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===[[We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Thrillers|ThrillersSanta Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston]]===
The night manager of a Best Western, Kris Pulaski is washed up and unhappy[[image:4star. Few know of her past as guitarist of 90's Heavy Metal band Dürt Würk – a band once tipped for greatness, but destined to obscurity after lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a solo career, rocketing to stardom as ''Koffin''. When a shocking act of violence turns Kris's life upside down – she is forced to look back to a past she has tried to forget – and to a deal Hunt made that may have sabotaged more than just the band. In a journey that will take Kris from a dusty hotel to a hellish music festival, she's determined to face the man who ruined her life. But with dark forces rising and threatening everything Kris holds dear, will Kris be able to defeat the odds? Or will Hell truly be unleashed on the Earth…? jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix:Category:For Sharing|Full ReviewFor Sharing]]
 Something's gone horribly wrong. It's Christmas Eve and everything is very busy in Santa's grotto. The presents are all ready and waiting to be loaded onto the sleigh and the reindeer are itching to get going. But Santa? Santa is just not in the mood. He is tired of delivering the latest toys to children who only play with them for five minutes. He wishes people would remember what Christmas is really about - a time for families to come together for love and friendship and goodwill to one another. [[Santa Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston|Full Review]]<!-- Steve Burrows Keeley -->
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===[[A Tiding of Magpies: A Birder Murder Mystery by Steve Burrows]]===
===[[The Coming of the Spirits by Rob Keeley]]=== [[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeConfident Readers|CrimeConfident Readers]]
DCI Domenic Jejeune's most celebrated case was his rescue of the Home Secretary's daughter when she was kidnapped. It's always been his deep regret that he failed to rescue the man who was kidnapped with her and this has all resurfaced now that the case is being reviewed. Long-buried secrets are bound to come to light, even though the officer reviewing the case, DC Desdemona Gill, is a fan of his to the extent that it's almost embarrassing. The review isn't the only problem he has though: a body has been found on some waste ground, but it's so badly burned that identification is difficult - and made more difficult by the indecision of the Medical Examiner. [[A Tiding of Magpies: A Birder Murder Mystery by Steve Burrows|Full Review]]
In Victorian England, young Edward Fitzberranger is about to be infected with scarlet fever and die. Further back still in time, Sir Francis Fitzberranger is about to marry Tina, the love of his life. In the modern day, Henry and Luke are getting on with life. And in an alternate timeline, Ellie is working for a resistance movement and struggling under a Britain ruled by the Nazis... [[The Coming of the Spirits by Rob Keeley|Full Review]]<!-- Neil White Wilson -->
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===[[The Darkness Around Her by Neil White]]===
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Lizzie Barnsley was escaping from her abusive boyfriend when she was murdered on the canal towpath on New Year's Eve[[image:4star. It obviously wasn't the boyfriend as he was still being held by Lizzie's friends at the pub, but before long Peter Box was arrested and charged. He'd sought treatment at the local hospital for an injury to his head which was the same shape as the heel of Lizzie's shoe - and her blood was on the shoe. Dan Grant was called in to represent Box, but there's a problem. Box won't talk - won't talk to the police or to Grantjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], so how is he to represent the man? And had Box killed Lizzie? It was obvious that he hadn't known her - so why would he kill her? [[The Darkness Around Her by Neil White:Category:Teens|Full ReviewTeens]]
Jago doesn't like Clementine. He knows there is something different about her and he doesn't like it. And he never lets her forget it. Clementine knows she's different too, and that the difference is magic. And as much as she tries to ignore it, Clementine's magic is getting stronger. So when Jago's bullying gets too much, it's not really surprising that Clem loses control of it and gets herself suspended from school. [[Snowglobe by Amy Wilson|Full Review]]<!-- Connors Haig -->
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===[[Blue Sky Black The Truth Pixie by John ConnorsMatt Haig and Chris Mould]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
