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===[[Falling Leaves The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Stefan MohamedNicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)]]===
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When your best friend vanishesJane Ashland is dying. That's a description of a very early scene here – but also, of course, how a platitude that can you begin apply to move on? How can you live your all of us. Jane's life not knowing whether they're okay? And what would you do , if they reappeared anything, is going up and down in your life? levels of pleasure, energy – sobriety – all questions that Vanessa faces every day, even seven years after her best friend Mark vanished. When he reappears, she's shocked not only by his presence back in her lifethese pages, but also by the fact we soon learn that he hasn't aged it recently found a day – for him, no time has passed since his disappearancevery deeply dark down place. ShockedHere then, confused and emotionally reelingscattered through a timeline-bending narrative, Vanessa must return to we have her home town days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student in order New York, glimpses of therapy, a drive to help Mark find her ancestors that takes her from rural America to Norway – and a trip there with a new-found friend to watch the answers he so desperately cravesmusk oxen, of all things. But what's waiting for them And nowhere in sight is far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… anything like a platitude… [[Falling Leaves The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Stefan MohamedNicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Company of Eight by Harriet Whitehorn]]===
===[[Nickerbacher by Terry John Barto]]=== [[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Emerging Confident Readers|Emerging Confident Readers]]
Nickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty Fourteen-year-old orphan Cass lives in the Magical District, but as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of course, princess-guarding. Thatshe hasn's what dragons are for, after all. But Gwendolyn isnt the slightest ability in that direction she doesn't any princessexactly fit in. She finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really takes after her dad, and she is much less interested in fairy tales than hopes desperately that she is in watching comedy 'll pass the upcoming auditions for acrobats and join the Circus Boat as it tours to give performances on all the islands of the Longest World. Her guardian Mrs Potts, however, does ''The Late Knight Show'not'. Nickerbacher likes 'approve: her hope that Cass will demonstrate magical abilities like her mother'The Late Knight Show'' too - in facts (and make Mrs Potts very rich) has been disappointed so she is determined her ward will take on a sedate, genteel job instead: governess, maybe, itor draper's his favourite TV show because he wants model. So poor Cass is reduced to be a stand-up comedian himself. He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intendedpractising her routines in secret, using an old book her father left her. [[Nickerbacher The Company of Eight by Terry John BartoHarriet Whitehorn|Full Review]]
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===[[How to Bee Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism by Bren MacDibbleIan Bremmer]]===
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Imagine a world without bees. Not just how nice It wasn't supposed to be like this, was it would be ? Every day seems to eat jam sandwiches in the garden without having the little yellow bring yet more news of doom and black torpedoes attacking you - ''really'' imagine itgloom. No beesThe spectre of terrorism hangs over most of the world, no pollinationfuelling refugee crises and worries about national security. No pollination, no new plantsPeople keep saying that robots are coming to take all our jobs. No new plants, no food. Simple. So, if those pesky chemicals we use kill off practically every bee Anti-establishment political parties are making huge gains in countries all around the world, humans will have to take over their work. Children, in fact, because you need small, nimble fingers to work those tiny feathers full And inequality is as much of pollen into the flowers and turn them into delicious fruitsa problem as it ever was – if not more so. [[How to Bee Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism by Bren MacDibbleIan Bremmer|Full Review]]
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===[[Turn a Blind Eye by Vicky Newham]]===
===[[Humanatomy: How the Body Works by Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank]]=== [[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeConfident Readers|CrimeConfident Readers]]
