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===[[Turn a Blind Eye The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Vicky NewhamNicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)]]===
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DI Maya Rahman Jane Ashland is just back from Bangladesh and she should be on compassionate leave as she went there to bury her brother after he committed suicidedying. Instead of grieving at home and getting over her jet lag sheThat's pitched straight into a murder investigation as description of a very early scene here – but also, of course, a new member platitude that can apply to all of staff discovers the body us. Jane's life, if anything, is going up and down in levels of popular headteacher Linda Gibson pleasure, energy – sobriety – in her study at Mile End High Schoolthese pages, but we soon learn that it recently found a very deeply dark down place. Her hands are bound and beside Here then, scattered through a timeline-bending narrative, we have her strangled body is days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a card with student in New York, glimpses of therapy, a Buddhist precept: ''I shall abstain drive to find her ancestors that takes her from taking the ungiven.'' It's the second of five precepts rural America to Norway – and Maya is worried that a trip there's been with a murder that hasn't been spotted new- and that there will be more deathsfound friend to watch the musk oxen, of all things. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… [[Turn a Blind Eye The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Vicky NewhamNicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Chocolate Factory Ghost (The Dundoodle Mysteries) Company of Eight by David O'ConnellHarriet Whitehorn]]===
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Archie McBudge is sitting Fourteen-year-old orphan Cass lives in the of Honeystone Hall with his motherMagical District, but as she hasn't the slightest ability in that direction she doesn't exactly fit in. And a lawyer called Mr Tatters has some important information She takes after her dad, and she hopes desperately that she'll pass the upcoming auditions for Archie. A great uncle he has never heard of has died acrobats and Archie is his sole heir. This means that Honeystone Hall now belongs join the Circus Boat as it tours to Archiegive performances on all the islands of the Longest World. But Her guardian Mrs Potts, however, does ''not'' approve: her hope that isnCass will demonstrate magical abilities like her mother't all - this young boy s (and make Mrs Potts very rich) has been disappointed so she is now sole owner of Scotland's premier sweets giantdetermined her ward will take on a sedate, genteel job instead: McBudgegoverness, maybe, or draper's Fudge and Confectionery Company.model.So poor Cass is reduced to practising her routines in secret, using an old book her father left her. [[The Chocolate Factory Ghost (The Dundoodle Mysteries) Company of Eight by David O'ConnellHarriet Whitehorn|Full Review]]
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===[[Two Steps Forward Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistIan Bremmer]]===
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When I read the blurb for It wasn't supposed to be like this book, I found myself instantly interested in its premise was it? Every day seems to bring yet more news of doom and gloom. The spectre of terrorism hangs over most of two people trying the world, fuelling refugee crises and worries about national security. People keep saying that robots are coming to start their lives again following serious life changestake all our jobs. Anti-establishment political parties are making huge gains in countries all around the world. The book did And inequality is as much of a problem as it ever was – if not disappointmore so. [[Two Steps Forward Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistIan Bremmer|Full Review]]
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===[[A Shimmer of Hummingbirds by Steve Burrows]]===
===[[Humanatomy: How the Body Works by Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank]]=== [[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeConfident Readers|CrimeConfident Readers]]
Detective Chief Inspector Domenic Jejeune is on a birding trip to Colombia: well it's ostensibly a birding trip, but the reality is that he's trying to establish what really happened in the manslaughter case which has left his brother a fugitive. It's a difficult situation as the police force don't want him to do this and the Colombian authorities are understandably reluctantGet under your own skin, but Jejeune has always been a law unto himself. Meanwhile in Saltmarsh on the North Norfolk coast there's been a brutal murder of a womanpick your brains, and DI Marvin Laraby, Jejeunego inside your insides!'s nemesis, has been drafted in to replace Jejeune during his absence. How's that going to work out? [[A Shimmer of Hummingbirds by Steve Burrows|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]] <!-- Carter Keeley -->
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===[[I Stop Somewhere by T E Carter]]===
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Ellie has to change schools. It's a chance for renewal and Ellie sets to work to make the most of it. She doesn't want to be homecoming queen or anything - she just wants to fit in without anyone noticing that she's a bit too curvy and doesn't have the money to buy fashionable clothes. With the help of a neighbour, Kate, she manages it pretty well. And so, when Caleb notices her, tells her she'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's nice to be wanted and so Ellie ignores the warning signs..[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[I Stop Somewhere by T E Carter: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]]<!-- Worsley Togawa -->
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===[[The Lady Mary Killer by Lucy WorsleyMasako Togawa and Simon Grove (translator)]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensCrime|Teens]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] ''Lady Mary'' chronicles the famous story of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne Boleyn, his divorce from Katherine of Aragon, Anne's execution for adultery, 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. Mary'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 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]]<!-- Carew Hall -->
