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===[[How to Bee The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Bren MacDibbleNicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)]]===
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Imagine a world without beesJane Ashland is dying. Not just how nice it would be to eat jam sandwiches in the garden without having the little yellow and black torpedoes attacking you - That''really'' imagine it. No beess a description of a very early scene here – but also, of course, no pollinationa platitude that can apply to all of us. No pollinationJane's life, no new plants. No new plantsif anything, no food. Simple. Sois going up and down in levels of pleasure, if those pesky chemicals we use kill off practically every bee energy – sobriety – in the worldthese pages, humans will have to take over their workbut we soon learn that it recently found a very deeply dark down place. ChildrenHere then, scattered through a timeline-bending narrative, we have her days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student in factNew York, because you need smallglimpses of therapy, nimble fingers a drive to find her ancestors that takes her from rural America to Norway – and a trip there with a new-found friend to work those tiny feathers full watch the musk oxen, of pollen into the flowers and turn them into delicious fruitsall things. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… [[How to Bee The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Bren MacDibbleNicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Turn a Blind Eye The Company of Eight by Vicky NewhamHarriet Whitehorn]]===
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DI Maya Rahman is just back from Bangladesh and Fourteen-year-old orphan Cass lives in the Magical District, but as she should be on compassionate leave as hasn't the slightest ability in that direction she went there to bury doesn't exactly fit in. She takes after her brother after he committed suicide. Instead of grieving at home dad, and getting over her jet lag she hopes desperately that she's pitched straight into a murder investigation ll pass the upcoming auditions for acrobats and join the Circus Boat as a new member it tours to give performances on all the islands of staff discovers the body of popular headteacher Linda Gibson in her study at Mile End High SchoolLongest World. Her hands are bound and beside her strangled body is a card with a Buddhist precept: guardian Mrs Potts, however, does ''I shall abstain from taking the ungiven.not'' Itapprove: her hope that Cass will demonstrate magical abilities like her mother's the second of five precepts (and Maya make Mrs Potts very rich) has been disappointed so she is worried that theredetermined her ward will take on a sedate, genteel job instead: governess, maybe, or draper's been a murder that hasn't been spotted - and that there will be more deathsmodel. So poor Cass is reduced to practising her routines in secret, using an old book her father left her. [[Turn a Blind Eye The Company of Eight by Vicky NewhamHarriet Whitehorn|Full Review]]
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===[[Us vs Them: The Chocolate Factory Ghost (The Dundoodle Mysteries) Failure of Globalism by David O'ConnellIan Bremmer]]===
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Archie McBudge is sitting in the It wasn't supposed to be like this, was it? Every day seems to bring yet more news of Honeystone Hall with his motherdoom and gloom. And a lawyer called Mr Tatters has some important information for Archie. A great uncle he has never heard The spectre of terrorism hangs over most of has died the world, fuelling refugee crises and Archie is his sole heirworries about national security. This means People keep saying that Honeystone Hall now belongs robots are coming to Archietake all our jobs. But that isn't Anti-establishment political parties are making huge gains in countries all - this young boy around the world. And inequality is now sole owner as much of Scotland's premier sweets giant: McBudge's Fudge and Confectionery Company..a problem as it ever was – if not more so. [[Us vs Them: The Chocolate Factory Ghost (The Dundoodle Mysteries) Failure of Globalism by David O'ConnellIan Bremmer|Full Review]]
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===[[Two Steps Forward by Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist]]===
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When I read the blurb for this book''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, I found myself instantly interested in its premise of two people trying to start their lives again following serious life changes. The book did not disappoint. [[Two Steps Forward by Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist|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]] <!-- Burrows Keeley -->
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===[[A Shimmer of Hummingbirds by Steve Burrows]]===
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Detective Chief Inspector Domenic Jejeune is on a birding trip to Colombia[[image: 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 fugitive4star. It's a difficult situation as the police force don't want him to do this and the Colombian authorities are understandably reluctant, 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 woman, and DI Marvin Laraby, Jejeune's nemesis, has been drafted in to replace Jejeune during his absence. How's that going to work out? jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[A Shimmer of Hummingbirds by Steve Burrows: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]]<!-- Carter Togawa -->