DI Maya Rahman is just back from Bangladesh and she should be on compassionate leave as she went there to bury her brother after he committed suicide. Instead of grieving at home and getting over her jet lag she's pitched straight into a murder investigation as a new member of staff discovers the body of popular headteacher Linda Gibson in her study at Mile End High School. Her hands are bound and beside her strangled body is a card with a Buddhist precept: ''I shall abstain from taking the ungiven.'' It's the second of five precepts Get under your own skin, pick your brains, and Maya is worried that therego inside your insides!'s been a murder that hasn't been spotted - and that there will be more deaths. [[Turn a Blind Eye by Vicky Newham|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]] <!-- O'Connell Keeley -->
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===[[The Chocolate Factory Ghost (The Dundoodle Mysteries) by David O'Connell]]===
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Archie McBudge is sitting in the of Honeystone Hall with his mother[[image:4star. And a lawyer called Mr Tatters has some important information for Archie. A great uncle he has never heard of has died and Archie is his sole heir. This means that Honeystone Hall now belongs to Archie. But that isn't all - this young boy is now sole owner of Scotland's premier sweets giantjpg|link=Category: McBudge's Fudge and Confectionery Company... {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Chocolate Factory Ghost (The Dundoodle Mysteries) by David O'Connell: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]]<!-- Simsion Togawa -->
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===[[Two Steps Forward The Lady Killer by Graeme Simsion Masako Togawa and Anne BuistSimon Grove (translator)]]===
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When I read Japan, the blurb for early 1960s. The prologue of this book, I found myself instantly interested sets us up in its premise 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 two people trying 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 start their lives again following serious life changesher death in suicide. She was pregnant. The book did But the man involved, a rampant womaniser with an intricate diary of all his comings and goings, is not disappointhaving 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? [[Two Steps Forward The Lady Killer by Graeme Simsion Masako Togawa and Anne BuistSimon Grove (translator)|Full Review]] <!-- Burrows Hall -->
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===[[A Shimmer The Industry of Hummingbirds Human Happiness by Steve BurrowsJames Hall]]===
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Detective Chief Inspector Domenic Jejeune is on a birding trip to Colombia: well it's ostensibly a birding trip, but the reality 'The Industry of Human Happiness'' first and foremost is that he's trying to establish what really happened in the manslaughter case which has left his brother a fugitivenovel about music. It's a difficult situation as the police force don't want him is about human beings being able to do this find music and magic in the Colombian authorities are understandably reluctant, but Jejeune has always been a law unto himselfsimplest of places. Meanwhile in Saltmarsh on the North Norfolk coast there's been a brutal murder Max and his younger cousin have realised their dream of opening a womangramophone company. However, their ambition and DI Marvin Laraby, Jejeunehubris soon puts them on a course towards London's nemesis, has been drafted in to replace Jejeune during his absenceunderworld. They will ascend broken and their lives changed forever. How's that going to work out? [[A Shimmer The Industry of Hummingbirds Human Happiness by Steve BurrowsJames Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[I Stop Somewhere Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by T E CarterPhilip Kerr]]===
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Ellie has Set in Germany in 1957, ''Greeks Bearing Gifts'' is a historical crime thriller with everything from dodgy Nazi past histories to change schoolsinsurance fraud. It's Bernie Gunther is a Berliner, who was a chance for renewal sarjeant during the second world war and Ellie sets to work to make now, in this novel, is working in the most morgue of ita hospital. She doesn't want to be homecoming queen or anything - she just wants to fit He finds himself embroiled in without anyone noticing that she's a bit too curvy mystery, taking on a new role as an insurance claims investigator. The investigation takes him to Greece, and doesn't have back into the dark times of the money to buy fashionable clotheswar. With the help of a neighbourlayered plots and double-crossing left, Kate, she manages it pretty well. And so, when Caleb notices herright and centre, 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 lots to be wanted and so Ellie ignores the warning signs..keep you guessing throughout this story. [[I Stop Somewhere Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by T E CarterPhilip Kerr|Full Review]]
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===[[Lady Mary All Rivers Run Free by Lucy WorsleyNatasha Carthew]]===
