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===[[I Stop Somewhere The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by T E CarterNicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)]]===
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Ellie has to change schoolsJane Ashland is dying. ItThat's a chance for renewal and Ellie sets description of a very early scene here – but also, of course, a platitude that can apply to work to make the most all of itus. She doesnJane't want to be homecoming queen or s life, if anything - she just wants to fit , is going up and down in levels of pleasure, energy – sobriety – in without anyone noticing these pages, but we soon learn that she's it recently found a bit too curvy and doesn't have the money to buy fashionable clothesvery deeply dark down place. With the help of Here then, scattered through a neighbourtimeline-bending narrative, Katewe have her days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student in New York, she manages it pretty well. And soglimpses of therapy, when Caleb notices a drive to find her, tells ancestors that takes her she's beautiful, Ellie can almost believe it. But from rural America to Norway – and a trip there's something not quite right about Caleb. He blows hot and cold and his smile doesn't quite meet his eyes. But it's nice with a new-found friend to be wanted and so Ellie ignores watch the warning signs..musk oxen, of all things. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… [[I Stop Somewhere The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by T E CarterNicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Lady Mary The Company of Eight by Lucy WorsleyHarriet Whitehorn]]===
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Fourteen-year-old orphan Cass lives in the Magical District, but as she hasn''Lady Mary'' chronicles t the famous story of Henry VIIIslightest ability in that direction she doesn's love affair with Anne Boleynt exactly fit in. She takes after her dad, his divorce from Katherine of Aragon, Anneand she hopes desperately that she's execution ll pass the upcoming auditions for adultery, acrobats and Henry's subsequent marriage join the Circus Boat as it tours to Jane Seymour, which finally produces give performances on all the much longed for birth islands of a male heirthe Longest World. This timeHer guardian Mrs Potts, the story is told through the eyes of an important but often neglected player - Henryhowever, does ''not''s young daughter, Mary. Maryapprove: her hope that Cass will demonstrate magical abilities like her mother's hopes of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce (and make Mrs Potts very rich) has been disappointed so she is treated terribly by determined her ward will take on a father under the influence of the Boleyn factionsedate, genteel job instead: governess, maybe, or draper's model. Lady Mary follows So poor Cass is reduced to practising her through these awful years and you can't help but root for the little girl stuck routines in the middle of these tumultuous eventssecret, using an old book her father left her. [[Lady Mary The Company of Eight by Lucy WorsleyHarriet Whitehorn|Full Review]]
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===[[The Wolf by Leo Carew]]===
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Travel It wasn't supposed to a world that is familiar and yet utterly different. We are in a version of ancient Britain with enough landmarks be like this, was it? Every day seems to make us feel at home bring yet it is a smoked glass. North more news of the river Abus we have the Anakim, a race that isn't quite human; they are something moredoom and gloom. The Anakim are virtual giants and their ribs are not cages but bone breastplates instead. Below spectre of terrorism hangs over most of the Abus are the Suthenersworld, humans. Theirs is an ancient grudge fuelling refugee crises and one where blood is spilled frequently in pitched battleworries about national security. Unfortunately it is rare when humans People keep saying that robots are involved for things coming to be straightforward and the same is true heretake all our jobs. On both sides politics and machinations complicate the quests for glory. With the Anakim we have a boy coming to power and vying with the greatest warrior Anti-establishment political parties are making huge gains in countries all around the land for the throneworld. Amongst the Sutheners we see And inequality is as much of a commoner having the temerity to lead an army alongside his betters. Both battles are problem as interesting as the war itselfit ever was – if not more so. [[Us vs Them: The Wolf Failure of Globalism by Leo CarewIan Bremmer|Full Review]]
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===[[The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson]]===
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Ok. I dare you to tell me that you ''don't'' want to read a story about a house with chicken legs. There is no way anyone could resist. I certainly couldn't! Marinka lives in this chicken-legged house with her grandmotherGet under your own skin, Baba Yagapick your brains, whose job it is to guide dead people through The Gate. But Marinka is ''lonelyand go inside your insides!''. The house, her grandmother and Marinka never stay anywhere long enough for Marinka to make any friends. And Marinka is determined to change this. But the chicken-legged house has its own agenda... [[The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson|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]] <!-- Davis Keeley -->
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===[[Pandora's Boy by Lindsey Davis]]===
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Relax, die-hard fans of Falco and his spirited British daughter Albia. Rome continues to be as splendid and as sordid as it ever was, the crimes committed are as complex and intriguing, and our heroine just as determined and cynical, with that light dusting of humour which made tales of her father's exploits so engaging. Newcomers to the series need not fear, by the way[[image: each book contains just enough background detail to make you feel immediately at home. This time, despite some serious misgivings, Albia is investigating the sudden death of a fifteen-year-old girl, described as bright, affectionate and popular4star. Was she poisoned by an illegal love-potion, or did she die of a broken heart? [[Pandora's Boy by Lindsey Davisjpg|Full Reviewlink=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Pandora's Boy by Lindsey Davis: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]]<!-- Butterworth Togawa -->
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===[[When the Mountains Roared The Lady Killer by Jess ButterworthMasako Togawa and Simon Grove (translator)]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] ''My fingers come away deep red. 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.''