''When Tom Allenby[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], the 14 year-[[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Poor old boy who Truth Pixie. She's cursed! She can control 't speak unless it's to tell the elements, sees metal objects and cars rising into the air one night he knows he truth. You might think this is facing a powerful enemy. The trail leads to stolen magnetic stonesgood thing because telling lies is bad, sinister experiments in an old country house right? But sometimes the truth isn't nice and sometimes a village hiding a secretwhite lie is okay and sometimes it's better to say nothing at all. As each of his friends faces challenges You might not want to attract the attention of the school bully by calling him mean and nasty, for example, or you might not want to tell someone that you think their own, can Tom fight a force which knows all about them?''brand new haircut looks awful. [[The Truth Pixie by Matt Haig and Chris Mould|Full Review]]
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===[[Landslide Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by Melissa LeetM B Vincent]]===
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The area where Jill and Susie lived wasn't highly populated so it was fortunate that they became such good friendsDr Jess Castle, despite the fact that Susie was a year older self proclaimed failure of the prestigious Castle family has returned home to the sleepy, idyllic chocolate box town of Castle Kidbury. Rather than Jill. Susie lived with her mother, an alcoholicbeing delighted, and Jill lived with ''her'' motherfamily are suspicious, who dedicated herself to especially her garden. Jill's father was Jay Tutle, the photographerjudge. Luckily for Jess, but he spent much of his time working away - often for months on end. In reality there was little difference between the two families: Mrs Smithshe doesn't have to try too hard to dodge her family's alcoholism caused serious illness whilst Susie was still young. Joy suspicions as a series of gruesome local murders are taking place and tragedy would visit Jillthat's homeall anyone is talking about. ''Landslide'' is Jess accidentally finds herself in the story thick of how what happened determined the course of Jill's life investigation, and how great tragedy to her delight finds that she can breed resilience actually be useful. But with the small population dwindling and hope. the sense of danger moving ever closer to home, has Jess made a grave mistake getting involved? [[Landslide Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by Melissa LeetM B Vincent|Full Review]]
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===[[The House Across the Street Nothing Lasting by Lesley PearseLaura Solomon]]===
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Have you ever found yourself staring out We never know the window slightly longer than needed to see man's name but let's call him ''Boyo''. It's what your neighbours are up his mother used to? This call him, not least because he found it annoying. When we first meet Boyo his mother is a common occurrence for Katy Speed who regularly watches alive, if not ''living'The House Across the Street' as a frequent stream of women are brought there in the same black hummer most people would understand it. She spends her days watching daytime television and seen leaving drinking. Housework is a short while laterforeign country. Although slightly unusual, When she dies she's not much is said aside from your typical neighbourhood gossipmissed, that is until Katy is woken up firstly because she'd spent a couple of years in the early hours one morning to find out that the same house has been burnt to the grounda mental hospital, along with the woman who lives there. This situation is made a whole lot worse for Katy when but mainly because her father is arrested for starting the fireghost continues to haunt Boyo. What follows is an engrossing depiction of Katy's quest She wants him to prove her father's innocence whilst dealing with her unbearable mother and ultimately having the safety of many people's lives achieve something in his life: what she has in her handsmind is that he could be a famous arsonist. [[The House Across the Street Nothing Lasting by Lesley PearseLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[A Gathering of Ghosts Broken Things by Karen MaitlandLauren Oliver]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
[[image''This is the problem with words and even stories:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]there is never one truth''
WitchcraftSummer, the supernatural Mia and the will Brynn are obsessed with a novel called ''The Way into Lovelorn''. They begin to survive at all costs collide in a story believe it is real, that never shies away from the darker side world of human nature. The land Lovelorn is unhappyreally materialising around them, the old spirits want revenge and famine is kindling a resurgence of the old faithstart writing their own fan-fiction sequel. As fear risesOne day, it Summer is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to ignore that something rotten has taken root. The sacred well is tainted, its healing waters run red with blood violently murdered in the woods where they all played and everyone thinks Mia and strangers are blowing in on a wind of changeBrynn did it. [[A Gathering of Ghosts Broken Things by Karen MaitlandLauren Oliver|Full Review]]
