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Travel to a world that Jane Ashland is familiar and yet utterly differentdying. We are in That's a version description of ancient Britain with enough landmarks to make us feel at home yet it is a smoked glass. North very early scene here – but also, of the river Abus we have the Anakimcourse, a race platitude that isncan apply to all of us. Jane't quite human; they are something more. The Anakim are virtual giants and their ribs are not cages but bone breastplates instead. Below the Abus are the Suthenerss life, if anything, humans. Theirs is an ancient grudge going up and one where blood is spilled frequently down in levels of pleasure, energy – sobriety – in pitched battle. Unfortunately these pages, but we soon learn that it is rare when humans are involved for things to be straightforward and the same is true hererecently found a very deeply dark down place. On both sides politics and machinations complicate the quests for glory. With the Anakim Here then, scattered through a timeline-bending narrative, we have her days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student in New York, glimpses of therapy, a boy coming drive to find her ancestors that takes her from rural America to power Norway – and vying a trip there with the greatest warrior in the land for the throne. Amongst the Sutheners we see a commoner having the temerity new-found friend to lead an army alongside his betters. Both battles are as interesting as watch the war itselfmusk oxen, of all things. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… [[The Wolf Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Leo CarewNicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The House with Chicken Legs Company of Eight by Sophie AndersonHarriet Whitehorn]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
''My house has chicken legs[[image:5star. Two or three times a year, without warning, it stands up in the middle of the night and walks away from where we've been living.''jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
Ok. I dare you to tell me that you ''donFourteen-year-old orphan Cass lives in the Magical District, but as she hasn't'' want to read a story about a house with chicken legs. There is no way anyone could resist. I certainly couldnthe slightest ability in that direction she doesn't! Marinka lives exactly fit in this chicken-legged house with . She takes after her grandmotherdad, Baba Yaga, whose job and she hopes desperately that she'll pass the upcoming auditions for acrobats and join the Circus Boat as it is tours to guide dead people through The Gategive performances on all the islands of the Longest World. But Marinka is Her guardian Mrs Potts, however, does ''lonelynot''. The house, approve: her hope that Cass will demonstrate magical abilities like her grandmother mother's (and Marinka never stay anywhere long enough for Marinka to make any friendsMrs 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. And Marinka So poor Cass is determined reduced to change this. But the chicken-legged house has its own agenda..practising her routines in secret, using an old book her father left her. [[The House with Chicken Legs Company of Eight by Sophie AndersonHarriet Whitehorn|Full Review]]
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===[[Pandora's Boy Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism by Lindsey DavisIan Bremmer]]===
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RelaxIt wasn't supposed to be like this, die-hard fans was it? Every day seems to bring yet more news of Falco doom and his spirited British daughter Albiagloom. Rome continues to be as splendid and as sordid as it ever was, The spectre of terrorism hangs over most of the crimes committed are as complex and intriguingworld, fuelling refugee crises and worries about national security. People keep saying that robots are coming to take all our heroine just as determined and cynical, with that light dusting of humour which made tales of her father's exploits so engagingjobs. Newcomers to Anti-establishment political parties are making huge gains in countries all around the series need not fear, by the way: each book contains just enough background detail to make you feel immediately at homeworld. This time, despite some serious misgivings, Albia And inequality is investigating the sudden death as much of a fifteen-year-old girl, described problem as bright, affectionate and popularit ever was – if not more so. Was she poisoned by an illegal love-potion, or did she die of a broken heart? [[Pandora's Boy by Lindsey Davis|Full Review]] [[Pandora's Boy Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism by Lindsey DavisIan Bremmer|Full Review]]
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===[[When the Mountains Roared by Jess Butterworth]]===
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''My fingers come away deep red[[image:5star. My breath catches. Blood. I wipe my shaky hands on my trousers. There's a leopard out there, injured. And I have to find it before they do.''jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
Two months earlier''Get under your own skin, Ruby's dad had dropped a bombshell. They were moving from Australia to Indiapick your brains, where her father had got a job at a hotel in the mountains. It was to be a new start and it would help both Ruby and her father get over the death of her mother. Ruby wasngo inside your insides!'t so sure about that and didn't get more optimistic on arrival - to find a rundown building full of scary corners in a place where the dark is really dark and the wildlife includes scorpions, bears and, well, you get the picture. Ruby has struggled since her mother died and it pretty much feels as though her father has brought her a place that makes everything worse... [[When the Mountains Roared by Jess Butterworth|Full Review]]