Two months earlier, Ruby's dad had dropped a bombshell. They were moving from Australia to India, 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 wasn'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..[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[When the Mountains Roared by Jess Butterworth: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]]<!-- Duffy Hall -->
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===[[The Industry of Human Happiness by James Hall]]===
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''The Industry of Human Happiness'' first and foremost is a novel about music. It was is about human beings being able to find music and magic in the day the clocks went backsimplest of places. Max and his younger cousin have realised their dream of opening a gramophone company. ThatHowever, their ambition and hubris soon puts them on a course towards London's when I decided to kill himunderworld. They will ascend broken and their lives changed forever.''[[The Industry of Human Happiness by James Hall|Full Review]]
''I'' is fourteen-year-old Danny. ''Him'' is Danny's stepfather Callum. Up until a year ago, it was just Danny and Mam. They lived in a damp, cold council flat and didn't have much money to spare, but things were pretty good. 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, Amy. But a lot has changed. They're now living in Callum's posh house and Danny gets holidays and plenty of Christmas presents. Great, right? [[Me Mam. Me Dad. Me by Malcolm Duffy|Full Review]]<!-- Forman Kerr -->
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===[[I Have Lost My Way Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Gayle FormanPhilip Kerr]]===
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Set in Germany in 1957, ''I Have Lost My WayGreeks Bearing Gifts'' tells the story of three individuals who have each lost something important is a historical crime thriller with everything from dodgy Nazi past histories to them leading to them losing their wayinsurance fraud. Freya has lost her voice Bernie Gunther is a Berliner, Harun has lost his love who was a sarjeant during the second world war and Nathaniel has lost everythingnow, in this novel, is working in the morgue of a hospital. However He finds himself embroiled in a mystery, these three elements do not give justice taking on a new role as an insurance claims investigator. The investigation takes him to Greece, and back into the extent dark times of what each character has lostthe war. In this expertly written novel With layered plots and double-crossing left, Gayle Forman writes about how these three dissimilar individuals each came to lose what was most important to themright and centre, causing them there's lots to all meet one fateful day in New York Citykeep you guessing throughout this story. [[I Have Lost My Way Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Gayle FormanPhilip Kerr|Full Review]]
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[[image:4Ia Pendilly lives in a caravan on the coast of Cornwall – a woman as raw as the landscape that surrounds her. Living with Bran, her abusive cousin and common law husband, she's never yet had her own baby.5starDiscovering a waif washed up on shore, Ia rescues the girl but is also rescued by the girl – given a new found strength to escape and to embark on a new journey.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]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 perhaps give her the elusive sense of freedom she's been seeking. [[:Category:General FictionAll Rivers Run Free by Natasha Carthew|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 Rogers -->
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===[[The Reckoning Tale of a Tooth by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Allie Rogers]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
[[image:4Danny lives in a small Sussex town with his mother, Natalie. Life is poor, but they manage - until they're threatened by a benefits sanction.5starA Job Centre employee looks to be their salvation - but her impact on the family goes far beyond what they first expect, and the resulting changes are described to the reader through the naive yet perceptive and wholly original eyes of four-year-old Danny.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersTale of a Tooth by Allie Rogers|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 Trevelyan -->
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===[[Everything About You Claudia by Heather ChildAnthony Trevelyan]]===
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In When Claudia is called to the future, your social feed is your entire existence. A.I. is here and it is all around you. It fills your fridge, it keeps up reception of her Manchester Office block to date with your friends and fulfils your wishes. It is also stealing your jobs and, possibly, loosening your grip on reality. Freya is unexpectedly given meet a beta testing version of the latest smart specsvisitor, glasses which give her all the information shedoesn'll ever need, right in front of her eyes by barely thinking about t expect it, complete with a personality to guide be herfather figure – a man she hasn't seen for fifteen years. Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild Samson, The problem is that the personality on the glasses is that Aztec and The Sun King, walked out of her missing Claudia's life and presumed dead sister. Freya is thrown and unsettled by this. Her mum tells her to stop using them or at the very least to reset them to into a world of success as a different personality. But Freya just can't do this. Hearing her sistersolar panel salesman – but now he's voice again is like shereturned and he needs Claudia's right therehelp. Reggie, and although she knows this is just RubySamson's datason, part of Freya canhas joined a mysterious cult called ''Tarantula''t believe that it can be this accurate, it can't be this Rubya group who prepare for the end of the world and encourage humanity to embrace their impending doom. Is it just possible that something more is feeding this personality than RubyClaudia's data? 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… [[Everything About You Claudia by Heather ChildAnthony Trevelyan|Full Review]]