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''Lady Mary'' chronicles Ia Pendilly lives in a caravan on the famous story coast of Henry VIII's love affair Cornwall – a woman as raw as the landscape that surrounds her. Living with Anne BoleynBran, his divorce from Katherine of Aragonher abusive cousin and common law husband, Anneshe's execution for adultery, and Henry's subsequent marriage to Jane Seymour, which finally produces the much longed for birth of never yet had her own baby. Discovering a male heir. This timewaif washed up on shore, Ia rescues the story girl but 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 also rescued by the divorce girl – given a new found strength to escape and she is treated terribly by to embark on a father under the influence of the Boleyn factionnew journey. Lady Mary follows The journey takes her deep into a troubled society and through these awful years a damaged, hurting world – finding family and you can't help but root for the little girl stuck in memories long hidden will break Ia, remake her and perhaps give her the middle elusive sense of these tumultuous eventsfreedom she's been seeking. [[Lady Mary All Rivers Run Free by Lucy WorsleyNatasha Carthew|Full Review]]
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Travel to a world that is familiar and yet utterly different. We are Danny lives in a version of ancient Britain small Sussex town with enough landmarks to make us feel at home yet it his mother, Natalie. Life is a smoked glass. North of the river Abus we have the Anakimpoor, but they manage - until they're threatened by a race that isn't quite human; they are something morebenefits sanction. The Anakim are virtual giants and A Job Centre employee looks to be their ribs are not cages salvation - but bone breastplates instead. Below her impact on the Abus are the Suthenersfamily goes far beyond what they first expect, humans. Theirs is an ancient grudge and one where blood is spilled frequently in pitched battle. Unfortunately it is rare when humans the resulting changes are involved for things described to be straightforward and the same is true here. On both sides politics and machinations complicate reader through the quests for glory. With the Anakim we have a boy coming to power naive yet perceptive 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 itselfwholly original eyes of four-year-old Danny. [[The Wolf Tale of a Tooth by Leo CarewAllie Rogers|Full Review]]
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===[[The House with Chicken Legs Claudia by Sophie AndersonAnthony 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 house has chicken legst seen for fifteen years. Two or three times 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 yearsolar panel salesman – but now he's returned and he needs Claudia's help. Reggie, Samson's son, without warninghas joined a mysterious cult called ''Tarantula'', it stands up in a group who prepare for the middle end of the night world and walks away encourage humanity to embrace their impending doom. Claudia's journey takes her far from her home in Manchester to the end of the world – where we've been living.''encounters with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… [[Claudia by Anthony Trevelyan|Full Review]]
Ok. I dare you to tell me that you ''don't'' want to read a story about a house with chicken legs. There is no way anyone could resist. I certainly couldn't! Marinka lives in this chicken-legged house with her grandmother, Baba Yaga, whose job it is to guide dead people through The Gate. But Marinka is ''lonely''. The house, her grandmother and Marinka never stay anywhere long enough for Marinka to make any friends. And Marinka is determined to change this. But the chicken-legged house has its own agenda... [[The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson|Full Review]] <!-- Davis Gayle -->
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===[[Pandora's Boy The Man I Think I Know by Lindsey DavisMike Gayle]]===
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Relax, die-hard fans of Falco James DeWitt and his spirited British daughter AlbiaDanny Allen are both men in their early thirties whose lives haven't taken them where they were supposed to go. Rome continues to be as splendid and as sordid as it ever wasAt an all time low time for both of them, the crimes committed are as complex and intriguing, two men reconnect and our heroine just as determined and cynical, with that light dusting of humour which made tales of her fatherslowly find they's exploits so engagingre exactly what the other needs. Newcomers to the series need not fearTogether, by the way: they help each book contains just enough background detail to make you feel immediately at homeother put their lives back together. This time, despite some serious misgivings, Albia is investigating the sudden death of a fifteen-year-old girl, described as bright, affectionate beautiful story about friendship and popularwhat it really means to help another person. Was she poisoned by an illegal love-potion, or did she die of a broken heart? [[Pandora's Boy by Lindsey Davis|Full Review]] [[Pandora's Boy The Man I Think I Know by Lindsey DavisMike Gayle|Full Review]]
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''My fingers come away deep red. My breath catches. Blood. How small I wipe my shaky hands on my trouserslook. There's a leopard Laid out thereflat, injuredmy stomach touching ground. And I have to find it before they doMy right knee bent and my brand-new Nikes stained with blood.''