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===[[The Monsters We Deserve What if It's Us by Marcus SedgwickBecky Albertelli and Adam Silvera]]===
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Two hundred years ago, bad weather, bad company (well''I believe in love at first sight. Fate, the kind that is also maduniverse, and dangerous to know), a spooky reading list and a few chance topics all of discussion all led a young woman to start writing her first, and definitely her most famous ever, bookit. But not how you're thinking. The narrator of this novel has brought himself to a remote Alpine building, I don't mean it in the centre our souls were split and you're my other half forever and ever sort of that first novelway. I just think you's world, re meant to revisit it in honour of its bicentenary. He hates it, for he sees it as badly written and with meet some unwelcome biasespeople. He seems to only be there and doing this for I think the publisher to whom he addresses a lot of the script we readuniverse nudges them into your path. But what if some greater force wanted him there too? [[The Monsters We Deserve by Marcus Sedgwick|Full Review]]''
''What If It's Us'' is one of those books that just gives you a boost when you need it. A feel good, fun and easy read. I was surprised at the collaboration of Silvera and Albertalli – one known for happy endings, the other for tragedy – but they really work together well. Each takes a character and their voices are so distinct, so real, that you are immediately sucked in. [[What if It's Us by Becky Albertelli and Adam Silvera|Full Review]] <!-- Denzil Meyrick Quentin Bates -->
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===[[The Relentless Tide Cold Breath (DCI DaleyGunnhildur Mystery) by Denzil MeyrickQuentin Bates]]===
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The site Gunna wasn't too keen when she was rumoured taken off police duties to have been become a bodyguard. It wasn't just the sheer inconvenience of it - away from home of Viking warlord Somerled so for however long the discovery by Professor Francombe job took and her team of archaeologists of the graves of three women initially caused great excitement, which rapidly turned to horror when they realised that with no contact with the women had died just over twenty years ago. The graves would bring some closure though family - these were the bodies of the three missing victims of the 'Midweek Murderershe wasn' who operated in Glasgow in t the early only one to mid ninetieshave doubts about the man she was guarding. It Invited to Iceland by prominent politician Steinunn Strand, Ali Osman was also an opportunity for DCI Jim Daley either a saint who devoted himself to confront helping refugees escape the carnage in their Middle Eastern homeland, or a failure in his pastmoney-laundering gunrunner. HeThe truth was probably a combination of the two, but whichever or whatever was correct, there'd been s money on Osman's head and this is the original case reason why he and the murderer had never been found. He'd also lost Gunna are holed up in an isolated house outside Reykjavik, with Gunna toting a close friend gun under her fleece and made some enemies, one with a group of whom would return to taunt him when Police Scotland's Cold Case Unit arrived on the scenearmed police in a nearby house. [[The Relentless Tide Cold Breath (DCI DaleyGunnhildur Mystery) by Denzil MeyrickQuentin Bates|Full Review]]
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===[[21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[Dear Evan Hansen:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and SocietyThe Novel by Val Emmich]]===
Yuval Noah HarariIf [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] gave us ''Sapiens'', which told the history Evan Hansen spends a lot of mankind and then ''Homo Deus'' which looked at mankind's futuretime indoors by himself. Now we have ''21 Lessons for the 21st Century'' which looks at the challenges we currently face and it's enlighteningThis worries his mother, thought-provoking and occasionally just who has engaged a little bit frighteningtherapist to try to help Evan with his extreme anxiety issues. ItEvan's unlikely that mankind will face what - eighty years ago - would have been thought therapist assigns him the task of writing a daily letter to himself as a traditional warway of getting Evan to think more constructively about himself and the world around him. But Connor Murphy, with armiesa rather scary boy at school, navies and air forces fighting it out hand to hand. Itfinds one of Evan's much more likely that letters and gets the wrong end of the stick because Evan has mentioned Zoe, the threats wegirl he has a crush on and who is Connor'll face will be relatively new. Harari looks at them in some depths sister. [[21 Lessons for the 21st Century Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel by Yuval Noah HarariVal Emmich|Full Review]]
