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===[[Two Steps Forward The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Graeme Simsion Nicolai Houm and Anne BuistAnna Paterson (translator)]]===
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When I read the blurb for this bookJane Ashland is dying. That's a description of a very early scene here – but also, of course, a platitude that can apply to all of us. Jane's life, if anything, is going up and down in levels of pleasure, energy – sobriety – in these pages, I but we soon learn that it recently found myself instantly interested a very deeply dark down place. Here then, scattered through a timeline-bending narrative, we have her days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student in its premise New York, glimpses of two people trying therapy, a drive to start their lives again following serious life changes. The book did not disappointfind her ancestors that takes her from rural America to Norway – and a trip there with a new-found friend to watch the musk oxen, of all things. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… [[Two Steps Forward The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Graeme Simsion Nicolai Houm and Anne BuistAnna Paterson (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[A Shimmer The Company of Hummingbirds Eight by Steve BurrowsHarriet Whitehorn]]===
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Detective Chief Inspector Domenic Jejeune is on a birding trip to Colombia: well it's ostensibly a birding tripFourteen-year-old orphan Cass lives in the Magical District, but as she hasn't the reality is slightest ability in that hedirection she doesn's trying to establish what really happened t exactly fit in the manslaughter case which has left his brother a fugitive. ItShe takes after her dad, and she hopes desperately that she's a difficult situation as ll pass the police force don't want him to do this upcoming auditions for acrobats and join the Colombian authorities are understandably reluctant, but Jejeune has always been a law unto himself. Meanwhile in Saltmarsh Circus Boat as it tours to give performances on all the islands of the North Norfolk coast thereLongest World. Her guardian Mrs Potts, however, does ''not'' approve: her hope that Cass will demonstrate magical abilities like her mother's (and make Mrs Potts very rich) has been disappointed so she is determined her ward will take on a brutal murder of a womansedate, genteel job instead: governess, and DI Marvin Larabymaybe, Jejeuneor draper's nemesismodel. So poor Cass is reduced to practising her routines in secret, has been drafted in to replace Jejeune during his absenceusing an old book her father left her. How's that going to work out? [[A Shimmer The Company of Hummingbirds Eight by Steve BurrowsHarriet Whitehorn|Full Review]]
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===[[I Stop Somewhere Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism by T E CarterIan Bremmer]]===
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Ellie has to change schools. Itwasn's a chance for renewal and Ellie sets t supposed to work be like this, was it? Every day seems to make the bring yet more news of doom and gloom. The spectre of terrorism hangs over most of itthe world, fuelling refugee crises and worries about national security. She doesn't want People keep saying that robots are coming to be homecoming queen or anything take all our jobs. Anti- she just wants to fit establishment political parties are making huge gains in without anyone noticing that she's a bit too curvy and doesn't have countries all around the money to buy fashionable clothesworld. With the help And inequality is as much of a neighbour, Kate, she manages problem as it pretty well. And so, when Caleb notices her, tells her she's beautiful, Ellie can almost believe it. But there's something ever was – if not quite right about Caleb. He blows hot and cold and his smile doesn't quite meet his eyes. But it's nice to be wanted and more so Ellie ignores the warning signs... [[I Stop Somewhere Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism by T E CarterIan Bremmer|Full Review]]
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===[[Lady Mary by Lucy Worsley]]===
===[[Humanatomy: How the Body Works by Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank]]=== [[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Historical FictionConfident Readers|Historical FictionConfident Readers]]
''Lady Mary'' chronicles the famous story of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne BoleynGet under your own skin, his divorce from Katherine of Aragon, Anne's execution for adulterypick your brains, and Henry's subsequent marriage to Jane Seymour, which finally produces the much longed for birth of a male heir. This time, the story is told through the eyes of an important but often neglected player - Henry's young daughter, Mary. Marygo inside your insides!'s hopes of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce and she is treated terribly by a father under the influence of the Boleyn faction. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years and you can't help but root for the little girl stuck in the middle of these tumultuous events. [[Lady Mary by Lucy Worsley|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]] <!-- Carew Keeley -->
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===[[The Wolf by Leo Carew]]===
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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, 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 Sutheners, 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[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Wolf by Leo Carew: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]]<!-- Anderson Togawa -->
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===[[The House with Chicken Legs Lady Killer by Sophie AndersonMasako Togawa and Simon Grove (translator)]]===