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===[[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century The Man I Think I Know by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Mike Gayle]]===
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First, forgive me if I donJames DeWitt and Danny Allen are both men in their early thirties whose lives haven't refer taken them where they were supposed to this book with its full title oftengo. It's pointedly preciseAt an all time low time for both of them, accurate, and rather ungainly – when in fact the book it describes has only the former two attributes in any quantity. What happens in January is that a wild wolf walks across the frozen river separating Poland men reconnect and eastern Germany. Which means that, when slowly find they're exactly what the book starts properly, mid-February, it has had time to get a lot closer to Berlin – within 80 kilometres, to be precise, for that is the road marker where one of our main characters sees itother needs. He is trying to get back to work in Berlin for the first time in a monthTogether, 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 are a teenaged pair of love-birds, the boy and girl next door to they help each other in an eastern village, who flee an unhappy lot on the off-chance of a better oneput their lives back together. You just know there This is a chance that these characters – human beautiful story about friendship and lupine alike – are sucked into one combined narrative, but you won't know quite what that will entail…it really means to help another person. [[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century The Man I Think I Know by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Mike Gayle|Full Review]]
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===[[Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[: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.'' 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|Full 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 Butland -->
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===[[W The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by John BanksStephanie Butland]]===
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On Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole life, and just as she was edging closer to death she finally, finally got the slopes of Mt Hood in Oregoncall that she needed, an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking explorationthat a heart was available for her to have a transplant. Josh Kinninger is inspired by the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angryPreviously she had felt so helpless that she had used her blog to make decisions for her, unmoored and running polls amongst her readers to decide on her actions. But with his world in turmoil. Beginning a journey westwardher new heart, he's filled with she has been given a desire new life. Can Ailsa manage to start to wreak vengeance live on the individuals he finds morally corrupt. her own, and will her mother let her do that? [[W The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by John BanksStephanie Butland|Full Review]]
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===[[My Lady's Choosing Spirit by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisSally Christie]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
[[image:4starMatt 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]To 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. [[:Category:Historical FictionSpirit by Sally Christie|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 Green -->
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===[[Rory Branagan Detective The Smoke Thieves by Andrew Clover and Ralph LazarSally Green]]===
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Ten-year-old Rory Branagan isnTension exists among the kingdoms surrounding the Pitorian Sea, and peace is definitely not on everyone't just a normal kids agenda. He's a detective and he has a mystery to solve – why did his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't know where to start but, thenInstead power is sought by force, Cassidy moves in next door and he discovers he has an accomplice who is full political manoeuvring of ideasthe worst kind sees families torn apart and innocent victims swept up in the fallout. This story of warring nations is just as well as they soon discover a very serious crime: Corner Boy's dad has been poisoned fast moving from page one, and is at risk of dying but no-one else will believe he's in dangerthe main characters, who move between kingdoms, face challenge after challenge. It's up to Rory There are five separate story lines, each led by a colourful and Cassidy to uncover the truth interesting character, and save Sally Green weaves them together beautifully like a lifetapestry as their paths cross and their lives intertwine. [[Rory Branagan Detective The Smoke Thieves by Andrew Clover and Ralph LazarSally Green|Full Review]]