That's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to do and honestly, I don't see how you could resist. This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the human body to curious children- from the skeletal system to the muscular system via circulation, respiration and digestion, right up to the DNA that makes who we are.[[Humanatomy: How the Body Works by Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|Full Review]] <!-- Duffy Keeley -->
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===[[Me Mam. Me Dad. Me My Favourite People by Malcolm DuffyRob Keeley]]===
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In ''My Favourite People''It was the day central character takes us to meet all the clocks went backimportant people in his life. ThatThere's when I decided to kill himAuntie Meg, who does brilliant haircuts and loves cats.She has four of them! There's Uncle Steve, who' ''I'' is fourteen-year-old Dannys a gentle giant and an inveterate joker. ''Him'' is DannyThere's stepfather Callum. Up until a year agobest friend Alice, it was just Danny and Mamwho can do that clever whistle when you put your fingers in your mouth. They lived in a dampThere's Carmel the library lady, cold council flat and didn't have much money who always suggests brilliant books to spare, but things were pretty goodread. Danny and his Mam got on well, they saw a lot of their lovely extended family, and Danny not only had mates but even a girlfriend, AmyAnd loads more. But The book ends with a lot has changed. They're now living in Callum's posh house and Danny gets holidays and plenty of Christmas presentsfabulous party to which everyone is invited. Great, right? [[Me Mam. Me Dad. Me My Favourite People by Malcolm DuffyRob Keeley|Full Review]]<!-- Forman Togawa -->
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===[[I Have Lost My Way The Lady Killer by Gayle FormanMasako Togawa and Simon Grove (translator)]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
''I Have Lost My Way'' tells the story of three individuals who have each lost something important to them leading to them losing their way. Freya has lost her voice, Harun has lost his love and Nathaniel has lost everything. However, these three elements do not give justice to the extent of what each character has lost. In this expertly written novel, Gayle Forman writes about how these three dissimilar individuals each came to lose what was most important to them, causing them to all meet one fateful day in New York City[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[I Have Lost My Way by Gayle Forman:Category:Crime|Full ReviewCrime]]
Japan, the early 1960s. The prologue of this book sets us up in a lovely way with a world of both innocence and seedy nightclubs. When a young girl enters one alone for a drink she ends up singing along with the musical duet doing the rounds of the venues for tips – as does a man with a distinctive bass voice. They leave together. Six months later, she clings to a balcony at work, thinks about it – and drops to her death in suicide. She was pregnant. But the man involved, a rampant womaniser with an intricate diary of all his comings and goings, is not having a perfect time, either. He returns to an old flame, to find her murdered – and then the lady who would be his alibi for that death also gets killed, and so on. From our point of view, he cannot be a killer of ladies, as the title might imply – but what else could it mean? [[The Lady Killer by Masako Togawa and Simon Grove (translator)|Full Review]]<!-- Santorella Hall -->
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===[[Dyed Souls The Industry of Human Happiness by Gary SantorellaJames Hall]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
[[image:4''The Industry of Human Happiness'' first and foremost is a novel about music. It is about human beings being able to find music and magic in the simplest of places.5starMax and his younger cousin have realised their dream of opening a gramophone company.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]However, their ambition and hubris soon puts them on a course towards London's underworld. They will ascend broken and their lives changed forever. [[:Category:General FictionThe Industry of Human Happiness by James Hall|General FictionFull Review]]
The USA, early 1980s. Charlie (or Charles, if he's feeling belligerent, and he often is) is being taken back to his home by his drop-out, slutty mother. The home is called a Cottage, and while the book doesn't guide us to understand it perfectly, it seems to mean he has a private room in a large self-contained bungalow, on a gated compound with round-the-clock adult supervision. There's a paddock with horses for the kids to ride, their own school – and all the adults are armed with Thorazine to calm the kids down. Charlie, despite his obvious bookish intelligence, is struggling to get to grips with why and how he's ended up where he is, but it must have something to do with his single parent mother being violent, and the fact he is no longer allowed to stay with his grandfather. This book is a slightly woozy look at his thoughts, as he tries to build a relationship with a girl in a different Cottage, and work out his lot. He certainly has a lot on his plate for a thirteen-year-old. [[Dyed Souls by Gary Santorella|Full Review]]<!-- Sigurdardottir Kerr -->
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===[[The Reckoning Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Philip Kerr]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