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===[[I Stop Somewhere The Lady Killer by T E CarterMasako Togawa and Simon Grove (translator)]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensCrime|Teens]] 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... [[I Stop Somewhere by T E Carter|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]]<!-- Worsley Hall -->
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===[[Lady Mary The Industry of Human Happiness by Lucy WorsleyJames Hall]]===
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''Lady Mary'' chronicles the famous story The Industry of Henry VIIIHuman Happiness's love affair with Anne Boleyn, his divorce from Katherine of Aragon, Anne's execution for adultery, first and Henry's subsequent marriage to Jane Seymour, which finally produces the much longed for birth of foremost is a male heirnovel about music. This time, the story It is told through about human beings being able to find music and magic in the eyes simplest of an important but often neglected player - Henry's young daughter, Maryplaces. Mary's hopes Max and his younger cousin have realised their dream of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce opening a gramophone company. However, their ambition and she is treated terribly by hubris soon puts them on a father under the influence of the Boleyn factioncourse towards London's underworld. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years They will ascend broken and you can't help but root for the little girl stuck in the middle of these tumultuous eventstheir lives changed forever. [[Lady Mary The Industry of Human Happiness by Lucy WorsleyJames Hall|Full Review]]
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Travel to a world that Set in Germany in 1957, ''Greeks Bearing Gifts'' is familiar and yet utterly different. We are in a version of ancient Britain historical crime thriller with enough landmarks everything from dodgy Nazi past histories to make us feel at home yet it insurance fraud. Bernie Gunther is a smoked glass. North of Berliner, who was a sarjeant during the river Abus we have second world war and now, in this novel, is working in the Anakim, morgue of a race that isn't quite human; they are something morehospital. The Anakim are virtual giants and their ribs are not cages but bone breastplates instead. Below the Abus are the Sutheners He finds himself embroiled in a mystery, humans. Theirs is taking on a new role as an ancient grudge and one where blood is spilled frequently in pitched battleinsurance claims investigator. Unfortunately it is rare when humans are involved for things The investigation takes him to be straightforward Greece, and back into the same is true here. On both sides politics and machinations complicate dark times of the quests for glorywar. With the Anakim we have a boy coming to power layered plots and double-crossing left, right and vying with the greatest warrior in the land for the throne. Amongst the Sutheners we see a commoner having the temerity centre, there's lots to lead an army alongside his betters. Both battles are as interesting as the war itselfkeep you guessing throughout this story. [[The Wolf Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Leo CarewPhilip Kerr|Full Review]]
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===[[The House with Chicken Legs All Rivers Run Free by Sophie AndersonNatasha Carthew]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
''My house has chicken legs[[image:5star. Two or three times a year, without warning, it stands up in the middle of the night and walks away from where we've been living.''jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]
Ok. I dare you to tell me that you ''don't'' want to read Ia Pendilly lives in a story about caravan on the coast of Cornwall – a house with chicken legswoman as raw as the landscape that surrounds her. There is no way anyone could resist. I certainly couldn't! Marinka lives in this chicken-legged house Living with Bran, her grandmotherabusive cousin and common law husband, Baba Yagashe's never yet had her own baby. Discovering a waif washed up on shore, whose job it Ia rescues the girl but is also rescued by the girl – given a new found strength to escape and to guide dead people through The Gate. But Marinka is ''lonely''embark on a new journey. The housejourney takes her deep into a troubled society and through a damaged, hurting world – finding family and memories long hidden will break Ia, remake her grandmother and Marinka never stay anywhere long enough for Marinka to make any friends. And Marinka is determined to change this. But perhaps give her the chicken-legged house has its own agenda..elusive sense of freedom she's been seeking. [[The House with Chicken Legs All Rivers Run Free by Sophie AndersonNatasha Carthew|Full Review]]
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===[[Pandora's Boy Tale of a Tooth by Lindsey DavisAllie Rogers]]===