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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 ''The Industry 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 isnHuman Happiness''t quite human; they are something more. The Anakim are virtual giants first and their ribs are not cages but bone breastplates instead. Below the Abus are the Sutheners, humans. Theirs foremost is an ancient grudge and one where blood is spilled frequently in pitched battlea novel about music. Unfortunately it It is rare when humans are involved for things about human beings being able to be straightforward find music and magic in the same is true heresimplest of places. On both sides politics Max and machinations complicate the quests for glory. With the Anakim we his younger cousin have realised their dream of opening a boy coming to power gramophone company. However, their ambition and vying with the greatest warrior in the land for the throne. Amongst the Sutheners we see hubris soon puts them on a commoner having the temerity to lead an army alongside his betterscourse towards London's underworld. Both battles are as interesting as the war itselfThey will ascend broken and their lives changed forever. [[The Wolf Industry of Human Happiness by Leo CarewJames Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[The House with Chicken Legs Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Sophie AndersonPhilip Kerr]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
''My house has chicken legs[[image:4star. Two or three times a yearjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]], without warning, it stands up in the middle of the night and walks away from where we've been living.''[[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
Ok. I dare you to tell me that you Set in Germany in 1957, ''donGreeks Bearing Gifts't'' want to read a story about is a house historical crime thriller with chicken legseverything from dodgy Nazi past histories to insurance fraud. There Bernie Gunther is no way anyone could resist. I certainly couldn't! Marinka lives a Berliner, who was a sarjeant during the second world war and now, in this chicken-legged house with her grandmother, Baba Yaganovel, whose job it is to guide dead people through The Gateworking in the morgue of a hospital. But Marinka is ''lonely'' He finds himself embroiled in a mystery, taking on a new role as an insurance claims investigator. The houseinvestigation takes him to Greece, her grandmother and Marinka never stay anywhere long enough for Marinka to make any friendsback into the dark times of the war. And Marinka is determined With layered plots and double-crossing left, right and centre, there's lots to change keep you guessing throughout this. But the chicken-legged house has its own agenda..story. [[The House with Chicken Legs Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Sophie AndersonPhilip Kerr|Full Review]]
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===[[Pandora's Boy All Rivers Run Free by Lindsey DavisNatasha Carthew]]===
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Relax, die-hard fans Ia Pendilly lives in a caravan on the coast of Falco and his spirited British daughter Albia. Rome continues to be as splendid and Cornwall – a woman as sordid raw as it ever was, the crimes committed are as complex and intriguinglandscape that surrounds her. Living with Bran, her abusive cousin and our heroine just as determined and cynicalcommon law husband, with that light dusting of humour which made tales of her fathershe's exploits so engagingnever yet had her own baby. Newcomers to Discovering a waif washed up on shore, Ia rescues the series need not fear, girl but is also rescued by the way: each book contains just enough background detail girl – given a new found strength to escape and to make you feel immediately at homeembark on a new journey. This timeThe journey takes her deep into a troubled society and through a damaged, despite some serious misgivingshurting world – finding family and memories long hidden will break Ia, Albia is investigating remake her and perhaps give her the sudden death elusive sense of a fifteen-year-old girl, described as bright, affectionate and popular. Was she poisoned by an illegal love-potion, or did freedom she die of a broken heart? [[Pandora's Boy by Lindsey Davis|Full Review]] been seeking. [[Pandora's Boy All Rivers Run Free by Lindsey DavisNatasha Carthew|Full Review]]
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===[[When the Mountains Roared Tale of a Tooth by Jess ButterworthAllie Rogers]]===
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''My fingers come away deep redDanny lives in a small Sussex town with his mother, Natalie. My breath catches. Blood. I wipe my shaky hands on my trousers. ThereLife is poor, but they manage - until they's re threatened by a leopard out there, injuredbenefits sanction. And I have A Job Centre employee looks to find it before be their salvation - but her impact on the family goes far beyond what they dofirst expect, and the resulting changes are described to the reader through the naive yet perceptive and wholly original eyes of four-year-old Danny.''[[Tale of a Tooth by Allie Rogers|Full Review]]
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... [[When the Mountains Roared by Jess Butterworth|Full Review]]  <!-- Duffy Trevelyan -->
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===[[Claudia by Anthony Trevelyan]]===
===[[Me Mam. Me Dad. Me by Malcolm Duffy]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensGeneral Fiction|TeensGeneral Fiction]]
When Claudia is called to the reception of her Manchester Office block to meet a visitor, she doesn't expect it to be her father figure – a man she hasn't seen for fifteen years. Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild Samson, The Aztec and The Sun King, walked out of Claudia's life and into a world of success as a solar panel salesman – but now he's returned and he needs Claudia's help. Reggie, Samson's son, has joined a mysterious cult called ''Tarantula''It was , a group who prepare for the day end of the clocks went backworld and encourage humanity to embrace their impending doom. ThatClaudia's when I decided journey takes her far from her home in Manchester to kill him.''the end of the world – where encounters with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… [[Claudia by Anthony Trevelyan|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 Gayle -->