[[image:4Set in Germany in 1957, ''Greeks Bearing Gifts'' is a historical crime thriller with everything from dodgy Nazi past histories to insurance fraud. Bernie Gunther is a Berliner, who was a sarjeant during the second world war and now, in this novel, is working in the morgue of a hospital. He finds himself embroiled in a mystery, taking on a new role as an insurance claims investigator. The investigation takes him to Greece, and back into the dark times of the war.5star With layered plots and double-crossing left, right and centre, there's lots to keep you guessing throughout this story.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Greeks Bearing Gifts:Category:ThrillersBernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Philip Kerr|ThrillersFull Review]]
[[The Legacy: Children's House Book 1 by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)|Last time]], this series opened with a plot that derailed the careers of both its leads – Huldar the policeman, and child psychologist Freyja. Demoted and stuck with a kind of love/hate connection, they are left staring into space for want of something to happen. Huldar can even find some gruesome human remains the police have been tipped off about, but still isn't allowed to investigate them, so he settles for the drudge work involved in a threat found left in a school's time capsule. Even Freyja can be persuaded to stop twiddling her thumbs and help him out. It's the nature of these books that we know both plots will be connected somehow – but how, we will be asking, will either relate to the prologue, where a young girl was snatched ten years ago, and what is a modern family under threat to do with anything? [[The Reckoning by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)|Full Review]]<!-- Child Carthew -->
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===[[Everything About You All Rivers Run Free by Heather ChildNatasha Carthew]]===
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In Ia Pendilly lives in a caravan on the future, your social feed is your entire existencecoast of Cornwall – a woman as raw as the landscape that surrounds her. A.I. is here and it is all around you. It fills your fridgeLiving with Bran, it keeps up to date with your friends and fulfils your wishes. It is also stealing your jobs her abusive cousin andcommon law husband, possibly, loosening your grip on reality. Freya is unexpectedly given a beta testing version of the latest smart specs, glasses which give her all the information she'll ever need, right in front of s never yet had her eyes by barely thinking about it, complete with own baby. Discovering a personality to guide her. The problem is that the personality waif washed up on shore, Ia rescues the glasses girl but is that of her missing and presumed dead sister. Freya is thrown and unsettled also rescued by this. Her mum tells her to stop using them or at the very least girl – given a new found strength to reset them escape and to embark on a different personalitynew journey. But Freya just can't do this. Hearing The journey takes her sister's voice again is like she's right theredeep into a troubled society and through a damaged, hurting world – finding family and memories long hidden will break Ia, remake her and although perhaps give her the elusive sense of freedom 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 Rubybeen seeking. Is it just possible that something more is feeding this personality than Ruby's data? [[Everything About You All Rivers Run Free by Heather ChildNatasha Carthew|Full Review]]
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===[[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning Tale of the Twenty-First Century a Tooth by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Allie Rogers]]===
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First, forgive me if I don't refer to this book Danny lives in a small Sussex town with its full title often. It's pointedly precisehis mother, accurate, and rather ungainly – when in fact the book it describes has only the former two attributes in any quantityNatalie. What happens in January Life is that a wild wolf walks across the frozen river separating Poland and eastern Germany. Which means thatpoor, when the book starts properly, midbut they manage -February, it has had time to get until they're threatened by a lot closer to Berlin – within 80 kilometres, benefits sanction. A Job Centre employee looks to be precise, for that is the road marker where one of our main characters sees it. He is trying to get back to work in Berlin for their salvation - but her impact on the family goes far beyond what they first time in a monthexpect, and the resulting changes are described to be with his girlfriend, not knowing she has had an infidelity while he was away. Also fancying the bright lights reader through the naive yet perceptive and big city are a teenaged pair wholly original eyes of lovefour-birds, the boy and girl next door to each other in an eastern village, who flee an unhappy lot on the offyear-chance of a better oneold Danny. You just know there is a chance that these characters – human and lupine alike – are sucked into one combined narrative, but you won't know quite what that will entail…[[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning Tale of the Twenty-First Century a Tooth by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Allie Rogers|Full Review]]
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[[image:5starWhen 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:TeensClaudia by Anthony Trevelyan|TeensFull Review]]
Astor, Ontario, 1904. Emmy and her friend Sadie are walking along when a bloody and bruised boy staggers out of the forest clutching a pistol. Sadie runs off terrified. But something about the boy draws Emmy. She knows, deep inside, that he is not a danger. She kicks the pistol into the grass and cradles the boy until help arrives. Who is he? How has he been living? And will the townsfolk accept him?[[Stranger by Keren David|Full Review]]<!-- Banks Gayle -->
