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===[[A Shimmer The Gradual Disappearance of Hummingbirds Jane Ashland by Steve BurrowsNicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)]]===
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Detective Chief Inspector Domenic Jejeune Jane Ashland is on a birding trip to Colombia: well itdying. That's ostensibly a birding tripdescription of a very early scene here – but also, of course, but the reality is a platitude that he's trying can apply to establish what really happened in the manslaughter case which has left his brother a fugitiveall of us. ItJane's a difficult situation as the police force don't want him to do this life, if anything, is going up and the Colombian authorities are understandably reluctantdown in levels of pleasure, energy – sobriety – in these pages, but Jejeune has always been we soon learn that it recently found a law unto himselfvery deeply dark down place. Meanwhile in Saltmarsh on the North Norfolk coast there's been Here then, scattered through a timeline-bending narrative, we have her days finding a brutal murder of Lincolnesque lover as a womanstudent in New York, and DI Marvin Larabyglimpses of therapy, Jejeune's nemesis, has been drafted in a drive to replace Jejeune during his absence. How's find her ancestors that going takes her from rural America to Norway – and a trip there with a new-found friend to work out? watch the musk oxen, of all things. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… [[A Shimmer The Gradual Disappearance of Hummingbirds Jane Ashland by Steve BurrowsNicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[I Stop Somewhere The Company of Eight by T E CarterHarriet Whitehorn]]===
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Ellie has to change schools. ItFourteen-year-old orphan Cass lives in the Magical District, but as she hasn's a chance for renewal and Ellie sets to work to make t the most of it. She slightest ability in that direction she doesn't want to be homecoming queen or anything - she just wants to exactly fit in without anyone noticing . She takes after her dad, and she hopes desperately that she's a bit too curvy ll pass the upcoming auditions for acrobats and doesn't have join the money Circus Boat as it tours to buy fashionable clothes. With give performances on all the help islands of a neighbour, Kate, she manages it pretty wellthe Longest World. And soHer guardian Mrs Potts, when Caleb notices herhowever, tells her shedoes 's beautiful, Ellie can almost believe it. But there's something not quite right about Caleb. He blows hot and cold and his smile doesn't quite meet his eyes. But it' approve: her hope that Cass will demonstrate magical abilities like her mother's nice to be wanted (and make Mrs Potts very rich) has been disappointed so Ellie ignores the warning signs.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. [[I Stop Somewhere The Company of Eight by T E CarterHarriet Whitehorn|Full Review]]
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===[[Lady Mary Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism by Lucy WorsleyIan Bremmer]]===
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It wasn''Lady Mary'' chronicles the famous story of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne Boleynt supposed to be like this, his divorce from Katherine was it? Every day seems to bring yet more news of Aragon, Anne's execution for adultery, doom and Henry's subsequent marriage to Jane Seymour, which finally produces the much longed for birth gloom. The spectre of terrorism hangs over most of a male heir. This time, the story is told through the eyes of an important but often neglected player - Henry's young daughterworld, Maryfuelling refugee crises and worries about national security. Mary's hopes of her family staying together People keep saying that robots are crushed by the divorce and she is treated terribly by a father under the influence of the Boleyn factioncoming to take all our jobs. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years and you can't help but root for the little girl stuck Anti-establishment political parties are making huge gains in countries all around the middle world. And inequality is as much of these tumultuous eventsa problem as it ever was – if not more so. [[Lady Mary Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism by Lucy WorsleyIan Bremmer|Full Review]]
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Travel to a world that is familiar and yet utterly different. We are in a version of ancient Britain with enough landmarks to make us feel at home yet it is a smoked glass. North of the river Abus we have the Anakim''Get under your own skin, a race that isn'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 Suthenerspick your brains, humans. Theirs is an ancient grudge and one where blood is spilled frequently in pitched battle. Unfortunately it is rare when humans are involved for things to be straightforward and the same is true here. 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 in the land for the throne. Amongst the Sutheners we see a commoner having the temerity to lead an army alongside his betters. Both battles are as interesting as the war itself. [[The Wolf by Leo Carew|Full Review]]go inside your insides!''