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''My house has chicken legsJapan, the early 1960s. Two or three times a year, without warning, it stands The prologue of this book sets us up in the middle a lovely way with a world of the night both innocence and walks away from where we've been livingseedy nightclubs.'' Ok. I dare you to tell me that you ''don't'' want to read When a young girl enters one alone for a story about drink she ends up singing along with the musical duet doing the rounds of the venues for tips – as does a house man with chicken legsa distinctive bass voice. There is no way anyone could resistThey leave together. I certainly couldn't! Marinka lives in this chicken-legged house with her grandmotherSix months later, Baba Yagashe clings to a balcony at work, whose job thinks about it is – and drops to guide dead people through The Gateher death in suicide. She was pregnant. But Marinka the man involved, a rampant womaniser with an intricate diary of all his comings and goings, is ''lonely''not having a perfect time, either. The houseHe returns to an old flame, to find her grandmother murdered – and Marinka never stay anywhere long enough then the lady who would be his alibi for Marinka to make any friendsthat death also gets killed, and so on. And Marinka is determined to change this. But From our point of view, he cannot be a killer of ladies, as the chicken-legged house has its own agenda... title might imply – but what else could it mean? [[The House with Chicken Legs Lady Killer by Sophie AndersonMasako Togawa and Simon Grove (translator)|Full Review]] <!-- Davis Hall -->
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===[[Pandora's Boy The Industry of Human Happiness by Lindsey DavisJames Hall]]===
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Relax, die-hard fans ''The Industry of Falco Human Happiness'' first and his spirited British daughter Albiaforemost is a novel about music. Rome continues It is about human beings being able to be as splendid find music and as sordid as it ever was, magic in 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 simplest of her father's exploits so engagingplaces. Newcomers to the series need not fear, by the way: 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 Max and his younger cousin have realised their dream of opening a fifteen-year-old girl, described as brightgramophone company. However, affectionate their ambition and popular. Was she poisoned by an illegal love-potion, or did she die of hubris soon puts them on a broken heart? [[Pandoracourse towards London's Boy by Lindsey Davis|Full Review]] underworld. They will ascend broken and their lives changed forever. [[Pandora's Boy The Industry of Human Happiness by Lindsey DavisJames Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[When the Mountains Roared Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Jess ButterworthPhilip Kerr]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
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Two months earlierSet in Germany in 1957, Ruby's dad had dropped 'Greeks Bearing Gifts'' is a bombshell. They were moving historical crime thriller with everything from Australia dodgy Nazi past histories to Indiainsurance fraud. Bernie Gunther is a Berliner, where her father had got who was a job at a hotel sarjeant during the second world war and now, in this novel, is working in the mountainsmorgue of a hospital. It was to be He finds himself embroiled in a mystery, taking on a new start and it would help both Ruby role as an insurance claims investigator. The investigation takes him to Greece, and her father get over back into the death dark times of her motherthe war. Ruby wasn't so sure about that With layered plots and didn't get more optimistic on arrival double- to find a rundown building full of scary corners in a place where the dark is really dark and the wildlife includes scorpionscrossing left, bears right andcentre, well, there's lots to keep 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..guessing throughout this story. [[When the Mountains Roared Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Jess ButterworthPhilip Kerr|Full Review]]
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===[[All Rivers Run Free by Natasha Carthew]]===
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[[image:5starIa 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. Discovering 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. 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensAll Rivers Run Free by Natasha Carthew|TeensFull Review]]
''It was the day the clocks went back. That's when I decided to kill him.'' ''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 Rogers -->
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===[[I Have Lost My Way Tale of a Tooth by Gayle FormanAllie Rogers]]===
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Danny lives in a small Sussex town with his mother, Natalie. Life is poor, but they manage - until they''I Have Lost My Way'' tells the story of three individuals who have each lost something important to them leading re threatened by a benefits sanction. A Job Centre employee looks to them losing be their way. Freya has lost salvation - but her voiceimpact on the family goes far beyond what they first expect, Harun has lost his love and Nathaniel has lost everything. However, these three elements do not give justice the resulting changes are described to the extent reader through the naive yet perceptive and wholly original eyes 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 Cityfour-year-old Danny. [[I Have Lost My Way Tale of a Tooth by Gayle FormanAllie Rogers|Full Review]]
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===[[Dyed Souls Claudia by Gary SantorellaAnthony Trevelyan]]===