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Jamie loves his new island home. He likes the school and he has even made some friends. But, with his history of being bullied, Jamie knows that he has some fears to conquer if he wants to follow his grandfather in the traditional island occupation of boat builder. His fear of the sea in particular. And this is what draws him to Mara, a strange, wild, independent girl who can handle a boat with aplomb. But Mara has her own demons and an approaching show down with the island authorities because of them..[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[To the Edge of the World by Julia Green: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]]<!-- Marc Stigter and Sir Cary Cooper Daniel Peltz -->
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===[[Boards That Dare: How to Future-proof Today's Corporate Boards The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Marc Stigter and Sir Cary CooperDaniel Peltz]]===
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I wasn't optimistic when I started reading ''Boards That Dare'When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're in the company of Molly Cavendish who is a part-time guide at the Museo di Santa Maria, which is what the ruins of the Chiesa - a chapel - have now become. I feared that I would encounter new ways of minimising tax liabilitiesCrowds flock to see its centrepiece, a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs the attention of getting as much as possible out of employees whilst paying them young and old. Molly uses the legal minimum and constant reminders that history to entertain the tourists, but there''shareholders'' own s more too it than she knows, particularly as the company and history of the necessity building is also the history of maximising their return. In the event I was only a few pages Vannini family, who helped in before I discovered that I couldn't have been more wrong, that we were looking at ways building the chapel some six hundred years ago and one of whose descendants is the director of future proofing the company. I began to feel hopeful..museum. [[Boards That Dare: How to Future-proof Today's Corporate Boards The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Marc Stigter and Sir Cary CooperDaniel Peltz|Full Review]]
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===[[The Invasion (The Call, Book 2) Falling Leaves by Peadar o GuilinStefan Mohamed]]===
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We already know When your best friend vanishes, how can you begin to move on? How can you live your life not knowing whether they're okay? And what would you do if they reappeared in your life? – all questions that the Aes Sidhe are Vanessa faces every day, even seven years after her best friend Mark vanished. When he reappears, she's shocked not only by his presence back. And in their quest to win back Ireland from humankindher life, they have placed but also by the fact that he hasn't aged a magical seal around the entire islandday – for him, no time has passed since his disappearance. At some point during adolescenceShocked, every teenager is transported to the Sidhe realm, that greyconfused and emotionally reeling, colourless land Vanessa must return to which they were banished thousands of years before. If they can evade the vengeful faerie kind for a full day (just three minutes her home town in order to help Mark find the human world) then their lives are spared, although they are often sent back with horrific mutilationsanswers he so desperately craves. Fewer But what's waiting for them is far more surprising than one in ten children survive. either of them could ever have dreamt… [[The Invasion (The Call, Book 2) Falling Leaves by Peadar o GuilinStefan Mohamed|Full Review]]
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===[[The Catchers in Pirates, Thieves, Zombies and Magic by Stuart J Kent]]===
===[[Nickerbacher by Terry John Barto]]=== [[image:2star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Emerging Readers|Confident Emerging Readers]]
Meet the Catchers – a mix Nickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of young and oldcourse, magical and human, smart and, er, less smartprincess-guarding. ItThat's their job to round up Fabulous Beastswhat dragons are for, and right from the get-go they have a job on their hands in this, the second book to contain their adventuresafter all. But Gwendolyn isn't any princess. Colin, She finds the older whole princessing thing quite boring really and magical (if not completely smart) one, she is much less interested in fairy tales than she is tasked with a recovery mission by a friend who boasted about having a wonderful lion griffinin watching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. Nickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in fact, only for it 's his favourite TV show because he wants to vanishbe a stand-up comedian himself. Well, wouldnHe tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don'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, always come off quite 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? Nickerbacher intended. [[The Catchers in Pirates, Thieves, Zombies and Magic Nickerbacher by Stuart J KentTerry John Barto|Full Review]]
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