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===[[Take Me In by Sabine Durrant]]===
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[[image:4It'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 eye something awful happens. Tessa isn't there, Marcus isn't looking, but Dave steps in and disaster is averted. Just. They're grateful to him, of course they are, but after the usual hand shakes and weeping hugs and the offer to buy lunch for everyone, they're a little relieved to return to their villa and live out the rest of their week in peace. Just a tight little 3-person family unit.5starBecause although Dave is a nice chap, and although of course they owe him a great deal, he is a little, well, intense.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For SharingTake Me In by Sabine Durrant|For SharingFull Review]]
''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]]  <!-- Laura Solomon Elisabeth Hyde -->
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===[[Marsha's Deal Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Laura SolomonElisabeth Hyde]]===
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Marsha didn't have an easy ride in life Eighty-one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped for the first time aroundbest when he waited for his three children to arrive one Friday night. She'd been afflicted with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva]He might be a retired lawyer, a rare disease which turned parts of her body to bone state legislator, elected congressman and now an amateur farmer but he knew that there could be trouble when they were damagedRuth and George arrived. Finally she was unable to stand her life any longer Ruth, a corporate lawyer, would find fault and went want to Dignitas, the Swiss euthanasia clinictalk about him going into a retirement home. She'd thought that George, a nurse, would be the endargue and Lizzie, a professor of English Literature, but after cremation her body went straight to hell who lived locally and kept and she found herself face-to-face with the devilvisited him regularly, would be unpredictable. And Murray hoped 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 all would be reborn on the same day to the same parentsgo smoothly, but would live her life free of diseasethat simply wasn't going to happen. [[Marsha's Deal Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Laura SolomonElisabeth Hyde|Full Review]]
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===[[The Mercy Seat Riddle of the Runes by Elizabeth H WinthropJanina Ramirez]]===
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In an isolated Louisiana townThe name Janina Ramirez is well known: her television programmes on cultural history, especially of early medieval times, are both lively and informative. She shares her extensive learning with a young black prisoner sits in his dingy cell, staring at light hand (and a frequent giggle) and her enthusiasm encourages students and viewers alike to explore further the shadow of the window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the eveningsubjects she discusses. But how will that translate into children's dying sun rays. At midnight, he will be dead; strapped to a chair fiction? Will her academic desire for accuracy make the story dull and electrocuted for fact-packed? Will she hold up the rape of a white girl, who later committed suicide. He is resigned to his fate; it is futile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone action to believe what really happened; after alldisplay her considerable knowledge? Nope, love between not a black man and a white woman was never going to have a happy ending in a small town filled with small-minded people. bit of it! [[The Mercy Seat Riddle of the Runes by Elizabeth H WinthropJanina Ramirez|Full Review]]
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===[[The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid Grey Bastards by Tania UnsworthJonathan French]]===
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Stella's mother died when she was a little girl. Stella 'The Grey Bastards'' is growing up in an absolute triumph! Fantasy, action and adventure cleverly wrapped around a house with her dadsuper plot and well written characters, who this book is often away, and her grandmotherso much fun. A word of caution though, who this is starting to experience not suitable for all readers. As the onset tittle suggests there is a lot of dementia. This is all hard enough for bad language, a young girlLOT of bad language, but at thrown around all the same time Stella finds that she feels like rather an oddball, struggling in general speech. In addition to fit in at schoolthis 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 her grandmother begins to lose her grip on reality, Stella struggles with feeling very alonethe language and bawdy jokes. If this bothers you then this is not the book for you. When StellaFor anyone who doesn's only school friend suddenly moves away, Stella struggles even more. She t mind then this is desperate to find out what happened to her mum and to uncover her family's secretsan absolute must read. [[The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid Grey Bastards by Tania UnsworthJonathan French|Full Review]]
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===[[Ascension The Boy at the Door by Victor DixenAlex Dahl]]===
