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===[[The Mercy Seat Take Me In by Elizabeth H WinthropSabine Durrant]]===
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In It's not pleasant, the first time Marcus and Tessa meet Dave. They've taken their toddler, Josh, to Greece on holiday and in the blink of an isolated Louisiana towneye something awful happens. Tessa isn't there, Marcus isn't looking, a young black prisoner sits but Dave steps in his dingy celland disaster is averted. Just. They're grateful to him, staring at the shadow of course they are, but after the window bars cast onto usual hand shakes and weeping hugs and the concrete wall by the eveningoffer to buy lunch for everyone, they's dying sun rays. At midnight, he will be dead; strapped re a little relieved to return to a chair their villa and electrocuted for live out the rape rest of their week in peace. Just a white girl, who later committed suicidetight little 3-person family unit. He Because although Dave is resigned to his fate; it is futile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after alla nice chap, love between a black man and although of course they owe him a white woman was never going to have great deal, he is a happy ending in a small town filled with small-minded peoplelittle, well, intense. [[The Mercy Seat Take Me In by Elizabeth H WinthropSabine Durrant|Full Review]]
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===[[The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Tania UnsworthElisabeth Hyde]]===
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Stella's mother died Eighty-one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped for the best when she was a little girlhe waited for his three children to arrive one Friday night. Stella is growing up in He might be a house with her dadretired lawyer, who is often awaya state legislator, elected congressman and now an amateur farmer but he knew that there could be trouble when Ruth and her grandmotherGeorge arrived. Ruth, a corporate lawyer, who is starting would find fault and want to experience the onset of dementiatalk about him going into a retirement home. This is all hard enough for George, a young girlnurse, but at the same time Stella finds that she feels like rather an oddballwould argue and Lizzie, struggling to fit in at schoola professor of English Literature, who lived locally and kept and as her grandmother begins to lose her grip on realityvisited him regularly, Stella struggles with feeling very alonewould be unpredictable. When StellaMurray hoped that all would go smoothly, but that simply wasn's only school friend suddenly moves away, Stella struggles even more. She is desperate to find out what happened to her mum and t going to uncover her family's secretshappen. [[The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Tania UnsworthElisabeth Hyde|Full Review]]
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===[[Ascension Riddle of the Runes by Victor DixenJanina Ramirez]]===
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Six girlsThe name Janina Ramirez is well known: her television programmes on cultural history, especially of early medieval times, six boysare both lively and informative. Each in the two separate bays of She shares her extensive learning with a light hand (and a single spaceship. They have six minutes each week to seduce frequent giggle) and her enthusiasm encourages students and viewers alike to make their choices, under the unblinking eye of explore further the on-board camerassubjects she discusses. They are the contenders in the Genesis programme, the worldBut how will that translate into children's craziest speedfiction? Will her academic desire for accuracy make the story dull and fact-dating show ever, aimed at creating the first human colony on Mars. Leonor, an 18 year old orphan, is one of the chosen ones. She has signed up for glory. She has signed up for love. She has signed packed? Will she hold up for a one-way ticket. Even if the dream turns action to display her considerable knowledge? Nope, not a nightmare, bit of it is too late for regrets. ! [[Ascension Riddle of the Runes by Victor DixenJanina Ramirez|Full Review]]
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===[[The Grey Bastards by Jonathan French]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Toad Who Loved Tea by Faiz Kermani:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]===
[[image:4star''The Grey Bastards'' is an absolute triumph! Fantasy, action and adventure cleverly wrapped around a super plot and well written characters, this book is so much fun. A word of caution though, this is not suitable for all readers. As the tittle suggests there is a lot of bad language, a LOT of bad language, thrown around all the time in general speech. In addition to this there is also some sex and sexual language too, there is some violence but this is not actually very explicit and not as constant as the language and bawdy jokes. If this bothers you then this is not the book for you. For anyone who doesn't mind then this is an absolute must read.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For SharingThe Grey Bastards by Jonathan French|For SharingFull Review]]