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]] <!-- Anderson Keeley -->
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===[[The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson]]===
 
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''===[[My house has chicken legs. 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.''Favourite People by Rob Keeley]]===
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 grandmother, Baba Yaga, whose job it is to guide dead people through The Gate. But Marinka is ''lonely''. 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..[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson: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]]<!-- Davis Togawa -->
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===[[Pandora's Boy The Lady Killer by Lindsey DavisMasako Togawa and Simon Grove (translator)]]===
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RelaxJapan, die-hard fans the early 1960s. The prologue of this book sets us up in a lovely way with a world of Falco both innocence and his spirited British daughter Albiaseedy nightclubs. Rome continues to be as splendid and as sordid as it ever was, When a young girl enters one alone for a drink she ends up singing along with the musical duet doing the rounds of the crimes committed are venues for tips – as complex and intriguing, and our heroine just as determined and cynical, does a man with that light dusting of humour which made tales of her father's exploits so engaginga distinctive bass voice. They leave together. Newcomers Six months later, she clings to the series need not feara balcony at work, by the way: each book contains just enough background detail thinks about it – and drops to make you feel immediately at homeher death in suicide. She was pregnant. This timeBut the man involved, despite some serious misgivingsa rampant womaniser with an intricate diary of all his comings and goings, Albia is investigating the sudden death of not having a fifteen-year-perfect time, either. He returns to an old girlflame, described as brightto find her murdered – and then the lady who would be his alibi for that death also gets killed, affectionate and popularso on. Was she poisoned by an illegal love-potionFrom our point of view, or did she die he cannot be a killer of a broken heartladies, as the title might imply – but what else could it mean? [[Pandora's Boy The Lady Killer by Lindsey Davis|Full Review]] [[Pandora's Boy by Lindsey DavisMasako Togawa and Simon Grove (translator)|Full Review]] <!-- Butterworth Hall -->
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===[[When the Mountains Roared The Industry of Human Happiness by Jess ButterworthJames Hall]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensHistorical Fiction|TeensHistorical Fiction]], [[:Category:Confident ReadersThrillers|Confident ReadersThrillers]] ''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 'The Industry of Human Happiness'' first and foremost is a bombshell. They were moving from Australia to India, where her father had got a job at a hotel in the mountainsnovel about music. It was is about human beings being able to be a new start find music and it would help both Ruby and her father get over magic in the death simplest of her motherplaces. Ruby wasn't so sure about that Max and didn't get more optimistic on arrival - to find a rundown building full his younger cousin have realised their dream of scary corners in opening a place where the dark is really dark and the wildlife includes scorpionsgramophone company. However, bears their ambition and, well, you get the picturehubris soon puts them on a course towards London's underworld. Ruby has struggled since her mother died They will ascend broken and it pretty much feels as though her father has brought her a place that makes everything worse..their lives changed forever. [[When the Mountains Roared The Industry of Human Happiness by Jess ButterworthJames Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Philip Kerr]]===
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Set in Germany in 1957, ''It 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 day second world war and now, in this novel, is working in the clocks went 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 backinto the dark times of the war. That With layered plots and double-crossing left, right and centre, there's when I decided lots to kill himkeep you guessing throughout this story.''[[Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Philip Kerr|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 Carthew -->
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===[[I Have Lost My Way All Rivers Run Free by Gayle FormanNatasha Carthew]]===
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Ia 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''I Have Lost My Way'' tells s never yet had her own baby. Discovering a waif washed up on shore, Ia rescues the girl but is also rescued by the story of three individuals who have each lost something important girl – given a new found strength to them leading escape and to them losing their wayembark on a new journey. Freya has lost The journey takes her voicedeep into a troubled society and through a damaged, Harun has lost his love hurting world – finding family and Nathaniel has lost everything. Howevermemories long hidden will break Ia, these three elements do not remake her and perhaps give justice to her the extent elusive sense 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 Cityfreedom she's been seeking. [[I Have Lost My Way All Rivers Run Free by Gayle FormanNatasha Carthew|Full Review]]
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===[[Dyed Souls Tale of a Tooth by Gary SantorellaAllie Rogers]]===