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===[[Aftershocks Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer by A N WilsonM C Beaton]]===
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In St Ethelred's Church in the idyllic Cotswold village of Thirk Magna has a country very much like New Zealandteam of dedicated bell ringers, but at with the same time most avowedly not, two women will find love. Strong love too, for our narrator will say that her keenest being twins Mavis and Millicent Dupin and when we first attraction meet them they're preparing for her partner was the only thing to make sense of all those exaggerated songs shebishop'd heards visit. Now you might be expecting an older, and books and poems sheperhaps rather grey man, but this bishop is a little different. One description is 'sex on legs'd read, and plays she'd acted in – works of art that had until then seemed sheer hyperbole. It was entirely unrequited love for quite some time, even Agatha Raisin is a little smitten - at first - but it does burgeon, or so wethere're promised from s the off, because merest whiff of something quite drastic – a major earthquake very much like the one that hit Christchurch, but at scandal about the same time most avowedly notbishop. This book then is It's the combined exploration mystery of the lovers bishop's ex-fiancee, local heiress Jennifer Toynby, who disappeared very suddenly and the story of the quakeneither she nor her body have ever been found. [[Aftershocks Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer by A N WilsonM C Beaton|Full Review]]
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===[[The Lost Magician Louisiana's Way Home by Piers TordayKate DiCamillo]]===
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In a world ravaged by It is the horrors middle of the Second World War, two boys night when twelve year old Louisiana Elefante's granny wakes her up to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and two girls move they must leave home immediately. Granny is prone to middle of the countryside to stay with a professornight ideas so initially Louisiana is not too worried by this but then gradually she realises that this time it is different. This time Granny intends that they will never return. They find a secret door Separated from her friends, Raymie and then a strange Beverly and enthralling world where they are neededher cat, Archie, Louisiana is devastated and desperate. She is determined that she will find her way home somehow. But as her life becomes entwined with the people living in a small Georgia town Louisiana starts to play a major role in an epic battleworry about the ''curse'' Granny told her was upon her head and fears that she is destined only for goodbyes. Sound familiar? [[The Lost Magician Louisiana's Way Home by Piers TordayKate DiCamillo|Full Review]]
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===[[The Amber Maze Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon by Christopher BowdenSally Gardner]]===
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Hugh Mullion goes away Betsy K Glory lives a rather wonderful life on a peaceful island where nothing horrible ever happens. Her father, Alonso, makes the most wonderful ice cream in every flavour you could imagine. Her mother, Myrtle, is a mermaid and comes to Dorset for visit regularly, although she still lives in the weekend sea. Betsy dreams of two things: firstly, about the circus owned by a tiger and, while waiting for his wife whether it would ever come to arriveher island and secondly, finds about a mysterious key down magical ice cream made from the back berries of an antique chairthe Gongalong bush. The grubby and torn label to which is attached readsOne scoop of this ice cream can make wishes come true... [[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden|Full Review]]
And then Mr Tiger and his circus arrive. And a journey is planned...[[Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon by Sally Gardner|Full Review]] Tweet scheduled for 9.15clare@headofzeus.com <!-- Pickles Davies -->
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===[[Worzel goes for a Walk. Will you come too? Tirzah and the Prince of Crows by Catherine Pickles and Chantal BourgonjeDeborah Kay Davies]]===