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Six girls, six boys. Each in Cecilia is picking her daughters up from swimming when the two separate bays pool's receptionist asks a quick favour of her – to drop off a single spaceship. They little boy from the class as his parents seem to have six minutes each week forgotten to seduce and collect him. The pool is about to make their choicesclose, under the unblinking eye of the on-board camerasand it's not a big ask although Cecilia is somewhat put out that it will interrupt her routine. They are the contenders in the Genesis programmeBut, the worldminor inconvenience isn's craziest speed-dating show ever, aimed at creating t really a good enough reason to say no so she agrees and bundles the first human colony on Mars. Leonor, an 18 year old orphan, boy whose name is one of Tobias into the chosen onescar with her girls. She has signed up for glory. She has signed up for love. She has signed up for This is a one-way ticket. Even if the dream turns to a nightmaredecision that will change her life, it is too late for regretsand that minor inconvenience quickly becomes something much larger that will haunt her every waking moment. [[Ascension The Boy at the Door by Victor DixenAlex Dahl|Full Review]]
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Tungtang is not like other toadsSecond years. She can The girls couldn't sit stillbelieve that they'd made it through the first year - in fact they'd all made it, tongue protrudingall eight of them, and wait to catch a fly. Tungtang needs to be on the movewhich was most unusual. Sometimes Usually some were thrown out - they might have grown too tall, she even hops didn't look right or didn't have the way over to the rotten tree stump in her community of Muddy Rivercommitment required. And Maddie felt a bit nervous when she loves to regale her fellow toads with stories of her exploits. That is, until thought about that last bit as there'd been a mean old crow comes along and tells Tungtang point when she might have been thrown out for that a real adventure would take her a lot further than a tree stump by a bridge everyone knowsreason. Infuriated by the crow and inspired by her grandfather She's stories of humans and ancient toad propheciesnow determined that she ''really'' does want to be a ballet dancer, Tungtang decides on a Real Adventure and heads off to the town of Little Cobblestoneexcept... [[The Toad Who Loved Tea Showtime (Dance Trilogy) by Faiz KermaniJean Ure|Full Review]]
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The year Blaise is 1615 and celebrated couple Robert and Frances Carr have been arrested at a loose end, for having left Paris on a wild goose chase for murder. She is younga job, beautifulwhich was his friend's idea, and he's stuck outside a member of call box waiting to report back before he gets the notorious Howard familytrain. He is one of The woman in the post office using the most powerful men in payphone finally finishes her business, and leaves him with a strong impression – as well as a wallet dropped to the kingdomfloor containing several days' good money, and, risen from nothing yet has when he tracks her to the Kingvillage funeral directors's ear, signs of her infidelity. Both of them are suspected but the crime Lo and behold he is not given a job as black and white as it seemsthe woman's husband's assistant, although she also starts to employ him in sending messages to her amour, her childhood love before circumstances changed. Is Frances an innocent or Blaise is she the witch so many believe her to be? Is Robert telling the truth when he says he knows nothing of course deeply in love with the murder? In between all these questions is King James Iwoman by now, for it is his secret that is at stakeand hates the two obstacles preventing him from being with her. One of them is the lover, a killerbrutish bloke with little prospects and a bad case of epilepsy. Surely he will not fall by the wayside, but who has committed and surely the murder in questionbrick wall of fate keeping Blaise from his intended destiny will remain two men tall? [[The Poison Bed Gravediggers' Bread by E C FremantleFrederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Ash Princess Boy Underwater by Laura SebastianAdam Baron]]===
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''My Cymbeline Igloo (yes, that’s his real name !) is Theodosia Eirene Houzzaranine years old, Queen of Astreaand he has never been swimming, and I will endure this''. For wouldn’t be a really big problem except for the fact that the school bully has somehow got the last decadeimpression that Cym is actually an amazing champion swimmer, Theodosia and has lived challenged Cym to a race at their very first school swimming lesson! He tries to research swimming on the fragile mercy of her vicious enemies. From the day her beloved countryinternet, Astrea, was invaded by but there’s an accident at the Kalovaxians and her motherpool that, Queen of Flame and Furyinitially, was brutally murdered directly sees Cym embarrassed in front of herthe other kids, but that results in his mum having a breakdown. Why has she has been forced into a never taken Cym swimming? And why does his accident at the pool create such devastation in Cym’s life of submission and desperate survival. ? [[Ash Princess Boy Underwater by Laura SebastianAdam Baron|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Short Smoking Kills by Lex CoultonAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)]]===