Tungtang is not like other toads. She can't sit still, tongue protruding, and wait to catch a fly. Tungtang needs to be on the move. Sometimes, she even hops right the way over to the rotten tree stump in her community of Muddy River. And she loves to regale her fellow toads with stories of her exploits. That is, until a mean old crow comes along and tells Tungtang that a real adventure would take her a lot further than a tree stump by a bridge everyone knows. Infuriated by the crow and inspired by her grandfather's stories of humans and ancient toad prophecies, Tungtang decides on a Real Adventure and heads off to the town of Little Cobblestone... [[The Toad Who Loved Tea by Faiz Kermani|Full Review]] <!-- Fremantle Dahl -->
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===[[The Poison Bed Boy at the Door by E C FremantleAlex Dahl]]===
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The year Cecilia is 1615 and celebrated couple Robert and Frances Carr have been arrested for murder. She is young, beautiful, and a member of the notorious Howard family. He is one of the most powerful men in the kingdom, risen picking her daughters up from nothing yet has swimming when the Kingpool's ear. Both receptionist asks a quick favour of them are suspected but her – to drop off a little boy from the crime is not class as black and white as it seemshis parents seem to have forgotten to collect him. Is Frances an innocent or The pool is she the witch so many believe her about to be? Is Robert telling the truth when he says he knows nothing of the murder? In between all these questions is King James Iclose, for and it 's not a big ask although Cecilia is his secret somewhat put out that it will interrupt her routine. But, minor inconvenience isn't really a good enough reason to say no so she agrees and bundles the boy whose name is at stakeTobias into the car with her girls. One of them This is a killerdecision that will change her life, but who has committed the murder in question? and that minor inconvenience quickly becomes something much larger that will haunt her every waking moment. [[The Poison Bed Boy at the Door by E C FremantleAlex Dahl|Full Review]]
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===[[Ash Princess Showtime (Dance Trilogy) by Laura SebastianJean Ure]]===
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Second years. The girls couldn't believe that they'd made it through the first year - in fact they'My name is Theodosia Eirene Houzzarad all made it, Queen all eight of Astreathem, and I will endure thiswhich was most unusual. Usually some were thrown out - they might have grown too tall, didn't look right or didn't have the commitment required. For the Maddie felt a bit nervous when she thought about that last decade, Theodosia has lived at the fragile mercy of her vicious enemiesbit as there'd been a point when she might have been thrown out for that reason. From the day her beloved country, Astrea, was invaded by the Kalovaxians and her mother, Queen of Flame and Fury, was brutally murdered directly in front of her, She's now determined that she has been forced into ''really'' does want to be a life of submission and desperate survivalballet dancer, except... [[Ash Princess Showtime (Dance Trilogy) by Laura SebastianJean Ure|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Short The Gravediggers' Bread by Lex CoultonFrederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)]]===
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Lex Coulton's debut novel Blaise is at a loose end, for having left Paris on a wild goose chase for a story about mistakesjob, failureswhich was his friend's idea, and relationshipshe's stuck outside a call box waiting to report back before he gets the train. The main protagonistwoman in the post office using the payphone finally finishes her business, Frances Pilgrim, is and leaves him with a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, strong impression – as well as a work colleaguewallet dropped to the floor containing several days' good money, and is grappling with , when he tracks her to the increasingly eccentric behaviour village funeral directors', signs of her motherinfidelity. This relationship Lo and behold he is complicated by given a job as the fact that Franceswoman's husband's father disappeared at sea when assistant, although she was five years oldalso starts to employ him in sending messages to her amour, her childhood love before circumstances changed. Blaise is of course deeply in love with the woman by now, and hates the two obstacles preventing him from being with her. One is the lover, a brutish bloke with little prospects and a bad case of epilepsy. Surely he will not fall by the wayside, and surely the brick wall of fate keeping Blaise from his intended destiny will remain two men tall? [[Falling Short The Gravediggers' Bread by Lex CoultonFrederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Aladdin Trial Boy Underwater by Abi SilverAdam Baron]]===