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===[[W The Man I Think I Know by John BanksMike Gayle]]===
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On the slopes James DeWitt and Danny Allen are both men in their early thirties whose lives haven't taken them where they were supposed to go. At an all time low time for both of Mt Hood in Oregonthem, 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 two men reconnect and with his world in turmoilslowly find they're exactly what the other needs. Beginning a journey westwardTogether, he's filled with they help each other put their lives back together. This is a desire beautiful story about friendship and what it really means to wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corrupthelp another person. [[W The Man I Think I Know by John BanksMike Gayle|Full Review]]
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===[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris]]===
===[[Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:HumourTeens|HumourTeens]], [[:Category:Historical FictionConfident 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.'' Danny was playing with a toy gun his friend Carlos had lent to him when he was shot by Officer Moore, who claims he was in fear for his life, that Danny, a five foot tall, twelve-year-old boy, was a threatening thug whose menace was such that Officer Moore had no choice but to reach for his gun and eliminate the threat. [[Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes|Historical FictionFull Review]]
You are a lass of twenty eight. Plucky, penniless and in Regency era London the race is on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, and fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, you'll have to make the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, it's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision... [[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]]<!-- Clover Butland -->
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===[[Rory Branagan Detective The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Andrew Clover and Ralph LazarStephanie Butland]]===
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Ten-year-old Rory Branagan isn't Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole life, and just as she was edging closer to death she finally, finally got the call that she needed, that a heart was available for her to have a normal kidtransplant. He's a detective and he has a mystery Previously she had felt so helpless that she had used her blog to solve – why did his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't know where make decisions for her, running polls amongst her readers to start but, thendecide on her actions. But with her new heart, Cassidy moves in next door and he discovers he she has an accomplice who is full of ideas. This is just as well as they soon discover been given a very serious crime: Corner Boy's dad has been poisoned and is at risk of dying but no-one else will believe he's in dangernew life. It's up Can Ailsa manage to Rory and Cassidy start to uncover the truth live on her own, and save a life. will her mother let her do that? [[Rory Branagan Detective The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Andrew Clover and Ralph LazarStephanie Butland|Full Review]]
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===[[To the Edge of the World by Julia Green]]=== [[image:43.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
Jamie loves his new island homeMatt Barker has seen something strange. Something extraordinary that no one would normally see. He likes That wouldn't usually matter but Matt accidently tells the school and he has even made some friends. But, with his history rest of being bullied, Jamie knows that he has some fears to conquer if he wants to follow his grandfather in class when they're playing the 'truth game' on the traditional island occupation of boat builderschool bus. His fear Now most of the sea in particularclass think he's either mad or a liar. And this is what draws To make matters worse, his classmate and new next-door neighbour, Jazzy O'Hanlon, believes him and she's determined to Mara, find a strangeway to share his experience, wild, independent girl who can handle a boat with aplomb. But Mara has even if that means losing her own demons and an approaching show down with the island authorities because of them..best friend.[[To the Edge of the World Spirit by Julia GreenSally Christie|Full Review]]
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===[[Boards That Dare: How to Future-proof Today's Corporate Boards The Smoke Thieves by Marc Stigter and Sir Cary CooperSally Green]]===
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I wasn't optimistic when I started reading ''Boards That Dare'Tension exists among the kingdoms surrounding the Pitorian Sea, and peace is definitely not on everyone's agenda. I feared that I would encounter new ways of minimising tax liabilitiesInstead power is sought by force, and political manoeuvring of getting as much as possible out of employees whilst paying them the legal minimum worst kind sees families torn apart and constant reminders that innocent victims swept up in the ''shareholders'' own the company fallout. This story of warring nations is fast moving from page one, and of the necessity of maximising their returnmain characters, who move between kingdoms, face challenge after challenge. In the event I was only There are five separate story lines, each led by a few pages in before I discovered that I couldn't have been more wrongcolourful and interesting character, that we were looking at ways of future proofing the company. I began to feel hopeful..and Sally Green weaves them together beautifully like a tapestry as their paths cross and their lives intertwine. [[Boards That Dare: How to Future-proof Today's Corporate Boards The Smoke Thieves by Marc Stigter and Sir Cary CooperSally Green|Full Review]]