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===[[The Man I Have Lost My Way Think I Know by Mike Gayle Forman]]===
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James DeWitt and Danny Allen are both men in their early thirties whose lives haven''I Have Lost My Way'' tells the story of three individuals who have each lost something important to t taken them leading where they were supposed to go. At an all time low time for both of them losing their way. Freya has lost her voice, Harun has lost his love the two men reconnect and Nathaniel has lost everythingslowly find they're exactly what the other needs. HoweverTogether, these three elements do not give justice to the extent of what they help each character has lostother put their lives back together. In this expertly written novel, Gayle Forman writes This is a beautiful story about how these three dissimilar individuals each came to lose friendship and what was most important it really means to them, causing them to all meet one fateful day in New York Cityhelp another person. [[The Man I Think I Have Lost My Way Know by Mike Gayle Forman|Full Review]]
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The USA, early 1980s''How small I look. Charlie (or Charles, if he's feeling belligerent, and he often is) is being taken back to his home by his drop-Laid outflat, slutty mothermy stomach touching ground. The home is called a Cottage, My right knee bent and while the book doesn't guide us to understand it perfectly, it seems to mean he has a private room in a large selfmy brand-contained bungalow, on a gated compound new Nikes stained with round-the-clock adult supervisionblood. There's ' Danny was playing with 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 toy gun his obvious bookish intelligence, is struggling friend Carlos had lent to get to grips with why and how him when he's ended up where was shot by Officer Moore, who claims he is, but it must have something to do with was in fear for his single parent mother being violentlife, and the fact he is no longer allowed to stay with his grandfather. This book is a slightly woozy look at his thoughtsthat Danny, as he tries to build a relationship with a girl in a different Cottagefive foot tall, and work out his lot. He certainly has a lot on his plate for a thirteentwelve-year-oldboy, was a threatening thug whose menace was such that Officer Moore had no choice but to reach for his gun and eliminate the threat. [[Dyed Souls Ghost Boys by Gary SantorellaJewell Parker Rhodes|Full Review]] <!-- Sigurdardottir Butland -->
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[[image:4Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole life, and just as she was edging closer to death she finally, finally got the call that she needed, that a heart was available for her to have a transplant. Previously 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.5starBut with her new heart, she has been given a new life.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] Can Ailsa manage to start to live on her own, and will her mother let her do that? [[:Category:ThrillersThe Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland|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 Christie -->
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===[[Everything About You Spirit by Heather ChildSally Christie]]===
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In the future, your social feed is your entire existenceMatt Barker has seen something strange. ASomething extraordinary that no one would normally see.I. 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 and, possibly, loosening your grip on reality. Freya is unexpectedly given a beta testing version That wouldn't usually matter but Matt accidently tells the rest of his class when they're playing the latest smart specs, glasses which give her all the information she'll ever need, right in front of her eyes by barely thinking about it, complete with a personality to guide her. The problem is that the personality truth game' on the glasses is that school bus. Now most of her missing and presumed dead sister. Freya is thrown and unsettled by this. Her mum tells her to stop using them the class think he's either mad or at the very least to reset them to a different personalityliar. But Freya just can't do this. Hearing her sister's voice again is like sheTo make matters worse, his classmate and new next-door neighbour, Jazzy O's right thereHanlon, believes him and although she knows this is just Ruby's datadetermined to find a way to share his experience, part of Freya can't believe even if that it can be this accurate, it can't be this Rubymeans losing her best friend. Is it just possible that something more is feeding this personality than Ruby's data? [[Everything About You Spirit by Heather ChildSally Christie|Full Review]]
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===[[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century The Smoke Thieves by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Sally Green]]===
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FirstTension exists among the kingdoms surrounding the Pitorian Sea, forgive me if I donand peace is definitely not on everyone't refer to this book with its full title oftens agenda. It's pointedly precise, accurateInstead power is sought by force, and rather ungainly – when political manoeuvring of the worst kind sees families torn apart and innocent victims swept up in fact the book it describes has only the former two attributes in any quantityfallout. What happens in January This story of warring nations is that a wild wolf walks across the frozen river separating Poland fast moving from page one, and eastern Germany. Which means that, when 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 it. He is trying to get back to work in Berlin for the first time in a month, and to be with his girlfriendwho move between kingdoms, not knowing she has had an infidelity while he was awayface challenge after challenge. Also fancying the bright lights and big city There are five separate story lines, each led by a teenaged pair of love-birdscolourful and interesting character, the boy and girl next door to each other in an eastern village, who flee an unhappy lot on the off-chance of Sally Green weaves them together beautifully like a better onetapestry as their paths cross and their lives intertwine. 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 The Smoke Thieves by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Sally Green|Full Review]]
