess-guarding. That's just welcoming his very first guestswhat dragons are for, after all. TheyBut Gwendolyn isn're going to be t any princess. She finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really and she is much less interested in room number one and it looks very comfortable with a cosy fire and comfortable bed. But Mr Noo fairy tales than she is a considerate host and he shows his guests around the hotelin watching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. ThereNickerbacher likes 's only one rule: don't ever look behind door 32. Now, youThe Late Knight Show''re going to wonder about what, exactly is too - in room 32fact, it's his favourite TV show because we'll see some exciting and wonderful things as you move from room 2 he wants to room 31be a stand-up comedian himself. Forget expensive theme parks: youHe tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don'd be much better t always come off going to the Hotel of Hooquite as Nickerbacher intended. [[Don't Ever Look Behind Door 32 Nickerbacher by B C R Fegan and Lenny WenTerry John Barto|Full Review]]
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