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===[[The Invasion (The Call, Book 2) by Peadar o Guilin]]===
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We already know that the Aes Sidhe are back. And in their quest to win back Ireland from humankind, they have placed a magical seal around the entire island. At some point during adolescence, every teenager is transported to the Sidhe realm, that grey, colourless land 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 the human world) then their lives are spared, although they are often sent back with horrific mutilations. Fewer than one in ten children survive[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Invasion (The Call, Book 2) by Peadar o Guilin: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]]<!-- Kent Daniel Peltz -->
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===[[The Catchers in Pirates, Thieves, Zombies and Magic Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Stuart J KentDaniel Peltz]]===
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Meet When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're in the Catchers – company of Molly Cavendish who is a mix part-time guide at the Museo di Santa Maria, which is what the ruins of young and old, magical and human, smart and, er, less smartthe Chiesa - a chapel - have now become. It's their job Crowds flock to round up Fabulous Beastssee its centrepiece, and right from the get-go they have a job on their hands in this, renaissance fresco with a history which grabs the second book to contain their adventuresattention of young and old. Colin, Molly uses 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 history to vanish. Wellentertain the tourists, wouldnbut there't you, if you were a lion griffin called Muffin? Either way, we know the adventure is going to include s more too it than that simple task impliesshe knows, particularly as the extended title history of the book suggests, but building is it any good? Is it rock bottom on also the pile history of juvenile fantasy readsthe Vannini family, or does who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and one of whose descendants is the combination director of Pirates, Thieves, Zombies (both tame and wild) and Magic make this particular Muffin top? the museum. [[The Catchers in Pirates, Thieves, Zombies and Magic Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Stuart J KentDaniel Peltz|Full Review]] <!-- Hepworth Mohamed -->
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===[[The Family Next Door Falling Leaves by Sally HepworthStefan Mohamed]]===
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Pleasant Court is a cul-de-sac a few minutes from the beach in Melbourne. Kids play in the street and it's the sort of place people aspire When your best friend vanishes, how can you begin to. Certainly that's how the families who move on? How can you live there feel and thereyour life not knowing whether they's a good sense of community. Ben and Essie are glad re okay? And what would you do if they reappeared in your life? – all questions that Essie's mother is living next door as Essie had a mental breakdown three Vanessa faces every day, even seven years ago when after her first daughter was having difficulty sleepingbest friend Mark vanished. MiaWhen he reappears, she's come through that stageshocked not only by his presence back in her life, but now therealso by the fact that he hasn's Poppy, who's been the perfect baby t aged a day – for the first six months of her lifehim, but is just starting to be difficultno time has passed since his disappearance. BenShocked, confused and emotionally reeling, Vanessa must return to her home town in particular, is pleased that he can rely on Barbara order to keep an eye on help Mark find the situation whilst answers heso desperately craves. But what's out at work. waiting for them is far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… [[The Family Next Door Falling Leaves by Sally HepworthStefan Mohamed|Full Review]]
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===[[Panic Room by Robert Goddard]]===
===[[Nickerbacher by Terry John Barto]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersEmerging Readers|ThrillersEmerging Readers]]
Don Challenor Nickerbacher is a down on doing his luck estate agent who gets tasked to sell a house dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of course, princess-guarding. That's what dragons are for, after all. But Gwendolyn isn't any princess. She finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really and she is much less interested in fairy tales than she is in Cornwall and upon meeting the livewatching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. Nickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too -in cleanerfact, Blake, finds it's his life utterly turned upside down. A simple sales job gets increasingly complex with the addition of favourite TV show because he wants to be a witch, professional heavies and a mysterious panic roomstand-up comedian himself. Intrigue builds He tries out his jokes on intrigue and what started fairly simply becomes something far more complexPrincess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended. [[Panic Room Nickerbacher by Robert GoddardTerry John Barto|Full Review]]
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