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Lex CoultonMeet Fabrice Valantine. He's debut novel is a story about mistakesheadhunter, failuresand a successful one too, and relationshipsin an office in Paris. All around him however his world is changing – yes, there is a new ban on smoking in all workplaces. The main protagonistGoaded by his non-smoking wife, even though they met over an ashtray, Frances Pilgrimof sorts, is he sees a sixth form English teacher hypnotist who has recently fallen out had success with her best a mutual friend Jacksonin stopping their nicotine habit. The session seems to have been successful, however he faces the prospect of having such a work colleaguechange to his own personality, his imbued habits and is grappling lifestyle, with the increasingly eccentric behaviour of her motherfear, when he realises it will never again grant him any pleasure. This relationship is complicated by He needs this pleasure when further changes at work come about – but it's what he replaces the fact habit with that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years oldwill surprise the most. [[Falling Short Smoking Kills by Lex CoultonAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Aladdin Trial Lost Letters of William Woolf by Abi SilverHelen Cullen]]===
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When elderly hospital patient Barbara Hennessy William Woolf is found dead on the pavement outside the hospital, a police investigation is launched into whether she jumped or was pushed. Having just have surgery on her foot, there is sufficient grounds to think this was no accidentletter detective, but working in the only suspect the police can link to the death is the hospital cleanerDead Letters Depot in East London. He spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, a Syrian refugeetracking down mysterious people and reading endless letters of love, Ahmad Qabbani. Solicitor Constance Lamb and barrister Judith Burton reunite to defend Ahmadguilt, but with an uncooperative hospital staffdeath, Barbara's self interested children and Ahmad keeping secretshope, it's going an increasingly difficult task to prove to the jury and the media, that he is innocenteveryday life. [[The Aladdin Trial Lost Letters of William Woolf by Abi SilverHelen Cullen|Full Review]]
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===[[A Demon In Silver by R S Ford]]===
===[[The Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian Conaghan]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:FantasyTeens|Teens]]  ''Funny how no one ever uses the word 'love' when discussing my case. I do what I do because she's my mum. That pure and that simple.'' Bobby Seed's mum has MS and it's getting worse. Bobby, who is seventeen, shoulders most of her care. And he also keeps house and also looks after his little brother Danny. He gets some help from his best friend Bel, who has her own reasons for spending as much time as possible not at home, but it's still a slog. But Bobby doesn't mind because he loves his mum and they have a wonderful relationship, mostly based on taking the mickey out of each other. Bobby also attends a support group for young carers. It's a bit daft with all the role play exercises and the like, but it's nice 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.[[The Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian Conaghan|FantasyFull Review]]
Take a fantasy world where gods once walked the land and magic influenced everything for millennia, where magic was power and the entire world was shaped around its influence. Then, overnight, that power was ripped away, sorcerers' died instantly and magic is never heard of again. Until now. A farm girl from the middle of nowhere has unleashed raw magic and the tribal leaders will stop at nothing to control her, using whatever means necessary. Can anyone save her, or will they need saving from her? [[A Demon In Silver by R S Ford|Full Review]]
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===[[Lala The Old Religion by Jacek Dehnel and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)Martyn Waites]]===
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The Cornish village of St Petroc isn't on the tourist trail: there'This is the mysterious nature s nothing particularly pretty, or historic, or interesting about it, which might be one of storytelling: the same start can also mean different endingsreasons why Tom Killgannon is there. He had been an undercover policeman, but something had gone badly wrong and different starts can lead to the same finale. Itnow he's all subordinate to the greater narrative, which starts somewhere in Kiev''. This beautiful book is exactly that, witness protection and working in the mysterious art of storytellinglocal pub. The wayward meanderings St Petroc feels safe and it's put a good deal of memory, of tangents distance between him and digressionssome very violent people. He's got an on-again, of side notes and elaborationsoff-again relationship with the local policewoman, but above all that of affection; for both with the story and on-again bits coinciding with the storytellertimes when her husband's away. What makes us who we are if It's 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 grandmotheran exciting life, but right now it suits Tom just fine. Until he meets Lila, that is. [[Lala The Old Religion by Jacek Dehnel and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)Martyn Waites|Full Review]]
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===[[A Thousand Perfect Notes The Dragonfly Story: Explaining the death of a loved one to children and families by C G DrewsKelly Owen]]===
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''What he wants most in the world is The Owen family were feeling sad. There used to cut off his own handsbe five of them. There was Mum, Dad and three children: Abi, Jenny and Joe. But then Abi died. At the wrist would be bestNow there were only four of them. Life felt very strange without their sister, and they were all very unhappy.''