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The USA, early 1980s. Charlie (or Charles, if he's feeling belligerent, and he often When Claudia is) is being taken back called to the reception of her Manchester Office block to his home by his drop-out, slutty mother. The home is called meet a Cottagevisitor, and while the book she doesn't guide us to understand it perfectly, expect it seems to mean he has be her father figure – a private room in a large self-contained bungalowman she hasn't seen for fifteen years. Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild Samson, The Aztec and The Sun King, on a gated compound with round-the-clock adult supervision. Therewalked out of Claudia's life and into a world of success as a paddock with horses for the kids to ride, their own school solar panel salesman – but now he's returned and all the adults are armed with Thorazine to calm the kids downhe needs Claudia's help. Charlie, despite his obvious bookish intelligenceReggie, is struggling to get to grips with why and how heSamson's ended up where he isson, but it must have something to do with his single parent mother being violenthas joined a mysterious cult called ''Tarantula'', a group who prepare for the end of the world and the fact he is no longer allowed encourage humanity to stay with his grandfatherembrace their impending doom. This book is a slightly woozy look at his thoughts, as he tries Claudia's journey takes her far from her home in Manchester to build a relationship the end of the world – where encounters with a girl in a different Cottage, and work out his lot. He certainly has a lot on his plate for a thirteen-yearhammer-old. wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… [[Dyed Souls Claudia by Gary SantorellaAnthony Trevelyan|Full Review]] <!-- Sigurdardottir Gayle -->
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===[[The Reckoning Man I Think I Know by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Mike Gayle]]===
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[[The Legacy: Children's House Book 1 by Yrsa Sigurdardottir James DeWitt and Victoria Cribb (translator)|Last time]], this series opened with a plot that derailed the careers of Danny Allen are both its leads – Huldar the policeman, and child psychologist Freyjamen in their early thirties whose lives haven't taken them where they were supposed to go. Demoted and stuck with a kind of love/hate connection, they are left staring into space At an all time low time for want both 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 schooltwo men reconnect and slowly find they's time capsulere exactly what the other needs. Even Freyja can be persuaded to stop twiddling her thumbs and Together, they help him outeach other put their lives back together. 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 This is a young girl was snatched ten years ago, beautiful story about friendship and what is a modern family under threat it really means to do with anything? help another person. [[The Reckoning Man I Think I Know by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Mike Gayle|Full Review]] <!-- Child Rhodes -->
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===[[Everything About You by Heather Child]]===
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In the future, your social feed is your entire existence. A.''How small Ilook. is here and it is all around you. It fills your fridge, it keeps up to date with your friends and fulfils your wishes. It is also stealing your jobs andLaid out flat, possibly, loosening your grip on realitymy stomach touching ground. Freya is unexpectedly given a beta testing version of the latest smart specs, glasses which give her all the information she'll ever need, My right in front of her eyes by barely thinking about it, complete knee bent and my brand-new Nikes stained with a personality to guide herblood. The problem is that the personality on the glasses is that of her missing 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 a different personality. But Freya just can't do this. Hearing her sister's voice again is like she's right there, and although she knows this is just Ruby's data, part of Freya can't believe that it can be this accurate, it can't be this Ruby. Is it just possible that something more is feeding this personality than Ruby's data? [[Everything About You by Heather Child|Full Review]]
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]] <!-- Schimmelpfennig Butland -->
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===[[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning The Curious Heart of the Twenty-First Century Ailsa Rae by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Stephanie Butland]]===
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FirstAilsa Rae has been sick her whole life, forgive me if I don't refer and just as she was edging closer to this book with its full title often. It's pointedly precisedeath she finally, accuratefinally got the call that she needed, 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 and eastern Germanyheart was available for her to have a transplant. Which means Previously she had felt so helpless that, when the book starts properly, mid-February, it has she had time used her blog to get a lot closer to Berlin – within 80 kilometresmake decisions for her, running polls amongst her readers to be precise, for that is the road marker where one of our main characters sees itdecide on her actions. He is trying to get back to work in Berlin for the first time in a month, and to be But with his girlfriendher new heart, not knowing she has had an infidelity while he was awaybeen given a new life. Also fancying the bright lights and big city are a teenaged pair of love-birds, the boy and girl next door Can Ailsa manage to start to each other in an eastern villagelive on her own, who flee an unhappy lot on the off-chance of a better one. 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 will her mother let her do that will entail…? [[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning The Curious Heart of the Twenty-First Century Ailsa Rae by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Stephanie Butland|Full Review]]
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===[[Stranger Spirit by Keren DavidSally Christie]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
[[image:5starMatt 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. 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensSpirit by Sally Christie|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 Green -->
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===[[W The Smoke Thieves by John BanksSally Green]]===