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When elderly hospital patient Barbara Hennessy Cymbeline Igloo (yes, that’s his real name!) is found dead on the pavement outside the hospitalnine years old, a police investigation is launched into whether she jumped or was pushed. Having just have surgery on her footand he has never been swimming, there is sufficient grounds to think and this was no accident, but wouldn’t be a really big problem except for the only suspect fact that the police can link to school bully has somehow got the death impression that Cym is the hospital cleaneractually an amazing champion swimmer, and has challenged Cym to a Syrian refugee, Ahmad Qabbani. Solicitor Constance Lamb and barrister Judith Burton reunite race at their very first school swimming lesson! He tries to defend Ahmadresearch swimming on the internet, but with there’s an uncooperative hospital staffaccident at the pool that, Barbara's self interested children and Ahmad keeping secretsinitially, it's going an increasingly difficult task to prove to the jury and sees Cym embarrassed in front of the mediaother kids, but that he is innocentresults in his mum having a breakdown. Why has she never taken Cym swimming? And why does his accident at the pool create such devastation in Cym’s life? [[The Aladdin Trial Boy Underwater by Abi SilverAdam Baron|Full Review]]
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===[[A Demon In Silver Smoking Kills by R S FordAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)]]===
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Take Meet Fabrice Valantine. He's a fantasy world where gods once walked the land headhunter, and magic influenced everything for millenniaa successful one too, where magic was power and the entire in an office in Paris. All around him however his world was shaped around its influenceis changing – yes, there is a new ban on smoking in all workplaces. ThenGoaded by his non-smoking wife, even though they met over an ashtray, of sorts, overnighthe sees a hypnotist who had success with a mutual friend in stopping their nicotine habit. The session seems to have been successful, that power was ripped awayhowever he faces the prospect of having such a change to his own personality, sorcerers' died instantly his imbued habits and magic is lifestyle, with fear, when he realises it will never heard of againgrant him any pleasure. Until now. A farm girl from He needs this pleasure when further changes at work come about – but it's what he replaces the middle of nowhere has unleashed raw magic and habit with that will surprise the tribal leaders will stop at nothing to control her, using whatever means necessarymost. Can anyone save her, or will they need saving from her? [[A Demon In Silver Smoking Kills by R S FordAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Lala The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Jacek Dehnel and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)Helen Cullen]]===
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''This William Woolf is the mysterious nature of storytelling: the same start can also mean different endingsa letter detective, and different starts can lead to working in the same finale. It's all subordinate to the greater narrative, which starts somewhere Dead Letters Depot in Kiev''East London. This beautiful book is exactly thatHe spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, the tracking down mysterious art people and reading endless letters of storytelling. The wayward meanderings of memorylove, guilt, of tangents and digressionsdeath, of side notes and elaborationshope, but above all that of affection; for both the story and the storyteller. What makes us who we are if not our culture and heritage and in this book our narrator re-lives and re-tells the story of his heritage told to him by his grandmothereveryday life. [[Lala The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Jacek Dehnel and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)Helen Cullen|Full Review]]
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''What he wants most in Funny how no one ever uses the world is to cut off his own handsword 'love' when discussing my case. At the wrist would be bestI do what I do because she's my mum. That pure and that simple.''