What child would think such How does a thing? Beck would think such a thing. The son family cope with the loss of a talented pianist who became ill beloved child and could no longer play, Beck is sibling?[[The Dragonfly Story: Explaining the servant death of his thwarted mother's ambitions. He must be the pianist now. And Beck's mother - the Maestro - makes him practise for hours every day. If he rebels in any way, his mother's response is violent. But Beck doesn't want a loved one to play Chopin. He wants to compose. Forbidden music fills his head but it's an impossible dream.[[A Thousand Perfect Notes children and families by C G DrewsKelly Owen|Full Review]]
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===[[In The Blood Marsha's Deal by Ruth ManciniLaura Solomon]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeShort Stories|Short Stories]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Fantasy|CrimeFantasy]]
Bringing up a child on your own is difficult: when that child is severely disabled Marsha didn't have an easy ride in life the obstacles are almost insurmountable and criminal defence lawyer Sarah Kellerman struggles on a daily basisfirst time around. Ben is nearly five but still canShe't walk or talk and isn't toilet trainedd been afflicted with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva], a rare disease which turned parts of her body to bone when they were damaged. His main way of communicating is Finally she was unable to stand her life any longer and went to have a screaming tantrumDignitas, but he will watch ''Teletubbies'' - for hours on endthe Swiss euthanasia clinic. She has sympathy with Ellie when she's charged with trying d thought that would be the end, but after cremation her body went straight to murder her son, firstly by poisoning him hell and them by removing she found herself face-to-face with the dialysis line with devil. And that was circulating his blood to clean itwhen she made the pact. On the face In exchange for details about some of it there doesn't seem those who had been close to her - their strengths and weaknesses - she would be a lot of chance of fighting reborn on the same day to the charge - that's certainly what Sarah's boss thinks - same parents, but Sarah isn't quite so certainwould live her life free of disease. [[In The Blood Marsha's Deal by Ruth ManciniLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Hello, Shadowlands The Mercy Seat by Patrick WinnElizabeth H Winthrop]]===
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''HelloIn an isolated Louisiana town, Shadowlands'' chronicles a booming crime wave young black prisoner sits in South East Asia. It illuminates everything from his dingy cell, staring at the shadow of the meth industry in Myanmar to window bars cast onto the abortion pill black market in concrete wall by the Philippines using both Winnevening's personal accounts and historical contextdying sun rays. It is devastating At midnight, he will be dead; strapped to imagine a chair and electrocuted for the very real human lives that are swept up in this cloud rape of refusea white girl, and how the West helped create who later committed suicide. He is resigned to his fate; it is futile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after all, love between a black man and is doing nothing a white woman was never going to prevent ithave a happy ending in a small town filled with small-minded people. [[Hello, Shadowlands The Mercy Seat by Patrick WinnElizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]]
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===[[Hunted The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid by G X ToddTania Unsworth]]===
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Stella''Do you not sometimes think s mother died when she was a storm little girl. Stella is coming?''growing up in a house with her dad, who is often away, and her grandmother, who is starting to experience the onset of dementia. ''Hunted'' continues where This is all hard enough for a young girl, but at the same time Stella finds that she feels like rather an oddball, struggling to fit in at school, and as her grandmother begins to lose her grip on reality, Stella struggles with feeling very alone. When Stella''Voices'' series left offs only school friend suddenly moves away, with our heroine on the run without anyone Stella struggles even more. She is desperate to find out what happened to defend her whilst the world around mum and to uncover her is descending into chaosfamily's secrets.[[The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid by Tania Unsworth|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 Dixen -->
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===[[Across the Divide Ascension by Anne BoothVictor Dixen]]===
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''I want all children Six girls, six boys. Each in the two separate bays of a single spaceship. They have six minutes each week to seduce and to know that they CAN already make their choices, under the world a better place, and that there unblinking eye of the on-board cameras. They are other people, now and the contenders in history and in fictionthe Genesis programme, who stand alongside them in this.''This is what author Anne Booth said about the inspiration behind her latest childrenworld's book and this thoughtful story about familycraziest speed-dating show ever, aimed at creating the first human colony on Mars. Leonor, an 18 year old orphan, friendship and being brave enough to speak is one of the chosen ones. She has signed up for glory. She has signed up for love. She has signed up for what you believe should help to achieve thisa one-way ticket. In Across Even if the Divide she cleverly combines current issues regarding peace and conflict and the history of conscientious objectors during World War 1 in dream turns to a moving portrayal of young people trying to make sense of the world and the decisions made by adultsnightmare, it is too late for regrets. [[Across the Divide Ascension by Anne BoothVictor Dixen|Full Review]]
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===[[A Child Called Happiness by Stephan Collishaw]]===
===[[The Toad Who Loved Tea by Faiz Kermani]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionFor Sharing|General FictionFor Sharing]]
Mazowe ValleyTungtang is not like other toads. She can't sit still, 2011 – Natalie hears tongue protruding, and wait to catch a sharp cry that she thinks at first might be a bird, but turns out fly. Tungtang needs to be a babyon the move. Sometimes, abandoned she even hops right the way over to the birds on the kopjerotten tree stump in her community of Muddy River. She is there And she loves to regale her fellow toads with stories of her uncle exploits. That is, until a mean old crow comes along and they tells Tungtang that a real adventure would take her a lot further than a tree stump by a bridge everyone knows. Infuriated by the childcrow and inspired by her grandfather's stories of humans and ancient toad prophecies, back to his farm initially Tungtang decides on a Real Adventure and then heads off to a local village where it is taken inthe town of Little Cobblestone.. They do not report it to the police. [[A Child Called Happiness The Toad Who Loved Tea by Stephan CollishawFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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