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The USADanny lives in a small Sussex town with his mother, early 1980sNatalie. Charlie (or CharlesLife is poor, if hebut they manage - until they's feeling belligerent, and he often is) is being taken back to his home re threatened by his drop-out, slutty mothera benefits sanction. The home is called a Cottage, and while the book doesn't guide us A Job Centre employee looks to understand it perfectly, it seems to mean he has a private room in a large selfbe their salvation -contained bungalow, but her impact on a gated compound with round-the-clock adult supervision. There's a paddock with horses for the kids to ridefamily goes far beyond what they first expect, their own school – and all the adults resulting changes are armed with Thorazine described 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 reader through 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, naive yet perceptive and work out his lot. He certainly has a lot on his plate for a thirteenwholly original eyes of four-year-oldDanny. [[Dyed Souls Tale of a Tooth by Gary SantorellaAllie Rogers|Full Review]] <!-- Sigurdardottir Trevelyan -->
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===[[The Reckoning Claudia by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Anthony Trevelyan]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
[[image:4When 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.5starReggie, 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:ThrillersClaudia by Anthony Trevelyan|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 Gayle -->
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===[[Everything About You The Man I Think I Know by Heather ChildMike Gayle]]===
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In the future, your social feed is your entire existence. A.I. is here James DeWitt and it is all around you. It fills your fridge, it keeps up Danny Allen are both men in their early thirties whose lives haven't taken them where they were supposed to date with your friends and fulfils your wishesgo. It is also stealing your jobs and, possibly, loosening your grip on reality. Freya is unexpectedly given a beta testing version of the latest smart specs, glasses which give her At an all the information she'll ever need, right in front time low time for both of her eyes by barely thinking about itthem, complete with a personality to guide her. The problem is that the personality on the glasses is that of her missing two men reconnect and presumed dead sister. Freya is thrown and unsettled by this. Her mum tells her to stop using them or at slowly find they're exactly what the very least to reset them to a different personalityother needs. But Freya just can't do thisTogether, they help each other put their lives back together. Hearing her sister's voice again This is like she's right there, a beautiful story about friendship and although she knows this is just Ruby's data, part of Freya can't believe that what it can be this accurate, it can't be this Rubyreally means to help another person. Is it just possible that something more is feeding this personality than Ruby's data? [[Everything About You The Man I Think I Know by Heather ChildMike Gayle|Full Review]]
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===[[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)]]===
===[[Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionTeens|General FictionTeens]], [[: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.''
First, forgive me if I don't refer Danny was playing with a toy gun his friend Carlos had lent to this book with its full title often. It's pointedly precisehim when he was shot by Officer Moore, accuratewho claims he was in fear for his life, 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 Danny, a wild wolf walks across the frozen river separating Poland and eastern Germany. Which means thatfive foot tall, when the book starts properly, midtwelve-year-Februaryold boy, it has had time to get was a lot closer to Berlin – within 80 kilometres, to be precise, for threatening thug whose menace was such that is the road marker where one of our main characters sees it. He is trying Officer Moore had no choice but to get back to work in Berlin reach 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 gun and big city are a teenaged pair of love-birds, eliminate the boy and girl next door to each other in an eastern village, who flee an unhappy lot on the off-chance of a better onethreat. 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 of the Twenty-First Century Ghost Boys by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Jewell Parker Rhodes|Full Review]]
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===[[Stranger The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Keren DavidStephanie Butland]]===
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AstorAilsa Rae has been sick her whole life, Ontarioand just as she was edging closer to death she finally, 1904. Emmy and finally got the call that she needed, that a heart was available for her friend Sadie are walking along when a bloody and bruised boy staggers out of the forest clutching to have a pistoltransplant. Sadie runs off terrifiedPreviously she had felt so helpless that she had used her blog to make decisions for her, running polls amongst her readers to decide on her actions. But something about the boy draws Emmy. She knowswith her new heart, deep inside, that he is not she has been given a dangernew life. She kicks the pistol into the grass Can Ailsa manage to start to live on her own, and cradles the boy until help arrives. Who is he? How has he been living? And will the townsfolk accept himher mother let her do that?[[Stranger The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Keren DavidStephanie Butland|Full Review]] <!-- Banks Christie -->
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===[[W Spirit by John BanksSally Christie]]===