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When we This is a quiet but remarkable story, written in a style reminiscent of E. M. Forster, ''[[Worzel says hello! Will you be my friend? by Catherine Pickles Tirzah and the Prince of Crows'' has no great and Chantal Bourgonje|last met Worzel Woolface]] he was stirring action but rather small ripples that make a rather frightened dog who had difficulty meeting peoplehuge impact. He's a bit better now and something which he really enjoys Tirzah is going for a walk. It's not just young girl of sixteen raised in a case small Welsh town in the 1970s by highly religious parents as part of attaching a lead strict religious community. The book follows Tirzah though a tumultuous year as she tries to decide who she wants to be, and heading for your favourite spot - there are a lot of other things what she wants to think about firstdo with her life. [[Worzel goes for a Walk. Will you come too? Tirzah and the Prince of Crows by Catherine Pickles and Chantal BourgonjeDeborah Kay Davies|Full Review]]
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Flitting between the present day and mid 16thcentury, ''Bellewether'' tells the fascinating tale of the Wilde House and all its inhabitants. In the present tense aspects, the Wilde House The problem with a craft which is being turned into a museum due to the legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. It largely based on traditional designs is told that what results from the perspective of Charleyyour labours is also traditional, the museum curator, who is intrigued by the ghost who haunts the house and their story; or - depending upon what light you shine on it - old-fashioned. Vivika DeNegre has curated a tale that ends in tragedy involving Benjamin Wildecollection of patterns from today's sister, Lydia, and top designers. As a French-Canadian lieutenantword of warning, Jean-Philippe who was sent to live if you read ''Modern Patchwork Magazine'' you may well find that there. The perspective of 's nothing new in the book is continuously shifted between Charley, then Lydia and Jean-Philippe. The latter two tell but if you're new to the truth about what was happening during magazine this chaotic time in history, just as Charley is beginning could well prove to unravel it herselfbe a delightful collection from the back catalogue. [[Bellewether Modern Patchwork Home: Dynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room by Susanna KearsleyVivika DeNegre (Editor)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Legend Chaos of Kevin: A Roly-Poly Flying Pony Adventure (Legend of Kevin 1) Now by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyreErin Lange]]===
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Meet Kevin. He's Eli, a flying ponytalented hacker, and he's a little on the plump side. He loves biscuits too much is why, but he's happily living in the middle one of nowhere, in those people who manage to fly below the wild, wet hills of radar. When new friends offer him the Outermost West. Now meet Max. He's chance to enter a simple human being, not flying anywhere, and wishing for prestigious competition he soon realises this golden opportunity has a pet to share his time sting in his top-floor flat with, something his Byronically goth sister and parents don't agree withits tail. One night, howeverHow many people can hand on heart say that they have not made mistakes? Most people are fortunate not to have a permanent online reminder, the wild and wet hills are wilder and wetter than usual, and an enormous storm blows Kevin out very presence of his nest, and on which refuses to the balcony outside Max's window. The two are bound allow you to become friendsadapt, but they might not be able to relax just yetchange, for the bad weather to grow. Eli has not finished… a few mistakes skulking online, moments of madness that if discovered would change his life forever. [[The Legend Chaos of Kevin: A Roly-Poly Flying Pony Adventure (Legend of Kevin 1) Now by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyreErin Lange|Full Review]]
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''But that's just it'', she said[[image:5star. ''It's ''not'' Harriet, is it? Not our Harriet. It's some manufactured creature, that exists only for this blessed inquestjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: something to be summed up like a spirit, to be examined and pored over, to be sneered at and judged. Harriet deserves to be remembered as she was to us, not picked at like carrion.''Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]
And that was As the problem: it seemed that there were two Harriets. There was the one her friends - blurb says, ''In a fellow teacher, her would-be lovercottage in Normandy, her seducer and Lina Rose is writing to the man who was her landlord who was also her lover - knewdaughter she abandoned as a baby''…the whole of Chonghaile's second novel is a series of letters addressed to Diane. Some spoke of Lina is now in her as kindly, virtuous seventies and pious, but that was before her body was found behind the chapel which she regularly attended in BromleyDiane is a mother herself. She'd been poisoned - or had taken They have met just once since Lina gave her own lifeup for adoption. After the inquest was opened another Harriet would emerge, one who It was about six months pregnant and who had obviously not been living the chaste life expected of a young, unmarried woman in 1843good meeting. [[The Murder of Harriet Monkton Reckoning by Elizabeth HaynesClar Ni Chonghaile|Full Review]]
