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===[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Daniel PeltzNicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)]]===
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When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria weJane Ashland is dying. That're in the company s a description of Molly Cavendish who is a part-time guide at the Museo di Santa Mariavery early scene here – but also, which is what the ruins of the Chiesa - course, a chapel - have now becomeplatitude that can apply to all of us. Crowds flock to see its centrepieceJane's life, if anything, a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs the attention is going up and down in levels of young and old. Molly uses the history to entertain the touristspleasure, energy – sobriety – in these pages, but there's more too we soon learn that it than she knowsrecently found a very deeply dark down place. Here then, particularly scattered through a timeline-bending narrative, we have her days finding a Lincolnesque lover as the history of the building is also the history a student in New York, glimpses of the Vannini familytherapy, who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago a drive to find her ancestors that takes her from rural America to Norway – and one of whose descendants is a trip there with a new-found friend to watch the director musk oxen, of the museumall things. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… [[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Daniel PeltzNicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Leaves The Company of Eight by Stefan MohamedHarriet Whitehorn]]===
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When your best friend vanishesFourteen-year-old orphan Cass lives in the Magical District, how can you begin to move on? How can you live your life not knowing whether theybut as she hasn're okay? And what would you do if they reappeared t the slightest ability in your life? – all questions that Vanessa faces every day, even seven years direction she doesn't exactly fit in. She takes after her best friend Mark vanisheddad, and she hopes desperately that she'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. When he reappearsHer guardian Mrs Potts, shehowever, does ''s shocked not only by his presence back in '' approve: her life, but also by the fact hope that he hasnCass will demonstrate magical abilities like her mother't aged s (and make Mrs Potts very rich) has been disappointed so she is determined her ward will take on a day – for himsedate, no time has passed since his disappearance. Shockedgenteel job instead: governess, confused and emotionally reelingmaybe, Vanessa must return or draper's model. So poor Cass is reduced to practising her home town routines in order to help Mark find the answers he so desperately cravessecret, using an old book her father left her. But what's waiting for them is far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… [[Falling Leaves The Company of Eight by Stefan MohamedHarriet Whitehorn|Full Review]]
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===[[Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism by Ian Bremmer]]===
===[[Nickerbacher by Terry John Barto]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Emerging ReadersPolitics and Society|Emerging ReadersPolitics and Society]]
Nickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons doIt wasn't supposed to be like this, was it? Every day seems to bring yet more news of doom and gloom. That dragonly duty is, The spectre of terrorism hangs over most of coursethe world, princess-guardingfuelling refugee crises and worries about national security. That's what dragons People keep saying that robots are for, after coming to take allour jobs. But Gwendolyn isn't any princessAnti-establishment political parties are making huge gains in countries all around the world. She finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really and she And inequality is as 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 of a stand-up comedian himself. He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite problem as Nickerbacher intendedit ever was – if not more so. [[Nickerbacher Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism by Terry John BartoIan Bremmer|Full Review]]
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===[[How to Bee by Bren MacDibble]]===
===[[Humanatomy: How the Body Works by Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
Imagine a world without bees. Not just how nice it would be to eat jam sandwiches in the garden without having the little yellow and black torpedoes attacking you - ''really'' imagine it. No bees, no pollination. No pollinationGet under your own skin, no new plants. No new plantspick your brains, no food. Simple. So, if those pesky chemicals we use kill off practically every bee in 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 of pollen into the flowers and turn them into delicious fruits. [[How to Bee by Bren MacDibble|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]] <!-- Newham Keeley -->
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===[[Turn a Blind Eye by Vicky Newham]]===
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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[[image:4star. 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 preceptjpg|link=Category: ''I shall abstain from taking the ungiven.'' It's the second of five precepts and Maya is worried that there's been a murder that hasn't been spotted - and that there will be more deaths. {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Turn a Blind Eye by Vicky Newham: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]]<!-- O'Connell Togawa -->
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===[[The Chocolate Factory Ghost Lady Killer by Masako Togawa and Simon Grove (The Dundoodle Mysteriestranslator) by David O'Connell]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersCrime|Confident Readers]] Archie McBudge is sitting in the of Honeystone Hall with his mother. 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 giant: McBudge's Fudge and Confectionery Company... [[The Chocolate Factory Ghost (The Dundoodle Mysteries) by David O'Connell|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]]<!-- Simsion Hall -->
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===[[Two Steps Forward The Industry of Human Happiness by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistJames Hall]]===