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RelaxDanny lives in a small Sussex town with his mother, dieNatalie. Life is poor, but they manage -hard fans of Falco and his spirited British daughter Albiauntil they're threatened by a benefits sanction. Rome continues A Job Centre employee looks to be as splendid their salvation - but her impact on the family goes far beyond what they first expect, and as sordid as it ever was, the crimes committed resulting changes are as complex and intriguing, and our heroine just as determined and cynical, with that light dusting of humour which made tales of her father's exploits so engaging. Newcomers described to the series need not fear, by reader through 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 naive yet perceptive and wholly original eyes of a fifteenfour-year-old girl, described as bright, affectionate and popularDanny. Was she poisoned by an illegal love-potion, or did she die [[Tale of a broken heart? [[Pandora's Boy by Lindsey Davis|Full Review]] [[Pandora's Boy Tooth by Lindsey DavisAllie Rogers|Full Review]]
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===[[When the Mountains Roared Claudia by Jess ButterworthAnthony Trevelyan]]===
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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'My fingers come away deep redt seen for fifteen years. My breath catchesSamson 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. Blood. I wipe my shaky hands on my trousers. ThereReggie, Samson's son, has joined a leopard out theremysterious cult called ''Tarantula'', injured. And I have a group who prepare for the end of the world and encourage humanity to find it before they doembrace their impending doom.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… [[Claudia by Anthony Trevelyan|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 Gayle -->
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===[[The Man I Think I Know by Mike Gayle]]===
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''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 Rhodes -->
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===[[I Have Lost My Way by Gayle Forman]]===
===[[Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes]]=== [[image:4.5star.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.''
''I Have Lost My Way'' tells the story of three individuals who have each lost something important Danny was playing with a toy gun his friend Carlos had lent to them leading to them losing their way. Freya has lost her voicehim when he was shot by Officer Moore, Harun has lost who claims he was in fear for his love and Nathaniel has lost everything. Howeverlife, that Danny, a five foot tall, these three elements do not give justice to the extent of what each character has lost. In this expertly written noveltwelve-year-old boy, Gayle Forman writes about how these three dissimilar individuals each came to lose what was most important a threatening thug whose menace was such that Officer Moore had no choice but to them, causing them to all meet one fateful day in New York Cityreach for his gun and eliminate the threat. [[I Have Lost My Way Ghost Boys by Gayle FormanJewell Parker Rhodes|Full Review]]
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===[[Dyed Souls The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Gary SantorellaStephanie Butland]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]]
[[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]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]Can Ailsa manage to start to live on her own, and will her mother let her do that? [[:Category:General FictionThe Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland|General FictionFull Review]]
The USA, early 1980s. Charlie (or Charles, if he's feeling belligerent, and he often is) is being taken back to his home by his drop-out, slutty mother. The home is called a Cottage, and while the book doesn't guide us to understand it perfectly, it seems to mean he has a private room in a large self-contained bungalow, on a gated compound with round-the-clock adult supervision. There's a paddock with horses for the kids to ride, their own school – and all the adults are armed with Thorazine to calm the kids down. Charlie, despite his obvious bookish intelligence, is struggling to get to grips with why and how he's ended up where he is, but it must have something to do with his single parent mother being violent, and the fact he is no longer allowed to stay with his grandfather. This book is a slightly woozy look at his thoughts, as he tries to build a relationship with a girl in a different Cottage, and work out his lot. He certainly has a lot on his plate for a thirteen-year-old. [[Dyed Souls by Gary Santorella|Full Review]]<!-- Sigurdardottir Christie -->
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===[[The Reckoning Spirit by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Sally Christie]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
[[image:4Matt 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.5starTo 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:ThrillersSpirit by Sally Christie|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 Green -->
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===[[Everything About You The Smoke Thieves by Heather ChildSally Green]]===