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On Tension exists among the slopes of Mt Hood in Oregonkingdoms surrounding the Pitorian Sea, an 1000-year old Viking and peace is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking explorationdefinitely not on everyone's agenda. Josh Kinninger Instead power is inspired sought by force, and political manoeuvring of the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angryworst kind sees families torn apart and innocent victims swept up in the fallout. This story of warring nations is fast moving from page one, unmoored and with his world in turmoilthe main characters, who move between kingdoms, face challenge after challenge. Beginning There are five separate story lines, each led by a journey westwardcolourful and interesting character, he's filled with and Sally Green weaves them together beautifully like a desire to wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corrupttapestry as their paths cross and their lives intertwine. [[W The Smoke Thieves by John BanksSally Green|Full Review]]
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===[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris]]===
===[[Precept: A Novel by Matthew de Lacey Davidson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
You are a lass Nathan Whyte is tremendously excited about the arrival of twenty eightFrederick Douglass in Ireland. PluckyAnd even more excited that his Quaker father, penniless and in Regency era London who is publishing the race is on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to British edition of ''Narrative'', Douglass's memoir of his life as an eternal spinstera slave, will be accompanying the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. Along your journey you'll be accompanied Nathan is deeply impressed by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - Douglass, who is a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, charismatic figure and fired by a rogueish sense for adventuregifted orator. When But Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on it comes to suitors though, you. We watch him through Nathan'll have to make s eyes as he sees for himself the beginnings of the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or horrors of the mad, bad potato famine and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers meets and ancient Egyptian artifcats along befriends the wayfamous Irish nationalist, it's clear this isnDaniel O't going to be an easy decision..Connell. [[My Lady's Choosing Precept: A Novel by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisMatthew de Lacey Davidson|Full Review]]<!-- Clover Daniel Peltz -->
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===[[Rory Branagan Detective The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Andrew Clover and Ralph LazarDaniel Peltz]]===
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TenWhen we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're in the company of Molly Cavendish who is a part-yeartime guide at the Museo di Santa Maria, which is what the ruins of the Chiesa -old Rory Branagan isn't just a normal kidchapel - have now become. He's Crowds flock to see its centrepiece, a renaissance fresco with a detective history which grabs the attention of young and he has a mystery old. Molly uses the history to solve – why did his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesnentertain the tourists, but there't know where to start buts more too it than she knows, thenparticularly as the history of the building is also the history of the Vannini family, Cassidy moves who helped in next door building the chapel some six hundred years ago and he discovers he has an accomplice who is full one of ideas. This whose descendants is just as well as they soon discover a very serious crime: Corner Boy's dad has been poisoned and is at risk the director 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 lifemuseum. [[Rory Branagan Detective The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Andrew Clover and Ralph LazarDaniel Peltz|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Leaves by Stefan Mohamed]]===
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[[image:4When 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.5starWhen he reappears, she's shocked not only by his presence back in her life, but also by the fact that he hasn't aged a day – for him, no time has passed since his disappearance.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]Shocked, confused and emotionally reeling, Vanessa must return to 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… [[:Category:TeensFalling Leaves by Stefan Mohamed|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 Barto -->
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===[[Boards That Dare: How to Future-proof Today's Corporate Boards by Marc Stigter and Sir Cary Cooper]]===
===[[Nickerbacher by Terry John Barto]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and FinanceEmerging Readers|Business and FinanceEmerging Readers]]
I wasnNickerbacher is doing his 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 optimistic when I started reading any princess. She finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really and she is much less interested in fairy tales than she is in watching comedy on ''Boards That DareThe Late Knight Show''. I feared that I would encounter new ways of minimising tax liabilities, of getting as much as possible out of employees whilst paying them the legal minimum and constant reminders that the Nickerbacher likes ''shareholdersThe Late Knight Show'' own the company and of the necessity of maximising their return. In the event I was only a few pages too - in before I discovered that I couldnfact, it't have been more wrong, that we were looking at ways of future proofing the company. I began s his favourite TV show because he wants to feel hopeful.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. [[Boards That Dare: How to Future-proof Today's Corporate Boards Nickerbacher by Marc Stigter and Sir Cary CooperTerry John Barto|Full Review]]
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