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===[[You Only Live Once The Moving Blade (Detective Hiroshi 2) by Jess VallanceMichael Pronko]]===
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Gracie Dart The funeral is a studious, responsible student with good time to rob a colour coded timetable house in Tokyo - and French verbs covering her wallseven better when they're famous as most people will be there. She's hardworking Bernard Mattson had been famous - one of the great political thinkers - and smart but once her final school exams are over, Gracie has a revelationrenowned for his support of the American bases in Japan. After she mistakenly thinks she's contracted One of the great tragedies of his murder was that he was just a fatal illness (the perils few days short of looking meeting up symptoms on with his daughter Jamie: they hadn't been estranged, but when Mattson and her mother divorced she took the internet) Gracie decides teenager to start living the USA and father and daughter just drifted apart. Jamie and her life. Her studies are finished mother came back for the summer so Gracie wants funeral, but her mother departed as soon (or even before) she decently could, leaving Jamie to say yes to every opportunity settle her father's affairs. The only problem is that comes her way, an awful lot of people seem very interested in Bernard Mattson's legacy - and just like her meticulous study timetable, Gracie Dart doesnthey't do anything by half measuresre prepared to be violent to get their hands on it. [[You Only Live Once The Moving Blade (Detective Hiroshi 2) by Jess VallanceMichael Pronko|Full Review]]
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===[[Foundryside Storytelling: The Presenter's Secret Weapon by Robert Jackson BennettJohn Clare]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]]
[[imageI was a little bit nervous when I picked up ''Storytelling:5starThe Presenter's Secret Weapon''.jpg|link=Category After all, the majority of presentations which I've seen or given were in a business context and what was required was absolute professionalism, not an act put on for light entertainment. I needn't have worried though:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]the book is an essential guide to preparing and giving your presentation, with or without what has now come to be known as The Dreaded PowerPoint. I've been making presentations successfully (but I'll say more about this later) in various professional situations for some forty or more years and I did wonder if the book would be able to teach me anything. It did.
Sancia Grado is just about to pull off the biggest heist of her fugitive life for more money than she has ever seen before in all her gruelling years on Tevanne's streets. The job: steal a small wooden box from a safe deep inside the Waterwatch-patrolled harbour and deliver it untouched to the client. Fearless and quick, she is the best thief Foundryside has to offer and has never interfered with jobs before. Yet once she has the box in her possession, she can't shake the uneasy apprehensive feeling of what lies within. For Sancia is no ordinary thief, with the magical ability to scrive and understand everything she touches she's about to discover a secret that will sent her fleeing for her life, unearthing myths that are it transpires more truth than fairy-tale. Working against the clock, Sancia will work to save her world and prevent a descent into destruction. [[Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett|Full Review]]
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===[[What's Left Unsaid Treasure of the Golden Skull (Maudlin Towers) by Deborah StoneChris Priestley]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
Sasha has a lot on her plate[[image:4.5star. Husband Jeremy is distant and absent jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] (If multiple categories use the same format, separated by comma + space)Sponge and Mildew are not the marriage needs workbiggest fans of their school, Maudlin Towers. Son Zac is entering a rebellious adolescent phase Who would be? It's run down. It's gloomy. You can't move for gargoyles and itthat's hard to know how to redirect himdiscounting the teachers. Mother AnnieBut when they find out that there's no money left and the school might close they realise that, an alcoholictatty and morose as the Maudlin Towers is, it is beginning the journey into dementia and has never been an easy person at the best of times''home''. So they set their minds on a rescue mission.. Thank heavens for her lovely dog, Sebastian, and his unconditional love. [[What's Left Unsaid Treasure of the Golden Skull (Maudlin Towers) by Deborah StoneChris Priestley|Full Review]]
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