What child would think such a thing? Beck would think such a thingBobby Seed's mum has MS and it's getting worse. The son of a talented pianist Bobby, who became ill and could no longer playis seventeen, Beck is the servant shoulders most of her care. And he also keeps house and also looks after his thwarted mother's ambitionslittle brother Danny. He must be the pianist now. And Beck's mother - the Maestro - makes him practise gets some help from his best friend Bel, who has her own reasons for hours every day. If he rebels in any wayspending as much time as possible not at home, his motherbut it's response is violentstill a slog. But Beck Bobby doesn't want to play Chopinmind because he loves his mum and they have a wonderful relationship, mostly based on taking the mickey out of each other. He wants to composeBobby also attends a support group for young carers. Forbidden music fills his head It's a bit daft with all the role play exercises and the like, but it's an impossible dreamnice to meet other kids in the same boat as you. Especially Lou, the American boy with the weird way of speaking and the Vespa and the air of cool. Bobby can barely keep his eyes off Lou.[[A The Weight of a Thousand Perfect Notes Feathers by C G DrewsBrian Conaghan|Full Review]]
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Bringing up a child The Cornish village of St Petroc isn't on your own is difficultthe tourist trail: when that child is severely disabled there's nothing particularly pretty, or historic, or interesting about it, which might be one of the obstacles are almost insurmountable and criminal defence lawyer Sarah Kellerman struggles on a daily basis. Ben reasons why Tom Killgannon is nearly five but still can't walk or talk and isn't toilet trainedthere. His main way of communicating is to have a screaming tantrumHe had been an undercover policeman, but something had gone badly wrong and now he will watch ''Teletubbies'' - for hours on ends in witness protection and working in the local pub. She has sympathy with Ellie when sheSt Petroc feels safe and it's charged with trying to murder her son, firstly by poisoning put a good deal of distance between him and them by removing the dialysis line with was circulating his blood to clean itsome very violent people. On He's got an on-again, off-again relationship with the face of it there doesn't seem to be a lot of chance of fighting local policewoman, with the charge on- thatagain bits coinciding with the times when her husband's certainly what Sarahaway. It's boss thinks - not an exciting life, but Sarah isn't quite so certainright now it suits Tom just fine. Until he meets Lila, that is. [[In The Blood Old Religion by Ruth ManciniMartyn Waites|Full Review]]
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''Hello, Shadowlands'' chronicles a booming crime wave in South East Asia[[image:4. It illuminates everything from the meth industry in Myanmar to the abortion pill black market in the Philippines using both Winn's personal accounts and historical context. It is devastating to imagine the very real human lives that are swept up in this cloud of refuse, and how the West helped create it and is doing nothing to prevent it5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Hello, Shadowlands by Patrick Winn:Category:For Sharing|Full ReviewFor Sharing]]
''The Owen family were feeling sad. There used to be five of them. There was Mum, Dad and three children: Abi, Jenny and Joe. But then Abi died. Now there were only four of them. Life felt very strange without their sister, and they were all very unhappy.'' How does a family cope with the loss of a beloved child and sibling?[[The Dragonfly Story: Explaining the death of a loved one to children and families by Kelly Owen|Full Review]]  <!-- Todd Laura Solomon -->
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===[[Hunted Marsha's Deal by G X ToddLaura Solomon]]===
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Marsha didn't have an easy ride in life the first time around. She'Do you not sometimes think d been afflicted with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva], a storm is coming?''rare disease which turned parts of her body to bone when they were damaged. Finally she was unable to stand her life any longer and went to Dignitas, the Swiss euthanasia clinic. ''HuntedShe'' continues where d thought that would be the ''Voices'' series left offend, but after cremation her body went straight to hell and she found herself face-to-face with our heroine the devil. And that was when she made the pact. In exchange for details about some of those who had been close to her - their strengths and weaknesses - she would be reborn on the run without anyone same day to defend her whilst the world around same parents, but would live her is descending into chaoslife free of disease.[[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Full Review]]
Lacey, barely escaped with her life after the events of [[Defender by G X Todd|Defender]] and now she's being hunted. By a boy driven by a voice stealing away his sanity piece by piece and by another incapable of speech. Both are determined to find her at all costs and both are building up an army of followers to track her precise location before the other. [[Hunted by G X Todd|Full Review]] <!-- Booth Winthrop -->
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===[[Across the Divide The Mercy Seat by Anne BoothElizabeth H Winthrop]]===