Two months earlier, Ruby's dad Danny was playing with a toy gun his friend Carlos had dropped a bombshell. They were moving from Australia lent to Indiahim when he was shot by Officer Moore, who claims he was in fear for his life, that Danny, where her father had got a job at five foot tall, twelve-year-old boy, was a hotel in the mountains. It threatening thug whose menace 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 such that and didn't get more optimistic on arrival - Officer Moore had no choice but to find a rundown building full of scary corners in a place where the dark is really dark reach for his gun and eliminate 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..threat. [[When the Mountains Roared Ghost Boys by Jess ButterworthJewell Parker Rhodes|Full Review]]
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===[[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland]]===
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[[image:5starAilsa 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. But 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:TeensThe Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland|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 Christie -->
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===[[I Have Lost My Way Spirit by Gayle FormanSally Christie]]===
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Matt 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'I Have Lost My Wayre playing the 'truth game' tells on the story school bus. Now most of three individuals who have each lost something important to them leading to them losing their waythe class think he's either mad or a liar. Freya has lost her voiceTo make matters worse, Harun has lost his love classmate and Nathaniel has lost everything. Howevernew next-door neighbour, these three elements do not give justice to the extent of what each character has lost. In this expertly written novelJazzy O'Hanlon, Gayle Forman writes about how these three dissimilar individuals each came believes him and she's determined to lose what was most important find a way to themshare his experience, causing them to all meet one fateful day in New York Cityeven if that means losing her best friend. [[I Have Lost My Way Spirit by Gayle FormanSally Christie|Full Review]]
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===[[Dyed Souls The Smoke Thieves by Gary SantorellaSally Green]]===
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The USATension exists among the kingdoms surrounding the Pitorian Sea, early 1980s. Charlie (or Charles, if heand peace is definitely not on everyone's feeling belligerent, and he often agenda. Instead power is) is being taken back to his home sought by his drop-outforce, slutty motherand political manoeuvring of the worst kind sees families torn apart and innocent victims swept up in the fallout. The home This story of warring nations is called a Cottagefast moving from page one, and while the book doesn't guide us to understand it perfectlymain characters, it seems to mean he has a private room in a large self-contained bungalowwho move between kingdoms, on a gated compound with round-the-clock adult supervisionface challenge after challenge. 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. Charliefive separate story lines, despite his obvious bookish intelligence, is struggling to get to grips with why each led by a colourful and how he's ended up where he is, but it must have something to do with his single parent mother being violentinteresting character, and the fact he is no longer allowed to stay with his grandfather. This book is Sally Green weaves them together beautifully like a slightly woozy look at his thoughts, tapestry as he tries to build a relationship with a girl in a different Cottage, their paths cross and work out his lot. He certainly has a lot on his plate for a thirteen-year-oldtheir lives intertwine. [[Dyed Souls The Smoke Thieves by Gary SantorellaSally Green|Full Review]] <!-- Sigurdardottir de Lacey Davidson -->
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===[[The Reckoning by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[Precept:Category:Thrillers|ThrillersA Novel by Matthew de Lacey Davidson]]===
[[The Legacyimage: Children's House Book 1 by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Last timeHistorical Fiction]], this series opened with a plot that derailed  Nathan Whyte is tremendously excited about the careers arrival of both its leads – Huldar the policeman, and child psychologist FreyjaFrederick Douglass in Ireland. Demoted and stuck with a kind of love/hate connectionAnd even more excited that his Quaker father, they are left staring into space for want who is publishing the British edition of something to happen. Huldar can even find some gruesome human remains the police have been tipped off about''Narrative'', but still isnDouglass't allowed to investigate thems memoir of his life as a slave, so he settles for will be accompanying the drudge work involved in famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. Nathan is deeply impressed by Douglass, who is a threat found left in charismatic figure and a school's time capsulegifted orator. But Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on it. Even Freyja can be persuaded to stop twiddling her thumbs and help We watch him out. Itthrough Nathan's eyes as he sees for himself the nature beginnings of these books that we know both plots will be connected somehow – but how, we will be asking, will either relate to the prologuehorrors of the potato famine and meets and befriends the famous Irish nationalist, where a young girl was snatched ten years ago, and what is a modern family under threat to do with anything? Daniel O'Connell. [[The Reckoning Precept: A Novel by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Matthew de Lacey Davidson|Full Review]]<!-- Child Daniel Peltz -->