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In Tension exists among the futurekingdoms surrounding the Pitorian Sea, your social feed and peace is your entire existence. A.Idefinitely not on everyone's agenda. Instead power is here sought by force, and it is all around you. It fills your fridge, it keeps political manoeuvring of the worst kind sees families torn apart and innocent victims swept up to date with your friends and fulfils your wishesin the fallout. It This story of warring nations is also stealing your jobs fast moving from page one, andthe main characters, possiblywho move between kingdoms, loosening your grip on realityface challenge after challenge. Freya is unexpectedly given a beta testing version of the latest smart specsThere are five separate story lines, glasses which give her all the information she'll ever need, right in front of her eyes each led by barely thinking about it, complete with a personality to guide her. The problem is that the personality on the glasses is that of her missing colourful and presumed dead sister. Freya is thrown interesting character, and unsettled by this. Her mum tells her to stop using Sally Green weaves them or at the very least to reset them to together beautifully like a different personality. But Freya just can't do this. Hearing her sister's voice again is like she's right there, tapestry as their paths cross 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 Rubytheir lives intertwine. Is it just possible that something more is feeding this personality than Ruby's data? [[Everything About You The Smoke Thieves by Heather ChildSally Green|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)]]===
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First, forgive me if I don't refer to this book with its full title often[[image:4star. It's pointedly precise, accurate, and rather ungainly – when in fact the book it describes has only the former two attributes in any quantity. What happens in January is that a wild wolf walks across the frozen river separating Poland 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 girlfriend, not knowing she has had an infidelity while he was away. Also fancying the bright lights and big city are a teenaged pair of love-birds, the boy and girl next door to each other in an eastern village, 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 that will entail…jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator):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]]<!-- David Daniel Peltz -->
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===[[Stranger The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Keren DavidDaniel Peltz]]===
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AstorWhen 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, Ontario, 1904. Emmy and her friend Sadie are walking along when a bloody and bruised boy staggers out which is what the ruins of the forest clutching Chiesa - a pistolchapel - have now become. Sadie runs off terrified Crowds flock to see its centrepiece, a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs the attention of young and old. But something about Molly uses the boy draws Emmy. She history to entertain the tourists, but there's more too it than she knows, deep inside, that he particularly as the history of the building is not a danger. She kicks also the history of the pistol into Vannini family, who helped in building the grass chapel some six hundred years ago and cradles one of whose descendants is the director of the boy until help arrivesmuseum. Who is he? How has he been living? And will the townsfolk accept him?[[Stranger The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Keren DavidDaniel Peltz|Full Review]] <!-- Banks Mohamed -->
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===[[W Falling Leaves by John BanksStefan Mohamed]]===
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On the slopes of Mt Hood 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 Oregonyour life? – all questions that Vanessa faces every day, an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking explorationeven seven years after her best friend Mark vanished. Josh Kinninger is inspired When he reappears, she's shocked not only by his presence back in her life, but also by the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left fact that he hasn't aged a day – for him angry, unmoored and with no time has passed since his world in turmoildisappearance. Beginning a journey westwardShocked, confused and emotionally reeling, he's filled with a desire Vanessa must return to her home town in order to wreak vengeance on help Mark find the individuals answers he finds morally corruptso desperately craves. But what's waiting for them is far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… [[W Falling Leaves by John BanksStefan Mohamed|Full Review]]
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===[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris]]===
===[[Nickerbacher by Terry John Barto]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Historical FictionEmerging Readers|Historical FictionEmerging Readers]]
You are a lass Nickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of twenty eight. Pluckycourse, penniless and in Regency era London the race is on to find a suitable suitor princess- or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinsterguarding. Along your journey youThat'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alones what dragons are for, and fired by a rogueish sense for adventureafter all. When it comes to suitors though, youBut Gwendolyn isn'll have to make t any princess. She finds the ultimate decision between witty, pretty whole princessing thing quite boring really and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Cravenshe is much less interested in fairy tales than she is in watching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the wayNickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in fact, it's clear this isn't going his favourite TV show because he wants to be an easy decision.a stand-up comedian himself.He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended. [[My Lady's Choosing Nickerbacher by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisTerry John Barto|Full Review]]
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