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In an isolated Louisiana town, a young black prisoner sits in his dingy cell, staring at the shadow of the window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the evening''I want all children s dying sun rays. At midnight, he will be dead; strapped to know that they CAN already make a chair and electrocuted for the world rape of a better place, and that there are other people, now and in history and in fictionwhite girl, who stand alongside them in thislater committed suicide.''This He is resigned to his fate; it is futile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to believe what author Anne Booth said about the inspiration behind her latest children's book and this thoughtful story about familyreally happened; after all, friendship love between a black man and being brave enough a white woman was never going to speak up for what you believe should help to achieve this. In Across the Divide she cleverly combines current issues regarding peace and conflict and the history of conscientious objectors during World War 1 have a happy ending in a moving portrayal of young small town filled with small-minded people trying to make sense of the world and the decisions made by adults. [[Across the Divide The Mercy Seat by Anne BoothElizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]]
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===[[A Child Called Happiness The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid by Stephan CollishawTania Unsworth]]===
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Mazowe ValleyStella's mother died when she was a little girl. Stella is growing up in a house with her dad, who is often away, 2011 – Natalie hears and her grandmother, who is starting to experience the onset of dementia. This is all hard enough for a sharp cry young girl, but at the same time Stella finds that she thinks at first might be a birdfeels like rather an oddball, but turns out struggling to be a babyfit in at school, abandoned and as her grandmother begins to the birds lose her grip on the kopjereality, Stella struggles with feeling very alone. When Stella's only school friend suddenly moves away, Stella struggles even more. She is there with desperate to find out what happened to her uncle mum and they take the child, back to his farm initially and then to a local village where it is taken in. They do not report it to the policeuncover her family's secrets. [[A Child Called Happiness The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid by Stephan CollishawTania Unsworth|Full Review]]
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===[[Running Amok (DCI Spearing and DI Devlin Series Book 2) Ascension by Paul HughesVictor Dixen]]===
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Six girls, six boys. Each in the two separate bays of a single spaceship. They have six minutes each week to seduce and to make their choices, under the unblinking eye of the on-board cameras. They are the contenders in the Genesis programme, the world'''Caution: Mild spoilers s craziest speed-dating show ever, aimed at creating the first human colony on Mars. Leonor, an 18 year old orphan, is one of the chosen ones. She has signed up for glory. She has signed up for love. She has signed up for a one-way ticket. Even if the dream turns to a nightmare, it is too late for regrets. [[Beginning to End Ascension by Paul HughesVictor Dixen|Beginning to EndFull Review]]'''
DS Kevin Devlin has settled into his new job at Scotland Yard very quickly, although he didn't have much choice but to hit the ground running. When we last saw him quite a few of the rogue element at MI5 and others who were causing Spearing and Devlin difficulties were conveniently dead and as Spearing has gone missing, Devlin can't help but wonder if Spearting was involved in some way in bringing this convenient solution about. Whilst he might have wanted to search for Spearing, there's upheaval at the Yard: the new commissioner is offering deals to corrupt officers. They can leave with a year's pay in lieu of notice or they can be prosecuted. Unsurprisingly there are suddenly a lot of empty desks - and a promotion opportunity for Devlin. [[Running Amok (DCI Spearing and DI Devlin Series Book 2) by Paul Hughes|Full Review]] <!-- Slater Kermani -->
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===[[The Boy Toad Who Lied Loved Tea by Kim SlaterFaiz Kermani]]===
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''None of them believed meTungtang is not like other toads. Nobody believed I really couldnShe can't remember what happened sit still, tongue protruding, and wait to my brothercatch a fly. I wanted Tungtang needs to scream at them to listenbe on the move. BecauseSometimes, for she even hops right the way over to the first time rotten tree stump in a long, long time, I was actually telling the truthher community of Muddy River. And she loves to regale her fellow toads with stories of her exploits.'' Ed Clayton That is , until a teller of tall stories. He just can't help it - even though he knows mean old crow comes along and everybody else tells Tungtang that a real adventure would take her a lot further than a tree stump by a bridge everyone knows that most of what comes out of his mouth is complete fantasy. It all started when EdInfuriated by the crow and inspired by her grandfather's father was accused stories of fraud humans and ancient toad prophecies, Tungtang decides on a Real Adventure and sent heads off to prisonthe town of Little Cobblestone. Then mum's mental health went to pieces. Then, with nobody bringing money into the house, poverty - real, grinding, poverty - set in and life became all about scratching about for pennies and visiting the food bank. All of this is horribly shaming, so is it any wonder that Ed has become a bit of a Billy Liar, hiding the truth of his home life in the hopes the power of imagination can make it all disappear? [[The Boy Toad Who Lied Loved Tea by Kim SlaterFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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