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===[[Everything About You The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Heather ChildDaniel Peltz]]===
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In When we first visit the future, your social feed is your entire existence. A.I. is here and it is all around you. It fills your fridge, it keeps up to date with your friends and fulfils your wishes. It is also stealing your jobs and, possibly, loosening your grip on reality. Freya Chiesa di Santa Maria we're in the company of Molly Cavendish who is unexpectedly given a beta testing version of part-time guide at the latest smart specsMuseo di Santa Maria, glasses which give her all is what the information she'll ever need, right in front ruins of her eyes by barely thinking about itthe Chiesa - a chapel - have now become. Crowds flock to see its centrepiece, complete a renaissance fresco with a personality to guide her. The problem is that the personality on history which grabs the glasses is that attention of her missing young and presumed dead sisterold. Freya is thrown and unsettled by this. Her mum tells her Molly uses the history to stop using them or at entertain the very least to reset them to a different personality. But Freya just can't do this. Hearing her sistertourists, but there's voice again more too it than she knows, particularly as the history of the building is like she's right therealso the history of the Vannini family, who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and although she knows this one of whose descendants is just Ruby's data, part the director of Freya can't believe that it can be this accurate, it can't be this Rubythe museum. Is it just possible that something more is feeding this personality than Ruby's data? [[Everything About You The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Heather ChildDaniel Peltz|Full Review]]
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===[[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century Falling Leaves by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Stefan Mohamed]]===
[[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]],
FirstWhen your best friend vanishes, forgive me 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 I don't refer to this book with its full title oftenthey reappeared in your life? – all questions that Vanessa faces every day, even seven years after her best friend Mark vanished. ItWhen he reappears, she's pointedly precise, accurate, and rather ungainly – when in fact the book it describes has shocked not only the former two attributes by his presence back in any quantity. What happens in January is that a wild wolf walks across her life, but also by the frozen river separating Poland and eastern Germany. Which means fact that, when the book starts properly, mid-February, it has had time to get he hasn't aged a lot closer to Berlin day – within 80 kilometresfor him, 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 no time in a month, and to be with has passed since his girlfrienddisappearance. Shocked, not knowing she has had an infidelity while he was away. Also fancying the bright lights confused and big city are a teenaged pair of love-birdsemotionally reeling, the boy and girl next door Vanessa must return to each other her home town in an eastern village, who flee an unhappy lot on order to help Mark find the off-chance of a better oneanswers he so desperately craves. You just know there But what's waiting for them 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…far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… [[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century Falling Leaves by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Stefan Mohamed|Full Review]]
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===[[Stranger by Keren David]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Teens|TeensNickerbacher by Terry John Barto]]===
Astor, Ontario, 1904[[image:4star. 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?jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Stranger by Keren David:Category:Emerging Readers|Full ReviewEmerging Readers]]
Nickerbacher 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 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 ''The Late Knight Show''. Nickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in fact, it's his favourite TV show because he wants to be a stand-up comedian himself. He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended. [[Nickerbacher by Terry John Barto|Full Review]]
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