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On Matt Barker has seen something strange. Something extraordinary that no one would normally see. That wouldn't usually matter but Matt accidently tells the slopes rest of Mt Hood in Oregon, an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking explorationhis class when they're playing the 'truth game' on the school bus. Josh Kinninger is inspired by Now most of the Viking discovery class think he's either mad or a liar. To make matters worse, his classmate and new next- three personal catastrophes having left door neighbour, Jazzy O'Hanlon, believes him angry, unmoored and with his world in turmoil. Beginning a journey westward, heshe's filled with determined to find a desire way to wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corruptshare his experience, even if that means losing her best friend. [[W Spirit by John BanksSally Christie|Full Review]]
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===[[My Lady's Choosing The Smoke Thieves by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisSally 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]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. [[:Category:Historical FictionThe Smoke Thieves by Sally Green|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 de Lacey Davidson -->
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===[[Rory Branagan Detective by Andrew Clover and Ralph Lazar]]===
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Ten-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a normal kid[[image:4star. 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, then, Cassidy moves in next door and he discovers he has an accomplice who is full of ideas. This is just as well as they soon discover a very serious crimejpg|link=Category: Corner Boy's dad has been poisoned and is at risk of dying but no-one else will believe he's in danger. It's up to Rory and Cassidy to uncover the truth and save a life. {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Rory Branagan Detective by Andrew Clover and Ralph Lazar: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]]<!-- Green Daniel Peltz -->
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===[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Daniel Peltz]]===
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[[image:4When 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.5star Crowds flock to see its centrepiece, a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs the attention of young and old.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Molly uses the history to entertain the tourists, but there's more too it than she knows, particularly as the history of the building is also the history of the Vannini family, who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and one of whose descendants is the director of the museum. [[:Category:TeensThe Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Daniel Peltz|TeensFull Review]]
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...[[To the Edge of the World by Julia Green|Full Review]] <!-- Marc Stigter and Sir Cary Cooper Mohamed -->
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===[[Boards That Dare: How to Future-proof Today's Corporate Boards Falling Leaves by Marc Stigter and Sir Cary CooperStefan Mohamed]]===
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I wasn't optimistic when I started reading ''Boards That Dare'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 Vanessa faces every day, even seven years after her best friend Mark vanished. I feared that I would encounter new ways of minimising tax liabilitiesWhen he reappears, of getting as much as possible out of employees whilst paying them the legal minimum and constant reminders that the she''shareholders'' own the company and of the necessity of maximising their return. In the event I was s shocked not only a few pages by his presence back in before I discovered her life, but also by the fact that I couldnhe hasn't have been more wrongaged a day – for him, that we were looking at ways of future proofing the companyno time has passed since his disappearance. I began Shocked, confused and emotionally reeling, Vanessa must return to feel hopeful..her home town in order to help Mark find the answers he so desperately craves. But what's waiting for them is far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… [[Boards That Dare: How to Future-proof Today's Corporate Boards Falling Leaves by Marc Stigter and Sir Cary CooperStefan Mohamed|Full Review]]
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===[[The Invasion (The Call, Book 2) by Peadar o Guilin]]===
===[[Nickerbacher by Terry John Barto]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensEmerging Readers|TeensEmerging Readers]]
We already know that the Aes Sidhe are backNickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. 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 That dragonly duty is transported to the Sidhe realm, that greyof course, colourless land to which they were banished thousands of years beforeprincess-guarding. If they can evade the vengeful faerie kind That's what dragons are for a full day (just three minutes in the human world) then their lives are spared, although they are often sent back with horrific mutilationsafter all. But Gwendolyn isn't any princess. Fewer She finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really and she is much less interested in fairy tales than one she is in ten children survivewatching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. Nickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in fact, it's his favourite TV show because he wants to be a stand-up comedian himself. He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended. [[The Invasion (The Call, Book 2) Nickerbacher by Peadar o GuilinTerry John Barto|Full Review]]
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