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When I read ''The Industry of Human Happiness'' first and foremost is a novel about music. It is about human beings being able to find music and magic in the blurb for this booksimplest of places. Max and his younger cousin have realised their dream of opening a gramophone company. However, I found myself instantly interested in its premise of two people trying to start their ambition and hubris soon puts them on a course towards London's underworld. They will ascend broken and their lives again following serious life changes. The book did not disappointchanged forever. [[Two Steps Forward The Industry of Human Happiness by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistJames Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[A Shimmer of Hummingbirds Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Steve BurrowsPhilip Kerr]]===
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Detective Chief Inspector Domenic Jejeune Set in Germany in 1957, ''Greeks Bearing Gifts'' is on a birding trip historical crime thriller with everything from dodgy Nazi past histories to Colombia: well it's ostensibly insurance fraud. Bernie Gunther is a birding tripBerliner, but who was a sarjeant during the reality second world war and now, in this novel, is that he's trying to establish what really happened working in the manslaughter case which has left his brother morgue of a fugitivehospital. It's He finds himself embroiled in a mystery, taking on a difficult situation new role as the police force don't want an insurance claims investigator. The investigation takes him to do this Greece, and back into the dark times of the Colombian authorities are understandably reluctant, but Jejeune has always been a law unto himselfwar. Meanwhile in Saltmarsh on the North Norfolk coast there's been a brutal murder of a woman With layered plots and double-crossing left, right and DI Marvin Larabycentre, Jejeunethere's nemesis, has been drafted in lots to replace Jejeune during his absencekeep you guessing throughout this story. How's that going to work out? [[A Shimmer of Hummingbirds Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Steve BurrowsPhilip Kerr|Full Review]]
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===[[I Stop Somewhere All Rivers Run Free by T E CarterNatasha Carthew]]===
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Ellie has to change schools. It's Ia Pendilly lives in a chance for renewal and Ellie sets to work to make caravan on the most coast of itCornwall – a woman as raw as the landscape that surrounds her. She doesn't want to be homecoming queen or anything - she just wants to fit in without anyone noticing that Living with Bran, her abusive cousin and common law husband, she's never yet had her own baby. Discovering a bit too curvy waif washed up on shore, Ia rescues the girl but is also rescued by the girl – given a new found strength to escape and doesn't have the money to buy fashionable clothesembark on a new journey. With the help of The journey takes her deep into a troubled society and through a neighbourdamaged, Kate, she manages it pretty well. And sohurting world – finding family and memories long hidden will break Ia, when Caleb notices remake her, tells and perhaps give her the elusive sense of freedom 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..been seeking. [[I Stop Somewhere All Rivers Run Free by T E CarterNatasha Carthew|Full Review]]
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===[[Lady Mary Tale of a Tooth by Lucy WorsleyAllie Rogers]]===
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''Lady Mary'' chronicles the famous story of Henry VIII's love affair Danny lives in a small Sussex town with Anne Boleyn, his divorce from Katherine of Aragon, Anne's execution for adultery, and Henry's subsequent marriage to Jane Seymourmother, which finally produces the much longed for birth of a male heirNatalie. This timeLife is poor, the story is told through the eyes of an important but often neglected player they manage - Henryuntil they's young daughter, Maryre threatened by a benefits sanction. Mary's hopes of A Job Centre employee looks to be their salvation - but her impact on the family staying together are crushed by the divorce goes far beyond what they first expect, and she is treated terribly by a father under the influence of resulting changes are described to the Boleyn faction. Lady Mary follows her reader through these awful years the naive yet perceptive and you can't help but root for the little girl stuck in the middle wholly original eyes of these tumultuous eventsfour-year-old Danny. [[Lady Mary Tale of a Tooth by Lucy WorsleyAllie Rogers|Full Review]]
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Travel When Claudia is called to a world that is familiar and yet utterly different. We are in a version the reception of ancient Britain with enough landmarks her Manchester Office block to make us feel at home yet it is meet a smoked glass. North of the river Abus we have the Anakimvisitor, she doesn't expect it to be her father figure – a race that isnman she hasn't quite human; they are something moreseen for fifteen years. Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild Samson, The Anakim are virtual giants Aztec and their ribs are not cages but bone breastplates instead. Below the Abus are the SuthenersThe Sun King, humans. Theirs is an ancient grudge walked out of Claudia's life and one where blood is spilled frequently in pitched battle. Unfortunately it is rare when humans are involved for things to be straightforward into a world of success as a solar panel salesman – but now he's returned and the same is true herehe needs Claudia's help. On both sides politics and machinations complicate the quests for glory. With the Anakim we have Reggie, Samson's son, has joined a mysterious cult called ''Tarantula'', a boy coming to power and vying with the greatest warrior in the land group who prepare for the throne. Amongst end of the Sutheners we see a commoner having the temerity world and encourage humanity to lead an army alongside his bettersembrace their impending doom. Both battles are as interesting as Claudia's journey takes her far from her home in Manchester to the end of the war itself. world – where encounters with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… [[The Wolf Claudia by Leo CarewAnthony Trevelyan|Full Review]]