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===[[Stranger by Keren David]]===
===[[Precept: A Novel by Matthew de Lacey Davidson]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensHistorical Fiction|TeensHistorical Fiction]]
AstorNathan Whyte is tremendously excited about the arrival of Frederick Douglass in Ireland. And even more excited that his Quaker father, Ontariowho is publishing the British edition of ''Narrative'', 1904Douglass's memoir of his life as a slave, will be accompanying the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. Emmy and her friend Sadie are walking along when Nathan is deeply impressed by Douglass, who is a bloody charismatic figure and bruised boy staggers out of the forest clutching a pistol. Sadie runs off terrifiedgifted orator. But something about the boy draws EmmyIreland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on it. She knows, deep inside, that We watch him through Nathan's eyes as he is not a danger. She kicks sees for himself the beginnings of the pistol into horrors of the grass potato famine and meets and cradles befriends the boy until help arrivesfamous Irish nationalist, Daniel O'Connell. Who is he? How has he been living? And will the townsfolk accept him?[[Stranger Precept: A Novel by Keren DavidMatthew de Lacey Davidson|Full Review]]<!-- Banks Daniel Peltz -->
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===[[W The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by John BanksDaniel Peltz]]===
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On When we first visit the slopes Chiesa di Santa Maria we're in the company of Mt Hood in Oregon, an 1000-year old Viking Molly Cavendish who is discovered frozen a part- three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking exploration. Josh Kinninger time guide at the Museo di Santa Maria, which is inspired by what the ruins of the Viking discovery Chiesa - a chapel - three personal catastrophes having left him angryhave now become. Crowds flock to see its centrepiece, unmoored a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs the attention of young and with his world in turmoilold. Beginning a journey westward Molly uses the history to entertain the tourists, hebut there's filled with a desire to wreak vengeance on 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 individuals he finds morally corruptmuseum. [[W The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by John BanksDaniel Peltz|Full Review]]
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===[[My Lady's Choosing Falling Leaves by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisStefan Mohamed]]===
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You are a lass of twenty eight. PluckyWhen your best friend vanishes, penniless and in Regency era London the race is how can you begin to move on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to ? How can you live your life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey younot knowing whether they'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save re okay? And what would you from a do if they reappeared in your life alone? – all questions that Vanessa faces every day, and fired by a rogueish sense for adventureeven seven years after her best friend Mark vanished. When it comes to suitors thoughhe reappears, youshe'll have to make s shocked not only by his presence back in her life, but also by the ultimate decision between wittyfact that he hasn't aged a day – for him, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granvilleno time has passed since his disappearance. Shocked, wholesome, rugged confused and caring Captain Angus MacTaggartemotionally reeling, or Vanessa must return to her home town in order to help Mark find the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Cravenanswers he so desperately craves. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, itBut what's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision... waiting for them is far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… [[My Lady's Choosing Falling Leaves by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisStefan Mohamed|Full Review]] <!-- Clover Barto -->
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===[[Rory Branagan Detective by Andrew Clover and Ralph Lazar]]===
===[[Nickerbacher by Terry John Barto]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Emerging Readers|Emerging Readers]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
TenNickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of course, princess-year-old Rory Branagan guarding. That's what dragons are for, after all. But Gwendolyn isn't just a normal kidany princess. He's a detective She finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really 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 she is much less interested in next door and he discovers he has an accomplice who fairy tales than she is full of ideasin watching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. This is just as well as they soon discover a very serious crime: Corner BoyNickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show''s dad has been poisoned and is at risk of dying but notoo -one else will believe he's in danger. Itfact, it's up to Rory and Cassidy his favourite TV show because he wants to uncover the truth and save be a lifestand-up comedian himself. He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended. [[Rory Branagan Detective Nickerbacher by Andrew Clover and Ralph LazarTerry John Barto|Full Review]]
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