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===[[The House with Chicken Legs Man I Think I Know by Sophie AndersonMike Gayle]]===
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James DeWitt and Danny Allen are both men in their early thirties whose lives haven''My house has chicken legst taken them where they were supposed to go. Two or three times a yearAt an all time low time for both of them, without warning, it stands up in the middle of two men reconnect and slowly find they're exactly what the night other needs. Together, they help each other put their lives back together. This is a beautiful story about friendship and walks away from where we've been livingwhat it really means to help another person.'' [[The Man I Think I Know by Mike Gayle|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 Rhodes -->
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===[[Pandora's Boy by Lindsey Davis]]===
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Relax[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], die-hard fans of Falco and his spirited British daughter Albia[[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] ''How small I look. Rome continues to be as splendid and as sordid as it ever wasLaid out flat, the crimes committed are as complex my stomach touching ground. My right knee bent and intriguing, and our heroine just as determined and cynical, my brand-new Nikes stained with that light dusting of humour which made tales of her fatherblood.''s exploits so engaging. Newcomers  Danny was playing with a toy gun his friend Carlos had lent to the series need not him when he was shot by Officer Moore, who claims he was in fearfor his life, by the way: each book contains just enough background detail to make you feel immediately at home. This timethat Danny, despite some serious misgivingsa five foot tall, Albia is investigating the sudden death of a fifteentwelve-year-old girlboy, described as bright, affectionate was a threatening thug whose menace was such that Officer Moore had no choice but to reach for his gun and populareliminate the threat. 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 Ghost Boys by Lindsey DavisJewell Parker Rhodes|Full Review]]
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===[[When the Mountains Roared The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Jess ButterworthStephanie Butland]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
''My fingers come away deep red[[image:4star. My breath catches. Blood. I wipe my shaky hands on my trousers. Therejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Women's a leopard out there, injured. And I have to find it before they do.'Fiction|Women's Fiction]]
Two months earlierAilsa Rae has been sick her whole life, Ruby's dad had dropped a bombshell. They were moving from Australia and just as she was edging closer to Indiadeath she finally, where her father had finally got the call that she needed, that a job at a hotel in the mountains. It heart was available for her to be have a new start and it would help both Ruby and her father get over the death of her mothertransplant. Ruby wasn't Previously she had felt so sure about helpless that and didn't get more optimistic on arrival - she had used her blog to find a rundown building full of scary corners in a place where the dark is really dark and the wildlife includes scorpionsmake decisions for her, bears andrunning polls amongst her readers to decide on her actions. But with her new heart, well, you get the pictureshe has been given a new life. Ruby has struggled since Can Ailsa manage to start to live on her mother died own, and it pretty much feels as though will her father has brought mother let her a place do that makes everything worse... ? [[When the Mountains Roared The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Jess ButterworthStephanie Butland|Full Review]]
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===[[Spirit by Sally Christie]]===
===[[Me Mam. Me Dad. Me by Malcolm Duffy]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensConfident Readers|TeensConfident Readers]]
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'It was re playing the day 'truth game' on the clocks went backschool bus. ThatNow most of the class think he's when I decided to kill himeither mad or a liar.To make matters worse, his classmate and new next-door neighbour, Jazzy O'Hanlon, believes him and she's determined to find a way to share his experience, even if that means losing her best friend. [[Spirit by Sally Christie|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 Green -->
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===[[I Have Lost My Way The Smoke Thieves by Gayle FormanSally Green]]===
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Tension exists among the kingdoms surrounding the Pitorian Sea, and peace is definitely not on everyone''I Have Lost My Way'' tells s agenda. Instead power is sought by force, and political manoeuvring of the worst kind sees families torn apart and innocent victims swept up in the fallout. This story of three individuals warring nations is fast moving from page one, and the main characters, who have each lost something important to them leading to them losing their way. Freya has lost her voicemove between kingdoms, Harun has lost his love and Nathaniel has lost everythingface challenge after challenge. HoweverThere are five separate story lines, these three elements do not give justice to the extent of what each led by a colourful and interesting character has lost. In this expertly written novel, Gayle Forman writes about how these three dissimilar individuals each came to lose what was most important to and Sally Green weaves them, causing them to all meet one fateful day in New York Citytogether beautifully like a tapestry as their paths cross and their lives intertwine. [[I Have Lost My Way The Smoke Thieves by Gayle FormanSally Green|Full Review]]
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===[[Dyed Souls by Gary Santorella]]===
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The USA[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Nathan Whyte is tremendously excited about the arrival of Frederick Douglass in Ireland. And even more excited that his Quaker father, early 1980s. Charlie (or Charleswho is publishing the British edition of ''Narrative'', if heDouglass's feeling belligerentmemoir of his life as a slave, and he often is) will be accompanying the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. Nathan is being taken back to his home deeply impressed by his drop-outDouglass, slutty mother. The home who is called a Cottage, charismatic figure 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, gifted orator. But Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on a gated compound with round-the-clock adult supervisionit. ThereWe watch him through Nathan's a paddock with horses eyes as he sees for himself the kids to ride, their own school – and all beginnings of the adults are armed with Thorazine to calm horrors of the kids down. Charlie, despite his obvious bookish intelligence, is struggling to get to grips with why potato famine and how he's ended up where he is, but it must have something to do with his single parent mother being violent, meets and befriends the fact he is no longer allowed to stay with his grandfather. This book is a slightly woozy look at his thoughtsfamous Irish nationalist, 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-oldDaniel O'Connell. [[Dyed Souls Precept: A Novel by Gary SantorellaMatthew de Lacey Davidson|Full Review]]<!-- Sigurdardottir Daniel Peltz -->
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===[[The Reckoning Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Daniel Peltz]]===
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[[The Legacy: ChildrenWhen we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we's House Book 1 by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)|Last re in the company of Molly Cavendish who is a part-time]]guide at the Museo di Santa Maria, this series opened with a plot that derailed which is what the careers ruins of both the Chiesa - a chapel - have now become. Crowds flock to see its leads – Huldar the policemancentrepiece, and child psychologist Freyja. Demoted and stuck a renaissance fresco with a kind history which grabs the attention of love/hate connection, they are left staring into space for want of something young and old. Molly uses the history to happen. Huldar can even find some gruesome human remains entertain the police have been tipped off abouttourists, but still isnthere't allowed to investigate thems more too it than she knows, so he settles for particularly as the history of 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 building is also the nature history of these books that we know both plots will be connected somehow – but howthe Vannini family, we will be asking, will either relate to who helped in building the prologue, where a young girl was snatched ten chapel some six hundred years ago, and what one of whose descendants is a modern family under threat to do with anything? the director of the museum. [[The Reckoning Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Daniel Peltz|Full Review]] <!-- Child Mohamed -->
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===[[Everything About You Falling Leaves by Heather ChildStefan Mohamed]]===
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In the futureWhen your best friend vanishes, your social feed is your entire existence. A.I. is here and it is all around how can you. It fills your fridge, it keeps up begin to date with move on? How can you live your friends and fulfils life not knowing whether they're okay? And what would you do if they reappeared in your wishes. It is also stealing your jobs andlife? – all questions that Vanessa faces every day, possibly, loosening your grip on realityeven seven years after her best friend Mark vanished. Freya is unexpectedly given a beta testing version of the latest smart specsWhen he reappears, glasses which give her all the information she'll ever need, right s shocked not only by his presence back in front of her eyes life, but also by barely thinking about it, complete with a personality to guide her. The problem is that the personality on the glasses is fact that of her missing and presumed dead sisterhe hasn't aged a day – for him, no time has passed since his disappearance. Freya is thrown Shocked, confused and unsettled by this. Her mum tells emotionally reeling, Vanessa must return to her home town in order to stop using them or at help Mark find the very least to reset them to a different personalityanswers he so desperately craves. But Freya just can't do this. Hearing her sisterwhat's voice again is like she's right there, and although she knows this waiting for them is just Ruby's data, part of Freya can't believe that it can be this accurate, it can't be this Ruby. Is it just possible that something far more is feeding this personality surprising than Ruby's data? either of them could ever have dreamt… [[Everything About You Falling Leaves by Heather ChildStefan Mohamed|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)]]===
===[[Nickerbacher by Terry John Barto]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionEmerging Readers|General FictionEmerging Readers]]
FirstNickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of course, forgive me if I don't refer to this book with its full title oftenprincess-guarding. ItThat's pointedly precisewhat dragons are for, accurate, and rather ungainly – when in fact the book it describes has only the former two attributes in after all. But Gwendolyn isn't any quantityprincess. What happens She finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really and she is much less interested in January fairy tales than she is that a wild wolf walks across the frozen river separating Poland and eastern Germanyin watching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. Which means that, when the book starts properly, midNickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too -Februaryin fact, it has had time 's his favourite TV show because he wants to get be a lot closer to Berlin – within 80 kilometres, to be precise, for that is the road marker where one of our main characters sees itstand-up comedian himself. He is trying to get back to work in Berlin for the first time in a month, and to be with tries out 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 jokes 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, Princess Gwendolyn but you wonthey don't know always come off quite what that will entail…as Nickerbacher intended. [[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century Nickerbacher by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Terry John Barto|Full Review]]
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